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and enterprise of our Chinese fellow where. The power of the police should be citizens.
augmented and enlarged so as to meet Now let us devote a little attention to every exigency of the case. Detectives of the mission of these apparently self con- undoubted honesty and capacity should be stituted delegates of our Chinese com-employed and duly protected. A just sys-abic Chinese gentleman, pointing, out to tem of punishment and reward should be Ho Kar's lengthy oration, the Chinese instituted, so that offenders may not escape petitioners whose views he represented to merely with a pecuniary fine, which they be more correct, let us say, whose views can easily pay out of their ill-gotten gains, it was assumed he was representing but they should be imprisoned with hard wished the assistance of the government, labor or even get a sound flogging, so through the Administrator, to put down | that every member of the police o, de- what are understood to be three
grept tective force may be stimulated and en- social evils. Briefly stated these evils couraged to extra-yigilance and exertion. are (1) the prevalence of gambling Victims should be encouraged and invited amongst the Chinese, (2) the existence of to lay their complaints freely before the Institutions which are generally designated Registrar General, who will then cause the offenders to be effectively arrested be- hawkers nuisance (i...—hawkers of small fore they should have time to escape. wares, &c., being permitted to erect stalls These and many others are our suggestions, in the gutters of the public streets.) It is and should all or any of them be adopted, undoubted that, gambling is carried on to
we shall feel it our duty to afford your a great extent amongst the Chinese; from Excellency every support in our power." reliable estimates it is positively certainThis refined Chinaman, who has received that unlicensed prostitution flourishes apace a liberal education in the most en- In our midst; and one has only to walk | lightened country on the face of the globe, along Queen's Road to see for himself publicly advocates as a punishment for that itinerant hawkers are a great nuisance gamblers, that they should be imprisoned with to the general public. These matters are hard labor, or even get a sound flogging. It so of very old standing; they are inherent happens that for the offence referred to, It is requested that all communications rela-in all communities constituted like ours; imprisonment with hard labour is free ting to Subscriptions Advertisements, &c, bend and it is a moot point whether or not the quently inflicted; but fortunately the laws dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Teligraph”. and not to the Editor.
Hongkong Government is not to `some of England, however imperfect they may
ordinances to be passed containing ample the learned barrister has deemed it ad- | Tux two direct oplum steamers, with the first provisions so as to make it dangerous and visable to gloss over the farsh mea-oplum sales, left Calcutta to-day, for this port. impracticable for gambling to be carried sures he proposed, as he finds he did on, under whatever guise and in whatever not express the sentiments of the whole The Gemian steamer Vorsetzen undocks at
itself alone proves the deputation to have Dutch steamer Arjen. The Glenelg went round been little less than an amusing farce. to Aberdeen this morning, Dr. Ho Kat writes to the China Mail:" "1 have just received a letter from a respect-THE editor of the Brilik Médical Fournal, at a professional dinner, in returning thanks for his health being drunk, quoted a humorous Ame me that I did not speak the sentiments of rican poen, in which these lines occur the whole deputation on the subject. If 50 Can he leave all his wrongs to the future, and carry his heart in I am sorry. Of course I did not ask
Can he de an hour's work in a minute, and New upon sixpence s every one of them beforehand what I
Can be 'coutpously an impudent," should say; a few leading members only only talk to an equel, and browbe were consulted." If Dr. Ho Kat only Can he koop things in apple-pia order, and do half a down at once? Can be press all the springs of knowladge with quick and rellablu consulted a fav kading members and did not speak the sentiments of the whole depulations theAnd be sure that he knows how much to new, and knows how
to not know too much?". value of the views enunciated in the learned. Dow he know how to spur up his virtues, and put a chock-rala ca
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a question for debate where these reapon- sibilities begin and end,
It is a great pity that Dr. Ho Kat, who apparently knows so much about gamblers
for the legal suppression of the so-called and gambling, and whose drastic measures
vice, are so astounding from an educated Chinaman, did not teli Mr. MARSIL where he would like the line drawn. We do not suppose that this Chinese delegate wishes
The Hongkong Telegraph reference to Mr. MARSIE having "31- there, to be one-law in Hongkong for
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1883.
We shall deal with the observations made by His Excellency the Administrator and the Hon. F. BULEELEY JOHNSON, in reply to the learned barrister, on another occa sion.
TELEGRAMS,
LONDON, January 16th
• FRANCE'S EGYPTIAN POLICY.
M. Duclerc, in presenting the diplomatic cor- spondence to the Chambers, reviewed the post tion of Egypt, and the attitude of England in deciding to act singly, and stated that, France resumes her liberty of action and will protect her rights.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
SIN SHUN CHI, for obstructing the footway in Praya West by placing a large quantity of rattans across the road, was fined $5 by Mr. Wodehouse, and smilingly parted with the "spona.”
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There is one word in the above lines (besides the "outer of him which, says the Leisure Hours is so thoroughly an Americanism as to reveal the nationality of the composition. “An editor must show cheerfulness, courage, and vin." Some years ago, in conversation with one of the most distinguished public men in the States, he spoke of the great eloquence and vim of one of his col- leagues, set it down to his having a deficient classical education, butit seems to be a common Americanism, originating in some one having heard the Latin word first in the accusative. We might as well talk of the vim nervoza, or say vim consilil' expers, as talk of a man's wisdom and vim I
THE real name of the False Prophet of Soudan is, according to a Philadelphia paper, Thomas Johnson. He is the son of one of a large cargo of slaves direct from the Arabic speaking regions of North Africa, secretly landed near York Town: at the beginning of the present century, and distributed among the planters of Eastern Vit- ginia. Many of them escaped to the North, and their descendants live in Fayette County, Fennsylvania, in the present day. Among these escaped Mahomedans was the father of the False as George Johnson, who died at Pittsburg in Prophet, Bergash el Asewah, known in America
1877. His son, Thomas (the Prophet), was born in 1830, and at the age of ten bad learned the Koran from his father. In 1849 he went to Califomia but returned to Union Town, Penn
LO APANG, a licensed hawker, charged at the In-sylvania, and two years later departed for stance of Inspector Germain with keeping his stall outside the side channel in Queen's Road West, and also with throwing fish refuse into the gutter there, was mulcted in the sum of 8 by Mr. Wodehouse.
courage legal brutality, not even for flagrant cases of felony, far less for minor Frankly and honestly and with all due offences against good order of the class of respect to the gentlemen who composed gambling. We rather think that Dr. Ho the deputation-many of whom we hold in Kat's so-called remedy will hardly com- high esteem--and after giving the pro-mend-itself either to the foreign residents, ceedings which took place at Government or to his own countrymen. So far as the Administrator is concerned, we need House on Monday morning our most care. ful and serious consideration, we are dis hardly state that, however personally dis- posed to look upon the entire business as posed His Excellency might be to flog con- a ridiculous parody on the administration victed gamblers, it is not in his power to of justice. When Dr. Ho Kat commenced do so, and what is more, never will be. his address to the Administrator by stating that the matters which he intended bring
The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 P.M. Sub- a grave nature, and nearly concerned Arrangements have been made to publishing under His Excellency's notice wars of employed in Steamers making short voyages scribers in the central districts who do not receive the welfare and honour of a large portion
Paris, where he joined the French army. He from Hongkong
their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager,
of Her Majesty's loyal subjects in Hong
was sent to Algieri at the close of his kong" he must surely have known that
term of service. He joined a caravan, and crossed. Sabara southward "into" Soudan. In he was talking simple nonsense. The
1862 when he heard of the war of the re bellion, he wrote, to President Lincoln, offering ways taken such deep interest in the foreigners and another for Chinese; and Fox an advertisement in another column it to recruit a thousand Aret Zouaver for the promotion of the happiness and advance yet, on the other hand, it seems as if he will be seen that a public auction of race ponies Union army if the United States would furnish ment of the Chinese community" sounds must have had some such idea, as it is in training will take place at the Horse Reposi-transport. This letter got into the newspapers, admirably when spoken, and looks well in scarcely credible he meant to suggest tory at four o'clock to-morrow afternoon. The and was published as a great joke. In 1865, Tux deputation of Chinese gentlemen print; but it is really nothing but a very that foreigners who indulged in gambling animals that will be brought to the hammer are, just as the war closed, lie paid a flying visit to who waited on His Excellency the Ad-Indifferentand greatly hackneyed specimen should be flogged. Will Dr. Ho KA we are informed, the property of the gentleman Pittsburg, to see his aged father, who received who is known in the Happy Valley as "The him with open arms. Mr. Johnson, junior's ministrator at Government House on Mon- of rhetorical fusilan, which would have been inform us where the legal measures day morning merits special attention, much better left unsaid. As space will not for the suppression of gambling, in ac- Marquis," and include several handsome and principally on account of its influential permit us to fully criticise Dr. Ho Kar's cordance with his propositions for its promising ponica. Sportsmen in search of a races may find something to suit them at this which will deal with almost every branch of character and the singularity of its mis address we will merely deal, and as briefly eradication from our midst, are to be likely griffin or two for the Derby and other
sport including RACING, CRICKET,
sion. Such a deputation, we vonture to as possible, with what, we presume, the first applied? Are the gamblers on the auction. ATHLETICS, AQUATICS,
say, never before in the history of this Chinese deputation consider serious griev soned with hard labor? Are the whist A NEWSPAPER correspondent, of presumably
Stock Exchange to be flogged and Impri- Colony approached the representative of ances, the British Crown. Composed of a large
His Excellency the Administrator did players in the various clubs and at num-British extraction, has, says the Alla California, The WINNERS of all IMPORTANT RACES number of Chinese merchants and others not require Dr. Ho Kat to inform him that erous privato houses, and the men who bet recently been making very merry over the way
which Americans cat. He describes the knife at. HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, of wealth and influence, and supposed to | gambling is an evil which is still rife in a few dollars at the races, and at all other blunt on both sides-which is to be met with at he does not appear to mind this little infidelity / and AMOY, with times, and other interesting represent Chinese public opinion, any ac- this Cojony in spite of all the Ordinances sports, to be included in Dr. Ho Kar's every station on the railroads, and how the particulars, carefully compiled from the most tion of such a body would naturally carry which have been passed for its suppression. sweeping measures? If not, we are bound average citizen scoops the gravy into his mouth DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR great weight, and attract general attention. The records of the Police Court tell us a to infer that Dr. Ho Kar's sense of justice with it, while he uses the fork to grab his mest i sme say the app f
good deal more on the subject than it is is hardly of that character to commend This is partially true, but grossly exaggerated. possible for Dr. Ho Kat to know. Gam- itself to serious consideration, even were bling will exists and flourishes in this la proposals practicable, which they most Colony, and will exist and flourish certainly are not. That reference to the Re- for all time in spite of all the legal restric-gistrar General was doubtless Intended as tions that can be devised; but when the sop to Cerberus," spokesman of the Chinese deputation said that of late years the practice had been on the increase and had assumed most serious proportions, It is quite evident he was talking of a matter of which he was supremely ignorant." Again with all due' respect for Dr. Ho Kar's legal knowledge we say that, however reprehensible gam-
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The chief features of this particular deputa- tion were, as already stated, its influential character, and the extraordinary nature of its so-called business. Its members are unquestionably among the leading native residents of Hongkong, whilst the osten- sible object of the interview with Mr. MARSH is what appears to us an exceed ingly unnatural, unreal and delusive re-
So far ely brothels and unlicensed prostitution are concerned, Dr. Ho KA sald very little, and at present we can safely follow his example. Of course sly have existed since the foundation of the brothels exist, and like gambling, they
Colony, and will exist in spite of all de terrent measures. It is a grave question
heart, however, was in Africa, and he only res mained a few weeks in the bosom of his family
by his wife, an octoroon, whom he married in returning to Egypt in Aug. 1865, Accompanied
America, and who is, like himself, a direct descendant of the Arabs of the slave-ship of
York Town Mrs Johnson still writes to her relatives in Pennsylvania, and is very proud of. Johnson's present position in Soudan. She states that he has now ninety-nine other wives, but
on the part of the Prophet, who it in other respon an irreproachable husband.
"old a
If any one wants really to see a disgusting wal❘ THE curious fact that women do not lowing in the food trough, they must go to Eng-rapidly as men that is to day land and see the passengers snatching and gob have an annual birthday, ad is cus bling a railroad meal on the Great Northem Line the male sex-is emphasised by They throw down soup almost at boiling point, Times. A writer in that Journal, bolt without mastication chunks of mutton and search, has discover the manner in which beef's wig, as they term it, two or three glasses years are reckoned by the feminine system of of beer and then nish back to the train, priding mathematics, at least in America. The average themselves on the awful amount of nutriment woman, if she is unmarried, rarely becomes more which they have crowded into themselves in ten than twenty-four years old, although an peca American for his speed in eating. It may be a minutes. No Britisher should ever lampoon an national fault to eat quickly and probably le, for we do everything quickly and thereby, earn dyspepsia and its kindred aliments. But for mend us to the British travellers who has only quarter of an hour to get outside of about three ve Fan pounds weight of liquids and solids, les p
sional woman of exceptional truthfulness and boldness sometimes reaches the age of five, Married women have no fixed limit. but they grow old very slowly married at twenty dock
versal of the most prized traditions of Chinese history. The leader and spokes man of the deputation was Mr. Ho Kit, barrister-at-law and doctor of medicine, HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" will, in who, after many years residence in Eng, oler that it may circulate extensively outside land, arrived in Hongkong a few months bling may be, it is not in any sense of the whether legal prostitution is in any way gros greediness and hoggish impoliteness, com- filéen yen this Colony, be published at a POPULAR ago, Granding that the learned barrister PRICE, and can be ordered at This Office for
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word "an infamous practice. The learned superior te that form of the article which barrister in relating the our opera of flourishes uncertificated; however, if sly Chinese gamblers was merely recling for brothels have become a nuliance, surely his own amusement an oft repeated tale they can be put down without difficulty, with which almost every foreigner In and without unnecessary fuss. It has been We read that a movement has been started in a young man who can have but a very Hongkong is thoroughly acquainted stated that Governor HanzSSY is respon- the United States to establish an aristocracy for imperfect knowledge either of his own while his reference to helpless women sible for the great increase of sly brothels that Republic The matter was taken in hand countrymen, or of the political and gamblers and strangers to the Colony dis- during recent years We are not, in a by a convention lately held social exigencies of Hongkong and play an amount of verdant innocence position to say whether that assertion is boldly grappled with she tion, and solved the qu although we believe that Mr. Ho Kat which In a member of that learned wall founded or otherwise, but if it be true, that there will be no ́is deservedly held in high esteem by the profession which has been styled by Ill we do happen to know that whatever and who is not an Chinesa community, we have excellent natured people "the land-sharksle measures were taken by Governor HEN- aristocracy is to be (THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND reasons for stating that the views he ex- simply astounding. Dr. Ho Kai would Essy in regard to the brothel question owed name of the HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers pressed on Monday to which we shall have acted with much more discretion and their inauguration to a report sent into His which General A. Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium, presently allude-are merely the opinions judgment had he remained silent on the Excellency by the Hon. Jas. RUSSELL, who of Mississippi, has It will have an extensive circulation in all Ports of himself and perhaps a few of his imme- supposed weaknesses of Chinese ladies, who was at the time we allude t
Those only will, between Singapore and Newchwang, and, the diate friends and supporters, but do not for many reasons which must be apparent as Coroner of the Colony...
belong to one scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally
Male descendants low rate. Terms can be learned on application.represent in any way the voice of Chinese to all thinking men and we cannot see Hawker stalls in the streets are
Generals, and public opinion in Hongkong. Another that any of his suggestions for the preven-tainly a place which should be promptly dants from member of the deputation, Mr. War YUK, ition of gambling are of the slightest value, abolishedy but no reasonable person Suggestions for the improvement of this work who was created a Justice of the Peace | Here are the learned barrister's words; → agree with Dr. Ho Kat that those wretched are respectfully solicited.
by Governor HENNESSY, received his educa ("I come now to the measures for the sup- - itinerants who have been permitted for so ation at Edinburgh, and is a gentleman pression and prevention of gambling and long to earn a livelihood by retailing. of great Intelligence, besides, from his swindling, which we would humbly subunit wares in the streets, should suffer imp wealth and position, exercliing In- to Your Excellency's consideration. As mant and, hard labor for such a tri
have been fully detalladan. the petie. zristion under ten different heads I shall only less and Impol
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