THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1883.
`THE „FRENCH AND ENGLISH | barking on a difficult and perilous enterprise.
PRESS ON THE TONQUIN
DIFFICULTY.
A war between France, and China, likely to be long, bloody, and expensive, would be disastrous to the commerce of the world. It would be. empreindly rent host fncalculably-cakamitra to our pwn trade.
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
A lengthy interview took place on the 6th Septeraber between the Marquis Taing and M. Challemel-Lacour, and the misunderstanding which was thought to exist between them appears. to have been satisfactorily arranged. · M. Chal lemel-Lacour received the Chinese Minister with The miserable men who were Intely condemned marked cordiality, and the interview was of the top.nal servitude for life in Liverpool, and those mest satisfactory character. The negotiations sentenced for a similar offence some time since (says the Standard's correspondent) will con- in London, constitute (ogether the most serious tinuc de die in diem. Both M.Challemel-Lacour addition to the ranks of our convicts for many and the Chinese Minister consider that there is years. They have already passed out of public satisfactory issue their being brought to attention, and for twenty years at least nothing will be heard of them, except in the case of death, The Paris Telegraphe, which in the main when possibly a brief notice of the fact may supports the Ministers, fervently hopes that find its way into the papers. A sentence of the Tong King affair will be settled without a penal servitude for life is undoubtedly a very conflict with China. It deeply regrets that Mdreadful one for any one to undergo. It falls, Challemel-Lacour recalled M. Bourde, an ex-however, no doubt with very different effect on perienced Oriental diplomatist, and repudiated individuals of different temperament. One of his very acceptable treaty. It mentions the
rumour that M. Patenatre, French Minister in Stockholm, who lived two years in China, is now to succeed M. Tricou. M. Patenotre was M. Jules Ferry's Secretary at Athens, and is high in lils confidence. The cost of an unsuccessful expedition already incured is not five, but twenty-five or thirty millions.
the prisoners who went to their doorn a few weeks
The news that China is resolved to interfere in Tong King to affirm ber suzerain rights on Ansam has produced a great impression in Paris, and M. Challemel Lacour is the object of the most violent attacks. "Where does M.world is much more certain than that a criminal Challemel-Lacour intend leading us ? exclaims the Gaulois. "Can he hope to hold himself on the frontier of an empire of 203,000,000 of men without an understanding with that empire? If he hopes this he is un fou. If he knows what he is about, to what speculations is he sacrificing us? The fathers of families whose children he sends to die in Cochin China have surely the right to demand an account of the blood he is shedding. We only hold our own in Cochin China thanks to our gunboats. But how long will this superiority last? Does he think that reinforcement of 12,000, or even of 20,000, men could ensure to us the possession of Tong-King?"under licence" is the term adopted in the Act of Poor man "
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wears the ordinary convict dress with black | facings. On advanceinent to the second class he will be adorned with yellow facings, and letters and visits. may be enjoyed once in four month. The gratuny may be 189; instead of JZ%. A second-class prisoner may have, in stead of gruch, either tea or two ounces of additional bread, and on Sundays he will be allowed two periods of exercise. First- class prisoners wear blue facings on their dress. "They may receive friends for half an' hour once in three months, and may write and receive a letter once during the same period. They are awarded a gratuity at the rate of 30s. for twelve months until they have SHE WILL BE PREPARED TO SUPPLY MEALS & KEFRESHMENTS AT ALL HOURS. earned altogether 37. They may have tea or bread instead of gruel, and baked instead of boiled meat, and they are allowed exercise three times on Sundays. No prisoner can at- tain the first class, unless under some special circumstance, until he can read and write. There is a special cines to which a man may atinin by very careful and industrious conduct, and in which he will wear a blue dress. The
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MRS. P. SMITH,
CGS to inform the Community of Hongkong Generally, and Visitors to the Fort, that SJLE HAS THIS DAY OPENEDA.
- PRIVATE TIFFIN ROOMS,
great advantage of enrolment and aborte
back passed from the dock with an invitation to
that may secure over his sister to meet him in heaven; another of ordinary remission of sentence-which armounts them went, seemingly strong. In the assurance to about one fourth of the whole time a further that something would yet turn up for his benefit. remission not exceeding one week. In com A dash of the Micawber temperament in a man's paratively short sentences this of course is a con- composition must, be peculiarly valuable to one sideration, but in a life sentence it must appear under sentence of penal servitude for the terni dismally small, and indeed can hardly be said to of his natural life, though as a rule, with ter-apply to convicts under such sentences. Aman's ribly few exceptions, there can be no reasonable only hope of ever obtaining release, however, de- ground for the indulgence of any Hope when once pends on his career in prison; and the fact of his the sentence has been passed. Nothing in this moving steadilyup from probation to third, second, first, and special classes will afford him every upon whom an English judge has pronounced reason to hope that, notwithstanding his dreadful sentence of penal servitude will undergo that doom, he may yet-even though it may be when sentence in all its rigour-subject, of course, to
he is a weary, broken old man-once more walk such curtailment as the law permits. On this abroad in the world.--It may be added that after. point of curtailment there is a very common mis- the nine months of solitary confinement convicts apprehension. Most persons are aware that a
are removed to public works, prisons, and as far criminal sentenced to seven, ten, or twenty years as possible are employed at any trade they may penal servitude, will under certain conditions have a knowledge of.-Daily News. very generally, though of course erroneously, be lieved to consist largely in "coming the plous dodge" with the chaplain-be liberated before the expiration of his sentence on a ticket-of- leave," as the popular expression is, though
that a sentence for life permits of no such relaxa- Parliament. It is generally supposed, however, tion of rigour, and that a prisoner who is thus doomed will never know liberty again. This is scarcely correct, however. A convict under sentence for life will certainly remain a prisoner for twenty years; but if during those twenty years he has been well conducted, and has steadily performed his daily round of work, he may then be allowed to go at large on licence. If the record against him should be found on ex- amination to be unsatisfactory, he will of course be subject to further detention, but his case will certainly come up for consideration at the end of twenty years, and he will have his chance of a licence the same as any other prisoner.
It is evident that the intelligence of Chinese troops having penetrated the frontler is the re- verse of incredible to the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires in Paris. The Tempa publishes the following: -Lion Qui Tseng, the Charge d'Affaires, in the absence of Marquis Tseng, who is at present in London, replied to questions that "it was possible the Chinese Goverment tad reinforced the troops it had on the frontier, the new treaty im- posed (sic) on Tu Duc's successor having given renewed strength to the war party. On the observation that it was not the Chinese frontier that was spoken of, but a march of regular troops on Haidzuongthat is, across Tongs Kids territory, Lion Qui Treng remarked that Tong-King being a province of a vassal State,
In all other respects a life-convict is treated where, since Tu Duc's death, a state of things precisely as other prisoners are. Indeed there had prevailed which was incompatible with the is now but one routine for all-convicted, crimin suzerainty of Peking, the Chinese Government, and the distinction t might consider itself as entitled, in case of needyment" and "penal servitude" has now no signi between imprison to send its troops thither. The Charge d'Affairés fication whatever. These terms are relics of a added that the Legation had received no notifi-time when these sentenced to less than two years' cation of the treaty with Annam, and that con-imprisonment were confined in some ordinary sequently it did not require to protest against a gaol within the United Kingdom, and those document
of which it was supposed to know under sentence of more than two years were nothing "It is said," he remarked, "that Ad-sent to the hulks or to Milbank penal servitude miral Moyer has been ordered with his squadron to take the notification of the treaty to the Chi nese Government. We trust the French Gov- ernment has not taken auch a step, which could only complicate the situation."
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them in awarding the sentence, and if any prisoners under sentence were subjected to harsher or milder treatment in consequence of any knowledge the prison authorities might have of his previous character, it might be that be would practically be punished twice over on the same account and on information
bost of Ction to which point, the invading much less complete and impartial than the
› MAILS EXPECTED.
THE AMERICAN MAIL,
The O. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Arabic, with gth instant, for this port, and is due here on the the next American mail; left Yokohama on the 15th.
THE INDIAN MAIL.
left Calcutta on the morning of the 7th instant, The direct steamers, with the next Indian rail, and may be expected here on the 23rd.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
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prison, or in case of longer sentence were transported. Now, however, that the hulks and transportation has been abolished, and all the prisons of England are under the same control and are managed upon a The Daily Telegraph believes that it would form system, there is no practical difference possible to exaggerate the gravity of the between imprisonment and penal servitude. All Mituation. France is now sem to be standing on prisoners Criminals, of course--not those under the very brink of a war with the Celestial Emdetention from any cause arising out of civil piro, in which she would probably be victorious, proceedings go through the same routine, and but only at a tremendous cont. It has been all are supposed to labour. They are all in obvious for some time that the French were condition of penal servitude, and, except such doing all that they could to render a compromise differences as come in the course of the longer with Peking impossible. It is true that war has sentences, they are all treated' alike. not yet been declared; but, whether China does prisoner, then, condemned to penal servitude. or does not mean war, events are.hurrying her for the term of his natural existence, 'goes' forward. S
The St. Jamer's Gaselle writes:-"China, apective of his crime or his character. The just the way of all other prisoners, quite ino instead of being ousted by the Treaty of Huf, previous career and character of the prisoner," has simply been exasperated into a forcible assays Sir Edmund Ducane, "makes no difference sertion of her suzerain rights. The mandarins in the punishment to which he is subjected, be in Tong-King decline to obey the orders of en cause it is considered, and rightly I think, that it unrecognised Prince in the South. The French, for the courts of law, who have or should have far from being in'a position to send man to gara full, knowledge on these points, to consider rison the new posts in Annam and to occupy the ceded province, are at their wits ends to secure their position in Tong-King. There is no talle to-day of the advance on Sontay, which was to complete the overthrow of the Black Flags, and establish the influence of the Republic to the very borders of the Celestial. It seems Father
is directing its course; whether caurt of law would have at its command. The. the two companies who hold the lately-won Hal- Government would always be liable to charges, druong-will be attacked, or whether the assault of showing favour to or prejudice against cer will be made first on Hanoi or Haiphong. One tain particular prisoners and any feeling thing is quite certain if disaster is to be avoided of the kind would be fraught with dan the French War-office must understand that it is ger and inconvenience," Ahort-term pri- on the very brink of war with Calan, as
The Morning Post thinks that the news that or county gaol as it used to be called. One go to the local prison-the borough the French gommanders have thought it neces under a long sentence will go either to sary to proclaims a blockade of the Annamite Pentonville or Wormwood Scrubbs, or in the coasts the day after the conclusion of the pre case of women to Millbank, and will here under clous Treaty of Peace and Alliance must, go what is intended to be the same punish apart from other considerations, have singularly ment as the shorter-term prisoners in the local hastened the conclusion in the minds of French- prigon. There will be ding months during only opens, instead of terminating, the block sept stated intervals for prayers and exercise, at ado of a country must be unique and not work in solitary confinement. This period used very satisfactory description of international to he eighteen months, but it was found to have engagement, fe is only natural that at the an unmistakeably enfeebling effect on the minds receipt of such formidable nows the French of the prisoners, and nine months is now the Government should determine to sendre limit in All prisons.) A prisoner snuanced for Inforcements without delay to General Bout nine months or any shorter period will spend But the necessity which, they now have to read the whale at it in solitary confinement, and on cognise must definitely donroy the obstinita ployed, at some industrial occupation After Illusion r
that. France was going to be silawed to nine months all who are well conducted work play the Tunisian game in Chins with no moms in association, though under close and constant opposition than the cardboard state of poor supervision. They live, however, when not at Mohammed Sadok was able to offer to the work or at axercise or at chapel, in solitary con schemes of M. Roustan. Cains is pot Tunis, finement unless sick or invalid., BAD GUY JÚNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF and the swamps of the Red River are los canly reached than the harbour of Goletta. The ex-with the view of giving every prisoner as wiường Our prison system has been carefully framed
DEMOS CANTON, LIMITED."- memity in which the French are placed may be a motive as possible for working steadily and read in the fact that the reinforcements are to be behaving, well, prisoners under sentence for drawn from the Algerian regiments and from the life are no exception to this rule. Every good. foreign legions were day's work brings them a certain number of The Daily News cannot for a moment sup-marks, and entities them, should they ever regain pose that if a war with China can only bearelded liberty, to small gratuity. But the most in at the expense of undoing the Had Treaty the portant fact for them le that upon these marks French would submit to what they would regard ags humiliaßen.
will depend their flassification while in prison and would sooner endure
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