sway in the East end for some time, continues The popular excitement and Indignation as time goes on seems, if anything, to be intensifying, and public and police alike are becoming more and more determined to leave no stone unturned to unearth and bring to justice the miscreant who, doubtless, still haunts the scene of his fiendish deeds. A widesprer feeling of exasperation pervades all classes of society in the East-end, and should the murderer fall into the clutches of Whitechapel crowd the exasperation will, it is declared, find escape in an outburst which it would be difficult for even the police to control Sir. Charles Warren, in the course of a letter to the Whitechapel Board
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1888.
of society precisely recommend?. First of all, he enters into a sort of philosophical rationale of sleep and ho sleep. It is now, i believe," he writes, "generally accepted that our conscious daylight-thinking processes are carried on in the sinister half of our brains"-why does he not say the left half at once ?"that is, in the lobs which controls the action of the right arm and leg" He has thought and thought again of what use "the dexter half of the brain" could possibly be, and he concludes that the right lobe is the organ which is employed doing what ya calicd "unconscious cerebration," in table-turnings and other spiritualistic manifestations. Now during sicep we "unconsciously cerebrate, which ac
FREETRADE IN LITIGATION.
After a 'ning days' struggle, Mr. Dibbs has triumphed over the Sydney Daily Telegraph and secured a verdict for £100, which" carries the costs of the trial. That is to say, the defen. lant newspaper will have to pay such costs an the Prothonotary of the Supreme Court may find allowable; anything over that amount Mr. Dibbs will have to pay his legal advisers himself. one thing is very certain that the consts will be about forty times the amount of the verdict. Isn't it about time a stop was put to this system of licensed robbery under the name of Inwyers fees? If a man wants to get justice now-a-days
-nation. These are all the restrictions nécessary, Why should a man have to give up all his means of livelihood for years in order to be
work in other professions? Take that of allowed to practise as a barrister? How would Journalism, which is about the most parallel, for the journalist requires special gifts, and can- not by any amount of practice succeed more than to a certain extent.
The journalist must be born with the natural. Now, suppose' talents necessary for success. that journalism were protected. Suppose that no one were allowed to write for newspapers at all except under harassing restrictions, passing certain length of time, and so forth. What sort university examinations, living in idleness for a
anya hundred, would devote themselves to the profession from their youth, up. Out of these perhaps four or five would turn out to have the necessary gifts, and could command what wages they liked, even as the leading barristers com- inand what fees they like.
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f Works, dwells on the difficulty of protecting. counts for our dreams being of a character which, he must make up his mind that whether he gets i of journalism would we get? A certain number stationary targets for Martini-Heary Rifles and tions will be allowed.
victims who actually, though unwittingly con nive at their own destruction. He assures the Board that the Detective Department is doing its utmost to discover the author of the recent atrocities, but he declines to make public the measures they are taking. - L. & C. Express,
"SILVER WAS NOTHING ACCOUNTED OF IN THE DAYS OF SOLOMON."
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Under the above beading, à Mr. Thomas Grey writes to a Calcutta contemporary as follows
The inficence that the cost of production will exert on gold and silver under bi-metalliam has not, I think, had sufficient attention paid to it With your permission, I shall say a few words in your widely circulated paper, in the hope that they will elicit an expression of your or any other competent person's opinion on the subject. The stanstics of the matter are so conflicting and un- reliable that to generalise therefrom would not be safe. But proceeding on the assumption that the output at the silver mines is out of all proportion to that of gold, I venture to think there is an clement of truth in the laissen faire argument. The subject, I submit, resolves itself into a question of labour, using the word in the economic sense,, which embraces capital, f., labour stored up, machinery, invention, ideas, &c. Suppose that the same quality and quantity of labour produce two commodities in the same time, but in the proportion of, say, ten of the one to one of the other suppose, again, that due to the. fertility in the raw material from which one of the two commodities is perfected, labour and time being constant, the ratio fa altered to, say, 15 to now, what effect will legislative inter- ference in the direction of bi-metallism have, in the circumstances, on the two commodities, by tampering with a natural law? Clearly, i conceive, a disturbing one. The law 1 refer to is, of course, that of demand and supply. But let us see what this invasion of the free trade in labour in an important industry means. It means that a unit of gold will now cost as much again, and half, the labour of unit of silver. But labour consumed on the production of gold determines values, as all commodities are measured in gold. The return to labour in silver will, therefore, be 50 per cent. more than the return to all other kinds of productive labour. That is to say, the enhancement of the purchasing power of silver arbitrarily and criffi- cially means, always supposing the assumption underlying my argument to approximate to the truth, that less food, clothing, and all the other necessaries of life will be required at the silver than at the gold mines; for new two-thirds labour at the former will exchange for one at the latter. With gold thus strangled at its birth, the hoarders will soon finish what the law began. My argument, of course, does not apply when gold and silver oscillate about an equili- brium-it only coma in when the divergence is marked as above supposed. Nor, again, is it of any force when silver is a token coinage, for the silver is kept in its orbit by the attraction of gold. But the so-called mint ratio is, according to my view, illusmy, except within paying limite at the source of supply. There will always be a light difference in the purchasing power of arecie and bullion owing to human necessities. For although we have emerged from barbariam and barier, our standard of exchange is still rough, and that dream of the economist-an ideal measure of values-in far away in the dim future. The conservatism inherent in man will cheerfully put up with good deal of Inconvenience and injustice rather than part with a working rule, however rude in its construction, that has answered fairly well in the past. I contend that, in the commerce of life, it is labour that actually interchanges whatever the vehicle used, whether a piece of paper, a bit of metal, or a measure of corn, and that the physical and social conditions at the time of its circulation determine its qualitative and quantitative value. Silver, at above supposed, has, like Humpty Dumpty, had a great fall, and according to my way of thinking, unicis a big gold find comes to its rescue, not all the king's homes nor all the king's men, will set it up again, I shall try in another letter to investigate the laws of labour in the case where two or three leading States demonetise silver, the supply of the precious metals fluctuat ing normally. I should explain that by the word "vehicle" used above, I mean a medium of exchange that, symbolically, or in itself, tella us of the natural relation subsisting among all descriptions of labour. The duality of the bi. metallisis is a contradiction in terms, for under a double value of silver he, in effect, says that a part of labour is equal to the whole. It would be a satire to say he selects aliver to do the symbolical duty of a draft or a bank-note.
HOW TO INDUCE SLEEP,
It any unusually acute inventer could tell us
the long run.
POOL at Running Man, vanishing and Carbines, also for Kook Rifles, the latter will be provided, open to all coders from Noon to
5 P.M.
JOHN ANDREW, Acting Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, 9th November, 1888.
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HONGKONG, Na, 1165.
The successes of authors are won in open competition against the whole world, but the successful barrister in protected. The one pro- fession is just as high and responsible as the PERSEVERANCE other-if anything the journalist is the more responsible person as he has to guide public opinion, while the other man merely expounds authorities and statutes. It is time that this legal barrier were awept away so that the fittest men of the community would find thự Day to the barrister's table; the open compet which would result would soon cut down the fearful HL, Zetland Street, on FRIDAY, the 16th hills of costs, which defile the name of Justice.nstant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely.
Hongkong, gth, November, 1888.
the correspondent only faintly describes when he or not the lawyers will have all the money in calls them "fantastic, non-moral and sprite-like." Musing on these matters, he came to the practical
The chief cause of the excessive bills of costs inference that to bring back sleep when lost we
lica in the high rate of fees paid to barristers. must quiet the conscious, thinking, and left side The fees of the attorney are fixed; one attorney, of our brains, and bring into activity the right
re's no more than another, no matter though side alone. This sounds all very well, but i one may be in five times as large a practice as might turn out rather difficult to spit our
the other. A certain scale of payment is fixed for brains into two halves and begin using the preparation of documents, and the working up right side when we want the left to be
of the case is remunerated at the discretion of the rested
However, the proof of this particular Prothonotary; and no matter whether a cilent prescription of course lies in the question makes an arrangement with his attorney for
"Armed whether it really induces sleep or not.
extra remuneration or not the client can always with the idea," says the commendably experi
have the bill taxed and brought down to the normal standard; but with barristers the case is mental correspondent, the next time I found. myself awakening at 2 o'clock in the morning,different. They are utterly uncontrolled in their insicad of merely trying banish painful charges and utterly irresponsible. The fees thoughts, and repeating, as was my habit, that which they demand and which the clients have to recommendable soporific, Paradise and the
pay are in every large case now-a-days far higher Peri, I reverted at once to the dream from which than the Prothonotary will allow. The losing I had awakened, and tried to go on with it. In sile only pays such portion of these fees as the~Sydney Bulletin. in moment I was asleep... And from that time, Prothonotary allows as reasonable, and the the experiment, often repeated, has hardly ever winner has to find the balance himself. failed. Not seldom the result is sudden as the fall of a curtain, and seems like a charm." I would be more consoling if we were told that the plan "never failed instead of "hardly ever." also we need advice as to what is to be done when a person has had no dream to think of, or cannot for the life of him remember what it was; and obviously it is impossible to begin to think about our last dream when one has only just gone to bed. With these deductions, the plan may be as well worth trying as any other. We cannot always have a volume of sermons at our bedside.
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Among prescriptions of a more or less sensible kind which have been at various times propounded and actually put into use for inducing sleep may be mentioned the hop pillow, in which our forefathers bad considerable faith, the narcotic essential oil which produces the hop scent being supposed to be exceedingly soporific. The hep pillow was used by George III habitually when that monarch suffered from insomnia. Then Mr. S. A. Ellis long ago announced as a grand discovery to the Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association that sleep was all a matter of which way one's head points. In a certain direction the electricity of the earth, which is supposed to flow between the poles, passes along the body, and so tends to the enjoyment of repose, Per- sons wishing to avoid sleepless nights must therefore, Mr. Ellis advised, always sleep south by north, with their heads pointing in the latter direction and they must most religiously avoid attempting to slumber if their bed lies east and west. This idea boasts some sup portere nowadays, but the consequences of its universal prevalence would lead to extraordi. nary results. For example, architects would have greater difficulties in building suitable if they were obliged to put their doors and fire private residences than they encounter even now, places so that every apartment would allow of a bed being situated in exactly the same po ition all over the house. Let us imagine also a country house, where the gentlemen all retire to bed about 12 o'clock, the Indies having departed to rest long before. What a rude awakening would ensue for the latter when they were suddenly, roused by hearing borrible rumblings as of thunder in the rooms on every side, and above them! They would think it was an earthquake, without doubt; whereas, na a mere matter of fact, it would be only that each guest was simultaneously attempting to shift his four poster into a line consonant with the teachings of electrical science. There was, moreover, a London gentleman who years ago really believed that he had found an absolutely certain prescrip tion for banishing wakefulness, and he was willing to impart his knowledge to others for a handsome fee on the express condition that the information should "go no further." When the sleep practitioner died one of his patients informed an expectant word that the grand secret was simply this: person lying in bed, and attempting to sleep, usually breathes through his nostrils, and the breath so emitted is, in cold weather, quite visible. All that has to be done is for the subject to think of his own breathing, to imagine that he sees every breath that issues from his nostrils, and in a moment or two be will fall into a refreshing slumber. There my be some virtue in this prescription, though com
sense would be inclined to suppose that the bother of imagining anything whatever The so tiresome as to excite the brain and
bakp much farther off than ever. Some persosfowever, testified to the complete efficacy of the breathing plan. Mr. Alfred Smee, the author of "Elements of Electro-Biology," also attempted to solve the puzzle of why sleep, when much needed, is often altogether denied. He referred the whole matter to the region of the biodynamic circuit," but the practical prescription was to wet the top of his head with cold water, and be asserts that he has thus often obtained for a sufferer rest when every other means has failed.
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JAS B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary.. Hongkong, 1st November, 1888.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
ADJUSTMENT OF BONUS FOR THE YEAR 1887
“HAREHOLDERS in the above Company are requested to furnish the Undersigned with a-Est of their Contributions for the
A REGULAR MEETING of the above ending 31st December last in order th year
Masonic.
AN Important Discovery is announced in the Paris Figaro, of a valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a mission. ary in Old Mexico; it saved him from a miser- ST. JOHN able existence and an early, grave, We learn that the Rev. Jofeph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C will send the prescription, free of charge, on receipt of a self addressed stamped envelope.
In the general run of big cases the fees of bar- risters are so much higher than the allowed rate that the balance which is disallowed generally swamps up all that is allowed for the attorney, and leaves the client to remunerate that gentleman himself Why should not the barrister be as much under the control of the Court and as liable to have his charges conspulsorily reduced as the solicitor? Supposing that a man is desirous of entering on a big law-suit, he can go to work with his attorney, and supply that human vulture with funds as he asks for them, with a perfect confidence that the attorney can be made to account for the expenditure-aye, and the judicious expenditure of every shilling, but as soon as the case comes on for hearing the THE SCOTTISH ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP question of what barrister is to be employed
COMPANY, LIMITED.
crops up.
fit
If the matter is important the services of one of the best men must be secured; no man would go into Court with a weak bartister to do his fighting it the case is of importance. Then the client makes the leasint discovery that the men af the New South Wales Bar who are really to conduct a big cast can be counted on the fingers of one hand. To one of these he must perforce go, and he finds that the fee demanded is, say, 50 guingas on the brief and 30 guineas per dien as "refreshers;" the client will then inquire whether, if he wins, the other side will be made to pay these fees, to which he gets the answer, "Oh, dear no-the Prothonotary, will only allow about 25 guineas a day refresher," So he has to print action with a certainty that win or lose, he will have to pay heavily i and this not because of y defect in the law, because the law contemplates that every successful litigant should get paid all his reasonable costs; but simply because the barrister he employs is able to squeeze out of him a much greater sum
than should fairly be paid.
To this the answer of those who support, the
present system is that the fact of the leading men being able to extat such fees shows that it is simply because of their great ability, and that their fees are only fair remuneration for their extra skill; and it is exactly to answer this argu- ment that this article is written, The Bar 2 protected profession; every man cannot, on dis- covering that he has forensic talent, set up his lawshop and sell his tale ts to the highest bidder. He must go through the University course and than a course of legal reading without following any other occupation, or if he does not go through the University he must undergo a pro- portionately longer course of legal reading, earning nothing all the while.
Very few men can afford to do this. To das. tine a man for the Bar from the outset of his career his parents must be well off and able to give him an expensive education, and to keep him in idleness for some years after he is called, while any man who goes to the Bar late in life knows that it is a case of crossing the Rubicon it will take so much of his time and his money to get admited into the magic circle that he must give up hope of ever making an attempt to succeed at anything else. Very few men who have attained middle age and are married can afford to desert their business and go through the long drudgery of preparing for the Bar on the chance of being a success at it and gathering in their share of the golden barvest. The con sequence is that only a limited number of men go to the Bar at all, and of these some few dozen surcecd more or less while the rest perish; and the reason is, that to succeed at the Bar requires great special natural gifts the gift of eloquenice being perhaps the least necessary.
A successful barrister must be of wonderful keenness of intellect, of unwearied research, of excellent memory, of great sell-coniral, of good address, of unrivalled readiness of resource, and, above all and beyond all, he must have the intuitive faculty of knowing what other people are thinking about, and what they imend doing as soon as the thought or the intention rises in their mind. He must know by intention what
All these "spirited" endeavors ore worthy of objections to his arguments are existing in the much praise; but perhaps the best prescription | minds of the judges before whom he argues, and for avoiding sleepless nights, or parts of nights, the juries to whom he appeals. It is a natural
is not to take heavy suppers, to go in for exercise, gift, and cannot be learned.. A man may be
and not to sit up late exciting the brain. There clever, even brilliant, painstaking and capable, is a delightful ease about the idea of being able but without the intuitive quickness of which we
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NOTICE.
Silk and Fire Crackers
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THE Undersigned respectfully. Inform the
Foreign Merchants in Canton that for the past twenty years they have carried on business in silk piece-goods in Sal-Hing Street, Canton, underthe chopsignification of “TSUN SHING,” and venture to believe that the superior quality of their goods have given universal satisfaction to their customers. In order to avoid possible [1134 Imposition they have considered it indispensabla to prefix to their designation the surname of the head of the firm, “CHAN,” and benceforth the Firm's signification, in the silk branch, will be,
individuals, like Napoleon I. can command sleep to "turn on" the sleep fairy by just shutting up speak he will never make a leading barrister. WANTED, a GUNNER forthe Government known as "CHAN TSUN SPING":
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of an infallible contrivance for going to sleep just when we wish to do so, there can be no doubt whatever of the substantial benefit which would thereby be secured for mankind. Some fortunate
the moment they lay their heads on the pillow; one cupboard of the brain and opening the other. A barrister is, like a poet, born, not made. Any others find themselves all through life aleeping It does away with all necessity for those refresh-man of decent intellect and common honesty can. the sleep of the just every night without any ing night capa, either of whisky toddy or brandy be a successful attorney, but not so with the difficulty being experienced as to occasional and water, which some unthinking persons have higher branch of the profession. w skefulness, except when illness happens to been in the habit of using, with, we believe, the This statement is fully borne out by facts. The supervene. The Duke of Wellington, he always happiest results. The confirmed toddy drinker, New South Wales Bar consists of about 100 slept on a small camp bedstead, had a maxim especially if he happen to be a Scotchman, would practitioners. Out of this too, as out of any 200 that when a man turned in bed it was time to turn "laugh to scom the idea of inducing sleep by an men chosen not from aptitude but from chance. out; and bere it may be remarked that grek expedient like trying to recollect a dream. Possi- there are, say, five men who have the gifts soldiers appear to be peculiarly constituted in bly it would be better for him, and for all like hím, necessary for the highest rank. The other 95 their power to summon sleep at will. Possibly if he wenn led to believe in the " sinister-lobe" fall into their places according to their ability this may be due to the habits of discipline which theory; and there may be a good time coming for some make good men at chamber work, others they have learned they say to their brains, all of us when thabits of temperance will be give good advice and to on, some do very well, Go to sleep," and at once the word of com- directly occasioned by the disuse of" nightcaps" | some fairly well, and some starve. If the work *mand is obeyed. Insomnis, however, is an and the substitution for them of thinking caps were divided equally among them and they evil of civilization which is growing, and, if instead. Our friend the patron of the sinister worked full time, about so men could do all the the letter, whích a correspondent Eas addressed lobe. Is evidently a rather Insomnolent "subject. work. The result of the exclusion of competition to a weekly contemporary is to be relled on, a 74o admits that it has been his liábit for many | Is, that the "gifted" men make all the money : plan has at last been hit upon to cure the malady years to try to lull himself off to sleep by other they can fix their fees at what they like. Snapper, ́and secure nature's sweetrestorer at a moment's | devices, such as counting numbers or the repeti- Q. C, will not take a case for less than 50 notice. We are all familiar with the stereotyped | sion of easy-flowing verses: "He has now, how guineas, because he knows that if one side docs advice in casca of this kind to “turn the pillow, " ever, hit upon the more excellent plan which he not employ him the other will, and that the * to "think of something else," or to imagine and :: patriotically confides to his wakeful countrymen other leader of the Bar, Nipper, QC, and so
count a number of mountain sheep going through" and countrywomen, and in which he was to a on,wwill all stand out for the same fee.” Thef a gate. Many a time and oft has the too waściół certain extent, forestalled by Sir David Brewster, litigant must get one of the leading men -brainworker attempted to carry these and similar, who had noticed that different parts of the body | into court with every prospect of defeat. So the prescriptions into practice, usuall" & "ith results go to sleep at different times, and thence argued hall tolls on merrily, the leaders make fortumen, disproportionate to the chark involved, lumay: [[he porabilty, by analogyro, different parts of the juniors; starve, and the lligants pay, the be sald without much exaggeration that thoman the brain going off in similar succession, piprze who can first imagine a flock of sheen, then a There is not much rewa to doubt that if we |-- This is not as it should be, Surely if comper half-open rate, and then can force his hypoth can once yet, the proper lobe of the cerebrum, tition is to be open in any trade, at all it should
sheep to go through one by one without crow
>which we desire" we can be so where special aptitude is required so that lodging-or turning
mand. › but the method, if any mat find himself naturally gifted for the
or go
former dreams and going over
work he could go to it with as little restriction
iously insufficient
as possible,It would be open to any man to practice at the Bar on producing a certificate of good character and passing a qualifyingja
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By Command,
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And
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If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in fall..
Share Lists will CLOSE on 14th November, 1888.
DIRECTORS:
WILLIAM ADAMSON, ESQ. (Mer, GILVILLA:: WOOD & Co.) ANDREW CURIE, ESQ., (The BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED WILLIAM DOUGAL, Esq. (Manager, CHARTERED Bank of India, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA) HON'BLE J. FINLAYSON, M.L.C. (Messrs. BOUSTEAD & CO.)
J. P. WADE GARDINER, ESQ., (Manager, HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION).
HON. H. W. GEIGER, M.L.C (Agent, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION Co.):
W. E. HOOPER, ESQ., (Messes, 'Ą, L ́ JOHNSTON & Co.) O. MUHRY, Esqu (Mers. BEIN, MEYER & Co.) THOS, SCOTT, ESQ. (Messia. GUTHRIE & Co.)"
TH, SOHST, ESQ. (Messrs. PUTTFARCKEN & Co.) C. STRINGER, ESQ... (Messrs. PatɛuSON, SIMONS & Co)
BANKERS: CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA; · HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
SOLICITORS: MESSES. DONALDSON & BURKINSHAW
SECRETARY (pro, tem.) JAMES KERR, ESQ.
HEAD OFFICE: SINGAPORE. "THIS COMPANY has been formed for the been felt for many years past, of a well-planned and well-fitted modern hotel of sufficient dimen sions to accommodate the large and constantly growing passenger traffic through Singapore, as well as supply the great demand for or permanent residential chambers
Singapore is the chief town of the British Crown Colony of the Straite Settlements, and is a leading place of call and coaling port on the~ great steam lines of communication with the Far Fast. It is moreover the centre of an extensive trade with India, China, the Dutch Indies, the Philippines, Siam, and other countries.
purpose of supplying the want which bas
The present hotel accommodation in Suga pore in quife inadequate, and it is proposed to acquire the fine site now partly occupied by the HOTEL de L'EUROPE, and build thereon a hotel of much larger dimensions, and greatly, improved Be construction and arrangement, Fully, detalled plans have been prepared and, the engagement of a first-class Manager is alrendy see had at any of the Agencies of
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