His lordship But you yourself say you will want to send a commission to England.
Mr. Deacon said they might, when they saw the writ.
His lordship suggested that the plaintiff should withdraw the case.
Mr. Webber said that since the defendants engaged the plaintiff's services they could not obj ci to his wanting time to prove his case.
His lordship :-Your claim is bad, on your own showing.
Mr. Webber admitted that, but added that Mr. Wotton caused the plaintiff to go to the defendant. firm, and leave another solicitor. He asked for a further adjournment for three weeks. Probably then, when the defendants saw the cause of action, they would pay up.
Mr. Deacon thought that very likely indeed. He asked for the wiit to be dismissed with costs. His lordship refused to do any such thing, and adjourned, the case for another week.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
VIENNA, June 25th.
At the sitting of the Austrian delegation to-day Count Kalnoky made a statement declaring that at the present moment, although the situation is unsettled, the peace of Europe is not in danger. He feared that the aggression and aggrandizing aims of Servia are premature; but he said Austria-Hungary is bound to prevent Servia from becoming a hotbed of intrigue. In con
clusion, the Foreign Minister assured the dele- gation that Austria-Hungary is on friendly terms with all States and powers, including Russia.
LONDON, June 26th. In the House of Commons last evening Sir James Fergusson, in reply to a question, said that Her Majesty's Government was unaware of the Russian occupation of Deer Island,
France has demanded England to annul the convention negotiated by the diplomacy of Sir H. Drummand Wolff in 1987, whereby the British occupation of Egypt was to terminate in 1892, but the right of entry in case of disturbance was to be guaranteed to Great Britain and Turkey, and which convention the Porte, after much prevarication, refused to ratify. France has also demanded to fix a date for the British evacua. tion of Egypt. The Timer, in commeating upon the French demands regarding the British Occupation of Egypt, considers that they are merely an election manœuvre of the French Government.
ZANZIBAR, June 26th.
Dr. Carl Peter's Emin Pasha relief expedition, after landing to the northward of Lamis, has started inland
LONDON, June 27th.
The latest report regarding the health of the Marquis of Dufferin indicates that His Lordship is making recovery. Absolute rest and quiet are still enjoined. The Marquis, therefore, remains at home for two months.
Mr. Walter H. Powell, Gladstonian member for West Carmarthenshiré, is dead.
The Times, in a leading article to-day, con- siders that the Government will be justified in calling Portugal to account for her arbitrary injustice to British citizens.
The Standard, Daily News, and Daily Telegraph regard the failure of Egyptian con- version scheme as not of vital importance to Egyptian finance, the only effect, the journals declare, will be to render France unpopular in Egypt, and England must choose her own time to make declarations,
THE RIOT AT HANKOW.
A re-assuring telegram was received in Shanghai from Hankow on the 8th inst., stating that everything is now quiet there.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1889.
None of the other residents thought inatters sufficiently serious to leave. The Fahwa pissed the Marlin at Nanking at noon on the 7th, so that the gunboat actually took 38 hours to travel the 201 miles, her average speed being a little over 5 miles an hour-not quite so fast as a 'ricksha!
Those on board the Fuhwe saw nothing of the Chinese gunboat despatched from Nanking by the Viceroy.—Mercury,
THE HANKOW TEA MARKET,
|
The tea settlements on the rat july were as follows :--
English layers, Kussian Buyers: Total.
-Che
-Cheil Hankow tea..............................2,931 1,960 4,891
.857 Kiukiang tea 405
1,262
3336 2,817 6,153 Shipments to Shanghai, 1,981 4-chests. Prices paid:-
chops)...Tls, 11.00 @ 13.30 2. 11.50 12.00 10.60 10.00
11
8.00 14.00 16.00
Yanglaotsze...... Kouchouit, Chingpoo.... Shantam Yanglaotung...?! Ningchow.........(6
Hankow tea regro Kiukiang tea,
-Chesin.
in which, as Mr. Baber mentions, the farmer and his workpeople live, it may be said, invariably in farm-houses on theit land, and the tendency is to the separation rather than to the congregation of dwellings. If this exception to the general. rule was made because the expectation of peace in that remote province was thought to be greater thanin others, as Baron von Richthofen suggested, it has proved, as Mr. Baber remarks, an expecta tion which has suffered many and grievous disappointments, especially--although after a long previous peace-in the days of the Taiping
rebels.
to
A most significant illustration of the Chinese, and also Oriental, suspicion found in social life is seen in the theory and practice in regard to woman. What that theory is, is sufficiently well known. While Chinese women have incom. parably mure liberty than their sisters in Turkey or in India, Chinese respect for women cannot be rated as high. Universal ignorance on the part of women, universal subordination, the existence of polygamy and concubinage-these are not good preparations for that respect for woman. hood which is one of the fairest characteristics of western civilisation. It would be easy to cite popular expressions in illustration of the views which the Chinese hold of wamen in general, and which may be regarded as the generalisations of 26.00 | long experience. She is spoken of as if it is her nature to be mean, short-sighted, and not to be trusted-she is considered to be an incarnation
" 9.00
H
"The serpent's mouth in the green bamboo,
The yellow loenet's canulal dart; Little the Injury these can de:
On July 3rd the settlements were:-
English Beyers. Russian Rares. Toth of jealousy, as in the phrase, it is impossible to
Crens
be more jealous than a woman, where the word +1,667
341 2,038 1.785
944
jealous' suggests, and is intended to suggest 2,729
another word meaning 'poisonous" which has the same sound. This theory is well embodied in 3.452 1,285 4.737
"a' verse of ancient Chinese poetry, of which the Shipments to Shanghai, 920 4-chests. Prices following lines are a translation paid: Oansa .... (z chops)...Tis. [email protected]" Tsingpu
8,00 Pakong..
10.55 . 12.00 Ningchow.....
16.00 ,, 20.50 Keemên ........(2
22.00, 73-75 On July 4th the settlements were:-
*English Tuyers, Russian Buyers; Totali.
Chests • Chesin. Hankow teas
......1,048 1.775 Kiukiang teas... 971 1,000
#
" Joss 1
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10.00
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NEWCHWANG.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.),
Newchwang, June 25th, 1889. last; and alrendy the plain at the back of the Rain, more precious than gold, has fallen at settlement has been converted from an arid wilderness into a swamp with mud a foot deep along the cart tracks. All the missionaries have now a more cheerful tale to tell, and hold out hopes that the barley and wheat crops may be saved in part. The success of the kaoliang and bean crops is assured, unless there be floods again this year, from which Heaven protect us. The river still keeps eating away the South Bank, and it looks as if before many years are out Yingtau will disappear.
The Tau, which carries this, takes away Mr. and Mrs. Holland, who are transferred to Amoy; Mr. T. Waters is now in charge of British and many other interests at this post.-Shanghai Mercury.
CHEFOO.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Entimations.
THE SELAMA TIN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
the
a case of battery as an análogy. There is almost always more more than one blow struck, and yet there is but a single offence. If the rule were otherwise the defendant might be acquilted upon the first blow struck, and yet convicted for the second or the third of the twentieth. Or in a
with having stolen, at one and the same time,
STATUTORY MEETING of the above three horses; he might be acquitted of 'having.} sained Company will be held at the Offices of having stolen the other two. stolen one horse and, subsequently convicted of † the Company, No. 18, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 23rd July, 1889, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M.
By Order of the Directors,
case of inrceny, where the defendant is charged NOTICE is hereby given that
Libel, that is criminal libel, is simply an offence against the peace and dignity of the people of the State, as is battery or larceny, and should be governed by the same rules. In case of damages for libel in a civil suit the case would very probably be different, for the damage there is measured by the injury done to the individual, and the accumulation of charges in a single article would tend at least to swell the damages; but in a criminal case for libel the verdict must be
guilty or not guilty, and the defendant could be no more guilty if he had embraced half a dozen libelous charges in one article than if he had contented himself with one, and if acquitted once of the accusation of libel that verdict must carry the whole article with it.
·Co-day's Advertisements.
Chefoo, 1st July, 1889. The past month was ushered in by a wave of heat here, caused, no doubt, by the continuous wind blowing from the south across many miles of searched country; but this did not last long, for the wind shifted, the much needed rain fell freely, and delightful weather followed. We, on the const, have been enjoying cool sea breeze; T. JOHN although inconvenienced every now and then by rainstorms; whilst news has been constantly constantly coming in' from the country telling. of the incalculable relief the changed weather would eventually bring to the famished millions
who have survived the terrible distress in this
province.
Last week, fifteen Chinese men-of-war, turret- ships, corvettes, Armstrong cruisers, and other iron-clads, under the command of Admiral Lang, visited this port. They stayed four days, and the sea being perfectly calm during that period, opportunities occurred, each afternoon for those who wished to see what a formidable fleet was lying out in the harbour, to row round the magni- ficent vessels.
L O D G E
OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C.
A REGULAR MEETING of the above named Lodge will be held in FREEMA SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING. the rath instant, at 8.30 for 9 O'CLOCK precisely, instead of'g for 9.30P.M. as previously announced. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited."
Hongkong, 12th July, 1889.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
1954
Mare venomou, far is a woman's ixart.' These views are incidentally exemplified with a fine and unconscious impartiality in the very structure of the Chinese language, in a manner to which attention has been often directed. An excellent scholar in Chinese, in response to a request from the writer, examined with care a list of 125 of the more common characters which are written with the radical woman, and found that 14 of them conveyed a meaning which might be classed as good, such as the words 'good' 'skilful,' and the like; of the remainder, 35 are bad, and 86 indifferent in meaning. But those classed as bad contain some of the most disreputable words in the whole language. The radical for wantan, combined with that denoting shield, signifies deceitful, fraudulent, villanous, $4.00 23.00 traitorous, selfish'; white three women incombina- ensigns, tea was served, after which an interest | Captain M. Eichel, will leave for the above Ports
tion convey the ideas of fornication, adultery racing, torpedo-firing, et cetera, which Admiral TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, by 4 P.M.
2,775
2,833 1,971
2,019
4.704 Shipments to Shanghái, 1,437 4-chests. Prices paid :- Kokew
chops)... Tls. 1000 @ 11,00
925
Tungsan.......! Yanglaotung... Taoyuen...... Ningchow.....(8
---N. C. Daily News.
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7.25
1.
J... 13.25..
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
MUTUAL SUSPICION.
It is an indisputable truth that without a certain amount of mutual confidence, it is impos- sible for mankind to exist in an organised society, especially in a sacity so highly organised and so complex as that of China. Assuming this as an axiom, it is not the less necessary to direct our attention to a series of phenomena, which, however inharmonious they may appear with our theory, are sufficiently real to those who are acquainted with China. Much of what we shall have to say of the mutual suspicion of the Chinese is by no means peculiar to this people, but is rather a trait which they share in common with all' Orientals, yet the manifestations of which are doubtless much modified by the genius of Chinese institutions. The whole subject is intimately connected with that of mutual responsibility, which has been already discussed. Nothing is more likely to excite the suspicion, not of the Chinese only, but of any human being, than the danger that he may be held to account for something which has no concern whatever with him- self, but the consequences of which may be most serious.. The first manifestation of the chronic suspicion prevailing in China, which attracts the attention of a stranger is the existence, in all parts of the empire, of lofty walls which enclose all cities. The fact that the word for city is in Chinese the equivalent for a walled city, is as significant as the fact that in the Latin language the word which denoted army, also meant drill or practice. The laws of the empire require that every district city, as well as every city of a higher rank, shall be enclosed by a wall of a specified height. Like other laws, this statute is much neglected in the letter, for there are many cities the walls of which are allowed to crumble inte such decay that they are no protection whatever, and we know of one district city invested by the Taiping rebels and occupied by them for many months, the walls of which, although utterly destroyed, were not restored at all. for more than a decade afterwards. Many cities to keep out even the native dogs, which climb over it at will. But in all these cases the occasion of these lapses from the ideal state of things is simply the poverty of the country. Whenever there is an alarm of trouble, the first step is to repair the walls. The execution of such repairs affords a convenient way in which to fine officials or others who have made them. selves too rich in too short a time. The firm foundation on which rest all the many city walls in China, is the distrust which the Government entertains of the people. However much the Emperor may beintheory the father of his people, and his subordinates called 'father and mother offcials, all parties understand perfectly that these are purely technical terms, like plus and minua, and that the real relation between the people and their rulers, is that between children and a step-father. The whole history of China appears to be dotted with rebellions, most of which might apparently have been prevented by proper action on the part of the general Govern ment, if taken in time. The Government does not expect to act in time, Perhaps it does not wish to do so, or perhaps it is prevented from doing so. Meantime the people slowly, tire, a the Government knew they would, and the officials promptly retire within these ready-made fortifications, like a turtle, within its shell, or a bedge-hog within its ball of quills, and the dis. turbance, is left to the slow adjustment of the troops.
On Wednesday last Admiral and Mrs. Lang held a reception on board the flagship Ting Yates, on which steamer the Chinese Admiral Ting also gave a cordial reception to his colleague's foreign guests. Nothing had escaped the forethought of our host and hostess: on the ship's deck, which had been roofed over with
ing programme of amusements, such as boat-
Lang had planned, was carried out to the enjoy these events were taking place, the guests were ment of the large party assembled; and whilst shewn the many wonders of the iron-clad by the Admiral and his courteous officers.
The Protestant Collegiate School (at which the. sons of many of your readers are receiving the benefits of a home education, and at the same time acquiring them in a truly beautiful climate) has just finished its second term with the usual Examinations; and the boys have now a fresh source of pleasare, for some of them will be able to avail themselves of the use of the handsome present generously given last Friday by Captain Watts, of Taku, to the school-marnely a fine four-oared gig in which they can row (for "it's jelly beating weather) and from which they can swith. We hear that the work goes on heartily and successfully, and it is probable that an addition will soon have to be made to the
NOTICE. --------------- STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND NAGASAKI.
(Passing through the INLAND SEA.) THE Company's Steamship
"GENERAL WERDER,"
For Freight of Passage, apply to
MELCHERS & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 12th July, 1889.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI. "HE Company's" Steamship
"DRESDEN,"
ΤΗΣ
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Captain V. Schuckmann, will leave for the above place, TOMORROW, the 13th inst., by 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents,
Hongkang, 12th July, 1889.
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
FOR LONDON AND HAMBURG..
school buildings. There is, however a greater immediate want than this, and that is, a large field suitable for cricket and football. of European mercantile houses, has just seen an
Chefoo, alas, instead of expanding in its number. THE Steamship old established foreign hong transfer its business and close its doors. The advertisement in your paper speaks of this, so there is little to be added, except that the departure of the last remaining member of the firm from our midst will not only narrow our little world, but will cause us to miss one more friendly face in it.-N. C. Daily News.
KOREA.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
Chemulpo, 25th June, 1889. The Espoir arrived here on the 15th instant, and is still here. Forty of her crew are said to be ready to march to Soul at a moment's notice, owing to some political disturbance which bas resulted in Cho (ta-jen) resigning the portfolio of President of the Foreign Office. Shall send you further details by an early mail.
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For Freight or Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 12th June, 1889.
1641
· FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
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"FORT CAROLINE,”
+
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[871
JANTED, a FURNISHED HOUSE at the
Peak. Possession immediate.
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FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND
SINGAPORE.
THE Company's Steamship
"OANFA"
having arrived from the above Paris, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods,. are being landed at their risk, into the Godowns, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf 'and Godown..Company, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before NOON, on the 17th instant, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
Stuwock, Commander, will be despatched for examined on the 17th instant, at 4 P.. the above Port, on or about the 30th inst.
For Freight of Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 12th July, 1889
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No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 17th. inst., will be subject to rent.
300 YARDS,
or
chased the policeman who made the arrest, with have only a feeble mud rampart, quite inadequate insists upon being told the allegations against a drought, and subsequent famine, is of long Kneeling, will take place TO-MORROW,
At present all seems fairly quiet, the late copious rainfall having tended, no doubt, to cool down the ardour of the working classes, who are easily excited by mischievous officials whenever
'EN SHOTS. Position Standing continuance, as has been the case this year.
A high Chinese official arrived here yesterday the 13th July, at 4.30 P.M. in the Turuga. He holds office as Consul in Soul, so I hear. He is stopping at Steward's popular hotel, which I hear is shortly to be christened the Sea View Hotel-a very suitable name indeed,
Beduction, to intrigue.
There are said to be two reasons why people do not trust one another-first because they do not know each other, and second because they do. The Chinese think that they have each of these reasons for distrust. And they act accordingly. While the Chinese are gifted with a capacity for combination, which at times seems to suggest the union of chemical atoms, it is easy to ascertain by careful enquiry at the proper sources and at the proper times, that the Chinese do not by any means trust one another in the implicit way which the external phenomena imply. Members of the same family are con stantly the victims of mutual suspicion, which is fanned by the women who have married into the family, and who as sisters-in-law are able to do much, and who frequently do what they can, to foment jealousy between their husbands in regard to the division of the proceeds of the common labour. To this topic reference was made in apeak ing of what we have called 'socialtyphoons,' Not to enlarge upon this aspect of domestic life, which by itself might occupy a chapter, we pass to the notice of the same general state of things among We further understand that H.E. the Tactai,
these who are not united by the complex ties of in consequence of a communication from
Chinese family life. A company of servants in H.B.M.'s Consul General, telegraphed to the
a family often stand to one another in a relation Viceroy of Nanking, suggesting that a Chinese
of what may be called armed neutrality, that is, gunboat should be despatched to Hankow, as a
if they have not been introduced by some one who is responsible for them all. If anything preventative of disorder. A telegram has since been received from the Viceroy, stating that the
comes out to the disadvantage of any one of ganboat Wei Ching had left Nanking for
them, his first question to himself is not, 'How Hankow, which face shows that the Chinese
did the master find that out ?" but "Who told him authorities are alive to the danger and expense
of me? Even if the servant is well aware that of a recurrence of the Chinkiang affair.
his guilt has been proved, his first thought will The Fulwo, which arrived here to-day, brought
be to show that some other servant had a grudge further particulars of the origin of the trouble at
against him. We have known a Chinese woman that port. It appears that about 4 pm. on the
to change colour and leave a room in great 4th inst., a student, who had passed his examina-
dudgeon" on hearing loud voices in the yard, tjon, being a little excited by his success, was
because she supposed that as there was an conducting himself in a somewhat disorderly
angry, discussion, it must be about her, whereas manner on the Bund, when he was arrested by
the matter was in relation to a pile of millet a Chinese constable and brought to the Station,
stalks bought for fuel, for which a dealer where he was examined, and as it would appear,
demanded too high a price. It is this kind allowed to go away. He was followed by a
of suspicion which fans the fires of dissen- number of his friends, and instead of going
sion, which are almost sure, to arise when quietly on his way, he, not unlike students in
a servant has been unexpectedly discharged. other places, was inclined to make the most of his
He suspects every one but himself, is certain victory, and the crowd becoming very disorderly,
that some one has been speaking ill of him, the evident intention of assaulting him. The
him, although he knows that there are half a > constable, however, succeeded in reaching the
score of reasons, any of which would justify his Tesidence of Mr. Sharp, Secretary of the Municipal
immediate dismissal. His face must be secured, Council, where he took refuge from the mob,
and his suspicious nature must be gratified. who were shouting and yelling ins very menác
These occurrences take place in Chinese families as well as in foreign families with Chinese Ing manner. Mr. Sharp, it is said, took a stick and went out, and with the assistance of the
servants, but pot in the same degree, because a constable, the student, with whom the trouble
Chinese servant has learned how far he can im-
A few days ago we were all startled by a originated, war again arrested, and this time
pose upon the good-nature of the foreigner, as he circular announcing that a new book, entitled securely locked up in the station house. The
Would neverthink of doing in the case ofa Chinese
"Korea and The Powers," will shortly be mob, which had by this time" greally increased
master. It is for this reason that so many published by Mr. Chesney Duscan. No doubt in numbers, again surrounded the building, and
foreigners bave in their employ Chinese servants Mr. Duncan is well fitted to write upon this threatened all sorts of things against its inmates.
wham they ought to have discharged long ago, and subject, for he has been a long time in the Far A good deal of stone throwing at foreigners took
wou'd have discharged if they had dared. They East, and has spent six years in Korea. We all place--the pilot of the Fahwe being amongst
know that the mere proposal of such a thing will expect a treat when Mr. Duncan's book comes those so assailed-but fortunately no oneappears
| bs the stirring up of a homet's nest, the central out knowing, as we do, that he has made to have been hurt, or at least, seriously. The
figure of which will be the accused and dis- Korean affairs a special study, crowd remained outalde the station-house, con-
graced servant, and they have not the courage The Chinese fleet under Admiral Ting is due ducting themselves in the manner described, till
to make a strike for liberty, lest in the case of here to-morrow or the next day. We also hear late at night, and with the morning they returned
failure their condition should be worse than that a Russian and French squadron will shortly In greater numbers, The residents now became
before. There is a story of an Austrian city rather alarmed, and the native authorities,
which was besieged by the Turks in the Middle come here to have a kind of 2004 see! A com Ages, and which was just on the point of capture. Shanghai Mercury.
ment vous fortes vous sort of affair. apparently in response to a communication from the foreign officials, sent a guard of soldiers to
At a critical moment an Austrian girl bethought protect the atation house. The mere presence
herself of a number of bee-hives, which she at of these "braves" does not seem to have had
once brought, and tumbled over the wall on the the salutary effect of dispersing the rioters, for
Turks, now almost up to the parapet. The result we are informed that the mob bad to be charged
was a speedy descent on the part of the Turks, by the military before the Bund was cleared.
and the saving of the city. The tactics of a There were a great number of students on the
Chinese often resemble that of the Austrian | other side of the river, in Wuchang, but the
maiden and his success is frequently as signal, native authorities prevented them Joining their
for this kind of a disturbance is such that, as a fellows in the Settlement by prohibiting the
The lofty walls which enclose all premises in Latin professor said of a storm, one would much passenger and other boats bringing them servis. Chinese, as in other Oriental cities and towns, rather face it per alium, than face it per in the afternoon a telegram was despatched by ars another exemplification of the same traits of No wonder that the adage runs, "if Mr. Allen, the British Consul, to the Senior Naval suspicion. If it is embarrassing for a foreigner you employ one, do not suspect him if Officer, urgently requesting the presence of a to know how to speak to a Chinese of such places you suspect him, do not employ him. The gunboat, with the result already in the possession as London or New York, without uning tionally Chinese way in such cases is simply to close olour readers. The Fuhwo, we now learn, was the conveying the notion that they are cities, onet eyes, and to pretend that one does not sco, only foreign vessel in port at the time the trouble it is not less difficult to make Chines hosy but for a foreigner this may not be so simple and began, and acting on the suggestion of the Consul, be interested in western landa, understand how easy to achieve. We find it necessary to impress her commander, Captain Davis, had steamkeptop it can be that in those countries people often upon our children, when they come to be of an ali, night, so that the residents of the threatened have about their premises no enclosures what age to mingle in the world on their own account, settlement could find a place of refuge on board ever. The immediate, although unwarranted that it is well not to be too confiding in strangers. It will be seen at once that the question was her in case of emergency; this extreme step was, inference on the part of the Chinese, is that in This kind ofcaution does not need to be conveyed a nice one, the gist of it being” whether the. happily, not necessary, and the Klangfoo, and such, countries there must be no bad characters. to the Chinese in their parly years, for it is taken libelous article was to be considered in its entirety, the Russian tea steamer St. Petersburg shortly of any kind,veral massing of the rural one man should not enter a temple, and that two
in with their mother's milk. It is a proverb that or whether it was to to be treated as an aggrega afterwards arrived. The latter vessel had, in The almost
tion of several libels, for, each of which the addition to her crew, some hundred time-expired Chinese population in villages, which are in men should not look together into a well. And defendant was liable to prosecution. After me from the Russian feel at Vladivostock reality miniature cities, is another illustration of why, we inquire, in surprise, should one man not considering analogous cases, the Court held that *** dad other northern, ports, on their way home, the trait of mutual suspicion. There is protection, enter a temple court alone? Because the priest there was but one criminal offence, and that it and there were on board about, soyenty stabd not from a foreign enemy, but from one another may take advantage of the opportunity to make could not be split up and prosecuted in parts farmt besides. Her commander expressed The only exceptions to this mode of agglomera-away with him 1. Two men should not gaze Inle without violating the settled rule of law that bir readiness to land his men if required, so tian: of Chinese dwellings with which we are a well, for if one of them is in debt to the other, man shall not be twice vexed for one and the that confidence must have thereby been well acquainted infid the care of some mountainon or had in his possession something which the same offence, and that the trial court erred in restored amongst the residents. The Fukwe regions where the land is so barren that it is other wants, tint other may seize the occasion refusing to allow the defendant to prove a former Agents, or to "THE HONGKONG TELEORAYH # left after midnight on the 6th Instant, and all was locapable of supporting more than one or two to push his companion into the well N. C. aequiltaleneb Maptainbat are PRICE moiam.......50 CENTS,
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then quiet the wife and children of the foreign families, the people being so poor that they have Faily News, Finantza police inspector proseeding by her to Klukiang | no dread of thieves, and the province of Szechuan,
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CRIMINAL LIBEL,'
The following sensible remarks on the abova subject are taken from the San Francisco Chronicle :-
A. SHELTON HOOPER,......
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 12th July, 1889.
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The Supreme Court this State has just decided a case of criminal libel, which, in the opinion of the Court, presented an entirely new point. The defendant was convicted in the court below, and appealed on the ground of former acquittal, claiming that he had been tried and acquitted upon the same charge, based on the same article. The question presented on appeal was whether there may be as many prosecutionsHAT Excellent and Convenient RESI- for iibel maintained upon a single article pub
DENCE, containing 8 Rooms "and lished in a single newspaper s there are false OUTBUILDINGS and known as "SIN E-KEE," and defamatory statements concerning a single situated at KULANGSOO, AMQY. individual in mich article.
For Particulars, apply to
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SALIEROPA DLA Wlew moments reflection will how the serréctness of this dedaion;- {{{Tako, for example,
J. F. BROADBENT, 13th June, 1889.
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