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Of the 7th instant, at the Peak. Hospital, trouble to Hongkong, Enward GEORGE..
The
onghong Belegraph,
,1 HONUROM... THURSHAY, December 11, 1890.
PRISON REFORMS.
1.
Tex unofficial members of the Legislative Council had quite a field day at the meeting of the Finance Committee held last Friday, The Estimates were under consideration and it was on the vexed Gaol Extension vote that the people's (1) representatives met the official phalanx in battle array. A sum of $140,000 had been set down, $100,000 of which amount were assumed to he required next year, but as neither the Acting Colonial Secretary nor any of his colleagues, not even the Surveyor General, could specifically explain what this money was wanted for, nothing else but opposition to such an unsatisfactory and unbusiness-like proposition was reasonably possible. And, gratifying to relate. for once the unofficials, if not altogether of one mind, were unanimous at the poll. The discussion, it hardly reached the dignity of a debate, was chiefly interesting in exposing the complete ignorance of the whole of the Committee in the salient details of what has for the last dozen years been one of the leading problems of local politics. That, of course, is no new feature in the conduct of fiscal affairs in the colony, but it is nevertheless deserving of some attention.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1890.
everyone who
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EARLY HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.'
│II.
The last chapter wound up with the proclama- tion issued by Sr. Gordon Bremer and Capt. Elliet, jintly, on the st February, 1841, which confuled the final act of founding the colony as an addition to Her lejesty's possessions, It was not, however, unul the 5th of April 1843 that Hongkong became.n Crown Colony
The next record of interest in connection with A GENERAL meeting of the shareholders of the the establishment of respons ble Government on Nippon Yuen Kalsha was held at Tokie on this island is the issue of the first two numbers. 1st inst. in the office of the company, The
cripts for the year were $5,962,324:41, of which Government Gagette, which, it will be 2,500 were set apart as a dividend for the oven anique specimens of the Cze
are so nowhat Gazsite, year, to be declared at the rate of 11 per cent. per annum, $19,128.738 being carried forwards compared with the Government's weekly
publication of the present day, it contra ring the next account.
Directors of the Jaatese National Steam shipCompany (Ninoon Yurso: Kaisha) have come distressed, widow and children of the late forward in markably liberal manner to ieli ve Comin Frahm who was lost while in command of the ill-fed strammer the Musashi Maru. the time of her total loss off the south coast of
all-the more remarkable and praiseworthy,
the wreck of the Musaika Maru—the vessel, was not injured—his uniolicited »ssistance is:
No. 1.
Captain William Caine, if Her Majesty's 25th (or Cameronian) regiment of infantry, is appointed Chief Magistrate of the island of Hongkong, anding Her Majesty's further pleasure, and all persons repairing thither are required to respect the authority in him vested, agreeably to the innexed warrant.
If the honorable member had taken the of the unseen world in whose existence almost universally done by foreigners day make himself personally the Chinese believe." And the honor-alter day, without interference. Fine the acquainted with Victoria Gaol before alle gentleman's memory is again at caning house keepers as heavily as their taking part in such an important contro- fault when he assured the Committee means will allow and 'put them in the versy, but that ommission can be set that
goes into gaol stocks for a spell if thought advisable, but aside as a mere matter of detail. Menthers wears gnol clothes; he forgot that first- summarily put a stop to what is nothing of Council who only represent themselves class misdemeanants and debtors wear but a wholesale manufacture of criminals can hardly with fairness be expected to their own garments, and are allowed to Unlicensed hawkers and other itinerants bother themselves about any outside provide their own meals if they so desire.and the various sorts of mendicants 59 TELEGRAM was received here on the gh inst interests. That is one of the special After some further discussion a division prevalent in the poorer districts, should by the Superintendent of the P. & 0. stat ng beauties of our present system of selecting was taken on the motion to omit the vote, either he left alone under ordinary police that the Company's steamship Hongkong while Hongkong's unofficial honorables,' and and resulted in a defeat for the Govern; supervision, or sent about their business on her hom: ward bound voyage, bad gone It is worthy of imitation elsewhere-atment by a majority of one."
after a night's incarceration in the cells a och badly shore in the Red Sea on the 8th Chinese Kowloon, Macao, or somewhere.
the Central Station, Tetrent these unforest. A portion of the cargo had to be jettisone Mr. T. H. WHITEHEAD, who seconded the
tunates... as criminals, considering the and assistance was being rent to the aid of the
distressed vessel.: b. Bond ale $ proposition for the rejection of the vote, did Ir had better be frankly recognised at circumstances of life in this colony, is worse not add much to the value of the discussion; once both by the unofficial members, of than a blunder; it is almost a crime he. believed that "two Commissions Council and the public, that an extension There are various other classes of minor had sat in connection with the gaol of Victoria Gaol is not merely desirable offenders who could be effectively disposed extension, but had not seen their reports but absolutely necessary. The carrying of without either resorting to brutal flog, which, he thought, ought to have been out of this work is inevitable, and therefore, ging or imprisonment, and by means which placed on the table so that the members instead of combining together in a factious are well within reach of the authorities, if could have seen what their recommenda opposition to the Government that is they will only take the trouble to adopt tions were. We think if the junior member certain to prove futile, a policy should be and properly work out an entirely new
These two numbers afford the best informatida had been anxious to make himself followed having for its aim the requisite system. Our local would-be prison refor
wa håve" of the new possession of the British acquainted with these recommendations additions to the gaol at the lowest possible mers would seem to be unable to get
crava in the east. A gazette will be published, that it was a very easy, matter to apply expenditure consistent with efficiency. In beyond the infliction of punishments: su
under the authority of the Government of the for the reports at the Colonial Secretary's the first place let it be clearly shown what ciently harsh to be what they call deterrent
this date," May 1st 1841, with a view to afford island (Hongkong), at semi-monthly periods from office. The opposition of Mr. C.P. CHATEN prison reforms the altered character of the forgetting that prevention is always better
greater publicity to the Leneral orders that may was at once practical and comprehensible; colony and of the times we live in require, than cure, and that the most effectual
from time to tims he issued by the officers of the he simply seclined, as a business man, to and then a decision can be arrived at as method of repressing crime is to prevent
British government and forces. The sheet will support a vote of a large sum of public to the best means to meet such require- it by every possible means. Once a gaol-Japan during a typhoon in October last.. $2 con
he filled up when it is faun 1 nresssary, by the money for an unknown or at least unde-ments. We do not recommend any further bird always a criminal is an adage that was the amount of a chequeenclosed in a thought-insertion of such statistical returns and other cided purpose; he wanted to have it purposeless inquiries by a specially is only too true in Hongkong as the prisonbile substantial sums gere presented to the
fully wriben letter of condolence to the wilow. public documents as shall be dermed valuable. explained what buildings were to be erected appointed Commission, as we are very records incontestably prove.
or interesting." The 1st number contains a relatives of other foreigners who were lost at the nation of Keshen's mémorial, which we shall, and at what cost, and as no explanations strongly of the. Acting Governor's opinion.
same line while in the Company's service. Bublish later on, with the following public notice. had been made he objected to voting in that reference in a Commission generally
Seeing thatthe Yusen Kaitha hears the total Inas latest Gaol Commission, Mr. CHATZR made measure submitted to an ordeal that in the dark. Although a member of the means the indefinite shelving of any no reference to his experiences as a Hongkong has almost invariably proved commissioner nor of the opinions he had most unsatisfactory. Besides, the labours formed, which favors the assumption that and recommendations of the Commission he is not opposed to some clearly defined presided over by the Hon. E. J. ACKROYD and reasonable measure of reform. are on record, and if they ever were of It was now time for an official expression any-value, there is no reason to suppose of opinion, and the Acting Attorney that it can have materially depreciated General (Mr. E. J. ACKROYD), who was The condition of the gaol to-day is very Chairman of the Commission, submitted much the same as it was four years ago his views. As the honorable and learned at all events so far as the pot and cone gentleman could not remember whether it of the propose extension scheme are commenced its labours, it is evident information that may be thought necessary was in 1886 or 1887 that the Commission concerned and any other detailed the conclusions then arrived at had not can either be supplied from official sources caused him any very serious misgivings, or oxained by independent inquiries. Mr. ACKROYD remembered that several Victoria Gaol was built when the recommendations were made to the population of this colony numbered about Government, principally the use of the one half what it is estimated at present lash, in order to diminish the number of and at a time when nobody could possibly Inmates in the Gaol, but the Secretary foresee the wonderful progress the city of State refused to sanction wholesale has made as a commercial emporium and flogging, and so far as the speaker knew as a popular Chinese settlement and place the number of prisoners had not diminished. of residence. Increased population of The worthy Attorney General felt so little course means a proportionate increase in interest in the subject that he never the criminal classes, and for this latter inquired whether the daily average of section of our community extraordinary prisoners had increased or diminished; facilities have of late years been offered but he was quite certain some punishment by cheap steamboat fares to the Ishmaelites more deterrent than those now in vogue of Canton and the surrounding country to should be applied to Chinese, and that food Hongkong in countless hordes. And there was nothing more requisite and..it must be remembered that nothing has necessary than an extension of the Gaol, heen done to provide additional gaol The more deterrent" punishment indicated accommodation for this greatly increased was solitary confinement, which Dr. Ho and ever increasing wave of crime. No KA,...... who opposed the vote on doubt, as has been warmly urged on many the broad ground that such expendi. occasions, it does seem somewhat hard ture was unnecessary, asserted was no that the rate-payers of this colony should punishment at all to the ordinary Chinese be heavily taxed to keep in order, and criniinal, an assertion that is fully borne provide board and lodging for the scum out by the only evidence available, the and rascaldom of the Kwangtung province; experiences of the officers of the Gaol and but this is severtheless one of the duties the admissions of Chinese who have been and responsibilities of every enlightened subjected to this form of confinement, government, and, however unfortunate, we With Europeans the result is entirely must accept the situation. as it stands,, or different; solitary confinement, in total until some efficient remedy can be found darkness means to a European who has to lessen its worst effects, We can con- not been hardened and degraded to the level of the brute, a rapid road to Insanity and suicide; but that question can be left over for future consideration, as it is the Chinese difficulty that blocks the way, at present. Mr. Ratzlavored gaolextension, to some extent, but considered the amount
gratulate ourselves on one thing which should not be lost sight of by the Legisla tive Council when discussing this prison problem, and that is the extraordinary freedom the colony has enjoyed until quite lately from any large amount of very serious crime; the vast
the provincial.capital, Câh Hsiung-fu, to T'êng
Ynen for Mamein] via Talin-a distance of rent the completion of a Telegrach line from 163.1 miles. The work was begun by the surveving of a road purchase of the posts in the sui g of 1888 and is completed by the mom in 1880. Memorialists dwell on the difficulties of the undertaking, the line running amarg high mountains and thick forests, the party suffering from the sun by day and the fear affording smill protection against the latter.) of wolves and tigers by night (heir slight tents am-times, too, in 8 day's march of 30 miles, they would not meet a living being. Another danger is from crossing three rivers which. obstructed their path, from the waters of which rise pestilential vapours which if breathed by a man, or waded through on a horse, are often number in this way. Memorialists hand a list of fatal. Their party lost more then tes of their recommendations for promotion, for the Imperial notice.--Ruscript. Let it be done. Let the Board concerned take note and let the list be handed them.
There are about six hundred prisoners in Victoria Gaol, at the present time, which the present writer remembers paying a is considerably over the average, although visit of inspection during the régime of the late Mr. M. S. TONNOCHY, when the num-To judge by a memorial lately forwarded in the ber totalled something like seven hundred. Chrar e he the Viceroy of Yunnan there should But even the smaller aggregate is by farbe but le doubt about the difficulties ard ton many for the accommodation available,dangers experienced by those who were ergaard: in fact it is not too much to say that from constructing the ovalnd telegraph Ine: three to four hundred crowd the gaol. It-through China to the borders of Indit. The is a common saying that our prison is too memorial was as follows:- good for Chinese and 'not gond enough for FARCTION OF TELEGRAPH LINES, IN YUNNAN. foreigners, but like a great manyect Corral of the Yun Kui provinces, Ingether The Governor of Yü¶nan and the Governor- common sayings this one is subject to: parison can be drawn between Victoria considerable qualification. No fair com- Gol and the filthy, evil-smelling dent that serve the purpose of prisons in Canton or any other Chinese city, any more than there can be between British and Chinese civilisation; but in any case we should not be likely to model our prison system on that of our Celestial neighbours, and have simply to consider what reform is required to make things right from a British point of view. No definite and satisfactory decision as to the proposed gaol extension can be arrived at until the Government has submitted a detailed plan of its proposals with full particulars as to cost, etc, and then there, should be no great trouble in arriving at a practical solution of the difficulty. But unless imprisonment for debt is to be abolished, a new ward for debtors will be Indispensable there is none now in existence and over a dozen men who have conimitted THE prosecution of Mr. R. Fraser Smith, pro- no crime and are only imprisoned because prelor and editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, they have been unfortunate in business, and Mr. G. W. Ward, reporter on the s'af of the accommodation for about half the number; man, nimed Minhinnett, was concluded in the are crowded into a wretched place with same paper, on a charge of conspiring to bring a Inlse accusation of a criminal mature against a there is no ward for first-class misde-Fore kong Supreme Court, on the 29th ult, before meanants, and persons on remand, tha Sir James Russell and a special jury of seven, is persons who are by an amusing legal and resulted in a verdict of guilty against both fiction accounted innocent until they are defendants by a majority of four to three, with found guilty, have to put up with the discomforts of ordinary prisoners. A new and greatly enlarged hospital is urgently needed, with proper quarters for, the medical officer and his staff who at present live outside the gaol. The warders and turnkeys' quarters are also sadly deficient, and in many other respects there. Is only it is the duty of the Government to submit too much room for fault finding. Still, as their detailed proposals to the Legislative
an unanimous recommendation for the Court to deal-leniently in the matter. Judgmeat was
(Signed)" CHARLES ELLIOT,
H. M. Plenipotentiary, Charged with the Government of the island of Hongkong, Warrant By Charles Elliot, Esquire. Her
Majesty's plenipotentiary &c., Sec.. charged with
hereby constitute and app int vau. William
the Government of the island of Hongkong :
Pending Her Majisty's further pleasure, I do
for Cameronian) regiment of infantry, to be Chief Caine, Esquire, captain in Her Majesty's„26th Mgistrate of the Island of Hongkong; and I do further authorize and require you to exercise authority according to the laws, customs and us ges of China," as near as may be (every description of torture excepted), for the preserva- tion of the peace and the profection of life and property over all the native inhabitants in the
island and the harbors thereof,
*
And I do further authorize and require you, In any case where the crime, according to Chinese law, shall involve punishments and penalties exceeding the following scale in severity, to remit the case for the judgment of the head of
the Government for the time being.
Scale-Imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for more than 3 months; or penalties exceeding $400. Corporal punishment exceed. ing 100 lashes and capital punishinent.
And I do farther require you, in all cases followed by sentence or infliction of punishment, to keep a record containing à brief statement of
And I farther authorize and require you to exercise magisterial and police authority over all persons whatsoever (other than natives of the island, or persons subject to the Mutiny Act, or to the general law for the Government of the flee), who shall be found committing breaches of the peace on shore or in the harbors of the island, or breaches of any regulations to be; issued from time to time by this Government, according to:
the case, and copy of the sentence,
the customs and usages of British police law.
And I do hereby authorize you: for the police
and punish such offenders, according to purposes herein.before specified, to arrest, detain): the principles and practice of general British riplice law in divar kagak kata
The Acting Colonial Secretary in explaining why this vote had been included in the Estimates stated that so long agoas 1883 the Secretary of State had recognised the necessity for a new gaol and, although with some reluctance had consented to a temporary postponement, wished it to be distinctly understood that the work could not he indefinitely postponed. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, according to Mr. DHANE, had taken great. personal interest in the matter, and as his opinion was that the manner in which prisoners were crowded in the cells was scandalous and would be dangerous in the event of any epidemic breaking out, he had submitted two separate projects to Lord KNUTSFORD as a solution of the difficulty—namely:—(1) To extend the present Gaol by including the Magistracy and a portion of the compound of the Central Police Station, or (2) to erect a new block of buildings, somewhere on the Pok-fu-lum Road at West Point, Whilst awaiting for the Secretary of State's decision between these two proposals, the item of $140.000 had been included in the Estimates in order to provide for the result of such decision. As neither of these schemes apparently found favour with the unofficial members, and as the selection of either one of them is certain to be strenuously opposed, it is much to be regretted that Mr. DIANE did not see fit, or was unable to fully explain under what circumstances the Secretary of State had arrived at the absolute decision in 1883 that a new and enlarged prison for Hongkong must be gone on with in
delivered the following day the sentence being spite of the combined opposition, of almost every class in the colony. The proposal
six months imprisonment each, with hard labour. The case for a new gaol was one of the pet projects
complicated for us to give a fair account of it, is altogether too long and of Governor HENNESST, who held what
but it is only necessary to point to the fact were then considered the most enlightened
that three of the jury voted "not guilty" against views on prison, reform, and there can,
And all persons subject to the Mutiny Act of we think, be no doubt that the opposition
four who voted "guilty," to prove how evenly to the large expenditure recommended ten
they have to pay the penalty with a compara
the general law for the governmest of the fleet the issue was balanced. In the eye of the law, however, the defendants were found guilty, and
found committing police or other offences'shall or eleven years ago was mainly instigated
ively long imprisonment. On the other hand,
be handed over to their proper military superfore by that powerful clique who worked so set down as. too large. Considering that majority of offences against the law Council, and as that has not yet been done, the complainant is free-except from his own
for punishment, 1.1621 Industriously to make the outside world the Acting Colonial Treasurer (Mr. H. E. have been and continue to be of the opposition of the unofficial members conscience, and from being loathed and scorned detain in rain custody any person whatsoever And I do further authorize and requlie you to believe that his Excellency and his WODEHOUSE) has been a police magistrate a comparatively trivial character, and it to the $140.000 vote was fully justified by his fellow-men for the e time that hai to a policy were all but universally unpopu for a number of years, he might reasonably may become a question for serious and must surely have been anticipated. fáin extent been brought home to him.found committing crimes and offences within the lar with the people of Hongkong. have been expected to know more about consideration whether it would not be.
Neither of the parties occupy a very inviable government of Hongkong amounting to felony, This journal took a decided stand on the gaol matters, than was evidenced by his sound policy to deal with such offenders
position, but of the two we should think "hard recording to the lap of England; forthwith question at issue, and from that we have remarks; but one suggestion he threw out, in quite a different fashion to the ordinary
ferable.-Nagasaki Rising Sun and Express. for the time being. And for all your lawful pro labout" for six months, or even for life: far pre-grounds thereof, to the head of the government reporting your proceedings therein, and the: never wavered. We could not then, and although by no mesas original, ls certainly hard and fast rule of so many months or we cannot now, recognise the special worthy of some altention; Mr. WODEHOUSE years' imprisonment at hard labour: "On'
ceedings in the premises this warrant shall be advantages claimed for the vaunted would like to see some system introduced reference it will be found that Mr.
In a somewhat richly embroidered Bridle the your sufficient protection and authority. separate system, and while recognising by means of which what he calls municipal ACKROYD's Commission made several red
Chinese Tixes of the agih, November recome that a gaol built for the criminal classes prisoners, that is hawkers, breakers of the commendations to the Government with a
mends the word Gratis" as an appropriate sobriguet for the Viceroy Li Hung.chang: It: of a population of under hundred Oplum ordinances, and petty offenders view of decreasing the number of prisoners
says:-"Of his many high qualities and real thousand persons was quite loadequate to generally, should be separated from real in geol, some of which, as we pointed out
claims to distinction not one shinès more meet the requirements of double that criminals, This suggestion was supported in reviewing their Report at the time were
conspicuously or more constantly, in all weathers, number, we opposed the expenditure of by the Acting Registrar: General (Mr. well worthy of adoption, whilst others, and
in good and bad fortune in small and great RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE BRITISH half a million dollars on a fad that MITCHELL-INVES), who said he saw no rea especially the almost wholesale adoption
MA Affairs, than his genius for obtaining things for ↑ His stablen ́are filed with gift horses;
A MERCHANT SHIPPING. I H. M.:SI: Lander left Yokohama on the 1st | nothing. 1 was based on mistaken philanthropy, son why these classes of criminals should of fjoggings cannot be too severely con
Instant els route for Pott Hamilton, to go about whose dentition there is no mystery. By It was Governor HENNEBET's: Influential not be separated, and then stated that as damned. Imprisonment for debt nothing through her pise firit gut what fascination he is able to command the representations that were responsible for a matter of fact they are, so separated, short of barbarous in this enlightmed, aga the Secretary of State's despatch dated the As Mr.. MITCHELL-INNES acted and should at once be abolished, not only services of a 1 sorts and conditions of men THE seed of Borneo.tobacco thas bernvided onwilling labour for love it would require a 15th October, 1883; and, as both times and Superintendent of Victoria Gaol for one nominally but in fact. Simple, offenders he Nilgiris, up to an elevation of 3,000 feet, and psychological treatite to explains the simple opinions have changed greatly since then, year he ought to know something about against the Optum Ordinances, ought not, has done well. Batavia and germinated badly. facts are as much as can be conveniently grasped
ન we feel justified in thinking that a fresh the prison system-if that unfortunate to be dealt with es hardener criminals, and
afenesi tare. It is now many years since that statement of our gaol requirements would memory of his, could only be relied relegated to hard baur and the Socfuty! By e death at homol TT FRIST name compelled the homage of men of all probably convince Lord KNUTSFORD that a on. That so-called municipal offenders of gaal birds; confiscation of the drug of Chefoe the name of opt of the ablest and and frankincense and myrrh, have brought inations, who, if tscy Lave not exactly brought new gaol on the lines laid down by his and the worst species of criminals seized and a small fine would in the vast best-known men in China will soon be con- what was to them mira precious the best predecessor (Lord Derby) would prove raight be kept separated to some majority of cases amply meet the require-signed to abilinn. He took an especial interest products of their brains, the quintessence of an expensive mistake.
considerable extent is likely enough, but ments of justice, and would prove no real in political affairs in China, of which his their toll, Germans havs vied with French; Mr. J. J. Keswick opposed the vote on that they are as a matter of fact kept hardship to the Oplum Farmer, whose as he remained in China he was a constant of Serving Under his Excellency, with or without knowledge was both wide and deep, and long Dance with Dutch, in courting the favour the substantial grounds that the colony is separato, as the Acting Registrar General rights must, of course, be adequately pro and valu'd contributor to the public Free reward. They have, Eu tively speaking not in a position to afford such excessive contended, is a wide stretch of that dis-tected. Gambling is responsible for a was. Consul for Belgium at Chefoo, Consular trampled each other to death in the crowded expenditure and that the present gaol is tingulised; officer's imagination. · The large number of convictions, and here also: Agent for France, and Vice-Consul for Russia avenues of the Yemen in order to gain at the ample for all requirements. The tax-payers unfortunate who gets thres or 1x months there is room for Improvement. It is and for Spain, unfl the time of his finally leaving test an approving grunts Naval and milliary must be glad to find this gentleman proving hard labour for gambling, or being con- unquestionable that sly gaming houses, so for home,
cfficers and engineers give him endless advice, himself such an ardentadvocate of financial cerned in an extensive opium plant called clubs, have caused a lot of mischief
and indeed things for him, including such trifles economy and retrenchment, and departing exactly on the same footing as the criminal among Chinese servants, coolies étc.; but THE Imperial Commissioners who were expected as the Velow River, and compile reports, with from those ancient traditions which addled who has been convicted of larceny; between It ought not to he overlooked that the ere, says the Feochow Bika, some tima, ago, out getting any fee or reward. The memorials the colony with the costly and unproductive the misdemeanaal and the felda the prison Government is mainly responsible for hav laveste trouble breeches pro and reports, projects and plane, may bave the Causeway Bay reclamation and sundry rules make no distinction. Mr. MITCHELL Ing allowed the nuisance to he carried, native paper anived at Shanghall on the 6th change brings them round to where the Index of and the Talar General, bad, according to greatest, intrinsic, value, but when the wheel of gther similar white elephants, MA INNKA is of opinion that solitary confinement on for so long unchecked, and that this November 1st and left the same day, for this thing to be done is painting, the authors are KAWICE, however, is quite sound on Is a deterrent even to Chinese, but the value form of gambling would be in full post overlied, so they are hourly
Scenata ad forgotten, and the work entrusted finance; and as he plainly stated, of that opinion is greatly reduced when swing now but for the initiatives taken members of the Bagrd of Punishments accompany to the latest corner. And the writer concludes there are no grounds whatever, for wafind that, his authority for it is merely hy this journal. And. It is sufficient there it if indeed a wonder, that they should thap te should be remembered that the Chinese anticipating any increase in our revenue because it almost stands to reason that in dealing with these house to sicer to travel by land when there at present value at nothing what coils them nothing, and bu rather the other way, and our expen-man after his day's labour would much punish only the principals there is no every facultivand comfort for travel by tea. The actually view with aversion and contempt those, #Umperial Government Town some vay fine who serve them gratulously. Hence a vaIL diture is teadily moving upwards it sooner have a pleasant chai, with his Justification and no necessity for swamping|seamers, antone of which could be inited st amount effézlly good werk done by progressive would have been just as well, and must. comra than be locked up alone the gaol with crowds of wretchal Chinese, their services, but ? o'o fequion. "again
enthusiasts for the Chinese is thrown into the- began have enhanced the value of his opinions; with
and the other inhabitants born gamblers, who only did what is and the land roule wins the day.
| dan-keng med trodāms under foot
as
However, it is not to any scheme of gaol extension that we must looks for the repression of crime and the number of prisoners; that can only be accomplished by reasonable and sensible laws, suitably adapted to the peculiar necessities of the colony, and carried out with the utmost Prudence and moderation,
LOCAL AND GENERAL-
Glven under my band and Seal of Ofica "at Macao, on this thirtieth day of April, in the yeat 18418
sinem. CHARLES ELLIOT.
No. 2
RE The following Roles and Regolations for thi preservation of the peace and the maintenance of dus subordination on board the British mer chant shipping: now st ́i anchor "or" hereafter"
arriving within the post of Hongkong, are pub lished for the Information of all whom it may concern for Varela men
Section 1." "Of the functions of the magistrate, any British ship sending or making the signal Reg. No. 1. To repair forwith on board of for assistance (tignals hereinsfier specified), by reason of the riotous sists of the Crew, and, lastete of actual violence et and energetic measures for the restoration of resistance to authority shall exist to take instant the peace and of due subordination,
Reg. No. 2 Fire-arms in no case to be used:
such occasions except for the protection lig till the magistrate, or in bis absence the commanding officer of the ship or one of the corsiables: of police shall have audibly and ineffectually made the following proclamation; or words to the like effect. Our sovereign, Lady the Queen commands all perso
trembled Immediately to dis
rse themselves. to return peaceably to the performance of their duties. God save the Queen
Reg No The Magistra animary inquiry into the may issue bid warrant for
ty persons who shall
keted tingleaders
Hengian
G.
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