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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895.
named, inde darred the splalans of the speaker. Hon. W. M. Goodman spoke in the order His Excellency prop wed a vate of thanks to the Acting Chief Justice for his shle paper,
wall soon be leaving the colony, wou'd appear probably the last time that Mr. Ackroyd, who before the 01 Volumes.
Imperial Hospital are all wounded in the back | | Owing to the inclemezey of the weather, the
the wee had to be paid to his relations; he Comment is needless.
match between the Hongkong C. C. and Nawal was convicted of theft they had in some catet to pay his wer to the king or his lord. Bote was The fight at Kaiping is said by the suitve | Nondoscripte, has been indefinitely postponed, press to have lasted for four hours. The Chinese
compensation to a person injured by a and wite was a fios paid to the klag or other a crime, were defeated and fled to Hal-so-choen; 200 D'AFC's Martonestes performed this afternoon toldiers were Killed
lord la respect of an offence. Generally, to the China vanke, General Vik Kiss, Adeniral Ting, the Pre-performance evening will commence aldert of the dockyard at Part Arthur, Trong Tantat. and General Wei Ju-kwel have been arrested by the local authorities at North Tang chow,
The expectant Tacial Chow in starting-for Sungklang to arrange a loan front the native mer. chants to help to defray the expenses of the
to a larga and enthusiastic audience. The line, all cetimes were on a first offence prime except petty larceny and a few other and medo al'usion to the fact that this was
The shave alleged special telegrams must be isken for whatever they may be worth. They are probably utterly unreliable-Ed., Hong kong TelegraphĮ
(Special to Shanghat Mercury.)
YOKOHAMA, January 14th,
|
usual at 9 o'clock. Tyus the China Gazalis:-"The_stenmerk formerly belonging to the China Merchan's, and now.comning under the German flag and under the agency of Messra Carlowits & Co., are snið to have Barn handed over in that dem for 6 years. The steamers the Chinese Engineering firm for one year." and Mining Co, kave-been given to the same
AT the Police Court this mornier, before Mr. Hastings, Chun Man-king, was charged at the Instance of Inspector Quincey, for unlawfully bringing Chinawoman and child from Holbow for the purpose of prostitution. The | lynx-eyed Inspector arrested the defendant in that Captain Taubakau reports the Tonghakingur. China-town yesterday, whi'e trying to dispose of the twp for $240. The case was proved up to the hilt, and the 'gay deceiver' sont to guol for nine months.
A telegram, dated Fusan, rath instant, sintas
rection at Juntiendo has been suppressed. A spy has been arrested who declares that the logor. gents have proved themselves sincere in their sur render by beheading their principal chiefs and ferty others.
Ceptile Tanhakan and the Korean suthorities examined a nat
number of pri- soners who declared that divisions had occured amongst the Insurgents themselves. It is also reported that the combined attack of the Japanese sallors and Korean soldiers upon the
Tonghaks completely terrified them,
A lelegram, dated Halcheng, the rath instant, has arrived. In which General Katsura reports that a portion of General Song's army left Yingkow on the 8th instant for Kaeping, and
portion went in the direction of Heachers The mate force of the Chinese retreated on the toth to Kuhobel. On the 11th there was no sign the Chinese advancing, hat the Japanese
cavalry are now scouting,
THE "ODD VOLUMES."
MR. JUSTICE ACKROYD IN A QUESTION OF THE
DAY,
At a crowded meeting of the, members of the Odd Valamer," beld last night, presided over by his Excellergy the Caverner. (Str. William Reblasen, KCMG)
by war, bate, or wite. After a previous conviction bote might do longer be made. Certain crimes were bottless, or Inexpleble, such as hous break- Eng, arson, opentheil, and treason against the law. Certain changes were made between those times sad the reign of John, which it is not necessary གས here to mention, and fines grew in quality and amount, in a great me are no doubt on account of the wants of the King's exchequer, until we come to the Magna Charta. And in
Come in this respect, remem white | C
11
ag 10
lark at
evils of the present system. A Chinese box mann,
M Ackroyd then proposed a vote of thanksto the Governor for pri fine, and expressed his ner. anal thanks to his Excellence for the honour he had done him in lak ng the chair on this осстанов
The motion was curled by acclamation, and the meeting thereupon terminated.
FIRES IN HONGKONG.
that
À BUSPICI 04 CASE.
Chief Fation of 40 PENKTA #MAP | the coroner or sworn rfficer. In other courts it so many weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, purting the Incendiarter on their guard, Briefly
the
In a telegram from Kaiping, dated the rathera fo which wế thế mà baient led-to rinch that fastract. On this matter there is very in Hfabus always been to make bie living out of had been previously se'urated with the sime
are Selected by our London wounded in the thigh and came very near being reproducing bis remarks, respecífully tender our made a planer, hut managed to crespa with thanks for a valuable exhibition of official Heure, bought direct at first band, | the help of some of his soldiers.
fedependence that is rarely met with in these Imperio Wood and Bottled by ourselves,
thus espai intermediate profits and enabling us to
rowths at moderate pric
ply the bet
PRICE ISTA, WE'D FELL DETAILS, TO BE HAD
ON APPLICATION,
PORT - NE en val should be realed *
the use.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A cuir que on Mr. Blaynny'. Balance Sheet of the Plague Concerts will appear in our next instie.
degenerate days.
i
дог
his
bla mer. REK
THE inted steamer City of Rio de Janeiro way it at first seem to be of any practical / villain or labourer to sell his tools. This I con- I trust; and when a man has committed crime incendiarism occurred.
will probably Brave Nagasak for Hongkong aer about the 25th instant,
THE 6ith erinual meeting of the Hongkong and South China Masonit Benevolence Find Cor postlen, will be held at the Masonic Hail, on May, the 21st Inst., at 5.30 p.m.
Mr. Ackroyd -eld :-The object upon which I propose to address you to-dev. and which will ask you to coulder and dlicasa, is one which perhaps at first sight may not appear as interesting us many which have on former occassions engaged your attention, Importance. The question is, should imprison. ment, with or without hard labour, be imposed for non-payment of fines? For the reasons I and About to give
I have been long opposed to it, and trust that before I I have finished I will be able to prove that this question has a very practics! side and is deserving of your serious considers tion. I maintain, first, that imprisonment for non-payment of fine is unconstitutional; Is
the subject; and although it has
it buy now an lved by Statute or Ordinance, still I contend that
mischievous and appressive, since a person san. law, and that instead of being of any use it is traced to imprisonment for
for non-payment of a fine associates and works with other criminals only bad bet positivaly injurious both to the
00
что
LAST NIGHT'S FIRES.
When required for THE Nippon Yusen Kaisha steamer Angers, opposed to the fundamental principles of our law thig at once, fi abnuld be ordered to be for this part yesterday akernoon, and may be Appearance of legal sanction, since it is autho, and a villain bis wainage," And in R. „ | should be abolished is the importance that the with German firma for $24.007 Owing, however,
"
sent nul,
decanted at the Dispensary before being
SHEERY:--Fxcellent dinner and after dinner
from Bombay, via portes of call, left Singapore
expected here on ne about the 25th inst.
The Mission steam-laninch Day Spring will call alongside vessels bolsting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30 a.m., on Sunday, to convey about 12.30 p.m.
he DE
It is illegal, aince it is agalost the fundaments med borcad Provides that no fine protection with which to every case it has hedged Brigade the damage caused by these "blages"
Wines, of very superior vintage. All are inen ashore to the IT o'clock service, returning | nod offendere, and that such a system is not but means were taken that they should be one and be entered under cortal" | NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.
hands, frequent and severe whippings, and others of the same kind, They have been Abolished and only good bas reaulted. Formerly death was the punishment for nearly every
have not suffered from this just and merciful minar offences. A change was made and we
amelioration in the Than the abolition of imprisonment for debt; this le of Ril the evils to credit, commerce, and to the prosperity of the nation which it was predicted would follow this humane legislation. If a printsh ment la out of proportion to the free It must be abolished, but the true remedy, say, is first of all to keep within the law. Do not impose excessive fints; do pay. You must fix to fix more than a man can hem according to the offence read there were firen. It means not fines for the think you have a sight to impelson a man for and to the ability of the man to say, and if you numberless small matters for which they are now imposed, but they were then
non-payment, then let bim treated not an a the only ment for other mare serious offences or crimes. panish-
criminal but as an ordinary deb'or That fines Now Magna Charta says: "A freeman shall not are excessive here I have no dubt; I take a few For the reason that the affit is enveloped la be fined for & small fault, but after the manner
instances at random. A Chinaman for illegally considerable mystery, tempered with deep-rooted of the fault and for a great fault after the great for injecting morphine $50 or two months; for
dealing
In samehu is finest $50 or two months; spician, we realne from reprtine la oar ness of the fault, saving to bin his contentment,
lant kathe outbreak of fire in No. 95. Queen's and a merchant likewise, saving to him his mer four mace of drase o lum $150 or three months
pssession of twa
twa mace
ace of prepared
Road East, at about so pm. oplom and
on the 17th any other
· villain shall be likewise
Instant, which will probably lead to RA a certain number for being without a night pass interesting mered, saving his wainage if he fall inte he to our
ске
at no distant date, ("This was
27 of 28 days. All these men or most of them go role that obtained even in
Un to t the present time no arrests have been Henry 11.'s time and megns only that no man
to prison. Now I take one stance to show the
the effected in connection with this business, and k shall have a larger amercement imposed upon him
apocars than bis circumstances or personal estate can
Dar esteemed and very first fare or to be first on board, eager to get a
med and very un-in-dule Contemporaries have not yet bear, and in order to ascertain this the great
ght wind of fastens to a steamer while still under Charter directed that the mercement should be
fined $as; that is an arbitrary and excels although we have allowed two days to excessive fine. Intervene between the commission of the crime sat or reduced to cert inty by the oath of the A fine should be fixed according sot only to the of arian and the nab'ication of the facts of the good and lawful men of the neighbourhood, Jo pay it. He cannot pay
offence but to the quailty
Sity of the man who besto
case, ve! we shall a it now ran the risk of being the superior courts this sessment was made by
pay and he de
la condemnated to accused of gluing our readers stale news or of was fixed by assessors sworn to tax and moderate He is sent to gabi and snociates with thieves alsted the case stands as follows:-- Infieled to defapt of payment of fines. His colar circumstances of the offence and the of meted out to a man whose only fault has been a
i Important question "Shepld impet som ut be the general morcement according to the parti
and ail I other bad characters and does the same
About to B.m, on the Thursday lest some lordship's opinions on the important subject fender. When a pecunity penalty was inflicted little too great eagerness la a desire honestly to
work as they do. He sees the same punishment unknown person or persoa threw a Tost of
kerawne of over the front door of No. of with the general focltage of the advanced appointed a are in sonable and to poch, close touch on a stranger in the superior courie the judge ears bis daily bread and to another whose sim
Queen's Road East, a Chinese clothes dealer's shop, and after Case as to the use and necessity of the earnings of others. The man who sees potter, and, but for the prompt Resistance which pushing a a number of rage, which instant. General Nogi sivians that the scouts
revolation la the barbarees, legal anomalies these assessments and pointing out the steps difference is the punis
flammable fluid, ander the door, set fire to the report finding over ten thousand Chinese troop Middle Ages, that we need make no apologies to
bich so many instances run os back to the which should be taken to order that the fine or to no difference in the gatit, sad when he comes Chinese canstable received from
the punishment will say that there in the vicinity of Erhlacho. Other scouts repertoar readers for publlabing his reineties in
here | Java amercement should not be excessive. It is the
■ British Jerge force in the vicinity of Yeigkow and or
case of Edwards v. Hughes and soother. The and has a wife and children dependent on him #djoining it would have
sut less to due if he is in want, cannot find work soldier, the whole house and probably one or two Luovalen,
extents. We shall,
Mal in due course, have to judgment is by Chief Baron Gilbert and is dated Whilst General Nieh was excasing Acting Chief Justice on a matter which long
criticise the views so honestly expressed by the 12 Gen. 1, 1736. It is there laid down that It Better a thousand times to have allowed this in- Chinese coalies were seen outside the bonse
he will steal, You have made a criminal of him
n completely gutted, It appears that at the hour named several | Carclage (cart), on the 10th Fortast, a rumber of
was excessive if it look. Japanrae soldiers rot within filty metres of him, since ought to have been made a subject of ħla merchandise or from a villain his cart or tng. His arrest and loss of a day's labouris qafte | coming down the street shouted fire 1" at the
AWAY from merchant con dlecassion, and meanwhile, in waloage, or, as Coke in bis Institutes expounds sufficient, Better a thousand times, I repeat, to
fraction of a regulation to pass with a mere wars- question, and as soon as they observed a fakong The horses were killed and General Nich was
the words of the Statue, in such a
a manner that
top of their voices. Then they disappeared, the amercement must not destroy the livelihood allow these things to pass than manufacture cri- and the futong, unable to force the door open, of the offender. These words saving to bim minals wholesale. Keep men nut of prison s
asked a passing soldier to help him. "Tommy! contentment and to the merchant
Af you can; let them look at those walls and willingly complied, the house was entered chandise have been construed by to themselves that all kinds of panish and the fire extinguished with a lew walter on criminal law to mean that the fine meat are going on within them; for goodness buckets of water before much damage had been
Ciuc be is done. should be so proportioned to the ability and sake do not send a man to prison because เร poallion of the offender that the farmer should not a millionaire. From some remarks made on The police are now investigating this affair, not in order to pay be obliged to leave his field
some of sentences I gether am con-
and there appears to be at least a faint hope or the merchant to cease his business or the
sidered a lealent judge. When a hardened
thief
that some arrests will be made by Inspector comes before me be gets his deserts; nothing more Bulile, in whose district this latest act of tend is the real ophtit of than a man can pay shout never be loflicted. with lolence I have ared the power the law gave
the Act; & fine preater
If it is so it is excessive, and in this
cted. me; but I have a horror of sending to prison ported by the great authority of Lord Campbell, it is not justice. It may be quarter deck justice fires secured to the city-one at No. 189.
*m sup
men who are not criminals. It is oppressive, Between 6 and 7 o'clock last night two who in the case of R. 2. O'Connell said: "And that such is the meaning of Magna Charta may be of magistrates' law, but it is not jost. West Queen's Road Central, a photographer's studio, inferred from the Statute of Edward I. c.6, which
is the result of all this?
where few hundred dollars' 1,790 person are
worth of enacts that no man shall be amerced without rea-mprisoned in 1893 for non-payment of fines damage, covered by Insurance with Masses. sonable crave and according to the quantity of his
while the total number of persons convicted Carlowitz & Co. was done, the other trespass, that is to say, every freeman saving his who were admi.ted that year amounted to 3.7261 at Nos. 15 and 17, Me'cer Sweet, & natire freebold, merchant saving his
his merchandise,
Another reason why I ask that imp
that imprisonment drug store and a tes-house, which were in ured O'Connell Lord Campbell, referring to
la has attached to personal liberty and the
" to the prompt and a mirable wark of the Fire rays it
I contend therefore that it was never conten
what the party is able to pay.
it. There are other matters which the law has was very alight indeed, seen fit to protect in order to prevent granter evils. plated that imprisonment should be resorted to,
The law has decreed the sanctity of a min's for not only were the fines not to be excessive
house: It can
| with certain reasonable. Therefore in order to ascertain the
formalities, although it may be known that there are criminals faside. contention is that excessive fines were not
Confidential communications also are may some- Himes
shut out the truth. it would often be far better to allow petty was taken, precaution was
that and It has offences to go unpunished than to fill
up your which can be awarded. It is provided is
been ruled
to pay punishment together with imprisonment for some fine which he cannot pay. Now,
are likely to become so if you make them fal crimes and misdemeanours, or as the sale ing that a man is condemned to pay a fine rich llar with the inside of the prison walls. There punishment which • the court can loflict to other be has not the means of satisfying, I further sub-
a maxim as old as the reign of Flizabeth fine as the sole punishment for such a gravement. A fine is
De minimis non curat lex. And on appeal the pecuniary penalty. The
Courts have said there are some fojuries the legislature for certain offences has made that the ture has prescribed for
of so small and little consideration in the infringement of the most unimportant munl. having obtained judgment for a sum of money punishment in the vast number of breaches of resort to certain modes of execution to enforce cipal by-laws or
or regulations. It is the sole you cannot change the penalty
YOU
and of punishment is to deter men from offend. ing, but it can never follow from thence that it by-laws and regulations made in order to prevent paymentthereal if you believe that the man is lawful to deter them
any
by thy rate and
to car administrative messuses
nuisances of po
to enforce the execution of can pay and will not
That a fine is
means, slace there may be unlawful methods of public importance or a paconiary penalty and nothing more appears,
enforcing obedience to the fastest laws. It is to carry out those rules which the necessities of I subrait, from the fact that a woman who was
manifest that where the evil to be prevented is our present state of civilisation have called into supposed at one time to have no property of her
not adequate to the violence of the preventive health and safety, education and revenue, and case of R. Thomas and wife. The defendents existence, or which the requirements of publ'e own could not be sentenced to pay a fine. See the
ruler that thinks seriously can never justify such other like matters have
A law to
to the dictates of conscience and humanity of the murder of Chinsman whom be stabbed in i way at any moment unwillingly, almost unknow. Were convicted of keeplex
I made imperative.
disorderly bouse
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially ingly, bring ourselves within their bounds. It is inflicted on the woman was raised. The court the question of what ponlabmeat should be
be when Indiscriminately inflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes and amending the mangere therefore a matter of importance for us to enquire said: "The ordinary judgment in this care is r
of a people than such as are more merciful THE Bilish skip Drumelian strived at Woosung ourselves by our neglect of emission at ignor represented the woman is unable to suffer any
what is the penalty so which in those cases nach | the pillory, but for misdemeanour the court is not general if properly totermixed with due distinc and every one of us may at any moment sot jettled down to any particuler Indgment. It is severity in the law no doubt defeate
tions of
Great and indiscriminate neverky.
twif, but from Nagasaki on the 14th inst. in tew of the
ance. The system of
tempate, die riminating, calculated severity is
and patrolling the streets. There are stesmer Progress, her voyage ave: having been ment dates back at least icing fines as a punish. corporal punishment, and as she is a married
at least as far anthe Roman 1 Em. ·woman and has nothing
withal to
within limits effective, It is the sentiment of an sixty military tents around the legations. made under favourable circumstances. She had pire. To prescivo order they found it necessary no question in that case of inflicting a 'pecuniary | the springs of hamao se'ion, that crimes #76
and discipline in the great punishment must be imprisonment." There was
as to pay a fine
ingenious weller who seems to have weit on heard 1,000 tons of coal, and, from w Dock, and perhaps profitable to reset to this kind of penally and then turning it is thongto fight by the severity of punishment. A bond and bis view that the New York Yacht Club people Lord Dunraven is undoubtedly mach dl- stadled were e building up ↑
Baricapointed the turn of affairs in connection was towed by a tug to Farnham's Lower
more effectually prevented by
with his challenge for another race for the punishment, in praise of which a great deal has pusshment. But supposing is
ted by the cettataty than America's cap, and the British pubile accepte THE clever Oriole Vaudeville Company will been said, for it has been urged that as yon may to enforce execulon by personal arrest, then I
bought
took place to Wing Lok Street, not because of appear at the Theatre Royal, City all, to-aight just and equitable puslebment you can have, the man as a criminal. The law bas pronounced
Increase it of
e it or reduce it as you like it is the most say by no reasoning can you or should
the lightness of the panlebent. of the men do not want a in-s new and attractive programme which ought Bentham says that there is no other purishment
ould you treat
concerned in the first case, but because the axious to arrange racer for a new trophy, It is believed that Lord Dunraven is to ensure a crowded house. There has rarely
a pecuniary penalty against him, fo many cales
were not
not punished
at all. Allow me to sum been better all round company in Hongkong, fixed with due regard to the fortune of the
or penalty which can be so searly adjusted has repodiated all other punishment, and there- my contentions as
as briefly as
the as possible. First, 1 cantert to occur in New York waters and they thoroughly deserve public support. offenders. But this theory, which look so envy,
fore you cannot treat him criminal. Poverty
say Mogna Charta and other charters have during the month of September and over The "Living Pictures" should be seen by every mor
is no crime. In
that
the same courses no excessive fines shall be
and educated person in the colony. Overture at 9 in the matter of fines is one of the most difficult about it, it may be the result of forgetfulness, able to pay that the appointing of juries of eye this afternoon: The New York Yacht Club under the same many cases the act for which most difficult
to pat lato practice, and equality
conditions as the races for the America's You are punishing
that this ban
been nothing o'clock.
no man shall be
be Aned
Regarding the failure of negotiations for a problems of penal legislation. Many, if pot all negligence, or Ignorance.
race for the America cu the St. James' Goustis THR Greco-Russian or orthodox Catbolic faith codes have attempted to solve the difficulty, but act for which the legislature syften it is an
worn officers to assess these fines were never would think in all-powerful In
their provisions have in most cases bean insaff of and its dependencies, Inelcnt; either they have been ton, vague or they come inelent; therefore it clone taken that the finestafa'd be a reasonable 843 5only itself to blame for the result of the It is altogether legst to Imprison one, and that it should be proportioned not only egallaitons. Indeed, by re-opening the question LILAHAT Russia alone it numbers, not including the simy have placed tobarbitrary a power in the hands as a criminal « man who cennot pay and thug to the gravity or otherwieg of the offense, but for holding the cop they have alrea and o
and navy, nearly 70,000,000 followers. It has of the judges. I have add that the system ip nearly 100,000 churches and chapels and pauly
to inflict imprisonment where the also to the quality and goo monasteries and panneites, and the Holy
that in most cases* *Dility of the many 7 carambe that they never wanted to rec An old one. The old laws on the subject bad Jevillacore was safated to do so. The Synod, or board of government of ibe church, | instance, excessivo fines were absolute for you can do la to use him as an ordinaryoly one that the legislature. has ordered,
mont only some bumane provisions in respect of fines; for
The Admiralty Court was crowded to-day by and Zachtsman and.
and others interested in the action established with the concurrence of the Russian the judge could lessen the amount thereof or to hear that a man who cannot pay fine bard labour to the case of trivit offences; that beat day of the Mudhood Yacht Club regates in
npil civil debtor, You will perhaps
of Lord Dubraven against A. D. Clark, owner that therefore it is be surprised clergy and the four Eastern Pa'riarchs of
ladirect
| la substituted illegal by means to
of the Salantia, which cutter sank the old Imprisonment with Constantinople, Jerusalem, Astloch and Alux- | ****
even remit the fine altogether. The poor ware arbitrarily imposed & apen him without any lager in these matters small fires which a
Valkyrie on July 5th of the present year in the andila, bas a capital of $15,000,000 at its exempt from them, 150€ POR) code of: Austria į as to his circumstances and his ability to pay 10 | reasonably be supposed to pay only skønt NE POS the race for the Mair Memorial to the start The Emperor is the bend of the } Merely says that the dae is to be proportioned subjecied to Imprisonment with hard labels † fofilated. In many Care the fact of bavidgavant, the Prince of Wales' cutter Britannia
the accused. In France thesaration of this clans of prisoners from other and the loss of time thereby acquaioned with scored her first victory over the ̈ have fixed a maximam, i
rules of the
gol, do not provide for the
been. SOMEBODY, We assume Mr. E. W. Mitchell, the
recovery thereof in subjected
cted merely to cell
except that first offenders are kept and the
Vigilant. always courteous and obliging Hon, Sec. of the exempt, but are able to detention, In hard labour for prisoners sentenced to hard thought necessary to detalsmus in order Dunaves is only the nominal plaintiff in thi proces. In Prusia the poorest classes ste spart from old offenders. They do the quest warnleg.j a sufficient punishment. If it is still Hongkong A, D. Ca very capable and Brasil the legislature has endeavoured to meet labour, which le shot drill and stone drill for the
It should be added, however, that Lord
versitile actor by the way-bas forwarded us
to recover the fin
cell ⚫ under a strong escort, to answer to the Emperor wald to cold ty:D to be a book of the always be fund to be Bae shall first three months, and after that i
the difficulty by
which is really brought by the underwriters, fine, than
imprisonment what is
combination 1.
is all that you can
him. topisempen
QUEBEC, December 20th. Chung Ying-huan, the peace envoy, accom- words of the so: gs in "Robinson Crus e,"
by what the accused can derive of shot or stone
tion And, lastly, drill or sakom
There was a solemn service for the late Sir fall my arguments fall, may John Thompson in St. Patrick's Church this each day from 1
ble paving Tieg:Farg, who is to act as fashionable tragedy that is shortly to be produced ment
picking property, bli work, or employ-employment in wachhouse, It touches bis revenge only. With separation from other criminals, but hard and do not class these unfortunate men whose only congregation of St. Patrick, caca much still make ons request, and that is, if imprison-morning. The attendance was very large, Rev. There is no to the Mission, left for Japan yesterday. When
for non-payment of fines be perstated LHung-chang met Chang, the Viceroy his signs of this home of genius. We have It is very vague as ie the amount of fine and
Nike them and in association with them. And
ted Father Rossback, Redemptorist la charge of the was wearing his official button.
perused the poetry (heaven help as), for much length of imprisonment which the court may fault or offence or omission or negligence of not class them with, do not treat them as com
torer. The offence sometimes has been too great eagerness unfavorable comment by Wu Tu-cheng
arrived here. When he of which Mr. Jas. Orange, of Purjom
mary cases to maximum is which the defendant has been gulity has been victs, do not make criminals of them; let there back, would say with his voice from eternity by saying, after express sald he and been superseded by Liu Kunyi, thails calculated to promote the interests of either the only punishment for many crimes. Stephens ment which has been awarded agatost kim be some mercy shown to them by separating There is only one true religion--that of Christ
is responsible, and in the Interesta ole otoploty.pose.
mentisand. Flass
were in the early Saxon times wiped out by the judgment; the
only punish.
now that Sir John Thompson, if he could come music or the drama in this colony, we strongly in ble History of the Common Law of pecuniary one: bis only crime in advise the Committee of the A.D C. to put this England,"
Matier
erty, them from those with whom contact and associa- poverty an that the responsibility ander-in-Chief, alleging proposed show off until it can be made a credit to Anglo-Saxon laws, why the pustehnowin There is nothing hatever to he gained from tion can only de harms. Lastly, ramteber and frauds, Roman Catholic church; all others are
is too great for him, but to an institution that has done excellent service appointed for them were aliber fines or corpora doing any good whatever to the state it does should be administered, and that principle, old as mixed
this treatment, and I will show that instead of put in practice the principle laid down In he offers to bt under Pilece Kung.
to the past
These words created a decided stir in the The commander of the Chinese forces at the future. The barefaced pl giarisms of Mr. or la some catre flogging. Impilaopment is
Cannia's laws as the basis on which punishment and le capable of deing good work in punishment, which was either death, mutilation, harm. It may be asked what is the remedy
Radience. Woosung has been charged by a memorial sent Orange must he openly exposed, and the Heng mentioned as a punishment, though it is referred are you going to substitute for it? I look with no oredof himself, let the correction be regulated
2001 propeen I object to
Imprisonment and what it is, in good "Though any ons als and deeply
*NEW YORK, December 20th, Bong Telegraph will undertake the task, instead tu as a way of securing a person who could not frar at the proposal of abandoning this oppressive so that it be becoming before God and tolerable Coats Rice, says: The projected meeting of A special to a morning paper from San Jose, of going to confession to-morrow, the Editor of give security, The dass was exiled wer, bote, punishment, Look at the crust puolamente before the world." (Loud applause.) The wounded Chineso soldiers Intely #ralved | this journal will devote a short time lo analysing | and wite. We wanaku, prickigiekwas killed the pllery, nose-splitting, bezalag tá thế ] } J. Francis, Q.C., Mr. X, Robleson, and thu | holde.... Thu'idan was to indese Costa Rica. 10 plenipotentiary Ministera of the Central book of words that lo a humbug and fraid,
set upon a man which formerly disgraced our criminal code, An interesting discussion ensued, in which in place here on the fat of this month, was not American republics, which was to have taken
trate Xera Wines.
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THE German steamer Trene, 2561 tons, which as previously reported in these columns was the harbour on the 30th November, will be here scene of a very destructive fire in Yokohama early next week to be docked and repaired. On the 18th Instant fifteen hundred soldiers and 500 horses were despatched from Moji some
state and to the individual. A fine, as you .ablilty of a men to bear the fine my first protected, although that protere I maintain matis up to 24th December, arrived in the harbour
all no doubt know, is a pecuniary punishment or recompense for an
nol
the Queen of her laws ore committed against to be inflicted, that imprisonment was
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CASOS.
even
Garlic, Capt. W. Pearse, from San Francisco, The Occidental and Oriental Co.'s tearnship via Yokohama und. N»gdu»ki, with the American
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LO DON, D-c-mber 18th, It is understood that the
the agreement b
tween England and Rusla in reg ed to the way in the East does not permit any warlike over tions la the vicinity of the appro ches to sba għal. This up el her the northern or southern entrance to theYang-ise-king river. The Japanese at first
unknowa rendezvous on the west coast of Koren, The court may in its discretion filet mit you should not sentence that man to Impel, which may very well find its application here. Includes the prohibition of a boulle fleet passing be pure Cognac, the difference in price At the same time thirty Japanese "transporis fence as manslaughter, while it is aleo only punishment; it has excluded zli atbern in law that no action will He for them. The cepted the terms of the agreement, but have being merely a question of age and vintage assembled at Moji to load troops, così, munitions which the legislature
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"AN OLD SPORTSMAN " hold over bis training notes and sporting gossip until he hopes to be in a position to Monday, when #Et is ou ́versally popular and is pro-aiready done and the prospects of the forth of the griffins and intelligently describe the work wed by the best local connolateurs to coming race meeting. be sureties, to any other brand in the Hongkang Market.
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BIRTH.
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At Tientsin, on the 1st January, 1895, tac wife of W. T. L. Way, of a daughter.
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895.
TELEGRAMS.
THE CHINA-JAPAN WAR. (Special to China Gavette.)
TIENTSIN, January 13th,
General Yeh and Kung Taotel have been arrested and are now on their way to Peking for the lost Port Arthur.
went to Li tung-chang for orders the Viceroy
and was no longer to a position to give orders.
Liu Kun-yi is miil at Peking. He declines to
lo the throne by Chang Chib-tung, accusing
him of cowardice.
at Tientsin for ueatment by ike doctor of the
A CHINCHEW coolle was charged before Mr. Hastings at the Magistracy this morning with
the abdomen two weeks ago with intent to evade Monday at 11.30 s.m. arrest for theft. The case stands adjourned until
Russi
disposal church and as such has the appointing power.
penalty
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recently threated to disregard them on the ground that th: Shangbei arsenal is supplying the Chinese with
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It is believed that the third Japanese army at and Russia governments have intimated that Hiroshima destined Jor N
• Nás ki R The English they would prevent this movement, and the
would frcent embling of
of the British fleet under Admiral Fremantle at Chusan, and the gathering of the Russian fleet at Chefna, is thus accounted for. It is an ratnod that England and Russia have decided in fight, if recessary, to present hostilities on the Yang-te-klang,
The Central News conespo-dent in Tientsia Inc: telegraphs:**
ratd
to marn that
a zum which he is not
precan
of the offender; contary prealty is the
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of summoned before a magistrate:
trol. Chinese King is now under mill'ary con. legatione soldiers are guarding the foreign
ce.
Cap
the waters of the Clyde just pravicunt
cup, in which
the Theatre Royal, City Hall, by the as fring respect to Eagles • IESTRUSON ON The subjech for what crimé I ask? None whatever. The in their calling or some neglect or omission, a fog regret at the loss of the deceased: "It is
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