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a wigging" from a high source, for having | subjected to a modified: form of Lynoh een bold enough to give a decision Law by being protected and kept inside The defence based upon a deduction from the evidence four walls by the police. bulore him. Will any unofficial member set up by the inhuman father for his gentura to ask a question upon this point?crime was that his wife had been : ca. would be satisfactory that au explanation faithful to him and that the child was should be given, elke the shipping commu. not hia, two assertions which the Chief ty may come to the conclusion that favour. Justice said there was not an ista of evid- tiam is the order of the day in these Settle ona to prove. Bis denial of the paternity of the child was met by evidence led by the emonts.

prosecution to prove that he and his mother (now the prisoner) were present at the baptismal ceremonies, he acknowledging thereby the child. Their presence was The proved by three or four witnesses. mother of prisoner, distinctly swore, and stuck to her statement after being warned by the Chief Justice, that she was not pra- sent at these ceremonies. The Chief Justice at the close of the trial, instructed the At- torney General to prosecute the woman for perjury,

AAT IYCE case appears in the Shanghal Police Court reports of the 11th; one of which brings into view a peculiarly Chinese

trick dam

Two men were accused of extorting money from a countryman. It was stated that these men had come up to the prosecutor and said they wore aware that be was a eller and buyer of women, and that if he did not stand treat at an oplum shop they would denounce him to the authorities and have him severely punished. He was too frightened to resist. The defendants and their friends consumed opium and other things to the value of $3 st complainant's expense. Not being suffidently rich to pay this sum, he had to pawn an ivory-mounted | fan and a pair of silk leggings.

The Interpreter, Mr Rosario, and those who were witnesses in the original case, were now called to prove the charge against the prisoner; but failed to do this to the satisfaction of the jury. In the first place the interpreter could not remember the exact words the woman need nor the precise terms in which she was interrogated Be could only swear that she gave a general denial of having been present at the cera- We had a paragraph the other day con- mony of bouing the child. In the same corping the Pacific Mail Steamship Com-way the other witnesses could not swear positively that she was prosent at the pany, and prophesylag, its absorption by actual ceremonies of naming, although they another Company, the C. P. Railroad Co. seemed to agree that she was about the We now read, in the Portland, O., Com. house when the "joas pidgin" was going mercial Reporter of June 12th as follows:-

A steamship company has been or- ganised at San Francisco with a capital of 20,000,000 to run in opposition on this Coast to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and also to the Oregon Steamship Company.

Of the truthfulness of the report we are in the dark, but from in- formation heretofore obtained we are inalined in the opinion that "there is something in it," and if so it is in the interest of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. This company already controls one line to China and has lately been negotiating for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's line to Honolulu and Australia with a strong probability of securing it; having these two lines it also seeks the coast lines by which to better control the steam ship service on the Pacific.

SUPREME COURT. IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. Before the Hon. the Acting Puisne Judge, J. J. Francis, Esq) Wednesday, August 30th

HOUSE-BREAKING AND RESISTING APPREHENSION..

Chan Afsk and Two Atsoi, were charged with burglary and assault. They pleaded not guilty. The following gentlemen were sworn in as jurors;-R. H. Radecker, E. R. Alford, E. U. Ray, A. A. C. Botelho, G. A. Stanford, F. W. Hermann, and F. T. P. Foeter,

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THE CHINA MAIL.

The Attorney Gorecal; The depositions are sighed by the withess: s, and I presume that means that the evidence was read over to them or interpreted to them, and signed We must by them as a correct reeu:d. assume that everything in the Magistracy was carried out with due formality and propriety, unless the contrary be chowa.

His Lordship Can I seeume that, Mr Attorney, in view of my knowl dge of what we have seen about the Police Court within the past few days, and in view of those different handwritinga in the depositions 1 The Attorney General I don't know that your Lordship can take any official notice of what has appeared in the news We cannot take it that the record papers. of the Court is inadmissable until it be proved that there was some irregu Your Lordship will larity in the matter. observe the words in the Magistrate's hand- writing, after this witness' evidence,-"no question asked." But as it is an important point, as it is most advisable there should be no doubt as to the admissability of this evidence, I shall ask the Magistrate to otac down here and explain the matter. Mean- time with the reservation of that point I can proceed with the case

That experience has proved that the princi- Constitution of the Legislative Courcil baa pla of nomiustion by the Crown in the failed, inasmuch as it clothes persons with

torm of their natural lives, and at the eaÍDO the bigbest powers and privileges for the time removes them from all responsibility, people, and rendering them in many cases thus separating them from the rest of the Indifferent to public opinion. That a bill to the peo, leught to be introduced at the to make the Legislative Council responsible earliest practicable period. That under the authority of the Imperial Government to existing Constitution, this House deates the Defendant claims the parse, watch, and limit, control, or in any respect interfere money and said the dollar had boun given with appointments to the Legislative Coun Chan Aleung, a house conte, and father-this-colony solely responsible for their to him by his father to buy modioine with, oil, and holds her Majesty's Ministers in to the defendaut, eaid that an account of advice to the Crown, and will extend to his son's illness he gave him a dollar and them a firm support in taking such atape as asure the due consideration and the pass- told him to go and see a doctor, but does aro- provided for by the Constitution to not recullect what sort of a dollar it waJ.

Defendant fined $10, in default to go to ing into law of important measures essential

to the progress of the country. gaol for one month.

BREACH OF THE OPIUM ORDINANCE.

Uis Lordship: Have I say means of bility-that on the evening of the 14th, on was in charge of the bar during his mas- ascertaining from these depositions whether the 15th, and on the morning of the 16th, ter's absence but had been sent out to buy they were read over to the several witnesses prisoner had a child which was to some ex-something while his master was away.

Benjamin Walker, boarding in the Liver tent identified. They had also the report at after being reduced to writing?

the Police Station that a child was lost." pool rms Bay Mrs Juster pick up a puras But even if the containing a watch, a dollar and one fen. That was the word used. Inspector had told them that a report was cent piece; to did not know to whom they made to him that a child was stolen or lost belonged, and came to give evidence at My that would have been no evidence that any Juster's requeat.

It was only evi- Mr Juster recalled, stated that he be. child was stolen or lost. denoe of some man making that report. In Heved the uzas to be the property of de the absence of the father of the child and feudant and identified the dollar found in the elder brother in whose immediate charge the purae, as belonging to him; be recog. the child had been left, and in the unferuined it by its having some peculiar chops tunsts impossibility of reading the evidence on it. taken in the Police Court, there was no evi- dence before the Court on which it seemed to him the Jury could legally and fairly come to any conclusion as to how he got at the pos session of the child. The child might have atrayed and have come into his possession in that way. He might not have known It who were its parents or guardians. did not lie with him to show how he came into possession of the child until a prima facie case was made out againat him that he came by it illegally. If he had

Chan Aram, a coolie, being charged with found the child in the street he would Lavo been justified in keeping it until he could having in his possession a quantity of pre- find out who it rightly and legally belonged pared epinm id: I admit that the opium, to. There was some evidence of an unlaw-cooking pan, two lampa, aud ciber utensils ful intention in his mind, but that was not now in court, were found in my pease-asion. inconsistent with the possibility of his having They were given to me, over tw months found the child. To support the charge of ago, by a man named Cheong Afoo, who enticing the child away it must be proved was then sentenced to three months' im- that by force ex fraud or some other way he prisonment for having illicit opium in hie Cheong Afro osoaped from carried it away with intent to doprive the possession. father of it. It therefore seemed to his custody and handed the property over to I have never sold any opium to the Lordship that in point of law there was no

Be said so, but what he said is proof of the facts necessary to prove enticing informer.

I've no license to sell opium. Defenduste fiaed $60, in default of away against the prisoner. The child might not true. have been enticed away by some one else Mr Plunket: I myself have not a very and found by the prisoner. However dan-payment, two months with hard labour, clear recollection of the oase or the circum-gerous child-stealing might be to the com- The utensils and half of the fine (if paid) stances; but my clerk tells me that the munity, however desirable it might be that to go to the Opium Farmer. first deposition there was taken by biin when the crime of child-stealing should be punish- I had gone to tiffin. When I came back I ed and that all care and attention should be read it over to the party, who signed it as given to the discovery of those who were correct. I also asked him whether he had engaged in such acts, however great a mis- any questions to put to the witness; he fortune it might be that any one who was said he had not. That is noted here in my believed to have been guilty of any such act should go unpunished, still it was far more handwriting.

important in the interests of the general administration of justice and the protection of all in the Colony, whether Foreign or Chinese, that the Law should never be strained to secure a conviction, but that every conviction recorded should be arrived at and made in strict accordance with the law. The prisoner had asked a question which was very pertinent, and to which no little importance might be attached,-Why was it that the father of the child was not pre- sent here to-day to prosecute him-to sustain this charge Ho strongly recommended the Jury to find the prisoner not guilty,

The witnesses examined were Sit Achoong and the k-eper of the public latrine, who gave precisely the version of the prisoner's conduct described in the Attorney Gene- ral's opening addros.

When Me Plunket arrived, he was asked by the Court: Can you explain why these deposi ioos are in two handwritings, your own and another?

The prisoner said, on being ostled upon for her statement, that she was present at the birth, but at the naming of the child she was not present; her son was. She had gone back to her boat, was not guilty, she said, of what was alleged against her and craved to be mercifully dealt with.

The Court, in summing up, reminded the. jury that although they believed the woman had told lies in the trial they were not to find her guilty of perjury unless the dia- tinct charges of perjury laid down specifi- cally against her in the indictment were

His Lordship: Don't you think that will supported. They were to dismiss from their minds, in considering their verdict, any damage your one, Mr Attorney? It die knowledge they might have acquired other-penses with the father's evidence. wise than from the witnesses in this Court to-day, of the trial of her son, and what was said and done there. While it was import ant that no one who was proved a perjurer ebould escape punishment, it was equally important that no one should be punished for that offence who had not been proved guilty of it.

The jar unanimously, without leaving the bez, found the prisoner "not guilty," and she was discharged.

ANOTHER BURGLAR,

Chang Asung, charged with burglary, and receiving stolen goods, pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary, and a nolle prosequi was entered in respect of the alternative charge. The Court remarking, that by the depositions it was shown that he had been previously convicted, the prisoner crolly answered "Only twice."

He was sentenced to two years' imprison ment with hard labour.

ENTICING AWAY A CHILD.

The Attorney General reminded his Lord- ship that the Jury had not been instructed on the question of what constituted forcible detention in the case of a child so young as

NEW ZEALAND. · Wellington, July 15.-Parliament was opened to-day with the usual ceremonies. The Governor's Speech promises among other measures a bill to provide for triennial Parliaments and a bill to regulate Chiness immigration.

The revenue of the past year has ex-

ceeded the estimate by £19,000, but there has been a great falling off in the land revenue, and fresh taxation is said to be necessary in consequence.

An additional loan of five millions in to be proposed for expenditure upon public works. Negotiations with the Waikato nativos have been suspended, but the Government believe that peaceful relations will be maia-

tained.

Wellington, July 23.-Mr Fox, on the 18th, moved a vote of want of coufidence in the Ministry.

Sir George Grey has been requested by his own party to resign owing to personal unpopularity, but this ho refuses to do.

THE "ADAM M. SIMPSON " AGAIN. Carl Dell, P ter Ronne, Charles, Nelson, George Tobias Olson, Edward Atkin Thomas Smith, Allama Mei'hoe, John

The Opposition expect to have a majority, Bruce, and James Sutherland, seamen of the American ship Adam M. Simpson, were

but the Government, in the event of their charged with having deserted from their being defeated, will try hard to induce the slip on the 19th inst. The nine defendants Governor to grant them a dissolution of and five others were smt to jail by the Har-Parliament. bour-master for a week; for creating a dis- The Maoris have resumed ploughing the turbanos on board ship; they were takon on settlers' land. board again last Sunday, when they came out of jail; the whole of them came ashore again yeserday, nine of them being arrested as stragglers.

The

The Attorney-General said he took it the onus was thrown on the man who was found in possession of the boy to prove that he was lawfully in possessiós. He would have to show what right he had to take away the child from the elder brother who was

The first defendant said: Whon we went its custodian at the time. If the prisoner

on board on Saturday the Captain asked us could give no proof that he had a right to the child, he would contend that the whole

if wo would turut. We all said, "No," surrounding circumstances of the case, the

when he sent us forward. We had only about one ounce of meat and two biscuits giving of the lichees to tempt him away, with another fact that he could prove by In-

served out por man at each meal, and tha spector Rivors that the father of the child

same thing was doce on Sunday. went to the police office and reported the

Captain again asked us ons by one, on Mou- We all said 'No,' fact there, ore sufficient proof that the

day morning, to turn to. and were orderbi forward The Captain child had been enticed away and by the this. prisoner. It was for the prisoner to sbow

is Lordship thon explained that is the then went ashore. When be returned he that he bad como authority of the father case of a child any detention was detention told us if we would not turn to be would to take this child away; that was the only by force. A word was force in point of law give us nothing to eat or drink, and be to a child who had no will of its own. But kept to his word; we got nothing that day. thing that would clear him from the charge. It was very unfortunate that the depositions he did not think that the charge of deten- Next morning we asked the Captain to let had not been properly taken in presence of tion in this caso cou'd be proved, or that he us go ashore and see the Consul or the He refuso, and we said The Acting Attorney-General (Hon. J.

the Magistrate. Of this he had known

kaew who the parents of the child were and Harbour Master.

we would go without leave, and west. Russell,) in opening the case, said the

nothing until bis Lordshap called his at-

where they were. So long as there was a prisoners were charged with entering a

tention to it. Had ho soon the original reasonable possibility of the child having One of our number went to the Har

came back and told dwelling house in the night-time with

Chu Aset was charged (1) with unlawful-d-positions, he would certainly have left home itself, strayed and been found by bour Master and felonious latent, and breaking out in the

bim, there was a reasonable possibility of us he would do nothing in the matter. night. This was a burglary that they were ly by fraud onticing away a child under directed his attention to these points.

His Lordship, with regard to Mr Russell'a the prisoner's innocence of both charges. About three days after our arrival in this charged with, but it was not, as usual, & fourteen years of age, and (?) with unlaw burglary by breaking into a house, but fully retaining said child by force, both romark as to the elder child being the The detention to come under the law must harbour, three of us came ashore and com- breaking out by persons who were in the with intent to deprive the father Wong custodian of the other, remarked that they be with a knowledge of who those were plained to the Consul of bad treatment and house with felonious intent. This, as his Yun Fook, of the custody of such child. were both of so tender age that they could rightly entitled to the custody of the child. asked to be discharged. Our request was not be otherwise than in the custody of

The Jury after a five minutes' discussion not granted, as the Consul said he could Lordably would instruct them, was burglary, The date of offence was 14th July.

That was equally true Mr Russell, in opening the case, said be their parents.

amongst themselves #sked through their not do so, unless we could pay a month's equally with breaking into the house.

sent at the time and said there was no Chan A Un, an old woman, residing in would be able to lay before the jury some, although the parents were absent for a time. foreman, whether the fact that the child board in advance. The Captain was pre

The Attorney General said if hale Lordship was offered for sale did not imply such ua Bai-ylag-poon, about 3.30 on the morning of evidence as to the fraud that had been used

positions could lawful detention as was charged against the 1st August, beard a noise in the room to entico away the child, and so far as tho was of opinion that the

beenot be put in, and that there could be no him. above that in which she slept; a noise as of forca was concerned which had persona orosatog the floor; she then beard exercised to detain the child, bis Lordship conviction, he would withdraw the case. the trap door at the top of the stairs open-would instruct them, that in the case of The evidence of the father, of course, ed, and the footsteps of people coming down. a child of to tender yours as this boy was, which was that not taken before the Ma- She gave an alarm and Sergeant Hennessy, a mere motal force or very little restraint gistrate, was, he knew, a most important who was near at the time, stood opposite would amount to force in face of the Law.feature in the case. the door for a minute, and heard the bolt The parents of this boy E Kwai left him of the door withdrawn, and saw some with an elder brother when they went about person look out. He pushed the door their usual business early in the day. The and it was immediately slapped in his face. younger child wh. was abducted was 6 years He was able however to pash the door open, of age; the other was 10 or 11 years old. and the first prisoner smote at him with a During the morning the two children were dagger; the Sergeant then struck him playing about on the hill-side when the pri-

The Court desired to know' from Mr down with his staff and secured him. The soner made up to them, and gave the little second prisoner then attempted to pass, but child some lichtes and got him to go away Plunket, whether the boy whose evidence Hennessy got hold of him also, catching him with him, his brother not seeing him again was recorded, and in the Magistrate's hand by the queue. An Indian constable then for two or three days. When the parents re-writing, had been declared. All the other esme up and they were taken into custody, turned and were informed of thte, they witnesses were "So-and-so, declared, says;”, The only breaking out was the opening of instituted a search for the child, and and Inspector Bivera, sworn, says" but this trap door, and the street door below ultimately he was traced to and found in in the case of the boy, it was, So-and-so, The theory of how the men got into the posesteion of the prisoner. It would a boy about eleven years of age is put in the house was this either they as be proved that the man, and the boy with the witness box and states." It did not creted themselves in the house before him, went to the house of a man named Sit state that be was formally declared. C. ald the doors were locked for the night, Acheong later in the day and he stayed there Mr Planket say whether that was done ?

Mr Plunket: I forgot the particular oir, or they bad gained accena by the all night with the boy. He told that man verandah, which was contiguous with that the boy was his nephew and that cumstances of this case; but I always awear or declare the witness, Sometimes they that of the adjoining house." There was he wanted to sell him; he wanted some

He made a look so very young that I simply ask them nothing stolen from the house, and the Po- $40 or $50 for the boy. lice Sergeant was not wounded or hurt. If similar announcement that he wanted to whether they know it is wrong to tell a the facts as be had stated them were sell the boy, and repeated the story that lie. proved, his Lordship would instruct them the boy was his nephew, in a public place that the men were guilty of burglary and at Shek Tong Sui. Sit Acbeong suspecting Assault.

that something was wrong put a constable on the track, and the man was arrested, It was somewhat unfortunate, although it would not interfere with the trial, as there was in the Colony an ordinance in The first prisoner, being called on for forca under which it was allowable to put any statement he had to make, said he in evidence depositions taken in presence went to sleep under the verandal and find- of the prisoner, if the Judge was satisfied ing the door open went inside the house that every proper formality had been intending to leave in the morning. The observed that the father and mother of constable came and threw a light on his face and struck him on the head with his staff. He knew nothing more, as he was then taken away.

The old woman referred to, a coolie of the house, another woman who lived in the house, the Police Sergeant and the Indian constable proved the eare.

The second prisoner had nothing to say, except that he was in company with the first prisoner.

P. 8. Hennessy recalled, and asked by His Lordship why the knife did not strike him, said he exw the fish of the blade and starting back escaped the blow.

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The Court having explained the law. to what constituted burglary and what as rault with the purpose of resisting lawful ap. prebension, the Jary, without retiring, found the prisoners guilty on both counts.

Sentence was reserved.

THE PERJURY IN THE VICTOR EMANUEL CASE.

1.

His Lordship said he would certainly advise the Jury not to convlet, in the ab- serice of the father, the elder boy, and the child itself; there was the question of idon tity to be met.

The Attorney General: The policezan will meet that.

The Court held that there being no entry here of the boy having been declared, he took it, for granted, all the others being noted as declared or sworn, that he had not been so declared, and therefore the evidence was not admissible.

The evidence of Inspector Rivers, then given, was to the effect that a report was made to him that a child named E Kwai was lost; the man who made the report to him said he was the father of the child.

A Chinese detective deposed to finding the child, the little boy who was in the child in the possession of the prisoner. charge of the child when it was enticed The mother of the child ran to it and called away, the child itself, bad now left the it by its name. The obild clung to her and Colony. The depositions, however, would embraced her. The prisoner asked him io. be put in, and they would be entitled to overlook it; this was when be arrested give das weight to that evidence.

The Court called the attention of the Attorney-General to the fact that the evidence of the witnesses which purported: to be taken in the Police Court was in two different handwritings. The evidence of the father was not in the handwriting of the Magistrate.

money due to us; be brought bis accounts with him and showed by them that most of His Lordship asid the evidence that had us were in debt to the ship and none of us bean given on that point they were entitled had enough to pay for a month's board. to give due weight to in considering his guilt The Consul ordered as out of his office. When We waited outside to see the Captain, who or otherwise on the second count, he said that there was legally no evidence came with a policeman and asked us to We refused and were taken to before them to justify a conviction he was turn to. speaking solely and exclusively of the first the Harbor-Muster. He beard what we count. There was some, although it seemed had to say and ordered us to go on board. to him very little-evidence which went to Next day we were again taken before the prove detention. That was, provided they Harbour Master and sent to prisen for balieved the evidence. The man's own making a disturbance. statement that he wanted to sell the child was evidence of detention,

The Jury, by to 1, brought in a verdict of "not guilty on the first count; guilty on the second count.

Prisoner was sentenced to penal a xvitude for three years; to be subjected to solitary confinement for three months each year, in occasional periods of not more than one month each.

The Court rose early as the next case- Cheng Aso, larceny and assault-was likely to prove so long as to carry the Court in conveniently far into the evening. It will be taken on Friday after the other case fired · for that day.

50.

Police Intelligence. (Before Hon. C. H. Plunket) Wednesday, August 20th.

IMPUDENT ASSAULT ON A SENTRY.

Ng Ako, with several other coolies, was loitering outside Government House, homas Logan, a private in the 27th on sentry there, lanis illiugs, who was ordered them to move off, and they did Defendant then returned, caught the gentry by the jacket, while he had his rifle on his shoulder, and told him to go tok, He arrested him and handed

Defoudant devied uciug bad language him over to the corporal of the guard.

lot of buckets and said he was carrying Prisoner's deposition before the Police to Wanchai, and had sat down to rest

himself when he was arrested. Court was put in.

Fined $1 with the alternative of two This closed the case.

days' imprisonment.

bim.

The prisoner, being called on for his statement, said the charge had been made against him through spite. Why were the these people not here to-day to testify against him? They had simply made this charge to ruin and trouble him.

THEFT FROM THE TILL. Teang Alan, a bar-boy in the employ of Mr Juster of the Liverpool Arms, was charged with stealing one silver dollar from the till during his master's absence."

It appears that Mr Juster left his house

to

Abal Call, Captain of the Adam M. Simpson, stated that the men were broug on board on Saturday last and then refused make their minds up as to what they were tura to. He gave them till Monday to going to do, and ordered the provisions they had signed for to be weighed out to them, about one pound of bread and about one pound of beef per man; on Monday morning he told them if they would not turn to they would get no more grub.

Defendants were ordered on board their ship.

Australian News. The following items from ear Australian files were crushed out yesterday :--

NEW SOUTH WALES.

In the Legislative Assembly July 16, Sir Henry Parkes, in a speech which lasted over three bours, moved resolutions in favor of a reform of the Legislative Council, in the course of which he contended. that for several years past the Council bad unjustifi- ably rejected many important messures sent ap from the Legislative Assembly, and he was convinced that a nominee Upper House was a mistake.

The Hon. J. Dacker moved a series of

resolutions in the Legislative Council, vindicating that Chamber against the

attacks of the Premier.

The debate closed shortly after midnight Very little interest was on the 97th. manifested by the members, and several times during the debate attention was called to the absence of a quorum.

Mr Buchanan's amendment was negativad by 29 to 6; and Sir Hary Parkes' resolu tions were agreed to by 29 to 13.

Mr Buchanan's ame dment simply advo❘ cafed the introduction of a bill to shulish the Upper House, and, deprecated any at- tempt to set up a second elective Chamber, Sir Henry Parkes' series of resolutions

Mr Russell could not explain it; he had not seen the original depositions; be had only the copies before him. The original

His Lordship in addressing the Jury said depositions being handed down to the prisoner was charged with having un- Russell he saw the difficulty bis Lordship lawfully, by fraud, enticed away a child last evening about half-past eight to attend were That this House, as representing pointed out; but remarked that there under the age of fourteen years, from the the Fire Brigade parade. At that time the people of this country, deeply regrets was nothing to prevent the Magistrate father, the person having the lawful custody there were five silver and two paper that its labours have been largely frustrated Chong Amvi, an old woman, was charged dictating the evidence to his clerk, or of that child. To establish the charge it dollars in the till; when he returned in the present and former sessions of Par with perjury. It will be remembered that the Clerk of the Court taking it in his would have to be proved that there was a shortly after ten o'clock. he told his wife to lament by the irresponsible hostility of the at the last £esalona a man, who was em- presence. He submitted that they were child in the lawful custody of its parent take the money from the till and saw her Legislative Council to many of its most ployed on board H. M. 8. Victor Emanuel, bound to take it that everything was done and that the prisoner unlawfully enticed take out four silver and two paper dollars. carefully considered measures. That dur- was convicted of failing to provide the in proper legal form unless the contrary necessaries of life for his child, whereby the were proved. He drew the attention of the way that child by some means or other, He then asked his boy, who bad basa in lug the last six years two separate measurea and without any authority or consent of the charge of the bar during his absence, and passed through this House by different do- child died, The case was one in which Court to the fact that the Magistrate signed parent deprived him of the possession and who has beer in bis employ for two years, veraments, to redress the grievances of the sibgular brutality was shown on the part of the depositions at the end and certified custody of it, and having done so detained what had become of the other silver people in their unequal representation in the prisoner; and it created much attention that the above depositions have been it against the will of the father. Now, dollar. The boy sald he did not know, Parliament, bave been lost by the hostile The conduct of the woman for whom he had severally taken before me.”

there has no doubt he presumed they and told Mrs Juster that his master should and irresponsible action of the Legislative forasken his wife and children was 10 His Lordship: What is the Ordinance, believed the evidence of Bit Cheong and not have left the key of the till in the Council. That many other important mea sures, vlculated to materially benefit the universally condemned by the body of the Mr Attorney, under which you seek to put the keeper of the public latrine; it had drawer; he was then given in charge.

not been attempted to shake it by any Defendant said that he knew nothing. people, and passed by large majorities of boat-keeping class, (to which all parties in these depositions? : belonged that the young woman wan The Attorney General: Ordinance No. cross examination, and he saw no reason about the missing dollar and did not know the people's representatives, have been. mobbed and was only saved from being 6 of 1804

why he should suggest a doubt of its relia-there was any money in the till at all; heimilarly lost by the zetion of the Council,

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#

demand,...

Shanghai, demand,...

30 days' sight, Gold Lorf, 994 fine ... Sovereigos, ...

Shares.

3/771

222

728

7 i

27/40 5/30

Flongkong Bank, 53% ex div. Union Ina, Society of Canton, $1,300 China Cradera' Ins. Co., $1,400 North China Ins. Co., Tls. 1.260 Yangtaze Ins. Asoc., Tle, 710 Chinese Insurance Co., $285 H.K. Fire Ins Co., $775 China "ire Ins. Co., $190 HI.K. & V. Dock Co., 12 % prem, H‚K. C. & M. S.-boat Co., 83 prom. Shanghai Steam Navigation, Tia 11 China Coast St. Nav. Co., Tis. 93 Hongkong as Co...$70 Hongkong Hotel Co., $65 Chiou Sugar Refining Co., $148 Chinese imperial Loan of 1874, nominal.

of 1877, Temperaturo. (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premista, Queen's Road.)

Do.

HONGKONG, August 20, 1879.

9 A.K.... 1 P.M....

Balometer-

Do. Do.

THERMOMETER-JA,M....

...Do. Do.

do.

20 912

29 964

4 P. M....

29.940

84

***

1 P.M....

80

J

4 F. M....

87 ***

81

84

Do.

Do.

4 F.u.

84

Do. Maximum

89

Do. (Wet bulb) 9 a.M. Do, Du. 1.3.

Do, Wintonm gvernight 80

Shipping Intelligence. The following to corrected fro them latest London and Colonial Papere, &c.:-

VESSELS TO ARRIVE.

Left. Feb.

AT GONGKONG. Name.

From,

22, Grossfurat Constantine, Hamburg Apr.

8, Leon, 10, Spioa, 21, Werra, 26, Triton, 26, Twilight 27, Homewood,

May.

2, Alex Yeats, 6, Alexander 11, Southern Cross, 13, Glamorgaushire, 29, Joseph Hayden, 31, Newcastle, 31, Guy Mannering," June.

3, Adolph, 6, Barrington, 12, Belle of Oregon,

28, Joachim Christine, 27, Pym,

12, Pampero,

Liverpool Cardif

London

Hamburg

Now York

Penarth

Cardiff

Penarth

New York

Cardiff

Cardiff

Autwerp

Liverpool

Cuxhaven

Flushing

Cardiff

Antwerp

Cardiff

Antwerp

LOADING FOR CHINA AND JAPAN YURTS, At London-Steamers vía Suez Canal. Oxfordshire.

Scindia. Sailing Vessels.

Sarah Scott.

Langland,

Nestor (s)

Belted Will,

de Liverpool,

At Hamburg.

Aprovita Cum Ha & Idar

Sarpedon (4.)

Papa