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No. 5069.-OCTOBER 6, 1879.] anarchy, and the cholers has broken out in the Khyber Pass,

The Ghilzais and Mongols have attacked General Roberts on the Kushi road,

Mr Falgrave is appointed the now Resid ent at Stam.

A CORRESPONDENT of the N. O. Daily News, writing from Tiontain, on the 24th Sept., Kays

H.M.'s Vigilant has been unfortunate in breaking her rudder, we are told, and being compelled to return to Taku The Swinger went down and brought Admiral Coute to Tientsin, which place he reached on the 22nd. The Vigilant seems to be too long a ventel for this crooked stream.

child aged 13 against provisions of Ordin- ance No. 4 of 1885, Sections 50 and 61, to im prisonment with hard labour for 18 months. It appeared that a respectable tradesman in Kowloon gave $17 for the child and detained him until the friends came from Canton and claimed the child, and then sa

THE CHINA MAIL.

in morale, appears to me to low from the tra principles of English law as they have been developed at the present time. "French law is, the same as English law as to the right to per- sonal liberty, En France quiconque a mis le pied dans co royaume cet gratifié de la liberté,"

ib 841.

child. The child belonged to my mother in-law.

away without your mother-in-law's love?

Prisoner: The child followed me to the ateamer.

THEFT BY a denthal KOHOOL BUY AND ANOTHER

wondered at. The sentence of the Court thall be equally liable to be punished as

his temper, which is not very much to be above mentioned, but if only guilty of de

His Lordsbip: But did you not take it, ni e calendar mo tha' imprisonment with hard labor, which he thought the taining the same for a short time the punish- ment shall not exceed 80 blows. When the

learned-o nusol must admit was a light purchaser or the negotiator of the purchase shall be aware of the unlawfulness of

punishment #hers lie was taken, and in the transaction he shall suffer punishment His Lordship: And you enticed it to this way; the mau had followed the You have not said anything deceased brough, the doorway and was against the relatives he claimed a right to It is unnecessary for me to trace how it one degree less than that inflicted on the do so.

became the Common Law of England that, seller and the amount of the pecuniary con- in mitigation. You have only sai therefore the aggressor, Consiloring the detain the child even against his relatives ever breathes the air of England cannot sideration shall be forfeited to government, those things which show that your heart shance of that imponitende he would

In from whom he had been kidnapped,

I must however go back to but when he or they are found to have been now is as hard as when you took that piirl by a ples of not guilty he the other case I sentenced a poor, wiserable be a slave. woman for having stolen a female child 1771, when Granville Sharpe brought the unacqainted therewith they shall not be child. The sent ace on you is that you bot inflict to severe a sentence. aged 9 years under Ordinance 4 of 1865, question before the Court of Queen's Bench. liable to punishment and the money shall be imprisoned for two years with bard labour, Section 81, to two years' imprisonment with in Somerset's case, Lord Mansfield said that restored to the party from when it had been kept in solitary confort for a period hard labour. It appeared that one Leang there were 14,000 or 15,000 negroes claimed received. After reading these extracts from of fourteen days every three months.

The second case, No. 6 on the o.lendar, Atuk, the concubine of a compradore in this as slaves then residing in England, va- the Penal Code of China, an old Code revised.

Tho de from time to time, (I quote from the last in which Toang Ez Tan and U A Io were colony, bought this child for $63 and kept lued at £700,000 at that date. her shut up in a room till the child, looking acto existence of slavery in England at revision made in 1875 and published in 1877) convicted of detailing by fraud and against out of the window upstairs, saw her relative, that date was somewhat similar to the de I cannot see how it can be maintained that their will two boys aged 6 and 11 years, and she was got back only through the facto state of slavery here sa to the number any ferm of slavery was over tolerated by THE Yokohama Nichi-nichi Shimbun, accord. intervention of the police. In each of these of slaves and alleged hardship to slave-hold-law in Hongkong as it de facto exists hore, ing to a translation in the Japan Herald, cases the child kidnapped was bought era. He saw the difficulties, the disorgan or how the words of the two proclamations says one silvar you, being now at par with recklessly by the man and the woman on ization, the ruin which must follow his of 1841 could be said to bear the colour of Mexican dollars, the Finance Department a guarantes by the sellers, much after the decision, but he said fat justitia rat cœlum: tolerating slavery under the English Flag is going to send 800,000 yen to the Mitsui fashion s guarantes given on the sale of and the Court, unanimously decided that, in Hongkong. It is to me clear that the Bank, similar amount to the First Na- a horse that it was not stolen, each indif- notwithstanding the promises which bad Queen's Froclamation of 1845, which I have tional Bouls, 200,000 yes to the Second feront as to how possession of the child been given to the Jamaica Planters by already quoted at full, declared slavery National Bank, and 60,000 yen to the had been obtained. In each of these cases former Governments, that they might bring absolutely illegal here. Hongkong and Shanghai and the Ori-I requested the prosecution of theso well- their alaves to England and take them being 1,800,000 yen. Tho Department chattels, who had bought these children, brought their slaves to England, that tho a child as a slave or as property is absolutely anw.me doing anything but hawking. ental Banking

SUPREME COURT. IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS,

John Smale)

Monday, Oot, 6.

"80-CALLED DOMESTIC SLAVERY,"

BIE JOHN SMALE ON BLAVERY IN HONGKONG,

In conclusion I affirm that to sell or to

was then called.

The first prisoner said :—The child wa presented to me to make it my own child.

His Lordship: That is no defṛnog, anu besies there is not a particle of cridenc of that. The child dos not speak you language and has manifestly been brought from a very great distance.

His Lordship:

Hos boung and Pam a Kun, canricted of stealing $90, and a bx, de fent a oney-changer's house, were brought up for sentence..

First pria ner, described as a school bay, sad edao sted at the Cntral School, being elled on for what no had to say, said: "I.

nd nor steal the innsey

"

The Chief Ju tica addressing this priso ser, said he came to day before the Court, iter having been sout back for a very long

period, during which he might have The second prisoner said :—I had nothing thought what it was beat for him to say; but what he had jus said, he to do with it. I only took the obild to

He had surəd a wicked bis mind was, apprentics him to be a barber. Nobodyad shown how entirely aut radically You were seen to possen- surt of position in this shop probably is also issuing yen notes to the amount whose money had occasioned the kidnapping Law overrode all such promises, that they prohibited by the Law of England, which

just as a receiver of stolen goods buys stolen could not be taken back, that they were free. law is imported into and forms the substance sion of the child, (addressing the first bec use of his education, He had been aducated at the Central School, taught of 6,000,000 yen...

property without due, or any, inquiry to The goldon words of Lord Mansfield were of the Law of Hongkong by virtue of Or- prisoner):-Four case is one of the wor verify the patent lies of the vendors. I those,The state of slavery is of such adinances 6 of 1845 and 12 of 1873. I hold have known. You have brought this child there with all-care; ha described himself as a schoolboy now. He had been received have reason to believe that H.E. the Go-nature that it is incapable of being introit to be contrary to the public morals which from a very great distance, as is shown by

into that shop, taken into confines of the vernor was desirous that my request should. -duced on any reasons moral or political but form a part of that law, and that it ought to fact that the boy cannot speak any shop-keepers, and treated with great kind-

It is so odious to be put down. As at prosent, advised I inaguage known here. In this case there if proper, be complied with, but on reference only by positive Law, (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir to former eases it appeared that a former that nothing can be suffered to support it, believe that the law as it exists is strong are no children detained. On the first Rems, and that confidence he grossly abused. Attorney-General had found that the system but positive Law." This is the language enough and that its art is long enough to and third conuts you are sentenced to be That he took the keys out of the money had been almost if not altogether unchecked more than a century since attered by no reach all illegal acts contrary and offensive kept in penal servitude for three years on changer's jacket holis Lordship) wa for many years past, and that in particular soft-hearted humanitarian, but by the Con- to public morality or publio decency.

each, contemporaneously. On each of the confident he was sitting there. That ho unlocked the box ho was perfoc ly satisfied, The Attorney-General on a former occasion other counts you will be imprisoned for a

and that he communicated with a man when His Excellency bad desired to enforce Bervative Tory, the greatest Chief Justice of the rights of a father to recover his child England, whose fame Junius assailed and thought fit to press the Court to instruct year, contemporaneously. he was not disposed to enforce that right whose library the ranb burat at a time him how to frame his information in a case

His Lordship, addressing the second priutside who carried away the money he was equally satisfied. And then he came and because the father had sold that child, when the slave trade flourished and slaves which the Court had directed to be prosecuted. oner, said: The sentence of the Court ou On that precedent and on the other pre- in the colonies were bought and sold in The Supreme Court has habitually directed you is that you be imprisoned for eighteen rumped up a scandalous story that a re- cedents, also mainly in reliance on two England. I quote from 20 State Trials, P. prosecutions in cases in which from what calendar months and kept at hard labour, aprctable man, accountant of a respectable proclamations dated the 1st and 2nd of 82. Resting on that decision and relying on appears in Court it seems to the Judge pro- The case against you is very much lighter shop, came here to trump up a ato y against oures the man who stole the money would February, 1841, by which the free exercise very many other grounds I am clearly of

seldom seen. The prisoner would suffer three years' penal servitude, and is Lordship hoped that by the end of that time the discipline of the gaol would have made him understand that honesty is the best policy," if he did not learn by that time that it was the right thing Prisoner's friends had had the im padence, before antenda was passed, to address H. E. the Governor, seeking for a Second prisoner sa the property was mitigation of punishment,

Whilst he was out, first prisoner

DOWN BY THE PROPER OFFICERS.

per that a special matter should be judicially than that against the first prisoner; and him, and had the impudence to say that of

SLAVEET IN EVERY FORM DECLARED ILLEGAL. ALL SLAVERY TO BE PUT Five prisoners were placed in the dock for these Bessions, of kidnapping a child, of de social customs was promised to the Chinese much consented to by the slave himself or done in esses of perjury, but the Court stops your possession of the child is a very diff..not say he took it; a w raa case he had sentence, having been severally convicted at of their religious rites, ceremonies, and opinion that elavery, however mild, however investigated; this has been very frequently although there is nothing in yene-excuse,

morning, said;

the same child in the same manner. Case

I

words:

or not rent possession from that of the first pri- there; the responsibility of proceeding proceeding with every case is by law im-soner. posed on the public prosecutor.

then dealt with

as his own child.

His Lordship: Yes, that is a very easy way out of it, but adoption" doesa't do.

THE LASCAR 20W TRAGEDY,

Usoop who, charged with murder, when rraigned pleaded guilty to manslaughter, his ples being accepted by the Crowe, wAL now brought up for aentence. This is the charge arising out of a quarrel between tw ses faring men, (cored a Malay, prisoner Woman, amigos were used and the dial.

Javanese) in Ledar Raw, concerning u came by bis death.

found in his room, but was not these by dis had put it there

The Chi f Justio said this was not in

accordance with the evidence, he had taken possession of the proper y and the money;': he was knowingly in pusession of the pro- perty and was encoding his possession, His Lordship remarked on the extraori- -nary fac that mes such as the prisoner after being found gilty should still persist ia their nocence: is, showed the hardness of their hearts and they should be wail. He recurmised the diffende. punished. between the case against this prisonas and aarainst the t;king a favorable view of the case be sente cod him,ta ime year'a imprisonment with had labo

Judge wt a Heuch warrant; te arrested the man himself. ́e (Mr Hayllar)id not hink there was any further diceation chen given.

His Lordship: That is going a greal deal íurtber.

(but this was temporary only "pending Her his parents, or for however limited a period, taining two children with intent to sell them, Majesty's future pleasure" the Adminis is contrary to, that it is prohibited by the and of selling and purchasing a child for the trator of the Government in the absence of Common Law of England. In the Colonies

The third case, in which Keung Ato and If the judge directed the frame of the in- purpose of prostitution,

the Governor was advised not to prosecnte elavery never existed except under positive

Li Akak were charged, the former with The Chief Justice, on taking his seat this these two persons. In one of the cases at enactment authorising it. Has it ever been formation he would have prejudged the case; purchasing, the latter with selling a female On the Criminal Calendar for September, these Sessions now before me, it was in tolerated in Hongkong? I emphatically an after framing the prosecution he would be in

a sort bound to uphold the information ao child for the purposes of prostitution, was evidence that Pag Chee Wan, a very respect-swer, Never. The two proclamations of 1841, 1879 three cases now by adjournment come able a man in this colony, took the child have already referred to, are governed framed by him, whether right or wrong; he- addressing the first prisoner, his Lordship on for the Court top pase sentence on the three years ago in pledge for $50 and she by the words pending Her Majesty's future would be at once prosecutor and judge. prisoners convicted. Case No. 1, B. v. Les remained ever since the servant of Chan pleasure," in the 2nd of the two forming I add that it is not the duty of the Exeou-said:-Yon have been found guilty of having A Keu, convicted on the 18th of September last of having (first count) feloniously and Atsoi, one of the few respectable real first one proclamation. Her Majesty was pleased tive to direct the publie prosecutor what he is purchased this chill for the purposes of to do because the low casts the whole respon- prostitution. The sentence on you is that

n you, Li will for eighteen calendar montiin. unlawfully and by fraudulent means enticed wives living in this colony, till she beat the to constitute this as a Crown Colony with a away one A Ngan, a child under the age of child, who ran away and then was kidnapped. Legislative Council, and with these procla-sibility on the public prosecutor himself. I you be imprisoned and kept at hard labour

mations present to their minds the firet Or may however say that it is a general pro- 14 years, to wit 6 years, with intent thereby took the responsibility to direct the Actingdinance of the Legislative Council No. 1 of position that whatever is prohibited by the Akak, the sentence of the Court is that to deprive one Au A Ho of the possession of Attorney-General to prosecute this such child on the 21st August, 1879, and and his wife. The responsibility rests on 1644 was an ordinance to define the Law common law or by express enactment for you be imprisoned and kept at hard labour

relating to slavery in Hongkong. Well, it which no other remedy is provided may be for eightoon calendar months.

The second prisoner said: 1 presented (second count) having feloniously detained the Attorney-General, and on him alone, as

the law offcor of the Crown, to institute was a clumsy piece of legislation. It was treated as and is a misdemeanor if contrary the child to tho at prisoner to be adopted passed on February 28th, 1844, and it was to public policy or morals. Until it shall be No. 6, R. v. Isang Sz Tau and U Ain, and prosecute proper proceedings. A disallowed by the Queen, of which notice tried and decided whether any particular

stand that this Chinese gentleman and lady

breach of such prohibition is a misdemeanor it convicted on the 23rd of September last on have left the Colony; their absence is to be was published in the Culony on the 24th four counts of (1) having detained against

If and when any particular: his will a boy named Ho Po Sing with regretted, as it prevents the trial of a test of January 1845, probably as soon as it cannot be said to be beyond the reach of

case not unfavourable to those who contend was possible in those days, and on the the law, intent to sell him in this colony on the 30th that domestic slavery as it exists in Bong-same day a proclamation was issued in these breach of the rules of the common law be

(2) Fraudulently detaining

determined by the verdict of a jury or by May, 1879. Bame boy at same time with intent to sell kong is an institution which ought not to be

put down. In this case I consider the Whereas the Acts of the British Parliament judicial decision to be beyond the reach of him. (3 and 4) Like sharges as to a boy service was really domestic, the wife being for the abolition of the slave trade and for the punishment, but not till then, it may become called Yeung Shang. Case No. 9, R. v. Keung A To and Li A Kak, convicted on at its head. Time was when the coolie Abolition of Slavery extend by their own proper the duty of the public prosecutor to abstain from presecuting for it and to ask the trade was said to be not illegal. Since the force and authority to Hongkong, this is to ap- the 20th September last, as to Keung A To Kwok Asing onse in 1871 no one has con- prise all persons of the same and to give notice Executive to consider whether it would be of having purchased a female child named

JUDG DIRECTIVO CRIMINAL PLOS-CUTI INS Tiu Heng for the purposes of prostitution in tended that it is legal. No one now claims that these acts will be enforced by all Her Ma-right or proper to provide a remedy for the for kidnappers the right to kidnap men, jesty's Officers, Civil and Military, within this specifio breach of the rules of the commen

Myllae, before ma Lachip loft she w which tha. law as it stands shall have this Colony on the 4th March, 1879, as to

1 feel that in ir Hayllar, who appeared for the Bench, asked to be allowed to Bay a word d Li A Kak of having sold the same child for women, or children, ar to buy them, or to Colony.

detain them when bought with notice of the What becomes of the argument in favoar been shown not to reach. the same purpose at the said time. Various kidnapping for any purpose. No one now of slavery in any form founded on the what. I have said I have but affirmed prisoner, now bril; add essed the Court with regard to Juge directing rumial causes have occasioned delay in passing claims the right to purchase or dotain proclamations read with this proclamation? truisms supported by arguments unne- on bis beb.lf. The prisoner was original-prosecutions. He was present at the sizes sentence, of which I will only refer to ons:

the wit.ess bus a feat the forgery of his omanslaughter and that plea was ac the gravity of the fact that these and other females for immoral purposes. But it is said I ask a further question, have all Her Ma- cessarily long and prolix in the estima- indicted for murder; he pleaded guily when Mr oupalt MP. for Lambeth, in His fathor's will Barou Martia tried the case, that what is called domestic slavery, as it jesty's Officers Civil and Military enforced tion of every man in England. What I enses have recently brought so prominently exists in Hongkang, is mild, and it is said these acts within this Colony? I think have said has been said to meet arguments, cepted by the attorney General. to the notice of the Court that two specifio to be the opinion of a gentleman of great they have not; I confess that I have not. doubts, and difficulties which have paralysed urdship, with the depositions before him, and what was done there was that the

Ipressed himself satisfied with that as elasacs of slavery exist in this Colony to a

Our excuse has been in the difficulty in public opinion and public action here, which very great extent, viz., so-called domestic experience in Chinese that as it exists here

The case was one entirely of hot blood; Blavery and slavery for the purposes of it is nut contrary to the Christian religion, enforcing there acta, but mainly in our arguments, doubts, and difficulties are the meeting the circumsances of the ease. and that it is as general a fashion for Chi- ignorance of the extent of the evil. What less easy to combat because they have been

What I here could be no doubt about it The prostitution. The three gases now awaiting nese ladies in Hongkong to purchase one or is our duty now that we know that slavery rather hinted at than avowed.

msn who was killed, was, according to the sentence of the Court are specially more girls to attend on them as it is for in its worst as in its best form exists in this have intended to affirm I may briefly state provided for by ordinances of 1865 and 1872, English ladies to hire lady's maids, and that dot in the ocean to the extent of say 10,000 thus:-1. That in England, by the Coin the evidence of the that witness, ber hus- Mr Hayllar That seems to me to be the prohibiting kidnapping and illegally detain- ing men, women, and children, and no the custom is so general that it would be slavesa number probably unexceeded with mon Law, slavery in every form has always band; she had, she said, been married to

im about a year. The prisoner gave a dit-course in England; I think i have seen it highly impolitie, if not impossible, to put in the same space at any time under the been and is prohibited, that no one can difficulty ever arose in my mind as to the down the system. It may be that slavery British Crown, and so far as I believe, the acquire any right over the person of another, ferent account of the relationships between in another case.

he parties. He would not, however, go His Lordship asid he was mnah.oblig. crimes of which these prisoners are severally

into this matter of the difference between the ed to Mr Hayllar for bringing the point BUZO MT convicted or as to the sentences due to such as it exists in the houses of the better classes only spot where British Law prevails in that no man can sell his own person into

two statments, because whatever relations to his notice; but he was crimes, and there is no question as to crimes in Hongkong is mild and that custom among which slavery in any form exists at the pre- slavery, that a parent has no salcable pro-

casos in But can Chinese slavery as it perty in bis child; moreover, that every or punishment of cases where women are the better classes renders servitude to them sent time?

pros oution had smuggled into brothels, some licensed and a boon as long as it lasts. It is, I believe, de facto exists in Hongkong be considered such sale is nudum factum absolutely void, absisted between the woman and these two Hayllar must often have seen others unlicensed or otherwise dedicated to an admitted duty that when the young girl a Chinese custom which can be brought that money paid on any such salo cannot be men he did not think it would very much which directions for immoral purposes. But the enormous ex-grows up and becomes marriageable she is within the intent and meaning of either recovered back; but that the man bought ffect this case. It was perfectly clear that been given by the Julge, more often par- Mr Hayllar: Coustantly for perjury, bat. bo must be restored to liberty, and the sold this fighting took place. The prisoner had haps than he had himself. married, but then it is the custom that the of the Proclamations of 1841 80 aa tent to which slavery in this Colony has husband buys her, and her master receives sanctioned by the proclamations ? I assert child to his parent, as if no money had been picked up the child which was crying and grown up bas called into existence a greatly

I say this, aa at present paid, and that the crime in buyer and seller had taken it into the room to lay it on the not for other offences,

His Lordship: Suppose it was a misde‹ increasing traffic, especially in women and the price always paid for a wife whilst he that it cannot.

A must be punished. 2.-That slavery has bed. Then the busband came in, a Malay, children. The number of Chinamen in this has received the girl's services for simple advised, in the absence of argument. Colony has increased and is increasing maintenance, so that, according to the mar-custom is such a usage as by common con- never been introduced into any British naturally very hot blooded. The two mea meanour, then a warrant would not be rapidly, whilst their great increase in wealth ringeable excess in the price of the bride sent and uniform practice has become the Colony except by positive law; so said had words and two mounds, slight wongds, issued; it would be a summons. However, Lord Mansfield. 3.-That all slavery was were inflicted upon the prisoner by the I am satisfied direction to prosecuto is con hes fostered licentious habits, notably in buy ever the price he paid for the girl, he is a law." In 1841 there could have been no

Mr Hayilar said he had simply seen the ing women for purposes sanctioned neither gainer and the purchase of the child pro- custom of slavery in Hongkong as now set abolished throughout the British Colonies in husband: there were sufficient to cause stantly being made in England. by the laws nor customs on the mainland. duces a good return. But the picture has up, for save a few fishermen and cottagers 1833, when England nobly made a present him very great anger. He found a knife I bold in my hand a placard in Chinese, another aspect; what-if the master is the island was uninhabited, and between of £20,000,000 as a boon to the slaveholders. in the bed according to his own statement, as he referred to, and brought it to his His Lordship was much obliged to Mr torn down from the wall of the Central brutal or the mistress jealous-becomes of 1841 and 1844, the date of the Ordinance 4-That Hongkong became a British Colony and there was no denial of its truth and Lordship's notics. School, Gough Street Steps in this city. the poor girl? Certain recent cases show expressly prohibiting alavery, there was no not until 1841, and then slavery had been two or three rapid cuts appeared to have The translation appears at length in the that she is sold to become a prostitute here time for such a custom to have grown up- absolutely prohibited by force of both the been given. This man appeared to have Hayilar, because it showed the Court did Hongkong Daily Press of August 16th, or at Singapore or in California, a fate often and Slavery in every form having been by common and the statute law then existing, proved the stronger, and the husband died dir et prosecutions. The Jaige was exact 1870. The purport of that translation is worse than death to the girl, at a highly express law prohibited by the Royal Pro-That by the proclamation of the 24th of his wounds. Now, the law was very ly in this position; he could either issue

this fuished the Sessions. shortly that the advertiser one Cheong "has rennerating price to the brute, the master. clamation of the Queen in 1845, no custom of January, 1845, the Queen promised and tender to hot blood, particularly in these a summons or a wait nk.

Bis Lordship: Can I give any more a purchased slave girl named Tai Ho aged It seems to me that all slavery-domestic, contrary to that law could, after that date, undertook that the English laws against races 13 years." After a full description of the agrarian, or for immoral purposes comes grow up, because the thing was by express slavery will be enforced by all Her Majesty's girl a reward is offered in these terms: within one and the same category. I law illegal. I go further, and I find that officers, Civil and Military, within the weight to the bot blood of a Malay than to Mr Hayllar: Those people are subject If there is in either of the four quarters proceed to answer the question, does the law the penal Law of China, whilst it facilitates Colony. 8. That the obligation to enfores that of an Englishman? any worthy man who knows where she is of Hongkong tolerate slavery in any shape? the adoption of children into a family to keep these laws is, therefore, absolutely imposed

believe the whole question rests on up ita succession, prohibits by Section 78 by the Queen on every Civil and Military to paroxysms which are rarely met with in gone to and will send a letter he will be re- the highest principles recognised by all the receiving into his house.by any one of a officer here as if the obligation had been Englishmen.

Mr Hayllar said he had laid these facta

KASKAULT. warded with four full weight dollars, and the

Wm. Lushman. 20, a seaman on board. person detaining the slave will be rewarded European municipal law. I expressed the person of a different surname, declaring him especially written at length in his commis- with fifteen full weight dollars." These conclusion to which I had come in 1871. I guilty of "confounding family distinétions," sion or warrant of office. That these before his Lordship to prove there was ro words are subsequently added, "this is firm extract the words in which I expressed that and punishing him with sixty blows the laws not baving been enforced each officer malice aforethought. The knife produced the British barque Star of China, was charg have been carrying, it was a table kuife car Row on the 6th inst. Fined $2, and and the words will not be eaten." I recent conclusion from the report of my judgment father of the son who chall "give away" (the has failed in his duty to the Queen, and was not such an ose as the prisoner could ed with assaulting a hawker in Upper Lar to pay $2 sends to the complainant, in ly spoke in reprobation of slavery from this on the 25th Mar. 1871 in the Kwok Ashing idea of sale seems unknown to Chinese law), that the only excuse that any one of us can

His Lordship said the Court was really default, seven days' imprisonment with bard Bepah, and in consequence of my remarks a case, from the only book in which it is his son is to be subject to the same punish urge for such failure in duty is ignorance of such as might be lying about..

printed in an enduring form, the American ment. Again Section 79 enacts that who- the existence of the extent of slavery here. gentleman who tore down this placard gave Bate Papers, The papers relating to the ever shall receive and detain the straged or 7-That it being now patent that there is vader obligations to the learned counsel labor.

or the way in which he had defended the It to the Editor of the Daily Press, and in a foreign relations of the United States trans-lost child of a respectable person and instead now a very great number of slaves (say letter in that paper he stated that such

Wong Altung, 38, a brawiser, was charged. placards are common and that he had torn witted to Congress with the Annual Message of taking it before the Magistrate sell such 10,000: the sumber has been estimated at prisoner; the best way in which he could child as a slave shall be punished with 100 even 20,000) of slaves in this Colony bave defended him was, as be bad done,

to plead guilty of manslaughter. Looking with keeping a gambling house at No 9 down a hundred such placards. Has Cuba of the President; Washington, 1871,"

blows and 3 years' banishment. Whoever ignorance can no longer be our excuse, but or, bas Peru ever exhibited more palpable, The views put forth in this Colony compel me shall sell such child for marriage or adoption that all officers of the Queen in this Colony, dispassio ately at the whole case, he found Cheng Kung La

P. S. Too as proved biasking into the mare public evidence of the existence of

atlach to any one. The found bonae iu ques ion with a party of pultor on recognised slavery in the hotbeds of slavery to refer to what elsewhere are assumed as axioms. into any family as a son or grandson, shall each in his department and to the best of that perhaps there was not much blaine than such placards as the one I now hold Christianity teaches us that God mads man in be punished with 90 blows and banishment his ability, must. henceforth effectually to

Whoever shall enforce these laws or fail in the duty im the prisoner taking the child from the the 4th sustant and seiziou a quality of in my hand proves that slavery exists in his own image and breathed into him the breath for two years and a balf.

M: A. So dit clark this Colony? The notices have been posted of life eternal life. It does so happen that this dispose of a strayed or lost stave shall suffer pored on him by the Queen. Of this I fed uurse because it was crying in the sitting gambling apparatus, but was quable to been in all probability read; they ought to own refined language teaches much the same detain a fugitive child and instead of taking ceedings as will tend to enforce the laws as in; it is his first visit after a voyage, netongs, on bearing of the ze sure, sorched have been, they must have been read by doctrine of man's equality with man, only fas it it before the Magistrates sell such child for against slavery here, so that this Colony He finds his child to this man's hands and for defendant, (who rented the bous, or

this mau timself in his bed-room They coolie-h use), and bai him arrested, scores of our China Felicemen. Important asames) a rather more subtle hypothesis. as this Colony is politically and commer- Well content as I sm and as Judge mast to with a slave he shall be punished with 90 blows may become as free from that taint as any cially, it is but a spot in the ocean; its the law of the land, I must answer the question, and banishment for two years and a half, other Colony under the British Crown by don't give themselves time to reason fully. ares is about half that of the county of Is it possible that such a being as man san as Whosoever shall sell any such fugitive child enforcing laws already in existence and, if The busband naturally, with or without Entland; the airoumference of this island is cording to law a science of development ac for marriage or adoption shall suffer the necessary, by parsing lawa, however string reason, is very angry; high word arise, and blow. The blow truck seems to have banu calculated at about 27 miles, whilst that of cording to the law A. D. 1871, become a punishment of 80 blows and 2 years' banishent, that shall free this Colony effectually the probabi isy is the usaband struck the first caused by the back of a kuife, and beyond

(Before the tion C. B. Plunket). the Isle of Wight is about 56 miles. The clave even by his own consent. I say it is ment; in each of the above-mentioned oases from all slavery.

THE SPURIOUS QANH CARE, Ɛ/ cultivated land on this island may be to the impossible in law, as Sir B. Phillimore, L. the punishment shall be less by one degree

armed with a knife, which he habitually This cass was again brought before the barren waste about one half per cent., and Phill, International Law, Vol. I. p. 816, has said if the fugitive should be found to be a slave. THE CASES OF KIDNAPPING, DETAINING AND all question the husband was at the time

carried, and when he was first seen by any Court, when the Crown Solicitor saved for there is no agrarian slavery here in nearly a passage I read with the most respectful con- All fugitives so disposed of shall suffer currence but too long for fall quotation" of punishment one degree less than that in

stranger bad that knife in his hand. The postponemert, as the prossontion was not other knife which the prisoner used was yet prepared to prossed. Ootions were manifestly such knife- he would not raised by Mr Brereton, who had two importa carry with his but had picked up, being at ant witnesses present and was prepared to His Worship ultimately decided to hesa bad. But still his business was to have proceed with the defence.

then said:

Police Intelligence. (Before C. V. Creagh, Esg.) Monday, Oct. 6th.

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RAID OF A GAMBLING HOTES,

ins most populous neighbourhood and have Christianity is the law of England, of this the punishment provided by the law reduced assured, by his previous acts, that H. E. the room going in o the bed-room and laying make any arrest

Colony, and modern European philosophy in its one degree. If any person shall receive and Governor will actively promote all such pro-the hild on the bed. Then the busband at the Magistracy, to whow the property

SELLING CHILDREN,—FIVE PRILONERS SENTSKCED,

Fined two hundred dollam, and faulty six-muntha implement with hard labor, Prisoner went to gol.

the total absence of farms, and on this dot this great truth its found has at last gone out ficted on the seller, except when the pre The prisuber in the first case (Lee Akau: in the ocean it is estimated that the slave into all lands and its voice unto the ends of thevious offence of the fugitive shall bare been ento ng and detaining a child of sight population has reached 10,000 souls I first world." A man dan no moro, as 1. infer from became fully alive to the existence of the same high authority, by contract be authes the greatest, in which case the severer of years with intent to deprive the lawful called domestic slavery in this colony at the fired to take the liberty than to take the life of the two punishments to which he is liable guardian of the possession of the same) Criminal Bessions in lay last on the trial of another. The proposition: long ago enpucated shall be inflated. Whosoever shall detain called upon to state whether he had any two sumir.- In one case I sentenced two by Locke (who was in almost aminority of onsin for his own use as a slave, wife or child, any thing to any why sentence ebould not be fled, not to have retallsted, not to have poor, miserable women for detaining a male his time), a propozition now universally accepted such lost, strayed or fugitive child or glers! passed on him, said i--I did not kidnap the used a deadly weapon, Suddenly be lost the case at half-pait jen to-morrow.