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3

346

table showing

criminal

the number of cris

cases and persons tried in the Supreme

Court

during

2.

the last three

years.

In his despatch N. 3 of for

the 3rd January, 1878, the Earl of Carnarvon seemed disposed to doubt the

the course I had directed the

been unsatisfactory.

(377

3.

"The number of persons

tried

was 216, in

in the Supreme Court in 1848

1879, 202, and in 1880 the number had

criminals

fallen to 160. The number of convicted in the Supreme bourt fell

14107

par 3877

33

from

4.

policy of the sourse Magistrates to take of sending old offenders

to the Supreme Court instead of imposing repeated flogging and sometimes followed by- branding and deportation, as His Lordship thought my

short sentences sometimes with

directions would.

cause much additional labour in the

inconvenience

Supreme Court and greatly the jurors. The result however of three "years' experience of the system has not

163 in 1878 to 120 in 1880.

Taking the class of offences

from

which formerly created most alarm in Honghong. Your Lordship will see the Supreme Court Returns that during... there were but 3 cases.

last year

4

of

burglary, 2 of robbery from the person with violence; I of robbery being

armed"

and / of robbery with violence.

I attribute this satisfactory

5.

result to the

way

in which Chief Justice