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guilt,
We
as
-rejest altogether entirely insufficient what the Chinese desire us to -
accept as such, viz,
a
charge made by a responsible -Chinese Official, and we - are not unfrequently. dissatisfied with evidence which the Chinese consider
as
Nor
absolutely conclusive.
on this question of
evidence has our
aum
-practice been guided
guided in
. The past by any very clear principle
principle, it having been
apparently doubtful whether . The amount and character of evidence required to justify
extradition is such as (1) to justify a Magistrate in
England in sending before a Jury,
a case
or (2) to justify
a Grand Jury in finding a :true Bill, or (3) to enable a Jury to convict; each of these views, as I gather from
the papers, having been held
at
one
time
another
by
more
f
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