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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

January 3rd,

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BEFORE J. RUSSELL ESQ.

THE "PETITION" CARD."

HOME AFFAIRS AND CHINA AFFAIRS AT-HOME.

(From a London Correspondant)

London, 17th November, 1871. BARON DE MENITEND' LAITED.

is one of the blackert crimes, in the eyes of Peking. They rather affe petty asta of-op- prossion and extortion, not violinco Though wa admit, therefore, the moongenieros pointed oat by the Daily Press, of for ignora

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teacher in writinging them from his of the Company did not relieve them from the any notice of an act of bankrupe that in the took hold of the man, and be fading himself | Cantou nid the Superintendent of Customia to gress is more advanced by the extirpation, or

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the ficou po to, we find translated and winst in their naturo terminato in debts. And, kasper to Mesora, Jardine Matheson & Co., sind geurt all demands, which antklod the ones,

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UNLAWFUL TOMESSION.

suppose J. M. & Ob were sineholdera in fondantu do a revocable one, but at all orents it the churcteristic of all good inventions, of both foes."

was not revoked at the time of the bankruptcy, HHonour Suppose they were, Sir, bat) and that was the important point. In Nowrojes extreme simplicity. He har jotted down tho

v. the Chartered Bank of Indig, one of the caBGH which he has heard in use, and which he had it of shareholders.

but of phrases and expression wither they wore.

Mr. Maclean said he did not recollect the on which he relied. Justice Montague Smith re

marked that the authority was an evoked at the glenned, as he tells us in his preface, from,

The Attorney-General contodd, that the time of the bankruptor, and that was the time

The letter of the Baron de Meritens to appearing to be instruments of manden op extensive perusal of Chinese light literature, defondanta were in the double capacity of Geto which we mest loot Justion Byles in the a-chun, trees of the Yan-shing-tang brothel. Commerce, is a most extraordidary docament, than counterbalanced by the certain good. The This case was rented yesterday, and Kow the Chairman of tha Hongkong Chamber of pression, wo think the possible evil is more Ho has thus prepared a vocabulary which seral Agents and co-partners. Tas nerance same case and the credit must be such as stated she knew tai-ben. She came to the It would som pinin from the Baron's Canton gunboats are very usafidli will supply cre of the greatest wants which Office was a trading Company, and the first would neurally terminate in a debt--he did brothel on the 2nd October and left on the 16th statement that the Fineroy of Canton, and piracy; it would be a pity to impaga a valuable the student practically feola, In the course thing that sick one was that there was no nos any necessarily. Here there was not a of last month. She left with her mother. She Mr. Hart, are both averse to barrassing the force, unless in caso of glaring misdirection. of conversation with his teacher, for ganriple, nothing inngible in the way of serip or any actually did terminants in a debt. Justice Byles the girl to the brothel ; she never saw him basmodic bleekado under which it has so long dircelion, well

certificate or angiment of title to the abares, doubt that this would be the one, and that it did not know the defendant. He did not bring trade of Hongkong by the infliction of the If a cinck van de derised against such mia finds a new expression made use of; and thing wise to show the interest of a shareholder, impugned the authority of Youngy, the Bank fore if he naks the meaning of it, his teacher

bat a possible controlling nothing but the fact his name being Bengal, de being opposed to Bosa Y. Hart. give him three or four words and explain on bonus of mortore sig apecial In Alley, Gurney, however, it the said that defondant did a little business.

suffered. He promiseria a future letter to agency seems difficult to find. Inspector King stated he had found that the point out the author of the scheme, whom he their meaning in general, and often rathar mortgage or equitable ustigament teame imov, Harf did not conflict with Young v. the

bssarts to be an English enbject, and be refers Mr. Russell ordered defendant to find security to a letter, marked private and confidential,

SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR RACES, obscure, terme. On this, he gets to know the possible, except in the substitution of one Bank of Bengal La Eis. Hart it was laid in $50 to answer any charge for 3 months, written by one of the officials' in Hongkong,

(N. C. Ierall.) menning of the of syllables, and an of bank

In the bistory of mankind, the relations of which raises hopes of the realisation of projects superior to interior racts have ever been mat- SMART POLICE, thomas conveying a certain mean books of the Company. The mere fact that the the dividing point at which set-off tarminated. Gunda Sing, P.0. 420, was yesterday employ which are deemed impossible. This can only ters of moment to the progress, of the race; ing when they recur. Time, however, defendants are nocidentally General Agents Now the defendants had not been fired with ed in searching all the bathers foals. He induce inde, trade bin nach bin auto und even to the present moment it way be saldom

permita bis

at last came on ons with a bag of coals. induce Prince Kang to insist on the Viceroy of looked upon se a moot point whether that pro- By means of Mr. Stent's consequences of their position as partners, The Attorney-General remarked

which took the case out of the mutual credit records of the Court, J. M. & Co. appeared as aiozad, used stratagem to get alear, calling a co-barrass the trade af Hongkong by mous which graduat raising in the social scale of the leas vocebulary, ho can at once turn to the repre-choses. The first case ba should at on this the petitioning eroditore. sentation of the sound of the first character subject was Rose. Hart, which had been

ke passing to come to speak for him. The plainly called piration, and that Mr. Wade advanced tribes. It is the principal juation- Mr. Drummond aid that fact was not within good Samariton began" Bee-tow," which led the is auting under the advice of a Hongkong tien of war, that it results in the triumph of in English; and, if the expression be followed down to the present time. his knowledge.

held Sikk to suppoas he was the master of the official. Nothing else can be act, inach the strenger man at the oxpense of the weaker; Hia Honor said that as Mr. Keswick, who scale, so he let the other man run away, and a no Hongkong official has any authority over and as bodily and intellectual strength seam to ordinary one, bo will then at únga come upon There was also one which was peculiarly the Chinese characters, composing it, undar birding in this Colony, it won Privy had signed the Answer, was not here at the brought up the duped individual, who was of the Viceroy of Canton and Mr. Hart; no one ha correlated, it follows erratually that the which he will find its meaning. For example, Council care, Young the Bank of Benged. In time, it was probably not within his knowledge course discharged.

can make those functioneries perform an un- trinmph of the strong is only oue of the Buks to take the very ordinary exclaention of sor the former base. Ubiet Justice. Gikke laid it either. But it could be very easily proved.

CHAIR TRE.

palatable service except Prince Kung, and I is the advanea of civilisation. Rude as wore row, Ha-hei laou-pute, we find the first two mutual debts to constitute matual credit under-dence of the agreement.

down that there must be something more than. Mr. Drummond then proposed to call eri- The case of Miss Nellie Moora crime on fanoy no one can cause the Princato issue and the Gothe, the Hans, the Franke, the Tom syllables ou page 259, with the translation

again, and the defendant was not in attendance, instructions except Mr. Wade. 17108 | tho Aot; they must be auch erolite only ne J.A. Baretto, sworn, stated: I am book. bit acknowledged her default by, sonding np to

bards and the atter force peoples whose ir. I notice that the latter of the Baron do Meri-ruption into Earope destroyed the ancient alas," "lamentable"

tous above mferred to is dated the at Sent civilisations, wankind las on the whole bean on page upon that Lord Brougham, in the hitur cues, have been so ginen. 1862. I have been in the

On the day following, a meeting of the Legisadvantaged thereby. Attila, the Bourge of no help for it, devided that the oredite must neccemarily and employ of the firm nearly 31 years. I have had Fed-n-tan, widow, and Jose Silva, a watch-lative Council, the Chairman of the Chamber God," was so in a sense his historians, the linger the two combined giving a clearer idea oft all events terminate in a debt. Thus it ander my knowledge before 1801, and since was, wore charged before Mr. Russell with the of Voidinice, to whom the letter was nding remnant of an old and enfeebed civilis- the meaning of the expression than could be sued to be established at the original are. 1862 under my charge, the dealings between unlawful possession of a watob.

dressed, asked if there were any truth in the tion, little drmat; and his work was to plough it must be one which in its naters must ne. gleaned from endless discussion even with

the firm and Lyall, Still & Co. With reference Marcelina de Cruz stated she was a widow, statement that a copy of an official letter refor-up and leave fallow the exhausted sail of the Re- séngrily terminate in a debt. When goods, to the shivra the Triton and Canton Ineur living at Second-street, West Point. On the ring to the question of establishing & Obinese az Empire, which in good time would prodean intelligent teacher. comparatively

for instance, sore sent to a factor under an irance Companies, no special agreement was on 20th of December last, at about 5 am, the Custom House in Hongkong, had by some crop of civilisation as far in advance of that which The above expression was selected at rai revocable order of tile, it did not matter whe, tered into, bat the dividenda accruing from the wand up her watch and put it below her pillow. means got out from the Registrar-General'e went before, as this wanitself thead of the rade dous, being the first which occurred, but it ther they were actually converted into money Canton frain 1863, and the Triton from 1858, Tau Best defendent is ber amab, and was the office into the bands of the Chinese Custom culture of prehistoric man. Had not the Bomag forms a fair cxample of the convenience which before or after the bankrupter, because the ore have invariably gobe to Lyall, Still's credit in only person in the house. She did not get up House at Chaton. The Registrar-General is Empire fallen, and had not the country compo-. BALL & HOLTZOE KELLY this work must prove to students. Anyore, it must necessarily terminate in a debt. Here; account current. We sent copies of the debit sa she was sick. She went to sleep at 8.50, represented as becoming vehement and indig sing is been overrun by the rude, and strong even with a vory slight acquaintance with the however, there was an entirely different state of adcount to them once a year, and the dividends The sal was in the house. Slaa awoke at 12 want at the insinuation conveyed in the que armed and minded, tribes of the East, the ciri- language; will readily bosco causible of the things. This was a trading company, sulit were inpladed in them. The papers produced 'slok, and the amah was not in the baration, fully admitting the extatasos of such a do-lization of Burope at the present moment e hare was doing no doubt a very profitable business, are the copy of the account for long end aus das und so ask. bid by expressing his belief that they would not improbably have been of tho Practical value of the book, and as we

but still there were risks, and the accounts knowledgment in reply. (Documente putin.) dant came back about 3 o'clock, and she sat bind been sent away. I fail to so why Mr. Chinese type. In fact, online may be said to such SLECH good

that of Mr. Hart, and Mr. Mac demit the occafiotin to was sent de Lys, sail & kiowedge of it. The defendant, saw her put dignant on the subject. If he stinks & Chinese

as to the selection of wight in any year base termicated in a On one occasion, in 1866, a dividend warrant in od bar about the watch, but she denied all Smith should have become vehement and in have been retrogressivo even before the Goths pbrasca Is phereou, both intimately nequinted with of certainty about the matter which the Co, by mistake, and Mr, Gif brought it to my the watch below the pillow. She called a Custom House would be an advantage to the as that zot impossibly thoughts and sayings of the Pekin dialect, we can have little besi- cares cited showed to be necessary. It might offen, nnd said, "This has come to us by some policeman and gave har into custody. The Colony, he has no doubt good grounds for Aristotle and Plato would have ocniplad in tation m recommending this work as one be said that the profits would go in mistake: will you place it to credit of our no value of the watch was $12. The defendant has riving at sucks a conclusion, and he should pro-Westera thought, to the present day, the asme

kich should be in the hands of all who wishy the course of business to the dafundants sport ne usual po. I did so. 'rom the time I only been curployed about seven days. to master that dialect, and to acquire a haste there was no doubt of the debt. large debit baisnes against Lyall, Still & Ce

pound his scheme instead of lying into a position ns the classica maintain in Chinn deral agents, and that when they renohed know of the transactions tbore was always a First defendant and she went to wash clothsa; passion. Ho sa gambling legalised by The forsible sappassion of nuclent culture left critical knowledge of its idioms.

abe went out at about 10 o'aloek; the door was sanatory ordinance, and probably be thought room for a plant of more vigorous growth to Mr. Draminond continued his argument. Gen. The complainant was asleep, and she did a native Custom Honse would necellerate the spring up, as soon as men's miude began to Objection has been taken to Mr. Stent' But the answer to that was that at the ties the work liy a writer in the Daily News, on the predit was given, Lyall; Still & Co. and the de- referring to Smith's Beal and Personal Pro- not like to erovas hor.

fendants were co-partnere in the company, and perty, 654, with regard to equitable asgigamsot.

crisis, which his own good sense sad great settle down from the anarchy of the dark acquiring a knowledge of the pars Chi-and before the time when tuers gould be the bankruptcy, the debts were all founded on of the watch, He found a watch in No. 97,

Sergeant Williams winted ba went to the pericaco must bare opavinced him could be ages; and the superior activity of tho ground

of its being likely to deter students could have no legal claim one against the other: Although the profits sorted subsequently to pawnbrokers' shops on Saturday last, in seardhaty far distast.

new colonieta was shown by their comparative were language, and to instil into them too debt, first, the authority might be revoked a credit given previously, and were therefore Queen's Bond Cobtrul. He supposed it to be

independence of what had gone before. For much the peculiarities of one special dialect. there being no reason why Massa. Jardine, governed by it. On this point be referred to the complainants, and he took it to her, and ofthenyatem pursued in the control and manage-hair-splitings, did indeed bold captive the mind The affair forms a very forcible. illustration ontarios the school then, with their dialectic Without entering into the somewhat ab- Matendo. ebenld not have resignet or Hulme v. Mugglestone and Ruscid v. Belt.

Bave been removed from their position as Gene His Honor. M.-Go-might thon bava could find the person who pawned the watch, policy is obuped not by the rows of parliament numissive sort which marked the latter days she identified it. The pawnbroker told him he ment of British relations with China. Our of Europe, but the captivity was never of the struco question which is involved in

in the-con- sideration of what is puro Chinese, we may Agents), and secondly, the schoen might gone on sataining the dividends till they were and be pointed out the second defendant. cor by itsorders issued from the Foreign Office, of the Empire. From ontury to century, minds content, durselves with the

anve shown a loss, and therefore there would paid in fall? practical con have been nothing to get off

Tung-a-cheong atated he was a pawnbroker but by the hobbies of our representatives, which more active and energetic fretted against the Mr. Drummond enbmitted that they might. aideration that it is impossible to master

Eis shop is the Man Hing. The walob pro- being perfected in the dark, are never clearly bonds in which they had been placed, til at Hia Honor said if the Attorney General was His Honor asked if they had proved under duced was pawned by the second defendant on understood until they are achieved or nearly no. length in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Chinese as a spoken language independently going to make such a strong point of the de- tho bankraptor, and it appeared that they had the night of the 29th ultimo, about 7 'oluck. The unanimity of the merchants destroyed the they finally succeeded in emancipating thought Mr. Drummond then summarised bis argu- there was a Chines with him. The Obinose little game which the supplemental treaty from the shades whieh bad preriously re- lies between the Fankin and dialects, be'must have stroigar evidence of the fact. ment as follows: (1) They are reciprocal de came in with the watch. He would not take was designed to bring about, and the probabili-struined it, and established the modern civilisa as hose most generally understool. Pos- sibly the former would be the more deals were shureholdere in both companies, bat and on the authorities are within the manual who was outside onme in and said the wateb resprot to this Castom House scheme, should a all the phases of this civilisation is the bigh Mr. Drammond admitted that the defond manda which would naturally result in debts, the watch from the Chinese, and the defendantty in that the same effost may be produced with tion of the world. Strangeat, perhaps, of sirable on some grounds;

not as a fru, All the defendanta beld shares oredit clause. (2) All staima may be set-off ra. was bia. He gave him four taels on it. but experience

similar unanimity continue. That Mr. Wade position assigned to mental over mere bodily as individuale. proves that a

The Attorney General said there ware two agreement amounted to an equitable nesigndaced was hera. On lont sourdey afternoon of Hongkong to be a reproach to England, and European races his scarcely, if at all, degane aulting from a credit given previously. (3) The Complainant, recalled, stated the watch pro conscientiously and firmly believes the Colony activity, Although the bodily atamin of the sound knowledge of Pe- kinese is for ordinary purposes as useful ways in which such a credit might be set up. ment of the shares. (4) The authority was not about 8 n'alock, the defendant came to her eyesore a Chine, is no secret. 10 ay be rated from the standard of the conqueror of A great service is therefore done if the It might be considered as arising from the moro revonable, or at all events was not revoked. hose to visit a woman called Guilhermink right ia bia conclusions, and be certainly should the Roman Empire, the tendency it daily to

acquiring ons dialect thoroughly fact that the defendants weretheral Agents; With regard to costs, be contended that an so here so two roots in the house. Gilker not be blamed for arriving at the convictions depend less on physical and more on m are improved; and there can be no doubt and must receive the money, or na depending large a portion of the claim that for the mins lives in one of them. The second prisoner to which his reasoning leade him. I question force, and in no respost is this tendency note We give in another column a very sensible that Mr. Stent's work, is an important ne. the course of business between the two firme. Larges) had been abandoned, the defendants is in the habit of visiting her; she saw him however the propriety of bia-acting diplomata marked than in the treatment bestowed on less

quisition in

dally on those convictions without the express powerful tribes. While in the old world the article which has appeared in the N. C. Daily assuming form in which an immense double position, as general agents of the Doma-and if dibareise, the decree abould not carry had nothing to do with the watch.

this respect. Considering the Messi. Jardine, Matheson & Co. occupied a were entitled to costs if they were successful, thero one day before.

Firat defendant said she had nothing to say action of the Foreign Secretary- News upon the subject of the Custome amount of the most valuable knowledge is Co. It was not pretended that Lyall, Still's

pany, and as a firm dealing with Lyall, Still & costs:

The legalisation of gambling in Hongkong was to ornish out nad supplant the inferior, the cain use of the superiority of the high races cruises under the command of Europeans. put forward, the work being merely styled a debt was due to the Insurance Company, bat aurance business nothing could be due in the heroins, and the pawnbroker came and saw him the Secretary of State for the Colonias did not elevate them to the higher standard. The Ar The Attorney-General replied. In an In- Second defendant said he was visiting Chi is really another case in point. It is true that tsudency of modern practice is to azido Tour to The question, as our contemporary leerves, to subject it to severe scientific criticism, in the property had been realised, and the whole No dividend could be dealsited till all outstand

ccabulary, not a dictionary," it is unfair to Jardine, Matheson & Co, and it was not till nature of a debt till all claims had been settled. there. He did not take the water.

disallow the sanatoryordinance which contain-yan races who first settled in India for instance, is undoubtedly one of some difficulty, and we which, sc far as the Chinese language is con-affairs for each year wound up and balaseeding policies and fallen in. It could not be doubt whatever about the watch being pawned that I heard Lord Granville himself say that the ancient peoples with whom they came in Tung-chcong, recalled, stated he had aced the venom, but I am ready to affirm on oath spent their vigour in endeavouring to supplant are called upon to treat it, like many other cerned, the best authorities are widely teen & Co. to Lyall, Still & Co. Taen the mand, and it did not reach that form till the taken on the enbject. He was dreano exact the Lake of Buckingham in the matter, and gained a footing in that great peninsula exbanats that this could become a debt from Jardine, debt until it reached the form of a cross de by the second defendants he could not be mis. Sir R. MacDonnell had completely misled content; but the Aryon mee which now has matters in Chius, rather upon grounds of ex-verizea. Mr. Wade's pediency than upon any very definite priaci-perfect representation ng may not be & Jefendants said, when the affairs were mound accounts were all eattled and a sam declared at he was now.

Hounds, 18 izi fact

that His Grace was much annoyed in consell the means in its power to influence them in up at the year's end then that became a debt. the ingenious

payable to the partners. Now the first of theag H. Rodrigues, usher in the Ceart, atated he quence. Hin Ilonor aaked whatber that would not be sia did not become payable till Jane 1867, koew the prisoner. On the 26th of December

the path of progress. Instead of ruthlessly know es

However, all the scheming, contriving, and destroying and extirpating, it-andeavours to

• debt at Common Law,

sad the bankruptcy was in May 1867. As to laat he employed the defendant and three others plotting in which our humanitarian and expe- rula on principles of abstrsot justice; and in- The Attorney-General said it would.

Huinia Mugglestone, and Russell, Bell, to watch some houses. The defendant waerimental diplomials at Peking have been stead of governing with a high hand, it score His Honor said the winding up was a disso-be bad conceded the point argued from watching No. 6, Albany-street. On Friday morn practising sizce the corelusion of the last war, to make the subject races happy and content Intion of partnership.

true J. H. & De. in the Common given previously

them. The only focus afandi that hie learned ing about 7.80 defendant came to his bouse and seems destined to defeat their own anda. 1 with a system which ensures to such individual The Attorney-General agreed. Each partner friend could have would be that the oredit was

told him that some boxes had been taken from learn on good anthority that great apprehen- the lurvest measure of private freedom and bourse of on account stated. Until then, he did not say which credis he relied on, to the same bone. He was at the bound watab Obina is imminent, and that the Mandarins reault of the trial, time alone can tell, whether to the bankruptcy. But the house he was watching. He told him to go sion arists in high quarters that a rapturo with pubito well-being What is to be the nltimate Ar bent on fighting. It is thought, in a very higher rase will, by contist, become lewar remedy that one partner had against an- whether on the fate of J. M. & Co. being ing at 3.30. other was a simple remedy in Equity. A Cor-General Agenta, and thereby raising a predit in

First defendant was discharged Second doeborn time, that trades will be restricted to towards the standard of the inferior, whether

Mt. F. ALOAR, Clemente Lane, ... GEO. ST&URT, 30, Chunhill

Messra. TÜNEL & CO.

BAT, HENDY &.00.

obants' Exchange.

San Francisco, Mr. L. P. Firenze Nao York... Messrs. 5. M. PRITINGILL & Do.,

37, Park Row.

BIRTH.

At Pagoda Auchong, Focchow, on the Jth December, ulto,, the wife of 11. 1. MEADE, Esq. V.L.M. Quatome Service, of a Sou,

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menced on Wednesday morning at 10.15, art cls last of a distant choice for general purposes fendants being shareholders in the company,

The delivery of the Daily Press from this pics com-

naman gure, Inft the affios si 10.35.

1 The Daily Press.

Hongkong, January 4th, 1872.

means of

ple. That our utmost endeavours to cure all spelling, excepting

system of Mr. Tasc

diction;

maite, left Saigon for this part on the 31st ul- The M. M. ateamor Peko, with the Home limo, at 3 p.m.

F.

SUPREME COURT. IN CHANCERY,

BEFORE THE Hon. Juezon BALL

& Da.

cool year.

His Honor suid be should bare thought, so

BURGLART.

KIDNAPPING, FR-

"HOW AFFAIRS ANROAD ARE MANAGED.

THE "MAGHILA" ENQUILE. The Magora court martial in nob quite or A faint attempt has been made to attach blame to the officers of the ship, for not discovering the absence of cement on the part of the bob tom where the large leak basarred. Captain Thrupp has been calind on for his defence, but

CUSTOMS ORUISERS. (N. G. Daily News.)

Mongol or Manche, bras become, absorbed in the millions by which it has found itself catround- melted away in a few generations, yet the result ed. The vigour of Mancha or Mongol has

to China has nearoely been less disastrous thum the Gothio invasion of Europa. The Taiping rebellion caused perhaps early as wooh per sonal misery as the invasion of Italy by Attila, yet its effects have already almost passed away. The followers of the Tion Wang wanted tha mentol vigour of those of Attila; they produce all the ill conseqence of the former, but failed in celnvigorating the national life.

YOKOHAMA,

репар the evil of foreigners employed on the Phonography, has hitherto proved; and many boats becoming mixed up in intercal disputes of the expressions given by Mr.Stent may not in China would be likely to fail in some the most elegant forms of Chinese degree, so long as they were short of the LAY- but the former can be andemtood with a Ogonne scheme, which aimed at practically little trouble, and the latter embrace only taking the command of their own vessels out sentences which every student will hear from of the hands of the Chinose, we are free to his teachers, and from others with whom he era in whom he admit; but still means might be found comes into contact, so soon as he knows the pany that we wound up from year to year was their favour, or on the so-called arrangement fendast sent to three montka hard labor for an Hongkong and Shanghai, and that the lesson tbo superiority of ita mental, vigour will ched the evil to some extent, not in the guagis to a moderate extent. Thus we totally different from a Company which went for passing the dividenda to erodit of earrent lawful possession, and pawnbroker to give up taught by the Isat war will bava to be learnt still place it at the band of the path

have done for us, in a convenient and well on without winding my, for with the latter a secount. He thought the Brat ground was not the watch on payment of $5.55.

All over again. I was noured that house proof progress. are the great questiour to direction of taking the command away from considered inaoner, what, but for such aid, custom might arise. It might be anit that tenable.

perty at Shanghai mad at Hongkong had c Tam--sing, onemployed, was charged on mutually already improved in value in anticipation effectually take the place of physical cocrgy, a

bo worked on the Chinese, but by enforcing the provision every student would have to do for himself

they had always been given a lien on one piece

It rental vigour can in the Britisty Order in Council with regard and so far from our wishing to see works of property But where it was wound up every fine aa be bad-beard that srugment, that the vicon of having stolen a gold watch and obsin, of impending hostilities.

great future may be in store for the world." J€, to British subjects taking service either with this kind, and upon this principle, diminished ear, and the deposite carried on to credit in first of their being General Agents operated alued at $200, and three boxes of sigers, value $37.50, from the premises of Mr. H. Lowook,

civilisation will werken the bodily and with it the new concern, the Canton Ingrance Uom-] the other way.

on the contrary, contact with a lower state of in number, we believe that the production pany of 1864 was not the Canton Insurance or against the Emperor of China in internal of similar vocabularies to that of Mr. Stents Company of 1865. If you were an insurer in with regard to the angoud ground, if L. 6. & Oo,

The Attorney General thought sa ton. Then on the night of the 16th November,****

the mental rigour of the Argan race, it may be Mr. Henry Lowcock stated be lived at Ole

that another dark age will yet have to super- disputes, with some severity, and if possible for the other leading diolenta will greatly the Company of 1864 your claim would be hed disputed the propriety, right, or enstora, of analy. On the morning of the 17th November

vena before the problem in worked out in its inducing other nations to adopt the same facilitate the study of Chinese for practical against une set of shareholders, and if in 1865 passing the dividends to their credit in an inst, on getting up, he found that his house

entirety. The various oscuratore of u in its measure. The Orler in Council provides purposes; and will also afford informationthat against another, and though, the name was the account against themselves, they would have bad ban burglariously entered. The drawing.

more vigorous tribes scarcely afford an instance that any British subject who takes been too partial to upset scientific scholars, who often find it difica!t / were distinct companies. Therefore no custom of creditore disputed it, it was a different! this means a bolt was drawn - which opened the witnesses or not. It ëooms that Mr. Rocd the ancient civilisation; and race after race, part in "buy operation of war in the to combine with a critical knowledge of thecould grow up from your to year, and it became question. J. M. & Co. must then show that they do the dout in question is always Fust oned surveyed the ship in 1866. That he reported service of the Emperor of China against actions between p's and b's, and d'a and t'a, essary for J. M. & Co, if they claimed and taken steps to protect their own interests, at night. From the drawing-room some one her plates to be thin, and mail that by patching any persous engaged in carrying on war, in an ability to give a clear order to a bousoradit in any contrast, to show a distinct con. But they admitted that nothing was ever done must have got into, bie bedroom, the door of op he could be made safe for a year or the to give them a huld over the shares. It stands which was open. From his dressing table was There will be a terrible row in the Rouse about surrection, or rebellion against the Emperor boy, or to write a chit upon an ordinary mat- His Honor said be understood the attorney to reason that J. M. & Oo, would not pay to stolen his gold watch and gold chai, The the affair, of China" shall be able to a fine not ex-ter of business.

General's argument to be that 1.8. & Co's not ] L. §. & Cɔ, their debitora, moneyɑ coming into witch was "of plain gold, with the initials ceeding $5,000, or imprisonment for a term

chjecting to J. M. & Co. retaining the divided their hands for then, but they were not there "B. L" on it. The chain in gold and pla not exceeding two years. This was designed

in 1864 did not stop them from saying, "Poy fore to be in a better position than the other tinam, with a jade stone ornament and a gald us our dividend for 1865,”

creditors. They bad done nothing to protect safe key and gold watch key attached. The to avoid the irregularities resulting from

The Attorney-General said that was precisely their own interests, and simply took advantage whole ralne of which is about 8200. Besides

The wisdom of allowing foreigners to com. Lia contention. irresponsible persons interfering in the in-

Moreover, when the Official of the fact that they received money which these things, three boxes of cigars were and the Customs Revenne cruisers at Dan. Assignee claimed on behalf of the general body any other firm might have received. Equity removed from his room to the drawing-room, tua, has been questioned lately in the South. terual disputes of China, and this mischief!

of creditors, they would not plead set of burmuir demands that the utmost vigilance should he and there the bores opened, and the contente There are two sites to the question. Any ea- is unfortunately brought about, though not

show such an irrevocable hen on the shares as need where one creditor is seeking an adran apparently: had been rolled up in one of the deavour, on the part of the Obinase, to sup. to so great an extent as contemplated by the

would form a credit within the meaning of the tage over other creditors. A general practice holland chair covers, which was missing. A press piracy and uphold right rule and order. bankruptcy laws. Again, these debts were not bad grown up, but that practice did not, when dispatch box, which had been locked, had been deserve eneursgeisent and support; the framers of the order, still to a degree that is

in the same right, and this was absolutely es- the smash came, give Jardine, Matheson & Co. removed to the drawing-room, sad there prized standers belonging to the Viceroy of Canton

The Japan Mail notices what it designates, highly undesirable by the action of the so- 8. Hujam, Official Assignee in the bankruptcy sential to create a mutual credit, The stock the right to advantage over the reat, when they open. The contents had been examined, sud & useful means to this end, and any ald and what doubtless is, an astonishing step

of Lyall, Still & V., v. Jardine, Matheson was vested in J. N. & Co, for particular pur- had not protested their own interests.

found to be in a disturbed state, but nothing that we can isad bit to take them eficient, is in advance," in the fut that several young called revenue cruisers under the orders of

pases, directed by the Company's memorandua the Provincial Authorities. There are con- The Acting Attorney-General, instructed by or deed of partnership. The parpass was no brought before..

His Honor asked why this oase had not been taken away. The value of the pigure was about rightly due. The question is whether the Japanese Ladies of rank are to proced to $37.50. There are but a few cigars of the suze ships are always used for such commendable America for the purpose of pursuing a couras stant disputes at a distance from the capital Drammend, instracted by Mosers. Caldwell and individual shareholders, But they were to col- the ones had to stand-over till the ap-ean be casily identified.

Mr. Bharp, appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. doubt in the long run to pay it over to the The Attorney-General explained that all make to be found in the colony, and the cigar purposes as appressing piracy and quelling a docation. This, it adds may be tes iniquitons insurrection. The offers command- corai÷oment of a movement fight with which are not recognised as insurrections, Brereton, appeared for the defendauta

Case reminded kill the 9th inst. leet and divide the moneys, not as creditors pead in Mr. Lyall's bankruptcy had been

ing are very much at the mercy of the win vest consequences to the country, and too but which are often connected with wide The plaintiff sought to recover certain divi-of L. S. & Co., bat as partners in and heard. The Chief Justice would not allow the

darinu; they canunt know truly the merits of much circumspection In regard to it cannot be dends and profits which had fallen due cu Lyall, managers of this concern. Therefore the debts costs to go on lest the bankruptcy should be.

The ease of Yip-a-on, who was acones of the quarrel they enter on; and it has been used. If the education sought and obtained is spread opposition to the established order of Still & Co. a shares in the Cartan and Triton and eredita were not by any means in the same tigses. Que when in 1899. It was upusid, the having kidnapped one Yip-n-yeo and tohon him questioned in Hongkong, whether they are not of a solid rind, this step may lead to a obangs things, to put down which the local autho Insurance Offices, of which the defendants were right, which was fatal to the applicability of cusce prosceded. Au to ooste, be thought that to Maman, and sold him to a branche Daily Prase mentions a enge in which they which will have more to do with its advance in sometimes made instruments of oppression. in the social condition of woner in Jupers, rities are very glad to call in the aid of General and Special Agents respectively. auch the auntual credit clansas; and without the mouthis was a case in which they should follow the use on warn yesterday. foreigners in foreign built guyboats, with defendants to the liquidation of the debt of fearnos ostasel then cited Nowrojee, the Char-ference to the burgee.

dividenda and profits baving been applied by the tual crodit olmages there was no case. The decree. No costs had been incurred with Hang in the Sun-on district. He heard on the by the erection of a custom house to enable the named.

Yip-chan-lam stated lis lived in Tai-shin were sent to put dosa an insurrection, caused civilization than almost any other that could be however, such resulta is the form of Angen-Lyall, Still & Co. to them at the time of thetered Bank of India, and Ailey. v. Qurney, to

31st of last mouth that his grandson, che com mandarin to levy taxon of whose collation the The xbove paper obronicles a disturbance of dering animosity on the part of the people bankruptcy. The Bill raised a question show that a credit within the meaning of the

plainant, bad gone to Mação, as an emigrant. people strongly disapproved,' Unqueation a rather serious nature which ban token place regarding sous bargsa Forderly belonging to et aruld only be such a one se cat in ita Es we have already pointed out; and it is to Lyall, Still & Co., but as it appeared from the suture terminate in a debt. In reply to a ques; graph of the Bill (which do not include the went to Macao), and went to the barracoons and ference was to be deprecated. The Chinese miles from Hiogo. The farmers and peasants, The dividends, &o., specified in the 12th para-He came to Hongkong, sud on the Sud, heahiy this is a chaen which thair inter at Ikono in the Province of Tamba, about fifty Aarer that the defendants had a distinct lien tion from the learned judge, the Attorney-Ge 3519.61) are as follows:→→

as the emigranta, and he there found his would not discriminate between foreign steam for reasons not exactly understood at present, upon them for sucneys advanced to Lyall, Still seral referred to the argument on demurrer in

grandach. He was asked if be wanted to ge, era, owned by their own viceroy, and foreign mado e endßen attack upon the official quarter show that a were local dispute between a abandoned this part of the case, remarking that Jardine, Matheson & Co, in which the Chief

Co. in respect of them, the Attorney-General this Court in the case of Kressor and others v. Juno, Final Dividend and Roserved

ard be said, “Do!” He was told to pay $1.50 steamers the property of foreigners. The of the district. The offuera of the Government Viceroy or Footai and sono refractory dis the Official Assignee could only go upon the stics had allowed the demurrer to the plea

third on the Firm's thres

for food for the time that the complainant was reseal is foreign, the commander is forsigt; fed and the rioters barnt their dwellings. A abares in the Cauton In-

thera. He paid that saw. He returned to and possibly, as the Daily Press rather strongly coal or copper mine of some importance in the trict was such a disturbance in Clins as is evidence, and in the bankruptcy Mr. Maclean of mutual credit, without however giving the

sarance Office, 1865

Hongkong on the 24th of last month. The computs it, "the foreigners thus engaged would be neighbourhood was then attacked. Two contemplated by the provision; but practi-had made a mistaken stutenent with regard to grounds for allowing it. The learned counsel Sept. 18. Triton Fumeunes Company, plaimant pointed out the prisoner on the 27th looked on as the hired bullica of the manda- Frenchmen working in it barely escaped with

Fewarked that the case had been elaborately cally such disputes are of great significanca The Attorney-General then add-ased the argued by Dr. Fauncelote and bimaolf, and

1866, Figal Dividend and

December. His grandson did not tell him who riza,and a very bitter feeling prepartioned their lives, and the viciora, kamt-all the build. Reserved third on the

had taken him to Mesa Ho molded him for to the hostility felt nyainst the mandzrite înge belonging to the works, destroyed the Coast en the remainder of the plaintiff e case. they both claimed the victory, but as they did

Firm's one share for 1885,

going. He said he knew the man who took themselves, would be engendered. The action machinery, and left the place a wreck. The Lya, Still & Co. held certain shares in the not know which side it went to, the decision.

Rs 285.12.7 at 220 percent.

129,90 Sim; he induced him to go with him to Masao. of the monitarios may have been right. or neighbouring authorities sent troops to Oanton Inatrasos Office, of which the defend- was now under appeal

Oct 31, First Dividend su'the Firm's

Inspector Stroud stuted the complainant and pay barte been wrong. We bare so means of the spot, ants were General Agents, end also in the

seventy of the malcontent His Honor said he was asking ábat notice

three shares in the Canton

two or three other mon brought the defendant judging but tho multipliation of taxing ata were apprehended, and riot was quellad Triton Lasurance Office, of which the defend to the defendants of the not of makeupty in ants were Special Agents here. The balk of the December, 1866,

Insurance Office, 1866

to the No. 7 Station, Thers was no constable tions is dontrary in prinsiple to the policy but amab Jamage has been done, and the ar

which we desire to inculcate ; and any partici- rounding country is more or less exsited. There' dividends and profitë now claimed accrued dug The Attorney-General said the amount affect.

Ching-a-sam, a abresti cookie, gave evidence of pation by forciguera, in measures designed to have been some few disturbances in the country seeing the complainant and four others, cfimpose naz egasezen on an unwilling people, is elsantere, bat, ne fur ma is known, they have whom defendant was one go into a boat on the to be regretted. It is suggested, aren, that the not assumed any importance. They may be 16th December..

junke against which the notion of the steamers traced entirely to the Dacres of the PRL. Aug. Defendant was sent to three months bord is direofed, may emetimes be not pirates, but The common people do not yet anderstand the labor.

traders resisting a squeze, The difficulty is, conversion of the Han luto Ken, and designing that they do not know, and cannot well get to men of the two-sworded class, who are them. Joka Gamm, a postmary bas just been.sen. know,

selves discontented, are only too glad to avail tended to five years' penal servitude for appro The point in a dificult one; for that themselves of the opportunity of telling the priating to himself letters that were antrusted commanders of Chiano gunboats should people that the Yodo Government base made in him for delivery. This might have been ex- claim to accept or refuse a task laid on them, this change in order to replace the officials of pected. The authorities should have remem- ja wext to impossible. The appearance of for the old Han by creatures of their own, who will bered, when they engaged bim, that it was no- eiga forse on an unpopular aids is to bo de-eusot new ordinances, and oppress them with 36664 thing bat natural for Gumm to stick to letters, precated, hit the viceroy could not tolerate that taxes and arbitrary exuctions. This is what

Horada

Į ble officers' should neglect bis orders because onased the recent riot to Goishin and in severa? DIFFICULTIES OF Liye-The Philadelphis | bhoy, seemed to them unfitting. The Daily parts of the Island of Shikele. Medical Tines gives the following as interest Press mys, Europeans are permitted to go An ingenious fraud was recently committed ing to many readere :-"Hell of all who live into the Comment rercane cruises, some steps upon the Custom House, in the following man- 295,45 die before 17. Only one person in 10,000 lives: should be taken to regulate the action of those ner. A quantity of Iodide of Potash in small to be 100 years old, and int one in 100 reaches - vessels, and to prevent our good name being es- bottles was entered, and duty at the rate of a 60, Tho married live longer than the single; dangered by our being constantly mixed up in quarter of a boo a bottle tenderal upon it. 2,25000 and out of every 1,000 born only 05 weildings putting down number of petty rebellions and The Custom House required: the value to be take place. Of 1,000 persons who have ranched risinga, and tans itereasing the strong enmity amended, and finally it was fired at four rios and 70, there are of clergymen, orators, and public of the factions whom we are instrumental in a half per bottle, at which rate duty was paid. speakers, 19; farmere, ; worksen, 38; sol-opposing and times oppressing." But this Tery shortly afterwards a further gonality was diers, 32; lawyers, 29; professors, 27; doctore, is, in subatance, very nearly a enggestion for re-entered and the same daty mquired by the 100.42 24. Farmers and workmar do not arrive at making the lamons Lay-Osboro, convention authorities. The paper refused to pay it, mui good old uge na ofion as alorgy men and plbers—that the ships should be ent of maudarin qvu- the Custom House arizal the gooda, paying for who perform no manud laheng; but this is trol. Unless cases come to light in which the them the value at which the previous parcel was owing to the neglect of the laws of health, inat-riceroy has notoriously misspplied him usessed. On erminativo it was found that 1,383,32 tention to proper habits of life in eating, drink torpeo, we think there is hardly room, the bottles contained a liquid of absolutely no

ing, sleeping, dress, and the proper care of for diplomatis interference. The craisers zre▼alue whatever. themselves after the work of the day is done. nominally Customs ernizers, and good deal of

this evil to which we desire to direct atten- tion. Of course it might be difficult to

in China, and it is undesirable that we should be mixed up in them. Atull events, it would be very desirable that furaiguers abould be prohibited from landing thair aid in all mats in which it is known that the business OD

which a revenus cruiser starts, is to put down an organization formed in opposition to the anthoritiek

REVIEW.

A Chinese and English Focabulary in the Pe-

kinese Dialect; by George Carter Blent, of the Imperial Customs Service.

Mr. Stent deserves ne high commendation

these barca_____

Judgment reserved.

1807.

1868.

pany, and Reserved third

after the bankruptcy of Lyal, Still & Co. The od by that question turned out to be so small May 31, First Dividend Triton Cons- small sum of $519 appeared by the Answer to ($519.81) as to be of little importance. He bava accraad before the bankruptcy in May would summarise bis arguments as follows: 1867, but after that which the plaintiff said was 1; The fact of Jardine, Matheson & Co, being an not of bankrapty in December 1860. Ita general agents did not miss a credit in.

on the Firm's one shara in the office, 1860, Ra. 774.80 at 220 por ocat.....

was angestionable that the general rule of law their furoar within the marving of the Act June 30, Final Dividend and Heserved was that money neuroing ans after the bank since it would not occasrily terminate in a ruptoy could not be the subject of so-off. The debt. (2) The practice which prevailed of pa exception to this was when there was any lining the dividends to current account did not given upon money amounting to a credit, and give any lien, as the Company was a fresh ons Sept.

third on the Firm's three abures in the Canion In- marance Office, 1866 15, Triton Insurance Company. Fint Dividend on one share, 1867, Rs. 800 at 220. per ceuk.......

for the ability with which he has oxcouted then it must be such a credit ne minst necesari-ach year, and would not be affected by the the above work as for the modesty with ly result in a debt. It then osme under the practice. (S) The mataal delta and credite which he fotroducesit to the publis. He bae mutual credit clauses of the Act, though still it were not in the same right. 14) The bredit, if worked up a new and most valuable prix could not be made a selec. non defendit ever had been given by Lyall, Stil & Co., was Mar. 16, Triton Insurance Company,

in the compilation of Chinese Dicate wished to set-off there dividends and pro-reseable.

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its.against their debt from Lyull, Still & ̈Øɔ,

Mr. Drummond then addressed the Court

He contended that the

clattoes. Ha should call evidence to show that there waa 411

which agresinent,

1969.

Second Dividend on one tionaries, and is entitled to that credit, cfted Before going further into the argent, te for the defendante.

share for 1957, Re. 650 at so scantily accorded, which is dus to the world enli Mr. Maclean to prove one or the credit given came within the malul redit Oct. 31, Firet Dividend on the Firm's

220 per cent........... who originate new and useful worke puinte:

threonhazen in Canton In- principle upon which Mr. Stent's work is G. F. Maclean, smora, studed: I was formerly based is extremely simple. Adopting Mr. purtzer in Lyall, Still & Co., who held tree though not in writing amemted to an

anrance Ufice, 1867...... .1869. Wade's system of orthography, he gives the sharea in the Canton and one in the Tritor In- most ordinary expressions in the Pekin dia sumace Office. With reference to the dividende equitable assignment of fue property. In the June 30, Final Dividend and Reserved

12th paragraph of the Bill the dividende, &o.. and ther the expressiona consist of two or more "pecial contract with Mesara. Jardine, Minthebe noticed that though they were only finally i

1955 UN Bʊn & Co., except. Ihat they were to pass to characters. In point of fact, he makes cor current account. There was no agreement that ascertained fo 1867, 1888 and 1869, yet they were dividenda and profits for years prior to tain combinations of characters equivalent to I know of that they were to be pisset to our what in European languages are words, other rent account, but as a matter of fact they were therefore prior to the bankruptcy. (This only the date of the bankruptcy. The debta adorned combinationa being equivalent to ordinary so passed. expressions,

of this kind in at- Cross-examined: The depcait res transferred Eplied to a portion of them.) Then with re tained by the to adopted by Wil. from year to year as the paid-up capital of the gurd to the one dividend of $518.81, he sup

The Attorney-General said he did not prava fiszas, bat it is not so completa, as the new office. There was so understanding that posed Lunt wild ut now be claimed rendering of a word into Chinese, when tea all the profits were to be transferred as they

for it. oraed due from Lysl Si) & Co, to Jardine,

or more characters are employed, can only be Matheson & Co. This whe always carried ou, Mr. Drammend proceeded to remark that found, and that not always, by looking for but do not recollect any specifio reference to it the Attorney-General bad represented the the leading character a work of thus, labour, By the Attorney Generul through the Courts authority given by Lyall, Still & Ox to the de

third on three shares in the Chanton Ingurunca OZ- Gicc, 1807 Canton Insurance Office, Re- faad of Deposit on three abarea in the office, aeaning Stat December, 1867 July 15, Triton Insurance Company,

Final Dividend and Re- taen Deposit, one share, office 1867. Re. 1,525 at 20 per pent...

$5,323.00

3,500.00

952.07

3,40.70

with them.

•

TEBO farmers or workmen eat a heavy supper responsibility in regard to their employment A Republican club has been formed in Nor. nu s anmaier's day, and sit around the doors in | falls on the Commissioner of Custome-who|wich. The promotors dinglarmy" any personal, 683.18 their shirt-stecres, and, in their ured condition must generally be able to got a fuir general hostility to the Queer, as a lady, but will en- and weakened circulation, are saily chilled, ides of the merita of a case in question, Clis deavour to apbstitute, by all lawful menna, a $16,300.63 laying the foundation for diarrhea, biliony nese officials bars a wholesome drand of dis Republican for a Monarchical form of govern, Esporre puplie, pasomonie, or consumption,"

terbance to drejte' commotion in their district' ment,