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AND

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DEATH.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, AUGUST 9TH, 1881.

offences of a serious character are of rare occurrence, and even at night time our streets and roads are per fectly safe; far safer in fact than the streets of London,

In the face of these facts, which can be proved on reference to our criminal statistics, or by application to any of the principal officers of our police, what inferences must be drawn? Is it not patent to every one who is willing to see straight, that the improved organisation of our police force, and the departure from the disgraceful brutalities of the past, to a rational and well do- vised system of punishments, inau- gurated by Governor Hennessy, has established peace and good order where lawlessness reigned supreme ?

·LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The general public will be interested,

and those of our readers who are be hind the scenes will be aroused to learn that Mr. Harry Wicking, Com- mission Agent and Morchaut, of No. 4, Club Chambers, has commenced an action against the printer and publish- er of the Hongkong Telegraph for pub- listing a so-called false and malicious

libel on the 2nd instant, damages laid

:

The steamship Ningpo which arrived this morning brought from Shanghai Mr. F. S. Gordon's well known racing pony Lord of the Isles, winner of the Scurry Stakes and Navy Plate at the last Hongkong Meeting.

The French gun-boat Adonis, 5, Commander Caillard arrived here yes. terday from Shanghai,

We rond in the Bombay Gazelle, that

an old P. & O. steamer the Golconda,

built at the Thames Iron Works in 1863 at a cost of eight lakhs of rupees, was sold by auction in Bombay on the 17th of May for Rs. 60,000.

The Newcastle Morning Herald says There is much in the speech of his Excellency the Governor at the opening of the second session of the Tenth Parliament of New South Wales which will assuredly commend itself to the general public, notably the para- graph which deals with the Chinese in. finx. Without in any way contributing

to what is known as "the Chinese scaro," wo think that the majority of our readers will agree with his Excellency that the immigration of many thou- sands of persons of one sex, entertain- ing views on religion, law, and social life entirely foreign to those of the British people, must be calculatod to

to India in the winter of 1875-6 necessi❤ intod his retirement. For two years he was Examiner in Constitutional History in the University of London, (1873-75). "In 1874 he contested Liskeard but polled only 329 votes, against 334 recorded for Mr. Horsman, but at the election which was held after that gentleman's death, Mr. Courtney gained the coveted seat Dec. 22, 1876, polling 388 votes against 281 votes given to his opponent, Liout-Col. Sterling. Mr. Courtney is an advanced Liberal, and in favour of the extension of the principle of proportional representation; and he is also in favour of an absolute security being given by legislation to agricultural tenants for compensation for their improve- monts. He has been a regular writer for the Times since 1861. In 1860 be publish- ed a pamphlet on " Dircet Taxation ;" and to the "Journal of the Statistical Society" (1866), he contributed a paper on the "Finances of the United States, 1861-67." He has been charged with appropriating the credit of Mr. M'Culloch's article on

an

Money," when writing for the last edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica" article on “ Banking." The fact is that he revised the article and brought it down to recent times, and that he never asserted

`or professed that ho had done otherwise.

LATEST COMMERCIAL

INTELLIGENCE.

Tuesday, August 9th, 1881.

One o'clock P.M.

A lot more bussiness was done in

at $1,000. The case will be heard in injuriously disturb the conditions of Docks after we went to press yester-

Snimary Jarisdiction on Friday. Mr. Jno. J. Francis has boen retained for

the defence.

We learn by telegram datod August 6th that Mr. Bradlangh has again been expelled from the House of Commons on the vexed Oath difficulty. A motion brought forward by his colleague, Mr. Henry Laboucbere, senior member for Northampton, that the expulsion was

At 130, Queen's-road East, on the night of the 8th illegal was negatived,

'inalat, Mrs. Elisabeth Leo, aged 60 years.

THE

Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 9TH AUGUST, 1881.

The public acts of a Government, to be fairly guaged for good or evil, must be judged by results. Placing absurd prejudices to one side, and viewing the question from the prac tical stand point which all sensible, men desirous of judging a case on its merits would adopt, it will hardly be denied that Sir John Pope Hennessy's almost entire abolition of flogging criminals, stands forth as one of the most successful measures ever introduced into the criminal procedure of this colony. We arrive at this result by plain facts, which require no elaboration to prove our

case.

it with the

We do not intend arguing from a humanitarian point of view, but will simply state what the condition of the Colony was a few years ago when flogging public flogging at the Harbour Master's Office was a daily occurrence, and compare present state of affairs, when public flogging has become a thing of the past, and flogging in private has been reduced to a minimum; so that the public may be enabled to see the results, the actual undoubted results which speak for themselves, of a policy which has been persistently and most unfairly vilified and con- demned by the local press, but which nevertheless has much to commend it to public approbation.

What was the condition of Hong kong some eight or ten years ago when all these so-called repressive measures were in full swing?" Crimes of a serious character were rampant throughout the Colony, and after dark it was absolutely dangerous to walk abroad unarmed. As we have

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With reference to the foregoing a

belief that such a wholessale introduc-

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Bank Bills, on demand,

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Credits, at 4 months' sight, ...4.73 On BOMBAY,

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On CALCUTTA,— Bank, T.T.,

On SHANGHAI,-

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SHANGHAI.

Tramways in Settlement.

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The following letter is ordered to be published :-

Shanghai, 16th July, 1881. Sie, Referring to your letter of the 12th instant, I have the honour to hand you herewith, in accordance with your request, a copy of the reply I have ad- dressed in the name and by order of the Consular Body to the Taobai with regard to the proposed Tramways in the Settlement.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servant,

FOCKE,

and Senior-Consul.

Chairman, Municipal Council,

Shanghai.

Copy.

Shanghai, 16th July, 1881. SIR, I bave the honour to acknow.

ledge receipt of your letter dated the 8th instant, requesting that the pro.. the settlement should be inhibited on posed construction of Tramways within account of the danger of accidents

Cabinet Council was to be held on the 6th to re-consider the Oaths question That immediate action in this direction statu quo, not a single offer having which would follow from the admission

Whatever may be Mr. Bradlaugh's religions convictions, ho has been twico fairly elected by the electors of Northampton, and it is the bouuden duty of the Government to respect and carry out the will of the electors, or to show good grounds, other than the hitherto been the means of oxcluding paltry legal quibbles which have from his seat in the House a legally elected member, why it is inadvisable that a professed atheist should be ad- mitted into the legislature

The Irish Land Bill has passed through Committee in the House of Lords. As it is aunounced that several ameudinents were adopted against the Government, it is likely enough that the whole object of the Bill has been defeated, by the captions opposition of our hereditary legislators.

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According to our evening contempo- rary the steamship Ping-on has been having a lively time of it lately. The China Mail announced on Saturday that "the Ping-on is lying at the Sands' Slip in preparation to bo docked" and last night that the samo vessel cane out of the "Cosmopolitan Dock yester. day evening." The steamer referred to has neither been on Sand's Slip, nor in the Cosmopolitan Dock. Dar contem porary does not favor the public with a sufficient quantity of interesting news, to condone for such gross inaccuracies as these, and the many other stupid blunders we are constantly pointing out.

society." They will also incline to the day, holders apparently wishing to tion of population must be attended get rid of the stock even at a sacri- His German Majesty's Consul General with serious dangers to the public fice, and the consequence was another health. The greatest proof of the latter great fall in the price current. At To H. R. HEARN, Esq., possibility is found in the fact that the 15 per cent premium a goodly num- late small-pox visitation was discov.ber of shares changed hands for cash ered to have had its origin in one of both yesterday afternoon and this the Chinese quarters of Sydney. In morning, and at the same rate for deed, it is very palpable that the fatal the end of the month, a good deal of effects of the above disease in the business was transacted. Buyers metropolis have had considerable in however were eventually stalled off, fluence in placing the paragraph res- and any amount of shares could be. pocting the Chinese in such a very obtained this morning at 45 for the prominent position in the Speech. 1st of September, Banks remain in the notice of motion given by the recorded the other day a rather large is to be taken may be inferred from been made since we last wrote. We Premier for going into Committee at once to consider the expediency of transfer of Hongkong Fires at $995 introducing a Chinese Immigration per share, and have now to supple- ment that with particulars of a few more shares which changed hands yesterday, at the same rate.

Steamboats are offered at $25 per share premium without finding pur chasers, and although a small lot of Sugars were sold yesterday at $160, the stock is very weak at that figure. Annexed quotations will explain the positions held by the various

Bill. When this is laid before the

tious opposition will be brought to Honse, it is to be hoped that no cap- bear against it merely for party pur- poses.

The adjourned inquest on the body of one Lau Akwan, reassembled at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon. The this affair were again present under a two men arrested in connection with police escort, and Mr. Mossop also appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of one of the prisoners. Several witnesses were examined, but their evidence related chiefly to the arrest of the two prisoners and threw no further light upon the circumstances attending the death of the deceased. The woman Yuen Awali, the first wit- ness, re-called again, declared that one of the two prisoners struck the

deceased on the head. She had no

doubt about it, but she was unable to say which man gave the blow. The jury ultimately found that deceased died of concussion of the brain caused by a blow, but they did not consider there was sufficient evidence to show that either of the two prisoners was guilty of the death of deceased.

Mr. L. H. Courtney, M. P. for Liskeard, has succeeded Mr. Grant- Duff as Undor Secretary for the Col

other stocks.

Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

per cent.

Corporation Shares-115; premium, Sellers. Union Insurance Society of Canton

$1,675. per share ex dividend. China Traders' Insurance Company's

Shares-$1,700 per share. North China Insurance Company-Tis.

1,125 per share. Yangtsze Insurance Association-TIs.

820 per share. Chinese Insurance Company, On Tai Iusurance Company, Limited

per share,

Tis. 148 share.

per

already crowded with a large traffic of of that mode of locomotion into streets other vehicles.

Your letter has been laid before a Consular meeting held on the 14th instant, and the arguments brought forward by you have been carefully taken into consideration as coming from the official representative of the interests of a large proportion of the population living in the foreign settle- ment. No definite decision with regard to the resolutions passed by the Rate- payors' meeting of the 11th instant in reference to Tramways has as yet been arrived at, but I have been instructed by my colleagues to assure you in the scheine should be carried into effect, meantime that in case the Tramway

ample provision will be made by the and to prevent the new institution Municipal authorities to secure safety

of the public and with the traffic in from interfering with the convenience

general.

I have the honour to be,

Sir, Your obedient servant, $305 His German Majesty's Consul-General,

FOCKE,

To Taotai Liu.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Company,

Sbares- $995 per share, Sales. China Fire Insurance Company's Shares

--$295 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Com- pany's Sharos-45, premium,

Sales & Sellers.

and Senior-Consul.

The following interesting abstracts of the Peking Gazettes, are taken from the columns of the N. O. Daily News:

The steamship Lennox was undocked onies. The following sketch of the Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam- enumerates the steps that have been

at the Cosmopolitan Dock this morn- ing, hor place being taken by the Welle and the P. and O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Adria.

The last named was towed ovor by the tug Saada last night. The Siamese barque Fortune came off the Slip this morning.

We are informed by Lieut. Friend, B.D., Clerk of the Course, that the Subscrip tion Griffin movement for our next races promises to prove. aut unproco dented success. No-less than 28 ponies have already been subscribed for, and

doubtless that number will be ma- torially incronsod, before the list is

already stated, the flogging post daily witnessed scenes, enacted under the protecting arm of the law, which for cruel brutality vied with the horrible degradations of the worst days of Negro slavery and. Russian serfdom:

What is the condition of Hong closed. It has been currently reported kong now, when the enlightened that the donors of the German Cup principles of advanced statesmanship intoud confining the race of the most have been brought to bear upon ing to Subscription Griffins, which, if what was a disgrace to our modern true, would satisfactorily account for civilisation? Of petty crimes we have the large number of subscriptions al- still plenty, and always will have, but ready received.

new Under-Secretary is taken from Men of the Time: —

Courtney, Leonard Henry, M. P., oldest

son of Mr. John Sampson Courtney,

banker, of Penzance, Cornwall, by Sarah. daughter of Mr. John Mortimer, of St Mary's, Scilly, was born at Ponzance. July -6, 1832, He was educated at the Regent

House Academy in that town, under Mr. |

Richard Baines, and afterwards privately to a memoir of him in "Men of the West, under Mr. L. R. Willan, M. D. According he was for some time in the bank of Messrs. Bolitho, Sons, and Co., in which concern his father is a partner. He went to St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1851, and graduated B.A. as Second Wrangler in 1865, being bracketed First Smith's Prize-

man. In the following year he was elected

a Follow of his college. For some time he was engaged in private tuition at the bar at Lincoln's Inn. He was appointed university. In 1858 he was called to the

in 1872 to the Chair of Political Economy at University College, London, and held that professorship, until a longthened visit

boat Company's Shares-$25 per share premium. China Coast Steam Navigation Com- pany-Tis. 162 per share.. Hongkong Gas Company's Shares

$82 por share. Hongkong Hotel Company's Shares-

$110 per share, Sellers, China Sagar Refining Company,

June 18th.(1) A decree issued by Her Majesty the Empress Regent. Li Hung-chang has submitted a memorial in reply to Our commands, in which he taken at one time and another to keep in order the waterways of Chihli. The water system of the metropolitan province, he states, vitally concerns the interests of the Empire and the people, and year after year measures have been taken to maintain its effici-

gradually undertaken at points where Liency, important repairs having been China Sugar Refining Company (De- of these works, however, is so great

mited-160 per share, Sales.

they were most needed. The expense bentures)-3 per cent premium. that nothing has been attempted on a Hongkong Ice Company's Shares-wholesale scale, and a review of efforts

$127 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & China Bakery Company, present time this work can only be ac- in past yeare convinces him that at the Limited-$435 per share.

complished by gradual stages. Wo

Chinese, Imperial Government Loan

of 1874-(Nominal). Chinese Imperial Government Loan,

of 1878 (Nominal).

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command the Prince of Kung and the

Prince Ch'un to consider the circum-

stances in concert with Tao Teung- tiang and Li Hung-chang, and to take such steps from time to time as shall What is tho want that may be appear to them bost, after due delibera.

tion, "felt"? The want of a hat.