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to Killa Abdulla. The other four companies are in camp on the Kojah. A wing of the 9th Bombay Infantry and two squadrons of the 2nd Sind Horse marched at the same time,

Simla, 2nd, August, Ayub Khan enterod Kandular on the 30th July. His infantry and guns are in the citadel, and his cavalry in the cantonment Before his arrival aincteon Sowars and Hazaras were

murdered in the streets by the Afghan populaco,

Shamsuddin Khan is reported to have been taken prisoner, but this re- quires confirmation.

- Simla, 4th August. The report of Shamsuddin's capture has been confirmed. Ho was made prisoner by Kabuli soldiers when they saw themselves deserted by their Com- mander. It is not known whether Kazi Sundeen has escaped or not. The report of nineteen persons having been mutilated in the Kandabar streets bas boon douied. The city and country are now said to be quict and tranquil. All is quiet about Pishin.

Simla, 5th August. Ayub has formed two regiments out of the Amir's troops who went over to him. A party of horse is stationail at Takht-i-Pul, 25 miles south of Kanda- har, to guard the road and examine the travellers. Road unguarded between Takht-i-Pul and Chaman.

Simla, 6th August. Farther accounts of the action at Karez-i-Atta have been received. At Chaman it is said that at the beginning of the fight the right wing of Ayub's force was completely defeated and dri- ven off the ground, and that some of his baggage was plundered. The de- fection of the Khanabad regiment de- cided the day, Sirdar Muhammad Hashim Khan has been made Gover nor of Kandahar. All is quist there and about Chaman.

Simla, 8th August.

All reported quiet in Kandalar. The bulk of Amir's infantry eventually joined Ayub after the battle, and ac- companied bim to Kandahar. Two days later a complete regiment desert- ed during the night and went off to Kelat. The remainder of the Kabuli troops are kept in the city and closely watched..

Ayub Khan is said to be distribut. ing the men of the Kabuli regiments among his own infantry, and to have disarioed and dismissed 400 Kabali soldiers.

A Drani Chief with some sowars was sent by Ayub to take possession of Celat-i-Gilzai, but finding a number of the Amir's troops collected thero, the Chief returned to Kandahar,

Simla, 19th August.

All remains quiet in Kandahar, though some discontent is reported among the Baranis on account of for. cible enlistments, and the close search being made for arins with which Ayub Khan is said to be be badly provided.

Reinforcements are said to be ou their way from Kabul to Kelat-i- Ghilzai.

Simla, 11th August. Ayub Khan is said to have invited voluntary contributions from the mer- chants in Kandahar, and it is reported that a rogular assessment will be made. Old soldiers are being re-enlisted. All remains quiet within our border, but thieves are giving some trouble just beyond it.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold muracives responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspunicnts}.

THE TELEGRAPH" LIBEL CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

SIR-You will permit a friend to offer you his congratulations on the manner in which you have accepted a verdict which public opinion appears to consider con- trary to the weight of evidence laid before the Court. The article on Monday's Tele- graph is conclusive evidence of your bond fides in everything connected with recent proceedings, and from its manly tone will no doubt gain upon many friends. Per- sonally I appreciate the motives which evidently influenced you in acting so hand- somely towards your late opponents;" but I fancy your generosity was entirely un- called for, and number of my acquaint- ances, with whom I havo discussed the pros and cons of the caso agree with me.

Do not consider me impertinent, but your line of defenco, although straightforward enough, was not judicious. Very probably you considered that you had sufficient evi- denes to fully and practically substantiato your right, from statements made to you by independent witnesses, to submit to tho

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd, 1881.

public the inferenges contained in your article. Your principal witness proveil, as the Judge remarked more than once, an unwilling witness, and no doubt he was. Unless you were quite curtain of proving collusion between the persons named (which 1, taking a legal view of the onses think you netuilly did, so far at least as the plaintiff was concerned, and that was all you wanted to prove), your proper course would have been to plead that if your article was defamatory, it was pub- fished without actual malice or gross neg-

ligenes, what you had written was justi-

fied under the cirenmstances and was sub- stantially true; that you were willing to publicly withdraw the conspiracy infer- ences, which were not, as a matter of fact, intended as a definite charge, and that you had paid into court S10 which was enough to satisfy the plaintiff's claim.

think you could obtain a rule for mis- direction by the judge; bat on the grounds that the verdict is against the weight of evidence, and that in consideration of the finding without mulice the amount of dama ges awarded is excessive, you would pro- bably succeed in obtaining a rule for a new trial.

Union Insurance Society of Canton-

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

North China Insurance Company-Tis. Shares-$1,600 por share, ex. div

1,125 per share, Yangtsze Insuranco Association-Tls: The case is a vory interesting one to that 380 per share. portion of the public which admires indo-Chinese Insurance Company, pendence, and who happen to be nequainted with the actual difficulties you have had to contend against in establishing your

newspaper, and 1 would therefore really like to soothe issue fought out fairly to the end.. I believe I-am betraying no sceret in stating that a number of the admirers of your straighforward conduct intend publicly presenting you with the amount you have been cast for as daniages and costs, to show their opinions on the case; and if you decide to appeal, and will conduct your caso personally I will

gun- rantee, in the dvent of failure, that the whole of the expenses will be paid for you. Apologising for trespassing at such length on your valuable space, and enclosing my card,I am, Sir, yours, &e.,

AN-ADMIRER OF FAIR-PLAY. Hongkong, 1st September, 1881. [We are very grateful to our correspon- dent for his well meant advices and good wishes. We have, however, no in- tention of appealing against the verdiet already given. Not that we have any doubt as to the ultimate result, but

simply because le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle. Notwithstanding an adverse verdict, the article served the end in- tended, and it is gratifying to learn that our motives have not been misunder- stood. Our friends have shown us great kindness, and we thank them for it.- Eo. Hongkong Telegraph.]

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The weakness of your defence, for which I presume, you must be held responsible, became apparent when, under cross-exa- mination you evidently wished to repudiate the course of action laid down in your pleadings. No doubt this had a great deal of influence with the gentlemen of the jury, Again, why did you not subpiena the sub. Editor of the Ching Abil? It was cor→ tainly proved even without the assistance of that gentleman, who certainly did not show in very bright colors, that the plain- tiff had been working with him in some way, and with all respect for the opinion of his lordship. I think this was rather more than a flimsy" piece of evidence. Why were Messrs. De Souza and Lubeck not questioned as to what took place at the interview in the printer's office? Had you proved that the plaintiff had deliber- ately perjured himself even on a trivial matter like this, the rest of his evidence would have been of little value. I notice that Mr. Herbst, according to your evi- dence given on oath, was present when the plaintiff called at the printing office. Tho plaintiff on oath distinctly denied this. If Mr. Herbst was not called at the proper time, his lordship, had he been applied to. could hardly have refused to allow you to produce rebutting evidence. At least I' am justified in believing so from personal

Hotels and Banks are still playing experience at home. This was not a vital matter, but Mr. Herbst's evidence would the leading roles the Stock Ex- have corroborated your evidence, and in a

change. Our remarks in yesterday's corresponding ratio damaged your oppo-issue referring to Banks were quickly Rent's. The discussion at the tiffin table ought to have been cleared up. It is. I am informed by persons who ought to know, perfectly correct what you stated with reference to your relations with Mr. Keswick, and you could have proved it, which must have confiemed to a great ex- tent the rest of your statement. These small matters, trivial in themselves fre- quently amount to a great deal collectively. and I think in this instance would have atrially changed the appearance of the case. The plaintiff's meetings with Mr. De Souza after legal proceedings had been initiated might have been legitimate, and nothing was proved to the contrary, but

INTELLIGENCE.

Friday, September 2nd, 1881.

One o'clock P.M.

verified, a fair amount of business being booked during the afternoon at 110, and afterwards at 111 per cent. premium. A lot of transactions have also to be recorded

this

morning, several hundreds of shares changing hands at 112. As all these sales have been for cash, the genuine position now held by the stock cannot be questioned. A tremendous run on Hotels, shortly after we went to press yesterday, quickly brought them up to 110 inferences could have been drawn from

per share, and at 112 a few sales this apparent reconciliation at a critical period with a gentleman in whom he had

were effected last night, and also this previously affirmed he would have no moré morning. The stock is still remark- confidence. It was proved that the plain-ably steady, and has apparently an tiff and the two other gentlemen had on several occasions discussed the affairs of your newspaper, and the information sup- plied by Mr. Robert Saith to the plaintiff respecting the article even before it was published, was an important admission which ought to have been pressed home. The old law maximr veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi should have been remem bored.

Mr. Francis certainly made a very elo- quent and telling address to the jury, Having excepting his references to an apology, which at that late hour of the day. could do no earthly good. A verdiet for the plaintiff was inevitable from that

moment. But what was Me. Francis about to allow the verdict to pass unchallenged? As soon as the foreman of the jury gave the finding that the libel had been published without malice, good grounds beides that of privilege existed for a challenge. As the charge against you was for falsely and maliciously publishing a libel, the finding of the jury that there was no malice, alto gether apart from the question of privilege, was practically an acquittal. How the jury could award the amount of damages they actually did award after filing without malice is certainly a noteworthy incident.

I presume your barrister will argue the question of privilege, and although even the celebrated case in which the Bishop of Sodor and Man was defendant hardly goes so far as this one, there is no reason why

you might not, under all circumstances, establish your claim of privilege. The plaintiff is not a public man as the lerin is generally understood, but as he declined to answer questions, which if answered in tho affirmativo would have to some con- siderable extent placed him on the same level as a newspaper man, a writor in the public newspapers discussing public sub- fects, a fairly good cuse justifying publien- tion might easily enough beslished. Why should this case not he made a pré- codout of privilege? I have a strong opinion that many judges in England would be inclined to consider the article

privileged, viewing the whole case as it

stands.

You hayo apparently good grounds for an appoal if you feel so inclined. I hardly

upward tendency, although we have been unable to ascertain on what grounds the demand for those shares has increased to such an extent. It is a significant circumstance however, and one worth noting, that a very large number of Hotel shares are drifting to one quarter. If it is in- tended to sell the property to Chi- nese, now is the golden opportunity. It has been reported to us this morn- ing that property to the value of up-

wards of one million dollars has no-

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minally changed hands within the last few days, so that if a legitimate offer could be obtained for the Hotel the chance should not be missed, as it is positively certain that these bubble sales will burst up before long, bringing ruin to scores, we might almost say hundreds, of deluded vic- tims. When the crash does come a great deterioration in the value of property is a natural result, so we would recommend the Hotel Directors not to leave over till to-morrow what they can do so well to-day. Docks are still weak at 44 per cent. premium ex dividend, and gene- ral opinion seems inclined to believe that they have yet to go lower before much business ensues. Steamboats are also weak at 23, sellers vainly endeavouring to obtain that price. We have not heard any other stocks mentioned, so must re- fer our readers to the annexed list of quotations, corrected up to the time of our going to press, for all requis- ite particulars.

Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Shares-112 per cent. premium, ox div., Salos,

$305

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Limited-$435 per share. Chinese Imporial Government Loan

of 1878-4° prominum, Buyers. Chinese Imperial Goverumont Loan

of 1881-3% premium.

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