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MARRIAGE.

Dathe ach shimo, at St. Jodoc's Catha leal, by the Rev. C. F. Warten, of Dhaka, ansited by the Rev. W. Jeuninga, Meh

deni Chaplet, Fixer Maxy, ckier, daughter of the laic Crown Salicher, Hongkong, to the few, in HAY Post,

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Hogakosa. Wapsesday, March 1, 1882,

The circumstances connected with the death of WILLIAM LAPSLEY, a sugar boiler in the employ of the China Sugar Refining Company, whose body was found on the 21st ulte, in the arch which runs through the wharf opposite Ship-street, Wanchai,

We do not suspect foul play. No rob bery had licen attempted. The deceased hat money in his packets, a gold ring was on his finger, another in his scarf, and a set of gold studs were in his shirt front. In all human probability Larstey met his death by an accident; but without further evidence bearing on the point, we are not prepared to subscibe to the theery advanced by Inspector Ger that 'deceased had probably slipped into the water opposite the Oriental Sugar Re- finery where the Praya is open, and drifted | down to where the body is found. Those who use jinrickshas going to East Point

race exclusively be repealed; that all flogging be abolished except for such offences as entail logging in England, and that flogging on the back be abolished by law,

DECISION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

nor. The chief problem before, any representa- tive of the Queen in Hongkong is to reconcile to our rule the tens of thousands of Chinese who

reside there for tratle, and on whom the commzer. cial prosperity of the Colony dependa ; and so to

TUE steamship Fing-on undocked at Kowloon this morning. The German steamer Vorvaerts has gone over to Kowloon.

THE Agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Chi

The Right Hon, the Earl of Kimberley to Go-order our government that the Chinese authori-inform us that the steamer Lifenragles left

ties on the mainland shalt have no reason to Singapore for this port to-day. vernor Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.

complain that the island is a den of refuge for

Downing-street, 20th July, 1850. Sir,—I have had under my consideration your

despatches relating to the general subject of crime at Hongkong, and the treatment of crimi- malsin the Colony at the present time, aral I have decided to give my assent to the recommenda- tions comained in paragraph 13 of your despatch

No. fo.

I have come to this decision mainly because entertain grave objection, on general grounds, to the infliction of the punishments in question, and especially that of flogging, for ordinary offences, In this country flogging has ceased to be em- ployed as a means of repressing crime, except in the case of certain crimes of brutal violence; and as a means of prison discipline it is confined to the case of convicted prisoners who are guilty of

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offenders against Chinese law. Sir John Hico. We leam by telegram that Mr. Bradlaugh has essy has endeavoured to solve the problem by again offered himself as a candidate for Northamp just and even-handed treatment of the Chinese,ton, his previous election having been cancelled, THE insurrection in Herzegovina is apparently a an am much mistaken if the approbation of disinterested public men, such as Mr. P. A. Tay- lor, will not console him for much factious local opposition. On another occasion I may ask your permission to mention the practical results of four years of Sir John Hennessy's administra tion in a Colony which is the entrepôt for Dritish trade to the value of nearly one hundred millions sterling-I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Sept. 3.

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are evidently assuming a serious aspect.

ng away from being stamped out, and maiters telegram received from home yesterday states that very severe fighting is going on all over the country.

We have to acknowledge receipt of the first number of Machense, the new journal published in the neighbouring colony of Maçao. It is an exceedingly well got up little paper, and we sincerely hope it will have a useful and highly successful career.

are aware that the road close to the sea serious offences against the regulations of the by to day's advices from Canton of another step I was authoritatively announced the other day

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ONE of Governor Hennessy's predictions at the Tung-wah dinner is alreatly verifiel, for we hear

forward by the Chinese in that the Viceroy has authorized the construction of a line of telegraph. The Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley to Go-between Canton and Hongkong, that is if Go

vernor Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.

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DECREASE OF CRIME.

Downing-street, 8th April, 1881. sir, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 14, transmitting the Criminal Statistics for the year 1880.

vernor Hennessy's permission to connect the sta tion at Kowloon with the Government lines in this Colony can be obtained, application for which is to be made forthwith. The line will be constructed by a Chinese Company and worked I am glad to notice a decrease in the number entirely by Chinese and the material and instru of serious crimes as compared with the two pre-ments will be of British manufacture. vious years.-1 have, &c.,

that the German Government had demanded from the Government of the Czar some_explanation of General Skobeleff's speech at Paris. A late telegram denies this, asserting that Prince Bis- marck has taken no such step.

H.M. sloop of war Pegasus, while beating up

being much harder than on the opposite side, is almost invariably used by jinrick- sha coolles. In fact they run so close to the edge of the wall, that even in day- light. there is langer of accidents. it not possible that in this case, the jinricksha may have in some way come to grief, with such a disastrous result to poor LAPSLEY? Many residents may remember a gentleman connected with our leading mercantile house, once very well known in Hongkong, who was driving along this rol some years back when both pony and carriage turned clean over not twenty yards from the spot where the body of WILLIAM LAPSLEY was found. However, ing severity. In England we are told nothing tribute of 750,000?, paid by her to the Sultan amicably settled out of court, Mr. J. M. Guedes

theories in a matter of this description are of little value, especially when they do not fit in with the facts of the case. The only way out of the difficulty is to discover the jinricksha coolie who last saw LAPSLEY alive; until he is found the Police have no grounds for congratulating themselves on the part they have taken in this sad drama of real life.

Is the letter from the Secretary of the Howard Association, addressed to the Hon. F. B. Joussox, which we published the other day, reference was made, amongst other publications in England having re- fercace to Hongkong, to letters of Mr. P. A. TAYLOR, M.P., to the English news papers. We have one of these in our possession, and, as it has not yet been published here, we append it, for the information of our readers, and especially

in fairness to the memory of the deceased' | of Mr. Jonsson, who will doubtless be in a should be thoroughly investigated and position to disprove any of the facts as sifted to the very bottom. The matter stated by Mr. TAYLOR should they be in has already been made the subject of correct. We also publish another letter T HE HONGKONG DIRECTORY inquiry at the usual Coroner's inquest which appeared a few days later in the helore Mr. H. E. Wonenoese and à jury, same newspaper, the Eche, and which but we are bound to say that taking doubtless forms part of the correspondence the evidence elicited by the Coroner in its to which the attention of the honorable entirety, is the reverse of conclusive or gentleman was directed :-- satisfactory, and Mr. WoDeHorse would FLOGGING IN BRITISH DEPENDENCIES, #19ear to be of our opinion, as he adjourned the inquiry for another week to see if some reasonable explanation of the pian's some- what mysterious death might not be ob-grading, perhaps, to the fogger than to the flogger tained.

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The circumstaners, so far as have been ascertained, commected with Mr. LAPSLEY'S death, can be explained in a few words. Special notice, in fairness to the deceased, must be directed to the evidence of Acting

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECHO,

SIR,~While we have greatly mitigated at home the degrading punishment of Dogging-more de- it would seem by some late revelations respect- ing Indian prisons, as well as by certain reports from Sierra Leone, lately mentioned in the House by Mr. Hopwood (and in respect to which latter I have myself received confirmatory statements), that in some, at least, of our dependencies the representatives of British rule think that they

KIMBERLEY,

Of course, Governor Hennessy had to contend SIR SAMUL BAKER has written a long letter at first with the prejudices of the officials, who to the Times on the Tigyptian Question. His predicted the worst results from such an exhibi-principal suggestions for the solution of all diffi- culties are the following:-Firstly, that the in- The advocates of cruelty in punishments have dependence of Egypt should be purchased from always some excellent local reason for maintain-Turkey by capitalising at to per cent. the annual

tion of feeble humanitarianism.

will stop garrotting but the "cat" In India it is impossible to keep order without the lash. In Hongkong it was the Chinese whose peculiar constitution demanded torture.

The practical success attending the benevolent public opinion to say to other British rulers, "Go experiment of Governor Hennessy should lead

thou and do likewise."-Yours faithfully,

Brighton, August 30th. P. A. TAYLOR.

FLOGGING IN HONGKONG.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ECHO,

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This sum to be raised at 4 per cent. on the guar- antee of the allied Powers, France and England. secondly, that having once obtained her indepen- dence, Egypt should signalise the same by per mitting a chain of forts to be built along the Suer and English troops. This astounding proposal Canal, to be garrisoned altemátely by French

renders unnecessary serious criticism on the first suggestion.

CAPTAIN Burnie, Marine surveyor, was charged this morning before Dr. Stewart with assaulting his house-boy. The house-boy stated that at 7 P.m. on the 25th ult. his mistress returned from the races. Before going she told him to give the children their dinner at one p.m. Defendant, on returning, asked him why he had not given the children their dinner, and then struck him four

the harbour under sail this morning, on her re- turn from a cruise, fouled the American ship Paway in the Northern anchorage, opposite the Harbour Office, doing the latter same slight in- jury and damaging one of her own boots,

We learn that the dispute anent the sale of the

Roman Catholic Cathedral, which was to have come on in the Supreme Court to-day, has been

acting as arbitrator for both parties. We are not in a position to give the particulars of the agreement arrived at, but understand that the priests received their property back again, with a handsome sum in the shape of penalty from the Chinese for non-fulfilment of contract.

A TELEGRAM dated the 27th ulto, announces that Mr. Gladstone has convened a meeting of the Liberal raembers of Parliament to consider the action of the House of Lords. It is unfortunately not stated what action of the Upper House requires such grave consideration, so we can only guess that it refers to the recent adoption of a motion for the appointment of a select Committee to inquire into the working of the Land Act in Ireland, which was carried against the Govern- ment.

SIR-In his interesting letter in your issue of the 1st instant on Flogging in Hongkong, Mr. P. A. Taylor has touched but lightly on the opposition encountered by Governor sir J. Pope Hennessy in his endeavour to limit the use of the lash on Chinese criminals: Soon after his arrival in the Colony, during a visit of inspection to the blows with his fist and gave him a black eye. FROM the annual statement of Clyde shipbuild- gaol in Victoria, he was struck by the inhuman Captain Burnie stated in his defence that, on ing for the past year, it will be plainly seen that manner in which the punishment of flogging was returning from the races, he found his children 1881 has been by far the most successful in the carried out. In papers laid before Parliament he crying and his wife agitated. He discovered annals of the trade. Since January, 269 stea has kimself described, in graphic language, the that the children had had nothing to cat, and and sailing vessels have been launched, with manner in which prisoners were placed on low that complainant, who had disobeyed the orders aggregate tonnage of 340,833, showing an in-.-. dict, such as rice and water, for some days given him, had been insalent to Mrs. Burnie, and crease of 98,049 tons over that of the preceding previous to the infliction of the lash, to prepare that he had been insolent on several occasions. year. The relative value of vessels launched on the bodies of the poor wretches, as it were, fore asked him why he had given the children no Clyde for 1881 is estimated at £7,000,000, or a The com-net increase of £1,000,000 over: the preceding the punishment. He also describes in all its food, and why he had been insolent. sickening detail the condition in which he found plainant replied that he was not told to give them year. The New Year, began with contracts esti some of the convicts who had been flogged any food, and that he had not been insolent. mated at about £4,100,000. several times in succession. Pending reference He thereupon boxed the complainant's cars. to the Secretary of state, his Excellency took on himself the responsibility of suspending all floggings.

The result of lengthened consideration by sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Lord Kimberley is mentioned by Mr. Taylor. It is now ordered that no criminal in Hongkong is to be sentenced to the lash, except in cases where such punish ment could be inflicted in England. Most of your readers, I doubt not, will be astonished to lean that this dreadful punishment could be ordered by the prison officials for offences of a most trivial description against prison discipline. Indeed, the impression left by the Parliamentary papers on the subject is that the unfortunate

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Tite flamburg correspondent of the London and China Express, writing in the current number of that journal, sayt:-During the last two days floating ice has been observed in the river, and as the thermometer has been down to two degrees of frost the ice will soon accumulate, and we may expect that to-morrow no wooden vessels will be able to navigate the river without the aid of a tugboat. If the cold should continue, of course sailing vessels will soon have to cease running altogether, and the ice-breaker steamers will have to be put into action. The trade has been much hindered of late by fogs, and the lists of arrivals and departures are therefore but short.

A SACRIFLEGIOUS street coolie named Li Asu

clusion, in Victoria Gaol for stealing a jacket and was this morning relegated to two months' se- silver chain, the property of one Lam sun Chan, a Euddhist priest, living in Hollywood Road. The priest's wife, who would seem to have some- thing of the heroine in her composition, seized. the thief, whom she found crouching in a corner in her bedrooms, sticking to him until assistance arrived. In his efforts to break away from his lady captor, he dropped the jacket and chain on the floor. Being called upon for his defence, he made the usual stereotyped one, namely, that he had merely gone into the house to see a "flen,"

ITALY, says the Alla, hitherto has allowed to vote

Chief Inspector Gian, elicited at the Cobest convince the populations they gevem of Chinese in Hongkong-many of them subjects of Of arrivals from the Far East I can mention but only those citizens over twenty-five years of age roner's Inquest yesterday, as it has been British civilisation by reproducing the atrocitles Her Majesty-were regarded by some of our one, the Praesident Trotiché, Niejahr, from who pay taxes to the amount of about 8750. currently reported, and generally believed of which we are getting ashamed at home.

that the unfortunate man was the worse for liquor, and while in that state stumbled over the wall into the water and so met his death. People are so apt to be ungenerous in arriving at unfounded conclusions of this THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY description, that we can hardly wonder at the general conviction in this particular case. Let us see how far this opinion is borne out by facts. Mr. LAPSLEY has been a resident in Hongkong for many years, and widely known as a generally steady THE

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completed arrangements to leave this Colony for the Luzon Sugar Rehnery in Manila, where he was to assume the re- sponsible position of principal sugar boiler.

I should like to be allowed to call attention to the excellent results produced by a governor of a very different stamy. Governor Pope Hennessy I remember as a Tory in the House of Commons many years ago. I have watched his course since with genuine respect, for he has treated the natives wherever he has borac sule as human beings, amenable to a sense of justice, and grate- ful for an exhibition of mercy.

Rangoon, and the only departure has been the Cart Ritter, Jaeger, for Hongkong, and Bellona, been less than a million. The Electoral Reform Under this rule the whole number of voters has

Classen, for Sydney. The Nordd-Lloyd Steam.

Bill recently passed by the senate allows every ship Company, of Bremen, has ondered two new

adult male who can read and write to vote. This, steamships of large size and excellent accommo-

of course, would very largely increase the num dation to be ready by next summer an to be placed upon the New York Line, notwithstanding the ballot out of the hands of a very large pro

ber of voters, though illiteracy would still keep,

that some (cars are entertained here to the effect

that the present enormous passenger trade soon will show a considerable falling off.

countrymen as brutes rather than men with like feelings with ourselves. The Colonists of other than Chinese descent were, however, dissatisfied with the Governor's action in this matter, and held an indignation meeting-from which the Chinese of wealth and standing retired en masse where speeches were made, some of which would have done credit to a Grand Inquisitor.

A petition was framed and sent to sir Michael

portion of the rural population, as well as of Hicks-Beach, demanding a commission, and the

many men in the cities. In 1870 sixty-four of every hundred men who were called on to render Perhaps your readers may not find the following re-imposition ofthe flogging ordinances. Thereply extracts from official records without interest :--

was very brief, and to the point. It informed THE recent paper by Sir Rutherford Alcock has military service could not read or write. since GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO THE the petitioners that, in the opinion of the secretary attracted a great deal of attention and has been then the Government has been active and liberal BRANDING AND FLODGING LAWS OF of state, they would be much better employed in discussed in all the Home papers. The Overland in encouraging the establishment of schools, and

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assisting than in endeavouring to thwart the Go Mall remarks:-Sir Rutherford Alcock has been naturally a great advance has been made in im. Govemor Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G., to vernor in his administration, and that there was fluttering the philanthropic dovecots by a paper parting the rudiments of education to the young peasantry and the children the cities, sill, the Right Hon. Sir M. Hicks-Deach, Bari, M.P. no reason to appoint any Commission of Inquiry. on "The Opium Trade," which he read before a Government House, Hongkong, 18th May, 1880. From that time, up to the present, sir John Hen meeting of the society of Arts (Indian section) the number of illiterates must remain very large After a few years' consideration and inquiry, Inessy has had to encounter hostility of a more held laat Friday night. The address does not Under the new rule the electoral list will gra. It is in evidence that on the morning think the time has now come for modifying the than usually bitter and unscrupulous character, admit of being summarised in a paragraph; but dually grow, but it wil be a long time before

from some of his own countrymen. His policy is sir Rutherford's principal points were-(1), that universal suffrage will be established. of the 21st ulto, deceased left the Hong-flogging and branding ordinances of Hongkong, kong Hotel in company with Mr. THOMAS not merely in accordance with the more humane very clear and well-defined, and, I submit, a wise as in nine of the eighteen provinces of China GRRY, the Acting Chief Inspector of code of laws in civilised countries, but is acce-d- and patriotic one. It is that the subjects of the there was enough opium grown for the whole of The City of New York now claims nearly ance with the clear evidence obtained as to the Queen of Chinese descent, as well as subjects of the population of the country, the poppy having 1,500,000 inhabitants, though in 1880 the enu- HE HONGKONG DIRECTORY | Policë, shortly after twelve o'clock. Mr. evil effect in this Colony of the flogging and the Emperor of China residing in Hongkong, I been a common crop for more than a century, itmeration only showed 1,206,292. THE HAS MEN LARGELY ORDERED IN ALL PORTS GREY had some conversation with the de- branding system, and its final condemnation by shall stand before the Law and the Executive in was absurd to pretend that opium had been 727,629 were native-born, the rest coming from

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ceased, and he swears that LAPSLEY ap- the officers entrusted with the administration of precisely the same position as Europeans, and forced upon the Chinese Government; and (3), some forty countries, 198,595 being Irish, SINGAPORE AND NEWCHWÀNG. peared quite sober and talked rationally, the law and the treatment of criminals.

that they shall be subject to no disability or ex- that even bad this been the gase, the physical 153,482 German, 29,767 English, 12,223-Italian,

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although he seemed a little loquacious. In 1876, the year before my arrival, the num-ceptional regulation for which strong and con- and inoral evils of Chinese opium consumption and 9,910 French, It is sild that of the Immi The deceased spoke of his approachingber of prisoners fogged in Hongkong was 113. vincing reasons, cannot be shown. When it is had been much exaggerated, our own intoxicating grants arriving at Castle Garden during 1881 departure for Manila quite cheerfully, and Since then the number of floggings has been as remembered that the Chinese in the Colony num.liquors bringing more evil upon this country in a many as 153,421 expressed an intention to remain expressed himself pleased with his pros.

follows-1876, 1131877, 53; 1878, 49; 1879, ber about 180,000 against about 2,000 Europeans day than is brought by opium on the people of in the city, The Mail fears that in a decade, if'

and Americans, that they pay about nine-five per China in a year. It is well that this side of an the tide of immigration does not decrease, the pects in the Luzon Refinery. Mr. GREY 18; 1880, up to date, none,

That the action of the Local Government has cent. of the total taxation, that among them, as I important question should find an advocate so foreign-born residents of the city may equal or saw him get into a jinricksha, wished not occasioned any increase of crime is acen from can testify, are men of the highest probity, wealth, able and so well informed as Sir Rutherford outnumber the natives The valuation of tax- him "good night," heard him observe the following figures, which appear in the enclosed and public spirit, the gratitude with which the Alcock; but he rather spoils his case by emulating able property in 1881 was $976,735,199. The that he was "going straight home," returns:-

successive acts of the Governor's policy were re the exaggerated style of his principal opponents, state tax paid by the city for 1882 is $1,8287. ceived can well be imagined,

The address was throughout much too rasping in The State taxes the franchise or business of core/ and nothing more is seen or heard of WILLIAM LAPSLEY until his dead body is

Only a few months ago, on the fourth anni tone; and sir Rutherford certainly made a great porations, the most important of which are upon discovered by the arclropposite Ship Street.

imversary of His Excellency's arrival in Hongkong, mistake in tactics when, a propos of nothing, he Manhattan Island, and it is claimed that this where it had evidently been left high and

an address of congratulation from the principal indulged in an onslaught upon missions. Every source of revenue will ultimately be sufficient to Chinese merchants of the Colony was present to one knows that there is a good deal of truth in pay all the expenses' of the State Government dry by the receding tide. In spite of the

My recommendations are that the Branding him in Government House. Making every allow-sound of his charges; but it was a mistake to The appropriation for the City Government for exertions of the police, no clue has been ob Ordinances be repeated; that public flogging beance for Oriental metaphor, the documents show-introduce a needlessly irritating clement lato un tained as to the identity of the jinricksha coolie abolished by law; that all laws in Hongkong ed.clearly that the Chinese warmly appreciated address which ought to have been, above all under whose "charge Mr. Lapsley was last which impose flogging on persons of the Chinese the beneficial measures Introduced by the Goverthings, conciliatory

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Number of admissions to the Hongkong Gaol: -1877, 3946; 1878, 3,803; 1879, 3,669. ·

Number convicted and punished (fined or prisoned) by the Police Magistrates-1877, 7998; 1878, 7,794 1879, 6,119,

Of these

1881, including the state tax, is nearly $30,000,000.

There is room for economy and retrenchment in that city-ita.