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Itogether of one mind, were unanimous proposition for the rejection of the vote, did at the poll. The discussion, it hardly not add much to the value of the discussion; reached the dignity of a debate, was he believed that two Commissions chiefly Interesting in exposing the complete had sat in connection with the gaol ignorance of the whole of the Committee extension, but had not seen their reports, in the salient details of what has for the which, he thought, ought to have been last dozen years been one of the leading placed on the table so that the members problems of local politics. That, of course, could have seen what their recommenda- is no new feature in the conduct of fiscal (ions were.. We think if thejunior member affairs in the colony, but it is nevertheless had been anxious to make himself deserving of some attention.

acquainted with these recommendations that it was a very easy matter to apply for the reports at the Colonial Secretary's office. The opposition of Mr. C. P. CHATER was at once practical and comprehensible; he simply declined, as a business man, to support a vole of a farge sum of public money for an unknown or at least unde- explained what buildings were to be erected and at what cost, and as no explanations had been made he objected to voting in the dark. Although a member of the latest Gaol Commission, Mr. CHATER made no reference to his experiences as a commissioner nor of the opinions he had formed, which favors the assumption that he is not opposed to some clearly defined and reasonable measure of reform.

sooner have a pleasant chat with his comrades than be locked up alone with ghosts and the other inhabitants of the unseen world in whose existence the Chinese belleve." And the honor able gentleman's memory is again at fault when he assured the Committee into gaol that everyone who goes wears gaol clothes; he forgot that first- class misdemeanants and debtors wear their own garments, and are allowed to provide their own meals if they so desire. After some further discussion a division was taken on the motion to omit the vote, and resulted in a defeat for the Govern ment by a majority of one.

(To be continued.)

THE C.M.S.N. Co.'s steamship Hacan, the last teamer to run to Tientsia this year, salled from Shanghal for the Pelko on the 6th instant.

A BRANCH ofthe German National Bank will he opened in Tientsin early next month. Mr. E. Rheders has been appolated manager.

THE Alacrity, with Admiral Salmon and family on board, left Shanghai for Hankow via river ports on the 3rd, inst.

The Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. Informs us that the Company's steamet.Teheran

left Singapore for this port at 8. n m. to-day.

Arthe last regular meeting of the United Service Lodge, No. 141, the election of officers for the LORD LI, eldest son of the Viceroy of Chill, ensuing venrresulted as follows:- Bịo, C. Bryant, | arrived at Shanghai on the 19th último ex route Worshipful Master; Bro, G. Rogers, Treasurer: for Tokio (Japan) where he will assumo full charge of Chinese diplomatic affairs at the and Bro. J. Maxwell, Tyler.

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Ar the meeting of the Finance Committee a 'vole $2,880, sa compassionate allowance to the General and Colonial Treasurer, was agreed to, The Committee then adjoumed until Thursday afternoon.

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supplements the able leader, which we reproduced in our last night's issue with the following lucid arguments against the iniquitous trial-by-jury system as at present recognised in Hongkong. It says:--

ls unable to leave owing to the fact that whilst news. The N. C. Daily News of the 6th instant Sandy, intended for the Mediterranean station, conting last week some hrg of cool were dropped says A private letter from Macao relator that the brothers Pereira have been sentenced to fifteen years' hard labour on a charge of setting. on her deck and they went light through it!!

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THE Batavia Nieuwsblad of the 25th ultimo states that the Sultan and chiefs of Simbas have confirmed the mining concessions applied for by

G. Mildmay Dire and W. Knaggs.' No difficul-

It was now time for an official expression defendants the burden of the 'defence was under- and abilitier as on actress have, won her fans being made over to the Sambis Harriea Gold MISS Gracie Plaisted wine gifts as a vocalists and now in the way of these concessions wherever she has performed, began her Shanghal Mining Co, established at Amsterdam, season at the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday night fast, and the Mercury thinks that although the ST. ANDREW'S BALL WAS a tall success at theatrical racket had been worked for all it was worth Intely, the fair Grace's company will be Shanghat this year and eclipsed all unor "shows"-

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The Acting Colonial Secretary in explaining why this vote had been included in the Estimates stated that so long ago as 1883 the Secretary of State had recognised the necessity for a new gaol and, although with some reluctance had consented to temporary postponement, wished it to be

be indefinitely postponed. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, according to Mr. DEANE, had taken great personal interest in the matter, and as his opinion was that the manner in which prisoners were crowded in the cells was scandalous and would be dangerous in the event of any epidemic breaking out, he had submitted two separate projects to Lord KNUTSFORD as a solution of the difficulty-namely:-(1) To extend the present Gao! by including the Magistracy of opinion, and the Acting Attorney and a portion of the compound of the General (Mr. E. J. AchiDYD), who, was Central Police Station, or (2) to erect & Chairman of the Commission, submitted new block of buildings somewhere on the his views. As the honorable and learned Pok-fu-lum Road at West Point. Whilst gentleman could not remember whether it awaiting for the Secretary of State's was in 1886 or 1887 that the Commission A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. decision between these two proposals, commenced its labours, it is evident the item of $140,000 had been included the conclusions then arrived at had not in the Estimates in order to provide for caused him any very serious misgivings, the result of such decision. As neither of Mr. ACKROYD remembered that several these schemes apparently found favour

recommendations were made to the with the unofficial members, and as the Government, principally the use of the selection of either one of them is certainlash, in order to diminish the number of to be strenuously opposed, it is much to inmates in the Gaol, but the Secretary be regretted that Mr. DEANE did not see

of State refused to sanction wholesale fit, or was unable to fully explain under flogging, and so far as the speaker knew. what circumstances the Secretary of State the number of prisoners had not diminished. had arrived at the absolute decision in The worthy Attorney General felt so little The purest ingredients only are used, and the 1883 that a new and enlarged prison interest in the subject that he

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for Hongkong must be gone on with in inquired whether the daily average of spite of the combined opposition of almost prisoners had increased or diminished; every class in the colony. The proposal but he was quite certain some punishment for a new gaol was one of the pet projects more deterrent than those now in vogue of Governor HENNESSY," who held what should be applied to Chinese, and that were then considered the most enlightened there was nothing more requisite and views on prison reform, and there can, necessary than an extension of the Gaol, we think, be no doubt that the opposition The "more deterrent" punishment indicated to the large expenditure recommended ten was solitary confinement, which Dr. Ho or eleven years ago was mainly instigated KAL who opposed by that powerful clique who worked so the broad ground that such expendi- industriously to make the outside world ture was unnecessary, asserted was no believe that his Excellency and his punishment at all to the ordinary Chinese policy were all but wilversally unpopu- criminal, an assertion that is fully borne lar with the people of Hongkong out by the only evidence available, the This journal, took a decided stand on the experiences of the officers of the Gaol and question at issue, and from that we have the admissions of Chinese who have been never wavered. We could not then, and subjected to this form of confinement, we cannot now, recognise the special With Europeans the result is entirely advantages claimed for the vaunted different; solitary confinement in total separate system, and while recognising darkness means to a European who has that a gaol built for the criminal classes not been hardened and degraded to the of a population of under a hundred level of the brute, a rapid road to insanity thousand persons was quite inadequate to and suicide; but that question can be left meet the requirements of double that over for future consideration, as it is the number, we "opposed the expenditure of Chinese dificulty that blacks the way at half a million dollars on a fad that

present. Mr. RYRIK favored gaol extension, was based on mistaken philanthropy: to some extent, but considered the amount It was Governor HENNESSY's influential representations that were responsible for the Secretary of State's despatch dated the 15th October, 1883, and, as both times and opinions have changed greatly since then, we feel justified in thinking that a fresh statement of our gaol requirements would probably convince Lerd KNUTSFORD that new gaol on the lines laid down by his predecesor (Lord Derby) would prove HONGKONG || an expensive mistake.

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There is some appearance of a disposition to re-iry the recent Hongkong conspiracy case in the public press of that Colony. 'A' all events there appears in an issue of the Telegraph just to hand a long and well-argued letter by a legal correspondent which is practically a speech for the defence, although of course delivered too late to influence the verdict. In the trial of the taken by the senior of the accused, who is not entirely unaccustomed to public speaking in Courts of Justice as his own counsel. And genemlly it appears to be admitted that the old saw that gives expression to the rule about the man who is his own client, has hitherto fadad consistent exception in this instance. Apart from the contention of the writer that the verdict was against the weight of evidence and contrary to the summing-up of the Judge, the chief point insisted on is the nature of the verdict as that of the miniosum majority. Upon the disadvantage of this a very decided opinion has been already expressed here and it is in avery way desirable that a portion of the discussion so actively going on in Hagkong over the result of the trial, should be directed to that weak spot la the case, the unreliability of verdlets Tor conviction by a minimum majority. It is to be remembered that one of the most frequently proclaimed principles in judicial practice is that whatever of reasonable doubt there may be in connection with the charge the accused is entitled to the benefit of that doubt. From this it will follow that the actual value of a verdict of acquittal by a minhnam, majority greatly outweighs the value of a conviction by a minimum minority. The ratio is the same, but the relative free of the verdicts is very different. The judge, when summing up in the case referred to, admitted that a unanimous verdict would have been more satisfactory, and he stated that he had no option but to give effect to the opinion that tumed the scale, seeing that the law in Hongkong so ruled it. It is not without reason that the correspondent who deals with the case deprecates that such a penalty as was inflicted was practically give by the casting-vote of one jayman. He also adds

IT would stem as though the Far East were profitable hunting ground for "leapers from the cloads." Mr. Percival Spencer and Miss Van Tassel have hardly come and gone when Baldwin, running across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, puts in an appearance in Dal Nippon and threatens to starile Hongkongites by dropping from the heavens above to the earth beneath in the space of a few seconds.

AT the Police Court this morning Mr. Wode

connected with the death of a China woman house held an inquiry into the circumstancer named Chin Li about 18 years of age who was found dead a few days ags on the Praya, under window of the Yan Wo Chan boarding house, where it appears she had been lodging for a few days. Evidence was addiced skewing that the woman had been suffering from mental derangement and that she had thrown herself from a widow of the house in question. His Worship saturned a verdict that the deceased

had died from injuries occasioned by a fall while In a state of insanity.

Shanghatin Soochon. The attack occurred near

A PIRATICAL attack was made upon two mission ary ladier, Miss Phillips and Mis■ Smithy recently, who were travelling by boat from the city of Qadasan. The pirates were armed to the teeth, made the ladies open their boxes "In England twelve men, have to be un-

which they ransacked-even took the rings off animous to find a perap gulity of conspiracy i | their finges, slashed at the boatmen who fought In Hongkong the vote of onaman, whom it took forty minutes to fall aver, is sufficient to rain. and degrade two men for 'fe. In England a micerity of one is equivalent to an acquittal. When shall we have that much needed Court of Appeal for Criminal Cases? It is wanted badly in this colony,"

plackily until over powered, and decambed with about $150 worth of goods altogether. The next day the ladles arrived at Soochow, with nerves badly shatered, but able to tell a more thrilling story than could many of the oldest missionaries in China. The ladies say that the leader of the band wore a soldier's uniform. Two district If the public interest aroused in the case magistrates have their headquarters within the should have the effect of assimilating the Hong-walls of Quènsan. The robbery was committed kong law as to verdicts, to the practice in in the Siayang district of Soochew. A gun-boat Singapors, the value of verdicts and the security has been sent in pursuit of the pirates, of the subject in that Colony will be enhanced accordingly.

TELEGRAMS.

(From Singapore Papers.) PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, November 29th. The Land Purchase Bill now introduced, which the former bill divided into two parts, has been assimilated with the Ashbourne Act, but the scope has been restricted partially, according to Mr. Parnell's proposals. Mr. Labouchere's motion for rejection was largely rejected, the Irish Members supporting the Government. The Bill was read the first time.

THE GOVERNSHIP OF MADRAS.

December 2nd. The Right Hon. Lord Wenlock has been appolated Governor of Madron.

(Baron Wenlock was born in 1849. He is a Ugionist-Liberal, and is married.]

devoted to his memory is celebrated here with qual fervour by Celt and Saxon, Frenchman

and Russian,

VLADIVOSTOCK. According to the Asaki Skim- buis, is to be closed shortly, the intention of the Russlap Government being to make it a purely naval port. In its stond Harket, a port 40 miles south of Viadiportack, will be opened. The Asahi sdds that the Ninnnn Yusen Kalsha have already had the new port surveyed, the Takacht- Acmary being charged with the task, and that examination proved the port to be shallow and inconvenient to shipping.

THE notorious murderer and brigand Su Fel Wus who was arrested by Inspector Quincey in

a house in First Street, after a desperate struggle in which the muzzle of a revolverwastwice pointed at that zealous officer's bend, was handed over to the Chinese Authorities yesterday and was immediately taken to Canton in ons of the gun- boats. A reward of $10,000 was offered by the Chinese Government for the head of Su Fei

Wan which is sufficient to show that Hongkong is well rid of that burly ruthan's society.

ALL hopes of the revival of the Chiun tea trade have not been abandoned as we are glad to learn from a paragraph in our Shanghai mor- ning contemporary of the 6th instant, which runs thus :-"The Shanghal Chamber of Commerce held a meeting on Thursday for the purpose of receiving Mr Pinches, a gentleman who, it is understood, is now on his way to Peking with a view to inducing the Chinese Government to. take some steps in the direction of improving the cultivation and preparation of tea in China, It is hoped that the Government will be induced to favour the introduction of certain improvements which Mr. Pinches has used with success in Formosa. He left Shanghai for Tientsin yester day."

INFORMATION has been received at Pakan, says

THE Glasgow Herald's London correspondent says: The Chinese Government, or the Chinese Legation a London, take no part in the great Chinese css from Australia, which goes before the Privy Council in December. The case in, on the lit under the title "Ab Toy UEFI Loch," and is an appeal from the Victorian Courts. It raises the question of the right of the the Straits Times; stating that Monsieur David Australian Colonies to exclude Chinese, or to de Mayrena-otherwise known as Marie I, King lery on Chinese residents à poll tax which is not of the Sedangs,- died on the ith instant at levied on all other foreigners. At an early stage Kuala Rompin, The actual, cause of death is of the proceedings the then Chinese Ministerin London was invited to lend his countenance in not known, as, owing to the absence of a doctor, some way to them, but refused to do so. Money no post-mortem extmination was held, but it i te mot wasted, for the Chinese guilds throughout Australia have subscribed all that was needed. The decision of the judicial commitee, needless to say, itawaited with profound interest in China and Ameica, as well as la Australia, ti

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believed to be blood poisoning, by the collector elicited at an Investigation held by the Collector. tends to show that the deceased was quite well

on the morning of the 11th when he went out shooting, but he had hardly been an hour away when he returned, stating that he had been bit." ten in the Jungle by a black suake, just above the left ankle The Collector, Mr. Owen, applied such remedies as his medicine chest afforded, but it was of no avail, as about 4 hours from the time of the bite life was totally extinct,

AM Imperial Decree was issued on the 25th at In which the late Viceroy Tseng Kuo-chian of Nanking is spoken of in the most appreciative terms. The Emperor begins by commending his firm and resolate temperament, his impartia His millary successes in recounted, and the lity and uprightness, andhis bigh mental qualities. titles, pests, and honour which he teamed MR. HM, Becher left Singapore on Saturday, by his capacity and devotion under suce the ath ultimo, for Pahang on an extended tour THE FUNERAL OF THE KING OF cessive Emperors. The measures he took through the various mining properties with the during the famine which sccurred when he managem at of which he is consected. He is HOLLAND.

Was Governor of Shaul are specially com. Thursday, the 11th of December, has been fixed mended. "Upright, straightforward, and accompanied by Dr. d'Silva, a medical practi for the funeral of the late King of the Netherlands. earnest in the discharge of his duties, he was a tioner who has had considerable experience in true pillar of the State. He is the post- Pahang, and it is Mr Becher's fatention to cause humous fitle of Grand Tators Tie kood are to be a full investigation to be made into the sapliary PARLIAMENT.

appropriated from the provincial treasury wade condition in which the Chinese sinkeks live on- bis funeral expenses; among other hobis the different properties, and to cause a complete tablet is to be erected in the Peking Chan Chung report to be drawn up and presented to Govern Tubli earldom is continued to his endeen, ment for its information, Food, housing and his great-grandsons are to be introduced in medical treatment, nature and statistics of

set down as too large. Considering that the Acting Colonial Treasurer (Bir, H. E. WODEHOVIR) has been a police magistrate for a number of years, hemight reasonably have been expected to know more about gaol matters than was evidenced by hie remarks; but one suggestion he threw out, although by no means original, is certainly worthy of some attention. Mr. WODEHOUSE would like to see some system introduced by means of which whathe calls municipal Mr. J.J. Keswick opposed the vote on prisoners, that is hawkers, breakers of the the substantial grounds that the colony is Oplum ordinances, and petty offenders not in a position to afford such excessive generally, should be separated from rea! expenditure and that the present gaól is criminals. This suggestión was supported amplefor all requirements. The tax-payers by the Acting Registrar General (Mr. must be glad to fad this gentleman proving MITCHELL-INNES), who said he saw no rea- himself such an ardentadvocate of financial son why these classes of criminals should economy and retrenchment, and, departing | not be separated, and then stated that as from those ancient traditions which saddled a matter of fact they are so separated. the colony with the costly and unproductiva || As Mr. MITCHELL-INMEN acted AS The rupture of the Irish Party has been mere Causeway Bay reclamation and sundry | Superintendent of Victoria Gaul for one marked since the division on Mr. Labouchere's other similar white elephants.' Mr. year he ought to know something about motion. Fifty-three against and twenty-three KERWICK, however, is quite sound on the prison system-if that unfortunate for Mr. Parnell, Government demand the fall finance; and as he plainly stated, memory of his could only be relled time of the Hause unli Christmas." This was

no grounds whatever for on. That so-called municipal offendera carried by a large majority, anticipating any Increase In our revenue and the worst speles of criminals but rather the other way, and our expen-might be kept separated to some diture is steadily moving upwards. It considerable extent is likely enough, but would have been just as well, and must that they are as a matter of fact kept Ma. W. S. Agnon, of H.M.'s Consulate, Shang- of the Finance Committee held last Friday: have enhanced the value of his opinions, separate, as the Acting Registrar General, has been appointed Acting Vice-Consul at The Estimates were under consideration if the honorable member had taken the contended, is a wide stretch of that dla Pigods Anchorage, oce Mr. E. H. Parker. and it was on the vexed Gaol Extension trouble to make himself personally tinguished officer's imagination. The vote that the people's (?) representatives acquainted with Victoria Gaol before unfortunate who gets three or six months Tax General Managers (Messrs, Jardine, Mathe met the official phalanx in battle array. taking part in such an important contro hard labour for gambling, or being conson & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China A sum of $140,000 had been set down, versy, but that ammission can be set cerned in as extensiva oplum plant, is Steam Navigation Co's steamer Wingsangs $100,000 of which amount, were assumed aside asa more matter of detail. Members exactly on the same footing as the criminal from Calcutta, left Singapors for this post yester to be required next year, but as neither of Council who only represent themselves who has been convicted of larceny between day evening, the Acting Colonial Secretary nor any of can hardly with fairness be expected to the misdemeanant and the felon the prison his colleagues, not even the Surveyor bother themselves about any outside | rules make nodlatinction. Mr. MITCHELE General, could specifically explain what interests. That is one of the special Imes is of opinion that solitary confinement this money was wanted for, nothing else beauties of our present system of selecting is a deterrent even to Chinese, but the value but opposition to such an unsatisfactory Hongkong's unofficial honorables, and of, that opinion is greatly reduced when and unbusiness-like..... proposition was it is worthy of imitation elsewhere--at wefind that his authority for It is merely reasonably possible. And, gratifying to Chinese Kowloon, Macao, or somewhere. "becanssit almost stands to reason that a relate, for once the 'unofficiali,' if mot i My, T. H. WHITEHEAD, who secunded the l man, afer his day's libour would much

The Honghong Lelegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER §, 1890.

Tez unofficial members of the Legislative

Council had quite a field day at the meeting

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LOCAL" AND GENERAL

THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers will play the following programme at Officers Mess this evening, commencing et 3.45 o'clock -

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Export" androging Walátortale "The Bebamiza Olsi", Bella,

audience when they come of age,

disease, and various other points will be taken. up in the reparts Dr. d'Silva takes with him quantity of medicines and medical atores to be used in the course of the tour. Mr. Becher will, says the Free Preti, visit Bentong, Sungel Dus, Tras, Simpan, Pessom and Ketchau, returning

M.. A. MAY bas forwarded us the result of the last Oxford Local Examinations (Hongkong Centro),

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Pussed the Senior, but over age —— Tamezari Tokita of Victoria College,

Juniors who have passedom sh F. H.Benning of Diocesan Home. H. A. Lapsley

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THE manner in which the Emperor of China has granted leave of absence" to his Ex. Liu, Governor of Formosa, reminds us of the Indignant Irishman who, after haranguing as acquaintance for upwards of 15 minuter, sud. denly ejaculated Oil-trate ye with allint cantimpt, be gorrak," "The leave of absenca is communicated to the indefatigable Lía la anedict thus-Liu Ming-ch'uan has memorialized Us that, iba nick-koays accorded him having expired, St. Joseph's Collega

and his lunces, not being any better, his office: es may be taken from him that he many retire to' zal nurse himself; but should this request of his not curi | be granted, he prays that he may be allowed to kwetum from Formosa and consult a good doctor, « ** Iniɛre-entering into correspondence with Us is/ this free and easy manner, Liu Min chчian lễ guilty of a breach of etiquette which: We now depornce as such Three months' leave; how avor, le granted him to be spent at his post, , which he is not permitted in jours.

Public School

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