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THE SHANGHAI MIXED COURT,

A-TIMELY ARTICLES

The laws of a country, says the Shan, Pat, are instituted for the sole purpose of preventing its people from doing mischief. When the laws are infringed, the offenders should be dealt with according to the provisions of the laws,

This is the only way to make the laws respected

by everybody. If the offenders are given severor punishments than the lave provide for, then people will despise the laws and do not care to observe then. But unfortunately this is exactly the state of affirs now prevalent in Shanghai under the administration of the so- called Mixed Court.

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When the Mixed Court of this part was in its infancy, it contined itself to dealing with civil cases and sma'l criminal cases, only, All -criminal cases of a serious nature were trans- ferred to the Magistacy, in the native city, Except in those cases in which the offenders were found guilty of arson or robbery, imprisonments exceeding six months or one year were saldoin given. It never happened that a criminal was sentenced to be cangued more than two weeks or to receive more than In busdred blows. But, of late years, criminals have been frequently sentenced to three or four years' imprisonment, three or four months' ranguing, and five or six hundred blows. Sometimes a criminal is made to undergo several forms of punishment-first fogged, then cangued, then imprisoned, etc. Even female criminals are often awarded five hundred blows on the back or given one year's imprisonment. The jail is over-crowded with prisoners whose appearances are so miserable that we cannot bear to look at them

What is more startling is that different punishments are frequently given to offences of the same nature and degree. The above ano unlies in the Mixed Curt go a long way to show that steps should be taken to rectify matters,

AGAINST OPIUM SMOKING.

MEMORIAL THAT OFFICIALS BE ORDERED TO QUIT.

Word has come from Peking of a memorial to the Throne looking to reform in the common vice of op'um smaking. A high official is the petitioner. He prop ses to banish opium from China, and to break all officials of the habit within a year. By means of the example thus set he hopes for the discontinuance of the drug among people at large.

His proposition provides that an allowance of half a year is to be given among officials whose age is above seventy years; for those between. fifty and seventy years, a period of three months i given, and for those under fifty the time is limited to one month. All officials are be required to cut off their. babits accordingly and if any one be found to be indul ing in this drug after the expiration of the settled periods, they are to be im- mediately cashiereil.

To all the military officers, soldiers, and yamen runners, a period of one month is given and if they neglect to quit smoking after that time, they are to be dismissed. Expectant officials, who are addicted to this drug are to become inciigible to any position in the government,

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Although the memorial, seems to meet no opposition, there seems little chance of more than formal approval because many of the palace officials are heavy smokers and it is reported as quite hopeless to break them of the habit either by persuasion or by order.- Shanghai Times,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1902.

THE GREAT NORTHERNS

GLACIER.

STEADILY ADVANCING SOUTH,

anon

The onward march of the slippery and rest less Muscovite towards the ice-free parts of northern China and the confines of China proper has been aptly compared with the motion of a huge glacier ever and moving faster (carrying all before it) as approaches the more temperate zones. We have seen how quickly it glided over East Siberia once it had got south of the Amur River, and bow, in very recent times, it glided gracefully

over Manchuria, reaching the sea at Port

general elect on, Ministers are said to be thoroughly weary and disgusted with the opposi tion excited, and govemments will probably be in the futuro:even more chary than in the

past, of attempting to handle a subject fraught with so much danger to themselves. The con troversy now promising to redouble in violence is entirely unconcerned with Education. For popular purposes, the Bill, with all its clauses, schedules, preamble and the rest is summed up in phrase--"Act to deliver the Noncon- formists over to the control of the Church of England," or "Act to benefit the children of Dissenters at the expense of those of the Angli.

can or Roman persuasions," according to the point of view of the objector. It is but just to say that the irreconcilables are very.more -numerous among the opponents of the Bill than. among the adherents. Church folk, though a little sore over the necessity for compromise in matters they deem really important, do still, for the most part but that only by yielding, these things can they hope to obtain the

new Act. benefits offered by the expressing an opinion as to the attitude of Lord Hugh Cecil and the small band of extremists who act with him, I find the disposi tien to accept Sir. W. Walrond's compromise is very general among Churchmen. They will surrender the

"CONSTANT ATMOSPHERE OF

Without

Arthur and the neighbouring port of Dalny (Chinese, Tulienwan). These are the advances of the Eastern portion of the luge mass; what about the rest of it? A correspondent of the Manchester Guardian tells about its move- ments, silent yet rapid. The correspondent describes as an eye-witness, what he calls a "secret strategic railway" joining the Great Siberian Railway with Kalgan, a place on the Great Wall a hundred miles west of Pekin. The map accompanying the report shows that the new branch leaves the main fine at a junction about seventy miles west of Khailár in Man. churia, and proceeds due south along the flanks of the Khingan mountains. The strategic value of the line in case of a Russian advance upon Pekin is indisputable, as it saves some 470 miles of the route vid Kharbin to Dalny, and on which the Roman Catholics lay so much in addition avoids crossing the desert. The stress, and permit the instruction of their own correspondent went through Manchuria in children by accredited teachers of the various disguise, and clalins to be the only foreigner Dissenting bodies, at the same time as the who has passed along the Khailar section clergy or their representatives are teaching of the Siberian line without an escort. He Church' doctrines to the children of the Church, himself saw the junction of the new lineIt is quite possible that Nonconformists under- last autumn, and from natives who had rale how great a concession this is—for they been at work on it be learned of its direc-have accepted the offer in anything but a tion and the distance to which it had then friendly spirit. It is exceedingly unfortunate, been lid. Although capable of bearing mili-but the main issue-the welfare of the chil lary and goods traffic, it is only lightly ballasted dren-is now entirely obscured behind one of those outbursts of fanatical religious con. -what we call in England a "construction" line-and he argues that if the rate of progress troversy which have been so regrettably pro-

this year was maintained the fine will have nearly reached Kalgan by this time. The political importance to England of this dis covery might have been considerable if the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1899 had not waived all the right to interfere with Russian conces sions north of the Great Wall. As it is, the

responsibilities of our alliance with Japan only become graver in view of this proof of sinister designs on the integrity of a vast Empire which has already been sufficiently impaired for pur. 'poses which are fully apparent when taken in conjunction with the advances of Russia to wards Thibet in quite recent times. Verb, sap,

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

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LONDON, September 26th, 1902. MTTERS EDUCATIONAL We are in a state of mild anxiety respecting Education which forms the one subject that at the present time every person recently pro- moted to late dinner and long skirts, or the dignity of cigare.tas smoked with assurance under the paternal eye is ready primed to dis- .cuss. Argument deals with both branches of Education-the Bill on the one hand, and Pro, fessor Dewar's fierce onslaught on our great public schools on the other. With regard to the Education Bill which has already taken a form very different from that in which it made its original bow to the British public, it gives some proinise of bringing about a OTTAM & CO., FOR WASHING

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minent during the last few years. What will be the issue, even the most experienced politicians seem unwilling to prophesy-other- wise seeing the size of the government-majority- to which practically the whole Irish vote will beadded, I should have confidently assumed that in the end the Bill will he put through. Apropos of the possibility of an election in the spring, it is stated that the three Boer generals will attend the sittings of Parliament during the winter, with the greatest regularity. A change. of Ministry might, in ather eyes, alter Boer prospects considerably.

Much regret is expressed to-day on all sides at the

BRUTAL ATTACK UPON JOHN KEYSIT last night at Birkenheid, through which the protestant leader now lies in grave danger of his life. His assailant is quite unknown but Mr Kensit's proceedings in Liverpool have: amused great indignation throughout the dis. trict, and it is to be feared the crime lies at the door of one of his religious opponents,

Some comment has been heard in this entry on the painful and unseemly wrangle around the bier of the late Queen of the Belgians. King Leopold has always been rather popular in this country, but the want of ordinary good-feeling, displayed on such an occasion, has attracted much unfavourable attention, although the newspapers following the good traditions of the British_gress have refrained from remark calculated to annoy a Sovereign or friendly terms with our own. Court mourning for three weeks has been

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ordered, and Frincess Stephania oa ber return to Dover received a most sympathetic letter from our King and Queer—the Princess was tenderly attached to her mother who frequently asked that she might be summoned during the last illness-alast pleasure, denied by the severity of her Consort..

Government of the control of

The probable assumption by the British

THE CHARTERED COMPANY, at an early date is receiving surprisingly little attention except in financial circles. › The fluctuation of the Company's shares has in- dicated, for some time, a City agitation, but it is only in the last ten days that rumour has crystallised into a more or less authoritative forecast of the Company's future. The determin- ing cause for government action was undoubted ly the death of Mr. Rhodes whose Imperialism was a known quantity and who stood for a power which no intrigue could turn from the path of British interests. With his removal, the bulk of authority devolved upon Mr. Beit, against whom it is needless to say no accusa tion of disloyalty or weakness has ever been breathed. But Mr. Beit is a German by birth, andthe factinevitably colours his outlook." More. over, he does not command that universal and unstinted obedience and confidence which gave to Mr. Rhodes his chief weapon for the Empire in South Africa. For these and other reasons the Government is believed to contemplate taking over the Company's interests on terms to be presently agreed apart from immediate causes even the plan is one which recommends itself to nearly all who are cognisant of Afrien -the Chartered Company as constituted has sometime been of the nature of an Imperium in Imperio.

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Mails.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. (THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.)

PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

STEAMERS.

INABA MARU.

W. Bainbridge

VAWATA MARU........

A E. Moses

SADO MARU

W. Thompson KAGOSHIMA MARU.

K. Kori

KaGa Maru*

J. W. Ekstr.ind IDZUMI Maru

M. Yagi..... HITACHI MARU

J. Campbell KAWACHI MARU

J. S. Thompson. KUMAND MARÚ

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DESTINATIONS.

(MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-Y

'WERP, VIA SIngapore, Penang, |

COLOMBO and Port Said

SAILING DATES.

SATURDAY, 1st Nov,

Daylight

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIASATURDAY, 18 Nov, at

THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE

and BRISBANE ...........

NAGASÁKI and KOBE

KOBE and YOKOHAMA VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE,

COLOMBO

and

U.S.A., VIA SHANGHAI, Moji, KoBE and YOKOHAMA (SINGAPORE,

BOMBAY MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT- WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and Pour SAID .... KOBE and YOKOHAMA

Noon.

MONDAY, 3rd

4 P.M.

TUESDAY, 4th Nov,

Noon.

TUESDAY, 4th Nov.,

4 PM.

FRIDAY, -- 7th" "Növ.,

Nood.

SATURDAY, 15th Nov.,

Daylight.

FRIDAY, 21st Nov.,

(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-7 FRIDAY, 28th Nov,

HAMA

Daylight.

Noon.

Noon.

SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIASATURDAY, 29th Nov, at

THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE ...............................

*Through Passenger Tickets issued for the Frincipal Cities in the United States, Canada -- and Europe, in connection with the GRFAY NORTHERN RAILWAY un Adantic Steamers. Round-the-World Tickets also issued. Between Moji and Kobe, 1st and 2nd Class Through Passengers have the Option of Travelling by the Sanyo Railway.

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COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

PAQUEBOTS-POste Francais.

NOTICE,

The Cape army is pouring into England-- 20,000 men are at this moment on the high seas in addition to the thousands already home I find among officers a good deal of nervous- ness as to the policy of so rapidly denuding the country of seasoned troups. I am told that there are fully 1,500 armed irreconcilables lying quiet in the hill-country of the Transvaal awaiting their opportunity, which this rather undignified scramble away is likely to afford them. This number sounds infinitesimal, but in a country friendly to the insurgents, it is quite possible for a mere handful to endanger peace and do much mischief, as, Heaven knows, we ought to have learned by this time. By the end of the year only the ND, the Company's Steamship standing garrison of 50,000 men will be left in the four Colonies-even the most optimistic may be excused a little shiver of anxiety.

The Boer Manifesto has evoked very con siderable feeling in London, and strategically was a very ill conceived stroke-if, however, it apens the eyes of simple John Bull who be lieves all men to be as fair and straight and generous as himself, it may after all be document of some value to humanity.

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N MONDAY, 3rd November, "ERNEST SIMONS," Captain Dupuy-Fromy, with Mails, Passengers, Specie and Cargo, will leave this Port for MARSEILLES, við BOMBAY.

This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the ss."Australien, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port Said and Marseilles. on the 15th November Direct to Suez, Port

Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.

A. 6. MIHARA,

ORIENTAL

-Manager.

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STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for Baravia,

PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS) HE Steamship

"CHUSAN," Captain C. L. Daniel, carrying His Majesty's BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 8th November, Mails, will be despatched from this, for e at Nood, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.

The Kelantan "affair" is discussed with

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, various degrees of wisdom-down to comment

Shipping Orders will be granted till Nona, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will of unmitigated rubbish-by the newspapers, Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M.ba transhipped at Colombo into a steamer but not a single member of the general public Specia and Parcels until 3 P.M.. on the 2nd proceeding direct in Marseilles and London can be induced to take the smallest interest in, Nov, (Parcels are not to be sent on board; other Carge for London, &c., will be conveyed- th: matter. Probably not one person in a

they must be left at the Agency's Office) Con-vid Bombay with Transhipment. thousand knows even now whether we "seized" | tents and Value of Packages are required

Parcels will be received at this Office until. the State, or whether we did not-probably For further Particulars, apply at the Com.P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and most are uncertain if such a State actually | pany's Office. exi ts at all.

G. DE CHAMPEAUX,

*Agent. Hongkong, 21st October, 1902.

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fetched the highest price (453), whilst Victor BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Trumpet's was a good second, realising £42. The sum of 13 was given for Ranjitainhji's bat, and £8 for Jessop's

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Steamers, Captains. Tous. 1902.

Duke of Fife.J. S. Cox......... 3,821 Nov. Shawmut...W. H. Smith... 9,606 Nov. Tacoma....A. Dixon

3,811 Nov. 15

Steamers marked (*) bave no passenger accommodation.

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