CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869_Part_001

Vol: VIL Public Officer Part !!! Miscellaneous Offices Miscellaneous Officer Miscellaneous Mix Collaneous Whitehall Registered No.6.790 In any further correspondence on Liss subject, the abger Hamber should be quoted Gou? infi 78, trong trong General Post Office, London, 21th 1869. I am directed by the Portmanten feneral to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th Instant, transmitting copy of a despatch from the Officer administering the fovernment of Hongkong, stating that, on the application of the lenited States Port Office, he has approved, on certain conditions, of the provisions of the Postal 94/68. Convention between the Colony and the United States being extended to Books And Pamphlets ; and, in reply. I am to acquaint you, for the information of Lord Granville, that his Lordship sees objection to the proposed extension. of the Convention. 730. Hong King 7381697 MINUTE PAPER. Sie & Roger Anfalet 4. food. affering. Your very sbedient Servant Meta Tage Post Office -788 Horwortin Dr Randonnell In 24/1169 In Rohmon 1/2 Si Mqus 1/1⁄2 1st February 1869. Home the honou Acknowlage the richt Me for Hand Brunken, Despotit nobis of the to Express En approval othe arrangements madi Zou fort for the Extension & Books spamphlet. the provisions of the Portal Convention The Tolong the Unilia Stater Miscella 756. Hong Kons. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL* SCIENCE, WITH WHICH IS UNITED TY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. ED FIRDAM STREET,AATILL PAZI W c. 1860 quary 14 1864 13185/68. On tchalf of the Council bey to apply for the answer copy of the answer by the Governor of Hong Kong to a memorial, ad- dreford to your predecessor by by The stomping Association Committee of thes on India and the Colo- mes, in Seference to gambling farms to Hong Kong. The reply in question, though ad- 1. dressed to G. W. Hastings Esq. Mairman of the Council of this of Association has not been received by Mr Hastings, although consider. able portions of it have found into the public press. At the same time I request may copy of all the correspondence Lu mice. Offices, which has taken place between Mer Nurrow and Mr Whyte formerly chief magistrate of Hong Kong and which was made inadvertently forward from this office before a copy had been taken. I remains The Right Honorably Sarl Granville Your most obe&t sert Edwin Pears. corefacy of State for the Colonies General decrating 257 trong sáng MINUTE PAPER. Sh. E. Sandford Lee 13105 Hong Kay d menulis on it. also nemale on 13790 Attached 1 in the auran half form the for. L. the Aporation. S. J. Magn. As of the Gremor has printed To the "sonal Suena Apporation - has apparents libe it fund its way ails the passen Shill for ped In the cases of its filed with 13185/65 As the Mucherers in 1035's an unt onquil buls Copies. think the ansovalin may be wind & the aynich en and punted copy of Gods dph go. cannot fail And other with than wpis hue tha, no lugu "popup & nipon. pusin on the to late a copy of then will an alloud & dou Hong Kong Right Honorable The part Granville K.G. Meesty's Principal Secretary of State for Ansee? 4 Februay. 26 Mach 187 •ma 1869- The Memorial of The Standing Committee for India and the Colonies of The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. PRINTED FOR PARLIAM Shewath 3... I That on the first August Cast the Memorial x against the granting of farmer of Gambling Houses by Leertain parties at Heligoland and Hong Kong of which Cossy is now enclosed, was presented to your lordship's Predecessor the Duke of Buckingham and Chandas by forer Memorialists and in the course of the If they received from this Grace under date the Auguol simple acknowledgment that K. and Locial Levine received it. Locial Scenes favored with even an No further communication has been received 9306 168. from your Lordships Department on the subject of that Heligoland Memorial nor have Memorialists been as yet acknowledgment of either of their too subsequent communications to your predecesser, apoei the one in the same month of August transmitting a 10355 768. " printed Copy of their allemorial in which some emissions 598 marginal references were pripplied, and the other 13185 /88. in this ensuring month of September tranmith; of Orpins Locial Leiince of a then recent correspondence between a Gentlemant from Hory Hong from whom they had obtained them Apocr 756 169. and Mr While the late Chief Magistrate of folice at Hong Kong in confirmation of the former statements of Your Memorialists as to the true causes of the failure of Criminal Justice at Hong Kong, in the matter of the offences of gambling and keeping of gambling tables, and in illustration of the official documents. so largely referred to by them in their former ettemorial, upon that portion of the subject: This prolonged silence on the part of the Cute Secrctory of Hate with respect to their slemorial and its prayer is by gravost subject of complaint to your Lordship. Within the last few days Your Memorialists having learned to their exceeding surprise, from English Newspaper, that Official Letter to their Secretary from the Government of Hong Kong was in circulation here and having, through personal application to a proprietor of an Overland Miscellar. :) (The London and China Telegraph") obtained for the frist time a perusal. perusal of the document in question, as published in his Number of the 7th. altine, have now to represent to your Lordship on the authority of that Gentleman (Mr. Height of Number 2 Cowper's Court Comhill) that be received it about the end of last November from the Hong Hong authorities, in a printed form, for publication ༼༽༼ /}. བ གཉས་ གདཅག བཙམ་ ཐ བ here; that it must have been privately printed-for China Newspapers hitherto allusion to the fact of such of the Hong Kong received is there any deanuent being in existence or intended to be; and above all that, although it beare date" October 208 1868," and the signature of the Colonial Secretary of del alleshal 41365 Extract from obtained Hong Hing and; (penporting as it does to have been Dent by command of the Governor, Jought to have been sent to its destination along with the Despatches of the Governor to Europe, nevertheless neither the original itself amy Copry or Notice of it has been as yet received by the gentleman to whom, of the accompanying Copy from "The London and China Telegraph" be coured the document for as it is hiere called the " Despatch") in question purports to be addressed. They enclose the copy so So far as Your Memorialists have been able to learn, the other Officers and Members generally of their Association have hitherto been kept in the same ignorance on the subject of the so called "Despertch" or letter, with themselves whose only of knowledge. convist as yet in the alleged. Copy of it which accompanies the present Memorial and procured by them until last week. If it were necessary to enlarge upon the apparent impropricty of the above proceedings of the) Hong Kong Government Your Memorialists might. justly advert to the fact that, as stated in the final paragraph of the "Despatch" or letter in questions, the main, if not the only, object of sending it at all was to obtain the reparatione the immediate there demandel: reparation for one misrepresentation of fact alleged - to be contained in their former Memorial, and insisted apon by the Hong Kong Government not only paragraph, but also in the first cleven paragraphs of that so. called "Despatch" eberious that It is very nature ought not for demand of that moment to have been withholdin withholden by the Authorities making it from the whom they proftfeed persons on to make it; and = that, by being kept so long in the dark, as to the existence of such a demand the latter are at this moment obnoxions to the serious misconstructions. of the public, in respect of their long and unexplained reticence in the presence of such a demand. It is equally obvious that the non-publications at Hong Kong of a document mcant for instantaneous publication here, and the entire ignorance of the Community there of the very existence of such a document, must have again prevented the expression on its part of any dissent & from the views signified by His Excellencef, in the "Despatch " or better in letter in question. more than one paragraph strangely represcate to be in entire conformity - as those signified jouner occasion were said to be with the views Community in general and of every person whe ever resided in China. Your Memorialists do not doubt that this method of suppressing in the Colony, and also from Your Memorialists, and at the same time publishing to the world, paper which contains, at the Danv demand of satisfaction of personal hiney with honor, the pectended reply to the main articles of accusation against the local Government presented t by the late Memorial will be regarded by yout Pordship neither as regular in respect to the traditions of Your Department, nor at satisfactory : satisfactory as itself not yet að compensatory for the cxtraordinary silence which with regard to their will founded and respectful complaints of Colerial mal-administration (four predecesser appears to have considered it to have been his duty to pursue. to enter. Into the possible reasons which may hereafter be alleged in palliation, if not in defence, of the s proceedings of which they complain, they do not pretend. It is very possible that their endeavours to confècture those reasons might be misguided and therefore thrown away. They have also now the a patisfactions to think that they can better attain the information which they seek upon that part of the case by asking Your Lordship to afford it: unanswered Before they conclude, your Memorialists desire to add to their former and in yet altogether. Manorial a four remarks apour the pretended reply. to it which is offered by the accompamping bef indeed it be genuine of the so called "Der Letter of "October 20* 1868 In the first place they draw the Your Lordship to the fact that the Appendix' to which the paper in question professes to refer as evidence of the bruth of its statements has been excluded from the printed Copy sent; an omission of some significance. because the Govenor's accompamping "Financial Statement Pinted By for 1809 of which that supposed "Appendiy is there stated to contain Extracts, and which had reached this. October 1908 the hands of Your Memorialists through quite another Legestation channel, so far from supporting the statemento question furnished the strongest proofs of their inaccuracy and of the factility of the arguments, founded repon their, by which the Hong Kong Government pretend to impeach the truth and jewtice of the original complaint of your Memorialists; viz. that the measures upon one point? Govermen Government for the Licensing of Public Gambling the Chinese of Hong Kong, through. Governments. Farmer of Licenses, for fees and rewards received by Governinent, is open not only to the more obvious reproach of being altogether at variance with mocality and policy, but also to the particular reproach of being intended as A. of swelling the colonial revenue and diminishing Imperial expenditure upon local Establishments. For, in that State paper, addressed. to his Legislative Council, the Governor of Hong Kong, longer. aut en 1867-8 affects to set apart the monies received from such to local re Alvenuci source, ad not properly belonging applicable to local purposes, but now at least, clowns to deal with: themas part of that revenue and to apply them to those purposes, and this: too in aid of ordinary revenue which according to the same statement is very largely f very largely in excess of expenda They also observe with surprise and regret that this change of policy is protified in the same State paper, on the ground that His Excellency had been recently empowered by your Lordship's predecessore to effect it. Nevertheless, of the alleged "Despatch " or Letter be a genuine document, Your Memoriatrist, challenged to retract their original statements, on that head, and in the form at least in which they are worded. And, to give exlor to the demand an issue, altogether einmaterial, is attempted to be raised upor the word "highest" occurring in one solitary passage of their former Memorial (viz, that the Gambling Houses ' Farın "had been granted to the highest bidder" -JI must seem to Your Lordship as it does to your Memorialists Memorialists, that the reproach to which this Challenge refers, consisted in the creation of such a Form and in the putting it up for sale at all, whatsoever) may have been the other conditions. which the acceptance of the bid at such sale was made to depend. If, therefore, their former Memorial had incorrectly stated the effect of the proceedings of the Hong Kong Government particular so irrelevant to the gist of their complaint to take exception to it upon that ground. would be. altogether beside the question; and, if taken equally idle for Your Memorialists to accept the discussion. But they do not ademit that their former statements on this head _ when read with the context are open even to that extent, to the charge of inaccuracy. The Government of Hong Kong do not venture to say that the "offer" of "upwards of 300,000 dollars was made a "bidder" (indeed the vagueness of worded precludes the supposition of that bring case) and the fact (if it be one) that the Government was contented to accept a lower bid (with good security for punctual payment or permanent continuance than they might otherwise have gotten) is perfectly Consistent with the fact that the bidding accepted. upon such conditions. was according to the ordinaraff acceptation the highest yet this is the issue, the establishment of which, as the "Fespatch" or Letter Expressly states in its last paragraph, is the one single object to which the whole of that pretended reply to the former Memorial is devoted. Your Memorialist do not feel that they are called upon to re state the facts and proofs, expon which that Memorial was founded, and of which none are refuted; now, except by an occasional denial so much as noticed, _ by the "Despatch" or better in questions whilst the silence of the Governor as lo orang would seem to confess them to be true . They afford to pass by the repeated yet unfounded assumption that their Committee consists of persons not one of whom hav ever rounded in China or Hong Kong or who have had any mease of becoming practically acquainted with the doings of the Hong Kong Government. It is the suchtages. plerectyped Adfechon, although an often refuted one; and it will be difficult to persuade Your Lordship that the great traditions upon which the Colonial empire of England was planted, and to which, according to the as yet unfulfilled prognostics of the founders of Hong _Kong, as quoted in the former Acmorial, the laws govirement and policy of that Colony -especially adapted as an example to the neighting Empire gare out of place in the present discussion or are not binding upon the present Government of that Colony, or that any objections to its proceedings which be based upon those traditions ought to be Considered as open to disparagement on the part of that Government as the mere sentimental objections" of "well-meaning persons" in England, “ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which "Justify a policy" " (Paragraph 244.) at so little to be . defended upon principle, (ow it is at the same hive confessed, that but for his locals experience, the Governov han say Sumilar remonstrance, and applauded hindef for subscribing it :(Paragrapl: 12) would have subscribed Jafew flommons and 15-60) pp 3-21. no reason to qualify in Your Memorialists sce the least the adherence which theng now express to the ofatements of their former Memorial. They trust that considered; - by your Lordship at least it will be now and, in considering it, that due weight will be givens to the important evidence to which its marginalt zu references will direct Your Lordship – But to ove of those proofs they may now not unprofitably make particular reference, seeing that the "despatch" or letter before their contains the broad although unsupported aftertion that the increa increase of gambling at Hong Hong past was not due to any defect in the laid or any array Dupureness the part of the local authorities. The Tespatch of for Fire Hércules Robinson of the sixteenth December one thousand eight hundred and. (862) Para sixty one", [liansmitting Copy of the Mantes" of that " Enquiry " into the conduct of the Register Goal of Hong Kong and "Protector General of Chinese "Ahtoldwhi I. P. which lead then recently ended in the conviction and dismissal of that Magistrate) is the document to which your Memorialists refer, If, as has been stated, the grant of the Gambling Houses Farm has been in any way negotiated conducted with or through that person, the document acquired a new- and paniful witerest in its bearing "this question . couc - it hav Butit has Jen any importance of its own';_ for it clearly proves not only the non-exccution of the Ordinance of Hong Kong, and the other laws against Gambling, but also the connivance of the one particular pubordinate to whom the Government- would have looked for the practical fulfilment of Their naturally & Note. Les last note. their duty in that respect. The Paragraphe cited in the margint shew what in Governor Sive Hércules Robinson's judgment, had been ascertained by the Commission of Enquiry on the following points. Mr Caldwell and China-man o perivol. Wong were from very soon after the beginning of the Colony, two of its Inhabitants. They Parkers. en peratical ships, and other disreputable adventures. had Mr. Caldwell placed his "grent influence and power as a principal subordinate of Government at his partner's "disposal." This lasted until the latter was convicted of piracy and transported in September one thousand eight hundred and fifty Mr Caldwell retained all his power as sole Magistrate or Protector General of the Chinese until the twenty fourth September one thousand eight hundred and sixty one when he was dismissed from all his Officce upon proof of his above Connections with Machow Wong: During the whole of the time of their partnewhip, "Pirates and other, ruffians (resortint to the Island, }) were provided with professional assistance when charged with offences against the "law"" _ "Complainants or witnesses were intimidated"; _ and "the great influence", which the Chinese confederate possessed through the English confederate; was so " frequently to obstinct or pervert the cou w exercided as of Inotice". In addition to those instances of tho guilty practices of Machon Wong, this Excellenery pottenlund anterapin describes kinn Textortioner, 0.0 "of bribes from gambling houses, a recipient confederate of priate, and a receiver of stolen goods," and adds. Chinese of standing and property would not-n " appear against him " on account of him" evidence they read thig were in terror of their lives. This striking illustration of the rest of the on that part of the case will be better appreciated, if your Memorialist remind Your Lordships that only four years had clapsed from Mr. Caldwell's fall when the first draught of the Gambling houses Ordinance was laid before the Legislahic Council - that the only Ordinance then in force for the proposed prevention of the crine of Gambling, was the original Ordinance of 1844, whose lamentable defects and exrows had always been notorious. Your Memorialists most respectfully request Your Lordship to take Memoriales into your consider allow them the honor of an with Your Lordship for the purpose of explaining and enfreeing there statements and complaints. And Memorialists will ever Erin Pears General Secretary. 849. Hong Kong moni69 MINUTE PAPER. Si E. Sandford 756 came back & me this moming – oncegeoutly the Menten are und artist on On the Ary: last thi apponation surt a Reminal the D. Menhusham Luning eference garallerin Helepland panters of gaming house licence. Zei war sonfly acheroolidged. On the 8th Seft: then litter from the Murrow (he had snie was con- been Explor of mort suontons dannhafer writea of ouch "mis ripe cnotariin in Hong Kong) to th. Whyte " in correspt with this off in the 2 abene dulenia puttion corespondena who Lise Miscell 00 bem Olin hapstrate at Hong Kong copy of the Chulis auswver Loing referite. in chist li han L·- a care ferrant could not be funbed zu pentlig bul from It requried was then bem acha?, amdental delacy di was affic dividend bit I should be cu menulis on I- Rckey ofthi Kemeral farming affrand in var ofthi Coral Limprofess In the Aporation a having bene teen Glis R. Hardonnell, he wrote integrant 2. the fountion, sant andy li thai offric (infinite) 13185. all the Celement to aquatime Mached ttt** Caddeful 6. the Aponation what he hoped the d. openberghum would and tyard & thing fowarded to thear The Duke of Monbentane ded na obert, & exformed the for fit be have int fomarded it. du menulis à dust allachend to A copy the fovemori ksessen Sfeering Laufafer fullished in England, the Apponation complain that this chuld have been thi cave when they have rather ri the orginal On their pround I thrill they may complain – ishte for left it oftional, arbadest, Litar So Ifile li fonard it ought than warlord & yet ascertamid ted it was bullishing wind before. The Aponation ask for enterview & tin tour of pome haring aference to familling Licences. Explopment of Mr. Caldede in repard L. tie pant operences - which has been stoffed. Conflantisthin fovemens Livancial Statement in which be in fact-includes the Reccome from Brences in the General. MINUTE PAPER. Revann. But Die quution im at & biancy, has been so really efore Lnd from alle at I red withoutle obrenation. witte futhi the shald Land francible grant the requated stevores there may be some Conti on which his Laillah they wat for more particular. Uzy, For fun Minule on 756 herewith... The Gremor has put the Department in awkward position by pruting & puthishing, his heller & then befue he Kurs that the Sec. of tate die wet counts the Assouction butter of Much Intia.. Jus 27/1 Miscellan I should be dupond to ansam atma the and 756. State that the fir The Aponation sent to Bd. of truck with in the expersson Ja hope that Hy wind objed to its bring forwarded do its destination. Az that Dr. Kenn did ad; think it proper that it should be forwarded unsidoning that althi to for a properly defend him me the for pun officially, a in Parli it was hards rupes can of adduser of a Rusate Fish tat and Grancich rights that to Witte 123 han vum Cauthen and that it shouts to) hullertid and wasifus it gynoniam demate query mich On Saturday that the I of State should take iftene descupiens part in de the diventoris & dilace twr it in appears to be heading. But Kat while Lad Granite is wholly am from unclipe conter- Merz In is poly alin to the fact of the desertin with in putamen se ti RM has had to deal, Committer refe and bond the But that onlyist has already, he mud buss ansing Conselleration. (Iten accept a dubini to Fadd that as I da Rhin what With his in absent peontere pallinity bi als no difficult theman parade. copy eriginals intended pethe stro RM – that the copain Miscellant Slitter rpued to in the s hood off the official legends hot to rettemedy back that person who my at the office in whalf of the trist with le allowed Ital copiis ofte Bud Wipe give the interiis is sich externg all that and S. 12d han putty will consident tour poursite to social prome, 1. Ar gamthing homes to livened? 2. On what time. What is the dem Burne with patien auth Bur Calduck." the Menit in don about JR. fort decide, then Selestin Appendix Financial Statement" for 1869 abou forced to of Governor his RC Maldonner ng long legislative Council. 30cf 1868 direction where she bas once been steered. I can sooner than meddle officially with what they vouch for it that the production of our present call sin in the one case, or vice in the other, financial safety and purity required much and the they would leave both to mature and THE ESTIMATES. rigid economy and the strictest supervision, fructify-the pestilence to spread, and this city Etoros rext brought for a 11 Fue exercised prea with severity, over all the de- to be infested by illegal Gaming hunts, fre- estites tur 1869, an ordinance which he said partments, for the purpose of getting the colong qunted by the criminal classes, with the nɛnal was a try short one, but also very important as clear of the reef of bankruptcy to which I results to society of such assen.blages. More- by it the Council were asked to appropriate found her drifting, and which she may be said over, they seem to apply their theories to all the sum of $829,032,60 for the expenses of to have touched. It is nevertheless evidentibot parts of the world and to all populations alike. the ensuing year. To prevent mistakes in the large balance now in band is mainly attri. They would govern the axon race of Kent matter involving reference to so many figures butable to no economy possible for any Go- and the Chinese on the same principles, and he had prepared the following financial vernor, but is principally the result of two new would think it wrong to meet the exigencies statement, which members might consult | sources of Revenue, viz, the Stamp Ordin of each separate community with Legisla before the next meeting of Connell. ance and Fees from the Licensed Gambling- tion adopted to its local requirements. His EXCELLENCY then read the following houses, which this Government established last need scarcely say that no anch policy memorandam, viz :-- year, in default of any better means of control- has been countenabred by this Government. Last August, when explaining the Estimates ing certain dangerous classes of the commu- On the contrary, I and my Exeuntive Council for 1868, which I then laid before you, I was nity. All these causes have so changed the have from the first felt it a positive duty to obliged to draw your attention to the many tem- financial position of the Government from admit the existence of the two evils alluded to. porary and uncertain elements then involved in that in which I found it on my arrival, that and frankly acknowledge that we could not the calculations affecting the Revenue side of although the Liabilities of those days have suppress them. We feit consequently more expe- the account. In that respect I bave the satis, been discharged, and although in 1869, it is cially bound to exert ourselves to obtaiu a faction of thinking that the Revenue estimated | contemplated to raise by Hates for Police, practical control over evils which we had not for 1869 is one unlikely to be deranged by similar Water, and Lighting. $31,000 less than the the power to eradicate, and thereby at least disturbing influences, aud that as ought always sum estimated for the current year, I am now alleviate the mischiefs inseparable from each. to be the care in framing Estimates, there is a enabled to lay before you an estimated Expen. I am therefore gratified to report that not greater probabil oy of an excess than a deficiency ditnre exceeding One Million of Dollars, with merely has the new systero been successful in in the amount of Revenue estimated. At page every prospect that, nevertheless, there will closing the old dens of iniquity, and substi 3 of the Detailed Estimates which I now lay remain a surplus of $230,000 on the 31st De- tuting for them houses regulated by strict Go- before you the Excess of the Colony's Assets cember, 1869, reduced by unvailable coinage verament surveillance, but also that there is over ita Liabilities on the first Day of the to $170,000, and able practically to some strong reason to infer, contrary to the pro- present. Year is put down as $25.851, and hay- further diminution. if the Supplementary phecies not unuaturally indulged in at first. ing gone into the calculations, I think there is Estimates should obtain a greater development that the system has re-neted beneficially on little apparent room for error in that item. Ithan has been allowed for in the calculations the parties more immediately reached by may also remark that the surpins intended now submitted. That is a contingency always it. Thus, contrary to general expectation. as such would have remained on the first of possible, as, for example, it is not improbable and far exceeling any hope of my own, you last Jaunary after payment of all known Lia that owing to original defective construction will find from the Return which I now lay be- bilities, including arrears due for the Military and the sinking of the earth in its neighbour-fore you, that the crime which seemed most Contribution. The latter, however, can no longer hood, the necessity may arise for rebuilding likely to have increased is that which has most be counted as part of Colony's Liabilities because the Harbour Master's Office, which is already diminished. namely. Larceny amongst all sums due on that account, even to the 30th in a dangerous state. I last year stated thatyouts. During the first quarter following the September of this year, have been already dis- the possibility of such contingencies occurring opening of the Licensed Houses the number of charged. On the other hand, amongst your Asproves that this Colony, like any other large those cases brought before the Police Magis. sets are necessarily included sums, which are prac Pirm or business, should always retain an easily trates averaged the same as in the preceding tically unavailable, such as a large portion of available surplus, over and above Assets in the three years, viz., about 80, whereas during the the subsidiary coins, which cannot be refused at form of Rent and Taxes due. Such surplus first quarter of this year they had diminished the Treasury and which, therefore, keep steadily should not beless than from $100,000 to $130,000, 50 per cent, and during the second quarter 75 increasing, as the accompanying Return ex- and I must again press on you that although per cent. Recently all Foreigners have been ex- plains. From that Return you will perceive that the Estimates yow before you, show a surplus cluded from the Liccused Houses, because the on the first day of this month, the Colony pos- probably exceeding the above sum at the end arganent that licensing a few houses had been sessed no less than $43.482in Copper and Bronze of 1869, even allowing liberalty for the de- found essential to obtain control for Police ! coinage, the greater part of which may be re-mands of the Supplementary Estimates, I can purposes over a vice amongst the Chinese-- garded as being at present entirely useless regard such result as merely amounting to a which after the most vigorous efforts the exe- an amount which increases almost return to a sound financial status, such as cutive could not suppress-is not applicable every week. Occasionally. it is decreased should never be departed from. especially as to Foreigners, and therefore affords no justifica- by arrangements with Contractors for Publie amongst the items forming the Revenue for tion for permitting them to use the Licensed Works to take a portion of their money in 1800, is one which cannot recur, namely, $60,000 Houses, because it is not Foreigners who Copper, or by a rise in the value of the latter for the Plant and Machinery of the Mint. constitute the criminal classes of the Colony. coinage which was lately at par, but it is sure Hence, although the finances of the Colo-There is no risk therefore of Gambling ten- to find its way back to the Treasury whenever it ny are at last in a satisfactory state, it caunot dencies leading to the establishment of illegal falls below par in the markets of Canton or Hong- now be said that they will not require constant baunts where Burglaries and Robberies may kong. It is necesary also to bear in mind that the care and vigilance to preserve them in that he planned by those who meet in such places in Bronze, or mil coinage, amounts to $17,000, of condition. Before concluding the subject of defiance of the Law. I must add that, although which there is apparently uo prospect of getting Revenue I call attention to the fact that the it is true the Houses were originally licensed rid on any terms. This result is the more unfortu. fees from the Licensed Gaming Houses are without any intention of encouraging Foreigners nate, because those Coins bave cost a considerable now withdrawn from the beading of to go there. I am, nevertheless, now surprised extra outlay, from having beencoined in England available deposits. I lay before you the des- that it did not sooner occur to me to rid the instead of at the Mint of the Colony, whilst patch of the Secretary of State authorising licensing system of this its least defensible the heavy expense attending their manufacture application of that Revenue to certain Colo. feature, and it appears strange that no one else, abroad, and freight, etc., etc., from a distantial purposes-and till some meane of so far as I am aware, made the suggestion country has been proportionably augmented. obtaining equal control the classes earlier. When I had once become convinced of The avaliable Assets of the Colony must addicted to illegal Gaming with all its evil con- the propriety and saw the possibility of ex- therefore be diminished by those sums, whilst it sequences to the comunity can be devised, it clading Foreigners, I was quite prepared to must also be remembered that out of what might certainly seems wise to use it for the improve. make the most liberal abatement to the Li remain, if a creditor and debtor account were ment of a force which in i. groat measure censees of the fees which they were then pay- to be now balanced, a considerable portion is required to repress irregularities and ing, viz: $13,000 per month. I would willingly would consist of arrears of Rents and Taxes, crime, originating in or fostered by Gambling, have reduced them to $10000 or 28,000, or to which require time to collect, and part of It is at least wiser to devote it to that or other any other amount which might be proved which it is certain could not be recovered, useful public objects than to throw it into the necessary to compensate them for the loss en- Thus, although in my financial statement of sea, or get rid of it in some more objectionable tailed by the exclusion of Foreigners. Just August last year, the Colony's Asseta, on the manner, on the plea that no Revenue should then, however, the close of the first year of the 1st January, 1867, were stated to amount to about accrue from such a source. My creed on such operations of the Lie sees was approaching, I hold that a $24,000, yet small as that sum was, it would have matters is a very simple oue. and some disputes unexpectedly arose between been a delusion to expect to realise it in any Goverment is bound to do as much good and them and their agents when settling accounts. I have there which led to the discovery that, so far from shape. At present the Colony, independent of any suppress as much evil as it can. aubsidiary coinage, an item which exceeds fore not hesitated to advance straightforward losing, as they had endearcoured to prove they $60,000, holds here in Cash $190.135, and has towards that object. I have never been deterred had, through the many reductions which heil also a respectable Balance of about $10,000 in by the secondary consideration that a Revenue į made in their fees, they had been gainers during the hands of the Crown Agents to meet its fre- was unavoidably created thereby.-whether I the past year to an extent beyond the legiti quent Liabilities in England, a result which in liked or disliked that result,-nor have I been mate amount which the exigencies of the system a financial point of view is highly satisfactory. persuaded by the reasoning, if I may use such justified. At the same time, offers were made Perhaps some, who remember the difficul- à term, of some estimable persons, who appear to Government to take up the business by men ties of the local Treasury in 1886, may bence comparatively indifferout to the existence of of equal capital, and one offer based on urost infer that it is easy by a touch of the helm to a Public evil, provided their own theory, that excellent security, and with the understanding turn the vessel of the state like other vessels we should leave sin and vice alone, prevails, that Foreigners were to be excluded, amounted Nevertheless the ex- from the breakers, on which a slight mistake Such persons if they pursue their argument to $240,000 per annum. might so easily place her, yet the effort may to its legitimate conclusion, must be pre-perience acquired by the old Licensees, their be more arduous than appears, there are so pared to see our Navy and Army decimated readiness to expend money in detecting re- many currents which tend to drive her in the by a disease which Legislation can mitigate, turned convicts, and the effective assistance Miscellan which they had given the Police generally, be expected from a Law imposing a new tax, I¡ vide a suitable Vessel without being guilty of made me unwilling to change them for parties am unwilling to expand its operation so long any undue extravagance, whilst the recent less +perienced. "The old Licensees, therefore, us the fluances of the colony do not require such movements of Foreign cruisers about the Island, continue the business, but instead of at a re- aid more imperatively thum at present. and the erection of "a cordon of Customs' ata- duced fee of $10,000 per month they pay a fee of I shall not detain yon longer with details affect. tions round the Colony, are additional reasons $18,000. Thus one more is added to the nume- ing the Revenne side of the proposed Es why a loss discreditable Vessel should pr rous list of unexpected and improbable tintes except by calling attention to a slight cured without delay. The expediency ofholly so results, which the working of the experiment | diminution in the receipts expected from the was considered by myself and the Executive bas developed. In fact my own despatches on Harbor Department. This arises from the lower Conneil, and appeared to me sufficiently obvions the subject are throughout filled with similar seale of fees exacted now under the Harbor Or- and urgent to justify us in ordering an appropriate revera of previous calculations, and perhaps diuance of 1866, and not from any expected de- vessel to be constructed. So far there was no I am dow about to add one more to the series, crease in the number of Vessels frequenting the probability of there being any difference of when I express the opinion that, if Foreigners | Port. It never has hean the desire of Govern- opinion-but when at a second meeting of the be excluded, as under any circumstances uust ment to make a surplus Revoune from that! Executive Council it was urged on me that un- be the case, the fee of $18,000 per month will not source, and the success of the Ordinance in re-less such vessel was fitted with steam engines leave the Licensees a sufficient profit to make moving from the Colmy the most dangerons she would not be suitable to the wants of the them as careful as is requisite to retain characters and Pirates, permits now some re-colony, felt that the additional annual cost it by attention to the Government Regula laxation of the restrictions hitherto maintained entailed by the pay and maintenance of an tions. These explanations, which moreover have overthe movements of Native Craft in the waters engineer. expenditure of coals, &c., could only a special interest of their own, have become of the Colony, Turning now to the expenditure be justified by the previous sanction of this necessary, because the Council should know side you will find that notwithstanding the Connell. Therefore, if you agree with the mem. why the License Fees for the Estimates of the efficiency of every department is provided for more hers of the Executive Council, you will pass the ensuing year are not computed on the basis of effectually in the estimates before you than vote. whilst, if you differ from them, you can so high a figure as they now reach monthly, had ever before been contemplated, there would reduce it to such an amount as will leave you On the contrary the Estimate of the receipts appear to be a decrease on your estimated ex-with a very desirable but less effective sub- for 1869, has been left by me at $156,000 penlitare. $828,000 for 1869, as compared with stitute for the vessel which you now possess, and per annum, being the amount computed when that originally proposed for this year, viz. which donbtless none of you wish to retain. the calculations were entered into several weeks 8894,000. Ou public works and buildings it ispro- Provision has also been made for an Aa- back. At present the probability is that the posed to expend no less than $155,500 as com-sistant Superintendent of the Gaol, as I can. amount named will be exceeded, bat the uncer- pared with $65,500, which H. M.'s Government not but look forward with much anxiety to the tainty attending the subject is too great to finally sanctioned for the current year, which consequences of the resignation, or even absence justify an alteration of the original Estimate. latter amount, however, will probably be ex on leave, of the present very efficient Superin. Whether I myself, or the Council, or a ceeded. The expenditure on roads, streets and tendent, whilst I am also of opinion, an portion of the community approve or object to bridges, however, is diminished from $105,000, opinion strengthened by recent occurrences, that the receipt of any income from such a source, to $89,000, but includes once more $23,000 for independent of such contingencies, one man the fact that it bas nevertheless irrepressibly the Road to the Gap, which has already ap- cannot suffice for the maintenance and thrust itself into and may for some time pewed more than one on your Estimates, but control of the discipline and economy of so ex- constitute part of your annual Revenue till never been carried throngh, owing to want of tensive and troublesome an establishment.. a better system be devised to accomplish funds available at the time. A similar obser is scarcely fair to expect it, and probably you equally useful results, entitles the Council to vation applies to the proposed reclamation of will think with me that the Public interests the fullest details connected with it. ground near Bowrington, for which the same require an Asssistant from Europe, of such ex- Such a Revenue, therefore, is a necessary rate is proposed as in former years, viz., perience and position as may qualify hiu here- item in your financial calenlations, simply $10,000. It would however he most inconvenient, after for the duties which, on the whole, are now because it exists, and therefore must be dealt if I were to attempt to explain now every item so ably discharg d by Mr. Douglas. An with in some way, but it does not follow because of expenditure. It is very desirable you should additional Master is also needed for you must deal with it, or because it exists, that bave the fullest explanations on each, but the Central School, an Institution now fulfilling your object has been to create such a Revenue. details could not be compressed within the all the purposes which could reasonably have That is a common misrepresentation of the reasonable limits of an address such as this. been expected from it; whilst the daily atten purpose of myself and my Council, but it can I invite attention, however, to some en-dance there is such as readers it altogether have no logical force till it be shown that our tirely new items, such as that of $15,000 for hopeless that two European Blasters can object could be equally well accomplished in good conduet pay and special services of the adequately discharge all the duties, which they some other way unproductive of Revenue, with Police. Till my efforts to obtain a superior are obliged to undertake. With these oh which we are acquainted, and which we refuse to class of European Police shall be more successful servations I leave the Estimates for 1869 adopt. It probably answers however the purpose than hitherto, I object to an indiscriminate in your hands. I am quite aware that of those who use the argument, and who know very raising to the salaries of the different classes, the manner in which they are drawn up, well that most people take no trouble to master though as you will perceive, a considerable in conformity with instructions of H. M, the tedions details of a complicated question, addition has been made in that way also. I Treasury, is not of a very simple or intelligible. but as a general rule accept the popular theory, prefer holding out special inducements for nature. On the contrary, I have always ob. that all who adopt a policy which creates a Re. learning Chinese, and rewards for such services served that the present form leads to very venne do so for the sake of that Revenue. Snch as may exhibit unusual intelligence and activity. erroneous comments and conclusions; I need an inference holds good in most cases, because The Government has at least learned by not, however, remind you that it is your.. money is the most general object of men's pur- the experiment recently instituted that the privilege, I might almost say your duty, suits, but in what way such a theory can be magnitude of the sums at the disposal of the to obtain the fullest explanation on every matter applicable to myself or my Council is not gamblers would render a contest with them connected with the disposal of the Public funds. shown. To make the argument conclusive, we hopeless on the part of the Government for The ordinance was then read a first time. should be proved inter sted in drawing a Re-prevention of Police corruption by the mere venue from Gambling Licenses, whereas none raising of salaries. It would probably only of us can have the slightest possible interest in lead with men of that class to the acceptance the matter beyond our desire in the discharge ofa of bribes in addition to increased salaries. duty to the Public to choose the least objection Therefore, the present system which able evil, whilst personally I prefer to raise by tirely removes the possibility of such corrup increased taxation whatever additional Revenue tion 16 once prevailed, seems preferable. may be wanted for purposes that cannot be dis- The item of $7,000 for the Fire Brigade persed with. I have only to add before quitting is also new, but will not nearly cover the this subject that current ideas as to the abstrac outlay for that body, because much of the tion of large sums from regular commerce by heaviest and most necessary expenditure, such either losses or gains atthe new play Houseshave as that for Fire Engines, will have to be! little or no real fonudation. The probability is defrayed this year, and must therefore be that in former times there was quite as much provided for in the Supplementary Estimates. play as at present, whilst whatever be the pro. There is also an item of $40,000 for the fits now they are acquired by men of substance expense of construction and maintenance dur- engaged in general trade, and are only so much ing 1869, of a Colonial Steamer and a Steam added to their commercial capital. The Fees paid Launch. As you are aware the duty of visiting to the Colony are also destined to aid rather than the various ont-stations of the Harbor Master impede progress unless they be unwisely ex-round the Island has been hitherto discharged pended. The other new Branch of Reveune, viz., by means of a Junk fitted for the purpose. Her that derived from Stamps, has been estimated want of speed and seaworthiness greatly im at $100,000, but I apprehend that the receipts paired the effective character of her services, from this source may fall short of even that and bas been a serious drawback to the working] limited amount. The Return which I lay on of the Coasts and Harbor Ordinance. Above the table shows that the alterations effected by all there is no doubt that a Vessel of that the recent Ordinance No. 7 of this year, have class was very unsuitable to the position bitherto not materially affected receipts from of the Colony. "Her retention therefore su long Stamps, but the general stagnation of trade has in the service was only justified by the cou obviously an malavourable effect ou Revenne sideration that the duty conid not he deferred. derived from the number and amount of hasi- but had to be carried out in s me way, and as the neas truusactions. As, however, the Ordinance Colony was unable at the time to afford a more appears to work at present with as little incon. suitable Vessel, there was no option in the venience to the co...mercial community as CED At present this Government can pro-i The Dispatch letter above referredt. ŝi and comparatively safe conditions, a vent S funder worst conditions would have been the at inaction, it is very probable that, as ence Association, he might have subscrib for subscribing a remonstrance of the kind Peter to the Secretary of State. COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONG Kone, Oct. 20, 1868. SIA, 1. The attention of his Excellency Sir Richard Graves Mac- Donnell has beeb -géently called to a memorial addressed by the Stand- ing Committee of the Social Science Association to his Grace the Secrecessarily and for the sake of money it encourages a vice which might tary of Sta for the Colonies praying that an immediate stop should he put to the system adopted here of permitting gambling in certain houses licensed by Government and subject to police surveillance. 2. In parag 5 of that memorial the following passage occurs :-- "Since the surser of 1866, when the first Ordinance was passed, the farma had been created by the local authorities, put up by them to sale, and granted to the highest bidder.” 3. That assertion is not merely incorrect, but is even totally opposed to all the details fully given in a series of despatches which must have been at the time before the committee, because they allude to and quote from them. The Governor, therefore, is persuaded that the committee will at once ensure to this contradiction as wide a publicity an to the original misstatement. possible nuder anih circumstances that, like th committed by might have regarded the policy pursued at Heligolandy Bader, and here, as identical. Gambling, he might have rellected, is permitted at all those places, a revenue results therefrom in each. Such a policy is indispensable at Baden and Heligoland, where unne- otherwise die out or at least decline. Therefore he might perhaps have argued it is equally indefeusible at Hong Kong. Nevertheless, no one here would pretend that there is the remotest chance of the vice of gambling being diminished by the suppression of the licensed houses, as would be the case at Baden. It would simply become indefinitely require no police interference, however little, there would inevitably be more extended than now. If it were not legalised so completely as to police corruption and consequent insecurity to the community. Un- less, therefore, it be contended that similar consequences would follow the abolition of the monopoly at Heligoland there is no parallel be tween the two cases. Government in such a matter, are here allowed to cater the licensed 14. Again, only natives, who are practically beyond the reach of 4. It is true that the mischief caused by circulating an incorrect houses, and unless it be shown that Europeans are similarly excluded version of actual facts, especially when so framed as to support the at Heligoland, and that gaming is only permitted there to an over- argument of those who use such a weapon, seldom admits of any arle-whelming majority of Orientals, or strangers coming and going in quate reparation. No acknowledgment of such wrongful proceeding, numbers exceeding 600,000 every year, and that is only allowed "ba- particularly, as must be the case here, when not extracted till months cause they cannot otherwise be efficiently reached by the police no subsequently, and, perhaps after close of the discussion affected parallel is established between that place and Hong Kong. thereby, can undo the mischief which it may have cansed. Neverthe- 15. Finally, to completo such parallel, it would be further necessary less, the right of the party misrepresented to require even that inade-elves as here from the first to keep down any revenue accruing from to show that the authorities at Heligoland had been exerting them- quate reparation is indisputable. 5. In the present case it must be concoded that this Government has been most completely misrepresented on the very point as to which it was easiest and most unfair to excite popular prejudice. To speak of this Government as selling the licences in question to the "highest hidder," is to imply that it was animated by a sordid motive of greed. 6. Such a statement is a very extraordinary misrepresentation of facts recorded in documents to which the committee refer and had access. All Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's despatches in connection with the subject to the end of last April were before the committee, having been presented to the House of Lords last June. 7. It would be idle to repeat here the various details given in those despatches as to the anxiety of this Government to deal with a great palli evil without reference to the question of revenue. The com- aittee can refer to them, if they wish, but I am instructed to beg their special attention to paragraph & in Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell'a iespatch (No. 439) of the 30th of last January as follows:--- Your Grace, however, is sufficiently aware that this Government Jas "ot been swayed by any desire of gain. On the contrary, I have never written a despatch in which I have not regretted that a policy justified by necessity should be encumbered with any pecuniary gain, Fe the latter affords to opponents of that policy an opportunity to imo myself and my council motives the reverse of those by which we are animated. If mere addition of revenue had been our object, I should not have accepted 252,000 dols. as the annual licence fee instead of upwards of 360,000 dols., which was actually offered, nor would I have gradually reduced the original 260,000 dola. to 204,000 dols, at which it stands during the present month.* 8. The above plain statement completely disproves the assertion of the gmmittee that, since 1866, the licences "had been put up to sale and granted to the highest bidder," and I am now further instructed to add that not merely had 360,000 dola. been declined, but that by consecutive reductions the licence fees had been lowered till a few weeks back they reached only 156,000 dols. Even that reduction was less than his Excellency had hoped to fact, for as more fully explained in his recent financial statement to the Legislative Council, an extract from which is appended hereto, ho was prepared (Par. 19) to make any reduction necessary to compensate the censees for excluding all but Chinese from the play houses--a re- form now most effectually carried out. 10. Reasons alluded to in the accompanying appendix, and more fully explained in the Governor's communications to the Secretary of State, have produced for the moment the unexpected result of an in- crease of licence fees just as the frequenters of the licensed houses were diminished. the licences beyond the amount necessary to work the system as a strictly police measure, a motive which it is not pretended to adduce in favour of licensing gaming in Europe. that the only argument in the memorial of the committee which seems 16. It may therefore be as well to speak frankly, and declare at once to his Excellency deserving notice is their suggestion (par. 9) that the authorities here have not as yet so exhausted the direct means at their disposal for the suppression of gambling as to justify a departure tration of this the committee state that the Chinese laws and the local from the general principles of penal jurisprudence elsewhere. In illus ordinances against gambling had never been fairly put in execution, the tithings, hundreds, and frank pledges, which in China had always and especially that the Ordinance for improving the Chinese law of been found quite sufficient for the entire suppression of the practice, had never been put in force at all. 17. It is difficult to imagine where the committee got their informa- tion as to the entire suppression of gambling in Chinese elties by laws establishing tithings and hundreds, &c. Gambling has been now and who were guided sometimes by upright and sometimes by cor- then stopped in a particular place for a short time by high officials, rapt motives, such as that of raising the toll on an illegal luxury. This, however, has been done by extreme severity, anch as razing houses to the ground, and tortaring the landlords, measures to which, it is true, this Government has never yet restored. It is, however, totally without foundation to assert that gaming does not prevail most extensively and publicly in every city of the Empire, Although nominally the law forbids it. This subject, however, has been sufficiently alluded to in the Governor's despatch of the 30th January last (paragraphe 3, 4 and 5), which the committee had before them when advancing the above extraordinary assertion. 18. At this moment the police system inaugurated by his Excellency amongst the Chinese-au institution quite apart from that of the colony is working admirably, but the last thing which a resident here could dream of would be the handing over to any Chinese, whether in tithings, hundreds, or otherwise than as parties directly and openly interested therein like the licensees, the slightest control over their gambling brethren. The committee little know what a door they pro- posed to open to the vilest corruption and chicanery when they sug gested the controlling of gambling at Hong Kong by Chinese tithings and Frank pledges. 19. His Excellency is unable to follow the reasoning of the commit- tee in the other portions of par. 9 of their Memorial, because he can only state as the general result of the most determined efforts on the part of himself and all his subordinates that, whatever might have been the varying nature of his expectations from time to time, he has long been convinced of the impossibility of putting down gambling by any police which it is possible to procure here, or even with the best months here. prefer legalising gambling of all descriptions in the colony, which is 20. Sooner than recur to the infamous past his Excelleney would the only alternative that he thinks practicable, but he has steadily de- clined to bear a part voluntarily in continuing the sham which the committee unwillingly recommend. 11. It is perhaps superfluous now to accumulate further evidence of the inaccuracy into which the Social Science Committee have fallen as to a matter of fact, when they represented this Government as selling the licence monopoly to "the highest bidder." The Governor, how-police in the world, if they could be procured, and were stationed six ever, wishes to record at the same time his conviction of the excellent objects of the committee and of the general body which they represent. He attributes to them nothing more than an inadvertent although an indefensible mistake. It is, however, unfortunate that it occurred in reference to the very point on which it was most important that there should be no misrepresentation; and it cannot be doubted that this will be a source of regret to the committee, especially when they learn that at the very last mocting of the Legislative Council (vide Appendix, page 8) his Excelleney distinctly refused to accept the suggestion of a leading unofficial member of that body and use the licence fees for the purpose of diminishing the local taxation of the colony. 12. The personal feelings and sympathies of his Excellency are entirely with the committee, and had he never visited China, nor been compelled by his duty to this community to deal on the spot with the unquestioned and real evile arising from the inordinate love of gam- bling of the native population here, and the absolute necessity for The appendix alluded to consists of paragraphs 12 to 22 of the Governor's Finan- efal Statement for 1869, owed detracts from the free and noble institutions of the colony, 21. It is easy for the latter to say that the honest policy now fol- which were one day to stand as a model to work the regenera- tion of the Chinese Empire." Do the committee seriously think that the shrewd natives of China respected this Government a whit more, either for its intelligence or its efficiency, when the laws of the colony merely rendered an irrepressible vice more dangerous and odious, whilst it brought to light the venality of the paid guardians of the law? Or do the committee recommend that public men, instead of seeking to effect the greatest amount of good and shape their policy by what is itself right and practically most beneficial, should rather aim at a style of ad captandum legislation, tinselled and varnished to catch the applause of vapid declaimers, but ill fitted to win the approval of ev ing the question, and filled with sere sibility? 22. His Excellency has not a whighest ment is really more respected now, experie have been permitted to enter the Beersed a long ago that the Government was unable sup. haunts. They know now that the overment is confess it. They also know that write in the colony is aced more ough to than a third, whilst larceny amongst survante, a crime gently able to gaming losses, is sever five per cent. Tess than had been before the licences were issued. 23. The Governor further der the existence of that great sean- dal and discontent" at the Gourmt policy, which the commiuse assert to prevail "here and on the of China." That policy was inaugurated with the unanimous approval of the Executive and Legis lative Councils. It has been for a series of years a measure favoured by the local experience of each governor and his advisers. It has now been removed from the region of mere speculation and experiment, and proves that it is possible by its agency to suppress the gross evils inseparable from illegal gambling dens of iniquity. Moreover, the "scandal and discontent" are each comparatively limited, as well in duration as extent, for here they are chiefly but recently generated by the reaction of an agitation maintained in England by well meaning persons, ignorant of the circumstances which have produced and which justify that policy. Such ignorance is perhaps natural, but the com- parisons of Hong Kong with Heligoland and Baden most forcibly and aptly illustrate the unfounded inferences to which it leads. 24. Therefore unless by direct command of Her Majesty's Govern- ment, with which the responsibility of the change would then rest, his Excellency is not prepared to abandon the important results already obtained for any mere sentimental objection, or because irrepressibly arises from the policy, by which on the whole the greatest revenue still good can be effected. He would personally be delighted to get rid of that revenue if the committee would only make some practicable sug- gestion enabling him to do so without stcrifieing the power which he now has over the licensees, and which as yet he sees no safe means of dispensing with. 25. In conclusion, I have to state that his Excelleney is well aware he had no actual claim on the committee's attention, except to request their correction of a misstatement of a fact. Nevertheless, as a mem- ber of their association, he craves indulgence for the additional remarks which he has instructed me to make on a subject of some interest to a body established to discuss the most important social questions.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary. Continental Intelliger NORTH GERMANY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). HAMBURG, December 1. the captain was enabled to make his scape. What adds to the o of the story is the domestic complication of affairs that ensque from wife having mourned his loss and the married again; and the now finds her surrounded by a numerous progeny in addition left behind. Rear-Asimiral Petz, with the ships forming the Austrian expedition the Far Ea has arrived safely braliar, and left that port on the time by it to Morocco is not stated, 21 of Bovimber for Tangiers. What his object is in wasting precion and Norway has appointed Mr. William Robertson, of Ningo, to be Vice- By Royal Decree dated Stockholm, November 11, the King of Sweden Consul a at part, under the Consulte-General at Sunghai. COMMERCIAL. s is no altera- in great request and stocks again nearly exhausted. A cargo (2,540 chests) has just arrived from China, but is not yet in the market. Flores agais Rice callandi no sales reported except for consumption. Cassia Ligne rising. Pepper and Cardamoms also higher. Iu teas: tion. A sudden demand has sprung up for refined camphor, which ha created a rise, and none is now to be had under 20 sch. beo. per lb. Nothing 18.7 for spring delivery. has been done in Spelter; the nominal quotations are 18.10 loco, and SHIPPING. ARRIVED.-Falcke, from Macao (Cassia Lignea). SALLEL-Papa, to Shanghai; ward, to Hong Kong; Tellus, ta Akyab; Alice, to Macassar and Heng Kong; Wilhelm, to Bangkok: Honolulu, to Bangkok; J. H. Jessen to Singapore and Penang; Maria Miles, to Hong Kong, N.B. The Maria Miles came into collision with the Swedish brig Ve- randa, off the mouth of the Elbe, lest bowsprit and cutwater, and has returned to liamburg to repair damages. SHIPPING AT REMERHAVEN, lieu, for Kangoou (4,016 bags rice, 500 chests catch); Devonshire, for ARRIVED.-Tordenskiold, for Rangoon (6.590 bags rice); E. Von Beau- rice); Senator Iken, for Rangoon (18,000 bags rice); Moonbeam, for Bassein (11,425 bags rice); Sarah Newman, for Bassein (13,300 bags Rangoon (10,000 bags rice). HOLLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) of the departments of Foreign Affairs and Justice baving already been The discussions upon the Budget Have progressed must rapidly; those ROTTERDAM, December 1. approved of by a very large majority, and the remainder are expected to pass without delay, From tho debates I gather some matters of interest for your readers in the Far East. I a former letter I wrote you that the Finance Minister had rejected the claims put forward by Dutch merchants in Japan for compensation for losses arising out of the late hostilities which the Allied l'owers were engaged with Japan, They, however, wi not content with this decision, and a second endeavour has been made course by their influence, in the Second Chamber of the States General obtain a grant of compensation. The members dealing with the th chapter (Foreign Affairs), Messrs. Heydenryck, Pynappel, and Vird Verbrugge, proposed as an amendment to grant a sum of 8.44.757.84 State Commission appointed to examine the claims. The mercha the applicants. This amount was just half the sum proposed by supported this amendment by an alldress, in which they again ondea- veured to prove the justice of their claims. The motion gave rise to a very lengthened debate. Mr. Heydenryck, in order to elucidate the grounds of the proposal, referred to the large number of documents rela- five to the matter, and said that the State ought not to absorb the entire Casembroot gave his opinion that since the King had approved the rejec profit of the indemnification paid by the Japanese Government. Mr. de tion of these claims, the question was at an end. He was astonished at the proposal being made again, but now that it was doce he also had an' amendment to make, which was to grant a sum of 25,000, en hebulf of expedition, and which is now invalided. Mr. Gratana demonstrated that. the Royal Navy, especially for the division which took part in the said He opposed the grant, and preferred to support the amendment of Mr. de the traders ought to claim compensation of the Japanese Government Mr. Heyden yek. He said that there was no lawful ground upon which Casembroot. Mr. Godefroi also declared himself against the motion of the State could be called upon to indemnify these traders. Mr.Van Voort- huyzen disapproved of the proposal on the grounds that our traders not put forward any claim of a similar nature. Mr. V. A. Linden said transporting their merchandise to China, which involved costs, for which that the traders had acted against the advice of the English admiral, by they now sought compensation. Several other members also took part in the discussion, and the result was the rejection of Mr. de Casembrout's motion by 46 against 18 votes, and that of Mr. Pynappel, C.S., by 53 against 11 votes, which I think will bet the affair finally at rest. discussion of the budget. Mr. Van Delden said that Holland vught not Another question with regard to Japan was brought forward during the be represented there by an ambasador but by a consul-general. He finished his speech with a philippid against Mr. Polsbroek, which was replied to by Mr. de Casembroot, who demonstrated the necessity that a diplomatic mission should remalu in Japan, and that the chef" ought to bear the title of minister. After the reply the matter dropped. From again denied the existence of any foundation for the rumours which were the further discussions I only find that the Minister of Foreign Affairs set in circulation, respecting negotiations between Bolland and France to establish a commercial and military convention. Such negotiations the Minister declared bad never taken place, and he stated further that we were on the most friendly terms with all the Powers. Now that the Prassian Consulates in China have been transformed into German Federal ones, and the salary of the Consul-General in China is transferred to the budget of the Confederation, it has become needful to place on the special Prussian estimates the sums required for the salary of the Envoy at Feking (who has hitherto received the salary of the Con- sul-General), and those of the other officials of the bassy. These will now tigare among the expenses of the Foreign Department, and of course are subject to the approbation and consent of the House of Representa- tives; but when the question is brought forward it will no doubt be a matter for the consideration of the members whether it is expedient to have in future a specifically Prussian Legation at Peking, in addition to the Federal German Consulates already existing in other parts of the Chinese dominions. The subject will probably give rise to an interesting debate, and meet with some opposition, as in the face of the serious deficit in the revenue, great economy is required to make things straight again, and there will be but little inclination to increase the burdens of the tax- payers in Prussia by the creation of new and superfinous appointments, the salaries of which might easily be shifted to the Federal Budget, and be borne by all the twenty-two States composing the North German Confederation in proportion to their population, the more so as the sub-had no more right than the English, French, and Americans, who had jects of all of them are placed under the protection of the Ambassador, be be called Prussian or Federal. Whed the subject was discussed in the last session of the German Parliament, on the occasion of voting the estimates for the Federal budget, it appeared as if the Prussian Govern ment wished to retain the Embassy in China as a Prussian establishment, and of course the members of the Federal Parliament made no opposition, heing only too glad to escape being addled with the payment of the salaries, whilst their fellow-subjects in China enjoyed the same protection as the Prussians. It is now a subject between the Prussian Government and their own Parliament, and simply almoney question; for the appoint-to ment of the Ambassador and the patronage of the inferior offices is placed in both cases in the hands of the King of Prussia, either in bis capacity of sovereign or as President of the North German Confederation. The Germanic Lloyd's," established last year for the classification of German shipping, have just published the first number of their Interna- tional Register, with an explanation in German and English of the abbreviations and signs used, as well as the tables for the measurement of shipping and the tarif of charges. It contains a list of the 273 merchant vessels that have hitherto been classified, A strange story is related in a Bremen leval journal, announcing the return to that city of Captain Oldejan, of the Bremen ship Amulia, who bad not been heard of for several years and was supposed to be dead. It appears, however, that he lost his vessol in the China Seas, but, managed with his crew to reach an island where they were kindly received and well treated; but the inhabitants would not allow them to leave, and it was only by means of a well-planned and leverly executed stratagem that You will remember that the Finance Minister recently proposed to of the stamp duty now levied on ewspapers Some Amsterdam and augment the import duty on tea, as partial equivalent for the abolition Rotterdam houses have addressed the Second Chamber of the States General, petitioning them to reject this proposal, because an increased daty would greatly prejudice the interests of the ten trade. The Hague Hongkong. Lorial Luna Opo The bentang to National Association for the promotion of Social Meet 1/2/69 En Johmion Su Wand ford Ael2d 1387 Copy for. 2o. 16-4 Feb 1869- 4 Feb 186. PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT I am directed Grail Grauwith acknowlag The wicht on the 284444 14 Jaur, & 8 the temorial from The National Association for the Promotion of Social Secence - on the subject of leccused in. Hongkong Sambling s of the as Memorial Miscellan on the same subject. which has obtained publicity in Newspaper but which has hot been Panto inform you that the Governors to the association wa. Jonwarded to the Duke of Buckingham with the Expression of Lose that Ari fran would not ohn sent to it 23 destination. frace hoween did not think it pren that it should be forwarded, considering that although Sovernor might profile defend himsel his foot from accusations made officially or in Parliament it Land & necessay Miscellan of adduser sadmoon of a Private Soceity, and a communciation to kat was made to the fourmor. nissanville, spusti that the letter should have been published & corsider it by No means devirabl that a sech ofte te Should take part in the discussions to which it – app to be leading Which Lowcond. Brauwith from useless Controversy be in alive to the importance of the question with which Man Donnell has had to deal a to which the Commuter That subjet has already received and will continue to anxions Consideration As Sir A Chardonnell, reply has obtained Miscellan publicity he feels no diffically forwarding the copy originally intended for National associabon I amb add that a deputation from the Association should wish to see Lord Gravarth be will be happisto Hemember Saturday (598-13185/68). next at one o'clock. any pus-ow choose t this thin onbehalf The Society will be allowed to copy the Cellus referred to Communicatio of the M. Jard. F. R.S.. Miscellan Hongkong "Locial Levince Apor" : 84.9 Insomnion Se Handsord 14ft 4 February 1869 PRINTER COR PARLIAMENT 1869 Chaven't to you for gone informatio & with refermen to my Bredeneres despatih Sin T. Sandford In 206 of the 8 dear I think the for. ought than there. Memorial Co in copies of a corresponden the National Assoc for the promotion of Social Science on the sulgut of the answer you addressed ta Mnemonial from that Social- & which has been published Ius paper. NÁTIONAL ASSOCIATION FÖR 9-134/37/68 WITH WHICH IS UNITED JUR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW, 1, ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, W.C. Feby 4 1869 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of the 4 the instant, acknowledging the receipt of the Memorial Hong of this Aprciation on Gambling in bonty Kong, and of a letter addressed to G. W. Hastings Esq., together with the "Financial Staternent" appended. X I am further directed to state that a Deputation from this Apociation will wait upon your lordship at the Saturday next I have the honour to remain time cappointed Locial Leunie Apoc. 8ity -756 , one o'clock on Right Honourable Farl Granville K.C.B. t. *. *. ★. Your most obedient Servant Edwin Pears General Secretary. 18. trong lòng MINUTE PAPER. du to. Sandfinde Petit. & Mr. Mrcade. Bully. 160 I have attend the tini at $2.45. song song fantling Luencer 28 Mr. Reade An Lord framcelle in to Deputation from the Sonal suence Aponation tomorrow he may thin the following papers for aference. 549. Conflant af God. for having pullechest his answer to their hemorial &. the Date of Manhusham without having 4. Tel'. [ them - Lord franaller 13185. shews whey thie D. yacheyham dis ant foxurd 6- made of a bi openin penting Luences. D.JA. 23. At. Afferofne dion of Luence Pavinue 19657. fod. menter shewing Lithi Aporation the fovemers het franciller view an afberpuration other Revenue. d. Anhushion 2. Du disafte hoving Anselopment of the Caldwell artist an not get The Renuti deten as reports the defalit 6. Me frd. – waiting for Iranny a Ain Extimates. Rete Paper bpt have by Auto gambling ass? II. As to the illegality of Gaunt leng Romanu offer." Henry Bing 3. Sirten 71 of 184.3. whole body etc. No.1.9. By the first Ordnance of the treat legalature the Pagland, as far as was adopted for Hong Kong. By the Supreme Court of whole of The island on solemnly decided that the the English common and statute. law of 1843, was quite as "apple cable there as in England, and ought to be Enforced the Cheep Wextur pail "It ingegean an "Dromance of Lov SirJohn Davisete. No014071844. chuince here as By in local Vernancial powers as well as to the Force were given to the (bus mavitiate of and the other justeres, insperatio unfortunate for the better suppupion of the creins- it was so ell peaned as to be weary power to commencement. Unportionality it has been apumed of late that this Ordinance Contains the only "penal" pivoisions at the the Creal Goverenent for the desperat of. mphussion of gambling. Still morete there has been for at least 12 years pedich between the foubling House speculators and : 1066. certain Governers, "negotiations which arcadanti to in the date of Buckingham's thuch of the 3 December 1867 and which, be in 1066 repented repetion by the In perial fovemementing in the deplorable measure of that wan in the face of those negotiations it was hardly to be expected weat the Attorney General - the only gear fueror of the chory - would be put in motion to obtain convections was not puter in the Supreme Court. In fact be certainly motion during the there eventful years 1856-1 of my Attomingsesiccalship. The judgment alluded to given by the Supreme Court in a civil suist beteren private litigants. The Ordinance could not The provisions of properly enforced by the authorities whom it purported to empower to do so:_ or all that it did was to exc ragainst any person, who should "For gain or to exact testainmony should (0.1.) luere Kut any " room or place, boat, vesel, or any place on water, for public playing or gam "bling, or permit any person within house ste. to play it." (which excluded the panter engaged almost at (0.3.) or acting as The person appearing master or having the case or uy any wich house ke, Ohould be tutem to the "Kacper therety, and should dis the absent "such to the penalty aprecard;" (which again excluded the absent owner occupier, and even the absent "Keeper" -ney more, Mexcluded owner, occupier, and super, becny print, not assad proved to be actually mening appearing to managed It is time that the only remaining section was intended to fun the mesh parters themselves within but the intention certainly failed of langues. That for lack of precision section, if it meant anyther at all, exacted (1.2.) "That any person who "should use omething haunt, or be found in any such honay should be lettervine heemarkable mianti the designation of doubling house, nor saying "when gambling was going "time" was tes that this prohibition, if literally but the carried into effect, would have taken. in not merely the gambler, innocent recupeers, visitors, servants all in short, who might "se hacente in " he found in " " any house etc. in the colony, from govemment House to the meanest ار تن انسان کو اس کی The repented mixcarriges of informations under hought to the vecines Police that ormance were pagesiates Perpecentratents to the becooledze of the reccessive Lovemars, and legislative ameurnants of to Lestite an Ordricance mere, more than once pressed for : _ but in vain. The negotiations already mentioned wein the entironing on dung the the interval between 1944. the en #greater part of and 10166. Down to 105 of the joint ance of fabbronce Machonloos lasted : _ ior to the end of 1b), that of Cabrell " a one. The intervency for years negotiations with Calfefni institution of the Gamblery Farm When, institected, the futite stilt the only : 1866, it was Ordinance of 1044 was local Adrmance in forem against heatley, and the reylish statute law "applicite=" to that offerece, still continued to be treated as though it had been a dead Chinese Reportery for bepoel 18733. Not to pr. 572. for May; (Canton), " Wotten a few weeks, two down ments have been issued by the local magistrates, streetly intentating the 1835001.10.7.48. for May 1836. Vd. V. 1.9-10. "peastile, in seder that the country "may enjoy bringsellaty. I obsewx ele. [drement is set forth at length z "bament orders are stored interteding the papers practice. Such Order The police sonores by "came out in Canton early this year. bley, in the subuurt off "were setin notion; and the consequence "all the nests of gr form of the Peking) Gazette & mor "Es peamen " properly King Throne ; & hanscripts from the Expectat " and here introduce a translation for " (Janung 30th &3)??! 1836. ?.. en the wester "/11th of to penal Edit) The Superial Plan "here this been declared In the caste "Kew-he apointed heipt to gamble " wither the Palaalf of the Chwary - "Esen-wany, Geikthan, and continue "to do to for more than or month with " being dexoviccity, the trim wang. be "This is not & mene ornary case " of negligeave. Let the ton-wang " Therefore subicled to a count of lagin " of the Tsung-jin for Respect the In December 1844. "October The Nanhai-tron pues a peshobitong chest against 3 x 663. Cottines. This form of gambling has been wintated from the "Portuguese. Chis and "Admonitory Peclares: being Chinese paintings, are on recépaper: fir war, Hogarth for. Rakes drogres. They are a crunter part The felting addition to these painting, Seongree has trave sexies, Mustrating the Cambles farcer: Kenese Repontory -April 1835. "They wỡ " Gambling is at present equally legal by Letter from J. V. p.571. Brinket the New Thes "Butish and by Chinese Law in every part of the part of the Jutassen The Comperes. Only last year the Govern fine the Hory Id. for April 1536. -meanies for the Kong "I fanton took stringent " suppression of Gamthang " perpond measure will degrade both our Centsation and our " of the (bencre People. (brritianity in the age syane vdim.f, $36. "[Silangangelie baten] gambling is in bad repute "the sober and wise heathen. Many Chinia moters podentary to this Willen petten in 182013 "pare beated the subject be a very sensible manner, Governor Mains the late &. Milne ] bated. Hong Ko 24. July 1887 Pasagerth 5 tumor (the Governor) "beleive Reply of thellcter " policy, there will be under the new, will be more Gening " pointed out clearly the dangers of it to persons poules & the "public. So that any Christian Government puittery "stop Flogambling, has the opinions Imag "Comal contes even day the this valuable class of the community. Havere, good the design of the Govenment. form "That decives a farsu pom the couser may be the peopleforsi "its side.. of the muck. "very different wens of it. They consider it a souse "past to the Mutter Reading to the dispersed with. They be an hannast revencre derived porn it and leherwise the hands off "Farm prequently accumulating wealth Preutz some sever hover wit, ete. d. et Cha for August 15 "Chinese Encegrents too have seen several statements prom Cols Leary Marte Glauthof the 24 Gambling has been now and then stopped in a partir den forly 1867. Par. 16. on an llegal " place for a short time, by high officials, who were grcided to mationer by which letter of the lot. Le Hory Kerry 20. Oct. 2018. and sometimes 7), consept smotives, agch as that of raising the toll. excery. This how over has been fone by extreme severity, buch as razing hymnes to Mill Arcaten to the su he ground and fering the landlords: measures, to creech it is true tot soveel to the social the left 3 monitter he had made it a Spreck of the Hon Jong the last 2 uspectate dr. Ryrie mad. nearly every "point of asking the opinion of nearly Chaun of the Vol. II p. 180. as one which thamber of foun Chinese with whom he had come in conthet; and one and all demorenced the dyskin reported in dail creating much misching to the trade of the Colony Busting at Won in the colony, of all 3rd. Apul 1868 ".... He believed the white clergy lensed gambling Denominations, entered to ".... His own comprador kare very well that, at first he pups, of the wa "was in favor of the Gambling Oddmann, betha avverthely 1888. "expressed to him his emphatic disapprovals Another "prend, then heaving him expeeps his approval of the readers had "replied that he was very much surprised. " "It is the opinion of the Chamber that beinard gamblinges Resolution of the Hongheny Chambe "affection the heade of the Colony exprovedly, by excoriaging dishoraty amongst large portholes of the nation population camgits of Emontre "inturines, and amongst the native employes of foreign forins. Printed in baily 10 of the besprit 1588 "Chose who have been in the Strouts of Malacca, nustat "the eclication of {migrants at some of those Settlement. The " complain most butterty, the oppupine old butik dystend " of "Farming" the revenue to any ongebond who will bidliging "The authority their confersed on gemesters & open sonders " they consider detestable, and the expedity of premmed "wear and degrading. The industrious and welldistonn ane this oppressed boy governmental people."" "Puniar rom Lender the "la Teing Len die " Staunton's Ra Kanslation) "Therd Division"; Section Is XXX. Families and Introduals to be duly Book I." (pp. 7980. & enrolled. And in all cases the register shall be and also of Munerpal law order of the supqred by order of the Tang Bys nety," soon after accepion, by the Chiff "July corrected by the insertion of a description of " such strangers" (among his household)" as a distinct pernity waters of Chine, Therause attain the age of four years. leed you solver =sible inhabitant of the dursson, through whose by required - people to renderstand "The first entry shall be made. chelsen when the "The head or respon madvertency one or more; families, a fine, have waded. The incestion their name. right to not accadingly neglect or madvertency thes to prevent the anspression of the law in for we learn from the in the public reyester, shall be punished with the hered Shit of "The Imprey"....In like manner, when the mes of any introcken ten "When the onusion amounts to the street chall Kang. (Milne's df deputy and clerk of concaten, 1877.) "Maxim "fromtioned fine sonde (2.c. exudes five families tha wighth (Paraphrase:;) . The table cli. and so "when the amounts to tea indevotant unless "the officiating magistrates and clarks shall have from "The Sacred Writ jub three times ordent à revival the census of the of distracts. " people, and issued competent instruction & authority " for each investigation to the head inhabitants in which case "he sair head whabitant shall alone be "nponsible for any subsequent oucision..... 88.269,270,2/1.273, 1474.276 with its 279 280 "Amplification," and "Par is read in the publes halls thou, "Unite the Pasu and Theft order to coxtirpate Rother "Amplefecation." "From of old," "exere a month before all the aird and "nobberies? miston officers" (Pref. 1x.) The "it" consest of Siation "Maxim". Each "Maxion has an kompli "Jameless forin are laws for "the extcomenation of But the best of all these method "not equal to the Law of the Pavu and Kea. Ten Familers form a Kea. Ten Rea constitute a Pave. The "Kea has it, Elder; the Paon its Chief A Register is Estattending mokection, handed Foron from antifperty. Therefore, of the holy thing was the "Mutual Match and Inspection age kept. This is just the law of chole blendent wang-you- po wrote the Paraphrosis. (Pref. IX.) se author of the mixesh his son "chen Oor seerer Foother, the benevolent Emperor, in the locatted [tret, said, "Unite etc. (Conying the above Maxim) it was " providly because he wished to give stability and repose But it "to all within the your seas and Wine (hows.". is to be feared that, having obeyed for a length of time, become semips; _ that the Mandarins satrefy Remoting "you - "by merely examining the Register, and the people, with " hanging up the Mewn pace = ( bout of names of inmates ) while " a hearty union, in keeping the Law of Motust. Inspection in "wanting in so that the wile att encouraged to shelter on produced........ "villages; and every species of crime is protection. The name o the lawn and Kea semaine, but without reality. The trouble of the Paon and Kea is sustained onthout reaping the maybe "However well calicilated any Fadvantage "to bempit a people, they must still be ward with dibagine in citers" and with over henceforth lat the Cities at Allages "sigorously excente the claw of the Bow and Ken, each Jen Pons, and each lawn into Keas. Let dinde itself into watite over each ther "We"letro divide their "Sheets" and the "Villages" their mestically domesties may "but let the neptors "The great families the arcember Ammont of Thanky Leottages an " cancral been dress. Amayst these are some good and home head. "But their natie must be responsible for them. is bad? _ the Elder of the "With gepect to those whose habitations scattered through the Villages, who, anayet them, has property, u "and who has not, who in "Village and the thief of the lawn may daily and personally "know. Meting those who reflect their business, from breaking dut "coclipiphting: dog racing; apembling, in the night & dispersing at the the whole of Remselves J "Jawn ; together with persons whose footsteps are of donotfit characte no good accorent "be inoteatly whormed appeast, and not suffered to remain a moment within the Kea car give. thise thank "Way in Mes called the ton and Kea? tentander & a tea. Every tea must appointment on "Elder" Ten Rad Paon. Every Paver oncest constitute a Caflair over ot A Regratio-Book is prepared in order that there maylee "mutual enquing made, with respect to those who "are coming, going, and reading of things out of one "Family"; the other nine an involved. The is just the antient Law revived of muterally watching "over and opecting code foy ther "But it in much to he feared that, having dreived this Law for a " long period of time, dairence to it has degenenated into "mere formality..... From henceforth, in the Cities and Letrach Villages, let the Paon and Ken Lew he rejourney put in ext " Lettich "Mau" "dwide stoelf into "Hcentred of Samilies, "Each "Anaked" resolve tregunto Tens: "Let each Theat "of the "lities be this funded, and each "Comporand" "f "the "Villages" and let the vacions "Families" each wate "over the other. In every farge Family," the persons, including mount to Comesties & Laboress, may ammor "there Here are to esveral recarred, amon pe Decurity Yeavily • good and bad. Let their ow for them, with wishest to "small" Villages"...... there is not an "individual who in not daily ocenty the "Elders," and "thing; "and there are none examined fr who go out and come in that may not the "There must be a hen in which they (stranges or bad charecters) buck during the day, and prom ""which they sally out at might to seise on their prey. whe then gentlemen "Thore gandling shops, and houses, Pure women of allfarme "voide, au precisely the haunts which they regerent. Let of all persons "The names on every matically investigate " or common people, _ be registeret in the Pax [ board notyper. " and each Ken in the Paou, that you may. "each ther's conduct. When evering comes, enquières, to such a man or pots & there any strange person in and a man's hones? " at the Ken thang report to the pary, and the the Chang :: Even those who are prend in small group Marytaty thin and fines together; neglecting thewrduty; dbreaking: gamblity: "cott-lighting; and dog meing; who wilect at night, and disperse ot "The dawn: together with those persons whose foot fe doubtful character, and can give no good account of Kanadad "Let there all be instantly informed against, and on no accent duced the camber of " suffered to remain in the Red's or velence from their thength, or if you fear their enthient from acquainting the magistrale "excostly "There is nothing to hamidery This they are sure of punishment. d. the whole depende "of Performance and on preparing the Their partners, or "Section CCC. lax. vij. Gaming # "od the ruoney or Whether it is out the mone Conscrity in due time. From the "Ta Tamiglenge "All persons, convected of garning, that is to say of playing at any "Book II" (pp. 412) "game of chaner for monies or for goods, thall be punished with 20 flow. good staked male be forfected to governi All those liheurse, who keep gemeng houses, shall enter the same priemer in the game, and the horses appropriate "coment, although not actually pentol on the morning habitation of "to ganung, inpuply purchased by him for the said calorful prespase- "proprietor "shall be forfeited to govemment. A conviction Womenes shall not take peserunt "This law by implication, but only expon direct endence, against thencensed partes "All officers of lovemment offending against the law thell bnpunished more severely than other persons, "one degree "Neverthelep, a jew prends, playing together for atile offert by trace, " thate not, in any case beplenished under this law. generally no vice to which the Chinese are more. *There is portably. but it is, generally speaking, the vice "is attached to "addicted then that of genuing; dieredit degree of A cistaisi "of the lower clapes. It every game, which, wither partly or wholly, on chance; and "bobran the sharper and the honnable player the line does not seen "engage are petton known to. "to be very distinctly intern. Persons therefore in official portion, or tho "value the mothers upon their reputation even within lemusts and under circumitanes, which inplay; " might to be considered to centeret perfectly innocent an ." allowable.". "Pavukes, throughost the various towns, villages, and hamlist, "of the extering it.. este may dem expedient; – "That the sa Peace officers shave to elected of recommended " for the office, in mach mods as His Excellency the byoverwertung · determine by the inhahtants of the several towns abe : [Proviso Mint this thall not be competions "That the said Peace officers. Pawwken, shall have the same as appointed Panuchong and authorities pieveleyes, and any Constatr the Potter Forest. the Idon note by Sir Ginge the han Flauntin and loc. onin syth the letter, the above laws have received quer. In the spect and tre Goremment. fullest recognition, on the hout of the Hompllong govemment and Legislative of their page adaptability to the case of the 80 voo 2 100 000 Chinese population of that island: as Laon and the Rea : - [ by mistake called Paon Hear] "will be seen by the following selection of exactements and papers, published by o preserve each Chinese on the grandpark The past thriant - "Whereas it is expedient. (genul 31. May 18t Are 13.071844. An Roing for the Appointment of "pollution as tnxt to the para of han at Good Order Be it the depilatio "Thisfire excited cts. that it shall be lawful for the saut Governor to tongkong "such as so many water Chinese Phases. Fffecies, experior and inferior, Pouchorp and offing Chongan. Bon tea within Fotody of Hong Kong "immeenities of Hong Kong; and thast also hhor and exercise mesh power and and thats be subject to be punished for neglecty. like mannkyn authority; duty, hath been customary within the Provided whits that The Emperor My ruch Peace Officer those have power to inflect any hum mant Whitwands on any offender. They were to be wonder the thief Mazentrate of I to obscene the Randers & Regulations "to be made by him "with the apputation of the Loverum in format." for breach of duty. were made menshade, with fine of If 200 maxim aut also, but only if guilty of "grops misconduct in effect with ignoring to disumpal pom effece "with well masks of ignominy as are "customary in thena ;" and the Goverma was thenty empower offender and - causexed martis of "to dionips such "be inflicted in for go? Conture" "honorable. And, on the other hand he was exposed to thou to these plannen "Occasional thrands wangmatten to be word whilst they remained in it. In The Lead Orderanus, the "Paon Cheong " is callidh valyer local appellation." To to," although the "Beon Cheong " applan described by the lifte to deliver piperate Healy pay for the title. To purpose also in wine theer linolinent; and to provide for the pencecables soltement of carst seast, amory the themes difpectation of Hong Kong to entert Bs.A Kathy his foren It was upeseritet to Govern her John Boning the then Registrar Senccal of the mess that the for film Bow dag. In faldewest Tito prejring Ondruances hat only in an imperfect way the Cheness Laws of Responsorlity, - mistural and sergnosial. (aldweli) 18577: "for regula experent to intorene them bodity, and desertation premis and that it wa Ordinance on "and regulation of to confide the management to heme (the (aldurs) aloueve Simay 1857. B. subject to the Governor in Council only. The Covenian thinkerker hape & thirugh the Lensation forement an such as the Land of the Paon und Kla" for "Rap" a the latter was boy said to be called in the long Register Conto thenew People, by "The Population. Jour and for other pinter Reimblej That is to say the color districts ordained (J.7.) that a police there the division or Reily & Bon an elective Kay thi mny or Tithing man, of the population into "thane the reponitting of each honacholder fo of the "Kap for than of the other nine, _ and their respective 8-12 the Suters, defined and declared : (s. 13-17.) those of the ":"Tapo" of the "Town Aage Hamlet or district," Whence declared (s. 18. the hanging out of the defined and "The "Mun-par "" "equired of every occupied ( impremacy of the "Repentar Gencial" as sole magistrate over and their tithings macted. I do. 4.6.7.19.) these officials aut, the infare of these arrangements, the authonly of t Chey mazestiate of Police over the Polen Force of the colony satirely abolished (so. 1. 6.) it out number of provisions which invested the Regestion fenceal, under his new followed, 15 only Eugh of "Protector General of the Chinese " with antitrary porn over theme, intrest only to the will of the Governor (W.22-28.) But the penalties for desobedience conti. be cofaced expenst them at Petty lesions (18.39-40. jant was an appeal to the Supriam fount by (ontinen 15.43. Pulse last provisions veu introduced against me Irell's wish; - and we wherested in the foreman that they made the boat, & unishing aged dividing his own power, on which. What Law was to depend his opent to the Bruance the Geveiner was hear. to In going say that he aloned not be deplored to carry of tho comply anto ammidiate effect, so far as that Law song ancona I never orns, in that regne sport into effect, except to that the two prazosing Ordinances were repeated By A (0.1.) It appears from Governantes john Karring: inform " Menates" of "Votes & Proceedings of the Lepidation forains "The 17th March 1A580 hà "of Hong Kong" that on then that "experience had perved the desirableness f the ancistasies of the coloray " whoreecing certeen modifiations into the Ordnan 6.910570 and that there come "now be you, Gas, 20 mart 105. count in the future Whey umperne? atisfactorily adopted", the onversion of all the sections relating to the thenise Lace: A " Kaps; and the reenacturend in that of Responschlity. the Ormance, repeating lars before and the Withings air the rest of 180 explanation was "Romance "etc. K" shape of 8.91858. Orginal one Sexport Anneeal (exper & Report of the but the Ordinance, so attered, poped on the 5th way pottung. under the same title with that wan to wplace. Finally it appears from the Arnaun which in the Report of pusfaltad egelia General of Lucysor mi Cecil C. South of the 25th Petrus 1858 that by Kory for in 1866 analy referred to by the Laws of the Pain & Kea in Hong Kong, tolong good effects had followed the experiment, or . and that as justiped his the new lepolation to be "a success what it conse Ordinance to which he cepees (para. 15.10.1 is "the Retoria Rege hation Ordnance 1866" whenty "Andrmance of Gour" Responsibility was theron on the houschalices of preventing the ele de canto or [ccompant of their bouse, prom commetton Ry. McDonnell Steele I file frenacted as with few action. "yuregistered Krithit, or Mibler Gamblingtonuses, - and the The The candling farm them reach of the Laws relating to the Meest sale of sheets, the les Whereff yad met wouth wa ready compliance on all sides with fait "orate really appested in putting down thex offences: BITZUAKOVA s A UMIESTA B "Colvay of Hong Ning: 29th 4156 To the same effect in that governors on leolimay desfalch off the both as to the purport. Supplementary to the above ordinance for obtaining intor- of the leash was its working the ways: mation as to the movements and character of all native craft in waters, I introduced Ordinance No. 7 of last year, for the purpose of placing the Executive in possession of the same sort of Information as to native householders and residents on shore which Ordinance No. 6 was intended to procure of native procedings on the water. The working of this ordinance was entrusted to the Registrar General, Mr. Ceoil Smith, who has discharged his difficult duties under it with great ability, and a success which would have been impossible without the knowledge which he possesses of the Chinese language. 36. That ordinance divides the town of Victoria into districts, and renders compulsory the registration of all Chinese house- holders, who are, moreover, held ultimately responsible if cer- tain violations of the law specified in Section XVII., and which, with ordinary vigilance, they can provent, occur on their premises. 37. Considerable powers are given to the Registrar-General, enabling him to summon householders and tenants of portions of houses before him, and to insist on their furnishing him with all particulars respecting themselves and their pursuits. All Chinese: servants of every degree in the employment of foreigners were! likewise obliged to obtain a certificate of registration, specifying for each his or her native domicile, age, and such other particulars as might assist in tracking servants implicated in any offence. In h word, the ordinance provides means for keeping the Government informed of the character and proceedings of the Chinese residents baland, just as the Junk Ordinance ensures similar information in reference to persons and vessels in colonial waters, 38. It may be interesting here to give the results of last year's legislation, in the number of persons registered as householders (Chinese), and also of servants in the employment of foreigners. The total np to the 30th of last month was- Householders Servants 3,950 7,033 39. The Ordinance likewise contained some provisions for en- abling the Chinese themselves to organise a police force auxiliary to that in Government pay (Sections 12 to 15), and it gives me muel pleasure to state that the Chinese bave within the last few months organised, at their own expense, and under the immediate sur- veillance of the Registrar-General, a small body of thirty constables, who have already given proofs of alacrity in preventing and detect- ing crime that contrasts most favourably with the former in- difference of the natives. Your Grace cannot but perceive that this small commencement is capable of a very wide and useful ex- tension hereafter. 40. This seems a suitable place for drawing attention to the Registrar-General's returns as to the population of the colony, which has been the object of the recent legislation described. He puts it down at a total of 115,000 on the 31st December, of which 29,459 were females. These numbers are exclusive of the military and naval forces, and include 2,113 European and American civil residents, of whom 673 were females. 41. I have every reason to regard this estimate as considerably under the truth, though some allowance must be made for the ten- porary desertion of the city at the date of the census, through apprehension of the probable operation of the new Registration and Harbour Ordinance. Those apprehensions, it may be as well to remark, have long sincs disappeared, and the harbour is more than ever crowded with native craft; whilst the excess of immi- ! gration over emigration since the 1st of January would.probably not be less than 15,000. At the time I have no doubt that nearly 1,500 indifferent characters have left the city, a large proportion of that number having sought refuge in Macao, the present princi- pal haunt in this part of the world of pirates, kidnappers, and mauvais sujets generally. 42. I may also observe that the hoading of "coloured" is ill chosen as descriptive of the Chinese in the Registrar-General's population returns. As as a race, they are fairer than many inhabitants of Southern Europe, whilst in North China "they are as fair as Europeans generally. I may also add, that I place no reliance on the returns given of mortality amongst the Chinese, and still less on the contents of the singular column headed, Mortality out of the Colony," which described as amounting to such a return which is evidently absurd, and I have directed its omission in futuro, though it appears to have formed one of the regular annual returns here for a series of years. Lectory this son the Darke of Bucherste Thani Pacas 3 Phase capry 36.37.38.39 2002, trong trong extric & International Telegraph Company; Inciaporated 184467 Secretary's Offices Telegraph Street, London: jeft Lebury 1869 Copy Gor: Ko. 111-26 July 1866, F.0. inf. 27 the honor to replay letter of yesterday's date. I help to inform you has yet been received from the foreign authorities respectives the mella fi tong tone April 1868. I. beg leave Frise : Offices that 9748 /08. king about an early settlement the complaint of the matter, but as has to pass through the the hands of all the different Governments of countries through which the message. passed, the enquiries necessarily R. Sandford Eq Foreign Office Miscellan Offici long time Governments , and forecojn are very dilatory. in matters of correspondence. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant amitant Leere geref. Bury. 2602. Hong Kong 2002 by MINUTE PAPER. Sin T. Sandford. Nothing to do but to wait. It is of no moment but looking of the Selegraft Cenfanies sous good. Ills. 5/7 Sir Francis Забрая Colonial, WD Stu orthing London THE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Sandford Ey Louvign Office Bockhor This heller Mache & 7.0. Los but to Mr. Sand Ind, 25 / sauleng at Stockholm then just necciond it from him. 4 Mar. by Mariby It Hack Rm 3834. Hong Kong See Back, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, WITH WHICH IS UNITED THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW. 1. ADAM STREET, ADELPHI, W.C. March 31st 1869. In reference to the opinion your Mordship • pleased to express to the ID:Eutation which waited upon you 3 the 9the the February last, regarding Cambling Ficences at Hon trong trong I am directed by the Rational Aposcia. tion for the Promotion ofSocial Scince to ask whether lordship would bindly lay upon the table of the House of Soros, all correspondence, memorials and papers whether local of an official character or with the colonial office, in continuation If the papers upon the same subject already the House of Lords, land upon the table of the House with a view to the proper and complete information of the public ject. I have the honour to ke in the sub Your obedient servant Ewinkears. General Secretary Right Honorable Earl Granville 1. G. Secretary of State for the Colonies. I presume yee. Sie F. Saufford Coduri Beans J to thyection at al tact, Eduris Pean schedule she unsponden. peshond the fratrol Als draft ausmes. Suretary to the rect Grove for the Promotions of Locial Leiner [MINUTE 11920 M49 Mihollard SEPARA 9 | Milogerad Al Manse!! 10 Bartinanville 18 Mire? Offices Berminy Hist 20 Chul lorby Jam dentist lal Granulli aquant pou gem Cellen (thin 31: hello but his handeling with Early offorting fferenting 2- Ki Honore oftende farther. Pufers unnalect with the famMary Lerencn at Hory Keny ack & may 1869! Coff Gor? inf÷ 72-7 may 43 chong tieng PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT Si tishional Apsoriation for the Promction of treat of بھی ایسی داریم with whali is anded The Live Amendmoul Society April 16th 1869 I cùm dricked by the Standing Committe· India and the Colonies to vebnict to your respectfully to cek Serdship thi auncæd) exhad from the "Overlund Etimia Mail of the 23rd February last, which weco. received by the test post from Hong Kong and very your Lordship to convictee it iù connector witte paragraphe B. 16 cand Fj of their Memorail privented in January. If the Report contained in trut exhud be cared – and afeured upon anjury that there is no. of ik vorrichness, then their worst appritionisions as to the fact of Mr Dand Rachier of Caldwells being more in the confidence and employment of thre more their jewstiped. His connection with the Gambling Famers bef when this provecation of Chinamen ( for murder] is premckel) - he zwakhing the CCW sonne behalf" with the braven Solicitos viz: the/ Crown's behalf and the irregularities in the getting ap of the condence for provecution so strongly yit Price ? Offices Hong Kong Government ex The Right Honorable The Earl of Granville K. G. betonul Office Miscellan De Suity to approved by the icting Celui Magiškuk The vreme Mr May whove services in Euiging baldicilio mutprachico outerning of Mihiefous acknowledged in the in the Dusjakher expered to in the above paragraphe of the Houseriál) vide not, they feel cepured exccipe your Lordssige animadvewOnI They respectfully ash to doid that their prevent communication be added to stuex Memorial, and convidind cv pupplemankul” shoute" I have the honor kebe Your most berduet Fervant Erwin Pears. General Secretary Annex above referred to THE HOLWORTHY MURDER. The three Chinese (Cheong Alum, Wong Akee and Lo Achoy) now in custody on a charge of having been concerned in the murder of Mr W. W. Holworthy, at the Victoria Gap, were brought up on remand Mr Hazeland, Crown on the 10th. Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr D. R. Caldwell watched the case on the surne behalf. Loo Tuck Yau was the first prisoner called and having been cautioned, he Atated that he was formerly a gambling- man, but now was out of employment. - Mr Hazeland remarked that the evidence to be produced to-day would be chiedy of conversations hart with the prisoners. Wituees continued. He has knowledge of the prisoners; having met the first and second, on the 25th January, near the Monument at Wanchi, under the trees. The second prisoner he has known as a gambler for some time, for several years; he knew him als as a thief, who made money by roth ry, umbrella-snatching, Ae, and then came to gauble with the proceeds. The third prisoner he knows by having seen him at the gambling-places : he was known as the "great blackguard. About noon on the 25th ultimo, he saw the two prisoners (1st and 2d) near the Wan- chai Market; they were quarrelling: he (witness) had a friend with bim, named Wong Achun. Mr Hazeland objected that minute questions irrelevant to the case should not be put by the Magistrate, as they would never appear as evidence before the Supreme Court: it was mere waste of time. Mr May remarked that it might appear a waste of time, but in a case so importaut he intended to test the statements made by those witnesses in every possible way. The Crown Solicitor said that the ques- tions put were all for the defence; ~and it certainly was not for the Magistrate specially to look after the prisoners' de- fence. As for the prosecution, that was represented. Mr May again stated that the prisoners were not defended, and that if Mr Hazo- land, as representing the Crown, put all the questions for the prosecution, he would take care to do so for the case, nut for the į defence. This had been the course he had pursued in many hundreds of similar cases; and he was sure that the Attorney General would be very glad of, all the information relative to the statements of the witnesses, The evidence was then continued. Wit- ness asked the prisoners what the quarrel was about, when the second prisoner told him we three men made a watch yester- day, and are going to divide the money to-day"-mexoing that they had stolen one. They also had a bank note and bro-poma? ken silver about them. Second prisoner | said that a dollar was the cause of the dis- pute second prisoner wished a dollar and live mace more than his share, and first pri- Witness soner would not let him have it. then asked for two or three dollars to drink tea," on the score that the prisoners had been making a fortune; upon which first prisoner began to use abusive language and said, "I have risked my life to get the money; why should I give it to you?" The second prisoner said that the third inan bad got one-half and they (1st and 2d)! had got the other half, and that the quar- el rose over the $1, 5 mace, on their divi- sion, First prisoner, in reply to witness's request for tea-money, said "It is all very well for you asking money; the second pri- soner was seized by the foreigner, and his life was as cold as water (noaning that be was in great danger), when Tai-loong-ka (3d prisoner) saved him." Further second prisoner said that the watch-robbery could not have been done in the street, but that it was fortunately on the Hill Witness then got the dollar i mace about which the dispute bad arisen, Second prisoner further told witness the Tai-loong-kao had got; half of the money, together with the chain (which he had not divided); and then ad- vised witness to go to him for some money. Witness then went away. On seeing next day the notices offering a $500 reward, he went to Mr Caldwell. The witness then narrated the various steps taken towards the arrest of the pri soners-two in Hongkong, and the third in Macao. Wong Achun, the companion of the pre- vious witness, narrated the circumstances and conversation in almost exactly the same tenor and even detail as the first wif- uess. The only disparity appeared to be, that this witness put it that the Macao man (nick-named Tai-loong-ka) had kept the chain to himself and said that there was no chain at all. Show Achune was a street-gambler in Hongkong, and is now nuemployed. He knows nothing of the first and second pri- soners; be only knows the third man (Tai- loong-ka), who was occasionally hired hy witness's father, who is head-coolie of a bar- raevon. On the 26th January, about nine o'clock, witness was at this barracoon in Macao, when third prisoner came to him aud said that he had made several tens of dollars at Hongkong and had lost it by Witness replied, "You can't gambling. make any money here; you had better go back to Hongkong. I am going to Hong kong to-morrow. To which third prisoner said, "If you hear of any reward being offered for me, you come and tell me, and Wit- I will go away to some other place," nest asked how he had made the money to which third prisoner replied that he and the other men bad robbed a foreigner on the Hill: he bad thrown a stone at the foreigner, which was evaded by the foreigner; and then picked up an- other stone and throwing it at the foreigner wounded him at the head. One of the others then anatched the foreigner's watch; when the foreigner seized one of the other men, and held him so hard that he was nearly dead. Seeing this, third prisoner, seized hold of a nat packer's iron, and beat the foreigner until he could not speak. They then took the watch, but did notį search the foreigner's person, as he was afraid. Witness then told 34 prisoner that he was going to Hongkong next day, and would see what was done in the matter of a reward. Cowing down from Macao per steamer on 27th January, he went to Mr Caldwell's informer after supper to pay him a visit. Mr May here asked where this informer lived? Mr Hazeland said that he objected to the house being given; the uame (mention of which he had previously objected to) might as well be given. Mr May asked if it was not a farce to suppose that this man, whom all connected with the case must be acquainted with, should be imperilled in any way by appear- ing in the case ! It was absurd to suppose Mr Hazeland replied that he never had said anything about that; he objected to the uame or the house of the informer i being given at this stage, as it might have a prejudicial effect upon the case. Mr May said he would do what he con. sidered was essential to get at the truth of the matter; and he would send a subpoena for this man this very night, so that he night obtain his evidence Mr Hazeland remarked that he was unable to prevent bis Worship from doing anything he bought fit regarding the matter; but he certainly would not re- wain in the conduct of the case, if this in- former was brought inte Court at present Mr May answered that if Mr II, who coudveted the case for the prosecution. put the mattor in se strong fight ar pro judicial to the interests of justice, he would withhold the steps he would otherwise have taken. But were be conducting the proscentim, he would most certainly have brought this informner in Court. Dil Mr H. wish to test the truth of the witnesses ? Mr Hageland: Most certainly I do. Mr May: Then it is essential that this ipan should be here, Mr Mazeland ambmitted that the in- former, even if placed in the box, could no do more than answer one or two ques- tions, and further, that the prosecution.--- meaning his Worship, the speaker, or any one else had no power to bring or call one witness to impeach the credit of a previous witness. He could produce the Ordinance which clearly laid that down. The evidence was then continued'; and the witness narrated what was he be- tween him and Mr Caldwell. Thir pri soner was arrested on the waterside dinner Harbor) of Macao. He saw the first pri- soner arrested bere in Hongkong, Prisoners asked several questions ; but throughout, no one question was put to any of the witnesses which would throw the slightest light upon what line of defence was meant to be followed by the prisoners. After some farther remarks regarding the advisability of producing the informant, the case was adjourned to Tuesday next, at 2 p.m. 4394. Hong Ying MINUTE PAPER. Fin. I. Royen Before the and the werk a difabet white 2 from Sin R. Marcchonnche in separat ti then fort Implopments.) Waldwell. In Holland acten - this Desat of it mon suupy the do no on what in (Mt. My & Calduck an deadz Memies. I cannd say I han much Expect pe wither of them... Gromm, side altematel with on a the other Miscellan Once Vir Thoren I think a simple acknowledgment is all that is necessary, here to as we in so soon to recein a R Macdonnell- despatel pau der I take it that I Caldwell had not (as stated the paper) Watch the cave" for the prosecution, but that he attended the in premation pdiceman attend a trval, where the in upon which the proceedings are based, has been made to her. It appease that in the present case the information was poin Wold (aldwell. Honghong Misi?: offices. 4394 Halenter ? the Association forthe promotion Species Scrimm Copy for ho. 72.7 Ma, 1869. 6 May 1889 PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT Sam dunha acknowly Ent framik Entrary. The nicht of your Wetter of the 16 Apl Emlosing An Extrart from the China Mail of the 23 Fetion refer of the trial of Prisoner charged with concerned in the Murder, at thetorin Gaf eto of W Holworthy. Hough any 4.394 The Off Lovemorti Randonnell ymaz 1869. A hardomete No. 72. MINUTE / In conduction. PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT Thansmit to you for zom informative d & my desp with refereme 2° 41 of the 26 tank asin of a further correct on demo- If Ler & National Association for the promotia Pocia! Suence Uference this Depe of the trial. Wthe prisonen charged with being Concemid ho The murder of Mote Holurt. May 1869. bos7 Hong Kong Chartered Mercantile Baut. of India Condon > Chuic C:0: MAY23 (05 Old Bload Street. Londer. E. C. 27th May. 18697. To Her Majeship's Excretary at Thek. for the Colonice . My hard. In terms of the Deed of Settlement of Corporation, I have the honour to transmit herewith, General Half Yearly Statement to 31th December last, choring the amount of the then debts, liabilities and Engagements, and of the Sssets, property, credits and Securites Butenvring to the Corporation, suck. Stakment including an account of the amount of Promissory notes of of the Corporation in Circulation, and at the coire held in the Establishment, the said statement being Authenticated in the usual I shall feel obliged if you will own recapt. I have the honour to be My Word Your Lordship's most obedient d'avant доправили Chief. Manager. MINUTE PAPER. Sin F. Sandford Ache wuph. Oft. Walte GENERAL BALANCE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA. LIABILITIES. For the Year ended 31th December 1868.. Proprietors Capital Current Deposit - decountò Billo Tayable 750000 164730 19 1.82.4.125 196 4.380.944 5 Notes in Circulation, viz. – Colombo 40777 12547 Singaper Hongkong Shanghai Youchamai 26556 15 Shareholders kividends onletanding. 2b4908 17 5/25 15 Sundry Creditère Adjusting Account Constituants Accounts Reserve Fund. Nofil & disc Sezgusin Bills Receivable Killo Discounted, Loans, and Adoances - Fast Dur Kills and Loans. Bullion on hand. viz:-- Catculta Madra Colombo Singapore Hongkong Shanghai Gokohama. Sundry Arbtors. 16246 152 10708 8 Conetiturato Agcounts. 26825 150,000 Landed & House Hoperty at Stead Offier and Branches - maurants Account¬ Stamp XV Adjueting Government Securitize Ju608769 348948 8 173.480|19|| 4 38.21945 40268117 26.81339 ||4,095,370 || 10 || 1 483.853| 14 || 10 115.173 18 b 93.970 1 23.3876 56.279|19|2|| 80.5.313 4 289.685 16 101.258 | 1 220-879 17 # 4062 18 4 Monry at Call, Cash at Bankers and on hand- viz: London 465.433 15 3 387235 139 Calcutta 81801613 Singapore 29599 12/11 521925 Hongkong Shanghai Hankow Yokohama). 35000 # 5 110557 13 10 2232021529925137 17892473 18 6789247318 Cohnul Chairman's DI Robutong Chief Manages Seokramark Chief Firemais, • bentered The Thanaju Hongkong 6087. His Min of the Chartend Incantil Bank of India London there. Bhur 28/5 Surf Hoge Bt !!! Horsell! Barlingville 31 Maysthy Sam diuba & Eatgranit & abworth The right of zom of the 27 intronboing the funeral hath gearz Statement of to the 31 Die Past of the position of the Chartered Mercantil Bank o Indie Landow 557676 Stong Kong. The Mouse Internationals Telegraph Company), ECEIVE foretary's Offices expry this reference JULYIO 1869 or? infer to. 111- 26 other Gor? July 1869 9549-68. Mise offices 9748-68. Lue ales Mise: offices 2602-69. Telegraph Street: London: July 6th ANG 9 I have the hamai complain and 11th September which you can of delay in the transmission sage sent by trace the Duke of Buckingham to the Car and Chandas Governor of the 7 april 1868. marming received amower of the fareign authanities upon the outgut; lynydiply the despatch detention. bok place on the Turkish Administration refuses reimburse paid far message. Thes. I Elliott & I regret Foreign Affice the decision of the Administration is not mare satisfactory. I have the hanar tale, obedient servacht Dschintz Mlow Afistant Surglary ghgh. Hong Kong MINUTE PAPER. So S. Sandford. Leite char he shall pt 20 refrend for the improperly selaged Telegram. The other confondenc 2. Me for. of Mrs King with #ference 6. the last parapoft then defalt 9579?? I suppon that this in all that can be done. A few months hit These, for or Clear of any I am not rue that wi ought not to cut the F.O. to complain Intored- Mini?. Offieis HongKong Li. R. G. MacDonnell AINUTE / JULY Blake 23 Holland SriRogers M Ferttiraaville 26 July 1869. I have the honoree to acknowledge relift of force despatch. ho. 536 of the 7th of July 1868 respecting The delay which recurred in tranomission to Songhong of a letgraphic message Sext to you from this Defs on the 7th of ов April 1868. In refly Itransmit to you for your Information Copris of C. Q. 3 Left?: 1868 (536-9549) Correchon Telzt. 2. Las passed Juliet butever this Def. and the Election and International, Lelegraph Co. from, well dee that the delay took 11 Left? 1868. (4740) C. C. 11 Left ?. 1868. Telz?. Co. 12 Leftṛ 1868 C. C. 16 Feb 1889 4. Co. 17 Lele 1869 (2602) Sell? Telg!. Co. 6 July 186, The Techrich lines, but that the Ottoman administration refuses to reimbuna The amoret paid for the message. Ham ruggested for the considuation of the Leerdery of State for Dougin Affairs whether a Conflant on the Juliet should not be addressed to the Luudush for?? and Ishall acquaint love with the result Shave se M. Mowell for real fanville Mine: Offiens HongKong The Under Lurday of state Foreign Offing PANUTE / JULY W. Blake 28 Sarah Sandfor 24 Strehovars 22 At Munnsell Corllianville Sue. 7. Rozen. £1250 ther удивиться I an dericted by Eael Granville to transmit to Jow to her level before the Pufered a Lord finallic Ecut of Cleverdon, Menulis, / for 20.536-7dul 1858 Chies of a corresponden C. 6. to Tile & Co. 3 Left ? 1868. Telg!? Co. 4 Left ? 1868 which he passed buteven the for: of songsong, Electrin and ~C.C. to Lilgr. Co. 11 Lift 18. And the International Telegraph to respecting Telgh Co. 12 Left? 1868 occured in the transmisse on 09.16 Teh 1869 to Lebz? (mise. Offine 97&8.) Telgh Co. 17 Feb 1869. to Hongkong of telgraffic message vent from this def?? of April on the 7th It will be ve from the litter of the Elective Lelegraph Co. of The 6th inst. That delay took place on the Lenkish lines Felg! Co. 6 hely 186. bit that the oltomew Administration refuses to reembeven the Amount pecial for the Message, and dan to suggest for the Considuation of Lord Clarendon whether a Complaint on Julgiet ought not to be addressed to the Sentrial for?? Registered No. In any further correspondence on this subject, the above Humber should be quoted. Segi Goof of Copy for? ich 20.107. 698 7388 JULY 16 1869 General Post Office, London, 15 July 1608 I have laid before the Pastrecaster Seneral your letter of the instant, you sent to this office a copy of a despatch to Earl Sanville from the fexermor of Hong Kong, enclosing a letter from the Colonial Postmaster General suggesting that arrangements should be made with the Agent of this Department at San Francisco for transmitting correspondence from Hong Kong to various places in North and South America and the West Indies, by means of the United States mail Packets running between Hong Kong and San Francisco. I am directed to acquaint you, forthe information of Earl franville, that Sir Frederick Rogers, Burt Colonial Spice - gerrama que the arrangement proposed by the Postmaster Seneral of Hongkong is one which, the opinion of the marquis of Hartington, it would not be at all desirable to adopt. I am to point out that letters sent from Honghong to the places in question, of the United States mail Packets, could not be forwarded through the medium of the British Packet Agent at San Francisco, but would have to be sent in the mails for the United States Post Office; and postage accounts of a very complicated nature would have the established with that Office. The United States Packets leave Hong Kong for San Francisco once a month only while the communication bia Suez is three times a month - twice British Packet and once by French Packet; so that it is fair to assume that the amount of conespondence which would be benefitted by such arrangement as hr mitchell proposes is but small, and would not warrant, thei's Department in incurring the trouble and expense which would be involved in keeping the requisite postage accounts. Your most obedient Servant, 5.7964. King King MINUTE PAPER. Si & Sandford Why L. for: 2. hei defall 7308. Bone Antered Post Office 7964 Mongriong MacDonnell Sant Sandfor Sir Rogers BL/G V Horsell Tool Granville My Jr. M. 15th July 1869 20 July 1869. Ireferred for the ·Consideration of the Postmaster General a copy of your despatel No. 698 of the 5 I transmit ber Jore information a copy of the refly wheil I have received from the marquis of Hartington from was alive, He did so and finding by a that the arrangement proponed of the Postmaster General of Hongkong, for transmitting Correspondence from Honeskors to baciores faces in hort and Lorett America and The West Indies means of the Elnited Statis meil Padels reinney's bestevens Hong Kong and San Francisco, Lordships opinion, it world not be at cell desirable to adopt. Meuse se Mr. Monsell For Eaul Gremille Es uliva. He did so and finding by a' o'decke he th Copy Gor 8o. 117-30.. Anse ? 28 July 1867 8110 Stong Kong My Lord. National Association for the Promotion of Social Science July 14th 1869. I have the houve to suburt to your doclohip in the name of the Standing Committee for India and the bolonies of the Social Science Apociation, by whose Order I address you, the accompamping Newspaper Reports of Ave inquests held out Hong Kong ind April and ellery least by the Govemment Corner into the Causes of and circumstances attending the deaths of two Chinese Cookies Toze alchuese Hospital of in the E Tarpingshem and the other in the Civil Hospital" of the Colony. The Reports are peverally taken from The overland China Mail of the 29th (pul and 13th May. Of their Pubotuntial arcemacythe Committe mille are assured. The deceased in both cases had been inated of the beer Chinese Emigration; Defoto i Taipingohan called "Revang hovels hept and Ellew-Book" houses n Sotaly for the Meception of Coclico, chufly from the mainland, who have Bold was alive. He did ag and finding by a HOP EENS EEN VOS UNF VT" Bly visit, tiETI~~ given themselves to the Agents of Engrator (in the present cases to perin and Surinam The notoriono Mr. Daniel Richard Caldwell who watched the tue casco is the owner and ottanager of both these houver and conductes, exchmitted, the general Coolie - trade to Foreign pack. He also acknowledged canned It فی تھے جی least to some extent it is of the Mobirsements. also actmetted by him that the hude hud Mecently plecerved a eur roulerable Shmulus particularly from pem, admission which must be taken in connection with the Mecent and questionabl conceforn Foreign House at Hong-Kong by Govenor Ser. R. G. Macdonell of the permission to Ship and export 8029 Cooler for peix from thence instead off from the Roads of Macao to which portinguese jurisdiction the periviem looke hade was until its pecent prohibition there exclusively confined The general quection of the legitimacy illegitimacy of the Chimeve booke hade before the association nor to they intend now to lay it Your Lordship. They merely worth tor enforce the whether legitimated obvious truth that. illegitimate it is a trade with which upon every consideration not only the highest, of those of humnainty Religion but ever those more, wildly Eastern policy and reputation st betones Her Majetro Gevemment to interfere with effect whenever it becomes necessary to prevent it from being made pretext of of Crethes and honors such as those recorded in the evidence oc car or tar pow submitted to spour Lordship. the principal facts The following disclosed by the body of testimony bought : before the Inquest in the E-boge Case :- No Report whatever the Dunitary condition of these linigration Depoto E. toge Hoopital کیا دیکھے on the deaths of then mmates has been made by then bunero f ollemcigers for many years part. But for the accidental visit of "Inspector of Brothels" at the moment of the decease and the further accident of there being. group of eight or nine lipoes loud out mi pout of the place when another Witnes the acting Registrar General of the Colony was alive. He did so, and finding by a Jelask +. fs "lind" "wifi barna o (et. Lister) come to verify the Inspectores leport of that visit there would probably have been no Inquest in the presunt and therefore pe divolvoure. Yet the Local attirances impose the most minute obligations ample Machinery to the extent of in those profecto and for enforcing them, empowering domicitian irvits by day and night. It is inconceivable that Mr Caldwell and bus subohtutes should have been long tolerated in the commissive or pemission of the homicidal cruetheo disclosed, and that they should ever prmo Hemaun f impinusohed in the force of all that express and plungent legislation & Aus pr the face thove circumstances it is above all incmowable that the Goverment Corner should have suggested in the E. Foze Joze Case to the three jurors befor hun, a suggestion which they dret not entertam however, a fecommendation to the local Government to take buck Mr. Caldwell into the public service by promoting him to the highly responsible and pespectable Office orented the Imperial clet of parliament of 1835, of Head of the Chinese Enngration to Departurent. The E. Toge u soud brz Mr. Calctuell to have been built in Governer Su George Bonton's time for the purpose of securing the dead bodice which by bider then made. longer to be expoved upon the Hill, side Hi (Maldustt) never regarded it as a Hospital. In like manner, until the Inquest the Colomal Surgeon Dr. Murray Days that be too had always suppoved it to be a Chinese "lity of the dead". But, unlike Dr Mumay, pince he has been engaged. Mr Caldwell ever in the Cookie pace how been, he achitoy in the habit of treating it as w Hospital to the extent of sending thither at bast the incurable cave's from his Kivony her. other Eungration Dépête. He also Knowledge of upwards of twor Amuted comater of the E - Arte annually, having seen there as many as time Finally, he conferves having pound the bunnine charges of pervos dying there. But it is clear from the evidence of the Keeper from that of other Witnessed that the sick changes as well ao peroludest in those payments, that the white working also done by Mr Cardwell's order and at his charge (one Memarkable inotere -QUÍU N'CIS TRAS“ seen me weak point in the] Be alive. He did so, and finding by a 1 porn 50 a 1969 adapted bing that of the work done in the interval: between detection and the inquest) and, in short that the whole expenditure of the managed by thoot defrayed Dome individual. It further results from the facts in ondence that in the Koung tee and the panou Cinigration depicts of flong kong all the sick amongst great- Members of Chinamen, almost alt being persone whatarever brought, by methods, from the neighbouring Empere into that Colony, are truded to treated by Mr. Catchwelk and those change, pretty much at thei divoration; that pronounced by them to be meuble house called the ( toze Hospital and that the Mlation of pumality there is such exclude almost the chance the chance of auf are sent off to the clead coming out alive What that Martio may be dves & not exactly apperty. not having found the tobuls of admissions, discharger deaths during any given pered But at least 73 per lent of the Eigrants received appear to have pariched within its walls: mortality but also prom leffen Markers evidence (the only liffin Maher exammed) who- acknowledges continous emplopment there to the extent of from toffure daily, If your Lordship that this fughtful mortality is chiefly Mather entirely due to the circumstance above debcuted of the unfecting, serded, and revolting neglect curd aboundonment of those poor creatures by their foreign holders o owners the positive kotunony of the alledical Gentlemen Drelhuray and Dbochrane, of the Ino peder of Brotheles, and of the other Officeal Witnesses will remove that doubt. It would be improper for the Association to Meproduce the foul details of the annexed report in those particulare and they gladly forbear If the argument a cognite ad ignotum permitted it to permissible after rendurg that part of the Report. Those witresors saw the diping w ever tok and the dead, wallowing together in floods of filth and covered with Vermon in their beds," shut in" and, in "locked cello, without egress. of the pune of potion may be forced not only four what had been send already They brast to g'teuse the former from there stupor before they could determine whether VVORE" VETOXY WIT me (ay of my visit, melt t EST VOUWCIT has seen the weak was alive. He did sy and finding by a U conle gust they what exceeding both Keepers Report, the whole alive. – In one instance at least, mass of compling bodies had ccarved to contain vitality, A disproved by diping artch whom theep Housed into Shingth und who lived to inform them of his own Dufferings and monge Your Lordship will not fail to pererive that it is universally admitted poose (may, that even Mr. Caldwell does not demy / the want of Medical attendance, of attendance at all, of very ventilation, of cleanliness, and even of food at this "C... Auge "Hospital" and "the only excuse offered is that at some inspecified time Mr. Caldwell has seen places in some (unspeciped) Ohmese " in peopect of cleanliness.. Chinese "Villages" of death of the man found in the Sheck und Memoved thence to the livil Hospital" is of course not open to all the animadverowno wluch relate to the particular condition of the Etoze. But other respect the guilt of the "Kivong Kee" whose mimate he had been and wüsch had cast hun forth to che the same. There is the same cofession confession by Mr. Caldwell before the same Cowner. There is the same expression of that Government Officials opinion Mr. Caldwell's grief is genuine, rend no more denthe will occur under the like enenmiotanceo ; Arut there is the pane absence of that patioseschion to the public which consists in the firmshment of prot omnes and the earnest of future prevention. снеголово The the Cases Werefore appen to the association so clovely illustrative of each other as to desirertube submitted together for Your Lordships corianderations; They venture to Dubiut that there is still for the future much reason to fear #2 connivance with on the pont of the local authority the Danu apathy rexpect to matters of this hand which appears in the two cases now in queshow and they Lovels trip to therefore very respectfully ask Your give such mohuchons no will cause the law tobe viidicated upon its prolators and pinscheral and faithful observance in I have the honour to be Right Honomable Earl Granville. K.G. enverre it time to come Your obedient dewont- Edwin Pears. General Secretary Secretary of State for the Colonies. (The appendix just c T2 dny UI MY THI, GET-PEWA NAS BOAT" "THE" "WORK" alive. He did so and finding byad'drake by and balance „roolig system band) 0/10 bong rừng MINUTE PAPER. Sie F. Rogen Le difatit 2. for. of 1. Salz n°94 calling attention & this Horfilil. The condition of their halvann rother Dead Ponte in des pouful A copy other & borted go 2. the for. with aferan dove dufalit And I think the La E. land. Whald han whies. Me Caldarth has bad demerits anony his vaciones a kind of that of wir firing malegant hatred of himself who is alway bastry out-- Cropping up in different quarter. In this litter Itam I megrelf to detect the handwriting of old-acquaintance in this matte. The old acquaintean, Medies *** deed there on the day of my viit, He did so and finding by a valock e le mad Caldwell has seen the wor coalie susters, d as the pirt qualification of a politics-philouthespeist written, what- Zsheets call O prista position. the misrepresentation It is imitating. difficult & avoid gin, too much a toolith wright & Fach statemnity. What appear to be the can in Kat Crimen an merciless, and the liken topt rid of dying persons - that then is a plan called the heltre toateit sent wition th kush dying pemons can pr them that when they an - that the must - as the print mente – horrible then the an supil riluted Einelt an that Lattints (so frak Them) have ben send to the plan pen Emigrant depit presided on he paying peth burial of all be smd - Charn init that the hanno des comed Sagor Mini that the matter is file impiande eines & Mrhaldune & that the fincial cam trin. of tt for by the offer whe dijanced it ? Meat Awe is reputed f lis aft July 1. 69. Then question 1. How this place came to be connotices bytoin por soley. what itter place of the same kind tein wichan 3. What is don t lemon the evils of this plan and presca the teren of investigateen W. . this discony thems 4. The question is incidentals Eaind whether the Empt Conducted I Caldur. auempand [I obsan that the Calduce states hin- soff the aged to a berman mmist Coml, (Dotch) - In in stated With Format Fellin to vorrat Frein letter to be conmuter dis uputaten cuth Bern Emigration & I Fater pr granted muut han than to Watch] write in It abon Han asking the 4 ques then off, It near fakies and and sand the papers with Ay of anath both fe uput I do not know whethen intandfur. this W. han am har vun in handem 80. [Myown wir ofth posits d sambly phothet lerines is that mt he applied Give Govt 5-7 dapenar we boat ut but iniquitin Deadlin us then. by Eetallity Fospitals peth dying Loud Franville we can do nothing with we get the smernon reply with nexwner. to him, but I thinse to might be well to shew our soune of gravity of care, by directing that if the pase be as it is represented to us, inshector other public offer who ought при to have prevented such hormon should at once dismissed wm 24/7. the loverun. Achnowton re the previous Sure- Letter from S.S. Ennfreeing the wrote that any lanation has aleaty been a bend to the bulgeet and a Duratech couture to the Governor. alcowning any of the gambling pro. much avuto mis to be applied to The which of what ought to be done by ordinary tanation. Appendice above above THE YEE-TSZE HOSPIÝM. Anuquest was held at the Civil Hospi lal ojaturday afternoon (24), F. Stewart, Beg, the Coroner, ou the body of a Chi nego emigrant who died in the Yentaze Hospital. The following were the Jury: Messrs Edwin Farrell (foreman), Otto Frederick and A. Thompson. uferred to of the two Reports of equ doctor had ever visited the place ? A juryman asked if witness knew that a verore, but they thought he had been these. "the day before that. They did not know groan that the man was alive, he (the cool when he would come. Fle came, they lis) cursed him in Chinese. The body was said sometimes... I am told that one or lyug on the floor covered with dust and two of the patients had their own doctors, dirt, gathered I should say from rolling ont but these were from private houses in the four, and from contact with the wall town. Tin other persoir in the room was dead a The Coroner remarked that he could he tatt on a ragged pair of trowsers soaked corroborate what My Lister had said, with in filth, His legs were crusted in little exception. and dirt, from which I imagined that he had been there a long time and not attend ed to. The other body was dead and rallier offensive. A coffin was ordered for I have been on my feet night and day to Witness: I wish to assure the jury that the first body Thad seen, get this nuisance abated, and I have not The Coroner: Did you make any enquiry have time to enquire whether there at BUY about the patients, where they came from? Ching-doctors in attendance vent," "My Witness: I did. I was told that some of only cares for the patients. the patients were from the emig trouses; one or two were chair cooles; and Hospital, deposed that deceased was brough Dr Cochrane, superintendent of the Civi the rest were from different part of the into the hospital yesterday, in a very Alth town, from families and shops. I stand emaciated condition. There were hu deceased twice before he died. One of Had 7 dreds of vermin in his hair. As far as was lived he could have been brought to toss could judge, out a post mortem, Hospital here. I made a second Ist about, ikii ni hour after eoncluding the, one just mentioned, and found that one of the dead fat teen placed in a coffin, the flours had been swept, the pools of urine, cleared ashes put down, and some food bro ught in by some people a basin of rice, with a hard boiled egg in it was by the side of a Mr Listor deposed: I am Acting. Regis- ar of the Colony. I first saw deceased on the morning of the 22nd, when he formed one of should say from 8 to 10 persons- fying on a building at Taipingshau, known as the Kwong-to-kee. I did not make aty anqntries about deceased particularly, but was very much struck by the utter neglect and filth of the place. The next day Friday sent round to have any dead bodies brought way that might be lying there. the persons I saw lying there was deceased. The Coroner: Describe the state of the Hospital Witness: In regard to the state of the hospital i can only say, that the attendant there could not tell me without shaking ap any prddular man, whether the wun was alive-genot."My visit on the 22nd was fire-wyway means the first, but it was the first on which I bad found any patients or dead bodies, Whenever I had been before, the cells were empty; in fact I ooked on them as a number of small cook houses I knew there was a hospital there, but on my former visits i fuminio patients, The pince consists of perhaps 8, from 6 to 8, coons, some of which are used as living zooms, and oue as a cook house. The Coroner: How many did you find meed as wards for patients 7 Witness: I found four occupied by batiunta. The Coroner: Did you go over each i Witness: The first room was not high enough to admit of a man standing op. was about 4 feet by 3, with no window, but only slits on the wall, and they were Sovered. A Chinese bed was placed on essels, at a height from the ground of hree or four feet, and this board nearly led the room, On this board lay a man bo, I was told, was suffering from diar **de was bartioaded to the place Jign sliding door. When I saw him. * was sitting up on the bed in an attemot to obey a call of untura He had no other place than this whereon to do so. That man is since dead. The Coroner: Did you see any attempt to make the man comfortable, any medi- cine, for instance ? Witness: There were no bottles of medi- cinos. Vessels were at the place for the necessities of nature, but I was given to understand that the man had been shut in the room, because he was delirious, and; wendel coma out. The Coroner sent Sant Gray to get all the books belong this "hospital," Witness continged The room contained three people unable to speak or or move. feed not otherwise describe them." ~The robin was about half the size of this (about 5 by 20 feet). They were tying on Clu nese beds placed on tressels. I do not think there were any mats on the tressels. The Coloner Was there any ventilation in this place? Witness: Only an opening in the door. There was no erective ventilation, so far as dead patient, and I saw a coolio offer some tea to one who was delirious. I believe this was done sixty because I was there. (Sergt. Grey hore returned, with books from the Hospital," among which were three small slips of paper, with Chinese writing thereon.) I have since removed all the patients, dead and alive. Two only aro surviving. I have closed up the place. for the present, and it has good white. washed, I believe at Mr. R. Carwell's expense. TCoroner: What in your opinion is the motive for sending patients to such a place Is it that they may be cured, or to die? Witness: The Chinese cannot get over their hatred of persons dying in their bouse, and these men, I believe, were sent to the place, not so much to be cured as to die, and so avoid dying in any person's house but the commonest ofliess of mumanity were not paid to thom while dying. I should like to state, to relieve, the minds of the jury and of the public that I think this horrible state of things has not gone on lore, as I have been there several times during the last year, and it has also, I know, been regularly inspected by the luspector of Nuisances; in fact it was a report of his which first drew my attention to the exist ence of such a place. I think that people, may have been taken there by oues or twos, have died, and been taken away; but think if they had had friends here, they would have been looked after, and that such an accumulation of horrors could not have existed detected. very long without being The Coroner: Can you assign any reason for the apparent carelessness in this case? Witness: Yes; from the number of per- sous brought by exceptional circumstances into the colony, who have no friends what- ever in the place, or over any elsewhere. think it must have been soon detected, because on the morning I went to the place received an independent report from Anspector Peterson, who called my alton tion to 1. What I mean is, that if I had hotdiscovered it, some one else would. The Coroner asked if any distinction was and those who made in the place between ordinary patients came from emigration houses/ examination, death had resulted from jaundice, which was so very autong Chinamen at present. A post mor- tem might disclose other facts. The Coroner directed that a post mortem examination should be made; The case was one of great public interest. Dr Cochrane said he visited the place early yesterday morning, but he saw nothing about it to indicate its being a Hospital. Mr Lister: An Inspector of police might have gone down there a dozen times, and never have suspected that the place was other than a coolie residence. Dr Cochrane said the place was utterly anfit for hospital purposes, and the chances of recovery there must be very sprat. The Coroner: 1 shall ask for very strong proof of the possibility that anybody ailing could come out alive. The Master of the Hospital, a man nam- ed Wong-chi-lam, said he knew the de- deasod, but was ignorant of his name. The deceased was brought by a person unknown to him, who said that deceased was from the "Kwong-kee emigration house, but decensent had said he never was inside the "Kwong-kee." The man who brought the decoased to Hospital spoke a strange dia- lect. No paper was given with deceased, who was carried to Hospital about ten days ago, on the other man's back. He also auderstood the bearer to say that deceased came from on board ship. There are a few people who regularly carry patients from the emigration houses as they say. That is at one proe, lie had of their coming from a barracoon. He had only received three tickets from the emigration houses, al- though he had had perhaps tenor eleveni patients from those houses He had been paid for all the eleven He did not trouble himself whether deceased was paid for or not. Mr Caldwell paid for deceased persons. The Corner: Has he rendered an account to Mr Caldwell in this case, and has Mr Caldwell paid him for it i Witness: I have received $10.40 from Mr Caldwell I have not rendered an account to Mr. Cabwell. The Coroner: Does Mr Caldwell pay him simply on his statement that so many people have died there?