To the Editor of the Dear Sir,—I hope you will allow me the use of your columns, for the purpose of giving 'a correct account of the facts which hare led to the present difficulty regarding " China Bank Orders."
The compradore ut Messrs, Overbeck and Ca. disappeared after having purloined China Bank Orders belonging to the firm to the amount of Tls. 4,000, and as the head of the firm is absent, the manager thought it not only reasonable, but his duty to have it decided by the Mixed Court whether these Bank Orders should be returned to Messrs. Overbeck and Ca., or whether they ought to remain in the possession of the buna-fide holders, On this the Judge of the Mixed Court gave a provisional decision, stopping the payment of these Bank Orders, and stating that the final decision of the question to whom these orders should be adjudged, could only be given alter further evidence regarding the circumstances of the theft ould have been collected.
'The holders of the Bank Orders appealed from this provisional decision to the 'Taotai, but he confirmed the course of action' taken by the Mixed Court, and moreover ordered that the Tis, 4,000 should be deposited in his Yumen, until the final decision of the cas When this decision of communicated to the parties Ly the Judge of the Mixed Court, none'of them were satisfied with it, and adopting the suggestion of the Judge of the Mixed Court, they preferred to settle at once their claim definitively, by agreeing get to one-third of the amount under litigation, Ido not know what may hay moved the bona-fide holders of these Bank Urders to enter upon this agreement, whether it was the coming Chinese Now-your, or whether they remembered the adage: better one bird in the hand than two inthe bush but +0 much is certain, that the case in question has only been settled by a compromise of the three parties, an not by " forced decision of the Mixed Gourt consequently the issue does in no way involve a question of principle, but only affects the private interests of the parties engaged in this particular ca Yours faithfully,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.