Our readers will not have forgotten the cus we reported last week, in which a Mandarin who was committed for trial at the Mixed Court, for theft from a Lodging Mot ved into the City; recog vised by the -Hsien-as the son of an old friend and thereupon acquitted, and placed inthe position of complainant. The Lodging House-keeper was taken into the Ci ured to sign a document admit-had brought a false charge, trid efuely beaten when he refused to do buteould got no consolation. What power could it have to interfere with the, proceedings of the superior Magistrate 1—Yesterday morning, the woman again appeared atthe Court, and reported that er husband on the face for try-himself with opium. His g this was that the Haien had threatened to beat him again, unless he produced two Wituesies (tow in other provinces) within five days, and also paid the accused Mandarin §40, which the latter now claims for the first time, on some ground unknown.—It is, we can understand, difficult for the "Assessor of the Mixed Court to interfere in a matter Chinese are concerned; but really equity of the care calls for some remonstrance, and we trust that the fact of the man being a resident in the British Concession may be in some way found to furnish it, Was he arrested on a proper warrant, or cast into jail after having been persuaded, only, to visit the yamen Here is a man torn from his home, beaten, and squeezed, because he has ae: cused a man of being a thief, who happens to be alto a friend of the Magistrate,
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