Five cases of theft from houses were proved against a well-known thief, and he was ordered to receive 300 blows with the bamboo, and to bbe imprisoned for a year.
Pocket Picking at the Races, A native, who was proved to have picked the pocket' of another native of $2, at the races, on Tuesday, was sentenced to six mantis' imprisonment, we know, it ever had before, through the increased rate of its own progress, rather than through mere length of time. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that two reflections which tend to di force of this argument. The one may be attacked by a barbarism from wit 3 the other, that such science as serves the purposes of war may be engrafted on barbarism without materially altering its nature, The latter of these contingencies is being, toa certain extent, realised at the present moment in China. "Bere we have an instance of a race whose moral condition is, in some respects, more barbarous than that of the rude tribes that overthrow imperial Rome, and whose intellectual condition, if in many respects much higher, is of so entirely different an order to our own, that it may well seem to us less tolerable than that of the Goths did to the ancient Romans, yet, who are showing remarkable aptitude for the acquisition of the sort of technical knowledge and skill necessary to put them on a level with us as regards the appliances of modern warfare. An irruption of Chinese barbarism into Europe may seem Iudicrously improbable; yet, if it is improbabl is, we suspect, owing rather to our moral superiority to the Chinete than to the science we could bring to bear against them, On the other hand, it is in this very moral superiority that the risk of conflict chiefly lies, If we could afford to treat China as we should treat France, or Prussia, or any other highly civillyed nation with whom we hold commercial and political relations; there would be but slight chance of collision. But the ethical incompatibility between ourselves and the Chinese is 80 great as to leave us no alternative between not mai i with them at all, with them on a footing of superiority to which we should not think of laying claim in the case of jon, and Wi actual or test telegrams informs us that our rence with El been sativfaout risk of war 8 involves, in by any settlement of th vance of China in war. are only two things that can remove this risk either such a degree of physical debilitation of China as would deprive her of all hope of the one hand, or, on the other, degree of moral improver tutions as would render it possible far us with guarantees to which nothin to reconcile her. stronger in improving in morality, she seem far as international ethics are consider be steadily retrograding. Under these circumstances it is impossible to avoid seem that the risk of conflict must increase wi time, and that every rifle and every ironclad acquired by the Chinese must tend to preci+ pirate it, 'THE RECENT NEGOCIATIONS,
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