The judgment recently delivered by His Honor the Chief Justice in the appeal ease of Capt. Wharton, of the steamer Carisbrooke, who was fined $100 by the Senior Magistrate for allowing Chinese Teave the hostel before. being inspected by engers who had paid their passages to the Chinese Protector, is, says the Singapore Dairy Times, an important one as thrown; nome light on the working of the Immigration Ordinance, MANDALAY, The latest reports from Mandslay state that an attack on the Residency was imminent, the King in his arrogance thinking himeelf able to defy the Indian Goverrment. The manner in which members of the sayal family of Burmah are disposed of by jealous occupant of the throne is described ae follows in the Rangoon Times:—First as concerns the men. They are seated on the ound; red velvet-covered ropes are fastened round their necks; the ropes passed between their legs and pulled; as the! victim's body is bowed forward the executioners," armed with heavy club, strikes the victim with all hia strength on the nape of the neck. Death is instantaneous. The body enveloped in a red sill bag is then cast into the Irrawaddy. The women, considered inferior creatures, are executed differently, Their heads are pulled backwards by the real rope instead of forwards, and the coup de grace administered with the executioner's club across the throat. The bodies are usually burnt, This mode of execution is practised so that the pious Buddhists may not violate the order prohibiting the shedding of blood.—Singapore Daily Times.
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