Oct, 21st,—The Civil Governors of Shéngking (Manchuria) memorialize forwarding i h are of judice jurisdic specting which the Censor Teng K'ing-lin complained at the close of lust year. From enquiries made by delegates sent forthe purpose to the different istricls now in question, it appears that the judicial eases in suspense vary from a imum of fifty or and others of luiigstanding origin. The cause assigned for the protracted d mys on the part of the courts of first instance in pro ig their judgments, is the apprehension of erring on the side either of leniency or of severity on the part of the Magistrates, where evidence is of conflicting nature, Thus in the case of of homicide, the accused, who has taken a life, in dread of the penalty of the law will variably seek to put the best possible on the circumstances; whilst relatives of the deceased, in the to gain redress, will with equal hance cannot possibly be arrived at without adequate wil but persons dwelling in the immediate vicinity of the scene of the crime complained of, and actual eye witnesses thereof, either hesitate to give straightforward evidence, lest they incur enmity by doing so, or fearful of being involved in trouble themselves, they take in flight. The decision of such ntly impeded through ving at the facts of the lar difficulty makes itself felt with charges of rubbery with violence, owing to the difficulty of obtai confession oF the evidence of witnesses. No remedy to the existing state of affairs can be augyested, as the idea of circuits of indi lown to be impracticable; and th ing to be done is to issue renewed in; tothe Magistrates to deal as ly as possible with the arrears, in que Oct. 22nd.—(1) The Governor-General of Szech'wan, Wa T'ang, mem the ground of illness. In addition to nesting sanction to two months' congo on chronie™ complaints; new ailments in the shape'of fits of giddiness and weakness of the lower limbs have declared themselves with him. For years past he has been troubled with periodical eruptions of belle, an outbreak of which afflicted him most grievously during the first half of the present year, to such an extent that his whole body was covered with them, and he scratched himself day and night, becoming more and more debilitated daily. Since all away to some extent, the commencement of summer, whilst this
la digestion has yone wrong, accompanied by logs of appetite. A disordered state of the liver has lately supervened, and at slightest mental strain he has' been come with giddiness, his legs at the same time becoming 20 feeble that whenever he la required to kneel in the performance of a ceremonial act he is obliged to have re~ course to support in order to rise. He accordingly asks Imperial sanction to two months of retirement, during which he will continue to carry on his business aa usual, without deputing the provincial' Commis sioner of Finance to conduct correspon dence on his bebalf.—Rescript granting the request.
(2) The officiating Governor of Shantung memorializes denouncing the official lo for the escape of a pri jail of the Kwan ch'éng District Shantung. The acting Mngistrate has reported that he was deputed on the 28th July by his superior, the prefect of Ts'a0- chow Fu, to proceed to the Ch'av-ch'én, District to take part in certain judicial proceedings, and on the 29th he received a report from the sub-deputy Magistrate in charge of the jail, to the effect that at 3 a.m, of that day, during a storm of wind and rain, the jets and others being fast asleep under shelter within doors, prisoner named Li Yung had broken fetters, wrenched off the lock of his cage, forced open a door, and escaped over the wall, On his flight being a red, the jailers had followed in pur-Dut without success, The prisoner question was under remand from last your to the present, under sentence of death by strangulation, for the homicide of a person named Chang Fu-tung, in revenge for the death of prisoner's father, in which he had borne a share. Magistrate is adjudged guilty of carol ness, both before and after the escape, although he states that he was absent at the time on duty, and the keeper of the mil with his subordinates is exposed to ion of guilty connivance at the act. it requested thit sanction be given to his b ug stripped of his office and brought to trial, the Magistrate being held answers able mean whi the reval manner for the recapture of the prisoner.
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