Editor of the Mail, it would seem tye letter which he has addrrasud to the iditer of the North China Daily News, jets that he. holds a pro-Japanese brief in China us well as Japan, The immediate cause of the effusion is that the Editor of the Mail hind been charged with disingenuous pleading," and he socks to rebut the charge, but as we shall show, only plu ges more deeply in the mire by doing g", "For example, he says "If you ave an illustration of the farcical eon tion, which appear to you 80 wait-factory, you will find it in the fact that the prin: cipal rottlement in Japan la wholly. witha pal they will Jap npetunt te govern th Hy thing me ry thos rotighly misleading than this it woul edit ficult to conceive, To-nsvert that this settiement is wholly without municipal govern-nut only extremely disingenuous, Breatise intended to deceive, groat part absolutely untrue, ut, the world over, and repairing the strocts a with providing the necessary mens and water courses for driving them, with bridge building, and municipal works and improvements in general, Foreizo own tand in country are tured f things by heavy ronta; t ness loc-1 authorities collest the a ud municipally govern the avttlement' with the funds so furnished fur the express purposes mentioned, and for " monthly payment contributed by the residents, caletlated on a rental basis, the stree's are in addition lighted wih' gas, Here then, with the excep tion of representative Government, bye Municipal management in aln awing, with the result that the town is well watched and lighted, and sewered and scavenged. So it is' that the streets of Yokohama are xs clean and orderly as any town elsewhere, and pray how could this be, if we were *f wholly with one Mu cigal Goverment?" As to the refus residents to submit, without thd proper authority, to domiciliary visits of the police, or to carry out regulations me tended for the natives, snd mostly inapt plicable or unnecessary i their application to the majority of foreign pound we regard us being so almost irely portant a8 to be beside the question of Slunicipal Government, in all ite essential, and broadly accepted features, Leaving the municipal question, the Editor of the Mail we sve, next joins issue on the hypothetical subjee: of the legal liability of " foreigner becoming a shareholder in the new Steamship Company, the Editor of the N.-C. Daily News it seems had declared that an who signed the deed of settle.
harcholder, would be bound by ite provisions, whatever they might be; a do not believe that there is any nation Treaty relations with Japan the laws of which not fully competent to enforce the execution of any obligation of whatever nature deliberately entered into by one of its citizens or enbject This irrefutable assertion is shiftily left unanswered by the Editor of the Mail, and he, us might be expected of him, xs the defender of every Japanese ah finds excuses for the folly a1 ty of excluding foreigners from becoming shareholders in the Company by a resort to the following line of argument.
the case of an Kuglieioan who, charter Under what law could In Her Majesty', ut to enforce thie pr charter, though not posses ally, the Cour mission of a ritish subject to More utter balderdash than this we hover remember to base read. Certainly, us truly alleged by the ISditor of the JV Daily News, ifn foreigner gued the deed of soil ment, which binding on th by enforceable of competent jur} trine urged by the SI disputable. Herald.
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