A native cook, in the employ of a foreigner in Hongkew, was charged, on remand, with stealing a sable robe of the value of Tls. 200, the property of his master. Some mouths ago he stole the robe and pawned it in the city, and with great difficulty it was recovered the police. He was then brought before the Court and admitted the theft, but before sentence was passed he was liberated on accoun' of having some sick friends to attend to. He was now sentenced to three months' impri ment. Bumping his head on pleaded to he allowed to serve his sentence in the Chinese gaol, which was objected to. Ale then carried! his demonstrations to extremes, beating his head violently on the ground, raising a dood of dust, and erying piteously. His entreaties were of no avail, and three of the runners seized him by the queue and literally dragged him from the Court,
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