brow by Messrs. DB. Snssopy, security is published to-day with it we give the B.
General's reasons fordissen decision, The Tao-t'ai accepts as true all the assertions made by the Chinese defendunts, even when these are opposed to the evidence of the witnesses called by Messrs. Sassoon, aiid to probability. A correspondence between the Consul. General and the Taotai appeared "in our columns on 8th July last year; and the judgment now published dis closes nothing uew in the cage, except some more of the Tao-t'ai's perverse un. fairness, No fresh evidence was pros duced in support of the cnse of the defendants, The money which the compradore was required to pay when ho received his appointment in 1869, was clearly shown to have been lost by his negligence, the Taost'ai dew cides shall be placed against an almost compradore to hi employers when they dismissed him, The wages of the compradore were first reduced, and subsequently abolished in 1879; {and by an agreement which was en. tered into in 1883, it was shown that ud the compradore remained in Messrs, Snasoow's service he would ed no salary (tai decides Tis, 4,900 for wriges is duo to the compradore, bat at the same time he, {of nearly all this sum, We are glad as an act of grace, remits the Payment t0 seo the Consul-General take such sound ground in his dissent from the judgment of the Tuo-tai, His having assumed so firm an attitude will be to many the strongest evidence of the wonkness of the nse which the defendants sought to establish, and of the injastioe of the judgment, Ho is not considered an official too ready to go out of his way to look after the in-forests of his countrymen, or too apt to adopt a clear view of their rights when opposed to Chinese laine, His dissent should therefore have the greater it with the Representative of Hug-laud at Peking, when the onse is appeated. As for the Tao-\ui, he seems to Lave approached the consideration of this case with his mind made up to decide it in favour of his countrymen, He appears, however, to have suffered some twinges, not of conscience, but of fear, when, after equating everything nicely for the defendaute, he remits the payment, by Messrs, Sassoon, of money which, if his judgment is a right ole, is due to the compradore, his ree
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