Report for 1895, which appendix to Mr. Jamieson's, Treaty Powers are tried by their Consular representatives, and all others, including Chinese committing offences within the limits of the Settlement, by the Mixed Court, which was instituted in 1869, Mr. Scott thus describes it:—
<Phis court sits daily, and is composed of a Chinese magistrate and a consular officer as assessor, with power to hear and determine all cases brought before it, except charges of murder. This latter crime necessitates endless formalities in Chinese law, and can only be dealt with by the Revirws—on the Tribunal in the Maloo which is higher provincial authorities. In the mat-
The English Mail Papers ter of punishment, the Mixed Court can Notices of Books, ete. well named " Mixed," Mr. Scott gives fine, flog, imprison, or deport. Hardened the two Houses of Parliament, to whom offenders and notorious rowdies, amenable Chefoo his report is presented, and the general to no sense of discipline, are generally Chung) public, to whom the whole pamphlet of sentenced to be cangued, i.e, to wear wooden collar round their neck for a period thirty-nine pages is sold for twopence-variously ranging up to 1 month. The halfpenny, a very brief and not alto-Chinese criminal classes have a wholesome gether accurate account of Shanghai. horror and dread of this punishment. Tt covers, he says, "an area of some They are exposed to public view, incurring Assrract oF PEKING GazeTre: 1,800 acres along the north bank ignominy and ridicule, besides being kept in strict restraint. Flogging is resorted to of the Woosung River. Originally a The Municipal Coancit in cases of aggravated assault, and for long stretch of paddy-land, the sites well-known thieves prior to being deported. Cricket—%. ©.C. x. Swimming Bath Club of the English and American Settle-'This punishment is inflicted by the yamen S.R.C. v. strs. Airsapore, ments were selected in 1845 and runners after the rising of the court, and Ravenna, wud Formosa consists usually of 100 to 200 blows. The Shanghai Yacht Club........ intended for the occupation of Europeav "Female prisoners are detained in the merchants only. Year by yarr, how-Mixed Court under charge of a female Lege Alteram Partem ever, the Chinese gradually obtained warder. All other criminals are handed 'A Nice Point in Cricket a footing within these limits. In 1870 over to the police to undergo their sentence 'A Proper Proclamation How it Sounds in Corea they numbered 75,000; in 1880 up-in the municipal jail, and the average weekly number of such convicts during wards of 107,000 and 168,000 in 1890, 1895 amounted to 120 prisoners, towards Boating Accident and now according to the census of whose maintenance the sum of 5,900 taels Canton to Chung!
The Japanese in Formosa, 1895, there are, including the floating (tael equals 3s.) was paid over from the Tengchoufu Revisited population, fully 250,000 residents in fines recovered by the court for gambling, The Catastrophe in Japan the Settlement. In addition, it is breach of municipal regulations, and other offences."
Another Tidal Wave estimated that over 100,000 Chinese vho Typhoon in Hongkong The Typhoon on the 22d annually frequent the Settlement from While it is a common thing to laugh the interior, from the native Shang-at the anomalies of the Mixed Court, The Loss of H.1-G.M.8. Titis Mr. G. W, Notl and the Interv hai city and adjacent suburbs, all and the semi-amateur justice that is Li Hung-chang and Bismarck of whom thus come under Municipal administered there, Mr. Scott justly The Far Bastern Question cognisance for the time being. Up-remarks that with its aid the adminis-Henley Regatta wards of 5,000 Europeans reside in tration of the Settlement works quietly Law Rerorts—H.B.M.'s Police Court—Shanghai." For the benefit-of distant and smoothly. This is due to the tact readers we may add that the foreign and discretion of the Council and the R. v. Crawford White..
Settlement stretches along the west bank police, and the willing ce-operation of Agahtoou: of the Huangpu, as well as the north the native officials. "The rule and R. v. A Lascar bank of the Wusung River, and that the practice is, no Chinese subject within Riv, Nelson..
O'Brien term "Europeans" includes all non-Settlement limits can be arrested by Vowstenctan INTELLIGENCE AND WEENY Chinese nationalities. We may also the native officials, except by warrant add that land in the Settlement, not river of the Mixed Court, countersigned by Market Report. frontage, has been sold quite recently the Senior Consul, or the Consul of the Exchange Quotations at something over £10,000 an acre, foreigner under whom the native is serv-Share Quotations, and its value is constantly increasing. ing, and this warrant must be executed "To keep this community. which will by and through the Municipal police. soon, if it does not already, number Ordinarily in China anyone is liable to 300,000, so rapid has been the growth be seized by a claimant, dragged into of Shanghai since the war, in order the Court, and held to bond. Apart from England...... July 3 3 Municipal Council employs a police all question of business advantages or Sen Francisco 4, 2 8 force numbering 506, of whom 54 are facilities, it is this freedom from arbi-Hongkong Aug. 4 Nagasaki. Aug. 2 Tientsin w" 2 Hoochow... 2 1
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