(crom 4 correspondest.) such a proceeding in stai accordance He said we Te was just the san wh wilt he st ith his buttocks. the ease of with his hands, pays Now according to the abave methods of renters thereof in any case be sanctioned or held lawful under these Regulations."
The cause v fore the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cot. He addressed himself to the objection that the road is not one of those to the making of which the Respontent's land is made sub ject by the Rezula it does not continue one of th As throwing some light on the above the following incident is worth relat One of our employers, x highly intelligent and respectable man, "has just requested us to stand his friend, as the ywnén runners are after him. He says it ly his brother they want on 1 charge of murder, but as he has cleared out, other members of the family are liable to seizure, The murder in question happened on the Fest of Lanterns.
mth it is the custom, in try districts, for each chin to prromenado the neighbourhood with a fiery Aragon, and if two dragons chance to meet there ix always a fight as to which shall have the precedence, As this fight is regarded us the best part of the day's fan, the rival dragons only too frequently come in each other's way. Our frien belongs to clan named Fu who live in " village ealled Fukiawan ten aniles cos of city (Wachaing). Tnmediately adjoining the the Kol lan whose village is. ale Hebb ang, a fought by Whis year the Kabs sen militar head the daunted, they not only defeated the enemy but yo killed the Hired Goliwh, Now the killing of a oan was a serious business for both parties, so it was arranged between them that, in consideration of the dead man having been a military B.A., the Fus would lind over two of thole murlier to suiter the penalty pro scribed by haw. Had it been one of the rank INI flo she got killed, one murderer would have been held suflicien e Fus are the happy one public land, sy, the headmen inti that three taw this Lad, value 81,000, wond be given to any two persons who would undertake to personate the murderers. There were several app! the post, xnd fron among them t was plain sailing, and with precedent; bus at ths in ace point Goli presented " petition on most unre sor nterferel. They own account, dene ing twenty-thres of the Fus, all Jeading men. On this magistrate took we tion, and is to have them arrested. News of this reached Fukiawan with the result that, when the runners arrived, they found the whole male population had stampeded, the two murderers included. Until actually put in possession of the property, these gentlemen decline to come forward, and in the absence of the heulmen this cannot he done. Nota man of them has yet returned to the village, and hence the effort to catch the Fus wherever they cin be found.
Such was the story told by our friend, and it appears to be quite tne every particular, We asked him if he did not think $500 a head a ch Pp price for personating murderers.
He said out in the country they considered it very liberal, as both men's fa: nilies would enough to live on ever after, We enq if these men had actually been in the affair, He said they had not, but one was an opium smoker she had already squandered all his property, and the other was net likely to Ti We asked if the; the mayisteate to approve of this transuetion, but he sid the strate woul never know anything as the evidence ye.' Finally we asked h well-informed and fair-minded man, considered it right to setifice the innocent for the guilty? Did the Chinese generally reasoning and v there were foun: in Mr. Brooks' that his position in the church considered equal to that of that his death been sufi ently atoned for by a sacrifice of $1,000 (£100) worsh of Chinese life.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.