Mach is being said and written about the amelioration of prisons in Chins, and no doubt considerable good has been the Tleangsbenhelen, howerer, tells of effected. A. special correspondent from
sad doings in the prison there, which, correct, show that much has yet to be! done. The man in charge of the Heangshen prison has a bad record. Already he is ssid to have killed several prisoners by his cruelty. Recently man named Chan was incarcerated in his prison and the Governor of the prison has bean dunning him for money. Chan vse capable or unwilling to pay up, and the Governor hss een submitting him to illegal tortures. ied him up by the thumbs, and in other ways submitted him to the severest of all tortures fo thet already Chan is almost at death's door. One thing is plain, which is, that the publication of these doings in native newspapers will do much to stop them, for the day is passing by when such brutality can be carried on, and no notice taken. The people will not have it. The central officials are afraid to be known s countenancing such barbarities, seeing that they will thereby lose face with foreigners.
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