Tht Mixed ''Gourt report in last week's Municipal Gazette mentions the case of a man who Was convicted of living on the satin sation he lived; to whom the Court by immorality of the girl
remarked that in England he would have been liable to the "cat? and regretted that it cond not pass the same sentence. After which it seems curious that he got off with a $20 fine and three weeks' imprisonment. Was that really the maximum sentence possible? To the main point, however, it is surely time that the Council made 'a determined effort to get corporal punishment reinstated at the Mixed Court. In the British gaol a British subject may be flogged. But not a Chinese, however much he deserves it. There is no alternative between sending him to the Arsenal, which cannot be done unless he is adjudged worthy of death, or sending him to gaol which has no terrors for him. The prevalence of.armed robbery makes it imperative that the Mixed Court should be provided with some means of punishment
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