From this curious beginning great things came. The system was found-convenient; it spread other Nanking Treaty ports; and by the time the Treatie of. Tientain were signed, it wa already a going concern. "Lay, the first Inspector General, disa) og a result of the now forgotten contuovexsy over the Lay-Osb Prince: Kung, then regent and President of the old Tsungli Yamen, summoned the youthful Mart: (who.had commenced his car-cor in, the: British Consular Service at Canton where he had taken over the Customs after the "Arrow" War) to Peking in 1862 and appointe'ehim I. G, on £8,000 year.
He went. from success to success probably reaching his greatest fame in 1885 when, after the Tonkin war, he negotiated the Peace Treaty between France and China which the Manchu Government had shown itself unable.to do. The small adion ofthe fifties and six-grow. steadily, and method a.vast organization, and ery
Sir Robert Hart being the -cxly, aglen in tho- word did hin honour, grades, namely, pre court, re-hearing court, higher pro-/vineial court and the supreme court, and, according to this citizen who is not sati judgment of the preliminary is entitled to lodge appeal Jagainst decision of that court in Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar|the-two higher courts, if then, Ihe finds the deci still" unsatis-the Cities of London and ites of London, and factory, he may take hi case to the supreme court, where it will be re-Woes, sacetted viewed and a final judgment will be} passed, Under the proposed reforms, the number of grades will be reduced to. two, and judgments will be considered final after two hearings. The Procurator's Court, which, under the present system, is eatablished for the purpose of conducting. private investigations in criminal cases, and representing the Government in the prosecution of criminal tract from Police Orders dated May Is, will be abolished. In its! place, procurators will. be attached—S/C 113 Ht, Gries-|to the Taw courts to proseeate in highly commended for assist-inal cases only. Their duties ing in the arrest of two armed Chin-to those of the ese on February 28, Director of Public Prosecutions in No. B, 7225—The following Spe-England, cial Constables are highly commend-Chinese legal practitioners are isting in the arrest required to re-register their nazes Chinese in possession of firearms on at unco under the Nationalist laws, April 16:—S/C 182 Blasfeld: S/C otherwise, the will not. be. permit-
815 Johnstone. ted to practice in the Chinese courts, No. B, 7226-—S/C 228 F. G. dos Remedios is highly commended. for assisting. in the arrest of two Chin-
Acconpixc to the Japanese press, 10 additional Japanese recruits are 'e60 in. possession of firearms on being trained for service with the SM.P: in the Hongkew district,
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