in H, B. M's Court at Ichang recently, A repent of an interesting case heard is published in another column, Two Indies, Miss M. E. Molloy and Miss M. E. Sears, were charged before Mr.
Meyrick' Hewlett, Consal, with condact calculated to excite a breach of the and with refusing to obey the Consal's order to leave the native city of Ichang. The defendants refused to recognize earthly authority and claimed to have direct communication with God. The Consal held that the pre-peace of these ladies in the native city was a danger to the whole commanity, especially as the Chinese authorities desired that they shoold leave. In his vmlett said, "I cannot recognize your individual right to die, and it is my daty to take steps to ce that you do not die, a# your deaths would involve other foreigners and may have far-reaching consequences, a the deaths of foreigners in China at present might lead to foreign intervention io the present crisis, the results of which to isolated ports like Ihaog cannot be foreseen." The Consul had previously explained the position to defendants and had shown them groat consi times when the "things thet He now pointed out that the
Coast's mast be rendered to Crear". He ordered that the defendants be deported to Victoria, Australia, where they have relatives, and announced that, be would strongly recommend that they never be permitted to return to Chins, on the ground that their continual defiance of authority was always a da ger to the public peace.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.