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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR
And Law Reporter for the Supreme & Provincial Courts of China & Japan
Vol. Ill SHANGHAI, SATURDAY, 29th FEBRUARY, 1868. No. 61
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles. Page.
Influx of Silver into China.............. 87
Effects on Europeans of Residence in China .. 87
Cases in H. B. M.’s Supreme Court.
In Bankruptcy: In re Denb & Co........... 88
In Bankruptcy : In re Robt. Borradaile.... 89
Summary Cases,............................ 89
Police Cases,............................. 89
Page.
Despatch to the Viceroy of Hupeh and Honan in
reference to the Shang-yein-lai Bank..... 89
News of the Week,........................... 90
Commercial Summary,....................... 93
Shipping, .................................. 94
Quotations, &c., &c. ...................... 94
NOTIFICATIONS
Prussian Consulate General.
II. B M. Supreme Court.
HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S SUPREME
COURT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN.,
NOTICE.—It is hereby notified that the sittings of
the Court for hearing ordinary civil...”
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“...February 2$th 1868.
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It is requested that only such communications as relate to
Editorial matters be addressed to the Editor, and that they
be sent not later than Friday.
Advertisements will be received till 10 a.m. on Saturday
No communications canbe noticed unless accompaniedby
the name of thewriter.______________________________
Supreme drari ani) Consular feetie
Shanghai, February 29th, 1868.
Those wliose memory of Chinese affairs extends
back to a period of half a generation, must have
some remembrance of a time when, in the pro-
clamations that were issued against them by
irate Vice Roys and belligerent Imperial Com-
missioners, the burden of official gravamen was
for a time “ the leaking of silver'from the Inner
Landit was the economical argument against
the opium traffic, and had more weight appa-
rently than the moral objections that were
urged against the introduction of the “ barba-
rian dirt.”
To what extent that drainage of silver from
China...”
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February 29 th 1868
lieve tliat this result is certain to attend tlie study
of Chinese alone, and judging from the peculiar
eccentricities which are too frequently noticeable,
among those who have dived into the mysteries
of rhythm, tones and dialects, there would ap-
pear to be at least some little foundation for
the idea.
But in all seriousness there is no doubt that
a residence in China does tend very materially
to lower the force and ton of a European’s in-
tellect. Beyond the physical weakness which
an enervating climate naturally induces, there
is a certain mental lassitude, a laissez allez easy
going style produced by the peculiarities of re-
sidence in this part of the world, that cannot
escape the notice of the least observant. How
much of this is attributable to physical and
how much to moral causes, forms a very in-
teresting speculation, and a few words upon the
subject may not, in the absence of more absorb-
ing topics be unacceptable to...”
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“...February 29 iA 18G8.
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Mr. Mitchell applied for a further adjournment of
6 weeks. Adjourned accordingly till 6th April at 11 ?.m.
Thursday, 26th February, 1868.
In tho matter of the (separate) Bankrupt Estate of
Robt. Borradaile, partner of the firm of Dow & Co.
Fx, parte James Dow, on behalf of himself and T. J.
Borradaile, trustees under Mr. T; J. Borradaile’s
marriage settlement. This was an application to pay
third dividendjn the above Estate. The Official Assignee
reported that the balance to the credit aof the Estate
was Tls. 195.96, all the accounts had been realized save
a lot of laud at Shanghai (No. 782, title deed 775) of
which the title deed is in his hands, and which is at
the present moment valueless.
Order accordingly to pay said sum of Tls. 195.96.
II. B. M. SUPREME COURT, SUMMARY CASES,
Febrzcary 21^ 1868.
Before R. A. Mowat, Esq.,
Chong Chu v. C. B. Barker,
Claim for $99 for oysters and fish supplied during
the month of January.
Chong...”
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sul, has addressed a similar letter, and the French,
Russian and Portuguese Consuls have also written
on the subject.
Consulate of the United States of America,
Hankow, February 16Z/q 1868.
His Excellency Li,
Viceroy of Hupeh and Honan, &c., the., the.
Sir,—The Superintendent of Customs, Chung, met
all the foreign Consuls by appointment at the British
Consulate on the 12th instant. Their object in invit-
ing him to a conference was to ascertain, in the first
instance, the oonditions under which the Shang-yein-tai
Bank originally received its authority to collect Cus-
toms dues on account of the Chinese Government ; the
grounds on which the Bank had been temporarily clos-
ed, shortly after the Chinese New Year, and the actual
amount of its assets and obligations ; and it was their
intention, in the event of the position of the Bank not
proving so disastrous as to be beyond remedy, to pro-
pose to the Superintendent of Customs new arrange-...”
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“...February 29th 1868.
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de Champs, Second Secretary of Legation. Their Ex-
cellencies Chih Ta-jen and Sun Ta-jcn, High Ministers
of the second rank, attached to the Mission to learn,
and qualify themselves in the inodes of diplomatic in-
tercourse, and to assist Mr. Burlingame in his com-
munications with the Chinese Government. Six Stu-
dent Interpreters, two of whom have studied and
speak English with considerable facility, two have stu-
died French and two Russian. Two writers, a na-
tive doctor and about fifteen servants.
If we except this item there is literally nothing
to chronicle in Shanghai since our last.
From the North news has been received which bears
out the statements already made to the effect that the
Nienfei Rebels contemplate making a junction with
the Mahometans. The intelligence is to the effect that
the Nienfei have penetrated to Kwang-ping-foo on the
borders of Cliili, and that Li, the Commander in Chief
of the Imperial Forces, has...”
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February 29 th 18G8
ficially inaugurated on the 18th January last, when the
keel of a steamer was put on the blocks and the
foundation stone of the workshops was laid, the Im-
perial Commissioner deputed by the Pekin Govern-
ment to take the general direction of the Arsenal, pre-
siding at the ceremony, and the native authorities do-
ing their best to make the proceedings imposing. Troops
and gunboats were posted around with the usual firing
off of muskets and guns accompanied by gongs and
crackers. The Commissioner, so far conformed to
European Customs as to himself lay a piece of the keel,
and he gave the ship the name of the ‘ ‘ Wan-nien-
Tsing,” (the Ten Thousand years’ Tsing dynasty.) He
then visited the machines which have lately arrived
and were set in motion for his inspection. Afterwards
he laid the foundation stone.
The Chinese Manderins have great confidence in the
success of the undertaking, and co-operate heartily
with the Europeans. The...”
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“...February 29 th 1S6S.
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senseless opposition, obstructiveness, and competition
of members of their own order.
There have been men who have traded in every trea-
ty-port of China, who have been the worst traitors to
the common wealth, and might have been economically
deported to Europe, with handsome pensions for the-
rest of their unnatural lives, to be spent in the free
and fortunate country of their birth. These we take
to be the worst cases of the result of living in the bad
atmosphere of crowded China. The narrowness of
mind, the selfishness of spirit of these, wdiose motto is
“neither live nor let live,” seem to show that some dead-
ly Upas tree must distil its invisible poison out of that
blue sky, which is the best thing to look at in this
bright Celestial country. We see all these evil traits de-
veloped in the natives around us, but there is more of
agreement and average success to be met with amongst
them than might be expected to come out of...”
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February 29th 1868’.
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Shanghai, February 28th, 1868.
T.m.c. T.m.c.
Grey Shirtings—5J Catty, ...........j Market very
,, for arrival.................... (strong owing
,, <34 Catty, on spot............I to advance at
,, for arrival.....................'home.
White Do. 64 Reed,................... 2.3.5 a
7T-C loths—81b., 36 in,.............. 1.7.0 a
Long Ells—HH Scarlet,................ 6.5.0
,, Assorted,................. 6.6.0 a
„ GPII. Scarlet,............ 6.6.0
,, Assorted,................. 6.6.0 a
„ GG Scarlet,............... 6.6.0
,, Assorted,................. 6.6.0 a 6.7.0
Spanish Stripes—Elephant, ......... 0.6.2 a 0.6.5
,, Tiger,............ 0.7.0 a 0.7.5
Britannia, ....
2.4.0
1.9.5
6.7.0
6.7.0
Camlets—SS ..
SSS
12.5.0 a 13.0.0
10.0.0 a 10.5.0
3 7 - - - - Lead 5.3.0 a 5.4.0
Iron—Nail Rod, 2.8.0 a 2.8.5
„ Bar, 2.8.0 a 2.8.5
Opium—Malwa, 527
,, New Patna, ,.505
„ Old „ ....495
Benares, New 510
EXCHANGE...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
British Consulate Hankow.
IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S PROVINCIAL
COURT AT HANKOW.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861.
In the matter of Joiin Mackellar, lately trading in co-
partnership with William Grant Gordon, under
the style or firm of Mackellar & Co., a Bankrupt.
MEMORANDUM.—This being the day appointed
for a public sitting of the Court for the said Bankrupt
to pass his examination, and also to make application
for his order of discharge under 1 ‘ The Bankruptcy
Act, 1861,” (whereof, and of the purport whereof, the
notice required in that behalf was duly given), a pub-
lic sitting was held before Walter Henry Mediiurst,
Esq., Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul, acting in the
prosecution of the said Bankruptcy, for the purposes
aforesaid, when the said Bankrupt passed his examin-
ation, and made application for his order of discharge,
and there being no opposition thereto, it was adjudg-
ed by the Court, that the said Bankrupt was entitled
to such discharge. The order...”
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