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“...cation is accordingly annulled.
H. B. M.'s SUPREME COURT FOR CHINA
AND JAPAN.
IYTOTICE.—It is hereby notified that the sittings of
the Court for hearing ordinary civil cases during
the month of June next, will be held on Tuesdays, the
2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th days of that month
respectively; and for Motions, Apidications &c. on
Saturdays, the 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th proximo.
H. B M. Supreme Court.
IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUPREME
COURT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter of Alexander Mason, a bankrupt.
Shanghai, day of June, 1868.
WHEREAS at an adjourned public sitting of the
Court held on 29th day of May 1868, the Court
granted an order of discharge to the said bankrupt,
Notice is hereby given that the said order of dis-
charge will be delivered to the bankrupt on the 29th
day of June instant, unless in the meantime an appeal
be duly entered against the judgment of the said
Court.
IN HER BRITANNIC M AJESTY'S SUPREME
COURT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN.
IN BANKRUPTCY....”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
British Consulate Tientsin.
IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S PROVINCIAL
COURT AT TIENTSIN.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861.
In the matter of John Armstrong Taylor Meadows,
lately trading at Tientsin under the style or firm of
Meadows & Co., a bankrupt.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Court has ap-
pointed Herbert George Howlett, Esquire,
to be Official Assignee in the above bankruptcy, vice
J. P. M. Fraser, Esquire, whose appointment, dated
the 16th of November, 1867, has been cancelled in
aonsequence of his transfer from H. B. M. Consulate
ot Tientsin to H. B. M. Consulate at Shanghai.
Tientsin, 27th May, 1868.
IN HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S PROVINCIAL
COURT AT TIENTSIN.
THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1861.
V.
R.
Tientsin, the 4th day of May, 1868.
NOT ICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Court
for the first Meeting of Creditors of John Arms-
trong Taylor Meadows, lately carrying on business
at Tientsin, under the style or firm of M-eadows and
Company, who was adjudged Bankrupt...”
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“....Mm 13th 1868,
StTf>REME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
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 accompanied by
the name of thewriter.
Supreme Court anb Consular f&mik
Shanghai, June 13th, 1868.
A case of the greatest interest to tlie shipping
and mercantile community has been decided in
England. The facts were as follows :—
The vessel, which was built m January, 1864, at a
cost of 33,000/-., was insured in January, 1867, in se-
veral policies—of which this was one—to the aggregate
amount of 36.000/., the value being stated in the po-
licy at that amount, though, in point of fact, it was
only worth 20,000/. It was sent on a voyage to Odessa
and on its return with a cargo of grain worth 34,000/.
it met with a storm in which it was thought necessary
that the crew should leave her (off the coast...”
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SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
June 13th 1868.
see how the question of a commercial sense of
the ship being worth repairing ought to enter
into the consideration of what a prudent owner
would or would not do. If by laying out
XI0,000 he could bring up the vessel to the
value of £20,000, a price which she would cer-
tainly fetch if put up for sale, it was clearly his
duty to expend this sum upon her, and equally
the duty of his insurer to provide it him plus
perhaps the estimated loss of interest and profit
while the vessel was being repaired; but an
owner is clearly not entitled to convert a partial
loss into a constructive total loss simply be-
cause with reference to commercial considera-
tions of profit and loss, lie might be disinclined
to repair, the only question between him and
his insurer being whether the cost of the repairs
would be greater than the value when repaired.
The question, however, is one of considerable
nicety, and we see by the report that it will in
all p...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE
NORTH CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL
ASIATIC SOCIETY.
The Monthly Meeting of the above Society took
place at the new Masonic Hall, on Tuesday, 9th
June, Rev. C. H. Butcher in the chair.
Dr. Jenkins read a paper on the Notions of the
Ancient Chinese respecting Music, as given in the
Yoh Kyi, or Memorial of Music. The ideas ex-
H. B. M. SUPREME COURT : POLICE CASES.
June 6th, 1868.
Before R. A. Mowat, Esq.
James P. Martin, British Postmaster, was charged
by J. Macmillan, Clerk to the Municipal Council, with
using threatening and abusive language. The com-
plainant had taken a Chinaman to the Police Station,
and there met-the defendant, who commenced calling
him names, and did so afterwards in the street on his
way home, calling him ab--skunk and a b--brute,
and saj^ing if he met him at night he would give him
something he would remember.
The Chinaman taken into custody was defendant's
servant, but this complainant did not know at the
time.
His Worship bound defendant...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & O
CONSULAR GAZETTE.
Juw I'M 1868.
pressed are of a fantastic nature, tracing a connec-
tion between musical sounds and the emotions of
the mind. The following passage will give some
idea of the quaintness of Chinese notions on this
subject.
In establishing a ritual-etiquette, the noble and the
ignoble receive their appropriate rank ; but in uniting
all by means of music, concord between the higher and
lower classes is produced. It is by the manifestation
of liking for what is good, and aversion toward what
is evil, that a distinction is put between the wise and
those devoid of wisdom : it is by chastisement that a
restraint is put upon the oppressor ; and it is by rais-
ing the meritorious to dignities, that an equitable ad-
ministration is indicated. It is by benevolence that
the ruler produces reciprocal affection, and by justice
that he corrects all impropriety. Thus it is that good
order is to be carried out among the people of the na-
tion.
Music comes from within,...”
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“...June 13 Ih 1868.
SUPREME COURT &
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1866, and it seemed unnecessary to call a meeting
so soon as January 1867, as the accounts when the
Trustees took office were in great confusion, and
some time wa s necessary for Mr. Bernard to put
them into order. The Keport shewed that the
only point which required looking to was the in-
ternal organization, with regard to which some
questions had been raised, but in this the present
Trustees were bound by the act of their predeces-
sors, which placed the whole of the management
with the Sisters of Charity, an arrangement which
could only be terminated by twelve months' no-
tice. These ladies had managed the Hospital very
satisfactorily, and he thought there was very little
reason to desire a change. In order to satisfy the
members of the Consular Body, who had consider-
able interest in the working of the Hospital with
reference to the sick from ships which they sent
there, a resolution would be put before the meet-
ing, to the effect...”
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SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
June 13 th 1S6S.
With respect to the Commission's suggestions, bearing
upon the internal economy of the Hospital, (to which
their remarks are mainly directed,) the Committee
cannot refrain from observing that such points cannot
be treated with fair or impartial criticism without re-
ference to the financial position of the institution. So
far, however, as these suggestions point to a possible
retrenchment of expenditure by a reduction in the pre-
sent staff, they are valuable, and will meet with the
consideration they deserve.
The Committee take this opportunity to tender their
thanks to the three Medical Gentlemen, who have con-
ducted this enquiry ; and of expressing the hope that
a more cordial support, especially on the part of the
foreign Treaty Consuls, will be extended to an institu-
tion, upon which the Community of Shanghai have
expended a large amount of Capital, and which the
Committee believe to be one of usefulness in the settle-
ment....”
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“...June 13 Ih 1868.
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did not declare it expedient to adopt some of the
others, more especially the recommendation concern-
ing a reduction of the duty on bank notes.
Gambling Licenses.—The system of Licensed Gam-
bling, and its alleged evil effects on the trade of this
Colony, has received the consideration of your Com-
mittee, also that of the body of the Chamber—indeed,
it would have been hardly possible for this Chamber to
ignore the strong opinions to the Gambling system
which were expressed by the members of the Foreign
mercantile community, and by the most respectable of
the Chinese traders. A general meeting of members
was called to discuss the subject, and at the meeting
resolutions were passed embodying the opinion of this
Chamber, that the system is one which is injurious to
the trade of the Colony. Since the meeting, your
Committee have taken no further steps in the matter,
nor are they aware of the intentions of the local Go-
verment with reference...”
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“...SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
June. 13 th 1868.
her interest in the temporalities of the United Church
of England and Ireland may not prevent the considera-
tion of measures relating thereto. Se rious religious
riots have occured at Ashton. Fortune is the winner of
the Great Northern Handicap. The name of John
Crawford, Esq., appears in the obituary of the week.
May \4:tli—The East India Irrigation Company have
invited subscriptions of £1,000.000 for the Baharund-
er (? Behar) Irrigation undertakings. The Vicar of
Leeds has been appointed Bishop of Hereford. A de-
monstration has taken place in Trafalgar Square against
the Ministry and the Irish Church. The Queen has
laid the foundation stone of the New St. Thomas's Hos-
pital. May \5th—la the House of Commons last night
Mr. Gladstone introduced his Bill for the purpose of
suspending appointments in the Irish Church. The
second reading will take place next Thursday, the 21st
inst. The Queen has received an address from the
Irish Bishops...”
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261
there, complaining of certain practices of English and
American Missionaries, having for their object to bring
the Roman Catholic Religion into disrepute. The des-
patch has been forwarded by H. B. M. Consul to Sir
Rutherford Alcock.
The North.—Advices to the 2nd instant, report
matters as looking more secure ; Li having taken vi-
gorous measures to secure the safety of Tientsin, and
the Rebels apparently occupying the country between
the Yellow River, the Grand Canal, the Kyen Ho and
the Gulph ; and the Imperialists being stationed in
such a position as to prevent the Insurgents crossing
these water ways. Spies are, however, from time to
time sent from the Rebels to Tientsin which gives
some grounds for apprehension. A foreign missionary
was stopped on his way from his station to Tientsin
by one of the Nienfei, who robbed him of his horse and
saddle, threatening his life if he resisted.
Hankow.—The French Exploring expedition, who...”
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“...262
SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
June 13 th 1S6S.
COL. FYTCHE'S EXPEDITION.
(Hongkong Daily Press.)
We published yesterday a remarkable article from
the Saturday Review, concerning the commercial geo-
graphy of Western China. An interesting sketch was
given of the attempts which have been made to open
up a route into the Chinese empire from Birmah, be-
sides an explanation of the circumstances which led to
the expedition under Col. Fytche, the object of which
is to ascertain the possibility of establishing communi-
cations between Bhamo on the Irrawaddy, and Talifoo
in the province of Yun-nan. The Saturday Review
deeply deplores the abandonment of Capt. Sprye's
project for the construction of a railway between
Rangoon and Kiang-hung, (also in the Chinese pro-
vince of Yunnan.) Whatever may have been the
t chances of this undertaking, which appears to have
been found quite possible as far as the route was sur-
veyed, the object which the Saturday Review appears
to think it would have...”
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June 13 Ih 1868.
SUPREME COURT & CONSULAR GAZETTE.
263
treaty are a few obsolete silk manufactures in Coventry
and Macclesfield. Had Macclesfield any memory it
would remember that its.prestige as a manufacturing
town had evaporated long before the French treaty was
dreamt of. A Mr. Brocklehurst, who spoke the other
day in the rooms of the Society of Arts, urged govern-
ment to support the school of design at Macclesfield, as
one means of reeuscitating the silk trade there. Being
practically acquainted with the silk trade,- Mr, Broc-
kkhurst ought to show that the school of design there
had no influence or power to retain the trade, and ne-
ver will have any power to restore it, unaccompanied
by the higher training to which we have referred.
And if that were established, then every manufactory
would become a training academy, a techical universi-
ty, over which as the best trained, best disciplined,
and most intelligent, the head of the firm should pre-
side as perpetual principal...”
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June 13 th 1S6S.
followed by the "Leander" and other ships. Much in-
terest has been shown in the clipper ships this season,
and rarely has such a fine fleet been seen in these wa-
ters. The "Titania " and "Leander" have received
£5 Sterling per ton, other ships £4 10s. only. The ves-
sels have been much commented on, and the decision
of the public has naturally been in favor of the yacht-
like "Titania," with the "Leander " as a good second.
Some of the other vessels comprising good steady ships
and not very fast, and slighted Eoo«how clippers, will
bring up the rear, probably a protracted rear.
Silk :—The last mail steamer took 956 bales to Eu-
rope. On finding how readily foreigners paid the ex-
travagantly high prices lately demanded, dealers in
the country were naturally induced to ask for still
higher ones, and might perhaps in these times have
succeeded in obtaining them had not a telegram op-
portunely arrived reporting a heavy decline in the...”
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“...Orders in Singapore to Office of the " Free Pessf
Singapore.
C. A. SAINT, (Lte A. Shortrede & Co.)
Publisher, Hongkong.
Terms of Subscription.—Tls. 12 per annum, Tls. 6.50
per half year, or Tls. 3.50 per quarter, payable in advance
Credit price Tls. 15 per annum. Single copies 50 Tael cent.
Advertisements :— First insertion, Teal 1 per 10 lines
and 10 cents for every additional line. Subsequent inser-
t ions half the above rate.
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