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Coles Pasha's latest report contains much more detailed information regarding juvenile criminals than has previously been given. It appears that 2,461 boys got into trouble for contraventions last year of whom about half were whipped, and the rest imprisoned. They were for tho most part not Arab "hoolig- gans," but little shoeblacks without their badges, or were guilty of the heinous crime of leading about blind beggars in forbidden quarters. 'Assault' is a term as often as not applied to a street son file or squabble, and most of the little thieves appear to be first offenders. It really seems that the police of some towns in Egypt devote an amount of attention to the exploits of small boys that is not just- ified by their criminality, The Cairo police- man of course makes the largest haul, but it is curious that comparatively small towns like Itai el Barood, Deshna, and Diknrni. should produce l42,69 and 51 oases of juvenile criminality respectively, while Mansonrah only boast. 34, and the large town of Mehalla el Kubra 15.
The Ministry of Justice has established a "Joveaile Court" in Ciin bifi.-j whuh an y youthful offndiri appear. Ai Ctlas t'aifu points oat, tin fait that the Goirt sita only onoeaweak is nit calcilatjl to j iitify tbs iofiiotioa by it of thi puiisbinir. or winp u i« a the obm of the offencess of 6 days out of the seven. Whin yon whip a boy, yen give b w bis pnaiihmai'. as so in aftsr his offence as possible and let h, and the seventy of the punishment is esiased by its brevi y When yon keep, say, a badge lees bootblack f ir five days in gaol and then whip him— a sturdy shawish inflating the penalty—there is nothing to connterbalanoe the pain, which is bat the oalmination of an unpleasant experience. It seems to m that imprisoning your jnvenile offender first, and than inflicting a fresh pun ishment (which is supposed to take the plaos ol imprisonment) on tbe unfortanate little wretffi is a needless piece of oxaelty. Coles Pasha suggests that a special bureau dealing with jnvenile offenders should be organised, and a single member of the Parquet appointed to receive daily reports of oass of offences by children, and the number of children awaiting trial in prieon throughout the ooontry. Snob a measure would check tbe excessive zeal of the type of shawish, who is ready enough to blackmail an arbaghi, or to pounoe upon an annoying boot-black, but will not stop a 'oarro' manned by a sturdy carter, from backlog onto the pavement, or bestir himself after midnight to silence a roaring band of festive Berberins, wfcld prevent oarelessness cm the part of the Parquet, and would in a great measure remove the class of juveniles awaiting trial from the prisons. Bat whst is most required is a law providing for waifs an i strays. Gnat as is the charity of the Moslem poor, then an nambers of homeless little vagabonds who live—for no one will ever die of banger in Egypt—bat learn nothing and grow up under conditions that an bound to foster criminal tendencies.
Judging from the despondent tone of the leading Lancashin papers, it appears only too likely that the cotton industry may be largely paralysed within a fortnight. As usual the cause is a suicidal quarrel between capital and labour, the operatives demanding a 5 per cent addition to the wage rate all round, while their employers contend that the present condition of business does not warrant any augmentation. This would look to be precisely the sort of issue suitable for arbitration, bat on neither side is any desire expressed for that method of settlement. Among the men, a suspicion exists that many of their employers would be rather glad than sorry to limit output, as the best way of connteraoting the renewed efforts of the American ring to create a speculative corner in the raw materiaL Its price has been lately poshed op almost to prohibitive level by those gamblers, and on the last occasion of the sort, it was found that the best remedy was the limitation of manufacturing produc tion. The Lancashire mill owners also contend that the moderate profits they are now making go bat a little way towards wiping oat the enormous losses they suffered daring the cotton famine. The operatives urge,on the other hand, that they suffered even more through the loss of wages. Without weighing these conflicting arguments in comparative scales, we cannot too vehemently recommend both parties to accept arbitration, sooner than embark in hostilities beneficial only to their foreign com petitors, and absolutely ruinous to the great British industry on whose prosperity their own wholly depends.
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RUSSIANS RECEIVE TERMS.
CONFERENCE ADJOURNED.
PORTSMOUTH (N.H.), August 10,
The conviction is gaining ground that the peace negotiations will fail on account of the question of indemnity, over which it is believ- ed that the Russian instructions admit of no concession.
Baron Komura handed M. Witte the Ja- panese peace terms in writing. The Russian plenipotentiaries will study the question and answer in writing as soon as possible. Mean- while the Conference has adjourned. (Reuter).
PORTSMOUTH (U.S.A.), August 10.
The Japanese have presented their peace conditions to the Russians.
- The Conference then adjourned to allow the nesians to study the conditions. (Havas.)
LUNCHEON AT THE GUILDHALL
LONDON, August 10.
Admiral Caillard and 80 French officers Lave arrived here, and gone to the Guildhall to luncheon. The weather was fresh and sunny, and there was remarkable enthusiasm in the streets, the people according the heartiest welcome to the visitors.
Admiral Csillard and the other French offi- ers d...ed with Lord Lansdowne this evening. Lord Minto, the Marquess of Bath, Lord oberts, and many other notables were present.
(Reuter.)
'LONDON, August 10.
I ne icers of the French fleet were present at the Guildball banquet. The crowd welcomed them enthusiastically. The city was draped with flags. Admiral Caillard's toast raised unparalleled enthusiasm. (Havas.)
ST. PETERSBURG, August 10.
Disorders and sanguinary conflicts are reported from Riga and Warsaw.
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MANCHESTER, August 10.
A meeting of Lancashire commoners has appointed a deputation to urge the Board of Trade to exercise conciliation in the event of a cotton strike.
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NEW ORLEANS, August 10.
Until now there have been 689 cases and 122 deaths of yellow fever: Among the victims is Archbishop Chapelle. (Reuter.)
We are glad to inform our readers that the latest news received of Mr. Snelling, Editor and Manager of the Egyptian Gazette, who is suffering from typhoid fever at Meran, makes it clear that the patient is making as good progress as can be expected.
We greatly regret to announce the death of Princess Gasham Ahon Hanem, daughter of the inte El Hami Pasha which occurred yester- day at Cairo. The Princess was the mother of Princess Zainab Hanem, and aunt of H.H. the Khedive.
Sidki Pasha has been stopping at the Hotel Victoria, Lucerne, after a visit to the Italian Lakes..
The Procureur General is expected to return to Cairo on September 15.
Aly Bey Tewfick, Chef du Parquet of the Native Tribunal of First Instance in Cairo has returned from leave and resumed his duties.
Captain C.H.G. Garret, A.P.D., of the Army. rf Occupation, has been granted four month's leave of absence from September 5.
Lieutenant C.K. Magill, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has been granter an extension of leave until September 12 pending retiremer.t.
The Count Salvago-Raggi left for Europe yesterday by the Florio Rabattino mail boat
Dr. Harold Nolan will return to Cairo on or about September 19.
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Mr. Webb's report on the Nile Flood is expected to appear to-morrow.
Some of the rooms of the Khedivial Library will be closed for altera- tions from the 1st prox.
Members of the above club meet to-morrow, at No. 23 Custom House Gate, at 4.30 p.m.
The festival of the outting of the Khalig, will be celebrated on Saturday the 26th inst. with the usual core- mony.
We publish to-day an account of the overthrow of Riza Pasha's army received from an eye-witness who took part in the campaign.
The police have raided a number of cafés in the Abdeen district in Cairo, and found that in some twenty of them bashish was dealt in.
found in the Zeitoun district of Cairo on the night of the 12th, and at dawn of the 13th inst., will te poisoned by the police.
The committee formed for the purpose of creating new kuttabs in Ghizeh Province has already receiv ed subscriptions to alling LE 1,078.
Owing, it is believ ed, to the effects of the Russo-Japanese war, the price of wheat has risen during the last few months from P.T. 85 to P.T. 140 per ardeh..
A young Armenian flung himself from the verandah of a house in the Sharia Abd al Aziz at 6 am. yesterday, and died almost immediately from his injuries.
The concessionnaires of the Menzileh Canal have been authorised to widen and deeper the Enanieh CaDal, in order to facilitate navigation between Matarieh and Mansourah.
Tuesday Lext, being a holiday, the drawing of the 3% obliga tions lottery of the Crédit Foncier Egyptien will take place on Wednesday, the 16th inst.," at 4 p.m. at the Siège Social.
The delegates of the Italian Colonial Conference, which will meet at Asmara between September 15 and October 15 next, will visit the principal towns of Egypt on their way back to Italy from Eritrea.
16 vessels passed throngh the Canal on the 8th inst, 7 of which were British, 4 German, 1 Spanish, 1 Norwegian, 1 Dutch, 1 Egyptian, 1 Turkish. The day's receipts were frs. 359,046.53, making the total from the 1st inst. frs. 2,348,845.74.
We received yester day from the Survey Department a copy of its latest publication, viz. "A Report on the Topo- graphy and Geology of the Fayoum Province",, We propose to deal with this report at length, and confine ourselves, for the present, to recommending any of our readers who have scientific tastes to get a copy.
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The monthly returns of the Egyptian Salt and Soda Company, Ltd. show the sales for the month of July to have been L.E. 24,388-820 mm. as compared with L.E. 20,292-336 mm. in July 1904. The total sale since January 1 amounts to L.E. 153,285-364 mm. the amount for the same period last year being L.E. 152,221,561 mm.
THE PLAGUE.--
Yesterday's plague bulletin reports one fresh case and two deaths at Alexandria. The new case is that of a work- man of a disinfection gang, who had been working in an infected quarter. The two deaths which have occurred are those of a Sudanese boy, son of a bowab in Rue Saleh el Din, and a native man, who had been work- ing in a stable at Ras el Tin.
The Constantinople correspondent of Al Moayad asserts that three persons have been arrested on the vidence of the wife of the coachman who was killed by the Selamlik explosion, and prove to he Bulgarians £4,000 was paid by a Bulgarian revolutionary committee into a Paris bank to anable the conrators to accomplish their object. A fourth individual believed to be the leader of the gang has escaped.
PRAYERS FOR A HIGHER NILE.-
On account of the low flood this year, Sheikh Aly Hasssr held a religions service on a hill near Assiont, at which many of the inhabitants attended, praying heaven to grant them a rice of the Nile. On the conclusion of this prayer, each member of the congregation asked heaven to forgive them their sins. This ceremony is called the "Salat el Istikeh," and was perform- ed by the religious whenever the Nile flood, or rains, failed in the earlier days,
"EARIAS INSULANA.
The following circular was issued yesterday. by the Ministry of the Interior :-
In view of the recent dainage to cotton at Arment, Markaz Luxor, it is considered advisable to prepare the following note for the information of cultivators who should do all in their power to further our knowledge of the life-history of this pest, by carefully observing its habits, food-plants, time of ap pearance, method of passing the winter, etc.
Until we have a complete understanding of these points it will be impossible to success. fully cope with it..
The boll-worm is a very serious past, causing. annually considerable loss to the cotton crop of this countly. The parent of the boll-worm is s moth which can be readily recognised trom the following characteristics. Thorax and fore wings green, hind wings silvery white with a darkish inargin, abdomen same colour as hind wings. It has a wing expanse of about 20 mm., and the body is about 9 mm. long. The eggs. are laid on the outer surface of the boll, gene- rally in one of the grooves near the tip. Only one is laid on a boll, but, as, several moths may each deposit an egg on the same boll, two or three are sometimes found. These eggs, which are of a blueish green colour and about 0.5 mm. in diameter, in three or four days time give rise to a small larva or worm, which at once proceeds to bore into the boll and feed upon the contents.
As the worm grows it seeks other bolls which it pierces, and devours the seeds. Daring its life a larva will enter and destroy several capsules. The presence of the worm in the boll can always be detected by the small round hole in the side with a quantity of excrement around it. When young bolls are invaded they gener ily wither up and fall off, but older and maturing bolls seem to dry up without dropping. Even if they do open, the fibre is so matted together and stained by the excrement of the worm that it is practically valueless. In some cases, where only one division of the boll has been damaged, the other may open and produce good cotton.
In from fifteen to twenty days the worm reaches maturity, and is then about 14 to 15 mm long, and robust. It is provided with a number of fleshy tubercles which give it a apiky appearance. These are most marked near the head, and are surrounded at the base by an orange-coloured patch. The worm now leaves the boll and spins a cocoon somewhere on the plant, frequently between the side of the ball and the involucre. The cocoon is formed of tough, densely woven silk which varies in colour from white and cream to brown. It is more or less oval in shape, and "keeled" along the upper surface. Within this, the larva turns to a yellowish brown pupa about 10 mm. long. The cocoon of the boll worm is lighter in colour and smaller in size than that of the cotton worm. In from ten to fourteen days moths emerge and give rise to another brood of worms which feed in the same way. There are a number of generations during the year.
Until we know more about the life-history and habits of this pest it is impossible to devise any practical method of dealing with it. Cultivators are therefore specially invited to do all they can to assist by sending to the secretary, Khedivial Agricultural Society, Ghezira, any information they may obtainas to its habits, food plants, time of appearance, method of passing the winter, natural enemies, eto.
It must be clearly understood that the "Barias Insulana" is not the American boll- worm.
It is reported in Cairo that a project is now under consideration for transforming the above Administration into a Ministry, most probably on the retirement of H. B. Abdel Halim Pacha Assem, the Director General, who, it is expected, will go on pension at the end of this year. Should the project be carried out the employés of the. Wakfs will be subjected to the same regulations as regard pension and indemnity as those in the other Ministries.
There was an important rise at Rosaires yesterday of 1.75 metres, the reading registered being 7.27 metres as compared with 5.52 metres in the previous day. This rise will be felt in Cairo in about 25 days, and will be generally beneficial to Lower Egypt, but not to Upper Egypt, where the canal basins will probably be only opened in the last week of August, as in 1902. The maximum levels attainable in that year at the Assouan gauge were reached on the 17th September, whilst last year the maximum was reached on the 13th August, nearly one month earlier. It is hard to judge at present what the maximum levels of 1905 will be, and on what date these are likely to be attained, owing to the weak and slow rise of the Blue: and White Nile this season.
The following is the menu of the dinner to
be served to-morrow evening on the occasion of the small dance:
Consommé double glacé
Boles frites Sance Gribiche
Pommes vapepr Selle d'agneau Riche leu Pilaff de cailles Fonds d'artichaux Lucullus
Poularde rôtie en casserole
Salade de ason
Mousse Khédiviale
G&tena Mascotte
Fruits Dessert
The Telegraph steamer Duplex arrived from sea to-day as the Electra came out of the Canal. The latter vessel remains here two days, and the Duplex is to go through the Canal to Suez to-morrow, after relieving the other vessel, which is going home.
Aromawbat strange case is interesting the police here now, the outcome of an assault by an Arab on an Italian lady in her own home. It appears that the lady in question. wes going to her apartment, when the Arabe stopped and attempted to molest her; she, much alarmed, called for help, to which several Englishmen resident in the building responded. The case was referred to the police who would appear, to have made light of the affair, "it being past midnight." The officials, I understand; promised that it should be en quired into in the morning. The Italian Consul, the Comte de Manicelli, was asked to make representations, the result being that H. E. the Governor has ordered that the most. strict enquiry be made, which will be con duoted by Major Bonelli.
The disgraceful state of filth of the beach on which, since the Canal Co's order to destroy the bath-houses on the east of the harbour, similar houses have been erected in large numbers, calls for decidedly strong measures. Complaints are numerous, but the Tanzim appear to leave the foreshore severely alone, for the menace to public health becomes daily worse. All sorts of refuse is thrown from the houses, and there being no rise of tide to do the work of scavenging, the vegetable and other matter soon decomposes, rendering that pórtion of an otherwise splendid beach posi tively dangerous to health.
A correspondent in the "Engineer" gives some particulars of the Suakin-Berber Railway, which will reduce the distance of Khartoum from the sea by 970 miles. The line really starts 20 miles south of Berber, at the month of the Atbara, and runs to Port Sudan, 30 miles north of Suakin, to which it is much superior as a port. The selection of the route for the railway was influenced as much by the opportunities for fature extensions as by gra dients, earth work, and water supply. After surveying the country, the route via Khor Okwat, Khor Adit, Kbor Baraméy, Khor Arab, and Khor Hudi was chosen. The highest point on the line is near Sinkat, 89 miles by rail from Port Sudan, where the road rises to 3,020 ft. above the sea. The total length of the railway from Atbara to Port Sudan is 312 miles. A single line 3 ft. 6 in gauge is employ- ed. The steepest gradient between Port Sudan and Sinkat is 1 in 100, and between Sinkat and Atbara 1 in 125, whilst the sharpest curve is 955 ft. radius. The rails are flat-bottomed, 75 lb. to the yard between Sinkat and Atbara. The sleepers are of Jarrah wood for 50 miles from Port Sudan, but beyond that they are of steel. One flat and one angle fish-plate is used. The rails are fastened to the wooden sleepers by keys. The points will be bolt-locked and interlocked with signals. The work of con- struction began in earnest in October, 1904, and 170 miles were laid altogetber up to Jane 1. Railhead is now advancing at a rate of about 1,500 yards a day; but the laying of the rails will probably not be finished before March, 1906. The briges will not be finished by March, 1906; so that a certain amount of damage may be expected during the rains in November and December, 1905. If, as occasionally happens, there is not much rain, the laying of the rails may be finished a few months earlier,
The Khedivial mail liner El Kabira will leave Alexandria on Wednesday next for Piraeus, Smyrna, Mitylene and Constantinople
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A RUBBER'S ACCOUNT OF THE SANA EXPEDITION.
(FROM A DAMASCUS, CORRESPONDENT.)
A Turkish bath is certainly a curious place wherein to gather information or political. adventure. But when the scene of action is a wild country, practically cut away from the civilised world, where even the ubiquitous reporter has, yet no established quarters, and the nature of the events enacted.therein is such as to make all confessions or communica tions from educated persons most dangeron, owing to the vigilance of the censor and the spy-two formidable enemies in Tarkey- the account of an illiterate masseur of a Tark ish bath, who has played his obscure role of soldier in all the acts of the sad drama em bodied in the Sana expedition, must suffice. Indeed there is such a freshness and primitive charm in the impressions of the uneducated, that the crudeness of certain statements, and the incorrectness of figures and facts,are amply compensated. My informant is a rubber at one of the Damascene Turkish baths. He had been called away with the Redif recently despatched to Yemen, and it was his good fortune to be amongst the survivors who were eventually. returned to their homes, the Syrian Moslems having been apparently suspected of being in sacret sympathy with their kinsman in rebellion for a national cause on the other side of the Peninsula. When I saw the fellow back I hailed him as a resurrected ghost, and as he had just returned, and the impressions were still vivid in his brain, I hastened to fix them down on paper before they. faded away under the crush- ing routine of a dull and immured existence, and of hard and relaxing labour. Poor fellow ! he was emaciated to an appa'ling degree, more from hunger than hardship, and it needed a lot of diplomatic questioning on my part to draw from his anemic brain the following facte. "We were," he said, "three battalions, and were shipped by three steamers that sailed almost simultaneously from Beyroat and Tripoli for Hodeida. The voyage from the start was ominous and clearly augured the evil and distress that we subsequently experienced. You often see Turkish steamers in port, and although you never got into any of them, yet you could no doubt see at a distance the filth and disorder, and the cha- racteristic symbol of neglect in the washed away paint on the sides of the ship. I shall say nothing of the food. If the poorness of its quality and quantity were the only consi deration it were bearable, but the teeming vermin shared with as the little nourishment that our poor bodies could draw therefrom, Arrived at Hodeida we remained six days before the provisions, and ammunition could be got ready and loaded on the camels, and this delay gave time for the Arab to rally, and take their positions in the fortified out- posts on the openings of the defiles, which they had already reduced chiefly by fantine. It was well enough while we marched across the plain, or the low hills, but when we en- tered the regular mountain region the danger, and finally, the rout began. Legions of armed Arabs covered the hill tops, and with their quick-moving dark bodies they gave the illusion of devils springing up from the ground, or dropping from the skies at every imagina ble point. While we attempted to cross, the first defile a volley of gunfire poured upon us from both sides of the ravines, alternating with the pelting, of stones, and the rolling down of boulders. A stone struck me on the face, and it would have smashed the bones had it not been friable as the stones in that special region are. The attack was, so vigo: rous, and the position of the enemy was to manifestly superior, that the soldiers, already perhaps not much in sympathy with the ob- ject of the expedition, lost courage. Our commander saw the hopelessness of the posi- tion, and thentter uselessness of fighting under such conditions, and like a prudent-man, bot a bad general, forthwith decided upon sur- render. The Arabs rushed down on us like valtures from the surrounding dark, oljffa orying "Sallem" "Sallem" ("earrender" "sur render"). He who did not promptly lay down his arms and give up his cartridge belt was shot down or cleft in twain by the mar vellous swords of the infernal Arabs. The disarming over, the camels, severals thousands in number, were then captured with their intact loads of provisions, and an army of about 10,000 strong was then left to procred to Sana, still resisting yet powerless The garrison of 10 battalions at Sana had been waiting with famished endurance for the pro- visions, and you can picture to yourselt their distress on seeing the long-expected blessing arrive in the hands of the enemy. We arrived at Sana to swell the number of the famished and add to the death roll, for not less than five to six thousand men out of our 20 battalions died, very few in actual fighting but mostly from famine. Farther resistance was no more possible. Sana is a natural stronghold perched on the top of a high mountain, and farther fortified by a rampart wall. The principal water supply, however, lies in wells outside the wall, while within its limits vegetation, as may be imagin- ed on a barren hill of Arabia, is far from lux- ariant. The provisions had been so late in arriving, and the siege was kept up so lorg that the famine in the town was reaching its uttermost limits. When we entered the town our hearts broke at the sight of desolation within. Nothing green could be seen. The place had been stripped of the syn bolic coloor of good fortune. Even the roots of plants in the pota, that had been placed for ornament on the window sills, had been placked and eaten away, On the first surrender after the opening
EGYPTIAN, PR SONS
COLES PASHA'S REPORT
JUDICIAL (CONTINMED).
Description of imprisonment.
It will be seen that of the 81,745 prisoners sentenced, 24,825 or 30%, were in default, 34,278 or 41% were sentenced to simple im- prisonment, 21,950 or 26% to imprisonment with labour, 150 to detention and 597 to penal servitude. In 1903 472 were sentenced to penal servitude, 118 to detention and 16,606 to imprisonment, with labour, prisoners sentenced in default were included with those sentenced to simple imprisonment.
Classification of offences and periods of imprisonment.
It appears that whilst the number of prison- ers who underwent, imprisonment for contra ventions was reduced by more than 50%, there was a large increase of persons imprisoned for délit compared with 1903. It will be seen, too. that the increase in the prison population in 1904 is owing to the increase, in number of sen- tence of from "one week, to three months" and not, as was at one time supposed, owing to an increase of those sentenced to longer periods, the numbers of which have varied little during the past three years.
These sentenced prisoners are again clas sified as regards their age, nationality, sto. The proportion is very similar to previous years and the tables call for no particular explanation.
Habitual offenders.
The number of "Habituala" is ever-increas ing, 7,295 having been sent to prison during the year compared with 6,842 during 1909. Of this number, 2,481 were convicted of offences against property (1,566 in 1903), 2,485 against the person (1,817 in 1908), and 2,429 other offences (1,959 in 1903).
If, as last year, we compare the sentences we find that 81% were imprisoned for less than one year (85% in 1903). If offences against property be alone considered 61% received less than one year (59% in 1903). Simple impri- sonment is hardly a suitable punishment for men who have already undergone imprison- ment and yet 1,577 offenders were so dealt with; not a few of whom had four, five and more previous convictions.
Bgyptian Judges undoubtedly deal very, leniently with this class of offender.
Habituals sentenced to penal servitude.
The number of old offenders sentenced to penal servitude has increased from 68 to 914 Of this number, 153 were sentenced under the new law, about half this number coming under Arts. 274-275 (aggravated theft).
With penal servitude, punishment for such offenders may be said to be exhausted, and when these men return to prey on society (which in all probability the majority of them, will do) we shall have to face the problem, so much disqussed of late years in England and elsewhere, of the best method of dealing with incorrigibles.
-Personally I have no doubt that there is bat one remedy for such off anders, viz., an inde finite sentence in an adult reformatory or asylum. Experts may decide whether the par tionlar form of vice shall be dealt with as inherited or acquired; all the community ask, and have a right to expect, is that such persons shall be removed from their midst.
• This includes persons from Administrative Courte Probably more were actually imprisoned and not returned by the Parquet as old offenders.
(To be continued).
sharp encounter in he defile, and the second surrender at Sara, after a long parley between the Arab chieftains and the Turkish Generals outside the gate,, no wholesale violence was committed, but curiously enough the Arabs. singled out the officers for deathnone of whom were Syrian-and this with such fatal precision and unerring knowledge that these poor fellows finally began to beg of us soldiers for an teta- porary exchange of uniforms. Such times put to the test the manly qualities of the different races of which the army was composed. The Tark of Anatolia was the most cowardly not 80, the Albanian, Kurd and Circassian whe faced death with unmoved calm and pride. The retreat from Sana to Hodaida was a moat sorry sight. The long files of disarmed and famished troops looked the very embodiment of humiliation and defest written in human shape,"
Asking him about the causes of the in- cipient disaffection, that ended in open revolt, the rabber said that it originated in the Tarkish Governor's extortion,, especially in connection with the Askerieh (military exemp tion tax.) The ignorant Arabs used to be given false receipts for the Askerieh money, which of course the succeeding governors would not recognise. Continued injustice and oppression led finally to open revolt, which the Imam seized as a rare occasion to preach his claims to the Caliphate, and found a new dynastro rule. It is said that he deals out punishment by the retaliation of the same offence. He takes arm for arm, and eye for eye."
The rubber ended his narrative by the piously patriotic exclamation May Allah keep him (i.e. the Sultan), victorious. That land, my master, is not fit for human habitation. Barning heat, no water, but deserts all round. No wonder that our sovereign's troops were overpowered by those Arabs who seem to be descendants of Jinne Thank Allah that I am back in my country which is the real Eden of the world.
For MANCHESTER, by the S.S. "Kaffir Prince," sailed on the 5th August :
H. Bindernagel, 91 bales cotton
F. Andros, 62 „ „
G. Riecken, 60 „ „
Peel & Co., 1718 „ „
F. C. Baines & Co. 880 „ „
B. Mallison & Co.,. 450 „ „
Mohr & Benderl; 141 „ „
Carver Bros. & Co. Ltd, 1,035 „ „
G. Frauger & Co., . 30 „ „
Choremi, Benachi & Co., 1,225 „ „
W. Gatty & Co., 50 „ „
Birch & Co.,. 50 „ „
W. Trapp & Co., 10 „ „
5,802 bales cotton
Werther & Co., 15 bags gum
B. Nathan & Co. 54 bags gum
J. & A. Abouchanab, 349 bags oil cake
Various, 9 packages sundries
For HULL, by the S.S. "Mikado," sailed on the 8th August :
Barker & Co., 248 tons cotton soed
J. Goar & Son, 806 „ „
Behrend & Co., . .1,145 „ „
Carver Bros. & Co. Ltd, 1,549 „ „
Mohr & Fenderl, 245 bales cotton
R. & O. Lindemann, 290 „ „
E. Mallison & Co., 50 „ „
F. C. Baines & Co, 100 „ „
J: Planta & Co., 150 „ „
G. Frauger & Co., 150 „ „
985 bales cotton