horror as if the chinese were guilty above all other men for the of the were familiar with perhaps worse than the prison of the n magistrate and with forms of torture which spared not letter iv a fair comparison even women and the judges and palms were intimate with the gold of accused persons it is simply that in is at this day what christianity in europe looked upon with indifference for centuries i l b the golden letter v v january the year seems already getting old and under these blue skies and with all the doors and windows open i should think it if i did not look at the oh how i like blue sunny skies instead of gray and grim ones and blazing colours instead of the dismal and of our i left by the js in on monday with two thousand chinese passengers and two missionary priests the latter wearing chinese costume and so completely got up as that had they not spoken their features would not have been sufficient to me they were noble looking men and bore upon their faces the stamp of to a noble work on the other steamer the instead of a man with and a keeping guard over the grating a large pipe is laid on to each through which in case of need boiling water can be sent under strong pressure just as we landed here about five hundred large fishes were passed through a circular net from a well in the steamer into a well in a fishing boat to which all the in resorted i pass over the and of and an afternoon with the governor in the victoria letter v a chinese hospital prison to an interesting visit paid with mr now sir j pope to the chinese hospital we started from house with the governor in a chair with six scarlet attended by some in scarlet for a state visit to the hospital a purely chinese institution built some years ago by chinese merchants and supported by them at an annual cost of in it nothing european either in the way of or treatment is tried there is a connected with it where advice is daily given to about a hundred and twenty people and though is rare in china they are building a lunatic asylum at the back of the hospital the hospital consists of several buildings of granite with large windows on each side and a lofty central building which contains the hall the accommodation for six resident and the business offices the whole is surrounded by a well kept garden bounded by a very high wall we entered by the grand entrance which has a pavement each flag consisting of a of granite twelve feet long by three broad and were received at the foot of the grand staircase by the and their the six resident doctors and mr ng a rising chinese educated at s inn who interpreted for us in admirable english he is the man who goes between the governor and the chinese community and is believed to have more influence with the governor on all questions which concern than anybody else these gentlemen all wore rich and beautiful dresses of thick silk and figured and they were much and they had all to a remarkable the hall in which the meet is lofty and very handsome the roof being supported on massive the golden v pillars one side is open to the garden it has a superb table in the middle with a chair massive enough for a throne for the and six grand carved on either side our procession consisted of the and the twelve the six stout middle aged doctors mr ng the governor the bishop of victoria and myself but the regarded the unwonted spectacle with extreme the wards hold twenty each and are divided into wooden each containing two beds seven feet high run down the centre the beds are wooden and the white or which are washed once a week the pillows are of wood or each bed has a shelf above it with a upon it in a thickly basket which keeps the contents hot all day the being of course poured off the leaves a ticket with the patient s name upon it and the hours at which he is to take his medicine hangs above each person no are performed but there are a good many other operations such as the removal of etc the doctors were quite willing to answer questions within certain limits but when i asked them about the composition and properties of their they became at once and said that they were secrets they do not use in operations but they all asserted and their were by mr ng that they possess which throw their into a profound sleep during which the most severe operations can be performed they asserted further that such awake an hour or two afterwards quite cheerful and with neither headache nor one of them showed me a bottle containing a dark brown powder which he said produced this result letter v and medicine but he would not the name of one of its saying that it is a secret taught him by his and that there are several it has a and slightly taste the and medicine are totally by european science and are of the most and description there was a woman who had had a removed and the awful wound which was uncovered for my inspection was dressed with and with a piece of paper over ah there was also exhibited to us a foot which had been pierced by a violent had extended up to the knee and the wound and the swollen blackened limb were being treated with and tiger s fat a man with feet nearly dropping off had them rolled up in dark coloured of which and oil were two all the wounds 