The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-28 00:00:00

THE MURDER OF A CHINAMAN.

Yesterday a Chinaman called Sequi, who has been
in custody a fortnight, was brought up on remand
before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames Police-court,
charged with the wilful murder of another China-
man, named Ahqui.
A well-known Chinese juggler, named Taen Al-
bett Arr Hee, who has been many years in this
country, was sworn to interpret the evidence.
The prisoner and his victim had been cooks of
American ships, and according to the statement
made by Ahqui on oath, in the London Hospital,
before Mr. Selfe and in the presence of the prisoner,
it appeared that his countryman,who had borrowed
a coat of him, fastened a quarrel on him because he
took the coat away from Sequi's lodgings, and that
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he was stabbed in abdonien and on Ih'e shoulder
in a street in Limehouse, without giving any provo-
cation. The prisoner, when taken into custody by
Exalt, a police-constable, on the morning of the 13th
inst., admitted he stabbed Ahqui, and that he after-
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wards threw the knife with which he committed
the deed into the Regent's Canal Dock. When the
evidence given by Ahqui in articulo mortis was
read over to the prisoner by the Rev. Mr. Taylor,
formerly a prisoner in China, the prisoner said it
was all correct, and that he did stab Ahqui. The
prisoner's statement given yesterday went to show
that he had received great provocation from the de-
ceased. A great portion of his statement is capable
of being confirmed or disproved, but the prisoner
has no money to enable him to procure legal aid,
and is quite ignorant of the English language.
Mr. George Richard Arnold, surgeon and apothe-
cary, of No. 17, Hardwick-place, and Brook-street,
Ratchiff, said—On the night of the 12th inst. I was
called to a wounded man lying on the pavement in
Narrow-street, Ratcliff. I found a portion of hie in-
testines protruding through his shirt and drawers.
I carefully examined him and uncovered his abdo-
men, in which a deep wound had been inflicted.
His bowels were out. I carefully covered them in,
and caused him to be made fast to a shutter, and to
be conveyed to the London Hospital.
The prisoner was asked if he would ask any ques-
tions of Mr. Arnold, on which he entered into an
earnest conversation with the interpreter.
Mr. Selfe—What does he say ?
Arr Hee—He said how is that Chinese man in
the London Hospital, and I say he is dead, and
Sequi then make great start.
Mr. James Jackson said—lam the house-surgeon
of the London Hospital. I received the wounded
Chinaman, Ahqui, on the night of Thursday, the
12th inst. A great pact of the intestines protruded
from the abdomen. The gut was cut in three places.
The wound on the abdomen was 31- itches long.
From that wound he died on the morning of Wed-
nesday last. There was another wound on the left
shoulder. That was comparatively trivial.
Mr. Selfe—Were you present when the wounded
man gave his evidence in the hospital ?
Mr. Jackson—l was, sir.
Mr. Sslfe—Did he then know he was dying ?
Mr. Jackson—l believe he did, sir.
Mr. Selfe—Did he make any statement after that ?
Mr. Jackson—l am not aware that he did make
any statement after you left the hospital.
The depositions previously taken having been
read by Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, the prisoner re-
ceived the usual caution, and was asked if he had
any defence to make.
The prisoner then made the following defence, in
the Chinese language, and it was translated into
English by Arr Hee—l wish to tell you everything
right through. First, I don't know much here ;it
is the first time I have been iu England. Ahqui,
he has been in England several times. I came in
on Tuesday, he came in on Thursday. He came in
on Saturday and asked me to lend him £2; week
after that I lent him another £1 ; week after that
I lent him another £l. Third week, Saturday, I
lent him half a sovereign. Fourth week, Sunday, I
lent him another half sovereign. Fifth week he
asked me to lend him mywatch to go out in the street.
He borrowed watch of me, and went and pawned
it. Six weeks I got a discharge from a vessel, and
went to the Strangers' Home, in Limehouse. He
came to me again at 1, Limehouse, and asked me to
lend him 255. I went down to Strangers' Home,
and stayed there a fortnight. I got a steamer to go
home to China. When I got that ship I went to
Ahqui, and asked him to return my money and my
watch. Ahqui say, "If you go home in steamboat I
got no money to pay you, or the watch." Ahqui
say, " I find another vessel for you to go home to
China." I say, " Will you give me back money and
watch if I don't go home in this steamer back to
China ?" Mr. Freeman, superintendent of Strangers'
Home, will not let me have my luggage to go any-
where else. Ahqui said, " If they will not allow you
to have your luggage, you take it yourself." I said,
"If I move out I have no money to live." Then
Ahqui say, " You move out, I will give you money
for board, for lodging." I moved out after that, left
Strangers' Home, and went to Ratcliff-highway to
live. Then Ahqui never came to show himself for a
fortnight after that. He never gave me any money.
I had nothing to eat. Then I went to his vessel andt
asked him for money and watch. I went to
went
he
kitchen (galley or cookhouse on deck), and
away into the cabin, and he told captaintw iacne7dtbfirreset
mate to turn mo on shore. V
times for money and watchlen;l
always
turn me out. I
Went
oynseeturn me out of
the ship. Captain and first m
a
could not speak English, so I went to next vessel.
I had no money. I had nothing to eaets.t
ellbduildesto
not
know what to do. I pawned all my best
keep myself with. I went to dockyard to find a
vessel to go to sea. I found a Chinaman, Chu Lan
Fok. This Chinaman introduce me to the captain,
who engaged me and give £4 per month wages, as
cook. Then Ahqui went to captain and told him
not to have me ; he told captain of ship I could not
speak English and could not do any work, and I
got discharged from that vessel and lose £4 per
month. Got discharged on Thursday. Ou Mon•
day Ahqui got a vessel to cook ; he got my place.
On Thursday Ahqui came to my house and asked

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me to lend him more money. I had only 4d. Gave
him 3d. Ahqui said that too little. Ahqui went
into street and came back again. Then Ahqui went
to my room to get a coat to pawn. lie took coat
away. I say, "That coat belong to me." Then he
took it, and went to pawn it. I waited up till 8
o'clock. Then I went to find him. At 10 o'clock
I find him talking to some girls in Ratcar high-
way. Ahqui came to me. I said, " Get that coat
out." He said, " Very well, I will go with you."
We walked down the Highway to Limehoutie, and
we passed through the bridge talking to him. J
told Abqui, "You don't giTe me watch and money
you might get that coat back again." Then Ahqui
said, " That does not belong to you. I do
nothing of that sort," and struck me in the. face. I
struck t,itn back and knocked him right down again.
Then Ahqui got up and took his long dagger•knite
and tried to stab rne. I defended myself,- and got
hold of Ahqui'a wrist and turned it back with the
knife in it, and stabbed him in the belly. Then I
saw him fall. I took the knife out of his hand,
gave him a stab on the shoulder on the left side and
ran away. Ahqui, if he was not dead he could
prove he had the knife. Before Christmas last
Ahqui asked a Chinaman to lend him money. The
Chinaman would not lend him money, and Ahqui
stabbed him on the arm. That Chinaman go away
to sea a month ago. Ahqui see I cannot speak Eng-
lish, he want my money, my body, and life..
Mr. Selfe asked the interpreter if prisoei*Odid
sign his name to his statement which Mr. Pryer
had just read.
Arr Hee—He says he cannot write.
Mr. Selfe then committed the prisoner for trial
at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court
for wilful murder.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

The traffic receipts of railways in the United
Kingdom amounted for the week ending Feb. 21
on 10,611 miles, to £492,782, and for the corms)
ponding week of last year, on 10,217 miles, to
£460,190, showing an increase of 394 miles and of
£32,592 in the receipts. The gross receipts on the
following 14 railways amounted in the aggregate,
on 7,268 miles, to £382,374, and for the correspond-
ing week of 1862, on 7,032 miles, to £362,000,
showing an increase of 236 miles and of £20,374 in
the receipts. The increase on the Caledonian
amounted to £703, on the Great Eastern to £1,264,
on the Great Northern to £312, on the Great Wes-
tern to £835, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to
£1,647, on the London and North-Western to
£5,108, on the London, Brighton, and South Coast
to £1,430, on the London and South-Western to
£1,569, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire to £l,OBl, on the Midland to £1,718, on the
North British to £1,223, on the North-Eastern to
£2,731, and on the South-Eastern to £93B—total,
£27,772. But from this must be deducted £lB5,
the decrease on the Great Southern and Western,
leaving the increase, as above, £20,374. The goods
and mineral traffic on these lines amounted to
£226,041, and for the corresponding week of 1862
1 to £213,752, showing an increase of £12,289. The
receipts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to
£156,333, against £148,248, showing an increase of
£8,085. The traffic receipts on 65 other lines
amounted on 3,343 miles, to £110,408, and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,185 miles, to
£98,190, showing an increase of 158 miles, and of
£12,218 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show a decrease of £3,996 as com pared
with those of the preceding week, ending the 14th
inst. The following are the railway receipts for the
past week :

Railways.

Miles Opened.

1863. 1862.

Belfast and N, Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 107
Caledonian 230 230
Cockermouth & Workington Bll 81
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61
Cork and Youghal . 321 27
Cornwall 531 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexfd 4Bl 481
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. E astern,Nrfk.,&E. Union
Great Northern 330 330
st
nttnl. 329
992 9641
Great Western .. .
Inverness & Aberdeen June 731 73i
Irish North-Western.. 145 130
(G 4
trt..esisraotouNrtthohnq..htolfwvSeecos
25 2541
Irish South-Eastern
Lancashire & Yorkshire 395 395
2
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 26 26
Scotland
In(ridlrne di ..
))
..
37268914 51
Llanelly 46 46
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2471 241
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 721
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Kan., Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham.. 91 n
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 34
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 249i
Monkland 7li
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton... 42
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central 56
Scottish North-Eastern 132
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon ... .....
South-Eastern...
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster
Vale of C1wyd......... lO
Vale of Neath 254
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 274
W.llartlepoolHarbr.&Rail B9
W'haven,CleatorotEgrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction . ” l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 55

Receipts.

1863. 1862.
£ £
1,729 1,764
607 541
1,605 1,325
5,237 5,101
15,407 14,704
236 242
276 282
161 166
313 199
1,204 1,096
223 237
1,284 1,267
1,550 1,548
1,749 1,t98
1,033 1,116
6,642 6.381
211 219
2,804 2,256
8,199 7,259
25,705 21,441
24,687 21,:175
1,710 1,744
433 261
7,234 7,419
49,162 48,327
954 711
1,628 1,497
224 131
31,300 29,653
139 180
106 133
483 520
80,665 75,557
1,500 1,369
17,092 15,623
14,040 12,610
2,661 1,555
1,022 944
14,240 13,159
1,043 1,035
1,405 1,087
2,253 -
37,785 36,067
4,695 3,522
1,636 1,119
2,055 2,346

614
192
71i
44

345
867
9
252

10,803 9,580
38,500 35,769
2,969 2,701
7,918 7,128
869 487

75i
306
161

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 26
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6li
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern of France lO7B
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 445
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Ali Cant 439
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 4B}
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco .. .. 71
Royal Danish 69 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68
South Austrian
Southern of France .......„,,, .. 777 777
Welland....
West Flanders ••• . • 75 75
W. and N.W. of France 758 758

924 687
2,065 1,912
2,931 2,867
4,576 4,564
336 214
2.798 2,701
15,754 14,816
9,851 7,918
5,443 5,171
1,710 1,625
151 119
1,826 2,100
345 345
1,065 997
798 782
3,435 4.022
685 360
933 683
801 586

1,097 694
27,764 20,898
247 238
2,344 3,000
2,901 2,369
3,730 3,639
48,759 44,370
13,995 10,475
16,553 16,314
7,717 5,426
4,283 3,690
14,959 10,389
15,485 13,725
1,925 1,104
48,728 46,490

GREAT EASTERN.

The adjourned case of " Pusey ,
on in the Chancellor's Court this , ate p.,
There Was a large attendance of Doctors, Masters,
and others.
-
The Assepor delivered judgment on the ques-
tion of jurisdictioh.,,, He commenced by recapitulat-
ing the proceedings taken in the suit up to the
present moment, when he was called upon to decide
whether the Court had jurisdiction or no in the
matter. He read most of the citation, and observed
that the only objection made to it was that it wat;
too" vague, because it stated that the act complained
of was committed "is Oxford and elsewhere." He
decided against this objection, on the ground that,
if the specification of a place was needed the men-
tion of Oxford was a sufficient specification. Ho
then proceeded to deal with the question of juris-
diction, premising that he did not think himself
boned to confine his view to the arguments which
had been addressed to him, or to the grounds stated
in the protest. The defendant's proctor founded
his protest on these grounds. He held that the
Court had no jurisdiction in masters mere spiri-
tualia, and that heresy was a spiritual matter ; that
the Court was unfit to do justice to the case ; and,
lastly, that it had no power over a Regius Profes-
sor. He would take first the constitution and pro-
cedure of the Court. He thought it would be granted
that the University ought to have a power to cor-
rect violations of its statutes, and that this power
should be so exeroisrd that every accused person
;light be heard, and that the Vice-Chancellor might
Xave the assistance of a persop, not unacquainted
with the duties of a judge 'WI the 'prilfcfples of
English law. The procedure in this Court would
be substantially the same as that of the Court of
Arches. Each party might be heard by counsel.
If the judge erred—and he was quite sensible that
he had neither the learning nor the authority
to decide such a case satisfactorily—he might
be set right by the Queen's Bench, or by
an appeal to the Privy Council. He was of
opinion that the promoters were not to blame for
resorting to this Court, which was the only Court
open to them, and that he was not precluded by its
defective constitution or procedure from entertain-
ing their complaint. He came now to the objec-
tion founded on Mr. Jowett's being a Regius Pro-
fessor. Having stated the extraordinary nature of
the claim made to complete exemption from Uni-
versity law on the part of such persons, he decided
against the protest on this point, holding that Pro-
fessor Jowett's office was not a bar to his being
cited to appear in this. He then approached the
main question, with respect to the nature of the
offence charged. Unless the citation alleged an
offence with which he had the power to deal—a
breach of some law which he was authorised to
enforce—the suit fell to the ground. The Court
had to enforce two bodies of law—the general law
of the land and the particular laws of the University.
It might be argued that Professor Jowett was
charged with an offence against the ecclesiastical
law, which was part of the law of the land ; but, if
so, this was an offence which, as such, he bad no
power to punish. The Church Discipline Act
showed clearly that he had no jurisdiction. The
question remained whether this was an offence
against the statutes, and, if so, an offence with
which he had authority to deal. After deciding
that the fact of the offence charged being in one
point of view an ecclesiastical offence did not pre-
clude him from punishing it, if it were also an
offence against the statutes, the learned Assessor
proceeded to examine the University statute-book.
There were three statutes which might be thought
to apply to the case, that on the subject of tutors,
that on professors, and that on the powers of the
vice-chancellor. He held that the first of these
might apply to such a case, but that in the present
instance it would be improper to apply, as no com-
plaint had been made by the college, and there were
no grounds to suspect collusion. The second, he
thought, did not apply at all, -as it was only
intended to restrain the teaching of professors
in their professorial character and in their
dealings with their pupils. The third sta-
`ute—that on the powers of the vice-chancellor—

was very vague in its terms. It might empower
him to judge this case, and therefore he could not
allow the protest, which altogether denied his juris-

diction; but he thought it left him a discretionary
power, and in the exercise of this power he declined
to go forward with the case. He should not call on
the promoters to exhibit articles. It confirmed him
in the exercise of his discretion to find that there
appeared by the archives to have been only one case
since the year 1600, when a trial for heresy had
taken place in this Court. That was a trial for a
blasphemous libel, which was an offence against the
common law. He had the less reluctance in decid-
ing as he had done, because, if he was wrong, there
was a ready remedy, and he would be set right by
a higher tribunal. His judgment was that the pro-
test was disallowed, but the case would not he per-
mitted to be carried further.
Mr. Digby Latimer, on the part of the pro-
moters, gave notice of appeal.
Mr. Pottinger applied for the costs of the defence.
The Assessor refused the application, on the
ground that he had rejected the protest. The
costs, he observed, up to this time could not be
great.