POLICE REGULATIONS IN CHINA.
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Mr. Fletcheg Webster, who went out to China, Ss Secretary to the legation. has recently been de ivrring . course of lectures, in New York; on the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the ee- lestial fowery nation. From his last lecture we extract the following in reference to their police fegula tiOns:--

 "One of our legation, in a warm night leit the window of his bedroom, which was on the second floOI, open. Thieves by the aid of a bamboo enter ed. saw by the light that he was asleep, secured his loaded pistol and his sword, and then at their leisure quietly stripped the room O every mOveable which it contaired The property might have been recovered on application to the authorities but knowing that this would inAict punishment upon guitlees persons, the gentleman preferred to lose his property, and 30 let the guilty escape Somebody is always held responsible m China for every offence that may be comitted. When man takes house he takes also a stesc0rd, who has some property which he gives as pledge for his honesty. He is hired by the month, and has charge of every thing in any way connected with the domestic affairs of the household. He hires all the keys and relieves the owner of every possi ble care. If any thing is destroyed by that-with us so mischievous person, .NObOdy-the servants must combine to make it up sand in the case of theft already mentioned, had the loser of the goods followed it up, the sUGtchmGn of the establishment would have been held responsible. By this system one great point always aimed at by legislators, is secured namely, the certainty of punishment for every crime. Some one is sure tO be held respon- sihle. As rain is proportioned to the evapora- tion, so is punishment to crime; and in China punishment like rain also, falls upon the just and the the unjust"