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 time, has not as yet been fortunate enough to get any one to try him, or even to prosecute.

More than ten years have, nevertheless, elapsed since his last appearance in that case.

Colonel Caine's Comprador, has, since then, lived on, and carried on all kinds of business, in Hong Kong and Canton.

I heard of him last, as being, at the latter city, in the spring of 1858. It was told me, but I can not credit it, that a certain official had been indiscreet enough to recommend him, as Comprador, to the mess of an East India Company's Regiment in garrison there. It is certainly stated, that he was their Comprador about that time, but left them suddenly with their plate.

The proceedings in Mr. Tarrant's case having ex cited certain misgivings in his mind, he took an early opportunity of satisfying them.

One of the extortions was alleged to have been committed on a market lessee. The man had mortgaged his lease deeply, and had got into trouble. Mr. Tarrant took an assignment of the mortgage; thereby entitling himself to the possession and inspection of the lessee's market books.

He turned to the date of the alleged extortion. It was said to have amounted to the large sum of 1,600 dollars.

Under that date, there was an entry in Chinese, for "duty-money" paid to "Kanna Kane" (Colonel Caine) of two hundred dollars. But, within seven days, there were as many more, each of the same sum, each for "duty money," each to "Kanna Kane;" in all, sixteen hundred dollars.

In the now very remote hope of being able to stimu-