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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-7-12, Page 3A - a 400 • 3i7LY 12, 1900, TSE ifl t'ssEI qsT, Fl{ E�G6 ERS LAST STAND Terrible Scenes Being Enacted in the Pekin Capital. despatch from Landon„ says:— St' Robert Hart's runner, wthe wee interviewed by the correspondent c4 the Express at Shanghai, eay9 the Moret -tiers were making a test stand in the 'buildings and encloettres oft the British Legation,. They had many dead and wounded. Among them was some women and ohiidren. tell were, short of food, even of Cho commonest necessaries. The women were starving, as they gave apart of their email allowance to the children. The foreigners were molding out under a terrific fire up- held ley the, hourly expectation of re- lief. They knew they would not be abandoned, and that the armies of their Governments were advanomgt, Sometimes they thought they ()quid hear artillery in action beyond a wnli. ,They were unable to return the fire of the Chinese except at mo- ments .when an assault seemed im- minent. Then the machine guns and repeating rifles tore the storming parties to pieties. The messenger ex -- pressed the belief that it would be impossible far the foreigners to re- sist .much longer, as the Ohtnose were preparing to batter down the walls of the court -yard and their =mum: - tame was running low. Ordera were given by Prince Tuan, the messenger says, that eine some had been killed, not one other foreign- er should be left alive. The Chinese soldiers were exhorted to sacrifice their lives without hesitation, if by so doing they could help exterminate the " Wang-IDuei-Tse," Extreme precau- tions bad been taken to prevent the foreigners from communicating with anyone outside the city, and a nttmhr Of rompers wile had been nen`, out were kilted by the Chinese. This mes- eanger eaooaeded in getting through by smearing his face and clothes will blood and joining in the outoriee against the " devils." [ie passed the remains of foreigners of Admiral Seymour'a force who bad been killed between Lang-li'ang and Lo -Pu. Their bodies had been out to Mims and their heads were oarried,at the Bade of bamboos. A large army of Manceb'u Chinese Imperial troops, with seventy grins, is reported to he advancing in the direction of 'Tien-Tsin. Reliance is placed in Shanghai on moat of the statements made by the messenger, as he is known to be faith- ful to the foreigners. The Consular body at Shanghai is of the opinion that the food and ammu- nition of the besieged Legation forces at Pekin have become exhausted, they must be dead or imprisoned, and that it would be futile to make a des- perate effort for their relief with an inadequate force. It is regarded at Shanghai as appalling that nothing is being done for the relief of the be- sieged foreigners, and that they should be abandoned to a horrible fate. The inability of 1,600 men— the latest estimates of the number landed—to advance, is explained by the statement that the Chinese army between Tien-Tsin and Pekin has been heavily reinforced, that it has abund- ant artillery and numerous cavalry, giving it large advantages over the allies, Reconnoitring pasties run a great hazard of being surrounded, captured, and probably executed by torture. A long delay seems certain before an effeotive advance and be made. ALLIED FORCES DEFEATED. Retreat From Tien=Tsin to Taku Has Now Been Cut Off. ;A despatch from Berlin, says:—The Deutsche Tage Zeitung prints a Chefoo despatch that says that the Chinese troops seized on Monday night the Pei -Bo bridge, securing the line of re- treat of the international troops to Tata after repeated fierce attacks, in which the Chinese lost hundreds. They next drove off the Russians from their station outside ,Tien-Tsin after a two days' desperate resistance and en- circled the Oobosaion, which their artillery is now dominating. The Chinese Minister is still here. Be told a reporter of the Associated Press that be did not know where the Empress, the Emperor, and Tsung-Li-Yemen are. He thinks it likely that Prince Tuan bee seized the throne, and eapecially as the Prince has legicitnte claims thereto, hie fa- ther having been appointed Emperor. Bishop Anzsr, before leaving Berlin, declared it probable that the powers would master the present revolt, if they anted harmoniously throughout 0 herwise he believed the revolt would spread throughout China, and then the task woesld prove to be an impossible ane. CHINESIiI HAVE BETTER ARTIL- LERY. A. Paris Temps' despatch' from Cha - loo, dated Tbersda.y, says:— "Tien-Twat. is still surrounded; by an overwhelming number of Chinese, who lure trying to cut the communications of the International' forces, whose position is very dangerous. The al- lied troops, numbering 12,000 mon, hove succeeded with' difficulty an pre- venting by strategtic measures an assault by the Chinese, whose artif- lery. greatly out.num,beres the Euro- pean guns.' DEAD THICK ABOUT THE GUNS,. A despatch from London says ;—Ao- •cording to reports from Shanghai, the Chinese army on a march southward from Pekin has reached Lofa. This is presumably Gen. Nieh-Si-Chang's force en route to attack Tien-Tsin. Another forme of 30,000 Chinese from Intel has appeared north-east of Tien-Tsin. The native city when cap- tured was a horribly spectacle. Chi- nese bodies lay thick around the guns. The situation in ICwang-Tung or East- ern Province grows worse. is -Han - Chang is said to be trying to raise a force Of 200,000 militia. Anarchy is widespread in the Pro- vince of Shang -Tung in spite of the efforts of Yuan -Shekel, the Governor, to control the revolt. Happily, a band of thirty-five American and other missionaries reached Tsia-Tau safely on July 3. Viceroy.Liu is reported to be freely executing disturbers of the peace at Nankin, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 15. "Phe Gentile Woman's FaltkP' nark 7, 24.30. Golden Text. Hatt !e. 23 PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 24. From thence, From the neighborhood of Capernaum, Went: Matthew says "withdrew." Tho borders. The suburbs. Tyre and Sidon. Two of the greatest com- mercial allies of antiquity. Like Je- rusalem, they had come under Roman supremacy. They were only twenty miles or 80 apart, and one was apt to prosper at the expanse of the other; but the Phoenician 'oast north and south of thein and between them was thickly populated, and as the people depended in large part on Galilee tor provisions the Phoenicians and the Palestinian Jews were closely as- aociated in business and in friend- ship, and many Jews lived in Phoeni- cin, Oonpp quentiy a popular hero suo11 as Jolts gad blah in Gar lee would be heard of in Phoenicia. En. tared into a house, and would nava no man know it. This contrasts with the public character of his Galilean ministry. He, had 'Dine to this Gen- tile region not as a missionary, as we have seen, The Tyriltns were shortly to hear his Gospel From the lips of h'^ preachers, Acts 21. 3-6; but just he is "not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." He could t- .,t be hid. "Said in a,popular way. He often escaped from, or hid from, his enemies. Compare Luke 4, 30; John 8. 59; 10. 39." But the pres- ence of the twelve disciples would make it evident that he was a rab- bi; and "Which rabbi 1" would be a question promptly asked and easily answered. In our lives the presence of Christ Is like it sweet perfume; i11 cannot be hid. 25. A certain woman. . . came. The Revised Version says "straight_ way"—immediately after he had en. tared the house. Young. "Little." Had an unclean spirit. Wits "possess- ed" by it; it had her. Il3'er mind and soul and body were controlled by a hostile force, which made her not only 111 and insane, but manifested itself repulsively in eats that wore "un- clean" and would have been sinful if she had had self-control. Heard Of and came. Not all who hear of Jesus Wine to him. Fell at his feet. In supplication. Matthew says she exclaimed. "Have mercy on mo, 0 Lord, thou eon of Devitt!" -_- which shows that his alaitus as King or Messiah were 10 seine form known 10 the "borders of Tyre and Sidon." 26, like womntitl was a Greek, a Syr.. Phceniatan by notion. The term Greek matey .mean tittle more titan "Gentile," for Gi'eek eivllleatien had overenr'cad so large e part of the known world that meat foreigners were thought of as Greeks, The phrase Syropboenloian may point to the fact that Phoenicia was at this time part of the Roman` province of Syr'la, Matthew calls her a Canaauit- Ish woman. She besought bin) that he would oast forth the devil out of her daughter, "She prayed for one who could not tray for lrersolf, "—J. 0, Ryle. 27. Jesus said. . Let the ebild- ren first be ftited. The children were the Jews, and this woman, a.easlom• ed to the synthetic phraseology of the East, would readily understand 11, The people w-bO had been un- der training for their mission for two thomaand years ehould flret receive the Gospel and then impart it to the world, IL Is not meet to take the children's bread, and to oast it unto the dogs. Observe that this is not a pasittve refusal, mor can tb'e words hhivs sounded to the woman quite' as disoourtebus as they sound to us. "Dogs' are Gentiles. In all ages orthodox orientate have nicknamed professors of disonrded religions "dogs." ',Ve leave already nought to explain the unwillingness of our Lord to work tb9 miracle: 28,. The dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. "Let the children hove their banquet, but don't deprive the dogs of the orumbe. Give me even a crumb of your marvelous helpfulness and I am 'content. • The woman's claim on Jesus was, as Dr. Trumbull says, "Not because of what was, but of what be was." " You are right, Lord ; I am only a heathen dog ; there is nothing in me to build a claim on, but you—you will never drive away even a dog that creeps up to you in love and hunger. I am ut- terly unworthy, but you—you will not let me starve." 29. For this saying go they way ; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. It was not the wit of the saying, but its faith, that so pleased our Lord. "That which would have repelled another turned this woman to the Souroe of help. She saw to our Lord's seaming reluctance a readiness to hear, and threw herself on his compassion. This miracle is remarkable as being called forth by the faith of a heathen, and as being worked away from the pres- ence of Christ, and of the person who exercised the faith." 3a When she was come to her house she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. The quiet rest of the ehild was positive proof that the evil spirit had departed. Wherever Christ comes demons take their flight. FROM PRISON TO BATTLE. Released at Pretoria to be Killed in a Few Days. - A despatch from London says ;—The Pretoria prisoners are evidently ex- perieteoing an early renewal of war after their liberation. In the latest List of casualties there is evidence of this. The attack on the small British force at Honingspruit entailed the death of Major H. T. de C. Hobbs, of the and West Yorks, who was taken prisoner, owing to his stay- ing behind to assist a wounded man at Willow Grange, in Natal, on No- vember 23. Second -Lieut. H. H. Smith, reported severely wounded In the same fight, belongs to the let Gioucesters, and was taken prisoner at Nicholson's nek. CAPTURED 40 GUNS. The Ashanti Relief Force Surprises Ilia Enemy. A despatch. from London, says:—The Under,-Seoretary of State for the Colonies, the Earl of Seaborne, an- nounced in the House of Lords on Thureday that the Governer of the Gold Coast Calmly, Sir Fraderio Mit- chell Hodgson, with six hundred na- tive soldiers, commanded by Major Morris, feet Sunniest June 23rd. He added that Captain Bishop and 1CO native, saddlers remained there, with rations sufficient to last until July 15th. Col, Willcocks promises to per- sonally; relieve Kumassi by that data, under any eiroumetancee. The news of the Governor's leaving Kumassi was contained. in a despatch from Cot, Willcocks, dated Fumsu, July 4, which adds:— "Burroughs with four hundred na- tive soldiers arrived at Dompossi July 1. The enemy was oonipletely sur- prised, and evacuated the etovkadee. Burroughs captured forty guns and ammunition, and killed thirty of the enemy.' BEHEADING THE GUARDS. Prince Tuan Publicly Executing Captured Foreigners. A despatch Prom Shanghai, Saye;— Prince Tuan is said to be publicly be- heading all the Legation guards cap- tured by the Chinese. Sir Henry Irving says Shakespeare Ls a 'bond between England and Amerion. Sir Robert Peel stood in Bow, Street Police Court 'dock, in London, and Made a public apology for calling his brother-in-law a blackmailer, and was released oil suspended seetenee on a charge of criminal libel, BOER SUPPLIES CAPTURED, Foreigners Acting SusploiauslY Or' tiered to Pypeeed to the Coast, A (eaputa) from Pretoria says:.— There was ammo firing beyond Penaar- npoort Oa Tuesday, but neither the IIritieh nor rho Boors appear to seek a general engagement. Eleven Boer waggons, laden with moat and emetics, were seized at the front, Those in charge of the waggons declared that they were corning to the Pretoria markets, but 31 is contended that the eupplies they were currying wol'a Intended for Commandant -Gen- esal Botha. About fifty foreigners who were made burghers by the Transvaal Gov - eminent during the war, have been given passes, and advised to get to the coast as quickly as possible. It is stated that ,after laying down their amps they acted in sueb a manner as to arouse the suspicions of the British, and it was considered that 11 would be better for them to leave the country. :the railway is now the leading fac- tor in the settlement here, The Neth- erlands Company has been surprised by the amount of traffic carried by the line within a month after the British occupation. There is urgent need for the completion of a quantity of unfinished engineering work in the shops bare, and in order to have this done the British engineers offered to re-employ a number of the company's workmen who had been laid off when General Roberts seized the line, The offer was accepted, and the men re- Kumassi relief expedition, telegraph surged work fora few days, when be the Colonial Office under date of Tues_ deputation said that they would ' clay that natives report that Governor better protected 11 they were ooh-' Hodgson and the wives and families mandeered. This was done, but a few of several officers have left Kumassi, here they were besieged by days later there were some defections, w caused by a Boor political agent, who the rebellious natives, and arrived at persuaded a number of the workman Ekwanta, 20 miles south-west of that it was unlawful to commandeer labor. TWO EDICTS ISSUED. iieeonollitition With the Christians Is IOW Impossible. A Canton deepateh'of Tuesday's date says the Chinese papere putblisb two edicts from the Jipwtuger Jampress, wheat reached Li-idualg.Chang sono days ago, Tlhey state that recon- clitab:0e with the Cliriealine, against whom the whole nation, tuefudrng the military and the nublas and princes' is .united, In order to atamp' them ant, is completely out of lira gnas- tion. The ediele any the foreigners began the fight agalinsl China with the at- tack upon Take. The bitter feeling against foreigners bad eonsequent- ly increased, and any attempt to put down the people would be dangerous. Hence. for the, present it seemed ex- pedient( to make; use of the anti- for- eign movement. The Empress says she (s wi.iling to protect tis. L g tions. J t remains to be seen, she says, whether the foreigners or the Cbinesa are the stronger. In any ease Gover- nors of provinces sleeved immediate- ly euro( troops for the defence of their districts, EIS they would be held responsible for any loss of territory., THE SIEGE RAISED, Most of the Kumassi Garrison Suc- ceeds in Escaping. A despatch from Loudon, says:— Col. Willcocks, c'ctmm,aP ding too WILL NOT DISCUSS PEACE. Kruger Says War Will Continue Un- til No Burghers Are Left. A deapateh from London, Friday, Kumassi, The messengers added that many were killed iu breaking out of Ku- messi. The rummer appears to be well founded, although Cot. Willcocks fails to understand why he has not received news from the Governor. The colonel says;—The cordon around Gen De Wet Intends to proceed to 1Guanassi and re appears still to be wide; at least he tato the place if it is evaama.tea1. has not yet been cornered. Despatches from the front, except official ones, deal with trifles or vague probabili- ties. The Daily Telegraph's Lorenzo Mar- ques correspondent attempted on Wednesday to interview President Kruger at Watervalonder. Herr Kruger was there, but he deputed State Secretary Reitz to talk. The Secretary said: "We do not need to discuss peace, President Kruger wishes, through me, to repeat what he has said over and over again. The South African Repub- lic will fight for independence as long as 500 burghers remain alive, and even then will continue to fight. Such is our decision." Dr. Conan Doyle, writing to the British Medical Journal, says he thinks that there were 10,000 to 12,090 cases of enteric fever at one time. Six hundred patients died at Bloem- fontein in one month. Dr. Doyle de- clares•that the physicians did all they could. 85 KILLED, 18 INJURED. stmomili Loaded Trolley Goes Over a Precipice et Tacoma. A despatch from Tacoma, Wash., says ;—Thirty-five men, women, and children were killed and eighteen ware injured, nine fatally, in the wrecking of a trolley on the outskirts of Taco- ma on Wednesday. Happy excursionists -104 of them— boarded a trolley car et Edison, a su- burb wt 8,30 o'clock. They were en route to this city to view the civic ha lies captured the canmander of De parade. The oar bowled along at a i b`et's scouts, two other prisoners, and good speed. Where the tracks turn - FIGHTING INCESSANTLY. Difficult Work in Keeping Up Communieat ons. A despatch from London, Thursday, Bays: -The commanders of the allies Tien-Tsin inform the correspond- ents that it would be suicidal to reach Pekin with the troops• now available in the face of the forces of Imperial troops and Boxers occupying the coun- try between Tien-Tsin and Pekin. So far from taking the offensive the 12,- 600 international troops at Tien-Tsin and the 8,000 others at Taku and in- termediate points can barely keep up communications, fighting incessantly ,vitb oierwbel.ming numbers, using far more numerous artillery pieces than the allies. COMMANDER CAPTURED. Gen. Methuen Takes Prisoner De Wet's Head Seout. A despatch from London, says:—The following despatch was received on Tuesday afternoon at the War Office from Lord Roberts:— "General Hunter reached Frankfort July 1, without opposition, and Mac- donald joined him there yesterday. He found two men of the Seaforths and eighteen of the Derby militia in the hospital. They had been well treat- ed by the Boers. "Methuen reports from Paardekrsal, on the Heilbron-Kroonstad road, that ed from Delia street the car suddenly lurched, and left the rails. The motor- man was powerless td check its speed. A gulob 1215 feet yawned below. Only e slight rail of wood ran along the edge of thq precipice. SIPIDO SENTENCED. or wales' Assailant to When of Age.. A despatch from Brussels, says:— The Assize Court on Thursday return_ ed a verdict of guilty of attempt to kill the Prince of Wales against Jean Baptiste Stpido, svho fired at the Prince on April. 415 as the train bear- ing his Royal Highness was leaving the Northern station in this city for Copenhagen. ' The court considered that Sipido acted without discern- ment, and sentenced him to a re- formatory until he shall have attained his majority. Merl• Panchot and Metre, the instigators of the attack upon the Prince, were acquitted, as they considered the plot a joke. I'rllce be Freed NEAR TWO MILLION. The Enormous Army Which China Possesses. A despatch from London, Wednes- day, says ;—The Times' St. Petersburg correspondent says that the general o f staff of the Russian army esti- mates the Chinese army to number 1, 702,000 men, He also says about 1,. 000,000 Mausers have been imported within the last four years. Ancleies Wessels, the head of the Afri- kander Bund." LOSSES WERE ENORMOUS. Fever a Worse Enemy Than Boers in South Africa. A despatch from London, says:—The War Office on Wednesday issued a re- turn of the British casualties in South Africa since the beginning of the war. The total losses exclusive of sick and wounded have been 29,703, of which the killed in action were 254 officers and 2,- 403 non-commissioned officers and men; died of wounds, 70 officers and 610 0051- oommiesionod officers and mon; miss- ing and prisoners, 65 officers and 2,624 non-commissioned officers and men; died of disease, 193 officers and 4,024 non-commissioned offloore and men; in- valided home, 844 officers and 18,483 non-commissioned officers and mea, • STRATHCONAS ENGAGED. Regiment Reeeived Its Baptism of Fire on Dominion Day. A despatch from London, says:— Strathoona'a Horse with Gen. Clery's force osis engaged for the first time tie July loin the neighbourhood of Standorton. They Wet one killed, and one officer 'missing, The Boers, probably mistaking them, rode to within fifty yards Of them, enabling a subaltern to effec- tively ffecttively use hie revolver. EDITORS, CLERGYMEN, P iY W I ANS len an Women in all Walks of Life Tell of the Remarkable Cures Wrought by South American Neriine Tonic. SIX DOSES WILL. CONVINCE THE MOST IINCd DULAUa EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT., REVIEW. News epee edi+ors are almost as doctors and other medicines Won sceptical as the average physician on the subject of new remedies for sick people. Nothing short of a series of moat remarkable and well authenti- cated cures will incline either an editor or a dootor to seriously consider the merits honestly claimed for a. medicine. Hundreds of testimonials of won- derful recoveries wrought with the Great South .American Nervine Tonic were received from men and women all over the country before physicians began to prescribe this great remedy in chronic cases of dyspepsia, in- digestion, nervous prostration, sick headaohe, and as a tonic for build- ing up systems sapped of vitality through protracted spella of sick- ness. During his experience of nearly a quarter of a century as a newspaper publisher in Paris, Ont„ Editor Col- well, of The Paris Review, has pub- lished hundreds of columns of paid medicine advertisements, and, no doubt, printed many .a gracefully - worded puff for his patrons as a matter of business, but in only a single instance, and that one warrant- ed by his own personal experience, has he given a testimonial over his own signature. No other remedy ever offered the public has proved snob a marvellous revelation to the most sceptical as the South American Nervine Tonic. It has never failed 'n its purpose, anti it has cured when. Sold by G. A. Dea,dman. tried in vain. " I was prostrated with a particle. Iarly severe attack of 'La Grippe,' " says Mr. Colwell, "and mould find no relief from the intense pains and die. tress of the malady. I suffered day and night. The doctors did not help me, and I tried a number of meds. cines, but without relief. About this time I was advised to try the South American Nervine Tonic. Its effects were instantaneous. The first doslii I took relieved me. I improved rapidly and grew stronger every day. Your Nervine Tonic oared me in a single week." The South American Nervine Tonic rebuilds the Life formes by its direct action on the nerves and the nerve centres, and it is this notable feature which distinguishes it front every other remedy in existence. The most eminent medical authorities now conoedethat fully two-thirds of all the physical ailments of humanity arise from exhaustion of the nerve forces. The South American Nervine Tonto acting direct upon the nerve centres and nerve tissues instantaneously supplies them with the true nourish- ment required, and that is why its invigorating effects upon the whole eyetom are always felt immediate) For all nervous diseases, for genera; debility arising from enfeebled vital. ity, and for stomach troubles of ever, variety no other remedy van possibly take its olacv. NEWS SUMMARY CANADA. Crops are hi phenomenally fine con- dition in Alberta. Ottawa contractors complain that they cannot obtain bricklayers. Hamilton is being urged to establish a free dental haII for needy children. Sir William McDonald has offered to erect a crematorium in Montreal and present it to the city. About $60,000 of the Hull -Ottawa relief fund has been distributed in amounts from $10 to $100. Hon. James Dunsmuir, the new Premier of British Columbia, attended the Hamilton Collegiate Institute 22 years ago. The cable which will connect Belle Isla with the telegraph system of Canada will be completed as far as Quebec city in about eight weeks. The Ottawa Improvement Commis- sion favors n park along the Rideau" River, in connection with the proposed driveway to Government House. The Hamilton Gas Company offered to light the city hall with gas at $235 a year, but the Ambitious City aldermen will stick to eleetrte light at $454. C. le. McPherson, general western passenger agent of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway, says that there will be a shortage in the Manitoba wheat crop, but he believes that compensa- tion will bo found in some measure in the fine crops of the Territories. Dr. Robinson, assistant snpoi7nten- dent at Toronto Asylum, has been granted three months' leave of ab- sence. Dr. Rosa will be moved from Brockville to Toronto; Dr, Merriman frons Toronto to Hamilton; Dr, Seattle trona Hamilton to Brookville, and Dr. Wilson of Mimico and Dr, MoNaugh ton of Brookville will be exchanged. Over 150 building permits have been granted to Ottawa since the big fire. Han. Richard McBride, one of the members of the New British Columbia Goverarment, is not yet thirty years of ago. An electric magnet wis succeesCully used by a physician at Ottawa to withdraw a piece of steel from s ma - i chiniet's eye. Kingston by-law granting some $34,000 bonus to the Cataraqui Smelt - ling & Developing Co., which will build works, costing 000,000, was over- wh•elmingly carried. No railway legislation, as far as constructing new lines is concerned, 'will be introduced at Winnipeg this ' session, but schemes are being con- sidered for next year. GREAT BRITAIN. The Duke of Westminster ,will mar- ry Miss Shelagh West, sister of'Prin- case Henry of Pleas Mr. Henniker Heaton Is uow agitat- ing for Government ownership of ca- bles and a two cents a word rata for cablegrams. Owing to the scarcity of boy labour the London District Messenger Come puny has been forced to utilize 18 - year -old girls in finer of its offices. . Admiral Maxse, who was naval aide- de-camp to Lord Raglan, commander- in -chief of the forces daring the siege of Sebastopol, is dead at London. The Court of Appeals bas decided that Sir Robert Peel is net entitled to share in the proceeds or the fatuity heirlooms which ware recently sold for $365,000. Landoll County Council has decided to send n deputation of engineers to the United Slates and Canada, to investigate the public asylums, thole construction and system of manage" merit,