'EH. British Consults, Shanghai, 3rd Jane, 1867, (No. 72) Précis, Shanghai, 2nd June, 1867, TPMHE Trot, at the requ encouraged, us increased trafic. migh? be expected to resalt from more rapid and certain communication. Remembering the objections urged by the Chinese and endorsed by Sit Ruth er ford, when permission was sought for small steamers to ply from bunce to the silk districts, the momorinlists have touched, also, on the subject of foreign rovedion They only raseeed however in producing n Iamentably feeble at moti, high has no special Bensing on the question, and contains an assertion which isnot borne out by experience, The existing system of Consular pass-
against nny danger from this source ports, they "urge, suficioaly. provides and, "moreover, there would be no object for nny bat known and respon ble parties engaged in trade, in visit. ing the interior."" Wo do not very well see why the system of Consular pass-rts should be more efllcacions at Kiu-ang Uinn at Shanghai, where it notoviously fails to prevent foreign rowdies from roaming through the inland waors. And the same motive which impels these worthless characters to travel through the canals of Kinngsu, would tempt them into those of huey—plundor. It is not people who travel on the steamers, that are feared itis the class who croep_ stealthily about in native boats, stealing wood from one, fowls from another and evsh froma third—mon whose. oxialence in Chinn was aptly described by Sir Rutherford, when Consul at Shauil reproach a The real defence to
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