So absorbed are we likely ordinarily to become, in what is passing around us or within our immediate ken, that we are apt sometimes to pass over, from sheer carelessness, facts both interesting and important to ourselves, forthesimple reason that they occur outside our daily course of routine. Of such a nature are the circumstances attending the coolie trafic at Macao, which certainly are of as much importance, as regards our poli tical connection with China, as many other topics in Shanghai, brought under our more immediate notice. "That the Coolie trade at Macao is little, if wt all, Dotter thanan organised slave trado, there is abundant evidence to prove, in the numerous tragedies which have disgraced the traffic within the last few years; and that it may injuriously affect our relations with China, and has probably tended to increase inimical feeling towards foreigners, even the Judge of the Supreme Court at Hongkong has lately hinted from the Bench, in a judgment delivered on the case of the Nouvelle Penelope. Such cases deserve amore thorough sifting than they have up to this received, implicating as they do not only private parties, but ina more or less degree the officials of powers claiming European civilization. By a coincidence, it happened that one of the Chinese involved in this case had made good his escape to Honykong, and had there the means to bring his ease before the Supreme Court on a motion of habeas corpus. To this accident we owe the thorough sifting which the case has now undergone, and which, we hope with Chief Justice Smale, will cause the matter to be removed from local discussion to the calmer delibera-tious of European Courts. As the Now voile Penelope case, though alluded to en passant in the Shanghai press, is probably new to most of our readers, we may native merchants.
It will be more give a short summary. On the 30th curious, however, to note the consequent September Last, there sailed from Macao effects of the opening of the line. Had a Kreueh ship called the Noucelle Pencwe to deal with others than Chinese,; lope, bound for Callao in Peru; she bad we would feel assured that the one; no cargo on board, but carried $10 Chicable would be the fruitful offspring nese, denominated emigrants, who were of many more.
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