The Hakka rising in Hainan would seem, from the intelligence just received, to be practically at an end. "The insurgents have apparently found that they will not be able tocupe with the forces sent azninst them, or else their munitions and eupp! to fail them, for they have offered to lay down theirarmns on condition that thei are spared. Ihe Viceroy of the'Two Kwang does not appear to entertain this offer altogether favourably. [tio slmont x tradit in the Central Kingdom that therein but way of effectually suppressing rebellions, and that is, by laying low a goodly number Justice is seldom tempered with 1s, Ibis to be hoped, however, the treat: khas Th people avai really to have been forced into 8 direst of necessii Pro-most other peoples, the tly craving They h China, little crowding out oth of the race as they proceed onward. They ave a labouring class, seldom engaging in trade, and they are louked down upon by the Cantonese, whos ambition is far greater Their progress, however, is not unresisted and feuds between the Hakkas and the natives of the districts they entrench upon are of constant occurrence. It was in consequence of one of these feuds ina district of Kwangtung that n body of Hakkas emigrated to Hainan about twelve yenrs ayo. The authori gave them a portion of land, and they appear time to have lived peaceably, ing and multiplying with great rapidity, until ow the land originally granted io them is insufficient to maintain their augmented inbers, They are ignorant of the scien-Jawa of popittat with primitive simplicity, when they want more room they roceed to tuke it, or endeavour to do go. This is the origin of the rising in Hainan, It has been suppressed more readily than meagre acounnts of its progress which had from time to time reached us, but the insurgents have not been overcome without some loss to the Imperial troops, a recent advice stating that five hundred soldiers and several mandarins had been killed in battle, We have not since heard of any other encounter between the troops and the insurgents, but as the news received has been of the baklest description, it is quite possible that the Hakkas have suffered a series of considerable reverses, At all events, whether owing to actual defeat or the failure of supplies, it would appear that they are now almost at the mercy of the authorities, Whether the latter will deem a policy of extermination necessary, or whether it is simply the leaders whom the mandarins desire to decapitate, does jot appear, but certain it is that the in dustrious Hakkas who have been driven into insurrection by want could be turned to a much better Use than to provide material for the executioner's sword. China hus a large population, but it is only her nex board provinces' that are really thickly peopled. Yunnan and other inland provinces there are vast stretches of waste lund, The Chinese Governmentisapaterual one, and it would therefore be quite within to transport these people to unoccupied districts where there would be room fur many yenrs to come for the in" evitable increase in their numbers, In Formosa, also, there would be room for them. Not Tong ago the Government started a scheme of emigration to that island, which, however, have been attended with much suc ce aborigines are a constant source of trouble, and there appears to be great need for a settled working population to develop the resources of the country. If the overflow of the Hakia population were taken there they would in all probability ere long crowd out the aborigines or reduce them to such a state of necessity that they would have to enter into the ordinary labour market to preserve their existence.
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