lo on Annamese affairs, direct the attention of our tem of abduction of women and children carried on, in apito of the law, by Chinese in Anvam and Tonquin, We assorted that this diabolical trafic rivalled in many respects the horrors of the old Macao coolie trade; but a further study of the subject has convinced us that this trade outdoes in atrocity all that was atrocious in the Macao business, and pos-features of cruelty peculiar to itself.
There is no use in mincing matters with regard to the cause of this trade: if there were no demand, there would be no supply. Now the demand for those poor women and children is duo to the peculiar domestic institutions of the Chinese. They are required ostensibly as household servants; but should the poor things be pus-sessed of good loka and be ao fortunate as to win the favour of their masters, not unfrequently they are promoted to the pos tiou of secondary wives, though, our {ue formant tells us, the children born from arrinye are not considered legitimate, may be regarded as the bright ai of th picture, ie servants, conin Chisa, either unequal to the demand, or becoming round with greater difficulties, rear impetus to th wd Annam. Ith ily, that had we not a in the form of an official there is no getting over it.
The first thing to be noticed is the have paid fares as por foregoing scale for neatly Eve years past, and with fow exceptions found that the jinricsha coolies were quite satisfied, proving they received note than they expected to get; but unfortunately we have no smaller coins in circulation here than five cent pio Everyono I think will endorse the statoment of "Jimmy" as to the dirty and weak state of many of the coolies, and the, to say the least of it, untidy condition o most jinrickehas and the necessity that exists for stricter measures in regard to both in future, July.
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