In a review of the Customs work on Opium in a late China Review we are told that this publication appears moat opportunely and will furnish the opponents of the anti-opiumists with reliable statistics wherewith to rebut the charges brought against the Government of the wholesale Poisoning of the ' black-haired race" order to derive a revenue from this im. moral trafic. The figures presented, it is hoped, will convince the British public of the groundlesmess of the charges laid by the agitators, when they learn that the Indian drug is' only sufficient to supply of 1 p.c. of the estimated population of Uhina. "But the review although approving of the Inspector General's figures as to the percentage of the population supplied with
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