Ir there la one class of Chinese more able, if they choose, to exercise in. fluence, that class la unquestionably domestic servants, We do not say that the influence exerted is always very apparent, still less that it is always good; but although it ie proverbially inner working of a Chinn although there must ever be a grent gulf fixed between the Chinese and the European, to cross which no bridge-has yet been construoted,—it is evident Ubat no native, male or female, can continue for years in the service foreign family without being affected by Ube association, Now it will be at once conceded that here in Chinn, as at home, a very considerable proportion of one's daily comfort dependy upon having good servants; and it must be clear that the excellence or otherwise of a Chinese servant rests mainly, though not exclusively, upon the training received at the hands of his employer, Generally speal controvertible that foreigners have wonderfully improved this class of the population since their arrival in China, We read that when Sir Walter Med. buret first arrived here in 1843, attendance upon the British Consul, the corvaule why wailed vpotr (hem
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