In the onward course of years the foreign and native population increased, and a demand was made for a recognised and established local authority for the conduct of municipal affairs, and a well-appointed Council was organised, to which wehavebeen largely indebted for the order and regulation of matters in the British and American Serclements, as also in the case of the French. The social life of the community has been no less provided for in number of ways. Note the various forms of public amusement, healthy recreation, edu. cation for theyouny, lectures, scientific and literary, current newspapers, publiclibraries and reading rooms, volunteer and police forces in active operation, fire briged constant demand, steam' communicate legal and judicial offices, and last, n least, religious services for the benefit of all con cerned. Only one thing scrikes me as particularly wanting, a large extension of our school system for the instruction of thousands of Chinese children round about, and to whom it seems we are under high obligation in this respect,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.