IN another colton we print plea that has been sent ws of a Government lotte: print it, out of respect for the source from which it emanates, we entirely dissent from it. Is was procisel Government lotteries of a centi ago that were aa disastrous England, and their harmtalne is universally recognised, though I necessity sometimes blinds the ey. of Governments to their undoubted dangers. We should require much stronger evidence to believe that Sir Robert Hart is the author of such scheme, which is nut reynired, as we know that there perfectly acceptable propositions b-fore him for raising easily and levitimarely all the money that China requires to pay off the indemnity. We should cut a sorry figure in our own and Chinese eyes if we withdrew our j officials in this province continue to carry one on just over the boundary of the settlement. We know by experience whence much of the money to buy the tickets of the proposed lottery would be' derived and for the security of society, as well as for the sake of that higher morality whose claims " Observer" recognises while he proposes to set them aside because " certain Chinese officials" have little regard for then, we hope that Shanghai will remain firm in its determination to suppress all lotteries within its jurisdiction, The health and vigour of an individual depend upon the quantity and quality of the blood. When the tissues have been at work, there are thrown into the blood waste products, and if these be not eliminated, but through any cause detained in the blood, they influence nutrition and function and finally produces organic disease."
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