13th October.
A CORRESPONDENT who signs bim-self "Equality" writes us an able letter in which he gives one reason why there are not more responses to the appeals that are made from time to time for recruits for our Volunteer Corps. He says that though he has only lately become a resident here, he has lived in British Colonies in all the four quarters of the globe, and when he came here he was surprised to find the number of Volunteers so small, und he "surmised that there muss be a great many lazy and thoughtless young men amongst na, as this city ought surely to be able to tum out 1,500 able-bodied warriors when the call comes." On going into the question, he came to the conclusion " that outside of some indolent and weakhearted semi-males, such as are found in every community, there are too many people, not too thoughtless, but too thoughtful, to join the ranks of the S. V. ©." Theic self-respect and thei pride, he says, prevents them joining a Corps in which they would "be looked dowa upon as second-class or inferior caste soldiers, if they joined B Company, or the Artillery, or any o: her Company that counts Eurasians among its members, "As matters are, the Light Horse look down upon A Company, A Company sneers at B Company, B Company holds Artillery men 1 profound contempt, and the gentlemen in the Light Horse generously allow the Artillery to look down upon the wharf coolies, mentally convince that such is rather hard lines upon the wharf coolies, It is really difficult to measure the contempt of these snobs for everybody who is not in a hong,' or not absolutely whitc+kinned, or a shop keeper, or a salesman behind the counter, a hotel clerk, or, in short, a howling outsider,' to employ the ridiculous jargon of even these snob."
A longer residence in Shanghai will, we feel sure, convince our correspondent, that his informants have vastly exaggerated the influence of undye limitation of which would caste here, and that the representa-
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