Our Canton _correspondent's description today of the fate which befalls captured brigands calls up a very grim side of Canton. Most visitors to the city are impressed by its congested state, by the almost stifling density of its population. There can be very few cities in the cast where, as a result of this, the struggle for existence is harder or more merd Brigandage and the reign of terror by which the Government endeavours to keep order are not the only out-cornea A walk through the streets of Canton at certain periods of the day, notably in the early morning, will supply a whole series of terrible sights, cripples crawling, before the rush of the day begin: to the spots from which it is easiest and most paying to beg; the blind in Indian files of seven or eight doing the came thing; lepers and outcasts of all kinds all clinging to life which, by the time the sun is well up, rushes over and past them to all appearances utterly heedless whether they live or starve and die. Missionaries do much to alleviate the sufferings of the place, but they can only touch the fringe of the problem which is essentially one for Government action on broad, strong lines.
Feb. 24.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.