and other intercourse quite habituated to the country and climate, and intermarry freely with the aborigines, a very great advantage, as with exception of Singapore places the Straits, Manila is the part where they have been found to do so, a circumstance of no small importance. The extreme repugnance of the Chinese
in husband or father from their native country, only to remove his family, besides the illegality of such a proceeding by Chinese laws, is too well known to require comment, and this must ever be a serious impediment to emigration.
It may not be generally known that the Manila Government had it in contemplation, about two years ago, to colonise one of the Philippine Islands entirely with them, to be governed by their own laws, subject only to the approval of the Manila Courts (with Chinese laws permitting in extreme cases to be applied by them). The writer was the originator of this scheme to procure 300 male and 50 female emigrants, but although the former could have been easily obtained on the usual terms, as the latter could not be procured except by purchase, the commission was declined.
In the island of Bourbon, the Northern Chinese have been found to do extremely well, and very many of them have voluntarily renewed their agreements when expired, but at an increased rate of wages. In Mauritius, they were found to be troublesome, and many had to be sent back to Penang, but as they were originally the very offscourings of that settlement, it is not to be wondered at. Of 800 Coolies sent to Havana