endeavour to devise some means of protecting interests which undoubtedly demand attention. But here, as in every part of the field of government the difficulty of finding
for effecting obviously
instruments
useful objects is immensely great. our Merchants are all busily secured with the accumulation of wealth, - and invariably consider themselves
whose interests
as birds of passage in the Colony are to be transferred to other hands
as soon as
their
fortunes shall have been made. -
there is great difficulty of bringing
about
any
action in cooperation
or common action
with the shop keeping classes who give
to their own business all their time
and attention and whose ultimate objects in life differ from those of the
no
more influential and
opulent Merchants - the Creole and mixed races have neither the intellectual nor the moral attributes which can be turned to much account, _and the vast and increasing mass of Chinese population are practically
Chinese isolated in consequence of the absence of three links which can only be supplied by a class almost wholly wanting - who have made the language, literature, and Law of China the subject of their
attention.-