As regards fit officers for the Public Service - among Europeans the habit of drinking, encouraged by the tropical climate and the cheapness of Spirituous liquors leads to a terrible deterioration of character, to diseases, to death.
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The mixed population from which the subordinate functionaries are principally drawn consist of colored races of Portuguese, Indians, Malay, Manila and Straits origin who are little to be trusted and who are the objects of great dislike to the native Chinese population.
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This - the native population is probably the most corrupt of all, and the most easily corrupted in consequence of their speaking the same language as those who seek to corrupt. Moreover, in China itself venality among all classes - from the official, the highest to the lowest, - is universal that it is unreasonable to expect that venality should be eradicated when they settle in this Colony. I think however we may be able to do more than has been hitherto done to give influence to a somewhat better class of Chinese as have been rising