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= creding fres to those places bring generally in number, in repels of large furshew, and not emigrants properly so called, and that a difference should be made between the self-supporting emigration to California and Australia and the assisted Emigration.
Sir J. Bowring supports these Resolutions, and states that in reality the passengers in ships to Manila, the Straits, and the Eastern Archipelago are not emigrants but temporary settlers who, until late years, had been in the habit of going in their native junks - generally in circumstances to take care of themselves.
And that the Emigrants to Australia and California are equally hazardous in independent circumstances, fully able to protect the interests of themselves and their families - and that they should, therefore, be relieved from the severer regulations of the Chinese Passenger Act.
In respect to the Emigration to Ports in the China Seas and Eastern Archipelago, we are disposed to believe that it might be exempted from the operation of the Passengers Act without risk to the Passengers, and probably the best way to affect that object would be that suggested in the Resolutions, viz.