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probably not less than one "Hundred and twenty thousand chinese living under our rule whom, at the utmost, I
of
should
say
not more
than
five hundred, if so many,
have
any
idea as to the
general nature of the
Pistitutions or
Laws under
which they live. There is cort of general feeling amonget the chinese settled here that
means
to do
the Government right by them that life and
property
are
-
here
more secure the
country-
than in their own that "Squeezes", the rule
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amongst Officials in china will not be tolerated here and with the usual apathy of their race
they
are
salisfied to how there
live in ignorance, of
-ends
are
attained, under what
they feel to be a
secure
3.
quiet and
Government.
But such a condition
of things is not favorable to
progress, and is alike
inconvenient to the Government and the Governed.
bovernment, on the one
The
hand
has hitherto had no means
of making its decisions and