It would be hoping against all probability to reject that we should succeed in adopting the Chinese and English laws, excellent in Middlesex, but inapplicable to a settlement barely a mile from the Chinese Mainland, whilst we have at hand the simple and effective plan of adapting our laws to those with which we came in contact.
Mr Dean's inclosed report shows eventually that the present system must lead to a survival of a great portion of the difficulty, which, if it might be got over at a pecuniary cost, is evident how it would be in a chronic and perpetual state of change, involving whilst there would necessarily be perpetual want of confidence between the Officers and men of the force.
The Chinese are so banded together on this subject and the system of maintaining a Lever countenanced by their own all parties, likely to give effectual evidence, is so aided, as the Gambling Hong, complete, that there are reasonable grounds for expecting that the attempt can soon suppress gambling. On the contrary, it is more probable that its efforts will only engender corruption in the Police, and a defiant spirit in the Community, by confining