reason to feel confident that the Emigrants from Hongkong will be better circumstanced than those described by Mr. Gernigham. 5. Again has reported, with reference to migration from Hongkong to the West Indies- that emigrants cannot be procured in Hongkong in any numbers without the employment of Native Agents on the mainland- and it is admitted by everyone connected with it that such Native Agents cannot be employed without risk of the most atrocious abuses. It was the employment of these agents and their malpractices that made the Chinese Emigration from Macao so infamous, and though such serious abuses as were there practiced could not, it may be hoped, escape detection in a British Colony, yet the power and cunning of native Crimps are so great that it would not be possible to feel confidence on the subject. I am afraid also it must be added, looking to the case of the "Dassan" - that the Migration Department in Hongkong is hardly alive to the importance of the duties it has to perform, and to the necessity of a strict and uncompromising enforcement of the provisions of the Law.