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the disarmament of Junks would __ become an intobrable injury to the vast population afloat on these. Coasts, engaged in the deep sea fishing and traffic ashore from place to place
on the Coast. In the present disturbed ___ state of the Country and weakened power of the central and provincial Governments, there can be no doubt that the sudden inroad of many thousand desperate characters -driven from the Sea to prey upon the defenceless people who navigate the inland waters and live in their fatal to the
ixcinity, would be as
Chinese nation as the driving inwards
of a malignant eruptive discose from the outer surface of the body. Without some corres
corresponding.
on the port of the Authorities to meet this
form of violence and injury
new
there would be a
-great accession of all the worst elements of disorder in the interior, which it is neither
our interest. not theirs to create.
As regards the second difficulty on which Admiral Bell so strongly. dwells it is impossible not to see that the dangers likely to arise from active intervention on the part of Foreign Ships of War are real. The want of any means of Communication by any language__
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