Two consolatory events have been reported this week. commencing in
the centre of a great town as a magnificent Portugal has repented herself, and has suppressed the Macao. boulevard, then continuing as an ordinary country road, finally Coolie traffic, which she has allowed for twenty years. That degenerating into a footpath, and then turning into a squirrel walk traffic was as bad as the slave trade, and in one respect was and running up a tree." He declared there was something rotten worse, for the Chinese always committed suicide in the guano in a State from which armies of labourers find it necessary* to diggings. • There is now no port where the Chinese cannot reach as the Great Powers will not endure the crime. nserted, in a new treaty with Bokhara, a clause 'absolutely biting the slave trade, and will probably carry it out, as the regular punishment for slaves who have grown old— putting out their eyes—is-too bad even for Russian toleration.
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