15 JANUARY 1876, Page 15

CHINESE AT THE CAPE.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.')

Sza,—The following is part of the summary of news in this day's Northern "Whig :—" The Government of the Cape Colony has offered £.7 for every Chinaman delivered in the colony, up to the number of one thousand."

What can this be but slavery, humanely regulated, no doubt, but still slavery and the slave-trade? Will Lord Carnarvon tolerate it ? And leaving the question of humanity aside, is the inevitable "native difficulty" of South Africa so small, that we ought to add to it a Chinese difficulty of our own creation ? Moreover, shall we contaminate the comparatively innocent African races with the morals of the Chinese ?—I am, Sir, &c.,

JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY.