Bayard Taylor, the well-known traveller, thus speaks of the morality of the Chinese:

"It is my deliberate opinion that the Chinese are morally the most debased people on the face of the earth. Forms of vice which in other countries are barely named, are in China so common that they excite no comment among the natives. They constitute the surface level, and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible that their character cannot even be hinted. There are some dark shadows in human nature which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no attempt to collect information of this kind; but there were enough in the things which I could not avoid seeing and hearing—which are brought almost daily to the notice of every foreign resident-to inspire me with a powerful aversion to the Chinese race. Their touch is pollution, and, harsh as the opinion may seem, justice to our own race demands that they should not be allowed to settle on our soil."

If by the interposition of foreign powers the Insurgent "Tae-ping-wang" could be placed upon the throne, which he has nearly reached, much would, no doubt, be gained; but the excessive hostility of the Chinese to all outside barbarians seems to have united the Imperial and Insurgent fleets against the English. Our information, however, of the present condition, prospects, or intentions of Tae-ping-wang,

but the patriotism of the Indians was boiling hot. They could give up their tea if necessary, but could never consent to give up a principle. Taxation and representation they thought should go together, and be, like the union and liberty of later days," one and inseparable."