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drance make husbands anxious to provide every comfort for their 

 wives. 



Divorce in China is exceedingly rare. 



The scarcity of women is also a great discouragement to polygamy. 

 Every woman may be married ; and, in most cases, the condition of a 

 wife is considered decidedly preferable to that of a concubine. The 

 price of a concubine is, therefore, much higher than that of a wife. 



Prostitution is necessarily checked by the great scarcity of women, 

 all of whom may find husbands. 



The condition of widows is also much modified by this dispropor- 

 tion of the sexes. In most Asiatic countries, widows are, to a great 

 extent, outcasts ; neglected by their relatives and abandoned by those 

 who should protect them. In China, widows are in demand as wives, 

 and remain unmarried only because they choose to do so. 



It follows, of necessity, from this extensive destruction of female 

 infants, that a vast number of men are unmarried. But, in such a 

 country, so densely peopled, there is no remedy for this but emigra- • 

 tion. Multitudes of Chinese leave their native land and settle in the 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago. This process will doubtless con- 

 tinue until the Chinese shall have occupied these uncultivated regions 

 so vast and fertile. If China shall ever enjoy a good government, 

 the results will be on so large a scale as to excite the utmost interest 

 of the political economist. 



MART BEADLEY, THE DEAF AND BLIND MUTE, 



Attention was called in a recent number to some features of 

 special interest connected with the case of Laura Bridgeman, the 

 pupil of Dr. Howe of Boston ; we have now to note the death of 

 Mary Bradley, an English Deaf and Blind Mute, with whom the 

 same means of instruction had been employed, as haA'e already been 

 described in reference to Laura Bridgeman. The failure of her ex- 

 perienced and indefatigable teacher, in successfully applying to Oliver 

 Oawell, another mute, destitute of sight and hearing, tbe method he 

 had found so eifective in communicating languages.Jand all consequent 



