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This view illustrates a narrower and less important street, than the foregoing; the shop in the right hand corner of the view is a hat manufactory, and a sign indicative of the occupation is suspended overhead.

It may not be difficult to observe from our views the great deficiency there is in lighting and a paving all the streets of the capital, and a seeming absence of any regular body of police to keep order, and protect the public: but the Chinese are naturally law abiding and hence none miss or desire them; a greater want will be experienced in the absence of any official appointed to look after the sanitary arrangements of the city and to keep the road ways repaired.