Slavery In Siam

Sluvery has been abolished in Siam n name, says a writer in the Contemjorary Review, but it can never be abolished in fact, for the slaves have no means of supporting themselves outside their masters' houses. Every member of the Siamese upper classes can fetter his servants or throw them into prison without any kind of trial or permission buing necessary. One 1 went to cali upon one of the ablest and most enlightened of the ministers; a man who has been to Europe, and wlio once actually got into serious trouble for trying to inaugúrate a sort of woman's rights movement in Kiam. I made my way by mistake into a part of )■ : , ;;rounds where visitors were not exj :ted, and I found a slave fastened down to the ground in un ingenieus kind of pillory, in which he could not more hand or foot, while another slave tortured him with severe strokes of a bamboo rod at the word of a member of the family, in order to force him to confess to some misdeed.