prevailed.
Sir G. Bonham superseded Sir J. Davis had the same salary; but in 1852 half his salary was placed on the Foreign Office Estimate, half charged to Hongkong. (Drich had still a small Parliamentary Estimate in aid of its funds).
Sir G. Bonham vacated the Superintendence in the end of the year 1853, being then in England.
The Board of Trade on this appointed Sir J. Bowring Superintendent of Trade, with the original emoluments.
Both the Duke of Newcastle and the Peel Board were of opinion that the establishment at Hong Kong was excessive; that it was desirable to get rid of the Parliamentary Estimate for that colony.