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Annexed papers.
fer.
Such
are some of the principal
cts and questions. If it were desired
that I shorld offer an opinion, it would
is
be comewhat to the following effect : _ that it is plain that Sir J. Bowring is a had financier, and that it may perhaps be Oncluded that with striat
the Colonial Expenditure
естату might Anoint of
even now be kept within the
the Colonial Revenue; hit
still that there is lome force
in the
Arguments, which are so often urged
by the local Officers,
on thre Experial
character of come of the causes of
and that
expense at Hong Kong, and
there fae
on the whole it may be
Allowable, and is expedient, to Continuo to apply for some Parliamentary Aid
during at
at all events the continuance
of
of the present relations with China. The completion of a proper Past is really
a very uyent object, and it is chiefly wanted for the confinement either
of pirates or else of refractory Seamen
whose punishment Conceus thre
general trade of the Empire quite as
much as the particular place where
inprismed. - they happen to be taken. In
a place like Hong Kong, so bad in Climate and frequented by such multitudes of passing Europeans, the erection of t Hospital may be believed to be a reasonable undertaking.
Ishould be
wiclined to ask Parliament again
fa
€10.000 as already suggested in our rent letter of the 17th of February,
グ
hit to select the items.
tte bote
of the
from the objects enumerated by M.
Bridges at page 23, and then to inform