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of the mat cuemuraging exaracter. I is imizuide to walk through
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Structs without observing marked improvement in the
domestie counts
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as in the dress
Af the nerale. Grealities where
And well-
hit rude aux
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few years ago nothing
ragged. Shanties are
being enered with recrcctable dwellings of bricks and stone. Shops exhibit undoubted cridence of proquce and prosperity- and I observe man of the accncctable
shopkeepers of Canton establishing
The
themselves among us prejudices against the Colony
gradually wearing away.
and
me
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notwithstanding very many
unconceted and not casily
the
traccable abuses, I think there is among the Chinese a strengthening confidence in the integrity of higher Officials, _ in the dive administration of justice and in the protection of the Inhabitants against arbitrary and despotie nets.
If
we could cusure the
retention of
the services of the
present Blonial Surgeon I should "be well satisfied with the present arrangements, -creept that I think It Menzies is inadequately. paid. I have great pleasure in reporting my thorough approval
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