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of the Mexican Dollar, and when

a similar attempt is in progress at other places, the introduction

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an enti

entirdy

new comin

might

have the effect of alarming thar prejudices, and retarding the adoption of a sound system

of currency . The Mexican buttar. is perhaps wanting in uniformity as regards the weight of the individual pieces, but the purity of the coin according

to its fixed standard is st

questioned, and it appears. to answer very well the ordi=

-nary pussieses of a medium. of exchange

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It is admitted in Sir

John Bocoring's dispatch of # May 1858, that the experiment is proposed for the sake of the trade of Shanghat, rather than with reference to that of other

ports, and it is

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serged

on the

ground that thonghae is the

most important foreign trading

post in China . My Lords must. posvever, obscrve that the expe=

crement is required at that Post, only because the measure which was successful at Canton was thwarted by the want of unanimity among the set = : chants, and Her Majestep's

Government

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