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which they had been led to expect by Str. Elliot's letter of the 28th October, as forwarding the dispatch of the Governor of Hong Kong and documents he merely
the accompanying states that "Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton would remark the inexpediency of allowing the existing state of things to continue" -
Under these circumstances, my Lords feel that they are called upon to take upon themselves the interpretation of the wishes of the Colonial authorities, and the only consistent course open to them is to adopt those propositions which are intelligible and appear essential, and reject others which
be inconsistent or contradictory. They are fortified in this view of the case by a consideration of Hertslet's minute of the 8th August 1860, in which he explains with much ability the grounds on which he considered that the Civil Servants of the Colony had suffered a substantial grievance "in the payment of their salaries in British money, and not in dollars, "the natural, the recognized, and practical currency of the Island"-
A perusal of this document has satisfied their Lordships that he does not really advocate the continuance of a system which would perpetuate that grievance