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Foreign Affairs Committee
Sheffield April 26th 1880
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the
1866 hovedible though it may appear to you, "papers relations to Hong Kong," recently published, have been fully read and considered by this Committee, That result, however, could not have been arrived at in the short period since their issue, had it not been for you, and I am desired to thank you for the great care and labour.
have bestowed in the lucid arrangement and preparation of those papers, owing to which, the labours of the Committee have been greatly facilitated.
you
"What a picture the papers give of Hong-Kong. The air, earth, and water there must, seethe and palpitate with corruption. Years ago, J. C. Symons said that civilisation and crime enerated in Glasgow. The culminating point is now at Hong Kong. And this civilisation, crime, and corruption we are about to enforce upon the Chinese at the point of our sword, and that of our ally, the perjured forger.
Sir C. B. Lytton was fully
aware of the state of Hong Kong when he penned these words in his dispatch of March 17th 1859, at p 369 of the papers." "The unfortunate condition of the public service there. How with that knowledge he came to dismiss Mr Anstey can
only be explained by the palpable flattery of Dr Bridges in his letter dated Oct 15th 1858 and printed at p 2112 of the papers. Had Mr Anstey remained at Hong-Kong
Mr.