that it appears to me, that though some parts of Sir E. Hornby's judgment may be fairly open to doubt, it does not seem to me that there is any, often? Report of the Law Officers of the 15th January last, to discuss any further the question of the extent of British jurisdiction in the waters adjacent to Hong Kong.
There remains, however, the question of jurisdiction over land; and I am disinclined to state that what we regret to learn, that any negotiation upon the point with the Chinese government would be hopeless, and would tend only to provoke the very danger which Sir R Macdonnell seeks to avert, yet I feel that Sir R Macdonnell is far better in his position the best judge in this matter, and that for the present, therefore, any negotiation should be held in abeyance.
But considering the importance of obtaining the cession of