As a comparison between immigration conducted from Macao and Hongkong, and upholds the greater equality and general fairness of the rules and conduct of such immigration from Macao, which he represents as superior to that from any part of China.
2. I have also the honor to acknowledge receipt by last mail Your Lordship's further despatch, A.B., 10th November 1871, on the same subject, and covering a letter from Sir L. Murdoch on the part of the Immigration Board commenting on the statement transmitted by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs.
3. Although by a reference to Enclosure A1-3, 4, Mr. Cecil Smith, the Registrar General, Mr. Beautor and Ms Cairns, the Acting Harbour Minister, I am enabled to forward to Your Lordship detailed, fresh and accurate refutations of the monstrous assertions contained in the Portuguese Minister's Dispatch, I confess that the comments made thereon by Sir C. Murdoch in his communication of the 2nd November to M. Herbert have anticipated in the most important particulars the authoritative and clear contradiction given by Messrs. Smith and Cairns to the inexcusable misstatement of the Portuguese Government.
Thus when it is stated that two "revolts" occurred on board of the "Frederic" while in this harbor and