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with the Chinese Government and their entire ignorance of foreign proceedings and the results that followed a late claim, to keep Rendition cases out of the Colonial Courts of Law, and make them what they really are—a transaction between the two Governments of a purely international character, and not amenable to Colonial law or legislation, which they must be if taken into the Colonial Courts.
Another point occurs to me: this is an opportunity for finally settling the practice of Rendition which may occur again. Would it not be advisable to take the sense of the Viceroy of these Provinces and Her Majesty's Minister at Peking upon the proposed ordinance and Schedule, the former as being directly concerned in Rendition from Hongkong, and the latter as Her Majesty's Representative in China. Both these High Authorities may offer suggestions which might facilitate the accomplishment of the end in view, and indeed