During the remainder of Sir Hercules Robinson's tenure of office in Hong Kong, the Cadets who had been sent out and were undergoing necessary training, at the time of his departure, not one of them had arrived at that state of proficiency which would qualify him for the duties of Interpreter to the Supreme Court.
Hercules Robinson was succeeded by Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell who, immediately upon his arrival, abandoned the scheme of his predecessor and diverted every one of the Cadets from the sole object for which their staff had been formed, by giving them appointments in the general public service of the Colony. This policy caused much...