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renewal of that experience as long.
the
as
present system is maintained in force, - are regarded in this community, with a feeling very opposite of satisfaction. The General, the Admiral, the principal Naval and Military officers, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General, and the Leaders of the Colonial Society, regard the existing system
Nor should we
as an "indignity".
forget the impression - which the sight of a Gaoler or Police Officer filling the place of the Representative of the Queen of England, is naturally calculated to make on the Admirals, Ministers and other Functionaries, of Foreign Powers, who frequently visit this Port; and on an acute and sensitive Oriental people like the Chinese.
4.
By way of illustration, it might be remarked that the feeling towards the existing system among the Naval and Military Authorities, the Judges, and the leaders of the Colonial Society at HongKong, is analogous to the feeling which would arise among the Naval and Military Authorities at Portsmouth and the County Magistrates and nobility and gentry of Hampshire, if, by strange legislation, a system should be inaugurated under which it would be possible for the Superintendent of the Gaol at Portsmouth to become invested with the high dignity of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, together with the autocratic powers of the Governor of a Crown Colony.