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that the local Government of Macao resembles that of an English Crown Colony, being vested in a Governor with a Legislative Council of Official and Unofficial members. There is also a Municipality, but as
but as only the small Portuguese minority of the
population is eligible for the Municipal
Council, while the overwhelming
Chinese majority, though contributing the greater proportion of the revenue,
are
rigorously excluded, this
Municipal body could hardly
be
adopted
as a model in
an
English
Colony.
Colony.
6.
It should not be
forgotten, however, that the small and comparatively insignificant Portuguese Colony of Macao is distinguished from all English Colonies by the fact that it sends a freely elected Representative to the National Parliament at Lisbon. It
will be recollected that all the French and Spanish Colonies enjoy
a similar privilege, and that England, the greatest of colonizing
nations, alone excludes her Colonial
subjects