Government; and the Attorney-General is preparing an Ordinance for amending in the direction desired the existing Law of Bankruptcy.
5. On the whole, it may be said that the views and feelings expressed by the Chinese Deputation referred to above supply fresh illustrations of the accuracy of the foresight of the late Lord Derby, who, when Secretary of State for the Colonies, remarked in one of his despatches* to the first Governor of Hong Kong (Sir Henry Pottinger), that to the Chinese "laws and customs of England would be a rule of action and a measure of right equally unintelligible and vexations."
6. Whatever amount of foundation there may be for the alleged primeval antiquity of the Chinese Nation; (and the native annals go back to a period more remote than the beginnings of Hebrew and Egyptian history, having the high authority of Gibbon for the belief that the commencement of the authentic history of this remarkable...