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Military sections of the English community should be taught to feel that they have common interests. This object would, to a large degree, be attained, if the General Commanding were included at Hong Kong, as he is at Singapore, Mauritius, and elsewhere, in the Colonial Legislature, and were thus led to consider himself (so to speak) a part of the machinery of the Government. The unfortunate exclusion of this high officer appears, in most instances, to have embittered his position with a sense of isolation, and (as a sense of injustice as we have too often seen), has led in former years to prolonged dissensions and chronic antagonism between the Civil and Military Authorities. This condition of affairs, detrimental to the Queen's service, must be expected to recur, from time to time, as all experience proves, so long as the existing system of exclusion is maintained. It is obvious, moreover, that ...