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right expect that the communications
referred to should be transmitted in
the authorised Inanner, so that the Governor might be enabled to certify ttoo character and statues of the 1. Toritors, and to show how for their view of policy or their demands on the Clunese Government might agree
with the policy Colonial, and of the Imperial
and action of the
L..
Governments. I added that I did not
torch any change to be made inttee practice which I had fouend
xisting, until the watter should have been considered by the Imperial Authorities.
4. Now that a new minister.
meet
Must soon be appointed to the British Legation at Peking, I submit theat this question should be taken into Consideration, and finally settled
be
by authority. It would of course, Very injurious to the public service, if the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor of Hongkong, as
one side, should ever be led inton
playing at cross-purprees with, on
the other side, the Minister at
+ Peking and the Secretary of State for foreign Affairs. And yet
thew result ray
become sometimes inevitable, if the
Chamber of Commerce is permitted to
ябр
ignore, in its communications tothe
British authorities elsewhere, the
Colonial