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the Colonial Office, whatever may be
personal convictions of those members.
the
Not to mention other reasons, it is
certain that, in this cosmopolitan
Comm
munity,
there are
hostile.
urany
d' rejoice to publish to
critics who would
the world any
act which might be
represented as showing that the..
English Tovernment is not always__
disinclined to infringe the liberal~~
institutions which Eugland professes
to have given to her dependencies.
(7.)
In
my despatch N.E210
of 1883
( already referred to above) I stated that,
in common with the Executive Council,
I am entirety of opinion that, under
all ordinary
circumstances, it is.
desirable that the Regulations should
be enforced which proscribe that "the
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"
annual expenditure shall be as
15 for
as possible confined within the annual "Estimates." I quoted, however, the
saying of lord Palmerston, that "Regulations
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"wet woon
are made for inen, aud
for Regulations", and added
that it is well known that it has
rardy been found practicable; either
in the Imperial or in the Colonial
in
Legislatures