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made in Connoil by Honourable Thomas Jackson
who introduced his resolutions
- in the following terms :-
-Your Excellency, before moving the resolutions of which I gave notice last week I would beg to say a few words. I consider that the present time is an eminently favourable time for requesting the Colonial Office to change their opinion in this matter of the disendowment of the church in Hongkong. It is beyond doubt a fact that within a very short period a great change has come over the opinions of people in England on this subject, and at the last election the extreme candidates who were for the abolition of everything found very little favour, the moderate Liberals and the Couser- vatives being the Tavourite candidates. Also when an attempt was made recently to dises- tablish the Church in Wales it signally failed. and, further, prior to the last election in Eng- land His Eminence Cardinal Manning request- ed the members of his Church to vote for candidates favourable to the maintenance of the Church of England, which he descri- bed as a bulwark against infidelity. I would also refer to the language of these resolutions. It is beyond doubt that no man in this colony has any grievance in connection with the sum of £800, or rather £640, that has been voted for ecclesiastical purposes. I would also point out that the ecclesiastical establishment is a necessity of the place. It has lasted forty years and has worked remarkably well.
I have the honour to be,
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Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
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