Meanwhile, I may mention that I have received an influentially signed memorial from the principal Chinese residents in the Colony strongly protesting against expenditure of public funds on such enlargement.
115. I have the honour to submit the Ordinance for Her Majesty's gracious allowance and confirmation, and to request that in the event of its being confirmed the necessary instructions may be issued to the Crown Agents for raising the loan. Your Lordship will doubtless give due consideration to the reasons, as well as those urged by some of the unofficial members in favour of delay, to those which preclude the adoption of that course, which are briefly stated, the present coincidence of cheap money in London.