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afflies to Grenada and the Cafe is consider. ed sand, I ontmit that it receives additional forse in the case to which

tention is wor

more

Graces your immediately requested.

for, it is huntly onbilled that Lord "Campbell's a tal, was not only

Ordinances com

one

zoose

confer

ilc ties and privileges which, once red, corld not be arbitrarily taken away, but it had actually been enforced in the Courto of Hongking, by virtue of two

firmed by Her alle jesty in Conneil, by whose authority the Connoil that paped them is constituted.

Should it nevertheless be held tint the 3? Section of the Ordinance, 5th May, 1846, took away from thes Colony the privileges and protection of the Laws of England paped subsequently. to 6th April, 1843, then it follows that another, Croally still more important

Parliament which recived the

10.

a teen

1

on

to

£22, 1843,

Aat of Rezal

August two days before Lord Campbelli Stat. is also abrogated. It is entitled,

An act for the better Government of the Majesty's Iubjects resorting to China

+ forth in the preamble to the first Ordinance, (called Commula) giving virtue to Her Majesty's Letters

thorizing

the Governor of Hove- Inperintendent of Trade

and is se

Patent, King

Ch.21

as

as

52 9

in

to legislate for Her Majesty's subjects China; the said first Ordinance rendering them "subjist in all matters to the Law-of

the Colame of England (asmiob

ad www

Houghing, §1.) and trextend the jurisciation of the Counts of juctive at Hongkong

the same."

11.. Surely it could never

ed, by.

of a single

eve

have been natins.

clanse

en an

others

years

wise moimportant Ordinance, to sweep away

the Laws of from the Colony three England. Tom Memoriabel has withing these few days read a

report of an appeal

the

to the Hoense of Lords (ollay 6, 1853) as to the right sy way through Campbell of Blythewoods policies. It was pleaded, in bar ofan imme morial right of the inhabitants of Ranfen, -

That in 1787 and 1835 Acts of Parliament

had been pased for improving navigation of the river Cars, and under these tabs a

towing hath had been formed along the banks of the Cart, and the river trustees were directed wereat and had erected

ruble wall and iron railing along.

the the towing path, enclosing appellants lands, and these tato declared that allowed to go into the said Cands except with the consent of the heir.

no one wa

to the

popession of Blythswood for the time being.

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