CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 218

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"as the knowledge which we " then had of this trifling increase "of yearly expenditure being " necessary to the carryingent "of a plan of police, expedient

"to enable the Government

"to distinguish the good from

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"the evil, did not

not prevent the

"Draught Ordinance from " being passed into a law, I

" do not think that the

" shrewd miscreants for whose

ression it is intended

" repression

" will consider that any " misgiving on that.

that subject

" can be the true reason

why

"the Ordinance now that it

Gover

" is low-

is

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not forthwith "

: pub in force.

They

will on the Contrary

see in our

Avacillation

presente

"only another instance of "that unsteady Cowardice

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" as they

conceive it, over

Someone which they have been

w.

notification

is slut

do

my recently rejoicing; if I may we believe the important

of the

25th aprik 1867.

"They disclosures obtained through

ou

" the sinterception of the " Matepapers of the Sun "Mandarinate by bommodori " Elliott . They will contime

" to exult ove

" issued once a

ir proclamations

day, and three,

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