CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 261

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therefore, hardly requisite I should say I do not see the practicability meeting the expenditure of this Government without a prompt assistance from Her Majesty's Treasury where the Finances of the Colony

arc Rubjected & vicissitude the wisest foresight

of a

character.

could not possibly counteract, so as the prosperity of the Colony

bong

is

Aj

noro, dependent not only upon -the cessation of hostitities with

Chind, but also upon arrangements calculated to amend the past.

A well

as to place all future commercial operations with China, upon a

basis of

intercourso

with that

Country, art likely again, wanting

-to be disturbed, as was the case

at the close of last year.

so. Where the present insufficien

حرق

of the Revenue of Hongkong.

with its axpenditure, is se

as conflard

evidently

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