CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 141

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The unprrerdented. position

in which the

Colony

the chan

has

placed, changes

bern.

in many

of functionaries in

the Departments, the vicissitudes

in prices of food

and labor,

the disturbances in the

been

the

- general.

state of the Colony which have bem produced by the interruption of our amicable. relations with the mighboring province of China; - the more than ordinary migrations

of the

population outwards

and inwards, -in a word,

the uncertainties, dougers, and.

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year.

vicissitudes to which we

Exposed during

have led to drlays

have

thr. past

in thr

firsparation of the Estimates and to

the

difficulties in

adjusting

rscript and Expenditurs to the probably events of the coming year..

Q unanimous

ferting pervades the Legislative that a large portion of the Expenses of the . Colony do not probably belong to it, but are charges

of an Imperial Character and. ought to br. depages. by the Public Treasury. They are such no other Colony

as press upon

in Arr. Majesty's dominions. The