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Annexed papers.

fer.

Such

are some of the principal

cts and questions. If it were desired

that I shorld offer an opinion, it would

is

be comewhat to the following effect : _ that it is plain that Sir J. Bowring is a had financier, and that it may perhaps be Oncluded that with striat

the Colonial Expenditure

естату might Anoint of

even now be kept within the

the Colonial Revenue; hit

still that there is lome force

in the

Arguments, which are so often urged

by the local Officers,

on thre Experial

character of come of the causes of

and that

expense at Hong Kong, and

there fae

on the whole it may be

Allowable, and is expedient, to Continuo to apply for some Parliamentary Aid

during at

at all events the continuance

of

of the present relations with China. The completion of a proper Past is really

a very uyent object, and it is chiefly wanted for the confinement either

of pirates or else of refractory Seamen

whose punishment Conceus thre

general trade of the Empire quite as

much as the particular place where

inprismed. - they happen to be taken. In

a place like Hong Kong, so bad in Climate and frequented by such multitudes of passing Europeans, the erection of t Hospital may be believed to be a reasonable undertaking.

Ishould be

wiclined to ask Parliament again

fa

€10.000 as already suggested in our rent letter of the 17th of February,

グ

hit to select the items.

tte bote

of the

from the objects enumerated by M.

Bridges at page 23, and then to inform