CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 13

fearful extent, and the existing powers of Government

evils.

are

wholly

crs the

incompetent to redress, or repress great and growing

I believe

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plan

but

Mic

resembling in its general character that proposed by Mr Bridges has

ever exceeded with a Chinese population, in arrecting or controlling the mischiefs with which we have to deal. I consider the existinen and extent of those mischiefs

opprobrium to the

less an

administration of Justice, then

evidence that

ALLA

helpien

Legislation gives real patronage

protection to vices which,

if

we cannot, _ and Sam

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sure we

le

cannot wholly cradicate, – should do our best to confine to

narrower limits...

The respectable Chinese would see with exticfaction the gambling houses legalized, with a view to their being placed under control. The Merchants of the Colony frequently

are

the

subjected to heavy loves from passion for play of

you play of their compradors, _ while the inhabitants

of

the Sland

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generally would have come security against the misdoings of their reative Sorvants, if the places in which they indulge their gambling