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of the Mexican Dollar, and when
a similar attempt is in progress at other places, the introduction
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an enti
entirdy
new comin
might
have the effect of alarming thar prejudices, and retarding the adoption of a sound system
of currency . The Mexican buttar. is perhaps wanting in uniformity as regards the weight of the individual pieces, but the purity of the coin according
to its fixed standard is st
questioned, and it appears. to answer very well the ordi=
-nary pussieses of a medium. of exchange
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It is admitted in Sir
John Bocoring's dispatch of # May 1858, that the experiment is proposed for the sake of the trade of Shanghat, rather than with reference to that of other
ports, and it is
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serged
on the
ground that thonghae is the
most important foreign trading
post in China . My Lords must. posvever, obscrve that the expe=
crement is required at that Post, only because the measure which was successful at Canton was thwarted by the want of unanimity among the set = : chants, and Her Majestep's
Government
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