CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4] — Page 272

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probably not less than one "Hundred and twenty thousand chinese living under our rule whom, at the utmost, I

of

should

say

not more

than

five hundred, if so many,

have

any

idea as to the

general nature of the

Pistitutions or

Laws under

which they live. There is cort of general feeling amonget the chinese settled here that

means

to do

the Government right by them that life and

property

are

-

here

more secure the

country-

than in their own that "Squeezes", the rule

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amongst Officials in china will not be tolerated here and with the usual apathy of their race

they

are

salisfied to how there

live in ignorance, of

-ends

are

attained, under what

they feel to be a

secure

3.

quiet and

Government.

But such a condition

of things is not favorable to

progress, and is alike

inconvenient to the Government and the Governed.

bovernment, on the one

The

hand

has hitherto had no means

of making its decisions and