CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 275

- We were

than the dollars in question, which

contain only 90 parts silver out of every

100.

topic,

need

not however enlarge

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this

as it has already been very clearly

and ably dealt with by Mr Victor theper,

Manager of the Hongtong

Bank in

a

letter published

journals. I enclose

and mite

reasoning.

and Shanghai

in the local

I enclose that letter as published

Your Gpaces attention to it's

28. With

a

view to making

making this

communication more

complete

I also transmit

copy of the Meemorial of the Amoy Community to bin Rutherford Alcock, and also that

of the Shanghai bhamber of Commerce

they

are

both of them interesting,

latter seems an

and the

able document, whilst its

Enclosure No3

Mor Kreper's litte

Enclosure No. 4 Amay Mamoun

Enclosure M Shanghai Mas

concluding " Resume "has

suggestive remantto

aa

some

very

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to the spirit in

which the Treaty, which is described

C-t

as

in the main fitted to effect the object

for which it

wab

designed, has hitherto

been carried out. That

topic of wide and co

however is

is a

wide and complexe difficulty. The

frequent necessity for propping up the Chinese

Executive,

so as to leave

some

Government

in the Country. retaining sufficient outward

vitality

and

prestige to enable it to be dealt

with at all, cannot but at times have

shstructively operated to onward

progress.

The

Donne

necefpity may also have occasionally

H

conflicted with the policy of insisting on the strict compliance with Treaty obligations to which Foreign interests would otherwise have