CO129-127 - Public Offices - 1867 — Page 545

Canent,

If there were a

any present danger or gravé prachcal inconvenienc resulting from uncertain limits of purisdiction, it might be worth while to run some risk of exciting national suceptibilites - suggesting similar acquisitions to our own

ad

and creating a feeling of distrust. in the minds of the Chinese. to our real object or ulterior designs. But the opinion of Ser Edmund Herby which I look the opportunity of obtaining at Shanghai where the correspondence first reached me, leaves

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doubt

mind, and will I

think

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think satisfy your Lordship that

there is

no

real or prachcal

difficulty of such a nature as the

local Courts and the Executive cannot

-satisfactorily deal with, and nothing therefore to negohate about. And if they were more real and serious than they seem to be, he is

certainly quite right in his con-

<clusion that there are

shong reasons for not

many

and

reasons for not negobahay negotiating

:If upon further consideration

it should be deemed worth the

rish

of creating greater wils than shose it is desired to remove,

and doin the cession

dorm

of

or recognition

a concurrent jurisdiction ove

the