Ju 11.784
Extract from a Letter of 30th Sept. 1869 to Sir John Trevelyan, Chief Justice of Hongkong.
I received the intelligence of that legislation (Legalising of Houses Gambling) with the deepest regret believing that it was not necessary, in the repression of general crime, that I would work ill for the prosperity of the Colony, repelling from it persons of good principles; and that it would lower the appreciation of national Character to the extent that it was known throughout China. I would conceive a most serious error in the Governor and Legislative Council to pass such an act and if you get it removed from the Statute Book of the Colony you will deserve eminently well of the Colony, and of our Country. If the Colony cannot maintain a Police Force which will cope with the Criminal Classes without calling in the aid of a Gambling permissive ordinance Great Britain would do well to abandon it. But it never appeared to me that there were not an efficient Police: ...
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Ju 11.784
Extract from a Letter of 30th Sept. 1869 to Sir John Trevelyan, Chief Justice of Hongkong.
I received the intelligence of that legislation (Legalising of Houses Gambling) with the deepest regret believing that it was not necessary, in the repression of general crime, that I would work ill for the prosperity of the Colony, repelling from it persons of good principles; and that it would lower the appreciation of national Character to the extent that it was known throughout China. I would conceive a most serious error in the Governor and Legislative Council to pass such an act and if you get it removed from the Statute Book of the Colony you will deserve eminently well of the Colony, and of our Country. If the Colony cannot maintain a Police Force which will cope with the Criminal Classes without calling in the aid of a Gambling permissive ordinance Great Britain would do well to abandon it. But it never appeared to me that there were not an efficient Police: ...
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