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b

suggested that the Pictures of Eime

are

les merely because the facility,

of concealing Crime is greater_a deduction wholly inconsistent. with the marked general improvement in the Police and the removal of former most fatent causes of Corruption in that Force. By the Summary for last Mail, the Philos stated the general ofvision to be that the decrease was only apparent.

assertion opposed. the Statements of the Chief Justia. the Council _ and the Bar, and

Camsil

an

bo

for which there is not the slightest foundation. I affirm that such

general ofsimion

is not the

of the Community,

7.

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nor of any fart of it- and probably it is not the opinion even of the writer of the article, unless extremely weak in reasoning frowers.

7. As I embark this day for Japan under circumstances, which will probably lead to my

my frocceding to England, without returning here, though dam auxions, if I can, to return the frassing of the

Istimates, I have not time to

point out in detail all the

causes of.

the above

remarkable.

decrease in Crime, but

undoubtedly - apart from a very

great improvement in the

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