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Judicial Bench are now of one mind on this subject.

With regard to Mr. Russett's practical suggestions for further exertions in the same direction, they meet with the hearty concurrence of the present Registrar-General and Protector of the Chinese (Mr. Stewart). They have also been approved by myself and by the Executive Council; and I propose to take the necessary measures for carrying them into execution, subject to Your Lordship's sanction.

15. "See Mr. Stewart's minute on Mr. Russell's Report. (Enclosure 2).

15. In conclusion, I would repeat the remarks made in a previous despatchM: 175 of August 1883, to the effect that the English in Hongkong are in an utterly different position from that held by the English in India. In the latter country we succeeded to the rule of great nations and countries which had already, long before our arrival, attained to a high degree of civilized organization, and whose laws and institutions we were bound to respect and maintain, so far as they were not repugnant to humanity and to the Imperial policy.