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Government; and the Attorney-General

is preparing

an Ordinance for ~

amending in the direction desired

the existing Law of Bankruptoy

5.

On the whole, it may

be said that the views and feelings

-expressed by the Chinese Deputation

referred to above su

-supply fresh

illustrations of the accuracy of the

foresight of the late Lord Derby, "

whe

when decretary of State for the Colonies

remarked in one

X

3.18.45.

*)

laws and customs of England would

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be a rule of action and a measure

of right equally unintelligible and __

vexations."

6.

Whatever amount of

may be for the

foundation there may

alleged primeval antiquity of the

Chinese Nation;-(and the native

more

annale go back to a period. remote than the beginnings of Hebrew and Egyptian history,

have the high authority of Gibbon

the belief

wie

that the commence

mencement

of the authentic history of this ___

of his despatches * * W. 8 of June "

for the

to the first Governor of Houghing (Dir Henry Pottinger), that to the Chinese

the

remarkable.