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and with Your Lordship's approval, to

send one or more

of the cadets to

study, not, as hitherto, during the

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whole of their period

their period of three

"years",

at Canton, but during a portion of

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that time at roking, where, (as

throughout the far greater part of China), the Mandarin dialect is ... used by all classes of the population, and where it is learned by the Attaches and Student- Interpreters of the British and of the other Foreign Legations.

I should have added

to

to the reasons given in the above- mentioned despatch that attention has been drawn by some

some of Her

- Majesty's Consuls in China to the significant fast that, as one consequence of the prevailing ignorance of the Mandarin diabot among the officers

dialect

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of this Government, the titles applied to the Queen in the Chinese portion of the Hongkong Government Garette,

in former years have sometimes, bien derogatory the Crown, and such as the Chinese employ only with respect to the Tributary Princes of Korea, Annam