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right expect that the communications

referred to should be transmitted in

the authorised Inanner, so that the Governor might be enabled to certify ttoo character and statues of the 1. Toritors, and to show how for their view of policy or their demands on the Clunese Government might agree

with the policy Colonial, and of the Imperial

and action of the

L..

Governments. I added that I did not

torch any change to be made inttee practice which I had fouend

xisting, until the watter should have been considered by the Imperial Authorities.

4. Now that a new minister.

meet

Must soon be appointed to the British Legation at Peking, I submit theat this question should be taken into Consideration, and finally settled

be

by authority. It would of course, Very injurious to the public service, if the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor of Hongkong, as

one side, should ever be led inton

playing at cross-purprees with, on

the other side, the Minister at

+ Peking and the Secretary of State for foreign Affairs. And yet

thew result ray

become sometimes inevitable, if the

Chamber of Commerce is permitted to

ябр

ignore, in its communications tothe

British authorities elsewhere, the

Colonial