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the Colonial Office, whatever may be

personal convictions of those members.

the

Not to mention other reasons, it is

certain that, in this cosmopolitan

Comm

munity,

there are

hostile.

urany

d' rejoice to publish to

critics who would

the world any

act which might be

represented as showing that the..

English Tovernment is not always__

disinclined to infringe the liberal~~

institutions which Eugland professes

to have given to her dependencies.

(7.)

In

my despatch N.E210

of 1883

( already referred to above) I stated that,

in common with the Executive Council,

I am entirety of opinion that, under

all ordinary

circumstances, it is.

desirable that the Regulations should

be enforced which proscribe that "the

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"

annual expenditure shall be as

15 for

as possible confined within the annual "Estimates." I quoted, however, the

saying of lord Palmerston, that "Regulations

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"wet woon

are made for inen, aud

for Regulations", and added

that it is well known that it has

rardy been found practicable; either

in the Imperial or in the Colonial

in

Legislatures