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party which established

orderly and

On-

the

an

civilired Government in Japan, important service, for which the leading Japanese statesmen showed their gratitude occasion of Sir W. Dowell's recent _ visit to Yokohama. In the third epoch, the Admiral, in pursuance of orders from England to that_ effect, hoisted the British. Hag at Port Hamilton, and made full- provision for the protection of - Hongkong and of British interests - generally in these seas, in view

o of

the threatened rupture with Russia. There yet remains a fourth opoch

which bears a diplomatie

as well

as Naval character. Few Governors

or Admirals were ever.

placed in a more delicate and difficult. -position than that in which the

Governor of Hongkong, the centre of British power, influence, and trade in this quarter of the world, and the Admiral Commanding the - Naval Forces of England

on-

this

station, were -placed during the protracted crisis of the Franco-

Chinese