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temper,

in a

and common sense

very high, and very uncommon, degree: while partly from a naturally broad view, and partly from

partly from his having discharged the duties of other than legal offices, he has, what is too commonly absent from Colonial Judges, strong sense of Excentive

а

responsibility.

5.

Moreover I must not

forget to notice that M. Russell's unsurpassed knowledge of -

Chinese

Chinese

usages

and

of the

peculiarities of Chinese witnesses is a very important qualification which can be possessed

an

e

in

no other

equal degree by possible candidate; and finally I may add that while in the short period of my administration he has earned

my

warm regard, he had -previously earned and still retained the respect of the whole community, Chinese as well as Europeans, and

that