CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 20

whether the rarin transfer of

tie

Eracting Trade in China to the Britiel fins (one of the conseruences of the insecurity of chinese cut) has not largely commemented for the injuries whier Shinese Graft have cuffered from firatical interruations.

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With reference to the manuprcture

and enle of pins, ammunition, &,

cale

juns

fo.,

in the Colony, I beg to refer to the Glomni Idinances A/of /855 and N/ of 1853. Without Custom House

Flient officers of any cost, with

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the continent of China close to our shores, and the broken Const of the deland, more than 30 miles in

extent, which it

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utterly

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impossible

to protect against the intrusion of the Cawlers, the bijects of the Legislator are constanty defeated In the difficulty of giving masteri effect to those sojects

It is perfectly tue, as Mer Bridges alleges, that an intimate unim exists between inlatitants of this sland and the predatory band akiel

molist the Grail. But our interiet

Court.

Knowledge of the social organizatio of the Chinese, _ the universalit of

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scerct associations, for harcores cometimes political and intlie - sometimes private and dandreitni,

very side difficulties

present

on every