CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 220

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the subject of an enquiry England before a select Committee of me of the Homever of Parliament. Con- -Denned by the common sense of Mon- -_-kind they would have forblem but for the influense of the lawyers, and prinsipally one the ground of the necessary Recreation required hardest working of the km, low prevented which would have made it Term all the year round Many Chamber practitioners inshed it, but the leading bournved in the brato of Lous and Exquity were for the most

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