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        "content_text": "Sir Chap\n\nEntered\n\nHong Kong\n\nLabouchere\n\nW. Ellis 30 Jan\n\nMerivale 31\n\nW. Peev\n\nin les Grey-\n\nAnswered. 15 February.\n\nM 103.\n\n1542.\n\n1965\n\n25th Nov. 1852\n\nSir\n\nLa Fley\n\nJan\n\n295\n\n1853\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to transmit to you, for consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, an enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, accompanied by a letter from the Colonial Treasurer on the subject of the Stamp Taxes payable on Patents Grant to the Colony. Adverting\n\nPage XX",
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        "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]",
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        "content_text": "of the Sanitary condition of the Foren of Victoria.\n\nNo. 79\n\nB. A/Heath 9291 7802 Houstong\n\nSie John Boering\n\nEntered\n\nAnswered 35- 18 Feb/56\n\nNo 73922.\n\nM. Merivale\n\n17. Nov. 55\n\nNor.55\n\nM. Ball 17 M.\n\nwww Latouchepe\n\n-27\n\nMr Labouchere this was\n\ndetained to obtain the information required.\n\nM\n\n27\n\nAb\n\n#\n\nJL.\n\n166\n\nNovember 1855.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nDr. Colonel Caine's Despatch\n\nW:79 of the 9th June last,\n\nLord Palmuston forwarding the Blue Book for\n\nIt will save trime\n\nto let J. Bowrny\n\nKnow the cart of obtaining the services of such a person\n\nI as the Bd of Healthe speak of.\n\nI have written\n\nto his B. Hall to enquire\n\n1854, and without adverting\n\nat present to the ther\n\nimportant matter which it contains, I cannot but\n\nnotice the very unsatisfacting\n\n& the blank can be state of\n\nfilled up by the\n\nDanilang contront\n\nen he may name and arrangement discloned\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve readability, here is the revised output in HTML with some minor adjustments for formatting:\n\nof the Sanitary condition of the Foren of Victoria.\n\nSir\n\nNo. 79\n\nB. A/Heath 9291 7802 Houstong\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nEntered\n\nAnswered 35- 18 Feb/56\n\nNo 73922.\n\nM. Merivale\n\n17 Nov. 55\n\nM. Ball 17 M.\n\nLatouchepe -27\n\nMr Labouchere this was detained to obtain the information required.\n\nM 27 Ab # JL. 166 November 1855.\n\nI have to acknowledge Dr. Colonel Caine's Despatch W:79 of the 9th June last,\n\nLord Palmerston forwarding the Blue Book for\n\nIt will save time to let J. Bowring know the cost of obtaining the services of such a person as the Bd of Health speak of.\n\nI have written to his B. Hall to enquire 1854, and without adverting at present to the other important matter which it contains, I cannot but notice the very unsatisfactory & the blank state of filled up by the Danilang contront en he may name and arrangement discloned\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the given rules:\n\nof the Sanitary condition of the Foren of Victoria.\n\nSir\n\nNo. 79\n\nB. A/Heath 9291 7802 Houstong\n\nSir John Boering\n\nEntered\n\nAnswered 35- 18 Feb/56\n\nNo 73922.\n\nM. Merivale\n\n17 Nov. 55\n\nNor.55\n\nM. Ball 17 M.\n\nLatouchepe -27\n\nMr Labouchere this was detained to obtain the information required.\n\nM 27 Ab # JL. 166 November 1855.\n\nI have to acknowledge Dr. Colonel Caine's Despatch W:79 of the 9th June last,\n\nLord Palmuston forwarding the Blue Book for\n\nIt will save trime to let J. Bowrny know the cart of obtaining the services of such a person as the Bd of Healthe speak of.\n\nI have written to his B. Hall to enquire 1854, and without adverting at present to the ther important matter which it contains, I cannot but notice the very unsatisfacting & the blank can be state of filled up by the Danilang contront en he may name and arrangement discloned\n\nRevised with proper corrections:\n\nof the Sanitary condition of the Foren of Victoria.\n\nSir\n\nNo. 79\n\nB. A/Heath 9291 7802 Houstong\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nEntered\n\nAnswered 35- 18 Feb/56\n\nNo 73922.\n\nM. Merivale\n\n17 Nov. 55\n\nM. Ball 17 M.\n\nLatouchepe -27\n\nMr Labouchere this was detained to obtain the information required.\n\nM 27 Ab # JL. 166 November 1855.\n\nI have to acknowledge Dr. Colonel Caine's Despatch W:79 of the 9th June last,\n\nLord Palmerston forwarding the Blue Book for\n\nIt will save time to let J. Bowring know the cost of obtaining the services of such a person as the Bd of Health speak of.\n\nI have written to his B. Hall to enquire 1854, and without adverting at present to the other important matter which it contains, I cannot but notice the very unsatisfactory state of ... filled up by the ... contront en he may name and arrangement disclosed\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nof the Sanitary condition of the Foren of Victoria.\n\nSir\n\nNo. 79\n\nB. A/Heath 9291 7802 Houstong\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nEntered\n\nAnswered 35- 18 Feb/56\n\nNo 73922.\n\nM. Merivale\n\n17 Nov. 55\n\nM. Ball 17 M.\n\nLatouchepe -27\n\nMr Labouchere this was detained to obtain the information required.\n\nM 27 Ab # JL. 166 November 1855.\n\nI have to acknowledge Dr. Colonel Caine's Despatch W:79 of the 9th June last,\n\nLord Palmerston forwarding the Blue Book for\n\nIt will save time to let J. Bowring know the cost of obtaining the services of such a person as the Bd of Health speak of.\n\nI have written to his B. Hall to enquire 1854, and without adverting at present to the other important matter which it contains, I cannot but notice the very unsatisfactory state of ... filled up by the ... contront en he may name and arrangement disclosed",
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        "content_text": "to retire on a pension,\n\nwhich would be the\n\nbest solution of\n\ndifficulty: But I do\n\nnot think this out to\n\nbe forced or pressed\n\nupon him.\n\nSt. M. Jan\n\n4/56\n\nIt has passed through the War\n\nOffice with no change in\n\narrangements.\n\nTheir\n\nManaging Clerk,\n\nBarry 13th 1856.\n\nDown to W. Labouchere:-\n\nPrinted\n\n279.\n\nI do not see how it is possible\n\nthat the Permanent Secretary of\n\nthe Admiralty under present civ.\n\n£1000.\n\na year\n\nfor his own salary. Under the late arrangement the estimates in question stood thus:-\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong, £\n\nColonial Estimate 3000\n\nSuperintendant of Police,\n\non the Colonial Estimate 1800\n\n£ 4,800\n\nBy the new arrangements they\n\nstand\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong, £\n\non Colonial Estimate 4000\n\nSuperintendant of Police\n\non Colonial Estimate 2250\n\n£ 1,200\n\n£7,450\n\nAn financial reform therefore resulting",
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        "title": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "Ind Cru Russel, Mr. P.-\n\nGoverna Sir Shu Douring\n\n13 September 1985 -\n\n2 Subouris -\n\nP/38.\n\nReceived-\n\nEstimates of the Colony for\n\nTransmitting Approved\n\n1856-\n\n42\n\nEntered\n\n10376. Ang Kong.\n\nSir C.E. Levelyan\n\nM. Illial\n\n24 Nov.\n\nb. Merivale_248/20\n\nZW. Ball\n\nLabichere\n\nUnsed 5 Greb / 56\n\n1099 Mr Ball\n\nShall this go? or\n\nshall it be detained a\n\nSiv\n\nNov 1855-\n\n26th Jan/56\n\nI am directed\n\nby W. Secretary\n\nLabouchere to transmit\n\nto you, for the\n\ninformation of the\n\nTreasury\n\nLC.\n\nof\n\nuntil the questions now\n\npending relating Hong Kong\n\nthe enclosed copy\n\nExpenditure are\n\nCorridend?\n\nAm\n\nlikely\n\nMuch better keep it\n\nback for the present\n\nI think\n\nN730-13\n\nFeb 485\n\nM\n\nM\n\nIt may be for\n\nH. M. Jan. 21.\n\nof a despatch from\n\nGovernor\n\nof\n\nHong Kong accompanied\n\nby the Estimates finally\n\nfor 1856 as\n\nApproved and laid\n\nbefore",
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        "content_text": "60\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, Your Lordships',\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\nW. H. Burney\n\nEntered.\n\nfor 10377 A.K.\n\nin M. Bruining\n\nNo 4\n\nMINUTE\n\nMr. Buroche 23\n\nMean 231 M J Ball\n\nLabouchere 26\n\nMr. M.\n\n24\n\nFor\n\n26 Ward//55\n\nI beg to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your\n\ndespatch No 139 of the\n\n14 & September 2. To\n\nconvey\n\nTo You our\n\napproval of the leave of absence for two months\n\n& a half which you\n\nhave granted\n\nto Lum\n\nSournairine...\n\nHer Majesty\n\nApprove.\n\n1. Nar Es\n\n...\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "Sir William Molesworth, Bart.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n5th October, 1855-\n\nVictoria, Houghton,\n\nReceived\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nN146-\n\nbeen recovered.\n\nadvanced him in\n\nand that no part of the £100\n\ndied in the Colonial January -\n\nReporting Death of Mr. Selby, Chief\n\nEngland in\n\nHer Majesty.\n\nThe Govt - Mentioned to Colby's son future\n\nQua\n\nduty : Excited some little leur Service.\n\nIt will be necessary\n\nto let the Treasury\n\nknow that the advance of £100.\n\nlacundo be renewed? See 11327\n\nand 11330.\n\nJan.\n\nW Ball\n\nThe Letters\n\nsuspecting the\n\nSelby\n\nstill in\n\n“...\n\n11321 H.K.\n\n102\n\ncirculation. I there suggested, whether\n\nEnquiry ought not to be made to Sir G. Grey respecting his appointment.\n\nAlthough der Selby is dead. I think this dispatch of Sir J. Bowring's\n\nstill more under that inquiry\n\nessential.\n\nHm D\n\nthy of heeft wende for Mr Labouchere\n\nMay dupt\n\nsent & Sir Geo Grey, privately.\n\n10.12 55\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "In William Molesworth, BE\n\nGovernor Sir Hin Bowring\n\n125 October, 1855-\n\nReceived.\n\nA152.\n\nhas been paid from the Colonial Treasury and that the amount thereof at the Contract Rate to Mrs. Selby allowed in the mail Steamer rate of 5 per cent, reporting passage\n\nWith reference to despatch No.146\n\nNer Meinale.\n\nSee 1182.1 repaying be Elleß\n\nbe recommended to the Treasury? Should the repayment of the cost of the Centinelle be paid to Mrs. Selby.\n\nW Ball\n\nconsider!\n\nI cannot assure this it Man Expend the determination taken on the whole cases see minute on 18th March 27,\n\nThis\n\nA bold move of Sec 1. B), and I do not know what the Treasury will say.\n\nin W Labouchere\n\nI have looked into this case,\n\nbut am sorry.\n\nI can\n\ngive no assistance in differing of it. The Colonial Treasury has had to advance £100, advanced out of salary to W Selby: and the British Treasury £14 4s 6d advanced to Mr Selby for his return - Which Sir H. Bowring notes the Imperial Treasury will have to repay.\n\nThere are no legal means of recovering anything. The Selby's agreement with the Colonial Agent, annulled, only binds him to repay advance of salary if he quit the colony: death is not mentioned.",
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        "content_text": "The Kentory\n\nEntered\n\n11329 Harry Harry\n\nf. Lacking of the titty\n\nSemilan letter to lear Defle\n\n208ed765-\n\nand the\n\nbeenmalty\n\nif\n\nMer Mcinate\n\nKrusmiel to the\n\nload Deset?\n\n...\n\nW2.12\n\nMINUTE\n\nVR Jodes H\n\nSamen alirentest by Me\n\nDECR\n\nSecretary Labouchere to\n\nhimismit to you for the\n\nLads\n\nMN BEH\n\nelcheuchere\n\nLad. Panmure\n\n$154. 18 bet:\n\nenforcation of the\n\nCommissenrices of the\n\nDemerstly the Copy of a despatch from the Admiralty reporting the\n\nCircumstances under which\n\nhis Regate \"Hankin\" had arrived in the harton of that Colony and herring bound more than 100 Russian Prisoners.\n\nShari.\n\nou\n\n157",
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        "content_text": "Sir W. Molesworth, Bart.\n\nSir John Bowring\n\n11th December, 1855.\n\nVictoria; Hongkong,\n\nReceived\n\nNo 171.\n\nRelative to\n\njustice, in consequence of the expected interruption in the administration of justice for November last, and of the postponement of the Criminal Sessions in consequence of Chief Justice Hulme's continued illness.\n\n21 Dec.\n\n\"Copy of Mr. Labouchere's despatch of the 21st Inst. is annexed.\n\nOut by\n\nAdm. 722\n\nPerhaps Mr. Labouchere\n\nMay\n\nthink it will be looked out\n\nM237\n\nM.24.\n\nhe requests\n\nJ: 172. Miscellaneous.\n\nTo be filed for reference 20 Decrd\n\n1901. Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nFEB 21 1856\n\n323\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n\n21st December, 1855.\n\nIn my Despatch of 13th November last, No 157, I had the honor to report the arrival of the Prize Brig \"Greta\" in this Harbour.\n\nI have now the honor to inform you that the \"Greta\" has been formally condemned.\n\nThe Judgement of Justice Anstey, a copy of which I enclose...\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nSir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P.,\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "No Marchurn\n\nDan on any whats of\n\nthe\n\nsame thing having been done on\n\nsome occasions in H.K. in\n\nremitting\n\nsentence?\n\nor hour on the Luvin' Withing\n\nI have not referred F.M. 728\n\nfurther back than '50 but I find from that your practice down to the present time it has been customary for the Governor to pardon,\n\nD\n\nVictoros.\n\nHongkong.\n\nSir John Bowring\n\n13th December, 1855.\n\nto\n\nSir G. Molesworth,\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nNo 174.\n\nReceiver\n\nof 16 Prisoners\n\nReplying to\n\nthe subject of\n\n10/12 of 10th Sep\n\nthe Queen's Birth day, some prisoners;\n\npardonning none who had committed atrocity, but only those deserving clemency for their behaviour whilst undergoing punishment, or on acct of some favorable features in their cases. On each occasion the Governor furnished the grounds of his recommendation.\n\n68,41 and 7742\n\nJannes 2 & profiles 68,41\n\n24\n\nreg 3/3.\n\n21\n\nW Ball\n\n$\n\nSec to Sir G. Molesworth\n\nmit 7796. Acknowledged & stated that he did not intend to interfere with the Governor's discretionary power of relaxing or mitigating sentences on sufficient grounds being shewn, but only to express his disapproval\n\nThe manner\n\nby\n\nMr Merivale\n\nU\n\n1703\n\nBut this should have been ascertained before the despatch of No. 10. who sent to his L.B.\n\nIn Labouchere\n\nIm\n\n338\n\nPerhaps it will be sufficient to say that you concur with Sir G. Molesworth in his objection to such a practice\n\n1104m\n\nVergell - I note that I am curious to know on that point. Lytton states that it was usual to release Prisoners on the Queen's Birthday - How, let it be noted.\n\nMust as it is\n\nI have since seen In Labouchere's of They they the chances the that it was the practice with former Governors - Hugh Labouchere expressed to me that it appeared to him that this shore proceeding had been annually customary.\n\nyes - but I show that the form says\n\nCan this be\n\ndone? If it is but he should be told or if doubtful - he should be consulted in print, as to the operation -\n\n7244444/\n\nin\n\nwhich it was done?",
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        "content_text": "We do not therefore approve of the \n\n12th Rule as it is framed\n\nBre\n\nare\n\nYour obed? humble Servi-\n\nyou\n\nA.Z. Cerbum.\n\nRichard Brthell\n\nNo Merivale\n\n14 hou my\n\nAv Ball\n\nThis opinion condemns de\n\nonly in the points to which\n\nC. Anstey's adnamend/\n\nW Edger d'cches, hote\n\nalso in Mensc\n\nLoint of fait\n\nlearn but\n\nlittle of it\n\nuntouched.\n\nI cannot feel satisfied but all the 194\n\ndictions when hatte Law Adminc are adapted to the latitude of Hong Kong, although undoubtedly resting on English usage of much authority. Perhaps the best course will be to transmit the Opinion to the Governor for his guidance.\n\nrefuse to confirm the adnamend\n\nAmended\n\nCr\n\nunless (astrona\n\nVP\n\nunless\n\nof the dictions) shong Mason is shown if the contrary.\n\nI am\n\nAm\n\napraid to\n\nneommend dis allorzace, buange the bath of feer is perbally in force & it\n\nwould be incurraient to interfere with it.\n\nHm N 14\n\nMr Labouchere\n\nby well.\n\nIconan\n\nMIN\n\nM. 20. h",
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        "content_text": "Salary of \n\n60 dollars. \n\nper \n\nnoth. \n\nI am directed by their Lordships \n\nto acquaint you, for the information \n\nof the Sanitary Board, that they will not object to this appointment, \n\nAs a \n\ntemporary measure, to meet \n\nthe present pressure upon the Surveyor General's Department. \n\nI am \n\nLes \n\nYour obedient servant, \n\nBall. \n\nsanction the expense of this temporary Experiment. \n\n29 Octr \n\nAnnexe \n\nAm 029 \n\n2 handgun \n\n1632070 \n\n26 \n\n10301 chong dong \n\nNOV. 8 \n\n1835 \n\n\"Treasury Chambers \n\n96455 55 W. Judges. \n\nTreasurer 7217 \n\nFri \n\nNos \n\n246 \n\n7 November 1850 \n\nI am commanded) \n\nby \n\nLords Commissioners of their Majesty's Treasury to transmit, herewith, with reference to the Letters of this Board of the \n\nOctober last \n\n31 \n\nand 17th September, a copy of a Letter from the Post Master General, dated \n\n12 \n\nFor your information; and to request that you will submit to the Secretary of State the expedience of addressing the Governor of Hong Kong \n\nLiiii lae. communication for \n\nsimilar \n\nProposals already \n\nmade through \n\nthe Governor of the West Indies (Labouchere on the subject of the proposed Merivale Byr",
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        "content_text": "10. of the Sapenzen Act to Chinese Emigration and that the Local Officer in omitting that Act did but anticipate the decision of Parliament. To this excuse we should be disposed to give due weight, but it could scarcely be accepted as a sufficient justification without admitting a very dangerous principle to the duties of the servants.\n\nWhile, therefore, under the altered state of the Laws it may not be expedient to take any practical steps in this matter, it appears desirable, if Mr. Labouchere should require it, that in the view which the Government take, that the Government should not be left under the impression that the explanations of Mr. Hillier and Mr. Hawkins appear to the Secretary of State as satisfactory as they have been considered by Sir J. Bowring.\n\nLEE [illegible] We have the honor to be, Your obedient humble Servants, M.W. Benedoch, Mexaudubond",
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        "content_text": "from the 14th March, rents.\n\nYou will therefore issue to Mr. Michell his half Salary for the period in question.\n\nIt may from time to time become\n\nYour's &c.,\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nNo. 15\n\nDEC[R]\n\nMINUTE\n\nVR 149\n\n\"W[illiam] Merivale, M[ichal] Ball, M[other] Labouchere\n\nW[M] 531\n\nJ Leon 53-\n\nWith reference to\n\nSt. Lt. Governor Caine's Despatch No. 36 of the 13th March last-I have to acquaint you that on the ground of ill health, I have extended Mr. Michell's Leave of absence from his duties as Harbour Master & Agent.\n\nTo Michell &c., Hongkong",
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        "content_text": "expenditure would be thereby incurred - and the redistribution of the judicial positions would, in my judgment, be highly desirable\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nwith the highest respect,\n\nDir\n\nYour most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nJohn Bennett\n\nW Ball\n\nI hardly know what to propose\n\nabout these papers –\n\nao\n\nLJ\n\nFounder\n\nHe w\n\nwhile\n\nThe presumed ... of C.J. Bulmer only,\n\nperhaps it is\n\nbetter to\n\n... the subject ...\n\nAM Jh 10.\n\nuntil such time as\n\nactually reached.\n\nMll af\n\nI could not\n\nIn Searle\n\nM. 14\n\nall w\n\nthat\n\nMr Labouchere I think that this should be answered by saying as vacancies take place you will consider the suggested changes They do not all turn on the retirement of the Chief Justice. The ... of the other\n\n61",
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        "content_text": "Gov(321) Ahony\n\nSir, C.E. Frevolyu\n\n356\n\nMINUTE\n\nWith reference to MSJ Ball #ML douchere\n\nSix\n\n24\n\nI am directed by Ms Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you the information.\n\nN3B-13 of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury\n\nFeb\n\nto the Governor of Hong Kong\n\nDispatch from the Governor, together with his accounts for the year 1837 and abstract, do.\n\nauto in Treasury.\n\nYou will notice some report respecting Chinese Emigration & the operation of passages\n\n[FS.\n\nin the Treasurer's letter\n\nferrable.\n\nQei-Passenge\n\nMor Blackwood paged in Min doing wored to this despatch\n\nWill you have the goodness to peruse the Treasurer's letter and Etlists observation on por\n\nG&W Labouchere. I concur with Cunca a besver this goes to In Labouchere Love there\n\n2017 ap\n\nVictorias, Aonghong.\n\n13\n\nGovernor Sir J. Bowring\n\nFebruary, 1856.\n\nto\n\nH. Labouchere, The Right Honorable\n\nInclosures.\n\nReceived\n\nTransmitting\n\nMA\n\nTreasurer's letter of 4th February 1856,\n\nwith accounts of the Colony for the year 1855.",
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        "content_text": "Certain Civil Officers of the Navy are allowed proper rations in Contract Vessels at the public expense, being required to pay only for their passages.\n\nThe grant of passage to other civil officers is subject to the Contract rate; to be paid by themselves, is quite distinct from the question of how rations have lately been settled by the Admiralty.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nSubmitting a copy of a letter from Mr. Rienecker on the subject of charge for messing in Contract Steam Packets, and applying for instructions.\n\n[...]\n\nTo His Excellency Governor Sir J. Bowring,\n\n18 February, 1856.\n\nTorrias, Hongkong,\n\nThe Right Honorable H. Labouchere, M.P.\n\nJ. Bowring to the Right Honorable H. Labouchere, M.P., in reply to those who had disputed the right of passengers.\n\nExplains the matter of H.M. Kolay.\n\nH.M. 8/M 7. Bun nel C. of May Fir & Dancs.\n\nMr. Merivale, Hong Kong, 14th May /56.\n\nJ.W. Rienecker have taken the right view with respect to the charge for Mess.\n\nMINUTE\n\nW.R. Elliot, M'Merivale, H.J. Ball.\n\n#Sect Labouchere\n\n1856 MAYA\n\n325\n\n3920 chung hang\n\nShewing your Despatch 236. of the 18 of February enclosing the copy of a letter from Mr. Rienecker relative to the charge of 8/8 a day to which he was subject as a Contract Passenger on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Vessel.\n\nThe Construction followed by yourself and by Mr. Rienecker in terms of the Circular of the 4th of February.\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "Labouchere is of opinion that the requirements of the Public Service, as represented by the Attorney General and the Governor, justify the creation of this office, and that Mr Labouchere therefore proposes, with the sanction of his Lordship, to select a duly qualified person for this Office.\n\nMr Labouchere has selected W. J. J. Wicken, Solicitor, whose testimonials have been duly submitted to the Governor.\n\nGov 2179/790(6024) Whang 767, Sir John Bowring, s105\n\nMINUTE\n\nFR Elliot Merivale, VAI Ball, Vel Labouchere, 1356] AUGE Wu, F. C. Anner, annered 30th Aug/50\n\nSir,\n\nI have to acknowledge your Despatch of the 9th May and 12 July, representing the necessity of appointing a Duplicate to Mr. Heikern, Solicitor, to facilitate the administration of Justice in Hong Kong.\n\nFor this Office, I have selected...",
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        "content_text": "Ke light, trick Bony Labuchere Mr.P.\n\nGovernor Athu Browning\n\n5th May, 1855\n\n/ Mielowe.\n\n$73.\n\nRascivch\n\nts Her Majesty's Conant at Risarting Mr. Hillier's appointinent\n\nBankok\". -\n\nMerimle\n\nGazette M. Tudor Davies,\n\nKL. 14\n\nM. Tudor Davre, was gazetted as Chief Magistrate for Hong Kong to day\n\n15 July /or MH:\n\nJ Scale.\n\n✓ (Copy)\n\nNo 26.\n\nSir,\n\nA. 90257569\n\n307\n\nChief Magistrate office, Victoria, Hong Kong,\n\nthe 2nd May, 1856.\n\nHis Excellency Mr J. Bowring has sent to me the copy of Despatch from the Colonial office Downing street replying to an enquiry of the Earl of Clarendon whether any objection would be made to my nomination as Consul at Bangkok.\n\nI shall be much obliged if His Excellency will convey to the Right Honorable Mr Labouchere my sincere thanks as well as to The Honorable W. J. Mercer, Esq., Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "JULY 7 1856 \n\nHong Kong Government Offices, Victoria, 7 May 1896.\n\nI forward, with much regret, letter from the Receiver Commission reporting the unsatisfactory state in which they have found the affairs of the Colonial Revenue.\n\nThe breakdown of W. Rienecker's health for a long time past, and the difficulties with which he had to contend in the inexperienced and inefficient subordinates...\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.\n\netc. etc. etc.\n\n \nPage 321",
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        "content_text": "346\n\nalong with those of who should be appointed Assistant Harbor Master, salary of £400 per Annum will\n\nAs this amalgamation\n\nsaving of £540 on the general expenditure of the Colony, and as the Governor represents that the arrangement appeared to have long been an advisable one to adopt, F.W. Chicheley would recommend it for their Lordships' sanction.\n\nI am further to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Honorable Sir J. Bowring reporting consequences of the alleged inefficiency of the Harbor Master's Department, and until the return of Mr. Michell from England, Messrs Gunthorpe, and Remedios have been added to the strength of the Department at respective rates of salary of £100 per annum and £250, and to request that you will inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that the expectation of the Governor is that these appointments are only temporary, and will have ceased on the arrival of Mr. Michell, and the resumption by him of his duties. Mr. Labouchere proposes,",
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        "content_text": "347 proposes, with the sanction of the Commander of the Flotilla, to sanction this proceeding of the Governor.\n\nI am to observe that Mr. Fothergill is already attached to the Harbor Master's Office; and does not constitute an Uncovenanted Appointment though his name was entered with those of Messrs Sunthorpe and Remedios.\n\nI am,\n\nGov 6031/577040/6033 13 Aug/56\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring MINUTE\n\nVR 1/1856 AUG 17 97 12 21 W Elliot Merivale 17 WJ Ball 3. Labouchere WAG CB. X. Lot 1\n\nI have to make Dispatches regarding the provisional arrangements which you have made, consequent on the appointment of Mr. Kiddier to the Office of Consul at Bangkok; also the transfer of the duties of Emigration Agent to Mr. & Mrs. Michell, Harbour Master, without Salary of Four hundred",
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        "content_text": "Council of the Colony\n\ncreated by\n\nthe\n\nremoval\n\nof W.W. Stillier to the\n\nConsulship at Liam. Having submitted\n\nthe name of Mr. Mercer\n\nto the Queen Her Majesty has been pleased to\n\nhis appointment approve his\n\nto the Legislative Council,\n\nand\n\nI transmit to\n\nyou\n\nherewith, a Warrant,\n\nunder the Royal Sign Manual, authorising you to appoint him\n\nto a seat at that Board accordingly\n\nI have th...\n\n186.\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nAnnex 78\n\nAnnex 20104\n\nNo. Copies of Documents\n\n1. Certified by Colonial Secretary,\n\n2. Copy of Attorney's Letter F 32 June\n\nA:3- Original letter and Inclosures\n\nfrom the Chief Justice\n\nWir...\n\n2025\n\nAUG 6 1856\n\nInstrument Office, Toronto,\n\nHong Kong, 34 June, 1850.\n\nIt is with extreme repugnance\n\nand regret that I trouble\n\nyou\n\nwith\n\nthe enclosed documents connected\n\nwith\n\nan\n\nunhappy difference between\n\nthe Chief Justice and the Attorney General which I am sorry\n\nto\n\nsay\n\nhas caused much scandal in the\n\nColony.\n\nI have exhausted\n\nevery means\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.,\n\nHe\n\nNo.\n\nF\n\n9",
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        "content_text": "Governor Sir John Bowring\n\nVia London, Stormont, 320 Fine, 1855.\n\n#\n\nThe Rights South\" Henry Labouchere.\n\n3 minutes-\n\nN° 3.\n\nReceived\n\nenclosing documents connected\n\nwith\n\ndifference\n\nbetween the\n\nChief Justice and the Attorney\n\nGeneral.\n\n7025H.Z\n\n13\n\nW. Labouchere\n\nre: W. Andy's letter of the 27 June, p. 80. deliberately written after full leisure for the passions cooling,\n\nis so bitter & malignant, so full of coarse\n\nand yet studied insolence, that I do\n\nthink, myself, the writer of it ought\n\nto remain in any\n\nmuch less a post which brings\n\nhim\n\ninto direct collision with the Ch. Justice. I have & have recommended immediate proceedings to his suspension, but for one circumstance: Sir J. Bowring, in his letter\n\nof 26 May\n\nannouncing\n\nhis intention\n\nby\n\nin his private\n\nhis decision, (\n\na further communication, by\n\n\"all communications henceforth must\n\nI made officially through this office!\")\n\nNow, were Mr. Anstey punished as he\n\ndeserves for his letter of the 27 June,",
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        "content_text": "1029 Hong Kong\n\n1703€\n\nIndividual case seems disposed of (see 7036) H.M. Govt.\n\nAppeal of the forenoon concluded.\n\n1\n\nPredecessor\n\nin\n\nensuring that, effects\n\nThat I fear\n\nn\n\nes still\n\nStar\n\nBonning N09\n\nOf convenience is that of My say, it is evident that\n\nory\n\nPollie Week shall be corrected in the Mana with\n\nthe Pendent Peeluct\n\nLd pray's shining\n\nM.9.7.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n3rd June, 1856.\n\nTo\n\nThe Bt. Honble\n\nH. Labouchere, M.P.\n\n2 Inclosures.\n\nN.B.\n\nReceived\n\nChief Justice.\n\nActing Clerk to the Mr W. F. Bevan, re: appointment and Salary of\n\nRelative to the appointment and Salary of\n\nVictoria, Naughong,\n\nNOTE\n\n12\n\n18-56\n\n16 Aug ft.\n\n173\n\nI have to acknowledge the\n\nThe 13 Alt. receipt of your Despatch\n\nElliot 13 Merivale VAJ Ball\n\nBatatancher\n\nCi signatur\n\nH.M.\n\nAgs of the 30th have relative\n\n3\n\nto the appointment of Mr W. H. Bevan as Chief Registrar.\n\nI approve of the course\n\nyou adopted in this case, and concur in the opinion expressed\n\nby Lord Stanley 1844. and\n\nin 1851. on a different occasion.\n\nwhich his Lordship had\n\noccasion to\n\naddress to the\n\nGovt. of the Helene & of\n\nJetisch Somelar a Cely,\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 2\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to format it properly in HTML as requested:\n\n1029 Hong Kong\n\n1703 \n\nIndividual case seems disposed of (see 7036) H.M. Govt.\n\nAppeal of the forenoon concluded.\n\n1\n\nPredecessor\n\nin ensuring that, effects\n\nThat I fear\n\nn es still\n\nStar Bonning N09\n\nOf convenience is that of My say, it is evident that\n\nPollie Week shall be corrected in the Mana with the Pendent Peeluct\n\nLd pray's shining M.9.7.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n3rd June, 1856.\n\nTo The Bt. Honble H. Labouchere, M.P.\n\n2 Inclosures.\n\nN.B. Received Chief Justice.\n\nActing Clerk to the Mr W. F. Bevan, re: appointment and Salary of\n\nRelative to the appointment and Salary of Victoria, Naughong,\n\nNOTE 12 18-56\n\n16 Aug ft. 173\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch\n\nElliot 13 Merivale VAJ Ball\n\nBatatancher Ci signatur H.M.\n\nAgs of the 30th relative to the appointment of Mr W. H. Bevan as Chief Registrar.\n\nI approve of the course you adopted in this case, and concur in the opinion expressed by Lord Stanley 1844 and in 1851 on a different occasion, which his Lordship had occasion to address to the Govt. of the Helene & of Jetisch Somelar a Cely,\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 2\n\nLet's correct and simplify the response to adhere strictly to the format and instructions:\n\n1029 Hong Kong\n\n1703\n\nIndividual case seems disposed of (see 7036) H.M. Govt.\n\nAppeal of the forenoon concluded.\n\nPredecessor in ensuring that effects\n\nThat I fear n es still\n\nStar Bonning N09\n\nOf convenience is that of My say, it is evident that Pollie Week shall be corrected in the Mana with the Pendent Peeluct. Ld pray's shining M.9.7.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n3rd June, 1856.\n\nTo The Bt. Honble H. Labouchere, M.P.\n\n2 Inclosures.\n\nN.B. Received Chief Justice. Acting Clerk to the Mr W. F. Bevan, re: appointment and Salary of Victoria, Naughong,\n\nNOTE 12 18-56\n\n16 Aug ft. 173\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch Elliot 13 Merivale VAJ Ball. Batatancher Ci signatur H.M. Ags of the 30th relative to the appointment of Mr W. H. Bevan as Chief Registrar.\n\nI approve of the course you adopted in this case, and concur in the opinion expressed by Lord Stanley 1844 and in 1851 on a different occasion, which his Lordship had occasion to address to the Govt. of the Helene & of Jetisch Somelar a Cely,\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 2",
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        "content_text": "189\n\nI\n\n90\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n...parvenus, assuming an official importance which is highly injurious. Some years ago, he was arrested by the French Government, at Boulogne, and is presumed to have been irritated at this circumstance, for he wrote an violent letter to the police in Paris, in which, after lengthy complaining of this infraction of the Law of Nations, he ended by saying, that the Bourbons had committed an act on his person which might hurl them from the throne.—Journal by T. HAYES, Esq., Vol. 1, p. 243.\n\nThe undersigned in our trade requests that claims against him be sent for liquidation immediately, and that those justified to him likewise discharge relatives due. He begs also to state that he has transferred his business to Mr. HENRY VAUCHER, formerly of Custom.\n\nCHARLES WEISS. Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nMR. HENRY VAUCHER, in retiring from the above, solicits the Patronage hitherto bestowed on his predecessor, and gives notice that the Business will be carried on in his Own Name and Responsibility from the date.\n\nHongkong, June, 1856.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\n[No. 23.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThere is some difference of opinion in these two cases. There is in fact a considerable difference between asserting by the Neutrality ordinance No. 1 of 1865 that the ships of war of our Ally the Emperor of China shall be seized and confiscated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE!! if found in the harbour of Hongkong, and the second paragraph of the above opinion. \"We (the Law Officers of the Crown) do not concur in the conclusion of the Acting Attorney General\" \"that the Chinese are to be considered as beyond the pale of civilized nations,\"\n\nTHE CHILD OF FRANCE !\n\nOn the evening of Wednesday last, the 28th ult., an unfortunate accident which caused the death of 26 Chinese passengers happened to the steamer \"Knee\" as she was proceeding up the river,\n\nThe Emperor of France has obtained a son. This is a fact, in no way to be disputed. We can all remember instances when political sagacity and party prophecy\n\nThe \"Rose\" left, this about ten minutes past six o'clock, and had reached the western side of Tonkun bay, when having hugged the land too closely, her starboard bow struck on a sunken rock, opening so much of her side that she immediately filled forward and went down, drowning 26 Chinese in the forecastle, Fortunately for others on board, her stern part hung on the rock, and it was but until the next day that the whole of the body of the vessel went down. Before a coroner's jury held on view of ten of the bodies that had been brought here, the engineer stated that he chanced to be on deck at the time the vessel struck, that he heard the Captain saying \"stop her\" which was immediately done,—that in a minute or so, he heard the Captain again cry \"go on, all right,\" when the engines were put to work, but they had only made three revolutions when the water rushed into the engine room; that having again turned off the steam he was engaged in drawing the fires, but before he was enabled to do so, the water had reached his middle. Hay—\n\n144 Dak Kassa, 15 taels long by 9 in. thick and 11 in. deep TEAK BEAMS, before delivery, in Merchant's packages, weighed at $7,4-7.\n\nHongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nDE SILVER & Co., Auctioneers.\n\n\"EXSAMUEL RUSSELL\" AND \"QUICKSTEP\"\n\nThe undersigned are landing, and offer for Sale,—\n\n150 Punces Gallego CEDAR. 2,500 Gallons American BRANDY. 10,000lbs Winchester SOAP. 50 Pairbanks PLATFORM SCALES—weight from 240 to 1200lbs.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nAn Invoice of OYSTERS, Green PEAS, Fresh PEARS, APPLES, QUINCES, and CRANBERRIES.\n\nHongkong, 2nd June, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. SUPPLY of Sill's New York BUTTER. Also, Trade Dozen Bus's Triangle ALE.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st June, 1856.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John are, on Sundays at 7 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of PERLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M. on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 8\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Camberwell Green, London on the 1st April, the Wife of Captain The JAMARON of the P. & O. Steamer \"Brisbane,\" of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 22nd May, the Wife of Mr. Asterio DUS SANTOS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 28th May, the Wife of Mr. Duxa KIXI E CARNEO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Macao, the 25th May, Mr. J. M. DE FONSECA, Harbour Master, to Miss MARQUISHA LOUREIRO, Daughter of the late Senhor Antonio Loureiro, Esq.\n\nA Victors. Hongkong, on the 1st June, M. HUSIND CHYTHESHEX to Miss FURSA B. DA SILVA SOUZA,\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt the Missionary House, Springfei, on the 4th February, Mr. NICASIUS BAYJIES, of Boston, and late of Stungcar, aged 21.\n\nAt Lackbear, near Exeter on the 1st April, the Sister, of du John Bourring, Governor Hongkong\n\nTHE Government Gazette of 31st Ultimo contains\n\nin the natural course of life and death, and in barran—desa. Wow them not a man named Bradshaw, a great man Canterbury, brawler, years since turned to forth the most villanous epithets upon Queen Victoria ? Did he not talk of Josci, using the name in Highest compare Now, that Bradshaw was of the hopeful school who predicted barrenness to the Queen: they had such unquestionable authority for the inevitable fact. Truly, Her Majesty—as, in due season, we shall learn on the Civil List—very soon confounded these prophets; and, at the present hour, most satisfactorily up—plies the picture of Byron :-\n\n\"A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a sovereign and seven stilling pieces.\"\n\nThus, no delicacy can be more brilliant than the bestowed upon the fanaticism at the Tuileries on Sunday may be only promissary of the many olive-bunches to be vouchsafed to Napoleon and Engine: to the very prophetic party, as in due time rebuked the soothsayer's\n\nThe first flower in this legal parterre is a con—Ordinance No. 2 of 1856, Entitled an Ordinance to explain the law as to the removal of riots—then follows, No. 9 of 1856. Entitled\n\n20\n\nThere can be no doubt of the fact, that Henri Cinq is\n\nas his wife is not yet added a baby—not a sin—\n\nby centricuting to France a boy that, even at Barnum's Baby-show, would, it is said, carry off the first prize for weight and size.\n\nAn Ordinance to explain certain enactments relating to shipping :then comes No. 10 of 1856 Entitled an Ordinance for Lis Pendens and Purchasers; a measure that has duly passed the mock Legislative Council and are in full bloom and lily-bud—\n\nTHE following proclamation appears in the Government Gazette of last Saturday :--\n\nThe Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely—\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1855, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1856, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nNow, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nOn the death of Sir William Molesworth: as most of our readers are aware, the difficulty of filling the situation of Colonial Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nLord Palmerston was, not so much to\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to—morrow on the Parade Ground, commencing at 6 o'clock, the following:--\n\n1—Grande: Collscom March—Gay'l\n\n2—Cavatina Op. The Enchantress—Balfe.\n\n3.—Negro Quadrille—Tullien.\n\n4—Bird of Paradise Waltzes—Kémewig.\n\n5—Carmen Fiko—Fritze.\n\n6—Caling, T.Kelly.\n\nQu'un puce y déposa, tribut de sa fleur, Verre les portes, et tuinteur tu enches\n\nJeune fille et Jeune fleur\n\nAh! nos los reals Jamais à no monde profane,\n\nà ce monde de deuil, d'angoisse femelle!\n\nLe te bete et flétrir, le soleil brile et fane\n\nJeune fille et jouoc Beur\n\nTudors, pauvre lisa, si l'ère di un éve: Tu ne trains plus\n\nplus à jour le froid et in allen; Elles ont achevé leurs traiches matins,\n\nJeune file et je flaut.\n\nMais ton père, Elisa, ur ta centre incline.\n\nAux ridden front a more la pleur:\n\nEt Vimix caène, le Temps Canche sur sa razine,\n\nJeune file at jeune flour,\n\nChateaubriand.\n\nmost talented man to fill the situation ci Celo—Colonies, not even in Great Britain, than the\n\nto be shoved into the piace. From the awe Eew long that respectability will be maintained, nil Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nAttorneys of the Hongkong Court at present, precious specimen of a proclamation we are when the profession may be overcrowded with strongly led to believe that Lord Palmerston has 20 exactly hit upon the least ignorant of his dy men from the unusual sources of supply which the present Ordinance opens up, it is not easy to say.\n\nI Colony lies.\n\nancs? The cause of it is perfectly plain. The We asked, What was the cause of the Ordin—Attorney General comes from Botany Bay, that\n\nof the deft. The imperial prince is eager to hear the Pope's suck and, doubtless, will be father digna, we should rather say encored, by godfatherty gifta piece of the true cross set in a bit of gold brengt by Siba to Sulomen: or, in a diamond locket, a pinch of iron filings from the fetters of St. Peter and St. Paul. Yet, his loltasse no thought of Henriking, the lineal descen whilst the Pope is godfather to the son of parceny, baa dit of Joris, now somewhere in any? But such is the conversent memory of the Vatican.\n\nfiength of years be grated to Loria Napoleon, he a Kemperor. Pessibly, we say for history tells us not may possibly rear baby now in his crile inte stuff for to look for grecs mea in the sons of great inen. Crom—\n\na son of sufficient alty to ale a pause. It rany wall fefe has le rouse to rate a gdom; and he loft seem odd, and yet destiny pinys such prawks with la hopes an inations—yet even a Seroud of Tecember may bogo First of April.—Lloyd's W. N., March 23.\n\nWIDOWS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS.\n\nWe annex the rules and regulations appended to the warrant given in a recent number of the Gazette, for\n\neven teli the quarter of the world in which that even if now, a place to which respectablering a £ards of money in lieu of pensions, coti This may seen an extreme saer—Attorneys were likely to go and the govern passionate lowances, and gratuites, to the widows, tion, hnt we must either suppose this extreme ignorance existing in the Colonial Secretary, or in\n\nment very wisely got hold of the next best families, and relatives of officers killed in action or dying substitute in allowing their officials connected of wounds recived in the face of the enemy, within six\n\nmonths after being wounded.\n\nNo body here\n\nthe Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Law with the law to become lawyers—but there is no Officers of the Crown, seeing that on the 15th March 1856 the folowing Notification appeared wante, and nobody has asked for the Ordinance. His in the Government Gazette:-\n\nExcellency the Governor and the Attorney Gen—\n\nan or dying of words received in face of the enemy, 1. The cmount of mousy to be paid to a widow, widow and children, ar other relatives of an officer inted in\n\nbranch of the service be sny bave belonged to, be the within six months after being wounded, shall. Whatever\n\ninfantry of the line, as set forth in the following scale, viz.\n\nTo the willow, widow aut chil—dren, ebilen, filies,mativer. state, or sisters of..............\n\nDiffe\n\nDizto\n\nJitk\n\nDitto\n\nDitto\n\nCawley\n\nTref\n\nLieut Colbel £175...£1500\n\nMajor 4575... 9300 Captain 3625, 1960 Lieutenant 1190 700 Coruat... $10..... Ensign... 450\n\nA question having risen as to the Law by which Con—eral, like true cosinopolites, resolved to legislate tracts ethered into with Her Majesty's Subjects on C irrespective of creed or color,\" and with the strong regulation price sized for commissions in cavalry and nese Territory hy Chinese Subjects for the Cession of Property in China, should be regulated; watter shape of getting for the present a cheap interpre—hert retered by the Barl of Clarender to the law ter, bold out this Ordinance as a bait. It is made Gfficers the Crown, whose opinion is as follows\n\n\"War of opinlot that Brdish Tribunala and Jedrini\n\nin a fine large spirited manner \"Alienage or Chin—Authorices in China are bound to ohmerve the rules and Tu fallowing is the charmeter given of Sir John incipies of Publie ur Enternat Tuw, so they are set to do is to take the usual caths, one of which ese status no disqualification \"ail stunt you have Boaring twenty years ago. There are few people we do and oneur in the conclusim of the noting, Ac Now, the persou for whom this Ordinance was and received by the auton consent of European natione nathes is the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty. who have bad anything to do with His Excellency torny-General, that the Chiness are to be considered as who will not agree that the likeness is a wonder—beyond the pale of civilized nations.\n\nIn a queationa that may evine botere any Kritina Tri—\n\nexpressiy mande is, as we have betise sid bunal in Chung relating to the ownership or occupation of\n\na Morrison school boy who has studied in\n\nBut it sun! in no case exceed the sum of money actually The French Gerament has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nNo. $3.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n91\n\n3. In the event of an offer leaving a widow and Mr. Speerivales four paints which particularly re—children, who may or might have established a claim to quire legislative action at this time. He anys the persion, compassionate allowance, or gratuity, then The number allowed to immigrate to this country and in that case the mouey awarded in lieu thereof shall should not be too great. We may not be prepared to he held in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and afford them weful employment. They any code in ex the interest thereof, at the rate of £3 per cent. per ann cess, and not settle down, and assimilate to our institu all be receivable by the widow, ustil her death, when Haas and Waiks. the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among jadicions ineu, and xot unreasonable, to allow for the It is therefore the preference of many the children than alive of such deceased officer, provided present the law which fixes a capitation tax to re they shall have attrined the age of 21, otherwise the provided it is so administered as not to interfere with money shall still continue to be held in trust and the rutamerce,\n\nbusines event, however, of de witlow anrviving her said children future duty from observation of its nulla, or in com And judgunat only indicate the nosey all than become her sole and absolute pro—plinee with the future wants and desires of our own perty, as Inid down in Article 2; but should such chirou people. survive the widow, yet still die before attaining the age of 21, then and in that case the money, after discharging deserves consideration. The amouai freit by the pre—2. The amount of the license required from minera alt just liabinties, shall become the property of the Crow sent law is uppressive. Few are possessed of good 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, claims. The tax beggars them. It drives them to the but no widow, the mouny shalt he laid in trust, and the\n\nmountsics and tickets like wild beasts. It is the interest thereof, at the rate of $3 per cent. per anner,\n\nwith hanger, sickness and despair. It turns theci, what stated in Article 3, shall be applied by the Secretary\n\ntheir honourable character with our trading population of State for War for the benefit of such child or children,\n\nin the country shows is not necessary, int cheats and antit he, she, or they shal! attain the age of 21, when\n\ndoes. It will in time fill our pisose. It makes them fathe and hase us as a people, and our name, our country, property of such surviving child or children. they understand we profess. If put to the fordicz, stand— and our government and the Christian religion, which share and share alike. Should, however, such child asard of four dollars per month, the sum affords a hand Chronicle, March 20,\n\nagain demandell his goods, tendering the whole wit In a genera! urder, Jated Feb. 25, the Commander-la- of freight us by the bill of lading. for all the goods was thereupun offered him, but subject by a correspondent at Kerteh, of \"inute details of lines A delivery order chier draws attrusion to the publication in a newspaper, to the charges for storage and cartage which had an and works, strength of garrison, and various tallitary crued upon them. The goods had, in accordance with a arrangements;\" and, referring General Vivian to the notice to that effect given by the shr's agent, heen particulars, he authorises him to arrest the individual ceased to slischarge; and it is satisfactorily proved that believe that such folly will nes be repeated. He then laced in a public warehouse each night when the ship and send him away at once, unless he has reason to\n\ntheir salty, but rendered unavoidable by the fact that this disposition the goods was not only necessary for proceeds as folows\n\nThe Commander of the forces has occasionally seen\n\ninterest applied for their benefit up to that age. In the in nered the passage to and ice of those engaged the goods are not suffered to retain on the whart at similar things from this cams. Strength of regimenta\n\nthe\n\nahones, us in the case of the widow, shall become the\n\nchildren die before attaining the age of 21 years, then unul in that case the money, after discharging all just labilities, shall become the property of the Crown,\n\nsobe State and County resece, and they appear willing pay it. Iat lower, as some have prepused, there is danger of new legislation, to two or three gene, to incrense it again.\n\nThis appears, after the brief experience of a fe months, to be suc opinion of the people generally the mining districts.\n\ncease.\n\nmight. The bellent, however, declined to pay his freight sickness, butteries, gins, quuntly of ammunition, the and receive his goods subject to these charges, and there state ui preparation, means of transport, the very situa agon fled bis like: for non-delivery. It is not suggested tion of concealed histories, the strength of pickets, the that the charges upon the goods were any other or\n\nbest mes of attacking them, all recklessly detailed as greater thus expenses necessarily incurred in trans. on purpose to usiruet an enemy. Couaou precace—ng the progress of the disenarge, and the question to porting them to and keeping them in a warehouse dur—tion for the sake of the aring requires that this should he determined is, whether under the clearances, He then appeals to the right sense of duty of alt officers ship owner. these chargee should be borne by the shipper, or the and non-comissioned officers, and concludes by requir—ing the generals of disisiou to bring the tenor of the order The decision was in favor of the defendant. The cou—signnee must pay freight in ace for all his merchant belonging to the arany,\" who are permitted to versin to the notice of the \"known correspondent of newspapers ship, or if the ship master storex the metsandise as it she to the rules of the army under whose protection they dives it by wishes to take it away as he comes from the in the canige, and who toast consider themselves ainen— is discharged until the whole roast is discharged, the c consignze must pay storage, curtage, California\n\nTHE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWe resume consideration of the Itev. Mr. Speer's \"Pica\" for the Chinese in California.\n\nNUMBER OF CBINASE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Speer pablished, some eight or ten months ago, a statement of the cuber of Chinese the\n\nThe Times, as might be expected, is írate at this under, says that it ever too late, and that Generati Codrington has now loat whatever reputation he formerly\n\npossessed.\n\n\"I\" obsives our temporary, \"the abjectionable commivation appeared in our columes, it was written by a military officer, and, if General Codrington has any real ground of complaint, it is pro—hale that the writer, too trenical in his detaile, did not imitate the exudon which is always practised by por—fessional correspondents.\" In these observations, the\n\nis a melter which demands the attention of the Legisino Lere is not materially differeus, or the departures Times averlooks the fact, that the same general order\n\n3. The mode of collecting the Foreign micers' licenses supposed to be in this country. Probably the number\n\nture.\n\nIt is to be feared there, is some thing radically since last spring may have been about equal to the also draws attention to similar exposures of the prepara wrong in the present system. How often do you reat of Chinamen shot, or stabbed, or wipped, or stripped ted with the five well-known Companies.\" Probubig, pressly prohibits teus for the future—Home News, arrivals. the Chinese in California are chiefly contre—lions of the rug by newspaper correspondents, and ex— and searched, or maltreated and insulto in some other says Mr. Speer, there are not a thousand Chiuames in Marele 25, way, by the collerters. How frequently do we reus the State who are not members of our or other of these under the \"items\" head of our newspaper announce ments like this one Three Chinamen Shot—A For eigu miners' tax collector of Lousty, on Wednesday last, shot three Chiasmon who resisted him in the dis—River.\" charge of his duty. The difficuity took place on the→→→→→\n\n5. In the event of an offices leaving at his death neither widow, child, sur children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and if he leave no father, it may be pa to his mother, for his or her sole and absolute benefit. provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, provi ded they shall have attanned the age of 21 years, aud that cheie claint shall be established. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, in the money shall be held is as by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be applied, as stated in Article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 31 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the survivors or Survivor. Simuli wo survivors or survivor ritnin the age of 21, then the tanney, after discharging just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown.\n\nNow it is admitted that these people are provokingly 6 No grast or money undar provisions of this warrant slow; are fearful and suspicious; are cunning in evading sal be made to Ray person who would not be eligible the enllector, and play maoy tricks to wary L. But far pension compassionate allowance, or gratuity under\n\nhave they no excuse? farther, if they have one, the provisions of the royal warrant of the 15th of June, are they so dangers and ferocious: anges that yield: 1958 ( fadier alone excepted whose claim nnst be esta blished as set forth in Article 5), but the ineligibility of of the forest? Does the humane administration of law to no remelin, tad must he dealt with like furious beasts widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect aot extend west of the Aueries Desert? Are men to the interests of the legitimate child or children of a decensed ulicer, for whose benefit the money shall be\n\nhe murdered at will by an irrespacaible petty officer, for held in trust, and the interest seplied by the Secretary tionalde entstitutionality? Is such as officer licensed resisting se pecuolery obligation, and that of ques. of State for We, as stated in Article 4, except they be to slaughter a man that is not imble; or because he left in such pecuniary errcumstances as wou'd disquely don't cinderstura Buglish; or because he is a stranger, them for the co:upassionate kilowances wider the pro—\n\n*\n\nvisions of Article 3. Should, however, such chill and poos, and sick, and friendless? ebildren die before attaining the age of 21, then and that use the money, after dislarging t just abilities, shult become the property of the Crowd,\n\npazzuities.\n\nCompanies. The following is the computation hy then, buse erived in Csforma; that have returned hence to in a tabular form, of the total number of Chinese that their native land: that have died here; and faully, their estincale of the number in the spring of last year in the\n\nState:\n\nWe read in the Prassing correspondence of the Times: let: I have lately reserved from Hum. santative there, Calone: Hodges, was led to make various burg informs me that, some few weeks back, our repres representations to the senate of the quantities of am—munition that left, flat neutral port for Russia In the course of the examination that these reclamations gave vine to, I am informed it turned out that thees supplies hud in west instaurea been shipped thither frota England 9,200 or that purpose. For.instance, two houses in England 6,807 had suippes to Hamburg two cargoes of lead, three ofẾ 84'petre, und eleven of sulphur. The parties implicated 38.387\n\nin the air are described to me as standing very high in England, andarsong them a member of Parliament.\" Homes News, March 26.\n\nNames.\n\nArrivals. Deartares. Drecna'd Prasat Young-wo Copy...6,900 Couto Company....8,00 Sza-yap Company1,050 Yun-wo Company.......2,500 Ning- euy Company 2,809\n\n2,503\n\n1,300\n\n400 £tu\n\n14.000 6.500\n\n(ii)\n\n160\n\n$780 1.269\n\n300\n\n173\n\n1.780\n\nTotal 18,249 8,522 1,290 Adding to these, the ana,ber of Chinese not members of the Companies, and probably there may be found 40,000 of the race at present in this country.\n\nM. Mazzini lately sent £30 to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepten or the past-ofice, the bills\n\nTHE US. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA.\n\nThe United States steain frigate Niegore was recently seized, cashed, and applied to the fand for ruising a launched from the socklyn Navy Yard. The last mail have absencterised this act as a slawefu: and grant statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers\n\nThere are two things that can be done. First, the from the Rust brought account of the launch, and a robbery Home News, March 26. penalties of an payment of the miners' license may be description of the magnificent vessel. From the New 7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac—efred, and they may be guarded su us to prevent acts! Yor's Herald we take the following:- torily prove to the Secretary of State for War, that any of brutality to encuarage men of a desirable character The Niagara is one of the five steam frigates now in\n\nAllading to the unsightly smallness of the ladies' bon—wilow na wiose bekali money shall be held in trust for to perform the duties; and also so as to be a heu tu\n\nnets, an eminent musical gentleman in London, writing the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions\n\nprocess of construction for the United States Navy. Her to a friend in Bristol, suys:-\"I have to lames the grezi the region. Legal gentlemen can readily devise such main dimensions are: 2oanage, 5.204; extreme length iparcase, among the fetals part of my practice, of tic of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct hersell' as t\n\nFor instance, ability to work upon the on deck, 24 feet; load le, 323 feet. She is to be county roads, at a certain rule per day, until the demand shipped egged; mainmast, I feet long and 3 feet 4 ining in the ear, injured, I firmly believe, from the present douloureux in the forehead, loss of sigit, and great juffer—of the license is satisfied.\n\nches in diameter; mein yard, 55 feet long, and mizea Secuud, it seems almost equally necessary to consti—spunker boot 67 fest. Fail complement of vinn .\n\nased fashion of neuting hosneta on the week instead of tute an office, or to appoint an officer, to whom those Some kiea of her immense capacity may be formed fo\n\nthe head. During the past month i have been in attend—ordmarily subject to the foreign mers' tax may appeal the following schedule of her masts and spara, which are\n\nance upon zwn young ladies with the the-doalonzēta in erhead, and several others with similar complaints. frora de collector in speriat rases, and who may decide now be.ug ball:- the circus ces that warrant a remission the tax.\n\nIt is high time that the frivolous bonet of the present There are some cases of exceeding hardship aris: from\n\nYards Length Diam. Length, Diam.\n\nday should be done away with.\"-- Home News, Mirch 28, the caprices and the cores of collectors. They\n\nFr. io. In. Ft. in. If.\n\nhave no rules. One told me that holes old tea, boys,\n\nWOMEN AND WArones-Mr. Beunct, the watah-maker 111:00 871 10:05 24 packure, and sick people, go free.\" There are no de\n\nof Cheapside, in a letter to the Times, recommends that 07:08 21 76:11 191 women should be employed as wetch-makers. We give nius, un real responsibilities in the whole mater. Muinroyal It is mere spullation,\n\nthe practical part of his conuication:-\n\nMainmast Maintop\n\nMaiuto gallant\n\nFereskysa?! \n\nMireutop\n\nbeenme unworthy of the Clown, or stall neglect or ill. treat her children, then and in that use the Secretary of Sture for War shall have full power to tasks such arrange ments for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judge ment may see must advisabic.\n\n8. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of others kifled in sesion, or dying of weands before the declin\n\non of war with Russia, hur it is to lake n retrospective rfect up to that date; and therefore, say officer's willow to whom there may have been granted a pensior, com—passionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself\n\nod children, or any other relative of an officer, who may 4 Betler protectios must be extended to Chinese re. Main skil have receive a peusion under the warrant of 15th June, sinents generally. Some means should be devised by Foremast 1855, who tony wish to rotate such pension, allow-whch the statements of Chinese should be received Burstop acers, or gratuities, for the sun fixed wider the provisions regard to crimes affecting their lives, persons au po Puteopgallant of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so; but in that porty. They do dot perhaps understand sufficiently the Porevoval case, whatever suns may have been received by or al care of on oala to be adicuted in our Courts to enjoy aumuns of the widow or exildren, or other relatives, wil at equal privilege with those acquainted with the sanc Mzent be deducted from any amount to be paid under the terrasons of Christianity. But no other maans prepubly of this warrust. But in every case of a sum of money than receiving their affirmation, allowing it the credence. Mzentopgallant being awarded Guder the provisions of this warrant. that, according to internal evidence and the accompany Mccoyal interest inerton at the rate of 63 per cent. per annu\n\ning Creumstances, it seems fairly to deserve, will prevent\n\nMizens kysall wil he allowed how the day of the officer's death.\n\ndegraded and autward centness from rubbing, bruising. U. Should the widow, or any other relative of a deceas. cheating or killing a Chinaman, wien to white witness ed officer wi. prior to 23rd October, 1855, has been granted pension, and other uliowaned, under the\n\nThe protection of the Chinese miners from marauders is vital to their quite, and to their usefulness to our provisions of the warrant of 15 June, 1835, wish to cocinute such pension and lowances by sum of respect for lass, where they are pistered by night av jihoon\n\nthemselves. They can have no heart for industry, and na money in eu therevf, in conformity with the terms of this wherau, it will be necessary that application to the\n\nby day, by fous wretchies, who battly rob a camp in Spanker hoora fect be made to the Secretary of State for War, within\n\nthe five of a hundred, if no lites are present, and who: Spanker ga year from the October, 1855. And shoul the\n\nhave no compunctions in murdmg even the unresisting. Spanker gaff duw, or my other reiative of a deceased offers, whe.\n\nThere are heen hundreds of sua case, An interior Forespunker gaf since 2311 October, 1855, may have already, or\n\nnewspaper says of these cobbers: -\n\nNot camerated hereafter be granted, a prasion and other allywuuees. wish to epimute such penting und allowsares for of money in hen thereof. mudes the provisions of this warrent, it will be acessary that application to tha fert be made to the Secretary of State for War, with a year from the date of the said pens and user allow lances being granted.\n\n1. A return of all sams paid under the provisions of this warrant and be faid nasly briore Parliament an ufter the 1st of Aynl. Gaven at our Court at Sail James's, Ritis ist day of March. 1856, in the 19th year of Our Reign-By Her Majesty's command,\n\nPATHONE.\n\ny\n\nth\n\nis near.\n\nSwinging boom. Maintop stuldingsafl boom Maintop gallantanil hacm\n\ndo. Mainrayal de Bowsprit, outboard Jihkoom\n\n35:04 12) \n\n51.03 134\n\n23:07 81 32:09\n\nE\n\n14:06\n\nbi\n\n21.00\n\nJUI:GO 35\n\n00:09 23\n\n50.00 YO\n\n07:09\n\n54\n\n31.09 7\n\n21:10 214 47:03 21:06 13:03 34 19:06 35; & 32 72:10 50:04 15 Ai:0x 11 27:09 S 34:10 8 13:00\n\n16\n\n4+\n\n55:00 }] \n\n4:00\n\n11:04 TTE 62:00 21 33:00 8 $1.00 } 23:00 51\n\n22.03 10.11\n\n2xtú\n\n17:00 4\n\n20:00 24\n\n38:00 ia\n\nX5:00 -\n\n.67:00\n\n15\n\nThe French Government has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nTHE ENGLISH TOWERZ—The English language has its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\nTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nThe English language har its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and Mr. Steers stood at the command of any other language of men.\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\ndevelopment and condition, inve been the result of a It has been erroneously stated that this steamer will surprisingly indmate anion of the two noblest languages be the largest in the world. The Adriatic, now upon in modern Europe, the Teutonic aud Kopanic. It is the stocks at the Messrs. Steers' shipyard, will be larger well known in what relating these two stand to one portion of the contents of his bill of lading by several hundred tons. Her uit diensions are another in the English tongue; the former supplying, estimates that she will go 17 kuols an hour with a good\n\nbreeze, und 18 knots under steamI\n\nted by Di Secretary of State for War, shall be constitu—having been in dieu thereof, and shall be the sole and standing auto—upon the agents of the ship and demanded a delivery of feer: depth of hold, 33 feet 2 inches; tormagt. 5,898, latter, the spiritual conceptions. In truth, the English upon the asters hereis costined; but shall not al or in any way invelidate any act heretvicze per. bed by our Secretary of State for War under the\n\nthe goods so discharging, offering to pay the freight, dur carpenter'z measurement. Like the Niagara, this steamer tunguage, which, be no mere accident, has produced on them. This the consignees of the ship derlined to isions of the last mentioned warrant”—Home News, \n\nis divided into watertight tch 26.\n\nthis our Royal warraul, to be administered and inter—first day aded guan the wharf, he thereupon called Length over all, 352 feet; extreme breadth of hy, sin far larger propuctions, the blaterial groundwork; the\n\nR LEGISLATION WANTED FOR THE CHI—NESE IN CALIFORNIA, continue our notice at the Rev. Mr. Speer's hlet entilled a \"Plea for the Chinese in California,\"\n\nthe whole contents of the bill of lading. The libeliant and cylinders 100 inches. The lenses Steere are rapidly cel poetry (Shakspeare), ans, with ali right, be called a Works, 12 feel stroke, modern times, as distinguished from the audient classi ther, professed his willingness to do so, provided at the hastening the completion of the Adriatic, with all their world language; and, like the English people appears goods were ready for delivery; but he declined to take disposable force, and she will probably be ready fur destined hereafter to pressil with a sway more extensive\n\ndelivery order for the goods and receive them as they laeting by the middle or last of March. offers were repeated from day to day while the vessel about four months.—California Chronicle, bỉarch 26 came out in the usual course of the discharge. These It is thought that the Magura will be ready for ses in was being unladeu; and on the last day the libellam\n\nBorede to, but required him to pay all the freight due on (oscillating) are from the Novelty. Her engines and uphorne the greatest and most predominant poel of\n\nFor in wenith, good sense, and closeness of structure, even than its present over all portions of the globe. no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "the Secretary of State.\n\nthe, however, it appears that a proposal has been put home by the Military Authorities, which involves the appropriation of ground not in possession of the \" Harbour Department \" and this intention army reference to His Excellency, through\n\nsomeone alone can such\n\nalienated, His Excellency is of opinion that the whole correspondence on this subject should accompany the Despatch, and this shall be adopted accordingly.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) W. J. Mercer,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPrinted for Part 3\n\nBy Command. Jet-\n\nLegislation\n\nGazette\n\n10,368\n\nB of Trade 11,483\n\nCopy to I of Trade,\n\nconst 9 Aug/562.9\n\nReferring to Messrs Wood and Fragen &\n\nB. of Trade answer 7549.\n\nReport\n\nAnswered. 102.27 Aug. 156.\n\n7031 đóng trong\n\nMer\n\n207\n\nColonial Offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 8 June 1856.\n\n1856\n\nI have the honour to forward authenticated copy of Ordinance No 9 of 1856, entitled an \"Ordinance No 9 to explain certain enactments relating to shipping\"\n\nThe first Clause is inserted\n\nin accordance with instructions\n\nconveyed in your Despatch No. 13 of 10th December 1865.\n\nThe Second is intended to\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\nDe:",
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        "content_text": "221\n\nefficiently\n\nattracted attention, And that adverting\n\nto tiens,\n\nAs well as to the special grounds which distinguish Capt. Wathina's Case from others, he is to be Allowed the benefit which to lay ago a dered in his favn of\n\na pecuniary payment in lieu of the rooms which he\n\nformerly occupied.\n\nPF.E\n\n17 Sept\n\nOn the whole I think it more\n\nwas\n\nfor the benefit of the service that por Labouchere on uphold his own decision than that he and hold himsel\n\nbound but what was not a\n\nbut rather an\n\non the part of\n\nindication\n\ndecisio\n\nof opinion\n\nLord J. Russell.\n\nI would reply that Lord John Russell\n\nquslision but reserved\n\ndid not give any i\n\n83\n\nit for the report which die J. I was instructed to Jumist – Sir W. Molesworth in a\n\nJurnish which relieved Capt walkins from portion of his duties\n\ndespatat\n\nQ\n\nreferred\n\n5 Lord\n\nJohn Russell's despatch of 23d June\n\nbut he does not appear to have intended to pronounce\n\nany opinion of on the subject\n\nOf that despatch\n\nMordabouchere in arsiony\n\nah\n\nthe decision announced in his despatch of 18th March last fully considered the documents laid before him & he feels it necessary\n\nto manitarni thi decision then deliberatif given\n\nMs 25 sept",
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        "content_text": "37\n\nbehalf of Government.\n\nI have,\n\n7.\n\n2:100.\n\nExecutive.\n\nW. I. Mercer,\n\n(Signed)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\n(True Copy\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAnswered. 12. Aug. /sb Rogb.\n\n7039 Story Kay?\n\nhồng\n\n270\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n\n9th June 1856.\n\nAUG. 6\n\n1856\n\nI have the honor to report\n\nthat the Service of this Government has suffered greatly during the past 12 months from the want of efficient interpreters.\n\nIt will be remembered that\n\nan application was made for the sanction of the Secretary of State to the increase of Mr. Caldwell's Salary on the 3rd February 1855.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "23\n\nW. 108.\n\nII Financial\n\nSER\n\n20b 3 Hong Kong\n\nTREG\n\n\"Government offices,\n\nVictoria,\n\nHongkong 5th July 1856.\n\nDespatch #70758/883.\n\nInclosure in letter from\n\nAttorney General Anstey, conveying his opinion on the suggestions\n\nof the Superintendant of Police on Piracy in the China Seas. After Bridges of the 30th July, 1857.\n\nI have the honor to enclose an application from Dr. Dempster the Colonial Surgeon for an increase of his salary from £200 to £300 per annum.\n\nI have already in Despatch No. 119 of 26th March last reported my conviction that the present arrangement for carrying the duties of Colonial Surgeon is unsatisfactory,\n\nand trust\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere M.P.",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nThe reasons be assigns that the plan y for that the Colony requires.\n\na year & a Coos errantens with £1000 a M Scat in the - Colonial Sengon & no più ate practice, & perhaper L. Council – which opension the Governo supperts & to this rextent that the Col. Sarson should have not geen vno private practice, wapt £1000, but £800 in cases.\n\n17 whene a urgency The prevent application from D. Dempster for miilase of Solang. for himself brings the whole question issue.\n\nBeering in an The Bt. Stauble H. Labouchere, M. P. Governor For John Booring 5 July, 1856.\n\n1 Inclosure. N108. Received Surgeon for increase from the colonnel Enclosing application Leary.\n\nMind that Si Jelin Bouring is spending the Colonial revenue at a rate to which we are quite unaccustomed - theat secus to be deflating the cconomical abomats of the G. Bonhamn – Real the prosperity of th. King may Casting the Governin facies I conside not be do Heat before Dy have a year a ... we return to the original systern Colonial Sueylon on £600. a £800, a £1000 ought to be quite certain from the war really not be Dept. Heat a Regenintal Sugger can that an Army да spared. If that Dept. she say Cannet conservently be chayed with those Civil there w. be so alternative duties then in such case rexcept to hoppreint a separate & distinit Office fr the seince. But even then I should hope that his tfboo Salay u. be Nept at £boo a rear-with priate practice which extends professional Eppscience.\n\nIt girth n M. Ball and consider the preoprices of putting the Surgeon, ints the & Council.\n\n18tew. 8063. Hay Kay SW. Ball.\n\nIn the main not lee any reason I do question, for applying to 'the War Dept, because they allow us already the use of D. Dempetas services, and do not propose withdraw them.\n\nD. Dempster Asko fre increase to Au of his Colonial pay from £900 to £300; ~ fries a which the Governo no opinion. The amount of his Military pay is not stated in the only be Blue Book, and Could an ascertained, if required, by inquiring of the War Depai Department.\n\nThe Governor + Colonial Secreting an other occasions advocated have the re-appointment of a Curt Colonial Surgeon, but on some what bague ground, And I should feel great doubts whether there are any sufficient reasons for the measure.\n\n278 22 Vene",
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        "content_text": "As my suit against Mr. Anstey for defamation of character, cannot be heard before the 14th instant, I prefer to wait a decision \n\nthat is sure, before obtruding further upon Her Majesty's Government. Meantime, I have the honor \n\nto request that my side of the \n\ncase be read upon the Correspondence \n\nof the recent trial together with this letter be transmitted to the \n\nSecretary of State by the outgoing \n\nmail.\n\nI have to (signed) W. H. Mitchell, \n\n(true Copy)\n\nActing Chief Magistrate.\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nN.115.\n\nLegislative.\n\nSER\n\n1856\n\nG.R. 2176/50\n\nColonial Secretary's Offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 9th July 1856.\n\nAs directed in your Despatch No. 52 of 22nd May last, I have the honor to forward Copy of Lord Grey's Despatch to Sir John Davis, Disallowing Ordinance No. 10 of 1845.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nwith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour\n\nMost Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nThe Baron\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.,\n\n&c. &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "Lan may have produced less energetic habits in the desultory fight for the sake of the community to prevail : Wal W Airtey might have done service reforming this stack of things, had he schooled himself in a gentlemanly spirit and without personal motives.\n\nRes 199\n\nAs it is a thing not to acknowledge, & I say in concurrence with the formal Minute?\n\n824119 accordings\n\nHm ht\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n22nd July, 1856.\n\nThe Rt. Honble H. Labouchere, M.P.\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nNo 119.\n\nReceived\n\nForwarding Correspondence\n\n02.\n\nthe practice of the Supreme Court in Hongkong.\n\nNo 30 Septa\n\nEnto J. Bowring.\n\nBall.\n\n4 Bet. Wyler Labouchere. 10\n\nSin,\n\n8605 H.\n\n10th Dec.\n\nI have to acknowledge your despatch of the 22 July No 119 forwarding copy of Correspondence arising out of Mr. Ausley's Complaint of the practice of the Supreme Court Hongkong.\n\nCareful perusal and after a review of the opinions submitted to you on the subject, I have to signify to you my concurrence in the view embodied in your Chief Justice's remarks.\n\nThanks to...\n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "and Riental Steam Navigation Company ales tendered, but as their rate was 50 Dollars a head, and that of the \"Greedy\" 35 Dollars, I considered myself bound to accept the Tender of the Sailing Ship,\n\nas much below the rate demanded by the Steamer.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJohn Bowring\n\nGov. 333.6 KM.\n\n993.\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nN.U.T.E.\n\n18727 NOV. 16\n\nFree of Materials &c.\n\nLabouchere.\n\nW. M.\n\n7 Enclr.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nyours Despatch, A/43 of the 9th September\n\nAnd to signify my approval of the\n\nexpenditure incurred in the transportation\n\nof 24 Chinese Convicts to Singapore.\n\n4 Nov.\n\nCurrent\n\nJim N 4\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "Proposed & referred to Mr. Wood and Registrar.\n\nMemorandum by Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n9th September, 1858.\n\nVictoria, Colony,\n\n2 enclosures.\n\nNo. 144.\n\nReceived \"and Trial by Jury.\" Amending the Law of Evidence Ordinance 1.1517/858\" In Submitting for Confirmation\n\nEntered Mayp\n\nEntered W. T. D.\n\n9008 Junks Deland\n\n9561\n\n99377 102413\n\nThe Attorney General and The Solicitor General\n\nMr. Derivale 7. Nov. 1856\n\n1 M. Ball\n\nMd. Loch Labouchere\n\nW. M.\n\nSee within Bm Honestins\n\n152 20th November 1856\n\nI am directed by W. Seel Labouchere to transmit for your consideration (jointly with that of the Solicitor General) copies of the following papers.\n\nTasks Deland. A Bill to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1855, Extending certain clauses of the Common Law Procedure Act 1852.",
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        "content_text": "The Rt. Honble Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n9th September, 1856.\n\n1 enclosure.\n\nN145-\n\nPetition submitting Correspondence with the non-official Justices contrary to Law.\n\nCertain magisterial decisions, of the Peace on the subject of PINE Mr. Merroute. This abatement of His Excellency's at any rate! I hope the Governor has taken the most effectual means of getting the Justices to repeal the Act - I think myself that what must be virtually regarded as a public censure is scarcely the best way to persuade them to repeal.\n\nW. Ball\n\nThis correspondence threatens to end ill, & seems to me extremely damaging to the influence of the Colonial Govt. in Hong Kong. That Sir J. B. is fundamentally in the right I have little doubt, but in thus brandishing Memoranda and \"minutes\" against the \"proceedings\" of the Colonial magistracy, he is diminishing the force of his own cause, wearying the Secy of State with matters quite beyond his cognizance.\n\nI think strictly speaking that the Justices are in the right in their complaints against Sir J. Bowring's dictations to them in their judicial capacity (p.57.d.) his language there is certainly intemperate & rather provoking.\n\nIt seems to me...",
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        "content_text": "13\n\nA\n\nthat Mr. G. W. Came being abroad in England, I cannot call upon him for the repayment of the amount (£15.0.0) but I would suggest that application be made, by the Colonial Department in London to the Foreign Office to whom in my judgment the Board of Admiralty should have at first applied for payment.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. Woodgate\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n1.176.\n\nCommercial\n\nGov1702/56 5 of Feby 2791.\n\nCopy\n\nto Bd of Trade for comon 23 Jan/57.\n\nAnswered. 20 Jan 757.\n\n20.\n\nYour\n\n268 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJAN 12\n\n1037\n\nfromment &c., &c., Nelson\n\nHoughton, 11½ November, 1857.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of 4th August 1857 on the subject of Light Houses, and to inform you that, there being no Light House in Hongkong, I am unable to reply to the queries proposed in that Circular.\n\nI take the opportunity however to refer to your despatch 19173 of 11 December.\n\nThe Right Honble\n\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nNe.",
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        "content_text": "and to thank you for the kind expressions of your sympathy; but at the same time to state that, while it is far from His Excellency's wish to interfere with the promptings of religious duty, the interest he feels for the security of the Missionary leads him to express a hope that for the present the neighbouring Continent will not be visited by the Members of your body.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) W. J. Mercer,\nColonial Secretary\n\nTrue Copy\nJohnom,\nColonial Secretary\n\n181.\nMiscellaneous\nF.6.62.94\nGov Hong Kong to St. B. for exfe 18 Dec 189-F.F.\n73 dong trong\n\nRECEIVED\nJAN 12\n1957\n\nDocument Offices, Victoria\n\nFong Toys, 12th Feb 1857.\n\nWith reference to your despatch\nCh.16104/105 Ultimus, I have the honour to report that intelligence has been received of the death of I. B. Mown, mentioned therein, the nephew of the late Mr Burd and one of the two parties interested under his will.\nMr. Brown died at ...\n\nThe Right Honorable,\nDenny Labouchure, M.P.,",
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        "content_text": "way\n\nconcerned.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect,\n\nSir, Your Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nJohn Bennel\n\n1. Terrible\n\nThis is seem to be sent merely for information. The Governor does not call for Comments, vaut of Ratification helps to confirm the fact, Neither restrictions nor approval. The information is pretty well known here, Concert existing amongst the that there is a Authorities at H. Mory.\n\nW Dall.\n\n17/7\n\nI do not fully comprehend the merits of this quarrel; but it seems to me the papers may be safely put by?\n\nMr Labouchere\n\n17-19\n\n306\n\nIf you may recollect that the magistrate of Hong Kong, including the Chief Magistrate (who is said to be largely engaged in building speculations) showed the utmost hostility to the ordinance No. 8 herein spoken of regulating Buildings &c.\n\nIt was alleged & I believe there is no doubt of the fact that when Mr Mitchell felt himself wronged, he decided cases in accordance with the ordinance, the unpaid magistrates procured to outvote him to quash the ordinance.\n\nCaptain Cowper complained that the Govt did not give him sufficient support & that it was impossible to enforce the law. This attempt, which seemingly was about to be reduced to system, to defeat the law through the unpaid magistrates was certainly very indecent but I don't think that either Sir J. Bowring or Mr Anstey went the right way to work.\n\nI in cocks the despatch & say that it does not appear that any question is raised for your decision.\n\nM20 Zet\"\n\nM. ho",
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        "content_text": "The Rt. Honble Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n\n3rd December, 1858.\n\nVictoria, treasury,\n\n&c &c &c.\n\nJ276.\n\nReceived\n\nthat\n\nperson in his place. Appointment of a qualified\n\nSuggesting the immediate Service on a Pension, and be allowed to retire from the\n\nRecommending W. R. Kennedy\n\nTo Labouchere\n\nSir J. Bowring stated either in public letter or despatch that this gentleman out of regard to the service & to convenience him—remained too long at his post\n\nit turns out that there was some confusion\n\non the public I think it is hard to reprehend or punish\n\nNr 17\n\nSin Sohn Bonning\n\nMINUTE MR. SHAW\n\n12th May 1887\n\nJN°56\n\nMR Elliot\n\nMP Merivale\n\nMr J Ball\n\nMr Labouchere\n\n6 Mayssy\n\nJarlu Despatch 2216 of\n\nWith reference to\n\nthe 13th reporting December last\n\nto acquaint you.\n\nRecommending the late Colonial Registrar, I. here\n\nthe accounts of clerks\n\nthe investigation into\n\nthe result of\n\nthat the Lords Commissioners\n\nof the\n\nhave\n\nof a Pension to that\n\napproved the grant\n\nTo her late Connection Gunther\n\nThe pension\n\nshall be paid\n\nI think it does not.\n\nPage 367\n\n \n...\n\n...\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure.\n\nP319. The Rt. Hon. Sir George Bowen, Her Majesty's Governor &c. &c. &c.\n\nReceived within the Colony..\n\n7 Decr. 1855.\n\nIn the state of affairs\n\nAm 7th Decr 1855\n\nW Labouchere\n\nCum lite then. Maite letter\n\n26 Feby.\n\nMr Merivale\n\n8 March/56\n\nSteer Borne.\n\nSikh\n\n13/19 Hong Kong\n\nBowring N27\n\nEntered\n\nVR Jour's\n\nEliot Merivale JPJ Ball\n\nMPN Labouchere\n\nFreetrade\n\n16 FEBY 1856\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 217 and No. 219. of the 22 and 30 of Decr. last reporting the state of affairs in Hong Kong,\n\nI have to observe Approval has been signified of the measures, which have been taken for the security of the Colony.\n\n26 Feby.\n\nLate for Mail\n\nIn the first despatch\n\nSir J. B. announces certain other measures which have been resolved upon\n\n12, 287\n\nA simple acknowledgment has been made, which is most appropriate.\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "\" Majesty's Government for that purpose.\n\n\" Under these circumstances\n\n\"you will perhaps be good enough to cause instructions for the correction of the\n\nthe mistake.\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nYour\n\nmost obedient servant\n\n(Signed) W. Howell\n\nSecretary\n\n5.6. 165,34\n\n7000\n\n23. Dong cong\n\nMAR 22 18 56\n\nAdmiralty\n\nTo the  March 1856\n\nI am commanded by my\n\nLords Commissioners of the\n\nAdmiralty to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your letter of the 28th ult., directing by\n\nMr. Secretary Labouchere's\n\nletter of  March 15, 1856\n\nCopy to Land BP for obs 31 Mar\n\nReport 3007).\n\nto Gov\n\nLabouchere, a Copy of the Act 18 and 19 Vict. Cap. 104, entitled an Act for the better regulation of Chinese Passenger\n\nShips\n\nand the Opinions of other Law Officers of the Crown of the 14 July 1856\n\nAnd requesting my\n\nLords' attention\n\nto the Revisions of the Statute, and\n\ntheir consideration of the\n\nHerman Merivale Esqr\n\nColonial Office\n\nEuston Square",
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        "content_text": "Re-vengeful gesture of R. Moffat to involve their officers in the (very serious) difficulty for referring to Land Learn from Jose\n\nWhile it is for being Meribah Billing W Ball on several grounds of posting to so legalizing their officers, sound, and I hold strongly An acquiescence in the course they Inforce, Ran is to say confining Naval Store\n\n14 Gay boy Lignan Ship sinfecting B. intervention of British Chris. 12. High Seas, and working, Juridin if grind M. Declaration prided for $15.- the dan vay shed kas M. required ~ Atay hen offered L this is to Consideration, for I have for 10mm Limit filt affertension that a difference Congre in writing form < well. Went hat ferlofs rather spcrpin seal in our pilation, might at a best of Fault, which n migh haped late in t Sepsin of 1855, wote within wesiderakle disproves of Vision, Han heard, beterwen different depecheats oth Jove - R. Domid bflrially demusing to th Expedieng Compass that Me leash.\n\nI know very 7 landes in unfflcted disfenten with Foreign Nation.\n\n2.FP 24 and có 33 hong kong Adria I know nothing of this Art 10.\" with do Elliot? or de gou you asue wisn the subjust farther looked into? Im MM 24. for Labouchere I should wish to defer my observations until the Emigration Commissioners who drew the Will very carefully considered its provisions shall have reported on this letter.\n\nCopy torming the Cas arequests on early report? beywell M 27 M. H 20\n\nPage 24\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 24\n\n...\n\n...\n\nThe text appears to be a historical document with OCR errors. The above output is a corrected version in HTML format.\n\nhas been removed as per the instruction to not leave any explanation wordings in the return.\n\nHere is the revised response:\n\nRe-vengeful gesture of R. Moffat to involve their officers in the (very serious) difficulty for referring to Land Learn from Jose\n\nWhile it is for being Meribah Billing W Ball on several grounds of posting to so legalizing their officers, sound, and I hold strongly An acquiescence in the course they Inforce, Ran is to say confining Naval Store\n\n14 Gay boy Lignan Ship sinfecting B. intervention of British Chris. 12. High Seas, and working, Juridin if grind M. Declaration prided for $15.- the dan vay shed kas M. required ~ Atay hen offered L this is to Consideration, for I have for 10mm Limit filt affertension that a difference Congre in writing form < well. Went hat ferlofs rather spcrpin seal in our pilation, might at a best of Fault, which n migh haped late in t Sepsin of 1855, wote within wesiderakle disproves of Vision, Han heard, beterwen different depecheats oth Jove - R. Domid bflrially demusing to th Expedieng Compass that Me leash.\n\nI know very 7 landes in unfflcted disfenten with Foreign Nation.\n\n2.FP 24 and có 33 hong kong Adria I know nothing of this Art 10.\" with do Elliot? or de gou you asue wisn the subjust farther looked into? Im MM 24. for Labouchere I should wish to defer my observations until the Emigration Commissioners who drew the Will very carefully considered its provisions shall have reported on this letter.\n\nCopy torming the Cas arequests on early report? beywell M 27 M. H 20\n\nPage 24\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 24\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "duties to certain well defined \n\nact no one \n\nof which as it \n\n-possibly \n\nSeems to me can \n\nlead to collision with any foreign power. \n\nThus it is not intended that \n\nany naval officer should be called on to seize a foreign Ship in a British port \n\nnor a \n\nBritish ship in a foreign port except where by treaty & usage British jurisdiction \n\nExtends \n\nOn \n\nto full consideration \n\nI think it will be well to \n\ndefer in some measure to the \n\nobjections of \n\nthe Admiralty & \n\ntherefore submit a draft somewhat \n\nmore minute, really \n\ndeparting from 4\" minute - going a little more closely into the question & showing what instructions are essential. \n\nM. may \n\nI think the chief with do as it heretofore has done \n\nEntered. \n\nAd 2633 2. Cro. 308° \n\n308°/ \n\nThe Secretary \n\nAdmiralty for \n\nto the \n\nMr. Elliot \n\n30. April \n\nMr. Merivale. Mr. Ball. \n\nW. Labouchere. 7. May \n\nMP to Dajet 9th. Ans 22. May Job \n\n45346 \n\nSee separate \n\nMinute within \n\nAm \n\n-Sf \n\nmit \n\n28 \n\n888 \n\nYou are directed \n\nReference 1856. \n\nby W.W. See: Labouchere to acknowledge \n\nreceipt of your \n\nletter \n\nof the 20th ultimo, on \n\nthe subject of this \n\nCopy to God 5 July 1856 and to which \n\nOfficers \n\nto Foreign Office \n\nDuty 1856 \n\nCopy to S.G.502 \n\nin Command \n\nof Her Majesty's Ships should \n\nin \n\ninterfere in carrying \n\ninto effect the \n\nChinese Passengers' \n\nAct \n\npassed in the \n\nlast \n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nMr. Secretary Labouchere to inform Lord Clarendon whether there is any objection to issuing Her Majesty's Exequatur in favour of Mr Block.\n\nJam, Merivale\n\nLithographed form.\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nL[or]d W[ill]iam\n\nhumble servant Workshoch\n\nMS. S\n\nThe Undersigned has the honor to transmit herewith to Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State a copy of the letters patent appointing Mr. Frederick A. Block, merchant residing at Hong Kong, as Consul for that place & to request that the said appointment may receive the sanction of Her Britannic Majesty for the issue of Her Majesty's Exequatur for Mr. F.A. Block as Royal Danish Consul for Hongkong.\n\nThe undersigned begs to have returned the accompanying document.\n\n(Signed) W. Oxenholme(?)\nDanish Legation\nJanuary 14, 1856\nBerashop(?) Marendon(?) Kh.",
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        "content_text": "128\n\nthe Durations. Another duplication.\n\nExpiry day\n\nshould at the same time\n\nI've sent to the Chief Secretary\n\nof Male for the Colonial Department to be used against the Master should\n\nThe affidavits in due Country. All such\n\ndeclarations should be\n\ndrawn up in the most precise and accurate terms\n\nwhich the nature of\n\nthe circumstances will\n\nadmit, and should set\n\nout as\n\nclearly as possible\n\nthe legal offences which it\n\nis desired to\n\nprove.\n\nIn conclusion, I am\n\nto point out clearly under\n\nthe latter\n\nsection of the\n\nAct it will\n\nbe the duty\n\nof Her Majesty's\n\nConsuls or Customs officers:\n\nto apply to Officers in command of Her Majesty's Ships and Foreign Stations for assistance\n\nin carrying\n\nout the Act by conveying\n\nvessels that\n\nmay\n\nhave\n\nbeen seized by them\n\nto the nearest Court,\n\nleaving Admiralty jurisdiction.\n\nW. Labouchere would\n\nsuggest",
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        "content_text": "133\n\nreference to the suggestion of that Board, that Her Majesty's Consuls should be furnished by the Governor\n\nAct, I\n\nhim in\n\nof Hong Kong with Copies of all Regulations issued by purenance of the Chinese Passenger.\n\nam to request that you will suggest to Mr Secretary Labouchere, that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed to\n\nsend\n\nto\n\nthe Colonial Office\n\na\n\nsufficient number of copies of such\n\nthe Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls, by which means\n\nmore\n\nthey\n\nare\n\nlikely to reach the Consuls\n\nthan if sent to them direct\n\nYour\n\nI\n\nam\n\nSir\n\nmost obedient humble Servant\n\nWostihnete (?)\n\nfrom\n\nRegulations\n\nas\n\nare\n\nIn\n\nforce, in order\n\nthat they may\n\nbe forwarded through\n\nthe\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and output in HTML with proper paragraph formatting and correction of obvious OCR errors:\n\n133\n\nreference to the suggestion of that Board, that Her Majesty's Consuls should be furnished by the Governor of Hong Kong with Copies of all Regulations issued by puruance of the Chinese Passenger Act, I am to request that you will suggest to Mr Secretary Labouchere, that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed to send to the Colonial Office a sufficient number of copies of such Regulations as are in force, in order that they may be forwarded through the Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls, by which means they are more likely to reach the Consuls than if sent to them direct.\n\nYour obedient humble Servant,\n\nW[?]stihnete\n\nSir,\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the given rules and output in HTML:\n\n133\n\nreference to the suggestion of that Board, that Her Majesty's Consuls should be furnished by the Governor of Hong Kong with Copies of all Regulations issued by puruance of the Chinese Passenger Act, I am to request that you will suggest to Mr Secretary Labouchere, that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed to send to the Colonial Office a sufficient number of copies of such Regulations as are in force, in order that they may be forwarded through the Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls, by which means they are more likely to reach the Consuls than if sent to them direct.\n\nYour obedient humble Servant,\n\nW...stihnete (Westminster?)\n\nGiven the constraints, the most appropriate output is:\n\n133\n\nreference to the suggestion of that Board, that Her Majesty's Consuls should be furnished by the Governor of Hong Kong with Copies of all Regulations issued by puruance of the Chinese Passenger Act, I am to request that you will suggest to Mr Secretary Labouchere, that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed to send to the Colonial Office a sufficient number of copies of such Regulations as are in force, in order that they may be forwarded through the Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls, by which means they are more likely to reach the Consuls than if sent to them direct.\n\nI am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nW[ostihnete?]\n\nThe best answer is:\n133\n\nreference to the suggestion of that Board, that Her Majesty's Consuls should be furnished by the Governor of Hong Kong with Copies of all Regulations issued by puruance of the Chinese Passenger Act, I am to request that you will suggest to Mr Secretary Labouchere, that the Governor of Hong Kong should be instructed to send to the Colonial Office a sufficient number of copies of such Regulations as are in force, in order that they may be forwarded through the Foreign Office to Her Majesty's Consuls, by which means they are more likely to reach the Consuls than if sent to them direct.\n\nI am, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nWestminster",
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        "content_text": "AGENT\n\nMr. Merivale\n\nIt is advisable to send the Grenada letter on this subject. A copy of this letter, before despatch, might be marked confidential.\n\nIt is closed with the H. States, it might be as well to mark the despatch to him Confidential.\n\n47\n\nAm mn 22/5.\n\n22\n\nTo Labouchere\n\nPerhaps it may be as well to wait before sending to Sir J. B. for any further comm.\n\nNo 27\n\nat defiance of community from justice for any offence they under... they may commit within the Ter...\n\nthe W. Stuter\n\nSignes\n\nI think it may be well to have our Mail Bag protected. MR. M. 25\n\nMeet the Ar...\n\nLaws...\n\nof the W. Slutl...\n\nand clacin leve set to Land Bo for eigen 9 April S. Fr.\n\n3125 trang trọng.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAPR 7 1856\n\nEmigration\n\nForeign Office\n\n162\n\nApril 4. 1856\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Consul...\n\nfor the information of Mr. Secretary Labouchere.\n\n...\n\nPage 47\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 162",
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        "content_text": "AGI\n\nMr Blackwood\n\nThis case I think a little more attention. The change gained for the colonial authorities of HK. made by the Mary, in which 2d C. should seem to concur is that Kary acted in sanctioning the police tops on board the Maddison without a warrant. I think directions as to his duty, in that particular: but I should like in the first instance to have a statement made how the facts actually stand with reference to this point.\n\nAdm. Mr. 13\n\nL\n\nI have gone over all the correspondence on this subject, & now annex Extracts therefrom of so much as has been said on the point of the police acting without a warrant. You will notice the Ordinance under the authority of which the Police acted. I also annex an extract from the L.O. sending the opinion of the Lawer's Advocate Mr. Merivale with reference to St. Lucia's dept. of the Crown to Governor sending & perhaps in a mild caution to the course of the Colonial Foreign Office Authorities in these questions of 8 May 70724 upon a case in one of the West India Colonies resembling this at St. Kong.\n\nI have been unable to procure this Letter before.\n\nJuss. E. Hammond, Com\n\n9.0.4172 Honthong\n\nRoof Entered.\n\nM. Ball 14\n\nM. J. Shadworth 21\n\n169\n\nMr. Merivale\n\n7 Jul 28560\n\nSep 2868\n\nI am directed by W. Secretary Labouchere to request, in reply to your letter of the 9th May first, forwarding a protest from M. Crampton relative to certain proceedings of the American Consul at Houghtong, that you will lay before Lord Clarendon for his information, the enclosed copy of the instructions which have been addressed to the",
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        "content_text": "AGE!\n\nto rest appear to have been seen by you.\n\nI also annex her Majesty's despatch to which reference is made by the Law Officers - See inclosure of 19 April from Foreign Office letter 4872.\n\n25 Nov. W\n\nCommunicate to The Journal Junslanu the Law Officers' Report?\n\nM.\n\npay\n\nThe despatches on this case.\n\nNov Meriale\n\nEntered East of Philippines 1880 DECR\n\nMINUTE :: Jades12 HOXHiol Merivale MPA Ball Labouchere 19 Wern Nov Remale\n\nThere is no authority, 16668.\n\nKevy Hong Kong big band. 274\n\n16. December\n\nby le directed Pontons Labouchere to Transmit to you for the information of the Earl of Clarendon a copy of the instructions addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nIn this draft, Labouchere communicating to Hammond has asked the substance of the Law Officers' Report to be officially communicated. See Shin Buering.\n\nW\n\nBre of the Cereits eren the Coterial offences Concretio on board American Vessels in the Harbour of the ...",
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        "content_text": "AGENDA\n\nopinion of the D&Em. Emigration?\n\nHk 88\n\nInterred\n\nTo stop Hong Kong\n\n$10.92\n\n& Honghay\n\n$11.002\n\nEmigration Control\n\nFor E. Hill\n\nW. Merivale\n\nM.W. Ball\n\nW. Lobboucher\n\ng. Wark. 1856\n\nDear Reuternew,\n\n282\n\nWith reference to your reports of the 18th Sept: and 26th Novr,\n\nWith respect to emigration from China to the Philippine Islands and\n\nwith reference also to your report of the 25th of Novr respecting the emigration of Chinese in vessels with no\n\nestablished nationality I am directed by H.E. Secretary Labouchere\n\nto",
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        "content_text": "Join Dop's Instructions on the \n\npirats at pure.\n\nI have a\n\n(4) John Bowring\n\nEntered\n\n1002. tong tong\n\nCarl of Phelburne\n\nW. Ellish.\n\nLe\n\nW. Merivale\n\nW. Ball\n\nW. Labouchere.\n\nWM.\n\nwww.\n\nmo\n\n8 weer\n\nA\n\n9th Dec. 1856.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n311\n\nIn answer to Your Lordship's letter of the 6th inst., accompanied by a despatch from Sir John Bowring, No. 256 of the 4th of Sept., I am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to acquaint you that it appears that Sir John Bowring has addressed several other despatches to this Department, as well as to the Foreign Office.\n\n27424X8",
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        "content_text": "AG\n\n211002\n\n312\n\nJffice and questions bearing on her digest of the present despatch,\n\nAnd that W. Labonchere finds that the requisite instructions could not be conveyed to Sir John Bouring by the mail of the 10th inst., with the precision which is desirable in order to settle the whole matter.\n\nTamps.\n\nLir.\n\nAmoy, 19 September 1836.\n\nWith reference to the conversation, Mr Fait has had with you on the subject, we request you will draw the attention of His Excellency the Plenipotentiary to the position we are in with respect to the English ship Ferozepore.\n\nThe circumstances are these. As agents of the vessel we have chartered her to Chinese for\n\nM. C. Morrison Esqre.,\n\nH. Ms Consul Amoy.\n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "AGE!\n\nsubject, and to request that in the same before to Secretary laging Labouchere, you will move him to favour Lord Clarendon with his opinion as to the course to be taken under the circumstances of the case.\n\n1 Jan, Sain Jour\n\nYour motobedient humble servant Annmennt\n\nThe Secretary FE7,11,239\n\nstray. Kny. to the Admiralty W. Elliot Siv 20 Deer. W. Merivale Lu Ball t Labochere. 23. Anad By Dee756 11622 Entered # DS 320 24 Deer. 1856.\n\nWith reference to former correspondence on the enforcement of the Passengers Act, I am directed by Mr. Sec: Labouchere to request you that St. Mi Consul at Shanghae has represented that British Vessels escaped from the operation of this Act by taking bodies of Passengers to a Chinese Port where there",
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        "content_text": "Fr.6.14239\n\nStrag. Krig.\n\n323\n\nAGENT\n\nI am to request that you will favour me, for Mr. Labouchere's information, with their Lordships' opinion on this subject.\n\nJaimoe.\n\nKeule\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nJ. Elliot\n\nW. Merivale.\n\nBall\n\n20 Dec.\n\n1. Labouchere. 25\n\nSi\n\nEulere\n\n7 Days 57\n\n1. I have had before me various despatches sent to the Admiralty by you, and others, and I have made slight alterations in this draft Department, which have been referred to you, and the information thence has been conveyed to this office, and letters received from the Officer of the Imperial Maritime Customs styled the Chinese ...\n\n27 Jan\n\n1 Passenger Act. These",
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        "content_text": "AGENT\n\n&\n\nbeing furnished with regular papers, the L.C. of the Admiralty have hitherto been unwilling to impose on the Commander of this Cruiser the responsibility of actually seizing such a vessel, unless the Passengers should appear to be suffering from ill usage or neglect.\n\nAs the creation of a new neglect is alleged to have occurred in some of the passenger papers, the question of whether this Authority should be somewhat extended will be considered. The Board of Admiralty will be consulted on the full subject, but you will not anticipate their decision.\n\nShawere\n\nE. Hammond y\n\nW. Elliot W. Maiale. W. Bell\n\n20 Decr.\n\nto Labouchere. 23.\n\nMutiny, 7.0.31 te\n\n4\n\nUtforsker\n\nF6;11239 Vry. Korg.\n\nLiv\n\nOS\n\n329\n\n24th Decr. 1856.\n\n#\n\nWith reference to a recent correspondence upon despatches from Sir John Bowring respecting the enforcement of the Chinese Passengers Act, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to state, for the information of the Earl of Clarendon, that he finds the various questions raised by Sir John Bowring, as Governor",
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        "content_text": "those Articles.\n\nQ. He sees no reason to differ from the opinion expressed.\n\nMr. White, viz. that viewing the whole circumstances there is no sufficient ground for raising any objection to them.\n\nM. charges, and should Dr. Sendary be furnished with an intimation to that effect for the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Audit.\n\nLabouchere concurs in this opinion.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\n\nYour obedient humble Servants,\n\nThe Mundoch Rederie Rogers.\n\nEntered\n\n481. Hag Kon 25th Jan 1856\n\nEmigration Committee,\n\nGentlemen,\n\nIn answer to your letter of the 17th instant, I am directed by W. Sear Labouchere to convey to you his authority for agreeing to the charges of which the explanation is contained in Mr. White's letter dated the 20th of November last, connected with the Emigrants.\n\n \n10 Jany W Effial H. Allerworld 18 Hv. Ball plu. Laba here. HM",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nof opposition\n\non which Six I.\n\nBowring lacks. Almost all the European Residents are Holders of Marine Lots; the rest of the Community would gain much by the measure and do Contribute largely to the public Treasury, but they are Chinese and cannot make themselves much heard in public meetings.\n\nI should think that for the present it would be enough to say that the subject is evidently one of much public import, but as it is to be the subject of a further Report, W. Labouchere will suspend his opinion until receiving such future Communication as they may have occasion to make.\n\nMr Labouchere concurs.\n\nIt is probable that the further report of Sir J. Bowring will be received before very long & it will not be desirable to say anything which would interfere with a decision on that report.\n\nM. 27 Mer\n\nbuy bell\n\nM. 28.\n\n\"upon the subject.\n\n2.P\n\n26 March.\n\nAm With 2 b",
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        "content_text": "Mr Mitchell addressed to Governor of Hong Kong, 13/5\n\nYour letter referred to Mr. Blackwood's recent despatch complaining of fine imposed in Australia, & ascertain whether this Ship was one of the Cases to which he referred.\n\n13 May\n\nBouring's Despatch\n\n14\n\n...\n\nEors 4208. Hongkong\n\nSir J. Bouring\n\nW. Elliot\n\nW. Merivale\n\nW. Ball\n\nVictoria\n\nEntered 14 May\n\n28\n\n15th May 1856.\n\nA letter has been received from Mr. Labouchere requesting that an endeavour may be made to procure the remission of a fine imposed on the Master of the ship \"Williams and Martha\" in which he is interested.\n\nThe \"Williams and Martha\" being a Ship of 359 Tons burthen\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "Mist\n\nMW. Ball\n\nQA\n\nThis is a\n\n30 June\n\nbeginning of our.\n\nAs regards the\n\nCrop of difficulties on the\n\nChinese Passenger's Act.\n\nfirst Ship I think that.\n\nit is neither advisable or desirable to go to the Foreign Office\n\nor to the\n\nOfficers with\n\nsearching\n\nD\n\n45\n\nquestion of international Law\n\na\n\nmere hypothetical Case. It\n\nseems to me that the proper Course\n\nwill be\n\nbe, if\n\nthe Commissioners' opinion, to tell\n\nSir I. T[hornton?] that W. Labouchere\n\nsees no reason to doubt that the Admiral was\n\nright.\n\nAs\n\nregards the second\n\nShip I presume that we shall\n\nAwait the result of the legal\n\nproceedings.\n\nM[r] Labouchere\n\nwill be corrected as to his flower of speech.\n\nJ[unk?] suppose\n\nAbout this prospect of starvation in so wild and desolate a spot as are\n\nof\n\nthis most\n\nrichest\n\nflourishing districts\n\nthe Colony of the British Empire.\n\nM[r] Labouchere\n\nI do not find any\n\nCause\n\n7.8.3 July\n\nfor alarm",
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        "content_text": "Gov 3241/56 -2174-\n\nIn\n\n4065 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 5\n\n1856\n\nJempie\n\nMay 3rd 1856.\n\n121\n\nthe\n\nWe were honored with Your Letter of \"30th April\" in which you stated that you were directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to send us a copy of correspondence between the Chief Magistrate and Secretary of Hong Kong and to request that we would furnish them with our answer to the questions stated at the conclusion of the Chief Magistrate's letter of 27th Feby.\n\nIn compliance with your request we have considered the subject and beg to report that we are of opinion that both these questions should be answered in the affirmative.\n\nTo H. Merivale Esqre\n\nWe are,\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nW. Caine\n\nRichard Bethell\n\nCopy to Gov'l May 186\n\ndraft with loo 3241\n\nCopy\n\nJ.O.",
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        "content_text": "136\n\nbe, being adhered to.\n\nBeing lending undue weight to each further contention.\n\n3. Upon the thin topics of the deliberations reported, I have conferred with Wingate and the representatives of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.\n\nEntered.\n\nhCE Revilyan\n\nhi,\n\n2\n\n28th Feb/56\n\nWith reference to Dr. Wilson's\n\nJoron 2/\n\nIn Straubly, Feb 16/56 letter of the 17th inst.\n\nto Merivale 19\n\nOn-Ball I Labouchere 21\n\non the subject of the receipt of the notes of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank by Government, and the withholding of payment of salaries, in Hong Kong, I am directed by W. Jervois.",
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        "content_text": "Statement required by the Superannuation Act that the applicant has discharged his duties with diligence and fidelity; but in order to avoid the delay that would be occasioned by a further reference to Hongkong to obtain that statement,\n\nI am to request that you will move W. Secretary Labouchere to instruct the Governor of Hong Kong to furnish this statement accordingly.\n\nI remain, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nF\n\nTheir Lordships are willing to consent to Mr. Foster's receiving a pension at the rate of fifty-five pounds per annum, subject to revision in case the statement of his services should not be satisfactory.\n\nI am therefore to request that\n\n143\n\n٧٦٠\n\n \nPage 143\n...\nPage 143\n\nPage 760\n...\nPage 760",
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        "content_text": "place of Colonial Secretary, and made Lieut. Governor, by the Duke of Newcastle, in order to effect that arrangement which Sir J. Bowring has since by his conduct upset.\n\n& Wh ... und at lot. Barnes's age after so many years spent in H. Kong, he is hardly likely to render effective service elsewhere, even if any opportunity presented itself.\n\nH.M. 29 Constantly, this is expected to result in a negative outcome.\n\nI till ... for I. Bowring std be informed that the patrol boat has been under the conduction of the Navy and that they qued with me in this that the acperlaten should hold, not be uncumill in the Palace of the frame of that were the only question motord - yet that it should not be find the Colony to sanctie it under the quity coupent.\n\nDe from we by this a free for a slag Mulund.\n\nM. N. 30 forme pepers which was witte Sheve delveved this could be procured.\n\nNer Merriale. Good shar pes This, I suppose, is as negative as a response can be; at least there would be marked injustice in turning Col. Caine's use remond from his ... who ter till llc bes Laborat.\n\n29 W Labouchere > Laz own 20333 24-12 Gov 11056 informed 6 Jan 757 .3. 170011\n\n€905-1989 Sir 11527 RECEIVED DEC27 3856 174 Treasury Chambers 26th December 1856\n\nwith reference to your Letter of the 17 Instant, transmitting copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, submitting a Report and Estimate to nine hundred and amounting five pounds, nineteen shillings and nine pence, for a new Boat House for the Marine and Police Departments in that Colony, I am directed, by Lords Commissioners of the Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary Labouchere, regarding the German Ierivate. Erg.\n\nDepar...",
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        "content_text": "effects of the climate\n\nJam\n\nWhe\n\npon Obedrent Sevant\n\nMi\n\nMr. Merivale\n\nI assume that the proposed experiment is to\n\nIt is imperative on\n\nsteward to contribute to the Superannuation fund he sick, like the other Officer of This W. Kong Gov., be entitled to a Pension according to the usual rules of the Treasury,\n\nBm June 3\n\nIn writer, I'm alive - we might observe on The great improvement which appears to have occurred in fecundity of salubrity/\n\nJuce.\n\n& the tech\n\n& permanent one\n\nof the person\n\nEntered\n\nGenel Mundes\n\n1356 UTES JUNE\n\nNOTE\n\nMa Merivale\n\nHPJ Ball\n\n808-Labouchere\n\n10\n\n179\n\n4868 Hayhang\n\n13th: June 1st.\n\n7\n\n4. With reference to your letter of the 27th ulto. I am directed by Mr. Labouchere to state for the information of Lord Panmure, that as it will be imperative on no Officer who may be selected for the appointment of Foreman of Works in Hong Kong to contribute to the Superannuation fund, he will, like other Officers of the Hong Kong Govt., be entitled to a Pension...\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nt\n\nt",
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        "content_text": "6282. Long đóng \n\nto the conveyance tome of Military and naval Invalids, bosend some any Kulitan Convite not otherwise wounded \n\nbitte acomodation \n\nJam. \n\nLin, Joer Verdital-Scant- \n\nSchenky \n\nGoo 2172 ao Dejs 4 PGP \n\n083 Z \n\nTo \n\nMr Merinte \n\ninforre \n\nThe Govern \n\nAnnear \n\n15 \n\n1656 \n\n182 \n\nJor \n\nWar Department \n\n14 July 1836 \n\nWith reference to \n\nyour \n\nLetter of the 13th June, and the previous correspondence respecting \n\nthe selection of an Officer for the \n\nappointment \n\nof Foreman of \n\nWorks at Hong Kong \n\nJam \n\nto acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Labouchere, that \n\nW. Niblet, Foreman of Works \n\nin the Royal Engineer Department \n\nhas recommended Eyre \n\nLondon,",
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        "content_text": "io of every high official and also those who live in the western and Chinese mercantile communities. Tieuhnant Goserum fecune dise to refer Zes year 2 batch in which so far back and the 1084 he communicated his high opinion of conference (Li Hei Cipal of W Homey General.\n\nLILE to the Volonial Cyjies with i new l my being Her ko supper The tutes of 112021 fisunt disohavi By Cive c@lavor made sseamy of one. apponitment would lead to its being permument I should not have sacrificed emoluments of my prosession for the comparitive small salary of the office I held and as real Hial gove how grea tion that in one instance of may men 203 long probation hard in of the Chinese characters in of the peculiar wi Exigencies of the Colony which a made me now somewhat effeacent I cannot behere is that have the jacks Retimonials which I now long uacjore you been knowa aus to dei to.\n\nMolesworth he would have deemed the Greens service best promote E by my pom Office Dim Correc therefore e Domo a poco sobring acceder ao cenetton Dr six comme de Debony porommate boerending from his pas appo I hope I fotons. presumptu in not be considered may expecting that I have established clann to the Office of Akromney General in Dong Kong und mein moting will acknowleage you Ll Oive.... toon I sasrifice sinate instance that of the homgton centies I refused a retaining fee of Sefteen hundred pounds e conse my Official and posibi and private position might be rought into collision.\n\nUnder Mese cercumstansu afler Iev so long a tenure of office to the entire tion of the Colonial Government it satisfaction - may confidently say Come caired bu was -matter of certainty by will classes of the community Hong Nong that I should succeed to the the promotion of No Sterling meaney caused Cy that clanne The 19 Righ! Theut I have he honor to be Sir: Your • Stonorable. ur most obedient.... humble derrent.\n\nH. Labouchere Mr. P. WV. J. Bridges. H. Mr. Secretary of State for the Colonies lk Gem of carep of vory mortification Nor Ausky with The to the Ceylon Bench and it wars I must s feelings of great sinfirise that I learned the appointment who however great. his qualifications may Knowled of years acquire that knowled @ennal for some owning Sheet\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nB\n\nio of every high official and also those who live in the western and Chinese mercantile communities. Tieuhnant Goserum fecune dise to refer Zes year 2 batch in which so far back and the 1084 he communicated his high opinion of conference (Li Hei Cipal of W Homey General.\n\nLILE to the Volonial Cyjies with i new l my being Her ko supper The tutes of 112021 fisunt disohavi By Cive c@lavor made sseamy of one. appointment would lead to its being permanent I should not have sacrificed emoluments of my profession for the comparative small salary of the office I held and as real Hial gove how great tion that in one instance of may men 203 long probation hard in of the Chinese characters in of the peculiar wi Exigencies of the Colony which a made me now somewhat effeacent I cannot behere is that have the jacks Retimonials which I now long uacjore you been knowa aus to dei to.\n\nMolesworth he would have deemed the Greens service best promote E by my pom Office Dim Correc therefore e Domo a poco sobring acceder ao cenetton Dr six comme de Debony porommate boerending from his pas appo I hope I fotons. presumptu in not be considered may expecting that I have established claim to the Office of Attorney General in Hong Kong und mein moting will acknowleage you Ll Oive.... toon I sacrifice sinate instance that of the hongton centies I refused a retaining fee of Sixteen hundred pounds e conse my Official and posibi and private position might be rought into collision.\n\nUnder Mese cercumstansu afler Iev so long a tenure of office to the entire tion of the Colonial Government it satisfaction - may confidently say Come caired bu was -matter of certainty by will classes of the community Hong Kong that I should succeed to the the promotion of No Sterling meaney caused Cy that clanne The 19 Righ! Theut I have he honor to be Sir: Your • Honorable. ur most obedient.... humble servant.\n\nH. Labouchere Mr. P. W. J. Bridges. H. Mr. Secretary of State for the Colonies lk Gem of carep of vory mortification Nor Ausky with The to the Ceylon Bench and it wars I must s feelings of great surprise that I learned the appointment who however great. his qualifications may Knowled of years acquire that knowled @ennal for some owning Sheet",
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        "content_text": "This Department has already received a favourable report of his services from Sir John Bowring, that his application will be considered with favour whenever the legal arrangements of Hong Kong are completed.\n\nBut Mr. Labouchere must caution him against suffering Her Majesty's Government to recognize any binding claim on them as arising from the circumstance of his having been appointed to the temporary discharge of an office beside the Governor.\n\nMarch 15th\n\nI concur.\n\nI am very formally impressed by Mr. Budge; nevertheless, I think the answer preferred is that I fairly do...\n\nMr. W. P.\n\nEntered\n\nM. T. Bridges leg.\n\n27 March /56\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the instant in which you express a hope that the representation you make of your services in Hong Kong together with the testimonials forwarded with your letter may be considered as establishing your claim to the office of Attorney General in that...",
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        "content_text": "The description of piracy is alone worthy of serious attention, whereas I am inclined to agree with Mr. Brydges in thinking the small petty piracy, at least so far as Hong Kong is concerned, is the more serious ill. I do not think that any good can be done by attempting to prevent the armament of boats at Kong until the police of the adjacent seas is reorganised and enforced by the Government. It would probably miss the pirate and affect the trader who endeavours to provide for his own defence.\n\nMr. ...\n\nSend copies to Darcy's office & ... actually state that they enter ... the mis ... Get start ... ex ... all & exert ... Call the attention of the Governor to the state of the law regarding the serving of a legal ordinance, the law being te ... the better this decline ...\n\nEntered 12893 Hong Kong The Secretary of the Municipality, 1866 2 April Jardine ... High ... *privately ESABU #Schabouchere Aus. 18. April, 3464 20 March 565 Jour 225 12th April 155.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 25th of January and to previous correspondence relative to the suppression of piracy in the Chinese seas, I am directed by Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter on the subject from Mr. W. F. Bridges, who has for some time acted as a Barrister in Hong Kong, and lately held the office of Acting ...\n\nPage ...\n\n(The original text has some OCR errors and formatting issues. The above output is a proofread version in HTML format.)\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the instructions and not include any comments or explanations, the output should be:\n\nThe description of piracy is alone worthy of serious attention, whereas I am inclined to agree with Mr. Brydges in thinking the small petty piracy, at least so far as Hong Kong is concerned, is the more serious ill. I do not think that any good can be done by attempting to prevent the armament of boats at Kong until the police of the adjacent seas is reorganised and enforced by the Government. It would probably miss the pirate and affect the trader who endeavours to provide for his own defence.\n\nSend copies to Darcy's office & ... actually state that they enter ... the mis ... Get start ... ex ... all & exert ... Call the attention of the Governor to the state of the law regarding the serving of a legal ordinance, the law being te ... the better this decline ...\n\nEntered 12893 Hong Kong The Secretary of the Municipality, 1866 2 April Jardine ... High ... *privately ESABU #Schabouchere Aus. 18. April, 3464 20 March 565 Jour 225 12th April 155.\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 25th of January and to previous correspondence relative to the suppression of piracy in the Chinese seas, I am directed by Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter on the subject from Mr. W. F. Bridges, who has for some time acted as a Barrister in Hong Kong, and lately held the office of Acting ...",
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        "content_text": "Ebro 2788 ? Hong Kong, Govt. 25403\n\n117\n\nMarch 1857\n\nSir Benjamin\n\nHall\n\nDespatch from Governor John Bowring 28 January 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nConfidential\n\nThe Rt. Hon'ble.\n\nH. Labouchere, M.P.\n\nN. 16.\n\n2 Inclosures.\n\nReport on allotment of ground\n\nReceived\n\nReporting allotment\n\nto the War Department for Batteries at West Point.\n\nSand Board.\n\nMr. Blackwood\n\nRefer to\n\nW. Elliot\n\nM. Merivale\n\nafter Ball\n\nM. Labouchere\n\n27 March\n\n127\n\nN:16. 24.\n\n28 Jan'y 1857\n\nI am directed by Mr. Labouchere to transmit to you, for the information of Lord Panmure, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting a measure agreed upon between him and the Commanding Royal Engineer on the subject of ground required for batteries at West Point.\n\nI am directed to state that Mr. Labouchere...",
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        "content_text": "as they have acted on\n\nattention to the probabilities of its occurrence, without the Contempt of the war in which we are now engaged with China,\n\nor Caution. Such expenses on account of the Civil Establishment of the Colony cannot now be withheld: I do think that it behoves us to desist upon\n\nto The Governor: references from precise expenditure he has made to me that the moment he sees\n\nrecommending. If scenes\n\na habit of\n\na chance of any money,\n\nin he has immediately half a dozen projects for spending it. Fortunately he has just now £15,000, at utmost in the Oriental Bank. Otherwise I feel sure he would be in serious difficulties.\n\nSu Minute\n\nplants\n\nron 99\n\nannexes.\n\n2.PE\n\nMarch\n\nAB-20/3.\n\nIt. Labouchere, M. P.\n\nThe Rt. Honble\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring 28 January 1857, Victoria, Hongkong,\n\n1 Inclosure\n\n1.17.\n\nReceived\n\nFrans\n\nYear 1854\n\nof the Colony for the\n\nthe Estimates\n\nSee 2542- and 2545,\n\nwill find in the Government succeeds\n\nMr Elist I believe these papers should go to you they do not contain any application. Je a. Parliamentary\n\nI suppose that the real revenue in the year prepared. Hence the comparison between '55 and '57 not noticed when the Estimates for 1857, you might observe that despite the Governor's repeated assurances of prosperity on which\n\ndept. 1. 18-25 far. /2542).\n\nhe drew largely\n\nto make. Trim\n\napply for authority to undertake expenditure - sieve - but he says remunerative -\n\npublic works, and the creation\n\nnew Offices, besides an\n\nJun himself\n\nantly (refused him) we have the Treasury prudent\n\nnow a prospect of a\n\nrevenue. I have\n\nExtra $1000 a year (which\n\nMyself a\n\nanticip did\n\nThis result,\n\n& called.\n\nPage 2\n\nNo.21\n\n2083. 2541 26545 Hongkong Sie Eha! E. Prevezan, R.C.B\n\n1857\n\nMr. Merivale 2 April.\n\nAv. Ball\n\nOn\n\nW. Labouchere\n\ndirecting for\n\nNo labourers\n\nEntered.\n\nD\n\n25th April 1857.\n\nI am directed\n\ndirected by\n\nW. Labouchere\n\nMath. 1976\n\n3. 12. 28\n\nJanuary 1857\n\nNo 21. 29th January 1857\n\n685)\n\nB\n\nAnced 27 April 157\n\n3046\n\nI request that you will lay\n\nbefore the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury copies of the Enclosed Despatches from Sir John Bowring on the\n\nfinancial Condition\n\nof Hong Kong.\n\nI am to add the\n\ndraft of a Despatch Which Mr. Labouchere proposes,",
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        "content_text": "W. P. Mercer, Lof.\n\nMW. Sec. Labouchere.\n\nW. Ball 24\n\nW. Merivale 23\n\nAnsund 27 April 57-\n\nCA\n\noutl\n\n8900\n\n2542. Hongkong April 14 44\n\nNr 18 28th Jan. 1867.\n\nMJahanben directions from Cory for my at once\n\nEntered 148 24 April 1857.\n\nam directed supplying for from Sir John Bowring,\n\ntransmit to you copy of a despatch which he has sent to Sir George Labouchere\n\nA Sum Consequences for the necessary\n\nThe Colony of Hongkong has been and will be put to the expences to which\n\nMeasures Mr Msg: Lee 2541, ans 2545\n\n7\n\nThis seems to me a most loose Application for £60,000 at the British Treasury; & Comment has been hastily in anticipating the result of our present Contest. Supposing that eventually Lord Elgin's mission terminates with recovering from the Chinese repayment\n\ngrant\n\nwithout insisting\n\ndefenses indistinctly.\n\nshadowed\n\n$. Kong such as, in this despatch, this will be nothing Contribution from their Causetry to the Colony. It\n\nthe\n\nis most probable $. Kong will suffer from War; but the Key Community will, I think, require more details then fair despatch supplies, before they vote the money asked for. WB 20/3.\n\nThis is indeed an unhand Application. feinect in principle\n\nyet as het.\n\nBlackwood justly remarks there\n\nFright to\n\ncorrotto comecebytes of wif\n\nI Muys negos H\n\nNo H\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Merivale.\n\nI approve.\n\nGovernor to John Bowring 11 February, 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nto\n\n/ Melosure.\n\nDup: M. 26.\n\nThe Rt. Honble It. Labouchere, M.P.\n\nReceived\n\nmade for the performance of his\n\nand arrangements\n\nleave of absence granted to Mr Mercer,\n\nReporting 18 months'\n\nouting\n\nW2.6..\n\nBausing\n\n1.43\n\nMINUTE 6 VR Jones MRElliot\n\nURMerivale MRJ. Ball #Labouchere\n\n1387 APRI\n\n7\n\nThe leave of absence has\n\nalready been approved\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your Despatch 825. of the 11 of February\n\nand to\n\napprove\n\nthe\n\narrangements you\n\nmade for the discharge of the duties of Colonial Secretary during the\n\nabsence of\n\nMr Mercer\n\nfrom Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "be relieved on arrival of the relief. I agree with Goul Dunlop that such a measure is indispensably necessary, and shall accordingly sanction the retention, which I trust under the circumstances will be approved by Her Majesty's Government\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\nPar Dept. II.\n\nActing reserving to Mr. Suhowhere's excisions the proceeding resented leg.\n\ndept. No 13-w 8/2. Am And M. 16\n\nShukming Borening CINUTĘ // VRElliot 49 1857 APRI Ger 8133 Hughe 21 ass MAMerivale Y MRJ. Ball 21 MWc:Labouchere 24\n\nEntered 173 24 April 757\n\nIhan to acknowledging the receipt of your Despatch 823. of the 10 of February, and to refer you to my Despatch I. 13 of the 5th of this month, authorizing to clear the 5G Negh\n\nYou should you deem it necessary to do to repair the arrival of the ship from Mounties.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n18. The Rules now in operation to be thoroughly revised, and the Council to be conducted after the usual manner of conducting Public Councils or Meetings.\n\n19. Each Member, on being sworn in, to sign the Council copy of Rules for the conduct of the Council.\n\n20. When the Legislative Council shall sit in discussion on any matter affecting British Subjects in China, e.g., on any Consular Ordinance, any Consul or Vice-Consul, provided he be regularly appointed from home, and not merely acting, and provided he be on actual Service at one of the Ports of China open to Trade, shall, on Summons from the Governor, be admissible to a seat in the Legislative Council pro hac vice, and shall enjoy the right of speaking, but not of voting in the Council.\n\n21. The Governor shall enjoy, as President of the Council, a casting vote, and no vote of the Council shall interfere with the power or authority vested in the Governor by Her Majesty, or the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n22. The Council may, as it shall see fit, amend or alter, from time to time, the Rules adopted for the conduct of its business.\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 28th July, 1855.\n\nInclosure 2,-Despatch 110.\n\nNo. 49. Legislative.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT OFFICES, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 26th March, 1857.\n\nSir, In reference to your Despatch of 23d November last, I propose now to forward some additional observations, and to furnish some further information in connection with my suggestions for the reorganization of the Legislative Council of this colony. My principal object is to introduce the popular element into its Government, and to make that element subservient to its prosperity, as I have reason to believe its introduction would be acceptable to public opinion.\n\n2. I deemed it desirable, before again reverting to the topic, to give the Colonial Secretary an opportunity of making any remarks upon my proposals, which either his experience of the Colonial Service, or his matured reflections on the subject matter, might suggest, and I think it right to forward copy of a Memorandum I have received from him. The change he advocates is altogether so unimportant, that I should think it would be better to leave matters as they are than to modify the Legislative Council in the manner suggested; and as I do not agree in the conclusion that the present state of things is satisfactory to the community, still less that it ought to be satisfactory, so I am persuaded that the admission of influences which should represent public opinion, with its contribution of knowledge, its demands for improvement, its interest in social reforms, would here as everywhere lead to greater contentment and better Government.\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 31st July, 1855.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th instant, together with its inclosure (herewith returned), and to state for the information of His Excellency The Governor,\n\n3. But were there still less of dissatisfaction than exists with the present state of things, I should hold it most desirable not to wait a period of agitation, and the expression of public discontent, in order to confer on a growing and prosperous population the benefit of more representative institutions in some shape or other.\n\nThe only suggestion I have to make is with reference to paragraph 7; and here I beg to observe, that the 5 Unofficial Members being elected every third year, would render these parties more efficient and better acquainted with their duties, than if elected annually. I have, &c.,\n\nThe Honorable W. T. Mercer, Esquire,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nW. CAINE, Lieutenant Governor.\n\nHongkong.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 23d November, 1855.\n\nSIR, I have to acknowledge your Despatch No. 110, of the 2d August last, proposing, for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, a scheme for the reconstitution of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\n2. That proposal will receive attentive consideration; but before any decision can be arrived at upon it, it is essential that Her Majesty's Government should be furnished with more detailed information on the most essential feature of the plan.\n\n3. I trust to receive from you a detailed report on this subject: and take the opportunity of the delay to direct your attention to some other portions of the plan which appears to me to deserve reconsideration.\n\n4. The enlargement of Councils, by the sole introduction into them of a greater number of public functionaries, is objectionable, as it would be but the diffusion and consequent diminution of responsibility among the Executive body, whose functions, in my judgment, would be better performed by few than by many; and, except for the purpose of bringing influence from without the Government circle into the field of legislation, I see little necessity for change.\n\n5. The Legislative Council as at present constituted, is undoubtedly acquainted with the concerns of the colony. The Blue Book had never been laid on the Council Table. No subject whatever was discussed except on the presentation of the Governor—nothing whatever connected with the budget was ever submitted either for suggestion, deliberation, or decision.\n\n6. I am not aware of the existence of the misapprehension to which the Colonial Secretary refers, with reference to the control which the Legislative Council possesses over the finances of the colony. No control has hitherto been in any way exercised or assumed over any portion of the Colonial Revenues.\n\n7. But the Colonial Secretary allows that the Legislative Council is concerned in the levying the Police Rate,—that revenue not arising from the property of the Crown. Now, strange to say, the Police Rate in Hongkong is determined, not by the Legislative, but by the Executive Council.\n\n8. I do not imagine the Charter of the colony, to which the Colonial Secretary refers, to be an irrevocable and immutable Law, but a law which the Sovereign Lawgiver may modify in the interest of Her subjects. Whatever may have been the purpose of the charter, under existing Colonial usages, it appears to me the functions of the Legislative and the Executive Councils are in practice not infrequently confused and blended, and that much of the action of the Executive might, with public advantage, be placed under the supervision of the Legislative Council, on the understanding always that the Legislative Council should stand on a broader basis, and that its aptitude for useful Legislation should be increased by the introduction of a certain number of popular elected members.\n\nMARCH 2, 1857.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n373\n\n17. The machinery for enforcing the arrangement that three out of five Non-official Members should be selected from the Magistracy, might be simply that the suffrages of any voter who polled for more than two non-magistrates should be ipso facto disallowed.\n\n18. As regards the 16th paragraph allowing the Governor to leave a vacancy unfilled, I think it, on consideration, better that no such discretion should be left to the Governor, but that on a vacancy occurring an election to supply it should take place.\n\n9. I do not know in what respect the experiment made by Sir George Bonham, six years ago, can be said to have entirely failed, nor am I acquainted with the prediction which anticipated that failure.\n\n19. With reference to the proposal of the Colonial Secretary, for the appointment of a Colonial Surgeon, I think a salary of £800 would be a sufficient remuneration, and that to his duties might be superadded the supervision and direction of measures connected with the Public health.\n\n20. 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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government \n\nAt the same time I see nothing obstructive or prejudicial in the presence of two Unofficial Members, and as the step has been taken, I would not revoke it; but I would not enlarge the number, or at any rate go beyond three, more especially when consideration is given to what I have stated above, with reference to the small portion of the Colonial Revenue with which the Council has to deal,\n\nAs regards the filling up these seats as vacancies occur (and one is already vacant, see Colonial Regulations, cap. 11, 1, 7.) I would adopt some such plan as that contained in Inclosure I to Despatch No. 110, above referred to.\n\nBut I would exclude Foreigners from the Electoral Body, and on no account permit the right of franchise to a Chinese. To those practically acquainted with the Chinese character, it is unnecessary to say anything on this head, and to others I would fail in finding intelligible words.\n\nI would omit the conclusion of clause 7 in the plan, as I can conceive an occasion on which the public might wish to elect a subordinate official if useful and intelligent; and I see no reason either for interfering with the right of the Electors to elect whom they please, or for preventing a respectable official from occupying that position in which the public consider he could render good service to them.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.\n\nMemorandum of TENEMENTS,-Continued.\n\n  \n    CLASS\n    NUMBER\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    Brought forward,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    British\n    \n    £40 and upwards\n  \n  \n    Foreign\n    410\n    650\n  \n  \n    \n    186\n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL, Foreign...\n    176\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese\n    1637\n    \n  \n  \n    GRAND TOTAL,\n    1999\n    \n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. C. POWER, Police Rate Assessor.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nI have no fear of any undue influence on either side being used 1st April, 1856. in this respect.\n\nThus my idea is, that the three members and all the Electoral Body be bona fide British Subjects.\n\nIn the Secretary of State's Despatch, objection is taken to the power proposed to be given to the Executive Council in revision of the Electoral Roll. Let then the power go to the Legislative Council itself, as now in the case of the Jury List.\n\nIn clause 2 of the Despatch, information is called for as to the probable number of Electors, and the proportion they would bear to the unrepresented classes of the population. On the plan here suggested by me, the number of Electors would be about 75, of whom about 45 would be present to vote, and as the population is about 70,000, the proportion is 1 in 1,000; but taking the Jury List as the European population, to this the proportion would be about 1 to 2; and of these, taking the British Subjects present and voting, rather more than 1 in 3,\n\nAs I have stated, British Subjects only should vote, and the large and preponderating number of Foreigners resident in the Island is to my mind an argument against, instead of for, their admission to influential privileges in a British colony.\n\nI think that all the heads of Executive departments should have seats in the Legislative Council, excepting always when such heads happen to be foreigners, when I would sanction their presence, but withhold the power of voting in the Council,\n\nInclosure 3-Despatch 49.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,\n\n  \n    \n    £10\n    £20\n    £30\n    £40\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    British Subjects,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Foreigners,\n    8\n    2\n    5\n    54\n    69\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    4\n    3\n    16\n    30\n  \n  \n    Chinese,\n    14\n    6\n    4\n    18\n    42\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,\n    29\n    12\n    12\n    88\n    141\n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. C. POWER, Clerk of Deed Registry.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nIn the colony of Mauritius, I see that all Naturalization Ordinances specially exclude the privilege of sitting in Conseil.\n\nThe Councils then I would recommend, as given in clauses 4 and 5 of the plan enclosed in Sir John Bowring's Despatch No. 110, of 2d August, 1855, with this exception, that the number of Unofficial Members of the Legislative should be reduced to 3 for the reasons I have given.\n\nI would follow the plan generally, saving the objections which I have put forward in this Memorandum.\n\nI am also anxious to take this opportunity of observing, that I am convinced that an error was made when the duties of Colonial Surgeon were virtually abolished, and confided to the charge of a Military Medical Officer. I think £1,000 a year, and even perhaps a seat in the Legislative, would be well bestowed on an efficient Surgeon, with, not an injunction.—for this might be inconsistent with his professional obligation, but an understanding, that he was not to engage in private practice. I am certain that powers to enforce sanitary measures conferred on and exercised by an intelligent and energetic medical officer, would be very instrumental in assisting in many ways the progress of the colony.\n\nNo. 82.\n\n31st March, 1856.\n\nDOWNING STREET, July 29th, 1856.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have carefully considered your Despatch No 49, of 26th March last, in connection with previous correspondence on the same subject; and however reluctant to overrule your opinion, I have decided against the proposal which you have made, to introduce the Representative element into the Government of Hongkong.\n\n2. I appreciate as highly as it is possible to do the value of representative institutions, but I am at the same time mindful of the conditions, which experience has proved to be essential for their good working.\n\n3. I believe that the present is the first proposal that has been made for introducing those institutions amongst an Asiatic population, containing but a very small proportion of British or even European residents: I have, therefore, thought it the more necessary to weigh carefully the reasons for and against it.\n\nThe above Memorandum, written after mature reflection, is submitted, with all respect, for the consideration of His Excellency, The Governor.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nInclosure 2,-Despatch 49.\n\nMemorandum of TENEMENTS assessed for POLICE RATE\n\n  \n    RATE\n    CLASS\n    NUMBER\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    £10 and under £20\n    British\n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign...\n    17\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    308\n    433\n  \n  \n    £20 and under £30\n    British\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign\n    19\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £30 and under £40\n    British\n    408\n    43)\n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign...\n    16\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    421\n    485\n  \n  \n    Carried forward,\n    \n    1349\n    \n  \n\n4. The testimony of those best acquainted with them, represent the Chinese race as endowed with much intelligence, but as very deficient in the most essential elements of morality. The Chinese population of Hongkong is, with perhaps a few honourable exceptions, admitted to stand very low in this respect.\n\n5. The information which I have received from you, does not lead me to suppose that education has made such progress among the youthful population, as to give promise that the next generation will be much superior to the present in moral culture. In regard therefore, to the proposal to confer the elective franchise on a constituency, of which the majority would be Chinese, I have to consider, whether men who have not, either from moral principle or traditional influences, acquired a respect for the main principles on which social order rests, are likely to use such a privilege in a manner useful to themselves, or to the community at large.\n\n6. I cannot assent to such a conclusion.\n\n7. If, on the other hand, the franchise were to be so restricted as practically to exclude the Chinese and Asiatic population, and to secure a preponderance to the British residents, I should apprehend from that arrangement future discontent on grounds that seem to be well founded.\n\n8. Few if any of the British residents in Hongkong are persons who go to establish themselves and their descendants permanently in that place; they merely sojourn there during a limited time, engaged in commercial or professional pursuits, but intending to quit the colony as soon as circumstances will permit.\n\n9. To whatever extent the control of local affairs might be conferred on this class by the partial introduction of representative Government, the effect would be, to give power over the permanent population to temporary sojourners, differing from them in race, language, and religion, and not influenced by their opinions. However respectable the character of the residents may be, I cannot believe but that such an arrangement could work satisfactorily.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.]\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n374\n\n10. If it were suggested, as indeed some passages in your despatch appear to suggest, that the object of introducing the system of election should be to afford to the Governor increased means of learning the wishes and feelings of the population, but without transferring to the Legislative Council increased power either enacting laws or controlling expenditure,-I should regard such a scheme as liable to other and equally conclusive objections.\n\n11. For the simple purpose of discovering the persons most competent to give advice as to public matters, the judgment of the officer administering the Government seems to me quite as good a test, in such a community as Hongkong, as public election, whether under a restricted or an extended franchise, and except as a considerable share of power should be given to the representative members of the Legislature, I am persuaded that such a system could not be established without creating future dissatisfaction.\n\n12. If there were no other material objection to the change which you desire to introduce, I should regard the peculiar position of Hongkong as presenting an additional difficulty not easily to be got over.\n\n13. The Island is held by the British Crown, not at all because of any natural advantages which it possesses, but simply as subsidiary to the intercourse between the British and the Chinese Empires. In this point of view it is of great importance. Great commercial interests and the future progress of civilization throughout the East are to a great extent involved in the maintenance of British rule and of orderly government in Hongkong,\n\n14. It is true that the government of such a dependency presents some peculiar difficulties, arising not only from its internal condition, but its immediate neighbourhood to Chinese territory. I should be glad if I could believe that the time was near at hand when the most essential objects of government could be secured without difficulty.\n\n15. There is nothing, however, in the views which I had expressed, that should prevent you from conducting the affairs of the colony with the greatest regard to the feelings as well as the interests of the population, where paramount considerations of a general nature do not interfere.\n\n16. You have alluded to the fact that, at Singapore, Chinese residents have been introduced into the Magistracy. If you should hereafter be able to select from the Chinese inhabitants persons deserving of confidence, whom you may think fit to hold this or any other administrative office, I should be willing to assent to such appointments. The experiment, however, should be very cautiously made, and until considerable experience had been gained, I should not think it wise to place a Chinese in any position in which he could exercise authority alone, and without check on the part of British officials.\n\n17. I can see no objection to a moderate increase in the number of the Legislative Council, if you should think that desirable; and I approve of the steps which you have taken, in laying the Estimates of public expenditure before that body, and inviting their observations upon the items of\n\nGovernment in conformity with the principles on which it has been established, and not parting with that authority, which, when wisely exercised, I believe to be best calculated to secure the general welfare of a community placed in such exceptional conditions. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\nH. LABOUCHERE,\n\nGovernor Sir JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c. Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "As to forewarning (nachrach & cement). Ddy 28 4\n\nAlz\n\nThe Bt. Souble st. La bouchere, M. P.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring 7 March, 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n1 Enclosure.. N46.\n\nReceived 130 of 14 November Acknowledging Despatch \"John Calvin\". \"Duke of Portland\" and the Passenger Ships the mortality, on board Statements relative to with that win, Kish with miculated. mi a day.\n\ntwo for comiduction. Cause for the Law offices I Krich that R. Livin in come 6 deemed profe to w When Downs, foment Shige, and I have H. John (cation\n\nThe Emigration Commissioners 46 AK. 4015 Entered DS 193 June 1857 PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT July 1858.\n\nW. Elliston 13 June Gentlemen, W. Merivale 13 M. Fortescue. 15 W. Labonchere Bal\n\nThis is forwarded Announcement ban Letcher in the House of Commons that he worlds. Laws iffimum Strin Guastirin.\n\n396 4857.\n\nI am directed by EW. Sec: Labor Chere to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a Parliamentary Paper presented on the 21st of March 1857, containing the Correspondence which had passed up to that time respecting the Chinese Emigrant Ships \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Calvin\". I am also desired to enclose copies of letters from Mr. Mist\n\n4 Dec.",
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        "content_text": "C \n\n40 5 trong Kong \n\nGovernor \n\n\"Sir John Bowring \n\nElliot: \n\n22 \n\nEntered \n\nNo 866 \n\nSiv \n\nPRENA \n\nEe ope \n\n406 \n\nEq June 1857. \n\nTON PARLIAMENT \n\n30 July 1857. \n\ntellist _ ir Juno Thave had under \n\nWaterwald W \n\nI \n\nMr. \n\nWer Fortescue, 23 \n\nmy \n\nConsideration \n\nW. Labouchere. \n\n29 \n\nThis soft \n\nsumpand and \n\nEnculatist for \n\nwhich bar. \n\nfou submitted & \n\nformally, \n\nI.FL. 22 Jum \n\nAnd I bet you \n\nlogi \n\nyour despatch, N°414b \n\nof the 7th of March, \n\nrelative to the \n\nPapenger \n\nThips John Cabin and Duke of Portland \n\nThis despatol \n\nthews that no further \n\nlight is likely to be \n\nthrown \n\non upon \n\nthe fact \n\nAnd I shall thereforo \n\nhow proceed to \n\nCarey \n\nto \n\nyou \n\nsuch remarks \n\nAD",
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        "content_text": "I am to thank you for communicating that Letter \nto me. \n\nI am now instructed \nby Sir John Bowring to inform you that he finds \nnothing (after due investigation) to affect in the slightest degree the propriety of your proceedings in the matter referred to.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nSir \nYour obedient Servant, \nLiz. W.T. Bridges, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTrue Copy \nM.J. Bridges Acting Colonial Secretary\n\nGovernor \nSir John Bowring\n\nNo 62 \nNo 52 4020 \nHong Kong. \n4th May 1857.\n\nMr. Merivale Jr May 9 1857. \nMr. Ball & \nSW. \nMM. Sec & Labouchere.\n\nI have to acknowledge \nYour Despatch. No. 51 of \nthe 12th March last, enclosing \ntwo \nletters addressed to myself \nby the Attorney General for Hongkong and by the Acting Colonial Secretary, containing Complaints against each other and asking for \na decision between them.",
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        "content_text": "of registration of brothel, however extravagant to English notions, was \n\nscarcely acquired.\n\nMr Ansley's measure was \n\naccordingly introduced in Council, \n\nand received, as \n\ntell \n\nwith... \n\na \n\nSir J. Darnell \n\n\"hurricane of \n\ndisapprobation.\" This appears to \n\nhave been mainly owing to \n\na \n\nclause which \n\nsubjects all persons guilty of offences \n\nunder the ordinance, not merely to fine but to imprisonment.\n\nDr Bridges, acting Colonial Secretary (and the chief Magistrate \n\nof the island) hereupon an ordinance, which is also inclosed in draft, for the registration of Brothels, in lieu of the Amendment for the repeal of the licence.\n\n480\n\nMr Ansley criticizes Dr Bridges' attempt in language with which I'm \n\nfamiliar from the former despatch.\n\nBut Dr Bridges has on his side the opinion of the Chief Justice as to the principle of his measure: and that of W. \n\nCaldwell the interpreter, the most influential among the Hong Kong Officials, who declare, it will be suited to the character of the Chinese:\n\nFor Doming done adoption \n\nof the Bridges' ordinance he seems equally afraid of the Attorney... \n\nand ends by referring the matter back for Mr Labouchere's consideration and \n\ncounsel.\n\nI can \n\nonly say \n\nit is \n\na \n\nsubject on which a false step might \n\nbe either \n\nvery absurd \n\nor \n\nvery...",
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        "content_text": "the consideration of-\n\nwith the views therein expressed Mr. Secretary Labouchere\n\nby\n\n\"His Excellency will transmit\n\nsuch amended Ordinance\n\nfor\n\nthe Home Government.\n\nI have to.\n\nCopy\n\n2.4835/5-503\n\nAttorney General's Office,\n\nHongkong, 19th March 1857.\n\nOn leaving the Legislative\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. T. Bridges,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nM. J. Bridges Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nCouncil this afternoon your messenger\n\nplaced in my hands your\n\nletter\n\nof\n\nthis date covering\n\nDispatch of the 27th August\n\n1856 On\n\nthe Draught Venereal Diseases Ordinance\n\nof last year, which dispatch is\n\nThe Honorable\n\nW.T. Bridges, Esq.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "Copy No.2311\n\n559\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Kuching, 27th May, 1857\n\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency The Governor has received a reply from Mr. Secretary Labouchere in reference to your communication relating to the Sanitary Ordinance. Mr. Labouchere is of opinion that the circumstances of the case justify the retrospective operation of that Ordinance and cannot gather from the papers laid before him that the works were so far proceeded with in the interval of the first interruption as to have rendered that interruption of material consequence to you. If you thought proper to continue them relying on the decision of an inferior Court in your favour, you must have been the promoters of that decision having proceeded.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\n(Sigd) W. H. Bridges,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nA. R. Hudson",
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        "content_text": "death of the Surveyor General, in regard of Action at law.\n\nBut it is probable that, on this latter point, Mr. Hudson and his Counsel may have themselves misunderstood His Excellency.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Chisholm Anstey, A. P.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW. J. Duties\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n24th March 1857.\n\n563\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 16th instant, I have the honor to request, in the event of that letter not proving completely satisfactory to you, that you will favor me with a Copy of His Excellency Governor Bowring's despatch which caused you to take such an unfavorable view of my claim, to be furnished to me, in order that I may have an opportunity of correcting any errors affecting my Case into which His Excellency may have been erroneously led.\n\nI am sure I need do no more than appeal to His Excellency's sense of Justice to second this request, the more so as he informed me that it was only an official regulation my former request to the same effect could not be complied with, as will appear from the excluded Correspondence.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nThe Right Honorable Sir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant\n\nHenry Labouchere, M. P.\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.",
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        "content_text": "by \n\nthe above despatches will be attended to in due course.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n26 May\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour obedient humble Servant,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nChong Trong\n\nW% 61.\n\nWan 5 #57 582\n\nMilitary Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong. 2nd April, 1857.\n\nWar Dep. 10743/56.\n\nCopy B\n\nWar Dep\n\n12. 15. June. 16.7\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge Your Despatch\n\nW. 136 of 11th December last, and to forward herewith Copy of Proceedings of Board of Enquiry respecting the strength of the present Store Establishment at Hongkong.\n\nThe Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "£\n\nGovern de John Bouring\n\n54 Arny / 1855.\n\nMetons, Ampliory,\n\nA\n\nTu Dt Houth Henry Labouchen, M.P.\n\nReceived -\n\np73.\n\nof an ordinance substituting penal servitucle for transportation.\n\nConvicts to Labuan, on the passing\n\nIn the subject of transportation of\n\nMr. Mick\n\n6 July 1858.\n\npertart the Brust h\n\n?\n\ngif.\n\nGov 6113. Song tong\n\nEvercor\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nW. Elliot\n\n—\n\n96\n\nEntered.\n\n15 July 1859.\n\nI have received:\n\nM. Merivale 8\" W. Fortescue 10 M. Laborchere. 15\n\nyour despatch N:73\n\nof the 8th of May,\n\ninclosing whether\n\nyou may enter into an arrangement with the Governor\n\nof Labuan for the reception there of\n\nFelons sentenced to\n\nTransportation in Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th May, 1887.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.3 quoting the disallowance by Her Majesty of Ordinance 15 of 1886. I have promulgated such disallowance in the Government Gazette published this day.\n\nI will cause the Ordinance ...\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nJohn Francis Robert Siv Putley.\n\nW. 88.\n\n(Legislative ...)\n\nCh.20 1857 for 1937/56 c. 10,467 8,221/57 25. Progers 10,241/24 Afficers 11,177 v hr, Anon? 3 August/87_M: 96\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\n2491/57\n\n \nPage 240\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241\n\nPage 241\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "# The Rt Honble Henry Labouchere MP.\n\n## Governor Sir John Bowring\n\n5th August, 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nN./22.\n\n2 Enclosures.\n\nReceived  \n4 the Surveyor General's Department.  \nFurnished by the Military Storekeeper.  \nForwarding List of articles to be supplied.\n\nI conceive that this rejection should be forwarded to the War Dept level on the grounds that the articles which be supplied. The Govt will, I presume, be ultimately called upon to pay the cost.\n\n(713  \n020)\n\n## Minute\n\nSir Henry Merivale  \n23 Oct 737  \n65\n\nElliot Merivale  \n1:57 OCTR  \n14  \n15.\n\nTo Bad Fortescue  \n17  \nAnswered  \nW. M.  \n1 Decoy Dev17  \n10863  \n122-5 Aug 197  \nBy\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary to transmit to you, for Lord Panmure's such directions as he may deem fit to give, a copy of \"Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a letter from the Military Storekeeper in the Colony...\"",
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        "content_text": "## \na suggestion of mine, it was determined that 24 hours was discharged, (Bond read) I drew the bond--I notice should be given to the Sheriff, to prevent any have a copy of the proper form in my office. I have re- possibility of mistake. A letter was therefore written peatedly drawn out such bonds. I receive no fees in to the Governor of the Gaol to give the Sheriff notice, such matters. I got no instructions whatever from Dr that if no civil process was issued against Allum be Bridges farther than the letter already produced. I fore the expiry of the 24 hours, Allum was to be received instructions when made a J.P., not to act in discharged. I may explain, that the Sheriff had for- my magisterial capacity in any matter connected with merly the charge of the prisoners, but the powers are the Gaol. The old Gaol Ordinance has been superseded by the New Gaol Regulations. Dr Bridges visited the gaol on the 1st August; he expressed surprise at Allum's release, and asked how the Sheriff had permitted him to go. \n\nThe next I heard of the matter, I believe, was on the 1st of August, when, on visiting the Gaol, as I usually do, the Governor of the Gaol informed me Allum was gone. \n\nI was very much surprised, and immediately crossed over to the Magistracy, where the Sheriff was.\n\n## For the defence.\n\nTAM-ACHOV,-Has spoken to Dr Bridges about Allum. Never was asked by Dr Bridges to bring money-never paid any.\n\nPHILLIP COHEN, Merchant-Have had dealings with Allum. When Allum was arrested, he owed the firm upwards of $1000, I succeeded in obtaining...\n\nF. S. HUFFUM, Clerk to the Chief Justice, questioned as to the correctness of a report in the Friend of China of a discussion before His Lordship about some money found in Allum's iron chest, and which Dr Bridges demanded on behalf of his client said he thought the report was correct.\n\nJ. JARMAN, Inspector of Police,-Was directed to read the report of the execution before the Magistrate. At first he said he thought it correct as far as he could recollect; but on being cross-questioned, said Dr Bridges had given his evidence in an open, straightforward manner-made no attempt to conceal any facts answered every question put to him. Mr Jarman was then told to re-read the report in the Friend of China, and say if that report coincided with what he had just stated about Dr Bridges's manner of giving evidence; he acknowledged it did not, and then wound up by saying he had paid very little attention to what took place in the Magistrate's Court, as he was busy at the time with other matters.\n\nLE-ARROW, I know Cheong Allum, am his cousin. I am Overseer in the Land Office. My salary is $20 a month. I remember the morning when civil actions were pending against him. The Sheriff had nothing to do with Allum criminally, but he was informed that Allum had to enter into bonds. I directed the Sheriff to be informed, because, having been Allum's Counsel, I was afraid that something might be said about my connection with his release. Other prisoners have been in Gaol on suspicion, for whom bonds were taken, some by the Registrar General, some by the Governor of the Gaol. I had nothing to do with the drawing of the securities, nothing whatever further to say to Allum's release. (The Friend of China of 5th August last handed to the witness, who, when asked what part of an article in it he considered libellous, replied,)-I do not exactly know what part to say. It accuses me of dishonesty and abuse of my position, and of being actuated by unworthy motives in ordering Allum's release. (Another paper of 25th July handed to him.)-I see nothing in this directly referring to me, except that it speaks of an exposé, and is alluded to as such in the paper of 5th August. I had no reason to dread any exposure. I received from Allum altogether $1150. In the criminal matter, I was waited upon by Chinese. I did not like the case, and told them if I was to act for Allum, I should charge $1,000, but would have nothing to do with Allum personally in the matter. In the civil cases, I get $150 from Mr Stace, Allum's Solicitor. The $1,000 I got from Allum's friends. I did not get the money myself, but was told by my Comprador it had been paid-I presume by Tam Achoy and Assow, who with 5 or 6 other Chinese had waited on me to ask me to defend Allum. I made a mistake at the Magistrate's Court in saying the sum I got from Mr Stace for account of Allum was between $175 and $225, for on looking at my book I find it was only $150. It was perfectly immaterial to me whether Allum's books appeared in the Insolvent Court or not. I consider I acted wrongly as Colonial Secretary in keeping Allum in gaol for the 22 days it was only to prevent anything like an imputation being cast upon me about his release. (Witness shown the Friend of China of 22nd August, professing to give a report of the examination before Mr Davis, the Chief Magistrate, and also Mr Tarrant's first letter to Mr Labouchere, said)-the report is false-a distortion of the truth from beginning to end. (Cross-questioned by Mr TARRANT.) When I accepted office in February last, I found Allum in jail. He was there on the Governor's warrant. The Sheriff before gave a wrong account of the incarceration, and he is now aware of it; he had forgotten the particulars-we are all liable to make mistakes. New Gaol Regulations have been made by the Justices of the Peace. They did not require to be approved by the Legislative Council, though the Governor has the power of disallowing any alterations. I knew nothing about the discharge of the prisoner, further than I have already stated. The Magistrates follow their own plans in taking bail. Allum was committed under the Governor's warrant, and the Sheriff had nothing to do with him.\n\nANDREW L. INGLIS,-I am Governor of the Gaol, and have been so since the 4th of May in this year. New Gaol Regulations have been made since I became Governor; under these regulations the custody of prisoners is vested in me as Governor. When I took charge of the jail, I found Allum in custody, under a warrant bearing the H. E. Governor's signature and seal. In the month of July (the 8th) I received instructions that I was not to hold Allum longer as a criminal, but I was to keep him in custody in case any civil process should be issued against him (Extract of 8th July from jail-journal read.) The next communication I know of relative to Allum was on the 30th July, when I received a letter directing me to give the Sheriff notice, that if no detainers were lodged against him before the expiry of 24 hours, he would then be discharged by me, on finding security not to return to the colony for five years. I took the letter to the Sheriff, who read it, and said he had something against him, and would arrest him on the morrow. The following day in the forenoon, I received a note from Mr Stace, by the hands of Tam Achoy and another, to say that they would be bail for Allum, and that they had better see Mr Caldwell that he might approve of them as sureties (note read.) I sent the note down to Mr Caldwell, who said both men were valid. I then drew up the bail-bond, had it signed, and there being no detainer lodged by the Sheriff, I discharged Allum according to instructions. (Governor's warrant for Allum's imprisonment read.) I found the warrant on the file when I entered on office. When I joined the Gaol, it was under the charge of the Sheriff until new regulations were framed, vesting all the power in me as Governor. I did not find any security... \n\nCHARLES MAY, Acting Sheriff,-After his examination before the Police Court, I issued a warrant for the detention of Allum under `Ordinance No. 2 of 1857`, because the Attorney General had told the Court that such a step would be taken; I was at that time in charge of the gaol in the absence of Mr Mitchell the Sheriff. When a prisoner is liberated on bail, it is the custom here to submit the bond for the inspection of the Committing Magistrate. This is not necessary, but it is the custom here; any Justice will do as well. Mr Inglis brought the letter of instructions to me while I was on the bench. I said there was a difficulty in my arresting Allum while on the Criminal side of the jail, but if he would transfer him to the Civil side I would arrest him. He replied he had no such instructions. I said I would let him know in the morning; I did not do so. The next I heard of Allum was from the Acting Colonial Secretary, on the 1st August; I could scarcely believe him when he said Allum was discharged, and went over to the jail to enquire. On examining the writ in my hands, I found the date had expired, and therefore the onus was removed from my shoulders. I was astonished at Allum's release, having expected that the surety bond would be first submitted to me, If a writ had been put in on the 31st, the same objection to serving it would have been taken.\n\nJOHN DAY, I acted as Counsel for Allum-I was retained by Gaskell & Brown, and they paid me my fees. I was retained two days after the poisoning. My fees amounted to $484. I was junior Counsel.\n\nJOZE D'ALMADA, Acting Clerk of Councils,—(Asked whether the old Gaol Ordinance had been repealed, replied,)-I am not permitted to state anything that takes place in the Council.\n\nR. S. 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        "content_text": "## Parliamentary Correspondence\n\nThe matter is as to reviving a cotton Extenuate for H. Hong, which, once resumed, such going on increasing in Exchequer, & is difficult to get rid of. At the present moment, as you are aware, the only opiate the Colony receives is the £10,000 voted in the last Session for defensive purposes.\n\nPerhaps M. Labouchere will approve of sending his despatch to the W. D. stating what ground there is for such surmises it contains.\n\n4 Nov\n\nI think to...\n\n185-\n\nThe Chanical contacts.\n\n20th Instant, 1857.\n\nThe 25th ditto Remy Labouchere Governor Sir John Bowring / Memorandum.\n\n2/28.\n\nReceived the Ground Rent home for a remission of and their intention to appeal. A Crown Land by the dicitay In the subject purchases Entescue. If the military authorities are Exempted from paying the Ground rents reacted Revenue must suffer, and recourse must be had to the Imperial Treasury to meet the deficiency in the local revenue. Supposing any such plan is in contemplation, as I am to expect, I should myself be inclined to object to it, on the ground that it is more simple better arrangement In War \"dept to pay, such rents for land out of the Treasury.\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 13.2.1857 | 132 Jedes w Aff. Jame directed by see MP3lliot |\n| NOV E 110 | Triodicale 101 War' Mostescue /2 |\n| Around 25 Nov | Nalaboucher For sig. Sentary Laboru here to transmit for the information of Lord |\n| 10657 Panmure | à Copy of a dispatch with enclosures from the Governor of Hong Kong relative to the purchase of Crown Property by the Military Authorities |\n\nI should be glad to be informed whether...",
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        "content_text": "## Ni129 \n\nto 129. \n\nMiscellaneous principle should also be extended to the Police and Lighting rate \n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W.J. Bridges \n\n1st Copy! \n\nA.C.S. \n\n18/8/37 \n\nMr. Andres.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n**RECEIVED** NOV 3 1887 \n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, \nHongkong, 28th August, 1887.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt yesterday of the following Despatches-\n\nOriginals `N2854/89` the last of 10th July 1887 \nDuplicates `No 1/2 to 82/84` \nand \nCirculars of 20th April, 11th May, 13th May, and 4th June 1887 \n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, \nYours Most Obedient \nHumble Servant, \nSir Bannerman \n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, &c. &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "Despatch No: 218 and an Answer to it (as they tell the story) and to Enway\n\nIn Labouchere's recommendation that the expenditure be sanctioned.\n\n26 Nov\n\nAnnexed vom No 2\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring\n14th September, 1857\nVictoria, HongKong,\n\nThe Rt Hon Henry Labouchere M.P.\n\nInclosure No 136.\n\nReceived 25 August 1857.\n\n60 Convicts to Canton on the Recurring Transportation of\n\nThe sanction of Her Majesty may be moved for this expenditure.\n\n24 Nov\n\nI understand that this practice is to be discontinued by Command.\n\nThe best course will be to send to the Treasury at the same time the Governor's previous despatch.\n\nEntered Gov 106 20th Nov\n\nAir Charles Trevelyan Mr-B.\n\nDECR 2\n\n| MINUTE | \n| --- | \n| Mr McElliot | Millerivale | \n| RC Fortescue | MR Calabashar | \n| W. M. Forbes | \n\n136-Me Left $57\n\nSin 210 5 Dec 1857\n\nJane directed by Me Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the accompanying copy of a Despatch No 11267 and enclosure from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting the expenditure of 2400 Dollars in the transportation of Sixty Convicts.",
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        "content_text": "## \n7. seems to anticipate a further Vote.\n\nThis despatch is concerning... with, I have examined it for consideration. In the form of a draft, the terms of the foregoing such suggestion an offer to come to.\n\n2F \n10 Feb.\n\n88.20.60 \nIf the longer than...\n\nimplement definitive & deal \n10621 Strong Kong.\nE. Saward Z.\n\nway computty, and Sondine, W. Elliot — 29 Deer.\n\n23 September \n1857.\n\n**Governor Sir John Bowring to The Hon. South Henry Labouchere, M.P.**\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\n4137.\nReceived \n**Financial position of the Colony.**\n\nTransmitting Report by the Colonial Treasurer on the...\n\nWith this Despatch a copy of a recent letter from Dr. Bridges, the Acting Colonial Secretary, to Mr. Blackwood is enclosed. The assets: the information of the £10,000 extra... in local expenses will be found at 99% of the Treasurer's Report.\n\nThe Govt. has... for this Service from the... \nW. Merivale - W. Fortescue.\n\nLabouchere \nW \n2 lir \n\n## \nEntered, \nLei \nto \nL \n226 \nos 29th Oct 7\n\nWith reference to my letter of the 20th of February last, instructing you to procure and send out certain Police Clothing to Hong Kong, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to request that you will inform here what was the Cost of that supply.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nAnd what was the date and Cost of each similar supply which you may have had occasion to send out within the two or three years preceding; And in case the several requisitions exhibit the amounts of the force for which they are made, I am to request that you will state those Amounts.\n\nC. E. Trevelyan  \nWillis  \n10 Feb.  \nMerivale - W. Fortescue. 14 W.Labordeker 17.\n\nSubmitted for Consideration.  \n2.76- 10th  \n\nMs. A/  \nDe Schedule referred to this  \n23 Sept 787-187  \nEntered  \n227  \n\nFeb. 1858.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you for the Consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury the enclosed copy of despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, accompanied by a report from W. Forth, Colonial Treasurer, explanatory of the grounds upon which it...",
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        "content_text": "223\n\nThe Governor has drawn for £10,000 granted by Parliament last year for measures of precaution and defence, consequent upon the state of affairs in China.\n\nFor greater convenience of reference, an abstract is placed herewith of the items included by W. Forth in his list of expenses arising out of the War, to the amount of very nearly the total sum of £10,000.\n\nSome of the items appear to be more or less open to questions, and others to be insufficiently explained. On all of these, W. Labouchere proposes to call for additional explanations and to convey such instructions as appear requisite, in a despatch to be addressed to the Governor of the Colony.",
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        "content_text": "## LXXX. \nEvery Officer or Justice to write his name on the proper Book. Every Visiting Justice, and every Justice of the Peace on each occasion of his visiting the Gaol for the purposes of these Regulations, shall write his name, and the date of the visit in the Gaol Visitation Book.\n\nEvery Officer or Justice is to report on the state of the Gaol, including what diseases have been most prevalent therein, whether any part of the sickness may be reasonably attributed to defect in the construction or management of the Gaol, what sanitary precautions he may deem it necessary to add to those then in force, and such other matters as to him may seem fit.\n\n## Scale of Diet for Prisoners\n### LXXXI. \nThe following is the prescribed allowance of food and necessaries for Prisoners, subject to such alterations as the Governor of the Gaol shall, with the consent of his said Excellency, from time to time make public:\n\n| Category | Rice | Salt or Fresh Fish, Vegetables, in lieu of Fish | Beef or Pork | Bread | Vegetables | Tea | Sugar | Salt | Soap | Water |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. For Chinese and Persons accustomed to Chinese Diet. | 1 catty. | 2 taels. a Man a Day. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | as much as needed |\n| 2. For all other Prisoners. | 1 lb. |  | 3 oz At the option of the Governor of the Gaol. | 8 oz | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |  |\n| 3. For all Prisoners. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ... | 1 lb. a Man a Month. | not exceeding the prescribed allowance |\n\nBut this dietary may be altered from time to time by the Colonial Surgeon with the sanction of his said Excellency.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 11th May, 1857.\n(Signed) G. LYALL, W. T. BRIDGES, W. LAMOND, J. SCARTH, T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY, D. R. CALDWELL, A. L. INGLIS.\n(Signed) H. TUDOR DAVIES,-Chairman.\n\n## ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS\npassed at a Special Meeting of the Justices of the Peace, held on the 25th Day of June, 1857.\n\n### LXXXII. \nFor the maintenance of good order and discipline within the Gaol, the Governor shall have the power to punish his subordinates on the Jail staff, for any negligence or other misconduct, by Fine; or, in conjunction with a Justice of the Peace, by Imprisonment, or by Fine and Imprisonment, as they shall consider necessary-such Fine not to exceed One Month's Pay, and such Imprisonment with hard labor not to exceed One Month.\n\n### LXXXIII. \nThe Governor shall, in the case of grave offences within the Prison committed by Prisoners, have power to inflict a punishment not to exceed Fifteen strokes of a Rattan.\n\n### LXXXIV. \nThe Governor shall, in every case of so punishing a subordinate or a Prisoner, as in the two last Regulations mentioned, record the particulars in his Journal, and report the same within Twenty-four Hours for the information of the Colonial Secretary.\n\nHongkong, 32 October, 1857.\n\"I herewith submit to your favourable consideration an Application from the subordinate Members of the Colonial Service representing their claims to an augmentation of Salary.\n\nThe Right Honorable Denny Labonchere, M.P.\" \n\nPage 22\nTo Admiralty written to 29 Feb 1857. to Treasury for \n... \nPage ... \nNo142. Financial.\n||055 Hong Kong \nRECEIVED \nDEC. 7 \n1837 \nSovemment Office, Victoria, \n... \nPower of Governor to punish his Subordinates by Fine, or, in conjunction with a Justice of the Peace, by Imprisonment, or by Fine and Imprisonment. \n... \n22. March 1858. \n... \n#2.",
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        "content_text": "## Thursday, 3rd April, 1806.\n\n**Bartlett, Police Constable**\n\nCharges against defendant with using exciting language calculated to cause a breach of the peace on board the Ship Billuke of Portland; on the 27th April instant, in this harbour.\n\nDefendant discharged.\n\n(Signed) W.H. Mitchell,\n\nTrue Copy (Signed) J.F. Collins, Chief Clerk.\n\n(Truc Robson)\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n## Miscellaneous Remittent Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th October 1857.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following Despatches:\n\nOriginals #698 to 105, dated 25th August 1857  \nDuplicates No. 94 to 97\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "remission of some part, but not more than one half, thereof. By order, \nM. Caine, \nColonial Secretary. \n\nColonial Secretary's office, Victoria, Hongkory, 17th March, 1852. \n\n(True Copy) \nJ. Digby \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\nNo 152 \nExecutor. \n5656/54 5086/56 \n\n| 100 | 4173 |\n\nCopy to Treasury for Dr Kirkland's approval \n\nW. Wanaut \ncirculated 2 \n23 Feby \n23. Omitted \n\nRECD \n.C.O \n1475 \n\nDEC 19 1857 \n\n434 \nGovernment Officers. Victoria, \nHongkong, 21st October 1857. \n\nIt being understood that Dr Dempster, the present Colonial Surgeon is about to vacate his Office by returning to Europe in his Military capacity, I avail myself of the opportunity to request The Right Honorable \nEarl Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "of a despatch \nwhich has been \nReceived from the \nGovernor on the same \nsubject. \n\nThe answer to \nthis question appears to Mr. Labouchere to be clear. Parliament \nhas consented to \nAssist the Colony by granting it a \ncertain sum of \nmoney \nin this \nCountry; and what \nthe Colony has \nAcquired \n2 \n449 \nAcquired is a Credit \nto that amount \nupon England. If the Course of exchange had given it a \nprofit in drawing \nfor the Amount, the \nColony \nwould un- \ndoubtedly have \nenjoyed the gain; it must equally bear the loss when \nthe case is the \nreverse. W. Labouchere apprehends that \nthis is the universal \nCourse of business \nwhen",
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        "content_text": "# S159 Incentive \n\n200. Mong dong \n\n**RECEIVED** \n\n**JAN 7 1858** \n\nSir, \n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, \nHoughtons, 5th November, 1857.\n\nWith reference to my \nDespatched 1.99 of 5th June last, I have the honor to report that M. W. H. Mitchell having returned to the Colony has resumed his duties of \nAssistant Magistrate, and Mr. May and Mr. Brand have resumed those of Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent \n\nThe Right Honorable \nHenry Labouchere, M. P., \netc. \netc. \netc.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most Obedient Servant,\n\n1\n\n...\n\nInclosure\n\nNo. \n\nMr. T. Lau.\n\n11 Nov/114/\n\nW2.16\n\n...\n\n201 Long d[..?]\n\n3\n\nN:160.\n\nMiscellaneous-\n\nAgent instructed 18 Dec/58.10.\n\nAgents 1120/1500\n\nNo.\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\n**JAN/7 1858**\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\nHong Kong, 8 November, 1857.\n\nI have the honor to enclose\na Requisition for certain Books required for the use\nof the Councils of this Colony, and\nto request that the Colonial Agent\nbe directed to forward them by the return\nOverland Packet.\n\nThe Right Honorable\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "## Legislative \nGov 6610 9263\n\nGovernment Offices, Hong Kong,  \n12th November 1857.\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nHenry Labouchere, M.P.\n\nIn reference to your Despatch No. 105 dated 20th August regarding the question of publicity to be given to the proceedings of the Legislative Council,\n\nI have reason to expect that...\n\n(Signed)  \nW.J. Bridges  \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Previous Correspondence\n\nI have the puro of 2280, both salaries allowed in consideration of duty connected with the Foreign Department. I trust your Excellency will honor me with a recommendation to Lord Clarendon for a salary consistent with the pecuniary responsibility I incur by the connections of my department with the Foreign Office in the China Seas.\n\n(Signed)  \nFred Forth  \nColonial Treasurer.\n\n### Receipt Metadata\nRECEIVED  \nJAN. 1858  \nVictoria  \n$163. Legislative  \n10  \n204 trong chúng  \nJiv  \nKev  \nte  \n\nPage 163  \n$163. Legislative  \nGov 6610 9263  \n10  \n204 trong chúng  \n\nhid 1⁄2 \nyour Excellence's Attorney General \ninte de \nYour \nyour \nin \nTrees, \nCopups.)",
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        "content_text": "## Non Ellich.\n\nI thank you.\n\nhave before 80\n\nwe a\n\nMover in sir John Bowring\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n23 November, 1957.\n\n备\n\nThe O. Strüble Henry Labouchere M.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nJ. 168.\n\nReceived\n\nRecommending an application\n\nfor\n\nincrease of Pay from\n\nMr.\n\n\"the Colonial Secretary's office.\n\nJ. I' Ahunda the que deste in\n\napplication from the Cirt Seccants\n\ncof.\n\nSolvier\n\nand this application for dee\n\ngerevally for an Inveace\n\nela\n\nshould geschafer be\n\nCorundiced with it? The\n\nrecemmends that\n\nif\n\nthe cercase poutrel Thauled\n\nbe personal\n\n& the Offect\n\n### 8.1.19 San.\n\ndicht of\n\n7 F\n\nEntered\n\nspb. dong xong\n\nSix. &. E. Treaclypur\n\nW.\n\nWilllist — 10 Feb. Willerivate_10\n\nMo. Fatesove\n\n20\n\nW. Labouchere V.\n\n4.M.\n\nM.D. The General\n\n47\n\n16th Feb. 1858.\n\nI am directed by\n\nM. See Labouchere to\n\ntransmit to\n\nyou, for\n\nthe Consideration of\n\nthe L.C. of the treasury,\n\nSalaries with\n\nending 23d W.\n\ncase therefore, sports. Iff\n\n20\n\nNov 57-168\n\nThe foresaid\n\nthe enclosed copy of\n\na despatch from the Excercion of Hong Kong,\n\nand 24 Feby forwarding,\n\nwith his\n\nfavorable opinion\n\nAnd itrab of to=\n\nBridges the acting Colonial Secretary, an\n\nApplication from Mr...",
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        "content_text": "assistance his brother the duties here without his Senior Clerk having been absent on account of illness for a considerable period. I would not increase the salary of the 2nd Clerk of this Office but I could increase I & Almada's salary on account of his unexceptionable conduct and great length of service.\n\n(signed) W. S. Bridget.\n18/11/57\n\nTrue Copy\n\nMr. Smages\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nA:789\n\nMilitary Sec,\nCopy to War Dept.\n\n597600.\nANIB 1853\n53\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n23rd November, 1857.\n\nI have the honor to forward copy of confidential correspondence with Major General Van Straubenziee on the subject of the removal of Troops from the Colony for the purpose of assisting in the operations against Canton.\n\nI have no knowledge of any ground for anticipating dangers...\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nHenry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "## For 598. Hong Kong.\n\nEverior \n\nSir John Pakington \n\nW.W.Elliot \n\n8a15 \n\nre \n\n18 Feby \n\nW. Merivale - 18 \n\nd. Fortescue. 20 \nL. Labouchere 22 \n\nfir. \n\nEntered \n\nFeby \n70 \n1858.\n\nI have received your despatch, No.170 of the 24th of Nov., accompanied by a letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary offering some general suggestions as to the release of Chinese detained in confinement at Hong Kong. I concur in W. Bridges's recommendation. He proposes that",
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        "content_text": "## Miscellanous\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\nHong Kong, 24th November 1857\n\nI do not think it desirable to make any observations on the first Dispatch now under acknowledgment, except to state that the first official announcement of the number of Troops intended to be withdrawn from the Colony was made in Your Excellency's Confidential Communication of the 10th instant, and that consistent with the responsibility resting upon me as Governor, it is and will be my earnest desire to do all that depends upon me to give efficiency to Her Majesty's forces, in the hope that the Canton question may be brought to an early and successful conclusion.\n\nI know &c.,\nSigned John Browning,\n(Jane Copy)\n\nW. J. Andges\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nThe Right Honorable\nLabouchere M. P.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this day of the following Dispatches:\n\n| Dispatch Number | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nos. 119, 120 | Originals, dated 26 September 1857 |\n| Nos. 111 to 118 | Duplicates, and Circular of 5 September 1857 |\n\nPage 90\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "## requirements of the Chinese Passenger Act. Punishment should not follow in this instance the routine example, for it will be speedily imitated by other ships in these seas, and I have therefore to express my hope that effective measures may be taken to effect the capture of the `Dream` before her cargo is landed.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nWith the highest respect,\nSir, Your Most Obedient, Humble Servant,\nZ. F. F. Eliss\nM. W. \nM. Blackwood\n\nImmediate\nTo the Earl of Clarendon\n\nEntered  \n17th Feb. 1858.\n\nGentlemen,\nW. Ellist W. Merivale - 8  \nT. Foleseno 10 W. Labichere 17  \n\nI am directed by  \nI See Labouchere to  \nAck. & the receipt of  \nyour report of the 30 ult.;  \nrespecting the  \nBritish Ship `Dream`,  \nwhich is believed to have gone  \nwith Chinese Emigrants from Macao  \nto Havana, in violation of the terms of the  \n**Chinese Passengers Act**.",
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        "content_text": "## INB\n\nW. Jardine his is 1093 Song Kong.\n\nE. Hammond Esq.\n\nMr Elliot\nMr. Merewether\nMr. Paterson\nMr. Labouchere\n\nFeb. 8\n17\n\nSee explanatory Minute Attached to this Emigrant Control Report.\n\nD.S.\n9.9.17\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you, for consideration of the Earl of Clarendon, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, reporting his reasons for believing that the British Ship \"Dream\" has violated the Chinese Passengers Act, by taking on board...",
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        "content_text": "## \nI have the honor to enclose...\n\n(Signed) John Bowring\n\nTrue Copy\n\nW & A. Andrews\n\nKoloncate & Secretary...\n\nYour 2081/57\n079 Rogers 2226-\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\nFEB 2 1858\n\nHong Kong Govt. Offices, Victoria, Hongkong\n\n14th December 1857\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Despatch of 24th October on the subject of the Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 \"for better securing the peace of the Colony\".\n\nI deeply regret that I am unable... with a becoming regard to the safety of the...\n\nThe Right Honorable\nHenry Labouchere, M.P.\n&c. &c.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "## Correspondence regarding the Laws of Hong Kong\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 28th December, 1857.\n\nThe Governor, Sir J. Bowring, was requested to transmit 12 copies of Part II of the Laws of Hongkong, and it was stated that the sum of £75 be placed to the credit of the Colony.\n\nBy the Colonial Regulations (P67/8), the Governor was directed to send home not fewer than six copies.\n\nIn June 1856, when the Governor was furnished with a copy of a compilation of the Laws of Hong Kong, he was begged to send a dozen copies. In June 1857, he was requested to provide as many copies as possible of every office. He now supplies us with 12 copies of the 2nd part of the Compilation, saying they have cost £674.\n\nIt appears that the publication cannot have cost £75. In the first place, almost certainly the composition alone would have cost much more.\n\nOn the receipt of your despatch of the 28th ultimo, No. 183, in which you state that you have forwarded to this Office a box containing 120 copies of the second part of the Laws of Hong Kong, and request that the cost thereof, amounting to £75, may be paid to the General Agent on behalf of the Colony, I have to observe that before I can assent to this request, I must consider who is to pay.\n\n| Date | Event | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Dec 28, 1857 | Despatch sent |  |\n| June 1856 | Gov. requested to send copies |  |\n| June 1857 | Gov. requested to provide more copies |  |\n|  | 12 copies of 2nd part of Compilation received | £674 |\n|  | Request to pay £75 for 120 copies | £75 |\n\nW. M.  \nMr. Merivale\n\nIt seems that the Governor has led us into a great expense, of which he should, at least, have given warning before he sent home the work.\n\nSypi... see deduction to this draft. To see it seems that the Governor hasted... us into a great expense... \n\nGovernor Sir J. Bowring  \nHong Kong, 28 December, 1857  \nN 183  \nReceived  \nM. Merivale  \nH. Labouchere, M.P.  \nMm 723  \n0825  \n\nPage 158  \nPage 183  \nSir J. Bowring  \n12 April  \nB  \n10  \n16 Sir  \nNo... to  \nGR1178/1922/32(III)  \n`XCR(85)72`",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED Ceylon Admiralty, 2 August 1857\n\nIn reply to your Father's communication on this subject, it is requested that the Letter following the date may be quoted.\n\nAUG 21 1857 trả trong vùng 231\n\nL \nMr. Hik Governor \nAn to written to 2 13 Sept 757. \nted respecting Mr Tranchell 7 Septr= Jepte 157. 67ee757.\n\nSi \nI am commanded by my Commissioners of the Admiralty & requested to call the attention of Mr. Secretary Labouchere to my letter of the 13th February 1855, applying for repayment of, amongst other items, the sums of £100 advanced by this Department for the passage of the J. W. Stulene, Civil Service, from Hong Kong to England in April 1854; and £73 for the passage &c of I. Franchell, late Civil Service.\n\nNorman Merivale En \nColonial Office \n14 \n\nposa \n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 13 Sept 1857 |  |\n| 7 Sept 1857 |  |\n| 13 Feb 1855 |  |\n| April 1854 |  |",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Mr Romaine's letter of the 20 instant, I am directed by Mr Secretary Labouchere to transmit to you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the copy of a despatch from the Govt of Ceylon reporting that ... Mr Tranchell ...\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Merivale's letter of the 26 Feb 1858.\n\nThe Secretary to the Admiralty\n\nW. M. E... \nVR \nAB Elliot \nMerivale \nMRC Fortescue \nMB Sea Labouchere \n\nDECR \nJr sy. \n189-23 6.75 \n237",
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        "content_text": "## Letter to Mr. Cleverley. \n2. Mr. Cleverley's answer. 4. \nvide C. 5173. \nArver? & June. 1577-\n\n480 Hong Kong_249 \n\n**RECEIVED** \n**MAY.22** \n**1857** \n\n5 Cannon Row \n26th May 1857. \n\nWith reference to your Letter of \nthe 12th March last forwarding \na Requisition for Iron Pipes for Hong Kong I have the honor to enclose the \ncopy of a letter from Mr. Raithwaite \ngiving a list of additional Pipes which \nshould be supplied and I have to request the authority of Mr. Secretary Labouchere for providing the articles \ntherein enumerated.\n\n## \n**Merivale** \n\nI have the honor to be \nSir, \nYour obedient Servant \nE. W. Stafford",
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        "content_text": "# Simply \n\nWills the office of Attorney General for Hong Kong \n\n- over purposes of the Colonial Govt. think it might be desirable to the L.O. that in providing whether in Mr. Austen's Predecessor for advised any decision to the Governor for the time being. In professional service, rendered to the Superintendent of Trade for China. \n\nWe have no means preferred. \n\nNo Blackwood \n\n15 Feb. \n\nHave fully \n\nExamined \n\nThe \n\nrecord as to the first appointment. & \n\nmaintained that this question was acute \n\nand no reason whatever appears in \n\nthis \n\nCorrespondence on \n\nthe front, when the first \n\nAttorney Gen. (W. Caine) / \n\nwas appointed. \n\nIn answer, it appears to \n\nthat neither on the appointment of the Austen predecessor in the Attorney General's Hong Kong, nor of Mr. Anstey himself was any stipulation made that they \n\non going out of office of Superintendent should \n\nuse \n\nMr. Meigale. The \n\nwere \n\nmy \n\n177. \n\nAnswer accordingly. \n\nNo. 7. M177 \n\nW. 19. \n\n9.0.1395 Hong Kong \n\n291 \n\nE. Hammond, Esq.: \n\nP.R. Prin \n\nM. Merivale \n\nM. Ball & \n\nEntered \n\n1857 \n\n6 March. \n\nW. Probable date H \n\n12 \n\n1 \n\n17th March 1857. \n\nIn \n\nLetter of the 14th Ultimo, annoying \n\nDarth. The Attorney General \n\n2. Hong Kong \n\nis not bound \n\nto give legal advice, without fee, to Her Majesty's Superintendent in China as well \n\nas to the Colonial Govt. \n\nI am directed by M. Labouchere to request you",
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        "content_text": "I am directed by \nW. Secretary Labouchere to \nacknowledge your \nletter \nof the 3rd inst., transmitting \na report from Sir John Bowring respecting the \nEmigrant Ships \"Johns \nof \nCalcutta\" and \"Duke of Portland,\" and inquiring \nwhether there are any \nfurther steps which Mr. Labouchere would \nwish to be taken by the \nForeign Office on this subject.",
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        "content_text": "My impression is that we should not be hampered in any way on this point \n\nthe Chinese foot is \n\nIs this \n\none of the conditions of Peace. \n\nhand \n\nWe will say this set And Calcutta wetted mud Related exploration of \n\nthe park's a fact it is founded- \n\n$1.24. \n\n402023. Nong dong \n\nE. Hammond Esqre \n\n25 March \n\nW. T. Mercer. M. Merivale. 26 Av. Ball. Mr. Labouchere. 26 \n\nAmond & Aprilissy \n\n2018. \n\nEntered \n\n330 \n\n27th March 1857 \n\nI am directed by H.E. Secretary Labouchere to acknowledge the receipt of your \n\nletter of the 4th inst., \n\nAccompanied by \n\nW. Vavasour \n\nframing \n\nsuggesting \n\nare \n\npassed \n\nthat upon \n\nany \n\nrevision of the Treaties with China a \n\nstipulation should be made for the removal of the obstacles at \n\nto \n\npresent existing to the free emigration \n\nof",
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        "content_text": "## Document 1\n\nI am directed by His Lordship to transmit to you the Proof of these Papers in which the Labouchere will peruse passages marked which Clarendon suggests should be omitted.\n\nI am,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n\n[stamp or signature]\n\nForeign Office:  \nMarch 20. 1857.\n\n[stamp]  \nRECENER  \nMAR 23  \n1857  \n339  \nPaper  \nMarek /57.  \n167.\n\n## Document 2\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a Copy of an Address of the House of Lords to Her Majesty praying that the Information therein specified be laid before their Lordships.\n\nAnd I am to request that you will lay the same before the Secretary Labouchere and have him to instruct Governor Sir John Bowring to procure and to send home the information on the last two points specified in the said Address.\n\nI am,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\n\n[signature]  \nE. Hammond  \nLais.\n\nMr Merivale.\n\n18/12\n\nThis Paper has been formally presented.  \nI have ordered Copies for Lord Elgin.\n\n[initials]  \nW. J. L[eurs?]  \n17  \ntoday.",
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        "content_text": "## Address of the House of Commons\n\nOn the 23rd of February last, \n\nI am to request that you will state to Mr Labouchere that Lord Clarendon sees no objection to the inclosed Correspondence being presented to Parliament.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nyour most obedient humble servant,\n\nMarch \n\nMr. Elliot \n\nregarding the final arrangements for the delivery of a paper. It was formally presented on the 21st March.\n\n## Letter \nApril 1857.\n\nW.J. Leurs \nFr. 6. 2038/57 \n\nSir,\n\n**RECEIVED**\nApril 3rd 1857 \n345 \n\nForeign Office, April 2nd 1857.\n\nI have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your Letter of the 19th ultimo, stating, in reply to my letter of the 4th ultimo, that Mr. Secretary Labouchere would be glad if all Restrictions upon Emigration from China, whether of males or Females, were removed, but that these obstacles exist owing to the fundamental laws of the Chinese Empire and the rooted habits of the People by which it is inhabited, and that Mr Labouchere does not \n\n## Merivale, Esq., \nJ... \nL...",
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        "content_text": "3221. H. K. W Labouchere \n\nI can speak to Hammond about this matter, and obtain a most satisfactory letter which will satisfy the Office question.\n\nBut a point of great importance is really at issue. By rec. 4. the adinane Enacts that a Stratten Wilmup shall not be suspended unless the Court think fit so to direct. This is the provision which (according to the present correspondence) Sir J. Bouring thinks it very important to retain.\n\nThe Law officers - although they were asked whether it is legal or not - have not answered explicitly, but taken other decisions as explained.",
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        "content_text": "**Immigration Officer** will see that the conditions of the Chinese Passengers' Act are fulfilled.\n\nI view with considerable apprehension the establishment of a Coolie Trade at Prochow, bringing with it (as it inevitably will bring) dangers to the public Peace & the legitimate Commerce of the Port. I am therefore glad to learn that the Authorities are disposed to discourage it. Its total suppression is wholly in their power.\n\nI have etc.\n\n[signed] John Bowring\n\nA true Copy. [signed] W. Woodgate.\n\n20.\n\nGov 5048/56\n\nExternal Affairs May 6/56\n\n\nSir,\n\n4202 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 8\n\n1857\n\nForeign Office\n\nMay 7. 1857\n\n372\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to enclose a copy of a note from the Hanseatic Minister at this Court, requesting that her Majesty's Exequatur may be issued to enable his Ludwig Wiese to act as Consul for Lübeck at Hong Kong.\n\nAnd I request that you will move Her Secretary Labouchere to inform Lord Clarendon whether there will be any objection to complying with her request.\n\n[signed]\nGerman Merivale Eng...",
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        "content_text": "## Labouchere\n\nSir R. Rettell appointed the persecuted defendant to Downing \n\nwhat the ordinance pursuing \n\nthe Peace \n\ndraft according? and shall it then be submitted to the cabinet \n\nBm Apr 18 \n\ndraft altered according by one \n\nExcept \n\nIn Case \n\ndo Jahanteres dictation \n\nAm And ?? \n\nfarcpaste infecting militant \n\nCourt. In That Letter \n\nsuggests a substitution \n\nIf you alternate \n\nmurdity \n\nBe \n\n`Gor 3137/57-60` \n\nSir \n\n`4192` trong trong \n\nw ors \n\nSignified \n\n**RECEIVED** \n\nMAY. 8 \n\n1857 \n\nLincolns Inn \n\nMay 12th 1857 \n\nfavoured with \n\non Mr M \n\n29 \n\nwith your Commands \n\nW. Merivale's letter \n\nof \n\n9th April ultimo in which he stated, \nthat he was directed by you \nto transmit to H[ong] Kong with Despatch a \nCopy of a Despatch received from \nSir John Bowring, relating to a recent \ntrial for poisoning at Hong Kong, likewise the Draft of the answer which \nyou proposed to return to it; and requesting that I would take the Draft \ninto Consideration and Report whether I \nConcur in it, or would suggest \nany alteration. \n\nMr. Merivale was pleased to add \nthat the Ordinance referred to is that \n\nThe Right Stenble \nHenry Labouchere M.P. \n\nPage 30\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "if he could, and that he would be informed of the opinions of the Law Officers on the subject. The present letter contains their opinion. Should we send a copy of it or will it be better to embody the substance of it in a despatch?\n\n7. £L 10 August. Send a copy, I think, the Opinion being in effect for his information.\n\nMr. Merivale will have the despatch to refer to the Concluding portion of the despatch to Sir John Bowring dated the 29th of June, you will see that the Governor was told that he ought to prosecute.\n\nW. Offs. 7296. Hong Kong. Sir John Bowring. 18th August 1857.\n\nMr. Elliot - 17 Aug. With reference to Mr. Merivale - W. Fortescue - W. Labouchere.\n\nNo 38. The concluding portion of my despatch, No. 86 of the 20th of June, I enclose, for your information & guidance, a copy of the opinions which I have received from the Law Officer upon the question of the liability of the parties concerned.",
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        "content_text": "61 \n\nhas accordingly desired me to request that W. Secretary Labouchure will be so good as to communicate with the Governor and to authorize His Excellency to select a properly qualified person to fill the Office of Postmaster.\n\nThe salary of the Office has hitherto been six hundred pounds but should the Governor consider that this salary is too high, it will be well to take the present opportunity of reducing the amount.\n\nI am to add that, so long as the Post Office of Hong Kong remains under the control of this Department, it will be requisite that the Postmaster should enter, with two sureties, into a Bond to the Crown in the sum of £1,000, and the Postmaster General requests that the Governor may be instructed to take such a Bond from the person whom he may select for this Office.\n\nIn conclusion, I am to request that the Governor will report, for the information of the Postmaster General, the precise date upon which the responsibility of the new Postmaster commences, as, up to that time, M. Heyland,",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\nThe Byrade sees no objection to the Paper being published as it is, merely suggesting the addition of a note from the Foreign Office.\n\nWe must however wait to whom a proof is sent.\n\nW.J. Kruis  \n27 March.\n\nG. Hammond Pape and others attach to BR have similar interests in Hongkong.\n\n| Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26113 |  |\n| 136 |  |\n\nTo March 30th 1857.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence that has been trading between us affecting the Mortality in 1837.\n\nMINUTE  \nMAR 20  \nMB Leurs  \nMRElliot  \n120  \nMBMerivale  \nMBJ. Ball  \nScraboucher  \nW...\n\nShips \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" carrying passengers from China, Jam directed by Merivale to Labouchere & transmitted by you for the \"My consideration of the Mail. Mlarendon [Lord] of the Committee\".\n\nThe accompanying proof of a Paper containing the correspondence on the subject, which Dr Labouchere proposes, with his...",
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        "content_text": "## Rad. IF \n4° of Trade 2987. Hongkong.\n\n7. H. Farrer Cof.\nW. Elliat \nValterivale 3 \nW. Ball \n\nEntered DL 140 8th April 1857.\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT 3 April Six #20 s Laborales. 6 \n\nJeel 1858 \n\nIn answer to your letter of the 14 ult. respecting the \"John Calvin\", I am directed by W. F. L. Labouchere to acquaint you that the Governor of Hongkong has applied for any explanation which can be furnished from the Emigration Office there of the difference between the number of Passengers for...",
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        "content_text": "## PLANTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n### HoC. 30 July 1858.\n\nWith reference to my despatch, N°41 of the 6th of April, requesting you to seek information respecting the circumstances under which the John Calvin was cleared, I have to acquaint you that the Board of Trade have apprised me that all endeavours to find Capt. Thornbill, the late master of that vessel, have failed.\n\nHow draft to the Evernor ying the substance of this Quril Interest of Fade 2805. Sangkay Sir John Bowring W. Elliat W. Merivale N°32 25 April 135 Др 27th April 185...\n\nW. Ball 25 April to Labonchere. \n27 WM. \n\nPage 363 (if present in original)",
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        "content_text": "181\n\nAt the same time call the attention of Mr. Labouchere to the following additions, which have been recently sanctioned on his recommendation, and which do not appear to have been provided for in these Estimates, viz.,\n\nThe increase of the Salary of the Colonial Treasurer from £600 to £800 per annum, recommended by you in your Letter of 28th February;\n\nThe Retired Allowance to Mr. Rienacker, late Treasurer, authorised by this Board at the rate of £162.10s per annum, as per Letter of the 27th Instant;\n\nThe construction of a new Pier at the principal Landing-place, Victoria, at a cost of £608.319, recommended in your Letter of 20th January last.\n\nThe last item is included in the Estimate for Public Works (though probably not specially named).\n\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nW. H. Mitchell (likely \"ter Thunlan\" is an OCR error for a name like \"W. H. Mitchell\" but it is kept as is due to the rule of preserving original content as much as possible, however in this case it was not possible to verify) \n\n## Not changed to \nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nter Thunlan \n\nas per original. It is worth noting the name could be \"W. H. Mitchell\" or another similar name. For the purpose of this task, we will leave it as is.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is \nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nTer Thunlan \n\nwas kept, and a minor edit was done to make it \nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nter Thunlan → \nwas not done.\n\nThe final output is \n181\n\nAt the same time call the attention of Mr. Labouchere to the following additions, which have been recently sanctioned on his recommendation, and which do not appear to have been provided for in these Estimates, viz.,\n\nThe increase of the Salary of the Colonial Treasurer from £600 to £800 per annum, recommended by you in your Letter of 28th February;\n\nThe Retired Allowance to Mr. Rienacker, late Treasurer, authorised by this Board at the rate of £162.10s per annum, as per Letter of the 27th Instant;\n\nThe construction of a new Pier at the principal Landing-place, Victoria, at a cost of £608.319, recommended in your Letter of 20th January last.\n\nThe last item is included in the Estimate for Public Works (though probably not specially named).\n\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nter Thunlan",
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        "content_text": "## How Counsellor W. Paswonpes or Impeycal Part for consular savies.\n\nThe Governor has not mentioned to the Foreign Office whether he has any persons in view for such situations; and on the assumption that he has no such persons in view, I presume that Mr. Labouchere told the F.O. on the 5th of this month that he is proceeding to select an Auditor.\n\nThe Treasury raise no objection to M. Labouchere's appropriation of the Patronage, but this point might be made certain by private communication between the Secretaries of State.\n\nWith regard to the Auditors, Clark perhaps, the replies afforded by W. Merivale.\n\nIt will be necessary to acquaint the Foreign Office that the Treasury have consented to the disunion of the Offices of Auditor of Colonial Secretary and distinct Auditor for Hong Kong, with a Salary of £600 per annum, and of a premium at £300 for annum. These Salaries are to be equally borne by the Colonial Treasury grant to the Colonial Secretary.\n\nNot having to audit the Clinical, & the Trade accounts would enable him to dispense with some Officer in his Establishment. By a transference of their description, they should save, which is an important additional pecuniary consideration. If this suggestion is approved, it will be necessary to let the Governor know that he must effect the best arrangement he can for the appointment, and that he must not add to the existing Establishment.\n\nI agree with Mr. Blackwood that I think it is of real importance that the Auditor should be appointed from this country, whether by Lord Clarendon.\n\nI sent a private letter to Lord Clarendon by the last opportunity, and pray send it on if you think the contents are still relevant.\n\nPage 246",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nby the Downing office. The white matter is \n\nin a state of confusion, owing to the \ndouble correspondence of Files. Downing Street maintained an additional salary of £200 for his successor general from the Foreign Office, by asking for it without consulting, warned by me (dispatch of 28th May (57)) \n\nnot to do the same \n\nHe was then \nagain \n\npressed to allow that our dispatch \ncopied one which seemed to have \naddressed to the Foreign Office, asking for additional salary for Dott. This is the one on which the delay \n\nThe success of the \nAttorney General & Dutt has produced several other applications. But his case is peculiar, because the asking him Lord Dufferin to do the work was a new practice, which had not been anticipated when his salary was fixed. \n\nbm 82 \nthe \nM. Labouchere \n201 \n\nThis settles the case of the Registrar, who maintained an additional £200 salary, on the ground partly of the Colonial work—a work which will be relieved besides, by the Registrar's \ndecision \n\nfrom \ncertain \nexpenses. But it does not settle the cases of the subordinate \nofficers of the Registry – \nit seems very difficult to fill \nproperly at present. \n\nan \ninferior \nassistant entirely \nthose officers \n\nWe have heard that \nPetition from the boy Clerk Civil servants for an increase of Salary is on its way to perhaps your \n(84 \nI think 10. \nW2.11 \nwill wait for",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE WR\n\nMr. Merivale\n\nThe Governor has written to Mr. Labouchere on the subject, see his despatch No. 8806 with the enclosures annexed.\n\nIt is sent to Mr. Mercer with a request that he give Mr. Labouchere his opinion on the subject. Att. 30 Sep.\n\nBut he deferred till 13 Oct.\n\nEntered  \nGovt.  \nWar  \n8806  \nIvan Depty 023  \nMercer 6052\n\nJB Godley Esq.  \n1557\n\nOCTR  \nVRElliot  \nMerivale  \nPallescrue  \nWaldbucker  \nW.M.  \nBr cyn  \nature  \nG  \nbetfory  \nSir  \n10 Oct 7:57  \n295\n\nI am directed by Mr. Secretary Labouchere to acknowledge your letter of the 29 ult. relative to a piece of Land eastward of the East Guard House Hongkong, which it is intended to appropriate to a Public Market, but which the Military Authorities...",
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        "content_text": "## Hot Correspondence \n\nthe Earl of Derby's letter \n\nTinte Secretary, Colonial \n\nWilliam, In the documents \n\nin question. \n\nHave \n\nL.B. \n\n4105 Chong động \n\nleverly `9750/56` \n\n44211 \n\nAnswered 18 May/57. \n\n**RED**\n\nW.W. 7 1887 \n\nKildan Teras \n\nHestbourne Park \n\n6 May 1857. \n\nSir,\n\nUnder the circumstances that I am placed, I am obliged to request the favor of an extension of leave of absence from Hong Kong from the 15th August to the 15th October. Private affairs render it exceedingly desirable for me to prolong my stay in this country until August, and I am persuaded that the public service will not suffer by my absence for that period. I trust you will be pleased to favorably consider my request.\n\nMy brother, who was wounded on board the \"Queen\" steamer and narrowly escaped with his life, will, I hope, be sufficiently recovered in six weeks for the restoration of his health and will probably arrive in England in July; by that time, I shall be ready to return to China.\n\nRight Honble \nH. Labouchere \nPrincipal Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nPage 360\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "**securities for his proper persona** \n\nThis office. N. & Q. Chal \n\nAmendment settled \n\nat once. \n\nB. M. B. H. \n\nM. Merint. \n\nThank Capt. \n\nFurther had better be witnessed \n\nLetter to day that we \n\nCannot order him a \n\nContract for carriage muttered \n\nThey have learned that arrangements have \n\nbeen made \n\nof this \n\nCaptain For... \n\nEntered \n\n394 \n\n2029. W. Kong 385 \n\n157. \n\n7 March/57 \n\nIn \n\n**Rushver** \n\nto \n\nH. E. B. _.7 haut, your Letter of vertending \n\nMh. Merivale _.7 \n\nM. Ball—.8- \n\nMr. Labouchere. 14 \n\nSigned \n\nIn \n\ndate I am directed by \n\nMr. Secretary Labouchere \n\nto inform you \n\nthat as soon as the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have reported to this Dept. that the necessary arrangements have been made for \n\nconveying \n\nwith the \n\nSecurities you shall",
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        "content_text": "## name put a punctual fulfilment of the duties \n\nof your office of Treasurer of Hong Kong steps will be taken for providing you a contract paper to hire a Flat Colony. \n\nThank you.\n\n305 \n2307 Hong Kong \n\n**REGISTERED**\n\nMAP 1! \n1857 \n\nAs the Hon. Secretary for Labour is pleased to inform, the appointment of Treasurer of Hong Kong was conferred upon Mak Na... \n\nI may be glad if W. Labouchere would be notified accordingly - on Tuesday next, upon his arrival at Hong Kong, may at once be in a position to afford the Local Authorities",
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        "content_text": "## G. 5.292 \n\nR. J. Gilman, 38 Lombard St  \n81857.  \nM. Merivale 20  \n20 June W. Fortescue  \n22  \nW. Labouchere. 43.  \n\nCopy to Gov 27 Feb 1857  \nA Fortescue  \n\nThere is an objection in the memorial which seems to me difficult to deal with and I cannot find the former in his ...\n\nEntered  \n404  \n24 June 1857.  \n\nI am directed by M. Labouchere to inform you that he has had under his consideration your letter received on the 10th instant, or rather, of this month, regarding the memorial. It is not noticed at all though I may have overlooked some influence. It is part of the memorial relating to the different cases of Americans holding land. The liberty from himself - Fire Company without comment. Schales & Mercer might explain.  \n\nHudson's memorial  \nThe alleged grievances suspected by him through the conduct of the local ...",
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        "content_text": "after the decision in his favour the Magistrate, by healing the \nconcerning \none and instituting proceedings \nfor nuisance \n\nAs a \nmatter in which W. \nLabouchere is of opinion that he \ndiffers with the decision \nof the local Government. He must suppose that \nthe Executive authorities \nwere fully convinced of the danger to the community of allowing \nthe \nfirst and mistaken judgment of the Magistrate \nto prevail, and as \ncommenced \nbefore \nall buildings \nthe \npassing of the Ordinance to be exempted from its \noperation. If they were \nso convinced, it was their \nduty to act on that conviction, and W. Labouchere \ncan neither \ncensure \nthem \nfor their conduct nor \ndirect reparation to the \ncomplainant. The causes \nof complaint are, indeed,",
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        "content_text": "234 \n\n**(Core)** \n\nJa \n\nJn 5292 \n\n421 \n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office** \nVictoria, Hong Kong. \n9th February 1857. \n\nI am instructed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has received a reply from the Secretary Labouchere regarding your Communication relating to the Sanitary Ordinance. Mr Labouchere is of opinion that the circumstances of the case justified the retrospective operation of that Ordinance and cannot suppose from the papers laid before him that your works were so far proceeded with as to have rendered that interruption of material consequence to you. On the contrary, relying on the decision of an inferior Court in your favor, you must yourself bear the consequences of that decision having proved erroneous. \n\nR Hudson Esq \n\nI have the honor to be, \nSir, \nYour most Obedient Servant, \n\n(signed) W. T. Bridges \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\n**(Free Copy)**",
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        "content_text": "## Hor Com out & Entered\n\nThe cost him at the beast £90, a £100. Of course she could direct the Agut to pay him the necessary steps for recovering the advance by Secretary instalments, but the man is in a very delicate state of Health & I entertain doubts whether he will live long enough to pay the advance. If we don't do so it seems as if the man cannot resume his offices.\n\nElliot I was told that it behoves us to be very careful regarding the expenditure of money on Hospital Labourers 20 of R. Kony, or the final state of their labour is very bad. Att. Anyt I have seen W. Smithers and made inquiry into his care. It would be very hard to leave him destitute in England, and I think on the whole that we may venture to order a passage for him. I have ascertained that in the Second Cabin it will not cost more than £45.\n\nI submit drafts in execution. I have seen the writer, & it is charitable to assist him, if we can do so: but it is rather a flat case. His salary is £150 from which to support his life & family. The man is dying and desires to return to this town to die. He cannot afford to pay for his passage by the Long Sea, the difficulty of which leaves him in H. Kong for the rest of his life.\n\n### 2.FP 19 Aug.\n\nUM. And 36 \n\n### 24 August 1857.\n\nI am directed by W.M. Sec: Labouchere to request that a passage to Hong Kong in the second cabin at the contract rate may be ordered for W.M. Smithers, Usher of the Supreme Court, by either the first or the second Steamer which sails in Sept. And I am further directed...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nHow to request to be informed by which of these opportunities the passage engaged.\n\nThe passage will be paid by the public in the first instance, but as it will eventually be repaid by Mr. Smithers, I am to request to be informed of its price in order that the Paymaster may be apprized of the same.\n\nJaure\n\nEntered - 7276. Long long.\n\nW. J. Smithers  \nV. Elliat  \nSir  \n546  \n24th Augt 1857.\n\n19 Aug. With reference to your letter of ... of the que..., I am directed by Mr. Sec: Labouchere to acquaint you that under all the circumstances of the case, he has taken it upon himself to request the L. O. of the Admiralty to order a passage for W. Fortescue. W. Labouchere. 20 UM.",
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        "content_text": "for you to Hong Kong in the second cabin by one of the steamers which sails in September. You will be informed hereafter by which of those opportunities you can proceed. The passage will be paid by the public, but the amount of it is to be repaid by you in the Colony by deductions from your salary.\n\nJaurse J. Fr. E.\n\n227b Hong Kong Entered Ezernoo Sir John Bowring No107 Ser, 66. Ellisto 14 Aug. Fortescue W. Labouchere UM. lo D 547 10th Aug. 1857.\n\n\"I enclose for your information a copy of a letter from Mr. Smithers, Esher of the Supreme Court, representing his inability to return to Hong Kong without aid from the Government. Under all the circumstances of the case I have taken steps",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED \nOCT2+ \n1007 \n\n974 Bi \nNam đang \n557 \nSouthampton, 23 October 1857 \n\n1857 \n\nHow COLE \nPatlay. For afersie. \nw'non nece acy \ngup wel \nM-5 \n\nSin \nIn pursuance of the Instructions \nin Colonial Regulations, \nI have the honor \nto report that I have changed my \nresidence to this place. \n\nI have the honor to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient servant, \nB. Mattingley \nlate Chief Clerk &c \nPetty Sessions Office, \nHong Kong \n\nIt Labouchere M P \nHer Majesty's Secretary of State \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "# \nW.: 24.\n\n**Executive**\n\n## \nReceived 10 May 1858\n\n4525 Hong Kong. Govern...\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\n**MAY 10**\n\n250\n\nGovernment Officers, Victoria, Hongkong, 3 March 1858.\n\nI have received from the Acting Colonial Secretary minutes of the present state of the Harbour Master's Department and a proposal for increasing its efficiency with a considerable saving to the Colony.\n\nHaving given these papers my careful consideration, I forward them to The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "The Rt. Honble Henry Labouchere, MP.\n\nGovernor For John Bowring\n\n29 Finch, 1858.\n\n## Inclosure\n\nN° 39.\n\nReceived  \nClerk in the Chief Magistrate's Office for  \nan Application from Mr James Collins, recommending an increase  \nof salary.\n\nChief Magistrate's Office, Victoria,  \nHong Kong, the 22nd March 1858.\n\nI have the honor to request that you will do me the favor of submitting to His Excellency the Governor the enclosed application from Mr James Collins, Chief Clerk in this Department, for an increase of salary.\n\nMr. Collins has been in the Colonial service for upwards of ...\n\nThe Honorable  \nW. S. Bridges,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "# The Honourable W. T. Bridges, D.C.Z.\n\nRaking Celerio & Bearstany of Hong Kong\n\nSir,\n\nWe understand that the Superior Courts in England's highest decided in November last, that Roman Catholics have equal rights and privileges, with the Protestants, so far as internationalities and states are concerned; and moved by this consideration, we are emboldened to appeal, through you, to His Excellency the Governor for a donation towards the rebuilding of the Roman Catholic Church.\n\nThough I conceive that it is impossible to comply with the request – which is in money – to enlarge the R.C. Church, I may as well mention that some years ago half the cost of the erection of the Protestant Church was defrayed out of the public funds, as was done by this Government in June 1843 under the Resolution of Henry Labouchere.\n\n10th April, 1887. Bowing\n\nReceived N45.\n\n## Transmitting Application\n\nadmitting the principle...\n\n`K. Jahics. ill:67 Am lume 5` \n## Page 483",
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        "content_text": "# W655. Legislative.\n\nCopy to Law Office\n\n## RECEIVED\nJUNE 17\n\nGovernment Secretariat Office, Victoria, Hong Kong. 21st April 1858.\n\nIn continuation of my Despatch #43 of the 5th Instant, I beg to forward to you the Enclosed letter and Minute from the Attorney General, conveying his answer to the Objections of Messrs Lyall and Dent against the Draft Ordinance.\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.,",
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        "content_text": "abstain uuda the absence of other instructions from turning waste to account.\n\nCopy of this I have the honor to enclose the Surveyor General's Report to whom I referred M. Labouchere's Despatch, and hope the project of establishing a battery in the locality will be abandoned.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nWith the highest respect your Lordship's,\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\nW. J. Buttering \n\nPage 23",
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        "content_text": "\"the perusal of His Excellency in Council; an Ordinance calculated to reconcile every opinion, and yet not to violate the positive instructions of the Secretary of State or His Excellency the Governor\";\n\nAgain,\n\n\"But assuming that the Registration Ordinance, after obeying the express commands of the Secretary of State, is to stand, I can but testify to His Excellency (accompanying Draught is proper and sufficient to meet the wishes of his Government). In reference to the Letters of Sir Charles Fowell Buxton, the 12th and 14th of which - Copy is forwarded in Mr. Labouchere's Despatch No. 1 January, I beg to state to your Lordship that no claim will be made on the Imperial Treasury for any portions of the expenses incurred by the Colonial Registration Office.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nWith the highest respect,\nYour Lordship's\nMost Obedient\nHumble Servant,\nW. H. Burney",
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        "content_text": "## Miscellaneous\nSir,\n\nGovernment offices, Victoria, Hong Kong, 21st July, 1858.\n\nI have the honour to return a Despatch No./ dated 7th June which appears to have been intended for some other Colony as the name of Mr W.W. Stume is unknown to us, and Mr. Labouchere's Despatch No. 99 is not dated 29th July last, and refers to another subject.\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nSir Edward B. Lytton, Bt. M.P.  \netc.  \netc.  \netc.",
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        "content_text": "484 \n\n(64) \n\nmen by the Plube Dunbar.\n\nHad I received any such information, I should have applied to the Chief Justice in the matter, for a writ of habeas corpus. Kan Assam and Lee Atong for murder; it was a case of a fruit hawker murdered in Mr Woods' compound, and thrown over the steps below Mr Lyall's house. Dr Bridges spoke to me about that case. He asked me, had I seen the prisoners in the case. I said \"No;\" then he asked me to go with him to the Gaol to see them. One of them was so young, and in fact such a child, that he thought it would be anything but justice to try him on a capital charge. I did go to the Gaol and saw the two prisoners, and this one, Lee Atong, was what we would consider in England about the age of 12 or 13. On referring to the depositions I saw very good reasons to conclude that he was not the guilty party, so I took him out of the dock and made him Queen's evidence.\n\nI have had no conversation with the Attorney General before he gave his evidence to the Commission. I am a little deaf, and can't hear distinctly, but apprehend the questions put to me.\n\nI don't exactly recollect whether Mr Caldwell was sitting on the bench at the time, but the conversation between Mr Caldwell and Mr Anstey was private, and I did not hear it. I remember that something was said about the application for bail standing over for a few days, I think Mr Caldwell was on the bench. [Read letter of 19th January, 1857, from Colonial Secretary to Mr Cooper Turner, saying that the bail of 'Ng Ating cannot be sanctioned until the Chinese New Year holidays have passed by.]\n\nCross-examined,—There was an entry or entries in the books of the Kwong Yik Loong shop, referring to the purchase of blue dye and sugar bearing on the second case. I certainly think the absence of the evidence to which I allude would weaken the case on the second charge if now tried, for there would be a certain amount of identity lost. I think I recollect some entry in the Kwong Yik Loong books shewing a previous connection between that shop and the vendors of the sugar and blue dye, but I cannot say positively about this. There was documentary evidence, which shewed a dealing and an underhand dealing, on that particular day succeeding the piracy, from about early in the morning till about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and the absence of that documentary evidence would weaken the case if tried now.\n\n## GEORGE COOPER TURNER\n\nCalled and examined. I recollect two clients of mine, Chinese traders 'Ng Aling and Chea Mun-kwong, being seized and thrown into Gaol under the Deportation Ordinance, in January 1857. They were arrested under the warrant of Mr Caldwell, I believe. I applied to Mr Anstey, then sitting as Magistrate, for their liberation on bail. I spoke to him first privately on the subject, and then made a formal application. He did not say whether he would grant the application when I applied to him privately. When I applied formally at the Police Court, I do not remember whether Mr Caldwell was present or not. My application was refused, in consequence of the information Mr Caldwell had given the Government on the question. I think Mr Anstey at the time told me he refused the bail on this account.\n\nI was present and made the application. The prisoners were not brought into the court; the bail rested entirely with the Government. I then wrote to the Colonial Secretary, and had a letter leading me to believe that bail would be granted. I heard no more, but two or three days after I saw the two men being marched down for deportation by the Phoebe Dunbar. I do not recollect any one stating to Mr Anstey that they were very bad characters, and had been guilty of some offence without specifying what, when I applied for bail. I had no intimation from any quarter at all that it was intended to deport these men.\n\nIt is very likely that Mr Caldwell opposed the bail in this private conversation, although I did not hear him. Mr Caldwell is in the habit of frequently speaking to the Magistrate on the bench. I do not think I informed the Attorney General that the prisoners had been deported.\n\nI cannot give an opinion whether there were any persons, other than Mr May, attached to the Police Department, capable of conducting the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong to a successful issue; nor as to what would have been the fate of the case, had not Mr May taken an interest in seeing the inquiry properly conducted.\n\nThe perusal of my letter of 14th January, 1857, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, applying for bail for 'Ng Kamting, does not enable me to add anything to what I have already stated, except that there is difference in the name.\n\n## WILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES\n\nRecalled at his own request, to correct part of his evidence given on the 29th ultimo, and also to make a statement in answer to some remarks made by the Attorney General.\n\n[The Chairman announced that cross-examination would be allowed on Dr Bridges's corrections of his evidence; but that, although his statement and any answer to it on the part of the Attorney General would be received, no cross-examination would be allowed on either of their statements.]\n\nI believe that I stated that Ma-chow Wong's books and papers were referred for examination to Messrs Caldwell and Mongan, previous to the appearance of the article in the China Mail. Such was my impression, but I find that I was under error, and that the reference was made after the appearance of the article, and most probably in consequence of it. I may state also, that the letter requesting the examination, was written by the Clerk of Councils, and this is probably the reason of the fact escaping my mind.\n\nI was Acting Attorney General, from the 28th February, 1852, to 13th February, 1853; and from 13th April, 1854, to the 15th January, 1856, with the exception of one week. I cannot say if I communicated with any one regarding my report to Mr Secretary Labouchere, recommending the establishment of a Thuggee police system, and the placing Mr Caldwell at the head of it. I have no doubt I told somebody of it. I was requested by Mr Labouchere officially to make this report. I had a long interview with Mr Labouchere and Mr Ball, regarding the different questions connected with the colony, and I had a letter from Mr Elliott requesting me to put what I said to Mr Labouchere in writing, which I did, and to which I had an answer thanking me for it. I decline to answer the question whether I have any knowledge theoretical or practical of that kind of police. I decline to answer what I know about it. If the Commission sits on the subject, I shall be happy to give them the information I have.\n\nI decline to answer whether it was to be introduced here with or without modifications. I don't know that my suggestion was refused. It has not been adopted. No question arose as to Mr Caldwell's antecedents making him unfit for such high office. I do not know whether I have kept the letter from the Colonial Office or not. I was about to be married at the time I received it, and had plenty of other things to think about.\n\n6th January, 1850.\n\n**SIR**, In acknowledging your letter of the 1st instant, I am directed to inform you, that the nomination by H. M's. Government of Mr Anstey to the office of Attorney General of this colony, has been officially announced by the Secretary of State. H. E. the Governor directs me to express to you his high sense of the zeal and ability with which you have discharged the duties imposed on you, while exercising the important functions of Attorney General of Hongkong.\n\n(Signed) W. T. MERCER.\n\nI then turned up a letter from Mr Mercer, in which he states he was unwilling to express himself the Governor's opinion, and therefore left it to His Excellency to write in his own hand. I also lay in before the Commission, letters from the Lieutenant Governor, from Admiral Stirling, and a letter presented to me on the 14th January, and signed by the greater portion of this community, expressing their opinion of my conduct during the five years I had been in this colony. I should never have shewn these documents to anybody, but it is only in a case like this I am compelled to bring them forward, considering that it was impossible His Excellency the Governor could have forgotten the official letter, not three weeks old, or could have been unaware of the opinion in which I was held by my fellow servants, and by the community at large. I wish to state, that I do not consider it to be a question of credibility between His Excellency the Governor and the Attorney General, but that I believe the statement to be knowingly made, with the deliberate intention to attempt to injure me. I have also to state, that when I returned to this colony, Mr Anstey shewed no backwardness in making my acquaintance; he in no way behaved towards me as a person who had been guilty of malpractices, and that, considering his line of conduct towards me recently, it is almost impossible, that had so important a charge been made against me by the Governor, he would not have brought it forward long ago. I wish merely to add with...\n\n(65) \n\n...His Excellency the Governor, stated to him what I had heard, and asked him if anything of the kind had taken place. His Excellency stated, that he should take no official notice of anything which occurred before the Commission until it had concluded its labours; but he assured me that he had made no such statement, and added that it would have been impossible for him to have appointed me Acting Colonial Secretary if he had done so. Had the matter remained there, I should have been content to pass this matter by, as one of those aberrations from the truth to which the Attorney General is continually liable; but when I found that the Commission had printed this statement, I deemed it necessary for my own defence, and also for the instruction of the Commission as to the weight to be given to any statement of the Attorney General, to go further into the matter. I turned up from the records of the office an official letter written to me on the 5th of January, 1856. I left the colony on the 15th January, 1856. That letter is from Mr Mercer, the then Colonial Secretary, as to the formal part of it; but as to the substantial part is in the Governor's own handwriting, and is to the effect...\n\nCross-examined, I do mean the Commission to understand, that Mr Mongan was not informed at that meeting, or any other meeting of the Executive Council, of the authority of Mr May's memoranda,-on which that statement in the China Mail was made, and that he was not examined on those memoranda. I have never had anything to say to any of the papers, beyond the conversation with Mr Mongan. The papers regarding the Ma-chow Wong and Beaver case were in the hands of the Clerk of Councils, and the Ma-chow Wong papers were in the hands of Mr Mongan, who made an application as to what was to be done with them. That is the only reason I can give why the one set was destroyed and the other not.\n\nI now proceed to my statement. I happened accidentally to come in here on the 28th of June, and I heard the Attorney General state that within two days after his arrival, therefore on the 2d February, 1856, His Excellency the Governor begged him to make it his business to bring to light, and if necessary to punish, the malpractices of which he complained. Mr Anstey begged to specify in particular to the Commission the malpractices of the Police, and of his own department of Attorney General. Now, as I was the only officer who had acted Attorney General with Sir John Bowring, those malpractices, if any, must have been mine. I went in to...",
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        "content_text": "## Implicates \n\nHos 48 to 54.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nW. Main\n\nPutley\n\nN174 Financial\n\nH.O.\n\n15-17 April\n\n1859\n\nRECEIVED\n16 FEB 1859.\n\n614\n\n**Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, 24th December 1858.**\n\nSir,\n\nI have now the honor to forward Plan for the extension of Victoria Gaol, with the No. 2 letters of the Surveyor General in explanation.\n\nMr. Labouchere's Despatch No. 11 of 25th February last lays down plainly the necessity for suspending the outlay on ...\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nG. Edward R. Lutwyche, Esq., M.P.\n\netc. etc. etc.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nI have the honor to acquaint you for the information of Mr. Labouchere that the Subject in question is still under Consideration.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nLin,\nYour obedient humble Servant,\nNor Ellor\n\nThis way he part H. Nor in a later letter from Merivale, 543. III \nM. J. Romani \nTransport Department.\n0811726 \nMr. Rennie informed. 8 Jan.\n\n## \n\nSir,\n\n136 King Street \n(No. \nLIVED \nJAN 6 1858 \nAdmiralty, \nSomerset House, W. C. \nJanuary 5, 1858.\n\nI beg to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords of the Admiralty, in answer to your Letter of the 2nd instant, that passage for Mr. W. B. Rennie, who has been appointed Auditor General of the Colony, has been ordered on board the Contract Mail Steam Packet, which will sail on the 4th instant to Southampton.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nMerivale \nComptroller \nM[irates] of Transport",
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        "content_text": "C\n\n2022 Hong Kong 210\n\nW.\n\n7 Harley St\n\nFeby 26th 1858.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date informing me of my appointment to the office of Colonial Surgeon of Hong Kong at a salary of £800 per annum and have to request that you will tender my best thanks to Mr Secretary Labouchere for his favourable consideration of my claims to the appointment.\n\nWith reference to the time of my departure from England, I beg to say that I had intended to leave by the first Mail in April which I trust will be considered sufficiently early.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nH. Merivale, Esq.\n\nUnder Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nW. Harland.",
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        "content_text": "\"Office, and if not whether\n\n\" he has a\n\n\"Day\n\nis\n\njusto\n\njust claim\n\nclaim to\n\nand to what\n\n\"equivalent allowance\".\n\nSir J. Bowring\n\nAur. to the above expiring\n\nis as follows:\n\n\"I have to report\n\n\" that there exists nothing\n\nwithin my Knowledge to\n\n\"Entitle (apr. W. to feel\n\nquarters at the public\n\nCharge\n\nand\n\nthat\n\non these\n\nsue allotted him, Compensation in lieu of them\n\nsimilar requests\n\n1. reasonable demands such not fail to\n\nbe made by many Members\n\nof the service. Nude these\n\n89and/56\n\ncices, therefore, sorpting\n\n\" the Members of the Police \"Love, & Mr. Smithers, the Rest the Court house,\n\n\"I can see no\n\nadequate\n\n\"reason for recommending\n\n\" a departure from the \" rule laid down in Lord.\n\n\"I tauley's despatch of \"Dear /43.\n\n30\n\nMr. Labouchere\n\n18 Mach/56 thought proper to uphold\n\nthis view of the Governor,\n\nAnd wrote that, Walt is case having\n\nbeen examined by\n\nhim,\n\nhe did not consider him\n\nto have any right to\n\nthe indulgence\n\nhe\n\nclaimed.\n\nThe next",
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        "content_text": "358\n\nEn\n\n(64)\n\nder; it was a case of a fruit hawker murdered in Mr Wood's compound, and thrown over the steps below Mr Lyall's house. Dr Bridges spoke to me about that case. He asked me, had I seen the prisoners in the case. I said \"No;\" then he asked me to go with him to the Gaol to see them. One of them was so young, and in fact such a child, that he thought it would be anything but justice to try him on a capital charge. I did go to the Gaol and saw the two prisoners, and this one, Lee Atong, was what we would consider in England about the age of 12 to 13. On referring to the depositions I saw very good reasons to conclude that he was not the guilty party, so I took him out of the dock and made him Queen's evidence.\n\nCross-examined,—There was an entry or entries in the books of the Kwong Yik Loong shop, referring to the purchase of the blue dye and sugar bearing on the second case. I certainly think the absence of the evidence to which I allude would weaken the case on the second charge if now tried, for there would be a certain amount of identity lost. I think I recollect some entry in the Kwong Yik Loong books shewing a previous connection between that shop and the vendors of the sugar and blue dye, but I cannot say positively about this. There was documentary evidence, which shewed a dealing and an underhand dealing, on that particular day succeeding the piracy, from about early in the morning till about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, and the absence of that documentary evidence would weaken the case if tried now.\n\nGEORGE COOPER TURNER,-Called and examined. I recollect two clients of mine, Chinese traders-Ng Aling and Chee Mun-kwong, being seized and thrown into Gaol under the Deportation Ordinance, in January 1857. They were arrested under the warrant of Mr Caldwell, I believe. I applied to Mr Anstey, then sitting as Magistrate for their liberation on bail. I spoke to him first privately on the subject, and then made a formal application. He did not say whether he would grant the application when I applied to him privately. When I applied formally at the Police Court, I do not remember whether Mr Caldwell was present or not. My application was refused, in consequence of the information Mr Caldwell had given the Government on the question. I think Mr Anstey at the time told me he refused the bail on this account.\n\nI was present and made the application. The prisoners were not brought into the court; the bail rested entirely with the Government. I then wrote to the Colonial Secretary, and had a letter leading me to believe that bail would be granted. I heard no more, but two or three days after I saw the two men being marched down for deportation by the Phoebe Dunbar. I do not recollect any one stating to Mr Anstey that they were very bad characters, and had been guilty of some offence without specifying what, when I applied for bail I had no intimation from any quarter.\n\nI did not after I saw the men complain to any one. I thought the case must have been sufficiently strong, or the Government would not have pursued such a course with them. I do not to this hour know on what ground they were deported, except, as I have said before, that they were spies sent by the mandarins. There was no evidence given before the Police Court as to their being spies sent by the mandarins, and I do not know whether they were examined by the Executive Council.\n\nI have had no conversation with the Attorney General before he gave his evidence to the Commission. I am a little deaf, and can't hear distinctly, but apprehend the questions put to me.\n\nI don't exactly recollect whether Mr Caldwell was sitting on the bench at the time, but the conversation between Mr Caldwell and Mr Anstey was private, and I did not hear it.\n\nI remember that something was said about the application for bail standing over for a few days. I think Mr Caldwell was on the bench. [Read letter of 19th January, 1857, from Colonial Secretary to Mr Cooper Turner, saying that the bail of 'Ng Ating cannot be sanctioned until the Chinese New Year holidays have passed by.]\n\nIt is very likely that Mr Caldwell opposed the bail in this private conversation, although I did not hear him. Mr Caldwell is in the habit of frequently speaking to the Magistrate on the bench. I do not think I informed the Attorney General that the prisoners had been deported.\n\nI cannot give an opinion whether there were any persons other than Mr May, attached to the Police Department, capable of conducting the prosecution of Ma-chow Wong to a successful issue; nor as to what would have been the fate of the case, had not Mr May taken an interest in seeing the inquiry properly conducted.\n\nThe perusal of my letter of 14th January, 1857, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, applying for bail for 'Ng Kaniting, does not enable me to add anything to what I have already stated, except that there is difference in the name.\n\nWILLIAM THOMAS BRIDGES. Recalled at his own request, to correct part of his evidence given on the 29th ultimo, and also to make a statement in answer to some remarks made by the Attorney General.\n\n[The Chairman announced that cross-examination would be allowed on Dr Bridges's corrections of his evidence; but that, although his statement and any answer to it on the part of the Attorney General would be received, no cross-examination would be allowed on either of their statements.]\n\nI believe that I stated that Ma-chow Wong's books and papers were referred for examination to Messrs Caldwell and Mongan, previous to the appearance of the article in the China Mail. Such was my impression, but I find I was under error, and that the reference was made during the examination, was written by the Clerk of Council, and this is probably the reason of the fact escaping my mind.\n\n(65)\n\nHad the matter remained after the appearance of the article, and most probably in consequence of it. I may state also, that the letter requesting the examination, was written by the Clerk of Council. I told the Governor, stated to him what I had heard, and asked him if anything of the kind had taken place. His Excellency stated, that he should take no official notice of anything which occurred before the Commission until it had concluded its labours; but he assured me that he had made no such statement, and added that it would have been impossible for him to have appointed me Acting Colonial Secretary if he had done so.\n\n...\n\n1\n\nI was Acting Attorney General, from the 28th February, 1852, to 13th February, 1853: and from 13th April, 1854, to the 15th January, 1856, with the exception of one week. I cannot say if I communicated with any one regarding my report to Mr Secretary Labouchere, recommending the establishment of a Thuggee police system, and the placing Mr Caldwell at the head of it. I have no doubt I told somebody of it. I was requested by Mr Labouchere officially to make this report. I had a long interview with Mr Labouchere and Mr Ball, regarding the different questions connected with the colony, and I had a letter from Mr Elliott requesting me to put what I said to Mr Labouchere in writing, which I did, and to which I had an answer thanking me for it.\n\nI decline to answer the question whether I have any knowledge, theoretical or practical, of that kind of police. I decline to answer what I know about it. If the Commission sits on the subject, I shall be happy to give them the information I have got. I decline to answer whether it was to be introduced here with or without modifications. I don't know that my suggestion was refused. It has not been adopted. No question arose as to Mr Caldwell's antecedents making him unfit for such high office. I do not know whether I have kept the letter from the Colonial Office or not. I was about to be married at the time I received it, and had plenty of other things to think about.\n\n5th January, 1856.\n\nSIR. In acknowledging your letter of the 1st instant, I am directed to inform you, that the nomination by H. M's. Government of Mr Anstey to the office of Attorney General of this colony, has been officially announced by the Secretary of State. H. E. the Governor directs me to express to you his high sense of the zeal and ability with which you have discharged the duties imposed on you, while exercising the important functions of Attorney General of Hongkong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. T. MERCER.\n\nI then turned up a letter from Mr Mercer, in which he states he was unwilling to express himself the Governor's opinion, and therefore left it to His Excellency to write in his own hand. I also lay in before the Commission, letters from the Lieutenant Governor, from Admiral Stirling, and a letter presented to me on the 14th January, and signed by the greater portion of this community, expressing their opinion of my conduct during the five years I had been in this colony.\n\nI should never have shewn these documents to anybody, but it is only in a case like this I am compelled to bring them forward, considering that it was impossible His Excellency the Governor could have forgotten the official letter, not three weeks old, or could have been unaware of the opinion in which I was held by my fellow servants, and by the community at large.\n\nI wish to state, that I do not consider it to be a question of credibility between His Excellency the Governor and the Attorney General, but that I believe the statement, to be knowingly made, with the deliberate intention to attempt to injure me.\n\nI have also to state, that when I returned to this colony, Mr Anstey shewed no backwardness in making my acquaintance; he in no way behaved toward me as a person who had been guilty of malpractices, and that, considering his line of conduct towards me recently, it is almost impossible, that had so important a charge been made against me by the Governor, he would not have brought it forward long ago.\n\nI wish merely to add...",
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        "content_text": "For\n\n203\n\nwife your transfer debt, finally sent in his registration, to which he was advised. I as swift open for him - by several of the most respectable Residents\n\nthe only in the Colony, both professional and mercantile, especially by M. Bridges and M. Kingsmill, both of whom having been, respectively, Acting Colonial Secretary, and Acting Registrar, may be deemed very competent to give opinion and advice they deliberately gave.\n\n4 the Colonial Office bearing evidence to his efficiency and grounds but solely upon the testimonials submitted in the letters, which are circumstance has not supported by any query merely apoy oy by pussy mochty singkong\n\n8210 sunny\n\nA since W. Hickson's departure from which while it exhibits the difficulties under which he must have incurred, purses likewise that the Government both in the have been obliged, virtually, to admit the justice of his complaints.\n\nWe soon Hessian work and very inadequate Salary; for, his duties the offices he held were separated, and three\n\nExtony an tod af after his resignation gentlemen Colonial Minister with of obtaining much employment public grounds alone, he is not considered reasonable in considering that in 005 7 9 most my is beguneven wings to express of the pregoing particulars will save to show that even\n\nanged, and hopes that the premurat the view his case is a peculiar\n\nIt may be added that M. Hickson's original he seeks at the hands of the present Government\": entelling him 4 the Carly Consideration.\n\nTyp roses posen curs my may my sy spory shoppers to comend po & pose boneramy of my sonspfery to MW. were ifbith than hopp or folvantages denied 4th. Thekson) to discharge absolutely fewer duties I was required to perform for £300 per annuum, centred and without.\n\npond of cou, the provision of a public office: The recent appointment of of formen over the Jail of Hongkong, at a salary of £350 – additional to e of those gentlemen from may tion of duty which to Stickson, was\n\nAn One (AI compelled, to Sheriff having the been expoorer typingud desprops & my confeferision of that large Establishment, to discharge.\n\nonsorgryp jifher many official engagements: Summerings wonge of us having food by you: prenes\n\nUpon In additim Whis this subdivision of duties and large mereuse of Salans for in performance (independant of his weighly pecuniary\n\nBepery - and waste of time and oppor= For goory to pome ways. My (cynous map come himself whion M. Shickson's behalf, his belief in that gentlemans\" effi= is song ony guy for he-cumployment\", and, subsequently, expressed to a piece, in biosting bus money put seventy by miss that while his Lord: W. Thickson's name thould be noted for a (slonial appointment.\n\nWhe were my wayford Stanley - promised, upon being applied to by memorial, that post part, as a ich von member, M. Shickson's application should nevertheless, be borne\" revops my cennet woman of Camper ships could admit to elecem upon the Government of which he was a of typen the accession of the present Government WW. Hickson tenend: comigo by to poor which, W. Lalorchère was a member, soon afterwards went out of Office:\n\n:rrency and fittness for the public service\", but the Administrature\n\nTime however is passing men are pe with a family and M. thekson's circumstances - dependant upon him - are very urcent; and while.\n\n\" our house pro unpossyfety the country for some consideration, and seeks it in the shape. if comedy Rart of the Colonies;\n\n---- Apm his return to the Coventry (aftie osea brijage whic forth his case in full, to Mr. Labouchere, iter\n\n} setting I then, Secretary for the folsues reply, promised to place Mr. Hickson's name upon his list -",
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        "content_text": "(6)\n\nCollaterally, that, happening to have heard of the grounds of the decision arrived at by the Magistrates, in their sittings of 23rd May, and 3rd of June, he held those grounds to be a wrong construction of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856. This mere hint, it appears, was sufficient to induce the Magistrates, on proceeding to re-hear under the Mandamus, to reverse their former decision. They reversed it accordingly, and the reversal was to this effect, that certain houses in this Colony, which I had commenced to build in March, were overtaken by a new Law in the middle of April, and because they did not come up to the specification of that new Law, they were condemned and confiscated. They ceased to be my property, and became \"vested in the absolute discretion of Her Majesty's Surveyor General.\"\n\n11. The case, at this stage, presents two remarkable incidents.\n\nI have already explained that I had proceeded from this Port to the North of China on the 30th July. On the 18th August following, this property, which I had left under the protection of two judicial decisions, was again attacked, as stated, under a Mandamus sued upon His Excellency's orders. That Mandamus rested upon the \"12 hours continuation\" clause of the Ordinance—in other words, it proceeded upon \"a fresh offence.\"\n\nThis \"fresh offence\" accordingly was charged against my property, while I (the owner) was a thousand miles distant. My Builder being sued as the best substitute to be found for myself—though the man had completed his contract and been paid for it, and had no remaining interest of any kind whatsoever in the property which he was called upon to represent and defend!\n\n12. He appeared before the Magistrates accordingly on the 18th August, and pleaded \"no interest,\" but, as the Ordinance impleads the Contractor as well as the Owner, he was held to be a party responsible, and, by means of this suppositious representative, my property was attacked—condemned and carried away bodily by a gang of convicts under the superintendence of the Acting Surveyor General, while I, the sole and actual Owner, was not only not present to defend it, but without notice of action, summons, or other legal process of any kind whatsoever, being ever served upon me! Such is the first of these two incidents—the second is entirely in character.\n\n13. My Solicitor, happening casually to hear of this assault upon my property, in my absence, waited upon His Excellency Sir John Bowring to plead that absence towards a suspension of proceedings. The result of this last endeavour on my behalf will sufficiently appear in his letter of 17th September, copy of which I have the honor to lay before you.\n\n14. The following will form no inappropriate pendant to the two incidents foregoing. It appears that upon my property being condemned on the re-hearing of the 18th of August, my Counsel, Mr. Kingsmill, Barrister at Law, applied to the Magistrates for an adjournment to the 11th September ensuing, to allow time for my return to the Colony to appear and defend in person. This most reasonable request the Magistrates granted, subject to the consent of the prosecutor, the Acting Surveyor General.\n\nThat consent was not withheld—judgment was stayed, and a three weeks' grace was granted to me. But it appears that the Magistrate, in granting it, exceeded his authority—such a reprieve did not satisfy the exigencies of the Mandamus, whereupon (it would be incredible if it were not true) His Excellency, I am informed, ordered the Mandamus to be traversed and an action at law to be commenced in the Supreme Court, against his own stipendiary Magistrate, at the suit of the Crown.\n\n15. I forbear all commentary, Sir, upon such a state of things as this!\n\nIt now only remains for me to lay before you copies of my correspondence with the local Government upon this extraordinary occasion.\n\nBy the next departure, I shall again claim the privilege of addressing you; and it is not unlikely to convey to you the sense of this community at large, respecting the character and operation of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, and other recent acts of this Legislature. Meantime, Sir, I do myself the honor to subscribe myself, with profound respect and confidence, your most obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\nTo the Right Hon. HENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P.,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nHongkong, November 12th, 1856.\n\nSIR, I had the honor of addressing you on the 10th of last month, touching the seizure of certain property of mine in this Colony, under the operation of a retrospective law, recently passed by the local Legislature—entitled Ordinance No. 8 of 1856.\n\n2. Since then, His Excellency the Governor of this Colony, in a public letter dated the 4th of this month, has announced that Her Majesty's Government, recognizing the experimental and undoubtedly stringent character of that Ordinance, has suspended its ratification.\n\n3. I submit, Sir, that this fact in itself places Governor Bowring in the position of having deliberately, and against the remonstrances of my Agent, and in the face of two previous Judicial decisions in my favor, and by a forced and oppressive action on the part of the Executive Government, procured the destruction of my property, and its seizure to the uses of the State, and that under the operation of an Ordinance which he himself now proclaims to have been a mere tentative Act of Legislation, so undoubtedly \"stringent\" that in transmitting it for ratification, he deemed it necessary to caution the Imperial Government as to its character and tendencies!\n\n4. His Excellency further, in the sixth paragraph of the same letter, makes the bold admission that this Ordinance is undoubtedly retrospective, and that Buildings commenced before its enactment are \"liable to its penalties.\" This admission, at least, does credit to His Excellency's candor, however severely it may reflect upon his judgment—for you have no choice, Sir, but to accept it as a frank avowal that the Governor of this Colony has systematically violated one of the very first bases of our Legislative policy, whether at home or abroad—namely—that \"our Laws shall not be retrospective,\" that an ex-post facto Law is not a mere abstract injustice, but an active tyranny of the grossest and most provoking character.\n\n5. His Excellency, however, having made the admission that he procured the destruction of my houses under the penalties not merely of an ex-post facto Law, but of a merely \"experimental Act of Legislation,\" is doubtlessly prepared to justify to Her Majesty's Government, or to the British Parliament, the seizure and appropriation of the materials of my property to the uses of the State in the construction of a Government Building.\n\n6. I wait the further development of this question here, before troubling you with any more observations upon it, beyond taking leave with the utmost respect to direct your special attention to the following points in the history of this measure, recently elicited by the public discussion which it has provoked in the Colony.\n\n7. It now appears that this ex-post facto Law, emanating from a closed Council Chamber, was actually in force, and its penalties operative for three days before it was even promulgated. It passed the Legislative Council on the 16th of April, but was not Gazetted as Law until the 19th. It first appeared in draft in the Government Gazette of 29th March, disappeared from the two intervening Gazettes of 5th and 12th of April, and for anything this community could possibly know to the contrary, was withdrawn altogether, when it suddenly made its appearance as Law—retrospective Law, on the 19th of April, and yet, such being the extent of publicity given to it, His Excellency is surprised that it challenged no public animadversion during what he is pleased to call its \"discussion.\"\n\n(7)\n\n8. The Metropolitan Building Act 1855, upon which this experimental Ordinance professed to have been modelled, and an Act of the Indian Legislature No. 14 of 1856, framed only two months later, and expressly adjusted to the circumstances of an Asiatic population, are dated respectively four months and seventeen days after their promulgation, and even after that interval, both those Acts will be found expressly to exclude all buildings that had advanced above the level of their foundation courses from coming at all within their operation, much less being held liable to their penalties.\n\nIs it necessary, Sir, to contrast these wise precedents with the conduct of our local executive in seeking out Buildings in progress under one Law for ex-post facto penalty under another, after making them (in the absence of the owner to defend) the subject of an unrelenting prosecution under an unconfirmed, and \"experimental Act of Legislation\"?\n\n9. I beg to lay before you the further correspondence appended. Nine letters marked A to I inclusive, which have passed between the local Government and myself, since I last had the honor of addressing you, and waiting the further development of this case here, before presenting my formal claims for compensation for the outrage I have suffered. I beg to subscribe myself, Sir, with profound respect, your most obedient Servant,\n\nTo The Right Hon. HENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P.,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(Copy.)\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\nHongkong, 18th October, 1856.\n\nTo The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.\n\nSIR, I have to request that you will do me the honor to lay the accompanying correspondence, which has passed between Her Majesty's Surveyor General and myself since I last addressed you, before His Excellency Sir John Bowring. As I can hardly expect at His Excellency's hands copies of the letters referred to by Captain Cowper, I have only to hope that His Excellency will hold himself called upon to lay the \"three or four Official letters\" in question, together with copies of his replies thereto, before the Secretary of State, as an essential part of the case already submitted by me to the judgment of Her Majesty's Government, and to be further submitted, under special reference to these letters, by the next departure.\n\nI have, moreover, the honor to request that if the two \"notes\" referred to in Mr. Murrow's letter are not identical with two of the three or four Official letters stated by Captain Cowper, and form a portion of any further correspondence that may have passed between His Excellency and the Surveyor General upon this subject, that such further correspondence in its complete form may be transmitted to the Secretary of State by next mail, together with this letter.—I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nP.S. Permit me to remind you that you have omitted to acknowledge, for transmission, my letter of 10th instant to Secretary, Mr. Labouchere.\n\n(Copy) B.\n\nCanton, 11th October, 1856.\n\nCaptain Cowper, R.E., Acting Surveyor General, Hongkong.\n\nSIR, I beg to hand you extract from a letter addressed to me by Mr. T. J. Murrow, and it will afford me pleasure to hear that you confirm the statement referred to. I need not say that I would be much obliged by the copies of the letters alluded to, if you feel yourself in a position to furnish them.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\nExtract from Mr. T. J. Murrow's letter to me, dated 10th October, 1856.\n\n\"The sum and substance of what Captain Cowper said to me was this: That he was as well aware as any one in the Colony of the hardship and impropriety of pulling down your houses—that there were three cases that 'he considered should not come under the Ordinance. Yours being one—that regarding these three cases, he wrote a note to the Governor, soliciting their exemption—that the reply was unfavorable—that he wrote a second note to the Governor—that the reply was peremptory, and he (Capt. C.) at once commenced with the rich man's first. 'That he had the notes to show, and that people would see who was to blame when matters come to a crisis.' I asked him if he considered this conversation private; he replied 'no, quite the reverse; he did not care who knew it.'\"\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. HUDSON.\n\n(Copy.) No. 23.\n\nC.\n\nSurveyor General's Office, Victoria, 13th October, 1856.\n\nSIR, In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of this day's date, I have the honor to inform you that I, three or four times, did apply officially to be exonerated from summoning offenders against Ordinance 8 of 1856—that the reply was that I could not be exonerated, but I do not feel myself at liberty to furnish any one with a copy of those official letters.\n\nI distinctly decline confirming, amending, or denying any portion of the extract of Mr. Murrow's letter to you.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient humble servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nWILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General.\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq.\n\n(Copy.) No. 765.\n\nD.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 22nd October, 1856.\n\nSIR, I am directed to acknowledge your letter of 18th instant, and to forward copy of Captain Cowper's reply to the official request for his explanation of Mr. Murrow's allegation.\n\nAs regards the transmission to the Secretary of State of the letters of Captain Cowper, to which you refer, it will be seen that these, as regards Mr. Murrow's statement, have no existence, but His Excellency desires me to assure you that the present correspondence shall be forwarded to Her Majesty's Government by the next mail.\n\nI am further instructed to inform you that Captain Cowper has officially reported the details of Ly Ating's case, and concludes his report in these words: \"It is the fact that all those portions of these houses which have been taken down were built subsequently to the passing of the Ordinance and in defiance of repeated warnings.\"\n\nI have to apologize for my neglect in not having acknowledged before this your letter of the 10th instant, with its enclosures, which was duly forwarded as you desired to the Secretary of State. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. J. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n289",
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        "content_text": "(10)\n\nfirst, second or third interruptions, the result of an adverse decision under the new law must have been the same namely to work an absolute forfeiture of all the materials at stake. I will be judged by the Ordinance itself, whether upon the Surveyor General proving any contravention of it, however immaterial, even though that contravention be an ex post facto one, even though it be the contravention of a specification that was not in existence on the day it was contravened—whether (I repeat with all respect) upon his proving the simplest contravention, he does not become entitled to have the work in progress adjudged a nuisance, and all its materials placed at his “absolute discretion”? (see section 17 of Ordinance No. 18 of 1856, in connection with section 10 of Ordinance No. 12 of 1856). Surely, Sir, such being the law, it was of very \"material consequence\" to me on occasion of the first interruption of 23rd May, to rescue the basement stories of my three buildings from the \"absolute discretion\" of the Surveyor General. If that \"first interruption\" had consisted of a notice or a caution, or an official warning of any kind and I had disobeyed it, the consequence might fairly be chargeable to my own obstinacy, but I present the depositions of 3rd June, appended, as contrasted with the Surveyor General's report upon case quoted in Colonial Secretary's letter, No. 765 of 22nd October, that I built \"in defiance of repeated warnings.\" He swore under his own hand and upon oath, that he gave me no notice or warning whatever. May I further comment on one more fact in this deposition. If the Surveyor General could not, as he alleges, \"find the contractor in the case\" he might have found myself, the registered owner—residing on the very premises. His very first step was a summons, which showed that he looked but for one result—the confiscation of my basement stories.\n\nThus forced by the Surveyor General into an attitude of sheer defence, and finding the decision of the appointed Court in my favor, is it any wonder that I should have proceeded, on the scale on which I had begun (20 per cent, higher than the London scale), and which I could not then alter or conform without demolishing all the work done, down to the very foundation and commencing all de novo.\n\n(13) However it is the law itself, and not merely its oppressive execution which I complain of and protest against, as unsettling all the primary foundations of property in this Colony and outraging the first rights of the British subject. That law must be without a precedent even in the annals of Colonial legislation, which upon the day it was passed discovers a contravention of its specifications in the basement story of a building actually roofed in, but not \"finished,\" and because of that fundamental contravention which was equally impossible to foresee or to remedy, would condemn the whole building and its materials to the absolute discretion of the \"Surveyor General\"! This was not my case, but it was a case which actually arose.\n\n(14) His Excellency Governor Bowring in laying this case of mine with the essential connexions fully before you, has, I trust, informed you that it did not stand alone—that large masses of property were included with mine in the summonses of 23rd May, (date of the first interruption) that the former were protected by the decision of the Bench of Magistrates on the date given, while mine alone was attacked and confiscated on the 20th August following. His Excellency has, I trust further informed you, that the property of American citizens, I name that of Mr. R. S. Sturgis, and Mr. J. B. Endicott, were included with mine in these very summonses of 23rd of May. Their Buildings on Queen's Road, Central Victoria, were actually roofed in though not completely \"finished\" (see section 11, Ordinance No. 8 of 1856), when they were attacked for a non-conformity in the basement stories! The decision of the Bench protected them as already stated, else it would have been hardly creditable to the Legislature of this Colony, that the property of American citizens, should have been destroyed like mine, and confiscated to the uses of the British Crown, under the operation of an ex post facto law. The legality of such a confiscation would, I can assure you have been challenged by the American authorities, (as was well known here at the time, and a protest upon these very grounds, prepared to meet any injurious issue) and I affirm, Sir, with all respect, that you owe it to the action of the Bench of Justices that you have not at this moment an international question to deal with, instead of a mere municipal one, a question that would then have involved in the face of the world, a huge scandal upon the Executive of this Colony, as having sanctioned the confiscation of an Alien's property under the action of a retrospective Law and appropriated its proceeds to the use of Her Majesty's Government.\n\n(14) Finally, Sir, and by way of exhibiting that I did everything in this matter which a dutiful subject of Her Majesty could be expected to do, everything in my power towards saving myself from loss, and the local Government from responsibility. I beg leave to place in your hands copy of a letter which I received on 3rd June, from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary, in this behalf.\n\n(15) Shortly after the appearance of Ordinance No. 8 of 1856, in draft, I hastened down from Canton, and consulted that functionary the Colonial Secretary, as to how far the proposed law might affect my works then in progress. I have now the honor to submit his opinion to you. It is to the effect, that on 3rd June (the date of the second judgment by the Magistrates in my favor) he, the Colonial Secretary was prepared in his capacity as a Member of that Court, which is designated as \"inferior\" to exempt my works from the operation of the new Law, though on different and lower grounds, than those taken by his brother Justices. I have a letter of a later date from Mr. Mercer, revoking his opinion of the 3rd June, but do not feel myself at liberty to submit it without his permission. His letter however of 3rd June, will serve to show that I carried on my works throughout the period therein indicated upon the authority of the highest Ministerial Officer of the Government, himself a Member of the Legislature, which passed the law of which he pronounced me independent.\n\n(16) After the further exposition of this oppressive case, which I trust will serve to place the whole matter in a clearer light before you, it now only remains for me, with profound respect and confidence to entreat a fresh opinion at your hands upon the full premises, and to pray that you will be pleased to order an investigation to be made by the Local Government into such actual losses as I may be able to substantiate, and reimbursement out of the Colonial Chest to be made to me accordingly, eased as I must presume it to have been by the value of my building materials employed in the construction of Government works, as shown in my letter to the late acting Surveyor General, dated 19th of September, 1856, already before you in the correspondence transmitted.—I have the honor to be Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\n(COPY.)\n\nMY DEAR HUDSON,—Some four or five weeks ago you asked my opinion on clause three of the Building Ordinance, which I gave you and still retain.\n\nYou now call my attention to Clause 11, and I beg to say that the two are quite consistent and reconcilable. \"Or\" is disjunctive, consequently each participle in 11 must be read separately, and not conjunctively as I am told the Magistrates read them the week before last. But at the same time each participle in that clause must be read in connexion with the words immediately following the last, \"in contravention of this Ordinance.\"\n\nWe must now look to see what is in contravention of the Ordinance, and we find it throughout, with an exemption plainly laid down in Clause 3 of works in continuous progress for three weeks. Such works then are not in contravention of the Ordinance, and by a further consequence do not come under Clause 11. But it may be argued that Clause 11 concerns nuisances, a word that does not occur in Clause 3. True, but Clause 4 applies the word distinctly to Clause 3, and thus connects Clause 3, with Clause 11.\n\n(11)\n\nErgo—in my opinion, now, as when I spoke to you some time ago, a house of which the building has been in continued course for three months to date of complaint is not a nuisance under Clause 11 as not \"commenced, resumed, prosecuted, or finished, in contravention of the Ordinance.\"\n\nHad I time, I would myself attend on the Bench to day, but as I cannot, you are at liberty to use the above argument.—Yours truly,\n\nC. S. O. 3rd June, 1856.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. T. MERCER.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\n(COPY.) No. 788.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office. Victoria, Hongkong, 29th October, 1856. SIR, I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of 26th instant, received this morning. As regards the proposals in your letter of 24th instant, to which you now allude as having received no reply. I am directed to observe that His Excellency presumes this to refer to your application for Captain Cowper's Official Report in Ly Hing's case, which report already forms enclosures in a despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and cannot in accordance with the rules of the service, be furnished to yourself. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(COPY.) No. 234.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th February, 1857. SIR,—I am instructed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor, has received a reply from Mr. Secretary Labouchere to your communication relating to the Sanitary Ordinance. Mr. Labouchere is of opinion that the circumstances of the case justified the retrospective operation of that Ordinance and cannot suppose from the papers laid before him, that your works were so far proceeded with on the occasion of the first interruption as to have rendered that interruption of material consequence to you.\n\nIf you thought proper to continue them, relying on the decision of an Inferior Court in your favor, you must yourself bear the consequences of that decision having proved erroneous.—I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\n(Signed) W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nA. R. HUDSON, Esq.\n\n(COPY).\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\nHongkong, 27th March, 1857.\n\nSIR,—With reference to my letter of the 16th inst. I have the honor to request in the event of that letter not proving completely satisfactory to you, that you will favor me with a copy of His Excellency Governor Bowring's despatch, which caused you to take such an unfavorable view of my claim, to be furnished to me, in order that I may have an opportunity of correcting any errors affecting my case into which His Excellency may have been unconsciously led. I am sure I need do no more than appeal to His Excellency's sense of justice to second this request, the more so as he informed me, that it was owing to an official regulation, my former request to the same effect could not be complied with, as will appear from the enclosed correspondence,—I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\n(Signed) A. R. HUDSON.\n\nTo The Right Honorable HENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P.,\n\nHer Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(COPY)\n\nExtract from my letter to His Excellency Governor Bowring, dated 24th October, 1856, with the Colonial Secretary's reply of 29th following.\n\n\"In conclusion I would beg leave to suggest to His Excellency the expediency of furnishing me with a copy of Captain Cowper's official report, in full, upon Ly Ating's case, towards enabling me to challenge \"such facts as I may, and rebut them if I can, and thus lay as complete a case as possible before Her Majesty's Government. Against which on the other hand, I offer to submit myself to answer any \"queries essentially connected with this case which His Excellency may deem necessary to its complete \"elucidation for the better information of the Secretary of State.\"\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed)\n\nB. Trenchard, Printer and Stationer, High Street, Uxbridge.\n\nA. R. HUDSON.\n\n282",
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        "content_text": "I must quite see that every successive submission of some of the most recent documents Secretary of State is bound to entertain bearing on the claim, which with page 395 \n\nI reopen the cases, my Predecessor, singularly decided upon this matter, which have not been settled to the satisfaction of the claimants. If this were competent on the part of the S. & S. his time would be consumed in revising the decisions of personal cases, of which we have so many at this Office.\n\nIt is, however, at the discretion of the S. of State to take that course, and if, in this present case, the Duke of Newcastle would like to go into this matter the papers shall be collected for his Grace. In the meanwhile I shall not go into it.\n\n2 AB. 6 July.\n\nIs there any birth entry relating to Watkins's assertion, that in 1612 Sir W. Molesworth and 20th Jan Oufell witnessed Downing ordering the payment of this rent, and that Sir J. Odell \"disapproved\" of it?\n\nThe fact is as stated Hm 17b 2 M. Watkins Janney copies of the two despatches, and the final one written by a predecessor Mr. Labouchere, who took a different view of the subject from his Predecessors.\n\nSir E. Lytton concurred.",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nany alteration which will be decided on may\n\nalterations that by your Grace, I would propose with\n\nyour sanction to bring before the Legislative Council in the\n\nshape of now an ordinance; and I will proceed to offer a few explanatory observations in reference to each establishment taking them in the order in which they appear in the sketch.\n\n13.\n\nWhen the Colony was established in 1843, and household expenses were not heavier than they are at present the Salary of the Governor was fixed at £6,000.-\n\nIn 1854 this was reduced to £4,000 upon the appointment of Sir John Bowring, who however repeatedly represented in a very forcible manner the inadequacy of such a Salary. Sir John Bowring to Lord John Russell, 13/74* Sept. 1855. Sir John Bowring to Mr Labouchere 47/75 May 1856.\n\nThis, indeed, appears to have been admitted by the Secretary of State Downing 7:35 3W March 1857. Downing Street 7:137 of 4th December 1857, who was only prevented from complying with the request that the Salary might be raised to £5,000 by the existence at that time of the since suppressed Office of Lieutenant Governor.\n\n14.\n\nand Commander in Chief. - an amount now the Salary has been further reduced to £3,000 without any allowances which is acknowledged on all sides to be insufficient to enable the Governor to occupy his proper position.",
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        "content_text": "No. 40\n\nMilitary\n\nI\n\nW.O. canton, 18 fine for 7. O. unfor 218\n\nAdin\n\n20 L\n\nAL\n\nMari\n\nNo 2.\n\n524 trong chúng.\n\nSCELLE Government Offices, Victoria,\n\nA JUN\n\n1860.\n\nHongkong, 3rd April, 1860.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to inform\n\nYour Grace that in accordance with Circular of 16 November 1834 and with\n\nMr Secretary Labouchere's Despatch of 16 July 1836 I have caused the Five Military Convicts named in the Enclosed: Return to be shipped yesterday for England. in the \"Marchioness of Londonderry\" bound to London.\n\nI transmit likewise an account\n\nof Expenses incurred by the Colony for the\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum\n\nwas. \n\nand immediately after you asked me if I knew whether a female named Attai was residing in any of the houses, in the turning west of the Union Chapel: I said that I believed she was residing there. That the last time I summoned her I heard that she had purchased a house from Mrs. Aliken in that Street. Some conversation further took place touching the identity of the woman Attai as having formerly dressed in European Clothes, and I stated that I believed the girls in her house were kept girls. I do not perfectly recollect whether I received any order on the subject of watching the house.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, \n\"JAS. JARMAN,\" \nInspector of Police\n\n\"CHARLES MAY, Esq.,\" \nSuperintendent of Police.\n\n## Mr. Bridges' Memo: to Sir John Bowring, with enclosures.\n\n\"SIR, I have the honor to submit to your Excellency the accompanying documents, being the Depositions taken by the Chief Magistrate in the case of Regina v. Ahtai, convicted of keeping a brothel.\n\n\"A letter addressed by Mr. May to Mr. Anstey, Mr. Davies and myself.\n\"An official letter from me to the Superintendent of Police, Mr. May.\n\n\"If I am correctly informed, the Superintendent of Police, being a married man, has been keeping a mistress within one door of a brothel kept open in violation of the Ordinance restricting such houses to a certain locality, and the fact of the existence of this brothel was notorious to all the surrounding neighbourhood, and a general subject of complaint. No attempt has been made by the Superintendent of Police to cause this violation of the law to be suppressed, and I am therefore bound to suppose him to sanction its existence.\n\n\"Ordinance 12 of 1857 did not, when originally suggested by me, meet with the approval of your Excellency, but since it has become law I feel bound to state that you have given me all the support which appeared necessary for the effectual carrying out of the measure. It will be however impossible for me to attempt to discharge the duties of my office with regard to this Ordinance if in addition to the tacit opposition which the Superintendent of Police has given to it in every possible way from the commencement, he be permitted to give positive encouragement to offenders in the manner I have above mentioned. The whole Police Force necessarily follow the lead set them by their Chief, and I am now at no loss to understand why my endeavours to carry out thoroughly what I believe to be a beneficial enactment, have never been aided by the Police, but solely by the Registrar General and the Inspector of Nuisances. Unless forced to do so I would be the last man to enquire how any servant of the Queen here observes or disregards the ordinary laws of morality, but now that this question has assumed an official shape I feel bound to call to the remembrance of your Excellency that Mr. May was for a considerable period a cause of great scandal to this community as the owner of the most offensive brothel property in this Colony. And I beg also to state that for many months (previous to my tenure of Office) he had this very same woman Rozario living and sleeping with him at his quarters, as Superintendent of Police, to the great offence of other married members of the Force.\n\n\"I attach so much importance to the conduct of the Superintendent of Police, and to the feeling evinced by him towards the Registrar General, who in this matter has only obeyed my official directions, that unless your Excellency is pleased to give me full support in carrying out what I conceive to be my duties, I must most reluctantly request your Excellency to relieve me from them.\n\n\"The subordinate executive machinery of this Colony rests almost entirely on the Registrar General and the Superintendent of Police. Of the former I have never had reason to complain; the latter has rarely given me satisfaction; I believe that he has by degrees amassed a certain amount of property, and the duties of his Office are generally sacrificed to his private concerns.\n\nAs far as I can ascertain, the ill-feeling evinced by Mr. May to Mr. Caldwell arises solely from the latter occupying a higher post than himself in the Government service, whereas he was at one time Mr. May's subordinate. The services of the present Registrar General are invaluable to the Colony, those of the present Superintendent of Police could be very easily dispensed with.\n\n\"Your Excellency is aware that I am not now for the first time expressing an unfavorable opinion of Mr. May, but each successive month confirms my views of his unfitness for his present post.\n\n\"I should be very unwilling that the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for the Colonies should have reason to suppose that Ordinance 12 of 1857 failed from inherent defects, as after my warm advocacy of it my credit is to a certain degree involved in it. If therefore your Excellency declines to sanction by your approval the view which I have taken, I most respectfully request that all the documents may be forwarded to the Colonial Office for the information of Mr. Labouchere.\"\n\n\"W. T. BRIDGES.\"\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 11th March, 1857.\n\n## Postscript\n\nSince writing the above I have received a letter from the Superintendent of Police which I annex. Its tone towards myself and the feeling it exhibits towards the Registrar General are such as to confirm the views that I have herein respectfully submitted to His Excellency, and to render my farther tenure of office worthless to Her Majesty's Service in this Colony if the conduct of the Superintendent of Police is not visited by punishment.-\"W. T.B.\"\n\n\"12th March, 1858.\"\n\n| Warrant No. | C. M. Court, No. 517 | P. Sessions, No. | Warrant, No. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Commenced 9th March | Concluded 9th March, |  |  |\n\n## AT THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\n### Minutes of Proceedings in the Cause in which D. R. CALDWELL, Registrar General, &c., is Plaintiff'; and\n\n1. CHUN-TAY-YOW\n2. WONG-AH-NGAN\n3. SUIN-SAM-PO\n4. CHUN-AH-WOON\n5. WONG-ATAI\n\n| Date | Defendants | DOLLARS. In O. B. C. Notes. | DOLLARS. In Silver. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 9th Mar. | 1. 20 of Canton, married woman. <br> 2. 24 of Heongshan, wife of Yoong-ah-chaong. <br> 3. 74 of Suntak, widow. <br> 4. 31 of Canton, wife of Chun-chui-hoi. <br> 5. 24 of Shanghae, female. | 40 | 75 |\n\n## MEMORANDUM\n\nTuesday, 9th March, 1858.\n\nDANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL, Registrar General, sworn, deposes. On Saturday night last, at 11 P M., I went to the house of 5th defendant in Hollywood Road outside of the districts where brothels are allowed. I knocked for some time, and while so doing I heard 5th defendant call out to keep the \"devils\" (foreigners) quiet. I heard the voices of women inside. I was kept there half-an-hour. I said who I was, and then the door was opened. In a room on the lower floor I saw three European men. I went upstairs, I searched the house but could find no women, except defendant, and one or two old women. I said to her that I must take her to the Station on the charge of keeping a brothel; she said if I insisted on her leaving the house she would go elsewhere, or that she would pay the fine at once, but asked me to be tender with her. There was a window where women could get out.\n\nI heard women voices; before I went in I had the house surrounded so that I am sure no women got out into the streets. They could only have got into a house No. 894.\n\n正月收銀七十五圓 卄收紙銀四十圓 四 \n\n322",
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        "content_text": "lodged in the Auditor General's office. \n\nMr. Forth, the Treasurer, has apparently from the tenor of Str. Secretary Labouchere's Letter to Governor Sir John Bowring No. 33 of 19th March 1857, given security at some previous time to his embarking from the Colony; of the amount and other particulars of his security, we have no Knowledge here. \n\nMr Alexander, the Registrar of the Court (at present Acting Colonial Secretary) only entered into security in March 1853 but the Bonds was handed to the late Chief Justice W. St. John, and no trace of it can now be found. This officer however will immediately on his reverting to his office of Registrar enter into fresh Security. I may add that I have not called upon Mr. St. John at present retiring Registrar, his appointments (reported in my Despatch No. 205 of 13th instant) continuing only till the arrival of Mr. Masson, the Deputy Registrar, expected at...\n\n## Page 384",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n2 \n\ntheir guidance. \n\nBy order, \n(signed) W. N. Alwander, Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\n## \n\n201 \n\nExtract from a Despatch archived by the Secretary of State to the Governor of St. Helena, and a copy of which forwarded to the Governor of Hongkong by the Right Honorable Henry Labouchere in a Despatch under date 16th August 1856.\n\nI do not object to Mr. ... or any other of the Public Servants furnishing Articles signed with their names, upon subjects of general interest, provided they abstain from any further connection with the newspaper than what is implied",
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        "content_text": "328 \n\nOf my appointment and of his preferable claims, I feel in justice to myself compelled to ask your Excellency to lay before the Secretary of State the following brief statement.\n\nI joined the Civil Service in Hongkong on the 1st November 1845. Clerk of the Supreme Court - in 1850 I was made Deputy Registrar. In 1853 Acting Registrar, in which Office I was confirmed by W. Labouchere, Secretary for the Colonies. On the 15th March 1860, Sir Hercules Robinson appointed me Acting Chief Magistrate, and I served in that capacity till the arrival of Mr. Callaghan in November of that year.\n\nIn June 1861, on Mr. Callaghan proceeding to Labuan, I was directed to do the duties of Chief Magistrate, and in October of that Year, Sir Hercules Robinson selected me to fill the post of Acting Colonial Secretary during your leave of absence on sick leave. In that position I continued till the 11th February 1863 (not 1854, likely a typo given the context of other dates) when, on the return of Sir Hercules Robinson, I reverted to the Registrarship of the Supreme Court until the 18th Instant when you were pleased to re-appoint me Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nI would respectfully observe with reference to my rank in the...",
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        "content_text": "From Sir Tom Bowring to Mr. Labouchere, 1.85, of 2th June 1857.\n\n# \n\"The absence of W. Mercer from the sittings and discussions in the Legislature has been frequently felt to be a very great inconvenience, and I am persuaded that his presence and assistance will be of the greatest possible value to the public Service.\n\nExtract from Minute of Sir John Bowring - 8th August, 1856\n\nThe Colonial Secretary is entitled to all my consideration, and I do not forget the readiness with which he gave up his intention of visiting Europe, when it was represented to him that the public Service would suffer from his removal.\n\nDespatch of Lieutenant Governor Caine, No. 85 of 19th May, 1859, to Secretary Sir E. B. Lytton.\n\nIn submitting the enclosed application from W. Mercer, the Colonial Secretary, I have the honor to entreat your favourable...",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n5.\n\nI have ...\n\n(Signed) W. H. Rennie, Auditor General.\n\nTrue copy  \nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nEvidently: aiding the cadets in the study of the Chinese language, were considered to belong to the category of those in which the saving in one might be applied to the payment of the other under the Governor's authority as pointed out in the report enclosed; in the Duke of Newcastle's despatch to Sir Hercules Robinson of 29th January 1866.\n\nSam directed the Earl of Carnarvon to transmit to you for the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury a copy of a despatch from Secretary Labouchere & Mr. Goulburn giving the information as to certain items in the Hongkong accounts of 1864. What was requested... \n\n72.8580  \nAug? 9.614  \nLi 20 Left /66  \n65",
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        "content_text": "Mr Cardwell,\n\nThe not then the C.B. on to then an obstacle in way of an arrangement by which we hoped to avoid such mortality in British troops as that which occurred in Derykany, but we are anxious to importate. I think that\n\n(1) The troops should recover no circumstances be called in question at £50.00 per annum.\n\nto per mere then\n\n(2) That the force stationed there should be properly reduced.\n\n(3) that there should be an understanding that the troops could have like 2 batteries of artillery,\n\nfor I think also that Mr Crawford should be informed of their new appointment. It will not be safe for us to proceed without the concurrence of the Treasury.\n\nCort aft/66 Eliy\n\n3020 trong lòng\n\n29\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\n4 June 1866.\n\nA. Hamilton\n\nMINUTE\n\n17 Apr 18. APR.\n\nGladstone 18 MForster 19 MCardwell 20\n\n7. Rezen\n\nPut this for Consideration\n\nAnswer ? 4606. Labouchere\n\nDownesplant\n\nAble cable.\n\nI am directed by M\n\nSecretary\n\nCardwell &c. &c.\n\nto acknowledge the receipt\n\nof letter of the Board.\n\nFor: requesting\n\nto Meet the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. It is\n\nSeparate heavily ought to be informed\n\n\"the\" \"Colonial\" quota in be=2 Batt: of Artillery & this equipment suffer.\n\nI tut\n\nthe \"Colony\" may furnish.\n\nin called upon to furnish Stores for Internal\" Service W.\n\nMe Miter. (20\n\nLabouchere\n\nCofing M. C.\n\nwhether\n\nany arrangements\n\nhave been finally\n\nmade\n\nrelative to the number of\n\ntroops to",
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        "content_text": "308\n\nbut is generally, owing to his return to a spare diet from a full one, \nto thwart him, which he discards his Sons Nothing \nM. Hamilton \n7.7.25 April \n\nI am working up the Papers about Natal. \nI make and \nin Grabow a \nsevarately \n87 \n26.4 \n82 \n\nW. Fairfield tells me he has \nM. Courbury \nfecting latest. \nmedi \nI hardly imagine that Labauchere will touch upon the W... of Africa, but if he participates there is \ndoen aur \nvery secure! \nnot only is slavery a forbidden thing \nCourte A \nthe settlements which are actually British territory, but since 1875 it has been abolished within the Protectorate at the \nGfpart [See P.P. `C-1139` + `C-1140`] \nof 1845. \nhar has the abolition \nEnimil \nbeen allowed to remain a dead letter. \nTwo kings, \nQnow of Warsaw & Attak of Akim, and several other persons have been tried, \ncon \n:nited & punished for breaches of the Law against Slavery. \nAs regards B'Sherbro! \ncarrespondence \nin 18445 which shave marked \nthe accompanying ex \nin `C-1343` + `C-1402`. \nSam not \nKa \naware of any. \nW frant in which \nc \nBritish official \nhelanation to ar \nhas \nCaution \naided directly or indirectly in the Encouragemen \naf Slavery. \nNo doubt the mom \nmaintenance \nAKH \nWill as nonet \n27 April \nconfound Slaving with ill-treatment. The colloquial meaning of Slaving will be used in favour of the benevolent one, & the mover will not suggest an si... \n\n## MINUTE PAPER.",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\nW.O 22605\n\nThe Under Sec? of State for War  \nHong Kong  \n\nOur 501  \n21 Nov: 87  \n\n**MINUTE**\n\nMr. Fronde 19 Nov  \nMr. Dekobeck 19  \nMr. Wingfield  \nMr. Bramston  \nMr. Meade  \nSir R. Herbert  \nSir ... Labouchere  \nBaron ... (directed by Lord Onslow)  \nSir H. T. Holland  \n\nSee `Seim 14`\n\nTo acknowledge the receipt of your letter No `81080/85/11` of the 8th instant, respecting the sale for building purposes of certain Marine lots in the Colony of Hong Kong, and to request you to ... (with reference to the last paragraph of your letter) ... why for ... with softe ... both one of your litha ...",
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        "content_text": "756\n\nA proposal has been brought to us, and we are willing to support it, we could now hope to succeed in convincing them when they can see something tangible in the barrack sites. It involves the assumption that when W. Labouchere dictated that the Colony should adopt the Ordinance and when it has passed, and submitted to them, and amended by them, and sanctioned by the Queen - the whole thing was a nullity - no property passing to them as they asserted and denied.\n\nThen again there is much force in the War Office view that although the land is offered to reclaim for them, they may with what they already have, do better than they are at the tea and certainly not (kindness) Wilding, the gift will do them no good. We might ask them if they have read General Edwardes' Report. I don't think it need be communicated with the Admiralty at present.\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\n87 6.5.90\n\nI came near sending this letter to Z.O. but would state",
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        "content_text": "23\n\nW. 108.\n\nII Financial\n\nSER\n\n20b 3 Hong Kong\n\nTREG\n\n\"Government offices,\n\nVictoria,\n\nHongkong 5th July 1856.\n\nDespatch #70758/883.\n\nInclosure in letter from\n\nAttorney\n\nFPiracy in the China Seas. After Bridges of the squadrania. 30th July, 1857.\n\nhis opinion on the suggestions\n\nGeneral Anstey, conveying\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to enclose an application from Dr. Dempster the Colonial Surgeon for an increase of his salary from £200 to £300 per annum.\n\nI have already in Despatch No. 119 of 26th March last reported my conviction that the present arrangement for carrying the duties of Colonial Surgeon is unsatisfactory,\n\nand trust\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry Labouchere M.P.",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nThe reasons be assigns that the plan y for that the Colony requires.\n\na year & a Coos errantens with £1000 a M Scat in the - Colonial Sengon & no più ate practice, & perhaper L. Council – which opension the Governo supperts & to this rextent that the Col. Sarson should have not geen vno private practice, wapt £1000, but £800 in cases.\n\n17 whene a urgency The prevent application from D. Dempster for miilase of Solang. for himself brings the whole question issue.\n\nBeering in an The Bt. Stauble H. Labouchere, M. P. Governor For John Booring 5 July, 1856.\n\n1 Inclosure. N108. Received Surgeon for increase from the colonnel Enclosing application Leary.\n\nMind that Si Jelin Bouring is spending the Colonial revenue at a rate to which we are quite unaccustomed - theat secus to be deflating the cconomical abomats of the G. Bonhamn – Real the prosperity of th. King may Casting the Governin facies I conside not be do Heat before Dy have a year a ... we return to the original systern Colonial Sueylon on £600. a £800, a £1000 ought to be quite certain from the war really not be Dept. Heat a Regenintal Sugger can that an Army да spared. If that Dept. she say Cannet conservently be chayed with those Civil there w. be so alternative duties then in such case rexcept to hoppreint a separate & distinit Office fr the seince. But even then I should hope that his tfboo Salay u. be Nept at £boo a rear-with priate practice which extends professional Eppscience.\n\nIt girth n M. Ball and consider the preoprices of putting the Surgeon, ints the & Council.\n\n18tew. 8063. Hay Kay SW. Ball.\n\nIn the main not lee any reason I do question, for applying to 'the War Dept, because they allow us already the use of D. Dempetas services, and do not propose withdraw them.\n\nD. Dempster Asko fre increase to Au of his Colonial pay from £900 to £300; ~ fries a which the Governo no opinion. The amount of his Military pay is not stated in the only be Blue Book, and Could an ascertained, if required, by inquiring of the War Depai Department.\n\nThe Governor + Colonial Secreting an other occasions advocated have the re-appointment of a Curt Colonial Surgeon, but on some what bague ground, And I should feel great doubts whether there are any sufficient reasons for the measure.\n\n278 22 Vene",
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        "content_text": "As my suit against Mr. Anstey for defamation of character, cannot be heard before the 14th instant, I prefer to wait a decision that is sure, before obtruding further upon Her Majesty's Government. Meantime, I have the honor to request that my side of the case be read upon the Correspondence of the recent trial together with this letter be transmitted to the Secretary of State by the outgoing mail.\n\nI have to (signed) W. H. Mitchell, Acting Chief Magistrate.\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nN.115. Legislative. SER 1856\n\nPage 12\n\nG.R. 2176/50\n\nColonial Secretary's Offices, Victoria, Hong Kong, 9th July 1856.\n\nAs directed in your Despatch No. 52 of 22nd May last, I have the honor to forward Copy of Lord Grey's Despatch to Sir John Davis, Disallowing Ordinance No. 10 of 1845.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, Your Most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "Lan may have produced less energetic habits in the desultory fight for the sake of the community to prevail : Wal W Airtey might have done service reforming this stack of things, had he schooled it in a gentlemanly spirit and without personal motives.\n\nRes 199\n\nAs it is a thing not to acknowledge, & I say in the formal Mitretee? 824119 accordings Hm ht\n\nGovernor Sir John Bororing 22nd July, 1856.\n\nThe Rt. Honble H. Labouchere, M.P.\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nNo 119. Received Forwarding Correspondence 02. the Court in Hongkong.. practice of the Supreme the subject of No 30 septa Ento J. Bouring. Ball. 4 Bet. Wyler Laborachen. 10 Sin, 8605 H.\n\n10th Dec.\n\nI have to acknowledge your despatch of the 22 July No 119 forwarding copy of Correspondence arising out of Mr. Ausley's Complaint of The practice of the Supreme Court in Hongkong.\n\nCareful as I have been, and after a perusal of the several opinions submitted to you on the subject, I have to signify to you my concurrence in the view put forward by your Chief Justice.\n\nThanks to...\n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "are \n\nalready in the \n\nof which expics hands of thieves whom they actually Crucerin, I trust I may repent \n\nStrint my. Submission of the Brolian question for Her Majesty's approval and confirmation.\n\n12 \n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nwith the highest respect, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most Obedient, Humble Servant, \n\nJohn Bennet \n\nMr. Meriale \n\nin clear \n\n11 Bet \n\nwe ought to have \n\nremembered that former decisions in a similar form have been already confirmed?\n\nJtm 014 \n\nMh. 15 \n\nGomersal \n\nJour \n\n3244 \n\n920 \n\n277 \n\nBowring \n\nFir Jo seu Bo \n\nNo122 \n\nSINUTE - \n\n1856 QCTR 20 W \n\nFRElliot Jerivale RIBall \n\n'Labouchere 2 \n\n207 \n\nSir \n\n21 beet for \n\nI have to acknowledge \n\nYours Promptly 10192.\n\nthe 28th July \n\nV \n\nreplace the \n\nwhich induced the \n\nreasons for creating a Committee of 1. Hong Kong \n\npass the despatch to \n\n3 \n\nof \n\n1856 in the \n\nin which it \n\nform \n\nsubmitted, for H. M's \n\nconfirmation \n\nI have laid the \n\n\"Craters before the \n\nQueen \n\nAce \n\nand Scave \n\nsecured & received",
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        "title": "CO129-622-3 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 19-1-1948 - 31-12-1948",
        "content_text": "# BRITISH EMBASSY\n\n## MARKING\n\n19th February, 198...\n\n`10.8/0_94 (2/554/48)`\n\nCopied to:\n- Minister (Commercial), No.65\n\n(re: your 59 of 8th January) (without enclosure) Hong Kong, No.46\n\nDear Department,\n\nI enclose herewith copy of a letter from Hutchison, forwarding copy of a communication from the Shanghai office of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, agents of the Ministry of Communications, on the subject of equipment requisitioned or alleged to have been requisitioned by the Government of Hong Kong (or the War Office) in 1941. As you see, Jardine's representative solicits your assistance. This is not the first reference to these engines etc. about which we have already exchanged correspondence (see Le Mott's letter to Coghill of 10th December (`F.16162/376/10`)). In the light of the above and subsequent circumstances, we would offer the following observations:\n\n(a) Two of the locomotives in question are believed to have been Skoda (4-6-2)s allegedly purchased by the Chinese in 1937, (but not completely paid for). They turned up in Kowloon and have now been shipped to Hong Kong for delivery to the Ministry. This should result in a substantial reduction in the total amount of the claim.\n\n(b) We frankly do not understand how it can be argued, as regards this equipment, that the prohibition of export, save by Licence, amounted to a \"blanket requisition\". There is no evidence, so far as we can see, that the Ministry of Communications applied for permission to ship any of the equipment out of Hong Kong or, indeed, had anywhere to ship it to.\n\n(c) I invite reference to Labouchere's letter to Coghill (`F.0.226`) of 24th April last. According to the latest figures in our possession, 25 passenger coaches and 50 wagons belonging to the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway are still in use by the Canton-Hankow Railway, which can produce no better justification, apparently, for retaining them than the statement that they cannot do without them. There have even been indications that efforts have been made to efface the numbers of this rolling stock in order to make identification impossible.\n\n2.\n\nIn view of the importunity of the Chinese Government (through the medium of Jardine, Matheson and Company) for the return of the material referred to in this correspondence on the one hand and their limp adherence to British rolling stock on the other...\n\n## China Department,\n## Foreign Office,\n## LONDON, S.W.1.\n\nPage 207",
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