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 whether Mr. Caldwell's dreaded testimony can carry the case much further.

It is certain that he was so, to at least this extent: that he acted like the guiltiest, and obstructed the course of criminal justice, and occasioned much scandal to the British name.

I cannot think that, having, as he must have, the humiliating sense of these heavy imputations, and of having done nothing to remove them,—his presence in the Executive Council can be of the least value to it; or tend, in any way, to give efficiency to that body, for the repression or detection of the corruptions of the Hong Kong government.

I pass on to the next head.

Registrar-Generalship of Chinese, formerly an inferior office in the Superintendency of Police, was made, in 1846, a department of co-ordinate power; and the functions of Justice of the Peace and Protector of Chinese were annexed to it.

During the Bridges' administration, in 1857, it was raised, by ordinance, into a distinct department, and one of superior emolument to that of the Superintendency itself; and the visitatorial, and other arbitrary powers