Hoxoxoxo must certainly be a pleasant place to live out of—a fact which, however previously doubted, must now, since the issue of the last blue book on the Colony, be received as unquestionable. We had previously supposed that factions in Hongkong had been mainly divided into two sections: supporters of the Goveroment circle, and its opponents; bat oar last authority shows that there are nearly as many as there are officials in the little island. Never was such a round of snubbing probably administered, and seldom have the enubbers received so little for- their pains. The volume opens with a gentle snub administered by the Governor, in his
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