Opium
In the mean while the English
dealers, with
long
established.
the
to
habits and a temper opposed to legislativ control, evade the regulations of Post Office by causing their vessels quit." "Hongtong without clearing out for any specific. Port which prevents the shipment of mails and thus depriving the Postmaster General of a large sum annually ._ Many of them. obtain appointments as Consuls for Foreign States, and by employing flags of there States (Danish, Swedish,
and others)
vessels under the
are enabled to act with
comparative independence of British Control__ I have drawn the attention of the Earl of Aberdeen to the serious evils of this system in my despatches Nr. 113 and 135 of this
5 of this year,
to which. I beg to refer Your Lordship..
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I had
inclination to
every
evasions of
to apply
the
means
of
remedy to the existing
Post Office Regulations by
Local knæetment; but on handing to
the Attorney General the enclosed Report 2 from Mr. Shelley, N2, and requesting
to state his
opinion
hion
as to the most advisable course under the circumstances. p. I received Enclosure N°3 in reply.
to the professional-
Acending to the
may
either be
advice of that Officer., I beg to forward- all the circumstances for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government; with a hope that some course- adopted at home, or prescribed to the folonial Government, calculated to secure the accommodation of the publie, as to their correspondence - and the claims of the Post-Office- Department in respect to the Revenue.
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