Victoria,
Houstons,
The Earl Grey.
Governor Bonham.. 26th February, 1849.
Received
3 Inclosures.
No22.
and reporting thereon.
House of Commons,
If Hongkong to the
Mercantile Community Petition from the-
Enclosing copy of
W
Governor Bonham
10
I. Merivale.
M. Hawes to
Earl Grey - 11
which
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July 1849
undisclosed 65 you have been purported & sent
the
many of
The
questions
2.A
raised by that Petition are of considerable importance and have been discussed at length by government in the
despatch, you desire to be informed for
may
your own guidance of my
views upon in respect of them.
Sir,
No 126.
205
Colonial Office. 11. July 1849.
I have to acknowledge
for
Dispatch. 2. 22, of February 26th last;
the copy of
Enclosing a Petition to the House
of Commons from a number of in-
habitants of the Colony of Hong
Kong.
4. With regard to so much
of that Petition
as relates to the
improvement of our Commercial
regulations with China, I have, at
present, no observations to make