by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
"Vessels, together with two Memoranda from which it
would seem that, independently
of the
amount the Company
receives from Passengers, it was
been in
During
the
the annual receipts
Last 3 years
years I
somewhere about £50,000 for
the freight of Oil and
nature alone,
may
Lord.
alone, a fact of which it is desirable
for the Commissioners of the
Admiralty to be aware,
when
the recent Agreement between Her Majesty's Government and
the Peninsular and
Oriental
Steam Navigation Company terminates, which
I understand
No 2.
A 3.
13
will be the case in 1852.
The facts set forth in
These Documents
seemed
will I hope be
Satisfactory proof that
the Colony of Hongkong and the advantages it offers to the Mercantile Community in China, are not unimportant as they have been represented to be, for
Vessels. Tons.
It is useless to say that
In 1848—700 — 228,848 2485 Vessels of
1849—902 —243,465.
1
1850—883 —299,009
aggregate Tonnage of
2485 821,292 821,292, would
have
frequented the port,
during the last three years unless there had been some adequate inducement._
I have the honor to be, with the highest respect,