Colonies. Earl Grey. Iris Ford ship was pleased to make the following gracious acknowledgement
Despatch dated London yet in a March 1851.
ow I have to request that ut that i would acquaint you gentlem. his arr that I have read • paper, with great interest, and am much a to brin obliged t "for the valuable information " it contains "
Two Months later, His Lordship was pleased to confirin me in the appointment in which I was then officiating. and that by the very . return Mail which announced to the Colonial office, the resignation of my predecessor.
Upon the wider subject of Bril the a prospects in itish position and China at large, His Excellency.
355 pleased, through the Colonial a Department, to lay before the Foreign and the Board of Trade, a further office paper of mine, which I believe, had the a favorable goods fortune to secure a Consideration.
Humbly presenting all these points, to the present Governor, this Excellency Sir John Bowring, requesting arrd leaseds that he will be pleased to transmit o by the out. ·Popy of this Despatch 5-going Mail, to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State=
I have, Fr (Signed) W. H. Mitchell Acting Chief. Magistrate True Copy, Colonial Secretary