4217
Executive.
Answered 4 March 1857
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RE
1837,
79
Hong Kong,
Government Offices, Victoria,
22nd December, 1855.
Hongkong,
In continuation of my despatch, Executive, No. 215, of the 13th instant,
I have the honor to report that
on the night of the 14th instant the
Foreign Factories at Canton were
burnt to the ground by the Chinese. The intelligence did not reach this place till the morning of the 15th, some fifteen hours after the event.
The Right Honorable
Henry Labouchere, M.P.,
etc.
etc.
N.B.
J.