Connected to Getties, I have settled in concert with the Earl of Clarendon that you should receive your directions with the whole of their purport from the present despatches. I have therefore to instruct you as follows: –
First, No attempt is to be made to enforce the Chinese Passengers Act against a foreign ship either on the High Seas or anywhere out of British Jurisdiction. Neither is any such attempt to be made in respect to Vessels supposed to be not strictly entitled to any national Flag.
Secondly, in regards voyages in British Ships from China to the Philippine Islands, d'apee in the opinions expressed in the reports of the Emigration Commission dated the 26th of November and...