W. P. Mercer, Lof.
MW. Sec. Labouchere.
W. Ball 24
W. Merivale 23
Ansund 27 April 57-
CA
outl
8900
2542. Hongkong April 14 44
Nr 18 28th Jan. 1867.
MJahanben directions from Cory for my at once
Entered 148 24 April 1857.
am directed supplying for from Sir John Bowring,
transmit to you copy of a despatch which he has sent to Sir George Labouchere
A Sum Consequences for the necessary
The Colony of Hongkong has been and will be put to the expences to which
Measures Mr Msg: Lee 2541, ans 2545
7
This seems to me a most loose Application for £60,000 at the British Treasury; & Comment has been hastily in anticipating the result of our present Contest. Supposing that eventually Lord Elgin's mission terminates with recovering from the Chinese repayment
grant
without insisting
defenses indistinctly.
shadowed
$. Kong such as, in this despatch, this will be nothing Contribution from their Causetry to the Colony. It
the
is most probable $. Kong will suffer from War; but the Key Community will, I think, require more details then fair despatch supplies, before they vote the money asked for. WB 20/3.
This is indeed an unhand Application. feinect in principle
yet as het.
Blackwood justly remarks there
Fright to
corrotto comecebytes of wif
I Muys negos H
No H
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