which has been received from the Board of
Treasury indicating
the course which
their Lordships wish in future to
be pursued in
connection with
these payments.
I have
Copy
Foreign Office
404
April 25. 1859
I have laid before the Earl of
Malmesbury your
letter of the 10th Inst.
inclosing copies of Reports from the Commissioner of Audit relative to the mode of paying
the Consular Establishment in China.
I am to state to you in reply
that the proposal of the Commissioners that the funds provided from the Treasury Chest at Hongkong should be issued to the Colonial Treasurer, had already
suggested itself to Lord Malmesbury
as a desirable arrangement, but
that His Lordship presuming
Sir Stafford Northcote Bent...