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detained the mail frackets beyond the appointed day of departure, This Ladship
descres
me to call
attention
to the
statement contained in the letter ofthe
Postmaster General of Hangkong dated the
10th
with
kely, to the effect that the departure of the "Emen" had been postponed watt the concurrence of the Governor.
Lord Stanley of Alderley begs that
the Duke of Newcastte will have the getences to inform the Iwered of Hang King
that
any delay in the sailing of the mail
packets on the proper day is highly objectionable and calculated to
give rise to serious public inconvenience, but that when,
for en geat reasas, This Excellency may consider
it
Recessary
Should
give
to detain the packet, he
a positive order to that
effect to the haval agent in charge of mails, whose duty it is not to live the
packet to be detained except under hech
written order.
I am,
Tis,
Your most obedient Servant. _
to senous fur
cacemeine,
16.g.hfthr
7 Fl gly
effect