For
On this occasion the packet (glumbian should have left Hongkong with
the homeward mails at 2pen. on the 27th August last, but it appears that, owing to the packet having arrived at Hongkong from Manghai py hours late, the merchants of Hongkong sent a memorial to the Acting Govermes soliciting a detention for 24 hours,
which be
a request with
Complied by
Adering the
in charge naval agent
of mails Imails
detain the packet for that
Period.
Although the packet from Shanghai
was
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at
some hours late in arriving
Hongkong, there was still an interval of about 44 hours between the time of its arrival and the regular time for its departure for Point de falle; and the detention therefore of the fleambien for a further period of 24 hours
appears to His Conship thave been altogether
unwarranted.
The public inconveniens which the practice of detaining
-
the
mail. packets abroad - tending as it does to derange entire mail-service - has already been dwelt on in
former letters from this office,
And