Upon the 10th of July, the day before that fixed for the departure of the mail steamer from Hong Kong for England, the Acting Port Master General called upon me early at Government House and informed me that the Mercantile Community were anxious that the departure of the Steamer should be delayed for twenty-four hours, so as to admit of the transhipment of the Cargoes of two steamers from the north which had, in consequence of bad weather, only arrived that morning, and the cargoes of which could not, without such delay, be forwarded by that opportunity.
He showed me at the same time a Memorial to that effect which had been signed by the trading Merchants, and addressed, I understood, to the Agent of the Peninsular & Oriental Company, from whom he had received it.
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