Secretary To the Admiralty. Sir,
With reference to your letters of the 22nd August and 18th October last, and to the letter from this Department of the 26th August, I am directed by Lord Cardwell to transmit to you a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong respecting the proposed extension of the Praya in front of the Naval Reserves in the Colony.
and to request that you lay this despatch before the