to Mr. Smith's having informed Pang York that Her Majesty's Government approved direct Communication (when necessary) between the Kowloon and Hong Kong Authorities. Consul Robertson, was well aware that the good old relations between the two places—by which I do not mean such as he points to in some Newspaper Extracts, but the old neighbourly interchange of good offices—no longer subsisted. He had himself been instructed, to revive them, and Her Majesty's Minister was about to visit Canton, where it was intended that he should in the most public way make the same announcement.
Therefore in stating the wish of Her Majesty's Government to Pang York, who had apparently been left in ignorance of it, Mr. Smith was only disclosing what it was the intention of Government to make generally known and what might, without impropriety, have been published. However confidential may have been the Correspondence which led to such result.
Your Lordship will however observe, that Mr. Robertson gratuitously adds "in all probability," it (i.e., a copy of that correspondence)...