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Steamer "Victoria": and, in reply,
beg to report for Your Lordship's
information that, on receipt of your
I
telegraphic message of the 9th December,
I cared advertize
divertizements
グ
of
The
are now
propwed sale to be issued and negotiations on the subject are spending between this Government and
that of China, - the issue of which, when earcluded; I shall duly report to Your Lordship
2.
I world deem it unnecessary further to enlarge upon the subject
of this
ommunication, were it not
that same
passages which
Lordship's despatch,- demand my
attention.
3.
cd
regards the alleged
of
crime in the Colony siive
mcrease
sive the
departure of Sir Richard Mac Donnell), I consider it desirable that Your Lordship should be placed in -possession of facts, vouched by documentary proof, which shew that crime has little varied and explain the cause of the temporary
Lavo lo
mcrease
of Police and completely remove the
im
pression which Sir I Richard Mac Donnell's communication
which occur in
is
4.
the letter of Sir Richard Mae Donnell-
copy of which accompanied Your w
calculated to
conver
I therefore enclosed for Your
Lordship's information
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