To request you with state to Earl Granville that Vice Actuarial Shadwell having only recently taken command of the China station, my Lords would prefer receiving report from home of a later date than the letter previously alluded to.
It appears to my Lords that in consequence of the Governor having been appointed to Hongkong, it would in this case be advisable to delay any changes in the existing regulations, until the Vice Admiral Sir A. Kennedy, the new Governor of Hongkong, are in a position to decide upon their own experience, relative to the expediency of further precaution being taken, especially as there is a difference of opinion between Sir R. Macdowell & Mr. Consul Robertson on the one hand, and Sir R. Hall on the other.