the French Messageries Maritimes,
trust
I beg that we may
be able to
give a favorable reply to this request
* I venture to recommend the
question to E's prompt consideration
(d) E. Malet
"From July next the North
German Lloyd at Bremen intends
to establish
a line
of steamers to
run between Germany, China &
Australia.
The steamers will
carry
the official mail, for which they will receive a certain subsidy, from the Imperial German Govt. Besides the steamers
are
bound to transport, free of cost, criminals from abroad to Germany. As, according to British Law, such criminals, when the steamer touches at a British Colonial Port,
...
might demand a hearing before a British Judge, thus delaying the course of law & preventing the prompt delivery of the mail, the Supt. Govt. lays great stress on these mail steamers being looked
into in some such manner
This demand does not appear
to be an unusual
one,
for in
more than
modern Treaties of Commerce such privileges have once been accorded to subsidized
mail-steamers.
The British Govt., for instance, has done so in the Postal Treaty concluded with France on
Sep. 24/56.
Moreover, by special arrangement, the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes touching at Hong Kong, have been granted similar privileges
The Imperial Govt., not appealing to the provision expressed in Clause 1 of the treaty concluded bet. H.M. Britain
& Prussia
On Aug. 16/65, hopes...