laid before the Marquis of Salisbury copies of correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject as noted in the margin, and to state that his Lordship would propose that the matter should remain in abeyance pending the receipt of the further despatch which is presumably already on its way from the Colony.
2. I am to explain that the despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong of 12th May 1869 mentioned in Sir G. Des Voeux's telegram of 11th instant, was sent to the Foreign Office in the letter from this Department of 22nd July 1869, and that Sir G. Bowen's despatch of 21st April 1883 referred to in the enclosed despatch from Lord Knutsford of 15th...