CO129-018 - Others - 1846 — Page 206

House o Commo Admiralty Agent

Board of Tra

Boa

Foreign

Office

Hom

office

Ordnan

Treas

and his Lordship therefore, deseres you will at once discontine this practice, you will explain for his Lordships anformation, why you did, not rescont this ancimistance immediately upon the receipt of the order frour

the

Governor, instead of introducing to important a matter incidentally in a report upon a separate subject.

Copy

Sir

/ Sigued, #LMaberly

Drowing Sheet

167 June

fr lave blut.

Shave laid before the. Sesty.

Gladstone your.

letter of the 9th instant, Enclosing a copy

a copy of the Sustructions addressed by the Postmaster General to the Postmaster at Hong Kong to discontuine the practice, which had been adopted in conseque

of an order of the Governor, of delivering the correspondence pour lugland reaching Houg, Rong in the Marseilles portion of the smail before that despatched via Southampton .

to

Mr. Gladstone durists, me

Request that y

would acquach

the Postmaster Gencial, that he has no

tion on the subject pone Fir John

formation on

Dr Joh. HL Maberly

Davis,

a souce ground,

when

-

that he presumes, that of the Governed.

any such order, it was on some appeared to burself weighty and sufficient; and that the order may perhaps be reiterated and insisted upon, notwithstanding the contrary directions of the Postmaster General; dan to add, that in the absence of any Report

M from the Governor, it is impossible for tr Gladstone to forme any decided opinion as to - what course ou

ought to be tation; and that this and all, suvilay, in com

stay in conveniences wonlo

be

and

obviated if the Officer of the Postmaster General would appried the Governon of his Exists, intention, as often as such an intention scents, to address any

representation to the footnantte

& Governors de Jeneral against any of the

and would acquaint the Governor, with the purport of such representation, because in that case the Governor's defence. the complaint could peach this Buntry siimultaneously; the prequent recolect of this pale in many different Colonies is a source of incons venience and delay to the Public Service, which it prests not with the Secretary of State, butesith the Postmaster General to oborate.

( Signed far Stephen