CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 463

Dame Norna

Dorethampton.

1453 tong trong

Toong Kong 30 September 1857

C.0.

DEC.18 1857

Ed

Con

fromnis

Faction Guard

House, Hongkong.

Col: Secretory-

28ht hept: 1857.

M. Meriale.

This is M. Mene is report for which he has beer, unofficially packed.

Would you send a copy of it to the and ask them whether the

? I gather that. M. Mereris proposed in it would be satisfactory.

them

favorable to the surrende, to the Military authorities of the lot of

round theey

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Keey

they want,

but that he suggets that

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the purchase

on which the

Contemplatio Market

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My Lord,

A letter addressed to. Your Lordship. upon the affairs. of this Colony, was published in the Straits Guardian & a Singapore. newspaper) of 22th August. The authorship of this letter, having, upon utterly false grounds, been attributed to me, I take the liberty. of Communicating to Your Lordship, the treatment I have been subjected. to in consequenat, from the hands of the Hong Kong Government- the distance lends enchantment to the view" so did the appearance of the letter alluded to, cause more excitement tperturbation in Hong Hong than all the rhetoric and eloquench that has ever before agitated its Cynical torpidity. The locality whence the attack emanated Stampe, the author as an able tactician. It was a flank movement that I am induced to imitats, so that your Lordship may see this letter

in print before the Original reaches you.

The China mail newspaper, published in this Colony, belongs to a.... pinter who executed all the Government work in a manner creditable. b himself and satisfactory to his employers. The Governor is thus: enabled to exercise considerable control over this paper in

in fact Gra Bronharn actually did bake the printing from the Editor of the tail, rot from any complaint regarding bad work or want of punctuality, but simply, because the then Editor would not place the Columns of his paper- at #Es disposal._ Ber-present Governor, and the individual now editing the mail, arrangs matters much more amicably - The printing brought back, and the paper has latterly become the obsequious organ

of For fow Bowring - On the appearancs of the letter addressed to Your Lordship in the Singapore paper, the foliowing article graced the columns of the mail, which I have good grounds for supposing. that Sir John

saw in Manuscript.