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FEB 15
1858
THE
Government
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
NEW SERIES.
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, 30TH DECEMBER, 1857.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
VOL. III. No. 130.*
The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that
"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE" will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.
No. 47.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Diplomatic Department.
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has much pleasure in publishing, for general information, the subjoined Copy of a Despatch, dated yesterday, the 29th instant, to His Excellency's Address, from His Excellency Rear- Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.B., &c., &c., announcing the Capture of the City of Canton by the Allied Forces.
By Order,
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th December, 1857.
No. 21.
GEO. S. MORRISON.
HEAD QUARTERS, CANTON, 29th December, 1857.
SIR,I have the honour to report to Your Excellency, that the City of Canton was assaulted and taken by Escalade this morning by the Naval and Military Forces of the Allied Powers, with very trifling loss as to the numbers, but most serious in the loss of Captain WILLIAM T. BATE, of Her Majesty's Ship Acteon, who was killed by a Ginjall Ball whilst reconnoitering a suitable position for our scaling ladders.
We are fully occupied in securing our position.--I have, &c.,
(Signed,)
M. SEYMOUR, Rear Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.
H. E. Sir JOHN BOWRING, LL.D.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
True Copy,
H. F. HANCE.
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