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Steamer "Victoria": and, in reply,

beg to report for Your Lordship's

information that, on receipt of your

I

telegraphic message of the 9th December,

I cared advertize

divertizements

グ

of

The

are now

propwed sale to be issued and negotiations on the subject are spending between this Government and

that of China, - the issue of which, when earcluded; I shall duly report to Your Lordship

2.

I world deem it unnecessary further to enlarge upon the subject

of this

ommunication, were it not

that same

passages which

Lordship's despatch,- demand my

attention.

3.

cd

regards the alleged

of

crime in the Colony siive

mcrease

sive the

departure of Sir Richard Mac Donnell), I consider it desirable that Your Lordship should be placed in -possession of facts, vouched by documentary proof, which shew that crime has little varied and explain the cause of the temporary

Lavo lo

mcrease

of Police and completely remove the

im

pression which Sir I Richard Mac Donnell's communication

which occur in

is

4.

the letter of Sir Richard Mae Donnell-

copy of which accompanied Your w

calculated to

conver

I therefore enclosed for Your

Lordship's information

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