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Hongkong (M. Pejardin ) to telegraph to Captain de Beaumont, the Officer Commanding the French
squadron
off Panhoi, to ask if the blockade of that fort would continue to be enforced, now that the preliminaries of peace had been signed. With his usual courtesy, M. Dejardin consented; and he received a reply
to the
effect that Neutral vessels will be
admitted to Pakhoi after.
proving that they
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are not carrying
contraband of war. This
of war. This announcement has been received with great-
satisfaction
satisfaction by the mercantile community supposed that a similar course
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will be
followed with regard to the other Ports blockaded by the French, ___ pending the signing of a definitive treaty of peace.
concluded
It will be seen that I }
my
statement in the
Colonial Legislature with the -- -following words -
"After the persevering efforts " which I have made during the
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two
years of my administration " here, to procure the strengthening
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