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2.

"The French Officers Commanding

have orders to cease hostilities on

the 15th April, and to raise the "blockades immediately. Please

communicate to the Admiral in

Command."

I lost no time in

communicating this telegram to Admiral Sir W. Dowell, who is ~-

now at Nagasaki.

3.

I have also caused this

telegram to be published in the Government Gazette, for the general information of all concerned in

the

the trade of China, of which Hongkong

is the centre.

4.

The intelligence of the

-suspension of hostilities and blockades has caused general-

etion in this community;-

satisfaction

and it is hoped that no obstacle

will again, as in the case

of

the convention arranged last ___

between LiHung Chang and

year

of the French

Captain Fournier of

Navy,

be raised to the

definitive signature of a

treaty