EXTRAORDINARY,
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The Proclamation of H. E. is a document | tion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on every way well intended we know, but we doubt Tuesday but none can be received after 12 moon on the expediency of its publication. If it is intended Wednesday. to be nimed at the Opium Trade (so long as the tinuc) it will be wholly unheeded. Governmental Monopoly of the Drug shall con-
sion (as heretofore) of foreign grain, will cease to wonder at the Chinese stigmatising as barbarians, the nations whose policy is so ciency wholly dissimilar and unpaternal. The Merchant will be elate at the prospect of a wide field of commercial enterprise; whilst the Philantrophist will rejoice at the removal of restrictions on the brotherhood of nations.
If it be intended as a solemn warning and injune. tion against smuggling in the legal trade, we then would say (so long as the Tariff, H. E. has nego
All extra Copies of our paper ordered at the Office, and not paid Cash, are charged in accounts one Rupee,
SUFFERER-We cannot insert his letter as we entir. is not a nuisanco but a benefit to every resident of ely disagree with him. The regulation regarding bonta the Island and surely 9 P. M., is late enough even in
It must not be disguised that the Chcented is observed by the Chinese) it is wholly this climate" for dinner going gentlemen to proceed
nese Tariff will be cavilledat, from the ab- sence of any mention of an article, OPIUM which constitutes in value nearly one half
unnecessary.
Now, it is not the interest of the Merchants to muggle, the process would be far more costly than paying the very moderate duties H. E. has stipula ted shall henceforth be levied on the British trade.
be done into Chinese
FIAT JUSTITIA is mistaken in his allegation of who from the shore to their ships or vice versa. wrote the letter from Koolangsoo on the theatricals of the place, and we differ with him in regard to our right to insert such a Communication, as Editor we
of the British trade with Ch trite remark But we presume the Proclamation is intended to have as good a right to comment upon the theatre and
sion may perhaps provoke
of its resemblance to performing the tragedy of Hamlet and leaving out the part of the The GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION calls for no Prince.
particular
ticular remark, except that it would appear by it, very unlikley that any of the five Ports but Can. Again, the non introduction of the Bon-ton will be open before three months from this ding System at five Iorts will be deemed date. The inconvenience, if not impracticability of objectionable, it would appear by the carrying out out some of the REGULATIONS will be “REGULATIONS” that British Goods if found out, we think in practice but we shall revert unsaleable at Canton and re-exported to
to this subject on another opportunity. Shanghai would after paying the Import du- ty at Canton be still liable to pay an, Export duty, and yet there would be no exemption from paying t
dues over again at Shanghai. If this so, it is obviously detrimental to that free oirculation of com- inodities, so much to be desired. It may often happen that Supplies are redundant in one port and very scanty in another.
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Our readers are aware that the HE. I. G. Steamer" Akhbar" is selected to convey to Suez the Chinese Ratification of the TREATY OF NAN- KINO and its important concomitant, the New Tariff which accords and rates on the most favourable terms the principal articles British of Commerce,
The Commander of the Akhbar is that dis tinguished and meritorions Officer Commodore Pepper of the Indian Navy, as he is the bearer of documents so fraught with interest to our Coun try, and in testimony of such an suspicions occur. rence we hope it will be commemorated mark of honorable distinction to the Gallant Com- modore from the Court of Directors, who are ever ready to advance the interests of their well tried and faithful Servants:
We have heard from several quarters of the very expressed his sense of the kindness and good feeling evinced tow
However admirable may be the princi ple of the new Tariff, we must ourselves ad- mit, that the arrangement and details might have been considerably improved(‡). The satisfaction we feel at e tion of a Tariff so eminently commendable high terms the Imperial Commissioner KEYING in principle, so greatly beneficial to British interests, and so highly honourable to its able negotiator, quite indisposes us to do a Guest and Pass other than merely allude to defects of detail and then only in the confident hope, that it may not yet be too late to remove all that is obnoxious to just criticisin.
With an utter want of faith in the sin- cerity of the Court of Pekin, for reasons we need not now re-iterate, we have yet every confidence in the maintenance of existing friendly relations, so long as H. E. remains in China.
#magnificence of the
made an impression on
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Commisioner which, tions of the worthy efface unpleasant reco KEYING to endeavour to sions which now dominate.
on board the " Akhbar
comfort and
have
the Emperor, but with the majority of of Peking in respect of the outward-
COMMERCIAL.
Court
We have late letters from Canton which report Our readers are fully aware that H. E. that business had resumed under the new System, has in so many instances given unequivocal although prices had not been much affected, the evidence of his eager desire to cultivate operation of the change having been anticipated.
A Correspondent avers, that un! the most amicable feelings, that he e has by given to Foreigners to erect his courageous honesty and conciliatory (and it would seem ver wisdom, constrained,as it were, the Chinese the present wystem Authorities to confide in his right minded Hong policy and integrity of purpose.
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All must acknowledge that the deserveded by reputation of H. E. as a diplomatist must reg be vastly enhanced by the negotiation of On this Treaty. It is certain, we think, that the value of H. E. 's services to his country will be so far appreciated by the Home Go- vernment that the same Honours at leas which were accorded to the conqueror of Ghuznee, will be bestowed on the negotiator 26 of the Treaty of Nanking. For does not,
"One self approving hour, whole years outweight "Of stupid starers, and of loud huzza" }
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first Page wh trading with Chin
under the new arrange
as in Type before
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actors at Koolingsoo, as the Times or any other Loo. dun paper has to criticise Drury Lane and its perfor. mers. A public mans public character, is public pro- perty and any one who appears on the boards" has no right to complain if the critic freely anatomizes his performance.
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