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significance Bowen saw in this rise of Chinese national feeling will be discussed below.

* Hu Ch'uan-ch'ao, chuan 2:16b. The agent (t'an-yüan A) was responsible for intelligence reports.

50 Carl Smith, "The Emergence of a Chinese Elite", JHKBRAS, 11 (1971) 74-115. Ho Amei is dealt with in greater detail in an untitled series Smith wrote for the South China Morning Post each Wednesday between January 1978-May 1979.

* Several telegrams sent by Ho Amei to the Canton military headquarters are found in Hu Ch'uan-ch'ao, chüan 2:14b, 21b; 3:7a.

1884.

"Daily Press, 23rd September, 1884. China Mail, 22nd September,

" Memorandum by the Colonial Secretary, enclosed in Bowen to Derby, 5th December, 1884, Despatch No. 399: CO129/218.

** Chang Chih-tung to Tsungli Yamen, 9th October, 1884, Telegram: Chang Chih-tung, chüan 73:7a to 7b.

* A special thank-you note was in fact forwarded to Marsh from the French ambassador for his protection of the French mail steamer, enclosed in F.O. to C.O., 8th December, 1884: CO129/219.

65 Minute by Robert Herbert to newspaper clipping from the Standard, 16th October, 1884: CO129/218.

** F.O. to C.O., 21st November, 1884: CO129/219.

* Daily Press, 4th October, 1884.

** Ibid.

40 Marsh to Derby, 6th October, 1884, Despatch No. 342: CO129/217.

70 Marsh to Derby, 3rd October, 1883, Despatch No. 250: CO129/212; Bowen to Derby, 8th March, 1884, Despatch No. 71: CO129/215; Bowen to Derby, 18th March, 1884, Despatch No. 82: ibid. Hu Ch'uan-ch'ao, chüan 7:34b-36.

71 Marsh to Derby, 6th October, 1884, Despatch No. 340: CO129/217.

" Chang Chih-tung to Tsungli Yamen, 9th October, 1884, Telegram: Chang Chih-tung, chüan 73:7a-b. Chang here referred to the i-yüan Hua-jen BRA (Hospital Chinese) but from his other correspondences, we know this referred to the Tung Wah Committee.

* Bowen to Derby, 5th December, 1884, Despatch No. 399: CO129/218.

** Daily Press, 7th October, 1884.

** Minutes of the Legislative Council Meeting of 9th October, 1884, reported in Daily Press, 10th October, 1884.

** Shu-pao II. 14th October, 1884.

"China Mail, 10th October, 1884, Daily Press, 11th October, 1884, Shu Pao II, 14th October, 1884.

** Bowen to Derby, 17th November, 1884, Despatch No. 381: CO129/218.

* G.B. Endacott, The People and Government of Hong Kong. Lin Yu-lan Hsiang-kang shih-hua (History of Hong Kong) (Hong Kong, 1980 revised edition), pp. 92-93.

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