16
the Narrative of an Eventful Six Months in China (London, 1875).
20 A. Cunynghame, The Opium War, being Recollections of Service in China (London, 1844).
21 A. Murray, Doings in China: being the Personal Narrative of an Officer Engaged in the late Chinese Expedition (London, 1843).
27
The United Service Journal, 1841, part 2 (July 1841), p. 307.
23 C. Smith, Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1985), p. ix.
24 Chinese Repository, 10 February 1841, p. 119.
25 Ibid., 11 November 1842, p. 579.
26
The Canton Press of Saturday, 30 January 1841.
27 Ibid., 13 February 1841.
28
The Canton Register of 16 February 1841.
*
For general information on the Sassoons, see C. Roth, The Sassoon Dynasty (London, 1941) and S. Jackson, The Sassoons (London, 1968).
30
K. N. Vaid, The Overseas Indian Community in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 1972), p. 15.
31 For further information, see the centenary volume by [J. Steuart], Jardine Matheson and Co., 1832-1932 (Hong Kong, 1934) and M. Keswick ed., The Thistle and the Jade: a Celebration of 150 years of Jardine, Matheson and Co. (London, 1982).
32 JMA, C5/6, 65.
31
See J. Y. Wong, 'The Cession of Hong Kong: a Chapter of Imperial History'. The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 11 (1976), 52-3 and ibid., Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1839-1860 (Oxford, 1985), p. 51.
H. B. Morse, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire 1 (London, 1910), p. 624.
35 Wong, Anglo-Chinese relations, p. 52.
J6 JMA, C5/6, 51.
37
See the report by the missionaries in The Canton Press of 27 February 1841, reprinted from one in the Canton Register of 18 February.
38 C. Smith, Chinese Christians, op. cit. p. 173.
39
40
Vaid, The Overseas Indian Community, op. cit. p. 22.
For further information on the Madras Native Infantry, see J. B. R. Nicholas, 'Madras Native Infantry, c. 1845', Tradition, 42 and 43.
42
See The Canton Press of 16 January 1841.
See B. Mollo, The Indian Army (Poole, 1981), pp. 64-5. For further information on the Bengal Native Infantry, see F. G. Cardew, A Sketch of the Services of the Bengal Native Infantry to the year 1895 (Calcutta, 1903) and A. Bharat, The Bengal Native Infantry, 1796-1852 (Calcutta, 1962).
43 P. Fay, The Opium War, 1840-2 (Chapel Hill, 1975), p. 208.
44
Vaid, The Overseas Indian Community, op. cit. p. 22.
45 Mollo, The Indian Army, op. cit. p. 50.
46
India Office Library and Records, London, China Medal 1842 and Bengal Army Lists.