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Extract from the Singapore Free Press, Notes Thursday 23rd March 1843.
Steam Communication between England & China.
"We may timely affirm that no branch of British Commerce has received more attention from the Home Government, than the China trade. The almost perpetual state of warfare with Holland, Spain or France which our history records, has sprung mainly from the contentions and rivalries, of commercial enterprise, while the...