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Extract from the Singapore Free Press :
dated Thursday 23rd March 1848.
Steam Communication between England & China.
"We may truly affirm that no branch of British Commerce has received better attention from the Home Government, than the China trade. The almost perpetual state of warfare with Holland, or Spain or France which our history records, has sprung mainly from the contentions and rivalries of Commercial interests, whilst the only ...