tany
been committed in the Clown without effectual discovery of the perpetrators 72 The absence of lack of respectability
Chinese and property and even of married men of the
classes who
humbler classes
who
are more afraid of the
predatory and ill habits of the population than Europeans
are and who would also be
subject
In the occasional influence of the secret societies which exist in Hongkong for the mutual protection of thieves and villains
small European Trade in
All The very
Hongkong and which under present
circumstances is not likely to be increased
open
%
is a mere
So long as there are five Consular ports
to our Merchants, it is not likely that harbour of refuge Hongkong, which is at the most distant extremity of the Chinese Empire, will ever become a broadening Emporium 5th That even if the Chinese Government were to legalize the introduction of opium
into
China, at a low fixed duty (but which appears very improbable) I think the opium traders would warehouse
there
ble, there is no reason
to
the drug here, subject to consular
import duty in
preference to sending their opium direct to the different ports at this moment the two leading opium traders here
have two large ships moored the whole year round in the harbour, which are used as
receiving Ships" and which are (and more)
cheaper
year
Keeping
safe
and convenient, than warehouse on shore,
6th There
are many
Chinese trading Junks here,
be accounted for
from the Coast This may be on several grounds The junks from the
northward prefer going to Canton, because
there
is
a custom house here, to
hence when
a clearance and protection, were to give them they proceed to the Port of delivery, the
charges imposed on them if they went
are
greater than
to Canton, and paid