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Blue-Book will shew an increase in the
shipping.
arrived at Hougtong of $87
reccels as contrasted with 334 in the
former year; and 130,199 Tous in. tieu-
of 117.210 Trus in 1845.
A branch of the Oriental. Bank
is established here on a
very extensive-
; scale. It iscues notes of from 5 to 100-
Follars, and these
are
found- such an
the
creeedingly convenient. substitute for former system of paying sums by weight,
that the Chinese themselves readi
readily
receive and exchange them. Thould- this Bank be chartered, it is likely to prove of great benefit to the grueral-
trade with. China..
I have received from the Deputy Commissary General - a very favourable
of the circulation of the
recount
British Coin sent out by the. Treasury- He tells me it has proved extremely
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useful for small payments, and that- even the Chinese have brought. Dollars to him to be exchanged. fr. Sterling - He-
is going to apply for
£10000.
of
more to the amount.
To judge by the augmented
number of respectable Chinese shops, the native trade and inderstry of this place
are on the increase
For
many of the products of Chinese manufacture_ it-
is no.
as
they here.-
longer necessary to send to Canton, can be procured equally well-
A check has been given to piracy in this neighbourhood by the capture_ and conviction before the Admiralty fourt of come Pirates, and by the delivery (on demand recording to Treaty) of others to the Chinese Government . One pirate
was condemned- and executed here in
January last, and three
more sentenced