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healthy while the troops suffered so extensively. Houghtong is certainly healthier than many parts of India, and under every circumstance, it has been free from the visitations of Cholera.
Education.
I have caused three Chinese Schools to be selected by a Committee, of which the Colonial Chaplain was a member, as the recipients of an allowance of ten dollars a month each from the 1st January according to your Lordship's authority conveyed in despatch 109 of August 10th. One of these will be at Victoria, and the others at the outstations of Aberdeen and Stanley.
The Colonial Chaplain has used praiseworthy exertions towards the education of Children belonging to the lower grades of the European population. He has unfortunately not met with a great deal of support from the resident Europeans, and I have the honor to enclose a representation from him upon this subject in my Despatch 12/26 of December 26th.
The European Shipping, arrived at Victoria during the year 1847, has been returned by the Harbour Master at 694 vessels and 229,465 Tons, a great increase on former years.
The Chinese junks have also increased considerably, having amounted to 50,058 Tons, and this in spite of the interpolation in Article 13 of the Chinese Copy of the Supplementary Treaty. The Imports in Chinese vessels consist principally of Sugar, Alum, Sulphur, Rice, Nut-oil, and Salt, and in 1847 reached the amount of £498,239, while the Exports appear to have been principally Cotton and Long cloths, and to have amounted to £226,130. Goods have been sold by auction to the aggregate amount of £33,354, of which £23,154 were exempt from duty.