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busfit Chinese, as well as Colonial interest.
Sir Kruber ford Monche Paulin appear to have a decade of the change benefitting the River Steamers that ply between this and Canton which is an extraordinary reason against the measure proposed; and it is also singular to observe that this Excellency hardly consults his design to force trade, at the expense of their Clay site unnatural channels.
We are of opinion that steps should be taken to carry out the views expressed by Mr Corsul Robertson and which were advocated in some of the Memorials on the Revision of the Treaty. We trust the question will be approached in a spirit of fairness, and with no other object, than that of gaining freedom to trade to flow in the channels natural to it; whilst at the same time, such safeguards as may appear from time to time to be necessary to protect the Chinese revenue from fraud during the process of transhipment.
A matter of much greater importance than even the foregoing subject calls for a few words from us, not only from the prominence given to it in the Colonial Secretary's despatch, but from our personal knowledge of the injurious effect which the cordon of cruisers round this Island has on