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Foreign Affairs, expressing the disappointment of the Chamber at so few of the grievances of the Mercantile body being redressed by the Supplementary Conventions lately entered into by Sir Rutherford Alcock with the Chinese Government, and also pointing out certain provisions in that Convention which the Chamber regards as specially injurious to this Colony.
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I am not able to furnish Your Lordship with any authentic copy of the Convention alluded to, as I received none from Sir Rutherford Alcock, but I enclose for reference a translation I published in the "China Mail" here, supplemented by corrections, as Enclosure No. 4.
3.
This may suffice for present purposes. I also enclose a reprint from the "Daily Press" of certain proceedings preliminary to an interview between a Deputation from this Community and Sir Rutherford Alcock, and report of the conversation, which passed at that interview. As the latter took place at Government House, where Sir Rutherford Alcock was on a visit and I was present to introduce the Deputation, I can vouch for the general accuracy of the report.
Enclosure No. 3.
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The Memorial of the Chamber appears to me valuable principally as giving a clear résumé of Mercantile opinion here as to the general Policy most...