Supplementary Convention
with China
Tientsin, 24th October, 1869.
REVISION OF THE TREATY OF TIENTSIN.
REPORT
OF A
So 24/7/70
MEETING OF THE HONGKONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
OF A
PUBLIC MEETING IN HONGKONG;
AND
DEPUTATION TO H.E. SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B.,
(H.M. ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, &c., &c., &c., AT PEKIN) AT HONGKONG, ON JANUARY 3,
TO WHICH IS APPENDED
370;
AN ADDRESS FROM THE COMMUNITY AT AMOY, AND HIS
EXCELLENCY'S REPLY THERETO.
REPRINTED FROM THE “HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.”
HONGKONG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
A Special General Meeting of the above body was held on Jan. 3rd, at their offices, the Hon. J. B. Taylor in the Chair. There were present Messrs. Kresser, Belilios, Melchern, Vogel, Pyke, Taylor, Sassoon, Coughtrie, Crichton, Zimmern, Granville Sharp, Delbanco, Walker, Ryrie, Hitchcock, and Buxey. The Chairman, on opening proceedings, said the meeting had been convened by circular, which had been sent round on Saturday. The Committee had met twice during the past week with respect to addressing the Minister with reference to the convention just concluded at Pekin. A letter was drawn up, which the Secretary was called upon to read, as it set forth the actual business
before the meeting now. The letter is as follows:
To His EXCELLENCY SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., H.B.M.'S MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO CHINA, &c., &c., &c. SIR.-The appearance in the local newspapers of the 23rd instant, of the text of the Supplementary Convention to the Treaty concluded at Tientsin between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, has led the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce to turn their attention afresh to the Treaty relations of the two countries, and to the questions brought forward in the Convention; but the interval between its appearance
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Enclosure No. 3 in Governor
R. MacDonnell's
Despatch No. 857 of 24th
January 1870.