occasions
be sent from Taiwan by way of Away, or direct, and from
Tamsui by way of Frockow
With these exceptions the
Consuls at all Ports would be
instructed to send their men up to
Shanghoe-
I
trust that it
may
not be deemed unreasonable to ask
the Government of Hong
Kona to
accopt the charge of all namen. shipped from Amoy,
on
usion
Swatow, and
the other ports
ion from the
I have enumerated. Their reception could add but little to the
work of the proper department :
On the other hand, the
400
expense to
the State of maintaining
any
on
men at
one of the Fools specified
There is not
must be immense.
at
any
CALL
of them, of course
establishment fit for the
an
reception of
De amen-
that is not
lation.
at
Our
ommercial specu
Swatow there is not, I believe,
an
establishment even
description
I am writing
may
of this
to Her
not be
Majetje Consul at Foochow to report whether it
convenient or less ex invariably
anore -
to send peamere
less expensive
to