House of Commission:
Admiral
Agent
Course
the Chinese have
a
perfect night to arrange might not impossibly interfere with the
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the Government of the Colony
on
the print.
I have sounded
Yamen of Foreign Affairs
my
I regret to say
the
and
that I see not
the slightest ground for expecting
L junk trade
to the Colony, submitted
to an extent injurious
views on
Granville
as possible
might
some
the subject to Earl
and
I suggested it that the Colony
lo
negotiate through
it
any
be prepared
to concede
arrangement by which
of the Revenue
due surveillance of the
concerned
would be secured
to China, her government
return according
in
Concessions that would advantage British Trade. From His Lordship's reply I gather that the Colonial Office will have consulted
the
exchange of the Kind I had
The st
thought possible. The
standing
objection of the Chinese to
Concessions of any
of any novelty
apart, it is
plain
to me
that
the Yamen prefers to leave the responsibility of the collection
in question entirely to the Provincial
government of Canton.
Meanwhile the head of
this, the Governor General Fuhlie,
is