principal establishment here, and at their time can.
have little less in hands than half of the whole Opium trade with China, and generally much more).
involving annually dealings valued at more than six million sterling. Frequent Messrs. Gettiel and Sassoon to give me such details as they could give, and indeed as they had often verbally given me, of the general dealings with Opium imported here. I specially wished them to explain, what became of all the Chests of Opium arriving at Whampoa/Houghtongs?
18. I now enclose their statement in reply, which instead of a mere information, has assumed the more formal shape, of a Memorial, which they request me to forward to Your Lordship.
17. I gladly comply with that request and hope the experience and extensive practical Knowledge of the trade, possessed by the Sassoon firms will receive such consideration as may counterbalance the frequently vague and unsupported assertion sometimes transmitted from Peking.
16. The Memorial goes very carefully into the importation of Opium from Bombay and Calcutta, for 1870 and 1871, shewing the total importation for the two years appears to have: