of
Course
the
right to Kwei-chow
Her Majesty's
in Stainan,
if Government should be disposed to the expense of additional Consular establishments. The British Minister is led to conclude that much public benefit might be anticipated, not only by these ports opening up sources of trade and revenue, but in the suppression of bribery and Smuggling, both prevailing to an injurious extent on the West Coast.
Extract from the minute of the Mixed Commission at the Shany li Gamin, July 18th 1868,
"Page 215.-
Can Win-hai and Nai-hai be exchanged for Hanking and Kiung-chow, but the Chinese Government will make no objection to British trade being carried on at the surrendered Ports under the "favoured-nation clause."