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British Subjects in Swatow habitually partake in and profit by a Traffic which the Queen's Government deplores.
7. Lord Kimberley quotes a paragraph from a "Shanghai newspaper," discloses another paragraph from the "China Mail" of the 19th of December. I enclose a list and another paragraph from the "Japan Newspaper" of the 7th of January. Suddenly I find a paragraph from "the Straits Times."
I am enabled to add that the "Kinshi" steamer referred to in the first paragraph is an American vessel; that she took over 1700 and not 1,400 on board; and that her tonnage is only 684 tons; that her owners have always ranked as of all Americans in China eminently respectable, having been the great American Missionary House for China. Reports said in the second paragraph to be "arriving almost daily" in Singapore. I understand that there are two other American vessels, this "C. C. Leary" and "Jas. B. Bell" with the like clearances from Swatow and the like cargoes of Coolies. Admiral Jenkins in Command of the American Navy in Asiatic Waters has been at Singapore. I believe a remonstrance has been sent to Peking which will, I hope, foment...