293
133
all trade of a great part of the worry that now afflicts it. The Chinese, who have always withstood our contention that a port-area is a Treaty right, will yield it reluctantly; but besides the consolation they will not fail to derive from augmentation of their Tariff revenue, our proposal will protect us against the allegation that we have not been acting in good faith, and that when in accordance with their promise they had opened new ports to our trade, we had not been equally careful to do what we had undertaken.
I have, &c.
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE.
(Signed)
APPENDIX.
OPIUM-Net Importation into each Port, 1870 to 1877.
GREE
Fort.
1870,
Totai
1871,
Total
1872.
1876.
Total
Import. Losport. Import.
Shanghac
Picals. 43,188
Pieuls. Picals.
47,984 41,000
1878. 1574. 1876.
Total Total Total Jotal Melwa. Tatua. Beares. Import. Import. Import. Lingert.
Piruls. l'ients. Picus. Picals. 46,107 37,048 49,068 49,670
1977.
Sorts,
Picu's. 31,020
Picuis. Picals. Picuts.
209 8,501 4,897
Total.
Pienis.
45,789
(imparted and stored on
board receiving russeis.)
Bhanghao
$1,144
30,001
28.912
20,043
31,980
29,579
28,399
20,838
3.800
818
325
32,261
(Re-exported from receiv
ing vessels, chiefly to
other Chinese poris.)
Shengkoe
11,700
11,607
12,310
13,784
11,397 10,079
11,381
1,5l
7,178
1,021
16
12,78
(anded for local con-
sumption.)
Newchwing..
9,445
2,279
2,760
2,421
1,827
856
2,503
986
36
43
21
1,09%
Tien-til
7,167
7,093
4,652
4958
3,881
8.600
5,763
154
57
4,030
Chefoo...
3,914
8,403
8,843
6,101
4,168
2,980
2,238
3,088
2)
2,169
Jchang
Hankow
8,676
3,144
2413
2,994
2,261
0825
2,182
2,274
3,477
Kiokiang
3,110
9,061
1,284
2,866
9,905
2,246
2,043 1,545
1.852
1,157
1,161
Chinking
6,948
4,255
8,578
9,638
10,964
11,756
10,649
9,78%
504
10.799
Ningoo
5,024
5,425
6,549
7,355
7,469
8,008
8.803
7,041
201
123
7,991
27
11
38
Wenchow
Foochow
4,258
3,589
8,887
9,275
3,170
4,014
4,017
1,751
1,234
3,105
Tapsui
1,768
1,300
1,400
1,0141
3,666
1,639
1959
1.154
1829
Takow...
1781
1974
1,941
1,952
9,508
2,000
2,659
177
1,699
1,283
2,169
Anoy...
8,098
3,056
3,125
3.379
3,870
8,802
3.153
1,874
1,813
358
4,045
Swotow
6,640
7,415
2,105
9,372
10.185
11,079
7,678
1,015
11,89%
Cauton
*754
1,076
940
824
978
983
4.50
123
90%
324
60
$20
398
#25
Kiungchow
6
8
Pashoi
Total
58.817
59,070
61,108
65,797
67.408
€6,481
€8,013
40,963
15,169
10,632
2,280
89,063
4,8)
2,920
All the
The sorts imported, and estimated values, are shown in the Table below. opium imported into China reaches it through Hong Kong, As the quantity consumed there is comparatively trifling, the amount brought into China in native vessels, and which consequently does not appear in these Returns, must be nearly equal to the quantity A deduc- by which the Hong Kong importation exceeds the entries at the Treaty ports, tion must be made from this for the amount sent to California for the use of the Chinese there. This has been for the last eight years as follows:-
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877 ..
Boxes.
Dollars.
Say, Hk, taels.
272 1,109
102,970
69,575
596,190
402,891
796
344,833
232,995
1,748
680,437
459,755
359
155,278
104,914
1,824
829,971
655,314
1,098 1,168
462,741
300,782
501,650
541,190
The total importation into Hong Kong, its excess over the entries at the Treaty ports, and the estimated value of each, are shown in the following Table ---
Imported in Foreign Vessels into Chinese Ports.
Hong Kong.
Year.
Malwa.
Patna.
Benares.
Surts. Total.
Value.
Total Import.
Value.
Excess.
Value.
Picals.
Piculs.
Piculs.
Piculs.
1867
34,006
14,800
11,488
Picuts. 645 60,948
Hk. taols. 28,823,942
1868
$1,231
12,315
9,179
1,187 53,015
23,538,627
1969
29,287
13,900
8,771
1,368
53.413 23,727,165
7870
34,045
14,443 8,671
1,668
1871
35,050
15,281
$,023
1372
37,803 15,473 7,039
1873
40,910
14,074
3874
41,867 17,048
3875
40,693
16,475
1876
42,708 15,699
1877
44,963 13,168
Picals. Hk. taele. 39,655,924 25,582 69,537 29,871,864 15,622 32,652 86,063 38,223,238
36.228 24,967,196 95,045 58,817
40,328,764 1316 59,679 26,045,878
30,074 89,744 40,690,074 878 61,193 25,295,131 86,385 34,704,689 25,192 9,326 587 65,797 26,255,295 88,382 32,467,697 22,585
800 7,753
67,468 27,233,421
23,614 91,082 33,175,559 3,328
66,461 7,965
27,013,566 84,619 29,106,923 19,158 8,350 1,286 68,042 27,601,460 96,985
28,943 36,491,288 10,632 2,280 69,052
04,200 20,885,226
23,148 32,303,963
Piculs,
86,530
Ak, taels. 10,831,082 6,333,243 14,496,078 15,361,568 14,645,095 9,409,558 6,212.402 5,912,138 2,093,357 8,829,822 2,418,737
139
No. 75.
Sir T. Wade to Earl Granville.-(Received July 22.)
(No. 36. Confidential.)
Tien-tsin, June 3, 1882. My Lord,
MR. HILLIER, the Assistant Chinese Secretary, now on leave in England, informas me that he has placed in the hands of Sir Julian Pauncefote a Memorandum of what passed between him and the high authorities of certain of the provinces whom he visited by my desire on his way home, for the purpose of exchanging explanations with them upon various subjects. I inclose copy of my instructions to Mr. Hillier, and of his Reports, seven in number, some in official and some in private form. These latter, it will be seen, deal mainly with three questions: the forms of intercourse between the Consuls and the Chinese, to a modification of which, at the instance of foreign Ministers, the Tsung-li Yamên had recently consented; the readjustment of the taxation inland of foreign imports in general; and the amount and form of levy of impost to be laid on Tariff-paid opium.
On the two first-named questions I shall have again to address your Lordship; but as my Report on opium can now no longer be delayed, and as Mr. Hillier's Reports contain so much that is important in relation to that question, I have thought it best to forward them by this opportunity.
It will scarcely be necessary for me to dwell here upon the efficiency with which Mr. Hillier has discharged the duty intrusted to him. I owe it to him to make his valuable services the subject of a separate despatch.
I have, &c. (Signed)
Inclosure I in No. 75.
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE.
Sir T. Wade to Mr. Hillier, August 6, 1881.
[See p. 16.]
Inclosure 2 in No. 75.
Notes prepared by Sir T. Wade for use by Mr. Hillier at Interview with Grand
(Confidential.)
My dear Sir Thomas,
Secretary Li.
[See p. 17.]
Inclosure 3 in No. 75.
Mr. Hillier to Sir T. Wade.
Tien-lsin, August 10, 1881.
I TOLD you in my note dispatched by yesterday's Customs courier that the Chung-tang Li had told me to call on him this morning at 9 o'clock.
On arriving at the Yamên I was received by the English interpreter, but he only saw After I had waited some two or three me as far as the big reception-room and left me. minutes, the Chung-tang came in and greeted me very civilly. We went into his library, and after putting the tea and so on on to the table, all the servants were sent out except one, who, I have noticed, has always been the special attendant of the Grand Secretary. The Chung-t'ang at once began to falk, and complained rather vehemently of the manner in which you had treated him when last you saw him at the Yamên. He had, he said, stayed in Peking with the express sanction of the Empress, and had voluntarily assumed the part of go-between between Tso Chung-t'ang and yourself in order to spare you the overbearingness of the former, which he felt convinced would do much to retard the settlement of a most important question. Your attack upon him (Li) had taken him quite by surprise; his dignity had been assailed in the presence of servants of the Tsung-li Yamên and the Ministers bis juniors, and of course all that passed had been told to Tso Chung-tang, who had taunted him mercilessly with the manner in which the British Minister had crushed him.
I of course told him that you were naturally indignant at what you had reason to consider a studied insult to yourself; to which he rejoined that you surely must have been aware that so long a friendship as his had been with you would not admit of so petty a