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Grand Secretary Li to India. As he passed through Hong Kong and Mataotai had acquainte
him with the
sion
with the objects of his mis-
which he described
aus
being
az
enquiry into the col-
the
Opium Revenue of India,
India, and.
lection and distribution of
as
to the possibility of the extinction
of the Opium trade within
of years. The revenue
a
term
thence de.
rivable
bering.
meanwhile de-
curred
to
the
Government
India,
ajo
A Chuy
one
Si John Hennessy
evening expatiating upon the
advantages
advantages that
-ment
such
an arrange.
would confer upon Inxia.
The Indian Revenue in his dir
John Hennessy's opinion, being
threatened by the agatation
equally
of the anti-opicum Society at home
and by the determination of the
Chinese Government to suppress the
Trade-
To the latter assumption, I op-
-posed the statement
zade
to
Be
at the Toung. Si in Felinary (1881) which I had immediately telegraphed
to your Lordship. It was
to
the
effect that against the practice
of