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Last week, our next Admiral, Sir W. Dowell, L. C. A., invited to accompany him on board Her Majesty's Ship Vigilant on a three days' visit to Canton and Shameen. We found that the exasperation against Europeans, or at least, against Englishmen, had greatly diminished since our last visit. The Admiral "the Common See Government despatch May 3680" sailed traversed the White City without observing a single hostile cry or gesture. But the Shameen quarter is still protected by English, French, German, and American gun-boats, and by a strong guard of Chinese soldiers. And the blocking of the river and the erection and arming of fresh forts and batteries are being carried on with vigour.
Admiral Dowell has served in both the 1860 war with China; and it must be a curious contrast to the vast disproportionate increase in the Naval and Military Force of the Chinese.
Respecting Macao, I have nothing to add to the description I gave on the occasion of my former visit, of that decayed but interesting relic of the former power and influence of Portugal in the Far East. Its trade has...
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