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2.
" settlement between France and
China causes -general satisfaction at Hongkong in the interests of
"Trade."
In several previous_
] despatches I have reported that the
very
extensive trade of this Colony has been suffering severely in consequence of the protracted Franco- Chinese hostilities; by the French blockade of several parts of the Coast of China; by the detention and search of British Merchant ships by the French Cruizers; and
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in other
ways.
that, owing
I have also reported
to the depression of
Trade, the Public revenue
of this.
Colony had also suffered serious depression. It is, therefore, natural that the prospect of an early restoration of peace, (of which I was informed on the 8th instant by Her Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking) should produce general.
satisfaction among
3.
the mercantile
ommunity of HongKong.
It is also natural that
the apparent readiness of France to
make
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