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Forces on the China Station, having arrived here, & Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell, K. C.B., will leave HongKong for England
tomorrow, the 10th instant.
2.
In addition to Admiral
Dowell's services in the Crimean
War and in several other parts
of 1
the world, his career on China Station
may
the
be described
as historical. It may be divided into four epochs, or phases. In the first epooh, he was the Midshipman of the man-of-war's
boat
boat which, in 1841, first hoisted
the British Flag
on the Island of
HongKong, then a barren and _ desolate rook, but which, after -
the lapse of little more than forty
has now become the third
years,
greatest mart of shipping in the British Empire, ranking
as
to
the tonnage of the vessels annually entering this Port, next to London and Liverpool. In the second epoch, the Admiral, then Captain Dowell of Her Majesty's Ship "Barrossa", rendered to the
party