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of £ 12,500, which will have to be Covered by a tote from the Imperial Parliament-

3. The present demand, My

amount

Lord, is £3,000 less than the voled by Parliament for the eurent year, and rearly approximates the aid I anticipated in my Despatch 1225 of 2nd April, 1850, would be annually requived-

4- The Estimates have been prepared. on the most economical seale consistent with efficiency; and when it is borne in mind that Stonghong is the Seat of the fueen's principal Authority in China, and affords protection to Her Majesty's Subject's trading to then oast Dominions, the grant of an allowance of from £12,071 to £15,000 per Annum out of the In terial Funds towards the maintenance

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To explain out one view the importance of this Commerce, Jannex Jp 2- a Memorandum of the talue of British Trade in China from the commencement of the Year 1844 to the close of 1850, as taken from the Consular Returns onade up in the Superintendency. This Document shows that during the above period the Trade has amounted to upwards of Fifty two Millions of Pounds Sterling, which, it should be remembered moreover, is altogether exclusive of the Falue of Opium imported, and of a ticles smuggled - In fact, I have but little doubt that,

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ensure correct Returns, the talve of the Trade during the above period,

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