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may be worth adding that the sojection lately raised to the appt of a Chinese Consul at Stong Kong, Roes not apply

of the Establishment If a Customs Office. Had the Chinese chosen to apponit some foreigner

no one toe have objected

Hire Coral, no one

to this; but the foral und have been a perfectly useless Official. But if they had sent, as they

they word have wished to sead, a mandami of

a

Regular Service, he would have been deprived of his Exequatur in A given member of weeks for proceeding as if he wrote in an

4. berritorialized fountry.

The furtoons Scrivice employed

down to the hide waiters would

be composed of foreigners only.

Our

Communities

at the ports,

Ander

When they rear that new porto to be opened, will, at first, take Alarm; for

for to them new porto nean

new concessions nical communities, infusions competition. The posts I propose to open, however, cohen if China would consent to open every fort into thich a steamer Can Tum,

would not", for some years to

come, at all events, "ports of permanent residence, but open only to solamers Carrying Cargoes and passenjors from the ports now opie, and which für distriction's Salze I shall here

call

be

Consular porto. There would

be to her settlements to rival the

old, and the old toned Sum

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feed

be