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Grand Secretary Li to India. As he passed through Hong Kong and Mataotai had acquainte

him with the

sion

with the objects of his mis-

which he described

aus

being

az

enquiry into the col-

the

Opium Revenue of India,

India, and.

lection and distribution of

as

to the possibility of the extinction

of the Opium trade within

of years. The revenue

a

term

thence de.

rivable

bering.

meanwhile de-

curred

to

the

Government

India,

ajo

A Chuy

one

Si John Hennessy

evening expatiating upon the

advantages

advantages that

-ment

such

an arrange.

would confer upon Inxia.

The Indian Revenue in his dir

John Hennessy's opinion, being

threatened by the agatation

equally

of the anti-opicum Society at home

and by the determination of the

Chinese Government to suppress the

Trade-

To the latter assumption, I op-

-posed the statement

zade

to

Be

at the Toung. Si in Felinary (1881) which I had immediately telegraphed

to your Lordship. It was

to

the

effect that against the practice

of