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that the tommage of the shipping which anually enters this port already__ amounts to nearly four millions;- - that is, it is nearly equal to the tormage which entered the Port of _ London in 1837, the

year of the

accession of the present Queen, at a period when this island was a ___ desolate rock visited by only a few Chinese pirates and fishermen. Still it is presumed that if the interests of the Imperial Fortress should at any time clash with the interests of the Imperial Emporium either at Hongkong

or at Gibraltar, the Fortress would prevail over the Emporium

(2) The annual pay and allowances the General Commanding at Wonghong amount to about two thousand five hundred pounds (£2,500). As the

Governor

pper

of

receives six thousand (£6000)

amnum

(i.e. nominally, for owing

to the great depreciation of the silver

currency,

this sum is not equivalent

to

more than about £5,200 in English

money), an economy of above £2,500. would result from the union of the two offices; and the sum thus saved

στ

would