A meeting of merchants interested in the China trade lias been held at the office of Messrs, Matheson & Ca. at which the following gentlemen were present.—H. M. Matheson (Chairman), Sir Win. Haynes, Bart. (Gregson and Ca.); Thos. Baring, M.P.; Kirkman Hodgson, R. J. Gilman, Ashton, Walkinshaw, Bower, Lamond (Oriental Bank), Gwyther (Chartered Bank), Vacher (Hong Kong Bank) ¢ has. Shaw, Win. Gegg, Jas. Hogg, R. Sassoon, W. 8. Brown, Reiss, Cram-Owing, Canny, Ranken, A. W. Eaton, R. Durant, junt, T. Jones Gibb, Halton, John Holliday, Springfield, Robison, Kershaw, Dewhurst, C. P. Henderson, Sampson, Lucas, How, Buxton \Gledstanes and Ca.), Man \Elias and Co.}, Goldsmidt, Wilkinson, "Cro xford, Calvin. and Ca.., Sichel, Brand Carey (Adamson and Ca.), Lentillac (Dufour Bros. Magniac, Whittall, Macandrew and others.
Proposed by Mr. Reiss, seconded by Mr. Bower ion that the proposed. to be of fifty per
Ft of textile goods into China.
of the interior dues hitherto levied, it enforces an important addition to the duties upon importation, offers no security be-youd those hitherto found fallacious practice, for the cessation or diminution of illegal exnein the interior.
Proposed by Mr. Gilman, seconded by Mr. Walkinshaw.
That this meeting is of opinion that the stipulation by which the export duty on silk ix doubled is retrograde in policy and calculated to affect injuriously the trade of both merebaut and manufseturer.
Proposed by Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, seconded by Mr Springfield.
That this meeting is of opi that the clauses of the proposed revision contain 1g of countervailing advantage as against injurious churneter of the before named ndof fifty per cent, to the import duties goods, and one hundred per cent to the export duty on silk, nud this meeting is therefore of opinion that the proposed revision is inexpedi ud should aot be ratified.
Proposed by Mr. Magniac and seconded by Mr. W. S. Brown, int copy of the foregoing resolutions be Right Hon, the First Lord of the Right Hon. the Secretary of State and. the Right Hon. the Board of Trade, with " view to requesting an interview with Her Mujesty's Government on subject, And that the gentlemen be requested to nct asa committee for the purpose of inviting the coof the Members of Parliament for the and of the Chambers of Com-
Bradford, Macclesfield, Halifax. and other mercantile bodies in the United Kinglom, in jon to Her Mu. jon, James Brand, J. Crum-Owing, W. Brown, R. Adamson, R. D. Snesoon, W.
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