Mr, Edward Clarke, a former resi Japan, delivered an address on the subject of Free Trade last woak in the Town-ball, Macclesfield. considerable portion of hie on to the silk trade, Me, fore 1836 I recollect Mr. a coming to I od, ive of the o Ho was an energetic but sportsman. In 1837 Oswald wont to Canton England. was soon after the closing up and bought silk there, which was shipped to. of the concerns of the charter of the Bat Indian Company. Ho was a mau who built early in Hongkong, and there is a terrace He predicted, on over from China county that ti 100,000 bales of of common, inferior ilk was practically unlimited. 'The' trade in this country was greatly amazed at the figares, which were red by everybody og stupendous without parallel in the world's because at the prices then ruling 100,000 bales of silk ment ten milli when 20,000 bales Peometining in it—they did not know what copie boga: ink that really there might
would come next, that Oswald's figures might some day be reached, aiid that with such large quantity we should be swamped altogether. To-day Oswald's. prediction har Chin, because Japan has beed added to-it. tactically come to pass, not entirely: from
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