IMMIGRATION, A return of the Clauses in Treaties between Great Britain and China relating to the treatment of immigrants has been presented to the House of Commons. In the first treaty, that of Nanking 20th August 1842, the first two clauses are Axticie I.
There shall henceforward be peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Treland and His Majesty the Emperor' of China, and between their respective subjects, who shall enjoy full security and protection for their persons and property within the dominions of the other. that British subjects, with their fatuities and His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purposes of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae; and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., will' appoint Superintendents or Consular officers, to reside at each of the above-named cities or towns, to be the medium of communication between the Chinese authorities and the said snakes fear, and tackle them with that assaulted the detective Ku a-luh, the quarrel merchants, and to see that the just duties preparation."
At Canton the women, at having arisen about enquiries made into a and other dues of the Chinese Government, as Jeast, firmly believe that a centipede will robbery case.—Shén-pao. hereafter provided for, are duly discharged by become so paralysed with fear if they keep The Hx Pao learns that the bodies of Her Britannic Majesty's subjects. on repeating to it that a fowl is coming, two Moros or Indian policemen from the The Convention of April 4th, 1846, in that it can nei her escape nor do them any Portuguese colonies in India who had been the Ist and 2 clauses deals' with the injury, but will lie quietly to be crushed to; killed ightingpirates, were recently cremated, alaission of British subjects into Canton, aeathi.—-Hu Poo. at Macao, and expresses great reprobate which is postponed till a more favourable letter from Peking says that a surplus the exclusiveness and inhumanity of thi opportunity, the local authorities being revenue of 800,000 Taels remaining from Macaenses in not according them burial for the present unable to coerce the people." the Shan Hai Kwan Customs, the Viceroy Li in a Portuguese cemetery.
By an Agreement with Keying, High Im-Hung-chang has petitioned the Throne to The Hu Pao gives the followin; mining perial Commissioner, dated 6th April, 1847, place it to a reserve fund for torpedoes, fidence:—At Chi-ch'wan, Shantung Nt is agreed that two years from this date tories, ete. at Port Arthur and other Province, the two furnaces under the con- British' officers and "people shall have maritime strongholds. The Ewperor has trol of Mr. Prefect Sit are extracting 1,600 free entrance into Canton, and the space referred the question to the Board of Re-! piculs of lead a day from the ore. ' At' of one day's journey, just as at Shanghai, adopt the Viceroy's view.—Shen Pao. venue, but it is not yet known if it will! An-kiu, in Tsting-chow Fu, Shantung, isalsoassigned at canton for such journeys."" Mr. Chang Mei-hang, a District Magistrate In the Tientsin treaty, which was ratified At Kao-ju, in the Yangchow Prefecture in charge of mining, has discovered ai at Peking on the 24th October 1860, of Kiangsu, the early rice-crop was got in copper-mine of great proniise, the ore! Clauses 9 to 13 deal with the right of on the 27th and 28th July, the whole agri- from which, treated by Western pro- British subjects to travel in the interior—the fields, men, women and children with ' per. The gold-ore from the gold-mine at—the opening of new cultural population being hard at work in cesses, gives 70 per cent. of pure cop- the trading of British ships on the Yangtze ports—the building sickdles, {Pring-ta Chow, Tai-chow Fu, same pro- of houses, churches, hospitals or burial
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