The following Memorial, with Sir John Walsham's reply, has been courteously handed to us for publication To His Excellency Sin Jon Warsuas, Bart., M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, de., de.
The Humble Memorial of the under-
Suewsru,—That your memorialists view with just alarm the ratification of the Chefoo Convention of 1876 and the early enforcement of the Opium clause of the convention.
2.—The amount of duty and lekin combined, which by that clause importers will have to pay, being a total of Hi Indian drug, of which your memorialists' business consists, can atend 0 henvy a taxation; already the import of Malwa Opium fell off in 1885 to the extent of 3,000 chests.
The import of Patna din 1885 som:
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