Customs, who is in charge of the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at that place, reports through the Governor of Kiangsi that he has completed this year's usual order and a special indent for porcelain for the Palace. The former consists of 80 articles of square and 1,204 of round pattern, and the latter is composed of 5,836 plates, cups, saucers, and sacrificial vessels. The whole consignment was shipped by steamer for Shanghai on the 23rd of October last and was accompanied by " descriptive catalogue. The annual allowance of the establishment is Tls. 10,000, and the expenditure for the present year has been Ts. 27,668.2.8.2.9.5.9.6. The deficit will be made good out surplus funds in hand, FREIGHT ON YiNNAN COPPER FOR PEKING, January 19th.—(1) Until recently copper sent from Yunnan to Peking came down the West River by way of Canton, and the freight from Po-se to Shanghai was fixed at Tis..0658 per picul. The Yangtze route has now, however, been substituted, and the amount of freight to be charged has formed the subject of some discussion between the Board of Revenue and the provincial authorities, The province of Yuin copper frum Luchou Fu in Szechuen to nan undertakes the conveyance of the
Tchang, and Hupeh is responsible for having it forwarded thence to Shanghai. The Board considered that the total chat Lu-chou to Shanghai should be tw Tis..0698 per picul, the rate formerly allowed between Po-se wand Shanghai. Of this amount the Yunnan government claimed one half for its portion of the while the Hupei authorities refused to take less than Tis..04 for their share of the work. The matter has now been finally settled by T'ang Chiung, the Director of Mines in Yunnan. He wrote to Li Hung-chang to see if the freight by the China Merchants' Co,'s steamers from Tchang to Shanghai could not be reduced. The Company replied that the freight ruling between Hankow and Shanghai was Tis..025 per picul, and that the lowest rate from Ichang to Hankow was Tis..015 in Shanghai currency, or a total of Ts..036 by the board's scales. This gave no. margin. of profit, and no further reduction could be made. Yiuman is content to accept the balance of Tis..0298 to cover the cost of conveyance to Ichang. The arrangement is to take effect from the transmission of the first instalment of the eighth consignment. of copper. In future the freight from Lu-chou to Ichang of each instalment will be Tls. 1,584.7 and Tls. 1,854 from Ichang to Shanghai, payable respectively by the Yunnan and Hupeh governments,
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