12th Feb.
Tue China Overland Trade Report published on the 4th inst, the following pithy remonstrance:—"'The failure of the British Minister at Peking to even acknowledge the receipt of communica~ tions addressed to him by Her Majesty's subjects, and the general indifference to their interests he has uniformly shown during his unfortunate tenure of office, were referred to in our last issue at some length. 'Ihe occasion for reference to this mortifying. default of the British Representative, was the despatch of a letter by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce to the Marquis of Salisbury setting forth a uew grievance, to wit' the imposition by the Haikwan at Canton of differential duties in favour of Chinese craft, to the injury of trade in foreign bottoms, and complaining of the neglect of Sir John Walsham to take avy action or to show the common courtesy of acknowledgment of their letter. We note now that Reuter telegraphs from London, under date of the 16th January, that Zhe Times publishes a letter from the Chairman of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce detailing certain grievances against Sir John Walshaw, and asking the assistance of the great London journal to procure redress of the same, "Mr. Edwin Mackintosh is essentially a man of
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