Chinese Total......2,735,175 tons.
While of the sailing tonnage entered and cleared, 7,045 tons were British, and 2,706 German.
Nhe very careless way in which these trade reports are edited at home is shown in this one. Mr. Alabaster's Christian name is given as "'Thos.," and. his remarks on the Mint at Canton are spoilt by the statement being attributed him that the Mexican dollar is universally taken at 7s. 1.7d., instead of -717 of a Kuping tael: Mr. Alabaster is pointing out the inconvenience caused by making the new Canton dollar.72 of the Kuping tael.. There is no assayer attached to the Mint, he tells us, which s calculated to throw suspicion on the purity of the coinage, but the fractional currency should be readily taken. Limits of space forbid our giving a longer notice of this capital report, one of "the best penny-worths that our Foreign Office has issued. markets for their produce elsewhere. Sir John also stated that Canada will never consent to annexation,
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