The following is the full text of the Governor's instructions, 1 freds of which we gave last w Liu, Baron, Governor of Fukien, directing atinirs in Formosa, &e,, e., issues an instruetio With reference to the line of fast steamers established by the Formosa Government for trottie between the island and the differ ent ports of the mainland, His Excellency the Viceroy, Bari Li, amine time ago presented to the Governor that the Taotais Sheng and Ma had submitted to the Vieero a request that the Formosa steamers hat better not proceed to Tientsin and the Yangtsze ports, The he Governor represented in return to His Excellency that neither China or any foreign country ever had a law granting the monopoly of trade with const ports to 'a body of merchants, and that, quite apart from the fact that no one could prevent the Formosa steamers from going where thi ey pleased, he beyyed the Viceroy to Fubt the CALS Reo uflear, Shen Taotai, to arrange the matter with you, the Taotai Yang, in " friendly spirit free of any local considerations, allowing, for instance, the mercantile fleet of Formosa proceeding to Tientsin or the Yangtsze ports to make use of the C.MLS.N. Co.'s wharves fora reasonable charge, and thus combining with them so as to prevent all the advantages from going into foreign hands; also to give orders for working rules to be drawn up, and to favour the Governor with a reply for the instruction of you, the Taotai Yang.
His' Excellency the Viceroy, Earl Li, now replies that the Taotai Shen is a com: paratively new arrival on the C.DLS.N.
0.'s board of directors, and that it would neither be becoming nor in conformity with precedent to Leave the discussion solely in the hands of the Taotais Shen and Yang, and that consequently His Excellency was unable to accept the Governor's gestion.
he Governor accordingly has to instruct: you, the Taotai Yang as follows: Inasmuch as the Taotai Shen is declared incompetent te discuss with you the commercial interests of Formosa, the idea of loaning the use of the C.M.S.N. Co.'s wharves may be allowed to drop. In future the fast steamers of the Formosa Government going to Tientsin and the Yangtsze will proceed under some other plan to be devised by you, either having wharves of their own at the different ports, after the manner of the
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