A verutatioy of merchants, waited on Mr. Hughes, British Consul-General and Senior Consul, on Monday last, to ree quest him to forward to the Ministers at Peking a memorial, signed by a very large proportion of the mercantile come munity, including most of the leading German firms, on the subject of the new Bonded Warehouse scheme. As Mr. Macgregor, the spokesman of the dept: tation, explained, the memorial resulted. from a feeling among a large number of the signers that, in the protest lately addressed to Peking by the Chamber of Commerce, the arguments of equity and amity were hardly sufficiently enforced, in claiming that the concession should be general, and not confined exclusively Cupar: These are the arguments tothe property of the China Merchants' on which the new memorial principally relies. As to the details of the system nothing is said in the memorial, because they can always be readily altered as necessity requires, as indeed has already
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