The new Hoppo, or CustomsSuperintendent at Canton, is hourly expected to arrive in the C. Bf, S.N. Co's steamer Kicanglee. Quite a small fleet of gunboats from the City of Rams is lying in the harbour waiting to escort the great man thither. It is about time the Chinese Government abandoned this practice of farming out the native Customs in the Two Kuang to Manchu dependents. There should be one Maritime Customs service only, instead of having two competing with each other for shipments.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.