Sm,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 9th instant, in which you kindly enclose copies of two dispatches from Taotai Tseng proposing the institution of certain regulations concerning the importation of fire-arms and inanitions of wa The importation of such articles has hitherto been strictly controlled by the
cannot be shown that foreign merchants Customs under Treaty pressions, and it have wilfully violated them, so that the restrictions now proposed by Tuotai Tseng on this already fully safe-guarded trade, seem to the Chamber to be entirely unordering that snnaples of arms, eto., import-'The regulation proposed by the Taotai ed by foreign merchants—some of which may be. costly and of recent invention—should be deposited in a godown not under the control of those to whom such valuable articles are consigned is quite out of the question and should he strongly protested against, The same remark applies to the proposed restriction of the importation of sporting guns.
have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. D. Litter, Chairman.
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