Tue Viceroy at Nanking has notified the Consular Body that after the 28th of January the general export of rice feom Shanghai will again be prohibited, and that all permits to export which have been issued but not used will, from that date, be cancelled. Further, that afier that date, permits which may be granted to a limited extent will be charged for at the rate of 200 cash per picul These official tamperings with the movements of rice are always suspicious, and it is a curious coincidence that the issue of this notice should comoid" with the termin: tio 1 of H.E. Siéag Kangjas's patd of deep nuenrnt: With all it sion la tat vires Rai fio the Treaty of Tie is pertevily clear on the subje "The export of rice and all other grain whatsoever, native or foreign, no matter where grown or whence imported, to any foreign port, is prohibited; but these commodities may be carried by British merchants from
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