The Japancee mail steamers are now the only ones arriving with mails. The British steamers are not subsidised with any mail contract and are, therefore, at rty to accept the high prices wealthy Chinese are prepared to pay for an exit to Shanghai. There made on this by British residents in this port; bat sach remarks are mil compared to what they woald be, if ws were saked to indemnity the British Sims for losses through coming here.
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