Tue attached copies of cores reference tothe present general pondence exchanged between the you that we have already taken the Shanghai General Chamber of Com-matter up with the General Chammerce and compradores of leading ber of Commerce of Shanghai. They foreign merchants ete. in Shanghai, have carefully considered the pro-bozal, and their views on this mat-including one letter from the Chinter we so! forth in the letter writese General Chamber of Commerce to the compradores, have been sent to us for correspondence. It throws an interesting light on the Chinese state o fmind during the first half June, the readiness of foreign merchants to meet and discuss the situation and the unwillingness, oF it might be better to say the feeling of inability of Chinese merchants todo so, In this correspondence the letters from the Chin in translation,
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