Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882Luzac & Company, 1895 - 575 trang |
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administration appointed April arrival August blockade Bogue Bonham Bowring British merchants British subjects British trade Canton city Canton River Cantonese Cantonese Authorities Captain Elliot cession Chief Justice China Chinese Authorities Chinese Government Chinese officials Chuenpi Colonial Office Colonial Secretary commercial Commission Commissioner Committee Consul Davis December dispatch dollars East India Company emigration Emperor Emperor of China England English established European February foreign merchants forthwith free trade gambling gaol Governor harbour Hong Merchants Hongkong Imperial increase January July June junks Kowloon Kowloon Peninsula land Legislative Council Lintin Lord Elgin Lord Napier Lord Palmerston Macao Magistrate Majesty's Majesty's Government March Matheson Matheson & Co measure Nanking native November October Ordinance Peking period pirates port Pottinger Praya Registrar residents revenue Robinson scheme September Sir G Sir George Sir H Sir John Sir John Davis Sir Richard steamers Superintendent Taiping Treaty Treaty ports troops unofficial Members vessels Viceroy Whampoa whilst
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Trang 172 - It is hereby declared to the merchants and traders of Canton and all parts of the empire, that they and their ships have free permission to resort to and trade at the port of Hongkong, where they will receive full protection from the high officers of the British nation: and, Hongkong being on the shores of the Chinese empire, neither will there be any charges on imports and exports payable to the British government.
Trang 79 - I might justly say, that no man entertains a deeper detestation of the disgrace and sin of this forced traffic on the coast of China, than the humble individual who signs this despatch. I see little to choose between it and piracy...
Trang 160 - ... provisions of the treaty signed at Shanghai, October 8, 1903, between the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and China, shall continue in full force and effect, and the articles and provisions of the present treaty shall be read and construed as a supplementary treaty thereto, and shall be as binding and of the same efficacy as if they had been inserted therein. ARTICLE IV In the event of there being any difference of meaning between the English and Chinese texts of the present...
Trang 359 - Cowloon, in the Province of Kwang-tung, of which a lease was granted in perpetuity to Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, Companion of the Bath, a member of the Allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, by Lan Tsung Kwang, Governor-General of the Two Kwang.
Trang 60 - Moon by the narrow channel, which we have mentioned, to the east of it we find ourselves a few miles north of the eastern or Lantao passage, by which we may at once communicate through the Lamma channel. On the west of this is Lantao, with several islets, and on the east are Hongkong and Lamma. North of Hongkong is a passage between it and the main, called Lyee Moon (Le-e mun), with good depth of water close to the Hongkong shore, and perfect shelter on all sides. Here are several good anchorages....
Trang 216 - Chinese authorities, in plain and distinct terms, that the British Government will not tolerate that a Chinese mob shall with impunity maltreat British subjects in China, whenever they get them into their power; and that if the Chinese authorities will not...
Trang 155 - Nanking were: (1) peace and friendship between China and England; (2) the opening of five ports, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Shanghai, for the residence of British merchants, and their families, nnder the extra-territorial jnrisdiction of British Consnlar officers ; (3) the cession of Hongkong ; (4) payment of an opinm indemnity of six million dollars ; (5) payment of the Hong Merchants...
Trang 171 - British law, was authorised and required " to exercise authority, according to the laws, customs, and usages of China, as near as may be (every description of torture excepted), for the preservation of the peace...
Trang 116 - Government; and in the second place they were to obtain for the merchants trading with China, an indemnification for the loss of their property, incurred by threats of violence offered by persons under the direction of the Chinese government...
Trang 64 - China, would bean interference with the absolute right of sovereignty enjoyed by independent States, which could only be justified by positive treaty or by implied permission from usage.