PUBLIC FEELING AT HONG KONG.
The mei'chants of Hong Kong were getting up an address to Lord Elgin, recording their conviction that any compromise of the Canton difficulty, "or any sort of settlement which should stop short of the complete humiliation of the Cantonese—which shall fail to teach them a wholesome respect for the obligations of their own government in its relations withindependent powers, and a more hospitable reception of the foreigner who resorts to their shores for the peaceable purposes of trade, will only result in further suffering to themselves, and farther .disastrous interruption to us." "This (observes the correspondent of the 'Times/ writing from Hong Kong) means, 'You must take Canton, my Lord, and negotiate at Pekin with Canton in your possession.' Such is the opinion of every one here, from the highest to the lowest. Even those Chinese who live by gratifying English tastes, painting portraits^ of vessels for uxorious sea captains, or selling puzzles, bamboo chairs, and grass-cloth handkerchiefs, are quite of the iame opinion."
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 14 November 1857, Page 6
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169PUBLIC FEELING AT HONG KONG. Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 14 November 1857, Page 6
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