Extracts. CHINA.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 185, 8 March 1848, Page 3

Extracts. CHINA.

Anglo-Chinese papers to the 4th September, enable us to notice briefly the position and prospect! of political and mercantile affairs in that part of the celestial Empire which has been subjected to British tU The publication in England of a " Blue Book" relating to Hongkong, unexpectedly offered U> the perusal of the colonUti, the official correspondence o Sir John F. Davis, from *vhick it appeared that the leading British resident! in China, had found little if any favour in the eyes of his Excellency. The Consular Courts in the five Chinese ports opened to BiUisb. trade are likely to become as prolific sources of annoyance to the Foreign Office as those in the Levant ; and the chief cavie assigned by Sir John F. Davis, and concurred in by the naval and military commandants, it the bullying conduct of their British countrymen. Their representatives have caused the Home Government to refuse the application for a man-of-war to be permanently stationed at Canton ; and the withdrawal of the Nemesis from her anchorage off the factories, is said to be owing to " the iniolent and aggressive spirit of the ill-disposed amonfrst the English merchant r«lidents." One fact, however, seems evident enough, thatthe Chinese inhabitants of Nmgpo and Shanghai agree perfectly well with some of tlieaelf same Englnh who found it difficult to tolerate the imolence ot the Chinese with whom they had previously come in contact at the Canton factories. The English ships and vesieli ofwar in the ports or adjacent waters of China, are ten in number, including two armed war steamers. The ships and vessels belonging to the British mercantile marine amounted, on the 4th September, to ninety four, excluitve of forty stare-ihips «tationed in one or other of the harboun.