 | 1830 - 562 pages
...revenue from imposing duties on internal transport. ' It is not to be supposed,' as Mr. Ball observes, 'that any reduction can be effected in the transport...foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves.' Our principal reason for introducing the above, is to expose the ignorance and insanity of those who... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 574 pages
...revenue from imposing duties on internal transport. ' It is not to be supposed,' as Mr. Ball observes, 'that any reduction can be effected in the transport...privileges to foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves;.-1 n -; t''ii ./<•/ .r* ' ' ii'-Jur ) u: not .ri it-n'i i-> ini,.-- Our principal reason... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...to be supposed," as Mr. Ball observes, " that any reduction can be effected in the transport-duties. The Chinese are unlikely to grant privileges to foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves." ' The policy of the Tartar dynasty in having been the first to confine the European trade with such... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 630 pages
...package. This, however, as it concerns the confidence commercially reposed in the company, is the same. whole amount of duties and carriage of even five-sixths...not amount to one-third of the carriage of tea from Fo-kien1. Again, the tea trade, though ostensibly a trade of barter, may really be considered a trade... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 694 pages
...company, is the same. 3 See Appendix O and P. whole amount of duties and carriage of even five- sixths of the woollens would not amount to so much as the...not amount to one-third of the carriage of tea from Fo-kien1. Again, the tea trade, though ostensibly a trade of barter, may really be oonsidered a trade... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 pages
...to be supposed," as Mr. Ball observes, " that any reduction can be effected in the transport-duties. The Chinese are unlikely to grant privileges to foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves."* * Quarterly Review, vol. xlii. p. 153. The policy of the Tartar dynasty in having been the first to... | |
 | Thomas Phillips - China - 1854 - 136 pages
...for to that must be added the government dues. "It is not to be supposed," as Mr. Ball observes, " that any reduction can be effected in the transport...foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves." The policy of the Tartar dynasty, in having been the first to confine the European trade with such... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1857 - 480 pages
...disadvantage, for to that must be added the government-dues. "It is not to be supposed," observed Mr. Ball, " that any reduction can be effected in the transport-...foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves." * The policy of the Tartar dynasty, in having been the first to confine the European trade with such... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1857 - 442 pages
...disadvantage, for to that must be added the government-dues. " It is not to be supposed," observed Mr. Ball, " that any reduction can be effected in the transport-...foreigners which necessarily entail a loss on themselves." * The policy of the Tartar dynasty, in having been the first to confine the European trade with such... | |
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It is not to be supposed, however, that any reduction can be effected in the transport duties. The Chinese are unlikely to 'grant privileges to foreigners, which necessarily entail a loss on themselves ; and if no saving be made in the duties, then the... 