MR. WHITEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Port of Kiungehow in the Island of Hainan (access to which was 594 stipulated for by the Treaty of Tientsin) will as reported be opened this Spring to Foreign trade?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, the most trustworthy information I can give to the hon. Gentleman will be found in an extract from a despatch dated Pekin, December 31, in which Mr. Wade says—
An American merchant being ready to run steamers between Kiungehow and Hongkong, I have, at the request of Mr. Low, joined him and the rest of my colleagues in an application to the Prince of Kung to open the port. Should His Imperial Highness consent, I shall send a competent interpreter to act as Vice Consul under the authority of the Consul at Canton.