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Diplomatic Department.

, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul for Amoy, having been directed to assume his functions at the Port, His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has been pleased to appoint, Esq., Interpreter to the Canton Consulate, to exercise for the present, and until further notice, Consular jurisdiction and authority in the Port of Canton.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th September, 1853.

Diplomatic Department.

His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., is pleased to give publicity to the subjoined communication from His Excellency the Imperial Commissioner, Yĕ, in reply to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, and to a Proclamation by the Local Authorities, relative to the introduction of Mexican Dollars as a currency on the same footing with Spanish Dollars.

Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th September, 1853.

No. 35.

On the 3d instant, I received your statement, which I have carefully considered. I remark in regard to this question of the employment of Foreign Money, that in consequence of the disappearance of old Dollars from the market, the Merchants and Traders desire, as a means of maintaining a circulating medium, that other kinds of Dollars should now be jointly used with the former, to which arrangement, moreover, no objections are raised on either side.

Although ready to admit the correctness of the views taken of this matter, both in the public representation of the English Merchants and in the letter of their Consul, I may observe on the other hand, that Dollars of the old pattern (Spanish)