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time as " the Pottinger treaty"--which opened to
all the advantages of the trade with China all those
empires and states which had had no previous com-
munication with China.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
have now only to ask you for one favour. You all
know that that same " hurrah" which is the signal
of assault in battle, is the national note of welcome
and congratulation to those of our countrymen whom
we delight to honour; and if there are any deficiencies
upon my part in expressing the feelings of any gen-
tleman in this room, I hope he will, by his own loud
Cheer, take care to supply my deficiencies.—(Loud
cheers.) I give you, gentlemen, the health of Sir
Henry Pottinger, with every honour that can attend
it.—(Loud cheers.)
The Right Hon. Sir HEMEL!' POTTINGER, in rising
to reply, was received with the most enthusiastic ap-
plause. Gentlemen, said he, in addition to the imper-
fections wider which I generally labour in addressing
any persons in a public assembly, I have to crave your
especial consideration for an extremely bad cold,
under which I am labouring. Even if I had all the
powers of eloquence that any person could be distin-
guished by, I assure you I feel utterly unable to tell
you how deeply and how sincerely I thank you for
your kindness towards me. I know not, indeed, how
to say all that I ought to do, in answer to the manner
in which my health has been proposed and drunk by
you. When I was first appointed to China, the ap-
pointment was, I am proud to say, totally unsolicited.
—(Loud cheers.) I had been in India from the time
that I was a boy thirteen years of age. I came home
to England ; and I had very little intercourse with
any of the leading men in both or either parties • in
fact, I hardly knew any of them personally when
I received an intimation from her Majesty's
Ministers, at the time, to the purpose that I should
go out to China. Although my health was not
quite established, I was ready and forward to do any
service to my country ; and I embarked for China
with the full intention of doing all that I could, in a
full and anxious exertion, to carry out the instruc-
tions that I had received.—(Cheers.) Upon my ar-
rival in China, I need hardly tell you, things were in
a very unpleasant and awkward state; but, through the
valour of her Majesty's arms, and the distinguished
services of her Majesty's navy, they soon came to
have a better appearance. And as soon as that
sort of persuasion induced the Chinese Government
to listen to our terms, they were then ready to meet
them more than half way, and to show that modera-
tion—which I am sure was best worthy of England,
of which I am quite certain every person in this room
would highly apporve. With that feeling, gentlemen,
I undertook and I commenced that negotiation ; and I
had the happiness to meet, as already I have in another
public situation stated, in consultation, my esteemed
friend, the High Commissioner Ke-ying. The treaty
was made as you have seen it, though afterwards there
remained what were to me difficulties, and most im-
portant matters to be settled, in the commercial ne-
gotiations. There, however, I met with assistance
which I could hardly have promised myself. Some
of the gentlemen attached to the former mission were
quite competent to give me every information, and
they undoubtedly did so. One of them, alas ! now
no more, was peculiarly a person likely to he of use
upon the occasion : I speak of Mr. Morrison.—(Hear,
hear.) The other is a gentleman, with whom, I dare
say, some of you are acquainted—if not from the first
—Mr. Thom, a gentleman from Glasgow.—(Hear.)
To these two gentlemen, I am glad to have this pub-
lic opportunity of saying, I was greatly indebted for
all the information upon which the tariff and the
commercial part of the negotiations were regulated.
—(Hear, hear.) For you will all readily under-
stand, that my habits and pursuits were not of
that nature perfectly to give me a sufficient in-
sight into this question myself*. I, however, did
not shrink from the responsibility; and, I need
not say, that it rejoices and delights me to feel
that I have not only your approbation ; but
I rejoice to see, that I have the approbation,
as it were of all England,—" I say " all England,"
for when I see her Majesty's present and late Minis-
ters each combining to say that they approve of what
I have done ; when I see thi City of London, the
great town of Liverpool, and the still greater town of
Manchester, what am Ito believe ? I cannot believe
that any of have thought it necessary to meet,
and come forward, and to speak wholly without cause,
for an humble individual like myself. I am not,however,
the less thankful and grateful for your kindness. Be-
lieve me that your good opinionand your approbation
(and when I say yours I. mean that of all my fellow-
countrymen) is the most cheering—the most heart-
cheering—reward that I can possibly have.—(Cheers.)
To feel that lam at this moment encircled by a
people—not only by a class of my fellow-subjects, not
only in this room, but in this country, who deem
that I have done them a service, is a reward beyond
all expression on my side. I believe, as I have
already, in another place, said, that the treaty
combines all the advantages that a treaty with
China ought to do. I have studied, I did study
in making it, to prevent any feeling of jealousy upon
the part of the Chinese; they met me more than half
way, and I thought it was my duty, and I felt that
it accorded with the greatness and the feelings of
England, not to make it exclusive. I was, therefore,
happy to take the step to which his Worship, the
Mayor, has alluded, and to recommend to the
Chinese Government, with a full experience, to throw
open the treaty with all the nations in the world.—
(Cheers.) My own opinion of the treaty was, that
it would take some time, at all events, to mature it-
self; and there are one or two questions as to what
returns China will make to us, that are to us of the
most important nature. But if that difficulty can be
got over, I trust as England can only benefit herself
by benefiting China—and it will be in a great mea-
sure—(Cheers)—l believe I may say that the ad-
vantages of the treaty to England, and to all other
manufacturing countries, will be almost unlimited.—

in the courage of our men, which had ever been ex-
perienced at any period of British history.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Major-General Sir THostAS APtiutittsoT, in res-
ponding, said he could not sufficiently thank the as
sembly for the honour which they had done to a pro-
fession to which he was proud to belong. He attri-
buted the honour done to the two services alluded to
in the toast, to the conviction on the part of the gen-
tlemen present that those services were, as they had
always been, ready to support the institutions of our
country, or to support our country in any way what-
ever they might be called upon to do so.—(Hear.)
J. MACVICAR, Esq., then proposed " The Indian
Army and Navy, especially that portion of it serving
in China." Seeing a distinguished member of that
army sitting at the right of' the chair, he had great
pleasure in referring to the toast. In China, that
army distinguished themselves nobly and greatly.
One instance occurred to him, that of Captain Simpson,
who, with a few musketeers, WaS cut off from the main
body of the army who were besieging Canton. During
the heavy rain, their firelocks were unserviceable ;
notwithstanding which, this distinguished officer, with
a few native soldiers alone, mastered all the forces
which China could bring'against them. The name of
Captain Boss, as connected with the most valuable
surveys of the Straits of Malacca and the Indian Seas,
would require no remark. No one more highly ap-
preciated the services of Sir Henry Pottinger than
himself, and he begged to propose the toast.—(Drunk
with three times three, and "one cheer more.")
The MA.voa then said—The toast I have now to
propose to you, gentlemen, is the health of our distin-
guished guest, Sir Henry Pottinger—(Loud cheers ;
the whole company rising)—and I shall need, in
offering the few remarks I am about to submit to you,
all your consideration and kindness—(Hear)—for I
have felt, I assure you, very considerable embarrass-
ment upon the present occasion. I know how the gen-
tlemen here assembled, and who have invited Sir
Henry Pottinger, have felt towards me; I know how
highly they have appreciated his services ; and I have
felt that no common language and no common terms
can express their feelings towards him--(Hear, hear)
but in the short time that I have had the honour of a
personal acquaintance with Sir Henry Pottinger, I
have felt that it was due to him upon this occasion
to use no observations or any terms that might
be distasteful to himself. (Hear, hear.) I felt
satisfied that you, in common with me, wish that
nothing may be said that he cannot, at any future
period of his visit to Manchester, recur to
with any other feelings than those of satisfaction
and pleasure. And although our distinguished guest
has so long resided in the East, and has been accus-
tomed therefore to the inflated language of that coun-
try, I yet have believed, from the short period I have
seen him, it would be unbecoming in me to speak of
his services in anything like the hyperbolical lan-
guage of the East, and that I ought to address him,
upon this occasion, in language that would be more
consonant with his pure and severe taste, if I were
to use such expressions as are more suited to our
clime and country.—(Hear. hear.) It is not, there-
fore, my intention, in speaking of Sir Henry Pottin-
ger, or of the treaty which he has so successfully
concluded, to repeat over again that which has been
so much better said at the two assemblies of this de-
scription at which he has so recently been present ;
but it is my business, and my especial pleasure, to
advert rather to the peculiar causes of satisfaction
and content with which we, in this manufacturing
district, have viewed that successful treaty, and that
result of his able efforts.—(Loud cheers.) I shall not,
therefore, take up your time with recounting the
great advantages which will result to the empire at
large, and to the whole civilized world, from that
treaty, norshall I occupyyour time at all with entering
into the question of the soundness of the great principles
which it embodies; nor shall I at all occupy your time
by entering into any lengthened detail of the various
duties, or of the scale of those duties, which have been,
by his successful efforts and his successful arguments
with the Chinese'Commissioners, reduced to so low a
rate.—(Cheers.) But I shall proceed at once to state
the particular circumstances and feelings which induce
us to thank him for the great benefits he has con-
ferred upon this manufacturing district, and which, I
believe, we shall experience for a long period-of years
,yet tct come.-s--.(Cheers.) I may remind you; gentle-
men, Ahab. the: empire- of Chiba, which has been so
extensively opened, to you _by the, successful nego-
tiations of Sir Henry Pottinger—includes in every
part--is equal to, I believe—eight hundred and forty
millions of Britigh statute acres, and comprises within
that space a population which is now computed
to amount to upwards of three hundred and forty
millions of souls ; and it will then be easy for you,
gentlemen, all of whom are accustomed to minute

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No. of
Policies
issued.

Amount of
Capital.

20th Nov. 1836... •
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► „ 1838
„ 1139
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u 1841 •••
„ 1842.........
„ 1143..... ....1
„ 1844.........1

X a. d.
8,021 12 2
14,600 0 0
19,934 19 4
25,427 4 2
31,051 10 10
36,357 1 4
39,360 9 7
44,219 17 0
55,037 9 2

Total number ....

The gratifying result 01
the Institution on the 2cl
lowing instances: exhibi
had been in existence froi

.£ 3. d.
10,736 3 0
31,592 10 5
46,855 0 10
84,959 10 10
90,545 13 9
114,993 2 4
139 806 1 7
167,079 11 2
202,102 1 9

It the valuation of the liabilities and assets of
'th No►ember, 1842, is exemplified in the fol-
iting the profit assigned to Policies which
•m one to seven dears

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Reduction
Reduction
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cies in Com- '" Amount Original ;„. per cont.
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Bonus.
miuni...
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717 2 44 7 33 2,000 177 10 054 1
8 2) 11 6 39
6 52 2,000 227 19 0 19711 8345 10 n 5
6 31 500 37 20 19 6 42 5 33 5 51 1,000 91 3 0 4717 2613 6 4 6
5 :30 609 37 2015 6 0 4I 2 26
4 42 SOO 171 19 01712 1 313 3 20
4 22 1,00 46 14 024 3 4 416 3 19
3 46 804 37 8131 18 8 418 10 Me
3 25. 2,000 69 6044 5 0 614 11 154
2 63 3,1'09 140 15 0 224 15 02311 7 104
2 20 580 11 II 01110 0 12 6 . 91(
1 42 . 2,009 al 14 oi7o 8 4 33 9 44
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DINNER TO SIR H. POTTINGER,
AT MANCHESTER.
On Friday evening a dinner was given to Sir
Henry Pottinger in the Town Hall, Manchester,
which was attended by a great concourse of people,
including not only the leading manufacturers of the
town, but many from the neighbouring districts,
anxious to pay a tribute of respect to the man who
had taken such an active part in throwing open the
trade with China, and benefiting the manufacturing
classes.
ALEXANDER KAY, Esq., the Mayor, presided. At
his right sat the distinguished guest of the evening,
the Right Hon. Major-General Sir Henry Pottinger ;
K.C.8., ; Major-General Sir Thoinas Arbuthnot,
K.C.8., the general commanding the northern dis-
trict; Sir George Larpent ; John 'Wilson Patten,
Esq., M.P.; Samuel Gregson, Esq.; Colonel Mal-
' colm ; D. L. Burn, Esq.; Dr. Woosman ; John Mac-
vicar, Esq.; Archibald Ilasties, Esq., M.P. (Paisley);
Major Pottinger (a son of Sir Henry) ; R. Burgess,
Esq. (a personal friend of Sir Henry) ; the Rev.
Canon Parkinson, 8.D.; Captain Ormsby, and Cap-
tain Eastwick. On the Chairman's left were William
Entwisle, Esq., M.P. ; John M`Gregor, Esq., of the
Board of Trade ; James Loch, Esq., M.P. (the 'Wick
burghs) ; Lieut.-Colonel White, of the 70th Foot;
Frederick Pottinger, Esq. (Sir Henry's brother);
Colonel Brooke, of the Northern District Staff; Ro-
bert Stuart, Esq. ; Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman of
the Liverpool East India and China Association; the
Rev. Canon Wray ; Major Fester, of the Royal En-
gineers; Major Westenra, of the sth Dragoon Guards ;
Dr. Bowring, M.P. ; and Robert Gladstone, Esq.
The Vice-President of the evening was Richard
Birley, Esq. At the foot of the other tables, as
stewards, were M. Gladstone, Esq. ; John Potter,
Esq. ; . Harter, jun., Esq.; Thomas Burt, Esq. ;
M. Ross, Esq. ; D. Broadhurst, Esq. ; and William
Shore, Esq.
Amongst the gentlemen present were, Messrs. Jas.
Athertm, T. Bazley, jun., president of the Man-
chester hamber of Commerce, Daniel Maude, Meyer,
Reiss, Robert Barbour, H. 11. Birley, H. 11. Birley,
jun., Robert Birley, Henry Birley, Captain Spence,
Messrs. Charles Hindley, M.P., John Chippendall,
Edward Loyd, Francis Fane, William Gibh, Captain
Atherton, Messrs. William Peel, Corrie, John Brad-
shaw, Richard Kay, John Sharp, Peter Ainsworth,
M.P., E. Joynson, Mavrocordato, J. W. Fraser,
Robert Gill, J. Ferguson, Robert N. Philips, Thos.
M'Connel, Daniel Grant, Robert Gardner, Henry
M'Connel, William Fairbairn, Thomas Boothman,
jun., J. E. Royle, Wood Gibson, E. M. Cooper,
Louis Schwabe, Thomas Potter, William Brockle-
hurst, Edward Tootal, J. P. Westhead, Thomas
Hilton, Alderman Brooks, J. Knowles, J. A. Arm-
strong, Peter Ormrod, George Nelson, James
Ormrod, Captain Innes, of the Royal Artillery,
Messrs. Critchley, Salis Schwabe, Alderman Watkins,
Alderman Neild, Alderman Willert, Peter Greenall,
M.P., Alderman Callendar, Lewis 'Williams, Lodge,
H. P. Ree, A. Gladstone, William Harter, George
Armstrong, Richard Marsden, E. Langworthy, J. A.
Turner, W. Turner, G. Garstang, Walter Stirling,
Joseph Peel, A. Clarke, Thomas Barge, jun., Henry
Newberry, Kelsall, T. Kelsall, Samuel Fletcher, John
Woollam, Lillie, Alderman Bancroft, Sidney Potter,
Captain 'Willis, &c.
After the usual loyal toasts the MAYOR gave
" The Army and Navy," in proposing which, he said,
no Englishman could hear this toast without its
bringing to his recollection from the time of Cressy to
the crowning victory of Waterloo.—(Applause.) If
we had reason to be proud of these actions, we had no
less reason to be proud of those officers who had pro•
duced those glorious actions which had ended in that
celebrated treaty which our illustrious guest, Sir
Henry Pottinger, had concluded. He confessed, when
he saw in the public prints that the officers attached
to that expedition, and leading it, had ventured to at-
tack an empire which numbered among its military
forces 1,800,000 combatants, and that only with a
force which at no period exceeded 9,000 men of all
arms, and only 24 ships of war, two of which only
were line-of- battle ships, he thought we should all
agree that never at any period was the honour of the
British arms more brilliantly sustained. He had
never felt any sort of apprehension as to any attacks
upon us. He knew the stamina of Englishmen ; and,
if ever the time should arrive, and he hoped it was far
distant, that we might place the most implicit reliance

Calculations, at once to determine what the degree of
advantage will be to this manufacturing district by
having a market of this extraordinary extent opened
out to us.—(Loud cheers.) You will recollect,
gentlemen, that the population of Great Britain
amounts to 'twenty-seven millions of people; and if
we consider, for a single moment that twenty-seven
millions of people have now the opportunity of free
and equal trade with a population exceeding three
hundred and fifty millions of people, the advantages
must be almost wholly on our side.—(Loud cheers.)
I heard an exclamation which proceeded from one of
our country manufacturers upon the subject, which, I
dare say, will convey some idea to the minds of gen-
tlemen present of the advantages which we are likely
to derive from the extension of our intercourse with
China. " Why," said the worthy manufacturer, "all
the mills we now have will hardly make yarn to find
them with night-caps and socks."—(Laughter.)
Without, gentlemen, entertaining any very extrava-
gant notions upon the subject myself, or at all wish-
ing to excite any spirit of speculation from any re-
marks I may make upon the present occasion, I have
been furnished, by the kindness of my friend Mr.
Macvicar, with a statement of the exports to Chime,
during the years 1843 and 1844.—(Hear, hear.) The
account is made up, Gentlemen, from the 30th No-
vember, which, I presume, was the period when the
intelligence reached England, of the successful ter-
mination of Sir H. Pottinger's labours ' • therefore,
the account commences with the 30th November,
1843, and is carried up to November, 1844. From
that account I perceive, in 1843, that of plain cot-
ton piece goods there were shipped to China, from the
ports of London, Liverpool, and Clyde 1,114,381
pieces; and in the corresponding period—namely, for
the year ending 30th November, 1844, the number
of the same pieces of cotton shipped to China amounted
to 2,250,795 pieces; making an advance, in that short
space of ti:ne, of 1,102,414 pieces.—(Cheers.) It will
not be necessary for me to occupy your time in stat-
ing the various descriptions of pieces of cotton goods
which are mentioned in this return ; but, in order to
enable you to judge of the increase of our exports, in
that short period, to this extraordinary country, I
may simply state to you that the value of all the fore-
going articles enumerated in this statement, amounted
in 1843 to 1,468,1151. sterling, and that of the same
descriptions in the year ending 30th November, 1844,
amounted to 2,064,093/. ; showing an increase in the
exports of this country to China, in a single year, of
595,9781.—(Great cheering.) The same gentleman
has kindly furnished me with a schedule tariff of the
duties upon the foreign trade with China, which came
into operation on the 27th July, 1843, and also of the
rates of duty previously levied. I find upon reference
to this important document which it may be
satisfactory to many of the gentlemen here pre-
sent to be informed is prepared for Mr. Court, of
the Underwriters' Rooms in Liverpool: and the
rates of duties are exhibited in two columns, first the
previous duty, and secondly the. present duty. The
previous duty, as exhibited in this return, is not re-
duced either to sterling money or to dollars and
cents, although that process of reduction is shown as
applied to the present duty ; and I am sure you, gen-
tlemen, do not expect, from my previous habits of life,
that I can at all pretend to reduce the Chinese taels,
mace, .candarines, and cash, into any thing you can
understand upon the present occasion. I have just
been reminded, through the kindness of my friend
Mr. Macvicar, that the difference is simply this, that
the previous duty has been reduced, by the successful
negotiation of Sir Henry Pottinger, to one-fourth of
their previous amount.—(Hear.) These are the
grounds, and these are the prospects, gentlemen, which
have been opened out to this manufacturing district
by the successful efforts and the great talents of Sir
Henry Pottinger.—(Cheers.) And I am quite per-
suaded that, for many years to come, our tnanutac-
turers will find, by the state of their balance-sheet at
the end of every Christmas, they will have to return
thanks for the exertions of Sir Henry Pottinger.—
(Cheers.) I know no other instance besides the pre-
sent, where a treaty of this magnitude has been con-
cluded, which has had not merely the approbation of his
own countrymen, of every class and grade who have
given any attention to the subject, but of all the nations
in the world.—(Cheers.) He has softened down all
those rival and hostile feelings upon this occasion
which we should all have expected to have seen perfectly
rife, if he had not introduced that memorable treaty
which I hope will hereafter become known to all

(Cheers.) I calculate, from my own personal obser-
vation, that the immediate effect of the treaty will be,
to bring us into direct contact with not less than 120
to 150 millions of people.—(Hear.) I speak of the
seaboard ; and, my own firm belief is, that if we do
not go too fast for the Chinese—if we allow them to
see we have no object beyond kindness and commer-
cial intercourse—that we have no exclusive feelings—
do not look to anything beyond a mere mercantile set-
tlement in their country, I do believe, that in the
lapse of a very few years they will be as ready, or
perhaps more so, to trade with us, as we are with
any other country.—(Cheers) I, upon another oc-
casion since I came to England, have spoken of the
advantages which, in my opinion, appertain particu-
larly to Hong-Kong as a seat of commerce. I think
still, and the more I reflect upon it—for I cannot say
Honp -Kong was selected by me—but I again repeat,
that if the two places were at my disposal to-morrow,
I should prefer Hong-Kong. I am quite sure to
have retained Chusan would not only be a heavy ex-
pense to Great Britain, but would bring us into con-
stant unpleasant discussion with the Chinese; for it
is needle-s to deny, that, though they are quite obe-
dient to their own mandarins, yet with strangers they
are extremely troublesome. I beg to repeat that lam
most truly, and deeply, and affectionately sensible of
your kindness, and before I sit down, I beg to return
you, individually and collectively, my best thanks,
and wishing you all happiness and prosperity in
your several stations.—(lmmense cheering, and one
cheer more.)

JoHN M'acvican, Esq., proposed " The Indian
Army and Navy—especially that portion of it serving
in China."

Captain EASTWICK, in the name of the two ser-
vices, acknowledged the toast.

RICIIARD BIRLEY, Esq., gave " Her Majesty's
Ministers"—(Applause)—a toast which he was sure
they would all drink with much pleasure, because
they had been the parties who had continued Sir
Henry Pottinger in his position to conduct the nego-
tiations with China. He regretted that none of the
Ministers were present; but their sentiments were
well known, both by the speech of Lord Aberdeen in
London, and Lord Stanley in Liverpool, from which
we might infer that that course of negotiation carried
out by Sir Henry Pottinger in China, would be sup-
ported by the Ministry in this country. He did not
wish to give to any of these proceedings a party cha-
racter; and he would only say, he believed they
wished to promote the commerce of this country and
the whole world, and there he would leave the subject.
He congratulated the distinguished guest of the even-
ing, as a cotton manufacturer, not only for the ser-
vices rendered to us, but also to our workpeople in
this district. He would appeal to all present, whether
the announcement of the opening of the markets of
China was not the cause of a great improvement in
this district. From that period the improvement of
this district, especially Stockport, where the building
of a great number of dwellings of the workpeople
had been announced ; and, without detaining the
company longer, he would only say that this district
had greatly experienced the effect of Sir Henry
Pottiner's negotiations in China.—(Cheers.)
Sir HENRY POTTINGER proposed next, "The Mayor
and Corporation of Manchester," their honoured hosts.
It was difficult to explain how deeply he felt the ho.

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