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followiug day at noon, we ran into Hong Kong by tho 

 Lyemoon passage. In adtlitiou to tlie Ilmtittfj^'t, flag-alup, 

 Tvo found many of the Chiiaa squadron, comprising the 

 Scoui, PUoty C^liimbhie^ Albatross^ sloops ; witli the 

 Fur^ and hifitwiMe, steamers. Wo Tvere shocked to 

 hear that our worthy and respected chleC Sir Prancis 

 Collier, had sustained a paralytic stroke. 



The 1 0th April arriving^ — the day on which the gates 

 of Canton should have been opened, and perhaps 

 ■would have been, had the Canton mob been kept in the 

 same Bubjection as the London mob was on that famons 

 day — the Admiral, finding that there was no intention 

 on the part of oiu- Government to enforce the Davis 

 Treaty, sailed in tho Jnp^^ibk to -vdsit the northern ports ; 

 he ordered the Hastings to Sincapore, dispersed the 

 sloops— the Alkdrosif to Borneo, and the others to their 

 respective stations at the ports in China, which were 

 opened to trade by the Pottiuger Treaty. Tho Mtmndm- 

 was left to take caie of Hong Kong. 



