[21] Perfectly true.
[22] The French General in command during the Pekin campaign, who received this title from his emperor.
[23] The proceedings to raise the "Vampyre" fleet in England were then nearly concluded, and were known to the Ti-pings.
[24] The different methods of legal torture are numerated in the Imperialist code by hundreds.
[25] The power has, of course, reverted to the Home Government since the Sepoy revolt.
[26] By the last official return (1863-4) the export of opium from India to China is given as 42,621 chests, and the gross revenue derived therefrom, Rupees, 52,072,358.
[27] Alluding to Hong-Kong.
[28] These very words have frequently been addressed to myself by Chinese opium-smokers, and I fancy scarcely any European has been in China without having experienced the same.