The correspondents include Thomas Adkins; Blackwood & Co.; Bourjau, Hübener & Co.; Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); Henry Edward Bush; J.E. Bush; Bush Brothers; R.M. Cohen; Frederick Perrin Cooper; Dreyer & Co.; J. Firmin; E.M. Gudgeon; Richard Farr Hamilton (Jardine, Matheson & Co.); A. Hertel (Captain of the 'Minnie'); Charles E. Hill (Thomas Hunt & Co.); Thomas B. Hooper (Captain of the 'Borderer', 'Lanrick' and 'Glengyle'); Robert Alexander Houstoun; William Keswick; Walter Edward King (British Consul); Knight & Co.; Neil Lamont (Captain of the 'Ettrick'); Maitland, Bush & Co.; T.G. Luson (Acting Commissioner of Customs); Thomas Taylor Meadows (British Consulate); F.W.S. O'Neill; Emil Oppert (of the 'Rona'); Daniel Patridge (Captain of the 'Hellas', 'Falcon', 'Snipe', 'Lanrick', 'Lady Hayes' and 'Berwick Walls'); David Petrie (Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Pitman & Co.; Thomas Platt; Thomas Preston ('Hong Kong Times'); Jane Simpson; [ ] Smith; Edward Vincent (of the 'Cora'); [ ] Whittall; and James Whittall.