No. 1.
THE
DIEU
ET MON
RO
Hongkong
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, HONGKONG; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1853.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
THE Contract hitherto in for having ceased on the HE Contract hitherto in force for the publication of
21st instant,-Notice is hereby given, that the IIONG- KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, this day estab- lished, will be hereafter the only Official Organ of Pro- clamations, Notifications, and all Public Papers of this Government.
By Order,
Victoria, Hongkong,
24th September, 1853.
STEAM FOR
W. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.
SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, AND SOUTHAMPTON;
ALSO,
BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.
HE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-
until further notice, Consular jurisdiction and au- thority in the Port of Canton.
By Order,
W. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c.
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 Excel- lency the Imperial Commissioner, Yě, 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 Dol-
PARES Steam-ship FORMOSA, Captain CHRISTIAN, a cul
with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above Places, on Tuesday, the 27th September, at 2 P. M. `
CARGO will be received on board until 5 P. M. on the 24th, SPECIE until Noon on the 26th, and PARCELS until 2 P. M. on the 26th.
For particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany's Office, Hongkong.
CONTENTS, AND VALUE OF PACKAGES, ARE REQUIRED.
A written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Ship- per to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness in such declaration.
ROBERT S. WALKER, Superintendent.
P. & O. S. N. Company's Office,
Hongkong, 23d September, 1853.
Diplomatic Department.
D. B. ROBERTSON, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul for Amoy, having been directed to assume his functions at that Port, His Excellency Her Ma- jesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has been pleased to appoint H. S. PARKES, Esq., Interpreter to the Canton Consulate, to exercise for the present, and
By Order,
W. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H. M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria,
Hongkong, 19th September, 1853.
No. 35.
YEH, Imperial Commissioner, Governor General of
the Two Kwang, &c., &c., &c.
MAKES THIS DECLARATION IN REPLY.
On the 3d instant, I received your statement, which I have carefully considered. I remark in regard to this question of the employment of For- eign Money, that in consequence of the disap- pearance of old Dollars from the market, the Mer- chants and Traders desire, as a means of maintain- ing a circulating medium, that other kinds of Dol- lars 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 re- presentation 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),