THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
FRIEND OF CHINA- AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL, Asr. 1842.
We had not space in our last, to call the attention of our Readers to the circular of the Plenipotentiary detailing our successes in the north and which we then published. We are aware it has been ea gerly perused, and also with much satis- faction, recording as it does one of the most important encounters we have yet had with the Chinese.
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We are disposed to think that our attack on the Chinese camp (so closely following as it did the repulse of the enemy at Ning- po) may go far to induce the belief of our invincibility. The high authorities of the Chinese must have it forced on their con- viction by these repeated discomfitures of their troops. They are shrewd enough to infer what may, can, and will be done when our reinforcements have arrived, and from what has already been effected, by tite hand ful of troops at present employed in the Northern Expedition.
We have just received the Overland January Mail. The contents are not of much interest. The principal itens of intelligence are that Prince Albert is to be The King of Prussia will at created King consort. tend the Christening of the Prince of Wales as one the sponsors on the 25th January. The Queen will open Parliament in person. The Dutch India fleet is to be largely augmented.
Mr Laurence Peel has been appointed chief justice of Bengal, Sir Richard Jenkins hopes to be Governor of Madras. Derry Dawson, Sir Robert's brother in law is to be the new Commissioner of Excise, The cost of the late Brevet was £40,000 per annum. Beat- mont Smith pleaded guilty, to forging the Exchequer Bills and was transported for life. The investigation can- not be buried, although Peers may be implicated in the
HONGKONG PUST OFFICE.
THE official announcement in our first page, of the appointment of Mr Robert Edwards to take charge of the Post Office, will, we are sure, give much satisfac- tion. The long residence of Mr. Edwards in China, his thorough acquaintance with our local requirements, and mercantile interests, affords a guarantee for the cffi- ciency of this Department. Our readers will remember that Mr. Edwards was the first person who established a regular delivery of Letters betwixt Canton and Macao.
Tis article in our first page headed Post office ar- rangements, was set up before we received the offi. cial ratification of Mr. Edwards appointment.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
NEW ZEALAND.
We perciive by the Sydney Papers that at the Gov. ernment settlement, Auckland, they have already passed a manicipal Corporation Bill. It is said that there is established an English, and also a New. Zealand Paper, both supported most liberally by the Government. 1-the-latter the natives are most pa•
termally invited by the Authorities to make known any Cause of complaint and to seek for information. | Tundra Auckland about three hundred
Europeans and is all the Machinery of Govern ment (before it was wanted perhaps) sceng there is already an official Expenditure of about twenty thou- sand Pounds per annum --A Bishop is now to be added to the List. The potty but influential spite of the immutable under secretary of state for the Colonies Mr Stephen (or Mr Mother Country as he is callod in the Clubs) is the alleged reason why the seat of Go
By the Sydney Papers received per Brig vernment is not at Port Nicholson where the Euro- "Liverpool", we perceive that amid all the pean population (including the vicinage) now amounts to -4,000 souls. The discussions of the Legislative embarassments and anxieties of the Colo- Council at Auckland, on the muncipal Corporation nists, they are not unmindful of their polit-Bill provoke invidious comparisons and much discon- tent in Sydney, which we have alluded to in another ical rights and, a publie meeting was con- vened by the sheriff for 16th. Feby, on the part of our paper. requisition of parties of high respectability, to "Consider and adopt petitions to Queen and both Houses of Parlament, praying for those representative institutions which this Colony is now entitled to
the
PORT ESSI NOTON.
Taa accounts we have of this new colony are very WE do think the Colonists have well encouraging. As a harbour of refuge for vessels nav- igating Torres Straits, its value has already been pror. grounded cause of complaint that the longed. We note that the crew of the Montreal wrecked promised ameliorations have not before this in the Straits reached Port Essington in two Boats. been carried into effect-It was avowedly lands of Timor, which they must have attempted, had It is dubious whether they could have made the Is the intention of Lord Melbourne's govern- ment, to settle this question among others; the talented author of a recent publication on Borneo not this post have been established, From Dr. Earle, but unluckily the whigs were most eager and the Eastern Seas, we have personally obtained ve. to realize good measures when they had ry recently much useful and interesting information least power to pass them.
with reference to the present state and future prospects of this Colony, which we hope to communicate to our Readers in an early number.
WHAT with the contentions and strivings for office of the rival factions, and their equal ignorance of Colonial interests, it ceases to surprise us that the Act of Lord
JAVA TEA.
frand. A comprehensive scheme of Emigration has re. Bathurst passed 1823 when the popular air, several packages of Java tea
ceived the sanction of the Government. A contemptible compromise of the corn question will be proposed by Sir Robert Peel Eight persons killed and twenty nine wounded by an accident on the Great Western Railway, Harry Eyres and C.A. Barlow of the Raya Lavy are now C. B's. The Chatham Islands have for £10,000 been sold by the New Zealand Land company to the Government of Hamburg who will there form a Ger
man Colony, The French are sending more settlers
The
and some wrong to then, Colony in new Zealand. counters Eglinton gave birth to a Son on the 3rd.
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December. During the same month Lord Donglas G. Halyburtona, Earl of Falmonth Mr. Serjeant Am. bin and Sydney Taylor of the Herald" have died LEEUT. Colonel George Macdonald appointed Go- Vernor of Sierra Leone. Lord Ashburton at the request of her Majesty's Goverment proccede to the United States on a Special Mission with the object of settling all existing, differences. Lady Sarah Villiers the love ly daughter of the Earl of Jersey and the belle of the last season is affianced to Prince Nicholas Esterhazzy the marriage is fixed for the 29th January, Lady. Sarah's brother. Lord Villiers, recently married the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Peel. Company's Con- gou on January 4th. was 1. 9. per lb.
Lancelot Dent Esq.-Ere this is priatek we be. lieve he will have left China for England. Although this respected gentlemen, was not strictly speaking member of our Hongkong community; sill we could not permit any one so justly esteemed to leave the shores of China without our respectful valediction. The Splendid bospitality which for so many years
he has maintained in Chma has been so universally
rienced that we not only do justice to our wn
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tlon was but 30,000 of whom only 16,000 were free should still be in force althongh now the population of New South Wales has increased to 140,000 of whom five sixths are free Bristish subjects.
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Illustrative of the grost neglect of Col. onial affairs, amid the parts struggles in England, we may mention that this Act, so avowedly repugnant to the whole genius of the British Constitution, was called a provisional one, and was originally trie an experiment for four years; and yet it has been continued by successive renewals for for Nineteen Years 1836 it was determin- ed to do something, yet before Parliament || was up
it was renewed for one Year. This farce after sundry discussions Petitions and Protestations has been each successive Session repeated, Can we then be surprised at the discontent of the Australians?
It is a matter of rejoicing that at home, there is daily increasing interest taken in Colonial matters. Our possessions abroad are now viewed by officials as something bet ter than mere patronage pr
res. In the metropolis we have now a Colonial society the writer was one of its earliest members) from whence issued the Colomal Club and also as an organ of sound Principles that admirable print the Colonial Gazette-All hese circumstances may be hailed, as the dvent of a better state of things; and it is in likely, as has happened, that we Imost struck dumb at the appalling,
of an Under secretary
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We see by a German Paper, that at the last Leipsic tes were brought thither for sale by the Dutch. They sold at high raten, und the report on the qualities was, that in goodness of flavor and strength they were not inferior to the finest and best Chinese caravan sort. The flavor being so much retained, is attributed to the short time, which had elipsed since their production, and the great care in packing; by which means they had not suffered by the variations of atmospheric temperature during their
transit to Europe,
Ir scams the Pirates are not deterred from the com mission of their crimes, by the capital punishment of their comrades. We hear of many ontrages lately committed, but all beyond our jurisdiction. A Native Passage Boat was a few days since captured in the Canton River many of the crew wounded in the de fence, and several were afterwards mutilated by the
Pirates.
THE Steamers Ariadne and Hooghly, having on board General Burrel and Sir Thomas Herbert, have returned from their reconnoissance of the Canton Riv er. They proceeded to the second bar but found 1 preparations made (as reported) for the restoration the Bogue forts.
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Ir is reported that intellegence of the wreck of a vessel on the Coast of Formosa has been received. believed to have been the Brig Ann, so long over due. It is added that much specie was on board, hence it is We hope the Crew have not shared the fate of the Nerbudda.
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gratulation that there is a azon of Aik hanistan as we India, none of theladies.
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