NOTICE.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
ANY Persons having Representations to lay before the Land Committee, are hereby requested to send in written state- ments of their cases without delay, else they will not be taken into consideration.
BY ORDER.
Geo: F. Mylius."
Land Officer.
Hongkong,
Land Office,
April 27th. 1842.
NOTICE
TO OUR MACAO
SUBSCRIBERS.
The Post Office arrangements of the Island be. ing now complete our Friends and Subscribers at Macao will please take note that, in future, the Friend of China will be uniformly sent through the medium of our Post Office to their respective addresses, and of course will be obtainable, with their letters, from hence, at the office of the Agent for the Superintendents, John Rickett Esq. Macao,
FRIEND OF CEREN
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY, 5TH. 1842.
FROM THE PEKING GAZETTE. PATRIOTISM OF NATIVE MERCHANTS OF CHEKEANG
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SIAM AND COCHIN CHINA.
WAR BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.
THE Cochin-Chinese and Siamese gov- ernments have long been at loggerheads: or, as an esteemed freind ouce observed to us when speaking on the subject, the Siam- ese have, for along time been buzzing about the ears of the Cochin-Chinese.
The following extract of a letter just received from Bangkok, Slam, contains the most recent particulars.
was
"The Siamese forces for Cochin-China have left Bangkok. They consist t of five ships of war on the European model, and forty war-junks,con. taining, perhaps, some two or three thousand men, and these, with the forces already sent, and at their command near the boundary line of the two nations will probably make a Siamese army of ten or fifteen thousand men. The bone ofcontention seems to be a Province in Cambodia, which formerly under Siamese rule. The Cambodians, how- ever, not liking their rulers, sought and obtained the protection of the Cochin.-Chinese-Now the Siamese wish to bring them back to their allegiance, and hence they are involved in a war with the Cochin Chinese. News have just reached here that a fort occupied by the Cochin-Chinese was evacuated and then taken immediate possession of by the Siam- ese, but no sooner had they done this than the fort blew up. How many Siamese were
were kill ed by this stategem is not stated. I am inclined to think that this news want confirmation.”
CANTON RANSOM.
We are much disappointed in not having received the promised particulars of the appropriation and dis- tribution of the Prize money-Wehope in our next to be able to give full particulars; meantime we may say that we hear on good authority a Captain in the army will obtain at least four hundred and fifty Pounds as his Share.
-LORD ASHBURTON'S
Special mission to the United States.
LORD Ashburton's special instructions are limited to these three points, the Carolte affair, the Boundary, The juncture is favourable, and the right of search. and the man well chosen Both countries have just escaped from a minor quarrel, the trial of M'Leod, which might have appealed to the point of honour on both sides, and involved both in a profitless and unwel. come war: both are the more desirous of peace. A man of no common talent and sagacity once the princo- of British merchants-our leading merchant in the American trade, and the head of the family which occupies the post that he relinquished on his elevation to the peerage-connected with the country by inter- marriages-thoroughly informed, no less in the actual state of American feeling than in the history of the Republic, and of the particular questions which he is to treat with the rights, wants and difficulties of Ameri- ca-Lord Ashburton is pointed out by many circum- tances as the fittest man that could have been selected for such a mission. He is a thorough Englishman, but-possessed with American sympathies and alive to American interests No keen partisan, he is Liberal in disposition, and yet not to be suspected of any lack of Conservative views. Even the accident of his title
And we have reason to believe that his shrewd atten- tion has been given to the subject
mission, with
that regard to the rights and th ties of both
A friend has kindly handed us the fol-will not be against him with our Democratic cousins. lowing extract. At this juncture any thing of this nature touching the intercourse of any foreign nation with China, during any period of the past, must be regarded with interest,
SETTLEMENT OF THE DUTCH AT FORMSA (1624.)
Tuis Island (Formosa) although situated opposite
from
THE Imperial will has been received as fellows: LEW YUEN 0, (the Lieut Govern or) has sent up a memorial representing, that Kin yu shing, and other merchants of Sze Sho in the Province of CheKeamg, with warmest patriotism, desire to respond to the Imperial favours shown to them. In consequence of the troops assembling in this said Province, and the preparations requirits coast was not subject to the empire of ed for exterminating the barbarians, and the necessary expenses of the war being urgent aud important, the above merchants have petitioned that they might be permit ted to offer to the State the sum of one mil- lion two hundred thousand Taels(nealy three millions of dollars), and Lew Y Yuen O soli- cits his Imperial Majesty to reward them accordingly.
to the Province of Fokeen, and at thirtyChina, for
THE said merchants anxionsly desiring to repay their obligations to the State, has tened to meet the Imperial wishes-THEY certainly are worthy of being most hand- somely rewarded. The Lieut. Governor is therefore, hereby ordered to enol their names in an official list and lay it before, the throne, that I the Emperor may mani- fest my imperial favours toward them,
RESPECT THIS.
We call the attention of our Readers to the two Warrants in our first page. This augmentation of magisterial power will, we know not be abused, and cannot but tend to give increased efficiency to our police judicatare at the same time it will im portantly raise it in the estimation of the rest. dents; whilst it will remove many very serious cau ses of objection to which it was before liable,
We hope our friends will take note of the Land Officers announcement. With respect to any claims business with the Land Commilles, no time should be lost in bringing them before it.
or
Captain Chada,
H. M. 8. Cambrian arrived in our harbour on the 28th nit
and Can
Governor GENCIE
cutta from England.
When
She led 3rd nst Tho
a came out in her to
the Chinese had no passion for conquest; and from an inhuman and mistaken policy they preferred wing a part of their population to perish to sending the super abundance into the neighbouring country.-
Ir was found that Formosa was one hundred and
thirty or one hundred and forty leagues in circumfer. ance. The inhabitants of the Island judging from their manners and their faces were descended from the route they came by. These people lived mostly by the northern Tartars of Asia, and probably Corea was fishing and the chase, and went nearly naked.
THE Duch prudently thought that the best adapted spot for an establishment was a little island in the three considerable advantages-facility of defense neighbourhood of the large one, Here they found should hatred or jealonsy lead to their being troubled -- a port formed by the two islands-and the facility of keeping up a free communication with China during they might have chosen would have been found wan- both monsoons: advantages that in other situations ting. The new colony was fortified insensibly and without notice, when it rose at once to a state of pros perity that astonished all Asia. It was to the conque of China by the Tartars that this rapid rise was owing. Thus do the torrents fertilize the valleys with the sub stance of the despoiled mountains. More than one hundred thousand Chinese who would not submit to the conquerors took refuge on Formoss
They ca the cultivation of sugar and rice, and attracted from thither their characteristic industry, and introduced the
the mother country a vast quantity vessels. Soon this Island become the centre of all commun
tions between Java, Siam, the Filipines China Japan. In a few years it become the largest market in India The Dutch hoped for still
hen for tune abandoned them, (A Free translatio from the
Hirom Philosophic et Politique des establisse mens et la commerce
peens dans les deux Indes.")
succes
jed
sides, which will secure him as much influence as any
man could command with hoth His appointment is the wisest preliminary step towards a real adjustment of these uselessly and dangerously protracted dis- putes Taking the measure and the man together, is in promise whatever it may turn out in fruition, the luckiest hit that Sir. R. Peel has made.-(SPECTATOR)
It is, indeed, not amongst the least curious circums tances of the present
nt friendly relation between Russia and England, that so many marriages are daily oc curring between our fair young countrywomen and the Russian nobles, and the warm encouragement which his Empress. Indeed, a young English lady, at all dis- is given to these unions by the Emperor Nicholas and tinguished for her beauty and talents, no sooner arrives at a private residence at Petersburgh, where the host himself is a man of respectable condition, such as being an officer in the service, or a British merchant of the first class, than the fact becomes known in the Russian court, and immediate steps are taken by the order of the Emperor for her introduction. If upon her appea- rence at court she is then approved, the imperial family seem on the instant to apply themselves to procure her an alliance and a good or at least a noble marriage is almost the certain consequence of her court favour. Such is the pleasing preference which it given in this northern court to English beauty, manners, and habits; we should say such are the simple but effectual means which the Emperor and his consort are taking to im prove the habits and manners of their own court. Not only this lady's sister, but we believe the lady herself, affords an example of this delightful preference of Great Britain and her manners in the Russian Court, and it is this circumstance which affords us a more than usual satisfaction in recommending the work before us. If any of our readers, a gentleman perhaps dispose of them in a foreign marriage, and does not re- with half a dozen danghters, should feel the wish to gard distance, we would say at once, send one or more of them out as visitors to a friend at St Petersburgh instead of Calcutta; they will find a quicker settlement, and better bargains. Perhaps it would be as well not to put them altogether in the vessel's invoice, but to ship them with the general cargo without notice. London Review of a Recent Work on Rus sia by a Lady.
- further.
CHINESE LITERATURE. Tun Yi King Book of changes is the oldest
work extant amor
the Hung erford