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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND
N'. 16. VOL. L
HONG KONG
NOTIFICATION.
GAZETTE
· PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 7TH 1842.
THE publication of the Hongkong Ga- zette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing in The Friend of China and Hongkong Ga- zette, with the signatures of duly autho- rized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.
By order,
J. Robt: Morrison, Acting Secretary and Treasurer. Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842.
CONSULAT DE FRANCE EN CHINE. AVIS..
MESSIEURS les Capitaines et Subrecargues des Navires Français venant en Chine sont prévenus que leurs navires ne paye ront, à l'avenir, à Whampoa, que les mêmes droits que ceux auxquels sont soumis les navires Anglais et Americains,
C. ALEX.: CHALLAYE Gérant le Consulat de France en Chine.
Hongkong, 25 Mai, 1842.
FROM THE PEKING GAZETTE. THE reported death, in battle, of Sir Henry Pottinger
and other English Chiefs.
as in the case of the Nemesis in the attack upon Canton, very many have found an early grave for themselves and the fortunes, Judging from thie undisguised tone of the Gazettes the Emperor has mands of the British Government; and our ex- not the most distant idea of yielding to the de- tracts from time to time will keep our readers m- formed of the publicly avowed opinions and designs of the imperial cabinet relative to the present Chiefs were slain or taken at the capture of war. It is needless for us to say that no "British Tinghae or Tseke.
FROM THE PERING GAZITUR, EXPENSES OF THE WAR IN CHE-KEANG. - The Members of the Board of Revenue re spectfully report, and looking up beseech the sacred glance. Upon strict investigation of the millitary at different times, upwards of three millions five affairs of the province of Che Keang, we find that hundred and sixty thousand taels have been supplied. (about there need be no qariety about a lack of amount,
lack of funds; but as this is the time when this said prov ince is preparing to advance with designs of ex- termination, and will require for their use most extensive supplies, it is proper they should be pro- pared and arranged, and therefore a larger amount of funds should be collected together.
inces
Price
monthly
12 yearly
HONGKONG Prices of Fruits and Vegetables such as now in market.
Plaintains Red plums Yellow plums Brown pears Yellow pears Mangoes Water melons Lichees
Musk melons
FRUITS.
per catty
21
conta
do,
do.
VEGETABLES.
per
catty
Turnips Carrota Squashes Pumpkins Beans and snaps Tomatoes Sweet potatoes Trish potatoes
Fresh ginger root Onions Various kinds of greens Egg plant
་
59
cents.
31
son of the
correspondence with Russia. True it is, It is said that the Chinese are in active
France has avowed its interest in our We, the Ministers in, council assembled, enact quarrel with the Chinese; and should we that there be again collected from each of the prov, extort permission from the Emperor to hundred and twenty thousand collected in Ched Russia and France will make a like one million of taels, exclusive of the one have an ambassador at Pekin, it is assert- Keang Province, and which was formerly expend- demand. It is not unlikely the son The imperial commands have been received as foled. As to this further sann, we, the ministers of the King of the French (Prince Joinville) may
the "National" says the Coast of China soon be seen in the China Waters, When
may be the scene of disasters quite as fatal to us, as Affghanistan, we say, fudge. We do not deny the more we delay, the less chance we have of ultimate success, and every day Chinese affairs and their external relations will become more and more com- plicated.
lows:
who
Revenge Board send a flying despatch to each of document relative to warlike engagements, the at- despatch shall have reached the said functionaries, YINKING, upon clear investigation, has sent up a the governors and lieut. governors. After the tacking and capturing of traitorous natives, their ex- let them forwath depute the proper officers to pro- amination arid accusations. It appears that the rebel. ceed with the funds to the Provincal Treasury of lious barbarians have captured three cities, basely exci Keang Soo Province, in order to be in readiness ting confusion and disturbance. They moreover have for the use of the army in Che Keang. ...nit leagued themselves wit traitorous banditti prowl about spying into our military affairs. This Respectfully represented. verily is sufficient to cause the hair of the head to
The imperial will has been received according to the above deliberations, stand erect through indignation. It had also been represented that the rebel leader, Pottinger, attacked
RESPECT THIS. Tinghae during the sixth month of last year, but was killed by a gun fired by Howanfe; it is now said, that this turns out to be false. It still appears, however, that during the attack upon Tseke there was a barba-
rian British chief, killed and the barbarians dwelling in the city of Ningpo went into mourning for him. It
was reported that the name of the barbarian chief killed
was l'a (3) The rebel barbarian An tihche (?) received
a wound on the arm, and a great barbarian chief re ceived some very severe wounds. There were five ship loads of the dead bodies of the barbarians taken back to Tinghae and there interred. There was further an im- portant capture in the person of the traitorous native Chin pan keun and four others who were clearly ad- judged and executed. Besides the above the report states that a barbarian chief was caught and many traitorous natives.
AT present there are well known names personages among the
either been ki
slain by severe wounds
who aided the
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· CANTON COMPENSATION.
the 21st and 24th May, 1841,
between
During the reign of Keenlung, owing to its great extent of territory and largeTHE following Lists of claimants indemnified on ac- population the Province of Keangnan was count of pillage of the foreign factories at Canton in divided, its northern portion forming May last is published for general information. Keangsoo, and its southern Gan hwuy List of claims for Merchandize. Furniture, &c., the property of Province. The above Provincial Treasury British Subjects, in Canton, and pillaged by the Chinese is at Poo Ching sze in Keangsoo which ||mid borders upon Che keang The famous commissioner Yukeen was governor of Keangsoo and Gan hwuy at the time he was induced to commit suicit wing to the fall of Chinhae and Ningpo which places he was his imperial master. when the British forces but escaping from his his own hand on the feat.
safety of
red by
He was at Chinhas
the place,
We invite attention to the inte
and important commu
which will be found
“Original Correspont Sound practica tained will receive The indifference
xhibi
in respec
We hope there
tion they
sland would be deemed wholly inexcusa
Dirom & C Macvicar & Co. ·
Fox, Rawson & Co. Co.
Innes,
Public Clock.
Do.
Joseph Henry, T: Larkins, Holliday, Wine & Co. do: Superintendents af trade.
D. Jardine. - W. Boyd Jardine, Matheson & Co.
IM A McLeod. R. Webster - Fletcher, & Co.
Merchandize, stores, &c, Merchandize,
• Du do.
Wearing apparel, &c. Do do.
1.607 67
66. 150.88
Furniture proffice and Half. Merchandize do Wearing apparel, pc.
5.600
2.340.75
Private property of officers servants.
1200
Value reserved on behalf of subscribers!
1400
28877301
Bell & Co. When
do. for W. Henderson.
Names of Claimants,
Nature of Claima
Amount
Lindsay & Col Hooker & Lieffe For household furniture, mores do,
13,466,55
Do
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
Do
*Merchandise; stotally.
Do
6087
178233
3533
97125
W&T Gemmell & Co.
Do
FR Strachan, J. Hulbert,
Wearing Apparel
Dent & Co.
Merchandize, stores, &c.
9578.65
1,705,500
Do
5.005,2
Do
1500
524
140/42892