THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND
WONGBONG GAZETTE
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
THURSDAY
THE publication of the Hongkong zette under the authority of Goder will be discontinued from this date b public orders and notifications appeari "The Friend of China and Hongkong Ga-
their new BDDO
CORN L
ernment vessels which
zette with the signatures of duly autho the southern Province rized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.
By order,
J Röbt. Morrison, Acting Secretary and Treasurer Hongkong March, 23rd 1842.
not been prompt in
ith Farsi
ied to
nothing to do the Bengal pror. chair and, do what
ints the vividness of the Persian majesty was not
ance at the usual time expresses annoyance this delay, and orders the Lieut. Governors of Chin, tung Provinces to adopt Tigorous measures on the rabisc despatch a large number of oin FROM PURI
PERING GAZETTES. |both Provinces to proceed in search THE REBELLION IN HOOPIH. THE rebel said grain vessels and urge them leader
his insurrectionary
the supplies. Last accounts left
content with his Indian sup macy, he had only to rch his army overland and take possession of Lon- standard some months ago in Hoogh Prov of the British Expedition in
It is notorious that there were thick reports of ince bas
last captured, "led in portion of the grand Canal, the principal
an intention to march an array to Herat,"
an opera- chains to
ried and formally exegh way of the above ver
tion which in all human
would have cost- cuted by imperial authority. The Gazettes be that the capital has
to feel the ten times the loss
Cabool They might have found refer to a number of troubles of a ma-
policy of the British Plenipot
no Persian
it but they would have laid FORMOSA, A number of disaffected per- the Great, after having reached the mouth of
their bones in the wilderne rauding and insurrectionary character in
In this country Alex- several of the Provinces, Shantung particu- sons in two different places not 2 mosa
nearly all his army; probably not one larly and also in some of the border
made strenuous attempts to excite rebellion,
older would ha pos
at returned. The very sessions of the Umpire. At the present
but many of the leaders
ridiculous, and the brains of time, indeed, China appears to be in a state
the summary manu of national disquietude both internally and externally
ARCHERY The Emperor manifests great anxiety that the officers attached to the regiments of archers should themselves be skilful bowmen. At a recent militaryvex- amination two officers failed to show them- selves properly skilled in this art and were immediately disgraced from their office by a special imperial mandate.
A KRANG 900 OFFICER. An officer in Keangseo Province reports himself to the Court as labouring under disease, and requests leave of absence. The Fameror believes tha sera excuse for wishin leave
800001 peace
all the arresting the that favours & ed accordingly.
and they were
ames and ere active in be laid before him dons may be award
83nse
to
ilence and storm. W heroic march to Herat;
rev
Per
orted
nd
ther
Cabool
-it.
Sut their braing agai
ey should make a break
sober fit or his drun- which he may be, the affect us more than a
ON TO KHIVA.
region
moren
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