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THE FRIEND
OF CHINA
AND HONG KONG GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY.
VOL II. No, 100.
VICTORIA, TUESDA
JANUARY 23RD, 1844,
PRICE ● 19 per annum.
(2,00,
publication of the Hongkong Gazette under the autho of Goverment will be discontinued from this date but all public orders and notifications appearing Hongkong Gazette," with the signatures of duly authorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as oficial.
J. ROBT MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treastirer.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION
tendera will be received at this Office for Bills H. M. Plenipotentiary in China, bie, the Governor General of for two Laes of Companys insats of Co. R. 10,000 pay. ham thirty days after Sight in exchange for Mexican, or other Republican dollars of equal Standard, payable into this Treasury on or before the 1st proximo. The Bills will be delivered on the 2nd, or on receipt of the dollars.
By order,
CHAS. E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary.
Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 9th January, 1844.
ENGINEER CONTRACT
Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at this Office until the 27th inst.
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By order,
miles from the const of China, any law or ordinance fully and effectually is any such low or ordinance o Which to her Majesty in Council may seem meet, as be made by her Majesty in
could in Council for the government of Hongkong concludes thus. —— of her Majesty a subjects, being within the said isl
plea
island
And whereas her Maj
by a commis. sion and instruction, re
her Majesty on the 26th day of August It vested in her Majesty
uance of the powere Henry Pottinger, Bart.
aid, to authorize Sir trade of her Majesty a suble
superintendent of the China, and Governor of Her Majestys island
to enact, with the advice aforesaid, all
and ordinances as may, from time to time,
lie peace, order, and good government of
e subjects, being within the dominions of the Empero of Chine, or being within any ship of sel at a distance of hot more than 100 miles from the coast of China, and to enforce the execution of such laws and ordinances by such penaltics and forfeitures as to him, by and with the advice o
aforesaid, shall em fit Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers in her Majesty vested by the said recited Acts of Parliament, her Ma
Council.
doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that if any law or ordinance, made in pursuance of the said last recited
Act of Parliament of the
7th years of her. ugnant to, or at
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at noon, from such persons as may be
ay be will-jesty, by and with the advice of her Privy ing to contract for cutting and levelling ground in the Barrack Square at Chuck Chew, according to the plan which may be seen marked out on the ground, The Ten- dere are to specify the price required for each portion of ground marked out, and the number of laborers engaged to be daily employed on it until completion.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN, C. G.
Commissariat,
Victoria, 20th January, 1844.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Friend of China.” Dear Sir,
I understand you have been confined to your room by indisposition for some days pas
past. Had you been out you must have observed, with every one else, the unusual number
number of drunken sailors and soldiers which the past week or ten days have literally thronged the Queen's Road. On Thursday afternoon last (yester day) I really think there must have been between se venty and one hundred of the above classes staggering along the public thoroughfare. The "Rum Mills alias progeries seem also to have accumulated to an
alarming extent, and every evening one's ears, as he passes, are assailed with the beastly songs and carou ings of the customers of these dens of iniquity, supposed that were we in our "mother country" a tithe of such scenes as are connected with the subject to which I now allude would be sure to receive the prompt ttention of the Police and the Magistrate. your opinion as to what ought to be done, for that something ought to be done without is the opinion of all the well disposed.
Yours & Hongkong, 19th January, 1844. A CITIZEN.
We have been informed by a friend that the cause sual number of sailors a shore within the two or rea days has been the customary liberty
en to the crews of the men of war to
timbers every day the whole of the men have bad
fore
Should
Majesty's reign, shall be in variance with, the ssid rec any of them, then such the same shall be in fore
eso long as beyed
Orders in Coun
contained to the contrary anywise notwithstanding. ed, anything in the said recited
The London Mail
LONDON MEMORIAL, –10 The Right Honorable the Earl of Ripon, President of the India Board &c., c., &c. -The memorial of merchants of London,and others. interested in the overland communication with India, China, &c., agreed to at a public meeting held at the Hall of Commerce Threadneedle-street, London, on Tuesday, 19 Sept. 1840, →→
Sheweth. That about twelve months since we with others, memorialised her Majesty's Government through your Lordship's predecessor the late Lord Fitzgerald, praying that the overland communication with India and China might be more frequent, namely, twice a month, instead of monthly as at present.
communication still continues to be deeply felt by us The necessity for this increased frequency of the
arrangements, viz:-The Mails from Indía dispatched in consequence of the following defects in the existing from Bombay on the 1st of the month seldom, as your Lordship is aware, arrive in England until the 5th or 6th of the following month, being not two days after the mails for India (made up in regular courseon the 4th of every month), have been despatched, consequently no towing monthly mail is despatched, answer can be made to letters from until the fol
Iving a delay
of nearly a month from their receipt.
expanding, and the full value of which it is hardly poss with our India possessions, a trade which is every hour sible for the most sanguine to calculate.
He would likewise suggest, although it cannot have escaped your Lordship's penetration, that the impro- vements which we desire, will exercise a most benefi cial effect upon the rapidity and punctuality of the post age communication lately opened up with our Austra lian colonies by way of the Red Sea and Bombay, and we entertain a confident hope from your Lordship's long and devoted attention to the trading interests of Great Britain that
t no mere difficulties of deta il-will be allowed to interpose an obstacle to the effecting of an object of so much importance, and one likely to exer- cise so beneficial an influence on the commercial pros- perit of the united kingdom.
We therefore respectfully buts earnestly solicit Lordship's immediate attention to an object of such your vital importance to the commercial and manufacturing interests of the country.
By desire and on behalf of the meeting,
(Signed) JOHN ABEL SMITH, Chairman.---- The Monthly Times.
· Paux Money.—Iris, Cambrian, Rattlesnake, Zebra, and Cameleon. The officers and crews of these ves sels, who on the 31st of Jan, and 1st Feb., 1828, were engaged in the capture of goods from a nest of pirates at the island, Caftabusa, will have the following pro portions of the net proceeds paid to them on and af ser, the 15th Inst.-Flag (the lion's share ), £47 168. 9d.: first class, £15 188. d.; second, £3 !!$. 10d.; third, £3 11s. 9d. ; fourth, 148, 5d.; fisth, 9s. Id.; sixth, 4. 9d.; seventh, 88. 2d.; eight, Is. 7d--Ibid.
COMMERCIAL-There has been a considerable de- mand for all kinds of manufactured goods, and factories at Manchester, Glasgow, Paisley, and other places have. been at full work, at an advance, in some instances, of 15 per cent, since the departure of the last muil A large quantity has been sold daily; but with the without any corresponding rise in the raw material.
crop, there can be no sound reason for an ascofdant enormous stock in warehouse, and a large incoming market.
From New York, Sept. 15, the Genevese Travél ler writes to the Times,business has greatly improv ed, every class of mercantile men is actively engaged. The city is crowded with strangers from the interior. abundant, and interest low. Nothwithstanding for- Much of the present trade is for cash, as money is
tities, and more expected, the importers generally are eign fabrics are daily arriving in considerable quan- doing a fair business. Goods meet a ready sale and prompt payment.
large, and prices have advanced full 5 per cent. A SILK. The transactions in Bengal silk have been demand for export gave animation; the deliveries for home o vals have been small: Stock in 1842, 7400 bales; consumption have improved, and the Arri-
1843, 7106 the stock of Chinese silk is diminish-
A similar disadvantage is experienced in corresing, and the deliveries show an increase. Tsatlee,
ponding wi
pla
land from Calcutta and ces in India
the same distance from Bombay. The mails from Europe seldom, if ever reach Ca suite until a day or two after the Dowk with home ard mail for Europe has departed for B bay, causing a delay of nearly a month before swers can be returned to letters received from Euro These circumstances if they continue to exist der we submit a semi-monthly communication with India
ghly necessary
however informed that
ower and -speed
ConvevaRUI
ioularly the finer class, are is to 18. 6d. higher, is now at 22, lo 285 6d, best sorts.
twithstanding the two abundant harvests, rice is in fair demand, and easy of sale,
TRA. The market has been inanimate, and prices declining Ibid
has
RAW SILK The activity which prevailed in Bengal tained, and prices have further advances,
5 to 10 per cent. there has and for exportation to France and to support the opinion, now prices will for some time preserve hey do not even experience a been good. There Lanes of Tastier.
19 no anxX1E
Is to Is 6d higher.