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by Mr. P. L. Simmonds, Agent for the Colonial papers, British and Foreign Newspaper and ad vertising agency office, 18 Cornhill (opposite the Royal Exchange), who will receive any comm niretions, orders and advertisements
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
venon was 7,993,041 lbs, yielding
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, less than that derived from the
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15m 1814.
Davis, the historint),
enjoy his life, taift,
lands, or goods in safety, if a mightier man than himself had an appetite for them; and the weak had no remedy ageist the stronger. Common repu
diation of wives, promiscuous generation of chil
same as those published by the Editor of this appears to be well understood by modern po: During thly acknowledging themselves |
bs. This is a striking fact, and it must be pictures are drawn of the happy state of Ireland and seventy-one were slain in battle. The most Parties sending advertisements, are requested to kept in remembrance, that the same people before the union, or at an earlier period, during ferocious or the subtlest man was nominally re write on the face of them, he often, or how inhabit both countries, the greater part of the her corni-barbarous existence, at the conquest of the whole island; then there were four or fi long they wish them inserted. In all instances, present inhabitants of New South Wales have by Henry II. Poetical sketches are given of what provincial kings or rulers boneath him, as well as non-subscribers, will pay in advance. New ng emigrated from Croat Britain within the Ireland may yet be when relieved from Suxor numerable grades of tributary chiefs, hating advertisements, will be received, walil 4 O Clock, previous fifteen years. It might not be pru- bondage and oppression. If, in England, the other, but professing fealty to the power mass of the people, in a state of brutal servitude. on the evenings previous to publication, vident to tamper with such an important item of more reading of these appeals (false as they directly above them; and, last of all, came the
The condition of society
under such a regime- Tuesdays and Fridays.
the national revenue as £4,000,000; but it is a are), bias and warp the judgment of the igno matter that will admit of discussion, whether, rant or thoughtless, we may imagine their m The Friendl of China is regularly fileil in London if the duty on tea was reduced to Od per ib., thence over the tumultuous feelings of the frish may easily be inapp 10 mun (says Sirdumi
the revenue would not be increased. In the peasantry to whom they are oracularly deliver case of coffee, the advantages of a low duty. They pass uncontradicted, sinking deep have been well tested. In 1844, when the to the hearts, of an excitable people, and duty was 1s per lb., the quantity entered for leading to a thousand outrages.
Mr. Martin does not enter the aroma as the drent neglect of lawful matrimony colg of £407,544, 48 3d. In that year political partisan of any particular party, and livery cosherings or visitations by a lud (1824) the duty was reduced to 6d, and we find He takes up the question as one of grand na on his tonants; gavelkind, "by which, when dan in 1991, the consumption mcreased to tional importance, not any special section, or individud of a family died, the possessions, real giving a revenue of £688,751 any one cause of complaint; but he grapples and personal, of the whole sopt were put into a And 1729,740,027 lbs.
The winters already referred to have cal-with it in all its bearings, proving to every in hotch pot (as the lawyers call it), and dieda vulated
led the
quantity entered for home consump-partial reader, that the melancholy state of among the whole meinbers of a clan, legitimate tion, upon the reduced daty, at 65,000,000 Froland, is not attributable to the comection and lege: the customs, mong many othora equally uncivilised, which die Breton Ins bs, the duty upon which would be £800,000 with England that Ireland before the con-
rato quest, in 1173, was in a state of barbaris, uted display, one of which ordained that murde was commutable mo a thig, denominated the The reduction it is proposed to counterbalance suffering from the ravages of the Danes and back," to be levied according to the rank of by admitting foreign sogar at the duty of Norwegians, but still more from the bloody the individual, all sufficiently attest the barbariem 30s per owt and 5 per cent, by which means fends of the petty princes among whom the which pervalled Ireland on the landing of Hours the deficioney would be more than made good, country was divided that since the conquest, 11 at Waterford, in October a. p. 1972, Inde, Douxo the calier days of this paper, and as the duty on the additional quantity of sugar nearly 700 years ago, until the present day, every frish historing, however partial to his native whilst under a different management, the required for 30,000,000 lbs. of toa, would not every effort has been used by Great Britain and admits that, previous to the oral of to civilize and ameliorate the condition of the Strongbow, Ireland was an Aceldamu a horrible cessity of a reduction of the duty on teas was be less than £832,000, frequently and earnestly advocated. We are
We would never advocate any approach to peasantry of Ireland that at different periods | field of blood! glad to perceive the importance of this mea an equalization of the duties on British plan- in their history, although the motto was then as zar has at length attracted the attention of instation, and foreign (slave grown) sugar. It is nao "no bloodshed, no personal violence, loyalty We publish the literal translation of a letter, fluential parties in England. The city articles impossible in any British colony to make sugar to the sovereign, tum Protestants received from nu intelligent Chinese corros of the Times of the 9th and 17th November so cheap as the Brazilians do, who have unwere committed, thousands of Protestants being pondent at Shanghai. This may bot refer to this subject, stating that some reinarks abundant supply of slave labourers. Every year put to the sword by an ignorant and infuriated fosted upon somewhat in the light of a literary which were explod kom an Indian paper, bad | makes it more evident, that it is to her own people, led on by the Ministers of Civil. curiosity; but it is of far greater consequence, made considerable sensation, and that the plans colomes England must look for markets for If at times it has been found absolutely no- | We have every reason to believe, that the there proposed were practicable and called er productions, if such as the case, she must enshry to coerce the lawless inhabitants, and commercial information it contains, is of the for. These statements copied by the Times reciprocate the favor, by giving colonial pro- treat thom us a conquered people, it was the
most correct description, and well worth From the Indian paper, are substantially the duce a preferance in the home market. This inevitable result of their own evil actions, an attentivo perusal by shippers to that market.
period of 700 years, a corrupt liticians, and hence the equalization on east priesthood, The necessity for this reduction is daily be and west India sugar, and ruu, the reduc-respousible to the head of their church, in a coming more evident. The increased con- tion in duty on East India coffee, Canadian foreign country, have been permitted to bild su uption of British goods in China must be wheat, &e, de, all of which give satisfactory the minds of the ignorant in fetters of su met by a corregionding export: hitherto, with evidence that our present Rulers are aware of perstitious bondage, and to alienate their the exception of tea and silk, China has been the necessity of protecting colonial interests. affections from their lawful sovereign, Among I raceived your communication from the restden a wable to furnich other articles to any amount, A reduction of the duty on cobial grown no other people has this hereditary Intred ben of De Mal Lo, and then learned that you had suitable to the English market, and so far as is sugar would equally well answer the purposes ronined for such a long term of years, and sandy returned to Canton, which caused me p now known, it is with thess commodities the of revenue; for although at present the crop can only be accounted for by the influence and quietude at mind. Or the merchant vanda enormous importations from England and India | is nearly all consumed in the United Kingdon, which the priesthood øver have over ignorant that anchored at Shanghai during the first mon must be paid. The opium trade is draining the it is well known that in Bengal alone, with a minds.
(latter part of February and first of Marth) No bulion out of the country, and the America Intlo encouragement, two or three hundred Mr. Martin writes lacidly and temperately, ad, was in le. No, 13, Mun Keet. After the bills on Ipondon, which have long afforded a | thousand tons could be made annually, giving taking up and refuting the declamatory ha. Both of the 1st moon, there was also one fre safe remittance, are decreasing the Ameri employment to a couple of hundred large ships. rangues of the Repeaters, not with mere as- your houer be territory (Camion), Vu le Chin eans finding that their own manufactured cot
The cultivation of Bengal Sugar, for the last sections, but with statistical documentary evi- No. 13. During the Gral of the sund moon tous yield a handsome profit, will send goods fifteen years, has increased in a wonderful dence. This work ought to be in the library Manila ship entored the port, just to procure their fea cargoes, in former year degree. In 1830 we find the importations to of every man who takes an intercat in Ireland, (outh of the streams); there are together in the greater portion were purchased wil Great Britain 10,000 tons, in 1810 upwards of or who be informed of the state of ar. ships. The name of the Manila ship is Shil Baring's crechts.
50,000 tons. We have no return for the last fainativo country. There is an 8" boch do war, #harkly ting, birds' nexta, longelath Tack, and the cargo which she brings cousas o That Ching will in the course of time be three years to refer to, but are satisfied, that pearance of truth in the plain | statistical state.
coleta, woollons, and wood materials and the an outlet for a very large quantity of the for 1843, the Sugar shipped from Bengal toments, and references to hustorians contempork The waiting morehams from the varia staples of British manufacture, is undoubted. England would not be far short of 100,000 raneous to the periods at which the several places, have not yet arrived here, thoralara a lim But the question now is, hove is she to pay tons, or about one third of the total consump-events discussed occured, which bear down amount of goods only had been disposed of for them? With the enormous drain
mand there may be for a larger supply of aufal declaimers, gar, in consequence of a reduction in the duty The late Marquis of Wellesley's attestation, | Cloth very easily got rid of (bit slow) The pric
paper, at the period referred to.
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SHANGHAI, APRIL 25
1814.
Since separating from you fage 10 face it has now been about a month, and the new year hus teheted 19. Though at a distanco, I wish you, rising up an si ting down, great and sellled felicity. At the beginning of the second moon 12th to 20th March
in the shape of compensation majja. Pon her tion of the United Kingdom: Whatever de-all the sophistical orations of the most powers | In the end of the list moou the mukel was open
and the heasy annual burden of some twenty million | of dollars for opium, all paid in specie, unless on ten, India can meet that demand, without there are mines in the interior, of which Euro our fostering the slave trade, with one hand, by peans are in ignorance, a few years will drain purchasing the produce of its blood extorted the greater part of the silver out of the country, labour, while with the other hand we strain and raise what remains to a fictitious value, every nervo to put a stop to the iniquitous Any traflic
are în
Even now, in Canton, the terior deas,
instance made in exchange for the price of the article sold being merely no minal, as it is impossible to calculate upon what these teas may realize in the English market
state of Ireland before the conquest, and will We give the following extract, showing the occasionally publish a few others, each forming an interesting historical sketch.
ANTIQUITY AND ANCIENT STATE OF IRELAND. of the aborigines of Erin we know as little certain as we do of the early inhabitants of Albion, but national pride has been strained to the utmost limit to display antiquity of descent sara, a niece of Noah, is said to hura emigrat thither with a largo retinue previous to tho De-
ed, and trade carried on. Long Cloth and Broa
of Broad Cloths iniddling Tong Cloths better by on fourth. Large quantities of country le have come in, and the prices are not high Silk, from 1oo Kwang, is of such high pri that no mun hys As for the rast, minding brass atengils, provisions and miscellaneous goale there is positively nothing constant or agitled, si throughout the trade of the market in these thing there seems to be but little doing, and 1 cam
presumu hastily to send you faithful
reporta
used grey shirtings and bleached white cloth, an port faithfully). I um uncertain as to the time your sailing up here. At present you may bring
the latter be wide, of the 1st quality (best) can be readily dissolved (disposed of), Aging you have new fashioned foreign printed calices single pieces of glazed surfies chinizes, handke chrets, broad cloths, drills (chang man poo), foreig un, lead and iron, raw cotton, foreign vivo, varia kinds of foreign
wood and fragrant materia panes of glass, clocks and watches, these also saleable.
that Mr. Martin is better info on the ip teresting subject of Ireland (more particularly on the operation and result of her Legislative union with Great Britain), than any other por son he had ever conversed with, would almost guarantee the fact, were the work itself not With due encouragement, all the demands before the public, who, we are satisfied, will of England, for produce, or raw material for coincide in our opinion, that it is one of the most manufacture, can be supplied by her own co-valuable statistic historical works that has ap- lonies, with the exception of tea and the finest peared for many years, Clina canot pay for her purchases in spe- these we now send more than a sufficiency descriptions of cotion wool; for the first of cie, neither can we take a selficient quantity of manufactered goods for an exchange; it of teas and silt, according to the present con- therefore behoves the British government to sumption in Great Britain, to balance the ac-wisely encourage a reciprocity of trade, by count. It is not improbable, when the Chinese reducing the duty on tea, which in China can discover this, that a limit will be put to the be raised to any extent, and the consumption cultivation of the tea plant; and us, wo mist of which in England might readily be more have a certain quantity annually, we will be than doubled. We might introduce other obliged to pay a much longer price than we reasons of a more philanthropic nature, to prove now do. The habit of ten drinking is so the desirability of placing the port with the confirmed in England, that it will be indulged reach of all classes of the community. Its usage, this honour is, however, denied to Cesar At present see the price current for the vario In a commercial view, the consequence of the and will undoubtedly in a great measure supyeur of the world 1950, on the dispersion of the market are not alike morning and evening (a in by those who have the means at any price. appears to be how a natural taste in England, by some, who contend that the first coloniser was kinds of goods her. Although I have been tri Partholan, a descendant of Jagher, who in the attentive (to the prices), vel the prices in th present high duties will be, a limitation of the
presumptuous builders of the Tower of Babel tung). I hope your great talents will es shipments to Cimina of manufactured goods, and also of the import of tea, from Chima
sought refuge with his followers in the Emerald you to weigh and mensore (the details und in you such teas as a
imported, being purchased
descendants of Shem, who autised to coalesce with to do in order to lay hold upon the big tale, after being expelled from Greece! To the own mind be able to decide what your hand the cursul posterity of Ham, the merit of diseo At present I am in the house of Yung vering Ireland is also assigned while others and with him manage ullars accordingly. Mr. Martin, the well known Author of contend that the execrated children of Ham, undering being quiet and no konfusion. British Colonial History, and other valuable the name of Fomorians, came from Afrion to Boar 1 will not order, but wall for y statistical works, bas lappily choon trend, Ireland, A. 2400. A colony of the posterity of and hastily write for your and her suppositous cruauces, for a further Japhet is also said to have arrived there from the al compliments to you, honou exercise of his extraordinary talents for reBasin, and to have forcely contended for the Choo to leung, repentially boy, search and minute investigation of fiets. Mr. dominion of the island during four centuries with
family of Clin Fub thura ja joy an Martin is ominently qualched for the uidupussesssal, wore themselves, destroyed, after and he desires me to transmit the Iplorer
the wicked Fourorians. The latter although having been born in the middle of the ask he imposed upon himself, namely that of proving by incontros artible statistical evide that, Ireland, in her sluppi
PRICE CURRENT OF VARIOU
manufactures, has not miller
commercio, and
Beth de mar, bust, 195 to 820; milding by the Union with Great Britain on the contrary, Ireland gallont has benefited in every respect by that union. AD
etlen. Beds Neste best, 940 € middling, $27 10. This may be looked upon as one of the most ing their middara useful works that has issued.
Fish Bellies, amill flaker. 810. many yours Th
the proes for you
treatment of Irel nell against (be Bri
of the sufferings
at much higher rates thian are now paid. The revenue also will suffer severely by any decrease in this heavily taxed article, and the lower classes will be deprived of a healthful and agreeable beverage,
plant the appetite for beer or spirituous liquors.
Ireland before and after the Unum By
Montgomery Martin, Esq., Author of The History of the British Colones, e
The present revenue derived from tea is rated at Co 521,125, being a duty of 21s 3d per lb. on 35,000,000 lbs. It is calculated however that by reducing the duty to is pur b. the consumption would be raised to 65,000,000 lbs. There appears little cause to doubt the correctness of this statement. There To thousands in the United Kingdom who, could they purchase good black ten at two shillings and six pence per lb. would consume annually four or five lis, who now do not con- suno one. Wo evidence in truth of this state meat the case of New South Wales, where, in 1841, with a population of 100,000, whom nearly 20,000 wore convicts, and the greater part of the 110,000 free non agricul tural servants, air Tabourers, the consumption, appena 15 of ton per head, including man woman and
child, was 91 lbs. In the United
fa not 14 lbs. The taste of the lower
for loa, when brought ithin dir ronch
the fact de antive
pokny years blooily contest by Um FHOWDE
Fin boga, from Beldurre am 28097 arun, after
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