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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONGKONG GAZETTE,
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10тu, 1814,
Chanam died at Canton last week; he was the first, and so far, the only Chinese merchant who had purchased property and established business in this colony. His death is ascribed to a coll caught here some months ago, whon his new house was yet damp and unfit to sloop
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The Gondolier, Oliver, hence to London, was totally wrecked on the Marquis of Hastings shoal 9th June, no part of the cargo saved. The Captain and crew arrived at Manila on the 23rd ult, in the American ship Moslem, The Gondolier sailed from Hongkong on the 6th of May, with a full cargo of teas, which, with the vessal, if covered, will fall heavy upon the underwriters,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG (
GAZETTE.
nists, that last yeason une causo of sickness was the msufficient way in which many of the inhabit
re housed: and this summer is confidently anticipated will prave loss fatal, from the very Doumstance of most of the inhabitants, and all European troops, being pro- vided with bottor accommodation. The con dition of the Indian soldier in this respect is not one whit better than it was a year ago The same damp tuation, the same mat hovels for barracks, and we regret to say, the same alarming degree of sickness and donth which out up the 41st, is now committing equal, not greater havoo among the 4th. We do not exaggerate when we statu, that in a few months, from onuses which are remediable, a fine body of men are rendered unfit for service. were the exigencies of the colony to require them to tap the field
bulk of the articles being the old staples of Chinese commerce. One prominent forturo in this statement is the desparity between amount of unports and exports, the latter being little more than 20 per ct. of the former. In the ensuing quarter these amount will more nearly balance. When opened in November of last year, the teas and silk of this district, if not already forwarded to Canton for a market, was under engagements to parties. there, the growers having been so long se- customed to look to that port for buyers, that though aware that their own port would soon be filled with foreten vessels, and foreign mer chants resident in their city, they continued to follow the beaten and familiar track. This year we look for important changes; the foreign merchant has been for a thine aniongst them, they see he can purchase either for cash or barter those artiolos they have heretofore been obliged to transmit by long and tedious inland navigation, to the southern extremity of the empire, and not only can they sell on the spot, but after deducting the expense of transit, and other charges ever consequent upon addition to the ascertained and unavoidable ex- the shipment of produes, they can sell a panditure, very little is allowed for any unforos a better price. Wo hear some parties doubt, seen or neglected requirement. An appeal whether out of Canton the tent can be gal up wa doubt, not lina boen imida to the authorities. in the same style, that is packed and sorted at home, and a statement of the painful posi- as well as they now are, but there can be notion in which the Major General is placed, laitl great difficulty in this, which a little experience before them. The urgency of the case, calling will not overcome. The way in which the upon him to adopt some measures to check the Junk teas are packed may favor such an opinion, distemper which has prorated so many of Har but when they come to pack a superior article. Majesty's most faithful subjects, but the rigid for a long voyage and are ones made aware instructions be and the colonial government that in a great measure its market depends on have received, compelling them to turn awny the manner in which it is done, there is little from the just calls of suffering humanity, doubt, that with a little experience, the packers of the north will equal those of the south, if they do not already do so.
We need not enumerate the advantages to be derived from correct statistical information; to commerce they are incalculable checking speculation, limiting supplies to the demand, and placing the prudent though comparatively poor dialer, on an equality with the rich and reckless monopolist. It is the power of The following paragraph from the London Her Majesty'sSuperintendent of Trade quarter- Times deserves attention in Hongkong. Ex.ly to furnish such retums of the imports and ex- Peers or Daaixaor on Human Live --- The ports of the five ports, as will be in the highest Res Professor Luckland, at a public meet. degree conducive to the prosperity of the com jog held in Oxford last work, said that in the
merce of China. The arrangement by which parish of St. Margaret, Leicester, containing the outward and inward cargoes are onterad
2,000 inhabitantes, it appeared that one pur-
at the Consulates, if it entails trouble and ox- tion of it was effectually drained, some parts
pense upon the county may be made available, but partially so, and others not at all. In the by laying these entries before the public, to latter the average duration of life is 13 years show the trade and resources of each port. And a half, while in the same parish, where the
With the exception of Hongkong the trade of drainage is only partial, the average is 22 years
China can be ascertained to within a trifle- and a half, thereby showing the frightful effects Hongkong, a British port, is destitute of all of a bad atmosphere."
official information of the nature or extent of its commerce-vessels pass in the harbour and out of it, but what they carry in enout is
only known to those who have a direct interest in them. We shall at an early date tako further notice of this incongruity, and the necessity of enforcing the turbour regulations, which are little better than a deal letter.
A Coroner's inquest was held on the 7th on the body of Timothy Cane, an oversver in the police. From the evidence adduced, at was clear that the man died suddenly from the effects of drinking deleterious spirits. Though not an habitual drunkard, at times he would indulge to excess, and for a day or two pre- vious to his death, he had been in the habit of swallowing a bottle and a half of raw brandy After bearing the evidence of Captain Brute, Dr. Dill, and some of the police, the Jury gave the following verdhet.
We refer our readers to a letter copied from the Madras Atheneum of the 25th of April, on the grievances of the Sepoy troops of India. We do not purpose entering mutely into the statement contained in that letters after a perusal of it the great body of our subscribers are equally qualified to form an opinion with ourselves, many of them better We would however earnestly direct attention to the state of the Sepoy troops in China, and the very uncomfortable way in which they are accom- modated in this pestilential climate, which appears to be equally fatal to the natives of India and of Europe.
Died from the effects of excessive drinking, We refer our renders to His Excellency's letter addressed to the principal firms in the colony, requesting their advice and co-opera- tion in establishing a night police. The neces sity for the measure is unquestionable and the feeling which prompted this method of consult ing the inhabitants is commendable,
The expense will of course fall upon the house hold. We would disclaim allintention of wishing ers, and is only the first of a system of taxa.
in the most remote manner to censure the tion, which, soon or later, is inevitable-indeed
Commander of the Forces in China, than the sooner the better, as it is evident that any
whom a more devoted and zealous soldier does benefits we will ever derive from an efficient not adorn the British army. We feel satisfied, police, or those other indespensable requisites that so far as in him lays that is strictly in of drainage, sewerage, &c., which are
accordance with his instruction every thing is necessary for the health or safety of the town, done to protect the health of the troops, Indian we must pay for. There is no shrinking on the and European, which are under his command. part of the inhabitants from those obligations The fact however that much of the sickness all they would bargain for 19, that the money
which prevails in the 4th M. N. 1. is to be be not squandered upon idle or incompetent ascribed to the barracks which they inh public servants. His Excellency will probably if they can be dignified with the care of bars have some difficulty in defining the boundaries racks and the locality in which they are built of Victoria, or the limits of the watchmen's is undeniable. The mortality of last summer, rounds-this however, and other particulars and the sickness of this one, has pro will require consideration, and we doubt not there are on this small island they will be settled equitably satisfaction where, to those realent in may not be given to all those who have built death is almost certain}--oth in the vicinity of the town, but an attempt at short way removed are, with pleasing every body in this or any other nications, healthy as the gene sure would prove quite as clipirical hore as olowhere. The choco
choice of material from which this body is to be formed, is also a nice question, to which we will again revert, when we hear the opinions of those most qualified to judge, and probably there is no man on the island, who from long experience of China, is more eminently fitted for arranging these inat. fer than His Excellency himself,
In our last issue we were enabled, through the loudness of a mercantile friend, to lay state ments of the Imports and Exports of the port pf Shanghai, since opened to foreign commerce. up to the 31st of March, before our readers These statements of the en trade of what will in a few very be one of the great ship ping ports of China, will ore long Un olurred to, as affording evidence by which the morensvil trade of the port may be tested, and wo Irnat 5 quarterly retum of the uume kind will
exo a progteraive improvement.
Resigion innumerated as Imports, it will be no
climutes. Nor I counta, in 1 in over. are acquainted, of ed insulibrity, the len in some instancecs the others they chosen for the erection Sepoy troop#___ two rules, with n
itself from covertalen parts with water, from their b uwny, in ante il p the high and which except towards to the injene west mon
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Wo have aid we do not blame the Com- mander of the Forces we are aware of the rigid way in which it is the policy of Hor Majesty's Government to die down those who hold important coniunde in the colonies; in
We do not profess to have much acquaint- ance with military affairs, or the precise nature of the commission held by the Commander of the Forces. It may be a bold measure, or it may be usmilitary to stretch his commission, but wore General D'Aguilar to do so, and pay out of the military chest, or from whatever source money is provided to defray the expensos of the garrison, a few thousand pounds for the protection of the lives of thoso antrusted to his care and protection, we trust his country would exonerate him; at all events his own boart would, and there are few on the island who would not testify to the pressing necessity for such measures. Admitting it is necessary im mediately to provide better necomipodation for the 4th Regiment, and this will not be denied, we can see no other way in which it can be speedily affected than by hiring for a few months one or two halks, and fitting them up na temporary barracks. It is now too late to reme dy all the mischief that has been done, by a cruel neglect of those deserving men ; but the rapid andes of the distemper may be arrested before it entirely ours up the wing of the regi ment on this island, a contingency which is byr no menus improbable. The ships of war, and the merchant vessels in the harbour, are por- fectly healthy as we have already stated, sickness benig contined to certain localities ashore, and we submit that the expenso, which cannot be very great, should not for a moment be balanced with the strong claims these men have upon the gratitude of the country, and the obligations sho la under to protect their health, and afford them every possible comfort when on foreign service, to which, sinatly speaking, it is very questionable whether we have any right to force them.
We would not put forward the plea of eco- nomy us an inducement to do an act of justice. but it should not be altogether forgotten, that a pension has to be provided for the family of every man who dies in the service, another sol- dier has to be engaged to supply his place, and that the mere expense of bringing drafts from India to fill up the vacancies is no trifle, proba- bly more in itself than what would be required to save the lives of thosen roady bere. We base our argument upon firmer grounds than econo“ my, justice and humanity demand prompt and
more energetic measures than a mère adio- retice to instructions, and a care application of romedios placed our dispoal; it may be DECONRATY ID overatop the limited boondanes of command, but we that the urgency of the ensu
puss any eulogium upon
the strey From the days of Clive to those of Ellenboro h their courne und devotion. have been tested on many a well fought field, and we del act polling hom our countrymen, when we assert, that i Brush crown has no more falul servanta than the native army of India. The most celebrated warriors and statesman of the age giro willing to
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spot, His Excellency, before
coming decision on the subject, is anxious to have the bene of any suggestion which your experience may enable you to offer on the most effectual and econo mical means of rendering secure the persons and property of residents in this town, either by carr ing out the system ns above proposed, or by vid other moans as you may think bost, and he direc me particularly to draw your attention to th paints,
How fan ought such a Folico to extend ?. What points would be best adapted for the sus porting stations /
What class of men would do for the atrent polin ns the exposure is found to be very fatal to a British and by what misans, assement or other wise, you would propose to meet the expenses of th
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Colonial Secretary.
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LAND SALE ON THE 9ru JULY.
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W. V Shaw,
14 E. of Webster, 13012
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EXPORT OF TEAS TO THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA FROM 30TH June, 1843, TO IST
JULY, 1844, IN 30 VESSEL Young Hyson, 6,800,410 lbs. Hyson
580,794 Hyson Skin, 1,480,203 Twankay,
806,028
Gunpowder, Imperial,
597.088
436245
10,181, 537 lb. green
3,138 133
Pouchong, Pecco,
700,023
Bouchong,
Yolong,
60178
192501
1,195,507 h, black
Total, 14 267,004 pounds
CHINA HAW SILIC
1843-In from 1st Jan to 28th March, 008 Bal 1814-ditto
drita 184-Delivered from at Jen, to 28th Macol
1844 lo ditto de Bales. 1818. Stock 28th March, 1717 Balus.
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