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ORIGINAL OORRESPONDENOS.
(To the Editor of the Friend of China) | Sra,--Anayat other lettera procured from the Post-Orien
rend u costle Jæice every day with a book, were four letters: Inspecvely beating the Hongkong Pal Mark of the 17 and 96th of May, and 21m agd, 23rd of June.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
venue,also adding largely to the export of manu factured goods, and at the same time giving an ample protection to the colonial planters who if they cannot
Sugar to pay for at Ingkot, où the 10th giant, by my agens there, whe£10 a to, or 60 per et n
per ct more than can be done in other countries, where the cultisation is also by free labourers, had better turn their attention to other pursuits. In our issue of the 20th of May, we had occasion to make a few remarks upon the teaklaty; we then expressed cur conviction that a reduction would be made Ion Sagar as well as tea we then stated that a differential duty of 10s, per cwt, would be n to British planters and
Such negligence on the part of an ofbelal would in Eng
land be wasted with a speedy disraissal and it ought not here to be allow radio pass over wish impututy
I shall be obliged by gume sllusion to the above in you valuabin publication, but do not with my nue to be wage public-Yours truly,
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A SUBSCRIBER. tunnersary to make any comments upon the above,
the matchcal speaks te itself, and many others squally reasonable protection rate at which it
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hins not gone through the process of refining, bug we have taken Bengal as a i would probably fetch a couple of h shiling more By referring to some old me- dams, take in 1840, we find that in Bom at that period China Sugar was worth lb, Munila, fine, 5 Ben gal, fine, 7 and Siam, fino 8 The near est approach to the produce of China way that of Sam, which by late advices from Singa pore, is worth that market, 85,00 per the price at which we have rated No. 1 Sugar in China.
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We are favored with Singapore papers to the 4th July. The Driver with His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger on board, arrived on the 20th ultimo, making the passage from Macro in days against the North East Moonsoon The Driver agon sailed for Ceylon on the 3rd Insing Three French vessels of war arrived at Singapore on the morning of the 3rd Mf de Logrence, French Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China, and suite are with the fleet Hip Excellency had an interview with Sir Henry Pottinger on the foregoon of his arrival. The French ships of war at Singapore, are the Engate La Syrene, La Shubine, and Victorieuca coorvettes, and the brig Messagers these with the two frigates now in Chion will form a squadron of six pennants- The Sumarang arrived from Borneo on the 2nd. The rumour of Sir Edward Belcher's having been wounded is authenticated. We Copy from the Free Press of the dih
service we would consider to be one of Sir Henry Pottinger's chief recommendation. Few menof the age are better acquainted with castern diplomacy, and the true interests of British India,and if experience sagacity and moderation are regulates in a Governor General, ho pos sesses them all, at the same time the feeling of respect with which he was so long accustomed to regard the Court of Directors, would induce him to treat them with that deference to which they are entitled, but, which appears to have been systematically withheld by Lord Ellen- borough, His Lordship has not lived long enough to know that, the appointment which he holds is that of a servant, not alone to the crown, but also to the Directors of the Com- pany, and in his intercourse with them in the relative position of employed and employer, it is necessary that he should look less t hir peerage and more to the nature of lus appont- ment. Her Majesty's Ministers are much dia.
satisfied with the Directors of the Company- The Duke of Wellington has designated it a "gross indiscretion." Lord Ellenborough is a personal friend, and doubtless ilo Duke feels the disgrace which has been thrown upon his friend keenly, particularly as in his opinion it is unmerited. Lord Ellenborough may have becu somewhat eccentric in India-tris bombastic proclamations may have disgusted his country. mon, who are no admires of the Napoleon style, but if success is any proof of mori, as a Governor, he has carried all before him. The total abolition of slavery in British India. tolero it continued to exist are her own laws, among the Hindoos
would, we believed, bo the would be fixed. We notice this, not that we claim any credit for the correctness of our views, as we are satished that, after a com-
•parison of the rates at which raw Sugar can be purchased in the various nigar growing coun- tries, the quality of the Sugar, expense freight, &c, such would be the conclusion are rived at by every enquirer. Our apres sion was that from the large and increasing stock of tea in Europe, and the necessity of taking a still larger supply from Chim yearly, unless we would check the splendid trade that is opening for our manufactures, the consump tion must be increased and that can only be done by a liberal reduction on the import duty With a surplus revento of £2,700,000, a thriving commerce, and almost universal peace, we confidently anticipate that, another session of parliament will not close before the required change in the tea duty is made
The admission of Free labour Sugar, of fo- mign growth, at a moderate duty will bring for- ward unexpectedly a new export from China,at the very time that it as so much required. Ma my have looked forward, it perspective to the possibility of Chinese Sugar ultimately finding way to the English market, but none, or very few, could have dreamt that its almost im- mediate shipment would offer a regulator to the present deranged state of our trade with China, the innequality between what we give,and what we receive, buing too great for a healthy com- merce. The quarters from which fresh supplies of Sugar can be obtained, in consequence of this new regulation, are, Batavia, Manila, Siam, and China, It is with the last of those that we have a special interest, and we will shortly in vestigate the nature of the trade and the pro- bability of its being lucrative, premising that if done among the piratical force that the party
returned to the Ship, which immediately bore up The Nourishing state of the Revenue has Sugar can be purchased China at a price sufficiently low to afford a profit upon the ship. for fogapore. The shot which struck Sir 25-induced the Government to roduce or repeat want when ent out, was found to be an iron the duties on several articles of import. The ment, the quantity which Great Britain.can.conwivel ball of more than an inch in diameter; but proposed reductions, however, only, amount to sume,at a moderate reduction on present prices
£400,000 per annum, while the gross surplus is almost unlimited, or at least greater than
as compared with the previous years revenue can be brought forward for some years. In
is £4,185,000, the surplus after paying the ex- quality, the Chinese Sugar is second to none of
pouces of the current year £2,700,000, and the the white, or clayed Sugars of India. In the
nett surplus after paying the deficiency of Bombay market it commands a better price
1842-8 £1,400,000. This flourishing state of than either Bengal, Siam or Manila. It is
We heartily concur with our contemporary the national Guances, would encourage us to with these Sugars it wouk bare to compete in expressing a hope that the pirates of Boneo | hope for a reduction on the heavy duty on teas, the English market, and the question is, admit.
and the neighbowring Island will ere longe a measure which the manufacturing and com- ting it to be equal in quality,can it be shipped to
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H. M. Surveying Ship Samtrang Sir E. Ber- We understand that Sir Eows while employed OHEN, KU B arrived of the 2nd inat, from Bornad in the Ship's boats making scientific observations of the Coast of Gilule, a considerable Island lying east of the Northern limit of Colobes, was attacked by a large party of tinnoon pirates, consisting of ten prahus with about 60 inen in each. The hoats of H. M. Ship had sitoed several of the pruhus which were afterwards taken possession of and destroyed, when a shot from one of them struck Sir EDWARD BeLonex, passing through one thigh and lodging in the other, and knocking him overboard. Sir EDWARD was, we understand, in the act of directing a rocket against one of the prahas, when the shot reached him, and is the only use of the party who was seriously hurt, but it was not until considerable execution had been
he is bevertheless progressing favourably and will no doubt be able to take part in the operations which the Admiral will, we trust, ere long, direes is be pursued against the Pirates in that quarter of the Archipelago whose repeatest outrages against
of late. Europeans we lisve recorded u
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and Musselman according to long after its abolition in all other British co- his Lordships career Inual possessions, will throw a halo round which hereafter will. not be shaded. The conquest of the Be. loches, the annexation of Scinde, and the hard fought battle of Gawlior, with many othe im portant affairs have followed each other so fast that, while people have been discussing the merits of one, another unexpectedly is heard of Prudent men are alarmed at His Lord- ship's successes-thinking iuen question the justice of some of his conquests, but with all his arrogance, or coxcombry, his plans have been arranged and carried to maturity in a manner, which those who question his judg mont and talents will find difficulty to ac- count for.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, 1 pay at the current rates of the London mar recense that punishment which their crimes somercial interests of Great Britain loudly de
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE,
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY"When, 1644,
Our readers will observe by the Notifica tion, which we copy from the Goverminent paper, that a change has taken place in the management of the Post-office, Mr. Spring, who succeeds Mr. Scales, was also his prede- cessor in office, and during the time he held the appointment, gave much satisfaction, from his regularity attention and civility. It is to be hop ed that, the appointment made by His Excel lency will be confirmed by Her Majesty's Gov- ernment, as there is no doubt they will securo the services of a Gentleman perfectly fitted for the office.
The Officers of the 4th M. N. 1, have po- litely arranged that, their band will play on the evenings of Tuesday and Friday, on the ground at the foot of the Marine Magistrate's office.
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The proposed and almost immediate reduction in the duties on Foreign grown Sugar, the pro. luce of free labour, is a very unexpected men sure, but one that will have much influence the trade of Great Britain with foreign posses- sions cast of the Cape. The heavy duty which has heretofore been levied upon all fo- reign-grown Sugar, appears
appears not to have bene fited our own colonies, and has checked the consumption of this nutritious article of diot; also, we are convinced, limiting the amount of revenge, which were the trade more unfettered, would undoubtedly be collected from Sugar During the past thirty years the population of the United Kingdom has increased about eight millions, every other necessary of life progres. sing with if not outstripping the increase of the inhabitants, with the single exception of Sugar the import of which has slightly fallen off since 1811. The laudable intention of bolstering up the west India colonos, by a differential duty pf 40s, per cwt. in favor of the Sugar of plan- tation growth, has been singularly unsuccessful. The cultivation of these islands appear Jong ago to have reached maturity and latterly there has been a falling of, which but for the dicious admission of Last India Bugar, would
ket.
The strong Muscovados, of the West India and the Mauritius, oven of the best.
qua ty, do not command so much by 2s per owt as the best class of Bengal Sugar; it is by this scale that we must measure the capabilities of that of China growth. To the London Journal of commerce, of date 11th May Bengal, white Sugar,good and fine, is quoted at from 64s, and Bd to 70s per cwt., duty pad. With this quota- tion as a guide we turn to the Sugar of China, at the current prices of the day, we will give two statements of the actu
actual cost laid down in England, one calculated at the present ex- change of ds. 3d, the other at an exchange of
43. Gd.
EXCHANGE 43. 30.
18d.
No. 3. Sugar, picel 84,50 cwt 169, Freight Shipping charges aud Ings 8 pr. ct.
Import duty
5 per cent Additional
richly meat, ya
OPIUM The Tanrick brought a supply of oaly 25 obeste Benares. We have heard of no tran- sactions during the week in Polpu. Benares has been sold at 8700 and one or two chests realenday as high as 8726-Maliod has been in more inquiry and sales made at $650 Cash, 685 a 670 –Credit.
Turkey-neglected,
mand. The following changes have no in fluence upon the China trade; Corrents from 238 to 158. ; foreign. Coffee from ed to 6d per Ib. Glass assimilated at three farthings;
Vi- negar to be repealed altogether. The duties on Marine Assurances aro to be reduced and the seal materially altered, the benefit to be derived from this will be common to all en- gaged in commercial purmita-the loss to the The Sultana from Bombay 10th ultimo, ar-
revenue from the measure will be about rived on the morning of the 21st, with the £100,000. On wool the duty has also been London Mail for May. This mail is exceed abolished entirely. The most important part. ingly bare of general news, though there are
of the Budget is the proposed alteration in the several items of great interest to the inhabitants of British India and the commercial common foreign Sugar the produce of free labour. The present rate of 63s (a total pro munity of Chma. We notice first the arrange-
hibition for consumption) is lowered to 34s, per went for a a monthly steam communication to
cwi, or 10s a cwt more than that on British China via India, and a bi-monthly mail between
Plantation Sugar. In the East this will make England and India. It is not stated when
some important aliorations in our commerce. these arrrangements are to commence, Manila, Batavia, Siam, and probably Ching whether the China mail is to be carried to and from Ceylon by H. M. steam ships on the In- Sugar in large quantition will find a market in die and Ching stations, or whether the Penin England and lead to an extension of the ship- ments of manufactured goods to these places, aular and Onental Company,. who carry the mail that leaves England, on
the 1st of each month so far as Coylon, will also contruct for transporting it from thence to China. It is definately fixed that one Malls to leave South-pen, which we never publish; our contempo amon on the 1st of every month, to be con. reved throughout by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, calling at Ceylon, from whence letters will be despatched to Bombay and by steamer to Chink and proceeding on. wards via Midras to Calouin, where it is to urs von suficient time to allow five days for reply by the homeward Mala Bombay, 1,4d The other Mul is to leave London on the 15th of every month, and proceed me Marseilles or Trieste, as may hereater to determined upon, toe it will be conveyed by ombay, letters
thereto
19
per cwt.
571
1,3
Shipping and Inse 8 pr. cent.
No. Sugar, picul, $5,50 awt 195, Freight Import duty
5 per cent Additional
per cut
EXCHANGE or is. Öv. No. 384 pichy cwt Shipping and Insurance Freight Import duty
6 per cent Additiona
No. 1 picul 5 50 Shipping and Insurance Freight Import duty
6 per cent Adduional
than lateMOD.
have been n sorious kins to the revenue, and a vo that they heavy tax upon the consumer, giving the West
India planters a mempoly of the Sh
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For court gossip and other news we refer to the letter from our own correspondent. We are in monthly receipt of letters from the same
rary the Singapore Free Press, also claims the writer to his own. Correspondent," as he fur- nishes the Free Press with a monthly duplicato the benefit of seeing without its being pisted of our letter, which many of our readers havo
in China. This month our Correspondent writes better than usual, nod we take the liber ty of borrowing his letter from the columngol the Free Press, it being caner for our corapo- sitors than the manuscript which now lior 28- fore us
MILITARY
Detachments of HM. 98th and 18ili Re pimento embarked on board the Jave transport for Chian, at Gravesend on the 4th May, ephe the sindur of 258 mon and the following offioon -18th Lieut. Koos, Ensigna Triison tha Ceylon for Brow↑ 18th Capt Popne, Dosen Maudovala
and Art Surgeon Freer
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