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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 184
The Rev. W. EL. Medhurst desires, as they public tzner, to acknowledge his series of the complimor paid him by the prosent of a Silver Breakfast Service" from the English von- gregation, paplubling at Parapattan, Batavia, on the occasion of his renoval to Chine, and thus relinquishing the religious sarvives conducted in the chapel of that place, during a period
of more than twenty years.
We intended are this to have called atten- tion to the proclamation published last week, referring to an old regulation of Sir Henry Pot finger, for lighting the streets, but which like many others that emanated from the same so-
for receiving less valuable allotments than those Wa of which they are deprived, they are permitted cruel to occupy the new place for four years free of rent. We can see no reasonable. to this arrangement, so far as it roes, but what is to be done about the houses? Surely no just government, will rob their subjects, by taking their houses without a remun We trust not; every good feeling in the human breast is opposed to such injustice. We care not how worthless then people may be clear them of the island if necessary (and were one half of the present set so shipped it would be a happy deliverance) but pay them that which they are entitled to.
Orita, Christian, Sz Taylor,
Turner Co
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
look in vain for an apology for this act of the health of the town-it is por zo be found in the instructions arlock, Jauncy Jardine Matheson & Co. freel, to spand nothing on the Mazeppa, Fraser Jardine Matheson & Co. olony that can be, avoided. This is a mattor Peg, 150, Morison Orde which ngano butly no government can refuse. Framjee Cotoaster, Edward. I. & M, Rustomjee, In Engl Leven a criminal,or a felon, receives Disting, 204, Weight Fox Rawson & Cô, ~. the benefit of medical assistance, when his Harlequin, Oliver, Jardins Matheson & Ca
Sydney, 184, Scholefield, U. S. Compton. health renders such necessary in Hongkong Rab Roy, White. Murray & Co. less liberal principles regulate the treatment of the colonists-they are first taxed heavily for Sagation 977, Doun, Turner & Co.
Pau, 363, Clark Dent & Co. hand rent other taxos will soon be imposed,
Queen Victoria, 548, Brooks, Jardine & Co. all of which they are expected to boar withouts of Bute, 515, Banatyne Turner & Co repining, but their hard task masters have not, 350, Spoule Holliday Wise & Co. the slightest dok of the moral obligations under William Prouse. which they rest to protect those under their rule, and so far as it is in their power, to pre- serve to them that greatest if all blessings- health.
After reading the Notification, we had some doubts, as to whether this was all the govern- ment meant to do in the matter we could scarcely reconcile ourselves to the statement that nothing was lo be given for the houseK. We are assured however that such is the case, and that many who have houses in the present Bazaar, and are allowed lots in the new one, from their poverty will not be able to remove the house to its intended place, and thus be deprived of their property, as affect ually as if it had been burned over their heads, We will be glad to hear that His Excellency has reconsidered this matter-It is not for ue to point out his duty, but we fear, there are too many of his predecessors associates about him, and that his judgment at times may be biased by their narrow and illiberal views,
Nories is hereby given to the Inhabitants of Chon-hong, householders, having had permission 10 build, subject to the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government
That in accordance with the public Notification issued in April last, they are now required to re move their houses and all materials from the ground so occupied by them without delay, and if the same is not effected in the spice of one month
Han Majesty's Sutra. Alginamurt, 72, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane.
C. C. B. Captain Bruce Minden, 12, Capan Quin-Hospital Ship. H. C. st. Proserpine, Com. Hough, R, N. H.M.T.S.Sapphire. Com. Hock
LM3, Pelican, 10, Cominuador Justice EL M. Str. Fize, Coin. Gullard, B. M. brig Wolverine, Coni Morris. 11. M. 3. Iris, Cupt, Mundy,
II. M. T. S, Alugador, Coin, King, H.M.L.S. Cleopatra, 50 guns Capt. Ceccille
The apathetic indifference which is displayed is this colony nowy as well as in former times, to the indispensabile requisites of clean liness, is we believe unprecedented in any colonial possession, British or Foreign within the tropics. We speak from some little ex- burjence on the subject, and we speak if not in the spirit of an idle caviller,but with feelings of regret, for wo expeered baitor things of our
BRITISH SHIPPING AT WHAMPOA, present Governor-wa- cannot, however hide the truth for ourselves, and our calm and Inglewood, 619, Ket. Jamison How & Co. unbiased judgment confirms, that of others, often, 597, Smith. Holliday Wise & Co
Curedjen Colbarjee,585 Campbell, D. & M. Rustomjee greater experience, who will not hesitate to City of Derry, Were Dallas & Co assert that, in the most paltry village or town Caledonia, Burt. S. Rustomjee, in the West India possessions, were one tenth part of the filth to be found on the streets,
Faise Allum, Hutchinsou; Jola Smit b. that
Prince of Wales, Jones DadabhoyRustomjee for weeks is allowed to disiguro the most busy Emanuel (Bel), Haverlock. part of the Queen's Road, every voice would Julia, Jones. Hadju Babbac. be raised in indignant complaint, and before John Laird, St. Croix, many hours had elapsed the evil complained Drangan, McDonald D. de 1 Rustomjee. of would be remedied.
Shah Allum, Page, Elias Hoosein. Fattel Mombwak, Moore, S. T. Mahomet,
Siluan, Wadge Dadaliboy. Sanderson, Bushby, 308. Kennedy & MeCirsgor.
Is it to be wondered that, those who are
urce, was never enforced. We have not a co from this date, the material of whatever description Young and strong are falling around us victims autres, Flack, Jardine Matheson & Co.
py of the original Notification at hand, it canals however, that, from dark to day light in the morning, each householder, shall have a light hung outside of his house, in a conspicuous part, the better to enable the police to detect those who may be attempting to commit burglaries. This is an admirable regulation, and its que enforcement in the dark nights will prevent many robbereis.
gave
The present government, deserve some cra- dit, for digging out this useful article from the hcteregenious mass of abortionate ordinances, notifications, proclamations &c. &c. which were ostentatiously paraded before the public in the columns of the Gazette, and then queit- ly consigned to oblivion; forgotten even be their creatiors. For the time these documents
the colonial government the semblance of industry. but the labour of carrying out there own enact- ments did not consort with their habits or abilities We hope our officials well be encouraged t overhaul the rubbish which has collected in their various departments, from the bushels of alloy they may fish out other grains of pure metal The inhabitautaats, we do not doubt, will conform to this regulation--its utility is so evi deus that, no well disposed citizen well homi- tate about conforming thereto--and if they do net, it is pretty certain, that the full penalty of non-compliance will be enforced.
will be forfeited and became the property of the particular lot on which they are left.
The ground at Taeping-she prepared for their new location is marked out in separate lots, with the name and number of each according to the original Registere
His Excellency the Governor in Council has decided in consideration of this clain, and of the expense of removal, that the ground be pleared for their occupation free of charge.
That a year's ront, now due, be remitted and as further remuneration, that they be allowed to hold their respective luts,--rent free, for four years mHOES
By Order.
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Colonial Secretary,
Victoria, Hongkong,
20th July, 1844.
In our last issue we made some slight illy sion to the state of the Queen's road in the most central part of the town. We were in hopes that it would have been unnecessary again to introduce this subject; but we are disappointed, the matter is either too insignifi- caut to attract the attention of those who can remedy the evil, or the colonial exchequer la at too low an ebb to bear the expence of a few hundred dollars for the preservation of the health of the citizens we refer, in the heart of the town, and contre The puddles to which of the principal street of Victoria, are now in a state of putrifaction, coated with that green
matter: whether
Wo briefly call attention to the Government Notification of 25th July, directing that the op per Bazaar be removed to the ground prepared at the West end of the town; the present pro-matter which is usually to be found on the prietors of Houses and lots to receive corres pouding lots at the new location. So far well, but we ask, is it not intended to pay them, for those houses which for public purposes, require to be taken down ? Such, if we do not great ly err, is the usual way in Europe and other civilized quarters of the Globe. It would ap. pear, however, that this good custom, with many others to which we might refor, will not bear transportation to this distant settlement at least the sickly plant that has been transplan ted, only sheds its benignant influences over those, who can claim Europe as their fatherland -the poorChinamon are not supposed to be suf ficiently advanced in knowledge to entitle them to the protection of the laws of England, the Schoolmaster has not yet whispered in their car that, under British laws, all men are alike, Christian or Heathen, black or white, there is no distinction. They are probably ignorant of their own rights as they are of our laws and customs--at least such appears to be the opinion of our Government, who order them to pull down and romove their housos, without paying one dollar for the expence of doing so, while at the same limo, when they require the house of a Europanu, for public improvement, they pay him for it--if not a fair price, at all events they do not deprive him of his property without making some compensa tion. The rule appears to be, the Englishman we must pay, or he will make a clamour which may attract notice elsewhere; but as for the poor Chinaman, who will listen to his com- plaints: He is known to be a rogus, and during the yours he has been owed to carry on his trade, free of ground ront, he has been sufficiently compensated for the loss of his house besidea we give him another site free of rent for four years. This argument, however convincing to those who wish it 10 bo Let no man suppose. That we are col right
will source antisfy interested par the picture too highly od kr tiche facts of the cost arg contained in a necessary a night inspection few words, The Clinamon were 1 from the market, to Cirsium Bo
to the pestilence, which is encouraged, not checked, leaving vacancies in the circles of friendship here, and carrying sorrow and pain to the more hallowed scanes of the domestic hearth in our native land? Is it to be wondered that We cannot take up an Indian or English paper, without hearing of the dreadful nature of this clinato? The deaths are numerous the olimate is bad but the one might be great. y reduced and the other greatly ameliorated, by oven the ordinary attention to sanatory measures, which it is the duty of every govern meat to enforce, and the absence of which is a disgrace to the colony. season it is much too late to undertake any We ask for no expensive worksy-for this
regular system of drainage or sewerage--but we do ask that, a hundred coolies or more, under the supervision of a European, be im mediately set to clearing off the filth and the stagnant water, from those parts of the public streets where it has been allowed to accumu late. This summer, as was the case fast sum-
British Vessels at Macao,
Tapley, M'Key" "Turner & Ca. Denice, 011, Ball Order, Charles Grant, 1700, Wyld. Macyjcar. & Co. Janeres Jejeebling Jardine Matheson & Co. Crsair, Fraser, Rustomjee &. Có,
BRITISH VESSELS AT MÍACAO. Block Dog 140 Dadabhay Burjorjee. Madry, 524, Slack Jardine, Matheson & Ca Royals, 140, Lees. Boustead & Ca
imir Marson, 102, M Knight
Isabella Thomson, Kitron - Syed Khan, 125, Baird. N. Du, Lord Goderich, 401, Cook, V. D. Cook, Fagin (Am.), 328, Shermuzz, Lama, Nanu.
DIED
On the evening of tho 8hạt Us : 3. T. SCALES, Bag
EUT COLONEL TRIPP, 98th Regiment being about to proceed to Euginud, "desires debts due by him, to be sent in without delay this quarters at Sout's Hoie. By order.
3. D. SMYLT. L, 98ih Vietoria, 2nd August, 1844,
mer, death will claim bis victims, perhaps those who can least be spared, but however great the number may be, it is our firm believe all that the principal cause of the postilence which cuts them off is removable by a proper system of sewers, and that even now, the number of cases could be reduced, by keeping the public streets in an ordinary state of cleanliness,
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVED,
JULY 30-Pearl, Morison, Macao,
surface of stagnant water. It is perfectly un necessary for us to point out the deleterious Framjee Copasse, Edwards, Whampoa influences of putrified
30-Bintang, Wright, Amoy animal, water, or vegetable, it is alike 1-Eagle (Am), Sherman, Chusan,
31-Harlequin, Oliver, East Coast. injurious to man. The prevailing descn1-Sydnet, Scholefield, Whampoa. ses of tropical climates are well known to be caused by the presence of one or more of them, their noxions vapours mingling with the atmosphere, and poisoning the air we breathe, The most prevalent of these causes of desease, are water in a state of stagnation and vegetables in a state of decomposition, and as a town is more or less cleared of them in exact proportion is the health of the populace. We notice this well known fact, of which no man however short his residence in a tropical cli- mate can be ignorant, and we would submit with the truth of what we mention and also the state of that part of the town to which we refer, whether there is not great neglect part of government, if not culpable, not what we might expect from His Excellency's experience, and is a vulgar saying that what in every energy and intelligence of huntin business is nobody's business instance we have probably The various officials on the islan ignorant of these puddles of filth- cape the age, assuredly they cannot, the note but unfortunately none of them live within the Influence of the noxious unsavory smells, which are a long way from the precincts of government house -** His Excelency may be in ignoran oxistence, though day her day after week, they throw a their o lations, and in the hilmity lever and death has at least in two instances been the rokult.
AUGUST 1-Rob Roy, White, Macao,
31-Lyne, Nann, Macao.
1-Sagalien, Dean, Whampoa. 1--Patnu, Charke, Liverpool. 9-Queen Victoria, Bombay,
Marquis of Bute, Bannatyne, London, -Mata, Spoule, Liverpool. 2-William Prowse, Liverpool coming
Perel, Chusan coming in.
BAILED.
JULY 31Sultana, Wadge, Whampoa, AUGUST 1--H]. M. Str. Spinful, Com Maitland
Bombay
ened to build in the locality their off and satisfy the sceptic of the tap houses were registered by the land officer, and and when itarb
aru silll upon record it is now found necessa. this short space (bot
ry to remove the Hazaar (a very proper meyard) two Bumper
Burg in our opinion it je purposed to give the days, there conclusive Diso
1001 be eyes
occupants lots in another. Bazaar, in a lesa olis is quite as virulent, an the sources from which gible part of the town, and as y componention it arises would lead us to expect.
Iyer, Nunn, Macão, 1-Sanderson, Bushby, Whampoa, 1-Eagle (Am) Sherman, Macno.
Uraguay, Kelso, Amor & Chusan.
UNDER DESPATCH.
H. M. B. Pelion, England. 1. M. brig Wolverine, Singapore. Pantaloon, Amoy & Chussa. Swift do
do. Framics Cowayer, Caloutta. Privatee. Whenipoa”.
Northern Ports
Passengers her Marquis of Bute Mr. Moul Mr. Milne, Mr. Barners
Passenger pos Maia, Monsieur Garelto.
VESSELS IN Vieronta BaDER: South Stockton W. T. Gommeil d
Quene, 65, Hart. Flathur Larian 40 100. Lewis. C. V-Burt 99, Roger N. Di
FOR SAMARANG, BATAVIA, AND BOMBAY.
THE A. 1. Ship Recovery, Captain
Johnson, 500 tons, will he dus
ted for the above Ports, ou or before the middle of next month
For Freight or Passage, having
superior accommodations, apply to
R. J. GILMAN, Canton,
or to J.JARVIE, Macao.
Maono, 29th July, 1944.
PUBLIC AUCTION
WEDNESDAY next, August 7th, will be
Orold by the undersigned, at the Naval Stores, West Point, & quantity of Blankets, Blue Baizo., or Flannel, Blocks, Lanterns, and sundry other goods, by order of the Surveyors. Sale to take placo at li a. M.
Terms, Cash-and the goods to be cleared the same day.
P. TOWNSEND, Auctioneer."
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE UNDERSIGNED will sell by Auction on this day, the 3rd instant at the Waterloo Hotel,
THE FOLLOWING GOODS, VIZ, Green Paint (in Oily Pliat Rifles, Several Bozes of Surgical Instruments, Branded Cheese, Pickles, Gilt Buttons, Finger Rings, Breast Pina, Wutols Ribbons, Severni Jars, Epsom Salts, andit quantity of Sherry and Beer, with a variety of other articleg.
Terms of Silo-Cash before delivery, and the Goods to be removed immediately after the
MEWEN & Co.,
Auctioneer's
Victoria, 2nd August, 1844.
NOTICE
TE have this day and Canton bylinton, Madionu
Hodgkong lat
enced durines horo clica with Momre
VLARIE & CO,