478
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
HRA NOTICE Hårda 29 that grown in your colonies. With much OR SALE on Excellent and grand Piano forte
season, we think, Mr
of
cheap sugar and
*** JANUARIO JOZE LOPES
Victoria, 2nd August, 1844,
known
of 40 T
NOTICE,
Lorcha for Passenger of
or 640 piculs particulars
JANUARIO LOPES. Victoria, 2nd August, 1844. Mos
POR SALE, & Bay Arab Iforse, 14 hands,
~ and a Pony. Apply to a cui s
EDWARD NEWMAN.
day, the colonial plan
their benefitsPRE his other grievances,
nearly cent per cent on his prod of taxution Which most vers
Engle demand for
a course it does not affe
com ca. This fact Insti Miles
hey rarely get into the Cabulet, and are! always in a minority there. INDA
Chime Furniture Markonon METALS. Tin, Bancu
Plate Iron, Nail
Hoop
ylor's advocacy of ad anding Texas would be, Menthe frish topathies *oð Mr. President. Trier's son) imply Techeroute in a private individin fighting rount for his out hand but when the chief magi
frate of the Union conclules e treaty of annex olation with a republic founded on the territory of Steel
neighbouring and allied state by citizens of the Lead Pie
tan Mr-| Union—many of them of rather questionable | Quicksilver fed character it is time to stop laughing and look OPIUM, Patna, deu
After our own property,
fuge of
50
perpicult
per chest
10:
uty, mily be
It depends upon the American Senate to proventenares, new. 710 0 NOTICE, MAAN KUIN clusive of th
the last dig at Troin 218,
de shabby a violation of the laws of nations as ever OR SALE. A good Billiard Table complete.
was committed by the worst of the old Kings and
at si Malwa, nety, 770 apply to
Foto lay a tax of 21s on a necessary
Turkey Kaisirs, against whody tife. Treenien of North
360
00 per picul JANUARIO J. LOPES,
from*24s, to 358., including 39 for
America hold themselves entitled to rail in the
Onva-Du the result of the fifth sule being know, New charges, is obviously a most uppressive Victoria, 2nd August, 1844.
Inece there does not spam. 1ch tôùm for doubt gross, Mr. Clay's protest against the Tyler palidy Patna advanced to $785 The arrival of the Aright-
Red Rover and "Anna Edian," and the knowledge that and constiently the is honorable to himself and the party het represent large shipments are on the way, has checked those wh ing that the container
soul by reais shows that some of the old blood of the chewed a disposition to speculate in his drug to the mean- revenue, would be very gre ducing the duty to 16s or 18s. This may be pretty Washingtons and Adamses still circulates in the fine prices are nearly nominti), Point (only a cheat or two) confidently inferred from the hicrease of consump land. But it cannot be forgotten that Mr. Clay has been sold at $760, though some holders quore at tion that has invariably followed every full in the the mouthpiece of a party which, with one or We do not anteipste sng permanent rise on 8766, and if
In
there is a change, we think it will be favourable to tha a minority ever Price
ce of sugar,
two brief intervals, has been since the election of Thomas Jefferson as Pre-purchaser. The junks from Singapore have carried a large quanlity to the coast got less than 1,500 chests, which was
for a time keep down prices there, and the knowledge hat large quantities must come on, induce buyers to be cantou s by India, harver, the holders appear to be firm, and provided they can hold the drug, sotilling on small parcels, Dop under advances, they may keep the market up in China, but we are factitied to doubt their ability to do this. Pepper
Hongkong, 27th July, 1814.
FOR SALE-A Palanguth Carriage, apply
EDWARD NEWMAN
Hongkong, 30th July, 1944.
NOTICE. THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. Joseph Tenere in our on cruised on the 31st ultimo, and Mr. John Heard is this day admitted
a pariner.
AUGUSTINE HEARD & CO.
Canton, June 1, 1844, ZOLEDALONE FOR SALE
New American Flour, just landed, direct from Louisiana, or the slav
the United States,
Apply at the Godowns of
top cave BUSH HALSTED & Co Victoria, 17th July, 1844. » am-5 bes
PRICE & CO.'S - Will he PASHTONABLEV
He
Yan
The sident ve muren's qualified protest is in parchased ac &100 le tudo present quotations, which hawy |
than Mr. Clay's just us finitely less Mr. Van Buren is himself in every respect a less satisfactory sort of person. Mr. Van Buren, it is true, points out the dishonesty and danger the Tyler policy; bot the windup of his letter reads vastly like a hint to the Americans, thist though he disapproves of annexing Texas, rather than not be President he will consent if they insist upon it,. The wavering virtue of Mr. Van Buren and the long-standing minority of the class of statesmen represented by, Mr. Clay, are not cu- couraging auguries of what is to be expected from the Senate although that body, like the Supreme Courts of Justice of the Union has hitherto made d noble stand against the low principles of policy which have found favour in the eyes of the rabble
If the Sonate yield on the question of Texan annexation our turn will undoubtedly come next. This is more than Inferenced from the applicability, to Canudd of the immoral, principle upon which the Texan treaty is justified. Some of the Trap pers, whose friends and allies have been urging the Legislature of the Union to seize tipon Oregon, it is credibly reported, have already established an organized settlement within the disputed territory, This has all the appearance of an exact ropetition of what has been done in Texas: First, a body unrecognized adventurers form a settlement: then, they are recognized as de facto an inde pendent state; and lastly, they are incorporated into the Union. In the Texan treaty, and in the Oregon settlement, we may read what awaits us if Tyler 'priviples and Tyler partisans carry the day in the pending Presidential election and obtain
of
Mr. Miles stops short of Mr. M'Culloch...1 limits has petition to a duly of 208, a cut. reduction of 15. is all, that he has asked for, and we certainly think he has a fair cisim upon us for the amount of his very moderate demand. - -
moderate demand. - We will not stop to consider the amedement of Lord John Russell, which was negatived last night We have already expressed our opinion on that subject. To deprive qur, colomil planter of his slaves to restrict the importation of fresh labour on any tolerably advan cous forms—to continue a tax on lus staple commou exceeding the gost of its production, and then to compel him, for var own profit, to comp with the slaveholder of importer of the Brazils, is set of ungenerous an act.
ritical oppression of which we would fun believe the English Legisla ture incapible. To urge that it is contrary to our consciences to allow of slave labour in the Ameri oan islanda, but due to ourselves to profit by it on. the American continent--that prohibitory duties, fur the benefit of the planter are imperiously for bidden by the adamantine principles of free trade, while prohibitory restrictions on the immigration of free labourers are perseveringly enforced for the benefit of the labourer to clamour for cheap, sugar for life sake of the English poor, wille 243, aculis. the minimum duty which we retain on that article, even when produced by free labour, and by your own countrymen--this concatenation, of in consistencies we will not here stop, to examine We wish only to offer a few remarks on Mr. Miles's oposed modification of Mr. Goulburn's motion..
The Ministerial proposal
al is obviously not opeir to the full charge of injustice which attaches to those of Lord Jolin Russell and Mr. Ewart. Itdocs not force the West Indian, at least directly, into competition with countries possessing the adván,
10:118 it is no agreeable prospect, to be dragged fage of slave labdur. But, as we have implied, this is not all that the West Indian has a fair right to into war by the principled encruachmonts of a elaim from us. His country is not now in the † kindred people, But the citizens of the United condition of one where slavery has never buen part | States will themselves be the greatest sufferera. of the industrial system. "It is still involved in a ↑ We do not, indeed, anticipate, with some, a near crisis of the most embarrassing kind. Capital hud | dissolation of the Uniou. There is enough of been expended, plans had been formed, habits con." "'esprit de corps among the States to reconcile the tracted, prices fixed, while slave labour and that citizens of New York to a common course with to an amount adequate to the existing wants of the the Repudiators of Pennsylvania and Michigan; community was one of the conditions of society. the Anti-Slavers of Boston with the Calhouns, who This condition we have, by an act of imperial bo-" look upon the occupation of Texas as nothing but wer, suddenly withdrawn. By an act like this we ́a just ent necessary step in defence of the sacred, For Sale at C. W. BOWRA'S Store, with innui | do not merely change we disorganise. We cannot institution of Negro Slavery, and alt to take pride in extending their territory violent or fraudulent merable other articles, ex Penang. -
appropriations of what belongs to neighbouring power. It must be a virtuous, a happy society, in which such principles are uoblushingly avowed! It is not in the, American Union as in the narchical States of Europe. On this side of the Atlantic, a line has been drawn between the states man and the citizen chisa, which, whatever anonia- lies it may have occasioned, was at least had the good effect of keeping domestic life comparatively pure from the las principles of politicians. In our
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by a mere fint élevate a slave-employing colony to the condition of one which has for centuries em
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a majority in the Senate.
and proved a countersagent to public corruption: of all The dow swindling principles of Repu- diation, the callousness to human suffering of the slave owner, and the plundering propensitics of the conqueror, are not likely to be confined to the cabinet: the poison will penetrate into do mestic circles. A class will he formed in every State as demoralized as the rabble of Runia undos the Emperors.—(London Spectator) ・・・
master and man are the growths of time. It is by a long and ever-contreuing course of more or less. peaceable struggles, concessions, and encroach- ments, that they work themselves out into a shape which is at last understood, and which, by being understood, enables the industrial machinery of the country to keep in motion. It is indeed mainly the Consequence of a certain proportion between the demand for labour and its supply. But the condomèstic circles a stricter morality has prevailed, sequence, inevitable as it may be, does not work itself out in fact as rapidly as a political ecotomist Last night the old subject of the sugar duties affects to deduce it on paper. The most unfailing came again before the House of Commons. We principle struggles slowly and lumberingly into have before now said, that we think the West In operation. In any such substitution as that which dian" planter has had some reason to complain of has taken place in the West Indies, we may destroy the treatment which he receives at the hands of the as precipitately as we please, but we cannot so British public. We have carried into effect, almost create. We may abolish the relation of slave, but entirely at his expense (for the noted twenty mill we cannot call up, ready made, that of free labourer. liops, though a very large sum, was far from a real And while the conditions of property are still compensation to him for the profitable use of his unhinged--while society is still recovering its states), the most daring social revolution that equilibrium after a revolution which we liave in ever an Edinburgh political seconomist or inflicted we own it to the subjects of our experi- |- Exeter-hall philanthropist was allowed to handle ment to protect them for the present from the shock and now, while, to use the forcible expression of of any fresh operation. Pending the crisis which Sir R. Peet on a former occasion, society in those we have evoked, the interests of an important eo colonies is staggering under the shock of that ex- | lány deserve to be treated with unusual tenderness; periment," we proceed to inflict upon him the cry and, under such circumstances they have certainly of "cheap sugar" with as much zeal as ten years some right to demand that a messure which is
that of "no slavery. " - The British public de if it at all, be intended to admit a priyés him of his slares the British public is burn-bassy purpose the English market, should ing to subject him to the pressure of foreign com | be accompanied with some corresponding relaxa be petition and the same Briush public goes on attion of their owir disadvantages. And this may be the same morent to fetter his endeavours at supurged with still greater cogency while their cause Copper, sheathing. plying himself from other quarters with that lobour is also the cause of the public when the advantage
Cordage, European COTTON, Bombay, ? sh. ps. Is. old
CANTON PRICES CURRENT. 14TH AUGUST, 1844.
IMPORTS.-Duty Paid.
$250 05.00 per hhd, Ale (best brands)
“ALE-Saunders” and other favorite brands selling at 0 per catty 00 perpicu!
9 0 per bolt
per picul
Amber
fon.
Betel Nut Canvas-Eng, and
Scotch Cochineal
which we forbid him to use in its accustomed form which they seek for themselves will be fell by Paddle S.Am.
With slavery abolished by act of Parliament, ap public in the shape of a reduction of price, and prenticeship by the pressure of public opinion, and even, if Mr. M'Culloch's prophecy be true, an immigration practically impeded by Order in Coon enhancement of the revenue. In point of amount, cil we turn round on our unfortunate victim, we certainly cannot think them exorbitant in ex still confused by the new state of things unable to pecting that a bonus of 20s to their foreign com. cope with his rising difficulties—his labourers repetitors should be qualified by one of 4s, to them- fusing to work, and his estates melting away he selves-Times, June tween his fingers-unsettled, embarrassed, un- knowing
what to expect or what to rely upon-we turn and ask hun why in the world he cannot offer us his sugar as cheap as Java and Manila.
The present duty of foreign-grown sugar is Gls, on colonial 24s, the hundred weight, giving a pro- tection of Ba to the West Indian planter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer propose that in the caso of sugar pronounced by Her Majesty in Con- cil to be the produce of free labour, the 638, shall be reduced to 342 the cnt.
0:
80 *
150
78
Cords The deliveries of the New Bombay Staple, have been going on more freely about 3000 bales were taken off the Market, within the last week, but at no advance in price, Old, dull at quotations; nuthrag doing in fadrin
Madras
No demand. Bengal
COTTON GOODS. White Shirtings, 3 59.
3.80
piece
MORAL PROSPECTS OF THE UNITED STATEL It is true that our Transatlantic cousins are more prone to talks about than actually to engage
Grey dito dito. 2.40 in war, hot as the pitcher which goes often to the well comes bouse, broken at last—as the boy COTTON GOODS-There is one demand for Grey Cloth cried wolf" ull nobody believed him, and yeste arrivals have been large, the cast there
et our quotations, White are not enquired after Th the wolf did come--this babina bluster and the limited coroand, bet in September, October, and Novem. domontade may lead to mischief in the end. It is ber, it autoputed that huge parcels (esperally heasy nat denied that we have senatorial and extrase- grey got will be placed at good prices estorial Bobadils here at home qude fit to pair off with those of the United States, and perhaps in
On this, Lord J. Russell mores that the same indulgence be extended to slave grown sugar; and the sull more ruthless Mr. Ewart, that all foreign | number scarcely inferior; but, thanks to some- sugar whatever be admitted on the same terms as thing in our form of government or eur state of
Yam, Nos. 18ta30 24 0.
a
Rice, cargo
'quality' RattangE Sandalwood, Malabar.
Saltpetre WOOLLENS.
Spanish Stripes Long Ells, scarlet
# assorted.
Camlets, English,
Dutch
5 20
#:
7:50
1 850
125 per yan 8 80 per piece
'0:0
Nothing doing in any description of woullen goods.
EXPORTS -C
Alum Anniseed. Camphor Cassia China Roots. Galangal Musle
Buds
Khabarb
10.50
Board
20 per picul
2006
9450 100
17 018
2:5044
2.-2040
9000
per catty
0300 600 per-picul Raumann-We only hear of one purchase of thisbaels nea $60. The weather has been unfavourable for preparing the 1. root for the market. RAW SILK.
Tsatlee5200 550 2013
Canton
280 0950 01 UN Six-The purchases have been farge, 1,350, bales of the now crop arrived, of which 1,100 bales were bought at, for No. 1, $510, No. 2, $520. One house boldly opened the market with a purchase of 810. bules. It is said that previous to this a small purchase was made at $550, The Milk is
described as being rather an prdinary quality of Tentice, but the gloomy state of the ten, market in England, induces parties to strive for other remittances. It is worthy of nice, that the quantity of Silk brought forward for sale fust week was about one-half of the entire shipments of the previous
TEA.
Fear.
4
19 04/27 150
20 0
Congo old. Tls. 12 0 16 Congou new,
30: Caper, new Sanchong old, Souchong new Orange Pekoe, new 27
tine scented. 500 Twankay
Hyson
-None
Young Hyson Hyson Skin. Grupowder. Imperial
30 050 50
14 0
500
30..0. 15:0 32 0 43-0470 · 0*4*
"
TEAS-All the fine teas that have as yet been brought in market, have been bought up at prices varying from 30 to 43 taels. Put the second class, the tea-men show a disposi ton to reas, in thing the impression that from the large
on fine teas,
stock of the old crop already in England, mud deteriorming in value by age, the fine ness tous first brought forward, will command good prices.
COTTON RÉPONT, Canton, July 1st to 31st, 1844.
Deliveries, Twist, bales.... 740
Deliveries.
Stock.
4,373
Stuck.
American, bales.
Bombay,
Bengal, Madras,
21591 3,019
78,396
16,256
G5
17,007
Total 25,278
111,059
including
Ship Fattel Mobarack.
PRICES OF BULLION. Syees Silver, Lurge, 2 per cent, premium
small, 1 to 2 ditto
Spanish Dollars, Ferdmand. par
**** - Carolus, & percent, for selected. Republican disto, 4 to 5 per cent. discount.
EXCHANGE.
Bills on London at G months sight, 45, 3d. Navy Bills, 4s. to 4s. id.
H.M. Flenipotentiary on the Bengal Govi,, Treasury
closed
Court of Directors accepted on ditto, 60 days, have been offered at 225 per $100, Difficult of Sale
FREIGHTS
To London or Liverpool, £4 perion of 50 ft. To Amoy, Sit per ton of 40 feet To Our ports, 10% per ton aditional, To parts north of Amoy, 88 din
26.50 per picul Edited, Printed, at Published by Jows Cann, At The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette Printing Office, QUEEN'S ROAD, VIUTORIA, HONGKONG, 1844
Nos 39 to 42 29 0. TARMTEC stuck are reeing very slowlf, with linde OF DO LEIDEGGCngat in prices,