510
bay, the English periodicals are 9 or 10 in number, all issued semi-weekly, and 4 native publications, In the Ultra-Gangetic provinces 1 newspaper is published at Loudianah; at Moulmein; 1 at Delhi; 1 at Agra ; and I at Serampore.
Ceylon- semi-weekly papers and an official Gazette are published; the first was in 1802.
East of the Ganges a paper is published at Pulo ponang, under the title of the Prince of Wales's Island Gazelle, which was commenced as early as 1805, but the publication was
was suspended for somo years, and resumed in 1833. Malacca, on the Malay Coast, has had several newspapers, of one of which, entitled The Register is still continued. Canton-Two weekly English newspapers were published at Canton, but are now removed to Macao. The oldest of these is the Canton Register, which appeared on the 7th of November, 1827
Australasia Sydney has a many as eight news papers, and in size and style are counterparts of the best provincial journals. The price is eight,
per paper) considering there is no stamp duty one appears daily, the others twice or thrice a week. The oldest paper is the Sidney Gazelle, which commenced the 5th of March, 1805.
Melbourne. Three papers are published twice
week.
Geelong One weekly,
South Australia has four newspapers--one pub. lished semi-weekly at Adelaide, and the others weekly.
Yan Diemen's Land.-Hobart Town, six weekly newspapers, one semi-weekly, and two gratis ad- vertising sheets. Launceston, one weekly, one semi-weekly.
Sandwich Islands have now their regular news paper. The Sandwich Island Gazette, published at Honolulu, Oahu, has been established more than three years, and was conducted until lately by Mr. S. D. Mackintosh, who has recently gone to America, where he has started another paper, The Gazette has since merged into the Polynesian
New Zealand. Wellington. The first number of the New Zealand Gazelle was printed in London on the 21st of August, 1883, and although a great number were struck off, the demand was so great, that a second edition was published on the 8th of September. Its very able editor, Samuel Revaus, immediately embarked, and printed the second number on the beach at Port Nicholson, on the 18th of April, 1810. He had been preceded by the Company's Agent, Coloffel William Wakefield, who had arrived on the 20th of September, 1839, so that Mr. R. on his arrival, found plenty of mat, with which to fill up his paper. It was at first a weekly publication, but now appears twice a week Its price is 10s, per quarter, which is not so high as the Calcutta papers; but as the population in creases and greater numbers are printed, no doubt
ter
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
those who create it; if its progress has been great, its prospects are yet greater, and to England.
upon whose empire the sun n very alphabet of its power
is the
In this paper its first riss has been tracollits extended utility when new par
estamished and its recent progress, ming
the set an example to the world, of chea
lar, and rapid postal communication” –“still
in its infancy; whenever postal communication is rendered uni versal, the periodical press of England will extend to a degrea which the mind can hardly contemplate. There is not an individual living, who has more in his power than Lord Lowther, to assist in this all- important matter; and we pen it sincerely, when we say that we look forward with confidence, the he will exert himself in a way, which will make his appointment to the Post Office a blessing to mankind.
(From the Friend of India}
LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S INDIAN ADMINISTRA rION. The departure of Lord Ellenborough from the shores of India reminds us of the duty of offer
a brief review of his administration. - ing/u
the price will be lowered. The Colonist has be hopes. Not less
started in opposition to it Mr. Hanson being its editor-but the proprietorship is in a joint stook company. It is, however, with great pleasure that we read in the New Zealand Gazelle of the 5th of April, 1843, the report of an anniversary dinner to commemorate the establishment of the Press in New Zealand Mr. Revans in the Chair, and Mr. Hanson us Vice President.
Abing
old
Benares, new. 745 0
old. 0 0 0
0
Malwa, new. 170 000
per chest
Turkey 360 04
per picul Opium-Patna, on the 3rd, $765, to $770; lew chests however in the hands of Chinamen at the former prices. Benares, 8735; Malwa, $750, and Turkey $330. There by a large arrival. A fresh importation of 1000 or 1200 will probably be an advance upon these prices, until checked chesta would bring it (Patna) under $75). Many of those who purchased on time, have been losers, and it will be difficult to draw them in again at above 800, and we Present dates are to meet consumption, there being no spint doubt ween, for some time, if they will give that figure. to speciate evinced by the dealers Rice, cargo quality Rattans Sandalwood, Malabar 11 013 0
Timor,&S. S.Isl Saltpetre WOOLLENS.
Spanish Stripes Long Ells, scarlet
5 0 4-5 25 210 2 25 40
#
70
750
104
25 per yard
Afghans, which might make it appear to them, to OPIUM, Patna, new, 775 our own subjects and our allies, that we had the power of angi ing punishment on those who conis mitted autocities and violated their faith, and that wa withdrew ultimately from Affghanistan not from any deficiency of means to maintain our posi tion, but because we were satisfied that the King we had set up had not, as we were erroneously led to imagine, the support of the nation over which he had been placed. Such was the united deter- mination of Lord Ellenborough and his Council on the 13th of March. All our military movements were then shaped with a view to carry it out, and it was with the resolution to vindicate our national honour that his Lordship left Calcutta for the North West Provinces on the 7th of April. Pepper
But on reaching Benares, Lord Ellenborough, in addition to the full of Ghuzni, heard of the unac countable blunders committed by General England, which led him to fall back on Quetta, and also of the unsatisfactory state the troops which were about to enter the Khyber under General Pollock The Council was no longer at his elbow to sustain his resolution. Alarined by the adverse aspect of Hairs, be sued orders for the retreat from Afghanistan, without reference to the unfortunate thus doomed to a state of hopeless captivity in the prisoners, men, women, and children, who were
hands of barbarions. Mr. Maddock, the Secre- directed to write at orce to General Nott to draw fary in attendance on the Governor General, was
fort, and the guns which could not be brought off the garrison of Kelati, Ghilze, to destroy the away, to ruin the delences of Candehar, and to same day his Lordship himself wrote to Sir Jasper abandon that town and retire on Quetta On the Nicolls desiring him to inform General Pollock that all his future movements were to be regulated. orders afluid a remarkable instance of that per- with a view to his falling back on India. These petual fluctuation of view which so lamentably March his Lordship, said he should consider the marked the late administration. On the both of
object of striking a decisive blow at the Affghans,
blow which might re-establish our military impression of our power and of the vigor with character beyond the ladus, and leave a deep which it would be applied to punish an atroci ous shemy-as one for which risk might be military ardout was extinct, and hits Lordship justifiably incurred." In thirty-five days, this wrote, that it would be for consideration whe
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8 508 80 per piece
*
53
44 assorted 8 000 Camlets, English. 22 024 0 Scarlet 820; the market overstocked with that colour.
Dutch. 28 0 * 30. 0
Buds
Alum Camphor Anniseed. Cassia China Roots Galangal Musk Rhubarb
Tsatlee.. Taysaan. Canton
EXPORTS-ON BOARD..
81.75 to
10:50 * 1
23 020
9:50 10:0
17 018 0
2.50
2:20:
per picul
"
3
0 per catty
90. 040
30:04
600 per picul
520, 00550. Q
2800 350 0
"
SILK retains its price.. Taitted 9510 to $510; stock not more than 250 bales. In about ten days the remainder of ↑↑ the 1st crop will arrive in Canton, making the whole am junt
or seven hundred biles from last season, so that the first of 2,500 balos. It is said that higher prices have been u the three crops of the prosent year may be taken at near
Shanghai; und Wis not known what quantity will be brought for the second crap, în consuyuûnce of a demand for
to the Canton market, though the first of it may be expected in aix weeks. TEA.
to 3,200 bales; there is reason to think that this includes six
Congou old Tis. 12 0 16 0
Congu new,
Caper, new
Souchong old,
Souchong new
300443 0.
2004 230
15-0
20 0
300 453
Orange Peltoe new:22 031 0
fine scented, 450: “.
150 18 0
Twankay Hyson
20 0
Young Hyson, Gunpowder Canton 300 d Hyson Skin Canton. 15 0
Imperial Canto ...
36 18.0
567 # TE --The ten-men are beginning to telas in their demanda
that usually ships large quantities of tea; coupled with the extensive exchange operation (£123,0)) nside by a bu
fact, that the same firm aro supposed, but the other day, to have purchased a parcel of silk worth £30,000, has rather
NetSÚA Like its predecessor the Nelson Ex months and a half, "te pitched battles have been India for his y, incurred the scorn of all | Chops lately held at 41 tela, are now offerebat 3). An
aminer had its first number published in London, on the 6th of September, 1841, Its editor, Mr. sol Haven, on the 12th of March, 1842-Captain Charles Elliott, printed the second number at Nel Arthur Wakefield, R. N., having preceded him in the Whitby, and having landed there on the 9th of October, 1841. This is a weekly papers the price for single numbers is 1s...or 40s. a year; but as it, like the Wellington papers, is untaxed, the price must fall, us the population increases so as to call for the printing of a greater number.
feeling of pusillaminity continued from the
opened the Chinamens eyes to the fact that, tea is a prices Expocr of TEAS FROM 1ST JULY TO 17ra AVGUST, upon a dangerous rotate 903914 advances prices
it is anticipated will come down.
Green, 1110.486 lbs: Black, 3,085,225
Total 4,225,711 lbs. Cargo City of Dory" included.
unworthy acquiesence in defeat and die of my life 19th of April to the 4th of July. During the in- tention to the state of the public revenue, and ap terval, Lord Ellenborough began to devote his at pointed a Finance Comunittee, of whose labours we shall speak hereafter. All his communications to Generals Nott and Pollock at this period may Retreat Yet at this very time, for no object which be summed up in the words-Retreat! Retrent ! has been discovered, except that of mystifying the public, some old unserviceable rockets, found at Dum Dum, were sent up to Affghanistan by dawk bangy, as though the army was going to besiege Cabul.But on the 4th of July, a change came over the espirit of his Lordship's dreams. The Twist, bales.. pacific policy was folded up, and the banner of war again unfurled. It is generally supposed that American, bales.. the change was produced by a communication Bombay, the extent of our disasters in Contral Asia, is said Madras, from the Duke of Wellington, who, on hearing of Bengal, to have urged an immediate march of Cabul with the view of retrieving our military honor, and re- establishing the impression of our superiority " on the Mahomedan mind from Constantinople to Calcutta."
The first remark which suggests itself to the mind, on this retrospect, is the strange series of disappointments by which it has been characteriz ed, not less on the part of Lord Ellenborough than of his honourable Masters. In October 1841, the usual farewell entertainment was given to his Lrodship at the London Tavern, at which many eloquent speeches were made, the whole burden of which was the singular good fortune of the public authorities in having obtained the services of one who was considered to be litter for the government of India, than any man to be found within the four seas of Britain The Coun of Directors were peculiarly chraptured with the prize they had drawn, The Chairman said, "it was a source of much satisfaction that the Court had been enabled to place that momentous trust in the hands of the noble Lord, whose great talents, unwearied devo- tion to the public service and intimate aequain tance with the condition fed him for discharging its duties. Within thirty
Indta, peculiarly quali months, all these bright visions completely vanish ed. After three days of earnest deliberation, the Directors unanimously resolved to fly in the face of a Conservative Ministry, and recall his Lordther our troops, have been redimed from the state ship and the oldest member of the Direction, in the of peril in which they have been placed in Aflgha- explanation which he gave of this unprecedented nistan, and, it may still be hoped, not without the got in his place in Parliament, declared that the army, it would be justifiable again to push thera infliction of some severe blow on the Affghan Court had been actuated entirely by a sense of for no other object than that of revenging our public duty, and that their wishes were confined to losses, and of re-establishing in all its original one object, that of riding the Government of India of the man who had so bitterly disappointed their of remark as one of the anomalies of the adminis brilliancy our military character." It is worthy
Lord Ellenborough's professions and intentious, was inspired with the strongest military monoma
palpable is the discrepancy between
tration that he who, at the end of the year 1812, and his performances At that banquet, he said he felt he had inuch to do, to terminate the war in litary reputation on the 19th of the preceding nia on record, was so utterly indifferent to our mi. China, to restore tranquillity to both banks of the Indus, and, in a word, to give peace to Asia. The April, as to be unwilling to submit to the smallest Journal des Débats, commenting on his recall, says, now the idol of the
risk to restore its brilliancy and that he who is « during his administration pl twenty-seven fought, and the Anglo-Indian empire, already so vast, has been enlarged by the addition of entire dwelt with a feeling of enthusiasm on the idea of provinces." On that occasion, Lord Ellenborough "emulating the magnificent benevolence of the Mahomedan Emperors in the great works of public improvement. Yet his only movement in this path of imperial benevolence has been to arrest the progress of the Ganges Canal, which had been sanctioned by the Court of Directors, and to devote i a sum which would have secured is completion, Bay of Islands - A newpaper was started here to the pageantry of war. On the 1st of October soon after colonists had established in Cook's 1842, Lord Ellenborough announced that he was Straits, but it did not last lorg, as the Governor, content with the limits which nature had fixed for availing himself or
of a low which had been made at the boundaries of our empire. On the 5th of March the pennl state at Sydney, under the government 1843, he annexed the whole province of Scinde to of which he at first acted, availed himself of this that empire, and carried our advanced posts twenty law, and suppressed the paper.
miles to the West of the Indus. The constant Auckland, Newspapers seem to have been start succession of disappointments which has marked ed here, only to be dropped. One was begun by a
the past administration, is without parrallel in our joint-stock company-the proprietors disapproved Indian History.all, taulan menar MAŠTO of the sentiments of the editor, and, in discharging Lord Ellenborough reached India at a crisis of him, put down the paper. Another was started, it extraordinary, difficulty. As he anchored in is said, under the patronage of the official persons Madras ruads, the first boat brought him intelli- about the Governor, but it soon withered and died, gence that the army of Cabal had been annihilated as has been the fate of one or two since.
and that the remainder of the troops in Afgha With the exception of New Zealand, the infor- nistan were in the greatest, peril, Without land mation in this article has been derived from the ing at that port, he directed his steps to Calenta. elaborate statement of Mr. Simmonds, printed by At Kedgerce, he was met by a deputation from the Statistical
ical Society of London; but it is but fair Lord Auckland, among whom was his private and to apprise our readers, that they will find in the confidential Secretary, Mr. Colvin, than whom no original paper itself, a much more ample account mon was better acquainted with the position and thao that which we have given. Mr. Simmonds aspect of affairs beyond the Indus, and the state of has given an account of the periodical press of all feeling within it. Yet Lord Ellenborough never Europe, of parts of Africa and Asia--but this, much exchanged a word with him on the subject. After as it is to be admired, is hardly matter for the Chis arrival in Calcutta, this momentous subject Ale (best brands) lonial Magazine-still, as far as that gentleman is was discussed at the Council Board. Lord Auck- concerned, it is but fair to give his excellent and land bad forwarded reinforcements and supplies modest conclusion -- It would be too much to towards Cabiul and Candabar, but with no idea of expect that the preceding statement is perfect in a second advance on the Capital, to which both all its details. It is, however, as complete as a his Lordship and Mr. Colvin were decidedly long and diligent search for the existing informa- adverse. This fact, which was unknown at the tion upon the subject, and an extensive correspon- time, has been subsequently established on the dence with news-agents and public authorities in clearest evidence. The troops which were pushed the United Kingdon and foreign countries, and forward under General Pollock were directed to more parucularly in the British Colonice, have stop at the threshold of Afghanistan, and were in- enabled its author to make it, and it may be hoped, teaded only to assist the retirement of the garri that the first attempt to give a collective view of sons of Jellalabad and Chuzm. How far the the newspaper press of the world, will lead others Members of Council concurred in these timid to transmit to the Statistical Society of London | views, cannot be known till the minutes they re more detailed statements for separete countries, corded, are made public. It was, therefore, open which will foraish the means of correcting and fill to Lord Ellenborough to advance or to retrat. ing up this sketch, and of preparing a similar and His Lordship and his Council resolved to advance more complete statement at a future early period. their determination was embodied in the well But Mr. Simmonds conclusion is a broad hint to knowa letter of the 15 of March, which bears in- bring the present article also to a close; but in doing ternal ernience of being the production of Lord so, it must be observed that the Press is a subject Ellenborough's own pen. It has all the more of of such immense extent of such rast imponance his style, and pans of the bombast which obarac- —so interesting to those in the colonies, as well as terized bis subsequent papere, when he began to to us at home-that justice would not be done it take Napoleon for his model. It is one of the Tin, Bud with a meie statiscal return. To a fature number most masterly state papers in our Indizo archiren of the Colonial Magazine, some account shall be The reasoning is strong and coanswerable; the Iron, Nail given of the anstample periodical press at home. language is chaste and rigors and the spirit it Some remarks will be schmitted as to its character, breathes is worthy a succesor of Clite, and Wel or, as Mr. Simmonds calls it, “its quality." Some tesley, and Hastinga. thing also must be said as to its mechanical cos tão necessity ofte truction, its salt, its price, and of the perusal of i varios ly
Amber
(To be continued.):
CANTON PRICES CURRENT,
7TH SEPTEMBER, 1841,
Betel Nut
IMPORTS.-Dory Paro,
Canvas-Eng. and
Scotch Cochineal Copper, sheathing
S.Am Condage, European COTTON,Bombay, sh. p. Is old
CC Madras
825 0 43 0 0 per bhd. 10 50 11 0 per catty 450*0.0. perpicul
~0" 90 per bole
0 0 per picul
COTTON REPORT. Canton, August 1st to 31st, 1841.
Deliveries
Stockt. 032 Deliveries.
3,505
Stock.
27,094
91.054.
7,810
8,752
3,233
18,087
117,893
bage Bin Total 38,143 -including any de
England's Queen.
PRICES OF BULLION. Sycee Silver, large, 20 per cent, premium
Small 4 to 2 ditto. Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
Carolus, 9 per cent. for selected. & Republican ditto, 4 to 5 per cent, discount.
BASEXCHANGE,
Bills on London at 6 months sight, 4s. 3d. to 43, 4d. Navy Bills, 4 to 48. ld
11.M. Flenipotentiary on the Bengal Govt., Treasury
closed
Court of Directors accepted on ditto, 60 days, have
been offered at 225 per $100 Difficult of Sale - Exquangs. The late purchase of £120,000 of Barings bills at 4s. 31, at the commencement of the season for exports has given a very decided character to the moricy anket, and will probably fe the rains of the dellor for a
tine af from da. 31, 10 fs. 15..
FREIGHTS
Te London or Liverpool, £4 per ton of 508. To Out ports, 10s, per ton additional.
To Amor, 80 per ton of 40 feet
To porta north of Amoy, 83 ditto
- Ficiorts-Ships now landing ger £t. It is doubtful whether this rate will long edatiane onchanged. There aro comparatively few ships in China, and from the improve, ment of freight in India, sceking vessels cannot be expected from that quarter, it is true a considerable firet ero on their * 80 per pisceway from England, and it is equally true that upwards
3:40 27 60 perpicul
A small quantity of very fine há been sold a T. &
Bengal
3 - 5 dull COTTON GOODS. Wire Shinings, 10
Grey
dito dito.. Yart, Nos.18to30, 31 Nos 53 15 42 21 Chintz Furasure METALS
tog
rero Lead Pa
30
0 per piece
of log will be required to carry the produce likely to he shipped from the 1st August, 1811, to 31st July, 1865. Any very entènaive purchases of tea may cause an advance, and antese a large quanoty of Britiak tonnage is taken up in tadia to carry rice and cotton to China, we do not antisipate
any decline on £L
SULES LOADING FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM. per picul
Mégis, Yul Laterpost, South Hinckum, England's Queen, Farig, Hindostan, Finang, Marchioness of per pical | Days John Dredale and Orisa laid on.
Etiftet. Printed, and Published by Jous CARD, At The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette Frating Office, Queen's Road, VICTORIA,