562
NOTICE.
PULLS on Messra, Barma Brothers & Co., self as Underwriter's & General Auc
London-Drawn by D. M. F. Thornton Esq. Purser of the U. S. Frigate, Brandywine at 60 days sight, and endorsed by Commodore Parker, For sale at Macaof
Application to be made to
CD. ME THORNTON, of W. P. PEIRCE. Macao, October 11th. 1844,
6
PROFESSOR FIEBIG of Gottenburg, recently
- arrived in Chins, and should any encourage. ment offer, he will settle in Hongkong, giving justructions in Music, Drawing and the modern languages.ster of
Mr. Fiebige expectations of success are confined to carning a respectable livelihood, and at the same time having an opportunity of studying the lan. guage of China, which is his chief object in vi. siting the east.
*Communication, addressed to Mr. Fiebig, and left at the office of this paper will be attended to.
Victoria, 30th October, 1844.
WINES FOR SALE,
MWEN & Co., beg to announce that they have on Sale a quantity of superior Port and Sherry, the property of a gentleman leaving the colony. The wines are in excellent condition and may be had on moderate terms, by early appli-
cation.
Victoria, 25th October, 1844.
FOR SALE.
3. 20 3:15
3.60 per piece
30
per picul
0 0
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
NOTICE.
ART V1Le Journal des Débats, 26 Mai, 1144. | COTTON GOODS. Undersigned has this day established 2. La Revue de Deux Mondes, ler Mai, 1844. White Shirtings, 40
Grey ditto ditto. tioneer & Commission agent & solicits they imurious to the English and the Hindus, that
SEPOY'S LOVE OF HIS OFFICER.The libel, equal- Yam, Nos, 18 to 24. 25 °0 patronage of parties transacting business in Hongkong.
EDWARD NEWMAN. Victoria, 8th October, 1844. -1}, mil
FOR SALES PETIT VERY superior London bouled Sherry.
EDWARD NEWMAN. Victoria, 8th October, 1844 Eduard
JUST arrived ex Robert Pulsford Firegrates Fenders and an assortment of Plated goods consisting of Cruet Liquer & Egg Frames Savers Waiters & also an assortment of Calcutta Table Linen,
at PHILLIPS MOORE & Co. Queen's Road, 8th October, 1844.
PHILLIPS MOORE & Co. have this day re- the globe. His mind, consciously, or unconscious.
moved to the premises formerly in the accut pation of Mr. Pain,
Queen's Road, Victoria, 1st October, 1844-
J.
the sipahi is not attached to his commander, is s0 bsurd as to be scarcely deserving of refutation, A thousand anecdotes, soms of which we shall by and by relate, might be adduced in disproof of this falsehood. In fact, no army in the world supplies more numerous examples of the affectionate autach ment of the soldier to his leader than that of the British in India, But, not withstanding all this, the English officer, stationed in distant canton- ments, experience necessarily a feeling of solitude, beholding, as hu looks around him, nothing but | mon another race, and a country differing in every feature from his own, covered with rank tro- pical vegetations and quickened or scorched by the ays of a burning sum. He witnesses the rites of strange superstition, he hears a medley of un- couth, and sometimes unknown languages, His tye rests on interminable plains, immense rivers,|| mountains the loftiest and most stupendous on
expands beneath these influences, so that in the course of a very few years, the raw cadet ripens irto a man of enlarged experience, quick sympa- thies, a courage equal to every possible emergency; ROWE, begs to inform Ship Captains &c. Kitness the trophies erected by the wisdom and resorting to Whampan, that he carries on his vabur of our countrymen in the heart and at either business of Surr-WRIGHT BOAT BUILDER, & extremity of Asia. The bones of our soldiers lie JOINER, in the entrance of Bombay Creek, Wham-in almost every part of that vast continent, but they poa Reach, and will be glad to receive orders for have not, like those beheld in the prophet's vision, executing all sorts of repairs, & furnishing vessels been dry bones. They have been converted into with everything that may be required in his fine, the seeils of empire, and a power has gone forth few of Ritchie's patent Copying Machines, He can always be seen at his residence, as above from them, the duration of which must be measured of various sizes. Apply to
by after ages. Wherever we have buried our dead; MOEWEN & Co. ?
we possess a claim upon the country. The sepul Victoria. 18th October, 1844..
chres of our brothers are there, and if we be re pulsed for a time, we shall assuredly afterwards re- turn and assert our right. This consideration may. in part, console us for the disasters of Afghanistan. is not enough to have planted laurels on those maintains; we must be there to water them, to watch over their growth, and protect them for posterity. The echoes of our victories may still be aid to reverberate among the peaks of the Su- imant range and the snows of the Hindu Koosh. Every remarkable spot in the country is associated with some English achievement. The occupation of Kandahar, the storming of Ghuzni, the battle DILLS on Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co. of Tezeen, the destruction of Kabul and Istalif, the ficult pass in the land, are still fresh in the mouths credit. For sale by
of the inhabitants of Central Asia, and will be so a thousand years hence. Their anuals, too, will Macao, October 12th, 1944.
preserve for ever, along with those of a hundred others renowned for their skill and gallantry, the HEATING COPPER AND NAILS, just
arrived, for sale at the stores of
names of Nott, Pollock and Sale, of Outram, and P. TOWNSEND, Pottinger, of Willshire and Mo teath, of Dennie and Brown, and Clibbon, whose gallant, though Vintorir. 17th September, 1844.
unsuccessful attempt at forcing the Nufoosk pass, and whose early death at Malta on the way to his native land, must be fresh in the recollection of the public. In Scinde too, and at Gwalior, and in the crumped and stunted war with China, we be
JUST Received ex Viscount Sandon and for Sale
by the Undersigned,Sandon,
A quantity of Gentlemen's wearing apparel of the first quality, consisting of Dress, Frock and Great coats, Waistcoats and Trowsers;
A few very superior French Shawls
strin, 25th October, 1944.
E. FUNCK,
CURRIE & Co.
CABINET MAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS,
AND
BILLIARD TABLE (MANUFACTURERS,
COSSITALLAHS
CALCUTTA.
(TRE OLDEST ESTABLISHMENT IN THE PRESIDENCY,)
BEG respectfully to intimate that with a view. to reduce the expence of Freight for con- veying large articles from Calcutta to China, they are
now completing every requisite in Furniture of a novel and portable description, by which much more than half the expence hitherto incurred will be saved. The appear ance of the Furniture when put together will be equally handsome, it's substantiality will not be in the slightest degree affected, and the ar- rangement of the different parts will be so clear and distinct that the most inexperienced will be enabled to put them together.
• Currie & Co., venture to think that this will form a great desideratum and send much be remove the objection to ordering Furniture in Calcutta for China. They therefore venture to Solicit the patronage of the Community, and any orders with which they may be en- trusted, will meet with the most strict and punctual attention,
mentioned
Victoria,
J.
October, 21st, 1844.
EDWARDS, Pastry Cook and Confectioners No. 1, New China Street, Corner of Ma-
gistracy Street, begs to inform the gentry and jahabitants of Hongkong, that he has commenced in the above line, and hopes by strict attention to business, to merit a share of their patronage and support.
NB.-A constant supply of Haberdashery, Perfumery, and Oilman's stures air hand,
Victoria, October 15, 1844.
+
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
mos of the and every
W. F. PEIRCE,
WHAMPOA HOSPITAL,
OR the greater convenience of Vessels lying in the Whampoa and Blenheim reaches, the Hospital Vessel is moored of the Bombay Creek.
F
MM. O'SULLIVAN, Alember of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
KRIM KANDIA
E. K. KANE, M.D. Graduate of the University of Pensylvania,
Philadelphia,
Resident Surgeons.
Whampoa, 3rd February, 1814.
FOR SALE! RESH American Flour, just landed. Also, a few packages of Mustard in lb, lead Cases at 75 cents each, just landed ex "John O'Gaunt" from London. Apply to
D. HUME, Baker. Oswald Row, Queen's Road. Victoria, 25th October, 1844.
*
Nos. 18 to 32 25 0 Nos. 28 to 42 27 0 4 Chintz Furniture 2 0 3 0 per pieco corros Goode and YARN--Gray shirtings are wanted in bleached liute is doing. Yaris continuo very dull. For Chintz there is no demand. METALS. Tin, Banca Straits
Plates Iron, Nail
«Hoop
Bur
Steel
13 0418 50, 15 50. 10 0
46
per picul
0 per box
0.0 per picul
80
·2·20
2.20
2:01
2:40
4:0 4 4:50 “
Inox-Of all kinda, also steef, is little enquired after. Lead Pig
1-5 000 0.00 €4 Quicksilver OPIUM, Patna, new. 785 000 per
old, 0000 Benares, new. 720 04 0
old. 0 0, "
*
Dull V Malwa, new. 72000
Turkey
500 0 it: 4 40 4
1.80
Pepper Miha Pen
Market bare.
chest
0:0
0
00 per picul
0 0
2:30
0: 0
*13
0
ແ
7. 0
7 0
64
"
Rice, cargo quality Rattans, Banjermissan 4 0
In demand at price quoted,
5 12 Sandalwood, Malabar
"Timor,&S. 8.Isl. 4 0 Saltpatre WOOLLENS.
Spanish Stripes Lony Ells, scarlet
assorted Camlets, Inglish
Dutch.
8-50
1 36 per yard
8-30 per piece
7 50 * 8-504
20.0
« 23
h
28 0-44 30 0 แ
, -4 3
WOOLLENS We can nation no improvement in woollens The market in exonssively dull at quotations. It is possible that the approach of winter, may enable holders to clear off present stecke, but as large shipments are known to be on the way out, we doubt whether there will be much or any sise in price.
Alum Anniseed*
Camphor
Cassia
64 Buds China Roots Galangal Musk Rhabarb SILK.
Tsatlee.
Taysaan.
Canton
EXPORTS.-ON BOARD.
81.75 to 0 per picul 10.0 20 0
• 0
* 0
0
iL
0 0
:st
9.50 49
0.0
R
.
17 D
18 0
2 50.
3 0
9.40
0
90 0 30.0
K
th 0
per catty
* 60
0 per picul
450
510 0 0 230 0 € 350-0
*540 0
ધ
0
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Sux-We do not hear of any recent purchases. Stck of Taulee and Taysan 700 Bales.
TEA.
Congou old. Tls. 12:0 10 0
Cougou new,
Caper, new.
Souchong new Orange Pekoe,
300*45 0
1704 24.0
300 54 22024-2
fine scented. 50: 053 0 Twankay Canton. 1540 Hyson
#18
0
0 0
36 0
* 34 0. 270 34 0. #
Young Hyson Canton 20 Hysoh Skin Canton, 00 000 Gunpowder Canton, 47 0 Imperial Canton.
00 chops of Congous rejected. They were found on arrival-
A. few misters of new Taeping greens arrived. Abont to be much inferior to muster.
EXPORT OF TEAS FROM CANTON TO UNITED KING- DOM FROM IST JULY TO JOTU OCTOBER 1844. Green, 2,472:891, Ibs.- Black,
+
9,278,844
hold a display of the same spirit, No one con peruse the record of these campaigns without acquir ing the conviction that the men who planned and executed them were upon the whole worthy to be entrusted with the gurdianship of a great nation's tonour Let the most cynical judge of events ex- amins carefully the least felicitous of those wars, that of Affghanistan. In the midst of gloom and misfortunes, such as few nations have experienced, he will discover so many brilliant examples of con. duet and o
I courage, so much patience under sullering, instances so numerous of me guanimous self-ader fee, of a heroic sense of duty, of unshaken friend. ship in circumstances the most trying and perilous, that it may well be doubted whether the British | charecter ever appeared to so much advantage as amid those scenes of humiliation and slaughter. It is true that a small number of individuals on whom |E Undersigned returns her thanks to the accident, for a while conferred the lead at Kabul Ladies of Victoria for their Patronage since exhibited the most lamentable want or prudence she commenced business here as a Dressmaker, and gability; it is true that two or three instances and has much pleasure in soliciting there aften occurred of wavering and contempt of discipline
Total 11,746,677 lbs. in 25 ships. fion, and that of the Gentleman, to a splendid as both in the British soldier and in the sipahis; it is Cargo John Dugdales" incinded, sortment of fashionable Goods, received direct true that a whole army under a commander re› from. Glasgow, consisting of Tarlaus, vizdered incompetent by disease under went the most. Victoria, Queen's own, Prince Albert, Eglinton, frightful series of calamities, and assaulted at once are induced to call the attention of Colonists Meg Mercles, Napier, Argyle, Robert Burns, by the worst horrors of winter and famine, and by and others shipping wearing apparel, and who are 42nd, Wellington, Gahenbruzic, Climie, Royal a sanguinary population goaded to frenzy by fa- desirous of buying at the cheapest markets, and at Stewart, McDonald, and a variety of other naticisin, was ultimately exterminated. But, in Twist, the same time avoiding the carelessness of style fancy Tartans, Also a superior assortment of spite of all the painful occurrences which happened and inferior qualities of material, so commonly Scotch Tweeds, Silk Umbrellas, Navy Caps, during the siege of our army in cantonments and Bombay, used. Those Gentlemen are referred to 114 Re-Gentlemens shooting Coats, superfine Blue cloth, the retreat towards Jellalabad, it is impossible to Bengal, rend the narrative of those reverses without feel. Madras, gent Street, London. At the above noble and ex- and superior Drab Hats of the latest fashion. tensive, premises, from the spirited manner in
MRS. G. HUME, ing proud that we belong to the men who endured
DRESSMAKER which the business is conducted, Gentlemen will
them. For, if in some quarters we perceive the immediately see the superior advantages now of
absence of all political sagacity, of the art ofį fered by H. J. & D. NICOLL, whose name has
making the most of circumstances, of consummate been so long established for excellence of inaterial
strategy, and even at times of all moral dignity and and workmanship. Immediate Cash alone enables
energy; in others, and these too the majority, we
The new Improved Slate Top Billiard Ta bles with Indian Rubber Spring Cushions pro- pared and despatched upon one week's notice. N. B.-Application to be made to Mr. C. W Bowte, where plans may be seen and information obtained a di
TO MERCHANTS, SHIPPERS, AND COLONISTS
H J. & D. NICOLL, Outfitters, Tailors, &c.,
Queen's Road, Victoria, 5th Oct:, 1844.
LONDON MONTHLY MAIL,
NNUAL Subscriptions received at this Office
COTTON REPORT, Canton, September 1st to 30th, 1841.
Deliveries. 934 bales.
Deliveries.
Stock.
4,225
Stock.
22,674
7.154. 10,300
120 553
11,713 14,986
Total 41,128
147,252
Including Stork
PRICES OF BULLION.
the above Firm to submit to Merchants, Shippers, A few extra copies, by each overland, for sale find all those qualities of heart and head for which Sycee Silver, large, 21 per cent, premium
and Colonists, their estimates at their established moderato scale of prices.
Agents for Irvine's Patent Water-tight Trunks and Packages, which possess the great advantage of preserving from damp the most delicate mate rials, and the more important property of being so floatable and buoyant ju the water, as, although filled with goods, to be able to support several per sons from sinking.
H, J. & D. NICOLL, 114 Regent Street, LONDON.
[UST IMPORTED the undermentioned Goods
the undersigned--
and for Sale at the
German Silver Soup Lodles, Tea and Coffee Pots, Percolaters, Hotwater, Plates, Double Dishes, Dishes and Covers, Dishes and War mers, Dish covers, Soup Tureens, Crnet Fra-s mes, Liquor Frames, Chamber Candlesticks, Pewter Measures, Shot: Pouches, Powder Flasks. and Patent ditto-
Cutlery,
Buffalo, Pearl and Ivory-bandle Tenkaites, Sets of Ivory-handle Table Knives and Forks, Sets of Desert Ditto, Carvers, Razors in Cases, and a variety of Oilman's Stores Hams in Tins, Yarmouth Herrings, &c, &c.
Queen's Road, October 15.
A
"Office FurEND OF CHINA, 23rd August. 1844,
[R JOHN SMITH, of Macas, will receive I advertisements, and subscriptions for the Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette; he is also authorised to collect outstanding accounts due by the Macao subscribers. In future Mr.
Smith will have a few extra numbers of each paper for sale. Price to subscribers 25 cents each, non-subscribers 1 rupée dan Victoria, 8th June, 1814 TOR SALE. -At the ofte of this
Compradores cheque boilks.
paper.
Ships Articles, with an abstract of the merchant seaman's act endorsed on the back......
Charterparties, after forms by Chitty Powers of Attorney, after forms by Chitty. Bills of Lading
Chinese Tariff of importe, and exports, for counting housus,
small, 1 to 2 ditto the soldiers of the greatest country in the world might be expected to be distinguise-Foreign Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand. par Quarterly Review for July pp. 390-392.
CANTON PRICES CURRENT.
16TH OCTOBER, 1844.
Canvas-Eng.and
00 per picul
90 per bolt
0 per picul
Ale (best brands) Amber Betel Nut
IMPORTS.Dury PAID.
$25 a8 00 per bhd.
10 50
110 per cany
Scotch Cochinen! Copper, sheathing
S.am
COTTON,Boulay,
sh. ps. Ts,
145 0
32 040 0 20 00 0:0 3:0 9 0
5. 0
75
Madras-
ΤΟ
New Tinnevelly 8,4 & 9Ts.
0
GENTS for the Friend of China and Hongkung Cordige Europeans.
Gazette":"
BATAVIA-Moorman and Co. CALCETTA-Hyde, Gardner & Co. BoMBAY-J, W. Bell, Esq. Macao-Jolin Smith, Esq.
The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette" is
8.2
Bengab Corros-The stock of Bombay growth is large with a dail Subscription-$12, per annum payable in advance, I market Bengal and Madras saleable at quatators,
C. W. BOWRA. published every Wednesday and Saturday.
Carolus, 5 per cent. for selected. Republican dito, 4 to 5 per cent. discount.
EXCHANGE Bills on London at 6 months sight, 4s. 3d. to 45, 4d. Navy Bills, 4s. to 45, id
F.M. Flenipotentiary on the BengalGovt, Treasury
218 Rupees per 100 Mexican dollars, Court of Directors, accepted on dito, 60 days, have been offered at 220 Rs. per $100. Difficult of Sale. Unaccepted 230.
FREIGHTS.
To London or Liverpool, £4 perton of 50 ft. To Out-ports, IUs. per ton additional. To Amoy, 80 per ton of 40 feet To ports north of Amoy, $8 ditto
SHIPS LOADING FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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Hindostan, Penang, Malacca, Castle Eden, Al bert Edward, Circassian, Duchess of Buccleugh. Uruguay, Mercury, Gilbert Henderson, Ellen laid
an.
Edited, Printed, and Published by Joux CARE, At The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette Printing Office, QUEEN'S ROAD, VICTO HONGKONG, 1844.