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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. Georg Grey, Bart, M P., who held office under were all lost; and the masters of others were drown the Melbourne Ministry as Judge Advote and Co-ed, though the men escaped.-A chimney, sixty feet The Free Church at Fortrosan elegant building, and no small ornanicht to the burgh, was opened on the 14th lonial Under Secretary-"Please to bestow your high, at the factojy of Messrs Holmes, conchma, Jan, by the Rev. Dr. Mcdonald. The Free Church at charity on a poor sweeper," said one of the cros kers at Derby, was blown down and broke through Bo'ness, a very chaste and commodious érection, was opened sing geutry to a frequent passer. "I haven't got five houses. The inmates had removed, as the | Ale (best brands}
any," was the gentleman's reply. "Sir I believe disaster was expected-Three or four pinnacles Amher on 28th Jan,
were blown from the tower of Sr. Thomas's Church, Betel Nut Aone-lind clock all curiously constructed of brass, you was the report; and the gentleman was 30
Scotch which was brought some years ago from Lochlesen, is up-struck with it that he turned back and gave him Brampton Moor, Chesterfield, and burst through the Canvas-Eng and pos d to have been the principal and ornamental clock of to castle. It has much carving, and the maker's name and Messrs. Boulton, Watt, and Rennie, have roof destroying the gallory, and doing consi·lerable
taken for 50,0001, the contract to make 24 engi injury to the church. Fortunately, divine service Cochineal the year 1566 are obgraven on it. It is enclosed in a very curiously wrought old oak case. It is a present in fine videres for the Exeter atmospheric ra Iway.-Crock had not commenced,, otherwise a fearful loss of life Copper, sheathing and goes well, in the possession of William Wilson, 14 ford's gambling club is revived, under the auspices must have ensued, as the childeren of the Sunday Shuttle Street, Glasgow. The chick is now 270 years old.
of the Dake B., and 30 domestics were added school occupy that part of the edifice.
Sheriffs appointed for the year 1845:-ENGLAND The improvements in the royal park at at Holyrood, from
-Belfordshire, W. B. Higgins Esq.; Berkshire, the plans and under the anperintendente of Mr. Nixon, of to the establishment last week.-Miss Elizabeth Her Majesty's Wood and Forests, are progressing steadily Osborn, the daughter of Sir John Osborn, Bart., has The dinining of the once Irrigated meadow at the bottom of been remanded upon a charge of stealing a pot of J B. Monck Esq: Buckinghamshire, E. F. Day- Salisbury Crags is carried on with great spirit. The exta. yating and building of the great drain is far advanced, while potted meat from the shup of Mr. Edward Allum rell, Esq.; Cambridge and Huntingdon. J. B. Roo- oilman and Italian warechouseman. Brompton,- per Esq.; Cumberland, T. Featherstonbaugh Esq,; | numerous smaller cross-drains are forming in various direc
Within the last three months the traders, under the Cheshire, Sir W. T. S, M, Stanley Bart., Derby tions. The unscendy woll which ran along the south side of the meadow, with all its various nuisances, has been re-advice of the council of the League, are reported shire, T. Pares Esq.; Devonshire, E. S. Drewe moved, in orifier to give place to plantations to be formed to have spent 200.000, or a quarter of a million Esq. Dorsetshire, E. Balston Esq; Durham, J. atoung the front of Salisbury Crags, which, when accom plished, will have a fine effect. The forming of the royal in purchasing freeholds in North Cheshire, South W. Williamson Esq.; Essex, C. Roun1 Esq.; road, or drive, around the park, is to be resumed in the Lancashire, and the West Riding of York. Sit Gloucestershire, E Hopkinson Esq.; Herefordshire, course of next month, and carried on without interruption Robert Peel is adding to his mansion at Drayton J. K. King Esq; Hertfordshire, Sir H Menx Manor a picture-gallery one hundred feet in length Bart.; Kent, Sir M. Montefiore Kat; Lancashire, until completed. Mr. Alexander Wilson, the tenant of the farge garden, consisting of 10 acres, lying to the north of the
for the reception chiefly of the most eminent mon P. Dawson Esq.; Leicestershire, W. C. Smith Esq; Dukets Walk, received a formal notice some months ago, to
of the present day. His present collection of pic. | Lincolnshire, T. Coltman Esq. Mommouthshire, METALS. Inave the premises at Martinmas next, when they will be
ures at the Manor is already among the largest W. Philips Esq.; Norfolk, T. R. Buckworth Esq.n, Banca added to the park, which will make the approach from the
of modern date in this country; and it is constantly Northamptonshire, Hon. R. Watson; Northumber cast more open open and airy,
being extended. The new gallery will be fitted up | land, R. Carr Fsq.; Nottinghamshire, WII. Bart in the richest manner with carved oak and polis row Esq; Oxfordshire, J. S. North, Esq. Rut- PRECIS OF MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS.
hed marble.- Judge R. M. Shearne, of North Ca- | landshire, H. B. Pierrepont Esq. : Shropshire, St. The City of London have purchased the Fleet roling, has resigned his office. In doing so heJ. C. Charlton Esq.; Somersetshire, J. L. Lee Prison from Government for 25,0001-Sir Geor
a of quarrels-havo heen indicted ton, Sir R. G. Simcon Bart; Enffolk, H. Wilson Lead lig ge Larpent, chairman of the City of London Mer- great number the time hapa bad seven fights, Esq. Stafforshire, C. Forster Esq.; Southamp Fin plates cantile Committee on the Postage, has transmitted twice--and I conceive the greatest act of justice Esq; Surrey, R. Fuller Esq.; Sussex, J. B. Dan a check for 10,000l. to Rowland Hill, Esq., being which I can do the public and myself, is to resign my buz Esq. Warwickshire, R. West Esq; Wilt- part of the subscription commenced as a testino- said office of justice of the peace."-Three pereans shire, W. Browne Esq. Worcestershire, T.SORIUM, Paina, new, 700 0710-0 pial to his ingenuity and perseverance in having
were executed on 25th Jan. Two Dowing and Powys Lea Esq.; Yorkshire, Sir W. D. Cooks Bart. devised a scheme of legislation upon this important the men convicted of the murder of a son of Sir T. WALES-Angleseu, R. J. Hughes Esq; Breck- ubject, which is so well calculated to give incron-Bonghey's gamekeeper at Audley, were executed nockshire, W. Williams Esq. Carmarthenshire, sed facilities to our internal trade, and to produce at Stafford. They made reiterated protestations of D. Jones Esq.; Cardiganshire. J. L. Davies Esq.; so many bencficial results to the general inter their innocence; their last werds being to that of Denbighshire, C. Wyme Esq.; Flintshire, R. course of society.A few days ago, says the Jour
fect. William Howell, one of the three men con- Richardson Esq.; Glomorganshire. R. Savours, nal del Aube, some gendarmes went to a village victed of the murder of M'Fadden, a policeman, Esq.; Merionethshire R. W. Price Esq.; Mont in that department to arrest a man, who had for a
was hanged at Ipswich. His conpanions. Walter gomeryshire, J. W. L Winder Esq; Pembroke slight offence been condemned to a week's impri-Howell and Shippley, have been respited. Howell shire, A. L. Gower Esq.; Radnorshire, J Davies sonment, but had not surrendered. They entered declared he was innocent of the murder, but that Esq.
The Duke of Wellington has for some years con, his bedroom, where they saw his wife, who had he deserved to die for the many offences be had just risen from bed, who declared that her husband
committed; on the scaffold he made a similar de templated the effective fortification of the whole of was absent. The gendarmes, however, perceiving claration of his innocence as to the particular crime, the parts and harbours of England, particularly on >that some person was in bed, turned down the It is said that twelve thousand persons witnessed the south, as well as that of London. The works clothes, and found a man in the simple apparel of his death, the majority being females and boys are now in progress at Devonport When the nature. "I am not the husband," said the man.. That story will not do," said the gendarmes if A dreadful attempt at murder and suicide has been facility with which the Nemesis strainer, in the made by one Bunny, at Birmingham, in a paroxysm Chinese war, ran up rivers and creeks, abnost uu. you were not the bushand, you would not be in of insanity. A few days after marriage he rose molested, is remembered, and when we have neigh- that hed" They made him dress and go with the from his bed, locked the door, and said to his wife, bours not slow to apprehend or to follow an example but on their arrival at the guard-house they found My dear, we have lived together, we have loved when a high personage even talks openly of the that the man had told the truth, for there they together, and we shall die together and then exposure of our own coast to an instantaneous, and Ladies found the husband, who had just given himself up with a large clasp pocket-knife he wounded her on almost unperceived advent of armed steamers. it learned for the first time that he had a remplacant. the throat, and stabbed her in six other places, cannot surprise any one that the first strategist in
Mr. James Waterhouse Smith, who hit by del He next cut his own throat, and scrambled out of the world should consider the means of protecting alum
Anniseed at his house in the Regent's Park, on the 5th ins- the window, down a ladder which the neighbours, his own country against such attacks.
THE GREAT BRITAIN." This huge steam-ship Camphor tnt, has made the following munificent bequest of attracted by the woman's screams, had brought to sume in the Three per Cent. Console. To the Bri-
enter the room. The knife was very blunt, and has come up to London. It left Bristol on Thurs- tish and Foreign Bible Society, 2000; to the neither the woman nor Bunny have died. The day evening, 23rd January, passing the Flat Holm Society for Promoling Christian Knowledge, body of an infant wast lately found in Pembroke at twenty minute to ten o'clock, and reached the 2,000l. to the Metropolitan Church Building College garden at Cambridge. The child appears. Dowas at two minutes to two o'clock on Sunday Fund, 2,0002; to the Middlesex Hospital, 2,0004; to have been murdered, The gardener who found morning', having gone 250 statute miles in 23 to the National Society for Promoting the Educait made this remarkable statement-"I went to that hours and 55 minutes. Weighing ancher again at tion of the Poor in the Principles of the Establis-
part of the garden where I found the body in conse-five minutes to eight o'clock the steamer anchored hed Church, 1,0002. ; to the Society for the Pro.
quence of dreams which I had on Saturday and at Blackwall about half past three o'clock in the pagation of the Gospel. 2,000. He has directed Sunday night. I dreamt twice on Saturday night. afternoon. The voyage was very stormy: off Lunly. the whole to be paid, free of duty, within three and ouce on Sunday night, that I saw a female Island, on Friday morning, the gile was tremen- nonths after his decease-The stormy weather throw a child over the College garden. I dreamt dous, and not a single vessel was in sight. The of Nov. had the effect of laying bare, in the Bay was in the Times' Court Road, and that she was steamer encounteret some slight damage from a of Mont St. Michel, several tres in perfect preser there also.-"A fatal explosion occurred in the en-heavy sea that struck its bows, vation, and amongst others an oak more than 30gine-shed of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, steamer was making 5 knots an hour; the grer'e t feet in lenght. In the course of the past summer
near Manchester. The Irk engine was prepared speed was 133. knots The screw propeller at the some workmen, in sinking a well on the property to take a train from Manchester to Leeds, for which stem of the keel nover rose more than to show thrco of M. Jalland, of Beauvoir, met with a layer of tim-purpose the steam had been got up. Three men or four feet of its upper part out of the water; and ber and leavea reduced almost to the state of turf. were engaged inspecting the engine-two under. thus during the heavy gale the engines were found These remains, as well as those which are frequen-neath it, in the ash-pit, and one standing near-when to work uniformly. That would not have been the tly taken up from the marshes of Dol, evidently the boiler burst, the engine made a summerset over case with a pad lie-fitted vessel; the wheels being come from the ancient forest of Seier, which tra another engine on an adjacent rail, and, carrying frequently plunged in the water up theraxes, at dition states to have been overwhelmed by the sea at the commencement of the ninth century.—(); } away part of the roof of the shed in the flight, fell | which time the engines are as it were paralyzed; Imperial
uver another ash-pit. The three men were instantly while at the next moment, the water le ring the Jan. 25th, a fine, handsome, and valuable black killed, two being blown into the ash-pit over which wheels, the engines fly off at a sped much beyond dog of the Newfoundland species, belonging to the engine fell. Two of them were much mutift their usual rate of working. Such irr gular action EXPORT op Tɓas to Gurat Britain from 20TH - Mr. Floyd, solicitor, Holmfirth, rommitted suicide ed; the third seemed to have been killed by a blow not only requires very great attention in the en- by drowning itself in the river which flows at the which smashed his head.- Emma Whiter, a younggineers, but frequently, in spite of every precau.. back of its owner's habitation. For some days woman in her twenty-first year, the daugther of ation, causes considerable derangement of the ma previous the animal seemed less animated than silk weaver, was murdered shortly after midnight chinery. The action of the engines in the Great usual, but on this particular occasion he was poti-
on the 27th January, in Cross-street, Bethnal Green, Britain never varied more than half a stroke or o.e cal to throw himself into the water, and by preser James Tapping, a young man of bad character, is stroke per minute. ving perfect stillness of the legs and feet, to effect in cusdady for the crime. He was "keeping com his purpose.-At one of the lite receptions" at pany" with the girl, and was seen with her a few the Chateau of the Tuileries an unusually large minutes before she was found dying from a pistol- number of "American citizens" were presented shot in the head. There were also spots of blood (From New Weekly General Price Current, Ma With his usual tact and affability the King mana. on an apron which he wore when arrested shortly ged to speak with and captivate every one of the after the murder. When charged with the crime party. A fat Kentuckian lady, overpowered by at the Bethnal Green Police-office, he made no the bonlummie of the adroit and wily. Sovereign, defence. At the inquest evidence was given, that exclaimed in the overflow of her feeling, "Law, shortly after the murder, Tapping went to a public King Philippe, how you do talk English!"-One | house, and made use of strange expression; one million is to be expended on the Birkenhead exulamation being--The deed is done, and it can docks, Messrs. Tracy of the Liverpool police, not be undone." A gunmaker proved that he re- will be now Lord Tracy (revived) with $0,0001. paired a pistol for Tapping, and gave him four bul. a year. A young Seitch lady, niece to an Englets: the pistol was found by the woman's body, and lish prelate, is announced as having conformed two bullets have been taken out of her fiead which has been likewisely very much reduce for the Sycee Silver, large, 1 per cent, premium. to the Roman Catholic faith, at Nayon, in Fran. at the gunmaker's mould-A miserable murder and cc.-As Mr. E. Williams, of Gelliwing Leyn suicide have been committed in Finsbury. Joseph same reasons and on account of the late considera. ble impotations, both direct and from China, was returning home from Carnarvon, necompa. Barry, a surgical instrument-maker, cut his wife's which leave an abundant stock on hand and make nied by Mrs. Williams, a few nights siner, he was throat as she slept in bed, on the night of January fired at and wounded, the hall having entered his the 2h, and then cutting his own, expired by her sales difficult unless at low rates. back and passed out through the lower part of his side. Both of them were aged. The working clases abdomen. The wounded man is doing well-King of Ashburton have presented an address and a silver Williain's College, Isle of Man having been resnuffbox to Mr. Matheson, their representative, as built, is again occupied by the Principal and stu- deuts.A deaf and dumb person being asked What is forgiveness?" took a pencil, and wrote a reply, containing a volume of the most exquisite poetry, as well as deep troth, in these few words:
a tribute of numbers whose poverty and suffering have been alleviated by his seasonable kindness."
At that time the
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
nila 3rd May.) REMARKS ON THE MARKET.
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Girera, Black,
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Total 49.889.755 lbs. In 95 Ships including the Thours Worthington sailed direct from Shanghai to London.
COTTON REPORT. Canton, April 30th, 1845.
796 3.293 Deliveries. Stock.
14.491 32.298
Twist
Cotron Goods—The demand both for plain Bombay Bales, and Coloured Goods continues very limited, the Bengal do. shopkeepers being afraid to make large purchases Madras out of the heavy supplies that have been received. during the last month, especially of shirtings, and
Total,
do.
the Corcling baing daily looked for from Liverpool Constant included, with a large cargo of piece goods.
The demand for American Domesties and Drills
We understand that 4200 piecs of white Shirt ings have been sold at 83-2-4.
EXCHANGE.
On Spain 3 months 2 per cent premium offered.
London Treasury & Bank bills 03.4-234-2 lastsales Ditto private duw 6 ma. 34 a 43 last cales. China. 30 ds. par Few buyers Singapore 30 de 2 a 3 per cent discount.
CURRENT FREIGHTS.
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3.916 7.095
1.426 34.901
19.731 74 201
PRICES OF BULLION.
Carolus, 10 per cent. Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent discount.
EXCHANGE,
Bills on Londonat 6 months sight,49.34. ; Treasury
closed.
Navy Bills, 4s. 21. to 4s. 3d. per Mexican dollars. Court of Directors accepted Bills, are scarce, holders asking 223 His. per $100.
FREIGHTS.
A dreadful gate prevailed on the night of the 25th and morning of the 26th Jan., which commited fearful havoc. The loss of several ships and many For London, Sugu, er ofte cats. Nom. To Landon or Liverpoot, £ 4. @ 4-10 per ton of59)
Continent,
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Coffee, „. $.0
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It is the odour which flowers yield when tram.' lives is already reported. Three vessels were wreck pled upon."-It appears that the traffic of the lasted at Yarmouth. The crews of two escaped, but six months of 1874, on the 39 principal inilways that of the third was wholly lost; and in addition. in Great Britain, amounts to 3,264,4507 This six men out of thineen who put off in a yawl to en- traffic has been corried on upon 1,622 miles of rail- deavour to rescue the sailors, were drowned by their way, and 234 miles of branch lines, making in all bost being dashed against the stranded ship: the 1.750 miles. This revenue is 450,0007. more than other seven, who clung to the rigging, were taken i the corresponding half of last year-James Hall, off by the life bat A brig found from Alexandre chins 29 a 25 cents of a dollar 5. på on Rice and Peddly, a Wesleyan local preacher, is fully committed at to Gloucester was lost at Padstow in Cornwall, Wootten-under-Edge, for robbery in the premises and ten out of a crew of eleceu meu perished of Mr Bunt, bookseller of that place-The beeu. The Manchester of Londen, bound for Caleutia tiful estate of Falloden, Northumberland, and other has been wrecked near Liverpool; all lites saved. property of General the Hen. Sir Henry George | At the Isle of Man there were many shipwreck. Grey, devolve on his nephew, the Right Hon. Sir The crew of one vessel, o bich was dashed to pieces,
LATEST DATIES. London 7th January, rís Clúna. Singapore 4th April, via + kúns. Batavia 14th March, per Montgomery, China 2:th April, p. Bella Vascongada. The U. Bates, 19th November, per Tha. Perking. Sydory January 31, por Morey Shirt
f; tonnage scarce.
To Amoy, 6 per ton of 10 feet. To ports north of Amoy, 7 @ $8
Ships Loading at Whampoa, India, Queen Mab,
Hesperus,
Loyutoa.
Edited, Printed and Published by Joux CARE, At The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazelle, Printing Ofice, Green's Road, VicPonta, HOTLONG 1945,