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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
LITERATURE, ARTS, SCIENCES &c. A new anthem, composed by Prince Albert, has been rehearsed in St. George's hall. It is entitled "Out of the deep have I called thee," and acknow ledged by a number of the first-rate judges who were present to be the chef-d'oeuvre of the Prince's Major-Gen. W. Morison has been elected a re-
Messrs Grindlay and Co. have issued, for the use of their constituents, an Overland circular, with detailed particulars of the several routes, illustra- tive maps. &c.
of a Sunday morning too! And you call yourself a Christian! I should like to know what your boys will say of you when they grow up? And all about a paltry button off one of your wristbands: a decent man wouldn't have mentioned it. Why won't I hold my tongue? Because I won't hold my tongue. I'm to have my peace of mind destroyed-I'm to be worried into my grave for a miserable shirt- just like you, men!
"But I know what I'll do for the future. Every button you have may drop off, and I won't so much as put a thread to 'em. And I should like to know what you'll do, then? Ob, you must get somebody else to sew 'em, must you? That's a pretty threat for a husband to hold out to a wife! And to such a wife as I've been, too: such a negro-slave to your buttons, as I may say! Somebody else to sew 'em, eh? No, Caudle, no not while I'm alive! When I'm dead--and with what I have to bear there's no knowing how soon that may be when I'm dead, I say-oh! what a brute you must be to anore so!
sny, there is the evidence of a still subsisting spirit of the Cromwellian dominion. (Hear, hear.) They have had the reputation of having most impartial judges they have the Chief Justice, who, of course, was impartial; but he was impartial at one side (Groans.) Why do you hoot him? Did they not make his son-in-law a bishop, and how compositions. could he do else? Why do I talk of these things? That the people of England may hear them again.sident, and Dr, Hugh Falconer, A. M., F. R. Sutton, and I'm to hold my tongue! Oh! but that's a non-resident, member of the Royal Asiatic So- Oht Cromwellian cruelty, you are not dead, you
ciety. are still sleeping. I do complain above all things
The results of Mr. Fortune's floricultural rese of English apathy, but while I complain of it, I do not regret it, because I find in it another argument arches in China, are anxiously expected in this. for calling upon every human being in Ireland to country-Messrs. Dickinson and Son, are about to publish" Overland Sketches" by Lieut. C. B. join in the peaceable, struggle to restore the Parlia
Young, of the Bengal Engineer-Capt. D. ment to College Green." (Vehement cheering.)
The Liberator concluded with the usual picture Richardson's Key for Overland travellers, will of Hibernian happiness, when party shall be extin-shortly be published by Mr Madden, the Oriental guished... "when the song of joy and gladness shall publisher in Leadenhall Street, be heard in our valleys--when our mountains shall re-echo the shouts of a happy and contented people ...when our harbours shall exhibit the freights of
"You're not snoring? Ha! that's what you al the world--our ports be active with commerce-our
ways say; but that's nothing to do with it. You agriculture flourish-our manufacturers be employ. ed and happy--nationality be proclaimed, and Ire.
must get somebody else to sew 'm, must you! Ha! land be free. (Great and tremendous cheering.)
I shouldn't wonder. Oh no! I should be supprised at nothing, now! Nothing at all! It's what people The "Martyrs' next responded to the toasts pro- posed to their health; and Mr. Smyth O'Brien,
have always told me it would come to and now speaking of the uniform of the '82 Club, significant
the buttons have opened my eyes! But the whole tly said, "they saw the uniform, and he had no doub-
world shall know of your eruelty, Mr. Caudle. they were pleased with it; but it was not the
After the wife I've been to you. Somebody else, indeed, to sew your buttons 1 I'm no longer to be bauble of gay clothes and gold lace that was to attract them, it was the remembrance of the glorious
mistress in my own house ! Ha, Caudle, I wouldn't have upon my conscience what you have, for the era which this uniform and this name called up,
world! I wouldn't treat anybody as you treat-no, that was to inspire them and give them fresh hopes
I'm not mad! It's you, Mr. Caudle, who are mad, for the future. Indeed, he might say that their
or bad--and that's worse! I can't even so much as Specimens of the discoveries in architecture and dress required nothing but the sword to constitute
statuary made at Nineveh by M. Beita, have ar-speak of a shirt-button, but that I'm threatened to them officers of the Irish people--they were in aprived in Paris' consisting of pieces of architecture be made nobody of in my own house! Caudle, you pearance military in everything but the sword, and
in bassiriliczi and statues; the inscriptions being 've a heart like a hearth-stone, you have ! To thre if the time should come when it should be necessary to wear it and use it in defence of their country legible though indecipherable. A vessel belong aten me, and only because a button a button
ing to the government will, at the command of the and their liberties, they would not be found want king, be sent to Bassora to transport the whole col. ing." (Loud and long continued cheering.)
lection to Paris-It is also announced that the poet Béranger and the miniature painter Isabey are jointly engaged in the production of a Gallery of Historical Portraits of the Men of the Empire and the Restoration. At the Exhibition in Paris, the
Cotton-Prices have given way since the receipt Arts of ten foreign nations are represented by con- tributions. England has only one contributor, Mr. of the intermediate London Mail of the 24th March. Callow. The venerable Danish poet Oehlensch-Shipments are going forward rapidly both to Eng lager, lately read to a distinguished party a tragedy land and China, the S. W. Monsoon being now of his composition, founded on a Norwegian legend; sigh at hand. and dedicated to his friend M. de Humboldt.
SCOTLAND.
The Town Council of Edinburgh have agreed to petition parliament against religious tests in Universities except in cases of professors of theolegy. Upwards of 9001, collected by public subscription is about to be expended in improving the ancient burgh of Peebles.
Government has purchased the lands of Broom hill, to the north of Glasgow, for the erection of The price paid cavalry and infantry barracks. for the property is said to amount to nearly 30,0001. We understand that the deputation of Scottish bankers, who had last week an interview with Sir Robert Peel, entertain a confident expectation, founded on the whole, tenor of their conversation with the right honourable Baronet, that his forth. coming measure in reference to the Scotch banks will not have the effect either of curtailing their circulation or of otherwise injuriously affecting them.-Glasgow Chronicle.
At the close of the season's shooting for the Butt Medal of the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, William Ro- bertson, Esb., M. D, was declared winner.
The Rev. Dr. Bures, late of Paisley, and now Professor of Theology in the Free Church Col lege, Toronto, has sailed from Greenock, for Mon-
treal.
The Rev. J. D. Hull, and his congregation at Huntly have withdrawn from the communion of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Mr. Hull feeling it to be his duty to the Christian Church, the cause of true religion, and to himself," to make public the reasons which have induced him to take this important step, has published the correspon dence which has taken place betwixt him and his bishop on the subject. The reasons of his separa. tion will be found to resolve themselves into these two particulars:-1st. His faithful adherence to the Protestant doctrines of the Church of England and to gospel truth; and 2d, eventually and finally, to his standing by another minister of that Church, Sir W. Dunbar, in a situation peculiarly claiming his brotherly sympathy and support.
The Scotch papers announce an addition to the periodical literature of that country. The governor of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of the town of Crigh. ton has conceived--as a means of appealing to the early sympathies and intellectual memories of the more highly educated among his patients the design of a publication to be edited and printed entirely by themselves; and, under the significant title of The Mew Moon, the first number has just appeared, containing a variety of fugitive poetry, prose articles, and a treatise of some length on the influence exercised by parents over their children.
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MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES.
ON MR. CAUDLE'S SHIRT-BUTTONS. There, Mr. Caudle, I hope you're in a little better temper than you were this morning? Thero-vou needn't begin to whistle: people don't come to bed to whistle, But it's like you I can't speak, that you Once, I used to say, you don't try to insult me. were the best creature living: now, you get quite a fiend. Do let you rest? No, I won't let you rest. It's the only time I have to talk to you, and your shall hear me. I'm put upon all day long: it's very hard if I can't speak a word at night; and it isn't often I open my mouth, goodness knows?
you
"Because once in your lifetime your shirt wanted a button, you must almost swear the roof off the house! You didn't swear? Ha, Mr. Caudle! don't know what you do when you're in a passion, You were not in a passion wer'n't you? Well, then, I don't know what a passion is--and I think I ought by this time. I've lived long enough with you, Mr. Caudle, to know that.
"It's a pity you havn't something worse to com- plain of than a button off your shirt. If you'd some wives, you would, I know. I'm sure I'm never with out a needle-and-thread my hand. What with you and the children, I'm made a perfect slave of. And what's my thanks? Why, if once in your life a but- ton's off your shirt-what do you cry 'oh' at ? I say once, Mr. Candle; or twice, or three times, at most. I'm sure, Caudle, no man's buttons in the world are better looked after than your's. I only wish I'd kept the shirts you had when you were first mar tried! I should like to know where were your but-:
tous then?
"Yes, it is worth taking of! But that's how you always try to put me down. You fly into a rage, and then if I only try to speak, you won't hear me. That's how you men always will have all the talk to yourselves: a poor woman isn't allowed to get a word in.
"A nice notion you have of a wife, to suppose she's nothing to think of but her husband's buttons. A pretty notion, indeed, you have of marriage. Ha! if poor women only knew what they had to go through! What with buttons, and one thing and another! They'd never tie themselves up to the hest
What would they do,“ man in the world, I'm sure. Mr. Caudle? Why, do much better without you, I 'm certaiu.
I was conscious of no more than this," says Caudle, in his MS., " for here nature relieved me with a sweet, deep sleep." ---From Punch.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
EXPORTS.
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CANTON PRICES CURRENT, 4th June, 1845 IMPORTS-DUTY PAID. Ale (best brands). 100 a818 0 per had Amber
st 11 O per catty Betel Nu Canvas-Eng, and
Scatch
10 50
4 50
44
00 per picul
90 per bol,
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7 0
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Cochinen! Copper, sheathing 16 S.Am. Cordage, European 8. 0 COTTON, Bombay,
Ts. New sh. ps.
Madras
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** Bengal Demand improved,
COTTON GOODS.. White Shirtings,
7 0 *. 0 0
2.50 Grey ditta ditto. 2 60.
J
3 10 per picco
3 10
+3
Some improvement has taken place in the demand for Grey Shirtings.
Yarn, Nos. 16 to 24 26. 0
Nos. 18 to 32 28 · 0
Nos. 35 to 42 32 0
Chintz Furniture Nominal.
METALS.
2 0
Tin, Banca Straits Iron, Nail
"Hoop s: Bar Steel Tin plates Lead Pig Quicksilver OPIUM, Patna, new, 730
27 50 per picul
❝ 29 0 #
* 33 0 17
3.50 per piece
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Rice, cargo quality Rattans, Banjerimassan Sandalwood, Malabar
"Timor, & S. S. Isl. 4 Saltpetre WOOLLENS.
Spanish Stripes Long Ells, scarlet
well assorted. Camlets, English કર્મ Dutch Medium Cloth Ladies
PRICE CURRENT OF RAW COTTON. Surat Broach, and Jumtooseer Rs. 87 Surat candy of 7 cut. Oomrawally new Gogo, Dholer, and Bougar new Komptal old Mangarole, and Porebunder new Bharsee new Rajpooree new Cutch new
Malwa Opium.-Has advanced to Rs. 1325 a Rs. 1350 per chest of 140 lbs. weight.--The 3rd | SILK. Opium sale of the season took place on the 21st ultimo when 3.545 chest Patnu, and 1,500 chests Benares were brought forward and disposed of us
Lowest. Highest
Average Rs. 1330 Rs. 1418 17 Patna...... Rs 1455
1326 112 Benares....29
1315 1315 The following is the official Memorandum of the Import and Export of Mahwa Opium at Bombay to the 6th instant as published in the Government Gazette" of the 8th instant.--From this it appears that the Stock of drug then in the hands of Impor ters was only 5,710 chests.
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78 80
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2 40
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0 "345 0
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280
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FOR THE SEASON OF 1844-45. Passes granted at Indore from 1st Oct. 1844 up to 12th ultimo...... chests 17,400 Do. do. from 13th to the 25th ulti 899
Do do, at Bombay from 1st Oct.
up to the 29th ultimo..... Do, do, from 30th to the 6th inst
18,209
Hyson Young Hyson
Hyson- Skin
Gunpowder
- Imperial
STATEMENT OF TEA EXPORTED FROM CHINA TO UNITED KINGDOM BETWEEN tsr Juny 1841
Congon
Hung. Mucy
AND 31ST MAY, 1845.
33,349,277.
1,252,310
334,741 111,676
695 49
744
Souchong Pekoe
Caper
1,330,0-10
Chests 19,043
Orange Pekoo Suris
1,774,103
361,900--38,730,057 Black.
Twankay
3,110,039
15,979) Gunpowder
flyson Hyson Skin. Young Hyson
Imperial.
1,991,296
289,621
2,859,450
9'569
Imported into Bombay of the above passes to the 20th uft chests 15,754) Do do. from 30th to the 6th inst. 225
213
136
200
47
Exported from the above up to
the 29th ultimo. Per City of Shiraz ←
Frolic - Anonyma Black Dog Cursetjee Cowasjee 2 Rustomjee Coasjee 23 Culler Margaret
2,242,3:3
1,174,354-11,666,793 Green.
In 98 Vessels 50,396,853 Total pounds. COTTON REPORT. Canton, May 31st, 1845.
755 2.605 Deliveries. Stock.
12.970 26.343
2.424 5.104 7.080 27,812
Twist
Bombay Bales,
80
701
Bengal Mladras
do.
do.
19,269
Total,
On 26th March, Mr. Sheriff Alison, the distin guished author of the "History of Europe," was duly installed in the office of Lord Rector of Ma- rischal Cullege, Aberdeen. The ceremony com- menced at two o'clock, afternoon, in the Great Hall of the College, which was densely crowded by a large and respectable assemblage of citizens, in- cluding a considerablu number of ladies. The Ma gistrates and Members of the Town Council at. tended on the occasion, with the Lord Rector's Assessors, Hugh Lumsden, Esq., formerly Dean of the Faculty, and the Principal and Professors of the University. His Lordship was introduced by the very Rev. Principal Dewar, and was received by all present with enthusiastic and prolonged
Aud it's my belief, after all, that the button plaudits, The proceedings were then opened by Principal Dewar, who delivered an appropriate and wasn't off the shirt: it's my belief that you pulled Thereafter, the oath de fideli | it off, that you might have something to talk about impressive prayer. was read from the Charter by Professor Cruick- [ Oh, you're aggravating enough, when you like, shank, and administered by the Principal. The for anything! All I know is, it's very odd that the Lord Rector, having then been invested with the button should be off the shirt; for I'm sure no robe of office, ascended the rostrum, and delivered woman's a greater slave to her husband's buttons
I only say, it's very odd. a learned and eloquent Inaugural Address, which than I am
"However, there's one comfort; it can't last long. Have advanced since our last :- was listened to with profound attention, and elicited frequent and enthusiastic demonstrations of ap I'm worn to death with your temper, and sha'n't plause. The Lord Rector having finished his ora- trouble you a great while. Ha, you may laugh! tion, Principal Dewar, in the name of the Senatus, And I dare say you would laugh ! I've no doubt of expressed the deep gratification of that learned it! That's your lore- that's your feeling! I know body, that the choice of the electors had fallen on that I'm sinking every day, though I say nothing one so eminently qualified to hold the bighest of- about it And when I'm gone, we shall see how ficial rank in the University, next to that of Chan your second wife will look after your buttons! cellor, so worthily occupied by the Duke of Rich-You'll find out the difference, then. Yes, Caudle, you'll think of me, then for then, I hope, you'll mond.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND --The Queen has pre- | never have a blessed button to your back. sented the Rey. C. K. Greenhill to parish of Ro- berton, Selkirk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. A. Nivison. The Rev. Mr Law has been appointed to the South Church, Kirriemuir; 3lr Aird, to Neilston; Mr Reid, of Johnstone, to Old- ham Church, Liverpool; Mr Hutchison, to Menzie, Mr French, of St. Bernard's, to second charge of Albey Church, Dunfermline; Mr H. Duff, of South Leith, to be Assistant Clerk to Presbytery of Edinburgh.
The Earl of Glasgow has presented the Rev. David Dickie, Terreglez, to the parish of Fenwick, -Presbytery of Irvine, vacant by the translation of
the Rev. J. Graham to the parish of Penpout
"No, I'm not a vindictive woman, Mr. Caudle; nobody ever called me that, but you. What do you say! Nobody ever knew so much of me? That's nothing at all to do with it. Ha! I wouldn't have your aggravating temper Candle, for mines of gold. It's a good thing I'm not as worrying as you are or a nice house ther'd be between us. I only wish you'd had a wife that would have talked to you? then you'd have known the difference. Eat you impose upon me, because, like a poor fool, I say nothing. I should be ashamed of myself, Candle
And a pretty example you set as a father! You 'll make your boys as bad as yourself. Talking as you did all breakfast-time about your buttons! And
per ton.
FREIGHTS.
To London and Liverpool.--£4. Os, to £4. 59; To China.--Rs. 18 to 19 per candy for Cotton to
Macao, Whampoa or Hongkong.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Including John Boormann.
22.483
59.250
PRICES OF BULLION. Sycee Silver, large, & per cent, premium. Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
Carolus, 10 per cent. Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent, discount.
EXCHANGE.
Bills on Londonat & months sight,48.3d.; Treasury
closed.
Navy Bills, 45. 24. to 4s. 3d. per Mexican dollars. Exchange ou London.-1st 101d per Rupee at 6 Court of Directors accepted Bills, are scarce,
months sight,
holders asking 223 Rs. per $100.
FREIGHTS.
Ditto, on Calcutta-At 60 days sight, 09). Ditto. ditto. At sight, 1001 Ditto, on Madras-At Right 100).
dilo. At 30 days sight, 994. Ditto. Ditto on China.-Rs. 218 a Rs, 219 per $100. Sovereigos-Rs. 11 and 4 andas cach, Spanish Dollars. (Whole)-Rs. 225 per $100. German Crowas.-- Rs. 219 per 100 Crowns Sycee Silver.-Large ingots. Rs. 1031, and small
inguis, Rs. 10 per $100. Bombay Bank Shares.-50.51 per cent premium. Western Bank Shares-40 a 42 per cent premium. Agra and United Service Bank Shares---35 per
ceat premium.
(Bombay Price Curvent May 10,)
To London or Liverpool, £ 3. per ton of 50 ft
tonnage scarce.
&
To Amoy,
ton of 40 feet. per To ports north of Amoy, 7 @ 8
SHIPS LOADING AT WHAMPOA FOR UNITED KINGDOM.
Anne Jane, Queen May Hesperus, To Load Bangalore, Palmyra, India At Shangkat.--Litherland. Edited, Printed and Published by Jous Casa, At The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette Printing Office, Queen's HOAD, VICTORIA, Hoscacao 1845.