We are sorry to learn that H. M. Ship Espiegle, 12, Commander Thompson, which sailed from this Port in the 8th Instant, with mails for Amoy and Foo chow-foo, encountered a severe Typhoon, which commenced the night after her leaving this place, and continued with unabated fury until the forenoon of the 11th, when in the midst of a tre equall she sprung her main mast, al though, under at the time, only double reefed main Trysail and fore Staysail. She returned to this anchorage on the 13th Instant, to get a new mast and repair damages. On her way out, in the Ly moon Channel, she rescued five unfortunate Chi nese from a watery grave, their boat having cap aized in a squall.
menduous squ
Simbaldo de Mass Esq., a translation of whose notes on China appeared in the columns of the Hongkong Register, has been appointed by her Majesty the Queen of Spain, Spanish Consul and Commercial Agent in China.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
and education, looked with contempt on the Savage, and being a bold and turbulent race, they made war upon them for the Sovereignty of the
country.
In an extract from a private letter, which we published some time ago, we were informed that the Griquas had called in the aid of the British authorities at the Cape to protect then from the aggressions of British subjects.
A part of the 7th Dragoon Guards, under com- mand of Lieut-Colonel Richardson, were sent across the frontier, and falling upon the encamp. ment of the Boers dispersed them and termi nated the war.
One of the Europeau Overseers on the roads was attacked a little way from town on Sun- day by two Chinamen. They came on him unawares and after cutting his throat and other wise wounding him, escaped with his watch and some money. The man, we hear, though seriously wounded is likely to recover. As usual, the robbers have escaped. Another European was robbed near West point on the may be questioned. evening of the same day.
a
branch of commerce has, is not a new item in the foreign trade of the country. We do not intend to discuss the merits of this question, but we would remind the Editor of the Journal of Commerce that these "cautious intelligent and honourable" servants of the Company exist upon pensions derived from the profits of opium grown by their old Masters for shipment to China. The fanatics of Exeter Hall may howl over a trade, in the profits of which they do not participate, but that any servant of the E. 1. Company should do so (unless he refuses his pension drawn from it,) is too absurd. We would also remind the Editor of the Journal of Commerce that in the days of the Company there were disturbances between these "cau- tious intelligent and honourable” servants and the authorities of China. Does the Editor of the Journal of Commerce wish to know how it happened that these disturbance never led to an open rupture, or actual warfare? Simply because "honourable" servants of the com- pany submitted to indignities and insults, which to others were intolerable after their rule was
over.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
OCTOBER,
12, Inca (Am), Buxton, Manila 5th October. 12, Sarah, Espinesse, Sydney 6th August. 12, Bombay Castle, Fraser, Whampoa. 12, Prima Donna, Jones, Lombock 13th Sept. 12, Eduh (Am, Str.), Lewis, Put back to repair
damages.
13, Pauline (Hamburgh), Laurke, Shanghai. 13, Ann, Stevenson, Singapore and Madras 19th
September.
13, Sir Robert Sale, Londer, Singapore 24th Sept.. 13, Culdee, Campbell, Whampoa. 13, H. M Stoop Espiegle, Com. Thompson, Put
14, John O'Gaunt, M'Donakt, Liverpool.
SAILED.
back.
Ocrousa,
11. Anna Robertson, Munroe, Whampon. 12, Cowarjee Family, Durham, Camsingmoon. 12, Will o' the Wisp, Forman, Cumsingmoon and
Bombay.
12, Mischief, Smith, Cumsingmoon, 12, H. M. S. Tris, Captain Mundy, Singapore. 14, Devon, Mallory, Whampoa.
REPORTS. Grecian, M'Dowall, Whampoa.] 17olverine,, Amoy. Bombay Castic, Fraser, Manila. Charles Forbes, Wills, Bombay. Sea Horse, Gibbon, Singapore.
Captain Drinker of the American ship Geneva. reports the schooner Torrington, from Leith 20th of May, channel 1st of Jane, bound to Singapore and China. She passed Anjer the 14th September.
The result of Sir Peregrine Maitland's con- ference is an arrangement which it is said will preserve peace on the frontier--preserve to the natives their lands and enable those of the Boers, who decline returning to the colony, to occupy lands subject to a reasonable quit rent to the Chief. A body of Dragoons are also to be kept on the frontier ready to act in Within the event of further disturbances. Griqua territory, special magistrates will be located, to whom all matters of dispute between the whites and blacks are to be referred, their When the company's monopoly ceased their trade with China wasin round numbers: Imports expences being in part paid by the quit rent.
The opinion expressed that this arrangement $7,500 000; Exports $12,000,000. Exports of will permanently lead to quiet and good order tea in quantity 31,500,000 lbs. By their imports, It appears that a large the company declared that they were lossers, body of farmers have retired into the interior, and it was only by raising the price of tea The ladrones of Hongkong appear to have even beyond the Griqua territory, with the de for beyond its marketable value that they bal adopted a new, and more successful mode of termination to form a settlement of their own. anced the account. It was asserted in parlia procedure. Formerly, attacks were made by It is to be feared that they will be but troublement by the advocates of the monopoly, that large bodies of men upon stores were valuable some neighbours to the blacks, and the troops China offered no further outlet for British
VESSELS IN VICTORIA HARBOUR, goods were deposited. These attacks were on the frontier may have more work than they goods,-woollens were sold at a loss--for cot- almost invariably unsuccessful; and of late anticipate. It is evident that, the descendants on there was no demand. Much was also H. M. S. Agincourt, Lyster, Flag of Rear Admiral
Sir Thomas Cochrane. murders, and robberies are committed indivi. of the old Duch settlers of the Cape, have said of the difficulty private merchant would. M. S. Samarang, Sit E Belcher. dually in the immediate vicinity of the town, rooted aversion to the British rule, and men experience in trading with the Chinese, though H. M. 6. Vestal, Captain "Talbot. and some within the police beat. We have who voluntarily leave the pale of civilised so- from the examination of intelligent American H. M. S. Dedalus, Captain MQubae. every confidence in Mr May and the Inspecciety, will not be very scrupulous as to the Ship-masters before a committee of the house of H. M. S. Royalist, Lieutenant Ogle tors of police, and believe it must be sufficien- node in which they indulge their bad passions. commons, it appeared that private American H. M. S. Wolverine, Commander Clifford,
The chartered Barque Pagoda had returned merchants and Supercargoes had traded with H. M. Sloop Espiegle, Commander Thompson. tly evident to them, that their duties are of a
to the Cape from her scientific voyage to the China for sixty years without experiencing any H. M. Str. Vixen, Commander Gifford. most arduous nature, and that the lives of the
H. M. Str. Pluto, Commander Airy. populace in a great measure depend upon their Antarctic regions. The Shipping and Mercan- difficulties. vigilance, and on the fidelity of their subor-tile Gazette of the 25th July gives a short sketch
The monopoly was abolished, and in 1989 H. C. Str. Medusa, Commander Hewitt, dinates. We do not say this from any desire of the voyage which we transfer to our columns. (previous to the treaty) the Imports had in- . M. Tr. S. Alligator, Com. King, to pass censure in truth we have no grounds hired by Government for a scientific expedition to the An-
"Most of our readers are aware that the barque PAODA creased to $11,205,270. In 1844 they fell H. M. S. Minden, Master Commanding Welling.
100, Hospital and Store Ship. for censure-but from a wish to express how tarctic Regions; lately returned to Simon's Bay, and the very httle short of $ 20,000,000. It is not by
Adelaide, much the community depend on a faithful tollowing particulars which have transpird, connected the amount alone that we must judge of the therewith, may, we believe, be relied upon as authentic. importance of this traffic. A very large por- police.
This vessel, under the command of Lieut. Moore, penetion of it consists of manufactured cotton goods, tween the Meridian of Greenwich and 12 East, than any the spinning, weaving and bleaching of which, other vessel ever attained unto before her; and completed gives employment to thousands of the working the whole series of Magnetic Observations left unfinished nearly retched the Magnetic Pole, but the quantity of investment for capital. The progress of this by H. M. Ships Truson and EREGS. The PAGODA very classes in England; besides offering a profitable compact ice and ice-bergs which she fell in with precluded branch of trade in China is almost unprece- the possibility of her advancement. Many important discoveries were made which will doubtless be laid before dented in the history of commerce, In 1832 the public as soon as the official report shall have reached (under the Company) it was almost, if not She was at times surrounded by ice-bergs consi- quite, unknown. In 1939 it had increased to derably higher than the mast heads: notwithstanding 520,000 pieces annually; in 1844 at the single which, the existence of the Antarctic viz. Vic- toria Land, has been confirmed beyond a doubt. The port of Canton there was passed at the Cus. "Aurora Borealis," or northern luminary, was observed toms 1,458,476 of British manufactured cotton to be exceedingly brilliant, so much so indeed that at night small print was distinctly legible thereby a truly goods. No returns of the trade of Canton hava rare circumstance in the Southern Hemisphere! The been published bringing it down to a later stores of natural bistory have been much enriched by col date than December 1844; but from the half lections of birds and fishes previously unknown. On ber homeward track the Pauoca touched at King George's yearly return for the new port of Shanghai it ap- Sound, where the hospitable treatment of the settlers and pears, that in six months, ending 30th June 1845, natives is highly spoken of every thing was going on the imports of British cotton goods at that one well at that settlement. She next made the Mauritius and returned to Simon's Bay, after a circuit of nearly fourteen port was 520,000 pieces, an equal amount to thonsand miles in 10 days, having in that period fully the entire import of China. for a year, previous accomplished the intended objects; when the vessel was
to the lute treaty. delivered up in excellent condition to Capt. H. Byron, Janr., her original commander, without a single casualty, not a man having been sick all the vayage which may be mainly ascribed to the great care and atten..on bestow hazardous and solitary task; and there is no doubt that ed by Admiral Percy in fitting out this barque for her the scientific world will be much benefited by its results.
The Officers in command have expressed themselves highly pleased with the PAGODA, which proved on several trying occasions, to be an active craft, and a good sea. boat.
No clue has been obtained at all likely to lead to the detection or capture of the mur. derers of Mrs. Clarke, Application has been made to the Chinese authorities that Clarke's servants be seized and handed over to our local authorities; but we hear there is great doubts whether this can be complied with, as the names of the men are not known..
There is an evident disinclination among old residents of China to believe that this murder was committed by Clarke's servants-they argue that murder is a new crime among Chinese do. mestics So far they are right. In the old times, when foreigners were few and confined to Canton and Macao, there servants were.in. variably secured by Compradores, and in the event of their committing such a crime, they could not escape detection and punishment. Society, in China, since the formation of this co- lony, has greatly altered. In addition to the foreign Merchants; we have now foreign shop- keepers, foreign publicans, foreign mechanics, and a variety of foreigners filling various offices under the colonial Government. Many of these people cannot afford the expense of a Compra- dore, and an establishment of secured servants, and hence an inferior class of servants have crept into the colony, of whom nothing is known. Notwithstanding all the expense of registration, it is a very incomplete measure, as it appears that not one of Clarke's servants were register ed, nor did he even know their names. In this respect people are by no means blameless; for their own protection, if their servants are not secured they ought to see that they have a registration ticket-perhaps the better plan would be that they lodged the ticket with their employera until their term of servitude expired, the same as seamen's tickets are deposited with the Commander of the vessel wat the termination of the voyage.
trated, we nuderstand, FEATHER to the Southward, [ho
home.
In exports the improvement is also satisfac- tory. We have not at hand a return of the Company's exports in 1832; in that year how. over the entire export trade of China to Great Britain, India, and the United States was Of this amount the $17,240,486 in value. company had perhaps about $12,000,000. In 1839 (previous to the treaty) the exports were $13,840,750. In 1844 they had increased to In the English papers we see a variety of $17,025,360 from Canton, beside £107,000 speculations on the importance of the trade of sterling worth of raw silk from the now port China, and the prospect of its increase. Some of Shanghai, giving a total export of nearly of the take a very clear view of the matter, 20,000,000 of dollars. In the item of tea, we others in their opinions are almost absurdly have; shipped by the company in 1832, wild. In a some what old number of the Jo-lbs. 81,500,000; shipped by private merchants urnal of Commerce, we read an article, now in 1934, lbs: 43,641,200; shipped by private re-printed, which we could readily believe to merchants in 1844, lbs 52,330,346, have been penned by the pragmatical, teaden-
This short exposition of the past and. present headed servants of the respectable company in
trade of China will sufficiently demolish the Leadenhall Street, who for so long a period theory put forth in the Journal of Commerce. made the people of England pay two prices It shows that the parliament of Great Britain for teas, that they might bestow places and acted wisely in rescuing this noble field for pensions on their relatives, or bargain them British commercial enterprise from the harpies away for parliamentary influence. We can of Leadenhall street; it shews that an exclusive conceive the lugubrious countenances of commerce is not nationally a profitable one; the pensioned ci-devant Supercargoes and and it also shows, that the croakings of the re- Clerks of the Canton factory, when they read spectable old Gentlemen, who still draw pen. the details of the present export and import sions from the Company for their important trade of China. Where are all their prognos-services in weighing teas which were forced on ties of its failure when left to the enterprise the people of England at prices fifty per cent and energy of British Merchants? How fal-higher than they now are, were but the out- lacious have been the oft repeated assertion, pourings of disappointment. that under the Company, the British trade in China had reached its Zenith! We apprehend That the trade of China will not at times be¦ that some of these "hard bargains," who mourn pressed beyond the limits of prudence, we over the olden times, have infected, the Editor would by no means assart. This is a cala nity of the Journal of Commerce with their own which appears to be inseparable from com- CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
bilious opinions upon the trade of China, and merce, and has, and will continue, occasionally By the American ship Geneva, we have re- for the edification of that nigly respectable pe to be the cause of heavy losses. At this prosent ceived Cape papers to the 7th of August riodical, we furush a few plain statistical facts, moment, the great markets of Canton and Sha- which mention the return of the Governor, Sir which will dispel his gloomy forebodings, and nghai, are by no means in a satisfactory state; Peregrine Maitland, from a visit beyond the show that the export and import trade of China neither is there any thing encouraging in the boundaries, having for its object a settlement of both increased after the death of the monopoly, state of the tea market in England. It is quite the disputes between the Griquas and other and that they have still further increased since possible that goods may have lately been native tribes, and the Boers who had settled the opening of the northern ports.
thrown into the market beyond the demand, among them.
We would perely notice en passant the ob- and the consequence is a reduction in price, The hostility of the Boers to the British go-servations made upon the ** cautions, intelligent which has caused a temporary depression in vernment, led to their abandonment of the co- and honourable servants of the Company, trade. The great proof, however, that, with lony, with the intention o forming an indepes and the allegation that trade is now conducted all its fietsations, the trade is a profitable one, dent community in the interior. At first the on less aeropulous principles, then when it was and conducted on sound commercial principles, two parties appear to have shared the country under their supervision, and that dulurbances is the credition of those engaged in it. quietly enough, the strangers paying to the pa- under the free trade system has led to actual can only call to recollection the insolvency of tive chief a small reat for the lands they tiled hostilities. Of course the opium trade is all one firm, since the trade was thrown open, or used for pasture. This state of affairs coulted, to which though it has mercand in China and it was not exclusively engaged in the trade not last. The Boers, of European extraction since the days of the Company, as every other of Chus
However true it may be that at Canton or Macao, Chinese servants have not been guilty of murder, this assertion cannot be extended to other classes of their countrymen. Within the past three or four years several British officers have been murdered by pirates be- tween this port and Macao, and British troops in charge of specie cut off almost within sight of their barracks at Chuck Chew. We would not desire to cause any unnecessary alarm but as a proper precaution, we would advice those whose servants are not secured by a re- spectable Compradore, to see that they have a registration ticket, of which it would be advisable to take the number if not to retain it.
We
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D. & M. R. and Co Dallas and Co Lindsay and Co Self Wetmore and Co Bush and Co
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Douglas (Am), Sumner, Caldre, Campbell,
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Turner and Co
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Lindsay and Co.
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