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22 FEBRUARY, 1816,
BEMARKS
NOTICE. New altertisements, will be received, until 4
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
Mr Chimery →→whose fame as an Artist requires no commendation has been resident in the colony for two months. Mr Chinnery is not in such good health as his friends would wish; and of late, his We trust, however, pencil has been almost idle, that his health will speedly be restored, and that with his usual taste, he will take a few sketches of Hongkong scenery.
The government paper appears to be grie- viously offended with us; at which, of course, we express regret. We are denounced as a ma- lignant and threatened with laws but the charge and the threat are alike contemptible, and we whistlethem down the wind, as others have done. the veracious statements of the worthy from whom they emanated.
verament of Hongkong" This is the climax endeavour to intimidate English enterprise-to of ignorance or it is a reprehensible attempt disgust English benevolenco-to dash the cup of to mislead. Hongkong was a free port, by or- | hope from the hand which is raising it to the lipa dera from her Majesty in Council, a year before of their finishing countrymen. *Project railways His Excellency Sir John Davis, or the majority cessary materials-allord employment to the unem- embark your capital in the purchase of the new of the other members of his government, had set a foot upon its shores. Had the government advocate been possessed of any candour, he would have said, that the local government, though they could not put direct charges upon ships or duties upon goods, had by indirect taxes upon both, in the shape of licenses to sell the chief articles of trade on the island, render ed nugatory the advantages of a free port.
lack of the food which they would gain by the ployed and famishing thousands, who perish for rewards of profitable toil And when you have effected your purpose, when tailways intersect the land, and are ready to convey the produce of the surtice and also of the bowels of the lands to its ports, and to return with facility the commodities which the inhabitants of its distant and interior counties used, and will gradually be able to procure For the present we leave the Organ to grind when you have done all this, and are looking for doggerel, and bandy compliments with his the fruit of your benevolent and patriotic enter- “worthy contemporary of the Hongkong Reprise, see tho uses to which the Irish peasantry, gister"—the other day it was has addle pated under the guidance of us, their political instructors contemporaryan occupation for which he and guides, will apply them!" is better qualified, than for the free discussion of matters of importance to this community.
In requesting the public to receive with cau- tion any translations of documents which we might copy from the government paper, or at least, in intimating that we would not guarantee their being correct, we only acted with duo prudence. The necessity for not rashly giving
IRISH SEDITION. credence to all the translations of Chinese
(From the Globe.) Official documents is, we think, sufficiently The speeches of some of the "Young Ireland" evident. We need not refer to the supple orators have been of late more strongly impregnat mentary treaty, the mutilation and inaccuracyed with sedition than was their wont. The haran. of which has long been before the public, and gue of Mr Sinnet, the other day, may be instant coufessed by Sir Henry Pottinger himself since
as an illustration of the spirit which revels in the his return to England. Other translations made young blood of the Repeal Association. The jour, by a “critical Chinese scholar" and published in |nal which advocates with the greatest ability, and the Hongkong papers have been denounced by claims with uncompromising earnestness the sepa- another Gentleman also having a "critical know ration of the two countries, is certainly the Nation ledge of the language. The translator, and the The spirit and tendency of the recent articles of party who denied the correctness of his labours that paper have been such as to call forth the are both foreigners; and the production of the indignation of every friend of social order. Ad dressed, as they are, to the passions of an easily first, with the letter of exception of the second, excited people the ideas which they convey, dress are still in existence. One of these Gentlemen —–
in a strongly imaginative style of composi- probably both-contribute translations of Chi- tion-they are manifestly peculiarly adapted to nese papers to our sensitive contemporary. As please their taste, and to prompt them to perpetrate to the exercises of the pupils of the Morrison
the most abominable acts- an easy performance of Institution, they are harmless whether accurate which is suggested in terms. the import of which or not, and we would be extremely sorry to is too plain to be mistaken. What, we ask, but in object to them, much less to cavil with the good tentions the most foul, could have le l the editors of nature of the paper that supplies such fitting the Nation to send forth among their countrymen subjects for tea table discussion. The particular-prone to mischief as they proverbially are such
an article as the following-
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21st, 1816
SHANGHAI.
The Glentanner brings down her cargo of salt originally imported from Liverpool: she sailed from Shanghai on the 10th,
Allum's affairs have not yet been arranged, nor the interdict on opening the Godowns removed. We hear, that produce advanced upon by the foreign Merchants, dod actually on board ship, is to be taken by the Merchants on their own account, and that claims upon the Hong are to be sent to Captain
Balfour for examination,
It is reported that Chinam--Allum's managing clerk will be put to the torture for his Master's mis- deeds, or that he may divulge the secret of his hiding place the report of the bankrupt's having drowned himself not being credited.
fericit, is the proclamation from the Chief Ma gistrate of Canton. This docomeat we looked upon as one of great importance, but we could not reconcile the rambling unintelligible obser- vations of its commentator with the subject comments. We have already said
may be thought enough; but we see no objection to spanking plain.. ly; and, therefore, we give a few practical views, which may be improved as engineers tura their attention to the subject.
vions and easy enough.
Second-The materiala of railways, good haminered trom and wooden sleepers, need wo point out that such things
may be of use in other lines that assisting locomotion ?
Third-Troops upon their march by rail might be con- veniently met with in divers places. Hofer, with his Tyra- liens, could hardly desire a deadlier ambush than the brinks of a deep cutting pon a railway Imagine a low indred men lying in wait upon such a spot, with in sees of rock aird trunks of unes ready to roll down-and a train or two ad- vancing with a regiment of infantry and the ongino punting near and nearer, till the polished sinds of brass on its front
stage
DECLINE OF THE REPEAL AGITATION, (From the Globe.) Notwithstanding the retum of the Great Agitator to the of the Repent Association, and his extraordinary efforts to attract large audiences and increased contributions, the weekly "rint" dwindles, and popular feeling in favour of Repeal ison the wane. There are limits to the most enlarg sont to be gulled for over. The Jeremy Diddler" of the ed credulity, Even the infatuated Irish people will not con. political boards who performs his part with an adr itness which shows how closely he has studiedit—will discover that even the farthing a week, penny a month, shilling a year, system, by which he has wrong an immense, unne counted for revenue from his followers, cannot be much longer sustained. The off-deceived dupes of his promises. the hollowness of which no one knows bester than himself will, we would fain hope, be aroused from their dolusions, and cease to run bladly after a mere ignis fatuus." sufficient is afford employment to its labouring population, The natural resources of Ireland, if developed, are amply and a profitable return on the investment of capital necessary for the undertaking they would thus distribute comfort and security throughout the land. This also Mr O' onnell knowa; and, knowing, seeks to prevent. The elevation f the people would be the prostration of his influence. Their deliverance from bested ignorange would effect their em. ancipation from the fascination which has held them fast bound to his car. Elmice the opposition which Mr O'Connell has promoted against the education of the peole direer and indirect attempts by which Mr Oonnell and his The same npprehension for his power is shown in the
coadjutore have sought to discourage the introduction of rail. ways into Ireland. The embarkation of the necessary capi tal in shares of small amount would create a strong interest among the middle classes in the cultivation of social order; while the masses would fod, the rewards of patient, per- severing labour, the means of obtaining the comforts of tie, to which they have hitherto been strangers Contentment and comfort are inseparable companions in every communi ty; as are misery and d'acontent. They mutually act aud re-act upou each other. When the people are profitably cu-
to ply his vocation; for those who in jäteness and what flocked to haten to his harangues, have neither leisure nor inclination to listen to aid reward bis incentives to disaffec tion and violence
conld in one night be totally eat off from the interior country. **First, then, every railway within five miles of Dublin matter of
To lift a mile of rail, to fill a perch or two of any cutting or that we
ere at a loss to understand the parti- † tonnel, to break down a piece of an embankment, serta ob. gagadin works of labour or of skill, the demagogue ceases cular tenor of our contemporary's remarks ; we are still in that position, and we apprehend that others are equally benighted. Malignant has long been one of the favorite epithets, which the parasites of corruption, bestow upon those who have the courage to expose their vices. In the reign of the profligate Charles the second, Mar- vell, who could not he brihed to silence nor hired to applaud, was stigmatised as a Malignant. A manly independence is always peculiarly odious to truckling, prevaricating sycophaney and the spleen of a cankered, and self humiliated mind, too often finds vent in vague unmeaning charges, and weak con- temptible threats.
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we submit that our remarks were particularly In brooding over his supposed wrongs--for
inoffensive the Organ has wound himself up to a high pitch, and he ends his cantata with the following grand flourish. But we now
beg him to understand-i. e. the Friend of China--that the contributions of our Canton Correspondents are our exclusive property and come within the provision of the Copy On Saint Patrick's day-Tuesday--the Ama. " right act band 6 Vict. chap. 44 Surely he teur performers in garrison at Stanley, had a will be at no loss to understand what the dramatic entertaintment in honour of the patron «China Mail" means to convey by this in Saint of the Green Island. The evening's amu- "timation." We really are at a loss to understand sements were varied, and passed off alike to the what is meant to be conveyed by this barn door satisfaction of the audience and the performers. crow. It certainly looks like a threat of legal
We are induced to publish the "bill of fare.”
proceedings if we take liberties with his Can- that those who were not present, may form an
ton Correspondence. In Scotland were a man idea of the attractions of the "Stanley Adelphi," to drivel such nonsense it would be said that and we are satisfied, that such entertainments he had a bee in his bonnet." Let the Organ while they do not relax the wholesome disci- | look over any issue of his own paper, and what pline of the service, have a tendency to improve | does it contain ?-extracts from three or four the mind of the Soldier, as well as to employ the leisure time, which otherwise might be pas- sed in Grog shops.
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are distinguishable, and its name may nearly be read; Now. in the name of the Father, and of the Sup, and of the Holy
Ghost now?
“But is a dream. No enemy will dare put us to realise
these scenca. Yet let all understand what a railway may, and what it may một đ
Psy
tenth.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
MARCH,
ARRIVALS.
Mr O'Connell's policy is perfectly nousistent with the posi tion. His hope of remaining and strangthening that position is in an exact ratio with the pe spoet of proventing any sub tantial improvement in the physical and moral con ition of his wretched countryinen fle is therefore acting in perfect constency when he resis the extension of educanon, and the introduction of railronds n Ireland Talk of such a migo's sempatlay with the wants and woes of his serable country The idea is ridiculous. Since the romovni of the civil dianbilities from the Roman Catholics--for which Mr O'Connell Jabonted with an earnestness and perseverance that cannot be forgotten, and by the accomplishment of which he acquired the vast alluence he has abused--what has Lø dona Er Ireland ? By lostering and heading ngitation-- der the most specious pretences, and for objects at onco And these fiendish suggestions are designated, chimerical and mischievous-this bold and, we fear, haf which railways, and the materials of which they “a few shirt and easy rules" as to the uses to
man has goaded his too easily excited constrymen into a stats of constant turmoil. He has shown himself the princi. are constructed, may be put! And it is submitted posed for their moral and social improvement
pal hindrance to the success of whatever scheme wis pr. A firebrand, to the "consideration" of Repeal wardens, whether not a luminary he has spread the element of destructing, in- they might not be advantageously read publicly instead of emiting the beneficiof fight of political and moral their respective parishes A few short and
We shall be happy to see the declination of his power rules" for facilitating susurrection-for training des persuaded, as we are, that so long as it continues in the 4. perate inen in the art of destroying the very incanscendant, there is but lule prospect of either prosperity or by which they can alone be raised from their preponce for Ireland. It is, therefore, with satisfaction that wo them the dire vengeance of the law; and possibly will be shown every successive insek, until it becomes sent depth of wretchedness-bringing down upon perceive the continuent decrease in the weakly return of the Repeat rent;" and hopy that a yet more marked diminution making the land itself an Aceldama, by converting extinct it into the scene of civil war. The writer of the article could have contemplated nothing less mis- chievous than this. The circumstances which he assumes could have no existence, but in a widely spread civit commotion; in which troops, upon their way to the scene of insurrection might be in tercepted and destroyed by traitorous sympathisers with, and abettors of the insurgents. The "go19, hammeratiron" and "wooden steepers" are pointed out as materials which may be easily converted inty papers, and yet if others copy any docu
other "lines" than those to which they were or inent which appears first in his columus, they unily applied. Does it require any stretch of are threatened with legal proceedings) In his gination-any extraordinary ingenuity in discover. the true meaning of the pissngo-to say sin last issue the Organ has a long article in sup the penstutey are instructed that the iron and wool port of the government, taken from a London of which railway lines are constructed, may with paper of the 24th November. He has not even
great ferility be manufactured into pikes? Yet the the decency to acknowledge the paper from writers of the Nation are patriots par excellence. which he has copied it, which is against the es- Their country's good-its freedom; its elevation; tablished custom of respectable periodicals. He the happiness of its people;-them exalted senti- appears to think that he is licensed to plunderments are constantly on their tongues-conspiracy from others; but if they take that to which they sul rebellion are in their thoughts. are entitled from him they disturbs his bitary Ant for a moment, look at the time when this system, and he pours forth an empty tirado patriotic journal puts forth these practical views | of words,-words--wards.
on the application of railways to other purposes The unacknowleged article, which the go than those which wery contemplated by their pro- cerament print capes from a London paper, Fotors. The country is threatened with famise. * with Une view of chewing the impressina maid: The efforts of the Government, aided by the bene
valence of private individuals, will be required to upon a partion, at least, of the public at higeert the barrets of an impending national.cats- Moury Hargas, & Mallow,by the Memorial to Lord Stanley and the mity. The opportunity is deemed a favourable
corresponduce of the Merchants with the
one for laying down railway Dogs through the deveinge
STANLEY ADELPHI, Os Tussar 1778 Misch, 1840, Will be performed at the above Theatre by the Amateurs, with new Scenery, Macumery and Decorations, THE MUCH ADMIRED FACE.
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SAINT PATRICK'S DAY.
The Schemise Laturesant.
DEAMATIS PRERONA,
DRAMATIS PERBORE
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Sergeant Treuner,
Corporal Flins,
1st Soldier,
Doctor Rover,
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17, Gilentanner, Brock, Shanghai.
18. Pearl, Smardon. Cursingmoon. 17, Sakkart, Dixon, Amoy,
19,
19,
St Autorio (Potug, Sche),, from Namon
bound to Macao.
11. M Brig Plover, Collinson, R. N, Amoy left
16th inst. bound to England. Corsair (Steam), Soames, Canton,
PASSENGERS.
Per Glontanner-Mesars D. J. Jolinton, W. Har greaves, and N. Crawford.
Per Stalhart-Mrs Lay, European Servant, arul Family.
MARCH,
SAILED.
17, 206, Parker, Bombay. 18. Chatham, Whery, Whampoa. 18, Stalkert, Dixon, Whapon. 19, Bengales, Fisher, Wampos
ALPORTS. Starling Chape, South Sea Islanda. Poppy, Cole, Macao. Peart, Smardon, Chusan and Woonung.. Zephge, Mann, East Const,
Venanta 13 Victoria HarnDEH.
of some of the prosy a invers of the Morning sering the best role of affordios temporary rallet | IL. M. 3. Vestul, Captain Talher...
We will again have occasion to re-imp a exam of emberring and accumulating Bene, U. 8. S. Fincennes, Captain Pudding. Re to this gem, in the teamime we soudpi £s Poriba corp so English capitalets die Ine II. M Sur, Valtere, Captain Macdougal chotrve, that its lustre is emurely the wom the vast to uk their wealth, and Trish landlord M. Eng. Plmer, Captain Collinani, c. m. shade by the laminas remarks of the Orgen him are invoked to aid the enterprise. Upwards of 1.3. Brig Woltering, Commander Chillord, well. The Loston Editor says, that he has care eighty redway projects have beest seed, with 11. C. Hte. Plats, Last. Airy. fully read the Memorial and Correspondence prospect us everst of the most promising being | IL V Tr. 9. Alliguen, Master Commanding King.. be further statue, that it manly protests paint carried into assertion The legulatursament. M. 3. Juuter, 2nd Masur in charge tener, *those moderate port does, netary is keep of the advantages which improved intercommun
Hospital and Store Ship. Anity, King, estun by miery of boomestite ea ripst would mosse the harbour in a sufficient and sate condit This is simply 25 untruth; the Mexmals per snemployed population, and the means is well Corsair (Steam), Monster,
les on Ireland de cephipment it would sford to Pomanjite Hermijos, Coapy, at post one word strom port dues. The engply of developing the catum resources of the Dart Chay Dylics, Hongkong paper execs the stake of the county as shown a disposes to facilitate mes Giselle (Am), Chase, will farmel London contemporary, and a pay consistent with the rules is Center, rock, mits that so much charges cos-blonda ve far led head for in girersion in onway Kenta falun Burry, Clarku, » belum to the pel cupered boat Go.
A much a eme the writers of the Nition Etmet (dua),
Dent and Co 1. Matheson and Co W. H Franklyn Bush and Co
J. Matheson and Ca V&T Gemmell and Co Thint and Co Youngiansbond and Coy