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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZÈTTE.
FOR SALE.
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Frezared Silk dres Elegant pat
Binh Print Oil.
Pottinger Street
Victoria 19th November
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The Americans contend that the Oregon territory is includ-I8I9, that that nation should cede to the States an is
The Certion is ensupported by proof; but, if ritory she pussessed in the direction of Oregon. shit is clear sonia could not cede to France treaty gave no clear tale, as Spain the no civer th
The French title to the Oregon. confer, one at least that England had ever uk
she bus placed the states in her own povidon Mulach ist denied) that the whole country was in-
We have now followed this question through a Je anteed be no better than the spanish title, rovitice of Lonisiaun was sold by France to branches, and the reader has before him the native do this said the states Government contends claims of the two great powers, and the evalue
The claims of Autwe are vas inomados - Bol, again, as gali never facts upon which they rest
twofold. She claims, firstly, through Gray's day County, no neither could France have, or yel and, secondly, through eession from Spain. The treat! A bad itle is 101 mooded by the number of are couradictory, and annihilate each other. It bands it passes through, any more than a counterfeit shilling belonged to her originally by right of discovery, she becomes legal coin by the time it has been in circulation.
not acquire it subsequently by right of cession from Spor The writer, however, crushes the notion that the Dogon On the other hand, if she acquired it by cession from bir nad most popular exposition of the subject
could be included in Lousiana as easily as a bubble is dis-
then she could not have previously acquired her wigke worth while to stop a minute over the views
discovery. The most induential peras in Amerce ne Longana was originally a French colony, and bounded beganing to acknowledge that those two rights are formed writer, His paper is equally to be commanded for persed or an egg shell broken,
ts ability and his spirit,
by the Rocky Mountaina, beyond which the French sealers sisiunt, and that one or the other must be abandoned Spain was the first discoverer of the country; of that there,
made to allempl to pierce. France found the country-5- The English clatt is much simpler. It is asserted ja bo doubt, but her people contented themselves with merely ow Touching at point long the cous. The English invigators le bure, and located the province to Spain and the English side that they were first to cocaps the
it is clear thatne Spain had already set up claims to the retry, that their occupation was carried out wild full dur : were subsequoally more careful in their surveys. Drake!
gon she could not allow another power to give her what abo legal forms, and but it was regularly recognised to me and has on view a discovered a part of the coast in 1678, and called if New claimed in her own right. When Louisiana was agpia ceded, own Government at home. All this is quite trate an traiture poesisting of
Albion Cooke, la 1778, entered Nootka Soundsandahne France in 1800, it was expressly silputated that the cession constitutes a claim which seems to possess at the roughly explored the coast. The whole line of alors had bould be united by the ancient boundaries in 1762, and by esscatial to validity. Without quemon, been surveyed by the English and Spani- those boundaries the province, must, of course, have been arde before the declaration of American independence.
limited when it came into possession of the states in 1899. Ju 1787 an Englishman, Captain Berkeley, visited and ex-
We agree with the writer that- plored that strait of Fuca, Returning home, he met with Lieutenant Moses, an officer in the British Navy, who was employing himself at Macao in making preparations for wettlement in North America. Informed by Berkuloy of the form the Ladies of flong the 1st of January, 1788.
discovery of the strait of Foca, Munces sailed from Moeng His expedition consisted of the premises adjoint sels, the Pelica and the Iphigenia. He effected a which have this settlement in Nootke Sound, above the strait of Euce, and, Dress-Making effecting treaty with the natives, took possession of the and ventures lo solicit a portion of
County in the name of the King of England. This was the Test werdement made in the coast, and the first actual occu. ich it will be her endeavour, by puncpation of the country ever attempted by Europeans.
o's Hair Couches,
Fith marpoco back and sorts,
nitrare in èlevant pill frames.
Lention, to deserve. Boad 26th May 1846.
room.
COMBS has for Sale at her millinery and estimating establishment, adjoining the 1g Rectaler office :——
and Tacked Jacooney and Book Austin Robes.
red Tarlington
Transparent
Children Worked Frooks.
do.
do.
Jarconet and Book muslin Insertion and Edging. French Fiews Wreaths Bonnets, and Bonnet Caps. Dress and half Dress Caps, Ribbons.
Lace Colisc Berthes and Mention.
Wide nett, Laboredging, &c., &e.
Victoria, 2nd June 1846,
FOR
Sale by the undersigned:
Allsop's Beer in bottle..
Byass's do
do
HOLMES & BIGHAM,
Victoria, 22nd April 1846.
TO OFFICERS OF THE NAVY, COLD Bands and Naval Buttons for sale by
undersigned. Also stores of every description.
MACKAY & Co.
NOTICE.
The proceedings of Mearca, who soon became a flour ishing urader in his settlement, attracted the notice of the Spaniards of South America, and the Governor of Mexico sent an expedition against him Meares wat deceived by the fair words and promises of the commander off this expedition, trusted himself on board one of his ships, was made prisoner, and his vessels and property seized. The British Government demandad satisfaction from the Spanish; it was met by a refusal, and by a direct assertion of sovereignty over the whole territory. Thie asertion Eagland repudiated, and preparations were mado Fe wor. It was averted by Spain withdrawing her exclusive pretensions, and a crenty was catered into on the 28th of October, 1700, between the two countries, that Meures should be fully indemnified for his losses, and that the whole of the Oregon should be freely open to the sub- jects of both nations for settlement. This was the fies! treaty ever entered into regarding the Oregon.
When this trouty was concluded, the British Gu vernment sent out an expedition under Vancouver to ake possession of the land and buildings at Nootka. Sound, and to establish British dominion over the eurrounding districts, "Accordingly," says the writer,
he set up his ing ut Nootko, and surveying the shores of Oregon from 30 deg. 20 min. south laci. thetade to the Strait of Fucs, he took possession of it formally, and with all legal ceremonials, in the name of his Britannic Majesty. By this act--the TB- lidity of which is recognised by the diet of all an. thorities upon international law the territory was the British Crown in 1792 " annexed
While thus engaged be fell in with an Americat tender, Capt. Gray, who gave notice to Vancouver of his discovery of the mouth of the Columbia river in in 40 deg. This inader was not employed by his Government. He had no au hority for taking possession of any not of the country, nor did he *t. tempt to do so. His appearance on the coast is the first opening to American pretension. The Stick' Government, from the expedition of this trader, dais their claimby diacovery,
MITH BRIMELOW, beg respectfully to intironte to the Merchants Victoria, that they have taken those dry and commodious Go. downs in keying House, where they shall be most happy to receive Goods on Storage upon moderate Lerms.
Victoria, 6th May 1843.
SODA WATER
AND
ERATED LEMONADE,
O be obtained at the manufactors of the under
signed,
SMITH & BRIMELOW.
We ared 2 Woosnam's Buildings, corner of Pot- that on Sunet,
Man
Bade
NOTICE.
retailer of op to the shop (undersigned have formed a Poripership have such the transaction of a General Agency who begge od Commission business, at Vitoria Hong.
Je bar the Firm of DRINKER & HEYL,
S. DRINKER. WM. S. HEYL.
Victoria, March 1840.
貯
ced upon me NOTICE RINKER & HEYL have for sale a few selts of Roger's superior Table Cutlery and Pen-
DRINKE
kalves.
Victoria, 30th June 1846.
JUST
UST RECEIVED, and for Sale an Invoice of Preserved fruits, Jams &c, consisting of Quinces Agricol, Currants, Peaches dze
ALBO, quantity of Pump Leather and Window
APPY
ass
________ DRINKER & HEL Victoria, 30th June 1848,
JUST received and for sale, a few cases of supe
rior Pale Ale (Baxis
DRINKER & HEYL Victoria May 1st, 1846, --
IST REGEI
raising t useful in case
DAT
ED AND FOR SALE 2of Force Pumps, suitable for House, and equally quantity of Lead he same. Ap- DRINKER & BEYL
at they
Vancouver sent his lieutenant, Broughton, tex. plore the Columbia. He did so, advancing up in eighty-four miles, and took passion of it and the
here in the mage of his Majerty in Creorge,
In 17793, Mr Mackenzie, an agent of the Hudson's Bay Company, versed the whole continent, amel gave valuable information respecting it The Eled Bone Bay Company, therefore, pushed its way for & ward, and formed several settlements on the Oregon
boosi,
In 1805 the President of the United cites' Go.
germcat, Jefferson, ordered a survey of the country,
im was set up to the territory fo ascertain in capabilities A soulement; but n
The success of the Hudson's Bay For Company called a rival into the field. An association formed under the auspices of Mr. Jacob Astor, & German merchant, residing at New York, whe supported by English money and Endirhunvalası and conled into asie by English enterprise. The first eplem of this association, known as tha hentic Fur Company, was formed at the mouth of the Columbia, and the surrounding district becaIN E known as Astoris. The project filled, and in 18124 the whole settlement, with its plant, was sold to the Hadson's Bay Company for 58,000 dollara, and in- corporated with that enterprise,
On the conclusion of the wat in 14 between En gland and America, a demand was made by the latter for the restoration of Astoria. The British. Government referred to the treaty of sale; but uliy mately to get rid of a vexanous minor point, i was agreed that the firt which exivied as Astoria should be restored to the Slates Government, leaving the question of right in abeyance.
From that date the question has led to constant negotiation between the two Governments. In 1879 a treaty was concluded for ten years, giving to the
subjects of both states the right of eating on the Lerritory. In 1826 active negoliations were renewed, and Mr Canning proposed that, to settle the dispate, the diph parallel of latitude should be followed a 1
of division notil it struck the north-eastern branch of the Columbia, to be thence followed down the centre of the strean, giving both parties the right of navigat, ing it. This proposal was refosed by the States Government, which proposed that the 40th parallod should be carried on to the ocean, so that The Columbia should be included in the Stater er. mory Thin proposal was decisively declined, by our Cabinet, as we already possessed both on the north and south of the river arrangement would have cutoff, as well as have deprived us of its navigation.
Falling in any satisfactory arrasistol
DESTPLICY was one
I beli
We fod but one flaw in the writer's argumeni acknowledges, and we think justly, that Spam had na nally a show of title to the Oregon territory, whatever it was, she could confer on the United State and it seems, therefore, hardly fair to assert that by the Florida treaty of 1819 Spain could no more give a tile to the Oregon than she rod to England
At the close of the article the clafcus of the two even- tries are thus summed up
It would be a great waste of time to descend to these minute specifications, were it not that this purchase of Louisiana furnishes the main argument upon which the American claim reste. Louisiana has never been laid down upon a map with any approach to precision; a cir cumstance: that gives a sort of excuse to the assention of a claim which all other evidence concurs in annihilating. The writer conesives that the question will be senlei To whatever extent the ambiguous district may be carried amicably and that the States will give way. He is
by newspaper reports. We do not share is acticipation westward over the prairies, it is quite certain that it was shut ja on the east by the Rocky Mountains. There canThe only arrangement to which England could honbanNY be no doubt that France never reached that barrier, and consent is that proposed by Mf Canning and Mr Hushi never by arins, civilization, or discovery attempted to spn in 1897, the 49th paralled till it strikes the Columisa
The limit, indeed, is clearly river, and then down the centre of the stream to the se scale is savage heights marked out by nature. And it may be added that Mr. That boundary would be open to no possibility of mistake Greenhow, the most distinguished American authority on and it would give the two nations equal right to the nav this subject, acknowledges, though not without reluctance, gation of the stream. But that proposal has already beca that these highlands must be regarded as the true westem rejected by the States, and there is no reason whateve boundaries of Louisiana ceded to the United States by for supposing that their Executive will shrink from it. efforts to frighten England into concession, even with the France in 1803,"
peril of war staring it in the face-Britannia, Ajud 18.)
To make its claim more plansible, the States' Corem meat entered into an explanatory treaty with Spain in
(From the China Mail, July 2)
Diplomatic Department.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION
His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the annexed Synoptical Table, just received, of the Trade to and from FOREIGN COUNTRIEs at the Port of SHANGHAI during the Year 15, be published for generel information.
Victoria, Hongkong, 25th June, 1846,
By Order,
A. R. JOHNSTON,
A SYNOPTICAL TABLE of the IMPORT TRADE from FOREIGN COUNTRIES at the Port of SHANGHAI during the Year ending the 31st December 1845, specifying the Description and Quanlitice of Commodities, as well as their Estimated Value, and distinguishing the National Character of the Ships in which they were Imported, viz:
Description of Commodities
Bicho de Mar Birds' News
Cotton, Long Cloth, Grey While
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Twilled - Dyed
Figured
Cambrica
Cotton Yari Flints -
Glass and Glassware Gambier
Linen
او
Dözen 9,560 2,300 Pieces 8040 5,58!
Quantities, and in what Ships Imported
British Americ, | Span.) Swed, Brem.Pembg
Aggregate Quantities
Imported
Estimated Valas in Bierling ande Excbango
£
Piculs
162 125
Piouls
302
78
904 260
Pieces 911,911 46,455,
14
84188014125 3,327.20.595
13,402 600
20130 0201 Picces 992,178 638,800
(1,130) 367,436 264,820)
23.722 15,343
Value 18,474 562
344
Vaine 19.380 19,380
Picces
1150
Pieces
1,150
718
19
**
Chintz .. Handkerchiefs Domnestics Velveteens Unenumerated
++
240 26,810) 850
700
940
678
1570
29,236 20,474
8,869; 50 729
412
Pieces Value 6,169 200
6,930,
130 Value
6,499
6,499
329
529
529
Piculs
770
Piculs
770
4,812
7.364
7,364
1,863
Value 1,338
Piculs 2721
Value 1,590 Picula
4,690
272149
Pieces
64
Pieces.
53
Picals 1409
Rods & Bars
1
17
12,144
734 1921440 5,957
11
Lead Pigs
Tin Slabs
1,771 208
291
1091
1058
216
5,022
* 267
$5,020 4,316
187
404
623
Charks fins
5
malts.
#
Wine, Beer, &c. Woods, Bandal
Dozen
27 8891
27
512
150
Piculs
13.
www.
Saper
Ebooy
$7
#
Woollens, Broad Cloths, dec. Yards
Long Ells
76) 200 1120 478,20,921 5,095 4,115 7001 207,076 30,802
Duzen 1,039) Picals
1,701
456
715
31,509 18,783
44
Yards 331,112
Picces
1981. 17
90 Pieces
4,057
222
8,028 13,994 4,728
23,345
Change
Changs 17
1251
Pairs 747 225 Value
972
640
3,802) 520
7,243 1.5004.00
4.322
2,369
852461
13.186
Metals, Iron Pigs
Pepper- Rattans
alpetre
جاؤ
Camlets Bombazsties Blankets
Woollen & Cotton Mix Unenumerated
Miscellaneous
Shanghai 1st June, 1846,
A SYNOPTICAL TABLE the
ANGHAI daring the Year endur
hich they were purported, 1,
64 Piculs 1,409
1979 1,592
704
216 143788
Total $1,223.98||
G. BALFOUR,
HB M. Consul at Shanghai,
FOREIGN CODETRIES at the Port of eatlying the Description and Quantities of the Marsmal Character of the Ships in
zoorted
Estimated Talve in Sterling : 4'2 Exchange
641 53
Excuts
999
ozen 12532310
Calicz
887
2/406
410
836,024
200-242
4014
1517.03 2