ale of guts
will
Ofice, on
and Four as shewing Deel A inuai of Dale, the carreyor
10th instant,
By Order.
W CAINE Officiating Colonial Vennetary,
Colonial Office, Victona on kong, 2d September, 1843.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
nly the Governor and Com has been pleased to grant on sick certificate to the oural e Paul lry Sterling, Esquire, At- torney General, for Eighteen Months from the
H. Order,
W CAINE Officiating Colonial Secretary. Colanial Office, Victoria, Hongkong. ad September, 1846,
His Excellency the Governor and Com- rander in Chef has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Major William Caine, Officiat ing Colonial Secretary, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of this Colony.
By Order,
W. CAINE, Officiating Colonial Secretary. Colonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong.
81 September, 1846. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
His Exellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. &c., is pleased to make known the fol- lowing appointments.—
Rutherford Alcock, Esquire, to be Her Ma- jesty's Consul at the Port of Shanghai, vice Captain George Balfour, who retires.
Richard Belgrave Jackson, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Consul at the Port of Poo-chow- foo vice Mr. Alcock.
George Grey Sullivan, Esquire, to be Her Majesty's Acting Consul at the Port of Ningpo, during the absence of Mr. Consul Thom, on Bick leave.
Victoria, Hongkong 2411 August, 1846,
Order, AR. JOHNSTON,
TIJE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGRONG GAZETTE."
he charge againet Mr Stenben
jects in the "Ediburu
ed to me extremely
on excessively clendo
the first place, there is nothing discreditau ang
for the Edinburgh Review on the most men would regard it as a feather in their caps to be allowed to walte for that periodical In the second place, thern is no discredu in cleverly advo cating the principles a man sincerely entertains Cordially though we dissent from most of the news expressed in the articles in question, their ability is beyond question; and their sentiments, though in our opinion erroneous, may be entertained without any discredit. Mr Stepen would have been neither better or worse than he is if he had really written These arioles hos neither worse nor better than he would m that cass have been, now his established that he did not write them.
clusion E
With these events the distribution
SHIPPING INTELLIGEN OF
SEPTEMBER,
ARRIVALS.
2, Warlock, Jauney, East Coast, 2, Malubar, Adum, Whampoa. 3, Dart, (Am) Porter, Woosung. 4. Maggie, Jones, Whampoa.
4, Sophia Fraser, McKellar, Whampoa.
SEPTEMBER,
SAILED.
2, Sarah, Espinass, Sydney.
3, Bon Accord, Buckle, Whampoa,
3. Sultene, Widge, Whampao,
3. Arratoon Apcar, Durham, Camsingmoon. 3. Petrel, (A) Rogers, Whumpon. 8, Dart, (Am.) Porter, Cumsingmoon. Passenger per Sarah,-Mr Talloch.
REPORTS.
ed
the dockyar is, it has been tacitly admited will be fulfilled,
of maritime power, and the extension and security I numbers of registered seafaring men
of commerce, are intimately connected; and it pot an insurmountable obstacle to the in
ision of the French ngry, and this con-watching the growth of the resources of the been rather corroborated than shaken Stales, and estimating their present strength, these
elements must not be left out of the account. by the proposal to eke out the scanty supply of sea men by & large draught on the land conscription for the service of the fleet. But if we would forma a borrect estimate of the maritima forces of the Un- ted States of America, which are at this time of more immediate interest to us than those of France, we shall find a very different result The list of ships of war is indeed inconceivably small; the whole number of seamen in the public service, 7,500 men and bays, very inconsiderable; the votes for the naval department much below what the in- terests and protection of American commerce and the American coast require. But these causes of inferiority may be repaired with comparative facili Again, the evidence upon which it was assumed ty, at certain expense of time and money; and wo that Mr Stephen was the author of these asticles was should be apt to underrate the tras maritime capas utterly unsatisfactory. The colonial policy or nobility of the United States, if we overlooked the fact which they alvocated, had many features in that the American merchant shipping and the rano policy, common with his Some gentlernen engaged in co of American conmem are, after our own, the largest Jonial controversy with him conjectured, that as he and moet effective in the world. Insomuch, that whatever may be the case at the present time, whou was known to write for the Edinburgh Review,"
The great the American people have not yet fearned to prac- these articles aght possibly be his difficulty in the case of Mr Stephen always has been tise that judicious liberality wi hout which no naval to establish how much of the conduct or misconduct, power can permanently exist, it cannot be doubled of the Colonial office has been wing to him. Mr that as no very disiens period the United States' Stephen's influence was felt by every one how had navy will acquire considerable strength; and the busines to transact at the Colonial-office; but with United States already possess that living strength, such tact and judgment has he kept himself within without which the inere engines of naval war are the limits of his subordinate, unostensible office, that oncombrances to a State, and a prey to the enemy. it has generally been impossible to lay a finger on any one specific phrase or action, and say this is Mr Stephen's, To have proved that the articles in the Edinburg Review were his, whould have been to prove home to him the advocacy of certain maxims acted upon by the Colonial offee The articles would this have become part of a chain of circumstantial evidence to prove the specific agency of Mr Stepher in colonial misgovernment. The gentlemen to whom this train of evidence suggested itself, like many others, believed too hastily what they wished-expressed too unguardedly the opinion that M Stephen was the author of these articles, The Colonial-office saw its advantage, and challeng ed them to the proof The very subordinate ques- tion of authorship came thus to assume the appea- rance of a principal; and in the noise and confusion of the dispute, the main question-the policy of the Colonial othce-ann some danger of being forgotten, Thank Heaven, the question is now definively seuled. Mr Stephen is not the author. He has been tried and acquitted of the terrible charge of writing in the Edinburgh Review," and we wish him oy of his deliverance.
"}
But this leaves the question of his influence in colonial affairs untouched. There is no doubt so far as we know, regarding Mr Stephen's opinion on colonial affairs.
An ng
The last statistical returns presented to Congress give the following figures as the amount of the mer- cantile tonnage of the United States in 1845:-
Registered tonnage
Enrolled and licensed tonnaga
Total tonnage Registered tonnage employed in
the whale fishery
3,095,172 44 1,321,829 57
2,417,002 06
190,695 85
We
The enrolled and licensed tonnage is almost ex- clusively engaged in the consting trade, or in the end or mackerel fisheries, and it also includes the steamers on the rivers, but the amount of it is not the less remarkable as a school for seamen, are not in possession of any return professing to give a complete account of the numbers of Ainerican Reamon; and if such a retino did exist, it will still be impossible to discriminate between the trus born American seainen and the seamen of other countries, but especially of our own, serving in time of peace But the amount of the toanage in American ships.
large
of the United States evidently denotes a very class of seamen, which certainly cannot be below 100,000, and is probably considerably above that number.
One portion of the return we have just quoted de- We mean that which serves particular attention. He has never affected to conceal the. He has untered then freely to all comers-
shows that vessels to, the amount of nearly 200,000 tons are engaged in the whale fishery. From the to gepilemen having business with him at the Colo. nial-office, and a dinner parties. These opinions United States on the 1st of April, 1845, 801 wes. John Backhouse, Esquire, to be Her Majes- are essentially what is called anticolonial-prety sels were engaged in the whale fishery. The great- ty's Officiating Vice-Consul at the Port of nearly the same us those expressed in the Edin est part of them belong to the parts of New Eng. Canton. subject to the plasure of 1er Maies asinine, haut, which, hory hod, New Bedford, Nantucket, and New London manned by 7,392 men, and the whole number of seamen and petty officers engaged in this important branch of navigation is not far short of 20,000, be- cause the crews of whalers are usually large in proportion to the size of a vessel, from the mature of their service and the decessity of muming the boats employed in the pursuit of whales, fisheries, we shall find a very different result. The suppression of bounties, and the reduction of duties on vegetable oils, have impaired the trade to the last degree. In 1821, 322 ships and 12,788 men were engaged in the British whale fishery ; in 1841, these numbers had fallen to 85 ships and 3.003 men; being a decrease in twenty years of 237 ships and 9,780 men, or 78-100ths,
NOTICE New auriisements, will be received, until 4 O'Clock, on the evenings precises to publi.
cation, sa
Tuesdays and Fristupa
Cricutta
2
LATEST DATES. England June 24 Sydney June 17 United Bates May
Batavin Jolly 25 July
Singapore Augt. 14 Bombay July 4 Alanila
Arg. Madras
Jaly 日 Shanghai
Aug. 13
6
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER STH, 1846.
We again publish a Copy of the Notification announcing the recent changes in the Consular Establishments, to correct an error committed
in a former issue as respects the appointment of . B. Jackson, Esq.
exonerate him from the charge of writing these arti cles: could be get any one to exonerate bir frothe charge of holding their opinions? Again, Mrite phen's influence in the Office is undoubted. the permanent officials he is the only man who as an opinion of his nuw--who can write a creditle despatch. or supply information.
For at least ten years as he occupied this position; and during this line, with as any changes of responsiblo Ministers, has the policy of the Colonial office been at least consistent. li Mr Stephen -the only apparent pos sible source of this consistency, whose arowed opinions so entirely coincide with it-be not the ac- tuating spirit of the Ofice-who is 7
Of the consequences of this permanent influenco we need not speel. The ten years of the Stephen Incubus has engendered suffering and discontent in every colonial group. Mr Stephen is an able and accomplished man-we do not deny it. He is an amiable and well-meaning ran-we frankly and gladly admit it. But he has been the real Colonial Minister for ten years-and the most unsuccessful upon record,
If we turn to the last reports of our own whale.
It is not easy to discover why a trade which at tracts large and increasing investments of American capital should prove in so declining a condition in British hands. We are in possession of colonial establishments in the Southern Pacific, situated in the seas most favourable to these fisheries. Perhaps on the coast of Vancouver's Island, or of the Ore. relief and improvement of the whale fisheries at that gon territory, settlements might be made for the
of
23
season when the black whales descend from the Polar Sea through Behring's Straite to the coast of our own Australian possessions But nothing of this kind has been effected by British enterprise; whilst the American whalers circumnavigate Cape Horn a and encounter all the hardships of a three years, voyage with such alacrity, that they have 36- fishery in the South Sees Cured to themselves a vast superiority in the whale
His reign, however, is drawing to a close would that we could add that the change was likely to be for the better! Mr Vernon Smith has been making a splutter about the recent appointment of a perma neat Under-Secretary To his that most priggish of Whigs has been prompted by his old allies of the Office. Mr Gladstone his discovered that Mr Ste. in the Office-had, in his intellectual soldade, more phen-the only man with a bend on his shoulders
tant to keep him in check. And the whole noodle power than was safe; und he gave him a clever assis dom of the Colonial office is ingnant that a man of abilities has been brought in and put over their bands. with their rata we have no sympathy but we canno; praise Mr Gladstone for his selection of the new official Rogers is unquestionably a men of talent and business habits, but he knows whis of the colonies Two or three years hence he will have learn all about them, but retained won the United States a free cha nice that he should be permitted to blender into this knowledge at their expense? At present he is t the mercy of the first comer with a plausible story. No doubt Mr Gladstone has known Mr Rogers since their collegedays, and hid reasour esteem and lik him, but is this any apology for sending to the boat.
tance of Tom who knows he about the
A Coroner's Inquest was held on Thursday And Friday last on the budy of a Chinese ser- vant lately employed by Messrs MacMurray & Co-It appeared that the deceased, who was a useful servant, bad left his employers without giving them any notice, and that for so doing he was fined by the Police Magistrate, and ordered to column to his work, refusing to do so, he was agam apprehended sentenced to re- shes, and to return to his employer's pament had not the red fter two days had elapsed, he was Queen's Road a little Eastward of
stors hy & Co by one of his masters, urbujt jused by two corntables, of the water and waskenlornina-
a
The D who knows nothing Colonial ratelle death,Jane
MARFUME RESO
OF THE UN ARD
We have hers adverted to this subject, not so much from motives connected with our thercantile
things must have upon our maritime resources. If Interests, as from the evident effect this state of
20,000 American seamen are at this time engaged in the whale fishery, principally in the Pacific
may rely on such
time power. They have all the peculiar que fica Gors which best at a seaman for the service of a the chips of the com
on ynleer and the 400-650
rently accounts.or
Ramillies, Macleum, London. Malabar, Adams, London
Indieren, {Kinh Hoàn, Wh1702 Anglona, Lane, East Coast. Maggie, Jones. East Const.
VESSELS IN VICTORIA HARBOUR.
H. M. Bk. Royalist, Commander G. Ogie, H. M. St. Vulture, Captain Macdougall. H-C. Str. Pluto, Lieut. Airey, (Repairing.)
H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, Master Commanding King. H. M. 8. Minden, 2nd Master in charge Osmes,
Hospital and Store Ship.
Kennedy, Macgregor and Co Macvicar hilo G., Livingston and
Argo, Bremer, Anglong, Lane.
4. Edward, Downward, Ariel, Hodgson, Bomanjee Formsjee, Coates, Constant, Bemery, Euphrutes, Wilson, Flecha, (Sp) Gandia, General Wood, Siokoe, Kelpie, Bellamy, Indianeren, (Danh) Holm, Jocin Corina, Durham, John Barry, Haward, Lapwing, Lees, Linnel
Maggie Jones, Mulober, Adams, Mor, F. Alston,
Mary Bannatyne, S. Picken, Poppy, H. Cole,
Ramilies. Maclean, Ruparell Perois. Sophia Fraser, Mackellar, Spec Cole, Sri Singapura,
Tiplos Rally) Haherbier, Warlack, Jauncey William IV, Riddles,
W. Mitchell, McLachlan,
o Order
J. Matheson ad Co J Matheson and 46 Murrow and Co Rale Duus and to J. Matheson Bud Co Ouder
Pustau and Co W. Frutallyn
Dent and to Murrow and Ca Younghusband and Co F. B. Birley Macvicar and o
J Mathesou nad Co Lindsay and Co Dent and Co
J. Matheson und Co Macvicar and Co Bou read andCo Murrow and Co Smith and Brinelow
J. Matheson and L'o Murrow and Co Tarner and Lo
SHIPPING AT WHANPOA.
Word and L'o
H. C. Str. Nemesis, Master Commanding Russell. Antilla, Barrett
Henderson, Watson and Co
Bucephalus, McDonald,
Bon Accard Buckle,
Cumberland, Sinclair, Clown, Wyse, Chusen, Laird, Dartmouth, Stewar Drie Marins Verbec. Ellen Rodger, Emperor, J. Jones, Earl Balcarras, Baker,
F. Currin, Ballantine, D. & M. F Mombartuck Morrison, R. Flore Mure, Brown, Fort William, Mehvin, Gustave (Fr), Expert, Good Success, Cowie,
Belt and Co Macvicar and Co Dent and Co
Benstead and Co
J. Matheson and Co Turner and Cu Reynvaan and Co
Gilinen and Co Macrical and Co Matheson and Co Rustomjee and Co
H. Camajee and Co
Turner and Co
J. Matheson and Co J. Matheson and Co A Durran Jy Bell and Co
Boustend and Co D. & M Pestonjec Russel and co Holliday, Wise and Co Crooke and Masery Gibb, Livingston and Lo
Josephine, Smith, Henderson, Watson and Co Helen Stuart, Willingham,
John Dugdale, Killock, Lord Western, Rico, Lydford Stayron Μαΐα, Sproute, Paisa Ponsonby Queen Mab, Rowe. Royal Albert, Scanlan, Sultana, Wadge,
Scaleby Castle, Leman, Sterling, May,
Surge Purchase, Wa Gillies, Clark, Wild Iah Girl, Buckton,
Macrichs and Co Bush on Co
Holliday, Wise and Co
J. Matheson and Co Bell and Co Lindsay and Co Captain
VESSELS AT MADAD,
H. M. So Young Hebe, Liett-Comding. Bate Adhemar (Fr.) Duvaut, Dido Saundere, Harriet, Isabella Robertson, Kelly,
Narciso, (Sp) Gonzales, Water Wich, Borgan,
Hegan and Co Gilman and Co C. Sapoorjse Langrah F. J. de Paira J. A. Durran Captain
Dent and Co
AMERICAN AS WHAMPOA AND MACAO. hicora, Hulme,
of Junthe Groves,
Lark (Am) Tibbets,
Petrel Rogers,
Nye, Parkin and Co
Wetmore and Co
Bush and Co
R Dous and Co
September. Mrs In
NEURANCE SOCIETY.
een appointed agents for amed Spoiety and are prepared to wable in Liverpoot, Bombay, Cal
RATHBONES WORTHINGTON & Co. Canton, 31st August 1846.