is made in the the Reports
THE FREND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
commercial or agricultural speculation, for the pur- on the conduct of the emanci pose of gain, but disinterestediy, and ata prodigions from their general tone, cost to her, for the redress of an enormous wrong, of complaint exists" against by religions and philanthropic conviction, An in- zhikt in most, if not all there | finsic and conscientious sense of right was the minution of crime, and anright in the balance, and if other advantages were y which dreamer the found incompatible, or could not be made concoat
ant with the primary object in view, they were not, however desirable in themselves to be for that reason permitted to act as a counterpoles in the opposite scale, Happily, there is not the slightest ground for doubting the ultimate achievement of these a condary ends also."--Reports p. 18
IMPROVEMENTS,
withstanding serious disappoint ats and miss ansing from this and other causes, e couch satisfaction in assuring you, that thê behalf of the improvement of agriculare, of which it has been my pleasing duty, from time to Time to furnish tuch gratifying proofs to the Secre tary of State, has not abated. Both owners and monsters are atendrously ungaged in intrancing Love changes in the system of Cahivation which ere. posemary to enable them to meet the exigencies of Their pastion as ompliance of free labour, Sagreat ja thn amount of land wilted to the culture of pro- valam and procnrabs at easy rates of purchase; Iwad of that desorption on which the peasantry subsisted dance avere can be raised from sasaga with so litla foil, that the of christen steny them, and of the lastes is it creates, farishes, in the jeady- well-interned persons, the only of by their becoming generally and hendent on the wages of continuous the imponance, oven on behalf of material, of promoting education fer classes, and replacing in the cons Foc on estates the rude and labourious ted from slavery by processes re- und more highly qualified workmen.”
Du Gim - I have gone over," says Go- the greatest part of the province; Shkodrests g that bespeaks retrogression; new Skutery of nees are presenting themselves un fought armer daya." "The internal pros
erile colony, as regards the mass, is un- pleted had flattered myself that the crisis of the planters bad passed; they bare yet to recover From that dispensation of Providence, drought, which bas for so many months affected the plantations."
ning haan asly four months in the binata log of the government of this colony, my Observatrons in so short a time do not justify me, with confidence, to speak of the future prospects of Tabelen As it, however, jngs a due climate, and
The foregoing extracts from the reports will be regarded as highly satisfactory, especially when it is considered that the emancipated classes have had
| 7. To open a public road from Trafalgar Square throngh Cockspur Street into the Mall and to Pimlico; with a lodge at each end of the Mall; for the purpose of closing it on days of state receptions. Such are my propositions I firmly believe that their restization would produce vory great public convenience, with very considerable economy that a splendid Royal Palace, a Palace of the Fine Arts, and a Public Record Onion, might all be ob tained in the manner, above mentioned, at a cost not larger than will be encountered by the proposi tion of my friend Mr Blore to expend a large sum of money in patching up her Majesty's present ro sidence. Believe me, Sir, yours must truly.
F. R. Gowen.
indeed, has bees the quarter to
to contend with bad igwa badly administered, and which yes have been directed. It is healthy size, often not exceeding a few pounds in w
tember 1.
bad managers, who have not yet learned to get with both as to soil and air convenient in point of dis the discretion which their new circumstances de
tance; associated with the Green's earliest recol- mad. To this must be added, as a circumstanon
lectione Sir Frederick Treach has recorded a which has greatly nected the prosperity of the co
proposal in Parliament, to take for the site, we be- kanies, the long-continued droughts, which, for a lieve, grind to the Westward of Kensington Pa- periost of many years, baye greatly interfered withheep which is yet higher, and might próbably bu the operations of agriculture, and diminished the
obtained. This would extend rather than chunge prothree of the soll-Anti Slavery Reporter, Sej»-
Mr Glowen's plan. The lead on Camden Hill is still open chiefly occupied by gardens attached to Edland Blouse, the Duke of Balford's lodge, and other private residences, Convenient ronda ane aiready in progress af formation, and by extending a privite Macringey through the South side of Kensington Cardons a private read for the Queen would be provided, ong a rusiu as pleasant and | rijmust as expeditions be that through St. James's Cakule the public, instead of losing anything, would gain at all points. For to cap Camden Hill vitha Royal Palace/would crown the budding gloties of Kensington and Bayswater; and the Quern would hay her some set on the highest land within the Park ground of the Metropolis. Spec. tator, August 4,
A HOUSE FOR THE QUEEN, AND A USE FOR BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
It has been proposed in Parliament to improve Buckingham Palace-to improve Buckingha Pa
Jace !
Nay, Ministers intend to lay out 1500004, in the experiment, and have actually tak, 20,000% no account. The rary idea has provoked conte uous surprise, and has induced people to look a little into the value of the public property w is proposed to improve," The sum asta large one, unless the outlay le to be quite alicrive The country would molg rudge it—hor ten times as much-to provide the head of the British empire with a suitable residence; but there is not a sonl in the country that would nu ljesitato 10. what has been propsed-to send the brickt 137s and pla sturers into her Majesty's house at Punlico on the Hopeless enterprise of torturing it into a decent abode. Buckingham Palace was built by order of George the Fourth, who lived in circumstances unsuited to develop a taste for the fine arts, and he cartainly did not lead his age in that respect His taste was of so low an order, that while Wedgwood banished from our table crockery the ridiculous and vicious forms which we had imported from China, George adopted the cast of style for the princely architecture; hence the teapot at Brighton, which is now othicially condemned in the marine stores dealer. Te sime Alomarch wanted a new town house: he employed Air Nash, a very pretty line gardener, but a very had architeer; and the resul was that abord pile called Buckingham Palace i is a bed on the pubke tuste even of England-low in the scale even of common builder's architectur -The cultivation improves from year Within, it is incommodioua-a most confuse to years In good hands, and with sufficient capital, jwable. The site is irredeemably bad. Really tmpenza to realize to the planter an ample retura, is bat cominon sense and decency to enable the In few islands, perhaps, has the experiment of free sen to remove; and it is to be hoped that the fabour been more successful, in spite of an insuffiistakable expression of public opinion wit cient population, a lack of capital, much waste land, have weaned Muisterd from the and projeer at and plecital and cheap food. The following return wasting money in the attempt to "improve" Bu of sugar exported to the last fifteen years shows lat-ingham Palace.
a dish and well-watered soil, with a rapid agmenting population I see every reasonable Eround to look forward to increasing prosperity, the great impediment to which is the very natural dis. melination of the capitalist to vest money on West fedin property, so long as the annual agitation of The sugar duties prevents his being able to make permanent improvements with any certianty of a pdftade urn"-Reports, pp. 54, 55.
to emancipation,
33 Dress
Before the abolidors of alavery.
!
decrenard simultaneously 11 per cent, ne about Bun, 6007, a sum neasly equal to the whole proes i of the salt tax.
Bow depressingly must this tax operate on „il the energies of the country !
It is a postulat.g upon all improvement in the conilicon ot -ple, and-dooms-them to yink deeperand
pauperism ne their numbers increases when it removed, they would be quickly enabl and ouboluin à lucrative trade with Eng the cultivation of sugar India diflers Ir a other country where that produce is ess raised. The cann is vol culgated there on estates in the hands of rich proprietors, bin i on bttle patches by the poorest orders of a. population, and manufactured in inte of theat
Until Ruely each family raised just what wa cessary for their domestic romwmplan cently, under the temptation of a great rising a portion of this stuck was abstracted for saf an extra supply, in the extent of 30.900 tun.... sad looly in on sensona brought into the man But this happetund only under exisacolitury tions of price. Suppose, however, thus à por of the two or three mouths' labner which ev ryot is now obliged to expond be the purchas salt, were free to be employed on the cultivation his sugar-canes what a vast increase of prod. would be permanently given to comuneite! anal production of sugar in India is estimated 300,000 tons a year; of which 75,000 vas, aze ported. Suppose that one-six of the leboar the cultrators were set free by a reduction al's salt duties, we should have at once & further su ply of 50,000 tons, or 125,000 tons in alt for portation, Again, suppose, as Mr Aylwin pot, 1. that Fost of the 110 millions of inhabitants interes in the production of sugar, but one-third, or say 46 millions, become consumere af only clothing enough, to cover their loins; we should, estim... and annual average of three fuct for each ind vidual, have an additional marked opened for tl. cotton and yarn manufactures of this country of no less than 46 million yeards of cotton cloth "
The salt monopoly is altogether indefensible on the scope of revenue. The Company assume that the average annual consumption will ucver excessi our mantal vision in more distinct proportions as
12 pounds per head. This estimate is not to in the-distance practically diminishes; its concerns relied on, since it is fuum led on the result of sales pt themselves more frequently and more famiat monopoly prices: the probabilig is, that wek boy of the British public become interested in the is not less than 15 pounds per head. Now, is the to our notice; and a conually increasing the help of the smuggler the actual ron umption palpable realities of a land they had hitherto know rudest districts subject to the salt monopoly, where only as a gorgeous dream, too shadowy and remote to fix their attention. We cannot have a better
the population increased 50 per cent between the years 1-44 and 1815, the Company's sales of wilt pledge of the security and prosperity of our Indian al home. Its action, so far as it is wisely directed, The net revenue frou, the sans source lectioed in dominions then this lively growth of public opinion hand, and fell continemily to 9 pounds in the latter. ammusted in the former year to 112 ponad pr
or in other words, so far as it is founded in know that interval from 243, to 612 per head. All det ledge, cannot fail to bind the two countries toge
was thus lost by the Government and probably ther in that closest and most
1 of honds, the How can we promets the welfare of India? how can
more also, was gained by the snuggler The pre- sense of benefits quickly and reciprocated,
sent duty on imported salt is three rupees per maand we beat enable her to participate in the fruits of our duty were reduced two-thids, the Company would It admits of the clearest proof, that if the civilization 2 These are questions Imperatively thereby immediately acquire a great accession of pressed upon us alike by our interests and our duty; revenue, besides that which would further serpie and their preation solution will be advanced in
to it from the general development of the resourc.s exact propantion to the extent; force, and sundaess of hedmintons-fold, of public opinion applied to them.
THE SAST MONOPOLY IN BRITISH INDIA, Foremo among the manifold advantages flow. ing from moragid coagulation between Great Britain and India, sve, reckon 'hahorat in fluence thereby brought to bear on the destinies of the latter, country. The great empire rises upon
a
a steady average, and one scarcely lower than The foulty in the way of abandoning it
From the large Geld for improvement open to'aut Gazaltogether, and giving the Queen new house,deration of which seems peculiarly fitted to the na
view let us at preson Belect one abject, the consi. Since the abolition of seems to be the immediate only that would be re-tional mood at this day. The sit manufacturers slavery. guired. An esteemed correspondent, in the follow-of England are exerting themselves to obtain from
ing letter, suggests an economical arrangement, by which three public structures, all of them or gently wanted, might be obtained at the cost of one,
1831, 7,671,723 1602 5.134.982
1840, 4,890,010
PAL 7,204,678
1985, 6,553,585
1:30, 3,732,600 1837, 4,687,200
Average, 5,556,972
lbs. 1588, 5,533,330 1880, 5,15109
TO THE EDITON OF THE SPECTATOR,
amitee of the House of Com. moms reported it as their opinion, that the evils
the Bust India Company the sorrender of its salt monopoly, and the opening of the Indian markets 1810, 3,633,820
for the better and cheaper commodity which Eng 1841. 4:077,850.
land can supply. There are three principal parties 1842, 6,384,305
Atheazum Club, 27th August, 1816, when the proposed measure would affect, and to 1843, 5,005.194 S-The fact that most of the public prints all of whom it would be a source of great advantage, 1844, 6,469,012 have devoted a portion of their columns to the the shipping, mannfacturing, and commercial in
These age, first, the s
salt-owners themselves, and 1845, 6,779,225 question whether it would be wise to expend a Average, 6,467.925 large and indefinite sum upon the improvements terests of Great Britan generally secondly, the The latter average would doubtless have been required in Buckingham Palace, must be my apoder the free Irade system then they now are
Company, whose resources would he much larger bigber, bad it not been for the constant succession logy for calling your renewed attention to the sub- of dry season, which bave, for the last eight years, jeet. In its present state, according to Mr Blore, and Thilly, the native consumer on whom the Veen so regatar as to constitute an entire change in the Prince possesses every possible internal defect on pressed meat cruelly and iniquitously. the climate and season, formerly, during nine as a royal residence, Its external architecture is
Ten od months in the year, subject to contiual rains, which
discreditable to the national toate, Its loeal post. were eminently favourable to the growth of the tion Tenders it a most inconvenient obstacle to an sapur-cane-Reports, p. 84.
easy communication between Charing Cross, the General Remarks,, on the whole, the pro-fullest stream of Metrepolen life, and the import gress made by the late wave bas been great and sa. ant part of the town now called Belgravia, together sfactory in this small island," says Lieut-Governor with Piralico, Chelsea, and Fulham. The props Paynes, in his report on Montserrat, in the larger, Lions before Parliament are, to endeavour to cure in has been vastly more extensive and rapid. New some of the defects of this palace by an extensive remodeling of a large portion of its interior ar rangements; in enlarge its accommodation and hide the "huge heap of littleness" it now displays by the addition of an entirely new façade, audio com- nience these operations by an homediate expendi ture of 20,000l. preparatory lo a estimated outlay of 150,0001.
towe bare been founded in most of the colonies. Chapels→→ Wesley so, Bepust, and Moravian, to." wards which the legislatures have, in some instances, şefused to contdbule-have been erected at the ex pense of the negroes, Societing agricultural and evet scientific institutions in the days of slavery beyond the sim, and even the hope, of the white planter, are now flourishing by the exertions and contributions of blacks. Land in the neighbourhood of towns, or in new settlements, have risen is value 40 £30 £80, or even $100 sterling per acre. Many black men have, in ever colony become free bolers and electors In this land a late slave has been elected a member of the House of Assembly and manifestet hu moderation by bol op his gen. Popslation is
some of the Lands
diment all, e
in ive course of
Now, Sir, allow me to state some counter, DJ- positions; premising that the universal voice w pablic proclaims that ne
or Palace of the Food Arist Office for the preservation lection of national fod 1
dis pap
neces longer remain unalen
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MANILA.
(From the New Weekly General Price Current, December 5.)
REMARK ON THE MARKET,
IMPORTS.
gous
Caton Goods.We have to report the arrival of the Los Amigos from Liverpool with a full cargo of manufactures for this Market. We hear that a are not yet in the shops. New styles of colour ber of sales have been made by muster, but the goods are fitely in have been sold at fair priest offer ary cousiderable improvement, although t for old patterns and plain goods the market does no
is some more animation to purchase on the part of the keepers, but at bare prices,
EXPORTS. Sugar This article has suffered no alterntion during the week, and we have heard of shout. 9,060 picul of current quality sold at Shi
Zieb and Taal sugar is wanted for the Sidney Market.
at $38 per picul unscrewed.
Hemp. Very few arrivals, searco and in demant
usually incident to a government nonopoly in a great article of consumption are not wanting in the working of the salt monopoly in India; and they have not been convinced by any evidence that the monopoly might not be collected with equal security amoant which has hitherto been derived from the
mer and to commute, under a combined systems of 23rd ulo, was very limited and was sold at the to the revenue, and great auva unge to the consuegers.The quantity brought to auction on the
Customs and excise Fire furent tyrnin finance lowing rates. must be a tonised at the glaz epicy, as well
sidence, of sq tuxi
dispensable ingre dient in a nation's dai
ke is yearly cort to each peasaol's f of betreen one eighin
77
Sun Mil 3a8, at 58-7-6 -250 250
9-1.0
51 11
750 RIU dos: at $75 2,550
3.
9-1-6
300
9.20
3.1
11 11
3,200 in lots of 250 Mil
Year's
1,348 Mils,
EXCHANGE ON EMOLAND.— We do not know
e natives, any operation during the week, and our quotation refer to the last transactions, the same rates bein considered the current ones of the day. Interior FREIGHTS Not much disposition to charter us
sight | sels is evinced by holders of sugar. The Sunda - the last vessel laid for England, and has taken suger at 10%, and Hemp of £6 for 20 cvle.We think 24 58 24 10s the quotation of the day.
IN EXCHANGE.
On Spain 3 months par. Few buyers.
Bordon Treasury & Bank bille 30 ds. 44, Last Salos, -Dille malé ditto 6 months 4-5). Last Sales,
China 30 days at par. Few purchasera.
Singapore 30 days 5 per cent discount.
CURRENT FREIGHTS..
A-10 per ton of 20 cw!s.
Henip, 6.0 kms Hides
G10
Sapan wood 4.0
+
4 go.
❞ do. du
For the De ment 103. Extra:
LATEST DATES. A
bec kia Ching Her:"Montgomery." Yeniben vis
mary. berper Overland.
ished by JoHN CARE, China and longhong Office Godou Struny Hongkong, 1840