S
INCENT STANTYN
Cakesnl Claplin
** open be Pubbo War ac harpist & O'cloak P. M., seming with the lit Novem
the foundation stone of the and by Hu Excellency Das, Bart, with the custo tones The Church has been named by John the Evangelist, and will he
Treymus in the ceremony, an appropriate case was delivered by the Rev. Mr Stanton, Lehush Ere laim – as took for his text the Bih Verse of the 12th Chapter of Saint Matthew.
But I my unto you, that in this place there is. phe greater than the temple."
TTIE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
dos ant flen Irons HongKorn, tha
fure, is witnes
gistrate on
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proceedings before
1 fishing boat lay becal
sheak 6. on the boute title of the island, a bear came alongside the crew of which inquired if they had any alt fish for sale, and immediately afterwards boarded them armed with swords and
pikes. Having carried of four pigs, 3 bed covers, 30 dollars, 13,000 cash, and several other that the pirates broke tha oara, cut the rapes, threw ruder into the sex, and then sailed away. The owner of the small but hired a sumpan to take him on shore, where he kept sight of the pirates, as they passed through the Ly yu-moon passage till they anchored at East Point. He then applied to Messrs Jardine Matheson de Co.'s sopoy guard, who secon panied big to the boat. When the the pirated sarv them approaching, they jumped overhourd, but ware caught on the beach and in the water by the sepors no two English constables. The four pigs were found on board. The prisoners having been identi fied, were committed for trial.
France longs for a colony on the coast of Chi- remind you that every election, since the policy of the na, she may negotiate for the purchase. France administration has been developed has been, more likely to heresse i in the purchase of a propacity Mayan Popylvania, ir. As we run in Gurgia, ju has but a limited trade here, nor is it at all, after to that administration. The results
Maryland, New Jersey, in Florida, Georgia.in yielding no return-supporting no interester as all prove this. And will any man say can any o would be paying for her whistle. The Ano suggest, that one single state has sanctioned the policy ricans even a large commerce with China, but of the present administration? The most recent de monstration has been in New York (enthusiastic ap plause). The state of this election is very well known to all of you, and I do not know of anything new to communiente, except the following telegraphic dispatch, clated at Ave o'clock this afternoon, which I will read
were it not opposed to constitution, the United States would not be willing to pay from 880,000 to $100,000 a year for a place from which no direct advantage could be ob tained. So long as Hongkong continues a free The good news of yesterday, is more than confirand by telegraph from Buffalo and througla thin P. M. port, the ships of all nations may seek a refuge in
John Young's majority will not be less than 11 000. it, or come forrepairs, or for despatch, and at pre Twenty-three, Whigs are elected to Congrem out of th gent his appears to be all it is used for. Should thirty-four, and at least 70 Whig members of the As it become a place of trade, Morchants of difsembly out of the 128. Under the teren Whigs we do
not include any Anti Renters or Bunkers. Massa ferent nations can settle in it without their
chusetts will respond to this next Monday, will she respective governments being burdened with the
not ? Gentlemen, will not Massachusetts respond? expense of a military or civil establishment.
(immense cheering).
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AUSTRALIA.
Our Sydney papers to the 18th of January, contato nothing of moment. The latest intel ligence from New Zealand, by the schooner Velocity, was to the 3rd January, IL M. S. Car- for was going into port Nicholson when the Velocity sailed; II. M. Sicam-vessel Driver ar- rived from Alickland on the 19th, and the Cal- liope on the 20th December. II M. 8. Race- horse sailed for Wanganui on the B1st Decem- We copy a short summary from the Sydney Morning Herald.
The China Mail is whimpering because his contemporaries have not given him a favorable opportunity of defonding the government on the matter of the boat tax. He has. how ayer, discovered that the government do allow the large boats 17 ets, por month for the UVEXIBED period of their licences, charging them for the new licence at the rate
ber. 80 ets, per month, and he demands with an air of triumph. "We wonder if either the Friend or the Register "can muster "candour" enough to correct their
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NEW ZEALAND, Wellington papers to the 2nd of January are at hand, but they contain little nows of interest
Governor Grey arrived unexpectedly about the 20th December in her Majesty's steamer Driver, and was warmly received,
is statements on this subject, or if they will, "as usual, repeat them in their overland sum- "maries The Mail may rest assured that the CRRECTED statement will appear in our sungary and ampro unjust procedure never disgraced any government, even by the show. ing of their Partisan. In December a peur On ile eve of Capain Talbot's departure from bontman purchases at a cost of $2 a licence to ply in the harbour for one year, At the Panesary letter to him, which, with the grit end of four months, he is,talt that he must levying of a species of black mail before they were
take out another licence, for which
Indelion, a few oibe merchants addressed a com-
PERCHI JERE, We subjem The merchants sulti
de explain why their letter does not bear the
he is in
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What has caused this change? It is all to be referred to the recent measures of Congress, not owing to the change of fifty or a hundred bere and there in the state of New York by because the refecting men of all paties --the masses, the troops-hiave come over from the opposite side and vote the Whig ticket. → Mughs is the influence of the Union it cannot refer all these results to the Sub-Treasury, either on one sida or the other. The TARIFF and THE WAR have had their share. But I do not propose I have not time to enter into the details of either of these. Tus Mex XICAN WAR 18 UNIVERSA ODIOUS TARDOUGBOUT THE UNITED STATES, and we have yet to find way Sempro- the gallery asked Mr Webster who voted for the war. nius who raises his voice for it. there some one in
He replied. Nobody at all the Presulent miile it without any vote whatever tremendous applause), And that leads me to say the war, in its origin, was a Presidential wer. But the constitution declares that Congress alone shall hu
have the power of declaring war; and beg to know where, when, and how they so declared tr
It is agreed by all that the administration is not at present remarkably strong in financial athirs, taking pretty certain that it will be hard work, rallier into consideration the present war, and it soona in ba
phill business, to carry that war on And provided that every dollar which government gets in looked i as required by the Suls- gargny Act; the machine
Gentamen, et mo soon come to stand you to the tamil h which opera)
been able in Feb
TARIFF LOW 21
The country was on the whole tranquil, the only act of violence being the stoppage of a flock of sheep belonging to Mr Dunn, on the road to Wanganui, by a party of the followers of Rangihneata, and the
permitted to pass, free of their brethren at Canton; but it does / Pay $10, but that he will receive c edit cheering, the gloomy depression arising from the The accounts from the Wanganui district are most not appear why in Hongkong only Fifteen Firms
for the unexpired perind of the first licence outrages of the natives, and the suspension of agri. racula have bad an opportunity of expressing their at the rate of 83. Greater injustice could not cultural eperations having entirely passed away, and Apmetation of the services of s'aptain Talbot, about be committed, and yet & Journalist can be its progress to prosperity now is described as gate have now major watch heregems only one opinion among the corn- found to sustain the perpetrators of the act. The nishing. munur — Cana Man, March 11.
Editor of the Mail may have taken his house
Hoki, though refraining from open outbreaks, was If Elleen is a few of the mercantile firms in for twelve mouths, bur suppose rents were to still agitating, and moving about accompanied by a LAN Hongkong, it would be desirable that the pub- advance, and at the end of four mouths, his land-party of young men on horseback, affecting great Jie be furnished with a list of the many. He ord,were to say, you must pay me for the other state. He had justructed the natives 10 demand mo cently we had occasion to make out a list of the eight months, five times the rent stipulated for,ney for timber, and by no meant to acoept trade. Ile Camion houses having branches in Hongkong, but I will allow you a deduction in prupuption tells them they must adopt this plan because of the and we could only make it thirteen; in ndal to the rug rent you paid for the year. Would prohibition by Government of the sale of gunpowder from, there on three or four local agency houses the Editor of the Mail comply with this extor-
and arms; but ackls, that if they get him the money We have not seen the names of those who sign tion! No, he would seek the proction of the he will get them the powder. ed the address to Captain Talbot, and although courts of Justice. The case we have put hypo- in the larry of getting it ready, one or two etically is precisely that of the Ching boat Merchants may have heen emitted, their could Diter and Englishinen may well feel indignate po possibly have been more. Had it been an that such things should happen in a Britis's address from the Inhabitants of Gongkong, the colony.. writer of the paragraph we have copied above, inight have said a few with all justice, but being from the Merchant'salone, it is difficult to assign
motive for such an incorrect platement.
PIRACY.
MACAO,
The sommaries of events for the year 1848, given in the New Zealand Spectator and Wellington Inde
earth
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That all the nations of the tate his free trade policy
their protective
order to contribute to that
ad bere we have something like a po
baye now the
lar enough from aberat but -not bland against the alarm Lapouring of Sir Robert forters and lus jout- free tide would give ig lowtry & mo
saal manufacture.
under sentence. Con tan that Bucceed or Re helves and the Liel hands The an early tegminna that alle miney he Slatest for collen, tobacco-
perieur, concur in congratulation on the gradually progressing state of prosperity and advencemncation The the province. Their recovery from the previous die saster, and the dangers that seemed to threaten lam,... Filblai
attributed in a great measure to the wise and eneritical revolution in the United States against the getic government of Governor Grey, and the deed. supposed tas liberi tarif of 1846, the toll our The Portuguese settlement continues to de-ed stops taken by him to secure the interests of the Tenders some weeks ago tant this would be the case, cline, the fevenue having fatles away tou mere
British colonists. The only cloud that appents Vi trille; and the day may not be fardista, when the horizon is the fear of his removal to make way the place will change masters or be abandon The main hope, however, which breaks through oll - Peel-
for a less able and n ke disinterested successor Cre On Monday afternoon a Chin-Chew Junked, unless a revenge can be raised to meet the was bred hit by a piratical craft having all the current expenses of a cheap government. The other reasonable grounds of expectation, in the pats, as aapearance of a Mandarin boat; oneofthe crow trade of Portugal in this part of the world is dissolution of the New Zealand Company and the had bis leg shot away and died from loss of now quite insignificant, and she has no object bitherto been laid on the energies and the enterprise The thri
consequent striking off the shackles which have nopoly of blood. The pirates fired five shots, each of in supporting a coluny out of her own exche of the settlers. which hulled the Junk; ranged alongside and quer. Until lately Macao cost the mukher bearded, cutting one of the men over the head country nothing but the discontinuance of duties severely After plundering the vessel of 9000 on imports, and the abandonment of the port men who make the mind of the county. Burke The truly great men in every country are the in specie and some trifling articles they made by foreign merchants, has placed the settles off The Master of the Junk says that he ro ment in a state of bankruptcy, the current ex- younger Pit was his successor, as the elder Pitt
Was the
great man of his age in England, anil the copened the leading man among the pirates as penses being defrayed by borrowed money or bad preceded him. a person to whom be had frequently sold salt drafts on the Portuguese government..
No man of their intellectual n this harbour, and as his vessel was new and
rank has followed, and therefore I can scarcely be Wo have questioned the prudence of a dia said that there has been a complete union of mind armed (the 86000 was intended to purchase continuance of the pustom-house. It guns with in Hongkong) it appears probable to us, like a gambler staking the small remains appears to be the great man of France (he has appeared in this country for the last 40 years, Mr Guizot That his anval way looked for, and that it was of his fortune on a desperate chance. The ob however, a dangerous rival for this fame ja the To a mere chance encounter,
ject was to bring a large amount of trade to king he serves); but Mr Guizol's mission has been the port, but this has proved a chimera. The as yet too short let us add, without meaning of Authorities allowed the time to go past, alarm-fence, the people upon whom he acts are too volatile, ing foreigners by their practions, and compell. to allow a confident prediction that his success will of which, with the influx of Chinese dealers, years longer, whether in office or in an independent ing them to keep their goods afloat, the storage he be spared by Providence, however, for a few be correspondent to his virtues and his genius. If
would have enriched the town.
Our Magnates have in some measure followed the bad ex-alation, he will do more to give solidity and a right ample ; but we are in a different position. The century.
direction to the French mind, than any mau of a Hongkong ground rents alone, would support the Macao government civil and military; add to this, The enormous Trade which Eng land has to protect, and the further fact, that many of the principal foreign houses in China are pledged to support this place by making it the head gurrters of lion outside trade, and it becomes clear that Macahan sacrificed her revenge derived from good imported for consumption, or for Chin-Chew export, without receiving any equivalent.
A gentleman who went on board the Junk inform us, that the shots must have been fired from guns of European make, and mounted pa carmages of European construction.
to have been 18 pounders, and to have They projected with great force, two of them The bow and passing out astern, twice through thick sheathing, occurred in the Lymoen passage with
at all events within a few miles mend of war!! Some measures for, that these attrocities be put Piracies in this passage have be common, that native boats are afraid alone-yet it is the only kong harbour for vessels Chast. It is not unusual rged about the entrance of ight 200 lately, on one bour master has des- Capturing some Were the chor a vessel
do the state
ale po
The revenue and expenditure for the six months ending 31st December 1840, has been made public. The expenditure is £8,07% (at the rate of £16,111 per encum) being appor hioned for
Military (doing duty as police) £8,111
Civil
Just Ecclestartical
The great man of the United States is unquestion. ably Mr Webster. He is the oracle of the northern that is of the intelligent States, and he merits she distinction, It is with deep interest that we look to everything in the American papers bearing Mr Who inst American journals present an address Webster's name, and that interest is always justified.
gain, and other provisions besides grain, will be available for the establishment of manufactures, that is, for the augmentation of an interest mortally opposed to Manchester. Such are the first fruits of free trade, and of the insolent vapouring of the free-traders. What matter, say the men who lack only to the getting over the year, have we not a properly and income tax dan, by which we can draw the fast guinea from the people, and is there bold financier may dip his hand dreply? Whispers not, moreover, a great railway fund into which a
of this latter project are indeed already abroad, and we warn all interested to be prepared for it, Moro of the matter, howave, bye and bye Meanwhile, recommed a careful perusal of Mr Webster's most returning to the American prospect, we earnestly
eloquent address. Standard, December 2
Mr Webster's speech to the Boston Whigs exh. bite in very strong relief the contrast between the the speaker, like his celebrated countryman, slept present state of British and American politics. Hlad
a generation |
some le
length, pronounced by the learned gentle man at a meeting at Boston, collected to celebrate e to the willnesses of his reappearance a more. ona a cave, he could not have present- Lue triumph of the Whig (in Amerida the Conser laughable figure than he must do to every man of vative and Protectionist) party at the late elections. senge in this country. That triumph has been complete beyond expecta
Without venturing to dis- pute that we may, perhaps, have
share carried she thing. unpopularity of the Mexican war, and tion, and it is truly ascribed by Mr Webater to the rather ton fer, it is, nevertheless, almost undenia Free-trade tariff of 1846. In New York the Whigs, party. Be the fashion good or bad, it is wholly war, and of the quasibly true that we are weaned from the stimulus of formerly the minority, have
e obtained 28 members of Congress out of 84, the other provinces are himself to the public as one of a ports,
exploded. Were any man to morcow to present equally favourable to the Protectionists but let and watchwords, with ac
with lenders Mr. Webster taimself speak.
capse to be defended against s moiety of the nation, with elaborete estimates of beard
electioneering gains, and prophecies of electoral conversion he would be acouted by almost unf
They would wonder
y would be be out of
proceeded to unfold
ad been emblazon-
sinly make
will no com pohtical ha electors.
tra to this res from the frequent ebster, and the plause amidst which be closed,
prospects of the Whige" are v