THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
reported, that in a draft of the speech prepared by the constitutional historian, M. Guizot, the an nexation of Cracow was characterized paregret table"; the King's substitution of the pore neutral phrase, joined to his open declaration of the pros test, indicates a state of racillation nnd uneasiness and his marked allusion to the small and unsatis. factory cooperation of Frence and England at the Rio de la Plata looks as if he were glad to make the most of any opportunity for hinting that the Buglish alliance is Veither lost nor unvalued.
ity of Reading that
dimmendjug.. manje,
reus of the valce panie forth ar with the Sikhs, as calling for an robation. When all of the Sikh invasion continued efforts to ich had placed the British arny
when, for the first time This matorer impression is strengthened by a British Indian empire, a soldier perusal of the diplomatic correspondence on the found to exhibit, in the rain hope Montpensier marriage, which has been laid before peace, an amount of patience, for the French Chambers, and published in the Lan- and moderation, such as Penn himself don journals; and which also confirms our pre- Finus views of the communications between the hare approved and could reaccely have ex- en The urwn of Beading sent forth a howl of French and English Ministers In protesting - disapprobation, and condemned the injustice of gainst the marriage, Lord Palanseraton takes his dying back on trading pray, which, but for the stand upon the treaty of Utrecht, which he regards **"conclusivo" against the match; he also ob- stry of Frash troupe, would have ravaged the counter and slaju more pesceful mea in a day, thau jurts that England will be jealous at the closer re- fell, of fighting mea, dening months of regular war-lation that the marrings will establish between the fare between the two captending hosts. This Courts of Madril and Paris, and especially that it we will not my Heading philanthropy-but phi.might lead to an armed French intervention in Janthropy & Reading. A large majority of the Spanish affuus; and he distinctly hims that Eng; Innd might waive her objections if the Duke and Dutchess de Mantpensier were to make certain public " ronunciations,”--manning renuciations of her right-of succession, that is, to the Spanish throne. We have before expressed our opinion ns to the flow in any protest against the marriage which rest upon the provisions of the treaty of Utrecht, and as to the tither futility of any claim, under that treaty, for further renunciations.
It is obser-
citvena «/ Resding utterly repudiate the cant.
Our adaptation of the table forbearance of Lord Hardinge u proof suficient that there is in us the same abstract love of peace the same love of be. manity that, to do Me Bright and his friends portion, we believe in be operative in their breasts, Beta is not by denouncing all wars in the same mojent language the peace is to be preserved; cr by petioning Parlament nginst the despatch of European trops to lilin that the cause of humanity is to be promoted. We believe that the nation is fast outgrowing its bore of war, as a child out grows Its love of sweel-metala.
In all
are published in most of the papers at Sydney, him; his judgment, often. Aiming always at the Hobart Town, Launceston, Adelaide, Port Philip, brilliant, and rarely concise, it appeared that he felt and indeed in almost every town of that vast por-nothing really but the lust of applause. His know- tion of the British empire. Returning homewards, ledge was infinite, but vanity bad the only key to we find his Pills and Ointment selling at Valparaiso, it; and, though an doubt he aspired highly, he seem- ed content when he had satisfied the glory of the Limba, Callso, and other parts in the Pacific.
day, whatever proved the event of the delsite. Doubling the Horn, we track him in the Atlantic - Monte Video, Buenos a yies, Santos, Rio de This kind of eloquence contented himself, and often Having came too late buio public so many essays. Janeiro, Bable, and Pernambuco; he is advertising his party, but the house grow weary at length of in those parts in Spanish und Portuguese. the British West India Islands, as sten in the Upper life, and being to conceited to study men who and Lower Canadas, and the neighbouring pro- he thought his inferiors in ability, he proved a very indifferent politician-the case of many men 1 vinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, his medicines nro as familiarly known and sold by every hare known, who have dealt too much in hooks ur fo the Mediter- a profession they apply their knowledge to objects druggist, as they are at home. santap..we find them selling at Malta, Corfu, to which it does not belong, and think it na easy lo govern men, when they rise above them, os they Athens, and Alexandria, besides at Tunis, and other
found when themselves were lower, and led their portions of the Barbary states. Any one taking the
for a man of mean birth to be humble after his ex- rouble to look at the "Journal" and "Courier of superiors by flattery. It is perhaps more expedient Constantinople may find in these, as well as other papers, that Elolloway's medicines are regularly adattation than before, Insolence is more easily to vertised and selling throughout the Turkish emlerated in an inferior, than an inferias mounted pire; and even in Russin, where an almost insur-above his superiors--Horace Walpole's Memoirs mountable barrier exists, the laws there prohibiting ¦ of Geo. IIL
Sir William Follet on Freemasonry.—The future the entree of patent medicines, Holloway's ingenui-
Attorney-Generad And been for many montia called Iy has been at work, and obviates this dithielly by
This was early in forwarding supplies to his agent at Odessa, a port to the bar when we again met.
18:26. He then spoke calmly but feelingly of the situated on the Black Sea, where they filter them selves aurreptitiously by various channale, into the professional jealousy which existed among those to You can bave no concop. very heart of the empire. Africa has not been for whom he was now affiliated. Players" rivalry," gotten by this indefatigable man, who has an agent said he is a joke to it on the river Gambia; also at Sierra Leone, the tion of its extent or strength unless you yourself plague spot of the world, the inhabitants readily belonged to the profession. He then revertal to Avail themselves of the ointment and pills; thus we past scenes and mutual friends: and in the course of conversation I inferred, from a passing romark, can show our readers that Holloway has made the complete circuit of the globe, commencing with that he had become a mason I asked if my con
It is, was his reply: 1 was India and coding, as we now do, with the Cape of clusion was correct. ved by a leading journal, the reverse of nafriendly Good Hope, where his medicines are published in initiated at Cambridge,' Light had not then beam. to our presont Administration, that Lord Palmera-
the Dutch and English languages; and while speaked upon myself; and I expressed to scoting terms Occasions of war in Ewton's bearing in the conduct of the dispute is unfa-
In your early struggles at the ing of Datch, we have heard that he has made my astonishment. repe bars not been wanting, during the last courabley contrasted with the French Minister's.
large shipments to Holland, and is about advertis- bar, remarked he, with quiet Barneaness, you thirty years; but pesce has been sedulously mains The contrast could not have escaped the most
ing in every paper or perinilical published in that require something to reconcile you to your kind. tained. Even in India, to which European mora casual observation. Speaking generally, the state lity necessarily takes a certain time in the trans of the case on either sids may be thus described:gdom: we might add that he has also started his You see so much of bitterness, and rivalry, and medicine in some parts of France; in some portions jealousy, and hatred, that you are thanktul in cuil plantation, we have recently seen that the arts of King Louis Philippe was pursuing his own inte-
of Germany; as also in some of the Italian states." into active agency a system which creates in all peace have engaged much more of the attention of rests, and M Guizot is trying with all his might
We have been at some little trouble to collect all its variaties kindly sympathy, cordial and wide We do not to make the best of the affair: England had no our rulers than the artifices of war.
these facts, because we fear that the article before spread benevolence, and brotherly love." "Bat sere- believe that Peace Societies will precipitate the interests or name but what were very remote, and
alluded to," The Art of Making Money," is cally, said I, you don't go the length of asserting desirable consummation. War will wear itself out her Minister is trying with all his might to make culated to lead people to spend their means in the the worst of the affair. He goes far beyond the no societies will wipe it out perforce from the tie-
hope (as the author states) of making a hundred blets on which our aucial and political codes are necessities of the case, far beyond diplomatic de
thousand pounds in six years for his pains, by graves. We must patiently bide our time. To lay corum, or
even the decencies of controversy bet-holding op as an easy example to follow such a a violent embargo on the exportation of Europene ween gentlemen: he lays himself open to just and
man as Holloway, who is really a Napoleon in his troops would have no other effect than that of temperate rebukes from M. Guizot, for making s
way Many may have the means, but have they greatly increasing the perit and uncertainty of carsely expressed and randoms charge against the the knowledge, ability, energy, judgment, and pru- Indian warfare. i would not mitigate, but increase French diplomatists of using moral coercion dence necessary? Failing in any one of these re- the horrors of war-it would plunge all India inte Japan Queen [sabiellu, for dragging the French So- quisites, a total loss is certain.. Holloway is a man inextricable confiation, and bring back those miservereign into the dispute by name, and for garbling calculated to undertake any enterprise requiring in- ble days when the Mahomedan rader planted the writing of his antagonist in the controversy by
monse energies of body and mind. No doubt he the standard of deanation in the soit of Hindostas, way of building up a charge of inconsistency has been well repaid for all his labour; and is, we and erected, in every fair province, rast pyramids Lord Palmerston seizes the occasion to make in-
should suppose, in a fair way of making a large of human skulle. We must not hinder the depet sinuations of shabby conduct. He seems to forget fortune. Of course it is not to our interest to deter tste of the European soldier to Tadin-but must that all parties to the controversy were presumed the public from advertising; but, os.guardians of better bis condition when there.
to be genilemen. His writing rende as if it were
their interest, we think it our incumbent duty to truth of the premises laid down by the Reading throughout animated by a malignant spirit seeking place a tighthouse upon what we consider a dan memorialists; but we are not, therefore, prepared to give offence and to render the branch as wide gerous shont, which may perhaps sooner or later to allow that they have arrived at a just conclusion, as possible. We do not say that, much was his
prevent shipwreck and ruin to the sanguine and in Instead of supplanting one evil by another of for deliberate intention; but we cannot deny that, if experienced about to navigate in such waters. mere terrific import, we would endeavour to apply his purpose was otherwise, his monomer was la- a remedy. A petition from the town of Reading, mentably calculated to belie Aim. e: from any other town in Europe, praying the le
We admit the
So much for the matter in issue.
It is inetunate that this co spondence has bern
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gislature to adopt measures for the better preserva-brought to light sn soon. prompt publigation tion of the health and safety of the English soldier falbis M. Cleirut's promised appeal from the Brit in foreign countries, and under betale climatesish Minister to the British public. Among reßec- would be something much more to the point. Sochting readers, that appeal will meet with a response a petition couched in proper language, would have not indeed exvourable to the selfishness and finesse our mert earnest support. There are few subjects of the Court of the Tuileries, but gravely cond- in the present day to which the public attentioneanatory of the imprudent, mischievous, petty aeems more willing to be awakened than that of the spirit, of the present British Secretary coudirton of "the private soldier, especially on Foreign Affairs. It will virtually be an appeal foreign service, where the hardships which he en even to some of Lort Palmerston's own colleagues, dures are more galling, and the temptations to who cannot have been privy to the lumbering which be is subjected are more cogea, than within despatches when they were transmitted. We be the precincts of in English garrison
lieve, indeed, that their worst effect may be nou. ralized by pablic opinion, and by subsequent com- munications conceived more in the spirit of that public opinioa. For where two people, like the French and English, have mutual interests 80 close, and kanw that they have, it is impossible that they can be dragged into conflict by indiscre don so individual and so transparent.Spectator, January 18.
The dreadful mortality among adults... the dif- ficulty, almost the impossibility, of rearing young children; the demoralization, which is so obtrusive Jean Tadion barrack............ore the most heart-rend ing of all the circumstances attending our career of conquest in the East. Rot these evils are not irre Jadiable evils.. It ia discreditable to the nation that they have been permitted to destroy, body and soul, so many thousands of victims but it is sorge consolation to know that the public wind is now, at last, awakened too sense of what is due to those who fight car battles and wear out their lives in
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FORTUNES MADE BY ADVERTISING, From the Pictorial Times.)
From a small pamphles, entitled "The Arto
The editor of the Edinburgh Review, in a num- ber published about three years ago, stated, that he considered he was making a desirable bequest to posterity, by handing down to them the amount of talent and ability required by the present class of large advertisers. At that poriod Holloway's mode of advertising was most prominently set forth; and if these remarks, conjointly with his, should den- cend to a generation to come, it will be known to what extem the subject of this article was able to carry on his views. together with the consequent expenditure in making known the merits of his preparations to aearly the whole world.
that masonry does all this ? And more! The trus mason thinksno evil of his brother, and cheri-sh es no designs against him. The system itself annihilates parties. And as to censoriousness and calumny, most salutary and stringent is the curb which masonic principle, duly carried out, applies to an unbridled tongue. Well, well, you cannot connect it with religion you cannot, say or do as you will, allerd of it that nissoney is a roligious systemy and by you will know better, was his reply Now I will only say this, that the Bi- ble is never closed in a mason's lodge: that maso18 habitually prayer in their lodges; and in point of that, never assemble for any purpose without performing nels of religion;-I give you credit,' continued he with a smile, for being more thorough ly emancipated from nursery trammels and sla. vish prejudice. You ekim too much for your system,' was my rejoindor. Not at all! But her me. Many clergymen were and are masons. The well-known Dr Dadd belonged to us. I presume,› asid 1, jestingly, you attach but slight weight to his name 7 The selection is unfortunate.' red to me,' said he, from my having recently read some very carious letters connected with his case. The masons, both individually and as a body, nude the most extraordinary efforts to save him. They were unwearied; but I must brerak off; when i can call you brother, you shall see these letters. Meanwhile, is it not worth while to belong to a faternity whose principles, if universal would put down at once and for ever the selfish and rancorous feelings which now divide and distract society?'" Stray leaves from a Free mason's Note-book,
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A Canadian GrinEven onder bright sunshine, and in a most exhilarating air, the biting effects of the cold upon the portion of the face that is exposed to it resembles the application of a strøg acid; and the healthy grin which the countenance assumes requires as I have often observed on those who for many minutes had been in a warm room wait- ing to see me a considerable time to relax. -Sir F. Head's Emigrant.
climates more hostile than the flercest Mahomed making Money," an extract has been taken, and is sceptre in any of her dominions which I covel; and not unusual desired a different profession for his
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Mnoready's Introduction to the Stage-William Charles Macready was born in London, in the parish of Saint Pancras, March 3, 1703. His father was the manager of a provincial company, and lessee of several theatres, but with a feeling son, whose wishes, as time developed them, he found perfectly in nocordance with his own, The subject of this notice was sent to school at a very of are entered af. early period and at ten years Ragby, where he soon acquired considerable repu tation by his classical attainments, and was regard, ed as giving high promise of future celebrity at the bar or in the church, To an actor's life he felt no yocation perhaps it is not too much to say that he had a strong repugnance. In his seventeenth
Queen Victoria and the Poet Cumpbell. I was at her Majesty's coronation in Westminster Abbey, and Campbell: 'and she conducted herself so well, during the long and fatiguing ceremony, that I shed tears many times. On returning home, I re- solved, out of pure esteem and veneration, to send bar a copy of all my works. Accordingly, I had them bound up, and went personally with them to Sir Henry Wheatley; who, when he understood my errand, told me that her Majesty made it a rule to decline presents of this. kind, as if placed her under obligations which were unpleasant to her. Bay to her Majesty, Sir Henry, I replied, that there is not a single thing the Queen can touch with her going the round of the provincial press, pointing I therefore entreat you, in your office, to present out the facility of making immense sume by them with my devotion as a subject. Sir Henry the simple process of continuous advertising. then promised to comply with my request; but Doubless large sums have been, are, and will be next day they were returned. I hesitated, conti. made by such a system, by certain persons of abi. nued Campbell, to open the parcel but on doing lity, who no doubt would make their way in the so, I found, to my inoxpressible joy, a note enclosed, world if called upon to play different parts on the desiring my autograph upon them, Having com- great stage of life; but to suppose that men in ge- plied with the wish, I again transmitted the books neral must as a matter of purse acquire wealth by to her Majesty; and in the course of a day or two such means, is as absurd as to imagine that all the received in return this elegant engraving, with her
1, while looking forward to spoedy matricala. penniless and shoeless of London are capable of Majesty's autograph, as you see below. He then Tising to the dignity and wealth of an alderman or directed particular attention to the royal signature, lion at Oxford, his father's affairs became deeply cuibarrassed This fact was pot decessarily fatal the ford mayor of London, simply by reading the which was in her Majesty's usual bold and beauti "Young Man's Best Companion, Money is not ful handwriting-Howill's British Potato his prospe
prospects, had these prospects alone beeg Edmund Burke.There appeared in this debate consulted Assistance was not wanting, by which so easily made as the writer of the article referred
a new speaker, whose fame for eloquence soon rese he might have been extricated from the household to would lead people to suppose if it be so, faw weed be poor But to our text; fortunes made by high above The ordinary pitch. His name was wreek; enabled to win the academical bonours al advertising Undoubtedly the greatest man of the Edmund Burke (whom I have just mentioned) an ready bending to his grasp, and set forward on his day as an advertisers Holloway, who expends tha Irishman of a Roman Chatholic family, and actual prosperous career. With severe self conquest and enormous sum of twenty thousand pounds annually married to one of that persuasion. He had been
with prompt devotedness, he took the noble course, ly in advertisentents alone; his name is not only to known to the pablic for a few years by his Essay and applied himself to the task of retrieving the be seen in nearly every paper and periodical pub, of the Sublime and Beautiful" and other ingenious fallen furtunes of his father. In June, 1810 tho lished in the Britiables, but as if this country works; but the arrowness of his fortune had ketp juvenile manager made bis first appearance on the Philione, on opening was too small for the individual's exploits, he him down, and his best revenue had arisen from buards in the character of Romeo, ut the Birming stretcher over the whole of India, having ngents writing for booksellers. Lord Rockingham, on ham theatre. Under his direction, the dieorganised ctory | in all the different parts of the uppery central, and being raised to the head of the treasury, had taken company was was rendered efficient He was at og in lower provinces of that womense country. ! impg
Barka for his private secretary, na Mr Conway had once recognised as a provincial Star Success er we raved from his medicaments in the Findoo. Oerden, Gonaralee his son William Edmund immediately proved antegued his exertions. His father
and other native languages, so that the bitter depurge to George Freprille, whose fodious.
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nike him off.
It would be unjust to doubt the jeclination of Government to adopt measures calculated to miti- gate thatererity of military service, and to improve the social condition and personal comfort of all sanke of the stilitary profession. Whithin a very few days, two great boons have been granted to the British army. The Peninsular veterans have at length been promised the honorary badge, for which they have so long sighed in vain; and what i mare in the purpose of the Reading petitions... the period of the private soldier's service has been reduced to ten years. These are at least cheering judications of the desire of Government to prove, by rocil substantial arts, that England is not un- grateful to her centurions.. is not regardless of their wants and careless of their sufferings. Much he done, and much muju, in good time, will be done, in the same night direction. In the mme our correspondents may be sure that we keep our eye upon the subject.... Allas for
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rum, and his own destiny was fixed. It was an appropriate introduction to me passages of his eequent hiilogy, that moral feeling tad high hould first have fiven the young Mac Phan the People's