THE FRIEND-OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
com and huil Glling in the neighbour colonising the Nicobars, and about a twelvemonik, of these, twenty leagues distant from Paragansett, while snow was visible on that of ineo its preiminary expendition fitted out with contains alone 3,000 houses and 20,000 talrabitats. equal aptitude for special as for general purposes, Tim central point of the diamond commerce-is l'a- about to receive its sovereign again visited those islands, At the time there we no aguasen; which, though populous, las yet only sinage to Benares:
s whence he returns lack of sensation in this Presidency about the mat. -iwelse small houses of masonry. Nearly all the spleted those religious riles which it is lot. The trunk hospitality and costal qualities of misery come hither on Saturday and Sunday to self me the sole object of his journey to per the explorers invested the objects they had in view the stones which they have collected during the week path that public interest, to which personal sympa -taking back, in exchange, various articles of con en hemishes us with no tiems beyond that of thy rarely falls to lead. Besides the singularity of an sumplión, erins, and ready-made clothing, which The diamonds come from Bihia at great cost. change of British Residents, Col Richmond stempt bearing a political character, and leading
reased his appointment, and Mr Davidson to nevel political relations, was ineedy calculat found at Paraguasen are for the most part of a dun on his way to Csicists, Correspondents ed to attract and preserve the attention of Bie con- color, and very irregular conformation. Those of Lancees are white, or light green, and nearly trans- from a peuter courla rarely now indulge in any mauity. Nor was the enterprise divested of those
pureat as they epme from the mine. They are oc remarks upon the state of the county where they stimulants to individunt jealousy which is furnished
It is often ne- reade: the chronicle of cricket matches, the nar in the supposed invasion of vested interests or pre-tagopal, and the most prized of any ration of feature occasions, and the progress of the scriptive rights, for more than one vehement cor. weather coualllute the staple of their communica-respondent of the morning prints inflicted ponderous eloquence upon those who volunteered the thartyr dem of reading it, shewing irrefragabily what a deadly blow the success of the Danes must be lo a dozen of the vital principles of humanity, and as mony again of national policy. With the departure of the Calathea from our port however, all those combined fluences proved utterly undeguato to krep the proceedings connected with her explores bons before us, and beyond an occasional wat houden. ment that the Steamer Ganges had reached or left Pinang or Singapore, and that the Gulwihna had generously offered the protection of her battery to nor factory at Canton during one of the insurrec tmas among the populace of that pori, the cold chain of sdence second effectually to have bound round the enterprise.
tion.
Gwalior is not more liberal in its contributions HARD The papers have lately bad their cnfemme extensively filled with intelligence from the Nizam's Territories. The minister Suraj val Musik om ander General Fraact's influence, the Nizam accepted for 3e premier has had a se Yere content to carry on with his Urghness's secret advisers and his own royal prejudices and notions. Aupported however by the Resident, who seems to be resolute in carrying out his lunable porposes now that be her fairly embarked in the enterprise, There appears a great prohobufity that Suraj-ool- Moolk will be made the instrument of effecting great deal of good, if not all that is contemplated, The objectionable district holders are gradually re- moved awd reform in the administnition of such have as exits in the Hydrabad boundarice has been commenced wilb.
Goomser-The petty war in this district con- tinues, though the details do not fully vinespite, it ought recording tofull accounts to lace bein over seme time ago, and now we are told, us pardonga tion is kely in lead to an entire change in the mir nistry and the system by which it is endeavoured to abolish the custom of Meriais sacrifices vosong the Khonda,
With this general survey of what may be turned our external relations, (along the Enstein frontier there is no disturbance of any kind), i thay be as well to group those incidents which are more es- pecially connected with the foreign department of our policy. The departure of Sir Levige Pollock on Buard the Alariborumgh, brings Sir The Foglead Frederick Currio at once into Council: le bus scarcely had heme to wear the honorary ntle of a provisional member, when the active duties of the thee Reelf have falk o apou tuta. The accession of honours have been tempered by the melancholy death of a brother (Mr A. P Curric) fron: the te
Six Frederick's successor in suka of an accident. the Foreign office is Mr H. M. Elhott, lato Secre- Mary to the Revenue Board of Agra, and a gentle
3D not lees datingeished for his official apude than for his accomplished scholarship. The Go vernor-General who has been slowly shiring the freuter of the Cis-Sudej states on by return trein Labore, was at last advices encamped at Polfeola, whence he was expected ni Mcerut cia Karuaul, I was tolerably well known that his Lordship pro posed to pass the hot weather at Sunde, arter having inspected the works on the Ganges Canul The Commander-in-Chief is likewise mating to and from inspecting and recreaung.
The reports to which we alluded to het lesie, regarding the reduction of the army, have been confirmed by a noufication which was be honed in another column. It reduces the unfantry regiminis to 900 men and the irregular cavalry to BCH moty beth with a proportionately reuced complement of native officers. It is expected the valeding coms mitters will racet much earlier than as their wont; and to them will be confalet the task of the fist thinning, whether the remainder will be taken off by the process of absorption sens somewhat doublful.
IDGEL
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The Penang Gazette, in its annual retrospect bas gathered into convenient compass the few facts which have turned ap from time to fine. The Ganges, is seems, carried about 40 Chinese artists' and labourers to the Nicobars as the nucleus of the gellement
During three months, the task of elenting a site to the first establishment, of survey. ing the islands and more accurately ascertaining their capabilities was assiduously followed up. But severe sickness rendered it unsafe for the Euro- prans to continue after May: the Galathen bad lawn cuspulbol to put into Pinang from the num- ber of mail hers de' combat, and the Gongea 8008 lowed in her wake. The Irigato subsequently wended her way on that comprehensive cruise to which she had originally been destined: and the steamer remained at Pinang. Short trips were made in smaller vessels to the seulement, and i go neral supervision kept up, but to what effect is not The Gazette states that a accurately known. Portuguese overseer and 28 Chinese now constitore the strength of the Danish establishment, the rest having been removed by death or otherwise! And ur contemporary concludes by saying. It is not probable therefore that much was accomplished during the past year, and in all likelihood before the present your clos's these islands will be again abandoned."
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We are not quite so assured of this. A national hobby is overbially the last to be relinquished, and we have reason to know that the Danish go vernment do consider this as a very feasible, though an arduous, scheme. It it a personal pet of the monarch; but not of those who hold the monarch's moury big--there having been no attempt to dis- guise its difficulties or expense. The matter there- fore comintics under discusion in Europe, where the presence of Mr Hanson, the nominal governor, Is we believe employed otherwise than us the Pi- ! nung Cinzette suggests, Still thing has been deli- maikely settled-though the pression is decidedly that the colonial scheme will be upheld, and pro- wouted if not with vigour, at least with firmness. Two or three months will throw more light upon the thegotiations; and the proposed recession of Schlesvig-Holstein from Danish authority may act on the irritated nationally of the people and induce them to suck a compensation for subtraction at home by ausation abroad.
As the interest of the matter deepens with the details, and the certainly that they are authentic; and in view of the commercial, historical, and picturesque, we deem it of sufficient importance to put our readers. in possession of the full particulars as we find them in the French journal.
THE DISCOVERY OF DIAMOND MINES IN CALCUTTA -The anxiety of the Government to
THE PROVINCE OF BAHIA. reader the countrionces of the Port of Calcutta
THE DIAMOND MINES OF SINGURA. adequate to the increated resort of shipping to ?1,
The Journal des Debats furnishes some interest- bas bean ronpillested from have to lane by various
ing facts in relation to the recently discovered dia prrangements unginating with the mane departod one of Sincura, in the province of Babia.
This bar especially been the case in the matter of pilotagge, as when perinission was granted 10 masters of merchantmen, trading with the Bay, to navigate their own craft in the Hooghly, and when inamctions were issued to the Com manders of Government Sea going Sieners to quality themselves to act as Pilots of their vessels,
For some months past," says the correspondent bus reling the service from the necessity of the Journal des Debats, the communications and sending to any call, but those of the mercantile boily, The plans of government have not however ceased commercial relations with the province of Bahia have assumed extmordinary activity. A great at this point; and it will be interesting to such of
number of inhabitants, speculators, adventurers, and our readers as are connected with the shipping of The por, to learn that the Superintendant of Ma- with their slaves into that province-the site of a even proprietors of sugar-houses, have enigrated rize, Capt Rogers, was directed to consider whe diamond-mine, the produce of which is incredible. ther it would be practicable to devise a plan (1 was discovered, in October of last year, by a slave, purecance of the wishes of the Court of Directors) which, whilst it ensured the safety of vessels re- sorting to Calcotia, would relieve the State from the expense of conducting the Pilot Service. We understood the Superintendent to have jutimated in reply, that asking into consideration, the increasing Dumber of Steau Tugs in our river, and the facili Ties thereby given to save navigation between Cal.
cutta and Sangor, he has reason to believe be can
suggest a plan that will suit the wishes of the Court of Directors, and at the same time cause a saving to the shipping interest. The details of such a plan will no doubt occupy some time to turn they necessarily insulve weighty public, and no
There may be those who will detect in these.
Court of Directors a incl 1st appres
who, in the space of twenty days, had picked up 700 carats of diamonds, and saken them for sale to a considerable distance. Arrested and imprisoned,
basull obstinately refused to disclose their source, whereupon his escape was connived at, and some inteligent Indians were put span bis trait They followed him for several days, and surprised him at last, rooting for diamonds, not far from Cazoiera in the province of Bahia. Researches were tien made-over a large space; pallet wish & chain of nevntains called Sincer which have since giren their name to the mines and along the banks of the river Paragnass, which falls into the gulf of Bakia. The first individuals who established themselves were mostly convicts and sence was mark by burn- procuring curred
at the mine of:
cessory to penetrate to a depth of three or four yards, re coining at the diamond statum. Diamonila are gathered, too, in the stony ravines at the bottom of the Paragunes itself, and of its tributary streamin.
*The prices of the diamonds of this mine varies" at Palon from 200 to 500 milreis (070 to 1,340 franes) the oeuve. Recording to their size or water. The octave is 17 carats, but the carat of Benzil is 74 pes crnt below the French carat--which makes the Brazilian carat (rom 67 to 134 francs. The ac Jual course of exchange at Bahia is 365 reis for a fraze.
The two English packets of May and June last took home about 25 millions worth (20,000) of diamonds from this mume; and since then, during the months of June and July, it hus produced nearly 1450 carats per day. It is estimated to have yielded, in the ten months during which it has been worked, marly 100,000 Portuguese carnts, (about £702,000 in valar,) three-fifths of which has taken the road of England, another fifth has gone to France and Hamburgh, and the remaining fifth waits for pur- chasers at Rio Janeiro and Bahia.
All the lapidaries in Europe could not eat oven one half the stones produced by the nines of Sin. era a reduction in value is therefore looked for, the traffic gives rise to very hazardous specu-
lations.
Brazil, whose privilege it is to furnish the dia- mowds of commerce, produced ananally, before the discovery of this mine, no more than six or seven kilogrammes-which cost more than a million of francs in the working. Hitherto the diamonds found at Sinoura are all of small sizo. It is known that thern are but few in the world which weigh more than 20 grammes. The largest is that of Agro weighing 133; that of the Rajah of Matan, at Bor: neo, weighs 78-that of the Mogul Emperor, 69- and that of France, called the Regent, 28 grammes, ceuti-grammes; but this latter is of fine form, and in all respects quite porfect. I weighed before cutting, 87 grammes, and took the work of two years.
The mine of incura presents aspect of an in- dependent colony in the heart of the mother coun- try. Hitherto, the government has taken no steps for assuring the direction of this trade, mises to be so abundant a source of wealth to the province of Bahia; and they will probably have, now, to sanction the regulations which the inhabitants have laid down for their own security in the work ing of this vast mine-that spreads already over a superficies of more than thirty leagues - Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, for December, 1846.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE
(From the Straits Times, March 17.)
SINGAPORE MARKET REPORT.
During the past werk there was a slight reaction. in the market to meet the demands of the Cochin- China and Junk traders as also to supply the specu lative investment for Borneo. The two. Cochia- China square-rigged vessels have disposed of their cargoes at much lower rates than at first demand. ed; 5 or 6 topes are still expected from that quarter. To-Borneo 3 English vessels take their departure during the current week with supplies suited to that ftade; to the Colonies the like number of vessels leave within the same period. In other respects transactions are limited the market cannot be re ported otherwise than as dull for the season of the
year.
There has not been any addition to stocks since our last report, but several vessels are on their way to this port with large quantities of European ma nufactures to an already overstocked market.
Belelnut-No reported transaction since our last. Benjamin, Gun-Arrivals in small quantities frem Sumatra but no sales are recorded.
MONNY MARKET.
London 6 Months night 4s 56 per dollar
30 days sight 49 Ad per dollar Calenta 80 days sight Company's Bills y pe Bombay 30 days sight 220 per dollars tig Company's Ropers 443 cents. Juva Rupee (new) 270 per 100 dollars v Rupee (oil) 200 per 100 dollars,
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Beeswax-Nons offering and wanted. Brassuire-There has been a trifling demand at quotations-stocke greatly reduced.
Camphor-During the week a parcel is reported as porchased a 18 a 18 per picul. A
Cassia-Sales of about 1,000 boxes are reported at 8102 e 10 and 87 cent.
A Copper Sheathing-Much wanted, 18, 20, 22, 21 and 26 oz. there is none in the place. Of 1 and 30 the stocks are light and in second hands.
Copper Nails-The market completely barren, Tobacco.. and much wanted-none in first hands.
Gambier-There is not now any vessel on the Teaculuire in Taya berth for London, and the article 28 on no inquiry. Empty bags
False Gold thread Purchases have been affected during the week sint Honen $1.84 a 1.35 cents per picul,
Umbrella Sik Untras Joen paper count ditto p Common Chilia war Opium-There has been a trifling amount of Alem business done in the drug since our last Arrivals Harta recently of Malwa and Turkey A few chests of Armok Patna sold daring the week for $600 cash, and Be-Dried Fruit nares at 3580; also 3 chesis of Malwa parted with Vegetables
887 Further arrivals of the Bengal drug arePantof daily expected..
Pepper
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