VICTORIA WEDNESDI
CHINA
JUNE 17 18†
NOTICE The hours of Dicire Served in. The Co
Tel Aje, on Sundesrat 6 A. M past 10 AM and on Taurelaga at Į past 0 B. M.-
VINCENT STANTON,
Colonial Chaplain.
Victoria la June, 1837.
NOTHER The hours of Public Worship in the Union CHAPEL Present are 11 A f, and paste P. M.
Victorie, jd May, 1817.
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1840, entitled An Ordi- mance to repeal Ordinance No. 18 of 1844, and to establish a more effectual registry of
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This day antile to suppress, bearing in raind the sdants, haghuti attempt to delcand my people of its holiest every jewel its faith in the Redeemer, Lord and King
of Heell and of us all. This avowal is ng follows. Here the King rose and spoke the words standing, conscience will right hand uplifted] and my house, t
But the will serve the Lord."
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been carried out in all its destroy the creation of his sts have not beer super
but the new Diet has been
would be asse bled at
the stated intervals specified patent of Fe bruary the 3d. He had reserved the right of calling it together on extraordinary occasions, and I will do this willingly and at more frequent intervals, if this Diet gives me the proof that I may not thus without prejudice to higher sovereign duties. For twenty-four years, every law relating to person and property has been discussed by the Orders: "but from this time forward, let every one in my kingdom, know, that J, with the sole naceranry exception of the occurrence of the calamity of war, will contract no state loan, levy no new taxes, nor increase exist ing ones, without the free consent of all Orders."
Deputy Fastmaster Genars (we presume he the means the Hongkong. For mastor), bad been informed that it will be his duty to establish a regular Post office Agent at Canton on the 31st July naxt Preliminary to appofiting an Agent, The Postioaster requires to eat bish conveyances. If the Postmaster eller upon the chance of Chinese passage boats to and from Canton, the departure or destination of which are entirely beyond his controul, be can- not even with a Deputy at Canton, undertake 40 convey the correspondence of the commer cial community in a safe and expeditious man- nor. If the department is determined to per- form this duty, it must be at the expense of chartering a regular line of boats, the owners of which be bound under heavy penalties to perform the service regularly and quickly. It is expected that the post be carried with the greatest possible expedition, and it has been ruled at home, that when the Post-office daes not avail itself of the services of the fastest ves- sels, individuals may do so.
HONGKONG, 21st June, 1847.
the Chinese inhabitants, and a Census of the population of the Island of Hongkong," has been confirmed by her Majesty's Government
A copy of this act will be found in the Friend China of the 20th January, 1847. At the time it passed, we ventured to approve of the Until instructions are received from the Ordinance as a modification of the enactments Postmaster-General we presume that matters of its three predecessors, passed by Sir John, will remain as they now are. Mr Hyland's visit Davis ostensibly for the purpose of registrato England nay (but this is mere conjecture) tion, but covertly with the view of binding the have reference to an adjustment of the postal inhabitants by an oppressive, degrading, and communication with Canton, and in a few months Inquisitorial law. No. 7 is based upon the we expect to hear, either that the Postmaster- Chinese principle of mutual security House General has determined to leave it to private holders are registered, having a delegated enterprise, or that arrangements are to be en- power to grant certificates to residents under tered into by which the branch in Hongkong their rools for whose good behaviour they are will be placed in a condition to perform this held responsible. The system appears prac-important duty. ticable, and we trust that it will work well, so that the native population be purged of the scum who until recently, made Victoria their city of refuge. We hear that for some months past the bad characters have been gradually leaving the colony, and that they have established therm selves on a neighbouring island. It is said that the vigilant search made after the Chinmot pirates alarmed them good deal. A rigor Dus enforcement of the new law will effectually check their return; bet this duty will require to be entrusted to meg of discretion as well as principle, as by the 4th clause traders and other respectable Chinese visiting the colony for the purposes of trade are not required to furnish themselves with tickets of registration It is particularly desirable that such men should not be interfered with or alarmed by the police; and we cannot but believe that in the very great majority of casos, the police can distin- guish between a suspicious character and one who is not. We are well aware that the Su- perintendent will not protect his subordinates should they show any disposition to extort money from strangers who may not have tickets; but we have little faith in the men-many of them are known to be bad, and some of them have
Hix Excellency the Governor having kindly consented mastnity of Hongkong to the Postmaster-General in Lon- to forward the memorial addressed by the mercantile com den respecting the communication between this colony and anton: the subscribers to the memorial have the honour of enclosing the same herewith, and they trust that will meet with his Excellency's approval and support. To the Hon. Major CAINE, slonial Secretary.
COLONIAL OFFICE VICTORIA, Hosanova,
22nd June, 1841. GENTLEMEN, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant. transmitting a forwarded by his Excellency to the Earl Grey by the next memorial for the Postruaster-General, which will be duly
mail. It is but just that the correspondence of the com- mercial community should be conveyed in the most safe and expeditious manner.
I am instructed to acquaint you that the Depaty Post- master-General has been infortbed that it will be his duty no establish a regular Post-offies Agent at Canton from the 31st of July next, which his Excelleney hopes will end to render the postal communication with Canton more efficient I have the honour, &c, des.
W. CAINE. olitial Secretary. Messrs JARDINE, MATHESON & 1'q.,De & Co,
and others,
Noble Lords and trusty Orders," exclaimed the ing. "I know that with these rights intrust a costly jewel of freedom to your hands, and that you will employ it faithfully minuy, however, will "mistake and despise this jewel to many it is not enough "A portion of the press, for instance, demands outright from me and my Government resolution in church and state, and from you, gen. tlamen, acts of importunate ingratitu le-of illega, Hy-nay, of disobedience. Many also, and ninong them very worthy man, look for our safety in the conversion of the natural relation between prince and people into a conventional existence granted May, however, by charters and ratified by onths. the example of the ane happy country, whose constitution centuries and an bereditary wisdom without a parallel, but no sheets of paper, have made, not be lost upon us, but And the respect which it deserves." If other countries find their hap- piness in another way, in the way of manufactured and granted constitutions, their happiness would be hailed in a brotherly manner. But Prussia can- not bear such a state of things. Why? Look at her position on the map of Europe; trace her frontiers; glance at her history. It has pleased of war without and by the sword of intellect within" Providence to make Prussia strong by the sword
I turn my troubled glance from the aberrations of a few to the
Then dues it
grow bright with tears of joy there, my Lards, and all the heavy troubles of government, is my consolation. My people is stil the old Christe people the honest, true, valiant people-which fought the battles of my fathers, and the honorable qualities of which have only grown with the great ness and fame of their country,which once, like no other in the days of trouble, bound itself to its patar: nal King, and bare him, as
as it were, upon its shoals ders from victory to victory people, my Lords, ofton tempted by the arts of seduction, bat which always found proof against them. Even out of the strongest of these trials it will come forth Already is the impious sport with Christianty, the abuse of religion as a means of distinction, recog nized in its true form as sacrilege, and is dring In this great hour I urgently cal
away.".
pure,
upon you-Be worthy of my people,”
The King delivered a very long exhortation to the several Orders to perform their duty. In my kingdom neither of the three Orders ranks above of beneath the other. They stand beside each other on an equality of rights and honour, but each within its limits, each with its own province. This is a practicable and reasonable equality; this is freedom.
Noble Lords and trusty Olders, a word mare on the question-yes, the question of existencs between the Throne and the different Orders. The late King, after mature consideration, called them into existence according to the German and histori. cal idea of them; and in this idea alone have [ continued his work. Impress yourselves, I entreat you, with the spirit of this definition. You are German Orders in the anciently received sense of the word; that is, you are truly and before all re. presentatives and defenders of your own rights”— the rights of those Orders whose confidence has seal bere the far greater port
portion of this assembly. But after that, you are to exercise those rights which the crown has re
recognized as yours: you have farther conscientionsly to give the Crown that bring petitions and complaints, after matura deli- advice it requires of you. Finally, you are free to
beration, to the foot of the Throne.. * I
by the spirit of moderation and order." speak out boldly, gentlemen. As in the camp,
Those are the rights, those the duties of German unless in cases of the most urgent danger or grossest Orders; this is your glorious vacation. But it is folly, the command can only be rested in the will not your province to represent opinions, or bring of one, ao can the destinies of this country, unless opinions of the day, or of this or that school, inta wholly en German; It is to fall jostantly from its height, only be guided Practical operation. That is who:
and, besides, completely useless
nunod of the. by one will add if the King of Prussia would com. mit an abomination were he to demand from his community for it would lead necessarily to inex. subjects the subserviency of a slave, so would he
tricable embarrassments with the Crown, which commit a far greater abomination were he not to
must govern according to the law of God so the demand from t em the crowing virtue offreemen-land, and its own free, unbiassed resulation; habe mean obedience for the sake of God and conscience,
which cannot and dares not govern according to Whoever is alarmed at the fenor of these words, the will of the majority, if Prussia' would not soon him I refer to the development of our law for a
become en empty sound in Euripe,... 11 here give century back to the edicts of the Orders, and fally you my royal word, that I should not have called to this Assembly and is rights: there he may find you together had I had the smallest suspicion that consolation if he will.
you would otherwise understand your dates, or that you had any desire to play the part of wint are called 'representatives of the people.' 1 should not have called you together for that purpose; he cause, according to my deepest and most hainích
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"Noble Lords and trusty Orders, Lam forced to the solemn declaration that no power on earth will ever succeed in moving me to change the natural, and in our own case so imperatively necessary relation between prince and people, into something. convinction, the Throne and State would be cadan.. had too much practice in the old squeezing session of the United Diet, at Berlin, on Sunday merely conventional or constitutional; and that gered by it, and because recognize it as my first duty, under all circumstances and events, to pre
Eystem.
(From the Spectator, April 17. PRUSSIA-King Frederick William opened the.
the 11th instant.
The proceedings of the day began with religious worship. A MEMORIAL to the Postmaster-Gencial from
Alaine o'clock in the morning, the the mercantile community in Hongkong, pray-left the Palace, and walked on foot to the Protestant King, habited in a military uniform and plain cloak. ing that the private arrangements for commo- nication between this place and Canton be permitted as they now exis', was transmitted through the medium of his Excellency the Go vernor by the last mail
We confess that the Colonial Secretary's letter acknowledging receipt of the memorial is of a tenor we did not anticipate, and leads us to regret that the memorial was not for warded to the Marqum of Claoricarde direct. the document to Earl Grey would forward
We are informed that Sir John
made of the degree of support he was prepared to give it, further than may be gathered from the expression that, it te but just that the cor respondence of the commercial community should be conveyed in the most safe and expe- ditious manner trusm which will be gene. rally assented to.
Cathedral. He was attended by no guard, but was followed by his staff, now had fallen heavily, and the weather kept the people within doors, so that the concourse was not great, but the King was received with loud welcomes by those that did as- semble The Protestant members of the Diet also attended divine service in the same edifice; the Roman Catholics performed their devotions in the Church of St. Hedvig. About a quarter before King returned to his palace on foot, but followed eleven, the service in the Cathedral ended; and the by the members of the Diet, the Minister for owed
and officers of the Household. The show had ceased to fall; the crowd was greater, the cheering louder,
The White Hall of the Palace was fitted up for Occasion Seats for the Clueen and Princesses were placed in one gallery in another gallery, for the Diplomatie Corps; among whom the Earl of Westmoreland was obserred, All having taken It may be questioned whether a memorial their allotted places, the King entered in state, to one high officer of the Crown can with pro- The sceptre was borne before him by General priety be transmitted in another. Lord Grey Muffing, who was Governor of Paris during the will not of course make a bad use of any in-
occupation of that city by the Allied Armies, The propriety in this respect and 1 Sir Jelin Da-King look bin sest upon the throne, ad delivered vis in his correspondence with the Foreign Office bze oported the cominunity. Lord Grey will probable and to that support, so far Ashing upon
an extemporary speech the translated reson of which, without abridgment, All two thres lumns of the Times. This was the opent 37→→
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once for all, I will never suffer a written stoet if dence, between our Lord God in Heaven and this paper to force itself in, as it were a second provi. papir, in order to rule us with its paragraphs, and trusty reliance on each other, Between us be truth, Lo replace by them our ancient and time hallowed. From one weakness. I feel myself entirely free- strive not for idle popular favour: who could do so if he has read history aright I strive alone to falat my duty so as to satisfy my understanding and my conscience, and to deserve the thanke of my people, even though it be never my lot to obtain it.
*Noble Lords and trusty Orders, it has often caused me care and impatience during the first years which of my reign that I could not remove hindrances
an earlier convacation of your As sembly was wrong on attain of your fa have been poorer by many experiences poorer by experiences in part of a costly nature, but all of them, if not always good, yet for us of priceless worth."
scarcity has been, felt in Prussia, but not so severely He glanced at the state of altairs at home The
as in other countries, and there seem to be the means of resisting its consequences. national deht makes progress, the taxes are dimi- The extinction of the
nished, the finances are put in order. Public ad ministration and justice are pure; soience and art flourish; trade and industry are in a satisf state; roads, canals, and material Smprovements, readynncing to an extent before unknown. The press is a frea as the laws of the Confederation permit the freedom of confesion is associated with animating power to our old her
and
cience; and our just pride god strong shield, my army of the day and militia, may he called 10- comparable." With Foreign Powers Prussia s
seems Brmar han ere le cnu anver
orions added much more, but for these things he clutsed
Thanks, expecially from the p
and futhful States. I requir
In grant me tho thank Joppourable endeavour Nato and conscient o
aerve the Throne, the State, and my Gurernment, as they at present exist." He called upon the members to remember their echoing sow when he, at his accession, said →→ In word and deed, in heart and spirit, in trinh and love, help me to preserve Prussia as u is
They would do so by choosing for their Com. mittees faithful and upright friends of our throne and of
four good purpose," Let them discounte. hance many headed faithlessness,"
a misguid ing opinion, branding the name of freedom of thought
do, then, illustrious Princes, Counts, and Lords, dear and faithful Orders of Nobles, Burghers, and Commons: proceed, with God's help, to your task. You will, I am certain,
rtain, in this momedy all the future labours of the Dit, prove yourselves when all Europe is gazing on you, and through
true Prussians: and that one thing, believe me, will not be absent namely, God's blessing- which all things depend. Out of our unanimity it. will descend on the present soil future generations, and I hope on all our glorious German fatherland, in one broad stream, beside which we may dwell in peace and safety as by the shores of the blessing-bringing revers that water the earth. And now once innre, and out of the fulness of my hearth, welcome!'
The King named the Prince of Solms and the Minister of the Interior declared the Diet to be Lieutenant on Rochow, harshals of the Dict;
opened and the Prince of Belms made a speech in raply to the Kin
Garcia of the 10th April. och declaring the rales re to be admitted to the and criminal courts. Ad- les reening there who axonal cockade, or thesos.
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