the
The Chin-Isang
ATIONS
und by Her. Mates thed, pratio infor
R. JOHNSTON
misjesty's Sheets wellings or e Supplementary Treats,
onts in the places and at the respective.
namely
UDURES CALLED HONAN on the Macão passage, and costuin. Bulidines 2 Packbcure, fent demanded, 780 tels
450
11
50
31
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the Paon chin
190
1
29
Tutal Rent.
1.330 txels
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avs filled with con- The sign, remarks may apply equa v to a body, whether beflative or executive; and we leave it for others to say how far they ard applicable to this Government.
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HONGKONG GAZETTE
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drainage and embankment are adopted, the experime cannot possibly be borne by a few occupants alv ti require the sid of the enure Community whose gras tôpy the ground promised has been evinerd by applications made for allotments upon it. Tha trust ron will excuss these sheervations, which
not percer sure, or he would have
eu upon to make, lest the evident danger and ingadvenisnco he sanctioned of rather adopt.
"of nomupying aslitary spots should detur panies izmu apply. weaked it. He says Her Majesty's Government ing for them, and the Community be in consequence dui, ror will be moved to place on record, &c.” But | dered splifferent upon a matter, which if carried out as pe nemal measure, and in the manner originally proposed beg what evidence is there of such a record? and
feel the must lively interest, soventy-two years hence how are the occupants. In conclusion, the Committee beg to observe, that since sing to prove its existenco except by the loosely ex addressed you on the 2nd March an, pointing out the f pressed paragraph we have quoted? The convenimola and dangere to which under the per s patria the Trade was exposed, further cases of froud him beca leases would have been the proper place to discovered Goods having been made away with, out- have recorded this, but they are silent on the thi the consent of the Proprietora; impresung The Com subject. Supposing the record du dere strongly, than ever with the opinion that, Fo admitted, it is not enough that the occupants have their own warehouses qunched to their o dwellings, reiguere ennnut conduct their business in safety and they should have a preference in renewing the teases, to which for the sake of comfort the space allotted them for Justice demands more than this. If others are
air and exercise should be immediately contiguese--I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant i willing to pay a higher ground rent, it should
DAVID JARDINE, Chairman be stipulated that they take the buildings at a
To FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR, Esquire, fair valuation. This may not have occured to
H. M. Consul Canton, Sir Henry Pottinger, but it is so reasonable that few will dispute it. It is hard enough that those THE WHOLE CASE OF THE NAVIGATION who first came to the colony or rather their heira-should be deprived of every possible advantage which may accrue from an increased value a land that ought to have been their own; but if they are to be deprived of their houses, compelled to repurchase them, it will be a gross violation of justice.
It would be vam to inquire upon what prin ciple of equity, or in accordance with what have gned for that purpose principle of commercial law, a heavy tax is laid upon the chict article of traffic in a free port. The legislation of the last three years proves, that our rulers are guided by no prin- ciple, whatever-like savage with a delicate musteal instrument, they strike the keys rudely, producing sounds, but neither titne nor melody. It is, in our humble opinion, just as impossible for the Hongkong Government to cuact a wise commercial law as it is for the untutored bar Barian to play an overture,
The nature, the habis, and the dispositions of the men, are Totally opposed to any approach to a liberal, sound policy; nor does there appear the slight-o est possibility of a change for the better, until their names aro recorded among those who were legislators of Hongkong in the days of her adversity,
per annum la half yearly instalments, the Rest bei
paid to advance, on possession being given of the premises,
G Fad A space of ground fronting the malo river, and con-
taining the following Bathtings, TIZ
a Packhouse, being the last in the line extending to the
west of the Red Fort, Heat demanded
1,030 Laels
a
A Packhouse at the back of the preceding,
Total,
17
2,200 tzels
An excise tax upon the consumption of opium is reasonable enough, and the first rate of 810 a-month, or £30 a-year, may be advisable, The places on the respective picmises, mentioned under og among a community of Chinese it is a
very heavy license.
Possession will be given to the lessees, after a certain lapse of time to make the necessary alterations for dwell-
***B, IN YER SOUTHERN SUBURB,
The following tenements situate on the river la a line ex- tending from the Creek to the Eastward of the new Factories have been offered at the following reduced rates, viz :--
ast, The Teen-pabu Hong, containing in all, ten divisiona or compartments; the Rent demanded for each of which la 600 Dollars, with 60 Dellars-additional for each of the two back compartments nearest the river, which kare an upper story.
Total Rent demanded for the Hong per annum, 3900 Bols. 2nd. The Tungsten Horg, conteng ten compartments. two of which (wearest the river) have upper stoles. The rent for each compartment (600 Dollars) is the same, as for the-Teen-padu Hong.
Total Rent demanded for the Hang per annum, 7200 Dels. 3rd, The Tung fou Hong, coargining tea compramene, but without upper Boors to may ham. Rent demanded le seach compartmnem, 620 Duliers.
Total rent for the Bongiper RAUM,
5,000 DM.
4th, In the Kwangle Flong. We use compartments nearest the ther; which have upper series, and are at presat Hent demanded Br each compartment, 100
vacant.
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Dollars, and for both,
2,410 Bols. Persons wishing to rent may of the respective tenetants before awniaed, or any portion therefore, are requested to make application for the same at the British Coneulste. whore the necesur aepe will be taken for placing them in
Communication with the proprietors and for bringing about
arrangement between the prefix s
Canton, 1st July, 1847,
FRANCIS C. MACGREGOR,
Her Majesty's Cosmi,
Notice is hereby given that the term for which The License has been granted to the present holler of the Opium Firm will expire on the 31st of this month, and Licenses for the sale and consumption of Opium for the next Twelve Al-ouths, at the foi- lowing Rates, are to be obtained at the Office of the Chief Magistrale ¦---
For keding a shop solely for
smoking Opium
For preparing and selling
prepared Opium
For selling raw Opium urlow
$10 per mensem
$20
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the amount of one chest.
By Order,
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W. CAINE, *Colonial Secretary- Colonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong,
5th July, 1847.
NOTICE. New Advertisonents will be received un/7 4 Clock, on the evenings previous to publi. cation, tis: Tuesdays and Fridays,
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In the rapid progress of commercial reform during markable as the fact, that the fears and forebodings the last twenty-five years, there is no feature to re-
of their consequences upon the interests of these who were supposed to be benefitted by existing re It is doubtful whether this point will be strictions, have been singularly falsified by the re. brought to the observation of the Committee.sults; and that in all cases those interests which st as even here, Sir Henry Pottinger's letter and first sight appeared to he most menaced with danger, its admissions appear to have been forgotten. have found, instead of ruin, only a new and enlarged Should the matter be overlooked, it will then field of prosperity and success in the development remain with the Landholders, either to submit of free trade. No matter to what branch of com- to the sacrifice of their property, or respectfulty merce or industry we refor, we are strank will this petition Her Majesty in Council, that a clanse be endorsed on the leases to the effect, that they will be renewable on the present terms, or if again put up to competition, that the proprietors be reimbursed for improvements.
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The second rate is for preparing and selling prepared opium a license of 200 a-year; and the third rate, for selling less than a chest, £90. To our humble comprehension this is an absurdity. The £60 license confers upon the bolder all the privileges of the license rated at £90-he can sell any quantity less than a
A New duty has been thrust upon Her Ma- chest, and he can sell it in a prepared state,jesty's Consul at Cantou-that of house broker to the Chinese. Sir John Davis's new agree This objection, however, is trivial, as the licenses themselves are most impolitic. It is merely mout of April has ended in smoke. His cele- brated visit to Canton has proved a political forcing the sun berless small purchasers to Macuo, where the dealers are not ruined by piece of foolery. His bombastic effusions
about ** the rapacity of the Government.
treaty rights," concessions obtained at the last moment when the city was about to And above be attacked, &c., &c., are fustian. all, British diplomacy and the supremacy of British arms have been fuiled and disgraced by a Chinese rabble.
We might extend our remarks upon the impro- priety of exacting £00 per annuin from those who sell opium to the value of £150 in onolor but it would be unavailing. For another year the dag is fived; and before it expires we expect
to have wiser men and wiser measures.
In one particular the new arrangement is an improvment. It takes the monopoly out of the hands of a few anprincipled men, who had influency enough in certain quarters to obtain the services of European policemen to cour tenance their villainies.
Be the May mail, we will probably be put in possession of the particulars of the examination of parties connected with the traffe of China and colony of Hongkong, before the Parlia. mentary Committee appointed to report upon the evidence.
The land sale of January, 1844, with all its injustico will at length be brought to light; but whether it will lead to any reduction of the present rates of ground rent is doubiful. We are in hopes that justice will be done so far as refers to the land tenure, by giving those who have built substantial tenements à more per- mswent tile than a lease for seventy-five years.
focl.
In home manufactures-in the silk and ran trades-in agricultural productions-in the growth of wool, and the more recent efforts to effect agri cultural improvement and even in the reviving hopes of our colories, in the timber trade of Canada, and the sagar cultivation of our East and Well do dia possessions-it is impossibile not to recognise in all, the clearest and most unquestionable evleners of the benefits of free and unrestricted these res cially when carried out with that due regard to the – broad interests alike of producers and pers done by the present Government, to their calig bis which has been so consistently and so ered, aby
erod septement of the sogar duties, and in didere, moval of all the just und well-founded complains of the planters,
The falsification of the fears and despondents of the various protected interests, may be razbila three distinet and obvious causes first art, treat of protection have in all cases been greatly ed; secondly, no sufficient allowance has bee for the improvements and economy many free compeition effects; and lastly, the
The fifty acres on Ilonan, granted by the notorious "new agreement," is virtually bul lied from us; and as regards building gronad at Canton, we are in precisely the same posi-portant consequence of the increased e tion as before the never-to-be-forgotten con- ventions of April 6th, 1847.
Mr Macgregor, in virtue of his new office, offers to his countrymen certain packhouses belonging to Chinese, situated in the Macso passage, on fonan, and on the Canton side of the river to the eastward of the factories. These premises may be rented at suns varying from £1,800 down to about £50 a year. That this trumpery duty has been forced upon Me Macgregor by the Superintendent of Trade is evident and to a nian of intelligence and mind, it must be painful to act under such con- troul To obtain packhouses in isolated quar- ters, it was not necessary to make the British Consul a house broker. Such buildings can be rented without official interference, the transantion being between individuals. The
selves of these packhouses long ago, hut there is no security. The buildings are isolated, and at all times exposed to plunder; and were they occupied as dwelling houses, the foreign residents would be continually exposed to dan get
1 certainly was not the intention of Her Ma-British merchants might have availed them- jesty's Government that at the expiration of the lease the land and buildings should be put up to public competition. As the proprietor is bound to keep the property in an efficient and Babitable state, it would be unfair that the hoses he built should be sold to another. Such things have happened, however, as witness the sale of January, 1841, at which grants with improve ments were sold to the highest bidder, to the dis- credit of the then existing government. The June 20 adium of these sales will real upra Sir Henry Pottinger and his advisers, and the unscrupulous toamer in which he seized upon private property will not add to his reputation. We are satisfied that though instructions were received not to alienate the land, the same despatch provided for a clause, by which the lease should be renew. able for a further period. Though the language is purposely ambiguous, this is admitted by Sir Honry Pullinger in his letter to the landholders, 1844 We quote the
May END June 17
THE FRIEND OF CILIKA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA SATURDAY, JULY 10ra, 1837.
NOTICE The hours of Divine Fervice in the Coro on Syn/uga ut & A. Mpart to AM. na on Thursdurs past P.M.
VINCENT STANTON, Victoria 1st June, 1847 Colonial Chaplain.
from Canton dated the 7th, men. ack upon several officers of the of war Victortruise on Saturday ne of them was a good deal injured end The French Commodore ople unfaction for the outrage
cce to the linlich
The matter to be, arranged between the representatives of China and Great Britain, is not the renting of houses by individuals of the the one country from those of the other. It is the selection of a suitable piece of ground upan which the British merchants can build ware houses and dwellings, affording a mutual seco- rity by their contiguity. This selection was made, and agreed to by Sir John Davis three months ago; but the grant has been given up in manner the most imbecile and discreditable; and now the Plenipotentiary, acting through the Consul, goes a begging among the Chinese for buldogs which his countrymen may rent at the most exorbitant rates.
and consumption which those inn effected, have always been too in
In no branch of British interest rooted a hold on public opinjon = it has of protection so ancient, an popup of
of those laws which are supposed to manti strengthen the prosperity of our shipping who would not sanction the privileges comjnih al- by our Navigation Laws on commercial ana are still willing to do so, on grounals of publi licy and safely. By such they are regard in a political light, and us on aljunette cor angel power. But with such, as well as with theer who support those laws on account of the advedlaget which they afford to the shipowner, it is essentials to show, that they are really calculated to route and extend our shipping that the contente pros tection is really operative and advantageous. Unless this can be shown and maintained, it is clerzugsh while these laws inflict the greatest inconsenEA ou the commerce of the country, and especially to at particular times, they afford no res) advantage la the shipowner, nor can they be regarded en source of political streng h. If, on the other hood can be shown that the relaxations which has smaly taken place in our Navigation Laws, hare beng highly beneficial to the extension of our mercantile marine that the remaining restrictions we ins perative for arry of these contemplated object that restrictions upon shipping only impose
color: upon our general commerce, and thereby are cal culated to diminish the general carrying trade of the world, which would otherwise be profitably chrys on, and most of all so to this counter then we p prehend all the grounds on which any of thr cates of the Navigation Lawa at present support. them will be removed, and that no opposition be offered to their repeal We believe that a par hava already shaded, as the result of free so opeli forms no exception to the general rule to which wa tion, that no interest has already been moto lens- fitted by the partial removal of the resincang 11. mediately effecting it, than the shipping the gir be removed not only without injury, but all solute benefit in the general commercial menutsf the country. Startling as such proposition pear, we liave not the slightest doobithat ba successfully protol unit Laikingani isk we are 6
dated the 6th of Mase the instructions from Macgregor a circular to the British mer that the whole of the remaining restriction angt
passage, looking to England, although it has not been considered that a partive stipulation on the subject could be intro dured into the Leave, yet Her Majesty Govern ment will be moved to place on record that it shall be understood that at the expiration of the present leases, the oners of the occupants of the different premios shall have a prefe all others, and that they shall be. renew their leases on favorable further period as may then berdeen cxpedient dark the words, pointed considered that a positive supuint
anced into
a place quite to
subject could Whose opinion
tably not the
chants, informing them of the preroises that are available and the rates of rent, will be found in another column. We now subjoin a letter from the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the circular sent to the Chamber by the Con-
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