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of the rebels having been taken prisoners and the rest dispersed. The river at HAN- Kow has contenced to fall, and the HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 6ın SEPTEMBER, 166. residents may hope soon again to see dry land. The danger to the settlement from the chronic attack of Nientei which may be fooled for in the spring, and the means of defence available, are discussed by
MARRIAGES.
On the lat September, at the Roman Catholte Cathe dral, lang song. by the Right Revd. Monseigneur, Turall, Bishop of Tonquin, The Honorable Haser JOES BALL, Acting Chief Justice of Hongkong, ouly Son- of the late Besar DAIL, Esq, harrister at law, to BARAU WESTLE MARIA, elder surviving daughter of James Bolton, Esq, of Leaden.
At the Roman Catholic Church, Hongkong, on the 4th September, by the Rev. Fr. Favini, JAXTARIO A. DA SILVA, eldest Soa of L. J. da Silva, to CREADORA FEAN- CISSA, Second Taughter of James Borten,
DEATH.
At Shanghae on the 234 August NODER JARvis of the late firm of JARVIE THORBUS &Co. of beat apoplexy.
ECHOES OF THE WEER.
a
the Munkmu Times,
At the time the str. Hirudo left, on the 22ud instant, the river had fallen two feet from its highest level, at an average rate of about four inches a day.
At CHINKIANO mative reports have been received that the Yellow River has burst through its embankment in two places,pressive. in the Shinghwa district, on the confines of į this province and Shantung, destroying all the rice crops in the surrounding
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Our Minister, who bar shipping front the port, cause them to move be passed for, og hvid on, this Colony, is were not present ourselves, so cannot do ment at Peking
calculated to do surions and grievous more than express our belief in the views | barians like ourselves imagine to be nearly their houses of business to Macao, or to
dice to the interests of all classes of the ro expressed by the committee who signed the as high in rank as "Pin ta jen," is not per- Canton, frighten the Chinese from the is-
sidents, and is, in principle, inapplicable letter. Some strong language may have mitted to behold the august face of the land, and generally reduce Hongkong to to the place and its circumstances, and this been used, but certainly not in a public sucking Emperor Most of the chief tem- the ocdition of a wilderness,their grand quite irrespectively of the amount to he raised by it, or the retention or abandon- way, and ive do not admire the taste which ples &c. are closed to intelligent foreign stand point being, that Bongkong would ment of any items in the Schedule to the in violation of a promise given, authorizeders. Every foreigner is sneering at the cease to be a free port. Their panacen for Ordinance as published.
Your Memorialists are emphatically of the publication of what seemed to be any English, content to eat humble pie in the existing evil was to increase the asses opiniout that any Stamp Tas must he dis thing but a fair report of the general sense Poking, unrecognized by the Court, anubbed sed taxes, which already amount to 12 per astrous in its effects on the welfare and of the German Community.
by the Mandarins and laughed at by the cent on house properly. To all this vague prosperity of the Colony. The trade which There are no other matters of striking people while half a dozen Peking parvenus declamation." His Excellency has quietly re- is now carried on in the Colony has grown JP, induced partly by the pro-
erty always to interest to record Our local colums will are treated as if they were pruces of the plied that the freedom of the port is unim-tection to property
had here, and partly by
conveniently give particulars of minor news,
its producer to The hout Royal Blood. We cannot conceive any paired; and it is really difficult to see low
tuated place for the
come to a small stamp duty on bills of lading, on a
one banil, and during this week has been somewhat less step more injurious to our interests in the than previously, but is nevertheless op eyes of the Chinese than this vice regal master's "protest," on policies of marine the consumer, or speenlator upon consump
reception to Mr Harte protegés. What insurance and charter parties, can exercise tion, to meet the importer, on the
These undoubted advantages possessed Ahould we for instanco think of the intel-a discouraging influence on our shipping Hongkong however, did not suffice to ligence of a nation that accorded such a trade. Yet this is absolutely the assertion the trade here, until it was largely fang red by outside influences, and fortnitons welcome to say Mr Bright, not to go too that our mercantile community
cirounistaaces The establishment of heavy. low-who is immeasurably superior to a themselves to, and they are prepared, ap- taxes and duties formerly at Macau, drove wilderness of FINS, sharp as his admirersparently, to carry it to the foot of the
deal of native Commerce over here, though these taxes have now ceased would make him out? We should naturally throne, if they cannot compass their ends consider them as exhibiting but a low order by any casier method. We repent the ex-. of intellect; and that is just the opinion pression of our hope that they will not the Chinese high authorities are new formou the advice of the mentor whom they have ing of us.
hitherto followed. There has been quite In conclusion we would wish to be unrough of the ridiculous, we will unt say derstood as having no wish whatever to selfish, in what they have already dons cast a sneer on the gentlemen who accom- and they will simply bring disrepute upon panied the Mission hence to Europe. They their "place of exile," If they follow up acted simply under the orders of their chief to an extreme the illogical conso they have
displayed, to be singularly fitted for the at present stands, might be still further
amended we readily concede; but the me morialists oppose a Stamp Act in toto; and they declare uncompromising war against even so small a matter as a duty on bills of lading, oa bills of exchange, or on legal do. On reflection they will perceive, we hope, that such unqualified opposition to a Stamp Act is very injudicious, and that, if they memorialize the Home Govern ment at all, it would be wiser to limit their
THE CHINESE IN ENGLAND, We have more than ovce protested against the terms employed in speaking of the Chi- ness who accompanied Mr HART to Eng- land, both by the Northern China and Home prcas, mud should therefore scarcely care to again allude to the subject did not papers recently received from England shew an extent of gullibility on the part of the British public which is scarcely credible. Before proceedling to criticize the motives which have induced Mr HART thus to im-
brought by the French Missionary from Corea. Residents are so unused to any- thing happening, that they are exhausted after the unrouted excitement, and every thing is, if possible, more than nomially Two tide-waiters commenced a free fight on the band a few days ago, but lacked energy to contiune it, and appealed to the by standers to separate them.
The Recorder states every one at Chofon/ Pose, either wilinfly or by a discreet silence, and seem, by tho wise retinenco they have entered on. That the Schedule, even as
is complaining of the heat. Everything was dull and business slack.
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THE STAMP ACT.
1.
to exist, this trade has remained here, de- cause it bus had nothing to gain by return.
but a amall element in the gr
this is
it
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News from Passict—Peking-Drought, Pri-country.
At CHEFOO people complain of a reac- son reforms-Corean etabasey-Shang- hae-Oppressive taration in Nanking tion, after the unusual amount of news vice-royalty-Consul's letter to Tavini re- specting logul taxes on goods-Native employé convicted of bribery-Repairs of bridges- Sunstroke-The Trans Mongo lian telegraph--Rebellion in Siberia qual led-Bankow, hver falling-Inanda- 'I dull. tim of Yellow River in Shinghua dis- trict-Chefoo-Heat at Fouchou-Rice harvest completed in Kiangsu province Hongkong--the Stamp Act passed by the Council-Buropean and Chinese deputa- tions in the Governor Meeting of Ger- mans to form relief fund for invalids.- News from the Northern Ports is not of peculiarly exciting character. To comnience at the extreme North, we have received news of an interesting character from Pas- siet, one of the Manohurian harbours now We must in possession of the Russians. refer our readers to the article in question for particulara, as there are no very salicut pouts of which to make an abstract. Private advices from Peking state that nothing of importance has occurred lately has already been gathered in,, the fine denominated, for or Majesty, the Foreign problems that puzzle communities endowed they refrain from repeating the "declamare have always readily paid this local di of the capital. **The drought (saya the let ter) has made the Emperor come out strong in the way of bumanity at Peking, and the prisous of the Hsing-pu, where hundreds have died every summer of extra-legal top. tuies, are to be reformed-at which, most Chinese kere simply langh; no officer dare attempt it, they say. A Protestant mission
ary (Thomas) has left Peking to act, it is
said, as interpreter to the Freneb expedi- A Gorean embassy has tion against Corga. arrived, but as it has travelled very slowly, knows nothing about the massucre."
From SHANGHAI there are two pieces of political news. One, that the
oppressive taxation prevailing throughout the pro- vinces under the Nanking viceroyalty, has proved prohibitive in the case of one article of foreign import, by compelling a cessation of trade; and that native coal vendors, throughout the city, and settlements, have
There
According to latest advices from Foo crow, the heat this summer has been very inteuse at that port, the thermometer fre- quently reaching 100 in the shade. was nothing of general interest stirring, beyond the usual routive of the place, at the date of our correspondent's latter.
No tea ships have left since the Dodo, which was included in the last report.
The Recorder adds that in several parts of the Kiangan province the rice harvest
than usual.
weather having brought it forward earlier In the Chekiang Province there is much want of rain for the cotton and miscellaneous crops.
Of local news the all absorbing topic has bern the STAMP ACT, Despite the memo-
rial presented by the deputation appointed at the general meeting bed last week the Act has passed the Council the original schedule being greatly modified. The chief opinions embodied in the memorial were shortly as follows:-
Firstly.-There is no necessity for any new method of tasation of a permanent character.
Seemly-Even if there is a present ne- coesity for more money than the ordinary Revenue of the Colony will supply, the best wode of raising the required sam is by direct taxation.
Thirdly. The Memorialists respectfully
on the officials and inhabitants of Great Britain and other countries, we would exposta assigned to them. press our belief in his ability and (so far as faithfulness to his employers interests is concerned) fitness for the post he now CELEBRATED as Hongkong is in the history holds. His diplomatic talents are
of British eastern possessions, for many doubted and no better illustration can be reasons that we will not now stop to ennme..cuments. given of them than the course he has adopted rate, it will attain additional renown from in thus managing to make, what should be the struggle to which it has coramitted itself
in which, notwithstanding his services, It is not often that its people have an op- evidence of the small consideration in opposing the imposition of a Stamp Act.
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redound to his glorification-only at the dom. he is held by his pigtailed, employers portunity of displaying their political wis-objections to particular items in the She
A Crown colony necessarily has but dule than to extend them to the whole expense of a slight "sell" as it is vulgarly a antall chance of working out political principle of the Aof. Above all should Ofice, and our leading mon in particular, and the British antravelled public in ge- neral.
The English papers (and those of France also for that matter) have, with a super abounding courtesy, termed Mr Teacher Pin by a variety of titles. Tajen (gene- rally mistaken for bis baptismal, or per cliance amongst the
tory prophecies" of rain with which they have endeavoured in vain to terrify His Excellency the Governor.
with powers of self-government; and it in not, therefore, surprising if on questions of general public policy, such as taxation for in atance, it manifests a very small elementary. knowledge of political economy, and merges in merely personal considerations principles which affect the state. We say so much by way of apology for the peculiarities attended
Our home readers will
THE STAMP ACT,
is well worthy of consideration. dying the principle for which Your rialists contend. Again, after the tion of the Factories at Canton, in rame what may be called a turning point in the fortunes of
of Hongkong the Mer- to consider whether, in the utter absence chants bad after the cessation of hostilities, of all taxation in traite here. it was neces Бату to inour the expense of building at ments there, to do business that would be Canton, and keeping separate Establish fave equally well bere, and, finding, they did, that the Chinese, of whom the trane depends, wero willing to come bere and sottle, they have almost entirely aban doned Canton, as an Emporium or place of business. A wise and prudent course of legislation in the Colony, has taxation necessary to raise the requisite amount of Recene in a purely local and carefully abstaining direct one, from producing any fear in the hinds of people olsar here, who send to the residenta bere to have their transactions carried out,
taxation that any, even indirect, trade
would ever be impusci, bas ma contributed to attract new trade hither and keep that already secured. The residents
rect taxation, because it pays them to do so, by offering inducements, as there is no doubt it does, for business to be sout here, which might just as readily be transacted elsewhere, and
and Your Memorialista believe that any dat
ала
kept the
additional Revenue, necessary to
be raised, would always gladly be paid by the residents here, who, one and all, are dependent for their livelihood upon the in Bax of trade and commerce to the port, The following is the Memorial present- and to induce an increase of which, it is so to Ilis Excellency
vitally important that the previons cha
itered in the smallest degree
With all respect to the Opinions ex- pressed by Your Excellency, in your letter to Mr Whittall, on the subject of this tax,
.:
contraction and
The teco is
closed their shops in concert, declaring urge that the three items of proposed bye, is not used by Chinese students now a 1867 of $120,000, by which sum it is pro the
proposalists now proceed to a Stamp tax, avowedly as the future
Tuotai, denying the right of the Governor General to require the production at inland Custom Houses of any other documeuts than the transis duty certificates referred to in the Tiuutsin treaty thereby repudiating the intiuration that produce will be seized if the purchasers cannot produce receipts for local taxes, as inconsistent with the pro- visions of the treaty, and deciding that they are inadmissible so far as British subjects
are concerned.
Of local news from Shanghae we have but little to record. A native employé at the Consulate has been convicted of taking a bribe of $10 in connection with a case re-
dently tried before the Court, and sentenced to he exposel for ten days in bandeoffs, with a statement of his offence lung round his week, outside die Pourt doors, and at the expiration of that periol to receive a hundred blows and to be discharged from
!
of
necesitate thoir being garried out, until implies one who advises the foreign learner j form public works that are indispensable if in the Rect of which the alleged deficitaved by new of Colony, Trade must be
So much for the absurdities of the Home
His induence at the Court?.
Fourthly,--Iề Hia Excellency should coincide with the Memorialists in their lastly expressed opinion, the items of ex- of Peking has been sufioidut to persuade penditure calling for consideration are two; the Regent to antliotize his being accom- one, the $26,000 towards maintenance of panied to England by a Chiuese, of res- the Gunboat, the other $50,000 for part pectability, but of us position whatever as contruction of a reservoir, With regard a representative of China, and of natioura to the latter item, the Memorialists begability. With him his auu, late teacher to that His Excellency will provide for this a student interpretor, who inherits a double sum by a special. rate for a fixed period, dose of the paternal slowness and some lit. added to the present Water Rate, or im- tle boys who having no position whatever posed on the assessed Rental of the Colony to lose must clearly gain by being made as a "Reservoir Rate," or, by harrowing -u` perambulating Europea. peepshow, and this money on Debenture, securing the being well fed and shewn everything, have holder by a charge on a Water Rota.
no objectious to negs against being consi- With respect to the Gun-boat the memo- dered in the enuse light as hairy women, rialists urge that it should be paid for as a
prize pigs or living skeletons. These peo- police item by an additional police rate. ple who might be fairly represented by an
ment.
pealing to them for assistance. In proof of this I lay before you the usual weekly statement of the Treasurer [it appears else where dated Lust Monday, the 3rd instant, and you have only to glasne at it to see that, omitting the small balance of $6,426 then payable to the British Posluster
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they beg to lay before Your Excellency pronesedly a temporary measure to.
new
of
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Bhuddistically conferred prouamen.)--His in Hongkong.
more enlightened, ing the demonstration against a Stamp Act 1-His Excellency STR RICHARD GRAVES Tacter of the taxation here should not be
MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Govers Excellency-The Commissioner-The Am-learn from our other columus what they are.
nor and tommander-in-Chief of the bassador-The Chinese Envoy and finally u forming a judgment they will mercifully
Colony of Hongkong. The Chinese Prince !! (O fortunatos nimium, bear in mind that to matters of this sort webitants of the Colony-
The Memorial of the Undersigned, Inha- there is one sentence in that letter which clearly imicates the danger of imposing it, sua si bona norint). We should advise bir
are unaccustomed that we are the David Tumbly Shewell
and shews why a tas of this nature will Pin to remain in Europe, with such bril-
That at a Public Meeting held at the Su- canse drend in the minds of absent traders Copperfield of colonies, entitled to Litti- Jiant fortunes before him.
preine: Court
urt House, Hongkong, un the and speculators, and lead them to send must he indeed great from the paperwin experience.
The cremer-like consideration by reason of our in-8th day of August instant, attended by a their onlara alshare.
very large number of the Residents of the this "I see it it a system capable of imme dowed den which His Excellency (we
Colony, certain resolutions were carried, late
expansion according beg pardon His Princeship) used to inhabit execution of public works necessitated by which we beg Your Excellency's attention. pansive property that is the evil at the Owing to past legislation, and to the Copies of which are attached hereto and to to the Fublic exigencies." It is this ex-
as whilom Chinese Secretary or "taxcher'
That in accordance with the fourth reso-Bottom of the whole proposition, 15, the growing social requirements of the co- to Hu-ta-jen. The word tuncher by the louy, there is a deficit in the estimates for address Your lution, Your
ing a on the subject of} mole of meeting any
Public Ordinance.
Frigencies" that may arise, amounts to a themselves unable to carry on business un-expenditure alluded to in the third resolu- days to siguity one who "teacher" in the bable we shall have to increase our anual
In the first
they beg to refer to the declaration that if uoney is needed for der the crushing tax imposed on them. The tion are not of such a character. as to sense we attach to the word;—rather it
items
Expenditure in the Estimates of expenditure in the
Stamp imports to revenue to satisfy local wants, and to per-1867 in other that II.B M. Consulhas written to the
is expected to arise, being supply
ply the amount. While on the subject the future financial position of the Colony or reader of Chinese on difficult points. the sanatory condition of the place is to be Pir, looking at their nature and character, lists world also point out; that though the Five in number and amounting to $114,000 of Your Tolley's lotter your Memoria is determined, or until the Ordinary Re-This however by the way.
improved.
fax was originally given venue of the Colony will admit of the ex- penditure.
press. In sober earnest, however the re-cen piliged to use for its current expou-
"The Colony (says His Excellency) has their opinion, that, in respet of these out to be
items=
provide for the alleged de
dracit for
1967 sult of Mr Hart's skilful diplomatic move is
Firstly-There is no necessity for any it appears, from Your Excellency's avowal diture portions of the fund known, as as follows.
method of taxation of a permanent in the letter, that $120,000 is used as a character
Addition to the Colonial Ro- the Courts to the custody of the Boven-cessity is more money than the ordinary and the irrilnction of this measure will “Judicial deposits"-money entrusteil by Secondly. Even if there is a present ne-
Vanne,"
to be derived from this source, The greater part of these funds Revenue of the Colony will supply, the be the more dreaded, as its positively per-
•ESPAN. best mode of raising the required sum is by manent character, and certain will be called in after vacation, and ninst
direct taxation, in the manner always hi- sion" if mouey be required, is thus an- as the Policy of the Colonial ha made good by the Colony, whilst if other therto pursued in the Colony, which can nounced
That the funds now expected, but not arrived, he be done, without any difficulty by an iu Government for the future.
taxes, or by t crease of the
the fact of the existence of the dread or appe. not available! I shall have to prove the
position
rate of a similar or บ
heusion to which they allude, and that its effect will be aceinracy of the Memorialists' estimate of analogous character..
will be prejudicial to the welfare of Mentorialists fully tho Colonists, are maiters beyond doubt, ThirdlyWhile your our fourishing financial condition by ap-
agree in the proposition that all Public and not mero haseless. suppositions Works, necessary for the advancement of Memorialists have already received sub
sanitary or social,
evidered in more ways than one. stantial the Colony, in either a point of view, should be proceeded with, they Thy submit to Your Excellency, that respectfully urge that the three items of their unanimous feeling against both the proposed expenditure alluded to in the principle, and effect, of any Stamp tax, is third resolution are not of such a charac worthy of serious attention from the faer, ter sa to necessitate their being carried out, that all previons legislation here has been antil the future financial position of the in accordance with their present convic the Consulate service. The repairs to the
upon is determined, or until the Or
the maintenance ar abandonment of part a captious objection to the expendi bridges on the Woung roal have been
the Mint, is dete
ture of money, but an anxious protest Dearly complex, and they will probably We must refer our realers to the memorial the village school boys have, by the cute-make go ita liabilities to the Judicial dinary Rovenue of the Colony will admit against its being paid for in this way, baopened in the course of a week. But itself for further particulars. The memo- ners of their showman, and on the strength deposit fund, amounting to $147,249. In of the expenditure.
coupled with an offer of readiness to be Fourthly If Your Excellency should taxed, to any necessary amount, year by the Cinese will persist in stealing the rail-rial ends by begging His Excellency to re- of wearing pigtails, thick boots, peculiarly other words, the Colony on Mouday last coincide with Your Memorialists in their year, as 'real ocasion arises, in the mode ings, and even ble planking from the floor. omaider the question, to defer such portion cut clothes an 1 as habitually idiotic smile owed that fund-which is soon to be called lastly expressed opinion, the items of ex- suggested by them, or in any other way To this cue is attributable the state of of the Expenditure as is not of immediate of wonder at the new scenes so rapidly in no less than $85,047. I therefore feel penditure calling for consideration are two not so likely to productive of evil diarepair into which the bridges had fallen. or vital import to the Colony to a mere passing before thot, contrived to obtain that you must agrec with me in thinking it one, the $20,0X towards maintenance of results to the Community.
ther Gunboat, the other $50,000 for part Your Memorialists, in alition to objcet This (suga the N. C. Daily News) is eer-anspicious period: tardise any Sims that
st conuction of reservoir, an audience of Her Majesty, the Secretaries high time to put our finances in order,”
With regarding to the imposition of a Stamp tax as be tainly a matter in which the Consuls may be presently nos led by some other, of State and the potabilities of the realm, Most persons will agree with flis Excel to the latter item, Your Memorialists, ing in principle wrong, even for providing representing, as they do, all sections or in- for a temporary deficit, de most solemnly might appropriately request the Total to and less hurtful method, and to postpone to say nothing of the remaining intelligent, lency, aut consent that in such a crisis terests of the Community, beg that Your and carnestly protest against the even more in-lefinitely the farther consideration of but frightfully gullible, British public prompt measures should be adopted. His Excellevey will provideriod, either added pucy's later, of seizing the opportunity, of
this sum by a -interfere, and lio au hardly refuse to do so.
injurious policy, declared in Your Exce- any Stamp Tax, or at least until all other But now comes the ovidence of the su- Excellency proposed the imposition of special rate
to the pro
prosent Water Rate, or imposed on there being an alleged need of money, for available and usual sources of taxation bave perior ability possessed by Mr Hart. Con- Stamp Dution, in fact to introduce in the assessed Rental of the Colony E * 1. A
aa purely temporary and transitory purpose, er, what is perhaps a to been exhausted.
sions, as are all resident in China, that modified for, the Act which works satisfac. "Reservoir Rate,"
pon the Colony, and its trade, additional tax of $120,000, being The deputation waited upon the Gorsuch interviews are little less than insults to torily in the Straits settlemente, and affords more desirable plan, by borrowing this a ernor yesterday and learned from His Ex- the Queen &c., he has akilfully contrived a handsome revenus to the local Govern money on Debenture, securing the holder equal to one seventh of the pretent annual
targe on a Water Rate, to be levied Revenue.. by a charge on a
"The a longer period. calloncy that he had a written answer which to keep altogether in the background. We atent without injury to busiucts and with. With regard to this former item, for the have heard in favour of taxation in this The only argument Your Maiorialists regard to he should plans before the Council at the have never read in the home payers of Me out complaint from the community. There Gunboat, Your Memorialista feel assured manner, is, that it isnot politically rape-lient Shanghae papers give us the following meeting immediately to follow. A Chinese Hart introducing His Excellency, and is a precise similarity of circumstances he that the proper way to pay for this is to toderiveall Roventie franquearthore specifie particulars respecting the Northern treaty deputation also waited upon the Governor, smile" to this or that notability. No, to tween Hongkong and Singapore; both are class it as Police Expenditure, and levy for sources, but if this be true as an abstract
an additional Police Rate, which will be
proposition of political ecotomy, surely porta--
but were received in a style which opened some unfortunate, like Major Brine for indepots for forssign produce, both are porpied readily borne by all classes of the Commu-fact that, since the existence of the Colonys
who all, nity, Treste letters speak hopefully of the their eyes-alightly.
stance, has been deputed the melancholy by foreigners and natives; and His Excel-nity
without even deur on the part of those prospect of the Trans-Mongolian Telegraph. Sume little indignation has been created duty of catspaw and cicerone; thus fear. leucy naturally thougbe that a mole of fit by its aaintep ception, will bene- the Legislatura live followed this course Huring thus respectfully laid before Your taxed, is suflicient to shew, that longkong, Females have Teen substituted for male ranget ott German fallow colonists by a ing the door open for Mr Bard to assert with raising Torque so simple, ou en live, and Excellency the deliberate conviction at in lis eifend and he dealt. clerks along, the line, in the hope that, as report of the late meeting which took place the utmost truth that he never counten- so fair, might reasonably be adapted to which they have Firstly, with re-
uires, and not in the manner position requires,
to the they have not the same propensity for getting to consider the best means of raising a subsauced such humbug." Like the man at the mest tho exigencies of Hongkong. Then gard to the character and necessity of the Position, and inust be dealt with us the
the mode in which the necessity for more There are many other objections to drunk which characterised their prede cription to relieve the invalids from the fair he did not fight; he only supplied the roso a great outery from our merchants proposed expenditure, and, Secondly, as to required by any abstract dogsna or the
to the cessors, less delay in the transmission of late war between Austria and Prussia. whiskey and shillelagas well knowing that and bankers, who denounced the applica- money, if it exists, should be met, they imposition of any Stamp tax, partly mesanges is likely to ensue.
lotter addressed to us designates this report the natural instincts of the public would tion of the principle of the Act, asserting now proceed to entreat Your Excellency's principle, and partly to the operation, of patient and favourable consideration of the such a measure, on which Your Memor From SIBERIA we learn that the Po- as inaccurate and grossly misrepresent cirry out his object.
that it wamlil, even if it were introduced feeling entertained by, they may say, the ialists will not dilate, but they may point lisk insurrection has been quelled, 8001 ing" the sentiments of the meeting. We Let us now see how we stand at this mo. in the smallest degree, drive away the whole Colony, that a Stamp Act or tax to out, as instances, the severity and stringen
If the Te-paus of the villages along the line of road were made responsible for the eccentricities of the inhabitants, the evil would be checked summarily.
Sunstroke is stated by the Recorder to have been very prevalent in the villages *urrounding Stavglae,
Such are the hoads of their arguments. intelligent parish clerk, his son and four of General-the Colony had only $14,200 toy; as dependling, in a great measure, tions, and also because it is not on their
without
the
exceptional
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PRESENTATION
RIAL AGAIN: ACT THE A 245 is af consisting of Mess Schwartzkop, Nisse Sassoon Pilanjee. Crawfor, McDona on His Helency t a memória against Act. The pokesm ecoded to remark t tation Ead the hond Excellafjor, in acco mission in conseq■ passed it turnero of the public of Hon convenc to consid
be taken to place protest gast the in Act proposed by H proceedings spoke to read the memt Macleat wuld un beg to offer one or L unfortunately happ Excelloley had be former Pepetation to postpone the mea Council he had four hours was a 57 accord. It conse hours were at the di appoint draw obisin gntures 17 fore fe at the read to His Excelle points appofeet, some arguments brought forward, a plicit utd ha points hotped. I quest the illalgene to the roring and tion (iffoud weak
Mr Macpan the memori, hiel: h pbatic ra At that it had been si presenting firms tanec y 250 person who forn part of the com ficers excehled, o only a few other c
ant taboret. with reference to t last Saturday's Gaz nothing centained tendify th the mimoil. T out that their obje did not aise fro spending honey,
pay under other from a conviction sure was one fraug
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to governo th ing after days doc mint anbody ed in this mew writtedly, thi read the Co With respect to th
of hating only their homerial!
from free of bu
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his disposal to
he spoke of. The place is their hand
evidence that he matter. He woul regard to the sho report of the form
ponement of the was fim no pers that the vacation
of the feia mue importint duties to but elsewhere. E cretary for instan the various perte. week ad he mere considerations.
Mr. MALEAN P deputation that he