OCTOBER, 31 Days.
Chinese XXXth Year, VIIIth and 1Xth Moons.
Northerly winds prevail throughout this month, occasionally veering to north- east or northwest; but the temperature of the atmosphere is neither so cold nor pdry as in the following months; neither does the northerly wind blow so constantly southerly and easterly wind evening every now and then. The winter usully, get in with three or four days of light drizzling rain.
Days of Days of
month. inoon.
Chronicle of events in China, &c.
I t 26 Tinghái retaken, 1841.
2 w
27
3 t
28
4 f
29
5
13 8
12 s
B
14 m
15 t
11
16 w
12
17 t
13
18 f
14
19 s
15
20 S
16
21 m
17
¡22 t
18.
23 w
19
24 ̧t
25
21
26
22
27 8
2.
Rev. J. A. Gonçalves died, 1841.
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NINTH MOON. ved af
VA
Alexander H. Everett, commissioner of U. S. A.
arrived, 184. 19th Sunday after Trinity.
Supplementary Treaty signed at the Bogue, 1843. Chinhin taken, 184
Lord Napier died at Mação, 1834, and J. F. Davis
succeeded as Chief Superintendent.
Halley's comet observed in Canton, 1835.
Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841. 20th {Sunday after Trinity.
Yukien, imperial commissioner in Chehkiáng,
committed suicide, 1841.
Nemesis and Phlegethon go to Yüyáu, 1841, 21st
Sunday after Trinity.
+
58 piratical vessels destroyed by Capt. Hay, 1849. 20. Treaty of Whampoa between France and China
1. signed, 1844.
In Canton, 1200 houses and 3 factories burat, 1843. 23d Sunday after Trinity.
Terranova executed by the Chinese, 1822. Admiral
Collier died at Hongkong, 1849.
30 w 31 t
27