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to divine, unless the people at home, who and little known; but it appears to be now are convinced of the feasibility of establish ing the communication, wish to keep the

shares in their own hands.

guttled to within 100 miles of the gulf The Queensland government has under taken to carry a land telegraph across this

The China Mail

Several blue books have appeared con- country to incet the cable from Singapore, tracts, shallies of the Rules and Con- Chinese Magistrate to be pinished acord- going.

neae

ARTICLE I

· L.S.

(From the Evening Mail:)

[No. 1102—March 29, 1866

· ARTICLE II.

expenses of his maintenance in the Emigra- These declarations are here, placed on water which'nny spring up in all the other The cousul after having assured himself tion Depot at the rate of One hundred cash record, in order that they may have the of the solvency and respectability of the (one south of a Tect) per diem. hi default fame force and validity na the Regulations Ports in China. We feed ourselves, how- Applicant, and having examined and ap- of payment he shall be handed over to the contained in the twenty-two Articles fore-exer, called upon to notice this air from the consideration that membership of the proved the

Done and signed at Peking in triplicate, Shanghae Club also constitutes an hono- communicate them to the Chi- ing to the laws. Authorities aud shall request them to

the 5th of March 1868. ARTICLE XIV. taining a correspondence between the Aus- the money for the greater portion of the issue the Licence necessary for opening an

my membership of the Hongkong Club. Any sum hauded over to the Emigrant

(Signed) RTHERFORD ALCOCK.

and that if the matter alluded to stands as tralian, Dutch, and Her Majesty's Govern line having been already voted by the Le- Emigration Agency.

before his departure shall only be regarded The Licence, together with the Rules and in the light, of a Fremium upon his en- Seal and Signature of PRINCE KING.

it is, we may perhaps be favored with the ents on the subject; and much discussion gislaturo.

Contracts as approved by the Chinese Alt-gagement. All advances upon

his future

(Signed) HENRY DE PRELOMNET. The Engineer to the Malta and Alexan-thorities will be registered at the Con- wages are formally forbidden

--ES:

pressive at the letter Club of an individual took place, among the learned in these mat-

except in the

True copy, case of their

appropriated being

who would be shunned in any respectable to the use ters, in the auturan of 1864, after the for dria telegraph has stated that, in his opi-sulate

J. Mc. L. Brown, the Consul will take es- Assistant Chinese Secretary. of bris family, and

circles. The shopin fact remains that the mation of the company above alluded to. nion, "the depth and usture of the sea

No License to open an Emigration Agen-pecial pains und provide : against their being It was asserted by some that to lay and bottom between Rangoon and Singapore or shall be withdrawn except upon suffi- employed in any other way. Such advan

Committee do not even pretend to have the- roughly investigated the scandal, and they maintain the proposed cables was utterly are more favourable for laying and main cient grounds, and then only with the cos shall not exceed six months' wages and impossible; while, on the other hand, Sirtaining a cable tban. between Malta and sanction of the Consul. In such a case the shall be covered by a stoppage of one Tak Princess' Fiyat has been ordered appear to think that because the gentle

Emigration Agent shall have no claim to dollar per mo

per month until the entire debt shall CHARLES BRIGHT declared that, along the Alexandria." Now, as only one section of compensation for the closing of his es have

been

down from Japan and may be expectedman nunediately aggrieved was willing to is alsolutely forbidden, whether on here in about a week's time.

overlook the injury, they were not called upon to take any further steps in the quite possible but decidedly practicable to with any accident, and it has been laid for operations.

ARTICLE IV.

the Colony or Territory in which he may We hear that the officers of the 9th and submerge and keep in repair a line of cables. more than five years, this is pretty goodNo modification of the Rules and Con- be explored, to make any advaners to him In this view SiF CHARLES was fully support-evidence in favour of the proposed line, tracts when once approved by the Consul ney or kind payable after the expira- Royal Artillery now stationed at Cantonsent; the question is not whether an in-

tion of his engagement. Any agreement ed by another eminent Engineer, Mr FORDE, which we are informed upon the best auto and by the Chinese Authorities shall be

We have not been in shall give the creditor no power to oppose drawn at once. route which he hai anggested.. This route conditions than that between Malta and in order that no Emigrant may be iguoraut the return of the Emigrant to his Country formed nf the reasons which have led to will tolerate his being subjected to one. who quite concurred with him alo in therity can be laid under more advantageous wade without their express consent; and of this nature shall be null and void, and to instruct the Chinese are to be with

of them the said Rules and contracts shall at the time fixed by the Contract: in all cases be posted up on the door of Alexandria.

the Emigration

ARTICLE XV. of the Einigranta.

and in the quartera Agency

The Emigrant during his stay in the The Emigration Agent shall be allowed Depot shall be bound to conform to the A MEETING of the Captains of the French present in harbour has to circulate and make generally known in Regulations adopted for its internal econo-ships now. the towns a villages of the Province my by the Consul and the Chinese Au been assembled by M. du Cheane, Con- copies of these Rules and Contracts which thorities.

ARTICLE XVI H Batavia, and we base our opinion very must in all cars bear the Seule of the Chi-

for France, at which they wer Any Emigrant who may be riotous Or muck upon the fact that the Doyer and Canese Authorities and of the Consulate.

misconduct shall be imines informed that in compliance with a in ARTICLE V. Isis line, which is laid at an equally mo

Backed up until the arrival of the Every Emigration Agent shall be held

It

ronto proposed by him, it was not only the Malta and Alexandria line has ever met tablishment and the suspension of his he voyage of during the Emigrant's stay

was from Rangoon to Singapore (with sta- tious at King Island and Penang,) thence Northward to Saigon and China, and South ward to Batavia, whero connection was to be made with the Dutch Java lines, and

thence again pass on from their South Eastern extremity to Timor and Northern Australia.

All opponents of the scheme have granted that from Singapore to China it is perfectly. practicable. We are of opinion that it is equally practicable between Singapore and

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of any

this movement.

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matter. Now from this we entirely dis

dividual member may be content to take

en insult, but whether the Club is a body

This latter principle the Committee zeem inclined to admit as quile a regular and nor was state of things, and they endeavour to take up the grounds that they are not called upon toinvestigate an outing or society how ever serious, unless someone wishes to goad them on to so doing. This certainly is aprobly the way in which anyone acquaint-

association of gontiewon. It would seem toms, would think should be the tone of an

to us that if a London and Ching Cheb is established, as has been proposed, the pro- muters will be wary, how they admit meny

conduit of the kind which has occurred, be

No doubts have ever been expressad tela-derate depth, has lasted nearly fifteen years responsible under the laws of his country Officers deputed by the Chinese Authoriternational convention or code of regula od with the ordinary amenities of society, or tire to the success of the China line or the and works now as well as ever it did. We are for the due execution of the clauses of the ties, to whom he will be handed over to betions aigned at Peking on the 5th instant having the slightest Knowledge of Club cus-

contract signed by his until its expiration the Empire; the Officers of the Agency China, Sir Rutherford Alcock on the punished in conformity with the laws of between the Prince of Kang on the part of also of opinion that there is not much room

ARTICLE VL for doubt with reference to that portion of

being in no case authorised to take the law Every Chinese employed by the Emigrn-into their own hands and inflict any pun part of Great Britain, and M. Henri de the proposed line extending from Java totion Agent to find him Emigrants, shall be ishment.

Bellonet on the part of France, is is nb Australia. The great objection to deep see provided with a special License from the

ARTICLE XVII. The Deputies of the Consul and of the solutely forbidden that French Agents or lines is the difficulty experienced in repair Chinese Authorities, and be alone will be

above capacity that may be, whether in empowered to demand admittance to the tentionally or unintentionally in contraven- Agency, and to summon the Emigrants any scheme having for its object the on

before them for purpose of interrogation. tion of the Laws of the Erapire.

They will be present at the signing of the latent of Chinese Coolies at Macao, Contracts and at the embarkation of the

THE rumoured case of piracy which we Coolies.

reported in our last night issue turns out

Malts and Alexandria line, and post of 20g them; but it is to be hoped that re. f responsible for any act done by him in the Chinese Authorities, shall at all times be French Captains of vessels take part in bars of the Shanghah Club, so long as mis-

absence of difficulty that would attend its Bubuergence It, as well as the other lines referred to, would be divided into sections of from 400 to 500 miles; the longest pro- 'posed section being shorter than one of the them not longer than the cable connecting England with Denniark.. It has been ascertained by actual survey, and is ad mited, that a cable can be laid in a mean depth of 40 fathoms between Rangoon and Singapore and, what is of unquestionable advantage, over an even bottom, consist ing principally of sand and soit nud," "cir cumstances the most favorable for the de- position of submarine lines; while experience has shown that at this depth, or even at 50 fathoms, a cable can be repaired without difficulty, or be picked up and again depos

fted at pleasure.

:.!

The objections raised, however, in no way affect that portion of the scheme which contemplates the laying and maintaining of adable between India and Singapore, and theroe, vla Saigon, to China. They relate to the Bne between Singapore and Batavia, and from the Eastern end of Java to the Head of Gulf Carpentaria, via Timor. In the first place it has bets asserted that coral shounds in all the seas through which this line aust pass, to such an extent as to

are

cently invented outer coverings for subma rine, telegraph wires will be found to effectually protect them from the chemical

We

all aware action of salt water. that the core of the cable--the copper and gutta percha or india rubber-cannot be injured by any such chemical action, but can only be affected by actual mechanical violence; and this we have shown can be avoided.

Therefore, we anoceed in protecting the outer iron covering from corrosion, there is little to fear as regards frequent or serious repairs being required.

So far as we can judge there appears to be no reason why that portion of the plan which more nearly concerns ourselves should not be at once proceeded with. We mean the line to China. An instalment is better than nothing, and we fail to see any sufficient cause why the mercantile coni-

unity of China should be deprived of so great a boon simply because there are ima- ginary diffenities in the way of extending the same blessing to our brethren in Aus tralia.

render it highly improbable, if not impos- I It is not to be supposed that the largest sible, to maintain it in working order for houses in China will look with a particu-

ARTICLE VIL. Evary Chinese wishing to emigrate under an engagement shall cause his name to be entered in a Register kept for that purpose, in the presence of the food gation sent and of an Inspector deputed by the Chinese Government. He will then be at liberty to return to his home or to remain in the the ship which is to ourry him to bis des Emigration Depot to wait the departure of tination.

left to take its own course.

In conclusion we would only say that wa are far from partaking of that spirit of petty rivalry which has too ofteti indreed

at last to be rather a laughable affair. Itill-natures criticism on Shanghas by the the Hongkong press. We are glad to Watch but while we rejoice in its auaterial im the progress of the Model Settlement"; provement, in its bettered municipal ro gulations, in the advance of its trade and the prosperity of its residents, we cannot

They will see to the maintenance of order to the healthiness and cleanliness of the rooms destined to receive the Emigrants, to the separation of families and women, and appears that the Hamburg Barque Tekli to the arrangemouts on board the Transport coming into Harbour early yesterday They may at any time demand that Exmorning mistook the British Ship Golden ships. perts or Medical Officers shall be called in, Horn for the Hamburg Ship Aline, and in order to verify any detects which they Ist. The place of destination and they havo remarked; they may suspend the bailing hor enquired if the Captain was

embarkation of Emigrants in ships the ar angruenta 02, and they may reject Coolies on board of which may seem to afflicted wich contagious diseases.

ARTICLE. VIII.

The contracts shall specify

length of the engaged the Emigrant to be

2nd. The right of the conveyed back to his own country, and the sum which shall be paid at the expiration of his contract to cover the expense of his home and that sof bie family should voyage they accompany him.

3d. The number of working days in the year and the length of each day's work.

4th-The wages, rations, clothing and other advantages promised to the Emigrant 5th-Gratuituous medical attendance. 6th-The sum which the Emigrant agrees

ARTICLE XVIII.

on board the crew on watch not under- but regret the slightest evidence of a lower-

standing properly, thought they said. We have pirates on, board," and inuuediately

The Emigration Agent shall be bound to arnted ten men and sent theut to the Tekli pay into the Custom's Bank the sum oftender any assistance in their power, at Three Dullars for every Male adult catered the same time firing four signal guns for on the list of Coolies embarked, to meet the

assistance which were luckily and takim expenses of inspection.

notice of by the Police ad the case gurned ot. When they arrived on board and had an explanation with the Captain, they found on the error they had been led intend returned to their own ship

ARTICLE XIX. Any Emigrant claimed by the Chinese, Government as an offender against the Law,

to set aside out of his monthly wages for shall be handed over to the Authorities the benefit

nefit of persons to be ed by him, without opposition, through the Consul should he desire to appropriate any sum to and in such case, the whole sum expended such a purpose.

maintenance of the Emigrant in the the

or on board ship, shall be repaid the rate of one hundred cash (one tenth of row with pirates as they had expected.

diem."

for

7th-Copy of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 144b3ntly to the Enigration Agent, at father disappointed at not having had a

and 224 Articles of these Regulations.

Any clause which shall purport to render

od tonowe will not say in morality, but at least in social refinement and gentlemanly conduct.

THE CUSTOMS RETURNS Shaughan Commercial Record, March 25, The public are naturally looking with some anxiety' for the promiead reports upon the Trade at the ope ports in China. Last year these were not jesuel mil s very late date; a circumstance, which datyacted no littia from trust that upon the rope their usefulness, and wa up to time. Upon the whole, the retums better of Traile reflect, much credit upon the pains which have been taken pou theo though they are not of canrio so free from errors, as is nstorally the case in: statistica fasad at home; where.assistapsa. can be much more easily obtained that out here, Bearing in mind the difficulty which must attend the getting up of much statements out in China, we have erre a which have cept into ther. We are confidest however, we shall not be thought, deaisnus of in way" way carping in painting out one birer of some mag- nitude which occured in the Returns Trade at Shanghai for 1855, and to which we think attention ought to have been called in those just published. We allude to the expert ef Cotton, which by some oversight, war stated in the Returns of 1865 as be

Auy serviceable period To this objectionlarly favourable eye upon the introduction invalid any of the provisiona of this Re- a Tuel) of the Premium, Advances, As our readers will have already noticed a refrained from noticing very minutely one or two

two answersjay be given; either of them, we submit, sufficiently conclusive of itself. Coral can only prove destructive to an iron covered cuble in very shallow water, or where atrong currents exist. Under opposite con- ditions-those of deep water or absence of violent and continuod motion, the laiter be- ing, at great distances from the surface, nsual result of the former-the cable would lio almost perfectly at rest upon the bed of the coral, and consequently would not be

hands.

ARTICLE IX.

The

Clothes, entered in the Agency Regis ter against such Emigrant shall in like manner be repaid by the Chinese foverit

ment.

ARTICLE XX:

of telegraphic communication with thegulation is null and void. Straits, India, and Europe, because it will,

The term of each Emigrant's engageront

disturbance of an undigulfed description shall not exceed five years, at the expira-

has lately arises in Shanghae. It seems to a great extent, deprive them of the ex-

that an action of a very uncreditable des- clusive advantages which they at present tion of which the sum stipulated in the contract shall be paid for him to cover the

The Emigration Agent shall not be at cription was generally attributed to a men- expense of his return to his country. In possess over the less wealthy firms by means

But wo the event of his obtaining permission to ship which shall not have satisfied the number of the gentlemen in that establishing picals 226,144 instead of pleuls 386,318, a cir-

liberty to embark Emigrants on board any ber of the Shanghae Club: A certain of their independent steamery.. are advocating the establishment of this remain without an engagement in the co-

Consul that, in respect of its interal scout ment, among who was the Judge of the my, stores and sanitary arrangements, all communication in the interests of the Elony this sum will be placed in his own ropean community generally, and not upon.

It shall always be at the option of the country'ta which the shid ship may belous Consul, were naturally desirous that the the conditions required by the Laws of the Supreme Court and Her Majesty's Vice Emigrant to enter into a second engage-are fullled. any less important ground.

We commend the subject to the serious ment of five years, for which lie shall be Should the Chinese Authorities upon the affair should be sifted to the bottom. They paid a premium equivalent to one-half the reports of the Ofteers deputed by them, did not conceive that they were called upon damaged by it. And, careful perusal of attention of our readers, and beg to sue cost of his return to China. In such a case conceive it their duty to protest against the to continue upon a footing of bo-member the Admiralty charts will prove the cor- geat whether some local action in the mat the sum destined to cover the expense of embarkation of a body of Enigrante in -rectness of Sir CHARLES BRIGHT' state-ler should not be taken with a view to his retura home snall not be paid until the ship approved by the Consuls, it shall be in ship with the man, who it appeared had Though statistics, however carefully prepared, Every Bisigrant whoning beooine invalid. the power of the Customs to suspend the committed an action of a description in-onnant be supposed to insure anything like positive mont, that the different cables can be laid working in concert with the promotes at expiration of his second engagement.

home and expediting as rapidly as possible ed and incapable of working shall be allow-grating of the Ship's Port Clearance until becoming any decently conducted socic-accuracy, in the course of a number of years, they clearof the coral and quite free from con-

further information shall have been obtain, tact with it. We submit that these ai. swore are satisfactory so far as the coral the ory is concerned.

the consummation of so very desirable an object.

NOTIFICATION,

No. 8 of 1856.

ed without for the expiration of his

waiting contract, to claim before the legal Courts of the colony or territory where he may be payment on his behalf of the sum destined to cover the expense of his return to China

ARTICLE X. ...

ARTICLE XXI.

instance which we should have averlooked, but for

boreished a slip stipuld be insertad chiling attention our living referred to Mr Dick's report upou the Trade. We would suggest that in any future num- to this error, as it is hardly necessary to active the fact that the movements in the Cottch market ofe likely at least two or three years to form one of.

ed with our Trade.

the most importait subjects for investigation connect

form a valuable moans of ascertaining the progress of It also seems that an enquiry was trade and the individual errors become of trifling significance as they in the measure neutralize poe another. It is a curious fact, proved by experience, that there are certain laws which govern even the mission of blunders, and that it can be stated with something like nccuracy what number of letters misdirected, will find their way to the General Foss

what meterialistic theories concerning the constitn which some metaphysical writera bave deduced some tion of the human mind.

ed, until the final decision of the Legation ty of the country to which the suspected ship set on foot by the Club Committee, but belongs shall have been pronounced. for some reason, was subsequently quietly allowed to drop. The result was--that On arrival of the ship at her, destination The Emigrant shall in no case be forced the duplicate of the list of Emigrants shall those members who did not approve of to work more than six days out of use, be presented by the Captain

Authorities. tion which had gained wide spread currency, In the margin aud day.

opposite to the name wrote a letter to the Committee tendering of each Emigrant, note shall be made of deaths, births and diseases during the toy their resignation, and stating very plainly A lengthened age, and of the destination assigned to the reason for their leaving. each Emigrant in the colony or territory in and somewhat angry correspondence ensued which he is to be employed.

This doctorent shall be sent by the upon the subject, which some of our few Emigration Agent to the Consul at tic port ders may live scen in the Shanghae papers. at which the Emigrants embarked, and by it is needless for us to enter into any very lime delivered to the Chinese Authoritice.

detailed criticism upon it; it is certainly the distribution of the Emigrante as not voniplimentary ou dilber side, but the labourers, the husband shall not be separated cousing part of the affecit is that the Club from his wife, nor shall

inder fifteen Committee, in reply to a very temperate from their children boing, under Parten years of age..

letter from the dissentient members ro

shallow and the portion of it between Consul for Shanghac, has been instructed or more than nine hours and a half in thohia Consul and by the fto be vised by the slur cast on the Club, by the suspi Office in the course of a year circumstance from

The further objections raised to this line are that the portion of it between Singapore. and Batavia will be in water that is too

The Undersigned, Her Britannic Majety's

Java and Australia will suffer from a di-by Sir R. Alcock, K. B., Her Majesty's The Emigrant shall be free to arrange rectly opposite calamity, and will be invay Extraordinary and Minister Pleni with his employer the conditions of work potentiary in China, &c., &o, to publish

by the piece or job, and of all extra labour water that is too deep. That the sea be the annexed Convention in English and undertaken during days and hours set apart

the 5th of Chinese, signed at Puking an

instant by the said Minister Plent for rest.

The obligation on holidays to attend to potentiary and Mousienr de Bellonet. HI. eattle or to do melt service as the necessities M's Chargé d'Affaires, on the one hand, of daily life may demand, shall not be con- aul the Brines of Kang on the other, which sidered as labour. embodies the rules and regulations under. which contract cimigration by the subjects

carried on.

tween Singapore and Batavia is more shal-

low than would be selected as a matter of dhuice for the purpose, is not denied; it being very little over 20 fathoms, aud in portions not exceeding 10 to 12 fathoms.

But the various cables orossing the Nortli sea and English Channel, connecting En- gland with Denmark, Hanover, Holland, Belgium, and Franco lie under similar con- ditions and in water not deeper than that between Singapore and Batavia. They certainly are sometimes damaged but are. speedily, and without any great amount of ditioully restored to working order. The sea between Java and Macassar is shown by the charts to average 40 fathome, and!

head of Gulf Carpentariv to be from 40 to 60 fáthons. Between Macassar, however, and the space beyond Timor just mentioned

ARTICLE XI:

of the contracting Powers is bereafter to be engagement to émigrate entered into by any Chinese subject under twenty years of will be valid unless be produce a

H.

CHARLES A. WINCHESTER,

M. Consulate, Shanghae, 22 March 1886

CONVENTION

To regulate the Engagement of Chino Emigrants by

British and French Subjects.

Bago,

Certificate from the proper Chinese Autho rities stating that he has been authorised to contract such engagement by his parents,

in a default of bis parents, by the Ma gistrate of the Part at which he is to embark

ARTICLE XI),

ory

ARTICLE XML

"ARTICLE" "XXT."

No labourer shall be bound to change hilstarted that they had been guilty of mis- employer without his consent, except in the event of the factory or plantation upon apprehension not to say mis-represent which he is employed changing handa. ・・・ation. This unturally called forth

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His Imperial Highness the Prince of pretty sharp reply and the Committee Kung has further declared in the wathe of then thought it convenient to return the the Government of His Majesty the Empers letter, and make a clumsy attempt at eu Government acting the part of injured innocence. So 1st.That the Chinese Government

While noticing one or two short-comings, in what we trust will not be considered an unfriendly spirit, we have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the general effejency of the Chinese Customs Beturns both in gard to their intrinsic, merit as statistite, and also in respect to the very admirable nsumer in which they are printed and got up.

CASE OF THE FURYDICE JUDGMENT.

Bursuant to an Order from Rhilip C. Luard Esq. Lieut. Commander of H. M. S. Hieros, Senior Naval

court was assembled on Monday the 19th instant, consisting of the following members,

Oficer Foschow, dated 15th Feb. 1966, a Nayal

PHILIP C. LUARD →→Presidem,

JOHN F. BARNE-42d Master II. M, S. Havos.. HERBERT J. ALLEN.Assistant, H. B. M. Con-

sulate.

GHORES D. PITMAN--Commander 5. S. Uruline. ALEXANDER MORRISSON--Courmander ship Cont

nukyle.

Te enquire into the cironinstances attending the stranding of the British barqua Eurydice, John Gibby muster on the 23d December last, and the steps that have been taken subsequently respecting her.

After four days but not less, from the dato of the entry of the Emigrant's name on the Register of the Agency, the Officer or of China The Government of His Majesty the deputed by the Chinese Government being

The court having been daly aworn and the orders from about 70 miles beyond Timor to the Emperor of China having requested that, in présent, the Contract shall be read to the throws no obstacle in the way of free much for this curious correspondence. It for sitting read, proveeded to examine the witnesson

Accordance with the terms of conventious Emigrant, and he shall be asked whether he

Having beld a strict and careful soulry in the signed at Poking the 24th and 25th of Oct. agrees to it, and having answered in the dice, that is to say to the departure is unique and to a certain extent inexplic, we have come to the flowing decision.

of Chinese subjects embarking of their own

That the Pilot had moored tho chịp in a very. 1860, a set of Regulations should be framed armative he shall then and there appoud free will and at their own expense fur cable, but its full meaning can be bat.

to to geoure

bad place. Chinese Emigrants those sufe- his signature thereto. guards which are required for their moral.

foreign countries, but that all attempts to ter understood when the nature of the

94.-That blame attached master under engagemout (70 miles), a dianes of nearly 500 miles, dus disetission and deliberation at the Ya- is at the disposal of the Agent, and must Regulations provide, are fish the extreme but though we are by no vieana inclined to The Contract once aigued, the Emigrant banigrate, otherwies than as for recourende which gave rise to it is fully aj

forbidden Previated. Of this we have been informed; men of Foreign Affairs, have been adopted bot abeunt himself from the Depot withunt and will be prosecuted with by the undersigned, and will hencefoth the permission of the Agent

rigor of

of the f be in force.

Before embarking, every Emigrant shall

Thata Law of the Empire puriabes dilletants squeamishness we cannot al called before the OBeor deputed by the by death thise who, by fraud or by fores, luda to it in other terms than by saying Chinese Authorities to ratify his Contract, may hidrat Chiese subjects fir the purpose that the action imputed upon almost un Any person desiring to open at migns which shall be registered at the Consulate of sending them abroad against their wille tion Agency it may Port in China, mist

3rd That whereas the operatio of doubled grounds to us or seller of the tho. Emigranta shall be

shall be mastered

and physiol well-beings the following, after

REGULATIONS, ARTICLE İ.

be

the

no soundings have yet Been taken, so far þa we can learn but we are not aware that thero exists any reason for supposing that this distance is too deep' for the purpose in view. It is certainly beyond dispute that, with the exception of the wiles of which we have no accurate information, the sea

nt the Rules which he proposes to ousette sprutor of Customs, or their deputies, and the pen ports, when conducted in cone

consequences of which the ship dregged jou to the John Gilbb, for nas paying propar ausention za sir mooring of his vessel, after there was reason to supe be that one of the anchors had started in the

Pegoda Rock

Ad-The Court is of opinion that no blame le

get his ship off the Rock."

to be ached to the master for the menzis taken to 4th-That the inester is to blame, for ullowing its fessel to remain for 12 days on a Sand Rank, considering she was making little or ng water, and

SthThat the master is also to blame for UG.

on application in writing to that effect to thenty-four hunts before the Bailing migration Agents with a view to the supply members of this Club, Was such as no man might with safely have been moored in the stream. bottom between Java and Australia is fa- his Consul, enclosing at the same time copy on board before the Consul and the Indf Coolie Tabor abroad, are duthorised at of ordinarily gentlemanly feeling would for having a Pilet on beard, coming out of the deck,

vourable for the enterprise.

The nature of the country between the

until lately been comparatively unexplored

in his Establishment, copy of the Coiffanct the list shall be finally close for signature formity with their Regulations and under a moment tolerato... We have quite enough; whereby his vessel again togched the ground, which he offers to Emigrants together with and registration by the Consul and the the joint slipervision of the Consuls and the

Chinese Authorities, it follows that where to do to allude to disagreeables which tooth. That the master is to blame for proceeding Mga ta sell Pablic Auction, a portion of the ship's head of Gulf Carpentaris and Brisbane has the necessary proofs that be has complied Luspector.

with all the conditions imposed by the laws Any individual refusing to

to progead after

this joint supervision cannot be exercised, frequently arise in this Colony, and have rigging, stores, &c. hie vessel not having basi cone of his country regulating Emigration, this muster shall be bound to repay the such operations are formally forbidden : no wish to place our handa in the dirty demned, which necessitated the interference by forve

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by the actor Naval Offer interest of the owners and r 7th.--After a carefn in- dence befure it, the Court do Baspending John Gibb from a or of depriving hin of the ce time strongly cauticp him. future, and sajudge that he p In conclusion the Cont nin, that there is great ne bour Master for the port of of vestele trading to it.

Gisen under our hands on Have, this 19th day felron Anchorage.

(Signed) Paur

JOH:

HEA

Oso.

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NEW SOUTH WA Wa'abri ge the resule Committee of Weys and House, Sydney, by the the 20th November, reta of proposed new duties on

Un all spirits importa strength of which can be hydrometer-the proof ga

Un all spirits and spi ported into the colony, cannot be ascertained be the liquid gallon, 103.

On spirits, when made on which Castores dutie

proof gallon, 95, 5d

On puita, when mad in any proportion prese whole fra aaterials Customs has been paid-- O opium, including al per by £1,

On bops-per Th., 28. On malt per bushel, & On sugar. including sug candy and refined, or nad to refined per owl. Jus; As per standard, 75.6d. fined, as per standard; ös On treacle or molasses, molasses now in bond-p pa, all imported wine bond-the gallon,

On ale and porter, in ing ale bond the galio On tea, including tea in On dried fruits--per ev Resolved, That Lovin granted to her Majesty on and after the th No the duty of Customas now leaf tobacco, including.all por A, 18. 63.

Da rica per ton, £2

The Sydney Morning the 50th alt, pays a h Treasurer of New South lucid budget, and thus s to increase the revende

The following are tional taxes which the Te

Committee. In the Ch increase the duty on L cent, to 0s, and from Hse £30,000: whiskey, in to ille,, £27,000; perfui spirits, except brandy, gi 42, 0: On wine the from 2s had 20 por cer in wood, 18, and 20 pe beer, bailled, 2d, and 3 100. Ou tha from 38, On sugars refined, from from 58. to 7s. 6d. secon £20,000: On oplam, fre to 0., £3,000. Tobacc cent. to le. 6d, £5,000. of 108, per ewt, £10,0 £3,400. Malt, fid. per 46 perton, 19,000, I of 168,160 to be deri He proposed to reduce. i

38. 4. to 2s 6d, but did would make any alterati also proposed a scienc banking sad public cor persons engaged in busin ties, which will be fou report, and these annual would bring in £75,000 the Customs duties, woa 160 to be realised from t for the approval of the Means.

REV

--WREATHS'S INTE

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