-MARCH 29, 1866.
S.
in
90
Owners
P. G. 8. N. Stan Cu
Dasaan Soni and Co
1. Margnes
Calloa Early
Jardine, Matheson & Co Jardina, Matheson & Co Augastine Heard and Co
P.. Frumjee Cams and Co Captain LewES
Jardine, Matheson & Co
¡David Sassoon, Bus & Co
Jardine, Matheson & Co
Beat Mod Co
TO GREAT BRITAIN.
MARON; 1866.
S
SHANGHAE,
Melhuish,
Tea lbs.
933,800
Silk bl.
Le Souit, (do.) 1,030,900
CHINA
VOL. XXII. No. 1104.
Shipping Intelligence.
ARRIVALS,
-687,600
946,80
gle,
J4126,800
8€4,600
(from H.kow)
Date
VISEL, AT
RIG
FLAG & TURS DAPIRED.
FROM
DBYE- TDERS
CAROO
CONSIGNES ÓR ÁGEETS
849,900
297
959,400
-1,181,400
. eb. 91 Moore
Saigon
Bat. 17 Rice
Rungoon Feb. 26
999,500
Calcutiu, &c. Mar, 20
33
B.
is
. 1,132,606 7
(from Dankow), 612,100
Nicholson
do..
T
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sett..
ting,.
748,800
1,095,600
80,860
868,500
. 1,018,390
872,800
(from Hankow) 678,500
dan
214
Apr H.kong. 3Far East
White Adder
6 Indore
6 Lightning
6an Alpine
Yerab
7 Mercurio 7Meria
7 Bemeralda'
¡Hector.
7 Wm. Candall,
Asia
8 Madura
B. str. 1062 Jones
18: atr. 677 Gaine
B. str. 316 Rodger
Bombay, ac Mar. 8Opium
st099.utchinsonjCalcutta, &c. [Mar. 10)
B. 732 Cairns Fukohan, &c. Apr. 3 General Au bk 469 Matalich Rangoon
¡Pt, b*] 304 (Laurensen
Saigon
umb 30 Brewes Saigon dre ar 190 Barten Bangkok
8. b. 648 Walsh,
Jum bk 284 Polwek
p.bg. 17 Ageo
Mar. 28
Jan, 25 Rice
Mar.20
Маг. 23
B. bg. 267 Semple
Bangkok
Singapore
Feb. 10 Feb. 22 Bob 2
12
31
Vis. Chuning
i str. 31 Shannon
Варцкок
ápr. 2
952,100
8 Iguroie
Shigon isual
Mar. 26
808,500
uo
Bangkok
[Mar, 160
9 Turandot
um bk 420 Minors
Buggkok
[Mar. 10)
957,500
Capsingmoon (5. bk. 466 Ludera
Bangkok
Mar. 1
319,500
9 Conchita
781,30
From Hankow),
818,500
9. Granda
isom, (do.),
£50,000
JU: catio
■,
10: Sadsette
296,300
909,600.
(lasi Det, 1)·
mm, (from H’kow), 1,031,400
a,
de,
Castle, (f. 11kow) 888.200
Le Ocean,
.1,130,300
.1,067,Log
627,700 778,600
899,400
.1,344,200
305,400 575,100
(from Kiokiang), 449,200
BER,
_holson)
fred,
od,
883,400 923.600 1,278,300 1,058,900
360,800 944,400
BER.
-359,500
neber
■layson, uusi,
845,500. 495,490
1,180,500
1,436,200
RY.
Cochin,
1,165,800
429,9000
1,243,700,
epherd,
893,100
861,600
49,786,800
JAPAN.
ST.
317,100
RIL
900,000
192,300
Crown,
BER. ahley,
$13,500
1612,200
TOTAL.
89,300
.bk 256 Baunan
p.uk. 222 Anduera Mamida
Mar. 28 General Feb. 14 Newolwang Apr. Beans Manila.
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Sophie & Marie, pu, hk 287 Overclitt
1 Rantipole
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11 Ezsbeth 31 Kingmon
11. Ingeburg Gatheu Vampy
11 Juzion:
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12 Jebina
19 kepare
1 Shooty Leen
B. str.100 Prie
6. r. 153 Stiles
18. k. 499 Carlin'
.bk 35 Gierritz
B. bk. Sus Owen
3. ar 16 Westcott Pr. 207 Peterson Jumb 4 Geriz Pr. br 220 Konike Jam b 60 Matfuld
Fr. Br. 212 Rivet jöp bg 246 Ponce
ure. 208o.dotibult
ju. atr., 120102 Eunouds
5. st. 492351shn
Mar. 31 General Bangkok Mar. Rice Bombay, &c. Mar. 15'Mails Bangkok Mar, 16 Rice Sonderland Dec. 17 Coals Bangkok [Mar, ·9]Rice Singapore Mar. 2 Bangkok Migr. 171 Bangkok Mar. 10
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F. 8. Cama and. Co
Livingston and Co Jr., Matheson and Co
P. sng Ô. N .. Dọ amajee and Co
B., Hubener and Co Siemsson.sa Co
Wm. Pustau and Co
Lyall, still and Co Chinone
Berman and Co Reynolds and Co
Biemssen and Lo
Wan, Pustua and Co; Burrows & Song Reynolds and Co Chinese
P. and O. 8. N. Co Reynols and Co B., lubener and Co P. & O, S, N. Co Wm. Puatau and Co Jar., Matheson & Co
m. Pustau and Co. Order
1., Hubener and Co- B., Hubener and Ce Borneo Company Wm. Fustan and Co B., liabener & Co Order.
Reynolds and Co
Ar. 3 cottoniemasen and Co
Apr. 9 Gloucuf
Newchwang 4pr 4 Peas
P. and Ò. s.. N. Co
Smith, Kennedy & Du
THE
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 12TH APRIL, 1866.
the march to attack the rebels.
Newchwang is now open, the ice having broken up, and the steamer Granada re- ports that a considerable number of vessels were about to start for the Southern ports.
ولايت بين عليه وه له بين ان الله
PRICE, $15 PER ANNUM.
of the 8,000 braves already mentioned as | been "conspicuous by their absence ;” pro-† and most direct would undoubtedly be that the exception of the system for the British having taken the field against these cales-bably it is the season of some Chinese of assuming the lofty tone which tha posi- West Indies conducted at Canton, no sya- tial brigands. Some of these picturesque festival, and the freemasonry of Piracytion of Great Britain towards China wquid teas worthy of the name of voluntary emi- vagabonds have not been able to reaist the are enjoying themselves in the bosoms of justify the British Minister in taking up, gration is at presentcarried on. Not, indeed, temptation of gaining the distinction of "a their families, preparatory to returning to and of requiring, as a concession which we that we would assert the monstrous crime button" without the tedious course of book their old eruising grounds, Mirs Bay and are entitled to claim is consideration of the of forcible kidnapping to be still as preva- lore which usually precedes such an honor, the Loma and Ly-ce-moon Chanuels. avionut of protection afforded to the Chilent as in days now gone by. At thia Port, and several have accepted the doubtful dis- A slight accident occurred to his Excel-nese Government, & trial at least of the even with the somewhat lax regulations tinction and have become respectable man- leney the Governor a few days ago, which proposed systom. It must be admitted hitherto in force such an outrage would not ocar in even a solitary instance; at Can- darius. Having been brought up in a however, we are happy to say, eventually horevery that only a reuse of extreme ne- squeezing school they have been using their proved nothing more Merious than a cessity would be likely to induce the Briton the rigorous action of S HARRY new position to extort money from the rather severe fall.
tish Ministry to sanction the exercise of PARKES in 1860 annihilated the practice, at peacable and orderly inhabitants. The re-
The weather during the past week has such direct dictation to a Power whose in- the same time that an admirable code of bele numbering about 7,000, are encamped been with short exceptions dull and cloudy, dependence it is so greatly desirous of rules for supervising a bond fide system of some hundred miles or so north of Moukden, with almost constant rain; this though inauutaining; and, although we might con-emigration was devised; whilst even at having captured several cities; the Peking rather trying in some respects will perform ceive the construction of a telegraphie line Macao the terror of publicity has served troops are commanded by Wenseang, and the most important duty of clearsing and becoming eventually a patter of such us to check in a substantial measure the gross atrocities that once flourished there, un- the Mongol cavalry by a son of the deceased flushing the drains, and at present the tional importance as to justify the most ar Warrior SAN-EO-LIN-SIN. The whole of the "clerk of the weather" is a pretty good gent measures of diplomatic coercion, it heeded. The more coupling together (as Imperial forces as thus comprised are on substitute for a "Municipal Council,"
does not appear that the existence of rail-is so natural at the present day) of the ways in China can ever he a question that ideas of emigration and kidnapping slows, would take so prominent a place. But however, how fallacious is the use of the Ir the enthusiasin of supporters and a re- there is another way in which not only former term. As commonly understood solution to ignore opposing circumstances the scruples of the Chinese Government this phrase signifies in China the exporta- were the only requisites on the part of the might be dissipated, but their ayupathies tion to foreign countries standing in need. promoters of a good cause to ensure success, might be even aroused, and that is by ap of labour of a certain number of able-bodied natives at so much per head. With the From Foochow we hear that the weather the accomplishment of China Railwaya pealing to them on the grounds of inne- on the coast has been more severs than has might be looked upon as a result already diate self-interest. If, in place of the single exception of the British West Indian been known for years. Several steamers beyond the region of uncertainty. The somewhat injudicions proposal forging Ageney, a strictly Government institution, have taken as much as eight days on the indefatigable Sir MADONALD STEPHENSON part of Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON's ori carried on at Canton under the direction of passage between Hongkong and that port. avows that he knows no obstacle, in manginal plan, according to which the Chinese a salaried official, in whose case, independ- H. M. gun-boat Havoc and the U. S. corvette or nature, suficiently strong to resist the Government was to bo requested to guzently of acknowledged moral worth, there is Wyoming were in port, the latter being still shock of his energy or skill; and although rantee the interest on the amount of capí- the additional guarantes of edxaplete in- PASSENGERS. Per For Best, Captain and grew of Napoleon Cunéraru-Per Fesso, Mr and
in dock: the heavy repairs which she re- the reports of his correspondents in China tal to be raised, the contrary idea should be difference, as regards the amount of perso Mrs Pedder, Mrs Stevens, Messrs Jones, McLaine, Stokes, 2 Europeans decker White Addar, Mr quired and which were being carried on, with respect to the assurances cffcited from entertained of offering to the Cabinet at Penal emolument, to the number of labourers Wills and Nephewer Clen Alpine, Mr and Mrs Gillan, Mr and Mrs Hildebrand and child, fully prove the extensive capabilities of Sir RUTHERFORD Arcock on his passageking a bonus for the permission to construct engaged, not a single scheme having as its Eagan Harcourt, Mr Cartwright-Per Conchilu Messe King, and Buziere-Per Sulselt, for Hong- kong, Capt. Wilkinson, Das Collingwood, Carnegie, and Mansor, Capt. Hall Madame Marine, Capt. the duck at Pagoda anchorage.
through Hongkong cannot have been very an experimental line between the Capital object the shipment of coolies from the Heeter, Alts Wood, Cupt, and Mrs C. Habikesk, Messrs Then peni, Sin, Silk, Reed, Brown, Eduliee, Lavonier, Ab Eob, and Cheong Leong; for Shanghie, Measts Rowbottom, Vichell, Taylor, Aspinall, From Japan we hear that the left wing of encouraging, we still find in our latest Lon- and Tieu-tain, we fully believe that the pro- Ports of China is placed upon that basis of the 9th Regiment arrived on the 30th ul- don files an expression of the utmost con-posal would receive such an anonut of at-official responsibility which it has been Mir Banione.-Per Singapore, Mr and Mrs Tyers, infant and European female servant, Mr and Mice
fidence in speedy and satisfactory results. tention as would give an opportunity for declared over and over again is the sole Tavares, infun and servant, air and Mrs Carvalho infant and servant, Miss Carvalho, Mr Gribble, tuno, the men appearing in tolerable health.
It is not, in- Miss Browne, Meters Coghill, Miller, Richarda, Riley, Holborne, Spain, Hudson, Browno, Pitober, A gentleman of the name of Dall, a resident One writer opines that "there can be nothuse Chinese who are really favourable to guarantee for good faith. Brett, Hubener, and Dowall-Per ShBeleen, Messra Rush and Stewart.
doubt of the introduction of railwaya into the scheme to make their opinious heard, deed, to bo asserted that, because these ing has transpized which throws any light China, and, once introduced, of their rapid and very probably a consent for the con-undertakings have heretofore been con- on the probable cause of such an act. The extension throughout the Empire. It is a struction of such a line would be obtained ducted as commercial speculations, kidnap introduction of gas is advocated in the Ja. question of time, but probably of a much without very much difficulty. If only a few ping pure and simple is necessarily part shorter period than thay be supposed." miles were laid down, with the understand of the scheme. But the foreigner or foreign pan Herald, but whether any scheme for such These are brave words indeed, and heartily ing that if desired by the Government. It association setting about the task of des- an object is yet on foot does not appear is it to be wished that every syllable of should be removed after a stipulated period, patching a shipload of coolies for its (to With respect to amusements, the Gurrison thom, and even more, might at ones be we are confident that the cuilay incurred them) unknown destination would find the Races and the Rifle Meeting occupy the realized; but confident words do not con- would be amply repaid by the increased a táska vory hopeless one were an office sim- most prominent position, and the review of
struct railways, however much they may quaintance with the subject that would be ply to be opened and a vessel chartered, British and Japanese troops, conjointly,
promote Companies. The one element in diffused throughout China. It has already without the adoption of other means to- must
a have been very interesting
which it appears to us that Sir MACDONALD been ascertained that both at Canton and wards filling the latter for her voyage. sight, the steadiness and quickness of the
STEPHENSON and his friends are lacking, is at Shanghai the attempt to introduce the How then, does the Company or the Agent Japanese contingent surprising our milita
a sufficient appreciation of the political side scheme is hopeless; and Sir MACDONALD proceed? Customarily by engaging either ry notables at Yokohama..
of the question they have addressed them- STEPHENSON must now make up his mind directly or through the medium of sonie Somas interest has been excited at Hako-selves to deal with. In the early summer to strive for permission at Peking itself, Chinese sub-agent the serviosa of native dadi with reference to the sentence of of 1864, as a friend has related the story to and also to make it worth the while of the brokora" (as they are technically called) one years' imprisonment which has been! passed on three foreigners concerned in the 8, Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON exclaimed Chineso Government to grant what he asks. who for a numerical reward procure from the villages of the interior every able- desecration of the Aino cemetery; much London: "Don't talk to me of the oppo WITH the sincerest admiration and respect bodied male whom they can persuade to sympathy has been expressed for them, and sition of the Chinese Government! Whether for the long-attested skill and sagacity of accompany them to the coast, and wht; a petition has been forwarded to Sir Harry Parkes for a commutation of their they like it or not, I intend to have a loco- SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, it is impossible by the time he has arrived at the depot or motive running in China within two years heartily to applaud the first public result the emigrant ship, however undesirous he from to-day!" Taken as an index to the of his diplomatic action at Peking, as evin may be of emigrating, has become to anch character of the distinguished projector eed in the Convention signed by him on the an extent under the influence of the broker from whom they emanated, there words are 5th of March in conjunction with the French that he yields a passive assent to every truly remarkable; but the great promoter Minister and PRINCE KUNG on the subject demand that is made upon him, Nakedly of Indian Railways appears to have fallen of Coolie enigration, into the error of believing that individual energy and publie opinion, must have the same weight at Canton as he has found them
Wright. Mr and Mrs Michie, and Miss Finlay'; for Yokohama, Mrs Deanney, and infant-Per Flecano.
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MARRIAGES.
Da the Is February, at the Second Presbyterian Church, Galesburg 11 by the Rur. George Duffeld, dr. sisted by Rev. We, 3. Curtiss, DB, President or Knox College, Rev. Jars DoorELE, of the North China Mission of the American Board, to Misy Loga Jason, of Galesburg, I.
9 the 10th February, at Stoke Church, Devonport,
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kong, by the Rev. James Legge, D.D., WILLIAM GALD, News from the North-Rebels in the Shin-
Mil, Medical Missionary, Swatow, to Asmis, squngeal daughter of the late Jaimes Berna, Aberdeen
by Joe's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 11th April,
At St
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Warren, CMS, Chung Aerse to Wong Kwa BING
the 8th February, at the Parish Church, colen by the key. Pelham Pitcairn M.A., Vicar, PHILIP KEY ERWOOD, of Shangbaa, to Eliza ARABELLA, eldest daughter of John 1hones Wael, of Patrioof House
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BIRTHS.
On the 15th February, at £59, Riviera di Chinja, a plas, the ANSA DO CESCAL (Patella) of a Daughter. At Gough Street, Hongkong, on the 5th April, the
king province-Mandarin Butions Nerschwang again open-Foochow Se vere weather on the Coast--- News from Japare Confiscation of the PRINCE AL- Rexr by a Chinese Customs cruiser Military topics The Governor The Weather.
at Yokohama had committed suicide; noth
sentence.
during a conversation on this subject in
From Macao a report has arrived that & small steamer called the Prince Albert, belonging to QUOR ACARONG, the Compra- dore of the P. & O. Company here, has been seized by a Chinese Customs re venue cruiser in the port of Shuey tung, and confiscated as being in a non-treaty port. As trade by foreign steamers and vessels with the West Coast ports, has been more to possess at Calcutta Possibly the fact rondered necessary owing to the develop
→
This important agreement, already pu- blished in extenso in our columns, has long heen looked forward to with interest as
stated, this is the CBIP SYSTEM which has
been denounced in every official despatch. on the evils of the coolie-trade, and which it was earnestly hoped would be the object. against which the most stringent provisions
than winked at by the Chinese authorities that one year and three-quarters of his ment renched by the various schemes for of the new regulations would be directed, for some years past, it is rather "sharp chosen period have elapsed, without ad- introducing Chinese labourers itte almost If our readers who may be interested in practice" on their part to pounce suddenly vancing in any appreciable degree the every tropical and many temperate regions this subject will refer to the Blue Book upon a vessel in this way, without notifying scheme respecting which he felt so goofi.in both hemispheres. It is the indispens-respecting Emigration from Canton pub- their intention of stopping all foreign dently in 1864, may have modified his views, able complement to the clauses in the has lished in 1860 they will find on the first traffic, by confiscation of offending vessels, and may have brought him round to the taly constructed British and French supple page a despatch addressed by Mr. Consul It is to be hoped that Mr GLOVER the com- opinion which has more than once heen ex-mentary treaties concluded at. Peking in Alcock to Sir John Bowring in which the Emissioner of Custorns at Canton, may be pressed in these columns, that for the at- 1800, under which the emigration of Chi-acts of violence and fraud committed enabled to avert the contingency of such vancement of the laudable object he has so nese subjects is formally sanctioned, but by the Coolis crimps are pictured in the a heavy loss occurring to the proprietor of much at heart, it is useless to press the idea which left to a future date the provision of most forcible terms.
A few pages further the steamer.
upon the disinterested sympathies, of the such checks as the nature of the case has on he will find the same functionary ad- Considerable interest has been excited in Chinese people or government. Utterly been seen to require. Whether by the pre vocating such measures as shall "deprive.
unable to grasp the idea of the material sent Convention the object of securing to the crimp system of all plausible pretext.". military circles her oppie du Parliament advantages which Europeans so well know Chinese Emigrants those safeguards which On page 8 a despatch from Mr Parkes to that Colonel North has applied in. for papers relative to the mortality of troups are certain to accrue from the establishment are needed for their moral and physical the Hon. Mr Bruce, dated Cauton, April at Hongkong during the last hot season, and of railways, both people and Government well-being" has been accomplished, it will 11, 1859, will be found, in which the fol-
be our task in the following observationslowing remarkable passage occurs, the amount expended on reat of godowns, in China look, as experience has shown,
"The root of the evil lies in the circum- &c.; this may lead to a thorough investiga at the subject with apprehension, and ask to disonas.
In the first place it may be properly restanice that foreigners, coming to engaga At Manila, on the 12th February, the Wife of W. R. FROM Shanghae we have dates to the 9th tion, and perhaps the War Offices may be not unnaturally, for some demonstration of
instant; the principal item of interest is convinced of its grave blunders. It is to be the benefit they are to expect from a revo markod that the use of the term "Emigrant" labour in China, have no authorized or that 6,000 more troops have been sent to hoped that the next Budget may include lution of this kind. Twenty years olapsed is apt to invest with a somewhat delusive respectable source to apply to for the men At Bhanghee, on the 1st April. 1866, of Pulmonary Consumption, EDWARD AVES St, Red 28, of Gle- the Shinking province in addition to the under the head of Military Expenditure, a before Turkey could be brought to admit the character those shiploade of Chinese which they want that they are compelled, there- mingban, Zugland
At the Empire tavern. Queen's Road, Hongkong, on two thousand foreign drilled troops who margin for the erection of suitable buildings first pioneers of railway improvement; but weekly leave the ports of this part of the fore, to seek the assistance of compradors For April, NE RICE, late proprietor, aged 5 were despatched some weeks ago from Po-for any possible accession of troops to the in these days of accelerated thought and acworld, on their way to Cuba, the British or brokers at the out ports, who again em
Hongkong, un board MS. Mutotle, on the 10th king to put down the rebels who have been colony, so that there may be no repetition tion, Europeaus cairot afford even to`oon- West Indian pussessions, and South Ame- ploy orips and men of the lowest class 'to Jonk the Civil Hospital Hongkong, on the lith April, overrunning the province in large numbers, of the mournful decimation of British sol. template such a delay in those richer re-rica. Attributing the conventional niean collect coolies for them. The system of
At the Gardena Hospital, Hongkong, on the 11th and who as yet had defied all the force the diers, which marked our last summer.
In previously dilating upon the ing to this term, the public is apt to believe head-money given by the foreigners or the April, FEANCES, and Private Gun Lascars, aged your mandarins could bring to bear upon them. Fet. Inter,
subject, we have already intimated our be that a genuine voluntary exodus is taking coolie-brokers to these crimps naturally in- The district was in such a frightfully dis-morning of the 10th was actually not over-
The Mail Steamer which arrived on the lief that without bringing a stronger pres-place, in which hundreds of families aban troduced the element of fraud into their organised state that the Government were due; this is really quite exhilarating.
sure to bear upon the Chinese Government don the country in which a livelihood does proceedings; and thus, when the crimps offering mandarin Buttons to all the chiefs Porhaps in time it may be our lack to
than bas hitherto been contemplated, pro- not exist for-thon, to seek a living or a cannot get men to go with them voluntarily, THE ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for of the robber banda infesting the country, chronicle the fact, before a year or two is gress is certain to be so slow as almost to fortune in distant regions of their choice. they inveigle thom away under false pre-
1866, published by A. SHORTRADE & Co. Price, $1.
if they would give in their allegiance to the over, that the mail was really a whole day remain inappreciable. But there is more Such may be the theory of Chinese emigratonces. T
than one method by which the ruling powers tion; but all who are conversant with the Instances and quotations might be mul- Imperial Governmont. This gives a very before its tima. cheerful view of the bravery and efficiency During the past week cases of Piracy have at Peking may be influenced. The plainest subject are but too well aware that with tiplied almost without end, but two pas-
Wife of C.. Ozoszó, Jr., of a Daughter.
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DEATHS.
Spői, Dexis CARROLL, & P. R.M.8. Juniku.
CLARKE, Saamnau.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.
"China Mail" Office. Hongkong, February-26, 1866.
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