102
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
Corresponding to No.,
Corresponding to No.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetical, i.e.
English List
broken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Class XVII--All foreign rice, and other grain, Duty Free
35
SHIPPING DUES. These have hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships' length and breadth, at so much per ton; but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charge according to the registered statement of the number of tons of Cargo the Ship may carry. On each ten tons (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tons,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mace is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly dues, &c., are to be abolished.
Taoukwang, 33rd year, 8th Month, day. (July
L.S.
L.S.
of
the Supt.
Guy.Genl.
of
the
Two Kwang
Treasures
L.S.
High
Cavathis. Funer
1849.)
L.S.
Governor
Canton
in Alphabetical, i.e.
English List.
Rattan ware, rattan and bamboo work
Sandal-wood ware
44
49
Class IV--Imported Sundries.
19
Wints
Gold and Silver ware, formerly divided into
Mother of Pearl shells
20
Bullock's and Buffalo's Horns
Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned
Class XV--Imported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c.
26
Sea otter skins
30
Gold ware, and Silver ware
51
Tortoise shell ware
58
Class V--Imported Dried Meats, &c.
ARTICLES.
30
Fox skins, large and small
Leather Trunks and Boxes
59
Class VII--Exported Woods, Canes, &c.
Canes or walking sticks of all kinds
10
Bird's nests, 1st quality cleaned
Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling
do., uncleaned
3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do., black
2nd do., white
5
Tiger, Leopard, and Martin skins
Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skins
Beaver skins
39
39
30
RD
D
ARTICLES.
5
Hare, Rabbit, and Ermine skins
+1;
Sea Horn Tued)
39
4
Class VIII--Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen do., Silk and Satin do., and Velvet do.
Boots and Shoes, whether of leather, Satin, or otherwise
Elephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole
17
Shark's fins, 1st do., white
2nd do., black
38
2
J7
38
Stock Fish and dried fish
42
15
Fish maws, not formerly in the Tariff
16
48
Class VI.--Imported Painter's Stores.
Class IX--Exported fabrics of Cotton, &c.
Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen
Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly in the Tariff)
Cochineal Smalls
10
1+
27
Sapan Wood
46
Class VII.--Imported Woods, Canes, &c.
34
Class X--Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk,
Rattans
Ebony
40
Raw Silk, of any province
46
Coarse or Refuse of Silk
46
Organzine of all kinds
40
All other imported woods--as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent. ad valorem.
Silk Ribbon and Thread
46
Silk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap,
Class VIII--Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry.
lustre strings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins
46
Clocks
Watches
+3
A
Silk and Cotton mixed fabrics
47
Telescopes
Heretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished.
Glass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds
20
ARTICLES.
Writing Desks
8
Class XI--Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c.
Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c., &c.
35
Dressing Cases
S
Jewellery of Gold and Silver,
8
Cutlery, Swords, &c.
Class XII--Exported Preserves, &c.
ARTICLES.
Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds
43
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53
56
of the same description, 5 per cent. ad valorem.
All the foregoing, and any other miscellaneous articles
Class IX--Gold and Silver Bullion, and Specie. Duty Free
44
Sugar Candy, all kinds
Tobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all kinds
Class XIII--All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five per cent.
Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver. Duty Free.
Class XV--Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials. Duty Free.
Class I--Imported Oilman's Stores, &c.
ARTICLES.
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetical &
English List.
Wax, Bee's wax
Rose Malves
2
Cambrics and Muslins
Cotton yarn, and Cotton thread
Linen--fine--not formerly in the Tariff
Banting
All other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, coarse linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c., &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Class X--Imported Cotton, fabrics of Cotton, &c.
Canvas
Cotton
9
12
Lug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and inferior fine Cotton cloth
13
13
Cottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &c., formerly classed as coarse long cloth
13
Twilled Cottons, grey
13
Chintz and Prints, of all kinds
13
14
27
47
Class XI--Imported fabrics of Woollen, Silk, &c.
36
Saltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the Government
Handkerchiefs, large
13
Subult
13
37
Soap.
41
Gold and Silver thread, superior or real
inferior, or imitation
28
23
Class II--Imported Spices, and Perfumes.
Broad Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c.
+7
Gum Benzoin and Oil of ditto
Narrow Cloths, as Long Ells, Cusemeres, &c., &c.
47
Sandal Wood
45
ARTICLES.
Pepper
All other articles, of this Class not included in the Tariff
to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent.
Perfumery
Class III--- Imported Drugs.
32
Camlets (Dutch)
47
Camlets
47
Imitation Camlets or bombazettes
47
5 per cent.
Woollen yarn
SP
Blankets
4.7
All other fabrics of wool or of mixed wool and silk,
wool and cotton, &c., &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem.
Camphor Baros (or Maley), 1st quality, or cleaned;
formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor,
1
Class XII--Imported Fruits, Preserves, Spirits, &c.
Wine and Beer, in quart bottles
45
C
Cloves, 1st quality (picked)
2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor
in pint bottles
in cask
45
45
G
and quality (Mother Cloves)
7
Class XIII, Imported Metals.
ARTICLES.
Cow Bezoar
Cutch
Gambier
15
Copper, manufactured as in pigs,
30
10
manufactured as in sheets, rods, &c.
30
21
Brass out
Iron, manufactured as in pigs.
30
Ginseng, 1st quality or Cleaner
3
manufactured as in bars, rods, &c.
30
22
2nd do., refuse or Ginseng beard
Lead, in pigs, or manufactured
30
Gom Olibanum
22
Steel, manufactured
30
24
Tin
30
Myrrh
24
Mace, or Flower of Nutmeg
Tin plates, not formerly in the Tariff
30
Mercury, or Quicksilver
Nutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned
Zud
do., uncleaned
Putchuck
Rhinocero's Horns
23
38
All other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not
herein enumerated, 10 per cent. ad valorem.
RI
31
Class XI--Imported Jewellery.
ARTICLES.
33
Cornelians
11
28
Cornelian Beads
(A note abstract--reference numbers to the Alphabetic List being inserted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having been carefully compared and found correct.)
(Signed)
J. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter.
RICHARD WOOSNĀM,
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
To insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Tuesdays; but none can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday.
All extra Copies of our paper ordered at the Office, and not paid for in Cash, are charged to accounts one Rupee.
Any Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, as every Subscriber's copy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher can correct the irregularity.
VICTORIA, May
LATEST DATES.
UNITED STATES Apl. 15
CALORRA July 4
BOMBAY
MAURITIUS May 11
SINGAPORE August 2
JAVA July 29
MANILA August 15
CRESUS August 1
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1843.
In our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS, from whose labours we anticipate much benefit to the sanitary condition of the town.
When the Lands and Roads Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventured to say (File No. 2.) "We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing some general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we think are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfere no further with one's right to manage one's own property, than is necessary to protect the health of the community."
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843.
269
103
The duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent., and Lord Congleton states that three-fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter, of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports
Bafy Committee in 1840, that 48 per Cent. of the
It has been lately Notified by PROCLAMATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that between the hours of eight and ten P.M. they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lanthorns, and that after ten o'clock P.M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future, be permitted to go out, under any consideration, unless he can produce a pass in English, specifying his object in being out at so late an hour.
A PROCLAMATION has also been issued by the Chief Magistrate prohibiting, under penalty of severe punishment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at one o'clock P.M., and until Gun-fire at day light on the following morning.
W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
AS OVERLAND MAIL to England via Bombay, per "Petrel" will be closed at this Office, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P.M.
A Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per "City of Palaces" will also be closed at 3 P.M., on Wednesday, the 30th instant.
POST OFFICE,
Victoria, 20 August, 1843.
Still we would recommend the immediate covering up of the fetid drains which now give forth the most deleterious miasma.
Lord Congleton (late Sir Henry Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total annual cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement, and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences.
The total charge for collecting and protecting the customs and excise revenues of the United Kingdom, was £2,300,613 in the year 1840.
The present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and 1st and 2nd of William IV, Cap. 13.
We have only space to enable us to refer to the Government Notification with respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would expect, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony.
In London it was remarked that fever was constantly engendered in localities destitute of underground Sewage, and by a map of the Sewers it was shown by Dr. Southwood Smith, that one could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.
We are not surprised at the wording of Lord Stanley's despatch, seeing that in the last Crown Colony which had been established, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant jobbing, and peculation by almost every member of that colonial Government (vide No. 48.)
The FRIEND OF INDIA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opium monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds "this source of revenue is continued to India for fifteen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out."
Our readers well know, that there does not exist even a suspicion, of similar conduct on the part of the officials here--this we have often had occasion to say, as a valid argument for losing no longer time, in giving the holders title to their lands.
By the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the leaf of the Tea plant without first submitting it to any process of manufacture, further than sun drying. It is thought by the Shippers that this Tea will, admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose thorough acquaintance with our best interests, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it is wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Tariff promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all probable ministers would propose a reduction on any kind or sort of Tea, which should not be equally applicable to Tea sent from hence.
There was much delay, and as many doubts and misgivings about the Commercial Treaty, as have ever existed with respect to the Land Regulations. We have stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously disappointed by the promulgation of a Tariff of unprecedented liberality and of immense national value. Hence we have every confidence that the final adjustment of the Land Claims, and their future tenure, will afford as much satisfaction as will the announcement of the Commercial Treaty to his gratified countrymen at home.
We have only to examine the Tariff of any country to know if smuggling is practised; and if a bad system of commercial policy has been long pursued, there the smuggler will be found.
The exports to Gibraltar from England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly 'jutes, reduced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port.
The total amount of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to exceed £800,000 exclusive of Tobacco, cargoes of which are extensively introduced from the French bonding warehouses into England.
We would refer the reader to our abstract of the latest Legislative enactment with regard to Crown Lands (the 5th and 6th of Victoria, Cap. 36) which we think, and still think, that Act will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is fortified by Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein exhibited, and when the alterations were suggested he said "It was a system which he would be sorry to see interfered with, or principle departed from." His opinion was decidedly opposed to any such course, as was proved by its introducing a Bill, which became an Act last session, which expressly barred the Crown from interfering with the system.
ORION. August 21st, 1843.
17 Aug. Shipping News, &c.
102
THE FRIEND OF CHIN, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
Corresponding to lo.,
Corresponding to No,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetical, i, e.
English List
broken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. að valoren.
Class XVII-All forsign rice, and other grain, Duty Free
35
SHIPPING DUES THESE bave hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships || length and breadth, at so much per change but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charged according to the registeed statement of the number of tons of Carga the Ship may carry. On each ten (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tow,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mars is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly ices. &ro., are to be abolished
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English List.
Rattan ware, rattan and bamboo work Sandal-wood ware
44 49
Class IV-Importel Sundries.
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Wints
Gold and Silver ware, formerly divided into
Mother of Peart shells
20
Bullock's and Ruffalo's Horns Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned
Class XV Fraported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c.
26
Sea otter skins
30
Gold ware, and Silver ware
51
Tortoise shell ware
58
Class V-Imported Dried Meats, &c.
ARTICLES.
30
Fox skras, larve and small
Leather Trunks and Boxes
59
Class VII-Exported Woods. Cares, &c. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds
10
Bird's nests, 1st quality cleaned Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling
do., uncleanci 3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do, black 2nd do,, white
5
Tiger, Leopard, sad Martin skins Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skius Beaver skine
39
39
30
RD
D
ARTICLES.
5
Hare, Rabbit, and Ermine skine
+1;
Sea Horm Tued)
39
4
Class VIII-Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing. Woollén do., Silk and Sutin do,, and Velvet do, Boots and Shoes, whether of leather Satin, or
otherwise
Elephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole
17
Shark's as, 1st dn, white 2ud do, black
38
2
J7
38
Stock Gsh and dried fish
42
15
Fish: maws, not formerly in the Tariff
16
48
Class VI.--Imported Painter's Stores.
Class IX-Erported fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp of linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly
in the Tarif
Cochineal Smalis
10
1+
27
Sapan Wood
46
Class VII.--Impuried Woods, Canes, &c.
34
Class X—Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk, 42-
Rattans Ebony
40
Raw Silk, of any province
46
Coarse or Refuse of Silk
46
Organzine of all kinds
40
All other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tarif, 10 per cent, ad valorem.
Silk Ribbon and Thread
46
Silk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap,
Class VIII-laporied Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry.
lutestrings, &c,, &c., &c, formerly classed as silks and satins
46
Clocks Watches
+3
A
Silk and Cotton mixed fabrics
47
Telescopes
Heretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied, the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished.
Glass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds
20
ARTICLES.
Writing Deska
8
Class XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c. &c. 35
Dressing Cases
S
Jewellery of Gold and Silver,
8
Cutlery, Swords, &c,
Class XII-Exported Preserves, fc.
ARTICLES. Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds
43
A
Sov
}
53
56
of the sanie description, 5 per cent, od valorem.
All the foregoing, and any other miscellanore unticles
Class IX-Guki and Sitzer Bullion, and Sperae. Duty Free
44
Sugar Candy, all kinds
Tobacco, prepared and unprepared &c., &út, of
all kinds
Class XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad colorem duty of five per cent. Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver.
Duty Free.
Classs XV-Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials.
Duty Free,
Class L-Imported Oilman's Stores, de
ARTICLES.
Corresponding to No.
in Alphabetini &
English List.
Wax, Bee's wax Rose Malves
2
Cambrics and Masting
Cotton yarn, and Cotton thread
Linen-fine-not formely in the Tariff
Banting
All other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pul- licates, dyed cottons, velveteens silk and citon mixtu rea, course linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c. &c. & per cent. al calorem.
Cuss X---Imported Cotton, fubrics of Collen, fr., §c.
Canvas Corton
9
12
Lug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and
inferior fine Cotton cloth
13
13
Cottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &ce, formerly
classed as coarse long cloth
13
Twilled Cottons, grey
13
Chintz and Prints, of all kinds
13
14
27
47
Class XI-Imported fabrics of Woollen, Niik, de, de.
36
Saltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the
Government
Handkerchiefs, large
13
Subult
13
37
Soap.
41
Gold and Silver thread, superior or real
inferior, or imitation
28
23
Class II-Imported Spices, and Perfumes.
Brond Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c.
+7
Gum Benzoin and Oil of ditto
Narrow Clotis, as Long Eds, Cusemneres, &e., de.
47
Sandal Wood
45
ARTICLES.
Pepper
All other articles of this Class not included in the Tarifl
tu pay an all calorem duty of Ten por cont.
Perfumery
Class III--- Imported Drugs.
32
Camlets (Dutch)
47
Camlets
47
Imitation Camiots or bombazettes
47
5 per cent.
Woollen yara
SP
Blankets
4.7
All oder fabrics of wood or of mixed wool and silk,
Assaftetia
wool and cotton. &c. & per cent, að caboreza.
Camphor Barbos (or Maley,) 1st quality, or cleaned;
formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor,
1
Class Xil--Laportet Finca, Preserves, Spirita &c. Wine and Beer, in quart bottles
45
C
Cloves, 1st quality (pieked)
2nd quality, refisse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor
in pint bottles in cask
45
45
G
and quality (Mother Cloves)
7
Class XIII, Importal Metals.
ARTICLES.
Cow Bezour
Cutch
Gambier
15
Copper, manfiretured as in pigs,
30
10
Banufactured as in sheets, rods &c.
30
21
Betch out
Iron, comanufactured as in pigs.
30
Ginseng, 1st quality or Cleaner
3
manufactured as in bars, rods &c.
30
22
2nd
do., refuse or Ginseng beard
Lead, in pigs, or manufactured
30
Gom Olibarni
22
Stoel, unanufactured
30
24
Tin
30
Myrrh
24
Mace, or Flower of Nutmeg
Tin plates, not formerly in the Tarift
30
Mercury, or Quicksilver
Nutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned
Zud
do., uncleaned
Putchuch Rhinocero's Horns
23
38
All other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not
herein mumerated, 10 per cent. at walorem,
RI
31
Class XI Imparted Jewellery.
ARTICLES.
33
Cornelians
11
28
Cornelian Beads
(A une abstract-reference mumbers to the Alphabetic List bung in- serted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having boon carefully compared and found correct.)
(Signed)
(True Copy)
J. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter. RICHARD WOOSNĀM,
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.
To insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Toeslag hut unae can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday,
All extra Copies of our puper ordered at the Office, and not paid Cash, are charged to accounts one Rupee
Any Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, as every Subscriber's repy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher can correct the irregularity.
EVOLAND May
LATEST DATES.
UNITED Bras Apl. 15 CALORA July &
Brommay
Spray May IJ
SINGAreas Argast 2 Jays July 29 MANILA Angus 15 Cresas Aver
1.4
+;
THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, THURSDAY, Arever 21en, 1843.
Ix our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLI Ness, () hom whose labours we anticipato much benil to the sunitary condition of the town.
When the Lands and Rods Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventur- ed to say (File No. 2.) We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing same general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we dink are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfire no further with one's right to manage one's own pro- perty, than is necessary to protect the health of the community."
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843.
269
103
The duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent, and Lord Congleton states that three fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter The following is again published by an- of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports thority, for general information :
Bafy Committee in 1810, that 48 por Cent. of the It has been lately Notified by PROCLA whatever; and that the loss to the revene of French Silks imported into Egiand paid no duty MATION of the CHES MAGISTRATE, to the smuggled French brandy was estimated at Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be-2500000 a you. The Prerum on the illicit tween the hours of eight and ten P. M. atroduction of French goods into England was they are prohibited from being out of their 1831, for Gold triaketa, 6 to 10 par Cent. Silver, houses without lanthorns, and that after ten
10 to 12; Silk gomis 29 to 25 per Cant., Tea 50 per Cent, and Spirits 80 per Cont.
| o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the
In the same Report, is is stated that British following morning, no Chineso will, in fature Goods of the value of £2,000,000 were snuggled be permitted to go out, under any consider-ins France across the Belgia: frontier, besülés a ption, unless he can produce a pass in Eng-inge amount through the Channel ports. lish, specifying his object in being out at so On the Belgian frontier dags are trained to
late an hour.
evoy the snuggled goods into France. Between 1820 to 1830 at fewer ton 40,279 sanggling A PROCLAMATION has also been issuedffcers, who receive thirea francs (48) for each.
dogs were destroyed by the French Custom House prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- In 1882 the cost of preventing struggling in unt, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from England was truly enormous, and in that and the moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at following year there were captured on the Coast. aine o'clock P. A., and until Gm-fire at engaged in the contraband trade, 52 10ssels and day light on the following morning.
385 bouts. The seizures in one half year were valued at £97.980. W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE.
AS OVERLAND MAIL to England ria Buhay, nee "Petrell" will be closed at this fee, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P. M.
A Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per "City of Palaces" will also be closed at 3 P. M, on Wednesday,
the 30th instani.
POST OFFICE,
Victoria. 20 August, 1813.
miture what is now required, its acquaintance with the wants of the Colony satistics us that proper mea
veronicat.
Still we would recommend the tome- diate covering up of the fetid denine which now give forth the most deleterious minsara,
Lord Congleton (Inte Sir feary Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total anal cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £ 800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement. and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences.
The total charge for collecting and protecting the customs auf excise revenues of the Pnited Kingdon, was 22.300613 in the year 18-10.
the department of the customs was 11,000 and In 1885 the number of persons employed in the excise 6,079.
in
The present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and Land & of Wiliam, Cap. 13.
refer to the Government Notification with We have only space to enable us to
sures will be taken under the sanction of the Go-respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would export, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony,
In London it was remarked that fever was con- startly engendered in localitics destitute of under- ground Swenge, and by a map of the Sowers it
We are not surprised at the wording of was shown by Dr Southwood Staith, that ons could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts Lord Stanley's despatch, socing that in the and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary last Crown Colony which bad been esta- condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.blished, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant and jobbing, and peculation by aithost every member of that colonial Go- vernom (vide No. 48.)
The FRIEND OF INDA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opa monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds this source of revenue is continued to Ludia for theen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out."
Our readers well know, that there does not exist even ususpicion, of similar couduct en the part of the officials here--this wo have often land occasion to say, us a valki argument for losing no longer truc, in giving the holders tiler to their lands,
By the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the loaf of the Ten plant without first submitting it to any process The large powers which it is well known al' wamfacture, further than sun drying. It is are wisely confided to H. 1 (whose tho- thought by the Shippers that this Ten will, berough acquaintance with our best interests admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it bong in an unmanufactured state. We think
this wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Taxir ads us to be quite sanguíne of a highly promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all pro-satisfactory result. hable ministers would propose a reduction on any There was much delay, and as many kind or sort of Ten, which should not be equally doubts and misgivings abmit the Commer- applicable to Ten sent from hence,
cial Treaty, as have ever existed with
From a late publication of established authority, soon with respect to the former, that the respect to the Land Regulations. We have we have abriged an article en smuggling. His stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously Suugging is the clalestine ironcine of an agreeably disappointed by the promal- prohibited goods; or the illicit introduction of
goods by the evasion of the legal duties. Escos-gation of a Tariff of unprecedented' libera- sive duties present an overwhelming temptation lity and of immense national value. Henco to men to evade them; and the law loses a great we have every confidence that the final part of its moral influence when it first tempts adjustment of the Land Claims, and their * to the violation of it, and then pauishes the offence.
future tenure, will afbrd as much satisfac-
We then thought "regulations would have been nade as far as possible, conformable with,and minis- tering to, the convenience, wealth, and confort of the present and future residents of our new city."
On a later occasion (Fide No. 6) when the alleg.sively carried on, the smuggler is rather a popularredound as much to the honour of II. E.,
ed unhealthmoss of Hong-Kong was a subject of nuimadversion in the English Papers we said (aud now we see no reason to after our opinions) Ma- eau is one of the healthicst towns in the world, and it is fully certain that when proper houses, barracks, cc., with the Sanitary Regulations which always obtain in an English town, Hongkong will lay claim, and justly, to even a superior salubrity".
It is not to be wondered at, if with the many and great claims on the time of H. E, nothing has Hitherto been done. We need not inform the com-
(*) This ride is not ungly chosen. Seving bow contingent halit te upor Cleanliness it word hoze auffierd, and it would have bees-we think mure correct to bare omitted and Glennlin, 295, ad ended it merely a C-unites or Board of Pobito Heath. At A tak dh a ta demquation of this very tertul b dy would ne have beci provocative, wit law is, of a gibe on a langu
In parts of a country where a free trade is extention to
person than otherwise in some countries; in Spain, still more thau in England.
our little community, and will
as will the announcement of the Commer We have only to examine the Tariff of any cial Treaty to his gratified countrymen country to know if smuggling is practised; and if abad system of commercial policy has been long
at home. pursed, there the smuggler will be found. The exports to Gibraltar Rems England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly jutes. duced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port.
The total ameamt of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to execod £800,000 ex- clusive of Tobacco wiele cargoes of which aro enetics introduced from the French bonding wan homes int› Towinual.
Wo would refer the reader to our absact of the larnet Legislativo cunement wul regard Grow a Landu (the 5 ard oi Vieraţiu Cop. 36) we ihn guid, and still think, that Ant will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is forted by Goling Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein seribel, and when she ulterius were enggested hesaid It was a system which he would be sorry to see inter fered with, or principle deparred front. His opinion was decidedly opposed to any soch course, as was proved by its introducing a Biž, which became an ret last session, which ex- pressly baried the Crown from interfering with the system. Vos Rapor ne na Braun og QuanYes Pricer's Poyanmar! S
ORION. Arest Byn. 1813.
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