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        "content_text": "\ncoded in perpetuity to Her Britannic \n\nMajestig, Wes Heirs and die \n\nسمجھ \n\nAll subject of Wei Britannic \n\nر \n\nMaje diy (wholle, Natives of Europed or India 57 who \n\n6. \n\narrrd \n\nany \n\nbe in \n\nmay \n\nconfinement in \n\npart of the Chinese Empire to bes \n\nC. Cei \n\nditionally \n\nd. \n\nAn act of full \n\namnesting to be published by the Empero \n\nunder his Imperial signs \n\nseat to all Chinese \n\nde from selgating this brightly satisfactan intelligence, His Majesty's Plenipotentiary \n\npomposity reframes from any \n\nof his \n\nenergy. \n\nKer... \n\ndevotioir \n\nchment as to the \n\ndetailed expression \n\nski W \n\nsurpassing louis, which have \n\nVarrer en 7 \n\ndistinguished the to the towart, of all arms oftter. Majesty's \n\ngoodes, from the highest \n\nForces desring \n\nWhy's combined \n\nthe content that has led to thaved \n\nThe clamis which have been \n\nB \n\ntous results \n\nthis established with be doubtles \n\nbless. In the \n\nby the highest authorikis Her Majestaje Plenipotentiary \n\nManual and. \n\neats on account of \n\nit Govt \n\nMajesty's pr \n\nof a \n\nthen having hold service or interer \n\nwith \n\nor resided under the British \n\nwrite office. \n\ntomes \n\nCorrespondence to be. con desctod of perfect quality amongst the \n\nOfficers of both Governments \n\nOn the Emperor's assent bring and the parpment \n\nreceived to this Freaky. \n\nof the frist $6,00 \n\nMajesty \n\n6,000,000 \n\nHea Britan \n\nForces to child from Nanking \n\nd Caval and the bui \n\nand the grand caval, \n\nand the tuitidary Fest at Chink and to be also with or acous, \n\nbut the delands of Chusan & Koolungers, \n\nA.2. \n\nAr A \n\nto be held until the money payments \n\n6 for opening the Porto \n\nthe \n\nby \n\nErr \n\ncom \n\nChina on the \n\nowledged \n\nteine \n\nsulates \n\ncasions \n\nwhich he trests and belaves will, in \n\nPeace whe \n\nduce times, be \n\nand \n\nin \n\nequally beneficials to their \n\nbeneficials to the pubgrati \n\nInterests of both England and China. \n\nGed save the Queen! \n\nDated on boord the Steam der gate Queen \n\nriver, off Nanking, \n\nthe Yangtsekrang \n\n2900 day of August 201125 \n\n(24) Henry Potterges \n\nthes \n\nHer majesty's Plenipote biary. The Copy \n\nArin kunde Le Colonel, \n\nMy Adjutant General E. J. \n\n灣",
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        "content_text": "\n\nNot received at \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nKin-shan, which lies at the mouth of the Grand Imperial Canal; that you should fortify that island as strongly as you can, and give to it an ample garrison, and a sufficient supply of provisions, so that in the event of your Excellency being induced to leave it for a time to its own resources, it may be able to defend itself against any force the Chinese may bring against it, until your Excellency may return to relieve it. \n\n26. From this place, so made secure, your Excellency will carry on such operations as you may deem advisable for interrupting altogether the whole trade of the Chinese Empire, which is carried on by the Imperial Canal, and thus forcing the Chinese Government to accede to such terms of peace às Her Majesty may think fit to demand. \n\n27. For information relative to the Yang-tse-kiang and the island of Kin-shan, I refer your Excellency to the papers numbered 7 and 8, which are annexed to this letter; and for the views entertained by His Grace the Duke of Wellington, with respect to the operations to be carried on, to the extracts from a memorandum 9 and memorandum 10. \n\n28. I have further annexed to this letter (No. -) three copies. of a sketch made by an the Colonial Office. officer attached to Lord Amherst's embassy, of the Yang-tse-kiang, from Kin-shan to \n\nNankin. \n\n29. To the statements contained in the memorandum upon that island and its vicinity, I should add, that the part of the town of Kwatchoo (opposite Kin-shan) which is on the east bank of the Grand Canal, is on high ground, and commands the other part of the town from which it is divided. \n\n30. I conclude that your Excellency must be in possession of the report of Captain Bethune upon the Yang-tse-kiang, but I think it safer to annex it likewise (No. 12.) to this letter. \n\n31. Your Excellency will understand, that it is upon operations carried on in the neigh- bourhood of, and upon the Grand Imperial Canal, and interrupting the internal commerce of the Chinese Empire, that Her Majesty's Government rely for an early and satisfactory termination of the war. Her Majesty's Government, earnestly desirous that the war should be so terminated, have at great cost and with great sacrifices, placed an amply sufficient. force for coercing the Chinese Emperor, at your Excellency's disposal; and they entertain no doubt that your Excellency, acting with your accustomed vigour and ability, will so apply that force as to effect the sole objects they have in view,--the vindication of the honour of Her Majesty's Crown, and the establishment of peaceful commerce with the Chinese nation upon a secure and permanent basis. \n\n32. It is the conviction of Her Majesty's Government that the continued application of a sufficient force to the complete interruption of the internal trade of the Chinese Empire carried on by the Grand Imperial Canal, must necessarily compel the submission of the Chinese Emperor to Her Majesty's just demands. Your Excellency will therefore confine yourself to such measures as may, in your opinion, most certainly lead to the accomplish- ment of that purpose, and will either evacuate or occupy any points on the Chinese coast as you may think most conducive to the attainment of it, making all minor considerations yield to that of succeeding in the great enterprise with which your Excellency is intrusted. \n\n33. Your Excellency will, however, in whatever operations you may think it expedient to carry on, always bear in mind that it is the decided opinion of Her Majesty's Government that the military and naval forces employed in the expedition should, at all times, be placed in such positions as may secure their easy and constant communication with each other. The equipment furnished to the troops under your Excellency's command is not such as to enable them to carry on with security and effect any operations at a distance from naval support; nor is it desired that such should be their character. Without incurring any such risk, your Excellency may, by operations within the reach of the fleet upon the commercial communications of the Chinese Empire, effect all the purposes which Her Majesty's Govern- ment have in view. \n\nI send a copy of this letter to the Naval Commander-in-Chief, whom I, at the same time, address in a separate letter, of which a copy is enclosed for your Excellency's information. \n\nGins. \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\n26 Alligator, ordered to be fitted as a receiving ship at Trincomalee. 26 Herald. \n\n26 Conway. \n\n26 Calliope. 20 Nimrod. 18 Pylades. 18 Modeste. \n\n18 Favorite. \n\n18 Larne. 18 Hyacinth. \n\n16 Cruizer. \n\nNo. 2. \n\nGuns. \n\n16 Childers, \n\n16 Pellican. \n\n16 Clio. \n\n10 Algerine. \n\n10 Camelion. \n\nSulphur,Surveying vessels ordered Starling, \n\nJupiter, \n\nhome. \n\nRattlesnake, Troop ships. \n\n10 Britomart, at Australia. \n\n4 Beagle, Surveying vessel at Australia. \n\nRETURN of Ships ordered out to the East Indies, with the Names of the Ships they are intended to relieve. \n\nGuns. \n\n36 Cambrian, to relieve 42 Thalia \n\nGuns. 44 Druid. \n\n26 Herald. \n\n26 North Star \n\n26 Conway. \n\n18 Dido \n\n26 Calliope. \n\n16 Hazard \n\n16 Siren \n\n16 Harlequin \n\n16 Serpent \n\nBelleisle \n\n\" \n\n>> \n\n18 Modeste. \n\n18 Favorite. \n\n18 Larne. \n\nApollo Troop ships. Sapphire f \n\nVixen \n\n18 Hyacinth. \n\nGeyser } Steam-vessels intended to be sent. \n\nNo. 3. \n\nSTEAMERS, \n\nThe following is the Number of Steam-vessels to be employed with the Fleet in China. \n\nSesostris, 4 guns. \n\nPhlegethon, 2 ditto \n\nNemesis, 2 ditto \n\nQueen. \n\nHooghly. \n\niron. \n\nAuckland will proceed from Semiramis Bombay. \n\nAriadne, \n\n}have proceeded. \n\nMedusa, \n\nMemnon, to sail by the end of January \n\n1842, from London. \n\nAkbar, to sail a month after. \n\nPluto (iron), bas sailed from England. Tenasserim, from Calcutta, under re- \n\npairs. \n\nVixen, from England. Geyser,f \n\nGuns. \n\n72 Cornwallis. \n\n72 Wellesley. \n\n72 Blenheim. \n\nNo. 1. \n\nI have, &c. (signed) \n\nEllenborough. \n\nRETURN of Ships in the Indian and China Seas. \n\nNo. 4. \n\nMEDICAL STORES and HOSPITAL NECESSARIES. \n\nTHE establishment of a medical depôt at Hong-Kong having been determined upon, an indent of medicines was forwarded from England by the October mail to China. \n\nThe following articles of comfort or convenience have also been indented for, viz.— 10,000 pairs of shoes; 10,000 worsted shirts; 10,000 Lascar caps; 10,000 yards of flannel; 10,000 pairs of woollen stockings or socks; 10,000 Europe blankets. \n\nGuns, \n\n44 Endymion. \n\n44 Druid. \n\n42 Blonde. \n\n26. Alligator, \n\n596. \n\nF \n\nNo. 5.",
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        "content_text": "is unnecessary \n\nbond. \n\nKeeper of the Records \n\nad \n\nColored Patter \n\na Auck of the Court who homever would have pepperly be called a bijutian. \n\nThe Paquitrate it affears from \n\neflarid is merely a titte quoi to the Auf Clark. Disparity \n\nmeaning had better le dispensed Colanil Inalcoluci account is mi \n\nshaving as meaning with _ the number of \n\nAuke mefany \n\nis the \n\nProvost-Mantal \n\nas well, \n\nނ \n\nthere can be \n\nfart Sheriff \n\nDepartment in a question afer abut itsions little doubt in his aural cefantur havan \n\nenfifille here to quis any ofinion. the only \n\ngive \n\nduration but could be made \n\nttel us mere \n\nbe hift. \n\nwould be \n\nKhan at \n\nshotulely refrany \n\nshould \n\nabundance \n\nof duties. His Etulbibments seems larger but I know no obicnation \n\nto be made ufen it careft the dame as defecting Auber in the Santary Officer tas of the four affeening wide this head not Adoord Sunderland to be intindul \n\nfor the Police Deft & two for the Indical- \n\nIn Judge the called thief Santric & Office to be called \n\nAlle \n\nferral are admitted the septung \n\nales",
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        "content_text": "re \n\nNOTICE. \n\nSUPPLEMENT. \n\nCONSULAT DE FRANCE EN CHINE. \n\nWE hereby give Notice that on 1st August, next, A decision consulaire en date d' aujourd'hui, \n\nour Establishment will be removed to Canton, \n\nMacao, 10th July, 1843, \n\nDALLAS, 4. Co. \n\nOTICE-The business of the undersigned was NO \n\ntransferred to Alcests. Gibb, Livingston & Co., on the 1st of July last. \n\npr. pro. \n\nCanton, August 5th, 1843. \n\nJ. 8. RIGGE & Co., JOHN SILVERLOCK. \n\nCIRCULAR. \n\nMR. ROBERT STRACHAN is authorised to sign \n\nby Procuration for our Firm \n\nMr. Adans Scott is also authorised to sign by procu. \n\nration for our Fira. \n\nW. & T. GEMMELL. &Co. Victoria Hong-Kong, 24 July, 1843. \n\nCIRCULAR. \n\nSINCE the 30th ultima our Office has been removed from Macao to Hong-Kong and correspondents will please address us at this settlement accordingly. Our business at Canton will continue to be managed by Mr. James A. Bolbert. \n\nW. T. GEMMELL. & Co. Victoria Hong Kong 24 July 1843. \n\nPUBLIC AUCTION. \n\nWILL be sold. by Public Auction, on Saturday, the 26th Inst., at the Godowns of N. Duus, 18, Queen's Road. \n\nPine and Pune Spars-Singapore Beats. Raisins in cask and Boxes. Fresh Flour-Glassware - 4. 6, 8, aud 12 lb Gung,-Muskets -Sherry, Port and Madeira in Wood and Bottles, Brandy. Rum, and Atrack Vinegar and Claret in Wood, American Drill, and Longcloth- Blae cloth, Chintz Gram, Preserved Meats, Coals-aleo two handsome Mahogony hair cloth couches. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nAuctioneer. \n\nN. B. No goods delivered before the amounts paid. \n\nare \n\nNOTICE. Goods and Merchandise, of all descrip. tions received and carefully Stored in pacions dry and Secure granite Godowns Situated on the Queen's Road, below the premises of Mesrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. at Victoria, Hong Kong, apon moderate terms. \n\nApply upon the premises to \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. \n\nGoods are received and sold on Commission \n\nVietoria, 10th August 1843, \n\nWANTED. \n\nA RESPECTABLE young Man, to take charge of \n\na complete set of Books, \n\nJNO. BENNETT, Victoria, August, 1943. \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN'S advertises for Sale Cham pagne, Sauterne, French Claret in Casks, Selt. zer water, Wax candles, Stationery, Salad oil, Eau de Cologne, Batavia arrack, Copper Sheathing, Win- dow Glass, Shot and other artioles, apply to, \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. \n\nQueens Road. \n\nVictoria, 10th August 1843. \n\nFOR SALE,-Prime Port, E. I. Sherry, W. I. Sherry, Hock, Moselle, and Claret in dozen Cases, Brands warranted, apply to \n\nF. H. TIEDEMAN. Victoria, 10th August 1843. Queens Road, \n\nFOR SALE at the Godowns of the Undersigned, Europe, Manila, and patent Manila cordage, of sizes. Do, Amberline, Flanseline, Oakum double and single blocks, paints, canvas and Twine, Chain suitable for Sheets and Tyes, Anchors 21 to 24 cwt. Boats \n\nAnchors, \n\nApply to Mr. Gutiorres on the premises. \n\nWILLIAM SCOTT. Victoria, 9th August 1843. \n\nMr. CHALLAVE éleve consul, n'appartient plus au Consulat de France en Chine. \n\nCOMTE DE RATTI-MENTON. \n\nMacao, le 17 Aout, 1842. \n\nAVIS.--Les Français qui se trouvent, ou se trouveront en Chi. ni, sont prévenns que s'ils veulent s'assurer la protection du Consulat de France et la jouissance des druitz et priviléges deju attribuée, nu qui pourront l'étre à l'avenir, par les traités, les loia o ordonnances aux sujets de S. M. le Roi des Français, devront se fuire inscrire snr. le registre matricule du dit Consulut, en se présentant eux.nièmes, où.on.cas d'impossibilité en adressant au Consul une requête, où ils déclarerout, sous serment, qu'ils n'ont encouru la perte de leur qualité de Français, par aucune des eireanstances spécifiées dans l'art, 17 du code civil, tels que la naturalisation, l'acceptation non autorisée par le Rai, de foncti as publiques conférées par un gouvernement étranger, et enfin, par tout établissement fait en pays étranger, sats esprit de retour. \n\nLe Consul de France. COMTE DE RATTI-MENTON. \n\nFOR SALE at the Godowns of the Undersigned \n\nNo, 20 Queen's Road, \n\nPort, Sherry, Madeira, Raspberry Ratafia, Brandy in wood and bottle, Arrack, Preserved Provisions, Vi- negar, Sauces. Pickles, Mustard, Anchors, Chain Cables, Rigging and Boat Chain, Europe and Manila Ropo, Canvas, Blocks, Stationery, Saws. Chisels, Telesco- pas. Pistols, Percussion Capa, Musical Boxes, Lundan London Bottled Beer, and a variety of other articles \n\nALEXANDER MOSS. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 22d August, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE-Bally Rice, ditto Coffee, Copenhage Cherry, Cordials in Pints, Manila Cordage, Oakum, Corks, Singapore Planks, Anchors and Chains, Ar rack. Bengal Chitney, Butter in Kegs, Candles, and a variety of other articles. \n\nAt the Godowns of JOHN BURD & Co. \n\nTO LET.-Spacious Dry and Secure BRICK GODOWNS, situated below the premises of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. For Terms, apply to, \n\nJOHN BURD & Co. \n\nVictoria, Hong-Kong, 12th July, 1843. \n\nQueen's Road, \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAT the Godowns of C. W. BOWRA, Ship's Stores \n\nof all descriptions. \n\nNo. 13, Queen's Road. \n\nNOTICE \n\nTHE undersigned has just received ex, a late arrival a fashionable assortment of Boots & Shoes at mode. rate prices. \n\nJNO. BENNETT. \n\nCURIOSITIES \n\nAN elegant selection of Card Ivory, Japan Ware, Silks, Satin, Crape Shawls, figured Crape, and other Fancy Goods, at Canton prices. The above are now ex. posed for sale at the Show Rooms of the undersigned, \n\nJNO. BENNETT, Victoria, August, 1843. \n\nBOOKS. \n\nA Book Auction will be held at the Rooms of the un. dersigned, on Friday Evening next, at 5 o'clock pre- cisely. \n\nJNO BENNETT. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN Consequence of the great difficulty and expense of supporting in an efficient manner the Exchange Rooms, (unassisted by the means expected to have been derived from the monthly subscription), the undersigned is sorry to announce the absolute necessity of closing henceforth used as a Show Room in Connexion with the same, and he begs leave to notify that it will bo \n\nhis general business. \n\nJNO. BENNETT. \n\nVictoria, 22nd August, 1843 \n\nTHE NEW TARIFF. CORRECTED Copies of the new Tarit have been \n\ngot up at great expence and with much attention for the use of Merchants, etc. etc. They can be had at the Office of the Friend of China in two forms, \n\n1. On a Broadside to hang up in the Counting House. \n\n11. As a letter for Overland Mail. Price one Dollar \n\nach. \n\nFOR SALE-A 12 Oared Cutter, built at Singapore, \n\nquite new, length 22 feet beam, 6 feet inside, \n\nApply to \n\nWILLIAM SCOTT, Victoria, 24th August, 1843. \n\nNOTICE.-J. J. LOPES and G. MOSES, beg to inform the public that they have this day established themselves under the firm of Lopes, Moses, & Co., Gen- eral Agents, Auctioneers &c. &c, and shal be happy to execute, with care and promptitude, any orders they may be entrusted with. \n\nMacao, 23rd June, 1943, \n\nNOTICE.-We, the undersigned, beg respectfully to intimate to the Merchants, Captains, Officers, and the inhabitauts in general, that we have already engaged a very commodious House in a convenient part of the Praya Grande, by a previous licence of His Excelleuny \n\nthe Governor of Alacao, to open Public Auction and Commission Rooms; therefore, beg to solicit the kind Patronage of the Public. \n\nCONDITIONS. \n\nproceeds fifteen, or sooner, if required, \n\nAccount Sales will be rendered three days after, and \n\nA Commission of 5 per cent will be charged on any \n\namount. \n\ncent. \n\nOpium, Ships, Vessels, Silver-ware. &c. &c. 2 per LOPES, MOSES, & Co. Macao, 10th July, 1843, \n\nFOR SALE-Sparkling Champagne, and Johannisberg Flock, from Messrs. T. Giesler, & Co., of Rheims and Cologne. Apply to \n\nJOHN LEATHLEY. Hongkong, 29th June, 1843. \n\nTO BE SOLD. \n\nOX Tongues in pickle, Rounds of Corned Beef, Oil Paints; White, Green, Black, Yellow, Belfast Bacon flams, Truckle Cheese, Preserved meats and Soups- \n\nApply on board tho \n\nDUKE OF WELLINGTON, \n\nVictoria Harbour, Hong-Kong, 11th August, 1843. \n\nAUGUST. \n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. \n\n17th, Caroline \n\n18th, Swallow (Am.) Williams \n\nARRIVE D. \n\nPhelps \n\nCarib \n\n\" \n\nIlcaton \n\nColonist \n\nLeisk \n\nMacao Whampoa Chusan Chusan \n\nIris \n\n+ \n\n19th, Time \n\nMeritt Anderson \n\nLiverpool \n\nNamoa \n\n}} \n\nWill O'the Wisp Walker Mazeppa \n\nFraser \n\nChusan \n\n20th, Sophia Fraser Williams \n\nCalcutta \n\nFair Barbadian Wolfe 22nd, H.M.8. Starling \n\nMacao Amoy \n\nDEPARTED. \n\nAUGUST. \n\n17th, City of Palaces Byworth \n\nAnna Robertson Hutchinson 18th, Royal Exchange Hubertson \n\nAden \n\n19th, Carib \n\nMacan Whampoa \n\n1913, \n\n1845. \n\nAm \n\nThorn \n\nFredrk Huth \n\n\" \n\nToby \n\n> \n\nRod Rover \n\nMc. Murdo \n\n+! \n\nChusan \n\nJulia \n\nM \n\nJennings \n\nAmoy \n\n> \n\nMacto \n\nClark \n\nWhampos \n\nHeaton Will O'the Wisp Walker Time \n\nMacao \n\n\" \n\nAnderson \n\nMazeppa \n\nFraser \n\nMadras \n\nSlack \n\nWhampoa \n\n20th, Prince Regent \n\nChipp \n\n21th, Thos Fielden \n\nBlackston \n\nAmoy Whampos \n\n++ \n\nGood Success Fair Barbadian Velocipede \n\nEames Wolfe \n\nMacao \n\nWoodward \n\nMarula \n\nWilliam \n\nMacao \n\nWilliam \n\nAmoy \n\n22nd. Swallow (Am.) 24th, Sophia Frasct' \n\nWILLIAM PEDDER \n\nHarbor Master, \n\nHarbor Master's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, August, 23rd 1848, \n\nMy Lord. \n\nREC \n\nEIVED \n\nC.0. \n\nJAN 5 1844 \n\nColonical department. \n\nHouse Victoria \n\nGovernment House \n\nHonything) 26th August 1943. \n\nکچھ \n\nB:ree the date of my despatch No 5 of the 13th j 21st month, I have had the hener \n\nto receive Your Lordship's despatches from no \n\nI of the 26th Mary to 1010 of the 6th of June, both inclusive; also Your Lordship's Erenlait of the 9tof March and 6th and 18th May - ind. the Dreplicates of all preceding deepulches and Circulars, not befue acknowledged. \n\nThe Night; Nenerable, Word Stanley \n\nfo \n\nto",
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        "content_text": "CHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nNo. 8. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nThat even in the island of Antigua, where the population is very abundant. and the difficulty of obtaining a livelihood consequently greater than in most of the other colonies; and where it was at first believed that labour could be obtained sufficient for the profitable cultivation of the soil, the want of continuous labour is now loudly complained of \n\nThe declining state of the West Indies has been repeatedly brought under the notice of Her Majesty's Government, without any effectual relief having been afforded to their necessities. \n\nTheir present distress having been caused, not by any negligence or imprudence of the West Indians themselves, but by a deliberate Act of the Imperial Parliament, your Memorialists conceive that they have a just claim upon Her Majesty's Government for the employment of the most energetic and comprehensive measures of relief that can be afforded without injury to the interests of other parties; and your Memorialists appeal with confidence to your Lordship and the other members of the Cabinet, because the consequences of the emancipation, as regarded the prosperity of the West Indies, were distinctly foretold during the debates in Parliament on the Bill, by \n\n1st. His Grace the Duke of Wellington who, having presented a petition praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, which prayer was refused, protested against the passing of the Bill, to which protest your Memorialists respectfully crave permission to refer. \n\nyou \n\n2nd. By Sir Robert Peel, who, in his speech on the Bill, observed, \"In the West Indies after abolish the necessity of labour from coercion, you cannot substitute the stimulus to labour from the necessity of procuring subsistence. The labour of a few days is all that is necessary in those countries to procure, not merely the articles of subsistence, but also the articles of luxury. The evidence is conclusive, that so fertile is the land in most of the West Indian islands, that a slave by a very small portion of corporeal exertion indeed can obtain all that is sufficient to maintain existence.\" Your colonies may become wildernesses, but the demand for sugar will continue, and it will be supplied from the colonies of other states; and either those colonies must import fresh slaves, or those they have already must labour still more severely to supply your demand.\" \n\nSo far from any effectual means of procuring a supply of labour in the place of that of which the emancipation deprived the West Indians having been adopted, restrictions have since been actually imposed upon the introduction of labourers from the Indian seas which did not exist at the time when the Act was passed; and thus the sources from which ample supplies of labour could be drawn have been stopped, notwithstanding the urgent and repeated remonstrances of the West Indians, while they have been opened to the Mauritius, a country in no respect more favourable to the labourer. \n\nThe only means that can be relied upon at present for the supply of labour to the West Indies is the small proportion of Africans who are each year captured in slave ships. \n\nThis being the season at which supplies are usually sent to the West Indies, and preparations made for the repairs of buildings, and other necessary expenses, it is of the utmost importance that your Memorialists should know whether Her Majesty's Government will permit free emi- gration of labourers from all parts of the world or not, as if there is no hope of eventually restoring the prosperity of the colonies the universal decision will be, not to go to further expense in continuing a cultivation that \n\nyear after year entails a loss, \n\nYour Memorialists respectfully submit the following considerations to your Lordship: \n\nThat the advantage to immigrate to the West Indies is amply shown by the very favour- \n\nable result of the introduction of Coolies into British Guiana, \n\nThat it is unjust towards those who would willingly carry their labour to the best market, to prevent their doing so, as well as towards the proprietor of land, who would willingly pay for the introduction of labourers; and that the refusal to permit the replacing by free labour of the labour which was annihilated by the Emancipation Act is calculated, by completing the failure of that Act in the result contemplated by its promoters, to cause it to be considered a beacon of warning to be shunned by other nations. instead of a glorious example to be followed by them. \n\nYour Memorialists therefore respectfully entreat that your Lordship will be pleased to take the case into serious consideration, with a view to the removal of all restrictions upon the undoubted right of every free man to carry his labour to the best market, and to permit the free import of labourers from all parts of the world into the West Indies, under such regulations as may appear to your Lordship to be best calculated to prevent abuses. \n\nFor CHARLES S. PARKER, \n\nChairman of the West Indian Association. W. R. SANDBACH. \n\nLiverpool, 9th August, 1843. \n\nNo. 8. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from G. W. HOPE, Esq., to W. R. SANDBACH, Esq. Sir, \n\nDowning-street, September 5, 1843. \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of the Petition of the Associated Body of West India Planters and Merchants of Liverpool, signed by you on behalf of Mr. Parker, the chairman of the Association, praying the removal of all restrictions upon the introduction of labourers into the West Indian colonies. \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nLord Stanley desires me to express his regret that he cannot feel himself justified in complying with this request, however anxious he may be to afford every practi- cable facility to the introduction of labour into the West Indies. As the best means, however, of explaining his Lordship's views on this subject, I am to transmit to you the copy of a letter addressed by his directions to Mr. Malcolm, as representing the West Indian body in London, in reply to applications and specific proposals from them on the subject of immigration into those colonies. \n\nI have, &c. W. R. Sandbach, Esq., Liverpool. \n\nNo. 9. \n\n(Signed) \n\nG. W. HOPE. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from CHARLES I. PARKER, Esq., to G. W. HOPE, Esq. \n\nLiverpool, September 6, 1843. \n\nSir, \n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant, addressed to Mr. W. R. Sandbach, which, with its enclosure, I have this day laid before a meeting of the West India Association, specially convened to con- sider the measure to which these documents relate. \n\nI am instructed to request you to convey to Lord Stanley the best thanks of the meeting, as well for the prompt and explicit communication with which he has honoured the West India Body, as for the proposed measure of Chinese immigra- tion, the importance of which they duly appreciate, as the only relief which Her Majesty's Government find themselves at present in a position to grant in answer to the prayer of their petition. \n\nG. W. Hope, Esq. \n\n&c. \n\nMy Lord, \n\n&c. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Signed) CHARLES I. PARKER, \n\nChairman of the Liverpool West India Association. \n\nNo. 10. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from W. BURGE, Esq., to Lord STANLEY, \n\nPaper Buildings, Temple, September 14, 1843. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the letter of the 4th inst., which Mr. Hope, by your Lordship's direction, addressed to Mr. Malcolm relative to the introduction of Chinese labourers into the West India colonies. I shall lose no time in transmitting it to my constituents. \n\nIt would be a subject of great regret to me if any observations made either at the conference or in the written communications to which Mr. Hope refers led your Lordship to doubt that the West India Body were fully sensible of those difficulties with which emigration had to contend, and the anxious and unceasing attention which your Lordship has directed to the removal of such restrictions as were not required by the existence of those difficulties. I should not adequately express my sense of the views entertained by your Lordship on this important subject, and the measures already adopted to carry them into effect, if I did not disclaim any participation in them. \n\nI should have postponed addressing your Lordship on the details of the plan proposed in Mr. Hope's letter until I had heard from my constituents, if I were not aware that a communication will be made to your Lordship on the part of the West India Body here for a material deviation from one of your Lordship's important suggestions. Your Lordship is of opinion that parties claiming bounty should show that the amount decided upon as the maximum or rate had at least been expended, and that they should not be entitled to make any pecuniary profit on the introduction of these labourers. Concurring entirely in the considerations on which your Lordship's opinion proceeded, and being satisfied from my own experience, and that of others, that the parties could have no difficulty in supplying themselves with the requisite proof, I felt myself bound to express my dissent from that part of the communication which urges that no such proof should be required. It is obvious, however, that one uniform rule must be adopted for all the colonies, because if such proof were required on the introduction of labourers into Jamaica, and not upon the introduction of them into the other colonies; the effect of this distinction would operate as a bonus for the introduction of them into those colonies, and as a discouragement of the introduction of them into Jamaica. \n\n2 M \n\nI \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nPage 249. \n\nNo. 9. \n\nNo. 10. \n\n",
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        "content_text": "Hour \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nNo. 22. \n\nNo. 23. \n\nNo. 24. \n\nVide p. 255. \n\nVide p. 266. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nNo. 22. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from G. W. HOPE, Esq., to CHARLES CAVE, Esq. Sir, \n\nDowning-street, December 1, 1843. \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ultimo, requesting to know whether the West India Committee \" are to consider the vitally important representations with which they have recently troubled his Lordship, as terminated by my very brief communication\" of the 23rd ultimo. Lord Stanley desires me to state, in reply, that it was his intention by that letter to decline a further continuance of discussion on the topics to which your repre- sentations refer. \n\nCharles Cave, Esq., \n\n&c. \n\n&c. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Signed) \n\nG. W. HOPE. \n\nNo. 23. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from JAMES STEPHEN, Esq., to the LAND AND EMI- GRATION COMMISSIONERS. \n\nGentlemen, \n\nDowning-street, October 26, 1843. In answer to your letter of the 14th instant, I am directed by Lord Stanley to acquaint you that his Lordship approves the proposals therein con- tained relative to the emigration of Chinese to the West Indian Colonies, and that you will be at liberty to issue your contemplated regulations on the subject. \n\nWith respect to the office at which parties are to apply for permission to intro- duce these emigrants, which is left in blank in the rules which accompany your letter, I am to apprize you that Lord Stanley desires that such applications should be made to the Secretary of State. \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\nJAMES STEPHEN. \n\nThe Land and Emigration Commissioners, \n\n&c. \n\n&c. \n\n&c. \n\nNo. 24. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from JAS. STEPHEN, Esq. to J. Emerson Tennent, Esq. \n\nSir, \n\nDowning-street, October 27, 1843. \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to request that you will apprise the Com- missioners for the Affairs of India, that, having understood that there is a large annual resort of Chinese labourers to the Straits of Malacca in search of employ- ment, and having been applied to for permission to try the introduction of such labourers into the West Indies, his Lordship has thought it right to sanction the experiment with respect to the colonies of Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad. I am to refer you to the accompanying rules, issued by the Emigration Com- missioners, under Lord Stanley's sanction, as containing the details of the contem- plated measures and the conditions which it is proposed to attach to the removal of the Chinese labourers; and I am to request that you will move the Commissioners of the Affairs of India to issue the necessary instructions to the proper authorities in the Straits of Malacca, with a view of the plan being carried into effect. For this purpose the following appear the principal points that require notiee. \n\nBy the 9th of the rules, the allowance of provisions is to be declared by the Governor at the place of departure. This should of course be founded upon the habits of the people for whose use it is named. \n\nBy the 10th rule it is left to the Governor to name the proper officer of his government to superintend the shipping arrangements. This would doubtless be either the harbour master or some other functionary conversant with maratime usages. Nothing can be more important to the welfare of the passengers than the judgment and efficiency with which this duty is discharged; and I am desired to annex a memorandum, drawn up by the Land and Emigration Commissioners, of some of the principal points to which it is thought the attention of the superin- tending officer should be directed. \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nIt will be observed, that, under the 7th rule, it is wished that the emigrants should be seen to be possessed of a reasonable supply of warm clothing before their departure is sanctioned: and on this point I would refer you to the enclosed \" Ex- planatory remarks.” \n\nAnother step required of the Governor at the place of departure will be to indi- cate the magistrate before whom contracts are to be executed. It would be desirable that the signature of this functionary, with the impression of his seal of office, as well as the signature of the officer who superintends the shipping, should be forwarded by the first opportunity to the Governor of each of the West India, colonies which are above named. \n\nIn conclusion, I am to state, that Lord Stanley would wish to leave it to the Governor of the settlement to name any moderate fees which he may consider it just to attach to the extra duties required of the above-named officers. But his Lordship would request that it may, at the same time, be publicly announced, for the information of all concerned, that such fees are to be disbursed by the master of the ship, and will, on the prodution of the proper vouchers, be repaid to him from the public treasury immediately on reaching his destination, and in no case be left a permanent charge on the individual importer. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nJAMES STEPHEN. \n\nJ. Emerson Tennent, Esq., \n\n&c. \n\n(No. 172.) \n\n&c. \n\n(Signed) \n\nNo. 25. \n\nCopy of a DESPATCH from Lord STANLEY to Governor Sir H. MACLEOD.* Sir, \n\nDowning-street, October 27, 1843. \n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith, for your information and guidance, the enclosed copies of a correspondence respecting the plan for the intro- duction of Chinese labourers into the West Indies. \n\nIn the letter from my Under-Secretary to Mr. Malcolm, dated the 4th of Sep- tember, followed by two other letters from this office to Mr. Hankey and Mr. Burge, dated the 3rd instant, you will find the principle on which this measure has been agreed to. On the other hand, for the details as eventually settled, I would refer you to the rules which have been issued under my sanction by the Commissioners of Land and Emigration. These rules will be published for general information, and may be looked upon as a final statement of what indivi- dual importers are led to expect, and what the Government is engaged to fulfil. \n\nBy the 16th of those regulations, labourers about to relinquish their contracts are to make known their intention by means of a declaration before a stipendiary magistrate. This was designed to prevent disputes either as to the actual occur- rence, or the sufficiency, of a notice given directly to the employer. But, on the other hand, it is obvious that the employers ought to receive immediate intelligence of any such declarations; and you will not fail to convey to all stipendiary magis- trates the necessary directions for that purpose. \n\nWith regard to such legislative aid as is necessary for giving effect to the pre- sent plan, I think it will be sufficient that you should propose that any existing provision against contracts made out of the colony should be waived as to Chinese labourers, provided such contracts are not for a longer term than five years' ser- vice in the colony, and that in all other respects they are conformable to any rules laid down by the Secretary of State for regulating the introduction of this kind of labourers, \n\nThe information upon the present measure which is contained in the enclosed papers is so ample, that, having noticed those points more immediately calling for any practical steps on your part, I shall merely add the remark, that I have no doubt you will bestow every attention in your power on any Chinese immigrants who may reach the colony under your governnient, and will endeager to promote the prosperity and the satisfaction of a class of labourers from whom, if fairly dealt with, has been hoped that so much benefit will be derived. Governor Sir H. MacLeod, \n\n&c. \n\n&c. \n\nTrinidad, \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\nSTANLEY. \n\n* Similar Despatches addressed to the Governors of Jamaica and British Guians. \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nNo. 25. \n\nCopies of preceding Letters annexed. \n\nH \n\nDI",
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        "content_text": "4. \n\n} \n\nand I have to request that your Lordship \n\nwill tabanit the \n\nsame \n\nfor \n\nconsideration \n\nthe \n\nHer Majesty in Council. \n\nI have t \n\nField Marshal \n\nHis Grace \n\nThe Duke of Wellington \n\nSheet \n\nDowning Thesh \n\nI have the \n\n1844. \n\nThe dudes Commissionens hours to acquaint \n\nof the Treasury honor to \n\nyour Grace & that \n\nLordships \n\nFEBY \n\nForwarddal 1844 \" Smitt 26 Bf Stephen | 26 \n\nMBHAS \n\n/ anley 27 \n\nJour \n\nThe Queen has been pleased to \n\nappoint John Francis Davis \n\nEsquire to be Governor and \n\nCommander in \n\nChief in and over the Colony of Hong \n\nThong \n\nand its \n\ndependencies. \n\nI havet.\"",
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        "content_text": "Sir Thomas lickrane, whose professional opinion maked the expression of my won almost needless. In a circuit of the tland which I made with that Officer, it was impossible not to be struck by the admirable locality and general advantages \n\nShek-pai-wan (Chuck py wa \n\nward) a sheltered position, on the south side, lying duce south of the middle of hctoria toww, and of a gap in the central- ridge to which a good bridle road hat been constructed. The distance from ketoria through the gap is not above \n\nthree Aniles . \n\nEvery natural facility is \n\nwar \n\nafforded within the Shek pai- passage for carconing and docking tefuls \n\nand a \n\nroomy \n\nat \n\nwell as \n\nsheltered – \n\nanchorage exists on the nutside of the \n\nsmall island, between that and the \n\nmuch \n\nmuch larger Lemma island lying to the South loest of Hongkong. \n\nBut the advantages writ not rest here. From the fact of no establishment whalever at present Shek pai wan, existing at Shell pai \n\nthe rear of the \n\nv \n\ntnow of Ketorias lies Exposed at any time to the nocturnal incursions of large- bodies of pirates, or others through the \n\nabove mentioned, a rish which \n\na \n\ngap naval dépôt and small military position would prevent. The healthings of the spot was abundantly proved by small body of troops temporarily \n\nα \n\nplaced there last \n\nyear, during the sickly season, and who were withdrawn. \n\nonly because they \n\nwere \n\nrequired Elsewhere. The Spitiful Steam refsel had \n\nnot been three months arrived from her last repairing toyage to Bombay, when \n\nit",
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        "content_text": "\n\nthat Your Excellency will be so good \n\nsuch orders as you may think proper \n\nSubject of \n\nthose applications. \n\nas to issue \n\non the \n\nChief \n\nMajor Caine has acted as Magistrate of this Colony since the first \n\nbut \n\noccupation of the Seland in May 1848 and not only from his real and local from his being \n\nexperience, \n\nan excellent Stindoostance \n\nScholar - which language is much called for owing to the presence of the Native Troops as I m Lascars from India who form \n\nA.. \n\nConsiderati \n\nportion of the Population _ is peculiarly qualified to hold the Appointment. \n\nWith regard to Sergeant Collins I be \n\nto quote, in addition to my public despatch, a part of a private note which I wrote on the 13th of December to Sir Hugh Hough\" \"Since I wrote \"to you regarding Vergeant Collins I find he is \n\n\" almost \n\n\"almost indispensable to the efficiency of the \n\nMoe \n\nof \n\nHongthing and I have no doubt but \"His Jasper Nicholls and eventually Lord. Hill \n\n::ill approve of his being left here under the __ pculiar \n\nreculiar circumstances of the Case ?\" \n\nI therefne hope that Your Excellency with apparve of what has been done, and will be pleased to bring this Correspondence to the favorable. Consideration of His Brace the Duke of Wellington Commanding the Army in Chief for final sanction . \n\nI have the humor te \n\nSigned Henry Pottinger \n\ntrue copy. \n\nNichend Worman",
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        "content_text": "Se connection with this subject I may further state that W. Bush has informed me of Mr Everett, late American Minister in Spain, having been appointed minister to China, and \n\non \n\nof his being Ship of the line \n\nP.S. \n\nhis \n\nway \n\nout in \n\na \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nWith the highest respect; \n\nYour Lordships, \n\nMost Obedient, \n\nHumble servant. \n\nMoan \n\nSince the above was written I have the honor to receive Your Lordship's despatch No: 102, of April 24th, to which the foregoing may be considered \n\nAs an answer \n\nin Mr Bush's, \n\nfavo\n\n2.44. \n\nreceived \n\nF.O. 593 \n\nJan. 1870 St. King \n\nH. M. Addington by \n\n1845 \n\nForwarded by Octs \n\n32 H Munchy 20 \n\nStephen 28 J. Hope \n\nLord Stanley 29 \n\nJ \n\n3. Nov: \n\n330 \n\nBet 1845. \n\nwith reference by letter 19th Sep: the Duke of Aberdeen the reformed whether and Stirling sees \n\nApection with the Royal Secretary & M. F. I. Buck, who has been appointed Commr of the United State for the Stendy Shop, \n\nBeg to mention \n\nInd Aberdeen \n\nhad \n\nhaving declined \n\nthat \n\nNephew \n\nChi Lhn Davis on \n\nMis Lordship \n\nthe debut he has no \n\nObjection",
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        "content_text": "During the prevalence of a contagious and fatal disease similar sickness will not prevail either in the present, or in future years, I have received directions to request you will make known to Lord Stanley, the satisfaction which The Duke of Wellington feels at the prospect held out by Sir John Davis, of Hong Kong becoming a healthy station.\n\nAn expectation entertained and expressed by His Grace.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant\n\nPage 39",
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        "content_text": "That \n\nand to reinforce you the legent for Nihong has \n\nbeen directed beontiume \n\nthe payment wou of to much of the half Salay of your Office as meage become duce from time to time during yours May in Europe.\n\nRause\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJULYS I\n\n1346 Hongkong Holywood. Co. Toda\n\n265 July. 1145\n\nMy Lad\n\nAnon. It 9 Augent is\n\nVeda\n\nMarch 16\n\n36\n\nReferring to my letter of 29th May, 24th instant on the subject of\n\nafpointment letter of Hong Kong, and to Mr Hope's letter, I have the honor to request\n\nWithout being\n\nthe Colony\n\nme that report from the Committee\n\nof\n\nLordship felt unable to Come to a decision on the question, I have the honor to request\n\nthat\n\nLordship's\n\nwill be pleased to grant me six months Additional leave of\n\nabsence. It is with great reluctance I Make this application as the matter in question is of the\n\nimportance to me,\n\nand upon the following grounds I have been\n\nbegging\n\nyour Lordship's\n\nfavorable consideration\n\nof\n\nin the\n\nfirst place for I am most anxious to remain in the colony until Lie John Davis's expent is received and the matter of Compensation settled. If your Lordship\n\nallow the\n\nthe Lord Haubez\n\nK",
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        "content_text": "I confess that this may be answered in the \n\n5 ml Hd. Hohen \n\nimprime that her at this what unoht hue \n\nas not to lead to live \n\nbertated that he was ald? \n\nIntern \n\nStollby \n\n294. Sthing \n\n99 \n\n18451 \n\nForwarded by MARY \n\nMundock 10 **Stephen Jo \n\nA \n\nFor Stanley // \n\n12 \n\nDes Mark 1845. \n\nSanctioned by \n\nduce Stanley to acquaint the receipt of \n\nJun Letter of the 5th Inst. and to inform you, in \n\nreply, that an indisposition \n\nprevented the completion of arrangements \n\nment \n\nRkchout would have \n\nbeen appointed \n\nofficer at Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "G\n\nbe left to be decided by considerations of practical\n\nin her colloris man hure\n\nconvenience - provided care\n\nbe taken, whatever be the difle, to maintain a duce correspondence between the characte\n\nthe building\n\nand the pumpones\n\nsöwhich chis Whe devoted.\n\nThaver\n\nNo 22.\n\nFinancial.\n\nVide\n\nad\n\nbetter b7 Aprilflat\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAPR. 18 1846\n\nMy Lord,\n\n138\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n25th February, 1846.\n\nOn the receipt of Your Lordship's Despatch Nr 174 of December 15th,\n\ndirecting that Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane be called upon to repay into the Colonial Treasury the sum\n\nof\n\nExe, being the taxed costs of can ex-officis prosecution for Libel, instituted on his application, I have at once caused a copy of the above Despatch to be forwarded to T. Cochrane, with the Letter enclosed herewith.\n\nI have the honor to be;\n\n\"With the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordship's,\n\nThe Right Honorables, The Lord Stanley,\n\nMost Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "601 không hàng\n\n320\n\nJames's Nace\n\nApril 18. 1847\n\n:\n\nCopy to los: 87-28 April And d\n\nTo\n\n|(11) August/\n\ne.\n\nMy Lord\n\nRECORD\n\nI have received an application\n\nfrom a widow Rath residing at Hammersdring,\n\nnear Hamburg whose Son sailed onboard\n\nThe Duke of Wellington for Bombay & China\n\nin 1843 at Greenock.\n\nShe Clother received\n\na letter from him at that time, but has\n\nnot since heard of him :  The widow\n\nrequested me to make\n\nenquiries about him and\n\nI wrote in consequence to a Commercial House in Glasgow\n\nand learnt that\n\nher Son Herman Rath had as it\n\nappeared by the Log Book been discharged in 1843 from the Vessel at Hong Kong,\n\nThe Right Honble Earl Grey\n\nK\n\nThi\n\n \nN",
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        "content_text": "15\n\nA STATEMENT of the Exportation of Tea from Canton in British vessels to British Ports during the period from the 1st January to the 12th August, 1847, as compared with the same period of the preceding year, viz.:—\n\nBoard\nof\nTrade\nNo. 3.\n\nSir John Davis to Viscount Palmerston.-(Received October 21.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, August 19, 1847.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit an official return from Consul Macgregor, of the comparative export of teas from Canton during corresponding periods of this and the last year, as the best answer to the assertion of the \"Chamber of Commerce,\" that the expedition of April last had done \"incalculable injury to trade.\"\n\nTo adopt the Consul's words in sending the above return, \"On the whole, in so far as the amount of returns in tea shipped from Canton for the British markets can be assumed as a criterion of the probable extent to which British manufactures must have been disposed of, it is gratifying to find that under a combination of unfavourable circumstances the exportation of tea from the 1st April, as per inclosed comparative statement made up to 12th August, has exceeded that of the same period last year by a million of pounds, and that from the commencement of the year the excess amounts to six millions and a half,\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. F. DAVIS.\n\nFeb. Lady Amherst Victor Roseanna\n\nC\n\n  \n    1846\n    1847\n  \n  \n    Month\n    Ship's Name\n    Tonnage\n    Quantities of Tea exported\n    Ship's Name\n    Tonnage\n    Quantities of Tea exported\n  \n  \n    Jan.\n    Queen of England\n    538\n    723,202\n    Duke of Cornwall\n    580\n    791,350\n  \n  \n    \n    Woodbridge\n    516\n    85,642\n    Simon Taylor\n    431\n    239,800\n  \n  \n    \n    Aden\n    340\n    439,646\n    Montrose\n    387\n    502,700\n  \n  \n    \n    John Laird\n    270\n    357,552\n    Sir Robert Sale\n    741\n    742,450\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Kestrell\n    325\n    357,522\n  \n  \n    \n    Lancaster\n    756\n    853,870\n    Lancaster\n    396\n    537,520\n  \n  \n    \n    Appoline\n    512\n    605,600\n    W. Jardine\n    671\n    828,403\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Viscount Sandon\n    540\n    675,039\n  \n  \n    Mar.\n    Greyhound\n    348\n    236,800\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Feb.\n    Hindostan\n    500\n    818,350\n    John Christian\n    390\n    462,941\n  \n  \n    \n    Indian\n    591\n    706,400\n    Lord Althorp\n    233\n    309,712\n  \n  \n    \n    Geo. Fyffe\n    444\n    610,600\n    Dorothy\n    311\n    361,381\n  \n  \n    \n    Aden\n    340\n    423,795\n    Fanny Connell\n    175\n    183,453\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ellerslie\n    230\n    270,550\n  \n  \n    \n    Stag\n    678\n    633,000\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mar.\n    John Cooper\n    660\n    659,300\n    W. Jardine\n    671\n    819,630\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Othello\n    386\n    498,500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Cakier\n    226\n    268,250\n  \n  \n    \n    Victory\n    385\n    501,364\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    To 31st March,\n    \n    4,972\n    5,517,552\n    \n    9,383\n    10,978,070\n  \n  \n    April\n    Chatham\n    354\n    478,876\n    Lady Amherst\n    446\n    533,494\n  \n  \n    \n    Humayoon\n    530\n    603,469\n    Inglewood\n    518\n    584,115\n  \n  \n    \n    Regina\n    800\n    684,647\n    Bangalore\n    352\n    361,100\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Euphrates\n    618\n    823,283\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Victor\n    338\n    491,400\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Tamar\n    556\n    618,700\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Maya\n    315\n    389,879\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Isabella\n    356\n    409,400\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Chasely\n    515\n    510,657\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Lady Howden\n    318\n    427,700\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Lascar\n    441\n    560,600\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Prince Royal\n    543\n    624,800\n  \n  \n    May\n    John Laird\n    270\n    371,900\n    Gilmore\n    500\n    621,300\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Arun\n    309\n    355,400\n  \n  \n    \n    Buckinghamshire\n    1,731\n    1,909,172\n    Patriot King\n    338\n    453,986\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Wanderer\n    433\n    459,473\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Humayoon\n    530\n    564,230\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Earl Powis\n    300\n    340,859\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Salopian\n    289\n    347,304\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Prince of Waterloo\n    487\n    585,800\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Isabella\n    355\n    478,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Hebrides\n    646\n    707,419\n  \n  \n    June\n    Queen\n    442\n    558,400\n    Monarch\n    551\n    679,019\n  \n  \n    \n    W. Stewart\n    576\n    726,800\n    Sarah\n    381\n    491,900\n  \n  \n    \n    Grindley\n    386\n    467,610\n    Symmetry\n    293\n    358,888\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Queen\n    442\n    524,210\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Romeo\n    596\n    806,200\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Constantinople\n    317\n    386,708\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Chatham\n    354\n    556,400\n  \n  \n    July\n    Symmetry\n    293\n    432,500\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Lanchester\n    333\n    377,300\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Aug.\n    Alfred\n    294\n    292,574\n    Bangalore\n    514\n    725,400\n  \n  \n    \n    Mary Sparks\n    383\n    464,500\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Derwent\n    220\n    291,400\n    Selina\n    316\n    401,800\n  \n  \n    \n    Amy Robsart\n    347\n    447,400\n    Chieftain\n    293\n    374,600\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Glen Huntly\n    505\n    659,500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Wanderer\n    433\n    449,900\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Lanercost\n    318\n    377,500\n  \n  \n    \n    Swithamley\n    727\n    901,600\n    Siam\n    455\n    569,500\n  \n  \n    From 1st April to 12th August\n    \n    11,506\n    13,332,797\n    \n    11,411\n    14,283,775\n  \n  \n    Exportation of tea, from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1846, in 13 vessels of 4,972 tons\n    5,517,552 lbs.\n    Exportation of tea, from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1847, in 19 vessels of 9,383 tons\n    10,978,070 lbs.\n  \n  \n    From 1st April to 12th August, in 23 vessels of 11,506 tons\n    13,332,797 »\n    From 1st April to 12th August, in 28 vessels of 11,481 tons\n    14,283,775\n  \n  \n    Total from 1st January to date\n    18,850,349 lbs.\n    Total from 1st January to date\n    25,261,845 lbs.\n  \n\nCanton, August 12, 1847.\n\n(Signed)\n\nFRANCIS C. 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        "content_text": "Page 1\n\nMordeunts. They astenenge from the God of thing have ***** ..\n\nPre 7 Want security at sig popility enjoy Mandag aler orst of finditne uken Puterie \" wisher - ofther sustingy pubertion whenite the ubert. thing kny lev de 4 ttlelo Henry\n\nMr. Meriale 24/4/49.3 Mr Hann. & Past of this desf. relates to the subject of insporing som hart of the taxation of KL3397 the China trade, an to which Shaustions there.\n\nwart stuld I affuhend br communicated to the Brand of Trade for information and also for artice? Kim Jum 28.\n\nThe 100 Hoy Kory. my hove tinny pist grund fre Cancer Friandis\n\n222 Hout the theme office fine Pily themed to sued for he suffert yftung kech\n\nDr. concidention. Weinl leir 2 lee 277 Allate.\n\nKing bug being iù détente tex bound from the long Expense buke afen puacies torte, – lundial, home dewekly hono gête.d.\n\nI don't think this is at all a quite for the B & crade Or Mr Anwer Brewver the Merchants. at Hong Kong have extathioned themselry there at I bresame because they have found it for Murad: vantage so to do & nothing but its continning to befor This advantage K can inclupe them to heed then establish mente in that colony.\n\nA ment concept has been made In them in respect of the temirs of their land of the Gor has been authorized to regire the amount of sent thage on boss.\n\nI'm not prefend to geeiten angsammen",
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        "content_text": "5424H\n\nNof\n\ntel.\n\nNo of Date of Desp: Despi\n\nOne\n\nOne.\n\nSubject of Despatch: 97\n\nSir Henry Pellinger in January 1840, and recommending that the ground in question be restored to Mr Webster.\n\n58 6th June Reporting that Mr. Parker's Bill; referred to in this Lordship's Despatch, N°92 of 17 February. (Regina vs Lartion, has been taxed by the Registrar of the Court, and by the Duke of Desp 1849.\n\n59 6th June Subject of Despatch 17th May Transmitting for List of stationery required the Civil Departments of thoughing the year 1849-50.\n\nAcknowledging Receipt of Sir Ludovic Hepburne's Dispatch N°. 83 of 10th December, 1848, on the Military and Naval Expenditure of Hongkong.\n\nSerivarding an application from Trustees of St John's Church, for £60 towards the completion of the Building.\n\nAcknowledging Receipt of Despatches N°102 of 5th March and Military separate of the 2nd March 1849.\n\n56 Reporting resignation of Mr. Inglis, the Registration of his Inporamnation Contributions; as well as the temporary arrang made for conducting the office duties.\n\n54 May Reporting -Griginals- on Mr Webster's claim to a ground rent which he had bought from Captain Mert in September 1842; but which was reduced by him from its original amount, $158.49 to that of $34.49. Leaving a Balance, between the Judgment and the Costs of $105.51, which have been paid into the Colonial Treasury.\n\n55 Transmitting Copy of, and reporting on, Ordinance N°5 of 1849, entitled \"An Ordinance to facilitate the examination of Witnesses in certain cases before Commissioners in the Colony of Hongkong: One Incl.\n\nTransmitting Copy of Ordinance N°4 of 1849, entitled \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance N°5 of 1845, entitled an ordinance for the Regulation of Jurors and Juries\":\n\nReporting execution, by order of the same, of Chinese for the crime of Piracy with violence, and reporting fully on the circumstances connected with this.",
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        "content_text": "118\n\nC\n\nof\n\nDuke of Despi Dev Jr.:\n\n1849\n\n69 1877me | Iron\n\nSubject of Despatch Ful\n\nMing correspond Firen\n\npasser between.\n\nlii\n\nand the Governor of\n\nMarae.\n\nthe proceedings of Captain\n\nThe Heible:\n\nHenry Keppel, N..§. in litera\n\nliberating\n\nMr D.\n\nSubject foue\n\nBritish\n\nthe Alaçao\n\nAcknowledging receipt of Despatches to N. Pog of 15th April, 1849.\n\n64230- Travansitting a Memorial\n\nfrom Mr. Billiam\n\nSavvant to His.\n\nLordship's address_\n\nMaine\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nel:\n\nJove\n\n3.\n\n204\n\n$\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "185\n\n\"\n\n1847, for Spanish brig Oquendo,\" and British ship Duke of Argyle, from Amoy, nothing authentic is known, excepting that the speculators, (Spanish merchants resident in Manila), lost very considerably by the operation, and of the Coolies returned to Hongkong and Amoy in about 10 months after leaving, with no less than $16,000 in gold, which he realized in that short time by practising as a physician.\n\nbeing a slave Colony, Havana being it is very questionable if the terms of the original contract, were fulfilled by the parties who engaged themselves.\n\nThe Nimrod took about 120 Coolies from Amoy to Australia in 1848: this is said to have also been a losing operation, and it is further stated that they were not found to be satisfactory, but neither of these can be quoted as a criterion of their eligibility, for the reasons before mentioned as regards Havana, and the well-known and acknowledged objection of the colonists of Australia to the immigration of foreign labourers; and ample proof of the value of the Chinese to be found in the successful result of their importation to Manila, the Straits Settlements, Bourbon, and Java.\n\nAs the English Agent who procures the Coolies involves heavy moral and personal responsibility by inducing them to leave their families and country for a distant place where that the engagements on his part will be performed, while that on theirs are certain to be exacted, the trade is in private hands, one of very disagreeable nature, but, when a v",
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        "page_number": 66,
        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "Age \n\nherself and infant daughter, were \n\ncalamity Entirely \n\ncut off. \n\nThat the said \"ticias smithers the month of January \n\nhundred and forty a proportion \n\nlowa \n\ndy creating \n\n\" \n\nby this \n\nfree \n\nof his to a \n\nprusion pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases. \n\nof his saing disabled (your) beheres that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during \n\nthe remainder of his life. \n\n\"That it has \n\nbeen \n\na \n\npetitione. \n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration \n\nand render assistance to the survivors of \n\npersons killed in their device and a lit Ke.. \n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers \n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly \n\nprays that she \n\nVOL. I. No. 9. \n\nChina \n\nOverland \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28 \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Ilis Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China, \n\nBy Order, \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848. \n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE, \n\n12th August, 1848. \n\nNOTIFICATION. \n\nA Boats \n\nBoots \n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is \n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with \n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission. \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nConsul. \n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae. \n\nbe allowed \n\nDiplomatic Department. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nmay some small pension \n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to \n\nsupport \n\n4 \n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for. \n\nAnd your petition to \n\nEver pray te. \n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers. \n\nlue steered for. \n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail. \n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848. \n\n64 \n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM. \n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to \n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx \n\njunk and me who hire \n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven \n\ndhuli \n\n*ximating \n\nof Nether \n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners, \n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were \n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar- \n\nen beide 0115 on \n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain. \n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended. \n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;--- \n\npar. \n\nM. \n\nplying \n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED. \n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and \n\nYes Clock, \n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not \n\nCourse Grace Modlig \n\nJis (Cafe Cotto \n\nForeign Lung Colon, \n\nRay Coto, uoleened, \n\ninfertor Fort, \n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found \n\nOf that stabburn craw \n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant \n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon \n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ; \n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox \n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka, \n\nWe also extract from the Friend of \n\nI \n\n13ch cleaned, \n\noh gluing Boston, \n\n10. \n\nElo \n\nWhite Lead, \n\nColuared Paper \n\nFlowed and Note Paper, \n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur \n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so \n\n11. \n\nDi \n\nSugar Candy \n\nሱ \n\nKwangbang, dan, \n\nGreat Glager, \n\nTony Chry Sucks, \n\nCents. \n\n\"1\" \n\nPicen 2 \n\n· Dale \n\nWhico. \n\nPcular de \n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez, \n\nMetropolitan Gods. \n\nBlack Treppe \n\nBlack and Gruen, du.. \n\nBarn Wood, \n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids \n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay \n\n- \n\nTAIFOONG. \n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY \n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity. \n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information— \n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China. \n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2, \n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground. \n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th \n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre- \n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years, \n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu \n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought \n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order, \n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i \n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from \n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar- \n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire \n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed. \n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty. \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348. \n\nOverlang China Mail. \n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN \n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon. \n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter, \n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter \n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P. \n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK. \n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens, \n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti- \n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens, \n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean \n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc. \n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas \n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i \n\nAt b \n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge. \n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani \n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa. \n\nArt:lery. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON. \n\nPer \n\nVIDEO \n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t \n\nPre \n\n& 10 8 \n\n40 \n\nX \n\nSappers and Minora. with erent...... \n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551 \n\nH \n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181 \n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the \n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the \n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, \n\nL'onsul. \n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:-- \n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship \n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and \n\nAs all for \n\nothers severely wounded. \n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.) \n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa \n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received \n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l. \n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill. \n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed, \n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house \n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich \n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles \n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt \n\n\"Foreign in \n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer- \n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks \n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro \n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this \n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be \n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou \n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by \n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest \n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors. \n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept, \n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte, \n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting \n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese, \n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a \n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment \n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli \n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on \n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next. \n\nwith.\" On recript of the the \n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca \n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp \n\npondnet your royarske, \n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock \n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts \n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the \n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples, \n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro- \n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated \n\nand \n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS \n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of \n\nevash, and \n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei \n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag, \n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin \n\n1sthet romanda The \n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that \n\nidly \n\n31st Auz. 10 \n\n.. \n\n3. NE \n\nheavy pas \n\n11 \n\n90.24 N.IS. \n\nJ \n\n+3 \n\nugly weader \n\n1 \n\n1. 20 in M.K \n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M \n\nInscriure \n\n9. \n\n\" \n\nH. by X \n\n- \n\n2.45 \n\n2 \n\n$12 \n\n13 \n\n21 \n\n:: \n\n| \n\nн \n\n4 \n\n. \n\n29ki \n\nJE. \n\nJa \n\n5 \n\n11 \n\n59 15 \n\nBy Soperaterra's. \n\n5,3). 24.37 \n\n8 May \n\n20.45 \n\nور \n\nE by N. \n\nጉ \n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008 \n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu \n\nSWly der:n \n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi \n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara \n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim. \n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites. \n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge \n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust \n\nnedors \n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of \n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying \n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her \n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven- \n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit \n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of \n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days. \n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and \n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The \n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile \n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con- \n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe- \n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist \n\nopium &makers. \n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving \n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian \n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease. \n\nNevertheless crio does \n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now \n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to! \n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to \n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately \n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present \n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty \n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti \n\nJunio \n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter \n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences. \n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue. \n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed \n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho \n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen- \n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa \n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores \n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there \n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste \n\nสปาไ \n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion \n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi \n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada \n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, and correcting spelling errors, spacing issues, and other formatting problems while preserving the original word count and order.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a collection of historical records and news articles from the \"China Overland Mail\" dated September 28, 1848. The text includes various sections such as government notifications, news, births, marriages, deaths, and reports on typhoons and their aftermath.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we need to correct obvious spelling errors, remove extra spaces, and fix hyphenation or line-break artifacts. For example, \"calancity\" should be \"calamity\", \"savo 'ticias\" should be \"said Ticias\", and \"prusion pond\" should be \"prisoner or provision pond\" but based on context, it seems \"prision\" is likely meant to be \"provision\".\n\n## Step 4\nRejoining broken sentences and restoring paragraph breaks where necessary is also crucial. For instance, sentences split across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5\nThe text contains sections that need to be formatted into Markdown. Headers, sub-headers, bold types, and tables need to be formatted accordingly. For example, main titles should be preceded by \"#\", sections by \"##\", and bold text should be surrounded by \"**\".\n\n## Step 6\nFile references should not have any spacing inside parentheses, e.g., \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72\". Page numbering lines, if detected, should be kept as they are, usually six lines in total, three at the page beginning and three at the end.\n\n## Step 7\nNewspaper texts might not make sense due to OCR errors in recognizing columns. Reorganizing them like a puzzle might be necessary to restore the original meaning.\n\n## Step 8\nData in tables should be properly organized to reconstruct the table format.\n\n## Step 9\nSome Chinese writing might start from right to left, and if such reversal is observed, the text should be reversed to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 10\nThe output should be in HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nAge\n\nherself and infant daughter, were\n\ncalamity Entirely\n\ncut off.\n\nThat the said \"Ticias smithers the month of January\n\nhundred and forty a proportion\n\nlowa\n\ndy creating\n\n\"\n\nby this\n\nfree\n\nof his to a\n\nprovision pond and the one mouth swore if such proportion been, paid fin cases.\n\nof his saying disabled (your) believes that her late husband would have been entitled to a pension during\n\nthe remainder of his life.\n\n\"That it has\n\nbeen\n\na\n\npetitione.\n\nto your Majesty's governmento always willing to take into consideration\n\nand render assistance to the survivors of\n\npersons killed in their device and a lit...\n\nwill be found on reference to the Police. Reports that such was the case in to the said Thomas smithers\n\nYour Petitioner therefore humbly\n\nprays that she\n\nVOL. I. No. 9.\n\nChina\n\nOverland\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency For Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendrut of Trade, de, &., is pleased to direct that the following Notification, issued by 1ler Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanglane, be published for the general information of British subjects in China,\n\nBy Order,\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 30th August, 1848.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE ORPION, SHANGHAE,\n\n12th August, 1848.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nA Boats\n\nBoots\n\nHis Excellency the Officiating Tapu-tai having communicated his intention of sending certain naval vessels, enumerated in the margin, to cruise about in the neighbourhood- hood of Gutzia Island in search of Pirates, and for the protection of the native shipping, it is hereby made known that the above specified fleet is duly commissioned by the Chinese Authorities for the service on which it is\n\n5 Sin all da. to. employed, and that each vessel carries a distinguishing Flag of White with\n\n4 Canton Lurokas. a Red border, and is provided with: a Written Authority of Commission.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nConsul.\n\nTo the British Subjects within the Consular Jurisdiction of Shaughae.\n\nbe allowed\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nmay some small pension\n\nhave some resistance rend to enable her to\n\nsupport\n\n4\n\nherself and daughter a present left intirely unprovided for.\n\nAnd your petition to\n\nEver pray te.\n\nIn the accompanying paper will be found of the death of the late Thomas Smithers.\n\nlue steered for.\n\nfoot a low water.\" \n\nMail.\n\nSEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\n64\n\nPRICE $4 PER ANNUM.\n\nand consult with \"turespon ordinary were givun to\n\nnow reaved in griply a petition, fwa Chu-kwa-yu sad the other Buty thongs, stating that they have maturely calmulated on the plan of raising a contibution; from Tire sawdx\n\njunk and me who hire\n\nKerred on the amounts to bu caminabeud with, of they prosout actalls, qui they rogues i orders tabagiven\n\ndhuli\n\n*ximating\n\nof Nether\n\nSix months ago (April 6) we noticed u enost ni reeing so many armed foreigners,\n\nsonrilat Dr Bettelheim, Hermiastonney, deserted their houses and made off towards subject, ad obedies or to our wounds we have had been murdered in Ben-choo in Sep- the hills, bus six or seven of theta were\n\nWe ther, considered overtaken and enrried to Nagpa, tomber proceding. the information as being too ragus to he Ita for tre Chinese authorities, who of mothers woning the freigla aipuris bott relied on; and are glad to learn that,course do not participate in the ignorance insight, from cutributions that they have ublicly after a voor's interval letters have been of the common people in confoundling all received from the reverend gentleman, foreigners together as fuglishren, to call for the contribution to air. Thi dated Napcking, Loo-choo, August 27, Père Danicourt to account for such tawar-\n\nen beide 0115 on\n\nkat the connu 1848. He says his puissionary Inbours antable proceelings, and to convince hier ersal re safe and stable is count; and the sail enchants, in Cam conling actively forward to make a are still regarded with jealousy'; but he that though the Edict of Toleration gives sacritice for the rafie gedara perked of meaty, an seems to be subjected to no pergcution.aim and others liberty to preach ad praeghy of conteonation and es.ec. Beside e cetition) w S this procla alase in the hurdlerances to his freedom of time their religion at any of the open puris, hagis e almu to the Futy Hings for their alar utation, giving dish or orders is the junk-and Jocomotion. His wife writes that the it lone not authorize them to make hostilemon. The 19th Any of the present tooth ed goromument has compelled the restoration invos, nor constitute them proctectors of as the dude fan which the cations for aid wid leg to be levied en exportacio of souther Goods of soms property which had been stolen natin converts in the interior, against the Let there be net die least opportun er trepediment from lain.\n\noperation of their own laws doctrine gre. A careat and special proclamacion. Obc which we have been not a little surprized to hear defended.\n\nWe are enabled to state the following ticulara respecting the affairs af D. Rustomjce & Co. of Cantou ;---\n\npar.\n\nM.\n\nplying\n\nORY FA ANCIENS TO DX DOSYAM TED.\n\nCn Chinaen Cottons, plau, 234 dj vá, and\n\nYes Clock,\n\nOf Paro Danicourt himself we have not\n\nCourse Grace Modlig\n\nJis (Cafe Cotto\n\nForeign Lung Colon,\n\nRay Coto, uoleened,\n\ninfertor Fort,\n\n| before heart; but judging from the present Meerwanjee Jeejeebhoy, a partner in case, we infer that the appropriateness of the hons, hearing in Bombay at the failure the title he bears rests upon his being,— of Dadabhoy Rustomjee, hastily started !for China to investigate the affaire of the firm, and to protect the interests of the creditors. Upon his arrival he found\n\nOf that stabburn craw\n\nOf errail knights, whom all men grant\n\nTo be the tenc Cinch Milltant; Such as do build their faith upon\n\nThe July text of pike and gsi ;\n\nAnd pave their doctrine orthodox\n\nBy apestolic blows and knocka,\n\nWe also extract from the Friend of\n\nI\n\n13ch cleaned,\n\noh gluing Boston,\n\n10.\n\nElo\n\nWhite Lead,\n\nColuared Paper\n\nFlowed and Note Paper,\n\nStuchsen, de 1,5, &areen du. ), Tellur\n\nTay Sugar, Potidean, White so\n\n11.\n\nDi\n\nSugar Candy\n\nሱ\n\nKwangbang, dan,\n\nGreat Glager,\n\nTony Chry Sucks,\n\nCents.\n\n\"1\"\n\nPicen 2\n\n· Dale\n\nWhico.\n\nPcular de\n\nFlowers and Flant Fellow (Sen bed) Tez,\n\nMetropolitan Gods.\n\nBlack Treppe\n\nBlack and Gruen, du..\n\nBarn Wood,\n\nBesides to abors, there are other misellaneous zuids\n\nun them may be infeed from claccounts in the bay\n\n-\n\nTAIFOONG.\n\nGREAT PESTROMSON OF LIFE AND PROVERTY\n\nOx Thursday night, (21st August,) this part of the coast of China was visited by a storm, of which a contemporary says, \"though much low has vçe currell, it did not in strength amount to a bi- foong\" hat witch, from the disastrous accounts arriving from all quartere, appears to us to have been one of us! severity.\n\nThe following Extract of a letter from Mr Vice-Consul Robertson to Rutherford matters in such a state as to induce him! Alcock, Esquire, British Consul at Shanghae, reporting the restoration of Land-marks mediately to call a reeting of the crodi to the anchorage of Woesung, which had been swept away during the late Typhoon, ore, to whom he explained how he was eir- and furnishing Directions for the guidanes of Ship Masters entering the Wersungsted and proposal to place biz affas Mu Consul Alcocl: has issued the follow- in the hands of Trustees. To this theying Notification respecting the duties pay- River, is published for genarni Information—\n\nagreed, but afterwards, finding every thing able on Sagar api other Chinese produce on which these Poles are erected being about 16 feet aoove the level of the river: There is an old declined to net, and one of the creditors, and the open ports of China.\n\nTwo doen Poles, in buight fit feet, the baskets on then 30 feet from the ground the Battery in great confusion, the gentlemen named shipped in British vessels from Hongkong TYte bet Ecu (2,\n\nThrer Toles in triangle, at low water mark fifty feet in height; a board painted red with a Byramjee Couverjes Bbuhs, ontneed white hall in the centre, ist lost squere, being fixed thereon, at 51 feef from the ground.\n\nThe directions for guter he Wosung Reserate as follows:-In sighting flue Line of Battery Moorwananjeebecently received letters Shangae's Flamation regarding ship-sokware, Hib year, 711, th, 7th: stay. (th\n\nan action before the Supreme Court. Mr China a tunelution of the Toutes of which can be all noted bui the and Joss Poles et Pennsben, a white-washed mark in the wall with single Pole and small board from his friends in Bombay, Sondering him men by Chinese on British bottonis, August, 184) wül be seen. Keep Paoushan Pageda (a small contend-shaped roof of a Temple, very low, and but little seen above the trees) to the right of lege marks, until the Board on the iriangir just created relatanecan certain torus, which warranted wherein the right claimed by Sir John in a line with and between the two Jiss Poles, which it will be, bearing S. 70 W, when they may luna iu proposing a settlement with bis Davis is recognized, which had been pre-\n\nereditors, by which it was contemplated to viously resisted by the local unthorities. In the event of i working breeze, the Board in line with the Northernst Joss Pule will pay up the whole debt within three years,\n\nCorrespondence with Kering in China Hell No pear the N. W. end of the host on the East side, and the hourd in line with the Southern Jusu Pole will clear the Eastern edge of the beak on the Weat side, of the Chennai, giving 13 and 16 tiine being allowed him to communicate, Septenter, 1847 and Proclamation of Tu\n\nthe Marino Magtérate of amoy, No 01, April 1. farther with his father, who he thought\n\nNOTIFICATION. would assist him; and by whom securities By Order,\n\nBelfie C, 1848. In Bonsbay would be found for the All-i\n\nSTANCE, 15/A Seploraber, 3 ment of his agreement. To this they with F. E. the Tocutae respecting the Duties to H. M. Consul having been a correspondence al needed, scop pho Parsue above are on Suge des Chinees produes mentioned, who would listen to nothing brought into port by British Ships, the con lon Rifles, 077,—Total 1428: (fe0ficers but obtained a decree in his favour. On Celominee dat Sugar arriving from Amay or being 82 Native Officers 10; Non-coa-bia one of the other creditors Mirow Mrter of the onstar Pets, with Certificate of missioned Officers, Drummers, and Buglera Meerwanice into the Insolvent Debtor's Day prid, shall be exempt from furder payment Priann, when he petitioned the Judge, from Hongkong or any Foreign Part, or from\n\nof Baty of suel, produce, and that Sugar bianght 201.) \n\nby whom a special court was held on the way Consular Pert in Cina, wins Certificate ul 18th instant, when Meerwanjee waa al-Duty, shell in that case pay the Duty fixed in the tilt hall-past 2, when the hardcage was at its losed to like his petition, and afterwards Tariff, namely, a per sent ad velurem, as an height-e barneler being so los as £8.99. \n\nun+h/1;tte'li[ a tieje the Imports. released on the security of Mr Joseph Jar-\n\nFortunately the China houts for the alarm carly, Noties is hereby given, therefore, to consignees and made for the sheltered erucks on the Coulom dine and Mr Crawford Kerr. The aire\n\nside; but even there they seem to have suffered and others who may have given guarantees for the are Dow placed inthe hands of Mr Cey payment of Day on the Sugar recently brought | avverely, as a anumber of sell qud cargo boats were 04cial Administrator of Insolvent Estates. inte Port, that the said Duty of 6 per cent is pay-driven on shore, and many of their consiliorked. able through the New Custom-leuse, and it is A few large juuks and a loveli vemomed at anchor gested that the open accounts of the several off the Lower Bazaar, all of which were destroyer sips may be sivsed.\n\nduring the night. Of her which came ou share opposite Urcitar liblings about midnight, the extway with the exception of three un furry men, were lande:l in safty.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 27th September. 1348.\n\nOverlang China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9870 SEPTEN\n\nMIRTIE-A! Vistoria, Hongkong on the pich foste the wife of She Rev. Mr Jesrixe, of a Bon.\n\nBIRTH-AL West Point, Viotoria, on the 12th inst Mrs Ecart, of a Daughter,\n\nBIRTH-AC Yame, on the 31st uldme, the wife of D. J. MARCOWAN, H. D., of a Daughter\n\nMARRIAGE. On the 8th of June, at St Mary's, Bay- ensione atuare, London, by the Rev. J. I. Únores. Recto, Major Sampra Rarvogn, of the 31 ara Artery, to CA, third Daughter of Joseph Hee, Esq., X.P.\n\nHEATH-AWiraganatum, ou the 27th Jylg, Quarter Master Bergeat Tin Cankar, of the 26 Kogistens, KINK.\n\nPRATER-Drowned off the Typs near Macao, in fuc taitoony of the 1st utino, Mr J&S MACHTAGAY, Jate et Victoria; and Mr EDWARD 12s, formerly 1 mote of the Robroner Exload, Queens,\n\nDEATH-Drowned at the spa, near Macao, in the taimung of the 3:81 ultimo, Capron Pass of the Dti-\n\nBurp C DEATH-Drewood at Campstogusnor, in the taalborg of the 31s ulim, Captait, HATE and the Chief Sinto of the eiving Hip frabel linens,\n\nTEAT IM Browned, with his only fun, at Clean\n\nehow Bay, to the womward of langkong, 10 the tattoora of the 21st uitime, Mr Tumas Sms, Inspeter of The Hongkong Puiloc.\n\nLIK, lure of the P. & D. 8. N. Cu's Foestring Ship Fort BEATHA Sugaros, on the 34 lost, Cagl. Thas\n\nDEATH-AL Shangliae, on the til, fuslant. Mr i\n\nAt b\n\nt Daughter of the Way. Ur Legge.\n\non the 19th, inst, Ligatellani\n\nF. Beques, of H. M. Stramuralesa.\n\nArt:lery.\n\nA. R. JOHNSTON.\n\nPer\n\nVIDEO\n\nSepz.: Sept | Sent t\n\nPre\n\n& 10 8\n\n40\n\nX\n\nSappers and Minora. with erent......\n\n13 110 170 112 100 27:36 81: 1.0 Ceylon Rides,..... 101 3083 20 00 70 551\n\nH\n\n| 294 300 203 | 102: 180 181\n\nI want, the late Dieutenant-Governor of 1.wangtung, has been saannaed to Court, ostensibly to receive office, but in reality. it is armise, to give his opinion of the Present state of foreign affaiss. The sub stance of the recent news from Entopo has been forwarded to the Emperer, and the\n\nevents are yo extraordinary, that even the\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK,\n\nL'onsul.\n\naddition to the instances formerly given of outrages committed by the crews of co- Yeys on the cost the following parti- culars lure reached ns:--\n\nOn the afternoon of the 20th of Augustin, eling that Chinses bicely who ship\n\nan affray took plaen at Ningpo between some Purtagnese sailors and the Chinese, in which two of the latter were killed and\n\nAs all for\n\nothers severely wounded.\n\n(From the Friend of Chlua, September 10.)\n\nPara eodle chuti pus Patice weuring to the Course Fury for Foreign Nationa\n\nWoo, Offolatione Taoutro of Shanghan, ke.. ka, hereby issues İne commands, Ús tho 17th bustani, 1 received\n\nIn Bosnkosa, enely in the furencoon the fall in the aromate attractul atientin, and the Aa- sistant Harbourmaster went wound the shipping, warmed there of what might be expecte.l.\n\nBut little fate spents to have been entertained till the approach of uning, when the sign The Barometer indicates bad weathes\" was seen tying at the Ang-staff in wont at Yalder's bill.\n\nFronts Ge the wind gradually oversed,\n\nIn the morning the Colony exhibited a mest melaretely appearance. In the harbour several vessels disanostel, others on shore, and the whole beach strewed with the wrrels of t hänesu juoking in the hs of which dead bodies were occasi ally seen Boating; while on store, every house\n\ndespatch from the Provincial Govoruer un rich\n\npay Duties so the New Custom-house, and the Chinasa at the Kiang-hae (Out) Cust-19: grofere I now hotels as flows find that the foreign expred to the stin suffered more me less,tiles\n\nsive distinct and intelligible polers, and on the receipt\n\n\"Foreign in\n\ntorn from the roots walla ievelled verandaha blown to pieces--21:1 wherever a gazolen plot fer-\n\nas been reused to inquire farther into their by the inhabitats, the friends of the de- customary apathy of las Celestial Majesty igners are there looked upon as English nature, of which no Chinese is better in-cased crowded round the British Consulated this dismic jou wil bsan a Fencianuncios in le- merly existed, the pla da napi bults were either DEATH-A Viatorin, or the auth Inst., ASHE MURRAY formed than Hwang. It's ideas on the to end the Comente assistance in appre disa that hernatter whru either broken sort off, ur fave up by the rocks\n\nhanés import Suwar or other! resocha i R hanghao, auca vels aro\n\nThe smesed table, shewing the state of the subcut may not be very comprehensive bending the wurderers; but though this\n\nBarometer declagg a night, bes been in the catiulation of European politicians, request was backed by the authoritics, and always to be regarded as determining the butted to be\n\nby the mastors of other Lorebas (ton erecced to a New Clest in-hou\n\ndnud if goods are imported by a really lovelen furnished by the Harbour-mator -- but key are certain to be marked by\n\nBer. Tras. the New Tartif thever Chinese pod shou Pasaksuvas por ACHILLES, 1 ] tamerrow, the prudence and good senac, ou gready in twelve in emberi then in the river. Manchorage, sad my Ducs der specias partest\n\nSullivan very properly declined to intor dare to pycało, with the prospect of escaping the heavy, 29 Justanter Kentang Dapsain. Beste advance of other imperial councillors.\n\nand availing of the light Duty, then the gonds will be Iwan was Keving's most trusted na fere in the marier fartier tlun by advising! goufianater to Beverinent, aut fi re benefit of at Sept,\n\nthat the neensed should be handed over to | Lie Customos rechte,\n\nbe pus coring that in ball b viser, es on after he was deprived of office the District Magistrate, who, after exauti exnutter thesoby You will at the sate line whic 20 and the Imperial Commissioner neveration, might send them to Mateo for alt i lini Ceiling sinis, Frouded, Defiled gaged in foreign adThis withent comentting\n\nFor SMarsden, Han Alures. For vez. Mesurs 1 . 51005, and in Per Singapore, Mess C. Plac, 3acker trou, au Chinese,\n\nWe are luppy to be enabled to report a\n\nfalse rutes, ad that a punishment\n\ngreat improvement in the health of the him. The office is now entrusted to a main by their own authorities; and this advice insearing (1) the Engli\n\nof auch inferior qualifications, that Keying acted on\n\nprobly see the necessity of having wang's counsel and cooperation iu raio- once to opening the City of Canton April next.\n\nwith.\" On recript of the the\n\n1 Conanl to request his Doperation, now alno, na izolaca\n\nclosely and Intolligibly, addruseling this Proois- The other caso, in which Père F. X. Ta-ation to the Chinese ineteats and to the Duly fengy nicourt, the Apustulie Missionary of Ning-fer of it for a fer the due to simp\n\npondnet your royarske,\n\ne perangaurdă contevin vit, giving pe, figured us principal, took place on the cause of or youtuston; and should Chinese 13th of Auguet, chout forty miles from Eing the protune of the tuner and put intock\n\nMercitants in Foreign vesels to carry Rugated bae, the capital of Chusan. It appears Shangliae, ar shoud Chincs pensle import any sort of that some native Roman Catholic eonverts\n\ntroops during the present mouth. In Juue, le douths were 10. in July 37, in August 16, white in September they have fallen 14, the number of sick in Hospital being 57. Since August the whole of the\n\nRegiment has been quarter on Sou, the new Governor General, who baril ships in the harbour, with the bap-now holds the appointment for the who had an interest in one of the temples,\n\nnagement of Barbarian Affairs, lately ro-\n\nmile whatever in Fercigu val. In alch Duy will be levied according to the Fow Tarif. Tling whc. destinately digobay, will gave their goods gondsgated\n\nand\n\nseld for sig benent of the Craton TOWELS\n\nali ovoru:dy obcy this, Cherish a hopes of\n\nevash, and\n\nnd thereby involve yourselves hi a ligny vei\n\nTucukwany, 28th year, 7th mouth, 24tle dag,\n\nCarefrak ngainst Ptrates. Wow, Oficiating Tanning of Shongban, &o., &c., heto by kee a procianin\n\n1sthet romanda The\n\nChee-hich of this face having represented to in that\n\nidly\n\n31st Auz. 10\n\n..\n\n3. NE\n\nheavy pas\n\n11\n\n90.24 N.IS.\n\nJ\n\n+3\n\nugly weader\n\n1\n\n1. 20 in M.K\n\nW****. \n\nA M $3.5M\n\nInscriure\n\n9.\n\n\"\n\nH. by X\n\n-\n\n2.45\n\n2\n\n$12\n\n13\n\n21\n\n::\n\n|\n\nн\n\n4\n\n. \n\n29ki\n\nJE.\n\nJa\n\n5\n\n11\n\n59 15\n\nBy Soperaterra's.\n\n5,3). 24.37\n\n8 May\n\n20.45\n\nور\n\nE by N.\n\nጉ\n\nF. Nahig, heavy p008\n\nkarang graffiat Times wavy pu\n\nSWly der:n\n\nThe following is an enumeration of the disaster which bufet dis Shipping, so far no we have been able to asuintain themi\n\nThe Beberg dyrk. W shirat Cizruin Floodinga; halla since been got off well legtle damage, ex- cupt the lowa offre and gratuara\n\nTho American brig Charles ilirpants, 5, eamq'ato wreek at die Boa Bay! Sturent stuce andò iz pullar angʻim.\n\nThe Metal banque tingui Sarant, en cone sul Green Lane, Sligh: hopes tersall entertained of wring the samel. The British iron bangue Jean kan, anded foul of the Eliza Ferunt, and trus baiyaenoda real folosites.\n\nThe British skip Milan Mont. Load with Sugar Live Shanglore, word avente in the pst in sety; hd the Join Laiva sivil) at down upon her, and seller against the De Heranecone, by which śe was nu merupin injurce dead sile has had to alerte her entge\n\nMurchants Wand-ying-sking and others, in which they The Spanish his Do (ferencias, Ici uusin tujuan, how statest stywe care for more receivals, ad fee-copatust\n\nnedors\n\nof the junk Thatch ship Kin form, wrecked on que our end of\n\nthe expenses of car ride to assist le defraying\n\ntato Ave ser afsendt tuse, the date the istuin, elvas to the village et Makers, this trees of her\n\npectively by the tire mondi Pun, Lah, Sony, Hon, Taj, i grew seven-\n\nPat efforts. Great part of the convit\n\nents are now fit for duty. Of the 14 oled anal officer at 1leang-shan were desirous of turning it into a Catholic teks during the month two only have for promotion, but his request, en account Clupei, in opposition to the majority of\n\nalty Aurmont and special Protiaanation. whom it belengel. From cd within the last ten days.\n\nthe pervous to of informality, has been refused; a reelt The Ceylon Rides, upon whom the or- quite unexpected, and which has engaged which the converts had the worst, and\n\naged words the disputants come to blows, in August, 1946)° dary duties of the garrison have devotee, the attention of the Board of War. The\n\ntine in the enjoyment of comparative people under his jurisdiction paise him beaten, were handed over to the Mag- ¡ two of their number, after being severely Lealth, and at present there are fewer for at being greedy of money. Ile\n\nhospital thun at any former elf lind frequently expressed his total, tate of Tugine. As you us M. Tanie het received a petition from the junk owners and Jeriod, except for a short time last year. indifference rospecting the homeurs con-\n\ncourt received the news of their imprison A furtight ago, however, two deaths oe-\n\nferred upon bis, and be readiness en, he went to the Tautas at Ningpo: urs in one night, but bett: men were surrender rice ali, in order to tool to ad insisted on their Fouration, tral Uist\n\nopium &makers.\n\nretired an quiet life. His administration their presents should be apprehended and gene diet, eruits, dog, Froth.) each The Bid bazgau Sutopiru, diffte aut lieyond Siren kiloving\n\nTable shows he on- has hitherto been marked by great sev parished. His denundet being attend to combura arcarding to is classifeasam But Isnel totally dissisted: as aface bean towed sate tike pr parative sekuese since our last report city in the dispensation of justice, dea No. 21, and with about thinly valun- cine vercle, with the cost of yoviding their asian\n\nbar Us Chinos Ja sata. to, M. Danicourt hired Portuguese Lorinchetiver the mintributions are or whited to mount, it le proper to stare that as Daugh vouring to overwe evinloers by cniet toere bem the ether borclus in purt, meal. the expensou will be for Geneight, the Frimurtes only were formerly patience. include in the Present Force, or fe not seem to be on the decrease.\n\nNevertheless crio does\n\nsailed to Chusan. The natives, fight tratton. f ten safe and convenient mouthor junks are Akolected and delivered over for the use of the marine, make of curpurison the same plot 18 now\n\nThe intest way that of a perlipin, the expense of wages and provisons will not be seal, ber. The forces however are thus of the heavy rains in the north, continue to!\n\nwho arrived at Man the very day to\n\nof lates that claso delimate to chalibuting received unerated, their actual numbers, officera arrive. Several rivers are said to have He was long with a portion of crew, dlately\n\ndoinge sppeared, (China Mail, sgten.ber 7, No. 186) | will not be adequate to die expenditure. At the present\n\neisergency, we four thạt say 10ßently in supplying as kolen 150 eurṛrity : but from what we can learn, unless alance w! Ingade te pomelims for the sapirs of Kufen the ty\n\nby car auprovets, he may escape conv be plenter, and enfure we have deviscal and agrad to the sui hentay in gruring the cast how a stridatin she be sessed on to, Chizone much evidence as will easily & European Cart Catton Coll, and offer guns exported from. His perti\n\nJunio\n\nand we request that the Duty Hong, brorizma to winter\n\nAccounts of the disnetrons evasequences.\n\nsac, the 234 instant, Feing.---Ar- inmulated whele districts, and the nast tillery, 80: Sappers and Minere, 38; Gan! terrible mvague of the flag-lo are ap- Laucars, 89; 9th Regiacot, 361; Cey- prehended, if the mains continue.\n\nThus, illamgh many jaks large and shall have writed\n\nAll if we reckon up the hire of the Braves and of tho\n\nfound to be shormona; and acadh. net war fanks genpot de buikt all at once by gen-\n\nTie eeliezmer San P. Novhy, was totally disa\n\nmarted off by Wes Naval Smores\n\nThe British mohon er zekana Queen's thouula were cat “wazy to use her fin gudng on there\n\nThe Thite trz niel Watson, diffted to the momptly vid The Carposing panjati panduk, kad kasinoeste\n\nสปาไ\n\nThe 13 arque Coulatque gave bich, with, a oaider be pardon of wet cargo dannĝed: 2000 packages of Jes are to do anus by snelion\n\nThe Hemen Alvis: Julimar, ned back from see, having Insi\n\nrudder hats, sprang head of matman, and last for ada\n\nThe Spanish; brigantine Carmen abo pau kuch, in a leaky state, having lost a",
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        "content_text": "Arriving in India as an infant in 1803, I entered the Army before I was fourteen years of age, and Your Excellency will be informed by the Enclosures that I was in active Service from 1815 to 1826, having the good fortune to be continually noticed on various occasions in the Nipal War, the War of the Deccan, and at the Siege of Bhurtpore, where I was Major of Brigade to Brigadier General McCombe. Most of those upon whose Staff I served are no more, but I have much pride and pleasure in referring Your Excellency to the enclosed Copies of letters regarding me, and to the following distinguished officers under whom I had the honor to serve :-\n\nMajor-General Sir Hardyman (Equerry to H.R.H. The late Duke of Kent) when in Command of the 17th Regiment in the Nipal War 1814 and 1815, as also when that officer was Brigadier General Commanding British Force at Shubbulpoor in the Deccan War in 1817 and 1818.\n\nBrigadier General Edwards when Commanding the 17th Foot. Brigadier General McCante, both as Commanding Officer of the 14th Foot and Brigadier General at Bhurtpore in 1825 and 1826.\n\nLieutenant-General Sir Thomas Reynell whilst...",
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        "content_text": "assured you\n\naugust\n\nfeel\n\nwith him,\n\nthat while in the office you hold, it necessarily devolves your duty to forego (however painfully)\n\nthe\n\nprivilege of being with your Corps in any Military operations in which it\n\nmay\n\nbe engaged.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) S. Robt Morrison.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPage 164\n\n49 Albermarle Street,\n\n26th October, 1844.\n\nI trust that Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, Commanding in Chief, &c., He, will pardon\n\nme for\n\nintruding my respectful and earnest recommendation in favour of Brevet Major Caine, of H. M's. 26\" Foot,\n\nwhose\n\nunattached Majority is, I believe, at this moment, under his Grace's consideration. It is\n\nI feel totally unnecessary for\n\nme to trespass\n\non\n\nany\n\ndetails\n\nof Major Caine's long\n\nMilitary Services, as I know that these details have been forwarded to your\n\nLieutenant General,\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.B.,\n\nto\n\n&c.\n\nPage 164",
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        "content_text": "Ladekip 9½ Lordship by Majn. General 9½ Aquilar, Commanding H. M's. Land Forces in China, but I may perhaps be permitted\n\nto bear the strongest testimony to unceasing zeal and laborious exertions combined with great judgment, and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance, with which Major Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong, from the moment that Colony was taken possession of by me in May 1841, till the day I quitted it in June, 1844.\n\n$44.\n\nThough strictly coming under the Civil department, those duties were in many instances purely military, such as would have been required from a Military Commander, and I do not hesitate to record that the safety and well-being of H. M's subjects, who had settled themselves on the Island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example.\n\nI need not say to induce His Grace the Duke of Wellington to look as favourably as may be consistent with the rules of the Service, on Major Caine's claims, I will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of that officer springs from the purest public motives, and from a sense of the Assistance I derived from him in the complicated and difficult position in which I was placed in China.\n\nSave Copy!\n\nA true Copy\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger\n\n(Signed) Henry Pottinger",
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        "content_text": "Troops,\n\nYour\n\nthe Duke\n\nof Wellington will have\n\ngreat pleasure in giving effect to\n\nrecommendation and submitting This name to Her Majesty for Half Pay promotion.\n\nI have, to. (Signed) Fitzroy Somerset.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n167\n\nExtract from General Orders by the Honorable Major General d'Aquilar, C.B. Commanding the Troops\n\nWith the\n\nin\n\nChina.\n\nApril 2nd, 1847.\n\nWith the concurrence of H.E.\n\nSir John Francis Davis, Bart, &c., The Major General Commanding gladly avails himself of the Services of the Honorable Major Caine and appoints him Commandant of the Garrison of Hongkong during the absence of the Major General and the Main Body of the Troops on Expedition to Canton.\n\nShue...\n\n(True Copy)\n\nBy order,\n\n(Signed) J. Bruce, Captain Assistant Adjt General\n\n(True Extract)\n\n(Signed) J. Clark Kennedy, Captain, Asst. Adjt General",
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        "content_text": "Mas \n\n- \n\nCommander in Chief to Whampoa in March 1841._ In May 1841 Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841 Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join this Regiment but was refused, vide Letter 19/31 dated 22nd May 1841 from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached. In September 1843 was appointed Member of Council in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary and Auditor General, – in April 1847 when the expedition went against Canton was in charge of the Colony, as well as \n\n- \n\nan \n\nleft here in \n\nbeing Commandant of the Garrison - \n\n171 \n\nEntered the Service as Volunteer 17 Foot. 8th Nov2 1813. \n\nLieutenant 17th Foot 6th July 1816 \n\nLieutenant \"\n\n12th April 1819 \n\nExchanged to 14th Foot April 1822 \n\n# \n\nRemoved to 3o Buffs on applica: 16 March 1826 \n\nCaptain 11 Fest 9th Decr 1827 Exchanged 26th Foot October 1834 \n\nMajor by Brevet: 9 Nov 1841 \n\nMajor unattached Novr 1844 \n\n(True Copy)",
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        "content_text": "29th at 1830.\n\nDesp: Separate\" of\n\nInclosure No 2 in\n\nCaine's Urvices\n\nattesting major\n\nLetters and Memoranda\n\n:\n\n183\n\nMy Lord,\n\nVictoria, Honghong,\n\n26th October, 1850.\n\nIn Inne 1846, I had the\n\nhown to solicit\n\nyour Lordship's good\n\noffices with His bance the Duke of Wellington for permission to sell Majority, with the boon of being allowed\n\nto retain my\n\nmy\n\nthe Army List\n\nname in the\n\nwithout Pay or progressive promotions I\n\ninduced to bring myself\n\nane\n\nYour\n\nagam\n\nLordship's notice for the same\n\npurpose, but under different\n\ncircumstances which I now\n\nbeg\n\nto\n\npermission to detail.\n\nLieutenant-General.\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, G.C.B...\n\nto.\n\ntc.\n\nVc.\n\nHorse Guarde.\n\nLondon",
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        "content_text": "N\n\n3\n\n184\n\nThe state of my health is now such that I find it impossible to reside longer in these climates, and I have by this mail forwarded through His Excellency The Governor of this Colony a Memorial to The Right Honorable the Earl Grey praying for a Civil pension in November 1851, or a Commuted allowance in lieu thereof with the intention of settling as a Colonist in New Zealand and providing there for my Family of 4 sons - of whom I have not succeeded in settling one yet in Life - My application is that in the event of Lord Grey being pleased to accede to my solicitation (of which your Lordship will doubtless be duly informed, as I am forwarding this application through the Colonial office) that I be permitted to sell my Majority for the purpose of becoming a settler in New Zealand, and obtaining a grant of 600 acres in conformity to the Crown Regulations as to grants of Lands in the Colonies, and if possible retaining my name on the Army List as before stated...\n\nI have therefore to entreat the favour of this application being submitted to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and as the proposal is only based on my resignation of my office, the difficulties hitherto existing will I trust be removed, and by an additional act of Civil consideration to myself, I shall be enabled to make arrangements here with my Creditors, and possibly prolong my life by retiring to the more congenial Climate of New Zealand.\n\nMy List of Services are well known at the Horse Guards, and I will not trouble Your Lordship...",
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        "content_text": "It is gratifying to find that the bulk of the sugar hitherto exported has been loaded here first because it must become a great seat of stapler of the exports from China to the West; secondly, because the usual exchange of the article here is Opium which jails us. Exactly;\n\nthirdly because if a demand springs up it will induce the Coast grown Duge ars to be brought down to tw and repacked here for export, to the great benefit of the Colony. Fokien arc sugars are 10 to 12% cheaper than those of this province, and could readily be brought down by coasting junks, or such as especially by the foreign vessels coming in ballast.\n\nI accordingly look upon the following as the more prominent advantages which Hongkong will derive from the new trade with the West: first, a great influx of the shipping of all nations; secondly, that some of the staple exports, such as sugar, bartered for ... will be brought to Hong Kong and that it will become a dépôt of constantly growing sugars for the Californian markets; thirdly, that the manufacture of some of the articles required for the Western Markets, hitherto confined to Canton, will spring up here; such as hongersilk, lacquered ware, and coarse porcelain manufacture.\n\nLooking forward to some twenty years hence, I think Hongkong will be the chief Port of supply for the considerable Chinese population about to spring up on the Western shores of the Pacific. A steady and considerable emigration from China to the West coast of North and South America has already set in, and a great dearth of labor is felt all along the West coast from Valparaiso to Sima and the Mexican sea-board, owing to such numbers of the working population.\n\nPage 343",
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        "content_text": "Enquiries torce infegend, in its Exac\n\nout a four\n\nto beasties & Pluches\n\nsordince justified the\n\nthe paste\n\nobert\n\nthis referencution.\n\ncelife, bind the the themand bous fores\n\nto around compensaters torty in eines in which the\n\nCovert ums\n\n27\n\nu Flamen\n\nhis ship #terve.\n\na right was idered oftence impelouse.\n\ndencly perlifend. Déguin, does it bet\n\nmay dude with the law at prcvorit, under utente.\n\nin bowed a tearationt beau\n\nin bound a treau &lver?\n\nbytes frd., hunday bessone\n\nSheridany of lawf\n\nno Merivale z Confirm as Which\n\ninterfere\n\nmerchant ships to enter on board\n\nwith the general lase by uti suitors may rang I do not miffure this Ordmanie\n\nvy\n\nsuppetect by\n\nMr. Messiale\n\nA Haurs\n\nenteche.\n\nPlan 97\n\nJurice,\n\nThe for? reports Helither. I scaruly know what to advise restarting geven, a von angechec\n\nthis a Minance.\n\nworked well, a\n\nno dawk it hit until\n\nSome care of sisteme.\n\n1\n\nof resistance\n\nfrovision\n\nMy durinary of sec. l. arises. Prstellin\n\nthe white it wit le bit\n\n5 confirm, itating confulth\n\nMy this is done J\n\n1\n\nWire untation, but\n\nthat it mush\n\nhugsand\n\nPage 27\n\nMorition of Bray Kory,\n\nthat its quation\n\nh must be carefully\n\n#\n\nmay.\n\n1837.\n\nGovernor Broham\n\nto\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nA 34.\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\nProvision s\n\nExplaining\n\nReceived\n\nof\n\ncertain.\n\nOrdinanc\n\nMarch, 1851.\n\nDespatch A 230\n\nto in Itis Lordship's\n\nNo 4 of 1850, adverted\n\nby the Aury.\n\nflect a low to makes the Port\n\n7130. The ing bacutior\n\nDate\n\n1851.\n\nAbstract of Cases decided under Ordinance 4 of 1850.\n\n  \n    Ship\n    Plaintiff\n    Defendant\n    of whatuation\n    Nemarks\n  \n  \n    Jasmary. 14. John Hans Mun të nden traster of the Snips William Michael Driscol.\n    Dutch\n    \n    \n    Absenting himself from his to be puton board duty andrefusing to return his Trip.\n  \n  \n    February. 19. Samuel 13. Meader.\n    Patrick Gorman.\n    Haster of the Wrating (Samuel Robson.\n    \n    Delivered to Consul To be imprisoned for 1ch Dift. 25% harch, 1857.\n  \n  \n    April - 10. Arwald Ferdinand Christian Anderson.\n    vilmfelt. Master of\n    Charles \"ohus ton.\n    Ameri can.\n    Absenting themselves from a term not execeding I he other Afts.\n  \n  \n    April 26 Lewis Hastadt\n    Lawrence Incobson.\n    Adam Berg-\n    Master of the Big Antonio Pintis. Hamburgh-\n    their duty- 3 months-pending 17th March, 1857. their demand by the according to failers account; Consul. United States.\n  \n  \n    Christiane.\n    \n    \n    \n    Defendantdischarged\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    duty-\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Absenting themselves from having returned to thin\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    then duty.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Absenting himself from complaint withdrawn.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    duty-\n  \n\nChief Magistrate's Office.) Victoria, Hong Kong, the 13th May, 1851\n\n(Jyned) C.BB. Fillier. Chief Magistrate.",
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        "content_text": "Mz \n\npayment by 10. Mereer of 2110.6.8 into the Commissariat chest, I have now to request that Instructions may be given to the Colonial Agent for the \n\nrecovery of \n\nthe surplus sum \n\n£9 from the Lords Commissioners \n\nof the Admiralty on account \n\nF \n\nM3 Mereer. – \n\nThe \n\n~ I have the house to be, \n\nWith the highest respect, \n\nMr Wish \n\nWrite to them accordingly, & inform Mr. Heat the Agent General \n\ntreated to receive \n\nSir, \n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant, \n\nC \n\nMr Blackwood \n\nFor drafts \n\nBuke \n\nGes: Baillie \n\nEpe- \n\nMINUTE \n\nMr Jade's Elliot \n\nBart of Desert \n\nNAAPURIHGION \n\n11852 AUG? \n\nzy \n\n28. \n\n20 \n\n843.10 June \n\nLi \n\n136 \n\n4 Kep/50 \n\nSame directed by Hunting, \n\nSin Schen Tarkington to Barrant \n\nto \n\nto you the Copy of a despatch from the Officer \n\nAdministering the Govt \n\nof Henry long relative to \n\nAn \n\noverpayment of £9. \n\nwhich has been made on \n\naccount of the passage of the late Mr Mereer, the \n\nColonial Treasurer of the \n\nColony, and I are to \n\nyou \n\nto obtain from \n\ninstruct \n\nthe \n\nBoard of Admiralty, the \n\nL \n\nJun \n\nCassany of the defect Car \n\nUpon reviewing the provided text and applying the given rules for OCR proofreading, here is the corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nSir,\n\nPayment by 10. Mereer of 2110.6.8 into the Commissariat chest, I have now to request that instructions may be given to the Colonial Agent for the \n\nrecovery of \n\nthe surplus sum \n\n£9 from the Lords Commissioners \n\nof the Admiralty on account \n\nof M3 Mereer. – \n\nThe \n\n~ I have the honour to be, \n\nWith the highest respect, \n\nMr Wish \n\nWrite to them accordingly, & inform Mr. Heat the Agent General \n\nto be treated to receive \n\nSir, \n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant, \n\nC \n\nMr Blackwood \n\nFor drafts \n\nBuke \n\nGes: Baillie \n\nEpe- \n\nMINUTE \n\nMr Jade's Elliot \n\nBart of Desert \n\nNAAPURIHGION \n\n1852 AUG? \n\n28. \n\n20 \n\n843. 10 June \n\nLi \n\n136 \n\n4 Kep/50 \n\nSame directed by Hunting, \n\nSir Schen Tarkington to Barrant \n\nto \n\nto you the Copy of a despatch from the Officer \n\nAdministering the Govt \n\nof Henry long relative to \n\nAn \n\noverpayment of £9. \n\nwhich has been made on \n\naccount of the passage of the late Mr Mereer, the \n\nColonial Treasurer of the \n\nColony, and I are to \n\nrequest you \n\nto obtain from \n\nand instruct \n\nthe \n\nBoard of Admiralty, the \n\nLords Commissioners of the \n\nJun \n\nTreasury of the defective Car \n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve readability, here is a more refined version with proper paragraph merging and minor corrections:\n\nSir,\n\nPayment by 10. Mereer of 2110.6.8 into the Commissariat chest, I have now to request that instructions may be given to the Colonial Agent for the recovery of the surplus sum £9 from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on account of M3 Mereer.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest respect, Mr Wish.\n\nWrite to them accordingly, & inform Mr. Heat the Agent General to be treated to receive.\n\nSir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, C Mr Blackwood For drafts.\n\nBuke Ges: Baillie Epe-\n\nMINUTE\n\nMr Jade's Elliot Bart of Desert NAAPURIHGION 1852 AUG?\n\n28. 20 843. 10 June Li 136 4 Kep/50\n\nSame directed by Hunting, Sir Schen Tarkington to Barrant to you the Copy of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Govt of Henry long relative to an overpayment of £9, which has been made on account of the passage of the late Mr Mereer, the Colonial Treasurer of the Colony.\n\nI am to request you to obtain from and instruct the Board of Admiralty, the Lords Commissioners of the Jun Treasury of the defective Car.\n\nThis version aims to correct spelling errors, fix spacing issues, rejoin broken sentences, and restore paragraph breaks while adhering to the given rules and output format.",
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        "content_text": "or Judicial Char- or in any British Colony, and all Affidavits, Pleadings, and other acter of person Legal Documents filed or deposited in any such Court, may be signing the same, \n\n'proved in the Supreme Court, or before any Person having, by Law or by Consent of Parties, Authority to Hear, Receive, and Examine Evidence as aforesaid, either by examined Copies, or by Copies authenticated as hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, if the Docu- ment sought to be proved be a Proclamation, Treaty, or other Act of State, the authenticate Copy to be admissible in Evidence must purport to be Sealed with the Seal of the Foreign State, or of the East India Company, or of the Territory under the Government of the East India Company, or of the British Colony to which the Original Document belongs; and if the Document sought to be proved be a Judgment, Decree, Order, or other Judicial Proceeding of any Foreign or Colonial Court, or of any Court within the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, or an Affidavit, Pleading, or other Legal Document Filed or Deposited in any such Court, the authenticated Copy, to be admissible in Evidence, must purport either to be Sealed with the Seal of the Foreign or Colonial Court, or Court within the Territories under the Government of the East India Company to which the Original Document belongs; or in the event of such Court having no Seal, to be Signed by the Judge; or if there be more than one Judge, by any One of the Judges of the said Court; and such Judge shall attach to his Signature a statement in Writing on the said Copy that the Court, whereof he is a Judge has no Seal; but if any of the aforesaid Authenticated Copies shall purport to be Sealed or Signed as hereinbefore respectively directed, the same shall respectively be admitted in Evidence in every Case in which the Original Documents could have been received in Evidence, without any Proof of the Seal, where a Seal is necessary, or of the Signature, or the Truth of the Statement attached thereto, where such Signature and Statement are necessary, or of the Judicial Character of the Person appearing to have made such Signature and Statement.\n\nas primâ facie\n\nRegisters of VI. Every Register of a Vessel may be proved in any of Her Vessels and Cer- Majesty's Court of Justice, or before any Person having, by Law or tificates of Re-by Consent of Parties, Authority to Hear, Receive, and Examine gistry admissible Evidence as aforesaid, either by the Production of the Original, or by Evidence of their an Examined Copy thereof, or by a Copy thereof purporting to be Contents, &c. certified under the hand of the Person having the charge of the Ori- ginal; and such person is hereby required to furnish such certified Copy to any Person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon Payment of the Sum of One Dollar; and every such Register or such Copy of a Register, and also every Certificate of Registry granted under any of the Acts of Parliament relating to the Registry of British Vessels, and purporting to be Signed as required by Law, shall be received in Evidence in any Court of Justice, or before any Person having by Law or by Consent of Parties, Authority to Hear, Receive, and Examine Evidence as aforesaid, as prima facie Proof of all the Matters contained or recited in such Register, when the Re- gister, or such Copy thereof as aforesaid, is produced, and of all the Matters contained or recited in or endorsed on such Certificate of Registry, when the said Certificate is produced.\n\nWhere neces- VII. Whenever in any proceeding whatever it may be necessary vary to prove Ac- to prove the Trial and Conviction or Acquittal of any Person charged quittal or Convic- with any Indictable Offence, it shall not be necessary to produce the tion of Person Record of the Conviction or Acquittal of such Person, or a Copy charged, not ne- cessary to pro- thereof, but it shall be sufficient that it be certified, or purport to be duce Record, but certified, under the Hand of the Clerk of the Court, or other Officer may be produced having the Custody of the Records of the Court, where such Con- under hand of viction or Acquittal took place, or by the Deputy of such Clerk or Clerk of Court. other Officer, that the Paper produced is a Copy of the Record of the Indictment, Trial, Conviction, and Judgment, or Acquittal, as the case may be, omitting the formal parts thereof.\n\nExamination VIII. Whenever any Book or other Document is of such Public or certified Co-Nature as to be admissible in Evidence on its mere production from pies of Docu- the proper Custody, any Copy thereof, or Extract therefrom, shall be ments admissible admissible in Evidence in the Supreme Court, or before any Person \n\nin Evidence.\n\nnow or hereafter having, by Law or by Consent of Parties, Authority to Hear, Receive, and Examine Evidence as aforesaid; provided it be proved to be an Examined Copy or Extract, or provided it purports to be Signed and Certified as a True Copy or Extract by the Officer to whose Custody the Original is entrusted, and which Officer is hereby required to furnish such Certified Copy or Extract to any Person applying at a reasonable time for the same, upon Payment of a reasonable Sum for the same, not exceeding Twenty-five Cents for every Folio of Ninety Words.\n\nCertifying a\n\nfalse Document a\n\nIX. If any Officer authorized or required by this Ordinance to furnish any Certified Copies or Extracts, shall wilfully certify any Document as being a True Copy or Extract, knowing that the same Misdemeanour. is not a True Copy or Extract, as the case may be, he shall be Guilty of a Misdemeanour, and be liable, upon Conviction, to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding Eighteen Months.\n\nX. The Supreme Court, and every Judge, Justice, Officer, Com- Court, &c., may missioner, Arbitrator, or other Person, now or hereafter having, by administer oaths. Law or by Consent of Parties, Authority to Hear, Receive, and Examine Evidence with respect to or concerning any Suit, Action, or other Proceeding, is hereby empowered to administer an Oath to all such Witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.\n\nXI. If any Person shall Forge the Seal, Stamp, or Signature of any Persons forg- Document in this Ordinance mentioned or referred to, or shall tender ing Seal, Stamp, or Signature of in Evidence any such Document with a False or Counterfeit Seal, certain Docu- Stamp, or Signature thereto, knowing the same to be False or Counter- ments, or wilful- feit, he shall be Guilty of Felony, and shall, upon Conviction, be ly uttering same, liable to Transportation for Seven Years, or to Imprisonment for any guilty of Felony. Term not exceeding Three Years, nor less than One Year with Hard Labour; and whenever any such Document shall have been admitted in Evidence by virtue of this Ordinance, the Court or the Person who shall have admitted the same, may, at the request of any Party against whom the same is so admitted in Evidence, direct that the same shall be impounded and be kept in the Custody of some Officer of the Court or other proper Person, for such Period, and subject to such Conditions, as to the said Court or Person shall seem meet;\n\nand every Person who shall be charged with committing any Felony under this Ordinance, may be Dealt with, Indicted, Tried, and, if Convicted, Sentenced, and his Offence may be laid and charged to have been committed in the Place in which he shall be apprehended or be in Custody; and every Accessory before or after the Fact to any such Offence may be Dealt with, Indicted, Tried, and, if Convicted, Sen- tenced, and his Offence may be laid and charged to have been com- mitted in any Place in which the principal Offender may be Tried.\n\nXII. Nothing herein contained shall repeal any Provision contained Nothir in Chapter Twenty-six of the Statute passed in the Session of Parlia-in to ment holden in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King William the with Fourth and the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty.\n\nWM. JERVOIS\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th Day of June, 1852.\n\nCHAS. ST GEO. CLEVERLY, for the Clerk of Councils,\n\nfor the Clerk of Councils\n\n-\n\n205",
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        "content_text": "Mr Merivale.\n\nNo reason is assigned for this excess. Thus absence of Mr the leer, but as the alleges that no inconvenience has been occasioned by it, pertemps the Duke of Marcas the ink not refuse to sanction the payment for which the Governor quotes His Grace's authority.\n\n216.\n\nTo Sir John F. Davis,\n\nGovernor in Chief, Hong Kong, Victoria,\n\n16th February, 1853.\n\nReceived from Mr Hillier's return & Police; and £296 19s - on account of his half salary for his duties as Chief Magistrate to the Colony, and resumption applying for approval of the payment of Salary noth...\n\nGeorge Bonham\n\n4418 Hory Honey\n\n44\n\n27th\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch\n\nM&F Peel\n\n26\n\nDukey Dewaes!! | 2/\n\nBu\n\n258 of the 16th of February and under the circumstances stated by your despatch. I have signified my approval which caused Mr Hillier, the Chief Magistrate, to be quiet as to his half Salary for the period by which he was excused the terms of his engagement on account of his absence.",
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        "content_text": "as the legal advisor of the Colonial Government :\n\nI trust, under this explanation, that the change in the Council will meet with your concurrence, and that you will be enabled to submit the same for the confirmation of Her Most Gracious Majesty,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMr. Merinte\n\nI Willier to thie It is perhaps as well that there was a demur to the proposal of the Govern when in Reyland Executive Council of Hongkong.\n\nfuttie appointment of Refer to M. Secuit.\n\nJec.4780\n\nWff. 3. May.\n\nAm May 3\n\nappointed\n\nGoo. 4779. 86. Kong.\n\nThe Lord President\n\nMAY\n\nForvanda 1853 M. Smith Eff Berade\n\nMES Peet\n\nDuke of Newcastle\n\n4\n\n5\n\nMy Lord,\n\n9 May,\n\n1853-\n\n56 Paul Joy Stacking\n\nThe Eagle having been recommended to me as a fit and proper person to be appointed a Member of the Executive Council of the Island of Hong Kong, I have to request that your Lordship will submit his name to The Queen in Council,",
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        "content_text": "Steamer \"Semiramis\", then under despatch for the Straits' Settlements, one Malay and nineteen Chinese Convicts who were here in the Colonial jail under sentence of Transportation. In consequence of no merchant vessel being available for the conveyance of these Convicts to Penang, although notice calling for Tenders had been published in the Government Gazette as far back as the 10th January last, Sir George Bonham, having obtained the previous consent of the Senior Naval Officer on the station, was of necessity adopted the course now reported.\n\nI beg to enclose a Descriptive List of these twenty Convicts transported, for your Grace's information.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant, [Severais?].\n\nPage 73",
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        "content_text": "For absence to proceed to England for the benefit of his health, as recommended in the accompanying Certificate by his medical attendant, Dr Balfour.\n\nTo annex, I beg at the same time to furnish your Grace's information, the requisite Certificate of the leave granted to Wo Cay, from which it will be seen that the same is to commence on the 28th instant, and that, during his absence, the duties of his office will be performed by M. W. H. Alexander, deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, who, in conformity with the Colonial Regulations, will draw the moieties of the Salaries attached to his present and the acting appointment.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMm Suvais.\n\nNo changes were made other than formatting into paragraphs and minor corrections to obvious errors such as \"to auner\" -> \"To annex\", \"unes\" -> \"to furnish\", \"Commence\" -> \"commence\", \"with draw\" -> \"will draw\", \"aud\" -> \"and\", \"Scronut\" -> \"Servant\", and \"Mm Suvais\" (kept as is, assuming it's a name or signature). The original text's structure and content were preserved as per the instructions.",
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        "content_text": "No. 20\n\nCircular.\n\n5301 trong dong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 15\n\n1853\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n83\n\n22nd March, 1853\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nAusia 26th Pha\n\nagent instructed\n\n127 time /5\n\n154.\n\n10. Lean calend\n\nNo. 1.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nI have the honor to report to Your Grace that Mr. W. H. Mitchell, Assistant Magistrate of Police, Sheriff, Provost Marshal and Marshal of the Vice Admiralty Court;\n\nallowed by His Excellency the Governor, with the concurrence of the Executive Council, one year's leave of absence, as applied for in the annexed letter, on the ground of urgent private affairs requiring his immediate departure for Europe.\n\nI beg to enclose the Certificate of the leave granted him, which is to date from the 20th instant. During his absence, the duties of the offices held by him will be undertaken by Mr. Charles May, Superintendent of Police and Officiating Registrar.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "General, and those of Superintendent of Police will be performed by Mr. D. R. Caldwell, General Interpreter and Assistant Superintendent of Police.\n\nDraw one.\n\nThe duties of Mr. May will, consequent upon the above change, be reduced to half of his present salary together with the half of that of the temporary appointment, and Mr. Caldwell, continuing to fill the office of General Interpreter, will receive, in addition to full pay as such, a moiety of the salary assigned to the Superintendent of Police.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant\n\nED. M'Creagh\n\n7\n\nConfim.\n\nOURS. 19 May\n\n7.78.19/5.\n\nalso informed en clair télégraphique,\n\nJ2:12.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong,\n\nINUTE 23 MREIL Mencore: ME Peet Dukey News\n\n1853 MAY 25\n\nalsd 267 a/53 100 84\n\nPage 7\n\nI have to acquaint you with the receipt of your despatch of the 22nd instant and to convey to you the approval of the Governor in Council of the appointment granted to No. 10. H. Mitchell, Assistant Magistrate of Police and Harbour Master at Hongkong.\n\nShare\n\n \nPage 8",
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        "content_text": "that Mr. R. Masson, clerk \n\nin the Census and Registration office, should perform the duties of acting Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court, about to be temporarily vacated by Mr. Alexander; and that Mr. A. Grand-Pré, 4th Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Establishment, should be removed to the Census \n\nand Registration Office in his place.. \n\nKen changes as already reported, will commence from the 28th Instant, from which date Mr. Grand Pré and Masson will draw the moieties of the Salaries \n\nof their present and acting appointments \n\nDuring Mr. Grandré's temporary removal to the Registration Office, His Excellency the Governor in Council appointed Mr. Hartie Sterling to undertake the duties of acting 4th Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Establishment, on half of the Salary assigned to the office. \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nWith the highest respect, \n\nMy Lord Duke \n\nYour Grace's, \n\nMost obedient humble Servant, \n\nWM Semois .",
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        "content_text": "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nActing Executive Council\n\n23 March,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong.\n\nRegistrar General.\n\nColonial Secretary and of the Establishments of the\n\nChanges in appointments in\n\nStating certain temporary\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY IS\n\n1653\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nAns? 29th June 15.-15.\n\n25th March, 1855.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor\n\nto inform your Grace that Mr. Hillier, the Chief Magistrate, has paid into the Commissariat Chest here, for remittance to the Paymaster General for Naval Services, as shown by the annexed Certificate, the sum\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nAo.",
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        "content_text": "104, being the amount of his passage money from Dongtong to England in July last, as directed in your Grace's Despatch No. 12 of the 14th January.\n\nI beg at the same time to state, that Mr Hillier, in paying the above sum, has represented that the rate of passage charged by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at the time of his departure from hence in July last was £130, and that the amount to be paid by him would be two-thirds of that sum, or £86.13.4.\n\nI beg, therefore, respectfully to submit for your Grace's favourable consideration the accompanying letter and its enclosure from Mr Hillier, applying for a refund of the difference between this amount and the sum now paid.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant,\n\n15th September.",
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        "content_text": "proceed to England for the restoration & his health\n\nrecommended in the\n\nas\n\nrecompanying Certificate from the Colonial Surgeon.-\n\nI beg further to inform Your Grace that during Mr Steedman's absence, or until further orders, the duties of Colonial Chaplain will be performed by the Reverend C. R. Carroll, Military Chaplain to the Garrison, who will draw half of Mr Steedman's Salary;\n\nEnclosed I beg to transmit the requisite Certificate of the leave granted to Mr Steedman, and\n\nPage 102\n\nPage 103\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Grace's\n\nMost obedient\n\nhumble Servant",
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        "content_text": "M. Merivale. I have been obliged to wait the arrival of this duplicate despatch, the original having been mislaid by me.\n\nYou will thereby be enabled to see the opinions of Lord Grey, as expressed in his Minutes on 6806, on the propriety of taking the expression of piracy in the Waters of Hong Kong into their non-consideration. I thank myself for referring to this Letter from this Office of the 15 Aug 1849: Acting Governor Jervois, 18th April, 1853. Victoria, Hongkong, to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle. 7 Enclosures. Dup: No 28. Reporting Received suppression. – here to assist in its Steamer being stationed necessity of a small of Piracy, and urging on the prevalence.\n\nDirecting that best to take whatever means may be most effectual, and of which you must be the best judge, for protecting British Commerce from the attacks of pirates in that quarter of the world. Single-handed they cannot expect, and might not be called upon to put down such piracy as prevails in the Chinese waters, and although the Americans benefit so largely by the trade of the 5 Ports, for which we secured for them as well as ourselves, I think we might invite them to cooperate with us in the work of defence against pirates as a common enemy.\n\nLook at Loudfrey's minute on 5609 Hong Kong of 1849 (annexed).\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "relatives reside : and I trust that, under the \nbereaved \nand helpless state of the widow orphans, this small, \nand \nI grant will meet with \nthe sanction of Your Grace . I have further to report that Mr. Hall sailed for \nAustralia \nin the ship \"Planet\" with her two children \non \n: the 27th instant, as is shown in Mr. \nMay's report of that date, copy of which \nis attached. \n\nI have the honor to be, \nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's \nMost Obedient, \nHumble Servant MPM Serviois. \n\nMey. \nTherivale. \nown opinion is that this grant of £50 been too easy imposed seeing \nthat the \ndeceased only served the Colony 13 month, & that his family in New Zealand \nare alleged to be in \nhelp pretty good \n\nBut I apprehend \n... \n\nAcknowlon. \n489 \n\nNo. 16. \nGov 6910 W. Kong. \nThe Officer Administering \nthe Government \nHongkong.. \nCERTIFICATE: July 1853 \n\nHULY \n9 \n??? Halks with MEElliot Merivale MRF. Peel Duke Newcastl 12. \nSir. \n143 \n12. July 153. \n\nI have to acknow-ledge the receipt of \nyour Despatch N. 29 of the 28 of April reporting that with \nthe consent \nof \nthe Executive Council \nof Hong Kong, you \nhad \ngranted a Gratuity of \n£50 shared \nto the Widow and Orphan Children of Sergeant Wall Late Gaoler of the Victoria Jail, to provide \nthem",
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        "content_text": "I have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, your Graces.\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMr Merinale.\n\nThe Bishop does not state what urgent Occasion in China required the Absence from Hong Kong before the return of the Colonial Chaplain, nor as the Governor have power nor him, could he have been compelled to make such an explanation. But unless his missionary visits were very pressing, very much for the health of the Chaplain, and excellent and hard working man, might have reported the postponement of his visits until the Chaplain's return to the Island. As the matter now stands, Sapphichen there is little else to be done but to communicate with Mr. Steedman if his Lordship... u lie found, intra-sentence of the best paragraph in the Bishop's Letter. After begging, I am bound to admit that practice at this department in Granting Leave of absence has grown rather lax, and I think that I noticed this apprehension expressed not long since in the minute in circulation.\n\nIn the present instance, the Bishop does show that for a very long period, the Colony of Hongkong, whilst paying for some the services enjoyed his presence, lived in England and never returned to the Colony, filling up all the time the Post of Colonial Chaplain. His successor had not been appointed so long as a twelvemonth when he likewise took leave to come to England with a year's leave, under these Circumstances, I think the Bishop is fully warranted in begging that no extension of leave may be granted to him.\n\nIt also is obvious that no leave ought to be granted to any clergyman without the...\n\nPage 292",
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        "content_text": "previous consent of the Bishop, but then there seems\n\nA\n\ndifference between the authorities\n\nfacts in this particular. I think that it will be\n\nJay\n\nas to the state of the\n\nthat\n\nau\n\nofficial\n\nCal witionation.\n\nof\n\nthe Bishops have\n\nf\n\nbraught to Opinion she always be obtained before granting\n\nto\n\nA\n\nz of\n\nДева\n\nClergy\n\nin his Diocese.\n\nIn Steadman should be writter to and\n\nrequested to state whether or not the present state of his\n\nhealth is such\n\nMA\n\nto\n\ngive\n\nhiin mason to hope that\n\nLe mati be able to return\n\nto this Colony before the time of the expiration Leave of Aberc\n\nghis!\n\n13 rugh 42 Compl\n\nGovernor Sir George Bonham, Bart.\n\nVictoria, Houstony, 4th June, 1853.\n\nto\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived\n\nNo43-\n\nI mclosures.\n\nreporting thereon.\n\nChaplaincy of HongKong, and\n\nof this brace, res recting the Colonial\n\nBishop of the \"min to the address Transmitting a let in from the\n\nHas swoopportunity warzwen & him offormal the tempnary Assing\n\nmcursing br\n\nIncharge of tallaylains Inter, lehre un bon\n\nHer Revivall\n\n79654 M\n\nMay I trouble you\n\nto look at the\n\nJoona\n\nAnvexed Corest pondence with the\n\nhuwessel's\n\n205\n\nof Hory Hory, and the Bake of humorchis Ofationer war granted. Scamusfund penki. Minule thereon, willen Italiere in\n\nBirlanis dessutes the Fachmes Has the Mp was\n\nyour absence.\n\nConsalted bit often the Gov. & Secuter Connect laws. The levator to which his Garce refers has not\n\nGranted the leave: Whis\n\ni wrth tort\n\nthat the Bp buy properly thinks Reinalle.\n\nLeen prepared, and Solo not think, but are\n\nNot sure, that it was his intention that it\n\nane can the offen 971. Asplaint should be, will\" steps had been taken to\n\nof on the air gears from April 1050 b. Och 1853\n\nbe the Chaplon with onlyle in\n\nButy for\n\n10 month? Msu lose that tos grans applicating forteon wither givin\n\nfor puper wager to the Patte detients an offene to\n\nCouveurena\n\nveneen offer indodnes Mices. Proceed arebon, ge\n\nfor\n\ndraw lighter\n\nthe regulations\" with auspuh\n\nShe to granting leaves of absence",
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        "content_text": "previous consent of the Bishop applied for and obtained officially and in a written form. Shove ve\n\nngục đang hông Entd S.W. Studman. Revd Mr Ellish Mr. Rul High Excall Wellington > Puropetare. Sir, 17 Aug aluke ochewerelt S. at Leave Hory. King A of 20.5. th 300 1853.\n\n28° Augury 18 Li with reference to the Absence granted to you on the 1st of April last for One twelvemonth, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to inform you that His Grace has learned by recent Reports from the Colony that owing to the departure of the Bishop on a visitation to the northern Ports some difficulty is likely to be experienced in providing satisfactorily for the Ecclesiastical duties to be performed at Hong Kong, and to acquaint you for this reason, & adverting also to the lengthened period",
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        "content_text": "During which, in your predecessors' time, the Colony was deprived of the services of the Colonial Chaplain, the Duke of Newcastle, whilst fully appreciating the cause which has obliged you to return to this Country, feels that it would be impossible for him, consistently with his public duty, to extend your leave of absence beyond the twelvemonth for which it was originally granted.\n\nHis Grace has thought it right to give you an early intimation of this conclusion, and I am at the same time to state that, for the sake of the public Service, he would be glad if you could inform him whether the present state of your health is such as to give reason to hope that you will be able to return to the Colony at the expiration of your leave.\n\n...\n\nPage 301",
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        "content_text": "No 43 of 1853.\n\nInclosure No 1 in Desp:\n\n  \n    Copy-1\n    1\n  \n\nSir,\n\nExcellency\n\n37944/19\n\nSt Paul's College.\n\nHong Kong\n\n305\n\nMay 30th, 1853.\n\nI beg to enclose to your Excellency an open letter to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle and request the favour of your Excellency forwarding it by the next mail.\n\nBeing about to leave Hongkong for an absence of many months, I am led to represent to Your Excellency that a misapprehension appears to exist as to the amount...\n\nLetter from \"The Bishop of Victoria\" to His Grace \"The Duke of Newcastle,\" relative to the Colonial Chaplaincy of Hongkong.\n\n30th May, 1853\n\nTo His Excellency Sir Geo. Bonham, Bart., Governor of Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "144.\n\nCivil.\n\n8440 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 20\n\n63\n\n312\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong.\n\n18th June, 1853.\n\nOffice of Sup.\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\n42 Continued to be allowed to subscribe to the Superannuation Fund one\n\n43 June 4 Transmitting a letter from the Bishop of Victoria to the address of this Office, respecting the Colonial Chaplaincy of Hongkong, and reporting thereon.\n\nOriginals.\n\n44. 15. Transmitting the Blue Book of Hongkong for the year 1852, and reporting thereon.\n\n45.\n\n46.\n\n47.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to transmit to your Grace the\n\n16. 14 Reporting leave of absence for 18 Months granted to Mr John Fraser, 1st Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office, and arrangements made for the performance of his duties.\n\n2.\n\n15 Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Despatch 17 of 8th April, Circular of 24th March, and Letter of 7th April.\n\n4-22 Replying to His Grace's Circular of the 24th March respecting the laying of Port charges on vessels Carrying Troops\n\n**\n\nMain\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nDu\n\nnow\n\nLetter to Lord Board\n\nScapy\n\nBlue Book of Hongkong for the year 1852.\n\nRevenue and Expenditure.\n\n2. The Revenue received up to the 31st December last amounted\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\netc.\n\netc.",
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        "content_text": "F\n\n8\n\nIn this Colony, its Commercial\n\nprojects are slowly but certainly\n\nextending and\n\nand assuming\n\na character\n\nof greater permanency; its sanitary\n\ncondition is satisfactory; the wants\n\nof the Community are readily supplied in the City; and the Chinese Inhabitants, as far as I can judge, continue to repose confidence in the Government. The only subject I regret is the extent to which Piracy prevails in the neighbouring waters. This, indeed, is one\n\nof great importance, but being\n\ncarried\n\non\n\nchiefly between Chinese,\n\nit is altogether impossible for the\n\nBritish Government to\n\nsuppress it,\n\nwithout some active cooperation\n\n321\n\non the part of the Chinese Government. This cooperation I\n\nhave repeatedly requested from authorities without avail; and in the present disorganized state of the Sea-board part of the Empire,\n\nit is now useless to expect it.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nS. G. Bonham",
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        "content_text": "Decratch A 44 of 1853\n\nEnclosure N. ff in\n\nNo. 45.\n\nCivil.\n\n27 Aug\n\nNo1.\n\n8441\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 20\n\n1853.\n\n335\n\nHong Kong\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n14th June, 1853.\n\nI have the honor to inform Your Grace that I have granted, with the concurrence of the Executive Council, eighteen months leave of absence to Mr. John Hare, 3rd Clerk in the Colonial Treasurer's Office, on account of ill health, as attested by his Medical attendant, Dr. Barton.\n\nDuring Mr. Hare's absence, the duties of his office will be performed by Mr. Robert Rienaecker, in addition to his own as 2nd Clerk and Accountant in the Treasurer's Establishment, receiving for this extra duty the moiety of Mr. Hare's salary.\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c., &c.\n\nCensus of Hongkong for 1852.",
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        "content_text": "Page 366\n\nthe particulars of this leave is annexed\n\nThe usual Certificate containing\n\nhereto.\n\nYour Grace's\n\nSistrature\n\nMost Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMr. Whist\n\nSauction; but observe to the\n\nGovernor that as\n\nthis officer has not been 5 years in\n\npublic service a visit to Australia, or the Cape of\n\nGood Hope for a period of 10, or 12\n\nMonths would have been\n\ntim leave preferable to going\n\nto come to England.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nto Discharge\n\nthe duties of law offices. B. Rules Qence Has Men\n\nWhen Arranquerel\n\n21.\n\nbut to be on maept when he\n\nreachable - Was this done in the case\n\nCauction, with observation\n\nas above.\n\nM: 22.\n\n?\n\nPage 366",
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        "content_text": "Despatch #45 of 1853.\n\nInclosure 1.2 in\n\nClerk in the Colonial Treasury granted to Mize in June, 320\n\nJeutirea î CAR & Alzonce Office.\n\n14 June, 1853.\n\nNo. 46.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n84/2 Jong Yong.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 20\n\n1853\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nthe 14th June, 1853.\n\n372\n\nWith reference to the Acting Governor's Despatch No. 36 of the 23rd ultimo, I have the honor to acknowledge, the receipt, on the 7th instant, of the following Despatches from Your Grace. No. 7 of 8th April, 1853. Letters of 22nd March and 7th April. Circular of 24th March,\n\nHis Grace\n\nand\n\nDuplicate Despatch Military N. 1 of 26th March last.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's\n\nMost Obedient, Humble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "Duplicate.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n373\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n15th. sch. June, 1853.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's Circular of the 24th March last, respecting the objectionable practice in some Colonies of subjecting Vessels carrying Coolies to extra Charges, and to state in reply that, Hongkong being a Free Port, no dues or charges of any description are levied either on Transports, or any Vessels whatever arriving in this Harbour.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c,\n\nPage 373\n\n \n(reconstructed to follow original line breaks and content)\n\nCorrected version maintains original content and structure, fixing minor OCR errors.\n\n becomes (as per rule 12 and rule 16, no explanation is given in the output)\n \nThe final output is \nMiscellaneous.\n\n373\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n15th sch. June, 1853.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's Circular of the 24th March last, respecting the objectionable practice in some Colonies of subjecting Vessels carrying Coolies to extra Charges, and to state in reply that, Hongkong being a Free Port, no dues or charges of any description are levied either on Transports, or any Vessels whatever arriving in this Harbour.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c,\n\nPage 373",
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        "content_text": "Moun Fat pour\n\nJubject & Dispatch\n\nIt June 30th Acknowledging receipt of despatches to Mgg 27th April, and Letters of 23rd April and 30th May, 1853.\n\n5/ duly 5 Acknowledging receipt of this Grace's Despatch 19747 of April, and urging confirmation of Seamans Agreement, As 6/882; also, applying for caution of\n\n53.\n\nthe additions made to the Harbour Master's establishment none,\n\nTransmitting comparative Statements showing the Estimated and actual Revenue and expenditure of Hong Kong for the year\n\nconcluding thereon.\n\ncubed 9th December, 1852, and\n\nTransmitting annual account of the Chouit Tree for the year ended 31st December 1852, and Annual Return showing the Balances in the Colonial Chests on the 1st and last days of the\n\nsame year.\n\nwith acts, your's Certificate attached 2nd year, via Marseilles\n\nJuly 22nd Entering resignation of the office of Governor and Commander in Chief of Hong Kong\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nP48.\n\nMilitary.\n\n375\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n25th June, 1853.\n\nI have the honour\n\nto acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's Despatch, Military 11 of the 26th March last, informing\n\nMe that your Grace had deemed it expedient to withdraw from this Garrison that part of the Force which consists of three companies\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\n \nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "to be \n\nmore \n\nGrace that the hot season has already set in, and I fear promises trying from the great heat thus early experienced than the two past Summers have proved to be, and I think this another reason why the removal of the Ceylon Rifles, being native Troops, should be for the present delayed.\n\nI am under the belief that the absence of the three Rifle Companies from Ceylon for a limited period, will not be of much consequence to the Government of that Island, while their services are particularly required at the present moment in this Colony. I trust, therefore, that this explanation, together with the difficulties of my present position, will enable Your Grace to approve of my proceedings in this matter.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\nIsmail\n\nPage 379",
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        "content_text": "I have the honor to state that it is my wish to be relieved of the Office I hold, so as to enable me to leave China in March next; and I beg therefore that your Grace will be pleased to submit to the Queen my humble request that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to relieve me of the duties of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony. Should it prove more convenient to Her Majesty's Government to relieve me at an earlier date, I shall be happy to resign my charge at any time, on the understanding that I shall be entitled to passage money in the same way.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient, Humble Servant, [J. Bowring? - name not fully captured by OCR]\n\nEstlan is likely a mis-OCR of the name, possibly \"Bowring\" as in John Bowring, a historical figure known to be related to Hong Kong.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions to the letter as requested:\n\nI have the honor to state that it is my wish to be relieved of the Office I hold, so as to enable me to leave China in March next; and I beg therefore that your Grace will be pleased to submit to the Queen my humble request that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to relieve me of the duties of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony. Should it prove more convenient to Her Majesty's Government to relieve me at an earlier date, I shall be happy to resign my charge at any time, on the understanding that I shall be entitled to passage money in the same way.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient, Humble Servant, Estlan\n\nRevised to fit the exact output format required and adhering strictly to the rules:\n\nI have the honor to state that it is my wish to be relieved of the Office I hold, so as to enable me to leave China in March next; and I beg therefore that your Grace will be pleased to submit to the Queen my humble request that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to relieve me of the duties of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony. Should it prove more convenient to Her Majesty's Government to relieve me at an earlier date, I shall be happy to resign my charge at any time, on the understanding that I shall be entitled to passage money in the same way.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient, Humble Servant, Estlan",
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        "content_text": "No. 52.\n\nFinancial\n\n14\n\n2936 Hong Vương 11 trong Victoria, Hongkong, SEP3 5th. July, 1855.\n\nCofiy W Treasury for inform\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nIn compliance with article 7 of the Instructions from the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, Commissioners dated 18471, I have the honor to enclose herewith Copies of the Comparative Statements No.1. and No. 2. showing the Estimated and Actual Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong for the year ended 31st December, 1852, as furnished to me by the Auditor General.\n\nThe difference between the Estimated Revenue and Actual Receipts amounts to £808 18s. 3¾d., and arises from my having been compelled to forego certain parts of the Revenues, in consequence of the...\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle;\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nPage 14\n\n(1) The original text has \"184,\" which is likely an OCR error and should be \"1847\" as per the context.\n\nNo. 52.\n\nFinancial\n\n14\n\n2936 Hong Vương 11 trong Victoria, Hongkong, SEP3 5th. July, 1855.\n\nCofiy W Treasury for inform\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nIn compliance with article 7 of the Instructions from the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, Commissioners dated 18471, I have the honor to enclose herewith Copies of the Comparative Statements No.1. and No. 2. showing the Estimated and Actual Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong for the year ended 31st December, 1852, as furnished to me by the Auditor General.\n\nThe difference between the Estimated Revenue and Actual Receipts amounts to £808 18s. 3¾d., and arises from my having been compelled to forego certain parts of the Revenues, in consequence of the...\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle;\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nThe final response is:\nNo. 52.\n\nFinancial\n\n14\n\n2936 Hong Vương 11 trong Victoria, Hongkong, SEP3 5th. July, 1855.\n\nCofiy W Treasury for inform\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nIn compliance with article 7 of the Instructions from the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury, Commissioners dated 18471, I have the honor to enclose herewith Copies of the Comparative Statements No.1. and No. 2. showing the Estimated and Actual Revenue and Expenditure of Hongkong for the year ended 31st December, 1852, as furnished to me by the Auditor General.\n\nThe difference between the Estimated Revenue and Actual Receipts amounts to £808 18s. 3¾d., and arises from my having been compelled to forego certain parts of the Revenues, in consequence of the...\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle;\n\n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "In December, 1851, as Despatch No. 5 of 23rd January, 1852 reported, I estimated the loss that Government would sustain would be £2,000, but it is satisfactory to find that the actual loss only amounted to the sum above mentioned. The disbursements, it will be seen, exceeded the original Estimate by £487.17.82, which, together with £808.18.3d loss on the Reversed, would show a deficiency of mean to the amount of £1,296.16.04.\n\nIn consequence of Despatch No. 5 of 23rd January, a Supplementary Estimate was taken for £2,500, so that there is a balance in favour of this Government of £1,203.11.74, for which due credit will be given in the Estimates now under preparation for the year 1854-55.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's\n\nMost Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMalune",
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        "content_text": "the \n\nA \n\nfor \n\n1113 \n\nby M3 Lawson late Mate \n\n7 \n\nSteam Vessel \"Larriston\" recently \n\nIs these papers only came \n\nwrecked \n\nAs \n\ninto my possession \n\nthis \n\nmorning, \n\nthere is not sufficient time before \n\nthe departure of the mail (tomorrow) \n\nfor me to enter \n\nupon their contents; \n\nbut, so far as \n\nI can see, \n\nthe subject submitted for your \n\nconsideration is one purely of Law,— \n\non which I can scarcely be required to give an opinion \n\n— Mr Shortrede has, however, promised \n\nto send duplicates of \n\nthese papers \n\nto this office, and, after duly considering \n\nthem, I shall have \n\n45 \n\nthe honour to address your Grace thereon,—should it appear necessary \n\nfor me to do so. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke, \n\nyour Grace's, \n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant, \n\nMalam \n\n\"Since writing the above, three printed Copies of Mr Shortrede's Memorial promised in his letter to the Colonial Secretary, have been received and are now \n\nforwarded to \n\nYour Grace.\"",
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        "content_text": "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nGovernment House, Borkum, July 2nd, 1853.\n\nPrivate, Confidential.\n\n6 o’clock.\n\nNo. 57.\n\nReceived.\n\nFrom Andrew H. Leith to the above.\n\nTransmitting a memorial from M2 Lauzon, late 2nd Officer of the late Steamer “Camriston”.\n\nTo His Grace, respecting Libel brought against him.\n\n46\n\nCongregation Hong Kong.\n\n9719\n\nGes: Bonbere. Bot\n\nMINUTE\n\nTR\n\nM&Ellio\n\n1858 OCTR\n\n112\n\nH&Vericate 12\n\nREPeel Dakryf Newer\n\n15.\n\nFeb\n\nN32\n\nEent\n\n1504/83\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch\n\nNo. 57 of the 28th of July and No. 26 of the 6th of August last, transmitting, with other documents, a Memorial from M. Shortrede, Editor of the “China Mail” newspaper, relating to a prosecution for Libel which has been instituted against him by the Lawson, late Master of the Steam Vessel “Perriston”, wrecked off the Coast of China.\n\nI have to acquaint you that the Memorial has been received, but the case to which it relates appears to be actually pending for adjudication in the Court at H.K.\n\nMany ships respecting…\n\nSoild\n\n \nPage 46",
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        "content_text": "Ingugesse\n\n55\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nShorttides Memorial to Dommen't accompanying\n\nHong Kong Jus 21.1853\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO NONO\n\nVICTORIA REGINÆ.\n\nBY\n\nNo. 6 of 1845.\n\nBY His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other Provisions in lieu thereof.\n\n[19th August, 1845.]\n\nWHEREAS it is expedient that the Matters embraced in Ordinance No. 15 relating to the Establishment of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Trial by Jury, Criminal Proceedings, and the Summary Jurisdiction of the Court, should be provided for by separate and distinct Ordinances:\n\nI. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That the said Ordinance No. 15 shall, from and after the Passing of this Ordinance, be, and the same is hereby Repealed.\n\nII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That from and after the Passing of this Ordinance, the Court at Hongkong with Criminal and Admiralty Jurisdiction, which has hitherto been holden by the Chief Superintendent, shall be, and it is hereby Abolished.\n\nOrdinance No. 15 of 1844 repealed.\n\nFormer Court at Hongkong abolished.\n\nA Supreme Court of Record to be instituted therein.\n\nIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That there shall be within and for the Colony of Hongkong a Court, which shall be called \"The Supreme Court of Hongkong,\" and that the said Supreme Court of Hongkong shall be a Court of Record.\n\nIV.\n\nMemorial\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\nTo His Grace.\n\nHongkong\n\nAndrew Shortrede\n\nHongkong July 21, 1853",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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        "content_text": "Bonythong Ju S1853\n\nLawson & Shortrede\n\nuction for Liber.\n\nCorrespondence, de\n\n[Three Copies printed for transmission to the Secretary of State.]\n\n77\n\nUNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sherbeth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:—\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,—\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,—\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled \"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,——\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof\" the Third Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three-shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was",
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        "content_text": "[Three Copies printed for transmission to the Secretary of State.]\n\n79\n\n'UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:---\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it further appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,——\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,” the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, “An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof\" the Third Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature—that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three—shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. 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        "content_text": "UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,-\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:—\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,-\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as \"lubberly work,\" and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.”\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it farther appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and Thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,——\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled “An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,-\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Third Section of which is as follows,--\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature—that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three—shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was\n\nMEMORIAL\n\nANDREW SHORTREDE,\n\nOF HONGKONG,\n\nTO\n\nHIS GRACE THE\n\nDUKE OF NEWCASTLE,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nHONGKONG, 21ST JULY, 1853.",
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        "content_text": "83\n\n69490/3\n\nOverland Mail.\n\nChina\n\nVol. IX. No. 71.\n\nColonial Department,\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATIONS.\n\nHONGKONG, 7TH JUNE, 1858.\n\nHis Excellency Sir Samuel George Bonham, Baronet, K.C.B., having this day (20th May) returned to the Colony, is resumed the duties of Governor and Commander-in-Chief thereof.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nHALF-MONTHLY, No. 11.\n\n...\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., having granted Twelve Months' leave of Absence to Dr. Bowring, LL.D., H.M.'s Consul at Canton, D. B. Robertson, Esq., H.M.'s Consul for Amoy, will for the present, and until further notice, officiate as H.M.'s Consul at the Port of Canton.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., has been pleased to appoint Horse Oakley, Esq., at present Senior Assistant at the Canton Consulate, to officiate as H.M.'s Vice-Consul at the said Port of Canton during the absence of Mr. Vice-Consul Michell.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, &c., &c., having been pleased to allow Mr. Vice-Consul Hague to proceed to England on medical certificate, has appointed Frederic Howe Hai, Esq., to officiate as H.M. Vice-Consul at Shanghai pending the arrival of Mr. Vice-Consul Wade.\n\n...\n\nWRECK OF THE LARRISTON.\n\nOne of our correspondents gives two letters on the loss of the Larriston, the former in reply to a communication signed \"Justice,\" the other a rejoinder. Neither seems to hit the real facts of the case, but possibly both may be partly correct, as Captain Bayliss states that the cause of the wreck was gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who had charge of the watch.\n\n...\n\nPage 362\n\nTHE TROOPS.\n\nThe mortality in garrison since our last has been 2 of the Ceylon Rifles, making a total of 4 for the month of May, and 26 since the beginning of the year.\n\n...\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\nThe Editor of this journal having been in the North since the middle of March, it may appear strange that, while intelligence from that quarter was looked for with peculiar anxiety, nothing of importance has been received.\n\n...\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 3rd June, 1853.\n\nDEAR SIR,\n\nIn your paper of yesterday, I find your short notice on the wreck of the Larriston has brought down on you a letter, professing, under the signature of \"Justice,\" to be a well-wisher, but is not a judicious one.\n\n...\n\nMEMORIAL\n\nANDREW SHORTREDE,\n\nOF HONGKONG,\n\nTO\n\nHIS GRACE THE\n\nDUKE OF NEWCASTLE,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nHONGKONG, 21ST JULY, 1859.",
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        "content_text": "58. Miscellaneous\n\n9770 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nOCT 4 1853\n\n86\n\n132) Victoria, Hongkong, 2nd August, 1853.\n\nHours Satecap: Subject, despatch.\n\nRiginals\n\n58. Aug 22 Acknowledging receipt of this despatch\n\n59.\n\nreceipt of Circular despatch to 1/2 of 28th May, 1853.\n\n32 AWTH\n\n60.\n\nReference to his despatch 1957 of 22nd July, remarking on Memorial to Dis Grace, and enclosing the Opinion of Attorney General Sterling.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nWith reference to my despatch 150 of 30th June, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the following despatches from Your Grace:\n\n10 to 12, of the 26th May, 1853.\n\nAcknowledging receipt of His Grace's Circular of the 6th, and despatch 13 of the 9th June, 1853.\n\n128/ of the Flagut. Transmitting another Memorial from Shoutong connected with the previous one dated 157 of 22nd July 1853.\n\nThe Main Colonial Secretary received, on the 22 ultimo, Letter of 19th from His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, etc.\n\nAc.\n\nAc.",
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        "content_text": "Puting.\n\n87\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nCaernm\n\nMamla\n\nNo. 59.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n9777 Hang Vieng\n\nRECEIVED\n\nOCT 4) Victoria, Hongkong,\n\n1853\n\n3rd August, 1853.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nIn reference to my Despatch No 58 of the 22nd ultimo, I have now the honor to inform Your Grace that I submitted copies of the documents contained therein for the consideration of Mr. Sterling the Attorney General of the Colony, and I now forward the opinion of that officer on the question.\n\nNo. 15 of 1844.\n\n  \n    \"The facts of the case appear to be these\n  \n  \n    In August 1844, an Ordinance was passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong creating a Supreme\n  \n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nYe,\n\nYe.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "Governor Sir George Bonham, Bo\n\n6th August, 1853.\n\nVictoria, sroughing,\n\nt\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle.\n\n/ Inclosure\n\nNo 11.\n\nReceived.\n\nfrom W. Phortrede connected.\n\nTransmitting another Mercurial\n\nwith the\n\nprevious\n\none\n\nforming\n\nEnclosure in despatch No 57\n\n2nd July 1853.\n\nJ 22 23\n\nBup in 9779\n\n94\n\nUNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong, Sheweth,\n\nWith reference to the Memorial of the 21st July, addressed to Your Grace by the undersigned, he begs respectfully to state, that the Chief Justice of Hongkong has this day decided, \"with regret,\" that the Act of Parliament 6 & 7 Victoria Cap. 96, (Lord Campbell's Act,) is no longer applicable to the Colony; that it was in operation here up to the 6th of May, 1846--but was then abolished, so far as concerns Hongkong, by the local Ordinance No 2 of 1846. All which is humbly represented to Your Grace.\n\nHONGKONG, 5th August, 1853.\n\nAnd your Memorialist will ever pray,",
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        "content_text": "Date of Despatch\n\nR\n\n10018 Hong Kong\n\nLIVED\n\nOCT 15 1853\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\nOriginals\n\nNo. 62. Aug.\n\nWith reference to Despatch 449 of June, reporting that the sale & bid for Lot 1372 has been cancelled, and the lot expunged from the records.\n\nCopy to the Rent & Revenue Office of the Colony for information.\n\nDespatch to the Governor, 15th & 20th June, 1853.\n\nMarcellin Colonial Secretary\n\nNo. 62.\n\nFinancial.\n\nCopy to Hand B. for inform 31/04/63\n\n10130 Hong Kong\n\nC.O.\n\nOCT 21\n\n1853\n\nLand\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n18th August, 1853.\n\nIn Financial Despatch No. 119 of 30th June last, I had the honor to report a Land sale that took place on the 21st of that month, and to remark particularly on one Lot Inland No. 372, which fell to Mr. Jardine at a premium of £206.\n\nThis Lot, measuring 28 acres, lies at the bottom of the Wongneichung Valley; and, subsequently to the sale, attention was drawn to the mistake made in permitting a piece of ground peculiarly situated to pass out of the hands of the Government; for the Valley...\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n \nPage 49\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "secondly to record \n\nany \n\nany future time the \n\nhope that if at 4 ground \n\nshall be \n\nit \n\nsold or disposed of, for other than public purposes, the refusal of may be given to \n\nt \n\nMesers Jardine \n\nMatheson & Co., who have so handsomely agreed to my sale of the Lot should be thus quietly cancelled. \n\n7835 \n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nWith the highest respect, \n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Grace's \n\nCommunicate to the Local Board with reference to the Governor's previous despatch. $47. of the 30 June. \n\nMost Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nGraham \n\nNo. 63. Miscellaneous. \n\n10,131 Hong Kong \n\nRECEIVED \n\nOCT 21 \n\n1853 \n\n99 \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, \n\n22nd August, 1853. \n\nMy Lord Duke, \n\nWith reference to my Despatch No CO of the 6th instant, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this day, of the following Despatches from Your Grace. \n\nHis Grace \n\nNov. 14 and 15, the last of 29 June, Letter of 27th June, \n\n1853. \n\n1853 \n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's \n\nMost Obedient, \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nSydenham \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, \n\n&c. \n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "time to time to publish. It may \n\nbe as well to observe that this ill-will on the \n\npart of Mr Shortrede towards myself arises from my having three years since employed the Hongkong Register to print the official forms and in the public offices of Colony, such work being performed at upwards of 60 per cent lower than had been charged by the \"China Mail\"; I have also heard that the \"Hongkong Register\" is willing to publish official certifications at 25 per cent cheaper than what is now paid to the \"China Mail\" \n\nand I foresee on \n\nthis account \n\nas \n\nis \n\nwell \n\nothers have it in contemplation \n\nto employ the \"Hongkong Register\" the official organ of public Notifications...\n\nI have the honor to be \n\nPage 104\n\nWith the highest respect, \n\nMy Lord Duke Your Grace's, \"Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nJ. de B. Harrison \n\nI made the following corrections:\n- \"вс\" and \"دا\" and \"مة\" are not meaningful and seem to be OCR errors, so I removed them.\n- \"illewill\" -> \"ill-will\"\n- \"imployed\" -> \"employed\"\n- \"Houghing\" -> \"Hongkong\"\n- \"sertifications\" -> \"certifications\"\n- \"Freretne\" -> \"foresee\"\n- \"comploy\" -> \"employ\"\n- \"Stoughtong\" -> \"Hongkong\"\n- \"Herient\" -> \"Obedient\"\n- \"Jabatan\" -> \"J. de B. Harrison\" (assuming this is the correct expansion of the name, as \"Jabatan\" is not a typical name and seems to be an OCR error) \n- Formatted the text into paragraphs and kept \"Page 104\" as it follows the page numbering rule.",
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        "content_text": "His Excellency the Duke of Newcastle. Governor Sir S. Bonham, Bart.\n\n14 September, 1853\n\nVictoria Registry\n\n// Inwards -\n\nJ74-\n\nReceived\n\nfor Colonial purposes.\n\nreporting on the Surplus available ending 31 March, 1853, and the Colony for the Financial Year\n\nTransmitting the accounts of\n\nMr. Elliot.\n\nThis Despatch and its Enclosures should be referred to the\n\nSecretary\n\n18 Nov-3\n\nThe Estimate of £1,031 for furniture of a Government House is moderate. It would be difficult to furnish a house of very limited size in London for less than that amount:\n\nWith regard to the public works it appears to me, as I have submitted upon 11120, that a great deal must depend upon the confidence acquired by the Governor. How is it possible to determine in London whether a Boat house at Hongkong requires repair, or whether the sheets ought not to lie improved? I see nothing extravagant on the face of these demands, and I should acquiesce in them out of respect for Sir S. Bonham's judgement.\n\nThe most serious question is what should be done as to the Balance in Land. The Governor proposes not to reckon it amongst the available ways and means of this Colony because it has arisen from casual circumstances and would not be maintained, and consequently if we took it into account this year and reduced the Parliamentary Estimate accordingly it would almost certainly entail an increase of the Estimate in the following year. The question is one...",
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        "content_text": "168\n\n/\n\nras\n\nthe sum to\n\npreviously received from the Colony £8,500, and\n\ntherefore if the above mentioned Saving alone were deducted the amount to be asked from Parliament would be about £5,625. I circulate herewith the sketch of an Estimate, marked A, amounting exactly to £5,600.\n\nBut the Governor reported clearly that there was a clear Balance in hand of £4,000.\n\nLand revenue has been discussed in my minute, and I expressed the opinion in 11/121, concurred in by the Duke of Newcastle, that we should take credit for this Balance for the year, £1,300 this year and £1,500 next year, reducing the Governor's demands from £8,500 to £7,000. Supposing this to be done now, and further saving effected on the Governor's Salary, the total Estimate required will be brought down to no more than £4,125.\n\nNow upon the decision to reduce the Governor's demands to £7,000, another change had occurred. I should not have ventured to trouble you, the Duke of Newcastle, with one word to invite reconsideration. It had become so indispensable to bring the Hong Kong Estimate within more moderate limits heretofore, lest it would have objected to be effected even, of future disappointment. But the judicious economy seemed to me an opportunity not to be risked, nor made on the Governor's salary having in itself provided so large a saving, I feel bound to submit the question whether it would be wise to propose to Parliament so very limited an Estimate as one of less than £4,000.\n\nAlthough it is quite true, as you have pointed out in your Minute 11/121, that the total Revenue in one year exceeded the amount expected by a significant margin, yet the important income derived from Land Rents has on the whole been failing for years past, and we have had so many proofs that the rents were originally fixed at too high a rate, we can hardly reckon on their continuing free from decline in the future.",
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        "content_text": "169\n\nfrom further abatement. I may just observe that if it be longer adopted it can be reduced in a year to two ultimates, if it should prove practicable, whilst if the smaller ultimate be adopted, it is far more difficult to increase the amount of abatement to be submitted to Parliament. I have felt bound to offer these remarks, but in case they should not be deemed of sufficient weight to justify the adoption of this larger amount, I annex to this draft of Estimate, marked B, a second, amounting to £4,400, which is the nearest approximation that I find it convenient to make to the smallest of the two amounts contemplated when this point is settled, it will be requisite to communicate to the Treasury the several reductions and changes involved in the Duke of Newcastle's decision about the office of Governor. The same opportunity should be taken of transmitting to it the present despatches 11/20, 11/21 with an estimation that, subject to the reductions above mentioned, the Duke of Newcastle sees no objection to the several heads of Expenditure contemplated by the Governor and proposes to signify his approval.\n\nA copy should be furnished of this proposed Parliamentary Estimate. I apprehend also that some intimation ought to be given to the Colony of the intended arrangements about the appointment of Governor, in order that the several officers concerned may be prepared for the changes in their situations.\n\n7. Fl. 20/12 I counter it a ponder and sensor me to explain, and I believe of Avence conferred by the Secretary on the 19th instant. Zeugleth Borutin protests that both mad. Im Balance & Falda perform blah & op at 150 the Year 1882-5, and it is not supported to change hand occurred",
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        "content_text": "Farther than by sending & transmitting here, \n\nwhich in general \n\ndeemed \n\nthey have in any \n\ndelicate contents \n\nOn \n\nwith the Superintendent's \n\nof \n\nHan, or only for \n\nther \n\na \n\njust \n\nreason \n\nsee my showing the sporting for the several sexual much. \n\nNay. \n\nFor J. Bowring. \n\nthe Elliot \n\nController. \n\nMr Gree \n\nDuke Governoralle \n\n9. \n\n10. \n\nIn summary of \n\n11/20 \n\nGov. 1/1 1 3 %. /Hong Kong. Gray 1261 \n\nEnt \n\nMarch \n\nthe separate minute \n\nthese drastic, \n\nwhathed \n\nA \n\nit is unsound. \n\npresent sketch of R \n\n- \n\nOperated them the officer of with. de Carne in maintained, m \n\nAmple \n\nSalary 7 \n\n4250 \n\nmintind Of £ 300. \n\n1097/5 \n\nCopy to Ty 14 March \n\nTessary approve \n\nSir \n\nmy \n\nD. S \n\n197 \n\n10 March 1854 \n\nI have had under \n\nconsideration In & Bonham's despatches 1: 73 and 4/4 of \n\nNos \n\nthe 20th \n\nand 22 d. a \n\nlast, the first \n\nof September \n\nof \n\nthem \n\ncontaining an estimate \n\nthe Revenue & Expenditure \n\nof the Revenue of the Colony for the \n\n1854 \n\nyear \n\nand this second \n\nenclosing the accounts of the Colony for \n\nwhich ended \n\non the 31st \n\nof March 1853. \n\nHaving consulted \n\non the subject of \n\nthese \n\ndispatches with the Lords \n\nCommissioners \n\nof the Treasury, I \n\nhave to convey \n\nmy approval \n\nof \n\nto you \n\nthe ...",
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        "content_text": "Considering the benefits to be derived by inhabitants from the proposed improvements, particularly during the hot season, and that the road when complete will be of much service for Police purposes, and will form a cordon towards the western or Native part of the town, I brought the subject to the notice of the Executive Council, who concurred with me in the desirableness of sanctioning the expenditure.\n\nAll of the foregoing works are actually in progress, and I respectfully hope for Your Grace's approval and sanction of the same.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient, humble servant,\n\nSamuel G. W.\n\nPage 231",
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        "content_text": "240\n\nI thought it proven to bring\n\nthe circumstance to the notice of the Legislative Council, who,\n\nafter duly considering the subject,\n\nagreed to pass\n\nan Ordinance,\n\nentituled in Ordinance\n\nfor\n\nthe\n\nregulation of the chief of Hongkong,\n\nbeing 1 of 1853, an\n\nauthenticated\n\ncopy of which, and of the Regulations,\n\nare\n\nherewith submitted.\n\nThe Ordinance has been\n\ndrawn\n\nup\n\nto meet the\n\ncircumstances of the Colony, and\n\nthe Rules referred to are\n\nmostly\n\ntaken from Acts of\n\nParliament\n\non the subject; I trust,\n\nbearing\n\non the same,\n\nthat\n\nyour\n\nLordship\n\nwill\n\nbe enabled to submit this\n\nOrdinance for\n\nHer Most Gracious Majesty's approval.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nJ. Bowring",
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        "content_text": "Her Majesty\n\nRegister the Ordinance & refer to Rdfs Word & Argmt\n\nfor\n\n116.874 Hong. Govt. Gaz. — 1209! Col. Dept.\n\nN48\n\n467\n\nGovernor Sir J. Bonham 13. Feb\n\n1854\n\nMINUTE 17 Jan\n\nH. T. W. Walksworth 24\n\nM. Merivale 24\n\nE. Peel 24\n\nDuke of Newcastle 25\n\nSir\n\n24th & 25th Feb 54\n\nShave received and laid before the Queen the Ordinance passed by yourself and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the month of Sept last, Intituled \"No 1 of 1853 An Ordinance for the regulation of the bead of Hongkong;",
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        "content_text": "No 76 of 1853\n\nEnclosure No 2 in Desp:\n\nReturn of the Gaol at Hongkong- 18th August, 1853.\n\nRegulations for the Government\n\n[illegible text]\n\nG.O. DEC. 6 1853\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nHongkong, 7th October, 1853\n\nIn reference to my Despatch of 27th November, 1851, and Earl Grey's reply No 278 of 14th February, 1852, I have the honor to enclose a Report and Estimate to construct a new Debtors' Jail and Guard Houses in this Colony, amounting to £1769-19-4½; also a Report and Estimate for the erection of a Tread wheel and work connected therewith, amounting to £388-12-6.\n\nThe Treadwheel, Your Grace, was dispatched from England in August, 1852, and its cost, £188-12-3, was duly repaid to the Colonial Agent in London.\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c. &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "To complete the Jails in the Colony, I have found it absolutely necessary to carry into them a supply of water, which I estimate will not cost more than £100, and as this measure is indispensable for the health and safe custody of the Prisoners, I have sanctioned a further outlay to the above extent.\n\nThe total outlay on this account is still some £271 less than the sum originally estimated, and sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, £2,530.0.0 against £2,258.12.7 and £271.7.11.\n\nOn this account, I hope it will therefore prove satisfactory to Your Grace.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most Obedient Servants,\n\n250",
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        "content_text": "Governor Sir Gec. Bonham, 14. 7th October, 1853.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nto\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo. 77\n\nReceived\n\n2 Inclosures.\n\nEstimates for the\n\nTransmission of Reports and\n\nerection of\n\nnew\n\nTread-wheels. of a house for the reception\n\nDebtor's Prison, &c., and\n\nThe Construction of the Tai-tam-tuk Reservoir has been approved by the Colonial Legislature.\n\nThe Treasury.\n\n7 Decr.\n\n1\n\nEntered.\n\nMINUTE\n\nJ. WRELLO\n\nApu Peel\n\nBarclay Newcastle\n\n877. 7 Oct 1853\n\nM.P.B.\n\nDECR 13\n\n11.\n\n251\n\n16490753\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 8th of February 1852 regarding the appropriation of the Surplus Commissioners' receipts for the year for the Roads of Hong Kong, a portion of it is as may be required, being applied to the creation of a Debtor's Prison, as directed by the Legislative Council.\n\nPage 12\n\nof despatch from Etr...",
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        "content_text": "In closure 1.2 in Despi\n\n77 of 1853\n\nDuplicate.\n\n1278.\n\nCivil\n\nAnd 3 Dec 5.\n\n11479 Strong Kong\n\nC.O.\n\nRECE\n\nNOV. 29\n\n1853\n\nVietmin, Amoy, 10th October, 1853.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to\n\ninform your Grace, that I have, with the concurrence of the Executive Council,\n\n275\n\ngranted eighteen months' leave of absence to Mr Edward Morgan, Clerk to the Auditor General,\n\nRegistrar of Marriages, and acting Accountant and Clerk\n\nof\n\nDock\n\nRegistry in the Surveyor General's office,\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n      etc. etc. etc.\n\nSURVEYOR-GENERAL'S\n\n£388.12.6\n\nVictoria, 12 May 1853\n\nTrend Wheel\n\nErection of A-\n\nESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE FOR\n\nNo. ...",
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        "content_text": "to check him\n\nto enable him to proceed to England\n\nfor\n\nthe sake\n\nof\n\nhis health.\n\nAnnexed I beg to transmit\n\nto your Lordship the requisite Certificate\n\nfor his leave, as well as a\n\nCopy of\n\nthe\n\nMedical Certificate by Dr. Aarland acting for the Colonial Surgeon, on the strength of which the leave now granted.\n\nDuring Mr. Morgan's absence\n\nthe duties of his offices in the Department of the Auditor General and that\n\nof\n\nwill be performed by Mr. August Reinhard, who in conformity with the Colonial Regulations will draw the moieties of the Salaries attached\n\nHalf Salary\n\nClerk to the\n\n£150. Auditor General) Accountant and Clerk of Food Registry\n\n£500.\n\n150\n\nto those\n\n276\n\nappointments, - aggregating\n\n£300 per annum.\n\nOffice\n\nof\n\nRegistrar of\n\nMarriages will be held by W. Pienacker, 2nd Clerk and\n\nAccountant in the Colonial Treasury\n\ndrawing one half of the pay assigned\n\nto that Office, namely £25 per\n\nAnnum.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\n... Brahma",
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        "content_text": "Śremna dir bes. Bondam, 35 \n\n10% betries / 1953 - \n\nietrich mystong \n\nto \n\nAis brace The Duke of Newenstä \n\nReceve \n\n2 Ficiaures- \n\nSur. 178. \n\narrangements make for the \n\n\"to the Auditor General, to, and \n\npanted to lu! 1. lungan, Túrk \n\nshence, on sick Certificate, \n\nReporting 18 months leave of \n\nhis duties, \n\nperformance of \"Euring his absence. \n\nMeiriall \n\nShould the 18th month's leave of absence granted in this case become, \n\nMorgan has been weakly soon grass Hory How y \n\nby \n\nNor \n\nConfirm for hala \n\nmonth, I think printing out to the former Net the medical cutificati \n\nExperpes says that 12 or 18 months han \n\nwill be required. \n\nwat Hot an \n\nthe \n\nadditional \n\nsix month \n\nCan I applied for, shred is a newtay, \n\nN: 30. \n\nPage 277 \n\nBonbone \n\nMINUTE 30 \n\nBUM \n\nDECR \n\n2 \n\nPertvale MRF Peel Duke Newcus 3. \n\nEuta \n\nAndes 16 Feb 154 \n\n3150 \n\n11474 Hong Hon \n\n138 \n\n3. J \n\nShare to acknowles we \n\nlle \n\nexcript of your despobl hya of bet lo. ct reporting \n\nof the 10 \n\nConcurrence \n\ngranted \n\nhad, with the \n\nFour Council, \n\nof yo \n\nented achten Multis leave of absence to Mar- \n\nEdward \n\nFaturarel Morgan, Mack to the and Registran Auditor General and \n\nof Marrianes at Shrag Hein. \n\nSequel that it is not in \n\nque power, consistiully with \n\nthe sale which I love found it nursery to apply on \n\nsimiler cases, to sanction, in the first instance, hove for a Consen Juniort",
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        "content_text": "Office of Governor of Hongkong\n\nJeep.\n\nDear.\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\n80. bet: 20 With reference to despatch 1964 of 29th August, reporting\n\n81.\n\n“\n\n82\n\n83.\n\n#f\n\n律\n\narrangements made for the publication of a local Gazette, and urging that a Printing Press be sent out to Hongkong for the use of the Colonial Government: one.\n\nReporting decease of Mr. Monicon, the Colonial Surgeon, and recommending that It Starland, appointed to perform those duties, be confirmed in the situation\n\nReplying to His Grace's Despatch 120 of 18th August, respecting the Colonial Chaplaincy of Hongkong.\n\n24 Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Despatches Ito 120 of 18th August, together with Circulars a 4204 of 16th, 18th and 19th July, 1853.\n\n479 Civil\n\nAnsund 9 Dans 5.1\n\nNos 1 to 4.\n\n283\n\n122) chong vong\n\nVictoria, Hongkong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDEC 27 1853\n\n18th October, 1853.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to forward for your Grace's consideration a letter to Auditor General, giving cover to one with enclosures from the Morgan, the clerk in the Audit Office, relative to the very limited period that the Public Servants of the Colony are permitted to be absent without\n\nHis Grace,\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n40.\n\nYo..",
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        "content_text": "their Salary.\n\n7. Mr Morgan in his letter refers also to certain privileges enjoyed by the officers of the Post Office, and on enquiry I find that in that department, the Post Master General and his Clerks, subject to certain conditions, are allowed alternately 18 Months' leave of absence without loss of Salary, besides having a sum of £100 paid to them towards defraying their passages out and home.\n\n8. I must remind your Grace that there is no analogy between Hongkong and Ceylon; as, from the latter Colony a sick Officer may in 286 days proceed to Madras or Bombay, and always have an opportunity of returning within the prescribed time and he has moreover a place of refuge in case of severe illness in the hills of the island. I think that the Colonial Regulations, as regards sick absentees in this Colony, require amendment, and, in the hope that your Grace may concur with me in opinion, I bring the question to your favourable consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "Dispatch P 8/17/853.\n\nEnclosure in\n\nC\n\nattesting that Dr. Garland has been of the Seamen's Hospital, Surgeon to that institution for nearly seven years.\n\n8/25 received, 1853.\n\nTo Sir George\n\n314\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\nbr. 5.\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies\n\nMy Lord\n\nI have very highly spoken of Dr. Garland by my Colonial Secretary on behalf of Dr. Farland\n\nIn the appointment of Surgeon at Hongkong Dr. Harrison, \"the Dido\" lay before Your Lordship a statement of the Local qualifications of Dr. Farland Earnestly hoping that you may be further induced & consider the appointment which he holds ad interim rea Four Excellency's decision.\n\nDr. William Aurelius Harland Ellert Son of Dr. Farland of Scarborough was educated at the University of Edinburgh as a Doctor of Medicine in 1844, obtaining the Gold medal awarded by Professor Simpson as well as other distinctions.",
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        "content_text": "Governo Sir Geo. Bonham, 35.\n\n31 October, 1853.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nThe\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived\n\n183.\n\nCirculars of 16, 18, and 19th August, together with Grace's despatches to 120\n\nAcknowledging receipt of\n\nJuly, 1853.\n\n12352 Hong Kong.\n\nby the Governor of Hongkong to\n\nSchedule of Despatches and the Secretary of State for the\n\nNo of Date of despatch\n\nsent by the Mail Steamer \"Sphinx\",\n\nvia Southampton on the 11 November 1853.\n\nSubject of despatch.\n\nDuplicates.\n\n79. Oct: 18 Recommending to His Grace's favourable consideration the Auditor General with Enclosures, pointing\n\n80.\n\n81.\n\n82.\n\n \nA\n\nLetter\n\nfrom\n\nout, on the representation of Mr Morgan, the disadvantageous conditions under which Civil Officers of Hongkong obtain\n\ncare & absence\n\nof\n\n20 With reference to Despatch 164 of 29th August,\n\nreporting arrangements made for the publication of a local Gazette, and urging that a Printing Press be\n\nsent out to Hongkong for the use of the Colonial Government\n\none\n\nReporting decease of Mr. Morrison, the Colonial\n\nSurgeon, and recommending that Mr Harland appointed\n\nto perform those duties, be confirmed in the situation.\n\nReplying to Des Sir George's despatch 120 of 18th August, respecting the Colonial Chaplaincy of Hongkong.\n\nPage 337",
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        "content_text": "By: \n\nDate of \n\n2 CAL: \n\n# \n\nJubject of despatch. \n\n83. vet. 21. Hekurulidgins recipt of His braces Despatches to \n\n1.20 of \n\n18th August, together with Circular of 16th, 18th, and 19th July, 1853. \n\nRiginals - \n\n84 Nov 25 Reporting one years leave of absence, on sick Certificate \n\ngranted to Lient: Pedder, R. N., Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate, to procced to England and arrangements made for the performance of his duties, during his \n\n85. \n\n86 \n\nK \n\nabsence. \n\nmel: \n\nmone \n\n2. \n\nRespecting the unarrival of the Police Clothing and accoutrements applied for from England in September, 1852, and enclosing a Requisition for a supply of Similar \n\narticles \n\nof the Force for the years 1854-1855. One \n\nfor \n\nthe use \n\nReturns \n\n10 Transmitting. Quarterly \n\nending 30th September, 1853. \n\nfor the quarter \n\n4. \n\nMaino Colonial Secretary-\n\nNo 84. Civil. \n\nNo.A. \n\n338 \n\n27 Hong Kong \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, \n\nRECEIVED \n\nJAN. 2 \n\n1854 \n\nMy Lord Duke, \n\n8th November, 1853. \n\nI have the honor to inform \n\nYour Grace that I have this day granted, \n\nwith the \n\nconcurrencò \n\nof the Executive \n\nCouncil, twelve months' leave of absence to Lieutenant Pedder, R. N., Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate, to proceed to England. \n\nin consequence of his impaired state of health, which, (irrespective of the Medical Certificates : inclosed), I am myself aware is really such as to require an immediate removal from this place ; - that step being considered the only means of saving his life. \n\nsuch \n\nHis Grace \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, \n\nJo \n\n&c",
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        "content_text": "I have the honor to inform Your Grace that Lieutenant Pedder is about to take his leave, and will either depart immediately or goes home by the Packet of the 11th instant, and during his absence, the duties of Harbour Master will be performed by Mr. Michell, Chief Clerk in the Department, and those of Marine Magistrate by Mr. Hillier, the Chief Magistrate of Police. The half salary of Lieutenant Pedder, available for the performance of his duties, is £300, of which two thirds will be drawn by Mr. Michell, and the remaining third by Mr. Hillier, in addition to their respective Salaries.\n\nI beg to enclose, for Your Grace's information, the usual Certificate, signed by me and the Colonial Treasurer, showing the requisite particulars connected with this leave; and I hope that the arrangements made for the performance of Lieutenant Pedder's duties, being similar to those adopted when he was allowed leave of absence in February 1851, will be approved by Your Grace.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\n\"With the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's\n\nMost Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant\"\n\nPage 339",
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        "content_text": "which the whole Force experience in consequence of the delay in England in complying with the Requisition forwarded, and he adds that, Should by any oversight the Requisition for the present year's supply not have been complied with, the items therein mentioned will have to be sent out independent of the enclosed Requisition of 1854.\n\nThe Requisition for the present year to which Mr Caldwell refers, is dated 13th September, 1882, and signed by Mr May, the Superintendent of Police. It was transmitted by Major General Jervois, then acting Governor, in Despatch (Financial) No. 16 of the 16th September 1882, and the articles therein mentioned have not arrived here, intimation of their Shipment having been yet received from the Colonial Office or the Crown Agents for the Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant\n\nPage 348",
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        "content_text": "Due to the Ordnance, & recommended that the Store Committee should be told to communicate with the Ordnance Department regarding the transmission of the stores.\n\nAccordingly, on the 27th, we wrote to the A. C.; from which time other subjects were discussed, & concluded that everything was satisfactory.\n\nThere was no more to be done.\n\nI have appended this was supplementary; had been done. that on the 8th of Nov. last the supplies had not reached here.\n\nPage 349\n\nNo. 12.\n\nBy Mail 28th Hong Kong\n\nGov\n\nColony - I think an explanation ought to be called for from J. Shen-Bouring.\n\nthe etc. General. At: 3 30w: /54\n\nWorking after the\n\nGovernor Sir Geo: Bonham, Bt,\n\n9th November, /853.\n\nHis Grace\n\nto\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nN° 85.\n\nReceived\n\nRequisition for\n\n1852, and enclosing\n\nfrom England in September,\n\naccoutrements applied for\n\nof the Police Clothing and\n\nRespecting the non-arrival\n\nRe:\n\nsupply of\n\nSimilar articles for the\n\ncise\n\nYears 1854 and 1855.–\n\nthe Force for the\n\ncall for explanation in the past?\n\nLlau\n\nMr. Mervale. Such delays in executing orders from the Colonies must be very inconvenient : and I think that the Store General might use more activity in\n\nPublic Department employed in processing demands.\n\nThe requisition for /53\n\n22 Nov./52:\n\nwas received at this Office\n\nOn the 6th day following the request was desired\n\nto execute in the cost thereof;\n\nExpense.\n\nIt was stated the expenditure\n\non the 27 Dec. The Treasury were told to grant the necessary directions for furnishing the supplies.\n\nPer 153 that\n\non Jan 3\n\nThe necessary\n\ndirections\n\nwere\n\ngiven\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n1854\n\nMINUTE\n\nJohn\n\n18\n\nDated 20th Jan /54.\n\n20.\n\n20th Jan /5th.\n\nPage 350\n\nAff. With reference to Lieut Colonel Bonham's Despatch 285. of the 9th inst. I have to acquaint you that the Master General and Board of Ordnance have been requested to give the necessary directions for the supply by early opportunity of the Articles of Clothing and Equipments for the Police Force of Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "I do not see that the subject of this memorial requires remarks from myself, but I may as well add that the provisions of Lord Campbell's Act, 6 and 7 Vict., Chap. 96, to my knowledge, have not been extended to Ceylon. I am aware that they are in force in the Presidencies of India.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's, Most obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nPage 414",
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        "content_text": "UNTO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,\n\nSheweth,-\n\nTHAT your Memorialist has received through the Government of Hongkong the following, as the substance of Your Grace's reply to his Memorial of the 21st July last:-\n\nNo. 262.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\n12th December, 1853.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to inform you, that His Excellency The Governor has received a reply by the present Mail to his Despatches of July and August last, which accompanied your Memorial to His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, on the subject of a Libel case instituted against you in this colony; and in reply thereto, I am to acquaint you, that as the case to which it relates appears to have come on for adjudication in the Court of Hongkong, it is out of the power of His Grace to take any steps respecting it.\n\nA. SHORTREDE, Esq.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe reply is so beside the question, that Your Memorialist must suppose that his Memorial has either been unread or misunderstood. He did not ask Your Grace to interfere with the course of the law in operation, for as it stood or might be interpreted, it must apply to any cause arising under it; but as, by the united voice of the Bench and Parliament of England the law had been condemned, as an instrument of tyranny and injustice; and as, moreover, the amended law, after being conferred on this Colony, had been taken away by a side-wind,—your Memorialist presumed to think, that, upon a fair and explicit statement of the circumstances, redress would not have been sought in vain from Your Grace; and under the impression that the facts have escaped, or never been brought to, Your Grace's particular notice, another copy of the original Memorial will accompany this.\n\nThe reason assigned for not taking any steps in the matter no longer exists, for the action against your Memorialist under the old law, was dropped some months ago; but the law still exists, and so long as that is the case, Your Memorialist will not cease to use all lawful means to have it amended; and with that view, Prays,\n\nThat Your Grace will be pleased to take the premises into consideration, and restore to the Memorialist and other British subjects in this Colony and in China, the important right to which as such they are entitled, and of which they have been deprived, unjustly and without cause.\n\nAnd Your Memorialist will ever pray,\n\nHONGKONG, December 23, 1853.\n\nAND. SHORTREDE.\n\n417\n\nDEX",
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        "content_text": "Desp to you 1 Sept N° 23\n\n20.59-noy\n\nFillist Co\n\nf\n\nIm\n\n633 ong động.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG 25 1853\n\nAdmmally 24th Aug // 43.\n\nHaving laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, your Letter of the 25th ultimo with its enclosures on the subject of the necessity that means should be formed for effectually protecting British commerce from the pirates of the waters of Kongchang, Joom Chow &ca., I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle that Her Majesty's Steam Frigate \"Governor\" has been already despatched and two Steamers of War will be sent.\n\nVan fer fotaal (Department\n\nYour most obedient servant\n\n9",
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        "content_text": "England \n\n~ home to conditions on being dise \n\nLe siped castain \n\nfrom the Suffers a Miner, being discharged of the \n\nx Migher \n\nnature, of which we are ignorant if his discharge was complete, the Foreign Office John Hare I suppose, should be requested to pay \n\nhome in connection with the \n\nwas \n\nAfrican Mission, but of his discharge conditional I suppose the Ordinance ought to pay it _ The Crown, might be informed that this demand had been made & requested to state whether \n\nEdward Sweeny received in his \n\nCall from \n\nMen Hare \n\nEle pay the cook \n\nCon respectives Gee forged to the Paymaster \n\nof \n\nGeneral of the \n\nM. Merrigle \n\nEdward Sweeny \n\ndish not you \n\nthe \n\nAfrican Expedition \n\nVerad \n\nwith fever: it appears that \n\nafter \n\nany \n\nZory ? \n\nif \n\nA \n\nBro. \n\nHm N 15 \n\n716 \n\n17. \n\nMINUTE / \n\nNov \n\n7 \n\nMR Elliot MMerivale MF.Peel Duke of Newcastle 79. \n\n16909 Harry Henry \n\nEnt \n\nch \n\n26 Nov 53 \n\n12 \n\nThe Sum of eighty nine pounds, the cost of your passage at the Contract rate of charge from Hong \n\nKong \n\nto this Country having \n\nbeen paid by the Board \n\nof Ordnance, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to request that you will repay this \n\namount to the Paymaster \n\nGeneral who is authorised \n\nto receive it \n\nHere",
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        "content_text": "Country between the \n\n28. March and 18th May last, and I \n\nam \n\nto desire that \n\nyou will remit \n\nthis amount to the Paymaster General \n\nat Mickchall \n\non \n\naccount of Naval Services.\n\nJaunt 11066\n\nCay - 11534) Wong.\n\nThe Secretary to the \n\nAdmiralty\n\n[MINUTE]\n\nSir,\n\n21\n\n6 Dec $3\n\nWith reference \n\nto your Letter of the \n\n15th instant, I am directed \n\nby the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you, for \n\nthe information of the Lords Commissioners of Admiralty, a Copy of a Letter from Mr. Robert Wellesley reporting that he has paid \n\nto the Paymaster General \n\nat Mitchall the Sum.",
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        "content_text": "by the Duke of Newcastle to acquaint you for the information\n\nof the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,\n\nthat as soon as\n\nT.W. Grotter reports\n\nhis arrival, and his official address is known at this office, he\n\nwill be desired\n\nto repay\n\nthe passage money which has\n\nbeen advanced on his account.\n\nPage 25\n\nFormer Papers\n\n104.\n\nYou 5001,\n\nAdm: 6455-\n\nGor: 11119, with copy to God 2. Dan/54.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDEC.24\n\n1853\n\nAlumetty\n\n23 Dec: 1853\n\n25\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 20th\n\nand its enclosures on\n\nthe subject of the sum paid by Mr Hillier for his passage from China\n\nto the Colony,\n\nthe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you for\n\nthe information of the Duke of Newcastle, that as the Peninsular\n\nand Oriental Steam Navigation Company have stated that the reduced rate of passage\n\n[...]\n\nColonial Office.\n\nAdmty",
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        "content_text": "for marriages at Shanghai.\n\nAppt as Registrar & Actuary\n\nRevoking Mrs. Brouwer\n\n37\n\n4087 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED APR 30 1853\n\ndes\n\nForeign Office.\n\nApril 29, 1853.\n\nTo Sir\n\nGeorge\n\nBonham\n\nA013\n\nColonial Office April 14, 1853.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will state to the Duke of Newcastle that the Law Officers of the Crown pointed to this office on the 27th of August 1857, that the Ordinances passed in the month of August last for the peace, order and good government of Her Majesty's subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, which had been passed in China by the Superintendent of Trade under the Authority of the Act of the 6th and of the 9th Victoria",
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        "content_text": "sanctioned,\n\nI am\n\nYour Obedient Servant\n\nWiese\n\nMerisate. Inform the Treasury that payments have been sanctioned tax refer the board to the schedules for such payments\n\nLondtr\n\nVon Jan 26\n\nJP26\n\nM: 27\n\nHerman Merivale Esq.\n\n&\n\n&\n\nmunda\n\nCh: Kealyou\n\n11853\n\nMINUTE 27 JANY MP Jadis '29\n\nMRELLIOT '29\n\nMRE.Peel 31 Duke of Newcastle!!\n\nF4 784 Hong Kong\n\nAts. Some time since the\n\nDuke of Newcastle sent to\n\n100\n\nacknowledge the receipt of\n\nYour letter of the 22 but\n\nand to refer in despatch to letters of\n\nthe 31 of May 1848 and the 21 of May 1849. Conveying\n\nthe Concurrence of the Lords Commissioner of\n\nthe Treasury in the instructions which Lord Grey purports to address to the Governor of Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "Her Meniale\n\nWe have received the Mucous of georg the information. with request to the fees required by the Hatter Master. The God states which Mr Pedder entered the Service in July 1841. Our first Hong Kong Blue Book is for the year 1844 - the Case five the Return for the 6 year 37874 there is an action for subsequent Years. Kanomil to the the Gou denforme the Treasury!\n\nAm D23 Dunes Rafti\n\nA Exteres From 3230 -79457 W Kons Fren] 122060 131 Sarl Grevelyan KC13 Treasury.\n\nDECR MINUTE WR Halksworth 27 MrElliot M*Merivale 28 MFPeel W Duke of Newcast! 30.\n\nWM ཞི་ལྷག་སྔོན་འི་་་ fir 48/4985 petto\n\nReferring to your Letter of the 22 Inst I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to acquaint you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that His Grace has instructed the Governor of Hong Kong to supply the",
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        "content_text": "14\n\n15\n\n143\n\naverage\n\nwas\n\nno\n\nmount\" deatho\n\nT mae\n\nthan 2.31 per cent\n\n10 are\n\nFor these reasons we are disposed to believe that the allowance of 12 feet with proper precautions to ventilation, cleanliness, and exercise would be sufficient during any period of the year, and certainly that it should be allowed at present during the prevalence of the East Monsoon.\n\n71. On this point we should be most anxious to receive the Duke of Newcastle's instructions, as his decision will very materially affect the rate at which we may be able to charter vessels, and indeed might make it impossible to charter any on terms to which the West India Colonies would consent.\n\nThe other points suggested by the Committee in respect of Emigrants are principally matters of detail. Omitting those that have reference to the special case of the Emigrant, they effect that ships leaving China during the South West Monsoon should be provisioned for 6 months, and that various arrangements should be made.\n\n15",
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        "content_text": "in both suggestions\n\nConcurrence in both\n\nand\n\nཡིན།\n\nsatisfaction at perceiving that they do not treat the latter as impracticable.\n\n14.\n\nIt will of course be Mr. White's duty to give effect to these suggestions (which indeed he has in part anticipated) or such a modification of them as shall appear most practicable. And we shall probably communicate to the Duke of Newcastle a copy of the Committee's Report before he leaves England, unless he should disapprove of this course.\n\n15.\n\nWe have only to add that it appears from Mr. White's letter of 9th April 1859 (Correspondence relative to emigration of Chinese Coolies, pp. 136-138, 138-139) that two Interpreters who were engaged to go by Emigrant to Demerara and Trinidad respectively will have been left at Hong Kong.\n\nAs Mr. White will probably leave England at the beginning of next month, it would be advisable that, if these persons have not left the Colony, they should be detained till his arrival.",
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        "content_text": "by \n\nہے \n\n408 trong động \n\nJCEIVED WAY'S \n\n1853 \n\nJay Love Duko, \n\nAlthough \n\nShane \n\n160 \n\nGrace the most noble \n\nDuke of Newcastle. \n\nColonial Secretary \n\nunder \n\nAg \n\nout the honor of knowing your Lordship personally, yet having been recommended by the King of Belgians through Mr. S. Van de Weyer his Ambassador in London to the English Government at the time when the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston was my Foreign Secretary of State, and under these circumstances I believe, I may venture to address to your Lordship this letter in order to bring to your Lordship's notice the infamous conduct of certain G. B. Hellier, the Chief Magistrate of Dong-Kong. Who came over to this country on furlough and during his sojourn in London he had associated with some contemptible spies belonging to the Russian agents in London for the sake of calumniating with the most disgraceful falsehood. A copy of the letter written by this individual is in my possession. After having committed this evil deed, he later came to my knowledge, and knowing of course I should not let such a calumniator pass without pursuing him before the Tribunal, the said",
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        "content_text": "161\n\nat Low.\n\nyour\n\nB. B. Hillier took the easy part to go to Hong-Kong to prevent the prosecuting him\n\nNow wishing to enter an action against Hillier for the injury done to me, their Lordships would infinitely oblige me by informing me if I could take the step of procedure in his absence against the Colonial Office for the reason that this individual is himself the Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong\n\nWhen I communicated this matter to my friends, the English noblemen in London\n\nWho could believe that such a man\n\nYour Lordship, this individual who is under subordination has not thus been punished. Think, My Lord, of the dishonor it will cast upon the Government if you sanction such an act which the laws of every civilized country punish severely and which the morality of all mankind reproves and condemns. Could a man be more disgraceful in the face of the earth than this? Therefore, my sole defence shall be the public opinion.\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nyour obedient servant,\n\nLeo Prince of Armenia,\n\nis really a Colonial English Magistrate! Awaiting - he describes himself to be. Could, My Lord, this glorious England have such a person for her public functionary, who associates with Russian Spies to promulgate such foul and malicious reports against a Prince of Royal Blood? Who had sacrificed fortune, life, and existence for his Country, like my fellow countrymen in shaking off the Russian yoke, and who now in exile is being prosecuted by the Russian Government, spending gold and using its mighty influence to injure my reputation in every way.\n\nMost noble Duke, would you let such\n\nApril 18.53",
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        "content_text": "Page 174\n\nLittleroux Club\n\nDecember 24 1883\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nWith assurances to Your Grace,\n\nI have the honour to submit for your consideration the purpose of withdrawing the whole of my Colonial Salary from the Governor of Hong Kong, leaving him only in the receipt of his pay as Plenipotentiary. I beg most respectfully to submit to Your Grace's consideration whether it would be proper to render the existing arrangements permanent.\n\nIn addition to the salary of £6000, a rental is paid of £600 Per Annum to the government, for a furnished house for the use of the Governor.\n\nIt is intended that I should occupy this Government House without incurring a large amount of expenses, as was done previously.\n\nIn connection with the large Salary appropriated by Parliament to the united offices of Governor and Plenipotentiary, Your Grace properly considers it desirable that the Plenipotentiary should be relieved from certain expenses.\n\nThe Cost of Auckland...\n\n[...] Anand 6 Danz 154.\n\nPage 174\n\n(End of Page)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version:\n\nPage 174\n\nLittleroux Club\nDecember 24 1883\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nWith assurances to Your Grace,\n\nI have the honour to submit for your consideration the purpose of withdrawing the whole of my Colonial Salary from the Governor of Hong Kong, leaving him only in the receipt of his pay as Plenipotentiary. I beg most respectfully to submit to Your Grace's consideration whether it would be proper to render the existing arrangements permanent.\n\nIn addition to the salary of £6000, a rental is paid of £600 Per Annum to the government, for a furnished house for the use of the Governor.\n\nIt is intended that I should occupy this Government House without incurring a large amount of expenses, as was done previously.\n\nIn connection with the large Salary appropriated by Parliament to the united offices of Governor and Plenipotentiary, Your Grace properly considers it desirable that the Plenipotentiary should be relieved from certain expenses.\n\nThe Cost of Auckland...\nAnand 6 Danz 154.\n\nPage 174",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nM\n\nAus?\n\n8261 Hong Kong The butler, Arwood, Surrey\n\nMy Lord Duke\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAG 17\n\n1855\n\n17 August 1853\n\n179\n\nHarry Smalley returned on sick leave from Hongkong, where I hold the Office of Registrar of The Supreme Court, I am anxious to lay my case before Your Grace, in hopes of obtaining your assistance in making some arrangement to enable me to remain in this country to superintend the education of my children.\n\nI have held my present Office for nearly three years. And the testimonials, of which I enclose copies, will I hope show that I have not neglected its duties. Before I went to Hongkong, for six years, I held the Office of Keeper of the Sassine House Rolls of the First Division of The Court of Session in Scotland.\n\nI enclose copies of certain testimonials as to the performance of the duties of that situation, the originals of which were deposited in the Lord Clerk's Office when I was appointed to Hongkong.\n\nAfter so long a residence in an unfavorable climate...\n\nPage 180\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle\n\nSecretary of State for The Colonies\n\nColonial Office\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "Excellency covering a Memorial of mine to Your Grace, transmitted by the Mail Steamer of the 23rd Instant.\n\nThe Letters and Memorial were laid before Sir George Bonham, and nearly an hour afterwards His Excellency sent for me and said: \"That it was out of question my Memorial was entirely to forwarding the Steamer of the 23rd Instant.\". That it was impossible \"that Mr Mercer had made use of the expressions stated in Paragraph N. 12 of my Memorial\" - to which I respectfully replied, that \"they resounded in my ears.\"\n\nSir George Bonham then told me \"Well; You have my confidence, and I advise you to take out these words\" (pointing to the insulting language used by Mr Mercer towards me). \"from Your Memorial; because if you do not do so, I shall have to call upon Mr Mercer for his report and the chances are that this will contain things that will be far from agreeable to you, and which I shall be bound to send to The Duke of Newcastle\".\n\nHis Excellency pressed me to withdraw the above expressions; but I respectfully declined to retract any of the Statements I had made in the memorial.\n\nHis Excellency then rejoined :- \"Very well, just as you like;",
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        "content_text": "ask whether it would be respectfully permitted me to exchange my present appointment with a Clergyman holding preferment in England? I have to apologise for this intruding upon your Grace, but this course was recommended to me as the most proper & I have no one else to state my case: My residence in Hong Kong has been a lengthened one, during a considerable portion of the time the climate of the island was very unhealthy, my desire will not I trust, seem an unreasonable one. I humbly request your Grace's favourable consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour most obedient & humble servant,\n\nI. W. Steedman,\n\nColonial Chaplain,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nHis Grace,\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nLondon.\n\nPage 261\n\nPage 261\n\nPage 261",
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        "content_text": "he must make the necessary resources himself for a Clergyman at home to correspond with. The Chaplain at H. Kong is worth £800 per Annum\n\nCase No?\n\nA\n\nAB\n\nAm I\n\nSwill entertain my proposal of Bris: within\n\nis not disadvantageous to the Govt\n\nK\n\nStedman has applied\n\nM. Merivale.\n\nwe that in 200\n\nto be explained in Hong Kong, supposing\n\nsuch an occurrence as he speaks\n\nhe wishes\n\nto be practicable\n\nunless this substitute were in every respect qualified for the Chaplain. Perhaps the Duke of Newcastle's\n\nPrivate Secretary\n\nknows of\n\nthe then\n\nClergyman\n\nof that Office may\n\nwilling to Exchange\n\nwith M. Steedman.\n\nI know of none\n\nIt has been\n\nproposed\n\nChina\n\nMGA\n\n6117. Hongkong\n\n262\n\n15 June 1853\n\nThe Rev. S. M. Steedman.\n\nFor\n\nI am directed by\n\nMr. Blakiston. 13 Feb. His Duke of Newcastle to\n\nMr. Merivale & Mr. Bell.\n\n13\n\nThe D. of Newcastle-\n\n13.\n\nthe\n\nAddress your\n\nThe\n\n9\n\nletter 9\n\nrequesting an explanation\n\nthe reasons which make\n\nYou\n\ndesirous of leaving\n\nHong Kong.\n\na return to\n\nand stating\n\nprepared\n\nthat you\n\nSurrender\n\nto place your\n\nAppointment of Colonial\n\nChaplain at that place\n\nwith\n\nin the hand of. M.r. Gett",
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        "content_text": "UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,\n\n1. That an action for Libel has been brought against Your Memorialist under the following circumstances:\n\n2. Your Memorialist is Proprietor and Editor of the China Mail Newspaper, which, in commenting on the loss of the Steamer Larriston, on the Coast of China, on the 1st of May last, used these words,—\n\n\"It is also certain that the loss of the steamer was caused by gross negligence on the part of the second officer, who, had the catastrophe occurred in his own country, would now be in jail waiting his trial for manslaughter.\"\n\nAgain, \"Altogether, the loss of the vessel can only be characterized, in seamen's phrase, as 'slipshod work,' and will serve as a lesson to our shipowners in future to employ men having local experience of the coast navigation.\"\n\n3. According to the best information obtainable at the time, and still relied on, these remarks were fully warranted, and are not so severe as, judging from what was said about the loss of the Orion in June 1850, the event would have called forth in the home papers; especially as it further appears that, besides the questions of seamanship and carelessness, there was only one efficient boat, and thirty-one lives were lost within gun-shot of the shore.\n\n4. At any rate, the remarks in the Mail were made without malice or gross negligence, and their publication, it is conceived, was for the public benefit; pleas that are available only under Lord Campbell's Act, \"for the better protection of private character, and for the more effectually securing the liberty of the press.\"\n\n5. But your Memorialist has been told, and it is a matter of general belief, that the present action would not have been brought, except under the impression that Lord Campbell's Act is not in operation within this Colony. He cannot pretend to say how the point will be settled by this Court: but as a judgment may be reversed, the question can be definitively settled only by Her Majesty in Council; and to that end the following memorandum of facts is respectfully submitted to your Grace's favourable consideration:\n\n6. On the 5th of April, 1843, a Royal Charter was granted to the Colony of Hongkong, which, amongst other things, authorized the formation of a Legislative Council; but that Council made no laws until the following year. On the 21st August, 1844, an Ordinance (No. 15 of 1844) was passed, \"To establish a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong,\" the Third Section of which declares,—\n\n\"That the Law of England shall be in full force in the said Colony of Hongkong, except where it shall be inapplicable to the local circumstances of the said Colony or of its inhabitants.\"\n\nThis Ordinance was repealed, and another (No. 6 of 1845) substituted, dated the 19th August, 1845, and entitled \"An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Fourth Section of which is as follows,—\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Law of England shall be in full Force in the said Colony of Hongkong except where the same shall be inapplicable to the Local Circumstances of the said Colony, or of its Inhabitants; and that in all Matters relating to the Practice and Proceedings of the said Supreme Court, the Practice of the English Courts shall be in Force, unless and until otherwise ordered by Rule of the said Court.\"\n\nBut on the 6th of May, 1846, another Ordinance (No. 2 of 1846) was passed, entitled, An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 15 of 1844, for the Establishment of a Supreme Court of Judicature at Hongkong, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof,\" the Third Section of which is as follows,—\n\n\"And be it further enacted and ordained, That from henceforth such of the Laws of England only, and such Portion of the Practice of the English Courts (subject to the Exception of their Applicability as contained in the said Fourth Section of Ordinance No. 6 of 1845,) as existed when the said Colony obtained a Local Legislature that is to say, on the Fifth Day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three-shall be of Force therein.\n\nAll these Ordinances were confirmed by the Queen in Council.\n\n7. Lord Campbell's Act became the Law of England on the 24th of August, 1843, and it was in operation in Hongkong up to the 6th of May, 1846; for the only other case of libel that has been brought into this Court since its institution, was\n\nPage 264",
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        "content_text": "MEMORIAL\n\nSets94/524\n\nDeep to Gov 27 any\n\n8660 Hong Kong Brighton\n\nRECEIVED\n\nC.O.\n\nAUG26 10.3\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n\"Aug: 25.1853.\n\n266\n\nI beg to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from Lord C. Scott respecting the chaplaincy of Hong Kong. Having removed to this place for change, it only reached me this morning.\n\nIt is with great regret & surprise that I hear difficulties are likely to arise respecting the temporary performance of my duty. I consulted the Bishop upon the subject.\n\nI did not leave the Colony until I had made arrangements satisfactory to all parties which would, as I thought, meet every contingency.\n\nWe were aware the Bishop was about to leave for the north, although indeed his departure has taken place sooner than I anticipated. There are besides the Milit. Chaplain two other Clergymen resident in Victoria whose aid was proved; besides the occasional assistance of one, sometimes two naval Chaplains.\n\nANDREW SHORTREDE,\n\nOF HONGKONG,\n\nTo\n\nHIS GRACE THE\n\nDUKE OF NEWCASTLE,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nHONGKONG, 21ST JULY, 1853.",
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        "content_text": "I am better than when I arrived in England.\n\nAs regards my health, I have at present every reason to expect that I shall be sufficiently restored to resume my duties at the expiration of my leave. If, however, my progress should not be satisfactory, I will not fail to acquaint your Grace.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Duke, your obedient, humble servant,\n\nS. M. Steedman\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nMr Secretary is to acquaint the Bishop with this information.\n\n7. H.P. 20%. \n\nPage 267",
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        "content_text": "Ans. Whovy 53\n\n11755- Hong Kong Tavistock Hotel\n\nCovent Garden\n\nNov: 19.1853\n\nRECEIVED\n\nNOV.1 1853\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nBeing desirous of offering myself as a Candidate for a vacant Crown Living, it will be necessary that I present some testimonials. Under these circumstances, may I request that a copy of Sir G. Bonham's letter and other papers which were forwarded to the then Colonial Secretary previous to my appointment as Colonial Chaplain at Hong Kong be given to me?\n\nI would not have this intruded.\n\nHis Grace\n\nthe Duke of Newcastle Colonial Secretary\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "UNTO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL\n\nSECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES;\n\nTHE MEMORIAL OF ANDREW SHORTREDE, residing in Hongkong,\n\nSheweth,-\n\nTHAT your Memorialist has received through the Government of Hongkong the following, as the substance of Your Grace's reply to his Memorial of the 21st July last:-\n\nNo. 262.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG,\n\n12th December, 1853.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to inform you, that His Excellency The Governor has received a reply by the present Mail to his Despatches of July and August last, which accompanied your Memorial to His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, on the subject of a Libel case instituted against you in this colony; and in reply thereto, I am to acquaint you, that as the case to which it relates appears to have come on for adjudication in the Court of Hongkong, it is out of the power of His Grace to take any steps respecting it.\n\nA. SHORTREDE, Esq.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe reply is so beside the question, that Your Memorialist must suppose that his Memorial has either been unread or misunderstood. He did not ask Your Grace to interfere with the course of the law in operation, for as it stood or might be interpreted, it must apply to any cause arising under it; but as, by the united voice of the Bench and Parliament of England the law had been condemned, as an instrument of tyranny and injustice; and as, moreover, the amended law, after being conferred on this Colony, had been taken away by a side-wind,-your Memorialist presumed to think, that, upon a fair and explicit statement of the circumstances, redress would not have been sought in vain from Your Grace; and under the impression that the facts have escaped, or never been brought to, Your Grace's particular notice, another copy of the original Memorial will accompany this.\n\nThe reason assigned for not taking any steps in the matter no longer exists, for the action against your Memorialist under the old law, was dropped some months ago; but the law still exists, and so long as that is the case, Your Memorialist will not cease to use all lawful means to have it amended; and with that view, Prays,\n\nThat Your Grace will be pleased to take the premises into consideration, and restore to the Memorialist and other British subjects in this Colony and in China, the important right to which as such they are entitled, and of which they have been deprived, unjustly and without cause.\n\nAnd Your Memorialist will ever pray,\n\nHONGKONG, December 23, 1853.\n\nAND. SHORTREDE.\n\n273",
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        "content_text": "Heph12185 Enchester\n\nnchester 390\n\n12 384) Mary Mary.\n\nObec S. W. Feedman\n\nके\n\n18th Day/34\n\nLis\n\n281\n\n11854\n\nMINUTE /5 JANY MR Jade's\n\n117\n\nMRElliot M.Merivale MRF Peel\n\nDuke of Newce S.\n\nDrift to Gov\n\napd\n\nWith reference to your letters of the 31st and the 29th, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to acquaint you that, on receiving your resignation, his Grace will be prepared to appoint the Revd Por Barter to the Chaplaincy in Hong Kong. I am to request that you will apprise the Revd Barter of his Grace's",
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        "content_text": "Steedman 12304 \n\nA decision, and that it is desirable that he should proceed to his destination at as early a date as possible.\n\nFrom the cold that he has been exposed to, the sum of £150 will be granted to Dr. Banton to enable him to defray the expense of his passage to this Colony.\n\nShare Bost - 821 Horry Mary\n\nExt: Rent S. l. Plusman.\n\nMINUTE\n\nF. Peel\n\n282\n\n3 Feb 27/54\n\nSame subject by the Duke of Newcastle to call my attention to your letter of the 18th Sept - and to state that the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Baxter to the Chaplaincy at Hong Kong could be completed until His Grace's feelings of indignation are allayed.\n\nOffice\n\nShave",
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        "content_text": "Miscellaneous.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nMAR. 21 January, 1854\n\nLord Duke,\n\nIn accordance with the Colonial Regulations,\n\nI have the honor to Enclose herewith a complete Schedule of despatches addressed to the Right Honorable The Secretary of State for the Colonies during the year ending 31st December, 1853.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nNo.\n\n \nPage 2\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "So of Date of Despatch.\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\nNo. of rel.\n\n  \n    93.\n    Decr. 5\n    Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to No. 31 of 28th September, 1853, &c.\n    None.\n  \n  \n    94.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    95.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    96.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    97.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    98\n    \n    Transmitting copy of and reporting on Ordinance No. 3 of 1853, entitled \"An Ordinance to extend the duties of Chinese Compradors appointed under Ordinance No. 13 of 1844; to determine their emoluments, and to provide for the amicable settlement of civil suits among the Chinese population of Hongkong.\"\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    16\n    Acknowledging receipt of this Circular Despatch Nr. 32 of the 10th, and Despatch of the 15th October, 1853.\n    None.\n  \n  \n    \n    21\n    Reporting death of Mr. Morgan, Clerk to the Auditor General, and changes in offices consequent thereon.\n    2.\n  \n  \n    \n    23\n    Transmitting copy of and reporting on Ordinance No. 4 of 1853 to amend the Ordinances Nos. 11 of 1844 and 5 of 1845, and to improve the Regulations for the sale of Spirituous Liquors by Chinese, and the Regulations for the retail and preparation of Opium.\n    One.\n  \n  \n    \n    26\n    Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's Despatch Nr. 32 of 15th October last, and transmitting another Memorial from Mr. Shortrede, urging that the provisions of the Imperial Act 6 & 7 Victoria, chap. 96. (Lord Campbell's Act), be extended to Hongkong.\n    One.\n  \n\nMain\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nA\n\nN2.\n\nFinancial.\n\nCopy To Press 2 for Cons 2 18th P\n\nApril 3.1854\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAR. 6 1854\n\n11\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong,\n\n2th January, 1854\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nIn my Despatch Nr. 73 of 20th September last, I had the honor to forward to your Grace the estimates for the current year, the cost of the Police Force being given at £3,370.\n\n2. Since that date three Companies of Rifles have been\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke\n\nAc.\n\nNewcastle\n\nAc.\n\nAo.",
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        "content_text": "I have increased the pay of the Police Constables from £1.5.- to £1.9.2 per month, and, as this is some 8 Shillings and 4 pence more than what is paid to labourers and others of that description, I am in hopes that the Chinese Police will turn out efficient and honest, especially as they have been advised by the Chief Magistrate that any attempt at extortion will result in their immediate dismissal from the force.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "Governor Sir Geo: Bonham, Bt.\n\n2nd January, 1854.\n\nVictoria, Downing,\n\nto\n\nHis Grace The Duke of\n\nReporting\n\nReceived\n\nN2.\n\nHurastie.\n\nFixed Establishment.\n\nof £130 per annum to the\n\nan increase of\n\nthe\n\nan additional number\n\n1854, and the employment\n\nPolice Force, from 1st January,\n\nJan\n\nChinese as Constables.\n\nMr. Which\n\nMr. Peel\n\nCommysg\n\nAbzd.\n\nI apprehend that the addition made\n\nto the police force\n\nshould\n\nnot\n\nis now\n\nSalaries\n\naffect\n\nwill be approved; but it our Parl Estimate, which\n\nis confined\n\nthe\n\nfear of the principal\n\ngoot and is independent\n\nof all the fluctuating details\n\nthe local Revenue and\n\nRecommend\n\n2. Pl Ghet expenditure\n\nC: Trevelyan-\n\nMINUTE\n\nDEV\n\n1854\n\nMemorate MRF Peet Duke of Newcastle 14.\n\n2030\n\nAnsed 31 March\n\n2014\n\n5.80 Hong Kong\n\n18th March\n\nSame directed\n\nthe\n\nDuke of Newcastle to Sir G. Bonham\n\nfor the consideration of the Board of Commissioners of the Treasury\n\nCopy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting\n\nthat he\n\nhad granted an increase\n\nto\n\nthe pay of the Police\n\nForce,\n\nand\n\nrequests\n\nwill state to\n\ntheir Lordships that under the Circumstances represented\n\nAlle",
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        "content_text": "I have in consequence issued a Proclamation in conformity with the views contained in Your Grace's despatch and I have the honor to inclose an attested copy thereof.\n\nActing on the principle observed at New South Wales in reference to the Act passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, commonly called the Passengers Act 1852, I have embodied in the Proclamation the requirements of both Acts. The provisions that have been made in conformity with the first mentioned Act cannot however be strictly adhered to, for if it was attempted to enforce them in this Colony they would be immediately evaded by the masters and consignees of vessels removing them to Kowloon, a Chinese Port not above three miles distance from the anchorage of Hongkong Harbour, or to Macao, Whampoa, Cumsingmoon, or some other Chinese Port in the vicinity; a measure which would effectually prevent all interference of any British Authority, and at the same time be detrimental to the interests of the Colony.\n\nI may as well remark that at present there appears no immediate chance of procuring Coolies for the West Indies where they cannot be conveyed with advantage to the shippers, so long as freight of vessels remains at its present high rate.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's obedient servant,",
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        "content_text": "I have thought it desirable to obtain the opinion of Major General Cleverly, the Surveyor General, on the character of Mr. Power, and I enclose that gentleman's reply. As far as Mr. Power's official conduct has come under my observation, I fully concur in the favourable sentiments expressed by Major Cleverly in respect to Mr. Power's official character.\n\nDuring the time I have administered the Government of Hong Kong, I have had occasion to call upon Mr. Power, and I therefore enclose a copy of a letter from that gentleman to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, showing how the Memorial came before him and the reasons for his sending it.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient humble Servant,\n\nMohame...\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "To the Right Honourable The Duke Newcastle, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Memorial of Julius Charles Power, Accountant and Clerk of the Feed Registry in the Purveyor General's Department in the Colony of Hongkong, sheweth.\n\nThat Your Memorialist has resided thirteen years in inter-tropical climates, eleven of which have been spent in Hongkong, half of that time in the service of Her Majesty's Civil Government.\n\nThat during the last five years Your Memorialist has been very repeatedly under medical treatment, as reported by the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nThat Your Memorialist left Hongkong for England on the seventh of March, on leave of absence granted by the Governor in Council on the certificate of the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nThat Your Memorialist, from deaths in his family and other distressing circumstances arising therefrom, deems it important that he should remain in England, if possible.\n\nThat Your Memorialist could be enabled to remain in England only by the exchange of appointment with ...",
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        "content_text": "I have the honor to be \n\nWith the highest respect. My Lnd Duke, \n\nYour Grace's, Most obedient \n\nGumble Servant, \n\n39 \n\nCopy. \n\nPolice Department, Victoria, \n\nHongkong, 16th January, 1854. \n\n& \n\nI have the honor to state in reply \n\nto Your request for particulars regarding the Service of \n\none David Connor in the Police Force, that he first joined the Force with several others from Her Majesty's 55th Regiment on the 10th March 1844, some time after which he was transferred into the 98th Regiment which remained in Hongkong. On the 4th July 1845 he resigned and again joined the Force on the 19th January, 1846. \n\nThe Honorable Lieut Col. Caine, \n\nColonial Secretary,",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nhigh opinion that I then entertained of character in every respect. In that Gentleman's careful reference, I enclose a copy of an Extract from that Despatch... I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, \"Most obedient humble Servant, 1Gham. Mr Meriale\n\nThis voluminous correspondence relates to the claim of Mr. Dalmada e Castro to act for the Colonial Secretary during that Officer's absence. It appears that on 2 occasions - being for a very short period; Castro succeeded to the post in the absence of this principal, but that, at other times, other functionaries have occupied the place, because Mr. Castro is an Alien, & therefore could not be approved by my Council, and because he is not of sufficient weight in the Colony to entitle him to hold one important situation in it.\n\nThose reasons seem very strong against the admission of Mr. Castro's claim, and if concurred in by Sir John Bowring, would prevent Mr. Castro from benefitting by the arrangement contemplated in Par 9 of the Duke of Northumberland's Despatch of the 15 Jan (which is annexed). You may remember the additional proposal was that Castro should be appointed as Col. Sec. with an additional salary.\n\nSo far as my individual opinion goes, I cannot perceive any passage in Castro's Letter of the 13 of August last, as offensive & objectionable. I thought so when it arrived & retain the same view now. The correspondence of the other Officials inclines me to apprehend the assistance of an oligarchy distasteful to the community, & probably prejudicial to the public interest. But I scarcely think Sir G. Bonham would yield himself to their influence.",
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        "content_text": "that Despatch to its destination and I therefore \n\nreturn it and its enclosures to you \n\nherewith... \n\nIn Para:23rd of your letter to the duke of Newcastle it is stated that I gave you my permission to bring your lace under His Grace's Consideration. This is quite true, and had you confined yourself to the subject then under discussion, viz \"whether In the absence of the Colonial Secretary The Governor was bound to entrust the duties \n\nof the Colonial Secretary's office to the Chief Clerk or whether he might properly nominate thereto any \n\nother person whom \"The Governor might see fit, your representation would have been accordingly forwarded, as the question would then have resolved itself into an appeal against The Governor, but I must remark however, that I consider \n\nthe office of Colonial Secretary as so far as regards succession, entirely distinct from \n\nthe working staff of his office: \n\n50 \n\nLam. \n\nSir, \n\nYour Obdt Servt \n\n(Signed) S. G. Bonham. \n\nTrue Copy! \n\n(Signed) L. d'Almada e Castro. \n\nTrue Copy! \n\nMain Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "Respectfully tendering my dutiful sense of gratitude for having enabled me to bring my Memorial of the 13th August 1853, to your Grace's notice and consideration, through the official medium of His Excellency the Governor, I have the honor to be, With the greatest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, most obedient and most humble Servant, Lossi Ahmada Castro / Clerk of Councils, and Chief Clerk and Keeper of Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\n10 Duplicate. August 1853.\n\nGovernment Offices, 64 Victoria, Hongkong, 17th August, 1853.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI beg leave to inform your Grace, that on the 15th instant I requested Mr Mercer, the Colonial Treasurer, acting for Lieutenant Colonel Caine, Colonial Secretary and Auditor General, to lay before the Governor a letter covering a Memorial of mine addressed to His Excellency for transmission to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.",
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        "content_text": "Regulations, wherein it is stated that from Ceylon 18 months leave be granted, and this Colony being one third farther from England than Ceylon is, I concluded that the term of leave of absence from the latter Colony would be applicable to Hong Kong - but the directions in your despatch on the subject will be strictly attended to in future. Your Grace will, I trust, have perceived by my despatch #96 of the 21st December last, that the leave obtained by Mr. Morgan was neither lightly given nor without due consideration, his death having occurred duly 15 days after leaving Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most obedient humble Servant, John Bowring",
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        "content_text": "and this I now most respectfully and earnestly beg to do.\n\nwas\n\nDr. Morrison during his life indefatigable in the performance of his duties, not only to the Rich but also to the Poor, the latter of whom could make him no return for his attendance on them, and consequence is that he has left a Widow and four Children entirely unprovided for, indeed I may add that but for the aid of her Family in England, she would have been unable to find her way home, to secure which she was necessitated to remain here for 4 months after her husband's decease.\n\nTo shew the kind disposition of the late Dr. Morrison to all classes of the Community, I would invite your Grace's attention to my Despatch \"separate\" of 26th September, 1851, and the reply thereto of the 29th November following from which it will be seen that in consideration of the gratuitous and friendly assistance afforded to the French Catholic Clergy, and Sisters of Charity by Mr Morrison, \"the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic would be disposed to recommend to the President to confer the decoration of the Legion of Honour upon Dr Morrison, if the English Government would permit him to accept that distinction\".\n\nIn conclusion I would beg to inform Your Grace that 56 of the Protestant Inhabitants of this place have also subscribed to erect a monument to his memory.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nPage 139",
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        "content_text": "of Wws Lay and Mrs Laytion unhappily\n\nMrs\n\ndo not form a precedent for the Colonial Service as the husbands of both those ladies were employed under the Foreign Department.\n\nIn conclusion I am directed to add that after a long and intimate acquaintance with your late husband His Excellency deeply sympathizes with you in the melancholy bereavement you have sustained.\n\nSigned W. Caine, Colonial Secretary.\n\nTrue Copy!\n\nW. Caine Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo. 18\n\nExecutive Council\n\nC.O.  April 1854\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. 17th February, 1854\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to advise your Grace that I intend leaving this Colony tomorrow for the Northern Ports in my capacity of Chief Superintendent of Trade, on board Her Majesty's Steam Ship \"Rattler\".\n\nI expect I shall again be at my post in time to address Your Grace by the mail that leaves this Colony on the\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle, etc. etc. etc.\n\nPage 146",
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        "content_text": "11th March, but if able to do so, my absence from the Colony will certainly not exceed one month.\n\nDuring my absence, the Government of the Colony will be administered by Major General Jervois, R.H., the Lieutenant-Governor.\n\nI have the honor to be with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient and humble servant,\n\nW. Caine?\n\n119.\n\nRECD 32.\n\nC.O. APR.1 1854\n\n147\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 18th February, 1854.\n\nMy Lord Buiten,\n\nWith reference to His Excellency Sir George Bonham's despatch No. 18 of yesterday's date, I have the honor to report to Your Grace that I have this day assumed charge of the Government in my capacity of Lieutenant-Governor.\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle",
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        "content_text": "149\n\nhad been pleased to concur with His Lordship in sanctioning my return to England as soon as it suited my convenience so to do, in consequence of the very impaired state of my health. I now do myself the honour of reporting to your Grace that Sir George Bonham, having proceeded to the north of China, I am at present administering the Government of the Colony until His Excellency's return;\n\nwhich as soon as I can arrange my affairs, and shall avail myself of the permission granted by Viscount Hardinge, with the concurrence of your Grace, to take my departure from Hong Kong by the Overland route to Southampton.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient, Humble Servant, Major General, Acting Governor.",
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        "content_text": "have been transmitted to Mr Morgan by the gentleman whose charge they were..\n\nSubsequently to Mr Morgan's departure from Hongkong, a Box containing a few trifling articles arrived here to his address. These were taken possession of by his agent, and the proceeds amounting to £12 were forwarded to Mr Morgan by a Bill on London.\n\nCraig's Court, previously to the receipt of your Grace's Despatch..\n\nI understand that when Mr Morgan left this Colony, he had, besides his wearing apparel, etc., about £60 in Cash in his possession, which no doubt have been taken charge of by the proper authorities at Batavia, where he expired on the 28th October last.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient humble Servant.",
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        "content_text": "18th March, 1854.\n\nGovernor Sir G. Bonham, M.P. to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived.\n\nPage 2.\n\nremitted to his Sister, He. disposed of, and the proceeds Mr. Morgan have already been.\n\nArticles belonging to the late !! Stating that certain trifling of the 13th January, and.\n\nThe Yonge Despatch 13.\n\nAcknowledgment receipt of.\n\nMr. Merivale.\n\nI think a copy of this despatch should be sent to Miss Morgan,\n\n& also to the Admiral who have a claim on Mr. Moyens Estate for £36. for passage money between Hong Kong and Point.\n\n25 May.\n\nInt. May 25.\n\nJan. 3778. Ent. Sir G. Morgan. 344.\n\nAdm. 22710.\n\nMiss Morgan,\n\n21, Kent Terrace,\n\nCambridge Road,\n\nHammersmith.\n\n1854.\n\nMINUTE 26th March 27.\n\nMr. Elliot,\n\nM. Merivale,\n\nMr. F. Peel,\n\nDuke of Newcastle.\n\n7328. 18th March 11.\n\n154.\n\n188.\n\n31 May/54, Madam,\n\nWith reference to my Letter of the 15th,\n\nI am directed by the Duke to transmit to you, for information, the copy of a despatch from the Gov. of Hong Kong to the effect left by the late Edward Morgan, Brother.\n\nI am to add that it has been thought proper to communicate a copy of this despatch to the Board of Admiralty.",
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        "content_text": "Constant diminution in the public expenditure and in the contributions required from Parliament during the time that I have administered the government, I cannot receive without affording myself the satisfaction of assuring you clearly that I consider it highly creditable to your administration of the affairs of Hong Kong.\n\nHONG KONG, Proof not committed 221 HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 1. Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir S. G. BONHAM, K.C.B. to the Duke of Newcastle.\n\n(No. 33.) Victoria, Hong Kong, April 7, 1854.\n\nMY LORD DUKE,\n\n1. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Grace the blue book of Hong Kong for the year 1853.\n\nRevenue and Expenditure.\n\n2. The total revenue for the year ending 31st December 1853, was £24,700 6s. 3d., exceeding the amount collected in 1852 by £3,369 7s. 4d. The following statement is a recapitulation of the expenditure during the same period, and shows an increase of £1,652 19s. 3d. over the expenditure of the preceding year, namely:\n\n  \n    \n    1852\n    1853\n    Excess of Expenditure in 1853\n  \n  \n    Civil Establishment\n    £13,974 4 0\n    £14,681 4 24\n    \n  \n  \n    Judicial Establishment and Police\n    £557 5 0\n    £5,872 3 7\n    \n  \n  \n    Ecclesiastical Establishment\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Public Works and Buildings\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Expenditure\n    £1,283 15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Pensions\n    £50 0 0\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    £34,765 12\n    £36,418 12 3\n    £1,652 19 3\n  \n\nBut this excess, I beg to observe, includes arrears of salaries for 1852 paid in 1853, amounting to £1,614 18s. 6d., as shown at page 21 of the blue book.\n\nMilitary Expenditure.\n\n3. The payments made by the Commissariat and Ordnance departments were £50,346 11s. 5d., being £461 9s. 5d. less than in the year 1852.\n\nPublic Works.\n\n4. The total outlay under this is £5,872 3s. 7d., of which £3,843 3s. 6d. have been expended in the construction of the new Government House. The annexed reports by the surveyor general show in detail the various works and improvements undertaken by him, as also the progress of his department during the past year.\n\nI may here again remark that the convicts sentenced to hard labour, the chief portion of whom are Chinese, have been profitably employed on public works.\n\nLegislation.\n\n5. Four Ordinances were passed during the year, No. 1 being \"for the Regulation of the Gaol of Hong Kong,\" and No. 2 \"for the Removal of Doubts regarding the Right of Aliens to hold and transfer Property within the Colony.\" The two last, No. 3 and 4, were, as already reported, for the amendment of previous enactments.\n\nPopulation.\n\n6. The enclosed returns by the officiating registrar general show that the total population of Hong Kong on the 31st December 1853, consisted of\n\nPage 363 \n\nPage 363 \n\nPage 363 \n\nPage 364 \n\nPage 364 \n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "No. 11.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 6. No. 7.\n\nNo. 8.\n\nNo. 9.\n\nNo. 10.\n\n2\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\n39,017 persons, exclusive of troops. As to the climate, the report of Dr. Harland, the acting colonial surgeon, appended to the Blue Book, contains very accurate statistical information connected with this subject. The sanitary condition of the colonial gaol is given in the enclosed return from the acting sheriff, which shows that amongst its inmates, averaging 138 throughout the year, only three deaths occurred, and all in January. According to the enclosed memorandum, the mortality amongst the European troops was 5.7 per cent., being an increase over that of 1852, when it was 3.6 per cent. The number of deaths amongst the native troops (Malays and natives of India) was at the rate of 5.3 per cent., being a decrease of nearly 50 per cent. on the mortality during 1852, when it amounted to 10.02 per cent.\n\nEducation.\n\n7. No remarkable change has taken place in the number of the local schools; and as to the progress of the five native ones receiving Government aid, I would refer your Grace to the annexed report of the education committee entering fully into the subject.\n\nTrade.\n\n8. The information under this head, from the unwillingness of the parties concerned to afford it (Hong Kong being a free port), may still be said to be as defective as in former years; but from the acting harbour master's returns annexed to the Blue Book, it will be perceived that 1,103 square-rigged vessels, carrying altogether 447,053 tons, arrived in Victoria harbour during the year 1853. Of these vessels, 201 imported and 154 exported goods into and from the colony, being a very considerable increase over the numbers returned for 1852, when they amounted to 74 and 79 vessels respectively. The total tonnage of vessels arrived, as compared with that of the preceding year, is also on the increase, and shows an excess of 13,670 tons in 1853. The enclosed return of imports and exports for the year 1853, by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers alone, gives the following result when compared with the previous year:\n\n11.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nI beg to transmit herewith two statements for the year 1853, showing respectively, the causes under cognizance at the chief magistrate's office and the Court of Petty Sessions, and the criminal cases tried in the Supreme Court; also, a return of the number of civil cases tried and actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice Admiralty Courts, during the same period.\n\nGeneral Observations.\n\n12. As I am about to quit the colony in a few days, after having administered its government for upwards of six years, I beg to annex some statistical tables showing its rise and progress from 1848, the date of my taking charge of it. From these, your Grace will observe that the call on the home Government for parliamentary grant has been reduced from 25,000l. to 8,500l. for the current year; that the expenditure has been reduced from 62,658l. to 36,418l.; that the number of square-rigged vessels frequenting the port has increased from 700 to 1,103, while their tonnage is nearly double; and that the population has in like manner advanced 82 per cent. during the past six years. In conclusion, I have no hesitation in saying, that were this colony taxed in the same way as are the settlements in the straits under the government of the East India Company, it could in a year or two be made to pay its own expenses, without the efficiency of the government being impaired; but I have considered myself bound by the opinions expressed by the committee of the House of Commons, in the session of 1847, upon our commercial relations with China, and in consequence refrained from the imposition of any new taxes. I must, however, with great deference say, after an experience of twenty-two years in the settlements of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca, and six at Hong Kong, I am by no means satisfied with the conclusions which the committee appears to have arrived at in this respect.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nS. G. BONHAM.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c. &c. &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n222\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 12.\n\nNo. 13.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nNo. 15.\n\nEncl. 2 in No. 7.\n\n1\n\n  \n    Imports.\n    36,499;\n    Increase\n    $10,776,085;\n  \n  \n    Chests of opium\n    20,752\n    $10,659,774\n    \n  \n  \n    Exports.\n    \n    \n    $3,742,914\n  \n  \n    Treasure\n    \n    $2,331,931;\n    Decrease\n  \n\nWith regard to the native trade of the colony, I am satisfied it has increased in an equal ratio with the population; but, unfortunately, no reliable statistics on the subject can be given, owing to the absence of any means of obtaining regular returns.\n\nThe trade with California has continued undiminished, no less than 32 vessels having left for that port during the past year, conveying in them 4,949 Chinese; three vessels have likewise left for the colonies, carrying 268 emigrants.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n9. The following statement is an abstract of the rent roll for 1853, and exhibits the fixed revenue under this head:\n\n  \n    Lands leased by mercantile firms\n    £4,721\n    12\n    4\n  \n  \n    Private individuals\n    £4,439\n    8\n    10\n  \n  \n    Chinese\n    £1,586\n    10\n    9\n  \n  \n    \n    £10,747\n    12\n    0\n  \n\nPolice.\n\n10. The enclosed return of felony cases coming under the cognizance of the police, shows a decrease of fifty-two cases in 1853.\n\nSIR,\n\nSurveyor General's Department, Victoria, Hong Kong, March 27, 1854.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit my annual report upon the public works undertaken during the last year.\n\nBuildings.\n\nNew Government House progressed very slowly indeed, in consequence of the partial failure of the contractor, and a strike amongst the masons to whom a considerable sum of money being due, I was obliged to make arrangements myself for payment, and enter into agreements for the completion of certain unfinished portions, both of the stonework and brickwork, in accordance with the terms of the contract, which empowered me to do so, charging the cost of the several portions against the amount of contract. By these means I have been enabled to expedite the work in some degree, and force the contractor to attend to his own interest, by a closer attendance to his duties and the regular payment of the men. With regard to the workmanship, I have the greatest satisfaction in stating that it is of the very best description, and would do credit to European artisans. I have adopted every expedient I could devise for the preservation of the timber, by giving to it ample ventilation, by saturation in a solution of arsenic, and coating it with coal tar according to circumstances, which my experience in buildings here has taught me to be essentially necessary for the prevention of dry rot, and the destructive effects of white ants.\n\nContracts have been entered into for the erection of the stables, kitchen and servants' quarters, as well as for the guardhouse or lodge, considerably within the estimate. 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        "content_text": "despatch No35 of 1854.\n\nInclosure. P.3 in\n\nN. 3. Financial.\n\nNo 109.\n\nCopy to Treas: for infn duly 5/544.\n\nHis Grace\n\n4977 tong tong\n\nHECKING Victoria, Hongkong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 12\n\n1854\n\n8th April, 1854.-\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n270\n\nI have the honor to submit\n\nthe accounts of this colony for the Financial year Ending 31st March last, and as the Treasurer's letter covering them contains all the information that can be required on the subject, shall\n\nnot trespass on Your Grace's time.\n\nIn my dispatch No 74 of the 22nd September last, I stated that\n\na bill would be required from Parliament to the amount of £8000 for the expenditure of the Colony for the year ending 31st December\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nto Chief Justice Hulme, 8th April, 1854.\n\nleave of absence granted \"Certificate of the years",
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        "content_text": "1854, but should the sum of £3,252 in hand on the 15 April, 1853, be brought to account, a corresponding reduction may be made in the Parliamentary Grant; and it will appear from how transmitted that a further\n\nthe Account's\n\nAnno\n\nof\n\n1 £3392 remains available for the expenditure\n\nof\n\nthe year 1855.-\n\nI think, therefore, I may safely\n\npredict that even should the Establishments\n\nof\n\nthe Colony remain as they are,\n\nthe Revenue will in three or four years be sufficient to meet all necessary demands,\n\nor nearly so, as the funds for all Public Works that can be required, has, I believe, been provided for._\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nHumble Servant.\n\nHolan\n\n271",
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        "content_text": "8th April, 1854.\n\nGovernor Sir Geo: Bonham, to His Grace The Duke of Newcastle\n\nReceived 9 March 1938\n\nTransmitting the accounts of the Colony for the Financial Year ending 4th March, 1854.\n\nI ward this Despatch, and das in refereed to in the annexed Minute 4974, which is going on.\n\n2.7. June M. Misk 12 June Hm Jan 20 nen ergehen.\n\nMr. Deel. The 4977 Hong Kong course 272 already adopted upon the Hong Kong Estimate for the present year will be found fully described in the Iniites and Drafts attached to the Governor's Despatches of the 20th and 22nd of September 111207-14121. The effect of the whole was that the Estimate this year presented to Parliament is reduced to the following four items -\n\nLient Governor £2000\n\nColonial Secretary £400\n\nTreasure - Sov\n\nSurveyor General - Sov £4,400\n\nThe present statement shows that over and above the local surplus already calculated upon, a further sum of £3,382 remains available for 1855. I confess that under these circumstances, the expenditure of ... I think the least which can be done is to give notice to the new Governor that the Salaries of the Colonial Secretary and the Surveyor General will be struck off, this reducing the Estimate from £4,000 to £2,900. I am not sure whether the Treasurer's Salary might not be struck off also, in which case the Country would merely be called upon to pay the Lient Governor's Salary amounting to £2000.\n\n7. P. 19 June\n\n \nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "543\n\nI would beg here to convey to your Grace the expression of my warmest thanks for the honour conferred on me.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nM. Macg. Meikle.\n\nOutly\n\n19 June\n\n28\n\n5235. Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 19 1854\n\nFinancial.\n\nCopy to Sir C. Bonham July 1/54\n\nAlso to Treasury, &c. July 15/54.\n\nSept 1/26.\n\n297\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n15th April, 1854.\n\nWith a view to the efficient conduct of this Government His Excellency The Governor, with the approval of Sir George Bonham and with acquiescence, has made the following appointments, which have been rendered necessary by the alteration that has taken place in the administration of the affairs of the Colony.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle",
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        "content_text": "With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most obedient Humble Servant,\n\nAlaine\n\nMr. Merivale will probably obtain Sir George Bonham's opinion on these deviations from The Duke of Newcastle's scheme for recasting the Civil Establishment\n\nJ. H. Rogers\n\nThere invidious\n\nW Peel\n\nI know, must\n\nwith firm\n\nDortan\n\n...\n\n2.028.\n\n302\n\nappearsal, as he has informed me (not before I had the dispatch under my eye) It may be satisfactory to discuss them, at some future period. Comments on Hong Kong, with him.\n\nIt appears to have been impolitic, to permit her de Castro in the way which we recommended.\n\nKom June 19\n\nhave been proposed that be registered\n\nDer besuch leon\n\nbasining & lays\n\nleeds\n\nmore clearly than this\n\nWe have better from Moscheme.\n\nLower & besten Gefalll\n\nAsk for $250 additional\n\nand the total bearing with their heirs\n\nabout $2350.\n\nfor himself.\n\n1820\n\nArrow of teeth Meren in his having willing\n\ntortellern that Confidential letter befalling all\n\nshould be Circulated\n\nnation\n\nPanchined",
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        "content_text": "Sir G. Grey. I have seen Sir G. Bonham and learn from him that the despatch of the Duke of Newcastle of the 15 Feb last, though not deferred to by Colonel Caine in this communication, has nevertheless been perused by him. In fact Sir G. Bonham, to whom a copy was sent by this office, placed that copy privately in Colonel Caine's hand. It seems therefore improbable that there should be any confusion or cross purposes between the Home and Colonial Authorities in regard to Lieutenant Governor Caine.\n\nApril, 1854.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of\n\nReceived\n\n2.\n\nAppointments.\n\nReporting changes in staff consequent upon his reductions in Salaries, and with regard to the proposed arrangements. On this subject I would further refer you to J. Bowring's despatch 5323 which I have had transmitted.\n\nRecording to your direction, there\n\nNewcastle.\n\nW18. 22 June.\n\nJun 124\n\nWirk arrangements magnolia esserond bis. Bowring fully reported on them in his No. 5257 of 8/12.\n\nEnt'd\n\n5323 relating to Gov. Bonham and Gov. Caine 5235\n\nIn G. Bonham's No. 27 Jan.\n\nMh.\n\nMericale.\n\n27\n\nMr. P. to\n\nSir G. Grey\n\n→15 April /54\n\n20\n\nNot from communication with Sir G. Bonham, but from other sources, I believe he approves, or at least is not averse to, the writing of June 12.\n\nDir.\n\n\"\n\n303\n\n10th July /54\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir G. Grey to send you the copy of a despatch received by the last mail from Lt. Gov. Caine reporting the changes made in the Civil Establishment of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from despatch dated 6 July /54 from the Government of that Colony.\n\n3837\n\nColony\n\nI am to...",
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        "content_text": "and your \n\nretirement, and; \n\nof the 13th \n\nanswer \n\nMarch signified the \n\nconcurren \n\nof the \n\nLords Commissioners of the Treasury in the Official arrangements also explained in that Despatch. I am directed to request you will inform their Lordships that the Local Government, having carefully considered the views of the Duke of Newcastle for consolidating certain public Offices in the Colony, entertain the \n\n \n\nPage 305 \n\nthe opinion that the plan submitted in \n\nColonel Caines despatch the 15th April last. \n\nof \n\nhas \n\netc. 2 (which was supported by the entire concurrence \n\nof the late Governor \n\nSir G. Bonham \n\nas \n\nappears from his letter: of the 6th Inst, copy of which is annexed) is \n\npreferable to that of the Duke of Newcastle and Sir G. Grey having \n\nMinisters that they reasons reviewed the best scheme proposed, they \n\nplace agrees with the \n\nother \n\narrangement is \n\nthe best. Their Lordships \n\nwill \n\nN° 2. St Gov. Caine \n\n6 July \n\nSir 2. Bonham",
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        "content_text": "under the public Seal of Hong Kong for appointing Mr Thomas Donation Selby to be Chief Clerk of the Colonial Treasury of that Colony.\n\nP. P. I have desired the Colonial Agent General to repay to the Chief Clerk of this Office the sum of £30 advanced by him for Stamp Duty on the enclosed Warrant and you will call upon Mr. Selby to repay that amount into the Colonial Treasury.\n\nPage 193.\n\nCivil\n\nAnswered 20 July: 154–\n\n0236.\n\nRECEIVER\n\nJUNE 19 1854\n\n320\n\nVictoria, Houghton,\n\n-14 IN LOVE\n\ninclosure for your 18th April, 1854\n\nI have the how to acquaint you, by the accompanying Copy of a letter from W. Hillier to the address of His Excellency Sir J. Bowring by whom it has been handed to me.\n\nIn forwarding this letter, I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the zeal, ability, and usefulness of His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, etc.",
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        "content_text": "Mr Hillier, and I would beg to draw the attention of your Grace to Sir George Bonham's Despatch \"Separate\" of 27th December 1848, in which the merits and qualifications of certain Members of the Civil Service are detailed, one of whom is Mr Hillier, and the handsome manner in which Sir George Bonham has spoken of this Gentleman renders further encomium on my part superfluous. In addition to which your Grace will soon have the advantage of referring personally to Sir George Bonham on this subject.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nHumble Servant\n\nMaine",
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        "content_text": "Gov: Hong Kong\n\n8214. Cute\n\nGov: more.. Sir John Bowring\n\nFirst Gov lo\n\n38\n\n5996\n\n322\n\n#4 Seely 154\n\nLieut.\n\n1866\n\nHis Grace\n\nGovernor Caine\n\nApril, 1854.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nN: 3.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nReceived a letter submitting Transmitting from Mr Willier his name as a Candidate for the Office of Colonial Secretary, Mr Merivale's appointment to the situation of Colonial Secretary\n\n122 5235 which reports that Mr Willier is so well adapted to his magisterial office that it would be a pity to remove him\n\nMINUTE, MR B 1854 JULY\n\nMREU M&Merivale MREPeel SirGeo:Grey W\n\nI have received your despatch of the 10th April No. 3 transmitting an application from Mr Hillier for the Office of Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, and I have to desire to inform Mr Hillier that it is not in my power to confer this situation upon him",
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        "content_text": "I have held the position, for eleven years \n\nI have been \n\na Magistrate of the Colony; and now hold a seat in the Legislative Council. During this time I have been absent from my post for only six months, the duties of which have been always responsible and unremitting, frequently difficult and arduous. To the studies more immediately connected with my vocation, I have added that of Chinese literature, and have acquired a knowledge of the language and people, not indeed profound, but one \n\nwhich your Excellency will doubtless admit to be extensively useful.\n\nI have to \n\nsign,\n\nC.B. St.John,\n\nChief Magistrate.\n\nTrue Copy.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nPage 14\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n324\n\n5237\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n19th April, 1854.\n\nJUNE 9 1854\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the following dispatch and letters from Your Grace to the address of Sir George Bonham, which were handed to me by His Excellency Sir John Bowring on his arrival; viz:- P. 47 of 11th February, 1854. Letters of 4th and 17th \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "Putly\n\nGrone\n\nbl\n\n6587\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nHumible Servant, Maine\n\n20\n\n1.5.\n\nExecutive.\n\nA\n\nAnswered 28 July 1854.\n\n2238 cong dong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 9\n\n1854\n\n325\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n20th April, 1854\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to\n\nreport certain changes\n\nin the Council's\n\nnecessity\n\nof this Colony rendered\n\nthe absence on leave of Chief\n\nJustice Sulme, and by my\n\nappointment to the Lieutenant Governorship.\n\nMr Sterling, Acting Chief Justice, has been removed from the Executive\n\nCouncil.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "the Legislative Council and as Attorney General, it will not therefore be necessary for ... to prepare Warrants for there Gentlemen, but I shall be glad to be assured of your approval of their appointments temporar measures which it has been found necessary to adopt.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most obedient Humble Servant, ...\n\nPage 327",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Merivale\n\nWhatever be decided upon with respect to Mercer’s position these appointments\n\nTemporary\n\nApproved\n\n& others in such frohatly.\n\nLieut. Governor Caine,\n\n20th April, 1854.\n\nto\n\nHis Grace\n\nthe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived\n\nNo 5.\n\nReporting\n\nin\n\nthe\n\nColony.\n\nCouncils of the certain changes\n\n£20\n\nAm June 19\n\nGov: 5238. Hong Kong.\n\nN=16.\n\nFrom J. Bowring. To Caine.\n\nMINUTE BY MERIVALE\n\n1854 JULY\n\nMerivale 27. WRE Peel 28\n\nSir,\n\n328\n\n28th July 1854\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of Despatch No. 5 of the 20th of April addressed to my Predecessor, reporting certain changes in the Council of Hong Kong caused by the absence on leave of Chief Justice Hulme, and by your appointment to the Lieut: Governorship. And I have to approve of the arrangements which were made on June 19.",
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        "content_text": "Separate and Confidential.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nJUNE 19, 1864 (?) or more likely  1604 is too early for Hong Kong related document, possibly 1864\n\n...\n\nVictoria, Houghing (?),\n\n21th April, 1854.\n\nI had the honour of addressing your Grace on the 13th instant and reporting my assumption of the office of Lieutenant Governor to which Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to appoint me.\n\nI trust your Grace will pardon me for again addressing you on the subject of my appointment, and ...\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c.\n\nPage 323\n\n2 lenguet/54\n\nispy to Just You poho aft with 2 Gor 32 33. IBE.\n\n5234 chong trong\n\npre\n\nDr. Gorurnar has have made.\n\nI have to\n\nML\n\nAe.\n\nHe\n\nThe \n\nHis Grace\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version:\n\nSeparate and Confidential.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nJUNE 19 1604\n\n323\n\nVictoria, Houghing,\n\n21th April, 1854.\n\nI had the honour of \"addressing your Grace on the 13th instant and reporting my assumption of the office of Lieutenant Governor to which Her Majesty had been graciously pleased to appoint me.\n\nI trust your Grace will pardon me for again addressing you on the subject of my appointment, and\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c.\n\nHe\n\nAe.\n\nML\n\nthe\n\n2 lenguet/54\n\nispy to Just You poho aft with 2 Gor 32 33. IBE.\n\n5234 chong trong\n\npre\n\nThe Dr. Gorurnar has have made.\n\nI have to\n\nwhich",
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        "content_text": "I would hope that there is nothing unreasonable in the application which I now make, and I trust that it will meet with your favourable Consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be, residing with Dr Darrings. I consider also that the hospitalities of a colony so largely resorted to by foreign & English shipping are such as to make it imperative for him to manage with a home or bath allowed him.\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most obedient, Humble Servant, [Signature: likely \"Bonham\"]\n\n[Some text appears to be misplaced or out of order, possibly due to OCR column recognition issues. The following text is an attempt to reorder the remaining content.]\n\nBonham or Downing will be in H.K. most months out of 12/6 for that more than I have hoped has wholly prospered at home, and Not at Low.\n\nWhile there being a place of which you will best satisfy yourself by communication with him on June 19, he was recommended with a salary of £850 for the work for half-year. Explaining Office appointment and the circumstances must be a ground for £520.\n\nThis reference to Travelling had better be authorised after 15 months' service, the variation & Establishment possibilities separate.\n\nOpposition:",
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        "content_text": "that Her Majesty's Government have been pleased to remit so much of the Stamp, viz: the sum of £138, as would be chargeable.\n\nSalary of £1,800, but that he cannot be relieved from the payment of the sum of £12, which constitutes the Stamp duty £200; and you will, therefore, desire him to remit to W. Smith, the Chief-Clerk of my Office, this last sum, £12.\n\nLetter to Sir C. Bonham\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nI have received...\n\nHong Kong, April 17, 1853\n\nAfter much discussion, George Binham, Col. Caine, and myself have come to the unanimous conclusion that the following arrangements regarding the salaries and emoluments of the different Colonial Officials will best combine the interests of the public service with economy in the establishment of a judiciously arranged Establishment.\n\n  \n    Governor\n    £5,000\n  \n  \n    Lieut. Governor & Treasurer\n    £2,000\n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary\n    £1,860\n  \n  \n    Auditor\n    £900\n  \n  \n    Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office\n    £405\n  \n  \n    Second Clerk\n    £380\n  \n  \n    Third Clerk\n    £250\n  \n  \n    Auditor's Clerk\n    £360\n  \n  \n    Clerk, Secretary's Office\n    £210\n  \n  \n    Second Clerk, Auditor's Clerk\n    £250\n  \n  \n    Total\n    £7,600\n  \n  \n    Estimated Saving\n    £2,021\n  \n\nSir George Bonham will have the opportunity of examining and submitting to Your Grace the detailed reasons for the several arrangements. As regards the special aptitudes of the different functionaries, he has had the advantage of a long experience to guide his judgment, which could not be brought to bear on our deliberations.\n\nI of course...\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 2\n\n \nbecomes \nPage 1\n\nPage 2\n\n \n\nHowever, to follow the exact instruction for output format which is HTML using `` for paragraphs, the corrected version is presented as follows:\n\nthat Her Majesty's Government have been pleased to remit so much of the Stamp, viz: the sum of £138, as would be chargeable.\n\nSalary of £1,800, but that he cannot be relieved from the payment of the sum of £12, which constitutes the Stamp duty £200; and you will, therefore, desire him to remit to W. Smith, the Chief-Clerk of my Office, this last sum, £12.\n\nLetter to Sir C. Bonham\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nHong Kong, April 17, 1853\n\nAfter much discussion, George Binham, Col. Caine, and myself have come to the unanimous conclusion that the following arrangements regarding the salaries and emoluments of the different Colonial Officials will best combine the interests of the public service with economy in the establishment of a judiciously arranged Establishment.\n\nGovernor £5,000\n\nLieut. Governor & Treasurer £2,000\n\nColonial Secretary £1,860\n\nAuditor £900\n\nOne Treasury Clerk £600\n\nChief Clerk, Colonial Secretary's Office £405\n\nSecond Clerk £380\n\nThird Clerk £250\n\nAuditor's Clerk £360\n\nClerk, Secretary's Office £210\n\nSecond Clerk, Auditor's Clerk £250\n\nTotal £7,600\n\nEstimated Saving £2,021\n\nSir George Bonham will have the opportunity of examining and submitting to Your Grace the detailed reasons for the several arrangements. As regards the special aptitudes of the different functionaries, he has had the advantage of a long experience to guide his judgment, which could not be brought to bear on our deliberations.\n\nI of course...\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nPage 1\n\nPage 2",
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        "content_text": "The objections to the nomination of Mr. Hillier appeared irresistible. When his name was mentioned to me at the Colonial Office\n\nI should not have hesitated & strongly urged down as it were the desirableness of such an appointment. & Mr Mercer's name came out in finer. At letter had seen addressed to me by Mr Willis I will be communicated to Your Grace, proceeding a request.\n\nMr Hillier is indeed a public servant, and has both usefully devoted himself to the study of Chinese Language & Literature of China. – He is one of those who deserve encouragement and protection, as the recompence of real industry.\n\nBut I did not feel myself at liberty to dissent from the Conclusions at which on due consideration Sir G. Bonham & Mr Cairne had arrived with reference to the superior claims of Mr Mercer.\n\nIt was of the highest importance & security for Kienneir's services, I know not how the business of the financial departments could be satisfactorily conducted without his aid. He has, to my knowledge, been tempted by liberal offers from private Merchants, in order to induce him to quit the public service and I was anxiously doubtful for some time, whether he would be persuaded to remain with us. His health is much broken, but I hope we have secured him by the present arrangement.\n\nI trust Mr. Commissioner's request to be pensioned will be complied with by Your Grace. He is really exhausted by age and long service, and the Registrar-General's department will not suffer; two efficient Clerks are appointed to it, instead of three as at present.\n\nI am well persuaded of the competency of Mr Chapman to act as Auditor's Clerk at £50 a year salary.\n\nI take occasion from this time to address Your Grace, on subjects which appear to me deserving attention, leaving to the Lieutenant Governor all correspondence of a strictly official character.\n\nI have the honor to be, dear Lord Duke, Your Lordship's faithful & respectfully\n\nPage 339\n\nNOEL",
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        "content_text": "See my note of this date on 5235.\n\nW Peel\n\nI hardly think it desirable to continue a private correspondence on the civil affairs while officially the Lieut. Governor comes under my supervision.\n\nThis letter supplies the information that Mr. White, the Emigration Agent, has left the Colony for England and will report to His Grace the prospects for continuing a supply of Chinese for the Colonies. Meanwhile, the voluntary emigration is considerable, and the Coolies still seem disposed to press in great numbers towards California & Australia.\n\nThey are deplorably ignorant of the deceits, abetted by the cupidity, alike of Chinese scoundrels and sea captains, and the interests of humanity, to say nothing of the reputation of a British Colony, require that more control should be exercised over abuses.\n\nAn example has just occurred - a Peruvian vessel (the Libertad) had engaged nearly a hundred Coolies, more than she was able properly to take under the passengers act, and her seaworthiness was very doubtful; the state of the Coolies on board was most unsatisfactory.\n\nPrivate\n\nJP? imp. 30 June\n\n5324 Hong Kong Emigration\n\nRECEIVED JUNE 22 1854\n\nMy dear Duke,\n\n[Mr White the Emigration Agent]\n\nX21.1854\n\nThroughout April, Hong Kong afforded...\n\n340\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle",
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        "content_text": "paid the amount of We Lane's passage Money before I quitted England.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nJohn Bownes\n\nDublin Bankly\n\nIndex\n\n345\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "1? 7.\n\nFinancial.\n\nsent to F7 for infer 7 Decly. Sith.\n\n7\n\n5657 trong trong\n\nVictorian, Houghtong\n\nMy Lnd Duke,\n\n1th May, 1854.\n\n2\n\nI have the hour to\n\nenclose herewith, for your Grace's\n\ninformation and that of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Copies of the quarterly\n\nAbstracts\n\nfor\n\nthe\n\nquarter ending\n\n31st March, 1854.\n\n1. Changes in the holders of offices\n\nand appointments in the\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n7.\n\nWe.\n\nNo.\n\nAc.",
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        "content_text": "Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n2. Additions to Salaries and Allowances in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n3. Creation of new offices and appointments in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n4. Payments of an unusual description and for extraordinary Services.\n\nYour Excellency's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMy Lord Duke, Lock\n\nWith the highest respect\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nJ. Macgowan\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of Hong Kong, for the Quarter ended 31 March 1854.\n\n  \n    OFFICE\n    Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.\n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n    If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment:\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Nil.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n(True Copy)\n\n(Signed) W. Z. Mercer,\n\nAuditor General,\n\nHong Kong, 27 April 1854.\n\nPage 3",
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        "content_text": "Miscellaneous.\n\n5655 Ame King\n\nCEN\n\nJURA\n\n1854\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 10½ May, 1854.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n7\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 27th ulte, of the following Despatches from Your Grace to the address of Governor Sir John Bowring-\n\nOriginals by hand & to be, the lowest of\n\n28th February, 1854\n\nProfligate, Nº 2 of 26th\n\nCircular.\n\nof\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke\n\nDuke of Newcastle,\n\nYo,\n\nAc,\n\nJe.",
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        "content_text": "I have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nMayne\n\n19-\n\nCivil.\n\nJULY 3\n\n1854\n\n5650\n\n8\n\nto Treas: for Copy to forwarded\n\nCOULD U\n\nJuly 15 1854.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to report that\n\n\"Victoria, Hongkong,\n\n1st\n\n3rd May, 1854.\n\nI have the honour to\n\nstate that no instructions having\n\nbeen received from your Grace relating to the vacancy\n\ncaused by the death of Dr Morrison\n\nin October last, it has been determined after consultation with His Excellency Sir John Bowring to\n\ncarry out the arrangement planned\n\nby His Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.",
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        "content_text": "by Sir George Bonham in Separate of 27 December, 1848, and \n\nStaff Surgeon Janus Carroll Dempster, M.D. with the \n\nLieutenant Colonel Commanding \n\nthe Force has been accordingly appointed Colonial Surgeon with Salary of £200, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nI beg to refer your Grace to Sir George Bonham's Separate above quoted and trust that this appointment will meet with \n\nYour Grace's approval.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's Most Obedient and humble Servant,\n\nJAN ...\n\nPage 9",
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        "content_text": "the\n\nColony remarkably flourishing, such as Sierra Leone, or in a Colony newly established & which cannot pay its way, necessity for such an Officer, supported at the public expense is apparent enough. But Hong Kong is not very insalubrious, the public Officers are not ill paid, the Colony is flourishing. There is, in my opinion, the cost of medical attendance on those members of the Civil Establishment who require it.\n\nAPP. & feby.\n\nIn. Merivale\n\nBut since I annex an extract, I quite approve.\n\n3. Bonham\n\nday. If Dear/40,\n\nNumber reduced &\n\nSi George\n\nThese reputed\n\nReceived of Staff Surgeon Dempster, Colonial Surgeon of\n\nReporting appointment as\n\nSalary.\n\nHongkong, on\n\nreduced\n\nPerhaps this may be a just step.\n\nNG.\n\nHis Grace, The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nLieut-Governor Caine 22 May, 1854.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nI append\n\nBrn M 4\n\nMr\n\nA\n\nyou, as the arrangement is in accordance with the situation & prospects in ro1407. Betterland Officers are chill but.\n\nStaff Assistant Surgeons has been\n\nthe junction of a Penal Settlement\n\nand a\n\nthe one Staff medical Officer\n\nin the same person is practically inseparable\n\nSee 12279\n\nBut for my part I do not see any sufficient reason for\n\nthe Office of Colonial Surgeon to continue\n\nny\n\nCha\n\n-855.\n\nEncl\n\nLove Sir &\n\n4 you ban\n\n1227\n\nBonkers 5333/54 H.K.... your 5656\n\n10\n\nbaine\n\n11 = July /54.\n\nSer\n\nI have to ack\n\n1854\n\nMINUTE * MB Merivale 10, MR. Peel Sirfico: Grey //\n\nOff to Treasury\n\nyour Despatch of the 3. May last reporting that you had appointed Staff Surgeon James Dempster to be Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong on a Salary of $200 per\n\nand\n\nI have to inform you that as this is in accordance with the scheme",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nhas been found accessory to recall Mr. GrandPré to the Colonial Secretary's Office, and to appoint Mr. Stanhope to do the duty of clerk in the Census and Registration Office, where Mr. GrandPré was acting for Mr. Marsh who will remain in the Supreme Court till Mr. GrandPré's return - Mr. Stanhope will receive £150, Mr. Marsh's half Salary.\n\nMr. Reinhard has been removed to the Treasury on £250 a year (see my despatch above referred to) and Mr. L. Duus officiates in the Surveyor General's Office on the half Salary of Mr. Pryer, absent in England.\n\nMessrs. Stanhope and Duus have been given to understand that their admission into the Service is temporary, and that they have no claim to permanent employment.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's, Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMacg",
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        "content_text": "expressing my approval of \n\nthose treasures I have to \n\nConvey to you \n\nthe sanction \n\nIf the Lords Commissioners of the \n\nTreasury \n\n£200 \n\nto the allowance \n\nper \n\nAnn: to Mr \n\nFillier the Chief Police Magistrate \n\nto Act as Immigration Officer, on the understanding that \n\nthis additional income is \n\nto be discontinued whenever \n\nthe cessation of immigration \n\nmay \n\nrender the Office \n\nunnecessary. \n\nI have &c.\n\nPage 12\n\nExecutive. \n\nCopy to Treas: for \n\nor Jucky 11/544.. \n\nconveyed \n\n7:12. \n\nEx \n\nMy Lord \n\n5659 \n\nRECEIVED \n\nJULY 3 \n\n1854 \n\n27 \n\nVictoria, Amending, \n\n5 May, 1854. \n\nI have the honor to \n\nreport that Lieutenant Colonel Griffin, R.A., Commanding the Forces in this Colony has intimated the receipt \n\nof instructions reducing \n\nthe Military Guards \n\nfurnished in aid of the Civil Power, \n\nin consequence of the insufficient state of the Garrison. \n\nThe Gaol Guard has thus been \n\nHis Grace \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, \n\n&c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "33\n\nfurthering\n\nthe\n\nunsatisfactory\n\nthat Gentleman of the Subscribers intention of\n\nHer Most Gracious Majesty Queen, the replies were briefly unsatisfactory, though no reasons were assigned, Subscriber's application should be rejected.\n\nIn May 1850 the Subscriber memorialized Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. To this petition the Subscriber received a reply from the Colonial Secretary here, in which he was informed that His Lordship the Earl Grey had laid the petition before Her Majesty, but that he could not recommend\n\nPrayer for\n\nreasons stated in previous letters. The Earl Grey had not recommended Her Majesty to accede to this Subscriber's prayer, and this Subscriber was informed that the reasons had been previously stated. Your Grace's Subscriber would inform your\n\nEver Grace that no reasons whatever were given to him why his...\n\napplication for pay due and compensation for loss of Office should not be complied with.\n\nThe object of the writer is now addressing Your Grace is that of inducing your Grace to take the whole of this matter into your Consideration; and he can but believe that if H. E. Sir John Bowring be directed to furnish a full report upon it, your\n\nGrace\n\nwill... \n\nwill see how much injustice has been done to the Subscriber, and that you will not fail in causing him to be paid the sum of £1000.\n\nYour\n\nGrace's Subscriber\n\nrespectfully makes application.\n\nWanting a knowledge of the reasons which induced the Right Honourable the Earl Grey to withhold compliance with the Subscriber's applications, it is not competent for the Subscriber to urge any argument to the contrary; but it may be that some points in the letter addressed to Sir John Bowring may suggest such reasons,\n\nand in order to avert further delay, your permission to refer to the same is requested.\n\nAnd has the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's most obedient\n\nand very\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nM. Tarrant",
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        "content_text": "191.\n\nSir,\n\nI am instructed by His Excellency, The Governor to state that he has received your letter of the 5th instant enclosing a letter of the same date to the Duke of Newcastle, and that both will be forwarded to the Colonial Office for the information of the latter and of instructions thereon.\n\nW. Farrant, Regt.\n\n(Free Copy)\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. T. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, 6th May, 1854.",
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        "content_text": "---:\n\nPut bey.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMinford Duke,\n\nYour Graces,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMania\n\nCopy To Foreign Office 15 August 1854\n\nb83b Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nAUG. 7\n\n1854\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n47 Victoria, Somerset, \n\n19th May, 1854\n\nWith reference to your \n\nDespatch 12 of 15 February, I have \n\nthe honor to report that Mr. Caine/ Mercer? has deposited in the Colonial Secretary's office \n\na Bond for the due performance \n\nof his duties and engagements \n\nas Colonial Treasurer\n\nThe Bond is similar to that \n\nentered into by Mr. Mercer the late \n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nIt appears that there are a few potential issues with the original text, such as \"Minford Duke\" which might be \"Minford, Duke\" or an incorrect name; \"Mania\" which seems out of place; \"b83b Hong Kong\" which doesn't make sense; \"Mr Ricunceker\" or \"Mr. 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        "content_text": "Mr. Mervynte. This arrangement is somewhat embarrassing for the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nAppointed in May last, Capt. Watson R.M. to the vacant Harbor-master's Office at the usual salary of £600 per annum. That Office has taken place on account of his merits and was selected to the Office by Sir J. Graham solely on that account.\n\nHe was personally known to the Duke of Newcastle. ABS. 16 Augst.\n\nAcknowledging & stating ref to dorf-announcing that appointment.\n\nAm Aug 17\n\n'Tis a pity that this saving of £400 on the Fixed Chargers of the Colony cannot be made. The loss present God. uppaillyste Names, because Men bun ago Regenverde Without any intimation ofter & Hatcher Marlin: Offen bang derroth, on the occurrence of the best vacancy & letter from der Mesure Pellen Arbing that the appointment is an As Peddlers Rebremen. Rugath (won. When (aplam after dach.\n\nModicem from this Rufater than the dunes of M.",
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        "content_text": "If every Predecessor had not already appointed Captain Watkins to the vacancy occasioned by Lieut: Pedder's death, which fact intimation I gave to you on the 19th May, the same day on which Colonel Caine addressed this Office.\n\nIt would appear the Duke of Wellington, misinformed of the practicability of effecting reductions in this Department of the Hong Kong Establishment; and anxious to appoint an appropriate and efficient Officer to the vacancy, applied to the First Lord of the Admiralty to select an eligible person for the office. 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According to Captain Watkins' statement, he was chosen by Sir James Graham and was appointed by the Duke of Wellington.\n\nUnder these circumstances, I can only say that it would be ... of an opportunity should be presiding with!\n\nRevised to fit the exact format required:\n\nIf every Predecessor had not already appointed Captain Watkins to the vacancy occasioned by Lieut: Pedder's death, which fact intimation I gave to you on the 19th May, the same day on which Colonel Caine addressed this Office.\n\nIt would appear the Duke of Wellington, misinformed of the practicability of effecting reductions in this Department of the Hong Kong Establishment; and anxious to appoint an appropriate and efficient Officer to the vacancy, applied to the First Lord of the Admiralty to select an eligible person for the office. 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        "content_text": "Mest. Wood & Regge, with referem.\n\nthe 1 Month best.\n\n(Note this addition the\n\n31th May,\n\nVictoria, Strugkong,\n\n1854.\n\nLieut-Governor Caine\n\nTo\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nReceived\n\nAcknowle\n\nNo 17.\n\nInclosures.\n\ndging receipt of\n\nclause in the Opium by the insertion of a penal of 1853 has been supplied\n\nthat the omission in Section IX of ordinance N. 4\n\nof 17th March, and Stating His Grace's Despatch N.G\n\nLicensed.\n\ncopy.\n\nGov 1107\n\n1593 fd 1d 1939\n\nX F\n\nGov. 6838\n\nPage 61\n\nThe Commissioner\n\nof Colonial Lands & Emigration\n\nSent in Printed Form. To Land.\n\nAnse. 26 Aug 1854.\n\n7510.\n\n154\n\n10 August 1854\n\nGentlemen,\n\nJane dercotes\n\nby the Secretary of State\n\nto\n\ntransmit\n\nto you, for\n\nsuggestions\n\nand obser...\n\nvations which\n\nyou\n\nmay\n\noffer,\n\nwith reference\n\nto\n\nyour report of the 1st last March",
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        "content_text": "Under Sir J. Brine's Commission, the Govt in the absence of the Governor, it becomes the duty of the Senior Officer to devolve on the Administration.\n\nBecause by § 1. Art. 2 the Chief Civil or Military Officer in the absence of the Governor claimed, Lieut. Governor Caine, 5th June, 1854.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nTo His Grace The Duke of Newcastle.\n\nEnclosure 1. No 22. Received 14 Sept 1854.\n\nSubmitting for His Grace's Decision a letter from Acting Chief Justice Sterling.\n\nN°25 Entered. 6045 Hong Kong 14 Sept 1854.\n\n1234 Confidential.\n\nCopy of a letter from the Acting Chief Justice and the Senior Officer commanding the Troops.\n\nMINUTE, 24 July 1854.\n\nI have received your letter of 31st July, enclosing Lieut. Governor Caine's Despatch No 822 of ...\n\nNo great change has been made in this respect in the recent commission, and the latter herein is now to succeed with the Senior Officer, that the Acting Chief Justice has correctly understood the Meaning.\n\nSee Me Peel's Minute on 6843.\n\nIn the Letters Patent of 1843 which are still in force, it is understood that the Civil Governor ranks next to the Officer Commanding the Troops.\n\nSubmitting their respective claims to Precedence under the present circumstances.\n\nI am of opinion that in the absence of the Governor, the Regulations referred to in the Book of Colonial Government are to be followed.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "+No 22 of 1834.\n\nInclosure No 3 in Desp:\n\n23.\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n30 June, 1854.\n\nto Inclosure No 2\n\nthe Troops, in rep?\n\nOfficer Commanding\n\nLetter from the Senior\n\n2886\n\nbang chung hàng\n\nAU\n\nX854\n\nby Lord on ne,\n\n132\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n5 June, 1854\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\n2.\n\nthe receipt of your\n\ngiving\n\nS M 11 of 18th March last\n\nSundry Letters from Mr White, West India Immigration agent\n\nA\n\nthis Colony, and the correspondence\n\nrelating to these letters.\n\nYour Grace desires me to instruct\n\nLeft\n\nTreported on 15 Sept- (8031) Referred to Land, To F. O. for infor 7 Sept.\n\nAnow as to parag: 10-90ct: /84-8:31.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe\n\n&c.\n\nDuke\n\nof Newcastle,\n\nto\n\nto.",
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        "content_text": "76\n\nappointed here to \n\norganize \n\nLures \n\nfor \n\n- regular supply to the West India Colonies of Emigrant labourers, instead of sending out a special Agent for the purpose, this Government will not object. He is, I believe, quite competent for the \n\ntask, and from \n\nhis \n\nacquaintance \n\n\"with the language and people, peculiarly gifted for it; but his services would be \n\navailable as a Supervisor only, \n\nwant of time would compel \n\nhim to leave much of the details to \n\nsome trustworthy subordinate. In the \n\nformer capacity, and as a correspondent of the Emigration Board, I have no doubt \n\nhis services would be \n\nvery valuable, \n\nand would require for their remuneration much smaller expenditure than would \n\nbe \n\nnecessary \n\nin the case of an officer sent from England for \n\nthe purpose.\n\n17\n\n140\n\nI make these remarks under the impression that Mr. Arnhite does not wish to return to China and that the Commissioners may \n\nhave some difficulty \n\nin finding a suitable successor. That \n\nthe Emigration \n\ncan \n\nbe conducted only \n\nduring one half of the year is perhaps \n\nan additional reason \n\n704\n\nfor the employment \n\nof some person not wholly dependent \n\nfor support upon the Emoluments of the office.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's \n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant, \n\nMaint",
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        "content_text": "424. Financial.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, 8th June, 1854.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nCopy to Fix & Bonham for consent 2 Sept 1854.\n\nI have the honour to convey to your Grace's information sundry applications from subordinate Officers for a small increase to their Gratuities, with which I should not object. I intend to comply. It has been the practice here for all requests of this nature to be laid before the Governor in Council.\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nNo.",
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        "content_text": "9\n\n(in order to attach to similar offices in British Consulates in China.\n\nThe like.\n\n5. The increase to the pay of Mr. Youumrich, the Clerk of the Public Post, is recommended principally for the reason that he is useful as Interpreter, as two or three of the languages spoken by the population here; but the proposed Salary of £100 is not considered sufficient remuneration for a trustworthy person not possessed of this additional qualification.\n\n30. The Salary formerly given to Mr. Carvalho was greater than the increase contemplated in these two instances, so that the accounts in this particular will still show a saving. The addition to the emoluments of the two Assistants I must request Your Grace's sanction as a measure wise in itself and an act of justice to the applicants. The reduction of one Clerk recently made in the establishment has thrown upon their shoulders additional labour and responsibility.\n\nI have the honour to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's Most obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMaine",
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        "content_text": "the press would be available) be included, the average £534 a year. The wages of compositors vary from £150 to £250 a year. No expense need be incurred for the supervision of the printing, as those conversant with the matter at home are of the opinion that the wear and tear of material, the keeping up of the establishment and the original cost of the press and furniture would not involve this Government in an expense for the present and future beyond the average in former years.\n\nShould it be probable that the expense would not exceed or only be increased by a trifling amount, the present outlay, I would submit that the Press and furniture be sent with the least possible delay. I should prefer to trust the performance of the work to private printers; but\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient humble Servant,\n\nMaine",
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        "content_text": "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,\n\nLient Governor Came\n\n37 June, 1857.\n\nHoushions,\n\nReceived\n\n3 February.\n\nPage 25\n\nthe supply of a Printing Press\n\nM/s of 2/4 March, regarding\n\nReplying & His Grace's decree\n\nthe use\n\nthe colonial\n\nGovernment.\n\nBowing.\n\nN°23\n\nGov.\n\nEntered.\n\n7350 Hong Kong\n\n168\n\n31/Aug/544\n\n1854\n\nMINUTE 26 AUG!\n\nHRB\n\n29\n\nElliot M.Merivale\n\nI have received Colonel\n\nCaine's dispatch No 25 of\n\nthe 8 June on the subject of\n\nthe establishment of a printing\n\npress for the\n\nGovernment at Hong Kong.\n\nHaving\n\nbefore\n\nme all the information\n\nwhich is requisite for deciding the proposal,\n\nI am\n\nof opinion that on the\n\nwhole it is most advisable\n\nto ...",
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        "content_text": "14\n\n1g Ente f Sean Deen:\n\nSubject of Dispatch.\n\nhel:\n\n00446\n\n1834\n\nFinancial.\n\n29. I'ume I Requesting that the sum of $31000 reserved grizu the Parliamentau siaut 7.953/54 to meet disbursements Lu Angland be paid to Mr Baillie the Colonial agent Applying on Ais Graces canetin ti intenden revision of the Pay of the rinsurg Shroff, and that of the bedian tèher in the Iraqistrates Court.\n\n27 Continuing sport of state of the cling in regard to its defences, and mucasures taken for its protection.\n\nte kurulenging recint of His Grace's Sccnatch Mod 425 april, together with Circulars of the 19th, 234, and 24t April, and it lay, 1854.\n\nReporting execution of the Criminal \"Chun Cheong the, and commutation of the Sentence & Senth on his wife.\n\nMinic\n\n2.\n\nLime\n\n2\n\n1\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nN45.\n\nQuesn't to FJ. for infor 14 lectors both\n\nREC\n\nMy\n\nVEL\n\n8762 trong ong\n\n296\n\nVictoria, Hong Now,\n\nLovi Duke,\n\n29th July, 1854\n\nI have the honor to cuclore herewith, for your Graces the information and that Lords Commissioners of Der Majesty's Treasury, Conie's Quarterly Abstracts F the the Guarter ending 30th June, 1854. 1. Changes in the holders of offices and Appointments in the\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\ntc.\n\nto\n\nXo.",
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        "content_text": "Colony of Hong-Kong\n\n2. Additions to Salaries and Allowances in the Colony of Hong-Kong\n\n3. Creation of new Offices and Appointments in the Colony\n\n...\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nWith the highest respect, I have the honor to be,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nFirst obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30 September 1854.\n\n  \n    OFFICE\n    Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.\n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n    If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    Governor\n    \n    Sir John Bowring, £3,000.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Private Secretary\n    \n    W. T. Bridges, £250.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lieutenant-Governor\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Colonial Secretary\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Private Secretary to Colonial Secretary\n    \n    Charles Fitz-Roy, £200.\n    \n    April 1, 1854.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Colonial Treasurer\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Auditor\n    \n    W. T. Bridges, £700.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Surveyor General\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk\n    P. P. Thornecker (retired), £157.\n    W. F. Douce, £250.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk in Colonial Treasury\n    \n    William Chapman, £257.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    M. letter 176, 28 April 1854.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    ...\n  \n  \n    Ship's Justice\n    Jer. Him. Borrington draws Salary as Ship's Justice.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Duties are performed by T. Houldy.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Consequent on Anthem's appointment to the Treasury and his absence on leave.\n  \n\nPage 29\n\nMay, 1854.",
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        "content_text": "from this Country, and it would appear without the intention of returning.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMain Reform\n\nForeign Affairs\n\nIn draft.\n\n1. H.; fo\n\n47. Financial.\n\nSir John Bowring to\n\nconsul 18 Oct/34 - vide para 848-\n\nAnswered 13 Nov\n\n07/34.\n\n8734 Sir John Bowring to Sir George Grey 33\n\nRECEIVED\n\nOCT.6\n\n1854\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n4 August, 1854\n\nIn my Despatch,\n\nNotice\n\nI had the honor to report to your Grace Financial P. 38, of 14 Ultimo, that I would forward as soon as possible\n\nReports and Estimates for the following Services:\n\n1.\n\nA.\n\n3. Pier Station.\n\nHis Grace the Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nAUG.",
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        "content_text": "from this Country, and it would  reappear without the intention of returning.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's, Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMacgowan\n\n1.47.\n\nFinancial Copy to Treasury.\n\nconson 1800/34 - vide how 897e.\n\nAnswered 18 Decr 8704 Hong Kong. 303\n\nRECEIVED\nOCT.6\n1854\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nMy Lord Duke\n\n4 August, 1857.\n\nmy Despatch,\n\nI had the honor to report to your Grace in Financial No. 38, of 14th Ultimo, that I would forward, when prepared, Reports and Estimates for the three following Services:\n\n1. Cathedral building; 2. Central School building; 3. Pier at Station.\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle,\n\n \netc.\n\netc.",
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        "content_text": "I have now the honor to enclose these Reports accordingly.\n\nEstimates relating\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect,\n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Grace's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMann? \n\nSee Minutes on 82757\n\n448.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nC.O. OCT.6\n\n1854\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n21 Oct. 1854 - No: 3\n\n33.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to\n\nforward for your Grace's consideration\n\nCopy of a letter received by the Colonial Secretary from Messrs & Williams, an American Firm of this place, requesting the intervention\n\nof\n\nGovernment for the presentation of a piece of plate to Mr J. R. Caldwell under circumstances\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\netc.\n\nX.",
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        "content_text": "detailed in the letter.\n\nThe\n\nCase\n\nof the late Mr. Perkins\n\nwill be found given at length in\n\nmy\n\nDespatch, Executive, 133 F\n\n7 June last.\n\nAs this matter turns on\n\nthe point\n\nof Caldwell\n\nremuneration to Mr.\n\nfor service rendered in\n\nthe discharge of his public duty, I have been unable, however willing,\n\nto take upon\n\nmyself to give the\n\nsanction applied for, without a\n\nreference of the question to your notice.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's,\n\nMost obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMacau...\n\n305",
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        "content_text": "Cory to the Governor, 4th August, 1854.\n\nWe have to request that permission be given to Mr. R. Caldwell to accept a slight testimonial of the feelings entertained towards him by the friends and relatives of the late Mr. George Perkins, who was murdered by Chinese. The testimonial, a piece of statuary, is intended as a representation of the great diligence shown by Mr. Caldwell in promptly ascertaining the facts of the case.\n\nReceived from the Duke of Newcastle,  ...  July 1854.\n\nI am not aware of any Colonial Office regulation which forbids the acceptance of this testimonial by Mr. W. Caldwell for his services to the family of the murdered person. Governors are precluded from receiving presents, but not their subordinates when offered in this manner.\n\nGR73/54\n\nTo the Honourable W. T. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 306\n\nPage 306\n\nPage 306\n\n...\n\nPage 307\n\nPage 307\n\nPage 307",
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        "content_text": "My Lord Duke,\n\n5th August, 1854\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. H. Mitchell, requesting that the matter of his half salary for the three months' extended leave be referred to Your Grace.\n\nYour Grace's Despatch No. 4:10 of 17th March last, with its enclosure from His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, has been received.\n\n...\n\nRECEIVED\n\n004.6\n\n1854\n\n850. Hong Kong.\n\nAnsw2 21 Oct / 54 - et: 944\n\nIn 2082/54\n\n3131\n\n1.49. Financial",
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        "content_text": "from the Under Secretary of State\n\n& lur luitekib, was certainly understood at first as Mr Mitchells right to the pay claimed by him; but on consideration I am not sure that much was actually your Graces intention.\n\nUnder the Circumstances of the case, I have thought it right to allow Mr Mitchell to draw this money, on the understanding that, should Your Grace disapprove he shall refund the amount.\n\nI have the honor to be, with the highest respect, My Lord Duke, Your Graces, Most Humble & Obedient Servant,\n\nMaini\n\nPage 309\n\n \nPage 309\n\nPage 309",
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        "content_text": "to bear such \n\nWat \n\nA \n\nSovereign \n\nmerely designed \n\npending my \n\nconstruction, but - \n\nd to be up my Salary \n\nreturn to \n\nmy duties, and \n\nthat His Grace The Duke of Newcastle \n\ncannot have intended to visit with so \n\nheavy \n\na mere \n\na mulct as some £72. Sorting \n\nand one \n\noversight of a few days, and - already explained and apologized for. \n\nI shall accordingly feel obliged, if The Honorable The Lieutenant \n\nwill be pleased to transmit His \n\n- pleased to trans. \n\n4- Governor \n\nmy \n\nmost respectful application to The Secretary of State, praying, \n\na \n\nHis Grace \n\nto give orders that the arrear in question may be paid over to me, \"taking into account \n\nSalary \n\nmy limited \n\nfor hard Service under \n\nthree \n\nseparate Departments of the Executive \n\nin this most destructive climate. \n\naffect I shall feel duly grateful, \n\n312 \n\nas well as for any recommendation which The Honorable The Lieutenant \n\nGovernor may be pleased to lend to my prayer. \n\nI have the honor to be. \n\nDis. \n\nYour most obedient \n\nHumble Servant - \n\nV \n\n[signed] W. H. Mitchell. \n\nTrue Copy \n\nColonial Secretary \n\ni \n\nFor His \n\nExcellency's \n\norders to this \n\n1) effect-",
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        "content_text": "I hereby Certify:\n\nIs That the above, leave was accorded to\n\nthe 28th March, 1855, under\n\nthe ground\n\nEnd in the 20th March, 1854, on the ground of urgent private affairs.\n\n22 Feb Mr. William H. Mitchell Leave served\n\neleven months\n\nthe Crown for Two Years\n\nand sixty rights days in this Colony.\n\nIs that in the\n\ncourse of\n\nthat service he has\n\nthe\n\nbeen absent on leave at the date and for\n\nForm specified below,\n\n-\n\nYear, 1851 - Twenty five days.\n\nIn the year, ?\n\n4th. That provision has been made for the due\n\nexecution of Mr William H. Mitchell's offices,\n\nHis absence, by Mr Charles May, Superintendent of Police, and officiating Registrar General.\n\nduring\n\nNo officers who\n\nmay be under the necessity of\n\nare\n\nextension\n\nwere requested to annex\n\nto\n\napplying to the Secretary of State\n\ntheir leave of absence, \" this document to their applications, and in order to meet this contingency, it will be\n\nfurnished to them Duplicate.\n\nP50. Ecclesiastical.\n\nwith (10339)\n\nAmount of Duty-45 (in\n\n$767 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nOCT.6\n\n1854\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\n5th August, 1854.\n\nI have the honor to\n\nreport that, in accordance with Your Grace's instructions conveyed in\n\nDespatch No. 27 of 23rd May last, the Reverend Mr. Bryer, who arrived in the Colony two days ago,\n\ncalled on\n\nfor his\n\nhas been\n\nexplanation\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nA\n\ncharges preferred against him in\n\nthe enclosures to your Grace's Despatch.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c. &c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "prisoners, and therefore in accordance with Dispatch Military P14 of 8th November 1853 from His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, should be sent to Western Australia, a place with which Hong Kong has few opportunities of communication.\n\nI lately exerted application to be made to the Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, hoping that the Company would be called upon to make an arrangement for the conveyance of the prisoners by their vessels first to Singapore and thence to Perth, which is in the route of the Company's Australian Mail Steamers.\n\nIn reply, however, the Superintendent made it plain that this plan was impracticable, and I have now advertised in the Gazette for a passage for these three prisoners, but, I fear, with little prospect of finding a ship bound to Western Australia, and willing to undertake the conveyance of the men to that Colony.\n\nUnder these circumstances, and as, in addition, it has been suggested to me that a writ of Habeas Corpus might possibly release the prisoners, in the event of the full execution of their Sentence being in the opinion of the Judge",
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        "content_text": "AGEN\n\nLaw\n\nOffices\n\n63\n\nwith\n\nobservations which he may wish to make.\n\nAm further to request that at the same time state to the Duke of Newcastle that Lord Clarendon's opinion is in accordance with that of Commodore Perry; and that His Lordship considers that these Islands cannot lawfully be claimed by Great Britain, that is to say, that Great Britain has no title to them, and that they do not appear to be of any value to us, it would be better to come to a friendly understanding with the United States and France about them, either as to occupation by one of the three Powers, or as to their being considered simply as Harbours of Refuge open to the commerce of the world, and affording facilities for postal Communications; each of the Three Governments reserving for itself rights as to the establishment of Coal Depots, and as to any other arrangements which may be found necessary for refitting or victualling their Ships which may touch at them.\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\nAddington",
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        "content_text": "AGEN\n\nOfficer:\n\nOffice.\n\nThe Rench publication \"Becanie \"(1858) Seen by me is the fullest account of these islands which I have seen, taken chiefly from the Russian Voyager Lütke. H. Reuch witer calls Capt. Beechey's claim to them \"formalité inutile et injuste\" & his right of discovery, but does not then distinctly name any other discoverer.\n\nThe Cast Pastoral of the Mr. office letter would seem to be a bluish on cover it be affected – Best. I propose the answer with simply be that the D. I Acuraette has no farther observations to offer?\n\nAm Mh. 10.\n\nMAP=\n\nJenner with Dr Aarmston, this second professional 5th, if practicable, the right of Mee further \"over Prize Islands seems from reports to be Sovereignty.\n\nIt is obscure that the Proposal of the Vorige Office would appear to be the best that c. be made secret here by the 8.0.\n\nCap: Beechey's afte of the Cventry ruthe par been returned to me in 1827. The documents Nos. last having Septmont I Accor M. Merivale.\n\nBest N 57\n\n2181\n\nH. ll. Antebington Ey\n\n1854\n\nIMINUTE 5\n\nWE Peek\n\n64\n\n11 April/54\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 7th inst: I am to deviatio by the Duke of Newcastle to request that you will Hote to the Cast of Clarendon that it appears to his Grace that it could be very desirable to adopt, if practicable, the best proposal made by his Lordship respecting Bossin Blends, Demely the Chibs of this Country Cannot establish any With to Chal Llenols, had a friendly Senderslanding hall be...\n\nPage 2181\n\nH. ll. Antebington Ey\n\n1854",
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        "content_text": "AGE\n\nいいい\n\nLaw\n\nOfficers\n\nFaregi\n\nTreasury\n\nInformé Dr Bouring!\n\nNo Memorial\n\nIt\n\nAnmart & labour for signalling\n\nyor. 7\n\n2\n\n136.\n\n31/1.\n\nAgent Ins = 20th J62/54. draft with for. 12278. /53.\n\nFor\n\n103 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nFEB.\n\n1854\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\n118 February 1854.\n\nI am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, Duke of Newcastle, that my Lords will not object to measures being taken to procure & forward to Hong Kong a small printing Press for the use of the Government, as proposed in your letter of the 12th ulto., but they suggest that the Colonial Agent General should be instructed to communicate in the first instance with the Comptroller of the Stationery Office.\n\nHerman Merivale",
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        "content_text": "AGEY\n\nLaw\n\nOfficers\n\nForet\n\nwww\n\nfreasury\n\nwith\n\nA view of obtaining the same at the least possible expence.\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\nMr. Merimle\n\nsume M. Baillie a copy of the Governor's despatch\n\nIn this subject, to approve the & instruct him to collate\n\nperhaps after consultation with the Stationery Office. Effy'\n\nAme\n\nPage 330\n\n7\n\nFor Govr Ingle 10 March /54.227.\n\nAns a 14\n\nB/R. 1261. Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nFEB. 13 1854\n\n119\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\n11 February 1854,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having had before them\n\nyour letter of the 17th ultimo transmitting copies of Dispatches from the Governor of\n\nHong Kong with Estimates of the Revenue & Expenditure of the Colony for the year 1854, also the Accounts of the Colony\n\nfor the year ended 31 March 1853 regarding the surplus balance in the hands of the local Government,\n\nI am directed to acquaint you, Duke of Newcastle, that it appears to their Lordships that the actual demand upon\n\nHerman Merivale Esq.\n\nSo\n\nSe\n\nPage 331\n\n \n(empty lines kept as is, assuming they are part of the original scan)\n\nSe",
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        "content_text": "AGEN\n\nLaw\n\nOfficers\n\nTreasury\n\nseem right in point of form\n\nin point of form to have it on\n\naccord\n\n2. H. 17 July 20 Mardon Moth this thank\n\nIt is necessary to refer to legislation The Many thee & 1000 The Balance which appear(ed) Mt. Cast often permit(ted) Ohrt. Ame.\n\nin this Borning Singer & for better then\n\nVallay – legiend fr\n\nLetually put it\n\nSo this this meaning\n\nwill not\n\nMr. Pel\n\nfrom\n\n13 Tel.\n\nSubstantially this letter concurs in our views & the net amount of the Note to be asked should be accordingly.\n\nume that Estimate may\n\nThe concluding sentence alludes to the\n\nGovernor's Salary. A Draft of the instructions to be explanatory of the intended arrangement on that subject is in\n\ncourse\n\nof preparation & I should propose to draft a short letter to the Treasury embodying the pecuniary parts and\n\ninviting their\n\nConfirmatio(n)\n\nThis cannot fail to\n\nbe\n\ngiven as a matter\n\nof course to such\n\nreductions\n\nof expenditure\n\nLie\n\nran off will\n\nI think not.\n\nbut it\n\nwould\n\nLo.\n\nEnt: 1261 Hong Kong\n\nLiv C. C. Sawclyan KEVS\n\nFor Elliot hr Merivate\n\nMr. Pell\n\nNewcastle\n\nDuke\n\nprewenste\n\nC. Mch\n\nAnsend 27 March\n\n2687\n\nSir,\n\nletter\n\n121 DS. 1 14th March 1884\n\nIn answer to your\n\nof the 11th ultimo I\n\nam directed\n\nby the Duke\n\nof Newcastle to\n\nacquaint\n\ninformation\n\nyou, for the use of the L.C. of the Treasury,\n\nthat,\n\non\n\na review\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nseveral decisions which\n\nhave now\n\nbeen adopted.\n\nHis Grace considers that\n\nit will be sufficient to\n\npropose\n\na vote to Parliament\n\nthis year for the Salaries of the four principal officers of the Government of Hong Kong amounting Collectively\n\nto the sum",
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        "content_text": "AGENCY\n\nLaw Officers of £4400, and I am desired to enclose for your Lordship's concurrence the draft of a Despatch in which the Duke of Newcastle proposes to convey to the Governor this decision and the grounds on which it will be fully set forth and explained.\n\n16 February 1854.\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED FEB. 17 1854\n\nTreasury Chamber\n\nWith reference to your Letter dated the 23rd ult., The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury command me to acquaint you, for the information of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that as it appears that D. Bowring is to receive no Salary in respect of his appointment as Governor of Hong Kong, their Lordships will not object to the Expense of his appointment being charged to the Public. They will instruct the Paymaster General to pay to Mr. Smith the sum of £31.11.10.\n\n4. Merivale\n\nPage 122\n\n1664.8014/2\n\nFEL. 17 1854\n\n1354\n\nMasury Chamber\n\n \nPage 122",
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        "content_text": "Law Officers\n\nTreasury\n\nELSI.\n\nMr. Meriale.\n\ndeep? yttre 9 Nov./53.\n\nbom mit 16\n\nJ'elf\n\n5799.\n\n2113\n\nfyr 11120353\n\n201\n\n1261/54\n\nFir\n\n2081 trong động\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAR. 28 1854\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\n127\n\nMarch 1854.\n\n27\n\nInar\n\nconcemanded by the Lords\n\nComenichioners of Her Majesty's Treasury\n\nto acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that My Lords approve of the arrangement proposed in your letter of the 16 instant according to which the Estimate to be submitted to Parliament for the Colony of Hong-Kong will be limited to the Salaries of four of the principal Officers, amounting to £4,400.\n\nThey also approve of the Despatch which His Grace proposes to address to the Governor of Hong Kong upon\n\nHerman Merivale Esq.",
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        "content_text": "Treasury Chambers\n\n3rd March 1854.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration your letter of the 18th instant, inclosing a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting certain small additions which he had found it necessary to make to the pay of the Police Force, I am commanded to acquaint you, for the information of the Duke of Newcastle, that My Lords see no objection to sanction being signified to the Governor of Hong Kong to the increased expenditure to be incurred for the additions to the pay of the Police Force.\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\nHerbert Merivale\n\nPage 131\n\nGovernor instructed April 3/54 - t. 18.\n\nThe Law Officer,\n\nForeign Office.\n\n[Some unrelated text and numbers appear to be OCR errors or unrelated content, not forming coherent sentences or paragraphs.]",
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        "content_text": "His whole language, manner and general bearing speak trumpet-tongued as to what would be the general tenor of his decision.\n\nI was told by the Head of that department that I would be made to add my tale to home, and indeed certain received before appointment. I saw that he had condemned me.\n\nPardon me that throughout the most painful matter I have been most importunate. Nay, though he has made charge at first from private pique, he has given remarkable proof of opinion, any evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\nHe has not shown any change of wish, by any modification of his conduct. To prevent any political attack on the Government for culpable carelessness in the case of my appointment, the Bishop of Winchester was applied to by Her Grace, and his Lordship the Duke of Newcastle respecting the local authority. I have not hitherto offered any opposition to his exercise of authority.\n\nEvents have told against me, prohibiting my ministration in the Cathedral Church of the Colony. I most respectfully beg leave to hope that my appointment from the Lord Chancellor was made and accepted by the Bishop of Winchester without any expression of opinion conveyed in any kind, save such as was uttered in a short note from St (now Fer...).\n\nPage 19\n\n \nOff\n\nLav\n\nAGI\n\n244\n\n \n4\n\nQ\n\nR..\n\nA.\n\nJ-D",
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        "content_text": "77\n\nAns\n\n11 April 1854.\n\n2055 Hong Kong.\n\nMAR 25\n\n1834\n\nTo His Grace the Duke of Newcastle\n\n25 Great George Street, London\n\n24th March 1854.\n\nI find myself under the necessity of applying to Your Grace for an extension of my Leave of Absence from Hong Kong, where I hold the Office of Registrar of The Supreme Court, on medical certificate. My sick leave for eighteen months... this leave expires in September next;\n\nMy friends, alarmed by the state of my health, have informed me that my constitution is so broken by my residence there, that if I were to return at that time, my health would give way immediately, and that fatal consequences would probably ensue within six months; they have therefore recommended me to apply to Your Grace for twelve months additional leave, to commence on 28th September next.\n\nI have the honour to enclose Medical Certificates from Dr. Anderson, late Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong, who attended me in a severe illness in China; and",
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        "content_text": "252\n\nAGEN\n\nLaw Officers\n\nFore\n\nfrom\n\n6) Peddie\n\nof Edinburgh my usual Medical attendant : _ and I annex the customary Certificates\n\nthe Acting Governor, and Treasurer of Hongkong, furnished me for the purpose before I left China.\n\nby\n\nHis\n\nJonce\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nMy\n\nLord Duke\n\nyour Grace's most obedient Servant\n\nErot Brindas Cay\n\nRegistrar of the Supreme Court\n\nof Hongkong\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nMinute\n\nI imagine\n\nthis application Complied with at the expense\n\nof this Salary\n\nperhaps\n\nwith an\n\nintimation\n\nthat is at the end of the Additional 12 months\n\nhe is unable to return\n\nto Hong Kong he must be relieved\n\n2573.\n\nin\n\nW Peel\n\nI have seen Dr Cay & understood\n\nfrom him the probability of an\n\nunfavourable\n\nBath order.\n\nHe seems an\n\nintelligent\n\n&\n\ngentlemanly person, & I fear a\n\nsufferer from this unhappy climate.\n\nMr. Alls\n\nare sick leave.\n\nThe Chief Justice & Attorney General\n\nare\n\naway\n\nCome on\n\ninto several circular despatches yet Replied in consequence of the Duke of Newcastle's minute on 7946. A despatch had been previously written to Canton (which is much in the same situation with Hong Kong about the length of the leaves here), but the Government answered by defending the present system. Perhaps the same\n\ninstruction may\n\nbe sent to Hong Kong.\n\nI doubt whether two\n\nyears\n\nis too much as an\n\nordinary maximum from the tropics\n\nespecially for the constitution. The case of\n\nAustralia is quite different & obviously\n\nso considered.\n\nHm Apl 3\n\nI think this application ought not\n\nto be granted with a salary\n\nbe £4.593 by to Blachford,",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nMEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL\n\nLaw Officer\n\n[...]\n\nhealth at the termination of the additional twelve months leave not be such as to enable me to return to duty.\n\nThe Hon'ble [...]\n\n[...] designed [...] you [...] me will hold in that Colony.\n\n[No. 4655]\n\nHongkong, 30th May 1854\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nA return of severe indisposition has prevented me from sooner acknowledging Your Grace's answer (of 11 ulto) to my application for extension of my leave.\n\nI can only express my grateful understanding that you regret my application to continue my absence, in which you were pleased to state that I cease to draw any salary after the expiration of my present leave, and that should the state of my health at the termination of the additional twelve months not be such as to enable me to return to duty, I will resign the appointment I now hold in that Colony.\n\nI hope that Your Grace may be induced to reconsider this determination, for it reduces me to the necessity of either returning to Hongkong to the imminent danger of my life, or of immediately contracting for the support of myself and my children when my salary ceases.\n\n[...] my salary might be thought to interfere with any efficiency and would cease as [...]\n\n19 May 1854\n\nChettenham\n\n[Page 259]",
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        "content_text": "AGE \n\nOffices. I am therefore directed to refer you to the letters from Jeypore of the 11th ult. containing particulars of the cuts austider estuch, and it is on his force's representation that I am to actuate to your Jeannant application.\n\nGovernor informed 28 June 1846-47:8.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 3\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJUNE 24\n\n1854\n\nThe Oaks, Norwood, Surrey\n\n23 June 1854.\n\n264\n\nOn the 24 of March last I had the honor of addressing His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, requesting in writing him to grant me, on the ground of my Office of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, twelve months additional leave of absence from our duties on the 28 of September next, when my present sick leave expires.\n\nOn the 11 of April Sir G. Grey wrote me expressing His Grace's regret that he could not accede to my application on the understanding that I should cease to draw any salary after the expiration of my present leave, and that should the state of my health at the termination of the additional twelve months not be such as to enable me to return to Hongkong, I should resign my Appointment.\n\nOn the 12 of May I ventured again to address His Grace, forwarding an additional Medical certificate shewing the impossibility of my returning to China at present, in the hope that he might be induced to reconsider his determination, but without success, as Sir G. Grey, on the 20 of May, referred me to his former letter, as containing the only answer it was in His Grace's power to return to my application.\n\nIn these circumstances, as it is in vain to ask you to rescind what His Grace had decided before leaving the Colonial Office, there is nothing left for me but to agree, though I cannot help continuing to feel hurt considering the terms proposed; I still think my case a hard one, that the extension of leave is rendered necessary by loss of health caused by long service in a unhealthy climate.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nNot Fredas Lay Bart\n\nThe Bright Block\n\nSir George Grey\n\nSecretary for the Colonies\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "Mr Mercier reform the writer that Mr Mr. Michell has telle confined in the \n\nIf the arrsonants filling the Office having been made Megh G. Grips Prodcefor.\n\n28 Rey Jay well\n\nGAZETTE SUPPLEMENT\n\nTO\n\nThe China Mail, No. 485.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nHONGKONG, 1ST JUNE, 1854.\n\n(From the Hongkong Government Gazette.) PROCLAMATION.\n\nWHEREAS I, John Bowring, Knight, LL.D., Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-Chief and Vice-Admiral of the same, Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, have been officially informed that War has been declared between Her Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias, I do hereby announce to all Her Majesty's Subjects that,—\n\n1. The Ports, Waters, and Territories within the Jurisdiction of His Majesty the Emperor of China, are to be considered as entitled to the Protection which by the Law of Nations is accorded to Neutrals; and that all Invasion of such Ports, Waters, or Territories, in the pursuit of the Persons or Property of any of the Subjects of the Belligerent Powers, is to be deemed a violation of International Law, and will be punished accordingly.\n\n2. That Arms, Munitions, or Contraband of War intended for the use of the Enemy, will be liable to Seizure and Confiscation wherever found.\n\n3. That the Property of Belligerents in Neutral Vessels, such vessels not being in Neutral Harbours, is liable to seizure.\n\n4. That all Commercial dealings, all negotiations of Bills of Exchange or transactions for lending aid or furnishing Supplies or communicating Information or in any other way forwarding the objects of Her Majesty's Enemies are strictly prohibited and will subject the offending parties to the rigors of the Law.\n\n5. That all Vessels conveying Public Despatches or Official information to the Enemy are liable to forfeiture.\n\n6. That all persons engaged in Fitting out or otherwise expediting the Equipment of Vessels of War, with a view to act under any pretended Letters of Marque or other Authority from the Emperor of Russia, and all persons in any way engaged in working or navigating such vessels of War, excepting only bona-fide Russian Subjects, will be treated as Pirates.\n\nAnd I hereby call upon all Subjects of Her Majesty to whom these presents may come to lend their Aid and Co-operation to Her Majesty's Government.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 25th day of May, 1854.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department. WHEREAS the interests of the Public Service require the temporary absence from this Colony of His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., it is hereby notified that the Superintendency of Trade will be removed until further notice to the Port of Shanghae, to which all Communications must for the present be addressed. Such Communications, if sent to the Government Offices to the care of J. HYNDMAN, Esq., will be forwarded to their destination.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. H. MEDHURST, Officiating Secretary to H.M.'s Plenipotentiary, &c., &c. 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T. MERCER,\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 22d day of May, 1854.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHis Excellency Sir John Bowring, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, on the occasion of the Birthday of Her Most Gracious Majesty, is pleased, in the name and on the behalf of the Queen, to grant a Free Pardon to Retum, Saleemen, Cong-ah-foong, and Jose Alvares, at present confined in the Gaol of this Colony.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN,\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 24th day of May, 1854.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDuring the absence of the Honorable W. T. MERCER, Esquire, the duties of Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General will be performed by The Honorable C. B. HILLIER, Esquire.\n\nBy Order,\n\nC. B. 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        "content_text": "Page ??\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI acknowledge with gratitude Your Grace's permission to exchange the Chaplaincy at Hongkong which at present I hold with the Rev. Will? Baxter for his living of Fyfield. And I receive with thankfulness your Grace's kind promise to appoint Mr. Baxter to the Chaplaincy of Hongkong. I therefore beg leave to tender to Your Grace the resignation of my Chaplaincy now held.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour obliged faithful servt.,\n\nI. W. Steedman\n\nPage ??\n\n \nHowever, based on the original text and rules, a more accurate representation is:\nAGI \n\nLar \n\nDA \n\nVader Letters to Me Poster \n\nAgent \n\nSeverna \n\nAgent instructed 13 Feb 12:44 \n\n1173 Song Ring Et? 8. 1884 \n\nRECEIVI \n\nFEB. 8 \n\n1854 \n\n331 \n\nMy Lord Duke, \n\nI acknowledge with gratitude \n\nYou Grace's permission to exchange the \n\nChaplaincy at Hongkong which at present I hold with the Rev. Will? Baxter for his living of Fyfield. And I receive with thankfulness your Grace's kind promise to appoint Mr. Baxter to the Chaplaincy of Hongkong. I therefore beg leave to tender to Your Grace the resignation of my Chaplaincy \n\nnow held \n\nRong \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord Duke \n\nYour obliged faithful servt. \n\nI. W. Steedman \n\nGiven the context and rules, the most suitable output is the first version, with proper paragraph formatting. However, to strictly follow the instructions and preserve the original line breaks and page numbering (if available), the second version is more accurate. Since the exact page numbers are not available in the original text, they are represented as \"??\". \n\nHere is the revised output in HTML format as requested:\n\nAGI\n\nLar\n\nDA\n\nVader Letters to Me Poster\n\nAgent\n\nSeverna\n\nAgent instructed 13 Feb 12:44\n\n1173 Song Ring Et? 8. 1884\n\nRECEIVI\n\nFEB. 8\n\n1854\n\n331\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI acknowledge with gratitude\n\nYou Grace's permission to exchange the\n\nChaplaincy at Hongkong which at present I hold with the Rev. Will? Baxter for his living of Fyfield. And I receive with thankfulness your Grace's kind promise to appoint Mr. Baxter to the Chaplaincy of Hongkong. I therefore beg leave to tender to Your Grace the resignation of my Chaplaincy\n\nnow held\n\nRong\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nMy Lord Duke\n\nYour obliged faithful servt.\n\nI. W. Steedman",
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        "content_text": "absence and M. Carroll's death necessitated his filling the Military and Colonial Chaplaincy; and I beg to say my high sense of his services as tutor by his appointment to the Military Chaplaincy in permanence. As Colonial Chaplain (Acting) he has given great satisfaction to myself and the whole community in his labours and having been indefatigable in his duties, evinced a strength of judgment and a maturity of character for which I was unprepared. I feel it due to him, after my former doubts expressed to your Grace when he was on leave, to state my very favourable opinion of his character and abilities. He has done much to repair the injury done by other unfavourable representations.\n\nI remain &c.\n\n[signed] G. Victoria.\n\nP.S. I omitted to state that Mr. Odell has received assistance in the Chaplaincies from another Clergyman residing in my House, with my assistance when in the Colony. Otherwise the arrangement would have been impracticable of the two Chaplaincies being conjoined in one person in this climate.\n\nTo His Grace The Duke of Newcastle &c.\n\nThe Bishop of Victoria's Letter was difficult to decipher that I have had a copy made of it, which will, I think, prove more convenient than the original.\n\nI think this communication should be put by \"until the arrival\" refers to the reference made on the Gov. in this subject to best.\n\n4 Oct.\n\nPage 351",
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        "content_text": "MM. Meniale.\n\nSupposing this report is deemed satisfactory the next step will be to-\n\nM. Steedman accordingly, and that the Somner M. \"Baptist saints their fourdry for Hong Kong\n\nthe better.\n\nales inform the Governor.\n\nthe arrangement.\n\nB. Baxter will\n\n& conclude,\n\n: usual\n\nHM Jan 13\n\nmin\n\n \n\nBishop of Winchester\n\n390 khoảng trong\n\nTir & Trevelyan Jan 13\n\n!\n\nMINUTE\n\nMR V W X\n\nMr Elliot\n\nM&Merivale\n\nMRE Peet\n\nTreasury\n\n1854 HANY\n\nab\n\nDuke of Newcastle\"\"\\/8.\n\n373\n\n20/1.154\n\nThe Reverend\n\nWilliam Baxter having\n\nbeen appointed to\n\nthe Colonial Chaplaincy\n\nvice\n\nat Hong Kong The Rev. Waheed man\n\nI am directed by\n\nthe Duke of Newcastle's\n\nto request that you will move\n\nyou will\n\nformer\n\nthe hard fund of\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "winning \n\nwith my fortunate comrades to win: com China their maiden field i \n\nI take the liberty of \n\nAVAS \n\nenclosing Extracts of \n\nfrom Sir Henry \n\nDespatch \n\nHenry Pottinger \n\nto \n\nHis Grace the Duke of Wellington, \n\nin which \n\nis \n\nHer \n\n Majesty's \n\ntroops' tea \n\ntestimony \n\nPlenipotentiary and Governor of Hongkong Sir Henry to my usefulness to this Country \n\nin it's most troublous times \n\nAnd here sir, I could \n\ncordially call Field Marshal Harding attention to my testimonials and the details of my service already on record at the Horse \n\nGuards, inspection of them by His Lordship is of importance to me at the present \n\nmoment. \n\n167 \n\nI think it right also to note that in April 1847 on the withdrawal of the main body \n\nof the Troops for the Expedition to the Canton River, I was \n\nappointed by General D'Aguilar, Commanding, to the Commandantship of this Garrison, a post which I held till his return a few days after. \n\nAnd now Sir, I come \n\nto the \n\nobject of this application = \n\nI am at present filling \n\nthe high appointment of Lieut.: Governor of this Colony, and while many useful changes \n\nbeing made to accelerate the promotion and better condition of the officers of the Army, I beg with all respect to point out",
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        "content_text": "Peavey, as usual\n\n17 June 5\n\n3. Creation\n\n4. Appointments of\n\nin the Erlow & Amyhay.\n\nnew offices and appointments\n\nand\n\nfor extraordinary\n\nan unusual description\n\nServices.-\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nLiz\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nYour Most Obedient,\n\n349\n\nUralcxander obtained six Months leave.\n\nin accordance with the\n\nForms of the Duke of Newcastle's January Despatch of 9 February 1854 - Mr Masson the Acting Deputy Registrar performed the duties of acting.\n\nRegistrar in addition to his\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 31 December,\n\n  \n    Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary,\n    Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.\n    If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n    If newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n    If promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment:\n    Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n    Column for Remarks.\n  \n  \n    OFFICE\n    Acting Registrar\n    of\n    the\n    W. H. Mixander, N. R. Masson $550. £325,\n    interval Jeey.\n    letter $3530 of\n  \n  \n    Supreme Court.\n    Nevencher 1857\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nAudit Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th March, 1855.\n\n07-02-\n\n(Signed) H. F. Mercer;\n\nAuditor General.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "Had caused lines the requisition for it \n\nhad been forwarded by Major Sinclair \n\nSouris. \n\nTit \n\nSupply \n\nrected in April 1854. \n\nsubsequent \n\nAs directed by Colonial Office Despatch No. quot., regulation was likewise \n\nmade for the supply for 1854, this has not been received here, nor has \n\n11 \n\nany \n\nintimation \n\nrequiring \n\nhere sent \n\n4 its shipment reached this place, although the \n\nfrom His Grace The Duke of Newcastle \n\nDespatch $12 $ 20th March 1854 I \n\nDespatch \n\nMCCCLIV \n\ndirections were \n\nlearnt that the measure \n\ngiven. – \n\n7235 \n\nBy my Despatch $74 of 23rd September 1854 I forwarded requisition for the supply for the year 1855; but have \n\n334 \n\nnot yet heard of its Shipment, though \n\nsimilar direction was also \n\nل سات \n\nshown in your despatches #351 of 30th \n\ngiven P5/ \n\nL'aman \n\nDecember last, and 55 of 23rd January \n\nof this year \n\nThe Superintendent of Police \n\nreports the men of the Force \n\nvery badly off \n\nfor their clothing, of which it will be seen \n\nthat they are still \n\nwearing the supply of \n\n1853, since which their stipulated allowance has not been issued to them. \n\nThere is something more than \n\nmere \n\ninconvenience in this delay; it operates detrimentally on the efficiency of the Constabulary; and I trust I may be permitted with all respect to suggest that the facts shown above render it",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure in Despatch No. 69 of 1855.\n\nAmended Commercial.\n\nCopy to Foreign Office for info 29 August 85.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nCO\n\nAUG 17 1855\n\nNo. 94\n\nFrom Sir J. Bowring to Lord John Russell.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n19th May, 1855.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to report that Mr. Franz Knoop has been Gazetted Consul in this Colony for His Majesty the King of Hanover.\n\nAs far back as February 3rd 1855, His Grace The Duke of Newcastle desired me to suggest measures for the control of Prostitution in Hongkong, with correspondence annexed, vide Letter from Mr. Acting Attorney General Bridges.\n\n12th March, 1855.\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "17 M3 Almada,\n\nA\n\nthe case\n\n7.\n\nDuke\n\nhe was suggested by the Duke of Newcastle to be nominated\n\nto the office of Colonial Secretary as in that capacity he might have been called upon\n\nto exercise\n\nthe Supreme functions of Government (should the Governor and Lieutenant Governor be absent or\n\nincapacitated) it was felt\n\nthat as a\n\nforeigner the Colony of\n\nthe Island could not with propriety be committed to his charge.\n\nAs regards Mr Phineascher\n\nI desire to bear the most emphatic testimony to the great value of his Services and to his untiring and\n\ncheerful devotion to the public business. Should the Legislative Council be reconstructed on a wider basis it is important\n\nthat the Colonial Treasurer should occupy a seat in virtue\n\nof his\n\noffice,\n\nwhich I imagine\n\nhe could not do were\n\nonly\n\nan\n\nAct of naturalization passed\n\nin his\n\nfavour.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordships,\n\nMost Obedient, Humble Servant,",
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        "content_text": "the good fortune to be thus noticed.\n\nI made no application for them but I have no doubt that, had I not been forbidden to join my Regiment before Canton I might have been a Lieutenant Colonel of 1843, instead of 1831 as well as raised like several of my Junior to the dignity of a Companion of the Bath.\n\nI trust then I may be allowed to assume, that if it was for the good of Her Majesty's Service generally I was detained in Hong Kong by Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary; it was a direct hardship and I feel it to have been a mortification that I was excluded from promotion and honors, which I was not permitted the opportunity of winning in common with my fortunate comrades to whom Whence was their maiden field.\n\nI take the liberty of enclosing Extract of Despatch from Sir Henry Pottinger to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in which as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Henry bore testimony to my usefulness to this Colony in its most troublous times.\n\nAnd here Sir, I would earnestly call Lord Hardinge's attention to testimonials and the details of my services already on record at the Horse Guards, inspection of them by His Lordship is of the utmost importance I think it right also to note at the present moment.",
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        "content_text": "Heng Heng will not permit you to leave.\n\n. .\n\nthat place when no other Officer of the Government is on the spot, and the thief, Superintendant is well assured you must feel with him that while, in the Office you now hold, it necessarily becomes your duty to forge (however painfully) the privilege of being with your Corps.\n\nIn any Military operations in which it may be engaged.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n[signed] J. Rob Morrison.\n\nTrue copy\n\nC\n\nC\n\nMy Lord.\n\n49 Albermarle Street\n\n26th October, 1844.\n\n6.\n\nIn 1836(?) 44(?) 69\n\nI trust that Field Marshal, the Duke of Wellington, Commanding Chief, will pardon me for intruding my respectful and earnest recommendation in favor of Brevet Major, Caine of H.M. 26th Foot, whose application to obtain an unattached Majority is, I believe, at this moment, under His Grace's consideration. It is, I feel, totally unnecessary for me to trespass on His Grace's attention with any details.\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, H.C.B.\n\n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "70\n\ndetails of Major Caine's long Military Services, I know that those details have been forwarded to your Lordship by Major General D'Aguilar Commanding H.M's Land Forces in China; but I may perhaps be permitted to bear the strongest testimony to the unceasing zeal and laborious exertions combined with great judgement, and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance, with which Major Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong, from the moment that Colony was taken possession of by my Predecessor in May 1841, till the day I quitted it in June 1844.\n\nThose duties, though strictly coming under the Civil Department, were in many instances purely such as would have been required from a Military Commander; and I do not hesitate to record my opinion, that up to the conclusion of the war, the safety and well-being of H.M's Subjects, who had located themselves on the island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example.\n\nI am sure I need not say more to induce His Grace the Duke of Wellington to look as favourably as may be consistent with the rules of the service on Major Caine's claims. I will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of that Officer springs from the purest public motives, and from the sense I must ever cherish of the assistance he rendered.",
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        "content_text": "118.\n\non the Interests of this Colony.\n\nOrdinance 1 of 1855 passed Legislative Council in January last.\n\nby virtue of the Instructions Contained in the Colonial Regulations under the head of Financial and other Reports Cap 3. Sec. 1 and 3.\n\nPage 57.\n\nadministrator of the Government; and acting in Conformity with the directions of His Grace The Duke of Newcastle vide Despatch 16 of 30th March 1854, last paragraph but one, I reported this Ordinance to the Secretary of State in Despatch 14 of 12th February, feeling it my Duty to do so, in consequence of its being a Colonial and not a Consular Ordinance, and its provisions most particularly affecting this Colony, and therefore I should have considered Myself committing a neglect of Duty, if I had failed so to Communicate the Ordinance to the Colonial Office.\n\nUnder the foregoing circumstances I respectfully trust my explanation will prove satisfactory to The Right Honorable The Lord John Russell.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. Caine,\n\nLt. Governor.\n\nTrue Copy\n\nW. H. Mitchell,\n\nColonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nall\n\nresult of the Juging, as regards the Superintendents of European Emigration, has been most Satisfactory.\n\n3. There are, however, some points on which I desire instructions from Your Lordship.\n\n4. It has always been precedent that the appointment to the Attorney Generalship does in no respect interfere with the immunities of private practice has had the same rule has been extended, within reservation, to the Colonial... Rumex to His Office others have acted inconsistent.\n\nYes.\n\nThere is no rule in the subject of the Surveyor General. I think you ought first to report whether the this Officer Jurgen... Som is desirous of Running pro forma. Your Lordship should consider whether the \"Surveyor General is or is not precluded from profits to be derived from the private exercise of his profession - Architect or otherwise?.\n\nAs\n\n5. It has been the practice for...\n\nMy impression is that he is not. If the Salary is not known fully he should have a good Salary from a year & have privilege to business too.\n\n176 at the Harbour Master to grant certificates of Survey of vessel for Register, and to account for the fees of such Survey to the Colonial Treasury. The present Harbour Master declined the duty, I am afraid the Master is a moderate hack off and avows his incompetency, and the...\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\n7. Giving to \"Paratha. Consequence has been the necessity of employing a Surveyor not in the Service of Government, whose fees do not reach the Colonial Treasurer.\n\na. The Governor has the right to send his report home.\n\n6. I beg to enclose to Your Lordship Copy of notification on the subject Fees, which appeared many years ago in the Hongkong Government Gazette; but I think it right, at the same time, to quote the following passage from the Report of the Commission.\n\nhour \"We are uncertain how far the...\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "called & mules 6.7. d. Chinial Regulations p. 83, cautioning against the undertaking of Extensions made without attention to the Set 1 Stat hone the Estimates are submitted to the legal Council. It seems not unlikely to disregard them. Hem.\n\na year\n\n2. Fis. J. Dowry with four £1000\n\nmore\n\nfor himself, as I expect\n\nhe would, & cannot blame him for doing.\n\nunder the present arrangement he is working without pay as far as the Colony is concerned. But if this happens, it will pretty officially undo\n\nthe work of reduction accomplished with so much pains by the Duke of Newcastle\n\n& Mr Peel.\n\n3.\n\nIncrease of £200 a year to the harbour master. I think\n\n259\n\nnot unreasonable, but it will scarcely\n\nbe convenient to accede to it until the whole of Sir J. Bowring's scheme\n\nhas been considered together.\n\nJaise c\n\n4. He wants to raise money by licensing gambling\n\nrevenue\n\nHouses: and\n\nsays\n\nthe present\n\nGambling houses, being unlicensed, are beyond control, and are nurseries of\n\nCrime. All this has been urged, time & again, in favour of licensing gambling houses in civilized countries, and yet civilized countries have come one after another to the determination not to license them, regarding this as the less evil of the two: and\n\nLow the disgrace only of one or\n\nare",
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        "content_text": "prevailed.\n\nSir G. Bonham superseded Sir J. Davis had the same salary; but in 1852 half his salary was placed on the Foreign Office Estimate, half charged to Hongkong. (Drich had still a small Parliamentary Estimate in aid of its funds).\n\nSir G. Bonham vacated the Superintendence in the end of the year 1853, being then in England.\n\nThe Board of Trade on this appointed Sir J. Bowring Superintendent of Trade, with the original emoluments.\n\nBoth the Duke of Newcastle and the Peel Board were of opinion that the establishment at Hong Kong was excessive; that it was desirable to get rid of the Parliamentary Estimate for that colony.",
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        "content_text": "island; and, moreover, that the union of the \n\ntive offices was not \n\nat all necessary. \n\nIt was \n\nIn Duke's \n\njudgment therefore not \n\njust to get \n\nrid of the foreign salary altogether, & to content \n\nan \n\nEconomical government \n\nfor this small island \n\nout of the existing official staff. \n\nBut the Act of \n\n1843 6 & 7 Vic. c.80. \n\nstood in the way. It \n\nwas \n\nimpossible to separate \n\nthe offices without taking away \n\nthe franchise of the \n\nLegislative Council of Hong Kong \n\nover the China Trade, \n\nunless the Act were amended which the \n\nDuke was not prepared \n\nto propose. \n\nThe plan was denied \n\ntherefore on this. \n\nSir J. Bowring to remain Consul of Hong Kong, but without salary as such.",
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        "content_text": "that it was for the good of the community : with men fully explained in long private letters to Sir G. Jay, in which he said the administration of H.K. was corrupt and effete and that (save in the case of Sir J. D. always spoke highly of his personal integrity) had not set things right.. About Salary is $1,800 a year, nothing! The despatches in question came before Parliament in August last. His description was clear & perfectly to the point. It appeared that Sir J.B's conclusion, simply on the ground that the Duke of Newcastle's arrangement had been a bad one and disapproved that Sir J.B. should approve the arrangement for all the government for all sufficient energy to\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "Menly asked for £1000 \n\na year, from Colonial \n\nfunds, which he said \n\nwere quite sufficient to \n\nbear the charge, without \n\nany danger of replacing \n\nHong Kong in \n\nEstimate. \n\nAnd this refers to all that he \n\nstates in his letter to Sir \n\nH. Molesworth of Nov. 7. \n\nlast. \n\nBut in his \n\nMemorandum to the \n\n273 \n\nForeign Office he speaks \n\nof differences. He \n\nthere attacks the Lieut. \n\nGovernor's salary, but \n\nomits to state the \n\nresulting from Mr \n\nCaulfeild's case - But \n\nIt was \n\nnormally £600 a \n\nyear & mainly I presume \n\nno wish of \n\nbut simply as \n\na \n\nhis \n\nconvenient arrangement \n\nfor the public. He \n\ndetails the Duke of \n\nMarlborough's scheme",
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        "content_text": "277\n\nThis it is impossible to predict. But whatever it may be, I see no advantage in an Enactment which ties the Secretariat inextricably to the Superintendancy of Branch. I think this much better remedied, quite independently of existing questions about Sir Bowring's tenure.\n\nOut of considering the Act, I must confess it is not a very easy task to alter it, and still retain, what I apprehend ought to be retained, the legislative power of the Hong Kong Council in Chinese matters.\n\nFor the present, assuming that there is no intention to break Sir J. Bowring's decision & revert to the Duke of Newcastle's argument - I allowed to have his £1000 a year might...",
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        "content_text": "J\n\nfor that Colony for 1854, together with the draft of\n\n'The\n\nAuswer\n\nwhich the Secretary\n\nof State proposes to return to\n\ntheir Lordships should be satisfied, on comparison\n\nof\n\nthe documents before them,\n\nThat the revenue of Hong Kong will fairly bear the proposed allowance of salary\n\nto the Governor.\n\nOn that subject\n\nI am to refer you\n\nto my\n\nNo. 28 Apr 15 55\n\n282\n\narrangement for the concurrence\n\nof their Lordships,\n\nand also to enclose copy\n\nof a Despatch from Sir Geo.\n\nGrey to Sir J. Bowring, sanctioning his interpretation of the authority of Governor in\n\nlocal matters.\n\nI have etc.\n\nLetter\n\nof 18th Feb: 1854\n\nproposing\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle",
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        "content_text": "of £2,000 besides allowance to bring Governor, and without any material duties to perform during his absence. As, however, this is in a great degree attributable to Colonel Caine himself, who was transferred to the Lieutenant Governor's Office from his post of Secretary without being consulted, and entirely for the furtherance of the scheme projected by the Duke of Newcastle, it cannot be avoided. But to allow Colonel Caine to retain his salary, and at the same time to impose on the Island the payment of £1000 per annum, would be to cancel altogether the Duke of Newcastle's proposed arrangement without any reason assigned for so doing.\n\nShang. For the present, therefore, at all events, I cannot sanction the payment of a salary to yourself.\n\nPage 288",
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        "content_text": "2\n\npass no further remarks on the subject for the mail. I had previously signed the Despatches, and therefore there was no necessity of further perusal by me. Shortly afterwards Mr. Mercer passed through my room, leaving as I understand, the Despatches and Blue Book in his hands for submission to the Governor. He almost immediately returned, and told me that he had left them with Sir John Bowring. Some stress is laid in detailing the foregoing as it arose - as it crowds inference on my recollection from the following circumstance. After Mr. Mercer's avowal of the Despatches and Blue Book being with Sir John, I left my room with the intention of going home, and whilst on my way down stairs was called back by Mr. Mercer, who found the Governor wished to see me, - I returned up stairs and met him just coming out of his room, who had some conversation with Mr. Mercer and myself relative to Despatch No. 69 from me.\n\nPage 84\n\nof the 10th of May last, the result of which was that at the instance of His Excellency I addressed a short Despatch, No. 80 of that date, to Lord John Russell, accounting for its not being then forwarded.\n\nIt had been always my practice to ask Mr. Mercer if Sir John Bowring had seen the Despatches, and I am certain that I never omitted doing so on the morning when a mail had been going out : indeed with His Grace the Duke of Newcastle's Despatch, No. 16 of the 30th March 1854, strongly in my recollection, requiring the Despatches to be submitted to Sir John Bowring before they were sent home, I was personally anxious that this point of Duty should be performed.\n\nI would now respectfully submit that Mr. Mercer and Mr. D'Almada be called upon for an explanation on the first occasion when the Despatches were transmitted.",
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        "content_text": "in the Colonial Secretary's Office the 30th December, 1846, Sir John Davis appointed me Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony, which occasion, and before the Executive Council presided over by him, I took the requisite Oath of Allegiance to Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen. The Right Honorable The Earl Grey confirmed me in\n\nin this appointment on the 13th March 1847. \"Under the administration of Sir George Bonham, I acted as Colonial Secretary of Hongkong from the 16th October to the 24th November 1851; -- and in February 1854, His Grace The Duke of Newcastle recommended me (of for that Post, which was then vacant by the promotion of Colonel Caine to Lieutenant Governor of the Colony.)\n\nMy length of Service is at this date upwards of 19 years, and during this long period I have been absent from the Colony chiefly when necessitated by Sickness, and that absence, (as shown in the annual Blue Book), has been as follows:\n\nIn 1844 – Six weeks – on sick leave.\n\n1845 – Six weeks\n\n1850 – 35 days – on sick leave.\n\n1852 - Three months and 12 days, – on sick leave\n\n1854 – 5 Days\n\nI have been thus minute in my statement in order to secure the support of Her Majesty's Representative to my present application to be naturalized as a subject of Great Britain by Act of Parliament; and",
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        "content_text": "187\n\nThe state of Mr. Riennecker's health renders it imperatively necessary that he should quit Hongkong, without delay, and as I believe the proposition he has made for the conduct of his duties is the most suitable under the circumstances, I have arranged that the Treasury be put in commission, under Mr. Mercer as President, and Messrs. Hyndman and Reinhard as Members.\n\nMr. Riennecker's half Salary will be equally divided between Mr. Hyndman and Mr. Reinhard.\n\nI am not aware of any objection to the concluding request of Mr. Rienecker, and have therefore agreed that under the security given his half Salary shall be paid here during his absence.\n\nMr. Rienecker is anxious that I should recommend him for 18 Months' leave, but clause 4 of Chapter 4 of the Colonial Regulations seems to forbid this. While on this subject, I would remark that the Colonial Secretary suggested on this occasion in the Executive Council, that there was some misapprehension as to the tenor of despatch No. 138 of 3rd December 1853, from the Duke of Newcastle.\n\nIt appears that Sir George Bonham, in his Despatch No. 15 of 18th February",
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        "content_text": "position under the recent arrangements, I wish to premise that I think Colonel Caine ought not to be prejudiced in the slightest degree by changes made under the direction of the Government, and for the convenience of Public Service, and whatever may be the ultimate decision as to my own salary, should not be raised at Colonel Caine's expense.\n\nBut it may be a question in future arrangements whether the office of Colonial Secretary should not be associated with the Military Command - or devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor in the Governor's absence. I consider that the Military Secretary should not be retained. Appointment largely ornamental and seldom invested with real duties, is likely to expose its holder to undeserved animadversion and annoyance, especially when payment is made from the Colonial fund.\n\n7. The grounds which influenced the Duke of Newcastle to introduce changes in the general manner in which the government of the Colony should be conducted are stated by Mr Secretary Peel in his dispatch of 15th February 1854 - They were.\n\n1st That the Civil Establishment...\n\nPage 284",
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        "content_text": "Larger than its means would justify - a reason which though of great weight when that despatch was written, no longer applies in the present prosperous state of the Colony - a prosperity plain, decisive, or founded not likely to be shaken, but rather a considerable promising augmentation of pecuniary resources.\n\nFor has the 2nd reason any validity: \"That the present state of affairs in China would probably necessitate frequent and long continued absences of the Governor from the Island.\" I was thrice absent from the Colony during the first year of my government, but in the last year have not been absent for an hour, so that my presence in the Colony has not been less than that of my Predecessors while my duties as Governor have been commonly increased.\n\n8. The conferring on the Lieutenant Governor the performance of the ordinary details of local Government during my absence in the Island was in fact the great change proposed by the Duke of Newcastle. The arrangement",
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        "content_text": "A year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were \"effected without reference to Salary\". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.\n\n10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-\n\nPage 287 appears to be delineated by the original scanning process, so the following lines are kept as is:\n\nPage 287\n\n...\n\n(three lines at the top and bottom are usually kept as page information)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\nA year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were \"effected without reference to Salary\". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.\n\n10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-\n\nPage 287\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 287\n\nRewritten to fit the exact output format without markdown or extra lines:\n\nA year-to which the Treasury was then not willing to consent. And it is equally true as your despatch states that in representing the difficulties which the new and unusual management had created I made no demand for salary and that the changes that took place were \"effected without reference to Salary\". But I must respectfully beg leave to state that I did not supersede the arrangements made by the Duke of Newcastle. I endeavoured to carry out, according to my understanding of those arrangements, to give them full effect, and to exercise no authority with which I was not invested as the supreme functionary in the Colony-and the President of the Legislative Council, of which during my presence in the island the Lieutenant Governor was not even a member until created by Her Majesty's Warrant dated 7th June 1855.\n\n10. When however by order of Sir George Grey the state of matters was restored exactly to the position in which they stood in the time of my predecessors, I could not but anticipate that the new-\n\nPage 287\n\nPage 287\n\nPage 287",
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        "content_text": "but my for\n\nUn material\n\n344\n\nAll I can do, I think, is to recommend these changes to the Treasury on the extreme assumption that this appointment is effective this month. & Ictive this appointment. & In Mitchell's and deme in.\n\nExplain Watkins who was recommended to the Duke of Newcastle by Sir James Graham, when Sir James was 1st Lord of the Admiralty, is too old and not adapted to the place into which he has been put & that the inefficiency of the Dept hence arises. If this is the case it behoves This Office to take care that the Establishment of the Registrar Master is not augmented unduly.\n\nI cannot but be apprehensive that the Governor will in time make out and that the imposition on Mr Mitchell of the duties of Emigration Agent will be a good ground for him. Mr Quethorpe, is not a Remedy, should be a permanent addition to the Registrar Master's Office. In such case it will be no economy to have transferred the Emigration Agent's duties from the Chief Magistrate to the Assistant Registrar Master, if, at least, such an Office is now sanctioned.\n\nTherefore I would direct attention to the general arrangements of the Governor on this subject before any alteration is permitted in regard to the Emigration Agency.\n\n11 July\n\nare only temporary, & will have ceased on Mr Mitchell's return to his duties.\n\nanswered\n\nDavis must also be attended to.\n\n(5957) Not. the Secy A Plato reports to be unable to appoint him to the situation of Emigration Agent, as the former having made arrangements for the discharge of its duties.\n\nMor Labouchere\n\nHm 1714\n\nI concur\n\nThere is another point to be noticed viz the possible vacancy in the office of Assistant Magistrate. I believe that I forwarded to you a letter from Colonel Larcom speaking highly of Mr Kingsmill who as I perceive has also been reported on beneficially.\n\nPerhaps he may be told that in case of a vacancy for Assistant Magistrate",
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Pusiau and Co\n\nJamestown, ship\n\nKit Carson, elig\n\nLucknow, ship\n\nSarah Warren, barque\n\nSirovcu, chip\n\nBray Hound, ship\n\nStarr King, ship\n\nTatar, ehin\n\nTuakina, ship\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nBayard, barque\n\nBarrida Brothers, ship\n\nLuniest, ship\n\nHound, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nLemisiana, kargus\n\nMaria, arque Metro, Larque Mic scener\n\nPenguin, weloener\n\nSes Nymph, berquo\n\nFiorid, ship\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS. -Contiennent.\n\n[No. 14-APRIL 1, 1855.\n\nShanghae Feb. 10 280gers\n\nDate ut\n\nAT\n\nAriva MARELAS\n\nCONSIGNEXY\n\nUJESTINATION\n\nIntended Dumpat-ly\n\nJA. Connolly\n\nSwatow\n\nFarly\n\nShaw, Blant and Uu\n\nJader\n\nLiverpool\n\nEarly\n\nLoudon\n\nEarly\n\nSwatow\n\nEwatow\n\nFly\n\n!London\n\nEarly\n\nEyduey\n\nFor Sute\n\n2\n\nFeb. 10 310 Quirk Mar. 178 Cav\n\nMu, 19 154 Trocar FU, 21 464 3hrewbery POL, 2400 Peutruath Web. 81291 Christian Fol. 26 377 M Far. 10 786 Brown Feb. 28 263 Lewis\n\nHongkong Feb. 22 294\n\nFeb 8 520Ch Macao far. 703 Guterres\n\nMacao Fou. 11 277 Luz Mar 240, L-z\n\nDunt, Beale and Co Rasselt und Co\n\nJames Bowman and o G, Livingston and Co Bella Co\n\nDent, Bible and Co\n\nBrawlao aul Co\n\nJames Stephensca J.V. Jarge\n\nA. A, de Mello and Co\n\nadoro d'Almeida\n\nJayah. Still and Cu\n\n4.\n\nGlan 18 2721) Agalia\n\n376 Marve\n\nL. Harones\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\n606 Delhomme Wm. Fusta and Co\n\nlongkong Feb. 17 530Smith\n\nMar 30, 468 Killing atar. 151900Murphy Mus500Tatusan Mar. 6 720 Wingar Fel, 14113 Canjage Bet. 111,20 Cowell\n\nMax 89 Paner\n\nMer 11 340 Gore\n\nMar 7570 Mix\n\nSept. 842Jones\n\nWhaipos de 25 175 ale\n\n+\n\nAmoy\n\nGeneral Piern, ech.\n\nSnute\n\nWaverley, ag\n\nWar flawk, ship\n\nCautan, ship\n\nScience, Lonyes\n\nAntelope, satorer\n\nAriel, ship\n\nfebn Wade, ship.\n\nWilmington, honner\n\nCarlow, brig\n\nMoury, bagre\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nDutch\n\nAlbaneerwaard, barque Boilers, chip\n\nCristina, barque\n\n3. Elizabeth, barque\n\nJan Hendrik, barque\n\nMar. 13 180 Peete\n\nFab.\n\nlan.\n\n1100 rewater\n\nStar. € 713 Stevens\n\nKussell and Co Order\n\nRussell and Co Rose Go Russell and Ca Russell and Co Jane Steplu rson\n\nAdel&Philtill\n\nSingapore\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWheming\n\nPeight ur Char!\n\nSan Francisco April 10\n\nAdel. & Mel. Tad,\n\nSan Francisco April 17\n\nSan Francisco\n\nCaly\n\nAugustine ford and Co Wi Win. tusla and Co\n\nWhens, Anthou and Coban Francisco! Wilms, Anthon and Co Hondur\n\nJames Stephie:ZON\n\nMarford\n\nOvde\n\nSan Francisco April 18 Adel, & Syduty A\n\nMaz. 111185 West\n\nMa\n\n135 Lamilton\n\nMar 4117 Turner\n\nY. J. Muriou\n\nY, J. Murrow\n\nAustralia\n\nKtor and Ce\n\nBuston\n\n239 Graham\n\nRussell and Co\n\nNew York\n\nBarly\n\nPudon and Cu\n\nNow York\n\nFeb.\n\nCrosby\n\nMar. 8 $75 Peterson\n\n¡Alvoid and Co\n\nSn Prausias Ind.\n\nAugustine Heard me Co\n\n300 Pasiphor\n\nNge Brothers and Co\n\nFeb. 11 45% Whoever Jan. 28 900\n\nShangha Repairing Havana\n\nEarly\n\n¡Hevada\n\nNo. 8 188 Dyer\n\n2248 Willian\n\nMax. 6 209 Monta Mar.\n\nJan. 19 689 Nicholson\n\nMar Dee. Formona Fel\n\nNov.\n\nFuh-chau Mar. Niugpo Mar.\n\n750 Aytun\n\n150 Badger\n\n1000: siromans\n\n417 Worth\n\n400 Potter\n\n479 Mellus\n\n269 Cher\n\nMet. ¡600 peroor\n\nJac We\n\nFou\n\nShanghae Mar. 9 2 Gregory\n\nFol. 24 450 Fletcher Bet. 5/2006 Lowe\n\nHongkong Mar. 15) 730 Linduan\n\n33\n\n15\n\nKongu lamelaar, ship\n\nNeerlands Indie, siaip\n\nSamat, ship\n\nMar. 13 322 Teu Har\n\nMar. 14 350 Krauer\n\nMan Tomp\n\nMar. 2614. De Jong\n\nRussell and Co\n\nS. E. Burrows\n\nTail and Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\n1. Pustau and Co\n\nRussell and C\n\nUnder\n\nKyu Brothers and do\n\nKussell and Co\n\nKell and Co\n\nAugustine Heard and Co\n\nRugseil und Co\n\nW. M. Rotinet and Co Russland Co\n\nRussell and Ca\n\nOnier\n\nShaffer and Co\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nJames Stephenson Jim. Pistac and Co\n\nPub, 9698 Lindermance Stephenson\n\n3ar\n\nJan.\n\nAlbrecht Beyling, barq Whampoa Mar Aline, arqua\n\nBintang Anam, barque\n\nBroedertrouw, ship\n\nArgo, Imarque\n\n143\n\nDESTINATION\n\nIntended Thatch\n\nFatal Hair, barque\n\n34. Eulema, shooner\n\nJustine, barque\n\nProvests, barque\n\nVrouw Jotina, bq, Mercurius, barque Westkappelle, barque Beauty, torque Zuid Holland, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, barque Lente, schooner Svendborg, Larquy Aernet, szig\n\nConm Heinrich, bg.\n\nJohannes hand\n\nUto, bu que\n\nWaldemar, herque\n\nHenbury\n\nAutralia\n\nIS. Trancisco\n\nIxel.\n\nAmoy\n\nAdel & Sydney Trid.\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWhen pus\n\nsrdce, Matheran and Co Schaeffer and\n\nLondon\n\nAdsiaide\n\nFuruins. Matteson aud Co\n\nHavaus\n\nTernor and Co\n\n¡Turner and Co\n\nCape & Longga\n\nT. & U. S. N. C.\n\nShaughne\n\npill &\n\nPhillips, Moors Co Kurder\n\nAustralia\n\nLondon\n\nBariy\n\nand Co Holliday. Weed Co\n\nway sund\n\nRepairing Bonjay\n\nApril 15\n\nTarer, beg\n\nTubal Cain, ig\n\nWilliams, Anthon and Co\n\nPant, schooner\n\nAfghan, slip\n\nWhampoa Mar. 20 670debank\n\nLondon\n\nArturo, que\n\nFab,\n\noClarke\n\nCarlines, ship\n\nMar.\n\n370 Ferensor\n\nCELIST:L, ELERIEur\n\nMar.\n\n750 Curling\n\nD'Almeida Family, hg.\n\nNov.\n\n250\n\nEaglet, seamer\n\nMai.\n\n145 Caldwell\n\nMainas, stramer\n\nCage. Mangarel, batą.\n\nBritish\n\nAlireal, ship\n\nAfro the Great,\n\nAlligator, lig\n\nAnglia, barque\n\nA. P. Sharp, barke\n\nle\n\nMock River Jacket, bq.!\n\nCarible ship\n\nCrishan, banque\n\nDuke of Portland, ship\n\nEamon, rezoaner\n\nEmma, achooner\n\nFanny, ban\n\nForm, camer\n\nFriedrick, belg Jamiitan, slip Hazard, schocier Julinder, Jacque\n\nLuorink, big\n\no Iurie\n\nLy, thou\n\nBart of Maulwicke, by\n\nHornet, sooner\n\nLouisa Baillie, sup\n\nMalebr\n\nNina schooner\n\nPearl, stip\n\nSarai. Armitage, ship\n\nTravancare, ship\n\nVigilant, arque\n\nMazeppa, schooner\n\nFlongkong sb. 26 790 Browning\n\nReh. 13, 846 Mefntyr\n\nFeb. 26 sindi\n\nMar 989.Sharp\n\nMar. 12' 265 Sich\n\nMar. 20, $74 Winchester\n\nFeb. 1272 Tuscolt\n\n21 533 Sumor\n\nMar. 30 149ring\n\nMar. 19 120 upper\n\nMor. 5 Prasmith\n\nMar. 11 750regear\n\nJan. 16 990 Neville\n\nMar. 15 433[Fare\n\nMar. 20 184eary Jan. 24530 Bolto Mar 30 289 Crocket Mar 29 3-har's [Mar. 131 180Makelier Mar. 30/1250 lowe\n\nSaj 533 Spence ar 30 148\n\nMar. 25190leggett\n\nMar, 26247)ncher\n\nFalk, 27 168 Nordqvist\n\nMar.\n\n464 Legoe\n\nMar. 22 115 Rayer\n\nMar. 23 605 Macker.zie\n\nMar. 160-te\n\nMar. 9 582 Towa Tea\n\nS Station Mar.\n\n5953\n\n163 Button\n\n142 Marios\n\nTan Berd at Co Vacs Stephenson\n\nGrind, Fivlagston and Co\n\nY. J. Murr\n\nArmstrong and Lawrence Uriur\n\nDent and Co\n\nY. J. Murrow\n\nTurner and Co Jardins, Mathe\n\nP.&O. 5. N. Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.",
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        "content_text": "It does not appear previously\n\nJournal\n\nof Health that there\n\nvacancy in the\n\nor any vacancy\n\nOffice of Chief Interpreter\n\nwhether it is\n\n...\n\nyour\n\nnecessary to confer with\n\nMr. Gordon on any appointment.\n\nWith respect to Mr. Caldwell's\n\nqualifications for the Office\n\nyou\n\n...\n\nThere is only to remind\n\nFoyn in his\n\nthat the\n\ndespatch No. 11 of 3 Feb. 1855\n\nstated that Mr. Caldwell's\n\nservices as a\n\nlinguist\n\nwere somewhat superseded by his inability to translate Chinese with that freedom\n\nwhich is expected in an\n\ninterpreter.\n\nAny too temporary\n\n275\n\narrangement which\n\n...\n\nThe Duke in achieving the\n\nService from the Junior\n\nInterpreter I shall be superior\n\nsubject to sanction, but I should feel some difficulty in confirming\n\nMr. Caldwell in the appointment. I pray you support to\n\ncreate without more\n\nSpecific information. I share\n\nClarendon's",
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        "content_text": "found the command letter from this office to Treasury (31 May 1850) requiring appeal to (and with the concurrence of the Treasury) as being proper exposition of the principle which should be cited when dealing with such Cases, and in proof of fact that on various occasions, the quit rent has been remitted both by our own Government and foreign & Colonial Governments. But the practice has not been altogether uniform.\n\n... a memorandum of mine of 14 May 1850 when it was first mooted. The Duke of Newcastle in 1853 sent a copy of this letter to the Governor of Malta in answer to a similar application, I would suggest that the same should now be done.\n\nPage 299",
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        "content_text": "Shipping Correspondents whereto I have been lately referred, I would suggest that this extract\n\nbe sent to the\n\nForeign Office, with a request\n\nthat the Consul may be called upon\n\nfor any information\n\nwhich he can\n\nsupply - and that it also be sent\n\nto Sir J. Bowring with\n\nsimilar request.\n\n7 Novr\n\n \n\nTransmit whereof whole correspondence, bother to 7.0.16\n\nDie J. B.\n\n \n\nmt 6209\n\nde-10066\n\n \n\nPage 82\n\n \n\nLory\n\n17\n\nGerwick / nov: 1856\n\nIn reply to your favor of\n\n29th ultimo, served this\n\nmorning\n\n \n\ndeponent states that the Duke of Portland took on board 330 Coolies (not 500 as reported) of these 130 were lost, not from Natural death (Ching, Lever we understand) and\n\nsuicide, but we have\n\nno\n\nparticulars as to the number\n\nlost\n\n \n\n200 were safely\n\nlanded at Havana.\n\nFrom what we know of\n\nthe Master we\n\nfeel certain that\n\nI. Halcott Exc\n\nSecretary.\n\n \n\nPage 82\n\n(End of Page)\n\n(no further text)\n\n \nhas been re-written to \nShipping Correspondents whereto I have been lately referred, I would suggest that this extract be sent to the Foreign Office, with a request that the Consul may be called upon for any information which he can supply - and that it also be sent to Sir J. Bowring with similar request.\n\n7 Novr\n\nTransmit whereof whole correspondence, bother to 7.0.16 Die J. B.\n\nmt 6209 de-10066\n\nPage 82\n\nLory 17 Gerwick / nov: 1856\n\nIn reply to your favor of 29th ultimo, served this morning deponent states that the Duke of Portland took on board 330 Coolies (not 500 as reported) of these 130 were lost, not from Natural death (Ching, Lever we understand) and suicide, but we have no particulars as to the number lost\n\n200 were safely landed at Havana.\n\nFrom what we know of the Master we feel certain that\n\nI. Halcott Exc Secretary.\n\nPage 82",
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        "content_text": "place of Colonial Secretary, and made Lieut. Governor, by the Duke of Newcastle, in order to effect that arrangement which Sir J. Bowring has since by his conduct upset.\n\n& Wh ... und at lot. Barnes's age after so many years spent in H. Kong, he is hardly likely to render effective service elsewhere, even if any opportunity presented itself.\n\nH.M. 29 Constantly, this is expected to result in a negative outcome.\n\nI till ... for I. Bowring std be informed that the patrol boat has been under the conduction of the Navy and that they qued with me in this that the acperlaten should hold, not be uncumill in the Palace of the frame of that were the only question motord - yet that it should not be find the Colony to sanctie it under the quity coupent.\n\nDe from we by this a free for a slag Mulund.\n\nM. N. 30 forme pepers which was witte Sheve delveved this could be procured.\n\nNer Merriale. Good shar pes This, I suppose, is as negative as a response can be; at least there would be marked injustice in turning Col. Caine's use remond from his ... who ter till llc bes Laborat.\n\n29 W Labouchere > Laz own 20333 24-12 Gov 11056 informed 6 Jan 757 .3. 170011\n\n€905-1989 Sir 11527 RECEIVED DEC27 3856 174 Treasury Chambers 26th December 1856\n\nwith reference to your Letter of the 17 Instant, transmitting copy of a Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, submitting a Report and Estimate to nine hundred and amounting five pounds, nineteen shillings and nine pence, for a new Boat House for the Marine and Police Departments in that Colony, I am directed, by Lords Commissioners of the Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary Labouchere, regarding the German Ierivate. Erg.\n\nDepar...",
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        "content_text": "Extract from the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette,\n\nFriday, October 3rd, 1856.\n\nA New York paper mentions the arrival at Havana of four British ships with cargoes of Coolie labourers. One of the ships, the Duke of Portland, is reported to have sailed from Hong Kong with 500 of these people on board, out of which number she has landed but 202: 130 are said to have died by natural death upon the voyage, and the residue to have drowned themselves. Another vessel, the John Calvin, lost 110 by \"natural death and suicide,\" in a passage of 85 days - making a total loss in both ships of 240 Coolies. If the information in our American contemporary be correct, the affair demands the prompt attention of the Foreign Office.\n\nThe unfortunate survivors were, it appears, at once drafted upon estates or contracts of eight years' service. We take it for granted that these poor people were voluntary emigrants, and that they simply fell victims to brutal treatment on the voyage. But even this aspect of the affair, if correct, is bad enough, for more reasons than one. Great efforts have been made, more especially of late, to procure a supply of labour for our West India Colonies. The scarcity of that commodity lies at the root of the West Indian difficulty. It is advisable by every means to encourage immigration from the East, or from any other quarter where it may be legitimately procured.\n\nIn a recent Article we dwelt at some length upon the efforts which have been made to procure an adequate supply of labour, more especially in British Guiana on the results which have followed those efforts - and on the interest attending the discussion of the labour question throughout the West India Islands. It is of the last importance that emigration to the West should not get into disrepute with the labouring classes of British India and China, from which countries large supplies have been heretofore drawn; and nothing is more likely to discourage it than the barbarities which seem to have attended the transport of these recent cargoes to the shores of Cuba.\n\nBut what if it turns out that they were cargoes of veritable slaves, captured or kidnapped in the Bay of Bengal or the Bay of Hong Kong, instead of in the Bight of Benin or the Mozambique Channel, and convoyed by British vessels to the slave mart of Havana? So valuable is the trade which the Cuba Planters are now driving at the expense of our Colonies, that they can afford to pay almost fabulous prices for labour, and would risk almost anything to procure it. We take the report we have referred to for as much as it is worth, but we shall watch the progress of the necessary inquiry respecting it with some interest.\n\nPage 234",
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        "content_text": "卜\n\n飲\n\n2\n\nCont Act 30\n\nLand Board\n\n4\n\n403\n\nVoyage to Cuba. Have received no information on the subject\n\ner A Alleged Insufficiency\n\nChinese Passenger Act Points out the proper course to be followed by Mr Robertson the British Consul at Shanghai. Alleged Ill-treatment and\n\nMortality of Chinese Coolies on \"Duke of Portland\" and\n\nJohn Calvin: Further\n\nNov 6\n\nparticulars.\n\nMr Fletcher's Application\n\nfor Leave to extend his Marine Lot. Suggests\n\nreference to the War Dept.\n\nPenalty inflicted on the\n\n\"William & Martha\" \"The\n\nmatter should be decided\n\nby the local authorities at Victoria.\n\n113 Coolie Emigration from\n\nChina. The great obstacle to\n\nsuch Emigration is in the want of Females.\n\n+ Harpers",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.",
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        "content_text": "93\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWhere the undersigned have this day entered into Partnership as Merchants under the firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, into which will merge the business of Messrs. F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHENRY DAVIS,\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION. Undersigned has received instructions to sell by AUCTION, ON THURSDAY, the 12th day of February, 1857, at 11 o'clock, the Bust Godowns of Messrs. L, STILL & Co., (Door Spring Gardens,) on account of whom it may concern.\n\nAbout 480 Tons of NEWCASTLE COALS.\n\nPayment to be made in ... Dollars, weighed at 1.1/2%; and the Coals to be cleared from the premises by Saturday the 14th February.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Kotter Inn on the 11th December, ROBERT BROWNE, Esq., late H. M. Sloop Com'r at Canton, to LOUISE HENRIETTA, youngest Daughter of the late L. van KAMPEN, of Berbice, British Guyana.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Croydon, Surrey, on the 1st of December, ALICE HUMPHREYS, Boy, formerly of Hongkong.\n\nAt Queenstown, Ireland, on the 6th December, CHARLES MARKWICK, the Apostle of Temperance.\n\nEXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM SINGAPORE.\n\n\"Since writing the above I hear, that the Governor General telegraphed to Madras to send on to China two Regiments, under orders for Hongkong. It is doubtful if the telegraph would reach in time, and if it did there is only the Zenobia (a tub) available for transport.\"\n\nTRIAL OF SALES--Payment to be made in ... The Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow in the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 p.m., the following pieces--\n\n1. The Patriot Fife.\n\n2. The Scion Packs.\n\n3. Duette Up, Sonnambula Bei.\n\n4. The Elizabeth Quadrilles.\n\n5. The Lucrezia Vaino-Goffre.\n\n6. Nebraska Gallop, Aichner.\n\nCHARLES MARKWICK, Government Auctioneer.\n\nHongkong, 9th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe undersigned will offer for Sale at PUBLIC AUCTION, the Clipper Barque, \"SAN TIAGO” as she now lies in this Harbour.\n\nThe vessel has a full inventory which can be seen and any information given upon application to the Auctioneer.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & CO.\n\nHongkong, 8th February, 1857.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, on their Premises Queen Road, on account of the concerned, on FRIDAY, 13th Inst., at Noon,--\n\nex \"Proteus,\" About 166 Piculs SAPAN WOOD | Damaged by ...\n\n43 ... RICE ...\n\nWater ...\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 11th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFRENCH FELT HATS! FRENCH FELT HATS! OF THE FINEST QUALITY, ALL COLOURS AND SIZES, At MRS. LEMON's Rooms, Queen's Road, Hongkong, and at Macao.\n\nHongkong, February 9th, 1857.\n\n\"Now Barabbas was a robber.\" To the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nHongkong, February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR,--About two months ago a Portuguese Lorcha No.71 was mysteriously taken by pirates in the Tamar fire at Macau--I mean to say carried away at night without anybody knowing it, or any one being on board at the time--it was as well, in a mysterious way that she had about 30 kegs of Gunpowder on board, which, indeed is too great a quantity for a Lorcha of her class to have on board at any time, in fact for any Lorcha to carry as part of her armament.\n\nOf course so little was heard about this Lorcha and we know if any steps were taken to recover her, or how she was carried away or whereabout ...\n\nonly found out next morning that she was not there--but it was ...\n\ny many suspected an underhand work in this affair.\n\nOn the 11th January Inst. another Portuguese Lorcha No. 62 in company with an English Lorcha from Ningpo bound to ...\n\nBogue the ...\n\n16 Hongkong with cargo of Alum, Drugs and Hans, out on passage was chased by piratical dest...\n\nZanon, the ear...\n\nThe English Lorcha being near to ...\n\nrio the ...\n\ned and came into this harbour, but her companion No. 62 being outside saw no chance for her to escape through the Ly-n-moon, turn all for the outside passage and being closely pursued by the pirate fleet was finally captured at G F... on the same day. Her owner hearing of this in Macao came over to get all the information he could and reported the same to the Police on the 18th, but as he then knew not where his Lorcha was taken to by the Pirates, of course nothing could have been done to recover the same.\n\nHe went back to Macao and arrived there on the 28th where he learned all the particulars of the capture of his Lorcha by ...\n\nsterious circumstances--but perhaps by relating the same it will speak for itself, and bring to light the case of the Lorcha No. 71 above mentioned.\n\nOn the evening of the 27th January the Portuguese ...\n\n1--Par. Restonbis--Levner.\n\n2--The Scion Packs--Str.\n\n3--Duette Up, Sonnambula Bei.\n\n4--The Elizabeth Quadrilles.\n\n5--The Lucrezia Vaino-Goffre.\n\n6--Nebraska Gallop, Aichner.\n\nNo. 6 FEBRUARY 10, 1857.)\n\n... elim kindred with the Black hole of Calcutta.\n\never, strongly of opinion that it is absolutely necessary ...\n\nment of the 42 men belonging to the B-sing shop supplied to ...\n\nabsent himself from the colony, but by e- The last brutality of this kind being the confinement--for the interest of this colony that every individual connected with the B-sing Establishment should be outd in a room 16 feet long by 15 feet broad or less than six lineal feet per man.\n\nOk Sir John, your ...\n\nvanity and imbecility are running up a fearful impused.\n\nWe give in our present issue a letter from the Print of India with some remarks from a friend.\n\nWe may perhaps take a glance at the cur India Contemporary's article from our own point of view.\n\nH. M. Str. Barracouta arrived here on the night of the 21st Inst. from the Blenheim branch of Canton River.\n\nThe line of ships from Bogue Forts to Macao Part, serve to keep this important communication open.\n\nwhilst the occasional effect of shutting up in the narrow creeks near Pagoda anchorage, two large divisions of snake boats and junks, some of the former carry as many as eighty rowers.\n\nSome trading junks conveying shot, and old iron from the ruins of the Factories and Whampoa were seized and burnt ere they reached the war junks at Lan-kong to which place they were bound.\n\nQue ...\n\nOWING to the illness of the Editor, and the large necessary attendance of other members of our establishment at the trial of the poisoners.\n\nwe were under the necessity of delaying the publication of the remainder of the trial for poisoning until Wednesday evening.\n\nWe have a matter to complain of personal to ourselves and the other editors of the press, but also important to the public, in regard to the way we are accommodated and treated in the Supreme Court, but must defer it to next week.\n\nWe must deter until our Overland issue the account of the Coolie blunders on board the ...\n\nAurora and City of Bordeaux.\n\nin the course of erection above New Town.\n\nthe Parsee temple destroyed.\n\nA mud battery is ...\n\nfive on the night of 26th Ultim ...\n\nAn attempt was made to destroy the Comus by junk were sent from a village in Adam's creek.\n\nA lorcha and with wind tide and night in their favour: they were close upon the ship ere they were discovered: a few cool shot were sent into them, when the crew jumped overboard, first setting fire to the well oiled sails.\n\nOne junk caught the Comus on ...\n\nthe bow the other on the sparker boom which was carried away.\n\nHaving slipped her cable the junks were removed by the boats of Hornet and Camus, not before the rigging and headwork of the Comus was more or less burn during the entire night.\n\nThe materials used to form these destructive implements of warfare, were powder, cotton soaked in tea oil and samskui.\n\nOn Sunday last the Barracouta seized two junks forcenatle in Laukoy creek, laden with tobacco, they were under the guns of the Mandarin fort.\n\nSome Chinese at Hongkong have protested against the capture and have memorialized the Colonial Government.\n\nThe Honble Company's Steamer Auckland arrived in harbour on Sunday morning with multions of war from the Straits.\n\nWe believe she remains here for the present.\n\n... vessel.\n\nTRE spirited owners of the Fiery Cross were completely cold yesterday, that vessel having been sighted by the str. Lily from Macao which brought the report, in consequence of with the Antelope.\n\nWe understand that the Chinese had a meeting on Saturday at the Joss house, to take the affair of Ahlum into consideration, when they resolved to ...\n\nwas detained until the arrival of the Fiery Cross.\n\nDure ...\n\nThe Fiery Crest left Pilol al Sand7 Heads 27th January, 1. A..\n\nAnchored at Singapore, 1st Feb.\n\n3\n\nHous\n\n16\n\nP.M.\n\nAnchored at Hongong, 9th 7 P.M.\n\n6\n\n22\n\nFrom Sand Heads under Stear, Tytl\n\n1:\n\n14\n\nLeft Singapore, 24 Feburary, Pr..\n\nFiery Cross, has 2000 chests on board.\n\nLightning 1957 TRR 1st Opium Sale of this year was held on the 12th January 2540 chests Patna, and 1115 chests Benares were sold as follows:--\n\n5\n\n778.\n\nhighest low averag Patest soldi....... .......50 100 Benares...\n\n... 85 Benares 155.\n\nDie Paloa 715.\n\nOld Benarcs 739.\n\nThe latest quotsuous are:--New Patna 760 EXCHANGE, on Calun, Res. 205 per 100.\n\nOn don to 2. d. por Rupen.\n\n2.\n\n6\n\ncha No. 131, belonging to the same party as the Lorcha No. 71, it is generally \"known in Malas, though perhaps at registered in his own) brought to Macan from the same practical ethica caguered the Lorcha No. 12, the Hans which were part of her cargo, in charge of 6 of the pirate themselves, for sale there; it appears that the. Lord No. 131 was chartered Er is preposthus fact.\n\nOn Sunday night some little excitement arose being reported to the Governor, the Lorcha and cargo were consequence of a large number of guns being ...\n\n1 toe v pirates imprisoned.\n\n1may has daera that likewise as were transacted in a mysterious manner.\n\nfired in the harbor, at abrut 8 o'clock.\n\nalzed, and t\n\nOn en-\n\nWe have a trans of coming at the explicit fans as like very quiry we End it was some ass of skipper, who thing else in lacas they are carried or in a seret way-- no news-paper report with exceptier, of Fe Destin to Soy bely was drunk, and in that state took veras, which paper makes it appearson with wonderful fren himself to break the law, and alarm the gality, perbags purposely in for the crence of the Queen's subjecta.\n\nGovernment there?\n\nThe paper being under the fmatate protection, and inspection of the Hest of the Government, ...\n\nof neure we would exprint from it a thing.\n\nBut to corset We publish a letter from Correspondent which ...\n\nmost\n\nAnd stiti farther, we cannot suficiently admirelict of the jury in effect opens the stomach of every man in the colony to prison, without fear or tanger of detection to the poisoner.\n\nWhat is Allum's case in reality--The Chief ...\n\nthe particnior of the canter of the Lorals No. 62, 1 am hints at an extraordinary state of things at traordinary exhibition which the said creditor Justice said that the principal evidence against him informed that the piratical feet cousisting of 4 ciptare: Macau, and clearly proves that the fleet so made of himself in Court ne a witness on the trial Lorchas, two of them being l'orgnese, gst these, No. 73, and two Buglak: they ware will armed, having 60 men in tach, with 15 filing boats having 12 en ja exil.\n\nThey ...\n\nlenientis treated by Commodore Armstrong, and Dat our admiration somewhat ceases, when we tust No. 62 to her anchorage, South Lintin, opposite ...\n\nothers, is in realty a nest of pirates.\n\nChangelo, There the Solariate ray then, hat, was de-anber of pirate vessels stated in the letter bears and his partners have been found aiding and The recollect, that this is not the first tisic, that person civil by m ...\n\ncut our estimate on the day we saw them frem conforting, i ust abetting the Queen's eteries.\n\nunworthy to have called forth the counter petition Of the document we shall say no more at present ...\n\nwhich we append:-- than that it is below contempt and was quite ...\n\nThe facts Lorcin 71 boing amongst the pirates! fleet and Zareke 131 being cleriered by them, Beth it the Lily.\n\nlonging to the same andr, a singular eninest-use!\n\nOn 29 January, sa Eaglish Larch with cargo of Rice from Hongkong to Mac was chased by the saw piratical feet as Cantan ...\n\nOn the 3d intothers Portogage Lorcha No. 39 and 40 were captured by the same piratical 3e and yet nothing is done vither in Macur at this riser to destray theus.\n\nWhy we count ant expect any thing from Macas for the circumstance related above wall, perhaps, explain to the initiated-am, ka ...\n\nX. Y. Z.\n\nMR. Hicason, the Crown Solicitor, has re-signed is appointments, so says the Gazette.\n\nWe heard of this resignation. some time ago, ...\n\nbut it in no way surprised us, as our readers may well imagine after reading our comments on the T dirty job of the appointment.\n\nWe shall have more to say cu this, as also on the new appoint-mcots in Mr. Hickson's place; and we shall add In word ou the deporture of the colonial secretary ...\n\nand this aucREVE.\n\nHIS EXLUENCY,\n\nthe Governor\n\nVICTORIA, BONGKONE,\n\nin the Executive Council\n\n7th February, 1857.\n\nwas his own account of his sayings and doings, and Mr. Drinker's evidence.\n\nMr.Drinker's evidence very hour the dough was being made:--and his Lordship pointedly remarked, it was in evidence, that it was the dough which contained the poison.\n\nthen as to his own statement--His grandmother was engaged in suppiring the barbarians with bread, &c. she writes and tells b, not to come himself but to send his family; he is not to come because a reward of $5000 is offered for his hend not only is he not to retura, but he is carefully respectively to sabit to you the following faits rayer the existence of his head on his shoulders is ...\n\nWe, the undersigned, revisats is this colony, beg to remain in his own house, taking care of his hend, and his premises, which are likely to be fired; HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 167 FEBRUARY, 1867.\n\nIntive to Alla arline other prisoners, now Hude delertion ulur Ordinance 2 of 1957, and also relative capture of the old grandmother renders it easy ...\n\nthe cause of his grandmother's annoyance.\n\nMR. CALDWELL was not poisoned; on the cou-2 other prisoners, similarly detained.\n\nThe Parties sending Advertisements to the Hongkong istered, in the shape of some chili and mustard; inespied in the colony, by a majority of 5 jours so 1. tury he had a rather agreeable stemachic admin prisoners, nav.ng heen acquitted after a trial of a length ...\n\nWe rubl that the first shove mentionet class of to compel the retary of the reminder of the farm!'y, Register\" \"Register's Advertiser,\" please address to ...\n\nwill seeds. It was natural, of course, for hirs to pre. their subsequent apprehension and detention are excu \"Printer end l'ublisher of the respective Papers, which will secure rarly mustard seeds in another.\n\nter having his milk in one dish, and the chili and Jated to throw discredit on our system of administrati attention to their Communications, justine in the eyes of the Chinese popalation, was have heen led to onlerstand that a man cannot be twice call. the case in the present intoace.\n\nFurthermore, we are of opinion that pris mers who love stood their helst, and have been legally abeolved from the consequences the law, he tande responsible for any secondary one of the crime of which they are sccused, should not, b ...\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of Pent: Wons in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are, on the Sabheth 41 77 .m., and at 7, and on the Evening of every Wednesday at o'clock.\n\nWe see that tenders are advertised for in the last Government Guzette, for the construction of the Bowring Praya; and this in the face of the fact that the jail is crammed with double ita proper numbers, and that the station houses might well i quences arising out of that accusation.\n\nWe are, how ...\n\nexcept Alton.\n\nWould these additional se ages given to the mandarios render his resoniu- ing here, more secure?\n\nThreatening the grand-mother compels the retum of all the absent ...\n\nthe one schry individual would dare to re- cive force were applied to the united family that members except one, and we cannot see if coer- main.\n\nTo people acquainted with Chinese custunts statement.\n\nBut on this advice, how did Autum there is want of eommon sense in such act?\n\nWhy he disobeyed it, and went to Macao; ...\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nEXTRA\n\nTO THE\n\nHNGKONG REGISTER, No. 6.\n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1887.\n\nP. IIARAND--I have always paid for bread from tacted.\n\nHe answered, Eat when we reached the bakery citentnahumees are these, Aldao is in the habit of cons CRIMINAL SEose, February 2, 1357.\n\nthe king shop Leire 'the 15th Snuary.\n\nInod Dr. he would show me then to had a large any site of propar- ing to tue to all and inke delivery of funt; on this ue.\n\nChor at Dr. Manet partook of the bread delivered by at stake, and But he would take ny advice and remain.\n\ncasi, several weeks pravions to die art of aidu, dus Poisoning Casm, (First Day.)\n\nLlaning. Abe un hour afterwards I felt sick When we got to the bakery the people were mixing cans to rou and paversed that I shoots ly from time 200- (First Day.)\n\nblds. of frou at $16; and having taken duivery of the anda, and shortly afterwards I vousited, and felt water and dough in diffurent rooms in the place.\n\nI arkad Roar, considered if indebted to urn for the amount, Jury--More.\n\nM. A. MAGLOD, W. H. SUTTON, JOHN a my stomach.\n\nI took a emetic ich operated, him to retorn with sac. having satisfied aysell there was MON, W. A. Bawa, ED. T. DURCASSON, GEORGE and feit casier.\n\nBar In about two hours the pain enough bread in the trying room to fatif de control; Feider myself inleted to do wad no other per- seo.\n\nMr. Power delivered the flour from bra gotowan, rive.\n\nThe st morning I had a vlug headache he said he had business to attend to and he would walk ...\n\nWht going over As the bar was stored tweet.\n\n1--CAEON ARCUEW,2----CHEONO AERT, a weak in my limbs.\n\nDr. Iance took an cutie, bome.\n\nThis was between 8 and 3 ...\n\nThe the premises he told me he applied 400 families with Crozumned by Dr. Bridges, I have been - Pakora Autos, 4--LUM ABsow, -Tax AC, and Dr. Childecott before they were sick.\n\nbread; this was said as a proof of the amount of busiucas quainted with Abium since 1849, I have bem in the TONG No one, 7--CHEORO ARMEX, 8--FONG A-attentionan had coren wore trval than any of sa.\n\nHOT. 2--CHRONG AY, 10--CHEN WYE KONG, What breakfast a gentleman called to say some he was doing and his disinclination to leave.\n\nThe habit of toying breadgirom him to a large amout for statement Ahimu made that he sold the bakery to mu in zapplying the ten-of-war.\n\nI have had large nansactions of hiends were sick, they suffered in a irailar mater Idministering power with intent &c.\n\nto thich I have described.\n\nThey haul maten nothing false.\n\nSince I gase my evidence before the Magistrate with him.\n\nIn one month I paid han $15,000 and but.\n\nI was recupied all day in arcending similar I was asked, on the peiremers' behalf, by Me. Murrow, to up to 15th January, my transactions with him continued.\n\ncase had for acveral days afterwards.\n\nSome suffered reconsider my statement about the 62 Mandarins.\n\nHe was contracting for bread for the Wreck steamer Croucrained by Mr. Day--Mr. Murrow, said be about that time.\n\nI heard Ahlus say that he also pro- ...\n\nTALI..\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Anstey, Attorney” Gogoral ; Str. Hickson Crown Rakcitar, assisted by Mr. George Jooper Turner.\n\nWIRES.\n\nvided bread for other shipping.\n\nI brought from America a machino for anking bread which came out a month ago ...\n\nmarverely than others.\n\nFrom the nature of the Dr. Brigor and Ms. Day Guess: Messrs. Gaskell symis, I felt same arsenic had been drainstered.\n\nI had come from Ablam to ask me to reconsider the answer nd Brown with Mr. H. J. Tactant Svácitors for prl-wobbay sume bread from the first house to which I about the 63 Mundarios Abium askertine on the exami ...\n\nwe, belonging to a Taree.\n\nI kept wry own nation, if he did not say he bad been told about the 63 in the B.\n\nPalmer, wasting $585.\n\nHe gave my brothre £100 to buy the machine.\n\nIn the week of 15th January, The Attorney General stated the case and called real got a load from Mr. Grandpre which he said be Mandarins.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nInever enwe ...\n\n1 dropped in three or four times, to see that machine AMES CARROLL DEXTSTER--I Am Colonial Surgeon, End on with his own hand on the E-sing shop, and the lenih prisoner in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the have been in the habit before the 13 January of oh-brok to me; next day I got read trum Mr. Drinker supply of 28 to 23.000lbs, biscuit; it was made verbally with pet up at the E-sing bakery.\n\nI know where the E ...\n\nsing bakery in but cannot form any idea of its v aining tread from the E-zing shop belonging to the two and.\n\nDempster.\n\nOn the 1st, seaisted by Dr. Bad-All I never made a contract with the tenth prisoner.\n\nast peomure.\n\n415 minuzca before 8 A.M. Of the 15th ford made a hasty analysis, satcient to satisfy myself I look upon ab as the principal the seath prisoor iss.\n\nNo Justice of the Paste in any thing to ...\n\n| large Dietters of busi-with the delivery of the flour.\n\nI got it on writing to Me, ary, and my family partook of bread obtained thate prison was arsenie; the next day I made as his segimant.\n\nMy visits were Tom the E-sing shop, at breakfast.\n\nAfter Mrs. Duapetar was being annoyed by the mandarins because he then as to his own statement--His grandmother was engaged in suppiring the barbarians with bread, &c. she writes and tells b, not to come himself but to send his family; he is not to come because a reward of $5000 is offered for his hend not only is he not to retura, but he is carefully respectively to sabit to you the following faits rayer the existence of his head on his shoulders is ...\n\n... contract with him I would occasionally drop in kuce or ROSER MACHEzni am the Jail Ahlum stated ad eaten a mall portion of the bread she felt giddy und Wetterwards made au analysis to asortain the ...\n\nfour times a week to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have to Mr. Bridges that his father had received a letter from ick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was takem qualty, and found that a guant loer there was ick; I thought nothing of it at the time, I walked out n of arsenic (6 graine).\n\nIn the bread it ex-gone, to sell flour to him 1 would not conclude a on his family wishing him to go home.\n\nI heard the ent was always present.\n\nAklan said the andarins were presence in the jail, neither Mr. Gaskell nor Mr. Tur ospital.\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading up to the ...\n\ntha loaf of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police hostile to him in consequence of his baking bread for the rant were present at this conversation.\n\nDuring the 18 Gays the prisoners were in my custody, I have never ob- all, became sick and continued sick all the way in me some year, and the materials for mak-fore guers.\n\nAs we were going to the bakery we saw a boat ...\n\nserved him send for bread, Lor eat it, but I have seen the hospital, and was sit until a quarter to 10 ingust, als some flour, and some pastry, from the laden with wood, he ask me to pull to it as he wanted to - vomited very violently, Mrs. Dempster was bake.\n\nThey were only examined so they can ask the price, and tray it if possible.\n\nI pulled up to it, and be hita est Chinese cakes.\n\njck up to 1 or 1 o'clock, that night.\n\nThe next evening.\n\nW. H. FONDA,I am ngeat for Russell & Co, and rain any metalic poison, but there was uelibet arsenie told me he had bought it at a picni and a hail for a be 16th, about 6 p, I forwarded the remainder of the nor ly other metalic poison in them, ...\n\ndollar.\n\nI said it was deck.\n\nHe replied it was dry wood carrying on business on my own account.\n\nThe letter and adapted for the bakery.\n\nOn my retom I saw the froni Mt. De Silver (produced) I received the same dale, rend to Dr. Harland for the purpose of, its being analy.\n\nboat discharging on the wharf.\n\nit was written (17th January), I know bis hand writing sed.\n\nI not take the bread myself to Dr. Harland ...\n\nRe-examined.\n\nThe little episode of the wood was It is in his hand writing.\n\nLetter read.\n\nIt commenred Crosemarined by Dr, Belges--Alum the ninth ...\n\nas were not satisfied with his simple declaration.\n\nThe Justice of the Peass\"]t acted upon that order I had up in my own room vold i sant it to De Irland.\n\nconversation with the buttman was in Chinese.\n\nIN DU Ho-examined.--I never saw the tenth prisoner before.\n\npreviously seld the whole of the flour to E-sing; the money pass between Able and the boat man.\n\nThis was value was paid by him, with the difference of a few bar- I sent the bread by a anolic animed Atal ...\n\nthe day before he left for Manua ...\n\nrela.\n\nA portion of the four, he bought in July, and The prisoner Ahlum statement before the Magistrates another in November, use subsequent cannot say read, ...\n\nhow much money I received from him.\n\nI all the flour for $16 for that purchased in July, and $14 for that in November.\n\nThe low purchased in July was the largest quantity.\n\nHe paid on the 14th January $1100, which I supposed at the time to be the haience of his account.\n\nKubs nothing of the sale of the Bour to Mr. De Silver.\n\nCrasu zied by Mr. Day,-I saw Ablum on the and 4 o'clock, canont ...\n\nATA--I am servant to Dr. Dempster--I carried a paper parcel from Dr. Dengster to Dr. Harland, on the 16 January.\n\nI do nut know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to me ...\n\n(Court adjourned at 3.80)\n\nIdeply to a question by the Court.\n\nDI HALAND said he had bean requested by the Colonial Secretary to me an analysis that he did so and the ranits were the que.\n\nThe analysis was made in presence of Dr. Bradri Dr. Watson Dr. Keamy and Dr. Dempster, ...\n\nTiongh the Conrt, at instance of the Attorney Gen pral.\n\nThe symptomas described by the wisuotas, I have ...\n\nsacre those of poisoning by assente.\n\nThe Lead 1 gave to Tr. Tariand, ARANDE shop, at the loom of Aber- ...\n\nWas ken from ...\n\n; ...\n\ndeenerect, un the 16th Janney.\n\nI was at the Central Palie Station, and told a policoon to take the yeast! me, to Dr. Berland.\n\nCourt adjourned al 6 ...\n\nJLLL\n\n(Second Day, 3rd February ...\n\nWOONG ART, I am comprador of the Lieut-Governor ...\n\nmore on that ourasion about Ms. Drinker than what ...\n\nACPEING, Servant to Dr. Dempster.\n\nOn the 15th January, I received some bread at my master's door from we mea belonging to the E-sing's shop.\n\nThey are not ...\n\nH. J. EDWAM,I am a merclist of this place.\n\nBo- among the prisoners, I gave it to my Master to ent Cas examined by Dr. Bridges--I know the Fring before the prisoner left for Macao, he purchased some four ...\n\n1 This was about seven o'clock.\n\nI placed it on the breakfast shopfore this acer.\n\nThere is a shop at the Lo me, on the 13th January, and the delivery order was given ou the 19th, after the contract was made the afternoon of the 14th between WM.\n\nTARANT--I am Faltor of the Priend of China Road East, they are about a mile a part; the bread is ...\n\nfibar was removed from the godowe to his shop.\n\n1 had say it was not hetween 4 and 5, 1 only know it was aber newspaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of badning bread carried from one to the other.\n\nAbout two years ago the offered the au dour to the prisoner two works bofore,, he did not say where he had been.\n\nThe $1100 web paid, $149 in a bill, and the balance in cach.\n\nThe bill from the E-ging shop down to the 25th January.\n\nI know browsed to be baked at the absen, but not lately, a fire and he tried it.\n\nOn the 13th.\n\nI called at his shop, he was ...\n\nnot below, they told me he was upstairs.\n\nI went upstairs with the E-sing shop.\n\nThe 1st is a collector of accounts; fore the 15th January, 1 hare seen him often.\n\nHe was precited by one of the men of the shop, and or reaching the TONG AKU--I Translated the paper tower, from Album he 2d, the last knew of him was as broad deliverer; the always said to be the master of the E-sing shop,anding, observed Alumat a fister, he was looking as by Mr. Mackenzie, since the prisoner Ahlum was in the th is the managing partner; and the 10th is his father, Out of the bakery and shop bon: 50 persons were a ...\n\nit to see who was coming upscura.\n\nOn my approaching jail.\n\nTranslation read, corrobrates Ahlum's statement]\n\nleting as general assistaut in the shop Q's Readresse on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before a Justice of him, he appeared to be muca exvid-I told him put ...\n\nand purt owner of the mat shop of chong, under the at of uvers two are itcqueritly, perhaps one: the Powe, Charles May Esq, several other Justice of Peace be alarmed, thus there was nothing to apprehend ...\n\nvisits.\n\nI saw ...\n\nIn consequence of the reward that was offered for his gatos Tools Ablau's.\n\nAbout the 8th or 9th January prisoner about were arment.\n\nThis was at the Central Police Suation.\n\n3 days before the 15th January, he was sitting down On the first day Mr. Mercer Me. Gibo and Mr. Gray head by en mestarins, 1 thought his oars caurs, and I had a conversation with Alluns, who said his wife my office and presented as a hill from his mer.\n\nI were present on the second day the Attorney Generat ...\n\nmude a roinach, that he shoubil not fear anything.\n\nHe wanted to go home to spend the new year, and wished old him, that, as the bill was not receipted, if he would was prosent.\n\nThe Central Police Station is not e replied that, long as he remained lu the house he had ...\n\nhim to accompany her hat he had a good deal of cave it I would look at it.\n\nHe said his toe was going ...\n\nno four of the maridarins.\n\nI then spoke to him of the business unsettled he could not do so that he had to usul place for eximiaal examinations, but they avo way, and made a motion lo sit down as if he intended to tawonaty held there, lave seen the Aturany the business on which I called, which was the sale of the supply several hundreds of pounds of bread to Drinker, Ou the 15th January wait until he was paid.\n\nSeang he was frelined to bura, M. Mercur, sud Mr. May sitting and enquiring our.\n\nI sat down, and proposed in sale, there rose some and that he had not yet done so.\n\nauey seized low by thu coltar, and told him, he and hi into anisances.\n\nMr. May was not present when the difference about the storage which was got over by bis I was exalued before M. May, and said nothing nator might go to the devil if they pleased, and I thrust two last prisoners were brought up for examinative, saying, this he lud got gedows that would take he han out of the office.\n\nI have seen the second prisador never remember the Justices of the Peace zitting at the dour, and that he would take immediate delivery.\n\nThe stated at the present moment.\n\n[the witness was detained on many occasions, I saw him at the inquest held on the ...\n\nby the request of Attorney General until he could get the Police Station on a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Ma- time of payment was the next question.\n\nI spoke of it ...\n\nfires--he asked for time and it was agreed that he would interpreter Mr. Wade.] jody found on board the Thistle Ou ikat opension he gistrate was sitting at the Police Court while his ex- described himself as parsere mute on board the Thiste.\n\nAmiuination was going on at the Police Station.\n\nJustices pay on the 10th of March-2 the left.\n\nOn the 24th ...\n\n(Court adjourned at 25 minutes after three.)\n\nThis was early in January.\n\nTo the best of my belief the if the Peace were also sitting at the Police Ceart.\n\nIt January, as 12 veluck, he sailed at my office-7 was ninth primmer was the literer of the Thistle.\n\nIn coe- writing at the timu: he said be wanted the delivery order in the invariable rule to send all important criminal for the four- unt huving the contract written ous I teid seganiec of the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave esses to the Police Court.\n\nThe remaining 10 prissovers are still detained.\n\nis evidence on the inquest, I ejected to bin binging are at the Cross road Starion, him I would call on him that after nuen.\n\nI called at 5 corning Mr. Diuke rend to my house.\n\nI pude this oldalon on the 15th posse Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Gots.\n\nThey clock at his shop, signed the contract, and gave hin January between 6 and 7 o'clock in the morning when I have been in custody from the 15th January, I eshoot the delivery order he was ben his shop below--the inquiry about the case of poisoning, about the 15th saw him bringing to broad.\n\nAnother man was carry say whether or not the Attorney General took ary part les imately.\n\nHe objected to be our before on January; acted as interpreter.\n\nI perfectly remember ing the bread in a baskets, the second prisoner took in the examination at the Police Station; he was moving ...\n\ncourt of the bighness of the price, I sold it at a higher Col.\n\nCaine's comprador being examined.\n\nout the bread and delivered it I said, \"Oh oh my fin::fal- abort, but thereon was too crowded for me to distinguish.\n\nlow you deliver my bread do you?\"\n\nHe made no res- CHARLES MAY,The yeast & delivered to Dr, ponse but gave me a kind of is grin.\n\nI saw him go away, flatland were found in my presence at the sing bak And I then went in Bad told my compradore to sutlery Inspector Boyle carried them to the Folice Station.\n\ning but have to reor bread from bin, as I Cross-mined by Dr. Bridges.-- I sat with Mr. MerosR The work polsun wa I partook of the brev, andun the evening of the 15th January to coadors the ca ...\n\ntant girl also eat what was git on the pARE | GUNUM.\n\n Mercer came in, aral I invited him to take & I was about to commence the enquiry at 2.30 2,81, Ava minutes afterwards I went into 107 sitting from the Incakfast table; immediately afterwacite park in it.\n\nI was conducting the enquiry as the Superin £curacy as though I had eat my breakfast to tendent of Police, and Me Mercer as Colonial Secretary fase I sex down and was looking over some papers, when all of a sudden I vomited---J. vomited three or four times which require particular investigation, I enquire into be they were.\n\nI told him that the Chinese anid, the a bad It was a general investigation into the case reports about hirrsclf-link bequired what more during the course of the day, and I have continually ...\n\nfore sending them to the Magistrate.\n\nIt was my orginal anffered train the effects of the poisoning up to the pre-tection to follow the sun course the pecsent issable Button and $9,000 the the efnir of the Thistle ...\n\nto replied that that was nuasense, for the mandarins had tanec: I wished to gtt un traight into the case as supper- intendent of police, but afterwmerts we carned ones.vcclured $5,000 for his apension, and that he would be conjadel to go to Singapore on this accusat.\n\nI tank, into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not told his, this he would be a fool if he went away, and make this change in consequc of having illegally throwing away the chance of making money here ...\n\nseat time.\n\nCross examined by Mr. Day--I am not aware that almab prieoser las muco thu ops shop in Hongkong.\n\nve Bure, he enrried on the business of a baker: lave scard he has other premixes to carry on his bakery, but I To not know whether or not the bekery is carried on in the promises in Queen's Road West ...\n\nQuestion--Do you not, a Edit, make it year badiness to Braw cvery thing going on in the Colony ...\n\nAnst I do.\n\nQuestion Then Str, do you mean to say you did not now that B-sing had a bakery near the American Naval Stor, 1 ...\n\nAnswer What buve 1 to do as a Maitor of a Newspaper with E-sing's stores ...\n\nadministered oathe.\n\nThe Atangy General--asked permington to call Mr. Wale to contrahiertas last witness, in bia statement con- ...\n\nT. WADE--I assisted Mr. Mercer and Mr. May an ...\n\nprice than usand.\n\nI bave had he other business with Dr. Bridges wishes to know if Mr. Wade was sworn him beside this sale, ...\n\nÁrew S. Dix,--I was one of the Juters at the interpreter the occasion.\n\nConsidered of a moment ...\n\nby the Court inquest on the Thulle's case on sinth January, I had la answer to a quenrian put by Mr. Mercer and Mr. a conversation with blum, with reference to that - Mag, Col Caine's cora rader said thas Ahlum told him quest.\n\nI met him, Aline, on the 14th in the street and that he was about to leave the Colony, The Witces toki him, that his man Aheep, the pond prisoner, give usked him how he stood about his business, and be suid very bad vidence at the inquest, that he had bea a Adan replied, that he bat horded over hie bread thing, les bad been crapulls.\n\nI do not recollect whether he said it was the bread business or the biscu very willing witness, and would not have told pay bosings or biscuit business to Mr. Drinker.\n\nI forget who was his eply.\n\nI went on asking him what were 3:u ...\n\nWade The deposition of Mr. Wade having been read YOONG-AT--again called to be confronted with Mr. tom, he denies Ja zaid 80, adding that he only said. hetinu alat Athen had some biscuit to deliver to Mr. Drinker.\n\nG. Duro, ann an siccioneer and was rely proprietor of a biscuit bakery.\n\nI know the last kir is the th prismear stamil call him the most JES SILENNON,--1 am merchant of this city, on SANDWITH DRINKER,--I am in business in the firme 18th or 14thof January, I received fra Tichong a mat ...\n\nActive on in the sing bakery 6th prisoner is a moulder of bread in the E-sing lukery 7th prisoner at Thomas lunt & Co, I lived in the sunse house with waker, a cistonured vir on Ablum; as rents a portio the sanie: 8 prisoner the same: 9th the inauter; Captain Endicott On the 15th January, I eat of some of Alum's shup for Lis business.This grace Elus ...\n\noh assistatic in the retail shop in Queen's Road.\n\nI do bread supplied by the with prisoner, and I was afterwards given to Tichong B time before, it was draw favor know if he has a share in the business.\n\nI am in habit of very ill, and an were all that ent of it in the house of Tishang Iwan Tichong the monet of the draft, su receiving brand on the E-zing shop I received breed have not perfectly recovered from it at this time.\n\ndelivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at Ahlem being indebted to me between $700 and ...\n\naccount o mats purchased, and paid in this order on the 16th January.\n\n1 old AFinn ro biscent baking machines, gay some years ago, and another in December the Police Court on the evening of the following day $300--my dra was for $281.\n\nI have previously paid January last, and 1 erected in third ann far bin about Dr. Jarinud was present.\n\nI have had considerable deal the sand men in the same way, at my drafts have December or Juary, I have been paid for the to 3- I cannot say that I know of a hakery being near them with the E-sing shop in the bakery business, always been houd.\n\nOn the 18th, Tidongiangt back.\n\nchines I sold him, fun well acquainted with the bakery The two last prisoners were connected with the shop, I the order dislicaret, And demanded the money, du winepromisse.\n\nI have often seen Aflan upstairs in the bakery, American Naval Stores have seen the est prisoner in the shop.\n\nThe only time I saw the second prisoner as t ...\n\nhave transnoted basss with the tenth prisoner, who is I went to A. and abused him for not hari poid a part ofhiafemal faily as well.\n\nI can say for ret- brand-deliverer was on the morning of which I spuke-1 ...\n\nAllum's father, when the uinth prisaner was not in the the under, mul asked him, why he did not pay the order.\n\nsal whether Allura lived these or not.\n\nI have seen un! cannot tell whether or not the tearth prisoner hedy.\n\nAuvut the 2nd or 3rd January, I made a contract the said he lead a money, the he was very band up, out as promises the 6th and 7th prisoner who were fotzerty ...\n\nI nay interest in the B-sing shop.\n\nwith Albom to supply a Russian Corvette with bonit, that, if I would pay the mat-man, who was a pour man.\n\nAbout the 7th or 8th January Ch y explog40116.\n\nJOHN WRAY--I am stoward of the Sultana, 1 know On the 14th 1 weat over to the E-sing shop to have a he would by anil bye pay the whale amount to 100 erection of the 34 mabine was completed.\n\nIn conso- e ninth and tenth prisonere, they are bakers in the conversation with Ahlum about that contract On the that he was indebted to ine, as he was to get money from quece of what I heard from my Strof, I put several B-sing's shop.\n\nI have frequently bought bread at their morning of the 13th, our office boy called my attention 10 Ablum's placing a chop out-site his door.\n\nI had his word.\n\ni have commented an action through Mr. Gaskell ngeinst Ablum for the amount, Alders gave —lle replied du do was not go away.\n\nIn the oven prisoner and the ninth and tenth.\n\nThey appeared to be in what the boy told me on the 13th.\n\nI told him that the ...\n\no at the time to reason to believe that he was going to ing of slic 13th January 1 particulwly enlied on bin, and A great hurry attending the business of their shop.\n\nThe boy said the chop was notice, that he Ahlum, intented ears for Macso or any other place.\n\nasked if he was going away us ny Shred and every body first was behind the counter, so was the ninth who was to leave the Colony, and wished to sell out, tad shut up ...\n\nughing dollars; the tenth was walking about.\n\npartook of the loaf which I bought, and after cating it 1 was sink for three or four days.\n\nsaid so.\n\nHe replied dat he had sand so to Chinese people, ...\n\neal cr ...\n\nH. T. De SR,-- am a merchant of this place.\n\nI shop.\n\nHe said the chap did state so, but that he bad uod dealings with Allsin.\n\nAbout inc eud of December, that in enity he was going and further intention of leaving; he had only put it up to deceive the or beginning of January, I heard some thing against him and he had relied to sell read to Chinese people ou Bandarius, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, not so for he came, I asked if he was going to purpose to find the mandarins, and truing behin Croas eramined by De. Bridges-1 often go in to that would not satisfy me, so he had deceived me in Elyngkong he told me that he thought he would fully, atided, you see my family are here, there is sing's shop to buy a font.\n\nI was about two or three min- previous contract, and that he must go to the bake-have to leave.\n\nAkin tibud aquacity of bread at his fear that shall gees and he directed one us in the shop that morning.\n\nThe tenth prisoner was house and shew me the biscuit which he had told me, twe abop, in conanguerne 1 ba the he removed from his of the men in the shop to show me a cheque on the walking about.\n\nor three days ago, was in the drying house, Wy what godown to those Mears. Ly Still & Co.\n\nFu Back 1 was poisoned from the rea Re-examined he was walking about over-looking together in my cat to the bakery.\n\nAs we went along male advances on account of his bread.\n\nI think the beta Jaruncy.\n\nI discovered that day that he had the business ...\n\nassed him if he had his taily with him here.\n\nHe sild, bread is wholly paid for.\n\nI have a running account with gone away.\n\nSince I had the conversation with Ah- Ants,--I am enak to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 13 Jan he had.\n\nI told him, in that can he bad better remain him.\n\nIowa bis considerable money.\n\nI cannos cell how am on the 13th, 1 heart nothing about bis going nary I received some bread from the B-sing shop, from the to the end of the war, as he would make a good art I owe him at the present time.\n\nOr the 14th of way.\n\nHe went $960 to me on account of the second ma person who anually brought the bread; he is not among thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe sail he did not unary, I was not budcated to the prisoner in what chile, and he promised to send down some more money for ile prisoners.\n\nThe bread was brought es about 7.30.\n\nwould call a large amount.\n\nI parchuset 100 barrels.\n\nthe trouble of erecting the 34 mabine, but les did not Auon--I am a coolie at Dr. Garland, I saw Being's and that as the present mommy there were 63 Man four previous to the arrest of the prisoner, and tak lo so.\n\nTholda procisory note of Allun on secost of apen bring the Loved that morning; they are not amplia farms in Hongkong in disguise.\n\nI told in that delivery of chens after the arrest.\n\nI applied for the de- the ad machine, which he promised to pay on the mOTO- the prisoners, ...\n\ni be would report then to the Police he would be pro- livery the day before the rest of the praeuer-the tg of the 14th bat he did not pay it; I did not prese ...",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Register. \n\n24 \n\nNO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 1857. \n\nLeaving his shop, which was to be burned, to take While we cannot fail to admire the philosophic ed; a largeness of thought, which has some of the effect of lantry and self-devotion to which he pished briefly\n\nestrup They think in lakhs and pounds, of provinces advert. There were on board the Birkenhead, in að- sare itself, and carrying biz \"pate in peril\" into view which our contemporary tales of this as fut parishes, of populations and classes of society. Mondition to the soldiers, a number of women and children a place where it could be more easily cut off. To every other great question, we must confess our we have seen race to warm the Katrs se children, and sick persons. The discipline exhibited by the troops as the inference is natural, that he feared to lose selves at a loss in arriving at way thing like a Tinta Joelity, cannot regard & Katie war i\n\nwyl:tu-\n\nhis family, and knowing he would do so if he repractical solution of his vast problem. It is, in its purtent. Tee who saw a badron more numbered and while the vessel was going to pieces under their feet was efficient than that of the Mediterranean despatched to Kanot remarkable. The only boats available were filled mained here, unless he first of all lost his life, he present unwieldy hulk and shapeless outline, too goon sus phrase, canol consider air davedition to Naples with the women and children, und went off from the fled with them to save himself, taking with him, as many for ue. It is like the discovery of a new very exfestive effort. Even the advance of Rusis which ship's side; so that the officers Kil soldiers, remaining he supposed, the lives of a large number of foreign-planet outside all our known sidereal system, and which has seen the red ine in a single reigu embrace King means of safety, and, calm and motionless, awaited the swallows comicis in a year, per less strange to a public on deck, deliberately deprived themselves of their only ers as a peace offering to the Mandarins; perhaps which we must consequently take upon trust of doms grew in a Frapoan houseby. This disposition, sinking of the messe). Their noble conduct was well also calculating that in the event of the poison the mathematician's calculations. When the however, though wo adnit its advai rugs, las one very described by Captain Wright, one of the survivors, who\n\nserious drawback. It war's triday to their true proportion, carrying off a large number, he would be more Friend has added the three or four hundred but it blinds us somewhat to tou alcance of the events\n\nu a private letter, said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the sunly vir rus taan indemnified for what he lost here. Waat he 1 millions of China, to the hundred and fly with Stienst the account of ties attack Chaton, que af bucking, lastead of going to she bottom; that, indeed, orders and had them carried out as if the men were êm-\n\nspeculded ist um 1 effeat at focision would exorci never saw an crabarkation conducted with such\n\nan\n\nthe boats were filled with women and children, and fer a war of conquest, the Exeter Hall wit be clamorets must inevitably be swamped if their living freight were\n\nwas to lose here was advanced as a reason why he millions of Hindostar, his aggregate becomes a was not likely to commit such a crime; it was ecraething so stupendous, that the very idea cakes n the opium trade Of de few who believe at Sir Johu absence of note and confusion at there was not a however shown, that he was nothing more than sa our breath away, especially if this heterogenous Bowring intends to keep the city, the majority regard the single ery or morietur from any of the men; but, just active, perhaps thriving tradeanan. We say. per- mass of peoples and tribes and nations, is expected as a lead to in inexplicable To Plori before the final plunge a suggestion having been made, polertiary it is said, can have a settled policy lie at that ail who could swim should jump overboard and join haps thriving tradesman, because it may be, that to cohere under the unity of the same Imperial ient is not infected by the with dreams of the? Friend of the boats, the officers begged them not to do so, because if he were able collect his recounts he would be Rule emanating from a geographical speck in the Indiu. aowa sled the Condly ental powera will not per in a position to pay the very heavy debts he owes. Northern seas at a disttee of ten thousandil us to hold land in Cia, Dist Pa-Esment, will not suf perhaps not. Hut, to continue with his statement, tuiles. It is true this is the age of wonders and against the frightful siaughter of them and brothers! Be increased, when the men replied by a cheer and only he takes bread to be consumed by his family on monster undertakings. We are told that distance fort is, and is; be, it is said, a mers provali, rifuru three of them attempted to reach the bonds (Heat the passage, and to be given away to his friendsinis anihilated. We are at this moment putting in the Earoy will not have the mears to follow our bear.) This net of chol keroism, which had been es\n\nIt may guntoran, Tha bombardment, and virtual timated at its full value, not in this country alone but lus native village. Strange to say his liberality in electric girdle around our Indian dominions, conquers of the third city in the wori thay be simply an abroad, and find done much to sustain, and even su czise, commences on board of the steamer, and we find which will virtually establish our imperial presence \"incident.\" The tempt to retain it may be premature, or the high character of our army for unflinching diset- biru cutting up the not very large supply of four at Calcutta and Delhi, and carry the imperial fiat may be overbell, or y bu rastrate by the Jealousy of\n\nother European powers. But it may also be, that another pline, was beyond all praise. This result was in a greet loaves among a dozen people! Then we are told for peace or war and all the main issues of gov stroke los sounlod of the great passing ball which this Can- incasure due to the efforts of Colonel Scatoo, who was he offered 50 and eventually $100 if the crument, to eur most distant borders, in less than sury is ringing veus the ions of the Bast. Bin your certainly no ordinary man, and who rare talent for own view of the subject is upon to grave question \"Sir gaining the effections of the soldiers unter his command steaner would go back to Hongkong that night, the fortieth part of \"forty minutes.\" Even at\n\nJohn Bowring, the qua phitose e Gadici, is not and moulding them to his will had trained these men, the offer being made after the fires were put out, the same put are the solitudes of the the great ways for the sake of falling on his face. most of whom were young and untried levies, to face It must have been one of Ahlum's unlucky days Euphrates Valley, hitherto but the lonely halting His sotions at least indicate something very like a settled danger and death with unshaken fortitude. (Hear, hear.) in which so many extraordinarily suspicioua cir- place of the wild Bedouin, being broken in upoti detuviction, Frau is not about to oppase, for the men of An equal meed was due to all the other officers and men cumstances were arrayed against him, though his by the heralds of our civilization, as they map it the grims were in the breach, and the Muleur values prosent on this trying. occasion, (Hear, hear.) The patente cordial. While France and England net in ect, youngest officer of the regiment, to whore life was full Inek certainly was in the ascendant on the trial, as it for that iron road which shall convey a future\n\nit masters very little whed the reader of Barope chriose of hope and promise, trod the deck by the side of his to fancy in the mater. Nor is it at certain that he blow the result shews. To go on to other points, we have British Viceroy within a week from St. Jamess to\n\ncommander with an em a step, and looked upon the will be misouderstand at home. Lord Palingesson is still first of all his numerous contradictory statement the Ganges.\n\nghastly horrors of death with as much travery and com- dietacor, and likely to remain no, and it was lord Palmer- as to whether ho was going, or not going to leav-\n\neton who said that one day we should be compelled to co-\n\nposure as those who had been longest ingred to peril ing Hongkong. He tells the public in a chop; i\n\nquer China\n\n(Haar.) He (Mr Gordon) did not think'it too late to That grent Seligious body which you call Exe fer Hall, and which when in earnest is evorger than a the\n\nmark the country's sense of the discipline and heroisuz of men who liad thus calmly sacrificed their lives la savo\n\nIt will no doubt be argued,-if we have thus\n\nJudia, while\n\nis not on the side of Manchester. Every religiosa peper others, and he therefore begged to put the question uf\n\nnien\n\nthat he feguing he tells people that he fears centralized our rule and comenlidated our power he must go, at the very time he had his worthy over the vast continent of India, giving the philosophers in the kingdes, on the snigeer of amuxation aid grandmother's letter in his pocket which ad- blessings of peace and goed government to itaf mack in England approves the unexation of Use. The which he had given notice. (Tere, hear.) vised him to remain, aud on which advice he said long oppressed and plundered races, shall we repeated murders of Missionaria, the prepetual insults co Sir G. Grey said that every one acqualated with dew he intended to act. We have bie final assertion | shrink from a similar mission upon thus, waere Christianity, avove ail de up-rising of a new high which,citemstances just described he his hon. friend must\n\nbe it what it may, is founded on the Bible, have borne teir\n\nIt la nut vo ceronic a many insgime that the len filly concur in the feeling tribute which he had paid to that he would not go home, and by way of every enormity of misrule and every phase of it.\"\n\nthe gallart and devoted band of British officers and adencher the purchase of a cargo of word; net social disruption and suffering, seem to cry aloud pounders even will protest. The sales about the mild Hit-\n\nwho lost their lives on the melancholy occasion of the withstanding all this he does go. He is brought to the Invader in the naine of our curamundou which slinded Fatope for half a centary, have never\n\nbeen circulated about the Chinese. That race is underated wreck of the Birkenhead. This act of cole daring, per- back, tried, and found not guilty, and the crime humanity; and shall we shrink from this great duty very nearly in its true character, as one in which disgusting furitest by men who were not inspired by the incentives\n\nuncenaid by a cruelty abhorrent the warat is now laid to the charge of two abeconding fore. solely through fear of offending political jeal seriguality\n\nor surmanded with the glory and excitement of the bat men, who, far any thing we see that could be! Ousica, and because of the sgnitude of the of the ropean peoples. It is just possible,we write in tlefield, bat under circumstances in which there were no mumise deference to the community who deals in api approving eyes to see them, deterred to equal measure brought against them, might return and take their enterprise? Its mognitede is, after all perhaps, that England say vitare le approve. And then-\n\nof admiration and gratitude with the brightest achieve. trial, in all confidence that the black deed could more Collossal than formidable. It may be that!\n\nIt is useless to predict, when the event inust so speedy ments in our military history. (Hear, hear.) With it will be found to lie cather in pussive bulk and falsify or realize all speculations. But if ever Cons of these sentiments Her Majesty's Guvernment were co- be proved by no evidence that would satisfy helpless inertia, than in any vigorous and intrinsic a failug Empire wore laiby on the fan of any land they tainly prepared to take into consideration the propriety jury of this place.\n\nThere is one consolatory point of view in this China would be but the double of what we have den up sing from below, but of its wir rotenness. The referred to. (Hear, hear.)-Times, July 19,\n\ngreatness. Numerically, the task before us in apparent in China gow, The Central Goverment is\n\nof erecting some permanent memorial of the description dying, not of any attack from without, ast event of any sad- had business, it is the fact, that the English public\n\nActually achieved are not bland thiresy, and that an Baglish jury effort it would seem to sink into insignificance in which, whatever the Manchester actout may say, a national Military people weighed down by their scaldbrug civilization have Just all the virtues which spring of strength, and without will do what it believes to be ste duty, even al though that inty may run counter, not only, to the comparison. We are year by year, doubling eztaremos a net posible. They have not even pride, for outside prefice, but even to the opinion of the and quadrupling with success, every domain of their exclusivisin is rather that of a Spanish aristoorsey than a healthy self-assertion, A new creed with some of our productive system; shall we then besitate, if the renate et Christianity and all the ferocity of Judziem judge on the bench. fa that view the trial is a great triumph. Perhaps the Chinese may not our Destiny thrust it upon us, to double the area is striving to attain dominion, as the Huguenots strove, and understand it, perhaps they may think that, what of cur Indo-deminions, and the census of unred. The sticial caste, selectal by competitive examira\n\nconquered populations? the Attorney Gencral happily designated judiciome prodigality\" may have bought justice to At present, however, all such magnificent con- turnside its blow-We cannot help that and must captions as these are remote and shadowy and so- trust to further teaching. In our first Burmese war the same brutal proceedings were carried on see our forces held at bay on the very threshaid of ash a handful of marines, is an fecere by the social ty time he has learned the value of a chapeau and sword, against as as are now being carried ou by the the Friend's great enterprise, the discussion of company predaniant for cudurfer, that it dare not even leave Since this zaemorable event, however, things have gone\n\nthe city til Fel ne given permansson. That ly to mu Chinese-poisoning and massaure-two years after quest seems premature. Still it is the first office thinking the frature of the recent angle. There are towar on asal. Nothing daunted, var countrymen #sad the commencement of that wor one of the ablest of the politician to forecast the future, especially in the world whose poputation would have forn Sir M. Say-still crowd the offices of the legations in London and Paris, chieftains, who had been among the moet ruthless on the eve of such an undertaking as we find our lab for lane. Tasre are tone the population of demand an introduction to Majesty. General Cad- of our opponents, issued an orier, that every before us at Canton, and in this view the disens- there is another town on earth in which a million of people, Dallas, sed made has appearance at court iu full military which would have'iled in parte terror. Bat we question if walleder, of Pennsylvania, has been presented by Mr. English soldier captured abonid be spared, and sion even of remote possibilitica can do no harm. with death raining over head, dared neither a fight car fly costume, wearing a badge of the Order of Cincinnati well treated. Let us hope we may have similar While we cannot follow our contemporary into Nothing but an iron social organization, noting on a rane half a yard sung No mistake about him. Another results from similar conduct in China.\n\nhis tremendous scheme of \"building up second produced such a result. Tits & resil Romsun Famples, an\n\ndeprived of the smallest capacity for Freedora. would have personage has also had his card endorsed by the cham- which cannot endace, berlain-Mr. Hart, of Philadelphia--and he had the\n\nAMERICAN PRESENTATIONS AT European Courte\n\nThe following appears In the New York Herald :— By the last accounts from Europo we learn there has been no new phase at court of an alarming character. The peace of the world not having been disturbed by tien. has all the cold cruelty of the doctrinaires hour thus Rystem fosters without the inzen which sometime gives\n\nthe contretemps of the West Point Professor, there is then strength. The gread Mansela robs the trader, and reason to believe that the secretary of state will not be retis any coin but wirh a specis: stamp. The Governor called on to communicate with Me. Dellas on the inher General pepitates two hunted a day, and teaches his ent vid clolites rights of mankind in genersi and Ameri\n\ncans in particolar. The embarrassment of Mr. Dallas is\n\nme what out of place; while to us upon the spot who Braves to make faces to frighten the Barbarians to their\n\nshipe The great population of Cantem, 100 cowardly to over, and the Weat Pelne professor has retreated. By this\n\nAnglo-Indian Bapire,\" we het Bonod to admit and the vale help scene to be, ay in the OWING to the prisoning case, a great clamor has that mighty contingencies are even at this ma-Tuption of the still vigorous barbarians. The Chinzee may lagesally, doubtless, to obtain a court dress from the costatniers at the usual price. Though sat a military been raised us to the necessity of the government, looming the troubled horizon of this; The insurgenta tave not yet predané a caw idea, If men, like Professor Muhau, he was not afraid to have a ment declaring martial law. We hardly think country. In entering upon a campaign against Christians, they are all Chinese, still consider\n\nslaughter the reacties: patl: to domini, still punca sword dangling between his legs. Probably the amiable striel master of ceremonies did not know what un honour he parties clamorous for martial law clearly un- Cant n, it is not impossible that in our very first\n\nexaminations\" as the end of all good urvornment, still ex was conferring on his sovereigu, nor did the Queen derstand wint it is, Martial law tho hand-step we shall have crossed the Rubicon of our hicind the old hawed of light from without,\n\nknow it, either. She wea probably not aware that in ing over to the military, the lives of the civi-destiny in furthermost Asis, and shall ultimately\n\nWe contas, \"herefore, dat we recive without pleasure the her presence stood in very respectable bookseller, and a fians. It existed in Scotland and in Ireland for fad ourselves involved jo anch inextricable com- roport that no material auistance will granted to Sie Hebrew of the Ilebres.\" Grub-street, though itself many long years-read what good it did in either plications, that we shall neither be able to with- John Bowing frota India. It is of erase vais to hope that excluded from the drawing-ruus, might on this pECA- Martial bus was proclaimed at the draw or stand still. The situation even in its berately on the reale of hallding up as Indian Europe, the fraternity Healy, it is time our foreign legations\n\na Government composed of Englishmen will set itauit deli- country.\n\nsion have glorified itself upon the reception of one of Cape of trucù riops (wo haljeve) a few years ag very first phase, is big with the most formidable That is not the English fashion. The gut reault must - were protected from this constant avalunetic of irrel- Bid some excesses committe d'under it were brought presentments ze regards the fature, and with theive slowly, and be in a matter forse day, or sur con- seines will scarcely be at rest. But weistande sufficient\n\nJerz, who, baving acquire money enough spend six Lo the notice of Parliament. Earl Grey had the buribers it may lay at our door. A military oc- to hold Canson Baglish opinion has been pro muaths in Europe, seek every opportunity of infing it al court Godfish and old clothes have heen sufficiently hardihood to defend it. and appeal to the example upation of the Southern capital of China-it might sll be granted. Nobody is India at least, doubts of the Duke, which brought that great nun ou ia banking centre at once the wealthiest and most that the Plenipotendary is in the right. The organent that represented abroad, and the dealers in these articles we have not men to send is after all only proity to look t aloid now hold up. The truth is, we are running our legs to tell Earl Grey he did not know what he turbulent city in the empire, appears inevitable, Europeans are not wanted. A Chinese is just as Pttle privileges it.to the ground. Our foreign minister should was talking about. He said \"I certainly licht The appropriation of the Imperial revenues pro tema, marel for a sens as he is for An Englishmay, and we can decline presenting any but those whe by their public countries occupied by my armies noder martial follows a matter of course, and pro fem. at dolormined fud se What are tes reginents of loc-\n\nula infantry Indin? The gay could be ill up ook dietiverian. Ar eminent man, or an accomplished and services and position at home are fairly untruted to the law, but I did bot administer the crim.onl justice lost, the Imperial Government is supplanted by\n\nand conveyance for them cen, un reluced to a prestin về of those countries. that was done by the ordina. an invading Power, and, once suppisnted, what ry tribunals of the country; and the only persons Seer shall foretell the day of its restoration, with I beld subject to martial law were those composii subduct, and with the evil spirit of centuries so may wild elements of disorder to be first the armies nuder my orden\n\nMartial inw will not mend the matter; and be\n\nyand the summary execution of spies and the de. portation of vagrant Chinese wa kertainly alone not proceed. We have warned the government as to the necessity of vigilance, and we have urged them to adopt proper precautions, but we equally warn them against the brutality of Military Jaw which ought solely to be confined to the regain- tion of military men.\n\nCommunicated)\n\nHepere, There are or cough for hire. What is earful woman, right very well expect this attention- wasted is new men or steamers, but a formal rengusion of thought in some cases within our knowledge, even when it has been intimated to suit that their appearance at of says is to sell cotton. The pher, and it is pochtaps the the faci, waste so low to ac-zpt, that the Anglo-Saxen Te in this mixteenth neutmy has fivo furetless to perform. One court would be agreeable, they have declined the honour\n\nblom infancy, to oper. with a strong hand a pak by\n\nrather than enjoy it with so many of the impurient and\n\nworthy. We propose to publish, as for as possible,\n\nto be scourged out of a stubborn goneration, lor, is to ride, to reduce the Asiatic vices to trends\n\nto us as Captain of Industry, to protect civilation, in the names of those Amereens who, when abroad, auc- We may assure curselves that a discipline such as this, is not the work of a flying campaign; way we must admit it to be quite upon the cards, that complications arising out of the emergency which taker our forces to Centon in our day may find them there in that of our children'\n\ncred in their straggles to encounter royalty, and who which a tesching me powerful tun eyes that of Anow- Ledre, may was its way abroad. We have in how the jungle anmoy our ministers with appications for the privilege. as wel as sell the are, to not as pincere as well as pillars, A curious list it would be. Is is not very ereditable to to be the teachers of truth as well as tre thoney changes of oat country to be thus known through our tuft hunters, clo world friend of India, Derober, 25, 185.\n\nand it is time we should cease trespasilag on the good nature of our legations, and the iegulations which all ther nations conform to without hesitation or uncivility. ---Globe.\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nVeseli..\n\nA\n\nCAPTAIN.\n\nOWNERS.\n\nFort William Congkong M Dermott. P. & 6. St. N. Co. vielen Adam\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS-- Friday, July 18, To our thinking the feature of the present struggle is, that it has come upon us without a\n\nLOSS UP HER MAJKATY'S SHIT \"DIRKINHEAD.” word of warning, noiselessly as the tread of Fate\n\nMr. Gordon anked the first Lord of the Treasury itself, not only without our seeking but after the\n\nwhether he would take into consideration the propišety Ws desire to draw the attention of the readers most humane and patient attempts to avert it;\n\nof erecting, in the chapel of Chrises Hospital, of else where, sone permanent memorial of the gallant auci of this Journal to an able article in the Friend of and that it has now assumed character which self-devoted conduct of the officers and inen lost in Her India of 25th December last, containing some in. admits of no compromise upon our part save an Majesty's ship Birkenhead on the 25th day of Febranty, teresting speculations on the present hostile crisis ignoble and a dangerous one-that we have now to 1832. The hon. member observen that it might be usk- at Canton, and on the possible alternative to which fight it out not merely with the Government of ed why he raised such a question at a perful so long it may give birth, in the progress of what our con- Chine but with the people of Cunton, and nuts the erent to which it referred. Its answer was, temporary assumes to the inevitable Destiny of merely with the people of Canton in the better war way happily terminated and we si evinced our Cast it was not an unfitting time for us, now that the Great Britain in the Eas tite que grand sense, whose pridle we shall subdue, but with gratitude to the army which fought and suffered for us ruling and abs bing Poser. In a word, the its infuriate militia, longer a patriotic soldiery, in the Crimea, to recognize services which, though of a Friend of India is not without hope that the amenable to control, but broken by defeat and peaceful character, were universally admitted to he as existing situation at Canton is but the first step disgrace into a desperate banditti, against whose balliunt and distinguished as Gay recorded in our soun\n\nHarlequin tcy's quands. The circumstances connected with the in a career of conquest, the final result of which ravages their own people will be driven to in-loss of the Birkenhead must be so fresh in the ory shail be. (thongh not necessarily in our day or plore our protection. Such is but a faint outline of all that it would be unnecessary for him to canke sur generation) the absorption of China proper into of the probable work out out for the first batta. hat the most passing allusion to thear. The vessel a our Indian empire. Thisis a bold flight certainly, lions in he landed at Canton-Who shall especially for waxen wings within the melting foret all the end 2\n\nheat of the tropics, and we have only to hope\n\nboth for sake of the advocate and his courc, that\n\nit may not prove an Icaran che.\n\nRENT EVENTS IN CHINA-Angle ladinas negaire, simply from tha tireumians by which they are surround\n\nge tooup ship--was ontployed in encrying to the Cape of Good Hupe the draw;hts of vanous regiments. to the amber of 500 men, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Seaton, and she sailed from Queenstown in the\n\nWhimay\n\nGarant\n\nBrown\n\nM-Muric\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\nItunoll & Co.\n\nJard.nu, M. &. Dent & Co.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nJardins, A. & Co Jardine, M. & Co. Dent & Co.\n\nDeat & s\n\n. Heard & Co. Deat, Beale & O Jardine, M. & Co.\n\n8. Sens & Co.\n\nRoger\n\nD. S. Sons & Co.\n\n11\n\nCana Family boluy Itupavil Any\n\nWition\n\n[P. F. 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        "content_text": "This is, first, the first application of pecuniary nature that I have preferred since I entered Her Majesty's Service in January 1837 and I humbly hope I shall not be disappointed by its reception at Your hands.\n\nFirst, that in consideration of length of Service a personal addition of £100 per annum may be made to my Salary as Chief Clerk and Keeper of Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office, commencing from the 1st January of the current Year; and that from the same date my Pay as Clerk of Councils may be raised to £200 per annum.\n\nI conclude this prayer by respectfully reminding you that my fitness for the Public Service has been acknowledged by two of Your Predecessors: firstly, the Right Honorable The Earl Grey, who, on the 13th March 1847, confirmed me in the confidential Office of Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils of this Colony, for which Governor Sir John Davis had selected me in December 1846; and secondly, His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, on the 15th February 1854, proposed me for the post of Colonial Secretary of Hongkong.\n\nPage 337",
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        "content_text": "Nr. 45 of 1857.\n\nInclosure No 2 in Desp.\n\n4b.\n\nExecutive\n\nBunton $593/0\n\n158\n\nAus 29.\n\nSuone for. No. Ok\n\n19\n\nto you\n\nOffe\n\nFrented seper\n\nSir\n\nKEF 4015 Hong Kong\n\n.0.0.\n\n1857\n\n394\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 7 March, 1857.\n\nPRINTED FOR MALIMINT\n\nof 1 July 1858.\n\nI have the honor to inform you that on receipt of your despatch Nr. 1 of 11th November 1856 relating to the mortality which occurred on board the ships \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Calvin\" I directed communications to be made.\n\nThe Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P.\n\na Representation from the Attorneys of Hongkong against Ordinance 14 of 1857.\n\n(Received 5 March, 1857.)",
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        "content_text": "made on the subject to Messrs = Jardine Matheson & Co.: the Duke of \n\nthe agents for \n\nthe \"Portland\" and \"Mes + = Lyall Still & Co.\" = the charterers of \n\nboth ships. I have \n\nreceived the \n\naccompanying \n\nreplies from these firms \n\nand this \n\nappears \n\nto be \n\nthe only information \n\nthat can be collected here. \n\non these lamentable cases. \n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nwith the highest respect, \n\nSir \n\nYour Most obedient. Humble Servant.\n\nPage 395\n\n \n\nPage 395",
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        "content_text": "As to forewarning (nachrach & cement). Ddy 28 4\n\nAlz\n\nThe Bt. Souble st. La bouchere, M. P.\n\nGovernor Sir John Bowring 7 March, 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n1 Enclosure.. N46.\n\nReceived 130 of 14 November Acknowledging Despatch \"John Calvin\". \"Duke of Portland\" and the Passenger Ships the mortality, on board Statements relative to with that win, Kish with miculated. mi a day.\n\ntwo for comiduction. Cause for the Law offices I Krich that R. Livin in come 6 deemed profe to w When Downs, foment Shige, and I have H. John (cation\n\nThe Emigration Commissioners 46 AK. 4015 Entered DS 193 June 1857 PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT July 1858.\n\nW. Elliston 13 June Gentlemen, W. Merivale 13 M. Fortescue. 15 W. Labonchere Bal\n\nThis is forwarded Announcement ban Letcher in the House of Commons that he worlds. Laws iffimum Strin Guastirin.\n\n396 4857.\n\nI am directed by EW. Sec: Labor Chere to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a Parliamentary Paper presented on the 21st of March 1857, containing the Correspondence which had passed up to that time respecting the Chinese Emigrant Ships \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Calvin\". I am also desired to enclose copies of letters from Mr. Mist\n\n4 Dec.",
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        "content_text": "letters from the Board of Trade, containing some further Communications \n\nin respect to the \n\nJohn Calvin, and likewise a despatch \n\nfrom the Governor \n\nof Hong Kong in reply \n\nto the demand which \n\nhad been made upon \n\nsome \n\nline for information regarding these Emigrant \n\nVessels. \n\nThe John Calvin \n\nsailed from Hong Kong for Havana \n\non the \n\n13th of March 1856; \n\n \n\nPage 397\n\nthe Duke of Portland \n\nsailed on the 3rd \n\nof \n\nApril. The \"John Calvin \n\nhad \n\non board 298 \n\nand lost \n\nEmigrants \n\n135. The Duke of Portland \n\nhad on board 332 \n\nand lost \n\nEmigrants \n\n128. \n\nThe causes \n\nof \n\nthe deplorable mortality \n\noccurring on board \n\ntwo British Ships \n\nregularly despatched from the Chief Port of a British Government in China, requires to be \n\nCarefully investigated. \n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "The main points to be attended to were whether there had been any inhumanity or culpable neglect on the passage; whether the numbers embarked were too large; and whether the emigrants had been deceived and were taken away against their will.\n\nAs for the first point, there appears no reason to suspect any want of humanity or care on the voyage. The British Consul at Havana, to which the vessels proceeded, instituted an inquiry at the moment of their arrival, and reported that the treatment of the passengers had been humane and attentive. This conclusion was confirmed in the case of the Duke of Portland if the report of the Local Marine Board\n\nPage 398",
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        "content_text": "when they an advance of wages, they endeavour to desert the Ship or to seize her by force and \n\nhave received \n\non \n\ncome on multiplier \n\neffect a landing on the Coast. They security \n\nprovided by the Chinese \n\nthe risks of \n\ncollisions, \n\nSufferer \n\nPassengers Act Against \n\nof fraud \n\nthe use \n\nLoss \n\nviolence in procuring Emigrants \n\nto is contained \n\nin the 6th of the \n\nregulations annexed \n\nto the act. The \n\nEmigration Officer \n\nis to muster the \n\nPassengers, & ascertain \n\nthat they understand \n\nwhither they are going, \n\nand \n\nThat they have not been improperly \n\nCollected; and he \n\nmay, if he think fit, detain the Ship and order all or any of \n\nthe Passengers to be re-landed. \n\nIn the Duke Portland, the Emigration \n\nOfficer mustered its Passengers, and gave his Certificate that the Ship was qualified to carry \n\nthe same \n\nnumber \n\n334, and \n\n234 were on board (two less than were finally taken) \n\n334 \n\nand that the Ship might proceed. \n\nAfter he had gone, \n\nAnd",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nthat all the Passengers \n\nwhom he wished to be \n\nremorned were re-lauded.. \n\nto remark \n\nIt is right that in a letter from \n\nthe Master to the \n\nOwner, written soon \n\nAfter reaching Stavanger, he mentions \n\nthe conduct of the Emigrants \n\nas quiet and submissive during the whole voyage. \n\nSuch being the principal facts connected with these two vessels, it appears that there are no grounds under the present law for prosecuting the Master \n\nor Owner of the \n\nDuke \n\nof Portland, since the Vessel was duly \n\ncleared by the Officer designated by the Act for carrying its provisions into effect; \n\nand that the Master \n\nof \n\nthe \"John Calvin\" on the other hand undoubtedly defeated \n\nthe \n\nspirit of the Act by sailing to Sea with 298 Passengers when only 81 had been approved of by the Emigration Officer, and therefore, I think the Bond given under the Act ought to be enforced against \n\nhim",
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        "content_text": "C \n\n40 5 trong Kong \n\nGovernor \n\n\"Sir John Bowring \n\nElliot: \n\n22 \n\nEntered \n\nNo 866 \n\nSiv \n\nPRENA \n\nEe ope \n\n406 \n\nEq June 1857. \n\nTON PARLIAMENT \n\n30 July 1857. \n\ntellist _ ir Juno Thave had under \n\nWaterwald W \n\nI \n\nMr. \n\nWer Fortescue, 23 \n\nmy \n\nConsideration \n\nW. Labouchere. \n\n29 \n\nThis soft \n\nsumpand and \n\nEnculatist for \n\nwhich bar. \n\nfou submitted & \n\nformally, \n\nI.FL. 22 Jum \n\nAnd I bet you \n\nlogi \n\nyour despatch, N°414b \n\nof the 7th of March, \n\nrelative to the \n\nPapenger \n\nThips John Cabin and Duke of Portland \n\nThis despatol \n\nthews that no further \n\nlight is likely to be \n\nthrown \n\non upon \n\nthe fact \n\nAnd I shall thereforo \n\nhow proceed to \n\nCarey \n\nto \n\nyou \n\nsuch remarks \n\nAD",
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        "content_text": "As these cases appear to me to require investigation, I note that the \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" sailed from Hong Kong. John Calvin sailed for Havana on the 13th of March 1856, with 298 emigrants on board, and lost 135; the Duke of Portland sailed for the same destination on the 3rd of April 1856, with 332 emigrants on board, and lost 128.\n\nSo deplorable a mortality, occurring on board two British ships despatched from the chief port of a British government in China, could not fail to excite both the deep regret of this Government, and also an anxiety to detect its causes and endeavour to guard against its recurrence. The main points to be ascertained are whether...",
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        "content_text": "whether there was Any inhumanity \n\nor palpable neglect \n\non the passage; \n\nwhether \n\nthe numbers embarked \n\nwere too large; and whether the Emigrants \n\nhad been deceived, \n\nand were taken \n\nAway against their will. \n\nAs regards the \n\nfirst point, there Appears no reason, \n\nto suspect any want of humanity \n\nor care on the voyages. \n\n408 \n\nThe British Consul \n\nat the Havana, to \n\nwhich the vessels \n\nproceeded, instituted \n\nAn enquiry at the time of their Arrival, and reported that the treatment \n\nof the Passengers \n\nhad been humane \n\nAnd attentive. This Conclusion was \n\nConfirmed in the case of the Duke of Portland by the Report of the Local Marine Board of London.",
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        "content_text": "412\n\nThe security provided by the Chinese Passengers Act against the use of frauds and violence in procuring Emigrants is contained in the 6th Regulations Annexed to the Act. The Emigration Officer is to muster the Passengers, and ascertain that they understand whither they are going, and that they have not been improperly collected; and he may, if he think fit, detain the Ship and order all or any of the Passengers to be landed.\n\nOn the Duke of Portland, the Emigration Officer mustered the Passengers, and gave his Certificate that the Ship was qualified to carry 334, and that the same number (two less than were finally shipped) were on board,",
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        "content_text": "Ji 420 Hongkong 12th February 1857.\n\nWe have the honor of acknowledging receipt of your letter of 9th instant having reference to the Collier Ships John Duke Calvin and Euthe.\n\nAnd we shall have great pleasure in affording His Excellency the Governor every assistance.\n\nThe Honorable M.T. Merced, Col: Colonial Secretary.\n\nJo: Jc: — JE:",
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        "content_text": "དྷྭ་\n\n17\n\n5\n\nGut\n\nMar 42\n\nд\n\nGov Bouring 592 Goor\n\non Surveyor Generals Fixed Establishment\n\ndud\n\nEuctores\n\n48 Leave of Absence to Mr Alexander\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court-\n\nReports the grant of, for 18 Month\n\n44 Re-organization of Legislative Council\n\nReports Publication of the correspondence on subject.–\n\nthe\n\n^\n\n45 Ordinance 4/57 – Amending Certain Ordinances,\n\nEnclour for approval... with Memord. against it. from Solicitons in the Colony\n\n46 Mortality on board the “John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland.\"\n\n_ Forwards replies from The agents of these ships\n\n47 Acknowledges Despatcher to 22? Dec? 1856.\n\n48 Appointment of Mr Syph Jardine as Member of Legislative Council",
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        "content_text": "!\n\n..\n\nI expect that in the course of this day (before 4.0.0) everything taken at low noon be sent to the Government Offices. If not - you will receive official communication from me, the sending of which I should be glad to avoid __ but before the Mail goes I must know whether the stolen articles have been sent as I now require.\n\nYours very truly. (Signed) John Bowring\n\nTrue Copy)\n\n88. 5. August\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 17,\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.\n\nIn the Estate of NATHANIEL CROSBY, late of Queen's Road, Victoria, Ship Chandler, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of the above named have been granted to DOUGLAS LAPRAIK, of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant; and that all persons having any Claims to the said Estate, or who are indebted, are requested to send in and pay the same to the said DOUGLAS LAPRAIK,\n\nG. COOPER TURNER, Proctor for the Administrator.\n\nDated, 13th March, 1857.\n\nIN THE ESTATE OF HENRY DAVIS OF VICTORIA, HONGKONG, MERCHANT, DECEASED.\n\nAll persons having claims against, or being indebted to the above Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith.\n\nHENRY RUTTER, Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees - Josiah JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS, Esq., Hen. W. T. Menzies, Esq., R. S. Watts, Esq., Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company. (ex officio.)\n\nTreasurer.- J. Macandrew, Esq.\n\nResident Surgeon.--RICHARD G. JACK.\n\nConsulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards, ................... 90 cents per day.\n\nIntermediate Wards,.......... $1.20\n\nPrivate Rooms, ................... $2.25\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, recoverable per day, previous to the amount deposited having been expended.\n\nPublic Wards,.................... $15\n\nIntermediate,.................... $20\n\nPrivate Rooms,.................... $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels touching here are responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the Hospital.\n\nN.B.—All Hospital Bills to be receipted by the Treasurer.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. THOMAS L. WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have this day established a branch of the business as Store Keepers, Ship Chandlers, Hongkong, which will be carried on at the premises lately occupied by Mr. W. Scott, under the management of Mr. H. C. ERDICOTT, who is authorised to sign for the said Hongkong Branch,\n\nTRO, HUNT & Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMRS. WILLIAM PROBST is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm at Canton, which Mr. JULIUS BAST is authorized to sign per procuration, while Mr. W. HOLLMANN signs as per procuration for us.\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co. Hongkong, 15 January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. ALFRED JAMES HOWE is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of Mr. EPENEZER NEWNHAM drawing on our Firm ceased on 31st December last. Our Firm now consists of William Walkinshaw, William Harrold, John Swaney, and Robert Foster Thorburn.\n\nFORTUNE, THORBURN & Co. Hongkong, 19th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nR. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Firm, will sign my name from this date per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN.\n\n\"Hongkong Register\" Office, 18 January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned has this day established himself at Macao, as Commission Agent and General Auctioneer.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\nA. J. F. CASTRO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nI have this day established myself here as Merchant and General Mercantile Agent, under the style and title of P. S. BORRADAILE & CO.\n\nTHOS. S. BORRADAILE.\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe interest and responsibility of the late Mr. JOHN CONNOLLY in our Firm, ceased on the 1st December last.\n\nTAIT & Co.\n\nAmoy, 6th March, 1857.\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nCommission Merchants,\n\nSingapore and Bachok, Siam.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1857.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWe have this day established a Branch of our Firm at Foochow, which Mr. RUN SINGHAM will manage per Procuration.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 31st March, 1857.\n\nHOUSES,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned having erected a spacious GODOWN on their premises, near Spring Gardens, are prepared to receive on Storage, goods of all descriptions which may not interfere with Insurance against fire. The charge for Storage of Cotton will be 10 cents per Bale per month, and for Rice, Sugar, and other Dead weight 2 cents per picul for the first, and 2 cents per picul for the second and subsequent months. The Rates for other Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1856.\n\nTO LET.\n\nLunar House in Gage Street, commanding a fine view of the Bay, adapted from its central business position, for a Native or European Mercantile Establishment.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR SUGAR CANDY in quarter picul tubs, just received from Amoy.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 10th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nThe fine America Clipper Ship Celestial, built by Webb, now on her way from New York to this port.\n\nApply to\n\nJAMES PERDON & Co., of Canton,\n\nDAVIS & LAWRENCE, of Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nThe undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned, having been appointed Agents for The Insurance Society, are ready to issue Policies and in the meantime the risks can be arranged to meet the requirements of an intending insurer, payable in SHANGHAI, FOochow, Canton, Hongkong, SINGAPORE, PENANG, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, LONDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Canton. 23rd January, 1856.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed AGENT in CHINA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES at Hongkong, as under.\n\nTO LET.\n\nTHE BUNGALOW, Second Estate from U.SION\n\nPossession can be had from 1st February.\n\nApply at the Office of this Paper. Victoria, 13th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLDEN SHERRY. Also,\n\nA few Cases FRENCH CORKS.\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slate, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,—Rate of Premium, 2 per cent per Annum.\n\n2d.-On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months, and for 3 Months of the Annual Date will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted on the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 2nd Class to the extent of £8,000.\n\n3d Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on Building alone, or on the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nN.B. COPPER, and YELLOW METAL SHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE.\n\nApply to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nBEST English STEAM COALS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nIn one or two Lots.\n\nTHE HOUSES known as Buglers.\n\nThe Western House on Inland Lot 141. The Centre and Eastern do. do 146. For further particulars, apply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 9th March, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cases of 1,2, & 3, Dozen each, also CHAMPAGNE in 3 dozen Cases. BEER in Cases of 3 & 4 dozen each, at East Point Godown.\n\nALEX. WILSON.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force unless the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send in full particulars of the Risk to be taken; any Deviation from which without the consent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above named Society, are prepared to grant POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, RANGOON, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nQIBO, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1852.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM.\n\nTRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. (Established in 1845.)\n\nThe undersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at London and\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nNo. 1,376.\n\nThe undersigned having been appointed Agent for the majority of Underwriters and favourably known Insurance Companies in a list of which may be seen in his Office, requests application to be made to him in case of any particular or general Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nA. W. P. KUP. Hongkong, January, 1857.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nCaptains & Consignees of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the success of Provisions &c., the Treasurers of the SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the Rates of Admission, which on and after the 1st of April 1857 will be to the,—\n\nPUBLIC WARDS, INTERMEDIATE, and PRIVATE ROOMS, ....... 90 cents per day, $1.20, $2.25\n\nH. MAGNIAC.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY,\n\nUnder the superintendence of an Experienced Engineer. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY are executed with despatch, and repaired. SHAFTS of the best English make from 5 to 8 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Messrs. A. A. BARRETTO & Co., Manila.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have taken out an AUCTIONEER'S LICENSE, and beg to offer their services to the Public in that Capacity.\n\nTHO. HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 1856.\n\nOwing to the existing condition of Affairs at Canton, DR. KEN has removed to Hongkong; and may be consulted at his Residence, corner of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nHongkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nRev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of such Parents residing at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the Comforts of HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION.\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.\n\nHOME EDUCATION.\n\nA CHELTENHAM LADY, the Widow of a Medical Man, who has resided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own Daughters, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFor particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nTO\n\nPARENTS DESIROUS OF PROCURING AN\n\nENTIRE OR PARTIAL EDUCATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN.\n\nTHE SISTERS of St. Paul have respectfully to inform the Community of Hongkong and the Parents that the hours of instruction in their School (Hollywood Road) are as follows:-\n\nThe class is open from 10 to 4.\n\nFrom 10 to 11 Music Lessons.\n\nFrom 11 to 12 Drawing.\n\nFrom 1 to 2 Needlework.\n\nThe rest of the day is employed in a general English Education.\n\nAny Ladies desiring private lessons in French can be gratified.\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBy the PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Hongkong, to Amoy, Shanghai, the Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and England.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room at the Rev. C. UDELl'S Morrison Hill, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock, to Members of the Society, for the cut and exchange of Books. Parties not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nTHOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, Landing Ware, &c. attached, at present in the occupation of Messrs. LYALL, STILL & Co., and situated on part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nTHOMAS H. WALKER Estate and House Agent, Queen's Road.\n\nHongkong, 19th July, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED LARGE and Fine Assortment of LORGNETTE and NIGHT GLASSES, direct from Paris.\n\n6 Bbls. American Crushed SUGAR.\n\n60 Dozen very Superior SHERRY.\n\n80 Dozen BRANDY.\n\nfrom BALLS WOOD & Son, London.\n\nCHAIN CABLES 14 a 1/4 inch.\n\n150 Do. ALL sizes, bottled by Friend, SHIP'S CASKOUBES, different sizes.\n\nPersons from Manila HAWKERS, from 5 to 8 inches.\n\n100 Bbls. W. BEKERY.\n\ncapable of cooking for 300\n\n50 Tierces PORK.\n\nSALMON in Kits.\n\nMACKEREL in quarter bbls.\n\nAlso,\n\nFresh SALMON in 21/2lb and 4lb. Tins.\n\nWith a large assortment of PROVISIONS, SOUPS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, &c. &c. &c.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 9th April, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nROBERT A. WALES, Hongkong.\n\nMAXIMILIAN SCHAEFFER, Canton.\n\nH. WARDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH. T. MARSHALL, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOTTELL, Calcutta.\n\nJOHN RATHBONE, Bombay.\n\nROBERT FRANCE. Madras, or\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nCOMMITTEE OF MARITIME INSURANCE.\n\nOF PARIS.\n\nThe undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are authorised to examine and approve Claims for General and Particular Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSURANCES MARITIMES DE PARIS.\n\nLes Soussignés ayant été nommés Agents des Reunions d'Assureurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes, de Paris sont autorisés, pour examiner et attester des réclames d'avaries particulières et communes sur des risques assurés par eux.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1856.\n\nIN THE COURT FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS\n\nAT CALCUTTA.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\nof\n\nSIR R. PEEL AND THE FOREIGN PRESS. The French papers are much amused with Sir Robert Peel's speech, and give copious extracts from it, together with translations from the comments of the London journals. The Assemblée of Saturday devotes an article of four columns to the matter, but it is only remarkable for the feeble attempts made to translate the Yankee expression \"soft sawder.\" The redacteurs of the Assemblée, who probably put their heads together and consulted their dictionaries, give the result of their learned researches in the following note:-*** It is all soft sawder, an expression more American than English, and one which it is impossible to translate literally, sawder' leans a sawyer who handles his saw lazily, and does but little work. A 'soft sawder' is what, in the language of working people, is called un lambin, un grande iche, une poule mouillée.\" Having by this lexicographical process obtained a choice of epithets, the Assemblée selects lambin as the most appropriate, and nervously in the text of the article it is represented that Sir Robert Peel, instead of saying that the grand duke's frankness and cordiality was all \"soft sawder,\" called him a \"great drené\" (lambin.)\n\nIn the matter of the Asiatic Marine Insurance Office. NOTICE is hereby given that by an Order of this Court the shareholders of the said\n\nASIATIC MARINE INSURANCE OFFICE\n\nare required to pay the further sum of Company's Rupees Two thousand\n\non or before the following dates, that is to say the shareholders resident in Calcutta or the suburbs on or before the tenth day of March next, the shareholders resident in Hongkong and Bombay on or before the tenth day of May next, and the shareholders resident in Great Britain and all other places not mentioned in the said Order on or before the first day of August next. And in default thereof the defauling shareholders be adjudged to have committed an Act of Insolvency according to the provisions of the Indian Insolvent Act.\n\nDENMAN, HATCH, & DAVIS. Attorneys for the Official Assignee.\n\nBARRERS Fresh GALLEGO FLOUR, revolved\n\nthe late writer on the brain, says, in a late clinical lecture on the frightful and formidable malady, softening of the brain, would caution you a student to rest, from excessive use of tobacco and smoking, and I would advise you to disabuse your patient's mind of the idea that it is harmless. I have had a large experience of brain disease, and I am satisfied now that smoking is a most noxious habit. I know of no one other cause or agent that so much tends to bring on functional disease, and through this, in the end, to lead to organic disease of the brain, as excessive use of tobacco,”—Dublin Medical Press.\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co., Hongkong, March 26, 1857.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself as Shipping Agent at this port, in conjunction with PALMER, 3, 10 AM YAN DER HOEVEN of Canton, under the Firm of VAN DER HOEVEN & KOP.\n\nA. W. P. KUP. Hongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\nin this Colony, occupied at present, by me under level,\n\nKING & Co.,\n\nof Canton.\n\nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\nAssignee.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "On the 18th \n\nCoventive Council. Instant, and took charge of his Department on the,\n\nI understand\n\nthe 13\n\n& from\n\nW. 82.\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nF.G. 1920\n\nJUIN\n\nbbob Hong Kong\n\n1. Governa\n\n1827\n\nth\n\n8 46 298%\n\nhr\n\nMr. Woith that he has given the necessary securities to the Treasury for the fulfilment of the duties of his office, before leaving England.\n\nPutley.\n\nfuels.\n\nMingof welf\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect\n\nYour\n\nSir\n\nmost Obedient\n\nhumble Servant\n\nM\n\nSchu Bensin z\n\n4015\n\nCopy of every page 23 to 2.\n\nloopy of\n\nallo t\n\nOfficers 6.Aug\n\nyou\n\n127\n\nient Offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1887.\n\nIn\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nHof C. 30 July 1858.\n\nJu Despatch Nr.28 of 11th March relating to the Passenger Ships \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Calvin\", you\n\ndirected me\n\nto enquire what record\n\nor evidence exists that\n\nthe passengers embarked in the \"Duke of Portland'\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nHenry\n\nLabouchere, M. P.",
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        "content_text": "that no precautionary measure was omitted here to protect, the Passengers in the Duke of Portland and \"John Calvin\". The discrepancy as to the amount of rooms allowed has, I conceive, arisen from an inaccurate copy of the Emigration Officer's certificate, as the full space in both instances appears to have been secured.\n\nI have the honour to be, with the highest respect,\n\nYour Most obedient, Humble Servant,\n\nJohn Benning\n\n129",
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        "content_text": "Victoria, Hong Kong, May, 1857.\n\nGovernor\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Labouchere, M.P.\n\nSir John Bowring\n\n1 Enclosure.\n\nF82.\n\n\"John Calvin\".\n\nRe: Duke of Portland and Chinese Passengers on board the accommodation afforded to\n\nMarch, on the subject of\n\nTo be forwarded to Department 1.28 614th\n\nEntered\n\nThe Attorney General\n\n14th June\n\nThe Solicitor General\n\n27 July\n\nW. Ellist M.v. Merivale 28 W. Fortescue. Esq. W. Labouchere\n\nB\n\n3\n\nN.B. The enclosure to be sent with this letter will be found at page 23 of the enclosures in F60b.\n\nL\n\nJuly 18, 1857\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th instant transmitting a Case respecting the Chinese Emigrant Ship \"John Calvin\", and inquiring whether she had become open to prosecution, I am directed by Dr. Labouchere to transmit to you for your information the accompanying Copy of a document which has since been received",
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        "content_text": "Received from the Governor of Hong Kong, adding some particulars to the information previously possessed respecting the clearance of this ship from Hieng Trong (or Faussas?).\n\nEntered in Action Comin...\n\nThe Emigrati...\n\n4\n\nBy W. Ellist_vy July W. Merivale & W. Forlisene 29\n\nMv. Labouchere\n\nM. 86. 29 June\n\n7 Au\n\nPRINTED FOR PAR... 185\n\nX\n\nCof. C. 30 July 18 5f\n\nGustemen 132\n\nWith reference to my letter of this 19th ult, enclosing the correspondence which had passed respecting the Chinese Passenger Ships \"Johns Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\", I am directed by Mr Secretary Labochere to transmit to you for your information the accompanying Copy of a despatch which...\n\n123\n\nPage XX\n...\n...\n\n \n(To be continued on next page, following the original format, the page numbering \"Page XX\" is kept as is, assuming \"XX\" is a placeholder for the actual page number.)",
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        "content_text": "having been duly inspected and the correctness of their agreements ascertained and informing me that the Secretary of State for the Colonies is under the impression\n\nThat instead of five superficial feet on the upper deck and twelve superficial feet on the lower deck on board for each passenger the Ships Duke of Portland and John Calvin there was only then feet above and nine below allowed, and requesting me to ascertain if possible the proportionate amount of room allowed to each passenger on board of such ships, and also requiring a statement whether the regulations of the Chinese Passengers Act with regard to passengers have in any way departed from,\n\nI do myself the honor to draw attention to my letter to your predecessor dated the 20th November last No 13A and its enclosures, in reply to his letter to me of 26th December No 97 inclosing for my report a copy of a letter from the President of the Emigrants' Home for Asiatics in England, which I think will be found to contain nearly all the information",
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        "content_text": "required.\n\n2.\n\nI would however state that each Statute Adult on board the Ship John Calvin was allowed the full space prescribed by the Act, viz. 12 feet below and 5 feet above for exercise, and that the provisions of the Chinese Passengers Act, have been during my Office term, and are at present so strictly carried out in this Colony, that it will be in His Excellency's recollection that complaints have been made by the Masters of Vessels and Agents of Owners thereof, and in one instance a Protest was made by the Master of the British Ship \"Gatwick\" Against me for so strictly enforcing the provisions of the Act with regard to space.\n\n3.\n\nWith regard to the ship \"Duke of Portland\", she appears to have cleared out with the number of passengers carried, although, upon the face of it, there appears to be some clerical error in the Certificate of Mr. Williams, my predecessor, inasmuch as I find from the Certificate of Captain M'Kean, copies of both of which I beg to annex, she was entitled to carry...",
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        "content_text": "that the full space \n\nwas allowed \n\nto each individual on board \n\nthe said vessel.\n\n\"I have, &c., (Signed) E R Mcholl,\n\nEmigration Officer.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW.J. Bridges, Acting Colonial Secretary\n\n \n\n1\n\n2.6616/57\n\n138\n\nEMIGRATION OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE.\n\n\"\n\nDuke of Portland to\n\nI hereby authorize the Chinese Passenger Ship\n\nproceed to Sea for the Port of Havana,\n\nin\n\nCuba\n\nand I certify that the said Ship can legally carry 334 Adults, and that there are on board 334 Passengers, making in all 334 Adults, viz., 334 Men, Women, Male Children, and Female Children, such Children being between the Ages of One and Twelve Years; that the Space set apart and to be kept clear for the Use of such Emigrants is as follows:-On the Upper Deck, 140 1/2 Superficial Feet, being poop cabins\n\nand in the Between Deck, Cabin betweens hoop, 2,834 Superficial Feet, being 'tween decks house;\n\nthat the Ship is properly manned and fitted, and that the Means of Ventilating the part of the Between Decks appropriated to Passengers are as follows, Scuttles, Air-funnels & tinrails; that the Ship is furnished with a proper Quantity of good Provisions, Fuel, and\n\nWater for 168 Days' Issues to the Passengers according to the annexed Dietary Scale, and with a proper Quantity of Medicines, Instruments, and Medical Comforts according to the annexed Scale of Medical Necessaries; that I have inspected the Contracts between the Emigrants and their intended Employers (the Terms of which are annexed to this Certificate), and consider them reasonable; that no Fraud appears to have been practised in collecting the Emigrants; and that there are on board a Surgeon and Interpreter approved by me, and designated respectively\n\nDavid Ludgate and Sungte.\n\nThe Master of the Ship is to put into St Helena for Water and fresh Vegetables. Passage from Hong Kong to St Helena estimated at 60 days, from St Helena to Havana 78 days.\n\nDated at Hongkong this ... Day of April, 1856.\n\n(Signed) C.15. Hillier\n\nEmigration Officer.\n\nAnnexed to this Certificate\n\nare\n\n1. Passenger List as supplied by master.\n\n2. Copy of the Contract for labor.\n\n3. Schedule A of\n\nChinese\n\nPassenger\n\nAct.\n\nTrue Copy,\n\n(Signed) E. R. Michell,\n\nEmigration Officer.\n\nWST. J. Bridges\n\nTrue Copy,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "Ja66+5/57\n\nThunby artify\n\ny.\n\n137\n\nI certify that I\n\nhave measured the British Ship\n\nDuke Of Portland and report that\n\nShe has\n\nCapacity under Act 18 & 19. No. Cop : 1044 for the Conveyance through the Tropics of Three hundred and Thirty four 5/12 (34 7/12) children\n\nTwelve passengers, allowing Twelve superficial feet for accommodation for each Passenger as follows:\n\nOn the main Deck - 287C. 5 superficial feet\n\nIn the Fae Poop Cabins - 3413.10\n\nCabinskeju the Poop- 5397.5\n\nDuck House-257.5\n\n12.\n\n4011.1\n\n334 7/12",
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        "content_text": "147.\n\nfrom\n\nthe President of the Shangars Home for Aviators in England with reference to the mortality which is\n\nsaid to have occurred on\n\nboard the Immigrant Ships John Calvin and Duke of\n\nPortland, which Vessels\n\nare cleared out\n\nfrom this\n\nPort, bound to Havana, by my predecessor & Mr. Hillier) on the 12th March and not\n\nApril last, respectively, and requesting me to furnish you with the fullest particulars in my power respecting\n\nthem :\n\n2.\n\n135\n\n146\n\nOn reference to the records of my predecessor, I find that the Ship \"John Calvin\" was authorized to carry\n\n81 passengers only, whereas\n\nby\n\nthe ship's list of newspaper attached\n\nto Sir E. N. Buxton's letter to the Earl of Clarendon above mentioned, I find that 110 Coolies were on board. The number of\n\ndeaths\n\noccurred on the\n\nvoyage\n\nit would therefore appear that this vessel succeeded\n\nin going to Sea with a much larger number of Coolies than that authorized by the Emigration Officer,",
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        "content_text": "Copy of Certificate of Registry (which is hereto annexed), and also an extract from Emigration Record Book which purports to show that a portion of the Coolies originally shipped had proceeded on the voyage.\n\nAs regards the Ship Duke of Portland I can only say, that this Vessel was authorized to carry passengers only, out of which number she appears to have landed 202; a Copy of the Clearance Certificate is also annexed.\n\nI would however remark that the requirements of the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 appear to have been complied with at this Port; that the Vessel carried a Surgeon, was supplied with medicines according to the Scale prescribed in Schedule A, and that the Bonds in each case (Copies of which are annexed) were duly entered into and executed.",
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        "content_text": "No6\n\n(True Copy)\n\nJu 6606/57\n\n(Signed) E. R. Michell, Emigration Officer\n\nHongkong 24th Decr, 1836.\n\nKnow all Men by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds of Good and Lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\n[28]\n\n(Signed) Geo. F. Seymour [* #]\n\n30. C. Mackan. Geo. Lyall.\n\nthis 28 Day of March 1856.\n\nDated at Hongkong this 2 Day of\n\n[£. $.]\n\nSealed with our Seals.\n\n[28]\n\nWhereas by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' computed Duration, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient Sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds:\n\nNow the Condition of this Obligation is this, that if (in respect of the Ship Duke of Portland whereof George Frederick Seymour is Master) all and every of the Requirements of the said \"Chinese Passenger Act,\" and of the Regulations contained in Schedule (A.) to the Act annexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed (in like Manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, and the said British Ship a British Subject,) then this Obligation to be void,\n\notherwise to remain in full Force and Effect.\n\n31.\n\n148\n\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden George Frederick Seymour, Alexander Campbell Maclean George Lyall in the Presence of\n\n(Signed) G.B. Hillier\n\nEmigration Officer\n\nColonial Secretary's Office",
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        "content_text": "Governor Sir John Bowring\n\n24th July, 1857.\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nto\n\nThe Rt Honble Henry Labouchere, M.P.\n\n/ Enclosure.\n\nN119.\n\nReceived.\n\nCopy of the last heard House..\n\nForwarding correspondence with the Military Authorities, relative to a lot of land on the East side\n\nThis is a conflict between the Civil & Military Authorities for the appropriation of a certain piece of land.\n\nThe one wants it for a market, the other for Military purposes.\n\nWar Dept backed the Military.\n\nAs we have no information in the Office on the subject, it might be expedient to communicate with Sir G. Bonham, Mr Mercer, before the surrender of the ground.\n\nin Mackworth\n\nRefd to M. Tercer - hr/private\n\nI think it should be referred and. 26 Sep.\n\nSir John Bowring.\n\nMINUTE\n\n182 Sadler\n\nElliot 7 Merivale\n\nOCTR\n\n8006. 9794\n\nGroof & Hay Harry.\n\n1\n\nAutographed\n\nNo0757\n\n483\n\nTheir Lordships have acknowledged the receipt of your letter.\n\nENC Fortescue 2 Ante Mer Gutch Duke of\n\nScalaboucher\n\nlo. Nr.\n\nJür sich.\n\nCopy of a correspondence between the Military & the Civil Authorities at Hong Kong relative to the appropriation of a piece of land near the Guard House.\n\nHaving referred this despatch to the Board of Ordnance, his Lordship has apprised me that he has approved...\n\n765/52\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "# September, 1857\n\nIt was intended that Rule (see p. 113, Page 35 of Book of Regulations) so far as regards the \"gratis discharge of the duties of the chief officer should be rescinded?\n\nJ.Dr.Den.\n\nHeld Brick by Her Ladyship, Md.\n\nReceived  \n1 Bielorus  \nF/43.\n\nPapers at Hongkong, exception allowed to the Civil Service Colonial Secretary on the subject.\n\nTransmitting Letter from the Mr. Merivale.\n\nI do not think that the Duke of Newcastle's dispatch of 9th January 1854 has been misconstrued. It merely relaxed the old Rule of six weeks each year by substituting 4 months every 3 months alternately, but...\n\n## MINUTE  \n7 DEC  \nA.F.R. James  \nBEHNKE  \nR.C. Fortescue  \nM.B.Scalaboucher\n\nThere is no difficulty in acknowledging the receipt of your Despatch No. 143 of the 5th inst., in which you apply for instructions on a question raised by The Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nWhether by the terms of the Duke of Newcastle's Despatch of the 9th of January 1854, the local Government is or is not bound to provide at its own expense for the discharge of the duties of Civil Servants when abroad...",
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        "content_text": "## To prate of Subject of Despatch.\n\n| No | Incl | Date | Subject of Despatch |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 82 |  | May 20 | In reply to Despatch 2098 of 14th March, on the subject of accommodation afforded to Chinese Passengers on the Ships 'Duke of Portland' and 'John Calvin' |\n| 83 |  |  | Acknowledging Despatch No 27 of 14th March and reporting appointment of Mr Mat Chapman as Post Master at Hong Kong |\n| 84 |  | 21 | Transmitting copy of and reporting on the Registration Ordinance (No 6 of 1857) |\n| 85 |  |  | Reporting appointment of M. I. C. Power, as Marriage Registrar in the Place of Mr Rienaecher |\n| 86 |  | 23 | Reporting increase to the number of members of the Legislative Council and Suggesting that the Public be admitted to its debates |\n| 87 |  |  | Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to 72 + 42 of 7th April 1857 from home |\n| 88 |  | May 23 | Acknowledging Despatch No 39 of 28th March |\n| 89 |  | \" | Announcing Her Majesty's disallowance of Ordinance No 15 of 1856 Respecting treatment of the Chinese seized at the Esing Bakery on the 15th January 1857 |\n| 90 |  | 27 | Regarding a difference between the Attorney General and the Acting Colonial Secretary out of the disallowance of Ordinance No. 15 of 1856 |\n| 91 |  | 29 | Regarding certain losses incurred by Mr Hyndman of the Colonial Treasury |\n| 92 |  | \" | Submitting Correspondence relating to the Staff of the Supreme Court |\n| 93 |  | \" | Acknowledging Despatch No 8 of 25th January Submitting Draft Ordinance for certain munitions of trade - prepared by the Attorney General |",
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        "content_text": "## dispatch of the Emigrant Ship \"**Duke of Portland**\". \n\nI have done so and I have the honor to forward hers with such explanatory letter which will I trust prove satisfactory to you. \n\nI have the honor to be \nWith the highest respect \nYir You most Obedient Humble Servant \nKen Ellist.\n\nThis despatch to encloses the Report of the Superintendent of \nPolice on \nthe case of the **Duke of Portland**.\n\n... I think then the Captain \nOrten flames... \nHa magh \nfumonneed satisfactory. `77012/12`",
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        "content_text": "## Ti Howe Row, Ioneloame. P. 148.\n\nThe Rt Hon'ble Henry Labouchere, Governor for John Bowring, 9 October, 1857.\n\nReceived from Ship \"Duke of Portland\" - respecting the Emigrant Superintendent of Police explanation from the of 24th June transmitting in reply to Despatch 1.86\n\n## Gov. 11091 Shang\n\nSir, Jose Bouring\n\nMINUTE 20 DEC\n\nAIR Elliot 131 Merivale 3/ FRC Fortescue 2 ur 28 Day 500 +42.30 Jul 1858.\n\nI have to ask your Despatch status of things accompanied by explanatory letter from the Superintendent of Police of Hongkong respecting the Emigrant Ship \"Duke of Portland\" will inform Me. I may inform it. She's explanation...\n\nPage 420\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "Jony conduct on Superintendent of Police, on the matter of the Coolie ships Duke of Portland; \n\nbeof= \"Captain Seymour, the master of such ship informed his Owners by letter that \"On 2nd April when hove short and ready for sailing, the Chinese crowded aft; took belaying pins from the rails and armed themselves with firewood; yelling and shouting in a fearful manner, as throwing everything moveable overboard. He then had an interview with the Stipendiary Magistrate at the Supreme Court who came on board with a Police force, the Police laughed at them and at length they were driven below at the point of the bayonet. Then planted my two guns inside the fuddy door, loaded them with grape and cannister, had the carronades loaded and placed at the poop rail, gave the men a cutlass each; Mr. May (Magistrate) was then on board. Left a Sergeant and five policemen on board for sentries during the night. At daylight I was out of the Roads.\".\n\nThere the honor to state",
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        "content_text": "For the information of His Excellency the Governor, with a view that the statement may be laid before the Right Honorable the Secretary for the Colonies,\n\nThe extent of my knowledge on the subject is very limited, but I have enclosed reports touching the matter which will convey the required intelligence in so far as it regards the interference of the Hongkong Police.\n\nEarly on the morning of the 9th of April, 1856, I proceeded in the Police Boat on duty to the town of Aberdeen and returned therefrom to Victoria in the afternoon, arriving in Victoria Harbour at about 6 P.M. I was casually informed by a gentleman passing in a boat that there had been a disturbance on board the Pollie Emigrant Ship `Blake` of Portland, then at anchor in the Harbour, and that he believed Police Constables were on board the said Ship. I immediately steered to the `Duke of Portland` and went on board. I saw two Constables there, who told me.",
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        "content_text": "\"Generally, an abstract from the Police Morning Report of the 24th April, which report was, as usual, forwarded that day to The Honorable The Colonial Secretary and the Chief Magistrate and a copy of the case taken at the Police Court before the Assistant Magistrate referring to prisoner taken for disorderly conduct from on board the \"Duke of Portland.\" \n\nI have, &c. : \n\n(Signed) Major \nSuperintendent of Police, \nat present \nActing Assistant Magistrate (True Copy) \nJ. F. \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\n\n\nPolice \nReport: \nNo. \n423 \n\nOn the 2nd of April, 1856, the \nCaptain of the Ship \"Duke of Portland\" came to the Central \nStation and said that the Chinese Coolies on board were creating a \ndisturbance, and that he did \nnot consider himself safe. I went to the Emigration Officer Mr. Hillier and reported the circumstances to him; he then told me to take some Constables on board, and that he would \nfollow immediately afterwards. \nI carried out his orders and had",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nand in addressing the Duke of Newcastle on the 20th October 1853, he concludes his dispatch with the averment \"that I fear the services of a Medical Officer, Solly - appointed for the purposes, cannot be dispensed with.\"\n\nSoon after my arrival in 1854, the Lieutenant Governor being desirous that a trial should be made of appointing Staff Surgeon, I concurred, and Staff Surgeon I.C. Dempster was appointed on a salary of £200 per annum.\n\nFor 1.58 years, convinced that it is or impossible for a Medical Officer, however zealous, to perform in a satisfactory manner the double duties entailed by Military and Colonial responsibility fields, I informed you that the discharge of his functions demands the care of the Police, 230 in number, of the jail containing...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nbe by no means inconsiderable \n\nand your Lordship will perceive from the enclosed certificates that his Medical advisers strongly recommend a change of climate to him. His long residence in the East almost prohibits the hope that the climate of Europe would be tolerable to him, and he is of opinion himself that his health will not much longer withstand the inroads of that of China.\n\nTrue Extract \nM.P.D.\n\nAuckland Colonial Secretary\n\nCopy of Letter & enclosures in Despatch marked Separate from Sir George Bonham to the Earl Grey dated 29 October 1850.\n\n49 Albermarle Street, 26th October 1850.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI trust that Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, Commanding in Chief, will pardon me for intruding my respectful and earnest \n\nThe Lord G. Grey, Someret, H.C.M., \n&c. \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "## 16.\n\nInstances purely such as the world have been required, from Military Commander, and I am of the opinion that, since the conclusion of the war, the safety and wellbeing of all Subjects who had located themselves on their lands were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and zeal. I am sure I need not say more to induce His Grace the Duke of Wellington to look favourably on Major Caine's claims, as may be consistent with the rules of the service. I will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of that Officer springs from the purest public motives, and from the sense I ever cherish of the assistance derived from him in the complicated and difficult position in which it was placed in China.\n\n202\n\n## 17.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) Henri Jotlinger/  \n(Certified Copy) M. & Bridges Acting Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## Foreign Office, January 30. 1857 \n\nHope 147 of 1857.\n\nWith reference to your Letter of the 20th of November last, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul General at the Havana, stating the great mortality which occurred on board the \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Hamilton\" Emigrant Ships.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\nNaman Merivale Legge\n\nPage 270\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "## Havana 26 November 1856\n\nMy lord\n\nI have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of Clarendon's Despatch 12th of the 99th, transmitting copy of a letter from the President of the Shanghae Home for Asiatics, inclosing an extract from the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of the 3rd October, directing attention to the cases of two Vessels; the \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Barton\" which arrived here from Hongkong, with Chinese laborers, a vast proportion of whom were lost on the voyage; from natural deaths, and suicides; And requesting me to cause strict enquiry to be made how...\n\nThe Earl of Clarendon",
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        "content_text": "They were landed sick, of whom 1 died here in the Hospital and thus also of scurvy severe.\n\n7 who landed and were sent to the Hospital from on board the \"Duke of Portland\", after that ship's arrival here, there was no want of food, and wholesome motions, and both ships had a plentiful supply of water at St. Iago (Santiago). \n\nBut this element it is supposed to us not of a quality suitable for so long a voyage, and to that is attributed the sickness and consequently unusual mortality which occurred.\n\nI beg leave to refer your Lordship to the Medical report, which I have the honor of inclosing herewith and with the greatest respect,\n\nI have the honor to be\nMy Lordship's Most Obedient\nHumble servant,\n\nsigned, T. I. Bradford \nConsul General \nCuba\n\n`2013/57 271`",
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        "content_text": "# 1802 Hong Kong \n\nSir, \n\n**RECEIVED** \nFEB 23 \n1857 \n295 \nEmigration \n\nForeign Office, \nFebruary 25. 1857. \n\n**PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT** \nNo. 147 & 1857.24 \n\nWith reference to my Letter of the 20th instant, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr Secretary Labouchere, a Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul General at the Havana, confirming his former opinion that no blame is to be attached to the Masters of the \"Duke of Portland\" & \"John Calvin\" on account of the mortality which occurred on board those Vessels.\n\nI am, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble Servant, \nClarendon \n\n3",
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        "content_text": "# Copy No 73\nThe 296\nHavana 26th December 1856\n\nMy Lord\n\nI have the honor of Acknowledging the receipt of **The Earl of Clarendon**'s Despatch of the 28th ult. transmitting to me a copy of a letter and its inclosure from Sir Edward Buxton, and also copies of those reports from the Colonial Land & Emigration Commissioners which Your Lordship received through the Colonial department on the subject of the mortality reported to have occurred among the Chinese passengers on board the \"Duke of Portland\" and the \"John Calvin\" on their passage.",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe Emigration Officer, Mr. Hillier himself, happily since deceased, regularly cleared by MW. Hillier. You will be called upon to inquire, as I have suggested, whether \"the Passengers by the Ship Duke of Portland were duly seen and the Correctness of their Agreements ascertained.\" It is to be observed that the evidence which the documents we received afford, of the promptitude and vigor of action in this respect in the case of the John Calvin, gives reason to hope that there was no undue neglect of the same matter in the case of the other Ship, the \"Duke of Portland\", which sailed about the same time and under the same Superintendence.\n\nI am to acquaint you that W. subordinates' notices...\n\nAnother point which also... \n\n305",
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        "content_text": "Letters enclosed an account of an Enquiry into this case by the Local Marine Board of London. The second encloses some other documents including a statement by the Chief Mate of \"the Duke of Portland\" with explanatory notes by the Captain in the margin, and also a Copy of the Certificate granted to \"the Duke of Portland\" by the Emigration Officer in Hong Kong. I enclose a Copy of the Answer returned from this Department to the Board of Trade.\n\n## \nAccents have been received from the Consul at Havannah which he agrees with the Local Board at London in exonerating from blame the master and the parties interested in the ship. We think that there is no reason to doubt that the Immigrants were treated with care and every humanity. He says that a fatal disease made itself among the Coolies and that they probably... \n\n14 March 1850\n\n310",
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        "content_text": "311 \n\nprobably predisposed to infection. \n\nThe cattle were in good condition when they were put on board. Both the \"Duke of Portland\" and the \"John Calvin\" are stated to have had a plentiful supply of water at Hong Kong, but the Consul remarks that it is supposed it was not often of a quality suitable for so long a voyage, and that it was often complained of by the Passengers.\n\nFrom the enclosure in your despatch to the Earl of Clarendon, No 5 dated the 10th of January, it appears that the Passengers embarked in the \"John Calvin\" were duly inspected and the Correctness of their Agreements ascertained. In compliance with the suggestion in the enclosed letter from the Board of Trade dated the 25th of February, I have to request that you will inquire...",
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        "content_text": "inquire what record or evidence may exist that a similar course was pursued in regard to the Duke of Portland.\n\nWith respect to both Vessels, an explanation upon numbers which they purported to be legally qualified to carry.\n\nThe body of rules appended to the Chinese Passengers Act required for each Passenger a space of 5 superficial feet on the Upper and 12 superficial feet on the Lower Decks. I am not aware that the Hong Kong Legislature has exercised its powers to substitute another set of rules. But the figures tabulated in the Officer's Certificates would only allow about 3 superficial feet above and below, to the number of Passengers in the \"Jotunheim\" and the \"Duke of Portland\". I shall be glad to receive information on this subject.\n\nThe prescribed rules annexed...",
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        "content_text": "## \nFor Asiatics in England with deference to the mortality which \nis said to have occurred on board the Emigrant Ships \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" which sailed out from this Port to Havana, by my predecessor (In Hillier) on the 12th of March and 4th April respectively, and requesting me to furnish you with particulars in reference to them.\n\n## \n2. With the fullest reference to the correspondence of my predecessor, I find that the Ship \"John Calvin\" was authorized to carry 315 passengers, whereas by the ship's manifest attached to Sin C.N. Buxton's letter to the Earl of Clarendon above mentioned, I find that 110 deaths occurred on the Voyage; it would therefore appear that this vessel sailed with a much larger number of Coolies than that authorized by the Emigration officer, a copy of whose certificate is hereunto annexed.",
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        "content_text": "## \nannexed and also an extract from the Emigration Record Book which purports to show that a portion of the Coolies originally shipped had declined to proceed on the voyage.\n\n## \nAs regards Portland, I can only say that the ship \"Duke\" was authorized to carry passengers only, out of which number there appears to have landed 202. A copy of the clearance certificate of Mr. Millier I also annex. However, I remark that the requirements of the Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 appear to have been complied with at this Port, as the Surgeon certifies that the vessel carried a supply of medicines according to the scale prescribed in Schedule A, and that the bonds, copies of which are annexed, were duly entered into and executed.\n\n## \nIt appears to me that the ship \"John Calvin\" was improperly allowed clearance inwards at Havana with a greater number of Coolies on hand than the Emigration Officer's clearance from this Port permitted, and that some enquiry had taken place at Havana.",
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        "content_text": "No: 5.\n\n**True Copy**\n\n322\n\n`219281/57` (Lignet :) 6. P. Michell\n**Emigration Officer**. Hongkong, 29th June 1866.\n\nKNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the sum of One thousand Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which Payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally for and in the whole, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.\n\nSigned :) Geo: F. Seymour.  \nSigned :) T. Sergeant d. (___) A. L. Maclean.  \nSigned :) Geo: Lyall.\n\nDated at Hongkong this 28 Day of March Sealed with our Seals. 1857.\n\nWhereas by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, it is enacted, that before any Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on a Voyage of more than Seven Days' computed Duration, the Master thereof shall, with Two sufficient sureties to be approved by an Emigration Officer, enter into a Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of One thousand Pounds:\n\nNow the Condition of this Obligation is this, that if (in respect of the Ship Duke of Portland whereof George Frederick Seymour is Master) all and every of the Requirements of the said Chinese Passenger Act, and of the Regulations contained in Schedule (A.) to the said act annexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed (in like Manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said Ship were a British Ship, and the said Master a British Subject,) then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full Force and Effect.\n\nSigned, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden George Frederick Seymour Alexander Barnwell Maclean and George Lyall, in the Presence of\nP. Michell\n**Emigration Office**  \nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "324 \n\nThe Croners of the Emigration Commission \ncannot be found but the Commissioners forward a letter from the owner of the \nDuke of Portland, confirming the mortality on 6th November. \n\nThe Foreign Office requests the Colonial Office on 20th of November 1836 to procure information from the Consul at Havana and calls on the Governor of Hong Kong to furnish any information on record at that place. \n\nTransmits Foreign Office to Colonial Office 30th of January 1857 - February 1857. \n\n25% \n\nTransmits two Reports from the Consul at Havana. He exonerates the Master and the Importers from blame. The Coolies were treated with care and humanity. The cause of the sickness is obscure; part of the people may have had the seeds of disease before; the water was complained of and may have become bad.",
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        "content_text": "325\n\nTransmits report Board of Trade to Colonial office. Enquiry by the 5th of February 1887. Enquiry \n\n212 - Local Government Board of London into the sickness in the \"Duke of Portland\". (This is the enquiry which took place publicly, and was reported in the London newspapers.) The Marine Board are unanimously of opinion that no blame attaches to the Master or to any of the parties connected with the Ship.\n\nBoard of Trade to Colonial Office `6th of February 1887`. Encloses some further statements which had been demanded of the Master and Mate, and suggests that the Emigration Officer at Hong Kong should be called upon to explain his having despatched the vessel without, apparently, seeing the Emigrants, as the Chinese Passengers Act requires, and ascertaining that they were in fit health to proceed.",
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        "content_text": "October 20, 1857.\n\nForeign Office.\n\nCopy to Raw Offices.\n\n26 Nov [18]57\n\nCopy to you 26 Nov[ember]\n\nNo[.] 37\n\nready\n\nNov. 16. 1887\n\nSir,\n\n10571 Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nNOV 21\n\n1887\n\n451\n\nForeign Office,\n\nNovember 20, 1887.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a copy of a note from Mr. Colquhoun, requesting on behalf of the Government of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg an exequatur for Mr. C. Brodersen as Consul-General of His Royal Highness at Hongkong, and I am to request ...",
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        "content_text": "# tit \n\nYou will move for Secretary Layouchere to enable Lord Clarendon to reply to her Edquhoun's request. \n\nI am fin... Nor Receniale Make the 8.26 Ne \n\nYour most obedient humble Servant Shelburny Loky. \n\nMy Lord, \n\n2105759 hav 452 Schuple Eve 16/07. \n\nI am instructed by H. Q. H. the fraud Duke of Oldenburg's minister for Foreign Affairs to apply to G. L. for an exequatur in favour of C. Brodersen, heretofore H.d. His Consul in Shanghaï but now in Hongkong. \n\nI have the honour to enclose the letter Patent appointing C. Brodersen and to request that G.L. will be so good as to cause the necessary exequatur to be laid before Her Majesty for signature. \n\n(Signed) East of Carnden Fiques) A. Colquhoun__",
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        "content_text": "## Foreign Office 464\n### Emigration from Hong Kong Jan 30 to Victoria\n\nExclous Low officers opinion respecting the Treaty mentioned by for S. Bouring.\n\nMortality on board the \"Duke Portland\" and \"John Calvin\" Forwards.\n\nLetter from H.M. Consul General at the Havanna, covering Medical Reports.\n\n### Feb \n\nFor Rescue of German Missionaries from Chinese Banditti – Approves siù. D. Bowring, proceeding in this case.\n\nMr Henry Heindmans AppE as Swedish Vice Consul - Enquire if any objection exists thereto.\n\nNon-Compliance of the master of the \"Ferozepore\" with the requirement of the Chinese Passenger Act - Encloses Despatch from H.M. Consul at Manilla on the subject.\n\nObjections of Col. Attorney General to give gratuitous advice to Superintendent of Trade - Requests opinion as to validity of Mortality.",
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        "content_text": "## Foreign Office\n465\n\n### 12 \nYes | 25 \n--- | ---\nMortality on board the \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" vessels. | Despatch from Consul at Havanna – confirming his former opinion that no blame attaches to Masters of these Ships.\n\nnur 2 | Mr Montgomery Martin's Minute on British Prospects in China. | Enclozes for Parliament.\n\n// | \n\n3 | Mortality on board the \"John Calvin\" & \"Duke of Portland\" vessels. | Despatch from H.M.'s Plenipotentiary, forwarding Reports from the Emigre Officers Dep at Hong Kong, relative to these vessels. Emigration of Chinamen to Australia. | Encloses a letter from Mr Napier. Mr Montgomery Martin's Minute. Returns proof with suggested omissions.\n\n4 | House of Lords Address for Copies of Reports by H. Hong Officer, respecting Chinese Smuggling. | Despatches &c. Euctores",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED \nEmigration Office \nJUNE 26 \n1857 \n\nI have to acknowledge your letter of 19th instant, entering into correspondence which has passed on the subject of the mortality on board the Chinese passenger ships \"Duke of Portland\" and \"Echin\" (alone), and in compliance with the restrictions contained therein, I have prepared, and enclose herewith, a case to be submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, relating to the liability of the Master of the \"John Calvin\" and his sureties to be sued on their Bond, on account of...\n\n| Ref | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5789 | trong phong H&C |\n\nCause submitted to Sam Officers 15/5-Surly/57. Original papers returned.\n\ngration Office July 18, 1858.\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "## ophis \n\n3 \n\nof his having carried in that tepel a much larger number of passengers accommodated in the Clearing House than were certified by the Emigration Officer (as Hongkong authorities had the opportunity of referring to papers that disclose an error in the interpretation of the Chinese Passengers Act by the Authorities at Hongkong), which is adverted to in H. Labour's despatch of 14th March last. The Regulations (213) in Schedule A require that the space appropriated in the \"Forecastle Decks\" to the Passengers shall be in the proportion of 12 superficial feet per Adult, and that a space of 15 superficial feet per adult shall be left clear on the Upper deck for the use of the Passengers. \n\nThe effect is to prohibit the berthing of passengers on Poop/Round house or Deck house, or anywhere between the \"Forecastle decks\" and the Upper deck, to reserve sufficient space for the use, i.e., for the exercise, of the Passengers. \n\n3. By the Clearing certificate of the Duke of Portland and John Calour, it appears that the Emigration Officers had included the Poop and Deck House, which they designated (incorrectly) as part of the space in which passengers might be berthed, and that they omitted altogether the statement of the space reserved on the Upper deck for the Passengers. \n\nThe effect was to authorize...",
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        "content_text": "## \nthe Duke of Portland to carry 354 passengers instead of 286, and the John Caird 301 instead of 227.\n\nThe certificate ... lificati morrours dorkhol- shout that the space prescribed by law was reserved on the Upper deck for the use of the passengers or in fact that that point had been ascertained or inquired into in any way by the Emigration Officer is ...\n\nI return the original papers which accompanied your letter.\n\nI have the honor to be  \nYour Obedient Servant  \nTWC Brodoch  \n26 June.\n\n...\n\nBy the Chinese Passengers Act (18 and 19 VIC. Cap 104) it is provided (section 2) that until other Regulations shall have been made by the Legislature of Hongkong (which has not as yet been done) certain regulations contained in a schedule attached to that Act shall be in force, that (sec 4) no such passenger ships shall proceed to sea on a voyage of more duration until the Master shall have received from the Emigration Officer a copy of such Regulations, and a certificate in Form annexed to the Act.",
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        "content_text": "38\n\nthe House of Commons, at Page= 15 of which will be found the certificate of Emigration officer at Hong Kong authorizing the \"John Calvin\" to proceed to Sea.\n\nAn extract from the Colonial Department to the Emigration Commissioners, recapitulating the principal facts and considerations bearing on the lease.\n\nExtract of Letter from the Honourable V... to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners dated Downing Street 19th June 1857.\n\n\"The John Calvin sailed from Hong Kong for Havana on the 13th March 1856, the \"Duke of Portland\" sailed on the 3rd of April. The \"John Calvin\" had on board 298 Emigrants and lost 135.\n\n\"The Duke of Portland\" had ...",
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        "content_text": "39\n\non board 332. Emigrants and lost 128.\n\nThe causes of deplorable mortality occurring on board two British Ships regularly despatched from the Chief Port of Government in Olenica, a British ... requires to be carefully investigated.\n\nThe points to be attended to were whether there had been any inhumanity or at least culpable neglect on the passage; whether the numbers embarked were too large; and whether the Emigrants had been deceived and taken away against their will.\n\nAs regards the first point, there appears no reason to suspect any want of humanity or care on the Voyage. The British Consul at the Havaux, to which the Vessels proceeded, instituted an enquiry at the moment of their arrival and reported that the treatment the Passengers had received had been humane and attentive. This conclusion was confirmed in the case of the \"Duke of Portland\" by ... were ...",
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        "content_text": "42 \n\ndesert the ship \nseize \n\neffect \nher by \na \nor long \nby forces and \nLaudis \nthe \ncoast. This of course multiplies the risks of collision, and enhances the difficulty of doing justice. \n\nThe security provided by the Chinese Passenger Act against the use \nof \nfraud or \nviolence in \n65 \nprocuring Emigrants is contained in the 6th of the Regulations annexed to the Act. The Emigration Officer is to muster the Passengers, and ascertain \nthat \nthey understand whither \nthey \nare going, and that they have not been improperly collected; and \nif he thinks fit, \nmay \n11. \ndetain the Ship and order \nall \nor any Passengers to be re-landed.\n\nIn the \"Duke of Portland\" the Emigration officer mustered the Passengers, and \ngave \nhis certificate that \nthe Ship was \nqualified \nto \nCarey 384, and that \nthe number \nwas \nless \nthan \nthe same number (too \nwere \nfinally taken) on board, and that \nthey \nwere",
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        "content_text": "## Page 45\n\n...lie... \n\nIt is satisfactory that the Passenger he wished be landed.\n\nکو بیچنے کے بعد مریم کے نو من مسرور سرونه کرد \n\nRemark that in its foreign theatre, written within after washing the dust of the Emigrants and quiet and submissive during the whole voyage. Such being the principal fact connected with the Foreign Vessels, it appears that there are grounds for prosecuting the Master under the present Law.\n\nThe Duke of Portland has proposed that since the Vessel was duly cleared by the Officer designated by the Act for carrying its provisions into effect, the master of the `Bol Catrin` on the other hand undoubtedly defeated the spirit of the Act by going with 340 Passengers when only 6 had been approved of by the Emigration Office, and therefore the Bond given ought to be enforced against him and...",
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        "content_text": "## Whitehall, 3th February 1857\n\nI am directed by **The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade** to request that you will call the attention of Mr. Secretary Sabouchere to the case of the Mortality among the Chinese Emigrants on board the Ship `Duke of Portland` on her voyage from Hong Kong to the Havannah in the year 1856.\n\nMy Lords' attention was called to this case by proceedings in one of the Police Courts reported in the `Times` of the 5th December. They immediately requested the Local Marine Board of London...",
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        "content_text": "to effect the desired object at any rate for such a voyage in such latitudes and commenced at such a time of the year as that of the \"Duke of Portland\". \n\n3 Mr. Labouchere will observe that the first appearance of discontent or mutinous conduct on the part of the Coolies appears to have arisen from the belief of those last shipped that they had been cheated by those who had engaged them. It is therefore very important to learn whether the Emigration Officer did, according to the terms of the Certificate 98 in Schedule B of the Chinese Passenger Act, inspect the Contracts between the Emigrants and their intended employers and satisfy himself that they were reasonable and that no fraud in collecting was practised on the Emigrants.\n\nUnder the above circumstances, My Lords would suggest for Mr. Labouchere's consideration that instructions should be given to the Governor of Hong Kong to make the strictest inquiries concerning the circumstances under which the \"Duke of Portland\" left Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "I have to forward a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington, and correspondence concerning the conduct of the Emigration Officer with respect to that Vessel.\n\n**Lords**\n\nIt will, as it appears to me, be also necessary to have it considered whether the regulations already adopted by the authorities at Hong Kong under the Chinese Passenger Act are sufficient, or whether further and more stringent regulations are necessary.\n\n**dlords**\n\nI am to add that My Lords have communicated the facts of this Case to the Foreign Office.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\nJames Ross\n\n77217\n\nCopy\n9/57\n99\nLocal Marine Board\n71 Cornhill\n20 Jan 1857.\n\n**Marine Department**\n\nSir,\n\nWhitehall.-\nIn compliance with your letter of 7th instant, this Board has caused enquiry to be made into the extraordinary Mortality on board the ship \"Duke of Portland\" on a voyage from China to the Havannah with Emigrants.\n\nEvery facility has been afforded by the Owner and Captain of the ship.\n\nThis Board are unanimously... \n40...",
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        "content_text": "## Loral Marine Board \n\n### Cornhill \n\n**January 1857** \n\n\"Investigation into the circumstances attending \nthe Mortality of Chinese Emigrants whilst \non board the Ship `Duke of Portland`,\" \non \nher passage from **Hong Kong** to the **Havana** \n\nPresent: \n- Mr Sumbar \n- Green Ingham \n- M. Phillips Anderson \n- Capt. Denny \n- Duncan Dunbar Esquire (in the Chair)\n\nCaptain G.N. Seymour, Master \nand Mr Thomas Harmlin Verner of the `Duke of Portland` attended before the Board.\n\nThe letter from the **Board of Trade** calling the attention \nof this Board to \na statement in \nthe **Shipping Gazette** of the 6th instant \nconcerning the Mortality was then read. \n\nPage 62 \nCaptain",
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        "content_text": "## Emigration Office of Committee of Council for Trade, Whitchull. 5 February 1857\n\nWhen the disinfecting matter was all used, the 'tween Decks were fumigated with boiling pitch daily, when possible to do it.\n\nThe coolies died from debility and affection of the liver and lungs, and exhaustion arising from the seeds of the disease.\n\nThe Chief Mate was treated for the same disease, previous to sailing from...\n\nmany of the coolies as could be allowed with safety were ordered on Deck daily.\n\nCaptain Seymour's conduct was attentive at all times; to the Chimere... satisfying them with works and attending to their cleanliness.\n\nThose of the Chinese who attempted to commit suicide and were picked up, generally made a second attempt. They were then carefully looked after.\n\n### RECEIVED FEB 6 1857\n\nReferring to my letter of the 2nd instant, on the subject of the mortality on board the Ship Duke of Portland,\n\nI am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to enclose, for Mr. Labouchere's information, the following documents.\n\n* Copy of questions addressed to the Master of the \"Duke of Portland\", and copy of his replies;\n* Copy of a statement made by John Hagan, late chief Officer... to Herman Merivale Esq., Colonial Office",
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        "content_text": "## \n110\n\nof the Duke of Portland,\n\nCopy of the Emigration Officer's Certificate\n\nCopy of the List of the Male Emigrants, who embarked in the \"Duke of Portland\";\n\nCopy of a Document in Spanish annexed to the Certificate, with its endorsements. In the back of this Document are Chinese Characters apparently a translation.\n\nThe Statement made by Hagan, who My Lords have reason to believe to be a respectable and trustworthy man, was made in the presence of certain officers of this Department, and subsequently taken down in writing.\n\nMr Sabouchere will observe that if this Statement be true, a large number of the Emigrants were sick at the time the Emigration Officer granted his Certificate - that he did not see them individually and that he does not appear to have had that personal communication with each of the Emigrants which would seem to be necessary in order to ascertain that the Agreements with them were properly made and understood.\n\nMy Lords wish it to be understood that they are not considering a charge as proved which...",
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        "content_text": "## Host \n\nCam to which the Emigration Officer has no means of rebutting, but they think it right to call Mr. Labouchere's attention to the statements made, in order that full enquiry may be made at \n\nI have the honor to be  \nPage 37  \nYour obedient Servant  \nJ.E. Famer  \n20747  \n\nCopy  \n04/07  \n111  \n\n## Queries to be asked of the Captain of the Duke of Portland  \n\n1. How and by whose orders did the Ship happen to be engaged in the carrying of Chinese Emigrants?  \n2. Who were the Charterers of the Ship for the voyage from China to the Havanna; and on whose account were the Emigrants shipped?  \n3. If done through an Agent in China what was the name and address of the Agent?  \n4. How did it happen that with such a voyage in view the ship sailed from Hong Kong so late in the Season with such a cargo?  \n5. Was the Ship duly surveyed by the Registrar of Shipping...",
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        "content_text": "# \n3 \n\nAn Emigration Officer at Hong Kong, so what was his name, and when? If so, what was the survey commenced and when completed?\n\n6. Can the Captain furnish a copy of any Certificate or document given by the Emigration Officer?\n\n(Tigned) F. H. Farrer \n304 January \n\n### Copy \n112 \nReplies of Master of \"Duke of Portland\" to the foregoing queries \n\n1. From various contingencies arising in the earlier part of the voyage, the Ship was thrown out of the Sea and Silk Grade in which it was first purposed to employ her, and it was optional with me to employ her as I considered prudent.\n\n2. The Charterer was Don A. R. Ferran of Havanna, but at that time residing at Macao, and the emigrants were shipped on his Account.\n\n3. Messrs. Lyall Still, Hong Kong, were Agents for A. R. Ferran, and through them the Charter was negotiated... \n\n### \n53",
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        "content_text": "## Kowloon \n\n4. The Ship preceding the \"dune\" of Portland experienced great difficulty in obtaining her Emigration papers, and the Charterers could not pay that attention in collecting the migrants necessary in order to despatch the ship at an earlier date.\n\n5. The Ship was surveyed and measured by Capt Wattlins, the Harbour Master at Hong Kong, on February /sta; afterwards by the Emigration officer, whose name will be found attached to the Papers left at the Registry Office for copying on Saturday.\n\n6. Yes, and left at the Registry Office on Saturday.\n\nGee. F. Seiqniour \n\nat 902\n\n## Marginal Notes \n\nto the Compt Seymour \n\nMeasured by Haurreaus \n\nOnaster who inspected the 113 \n\nJohn Hagan (Certificate of Computing, Duke 11. 620) joined the \"Portland\" in London as Second Mate in March 1855, bound to New Zealand, thence to Auckland and Hong Kong, where the ship was chartered to convey Chinese Emigrants to Havannah.\n\nBefore receiving the Comigrants at Hong Kong, the ship was surveyed and measured by the Emigration Officer; a deck house was built, and other preparations made for their reception. In February 1856, 225 came on board from the shore, they had a small chest each, and a change of clothing. About a week after, 225 came alongside... \n\n| Number | ... |\n| --- | --- |\n| 54 | ... |",
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        "content_text": "## Papers presented\n\n3488.\n\nSir,\n\nOffice of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 26th March 1857\n\n**RECEIVED**  \nMAR 27 1857\n\nI am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant, inclosing a proof of copies of communications to the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Board of Trade, and any other Department from Her Majesty's Government, on the subject of \"Mortality on board the `Duke of Portland` and other British Ships carrying Emigrants to China\", and stating that Mr. Labouchere proposes to lay it before Parliament with my concurrence in conformity with the terms ...\n\nJ. J. Ellis  \nColonial Office  \nAddress to the Governor - with instructions to report on the subject as required.\n\n16 Feb  \nAnnexes Hm 7-16",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n\nThe Byrade sees no objection to the Paper being published as it is, merely suggesting the addition of a note from the Foreign Office.\n\nWe must however wait to whom a proof is sent.\n\nW.J. Kruis  \n27 March.\n\nG. Hammond Pape and others attach to BR have similar interests in Hongkong.\n\n| Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26113 |  |\n| 136 |  |\n\nTo March 30th 1857.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence that has been trading between us affecting the Mortality in 1837.\n\nMINUTE  \nMAR 20  \nMB Leurs  \nMRElliot  \n120  \nMBMerivale  \nMBJ. Ball  \nScraboucher  \nW...\n\nShips \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" carrying passengers from China, Jam directed by Merivale to Labouchere & transmitted by you for the \"My consideration of the Mail. Mlarendon [Lord] of the Committee\".\n\nThe accompanying proof of a Paper containing the correspondence on the subject, which Dr Labouchere proposes, with his...",
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        "content_text": "## Lordships concurrence to lay before Parliament \n\nin conformity with the terms of the Address of The House Commons dated the 23 February last, have formally laid before your Lordships the following:-\n\n| 137 | 420 | 956 |\n\nCopy to sign a 19 June I a for... \nb. Azeri-\n\n**RECEIVED** \n3245 \nSir, \nVPR 2 \n1857 \nOffice of Committee of \n**PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE**, \nWhitehall, 12th April 1857.\n\nCALENT \nHofl. 3. July 1855.\n\nI am directed by The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th Ultimo transmitting, with reference to former Correspondence, Copy of a Despatch from Sir J. Bowring relating to the Chinese Emigrant Vessels \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\".\n\nBefore receiving that letter, My Lords had requested the Lord Advocate for Scotland to undertake... H. Merivale Esqre... \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "## The Surveyor General \nwas induced to take fresh proceedings against Krin. as for a continuing nuisance in that Juandamus was granted The Supreme Court to Compel the Justices to bring the case: That the Justices, si Predience, as is kan allized Expression of Ppinion. The part of the Chief Justice, reconsidered their wn opinion and Con = demoned the buildings.\n\n406 \n\n3. M. Labouchere has directed me Thus to Dake at length the circum = hr Huchen's - Blanes of the case as he collects Ugon & it, in order that his More Awe wer may fully wnderstood He conceives the comptaves. of MW. Hudson to be directed against proceedings of a legal character. If the Grant of a Mandamas The Safrome Const was illegal : if the judgment If the muagistrates reversiz",
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        "content_text": "## Mong Mong \n### 1857 \n#### Vol 5. \n##### Public Offices \n###### Part 2 \n& \nMiscellaneous. \n\n### Land Board \n#### 568 \n\n10 Non-compliance with Sapengen Act - Case of the \"Ferozepore\" det suggests directing enquiry as to the cause of this ships arriving at Manilla without the proper papers.\n\nGround required for Military Works at West Point - no ground for objecting to the proposed arrangements.\n\nJune 25 Cases of the \"Duke of Portland\" and \"John Calvin\" - buctora Case for opinion of Law Officers relative to the liability of the Master of the John Calvin.\n\nSale of Marine Lots for Construction",
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        "content_text": "## House of Commons Parliamentary Vote for Measures\nJune 15 House of Commons. Address for correspondence relating to Papou respecting Confinement of Chinese Prisoners, and Trial of Ahlum and others Address for.\n\n## Board of Trade\nJan 24 Wages of deceased Seamen. Complaining of the delay which takes place in Hong Kong in transmitting the effects of dead seamen.\n\nFeb 3 Mortality on board the `Duke of Portland`. Encloses Reports of Local Marine Board of London thereon.\n \nFeb 10 Encloses questions to the Master and his Replies.\n\nFeb 14 Light House on Pratts Island. Requests that Government may be called on to supply further information regarding Mortality.",
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        "content_text": "## Comm \n「海 \n## Board \nf \nTrade \n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7 | 574 Man 26 Mortality on board the Duke of Portland\" Returns Phott Saly |\n|  | Copy of Papers printed for Parliament –– Mortality on board the \"John Calvin \" |\n|  | Encloses reply & papers on the subject referred to |\n| 244 600 | 200 Loo as Alongs, Thornhile late master of the \"Bohn Caloir\" is reported to have gone to China, suggests propriety of directing the \"Good\" to call him to explain the reason of his leaving with an excess of passengers |\n| hly 6 | Ordinance 5157_ Salvige and Prize Prints out several objections to which the Governor's attention to be called. |\n| Jan 26 | New Pier at Pedders Wharf- no objection to Expenditure |\n|  | Salary of Col : Treasurer- 3 Panctions |\n\nshould be rewritten as \n\n## Comm \n## Board of Trade\n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Man 26 | Mortality on board the \"Duke of Portland\" Returns. Phot Saly Copy of Papers printed for Parliament –– Mortality on board the \"John Calvin\" |\n|  | Encloses reply & papers on the subject referred to. |\n| 244 600 | 200 Loo as Alongs, Thornhile late master of the \"Bohn Caloir\" is reported to have gone to China, suggests propriety of directing the \"Good\" to call him to explain the reason of his leaving with an excess of passengers. |\n| July 6 | Ordinance 5157 Salvage and Prize. Prints out several objections to which the Governor's attention to be called. Treasury. |\n| Jan 26 | New Pier at Pedders Wharf - no objection to Expenditure. Salary of Col: Treasurer - 3 Panctions | \nrevised to \n## Comm \n## Board of Trade\n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Man 26 | Mortality on board the \"Duke of Portland\" Returns. Phot Saly Copy of Papers printed for Parliament –– Mortality on board the \"John Calvin\". Encloses reply & papers on the subject referred to. |\n| 244 600 | 200 Loo as Alongs, Thornhile late master of the \"Bohn Caloir\" is reported to have gone to China, suggests propriety of directing the \"Good\" to call him to explain the reason of his leaving with an excess of passengers. |\n| July 6 | Ordinance 5157 Salvage and Prize. Prints out several objections to which the Governor's attention to be called. Treasury. |\n| Jan 26 | New Pier at Pedders Wharf - no objection to Expenditure. Salary of Col: Treasurer - 3 Panctions | \n\nHere is the final version:\n## Comm \n## Board of Trade\n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Man 26 | Mortality on board the \"Duke of Portland\" Returns. Phot Saly Copy of Papers printed for Parliament –– Mortality on board the \"John Calvin\". Encloses reply & papers on the subject referred to. |\n| 244 600 | 200 Loo as Alongs, Thornhile late master of the \"Bohn Caloir\" is reported to have gone to China, suggests propriety of directing the \"Good\" to call him to explain the reason of his leaving with an excess of passengers. |\n| July 6 | Ordinance 5157 Salvage and Prize. Prints out several objections to which the Governor's attention to be called. Treasury. |\n| Jan 26 | New Pier at Pedders Wharf - no objection to Expenditure. Salary of Col: Treasurer - 3 Panctions",
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        "content_text": "# Governor For John Bowring\n\n27th March, 1858.\n\nVictoria, iron, hog\n\nThe Attorney General, Henry Labouchere, M.P., \n3 Enclosures.\n\nN38.\n\nReceived\n\n\"John Calvin\", and recommending a mitigation of the Penalty in the case of the Bond given by Messrs Lyall Still &C. on the recent trial, reporting forfeiture, at a ...\n\nThe orders to prosecute will be found in N° 101 of 8 August : the facts of the Cases of \"John Calvin\" and \"Duke of Portland\" are recapitulated in N° 86 of the 24th of June.\n\nOn the question of the penalty, I think that we ought to have guidance from the Courts or higher authorities. I apprehend that it is scarcely possible to justify the forfeiture of the whole penalty, in the face of the conflicting opinions of Judges, Jury, and prosecuting Officer himself. But something ought probably to be paid by way of warning and example - 50 per cent of the penalty would be fair, considering that 50 per cent of the passengers died!\n\nSend to the Comoro for report, with reference to our former letters to them dated 17th of June 1857.\n\nI. Anstey's letter states some strong facts about the Havana Trade which support Lord Stanley's recent decision to recommend its prohibition. It seems evident that by the very terms of their contracts, the people will be no better than Slaves in the hands of their Employers, and Slaves transferable.\n\nPage 390\nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "## \nIr permissath of \"Spending agains? the lead theras)\" under sec. 30? I think this might not to be confined without at beach. further explanation, and founding very out to Fir). Dowsing the dangerous character of the Cysstation which his present athise seem toh promoting.\n\nA7 June 24 Sir Edward Lefton Iguch with her agree. Menciale. The Ormaine accous hamsence Ame braise a further question. JJ you care Mnning duce.\n\nprevious correspondence the last two or three gean th will see that the cavourite ochere for exiring the revenue wt. Sie S. Bowring has I think on Incepive occasions laid besse different Secretaries of tate is a stotine undre wh542 formed.\n\nGambling Homes of be licensed and Time after time his afflications have hem Ufuris an the grounds of general on rality, and from a conviction that with ouch means available for increasing deficient revenue Sambling houses to be multiplied rather than ouppeeped.\n\nIn the present Ordinance there are clauses if they do not go quite as for has witted on former occasions do Su Bo ome in part at hast &involve the principle contended for by him.\n\nYou will obreme that the Ordinance Exaits that in amending set the words previous \" and of certam games thall be added to the title. and in clave XXXVII it is puspored that pecans keeping a public billiard table, whittle ground, or renepie out an or bowling alley \"Phall take annua of 7s & Mans. ace at the rate \n\nThis popibly applies only to the Emopen Population of Kong dong: but if the mineeple in wrong with weard to the Chinese it must be wrong applied.",
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        "content_text": "## Preg. Ireber the Dude to Sie T. Repees, at once \n\nAlso? 23 aut Hin Ary' 23 bin. For Rogers you & thong \n\n98 Gover 11. Sepet 58 Conterea Sie Die Leten Bow Bowring No37 \n\nYEPR Veridiot MaMerivale 10 Lord Carnarvon 11 Swä. Kiigikon for synature Ihance. and laid before the Queen Ordinance passed by yoursely and the Legislative Cannel of story Kony 318 May \n\nthe leest entitled, NJ of 1858, \"**The Market Ordinance**\" \n\nthe transcript of wheel enclosu in your Despatch No76 of the 112 I have revived",
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        "content_text": "## Extract from Sir R. Bonham's despatch marked \"Separate\" and dated 29th October 1850, to the address of the Right Honorable the Earl Grey.\n\n\"Col. Caine's has been in some respects rather a hard case. The Duke of Newcastle's measure, intended to produce economy in the government of H. Kong, being afterwards modified by Lord Palmerston, had the effect of throwing him on the public with a handsome salary & nothing to do for it: not in all respects an inconvenient position in itself, but one which makes him doubtless feel himself rather an incumbrance than one of whom his Superiors would be glad to get rid. My own inference, from such means of mere correspondence would afford, would be, that though thought little of by the Executive Sir J. Downing, his slow Mental pace is rather connected with a very fair amount of sense & judgment. But although he has marked 20 years of service in thankless parts, I am afraid he would hardly be fit for so important an office as the government of the Straits settlement, supposing them far from likely to fall to him for this office - Answer civilly?\n\nMr. Merile. I suppose Colonel Caine refers to the Public Estimates - P. 12 A Letter of the 5th Employment scancie where you will notice that Officer with fol. Caine's career, at least in H. Hong with excellence, & merits, if it be rightly stated with authority.\n\nMy Super... \nAB to speak \n$18 \nCBL $20 \n\nLin G. \nIn 9487/105133 \n\n\"2. Major Caine has spent 47 years of his life in Asia, and during 37 years has been employed as a Soldier and civilian in the public service. In the former capacity he has served either on the staff or immediately under several of the most distinguished General officers who have held Commands in India, and their letters and memoranda, of which copies are enclosed in his letter, compulsorily attest his activity, utility...\"",
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        "content_text": "to pay the Duke of Newcastle and that though the matter had been finally disposed of by the Secretary of State, then George Gray, perfect willingness was expressed to have again inquired into the case had the Home Government consented to a re-investigation, nor can I believe Mr. Anstey uninformed of the real state of matters as regarded these libellous charges emanating from a discreditable local newspaper?\n\n76\n\nI have the honor to be,\nWith the highest respect,\nSir,\nYour Most Obedient\nHumble Servant,\nJohn Bowring",
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        "content_text": "# Despatch Records\n\n## Duplicates Continued\n\n| No | Date of Despatch | Subject of Despatch | No of Enclosures |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 108 | August 20, 1858 | Transmitting correspondence with General van Straubenzee on the subject of the acquisition of the Kowloon Peninsula |  |\n| 109 | August 21, 1858 | Transmitting letter of 20th August from Anstry to the Secretary of State regarding communications to the Editor of the China Mail |  |\n| 110 | August 22, 1858 | Transmitting report by Dr. Lobschied on the state of the Colony |  |\n| 111 | August 23, 1858 | Transmitting Proclamation by the Magistrate of Leangchan announcing the conclusion of \"Peace at Tientsin\" |  |\n| 112 | August 23, 1858 | Regarding Mr. Anstey's letters of 16th August, sent direct to the Secretary of State | None |\n| 113 | August 24, 1858 | Acknowledging receipt of Despatch No 16 of 9th July 1858 |  |\n\n## Other Records\n\n| No | Date of Despatch | Subject of Despatch | No of Enclosures |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 14 Hong Kong 1856 | Schedule of 41 telegrams committed by the burglary of this office |  |\n| 633 | October 13, 1855 | To - The Secretary of State for the Colonies, via Southampton |  |\n| 115 | August 25, 1859 | Transmitting correspondence connected with the resignation of Mr. Bridges, and refusing the acting appointment of the Fourth to the office of Colonial Secretary |  |\n| 116 | August 30, 1859 | Forwarding Correspondence with the Naval Commander in Chief on the subject of the trata shoals |  |\n| 118 | September 2, 1859 | Reporting leave of absence granted to Mr. Anstry to proceed to Manila |  |\n|  | September, 1859 | Transmitting Requisition for Police clothing and accoutrements, for the year 1859-60 |  |\n\n## Earlier Despatch\nTo the Duke of Newcastle, `XCR(85)72` was not found in this text, however `GR1178/1922/32(III)` was not present either. The text \"To - The Secretary of State for the Colonies, via Southampton, on the 13th October 1855.\" was found. \nThe Despatch to the Duke of ... was sent on the 13th October 1855. \nTo - The Serretary of State for the to stories to the Abgail Gleaner A ababar... was sent via Youthampten on the 13a Cetober 18.55.. \nIt appears there was a Despatch to the Duke of Dup... \nPage 363... (no text was given to confirm this page number)",
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        "content_text": "72 \n\nThank you for Lord Stanley's information that on the occasion of the inquiry concerning the mortality of the \"Duke of Portland\", My Lords pointed out to the Foreign Office the expediency of calling the attention of H.M. Consuls at Ports to which Chinese Emigrants are carried, to the provisions of the 5th Section of the Chinese Passengers Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 104), and of instructing them to make inquiry, when occasion should arise. My Lords were then informed that the Secretary of State had, after the passing of the Chinese Passengers Act, issued a circular, of which they are the subject, copies of which are no doubt in the possession of the Colonial Office. Subsequently, another circular was issued on the subject of deaths occurring on board British Ships, a copy of which is enclosed.",
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        "content_text": "Communicating with this Department, Mr. Cardwell should be perfectly willing to make any change, and correspond with the Governor in discussing the kind of legislation it should see no objection, it certainly would be convenient that the papers about China ships should be kept distinct and not mixed with those about Sudi ships which are themselves very voluminous and are apt to turn upon questions of a different kind.\n\n9 & 2 April\n\nA.9\n\nDispatch from Lord Stanley & Mr Cardwell\n\n10 April 1858\n\nAs modifying instructions received from Lord Stanley to share the letter in the modified form proposed\n\n`Wfleiri`\n\n771\n\nMarly\n\n2957 Hong Kong Emigration\n\n16\n\nCase of Duke of Portland and other Ships (as per form of Commons Address 20th March 1848)\n\nAn Extract\n\nProof of Paper submitted for approval and direction for Presentation\n\nPages 13, 14-19 - Draft (as is usual) Law Officer's Opinion - Ease & reference to Secretary\n\nPage 23 Passage marked.\n\n8/7/50",
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        "content_text": "## \n84.97. \n\nIt is evident that Colonial funds are inefficiently managed, being in itself unsatisfactory. I think it hardly just whether to the Governor or to the Lieutenant Governor the Lieutenant Governor is responsible for the administration of all affairs.\n\nWhen Lord Palmerston interfered with the arrangement of the Duke of Newcastle under the Governor of Hong Kong, it was carried on by the double action of a nominal Governor & Lieutenant Governor, and made the Lieutenant Governor for the time being the responsible authority.\n\nIn that colony, it appears to me that two courses followed or ought to have followed the change.\n\n1. The Lieutenant Governor became entitled to the fair remuneration of a Governor administering such a colony.\n2. The question whether the general circumstances of the Colony were such as to warrant the importation of a Governor with full pay and a Lieutenant Governor with a binary salary.\n\nIt is anomalous & inferior to that in which Lt. Col. Caine was formerly placed, costly to the Public, and it is not for the interest of the Colony to pay duties which are not regained.\n\nIs it too late to set matters aright?\n\nC. Govt. 20.\n\nSome better arrangement could be made when Sir J. Bowring retires. I am sure it is, whereby employment could be found for which Lt. Col. Caine was fit.\n\n...new arrangements S.20 Can be made.",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\nFrom Mr. General Strachan, Commanding H.M's. Forces in China, relative to the cession to the British Crown of a parcel of Land opposite the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\nCalled upon to request you to state to Secretary of State for War, the Duke of Cambridge, that Sir C. B. Lytton repeats to His Grace the advantage of the cession of a parcel of land opposite the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\n5365  \nUnder Secretary's initials  \n1858  \nJUNE 15  \n58  \n\nELITe AB. Jam divested of Superintending Elite Mi Merivale  \nFord Carnarvon lery of Leath  \nlo Me for signature  \nsupes to form  \n\nFrom Mr. General Strachan, Commanding H.M's. Forces in China, relative to the cession to the British Crown of a parcel of Land opposite the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\nCalled upon to request you to state to Secretary of State for War, the Duke of Cambridge, that Sir C. B. Lytton repeats to His Grace the advantage of the cession of a parcel of land opposite the Kowloon Peninsula, enclosing copy of a letter of the 31st ult. \n\npatch with enclosure above  \n\nTo achundtage the recuph of your letter of the 31. Enclosing copy of a letter. \n\n...ہی چودنے میں مگر... (text in another language preserved as-is)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858",
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        "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858",
        "content_text": "7618 Hong Kong.\n\nCEI.C.O.\n\nED\n\nJUD 31\n\n1858/if, New Benefit Court\n\n26 August 1858\n\nAus- private & Gold. C.,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn\n\n24 July 1960\n\n \n136\n\nFrom motives which the Right Sovereign's Secretary of State will appreciate,\n\nIn original Journal of\n\nmed to effor\n\nWCH\n\nC\n\nLoyage to China, so when\n\nto\n\nDuke\n\nCO\n\nEmbassy\n\nI venture to touch very great importance.\n\nThe object of\n\nobject of this voyage to Pekin in 189ć  at\n\nThat Embassy\n\nCulld\n\nposuit perfect.\n\nAuthorities\n\nand desprosent to\n\nthe desire\n\nof the Emperor of China.\n\nwisely concluded, and it immediately establishes the legitimate goal, that\n\nthe Chinese Pegri \n\nstep\n\nevere\n\nat Bud hives\n\nhold diplomatic and hunting inderaurść \n\npreverfect. Christine mutin France Ford Muccartney's Embassy, &\n\nEmouse to Jakin\n\n\"by the Emperor of China cor FEY; and conducted; und equally succeeded,\n\nThe bent\n\nof barnaven\n\ngo &\n\n102\n\ncorally disind corally wisely",
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        "content_text": "He regrets absence, but cannot consider that these afford ground for an extension of the indulgence which has been granted to Fan and that he must adhere to the decision in the matter conveyed to you by letter of the 30th ult.\n\nMedical Certification J. O. Duke by 293\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "From JOHN STRUTHERS, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Lecturer on Anatomy in Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, and Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, &c. &c.\n\nCOLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH,\n\nFrom W. R. SANDERS, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Lecturer on Physiology, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, &c. &c.\n\nEDINBURGH, 15, DUKE STREET,\n\nNovember 18th, 1858.\n\nNovember 18th, 1858.\n\nIn expressing my opinion of DR. JOHN IVOR MURRAY's fitness and claims for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, I ought to begin by mentioning that he has been intimately known to me since we commenced our studies together in the Edinburgh Medical School; that I am aware of his career as a practitioner for ten years in China; and that since his return to Edinburgh I have had the best means of judging of his riper attainments and character.\n\nIf the appointment is to be given on the score of merit and qualification, I know of no one better fitted for, and more deserving of it, than DR. MURRAY, whether on the ground of education, talents, character, or experience.\n\nAs a student DR. MURRAY was well known in the Edinburgh School for his assiduity and ability, and distinguished himself by gaining the highest honors in several of the University Classes. Then, his long residence as a medical man in China must constitute a very strong claim, for there not only did his native energy and talent secure him success, but the experience he gained has been of that kind which fits him peculiarly for the nearly similar position at Hong Kong.\n\nDR. MURRAY has also, I may add, all along had a taste for the cultivation of the Natural Sciences during his leisure hours; and I believe, if appointed to Hong Kong, he would, besides discharging the duties, turn his position to national account, not only in collecting the products of Chinese Art and Science, but in adding to our knowledge of the Botany and Natural History of the neighbourhood.\n\nIn conclusion, let me add, what is of no less importance than professional skill, that DR. MURRAY is a man of upright character and of the highest honor; and that I believe, if appointed, he will not only discharge the duties efficiently and uphold the dignity of the Medical Profession, but of the British character, by his superior intelligence, skill, and uprightness. Although I shall rejoice in DR. MURRAY's appointment, since he desires it, I shall greatly regret the removal from Edinburgh of one who stands so high in my respect and affection.\n\nJOHN STRUTHERS, M.D., F.R.C.S.,\n\nLecturer on Anatomy.\n\nI have just been informed that Dr. IVOR MURRAY is a Candidate for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, and I have great pleasure in saying that I believe him to be eminently qualified for it.\n\nHe has already been in China, where he resided for ten years, engaged in extensive medical practice; and during that time he has made himself thoroughly acquainted with the country, the climate, and the prevailing diseases. His professional zeal and activity, which ensured him success in China, have also been already devoted to the public service, during the Crimean war. All who know DR. MURRAY have formed the highest opinion of his talents, professional ability, and character.\n\nI feel assured that DR. MURRAY would fill the appointment in the most creditable manner.\n\nWILLIAM R. SANDERS, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.,\n\nLecturer on Physiology and the Institutes of Medicine at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh.\n\nFrom P. H. WATSON, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Lecturer on Surgery, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, late Assistant Surgeon R.A., &c. &c.\n\n10, CHARLOTTE SQUARE,\n\nEDINBURGH, November 18th, 1858.\n\nFrom an intimate acquaintance with DR. IVOR MURRAY during the last two years, I have had the best opportunities for forming an opinion of his talents and professional attainments. These are of a very high kind, and guided as they are by a vast practical experience both in civil and military life, both as a physician and surgeon in private practice, as the surgeon to a large Hospital, and in the Crimea, I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that no one with whom I am acquainted is better qualified to hold the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong; all the more that, from his previous long residence in China, he is thoroughly conversant with the country.\n\nPATRICK HERON WATSON,\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "212016\n\nFrom JOHN STRUTHERS, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Lecturer on Anatomy in Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, and Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, &c. &c.\n\nCOLLEGE OF SURGEONS, EDINBURGH,\n\nNovember 18th, 1858.\n\nIn expressing my opinion of Dr. JOHN IVOR MURRAY's fitness and claims for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, I ought to begin by mentioning that he has been intimately known to me since we commenced our studies together in the Edinburgh Medical School; that I am aware of his career as a practitioner for ten years in China; and that since his return to Edinburgh I have had the best means of judging of his riper attainments and character.\n\nIf the appointment is to be given on the score of merit and qualification, I know of no one better fitted for, and more deserving of it, than Dr. MURRAY, whether on the ground of education, talents, character, or experience.\n\nAs a student Dr. MURRAY was well known in the Edinburgh School for his assiduity and ability, and distinguished himself by gaining the highest honors in several of the University Classes. Then, his long residence as a medical man in China must constitute a very strong claim, for there not only did his native energy and talent secure him success, but the experience he gained has been of that kind which fits him peculiarly for the nearly similar position at Hong Kong.\n\nDr. MURRAY has also, I may add, all along had a taste for the cultivation of the Natural Sciences during his leisure hours; and I believe, if appointed to Hong Kong, he would, besides discharging the duties, turn his position to national account, not only in collecting the products of Chinese Art and Science, but in adding to our knowledge of the Botany and Natural History of the neighbourhood.\n\nIn conclusion, let me add, what is of no less importance than professional skill, that Dr. MURRAY is a man of upright character and of the highest honor; and that I believe, if appointed, he will not only discharge the duties efficiently and uphold the dignity of the Medical Profession, but of the British character, by his superior intelligence, skill, and uprightness. Although I shall rejoice in Dr. MURRAY's appointment, since he desires it, I shall greatly regret the removal from Edinburgh of one who stands so high in my respect and affection.\n\nJOHN STRUTHERS, M.D., F.R.C.S.E.,\n\nLecturer on Anatomy.\n\nFrom W. R. SANDERS, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Lecturer on Physiology, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, &c. &c.\n\nEDINBURGH, 15, DUKE STREET,\n\nNovember 18th, 1858.\n\nI have just been informed that Dr. IVOR MURRAY is a Candidate for the appointment of Colonial Surgeon at Hong Kong, and I have great pleasure in saying that I believe him to be eminently qualified for it.\n\nHe has already been in China, where he resided for ten years, engaged in extensive medical practice; and during that time he has made himself thoroughly acquainted with the country, the climate, and the prevailing diseases. His professional zeal and activity, which ensured him success in China, have also been already devoted to the public service, during the Crimean war. His talents, professional ability, and character, all who know Dr. MURRAY have formed the highest opinion. And of his I feel assured that Dr. MURRAY would fill the appointment in the most creditable manner.\n\nWILLIAM R. SANDERS, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.,\n\nLecturer on Physiology and the Institutes of Medicine at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh.\n\nFrom P. H. WATSON, ESQ., M.D., F.R.C.S.E., Lecturer on Surgery, Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, late Assistant Surgeon R.A., &c. &c.\n\n10, CHARLOTTE SQUARE,\n\nEDINBURGH, November 18th, 1858.\n\nFrom an intimate acquaintance with Dr. IVOR MURRAY during the last two years, I have had the best opportunities for forming an opinion of his talents and professional attainments. These are of a very high kind, and guided as they are by a vast practical experience both in civil and military life, both as a physician and surgeon in private practice, as the surgeon to a large Hospital, and in the Crimea, I have no hesitation in stating my conviction that no one with whom I am acquainted is better qualified to hold the appointment of Residency Surgeon at Hong Kong; all the more that, from his previous long residence in China, he is thoroughly conversant with the country.\n\nPATRICK HERON WATSON.\n\n304",
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        "content_text": "Hong to Marseilles\n\nbetween April & June. £48 by quarterly instalments of £12 - Fei Edward\n\n7/2\n\nhas therefore requested the Agent General to repay to the Admiralty the cash advance for the passage and to make deductions from my salary at the rate of £2 12s per quarter until the amount shall be replaced.\n\nNov? 15 Dec? 38.\n\nM 11057\n\n1261 Hong Kong 319\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDEC. 7\n\n1858\n\nEdinburgh 10 Scotland\n\n6th Dec? 1858,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter intimating that the 3rd Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is willing to nominate me to the Office of Colonial Surgeon.\n\nIn accepting this appointment, I beg respectfully to point out that the restriction against private practice, which was not acted upon by my predecessors, may be reconsidered by the Right Honorable E. B. Lytton. I humbly request that I not be debarred from practice not interfering with my Official duties.\n\nI shall, I trust, be prepared to leave this country by the 25th.",
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        "content_text": "M. Meinale.\n\nForward to Treacy, Capt: Wathing,\n\nI observe, appended in support of his application, a statement of services - which makes a very good appearance : but my impression is that the local authorities at H. Kong would scarcely do justice to himself.\n\nHM AN 10/det 89094 -9739 RESTRICTED U. NOV 1858 than I be allowed to call your attention to a Memorial which was addressed to you about the 11th of September, and Mr Alexander Lena, setting forth his long and meritorious, and his subsequent infirmities with a view to retire on the Colonial Superannuation at an early date.\n\nHe is not yet entitled to a retirement of £300 per annum. His case is to be placed on the Compassionate List, and I am most credibly informed by an influential gentleman that his case is a most pitiable and distressing, and his prostration such, from the effects of long and arduous service, that he is now unable to assist himself in the slightest degree.\n\n\"No situation of wretchedness is more poignantly felt than bright prospects blighted by disease\", and on his merits, he has been highly educated and brought up under patronage of the Duke of Wellington, and I venture to commend him to your favourable sympathy.\n\nRight Honble E.L.Bulwer Lytton\n\nI have the honour to be, &c.\n\nPage 467\n\n20th October\n\nARS",
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Stevenson; a series of artificial phosphatic fertilizers, from Professor A. Volcker, of the Agricultural College, Cirencester; Egyptian natron, from Dr. J. I. Murray; from the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, specimens illustrating the purification of rock salt by W. and J. Noak, Droitwich; specimens illustrating the number of substances derivable from sea-water by the process of Batard; boracic acid in its different stages of purity, and various other chemicals, by Howard and Kent, Essex; salts of mercury, by Davy, Macmurdo, and Co.; preparations of arsenic by Thos. Garland, Redruth, Cornwall; and samples of cream of tartar from Portugal.\n\nIn vegetable products a considerable instalment of the series of woods used economically in Great Britain has been supplied by Messrs. Lawson and Son, Edinburgh; a small collection of the woods of Madeira has been purchased; Mr. Logan, of Edinburgh, has made a gift of several of the more beautiful of the Canadian furniture woods; Mr. Smith of some of those of Australia; Mr. E. Gibsone, in name of the Duke of Buccleuch, of those used underground in the coalpits at Canonbie; Mr. Dudgeon, of Cargen, of Norwegian wood-carvings; Dr. J. Ivor Murray, of similar carvings from different oriental countries.\n\nIn gutta percha a large series of examples has been furnished by the Gutta Percha Company; a similar series of prepared India rubber has been purchased from Mr. Goodyear, the patentee. A pretty full series of starches, sugars, gums, and gum resins has been obtained, partly by gift, from the Messrs. Lawson, Edinburgh, partly by purchase from different parties; and Messrs. Cowan and Sons, Valleyfield, have sent illustrations of the different stages in the manufacture of brown paper from straw.\n\nIn textiles, through the liberality of various manufacturers, the Museum has received, through the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, an interesting suite of illustrations of the manufacture of broadcloth. Mr. Pender, of Manchester, has sent ten admirably arranged books containing about a thousand specimens of the different styles of calico printing executed in Great Britain. Mr. Walter Crum, of Glasgow, has made a gift of samples illustrating the different steps in the same printing process. Mr. Gray, the manager of the Dalmonach Print Works, has made a similar donation.\n\n7\n\n508\n\nMUSEUM,\n\nSCOTLAND.\n\nsmall donation. The Royal Commissioners have sent several INDUSTRIAL examples of calicoes and cotton velvets from Manchester. Mr. Dudgeon, of Cargen, has contributed a rare series of illustrations of the cotton manufacture of China. From Messrs. Millar, Oliver, and Black, specimens of African and Australian textiles have been received. From Mr. Girdwood a very carefully arranged set of Scotch fleeces. Mr. James Neish, of Dundee, has supplied a graduated series of Shetland wools. From Mr. Mackenzie, carpets and floorcloths from jute, coir, and Manilla hemp; and examples of the different stages in the treatment of jute. From the Messrs. Baxter, through the good offices of Mr. Sturrock, of the Dundee Chamber of Commerce, specimens of flax of different countries and its conversion into yarns.\n\nIn the department of animal products, purchases have been made of East Indian skins, illustrations of leather dressing and dyeing, catgut, fishing-gut and prepared intestines, manufactures from horn, tortoiseshell, shells, and fishscales; and gifts have been received from the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 of lac; from Professor Volcker of guanos and animal manures; from Messrs. 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        "content_text": "555\n\nto terpeans) seem to me to be in a much worse position\n\nColony plight than the Civil Servants of Ceylon - a\n\nto H. Kong having a better climate than W. Kong - where after is stipulated number of years\n\nhave an established right to retire on pensions calculated according to their length of service.\n\nWhy?\n\nIn\n\n71276] H. Kong\n\nLis\n\nPay Pay\n\nFor\n\nshould not Hong Kong have a similar indulgence? Sir Hercules Robinson Sir.\n\nThere could not be a better moment at present, when the\n\nRiviera is so prosperous and it is said that investment\n\nLak soms hely\n\nIn lexonnington\n\nment than the\n\n人\n\n88 برای\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n19\n\nActing Governor (aide)\n\nMay, 1859.\n\nb\n\nThe Bt. Stoutle\n\nhis 2. B. Lytton, Bh\n\nI Inclosure.\n\nReceived\n\nfor removal\n\nfrom Mr. More\n\nSubmitting application\n\nsion\n\npecsioners to rest on the dist in the intact.\n\nCod. Erine\n\n€2. Halme, and pushup\n\nFrom 6550\n\n759\n\nTherr\n\n6550 you will see that the Law does not dispute the ultimate claims of the public Servants at Hong Kong to pension. My question is when are they to be\n\nBut\n\nentitled to the same? After 20 years\n\nthey we seem to hear\n\nm\n\nstions relief. ABD 18 Jady\n\ndaim to relief.\n\nMr Mercer is a\n\nSitt. Merivale\n\nGentleman of ability and\n\n{dxcation (University) who has conducted\n\nJumiself uniformly well during\n\nserince of 15 years.\n\nus w\n\nHis\n\nsong trong\n\nthe duke of Newcastle intl inforon \"whether his wish for removal to another Colony can be encouraged.\n\n2. As to a pension the public Servants\n\nWh\n\nRong\n\nHony\n\nwhich is a\n\nplace very\n\nI think there is strong reason for warranting the H. K. service 1. We of\n\nCyton in other respects as well as this.\n\nbucetins\n\nHm/418 Ch.229\n\nMINUTE 24 Jun\n\nJAUG V B\n\nMr Elliot\n\nHTMerivale 16\n\nCFortescur Dickey Newcastle\n\nPrivate Sec.\n\nNo. 14.\n\n17 Aug/64.\n\nI have to acknowledge Col: Cain's\n\nthe receipt of your despatch The 19 May\n\nJP 88- and\n\nJune\n\n96 submitting\n\nan application from M.\n\nMencer for\n\nremoval to\n\nAnother Colony or for grant of a pension.\n\nI request that you\n\nwith concern\n\nto Mr. Meiler\n\nThe repression by my repet that I see very\n\nof my\n\nbeing\n\nAchelihood\n\nable to\n\ntravesse him to\n\na more\n\nSalubrious climate. Bat\n\nJail make\n\nnote\n\na\n\nthe\n\nof his inches on",
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        "content_text": "582\n\npension on retiring from the Office\n\nof\n\nLieut Governor of Hong Kong,\n\n.ވ\n\nI am directed by the\n\nDuke\n\nof\n\nNewcastle\n\nto transmit to you copy of the Lieut. Governor's despatch\n\nwith other documents on this subject, and request that you\n\nwill\n\nbring\n\nthem\n\nunder the early consideration of\n\nThe\n\nLords Commiss'rs\n\nof the Treasury.\n\nThe Duke of\n\nNewcastle observes\n\nthat in the letter\n\nto the Treasury from this office of\n\nthe 14th March last\n\nHis Predecessor\n\nsuggested\n\nan\n\nallowance to\n\nColonel Caine of £600 per\n\nannum.\n\nHis Grace has no\n\nreason\n\nfor objecting\n\nto that amount\n\nif",
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        "content_text": "You are to leave that place, at a moment when no other Officer of the Government is on the spot, and the Chief Superintendent is well assured.\n\nYou are to feel that while in the office you must hold your duty paramount, and that it necessarily becomes (however painfully) the privilege of being with your Corps, in any Military operations in which it may be engaged.\n\n(Signed) I. Robt Morrison\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Copy)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nJm71381.4\n\n49, Albermarle Street,\n\n26 October, 1844.\n\n5990\n\nI trust that Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, Commanding in Chief, will pardon me for intruding my respectful and Earnest recommendation in favour of Brevet Major Caine, of H.M. 26th Fort, whose application to obtain an unattached Majority is, I believe, at this moment, under his Grace's consideration. It is, I feel, totally unnecessary for me to trespass on Lieutenant General ...\n\nThe Lord Fitzroy Somerset, M.P.",
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        "content_text": "591 \n\nany details of Major Caines long Military Services, as I know that those details have been forwarded to Your Lordship, by Major General D'Aguilar, Commanding H. M.'s Land Forces in China, but I may perhaps be permitted to bear the strongest testimony to the unceasing \n\nzeal and laborious exertions combined with great judgment and the most praiseworthy temper and forbearance, with which Major Caine discharged the arduous and important duties of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong, from the moment that Colony came into possession of by my Predecessor in May 1841 till the day I quitted it in June 1844. \n\nThose duties, though strictly coming under the Civil Department, were in many instances such as would have required from a Military Commander, and I do not hesitate to record my opinion that up to the conclusion of the War, the safety and well-being of H. M.'s Subjects who had located themselves on the Island, were mainly owing to Major Caine's individual efforts and example. \n\nI am sure I need not say more to induce His Grace, the Duke of Wellington to look as favourably as may be consistent with the rules of the Service, on Major Caine's claims, I will therefore only add that this recommendation in favour of",
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        "content_text": "Capture of Chusan, he was appointed British Commissioner, and about three weeks afterwards Chief Magistrate of the Island of Chusan, which situation he filled until the following February, on the evacuation of the Island by the British Troops. Major Caine was accidentally in Command of the Cameronian Regiment for a few days in Canton River, when the Lieut. Colonel James had proceeded with the Commander in Chief to Whampoa in about May 1841. Major Caine was nominated to the appointment of Chief Magistrate of Hongkong. When the Force went against Canton in 1841, Major Caine begged Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to be permitted to join his Regiment, but was refused, vide letter No. 131, dated 22nd May 1841, from the Secretary to Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary herewith attached.\n\nPage 596\n\nIn September 1843, was appointed Member of Council in this Colony. In November 1844, obtained through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, on Sir Henry Pottinger's application an unattached Majority. In November 1846, promoted to Colonial Secretary, and Auditor General. In April 1847, when the Expedition went against Canton, Major Caine was left here in charge of the Colony, as well as of the Garrison, being Commandant.\n\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "E hereby Certify,\n\n1st, That the above leave was granted to commence on the \nof \nof \nand end on the \non the ground of- \nin pursuance of instructions of The Secretary of State conveyed \nin Despatch \non \nNo 22 of 26th March 1859, and is to commence \nthe 28th September, 1839.\n\n2d, That The Honorable Lieutenant Colonel William Caine (in his civil capacity) \nhas served the Crown for Eighteen years, 4 months, and 29 Days.\n\n3d, That in the course of that Service he has been absent on leave on several \noccasions, at the dates and for the terms specified below, viz:\n\n  In the year184310Days\n  184410\"\n  184518\"\n  184616\"\n  184725\"\n  184829\"\n  184921\"\n  185020\"\n  185149\"\n  185229\"\n  1853\n  185425\"\n  1855344\"\n  1858Three months, and 7 Days27 Days.\n\n4th, That provision has been made for the due execution of \nthe appointment of \nOffice during his absence by \nReginald M Robins \nGovernor.\n\nNOTES. Officers who may be under the necessity of applying to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leave of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications; and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to them in duplicate.\n\nNo 136 Miscellaneous \nArr. 16 — 2 Dec/59.\n\nRECEIVED \n1398 Hong Kong \n16 NOV 1859.\n\n317 \nGovernment Officer, Pretoria, \nHoughton, 27th September, 1859.\n\nPRINTED—TÖN PANLIAW EXT\n\nLord Duke, the branch 1860\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to forward to your Grace by this mail \na printed pamphlet, purporting to be a Report of the case \nRegina \nv. Tarrant, tried in the Supreme Court here in November last.\n\nThis is sent at Mr. Tarrant's \nwritten request, made to the \nColonial Secretary \non the 19th instant \nwhen the Book was \nforwarded.\n\nIt is, I understand, for \nHis Grace \nThe Duke of Newcastle.",
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        "content_text": "SIR,\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Friend of China.\"\n\nHONGKONG, 14th December, 1858.\n\nCourt to give evidence as to Sir John Bowring's state of health, -Dr Menzies, who had seen most of him, and who entirely concurs in my opinion as to Sir John's unfitness to appear in the Court, being unavoidably absent.\n\nI went to Mr Masson, and found that if I left a certificate for His Excellency it would suffice, and I was just about to start up the hill to see Mr D'Almada, when in that gentleman walked. He had (not having seen me) come to beg Mr Masson to ask the Judge to excuse him remaining in the Court as he was unable to do so; I told him that it was very wrong of him to have left his house-that he was certainly not fit to be out; but that he must now stay, for I could give him no certificate as he must have been seen coming through the Court, and it would be thought that I was giving a certificate when it was not required.\n\nAs I understand that you are about to publish a pamphlet containing an account of the late trial for Libel, The Queen versus Tarrant, I shall be obliged if you will insert this note in your pamphlet, and the enclosed explanation of the circumstances under which I granted a sick certificate to Mr J. D'Almada an explanation which would have been offered to the Court itself, but for my ignorance of the proper time to interrupt its proceedings by this purely personal matter, and but for the unexpected speedy termination of the case,\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nT. A. CHALDECOTT.\n\nEXPLANATION.\n\n\"Mr J. D'Almada had been obliged to remain at home from office for two days, on account of an inflamed leg, which to-day was worse instead of better, and gave him much pain. I therefore wrote to him in the morning to see him, as he found was unable to go down to remain in Court. I was unable to see him before noon, when I was compelled to go down to the Court, and remained there especially to make this explanation if the case went on, and it was called for.\n\nHe begged that I would not refuse it him, as he was in great pain, and more to the same effect, and the appearance of the leg fully bore him out in his statements. At last I reluctantly consented. I should have left him perhaps to suffer the consequences of his folly, but for two things: 1st, that he stated Mr Anstey had got all his evidence, and the depositions could be read; and 2nd that I had heard the trial would almost certainly be postponed, in consequence of Sir John Bowring's state of health. Mr J D'Almada states it is not true that he was in Court after I had given the certificate, but that he went straight home.\n\nSigned)\n\nT. A. CHALDECOTT\n\nJudicial\n\n14\n\n22 Beer%\n\nAnsw2 51-21 De\n\n3\n\n7.1868\n\n100\n\n12024 trong tương.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n6 DEC 1859.\n\n407\n\n3) Government office, Hongkong, 8th October, 1859.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nHaving given my best consideration to the question raised by Sir John Bowring, and referred to Sir Edward Lytton, as to whether the Attorney General of Hongkong should be allowed to engage in private practice in Court, I have arrived at the conclusion that it is on the whole most conducive to the Public interests of this Colony that he should not.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nNo.\n\nHo.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "to deduce from it\n\nOn the other hand, I think thriving Hongkong would have done better to argue with dignity in what is not a practical worry. H: 12.\n\nSir St. Robinson.\n\nHongkong, November, 1859.\n\nTo\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo 27\n\nReceived\n\nOn the subject of the decision of the Treasury as to Superannuation Allowances to be granted hereafter to Civil Servants in Hongkong.\n\n16.\n\nEntered\n\nG. Hamilton Exp\n\nMerival\n\nFor Foreign\n\n14.6\n\nDowning Street 21st January 1860\n\n17 Jan 2. 1860\n\nWith reference to a letter of 4 May 1859(?) \n4526 to Sir Charles Trevelyan's of the 13th April last, on the subject of abatement from pensions of Civil Servants at Hongkong, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury express their opinion, that the\n\nCorrected to: \n\nto deduce from it\n\nOn the other hand, I think thriving Hongkong would have done better to argue with dignity in what is not a practical worry. H: 12.\n\nSir St. Robinson.\n\nHongkong, November, 1859.\n\nTo\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo 27\n\nReceived\n\nOn the subject of the decision of the Treasury as to Superannuation Allowances to be granted hereafter to Civil Servants in Hongkong.\n\n16.\n\nEntered\n\nG. Hamilton Exp\n\nMerival\n\nFor Foreign\n\n501(?) 14.6\n\nDowning Street 21st January 1860\n\n17 Jan 2. 1860\n\nWith reference to a letter of 4 May 1860(?) to Sir Charles Trevelyan's of the 13th April last, on the subject of abatement from pensions of Civil Servants at Hongkong, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury express their opinion, that the\n\nLet me re-edit again.\n\nto deduce from it\n\nOn the other hand, I think thriving Hongkong would have done better to argue with dignity in what is not a practical worry. H: 12.\n\nSir St. Robinson.\n\nHongkong, November, 1859.\n\nTo\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo 27\n\nReceived\n\nOn the subject of the decision of the Treasury as to Superannuation Allowances to be granted hereafter to Civil Servants in Hongkong.\n\n16.\n\nEntered\n\nG. Hamilton Exp\n\nMerival\n\nFor Foreign\n\n14.6\n\nDowning Street 21st January 1860\n\nst 17 Jan 2. 1860\n\nWith reference to a letter of & 4 May 1860 to Sir Charles Trevelyan's of the 13th April last, on the subject of abatement from pensions & Civil Servants at Hongkong, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury express their opinion, that the\n\nRevised to meet the format:\n\nto deduce from it\n\nOn the other hand, I think thriving Hongkong would have done better to argue with dignity in what is not a practical worry. H: 12.\n\nSir St. Robinson.\n\nHongkong, November, 1859.\n\nTo\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo 27\n\nReceived\n\nOn the subject of the decision of the Treasury as to Superannuation Allowances to be granted hereafter to Civil Servants in Hongkong.\n\n16.\n\nEntered\n\nG. Hamilton Exp\n\nMerival\n\nFor Foreign\n\n501 14.6\n\nDowning Street 21st January 1860\n\n17 Jan 2. 1860\n\nWith reference to a letter of 4 May 1859 to Sir Charles Trevelyan's of the 13th April last, on the subject of abatement from pensions & Civil Servants at Hongkong, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury express their opinion, that the\n\nRe-checking and re-correcting the final output in HTML.\n\nto deduce from it\n\nOn the other hand, I think thriving Hongkong would have done better to argue with dignity in what is not a practical worry. H: 12.\n\nSir St. Robinson.\n\nHongkong, November, 1859.\n\nTo\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nNo 27\n\nReceived\n\nOn the subject of the decision of the Treasury as to Superannuation Allowances to be granted hereafter to Civil Servants in Hongkong.\n\n16.\n\nEntered\n\nG. Hamilton Exp\n\nMerival\n\nFor Foreign\n\n14.6\n\nDowning Street 21st January 1860\n\n17 Jan 2. 1860\n\nWith reference to a letter of 4 May 1860 to Sir Charles Trevelyan's of the 13th April last, on the subject of abatement from pensions & Civil Servants at Hongkong, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury express their opinion, that the",
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        "content_text": "5.\n\nto remunerate the Starbon Master for the additional duties thus imposed upon him, in which case as the Public Officers of the Colony are not allowed to appropriate fees of office, I would suggest that a small addition be made to his Salary; and a scale of Fees fixed and authorized by local Ordinance, sufficient to reimburse the Colony.\n\n6. I should be glad to receive from the Board of Trade a Schedule of the Fees which their Lordships consider reasonable for Services performed by the Registrar of Shipping and Shipping Master under the Merchant Shipping Act. I may\n\n+\n\nA\n\n514\n\nmake this request because, if I remember rightly, in compliance with a similar request, a Schedule of the kind was furnished to the Registrar of Shipping either at Trinidad or St Christopher's\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's, Most Obedient Servant,\n\nRegistrar GM Robinson",
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        "content_text": "Miscellaneous Establishment of the maintenance of which Service on a more extensive and efficient footing a sum of nearly $3,400 has been appropriated.\n\n6. No change has been made by the Estimates in Salaries, because I think that the time has arrived for considering comprehensively the position of the Public Servants of the Crown in this Colony, and placing them on a more permanent footing by a Civil List. I hope shortly to submit for your Grace's approval a draft of a Civil List, as the subject is at present engaging my careful consideration.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's Most obedient Servant,\n\nW. H. Mitchell Robinson",
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        "content_text": "Advance Notice\n\nHong Kong, 1858 before the\n\nQueen and I am\n\nCommanded to\n\nacquaint you that Her Majesty has been pleased to Confirm the Hallow Ordinances.\n\nYou will communicate the Majesty's decision on these Ordinances to the Inhabitants of Hong Kong by Proclamation in the usual manner.\n\n3\n\nNo 45 Miscellaneous,\n\n190b Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nFEB 25 1860.\n\nGovernment offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 27 December, 1859\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this morning,\n\nof the following Despatches from Your Grace :-\n\nOriginal-\n\nNo: 33 to 35, - the last of 10 November, 1859. Circular note of the 20 October,\n\n[...]\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested, here is the revised version:\n\nAdvance Notice\n\nHong Kong, 1858 before the\n\nQueen and I am\n\nCommanded to\n\nacquaint you that Her Majesty has been pleased to Confirm the Hallow Ordinances.\n\nYou will communicate the Majesty's decision on these Ordinances to the Inhabitants of Hong Kong by Proclamation in the usual manner.\n\n3\n\nNo 45 Miscellaneous,\n\n190b Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED\n\nFEB 25 1860.\n\nGovernment offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 27 December, 1859\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this morning,\n\nof the following Despatches from Your Grace :-\n\nOriginal-\n\nNo: 33 to 35, - the last of 10 November, 1859. Circular note of the 20 October,\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nRewritten to fit exact HTML format and correcting minor errors:\nAdvance Notice\n\nHong Kong, 1858 before the\n\nQueen and I am\n\nCommanded to acquaint you that Her Majesty has been pleased to Confirm the Hallow Ordinances.\n\nYou will communicate the Majesty's decision on these Ordinances to the Inhabitants of Hong Kong by Proclamation in the usual manner.\n\n3\n\nNo 45 Miscellaneous, 190b Hong Kong\n\nRECEIVED FEB 25 1860.\n\nGovernment offices, Victoria, Hongkong, 27 December, 1859\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, this morning, of the following Despatches from Your Grace :-\n\nOriginal- No: 33 to 35, - the last of 10 November, 1859. Circular note of the 20 October,\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Newcastle,",
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        "content_text": "\"Confidential\"\n\nNos 29 to 32, and of 12th October, 1859.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's\n\nMost obedient Servant,\n\nMunster\n\nGM Molinera\n\nMilitara\n\nAdmiralty wys\n\nmowered.\n\n20.\n\nREC\n\nFEE25 1860.\n\n1901 Hong Kong\n\n578\n\naument\n\nent Offices, Victoria, Hong Kong, 20 December 1859\n\nMy Lord Duke\n\nThe number of reports on boats and piracies committed in this neighbourhood belonging to this Colony - having largely increased during the past month, I thought it right to communicate with His Excellency Admiral Hope and His Grace The Duke of Newcastle, &c.",
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        "content_text": "and to place the matter in his hands.\n\nI have now the honor to enclose report of an Expedition under Captain Commerell, which has been thoroughly successful in its results.\n\nPiratical depredations are more common at this than at any other season of the year, but I trust that this timely check will have a beneficial and a lasting effect.\n\nI have the honor to be My Lord Duke Your Grace's, Most Obedient Servant\n\nVerenler G.M. Robinson\n\n579",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong 29 December, 1857\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nHercules. Robinson .\n\nInclosure. N. 43.\n\nReceived.\n\nReporting destruction of Pirates, by a Naval Expedition under the command of Captain Commerell of the \"Magicienne\"\n\nDowning Street, January 1860\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting the destruction of Pirates by a Naval Expedition under the command of Captain Commerell of the \"Magicienne\".\n\nI am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant,\n\nH.M.",
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