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        "content_text": "Hong Kong Admiralty Agency\n\nBoard of ...\n\nCopy\n\nSir,\n\n4th Sloop Serpent\n\nPortsmouth 6 May 1846\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th Inst.: conveying enclosures from the Treasury, likewise from Her Majesty's Mint stating that on opening the Boxes of Sycee Silver brought by W.M. Hoop Serpent under my charge, it was found that the said box was filled with Cunips of Lead instead of Silver.\n\nI have the honor to inform you that I was on deck at the time I received the Treasure from H.M. Ship Iris at Singapore, and the whole of the Boxes came on board in a perfect state. I was likewise on deck when they were transhipped from this Ship, to be landed at Weeval, and they were in the same perfect state as when received, which M. Byron's Certificate to me amply shows.\n\nI beg to assure their Lordships that not any one of the Treasury Boxes could under any circumstances have been opened while under my charge.\n\nThe Seals, and other marks upon it, doubtless will clearly show that the Contents of the Box are the same as when shipped at Canton.\n\n(Signed) Mr. Nevill\n\nCopy of a Treasury Minute dated 12th May 1846.\n\nTransmit Copy of this Letter and its enclosure to the Master of the Mint for his information, with reference to the Letter from this Board dated 9th Instant.\n\n...\n\nPage information is not present in this text, however, the original formatting is kept as much as possible.\n\nThe text has been reformatted according to the given rules, with corrections made to spelling, spacing, and punctuation. The original content and structure have been preserved as much as possible.\n\n9431-\n\nTo the Secretary,\n\nAdmiralty,\n\nLondon",
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        "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "N° 85 of 1848\n\nInclosure. No 2 in Besp\n\nDOCUMENTS\n\nwhose authority he acted and he answered, By Mr\n\nIn the Case of \"Regina v. Cole and others,\" charged Davidson's the owner.\n\nwith Piracy, &c. N.B. The interlineations and marginal addition of the originals are printed within brackets.—ED.C.M.\n\nShanghae, in the Province of Kiang-soo, in the Empire of China, to wit.\n\nThe witness handed in the following documents, to which he made oath as a part of his evidence :-\n\nExtract from Log-book of H. M. S. Childers.—Do. of Boarding Book do.—Questions asked by Commander Pitman of Ching-chung-key, the Chinese Admiral.—Do. of the Master and crew of Chinese fishing boat, on board the Spec on 23d June,\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nThe examination of Cutsu-kz, (Ting-koey,) native of the Town of Pil-ke, in the District of H wey-gun, in the Department of faeuen-chow, in the Province Fŭhkëen,—taken on oath, this 29th day of June, &c., &c.*\n\nI am a fisherman by occupation. In the spring of this year, I was engaged by Kwo-kin, a junk-owner of the Town of Pil-ke, to enter on board his junk as net-thrower at the rate of four dollars per quarter; I tsenen-ching or Kintsenen-shing, as I cannot read or do not know whether the junk's name was Kin-write; I only remember the junk's name by sound, tell the number of the junk. and do not know the characters of it; neither can I\n\nWe had on board crew of 24 men and four boats. We set sail from Pih-ke on the 3d day of the 3d month, (6th April,)\n\nThe following morning, the 23, I went on board the [captured fishing junk; examined her and found that nearly everything moveable had been taken out except two boats. The hatches were lifted up, and a few tubs of live fish alone remained. I observed bound for Chin-hae to fish, where we arrived in the 4th month. We had papers from the Tacping Custom-house, and had our fishing tackle on board. We were armed with 2 matchlocks and 2 small guns about an inch in diameter and three feet long, as a means of defence against pirates. The Junk was above 900 piculs burden. The owner Kwo-kin was on board. During the last month we made two trips\n\nOne shot struck\n\nThe examination of JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, Esq., Commander of Her Britannic Majesty's Sloop of war Childers, taken on Oath this Twenty-ninth day of June, on the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me, Rutherford Alcock, Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, in the presence and hearing of Mariano Alvesto, native of Manila, Juan Nasieu, to the fishing ground off Poseu, the tides being favourable twice in a month for that purpose. On the 19th day of the 5th month (19th June) we again left Chin-bae in company with other fishing boats to the number of some twenty or more; but on account of our junk being larger than the other boats, they outsailed us, and we were left behind. On the 21st or 22d day (21st or 22d June) when sailing alone under Yung-shan, we suddenly saw a foreign vessel astern, which was coming up hailed us; we did not understand what they said, but we answered that we were a junk from Chin-bas, belonging to a Hong there, as we could prove to them if they followed us in. We said this, being fearing that they might think we were pirates, and might attack us.\n\nI then went to the Spec, and I told the master to muster the crew and shew the articles. The prisoner who now answers to the name of Ephraim Francis did not answer to any name in the articles.\n\nI saw being only one of the crew, I do not know the name of it, though I know the parties conducting it by sight. I asked what had become of the crew of the fishing junk and he answered, they were in the fore-hold. I ordered them on deck, and they were brought up, some of them with their hands tied; several were badly wounded: these I examined with the Surgeon of the Childers. I asked Mr Cole if he had examined the papers of the junk? He and the [Chinese] pilot pointed out the master of the junk, who produced the papers sewn inside his jacket. I told Mr Cole I should take as many [of the junk's crew] as he wished on board the mandarin junk, and recommend him or his mate to be present and hear the evidence. Everything was taken down in writing.\n\nWe had heard that two foreign pirates, but beyond that knew nothing about them. vessels were employed to protect the fishery from\n\nI asked the crew of the fishing junk what had become of the cargo, their clothes, &c. they answered, The rice, arms, and several boxes, had been taken on board the Spec, and Mr Cole pointed several out as the property of the junk. I asked if they had been plundered? They said, Something had been taken on the junk. I asked if they had been ill treated? They said, Five had been killed, and some thrown overboard. They then rushed below, made all of us fast, and passed us up on deck. I saw them throw overboard Kwo-kin's dead body. Kwa-nae, being in great agony, was calling for some one to put him out of his pain, and I saw one of the foreigners thrust at him with a sword and throw him overboard.\n\nI also saw the foreigners take up Kwo-fun in order to throw him overboard, but he struggled with them, caught hold of the bulwarks of the Junk. They then cut him down and threw him overboard, and among others [one] who is now here, having received injury from a grape shot in the foot. He stated that if this man in his feverish state was left on board and that his life would be in danger. I therefore said he should be removed to Shanghae, and brought him on board.\n\nI told Mr Cole to pick out two of the men of the junk, and either come himself or send his mate; he sent the mate the pilot of the Spec and Dr Rogers round among the prisoners, he pointed out the prisoner answering to the name of Ephraim Francis, and said I am certain this is the man.\" [R.A.] Two others of the crew, Kwo-wei-tow and Kwo-ming, are missing, but I do not know what became of them. Before throwing Kwa-kin overboard, they took from his neck a silver chin. After having thrown the bodies overboard, they searched the vessel and took away a box-pillow belonging to Kwo-kin which contained his opium and smoking apparatus. about six stone of rice, of which they afterwards returned two, and\n\nHe asked the junkmen a great many questions— pronounced them to be innocent, and wished them to be released. I asked what should be done with the arms, if I should return them to the junk? he said they had a right to a certain number for their own protection; that half should be given back to the crew and the other half he would keep. He requested that the junk and any property belonging to them which might be on board the Spec should be restored to the liberated men, and asked them where they would go? and they replied, To Chin-hae direct, to represent their case to the authorities. I told him that I should take the Spec to Shanghae.\n\nI asked if he had any complaint to make against the Spec? He said she had no right there no right to fire into the junk, and that English vessels were constantly doing the same. I stated that I regretted it exceedingly, that it was contrary to the laws of England, and if he could point out any other vessel similarly engaged, I should feel it my duty to take her. In reply he stated he was equally sorry for it, but it was a very bad affair.\n\nOn the morning of the 22d June, standing up for the Ruggeds in H. M. Sloop Childers, I observed a schooner in company with a Chinese junk standing in for the south end of the Ruggeds,—it falling calm we were obliged to anchor between two or three miles from the schooner. The schooner and the junk anchored in a bay where there were three men-of-war junks; the schooner afterwards went alongside the junk and began discharging every thing out of her; a quantity of useless things, such as planks, matting, &c., floated past for several hours, and was reported to me by the officers. I weighed about 4 P.M. and proceeded to where the schooner was at anchor, and I immediately sent an officer on board the schooner, Mr Berkeley, to desire the master to come on board with his log and papers. Mr Cole, now present, came, I asked him if he was the master of the schooner Spec? He answered, For the time being; also asked him what he was doing there, and what reason he had for molesting the junk? He then stated that he had taken her the evening previous; that she was a pirate. I asked him what authority he had for doing it? He answered, None, but the Pilot had told him she was a pirate. [I asked him as he sailed so well why he did not go alongside of her, instead of going ahead as he stated and firing into her, as it was well known a Chinese junk would not have escaped, and that he ought to have hailed her and said he wanted to examine her.—R.A.] He voluntarily stated that several [of the crew of the junk] had been killed and wounded by their shot.\n\nI asked him if he was aware of the serious consequences of what he had done? and he said, No—that he saw no harm in it, that the same thing had been done before. I asked him repeatedly if the junk had in any way molested or interfered with or fired at him? He distinctly said, No. I asked him why, if the junk was a piratical vessel, he had not called upon me or the Chinese war junks to take it, as I had been in sight more than 14 hours? He said he did not know.\" I asked him were he had captured her, he said a short distance from where we had anchored in the morning to the Westward. I asked him why two boats were alongside? and he answered they had been assisting in towing her in. Those two boats immediately saw us approaching, sailed away towards the Chusan Group—they had obviously been taking the plunder from the junk. As the ship's company for several hours saw the more valueless contents float past,\n\nI told Mr Cole that he had committed a very serious offence, having by his own account killed and wounded several Chinese subjects, and that it was my duty to detain him. I asked him where he was from? He stated from Ningpo. Where he was bound? he answered, Nowhere he was going to look for his consort the Dido. to supply her with Powder and Shot. I asked him if he did not know that he could not be sailing about without being bound for some port: he said. He did not. Asked whether he had put in for stress of weather? and he said, No. I then referred to his articles, and asked him why his name was not there, as he represented himself to be the master of the vessel? He stated he was only there for a time while some one was sick.\n\nI then said I should examine his ship the following morning, and asked him if he had any papers to shew what brought him there? He said he had one.\n\n*The names of the Seamen are so illegibly written, that we are by no means certain all of them have been correctly deciphered.—ED. C.M.\n\nI then returned to the Spec, and saw part of the arms of the Junk returned in one of the Spec's boats. I told Mr Cole that the junk's papers were all perfectly correct, that the men were innocent men, and they with their property must be immediately sent on board their own vessel, Mr Cole then turned to the pilot and said, \"What a nice mess you have got me into;\" and I then asked the pilot if he had said she was a pirate, and he replied, No—that he had only wanted to examine her. I asked Mr Cole who paid him? He said he did not know, believed he was put on board and paid by some Chinese merchants.]\n\nThe men of the Junk afterwards sent a complaint that everything had been taken out and the shot-holes were visible through their sails.\n\nthe few cash I had in it. These things I saw them take, but I cannot say of my own knowledge whether they took anything else. They then directed us to accompany them to Yung-shan, and when we approached the land, two boats from the foreign man-of-war boarded us, and asked for our papers which we shewed them, but they, not understanding them, took them on board the mandarin's junks of which there were several anchored under Yung-shan. One of the men-of-war boats returned again, and took two of our men, one a helmsman and the other a sailor, on board the mandarin's junk to be interrogated. in his cap, asked them when we had left Chin-hae, with what Hong we were connected there, what places we had been to, and what fish we had caught? These questions being answered, he then returned them the papers of our Junk, and told them they might depart, and that we might return again to our fishing. The two men were brought back on board our Junk in the man-of-war's boat; we then prepared to return to Chin-hae, but I was taken on board the man-of-war, where they told me that I should go with them to Shanghae, and that my wound would be attended during the time I was on board. I was treated with the utmost kindness to there.\n\nTrue Interpretation,\n\nHARRY S. PARKES, Interpreter.\n\nTaken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\n*It would be superfluous to repeat the introductory form, which is given with every deposition before the Consul, and printed at length with Capt. Pitman's evidence.—ED. C.M.,\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151\n\nCopy of Despatch from Mr. Consul Alcock reporting\n\nthe\n\ncase of the \"Spec.\"\n\n6th July, 1848.\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "Captain PITMAN recalled, and asked if he could identify the last witness Ching-ke? Answered, I am, and corroborate the greater part of his evidence.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Taken before me the day above mentioned,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of WILLIAM LOCKHART, Surgeon, taken on oath, &c., &c.\n\nThe last witness Ching-ke was brought to me [at the Chinese Hospital] from H. M. Childers on the morning of the 16th inst., with an injury to his left foot. Apparently a musket shot had struck him on the first joint of the great toe, breaking the bone and laying open the joint. Sloughing had commenced, and great formation of matter around the wound and behind. I consider it a dangerous wound, and that his life is in danger from it.\n\nWILLIAM LOCKHART, M.R.C.S.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of WILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon of H. M.'s S. Childers, taken on oath, &c., &c. I went on board the Schooner Spec by Commander Pitman's order on the 23d instant. \"I saw three wounded Junkmen, one of them the witness recently examined, Ching-ke, and the other two had only received contusions and the injuries were slight. I asked how the injury had been received? The prisoner present, William Cole, said he thought it was by a grape shot. I heard William Cole say that he had fired into the Junk. I considered it necessary that Ching-ke should be removed for treatment, as the consequences of such wounds are frequently dangerous. I heard the answer of the Admiral interpreted to Captain Pitman, that the Junk in question was a proper Junk, by which I understood not a piratical vessel.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS, M.D., Surgeon.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nShanghae, &c.\n\nThe examination of JOSHUA BERKELEY, Esq., mate on board H. M. S. Childers, taken on oath, &c.\n\nI was sent to board the Schooner Spec this day week (22d June) with orders from Captain Pitman to ask the master what his business was there, and what was the communication he had with the Junk astern of him to which he replied that he had been commissioned by Mr. Davidson to convey some shot down to the Ding and he had captured the Junk the day previous and brought her in to the Ruggeds. I returned with this answer, and was again despatched with orders to the master to be on board H. M.'s S. Childers with his Log and papers within half an hour. The next day I was on board the Junk and saw the marks of several shot holes in her side and one in her stern. She was empty, I only saw some nets and bait on board.\n\nJOSHUA BERKELEY.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nSHANGHAE TO WIT,\n\nThe examination of George Johnson, native of England; Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Jan Nacion, natives of Manila; Levis Sept, native of Antigua; Striano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, natives of Manila; Ephraim Francis, native of England; Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, natives of Manila; Lith-Ayih, native of Chusan; Ching-Lea-Ching, native of Ningpo; Al-Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, natives of Chusan; William Cole, native of England; Yum-Ching-Ming, native of Chusan Taken this twenty-ninth day of June, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, before me Rutherford Alcock Esquire, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shanghae aforesaid, the said George Johnson, Mariano Alvesto, Juan Nasicio, Juan Nacion, Levis Sept, Mariano de los Santos, Lucas Manoel, E. Francis, Lorenzo Santos, Mariano Augustine, Gabriel Calistro, Sebe Mariano, Li-Ayih, Ching-Lea-Ching, Ah Aneung, Wang-Yuh-Fa, William Cole, being charged before me the said Consul on the oath of John Charles Pitman, Esquire, Commander of H. B. M. Sloop Childers, for that on the 1st day of June, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-eight, being on board a certain vessel or schooner called the Spec in a certain place on the high seas near the sand called the \"Ruggeds\" on the coast of China, did piratically, feloniously, and violently with force and arms, attack, board, and take possession of a certain Junk or vessel, the property of a certain Chinese subject named Kwo-kin, the owner thereof, and did feloniously fire into the said Junk or vessel, whereby the said Kwo-kin the owner together with several of the seamen on board thereof were killed, and did take and carry away certain stores and apparel belonging to the said Junk, and certain Goods and Chattels belonging to the said owner and divers of the seamen on board. And the witnesses against them being examined in their presence, they are now asked by me if they wish to say anything in their own behalf; whereupon they answered they had no defence to make.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nShanghae, &c. The examination of KEW-TSAK-KIN, the day of July, &c.\n\nI was put on board the schooner Spec by a public body of Chinese merchants, and took no pay from the master of the ship. A Junk had been hailed to let down her sails, and not complying, a shot had certainly been fired into her.\n\nTaken before me, &c.\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, Consul.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions, and the Answers made to the same. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me this day on board the schooner Spec at\n\nPage 363\n\nanchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the 23d day of June, 1848.\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nQuestions asked by Commander J. C. Pitman, of Ching-chong-ke (the Chinese Admiral in charge of 7 junks), on board his vessel.\n\nRugged Islands, the 23d of June, 1848\n\nHas the English schooner Spec any right to be here?-No.\n\nWhether he knew what the English schooner Spec was about there?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know whether the Junk taken by the Spec was a pirate or not?-Did not know.\n\nDid he know what the schooner Spec was about with the Junk?-Did not know.\n\nWhether the Captain of the schooner had brought any of the crew of the junk on board to him, or made any complaint to him relative to the junk?-\n\nWhat became of the crew and cargo of the junk?-Taken on board the Spec, he believed.\n\nIs that English schooner any right to take the junk?—No\n\nDid he know why the Captain of the Spec did not bring the crew of junk on board his vessel?-Did not know.\n\nAfter the 2 Chinamen belonging to the junk and the mate of the Spec had been taken on board the Mandarin's junk, the following Questions were asked.-\n\nWhether the papers of the junk were correct?—They are all proper and correct, and signed by the proper authorities.\n\nIs any complaint to make against the schooner?—No.\n\nWhat cause had the schooner Spec to take that junk, whether it was proper to do so, and if the Chinese Mandarins like it?—The junk's papers are proper, but she had no business to have so many arms on board. The English vessel did wrong to take her; she has a right to carry arms. If the Chinese Admiral likes, the arms shall be returned to the junk—Part of them.\n\nIf he likes, remainder shall be sent to him or thrown overboard?—To be sent to him. Which was done.\n\nCaptain Pitman then told the junkmen that their junk, rice, and part of their arms, would be returned to them, and they would be allowed to go on with their fishing. They said they would return to Chin-hai.\n\nCaptain Pitman told the Chinese Admiral that the English schooner Spec had fired into the junk and wounded 3 men, and that one of the wounded men would be sent to the Shanghae Hospital for medical treatment. He said it was a bad affair, but was much obliged.\n\nAre you now quite satisfied that the junk is not a pirate? Yes, she is a fishing Junk of Chin-hae.\n\nI, John Charles Pitman, Commander of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do solemnly declare that the above is a true statement of my Questions and the Answers made to same, &c. In witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature this 23d of June, 1848.\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nI, George Taliaferro Dormer Andrews, Clerk of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers, do declare that the above statement was truly taken by me, this day, on board the Chinese Admiral's Junk at anchor off the Rugged Islands.\n\n23d day of June, 1848.\n\nIn witness whereof I hereunto attach my signature the\n\nPage 364\n\nG. J. D. ANDREWS, Clerk\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF THE SCHOONER SPEC.\n\nRedusduz, 1 June\n\nA. M. weighed, saw a junk to the southward—the pilot wished us to see what she was\n\nand took her, towed her back to the Ruggeds and anchored. 9. A. M., came up with her; she proved a pirate, boarded her. At 6 P. M. took 18 men and one boy, confined them on board.\n\nThursday, 22d June\n\nA. M. hoisted out the schooner, and put two boats out, one of which got adrift and was lost; 6 P. M. went on board the junk, brought her nearer the\n\nwas lying 5 miles to leeward of us last night. Took out almost every portable article.\n\nA. M. Brig Childers anchored to the southward.\n\nSt. p. 52. s. hove up the junk's anchor and took her closer in-shore. The Commander of H. M.'s Brig Childers came on board to see the papers—not finding them correct,* ordered us to Shanghae with the junk.\n\nFriday, 23 June.\n\nAll our prisoners on board the junk and let go except the man wounded in the toe, who was taken on board H. M. S. Childers.\n\nThis appears to be an expression of regret. It had been originally\n\nand (Indignant), having been imbecile with the loss of masters being scored out.. E. M.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM THE LOG-BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nThursday, 22d June, 1848.\n\n\"A. M. 6, observed the English schooner Spec standing for the Eastern anchorage under the south Ruggeds (Falls.) with a Chinese junk in company with her; apparently discharging de-\n\nbris and other things into the water; 11.50, observed the schooner Spec alongside the junk,\n\nG. I. G.\n\nFriday, 23d of June, 1848. A. M. \"The schooner Spec of Hongkong having been mustered, her Articles and Log were found not to be correct. the master's and several of the crew's names not being registered the junk which she had taken possession of was liberated by order of Commander Pitman. took one of the wounded Chinese\n\non board.\n\nP. Chinese Admiral visited the ship. Saluted him with 3 guns. Protested against the schooner Spec of Hongkong for having taken the (alleged) Chinese Junk, killing Five men, and wounding Four.\"\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE BOARDING BOOK OF H. M. SLOOP CHILDERS.\n\nDate, 3d June, 1848—Name of Vessel, \"Spec.\"—Master, Wm. Cole—Owner, Davidson of Ningpo—Where from, Ningpo—Bound, Saddle Island, one of the Ports of\n\nTrade—Belonging, Hongkong—No. of Days out, 3.—Registered Tonnage,\n\n1.—7. 10—Guns, 9—Jungting, No Cargo—No passengers\n\nNation, English—How rigged, Schooner—Marks, The master, mate, and three men, not on the articles; one English seaman on Register Ticket; no registry of arms, and has on board 9 guns, 28 muskets, 5 Pistols, 10 cutlasses, 4 pikes, and 5 spears; 9 Chinamen, and 1 pilot not on manifest\n\n(True Copy,) J. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nLIST OF JUNK'S ARMS.\n\nThis is to certify that Ting-ke, the wounded Chinese brought to the Chinese Hospital from H. M. S. Childers, is still under my care. There is less inflammation of the foot then there was, the progress of the Sloughing has ceased, and several small portions of bone have been taken away from the wound; but he could not go to Hongkong, without great danger to his life.\n\nWM. LOCKHART, Surgeon.\n\nShanghae, July 4, 1848.\n\nQuestions asked by Commander Pitman, of the master and crew of a Chinese Fishing-junk on board the Spec, of Hongkong, in the presence of Mr. Cole the master, the mate, and crew of the Spec.\n\nRugged Islands, the 2d June, 1848\n\nFrom whence did the junk come?—From Chebac.\n\nWhere are your papers?—We produced them.\n\nHow came he to have so many arms on board?—To protect himself from the pirates outside.\n\nWhat became of all the things belonging to the junk?—Rice, arms, and some small boxes taken on board the Spec.\n\nWhether any person belonging to the Spec had taken anything from them?—Only the rice, arms, and small boxes.\n\nHave any of them been beaten on board the Spec?—No, except wounding them by firing at them.\n\nHad they had plenty to eat on board the Spec?—Yes.\n\nDid the Spec fire shot at the junk?—Yes, and killed 5 and wounded 3 men.\n\nHow many men lost?—The 5 killed, one of their heads was blown off.\n\nHow many men in the junk when she left port?—24—19 were on board the Spec.\n\nHas he any complaint to make as to the treatment received from the Spec?—No, only they were innocent of the charge of being pirates.\n\nWhere was he when the Spec took him?—Off the Ruggeds at the fishing station.\n\nCaptain Pitman told them that he would take 2 or 3 of them on board the Mandarin junk to be examined, and if they were found not to be pirates they should be allowed to go away.\n\nThe Pilot of the Spec was asked.—\n\nHow he knew that these men were pirates?—Because they fought the fishing boats.\n\nThe Master of the Spec was asked,—\n\nWho sent the Pilot on board?—The Chinese merchants at Ningpo, and hired the vessel.\n\nDid the junk attack or molest you?—No.\n\nThe following is a list of the arms I saw on board the\n\nJunk.\n\n5 Gingalls\n\n5 Tahious\n\nMatchlocks\n\n10 Pikes\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander.\n\nBritish Consulate Office, Shanghae, 31 July, 1848.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to return the Log Book and Papers of the Schooner Spec detained by you on the 23d ultimo, for acts of Piracy and breach of existing Navigation Laws, as set forth in the evidence taken before me on the 29th ultimo, on the charge preferred by you against the master and crew of that vessel for Piracy and Murder committed on the high seas. You will be good enough to hold these Documents available for production in evidence at any Trial that may take place in the Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\nI have further to request that on the arrival of the Prisoners at Hongkong, the officer in Charge will report the same at the Superintendency, deliver the enclosed Despatch, and act in reference to the disposal of the Prisoners as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary shall please to direct.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nRUTHERFORD ALCOCK, for Consul.\n\n(True Copy, FARD. HOWARD)\n\nTo Commander J. C. Pitman, R.N., H. M. S. Childers.\n\nBy J. C. PITMAN, Esquire.\n\nYou are to allow no communication with the Prisoners except in writing through you. You will be furnished with a list of the master and crew, and all the necessary papers.\n\non reporting yourself and the number of Prisoners at the Superintendency's office there, where you will deliver the enclosed Despatches for His Excellency the Governor.\n\nGiven under my hand on board the Childers at Woosung, the 3d July, 1848\n\nJ. C. PITMAN, Commander,\n\nTo Lieut. G. T. Graham, of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nBefore C. B. HALLER, Esquire, Chief Magistrate, and\n\nTUESDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\na Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty,\n\nBRISAT\n\n1st Prisoner, WILLIAM COLE, of Pembrokeshire, master of the Schooner Spec,\n\n2d Prisoner, GEORGE JOHNSON, of London, mate of Schooner Spec\n\n3d Prisoner, EPHRAIM FRANCIS, of Maldon, in the county of Essex, gunner of the Schooner Spec\n\n4th Prisoner, No. 1 JOAN IGNACIO, of Staunbogan in the Phillipine Islands, seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n5th Prisoner, MARIANO AGOSTIN, of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n6th Prisoner, LORENÇO SANTOS, of Calibo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n7th Prisoner, MARIANO ALBERTO, of Iligan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n8th Prisoner, MARIANO DE LOS SANTOS, native of Seeboo in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n9th Prisoner, LUCAS MANOEL, native of Bigan in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n10th Prisoner, ERO JOSER, native of Antigue in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n11th Prisoner, GABRIEL CALISTRO, of Santa Luzia in Luconia Island, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n12th Prisoner, No. 2 JOAN IGNACIO, 30 years of age, of Soorgegas in the Phillipine Islands, Seaman of the Schooner Spec.\n\n[Juan Ignacio the first, named above, describes himself as 26 years of age.]\n\n13th Prisoner, BUENAVENTURA MARIANO, of Sambaangar in the Philippine Islands, Seaman of the schooner Spec.\n\n14th Prisoner, KWOK-AN-VEE, 14 years of age, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n15th Prisoner, LE-AN-VOOK, of Chusan, cook.\n\n16th Prisoner, WONG-KAT, of Chusan, servant to a Seaman.\n\n17th Prisoner, YUM-CHAONG-MING, of Chusan, domestic servant.\n\n18th Prisoner, YOW-CHAY-CHING, of Ningpo, seaman.\n\n1st Witness for the prosecution, JOHN CHARLES PITMAN, ESQUIRE.\n\nOn the 22d June last I was on board and in command of Her Majesty's Ship Childers off the Ragged Islands on the Coast of China, in Latitude about 30 North; do not recollect the Longitude. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, the Childers being then about\n\nPage 365\n\nfive miles from the shore, I saw a schooner and a Chinese junk was in company with her; looking with the glass I judged the junk to be almost a quarter of a mile from her, but it was impossible to judge correctly at that distance; the junk was standing into a bay, in the same way as the Spec (afterwards found the schooner to be) The junk and the schooner between 8 and 9 that morning anchored in a bay there close to each other; in the bay were three mandarin junks and some fishing-boats. It was calm, and we were obliged to anchor at A. M. between two and three miles of the schooner. During the forenoon we observed the schooner and junk apparently alongside of each other. I saw that some things were being discharged from the junk into the schooner, and refuse, floated past the Childers; from the direction in which they floated I supposed they had been thrown over from the junk; the tide flowed in a right line between the junk and the Childers. At 4 P. M. that day I weighed and made the Childers down to the schooner. I anchored about half a cable from her, and found the junk about half a cable's length nearly astern of her. I found the schooner to be the Spec. In consequence of a message sent by me on board the Spec at 5.30 P. M. that day, prisoner Cole came on board the Childers, bringing a Log-book and some Ship's Articles (witness produces them) which he affirmed to be the Log-book and Articles of the Spec. He said that he was acting as master of the Spec for another person who was absent at Ningpo. I asked him what he was doing there and what he was doing with the junk; he said he had captured her. I asked him if he had had any communication with the Mandarins, and what he had done with the people belonging to the junk; he said No to the first question, and to the second that the people were on board the Spec. I then asked him why he had not taken these men to the Mandarins, or brought them to me, as I had been in sight of him all day; he said he did not know. It was getting late and I told him that I should examine his vessel in the morning. He said in reply to any questions that he had not put in for stress of weather: that he was from Ningpo, and did not know any place in particular to which he was bound; that the junk had not fired at him or molested him, but that the pilot had told him that she was a pirate. I asked him why he had hailed her. He did not reply to this, before nine o'clock next morning I went on board the junk and examined her; I found that everything had been taken out of her excepting some nets and some small tubs of fish for bait. There were several shot holes in her hull that might have been caused by sound shot from a three or six-pounder gun; then I went to the Spec and mustered the Spec's crew. I found the articles were incorrect. Prisoner Cole said that the Chinese crew of the junk were in the fore hold of the Spec. I saw them brought on deck from the fore hold; their hands were tied together; seven of them had wounds about them; one of them was so severely wounded that I sent for the medical officer to examine him. I asked Cole how these wounds had been received, he said by shot from the Spec. I asked Cole if he had papers of the junk, he said. No; I then asked for the head man of the junk. One of the Chinamen came forward and produced some papers that had been sewn up in his clothing, and which by the interpretation of a Chinese from the Childers were pronounced to be the junk's papers. I conveyed to the\n\nPage 366\n\nhanded them over to the Chinese Mandarins. When subsequently questioned Cole about it, Cole said that the wound was caused by a grape shot from the Spec; and prisoner Ephraim Francis added that he thought it must have been caused by a grape shot. I subsequently released the crew of the junk, excepting the man who was badly wounded, and who was sent on board the Childers to be under medical care. I went to the Mandarins, and the crew of the junk (that is two of them) were examined before them. The Mandarins, as the interpreter explained to me, wished the crew of the junk to be released, as their papers were good. By their request I also handed over to them half the arms of the junk, handing the others to the junk's crew. The junk was a fishing junk of the ordinary class fishing thereabouts,\n\nThe quantity of arms belonging to the junk was not unusually large; the crew said she had them to protect herself against pirates. I found in a list of the arms belonging to the junk as detailed to me by Cole. Between 4 and 5 P. M. on the 22d June last I saw two Chinese boats alongside the junk; shortly afterwards as we\n\nJ. C. PITMAN,\n\nCommander of H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nare hereby directed to repair on board the schooner Spec of Hongkong and take charge of her, as well as the master and crew, who are prisoners under the charge of Piracy on the High Seas, &c., and you will use the utmost\n\nvigilance that none escape whilst under your custody. You will proceed with all expedition to Hongkong; on your arrival there you will report yourself to the Senior Naval Officer, from whom you will receive further instructions.\n\nFor your better guidance, I refer you to Chap 8 of the Queen's Regulations, Page 82, and to Art. 14 of the Admiralty Instructions, Pages 6 to 14\n\n146",
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        "content_text": "Tuesday, 14TH September, 1848.\n\nDecision-te Prisoners, Wilika Cole, Genn...\n\nstood towards the junk and fired grape nut canister at her. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her, acting on the orders of Mr. Davidson. None. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her.\n\nCole what had become of the property on board the junk he said that everything that had been on board the junk was there, pointing at the same time to some small Chinese boxes, some rice, and some arms on the deck of the Spec. I detained the Spec and took her to Shanghae, where she was handed over to the Consul, and sent her here at his request. I do not recollect that Cole during any conversation I had with him mentioned the date of the capture of the junk, but I think he said that he had captured her the day before.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker, representing himself as the Attorney for the prisoners.\n\nI have previous to today been twice at this Office, and have once had a conversation with some prisoners all the Manilamen. I told them that if any of them gave evidence on behalf of the Queen the Governor would give them a free pardon. The Governor and I were in conversation about the case, I told him that some of the men were anxious at Shanghae to become Queen's evidence. The prisoners said that they were willing to become evidence. The Governor told me to offer this free pardon, I have not seen the depositions taken at Shanghae since they were taken. The mandarin said he considered the junk had too many arms, as she was only allowed to carry a certain number, which number he did not know, so he kept a portion of them. The evidence given at Shanghae was not interpreted to the Manilamen in my presence. My evidence was not so translated.\n\nThe witness further states.-\n\nI beg to hand in two extracts from the Boarding-book and Log-book of the Childers, which I include...\n\nAntonio Rocher, a police constable, is sworn.\n\nC. PITMAN, interpreter of the Teagaio dialect, which two of the prisoners speak.\n\nPrisoners, The preceding evidence having been explained to them, are remanded until to-morrow at Ten o'clock.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nWEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\nJOHN CHARLES PITMAN--recalled.\n\nlet the exact time. When asked why he did not communicate with the Chinese junks as to the capture? He replied, that he had done so, and that two Chinese mandarins had been on board the Childers.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman, that I remember relative to the evidence I have given. I did converse with Captain Pitman yesterday relative to the Chinese witness who has absconded—I mean the witness who was sent down from Shanghae.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS--Kwok...\n\nThe following Sailing Letter is one of 14 papers...\n\nPart of Greenock, af Gabriel Cales or Calisto, a Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nHongkong Register Ticket of do. No. 870 of do., dated 18th August, 1846.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Lawrence Zoney or Lourenço de la Zong, Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Mariano Gosting, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nin the after part of her hold. I saw at least a dozen shot holes in her bottom. The hatch way were two holes caused apparently by grape shot. The others were of no great importance, just passing in at one side and out at the other.\n\nCertificate of Servitude on board the Lesuar, from the Shanghae Consulate.\n\nT. W. Riddles, No. 226, dated 19th December, 1845, Ed. Robinson Commander, No. 247, dated 8th March, 1848.\n\nPort Clearance from the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, No. 247, dated 4th day, 2d moon, 28th year Taou-kwang, or 8th March, 1848.\n\n#12. 3 Envelopes\n\nI am a Clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nNo. 18 of 1847.\n\nI addressed to Capt. Robinson, schooner Spec—absent, Capt. T. Band, schooner William.\n\n1 having written on it Spec's papers and articles vid log in charge of Timot G. T. Grabam, H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nI directed on service Messrs McKenzie, Bro. & Co., Shanghae.\n\nSAILING LETTER,\n\nBritish subjects, but not entitled to the privileges of British...\n\nMr Cole gave me on the 22d June last the documents I now hand in, being fourteen papers, among them the Sailing Letter of the Spec; he told me they were the ship's papers, all he had. I returned being then near her, at about 9 or 10 in the morning went on board the Spec. I saw on board the Spec, alongside the Childers, the Sailing Letter, as above designated, for the use and navigation of the ship or vessel called the Spec.\n\nThe next day, the Childers' officer duly registered and mustered the crew of the Spec. I can identify the prisoners Cole, Johnson, Francis, Juan Ignacio (No. 1) Lourenço, Juan Ignacio (No. 2), Mariano Agustin, Gabriel Calisto, Euzebio Josep, Mariano Alberto, for Aryok, Yuen Chang-ming, Kwok Aryee, Yow Chay-ching, as having been on board the Spec when I first visited her on the 23d June last.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman relative to the evidence I have given.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS.\n\nI am a Lieutenant of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then off the Rugged Islands.\n\nAt 6 p.m., I was officer of the deck; I saw a schooner and a junk in company under the land and standing for the land. Between 10 and 11 in the forenoon I observed that the junk was alongside the schooner, apparently discharging. I saw things passing backwards and forwards from the junk to the schooner, but could not see what they were; we were distant one mile.\n\nA little after six in the evening, the Childers being about two cables from the schooner, in consequence of a message sent by Captain Pitman, Mr Cole came on board the Childers (the prisoner Cole)—he was asked by Captain Pitman to produce his log-book and papers. He produced his log-book, but no papers.\n\nThe log-book produced by witness Pitman is shown to him, he states, on oath that this is the log-book; I would not swear that it is.\n\nCaptain Pitman asked Mr Cole what he was doing there? Cole replied, that he was there for the protection of the fisheries under orders from Mr Davidson.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS———AWON.\n\nI am Surgeon of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on 23 June last: she was then off the Rugged Islands; the Spec was lying not far from her.\n\nAt about 10 a.m., I went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order to see some wounded Chinamen.\n\nI saw three wounded Chinamen on board the Spec. Two had slight contusions, the other was wounded on the great toe of the left foot; the joint was laid open; Mr Cole (the prisoner) told me that the wound was caused by a grape shot.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nJOSHUA BRAKELEY.\n\nI am acting master on board H.M.S. Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then at the Rugged Islands.\n\nOn the evening of that day at about 6 p.m., the Childers was anchored, and the Schooner Spec was lying close to us; a junk was placed 100 yards astern of the Spec.\n\nI went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order; I saw prisoner Cole on board.\n\nIn reply to my question he said that he had been sent by Mr Davidson to carry shot to the Dide, and that on the previous evening he had met this junk and taken her, she being a pirate.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nPrisoners make no defence, excepting Euzebio Mariano, who states.—I was not on board the Schooner Spec at the time when the offence charged is said to have been committed. I joined the Spec at Woosung on the 24th June, from the Muzzepa. I did not know her to be a pirate.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nExtract from an Inventory of the Stores belonging to the schooner \"Spec,\" of Hongkong; taken by Lieut. Graham of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers.\n\nWoosung, 30th June, 1848.\n\n9 cwt, 4 pounders, 9 in Number.\n\nCarronades...\n\nMusket Ball Cartridge Fusee, 100 in Number.\n\nPistol Cartridges, 151 Rounds.\n\nFlannel filled with Powder, 1 lb., 40 in Number.\n\nDito with powder and shot.\n\nLoose Powder, 2 oz., 1 lb., 74 lb., 100 lb.\n\nShot round iron, 2 lb., 6 lb., + 470 Number.\n\nMuskets with lock and Bayonets, 16 in number, (3 without ramrods) without Bayonets, 1 in Number.\n\nCutlasses, 5 in Number.\n\nSpears, short, 150 in Number.\n\nDo. long, 50 in Number.\n\nPlates, 8 Breachings.\n\nCarbine Rifles, ...\n\nSwords corved, ...\n\nPercussion Caps for Rifles about 210 in Number.\n\nBar shot, cast iron, 8 in Number.\n\n7 Spare Trucks.\n\n12 Cum Tackles\n\nGEO. T. GRAHAM. Lieutenant,\n\nH.M. Sloop Childers.\n\nJOS. BEEKELEY, Acting Master.\n\nNOTE--The remainder of the list contains mention of Ship's Store and private articles.",
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        "content_text": "97\n\nBoard\n\nof\n\nTrade\n\nleave the River.\n\nI have to express My acknowledgment, for the promptness with which Captain Campbell acted upon my requisition of the Despatch Boat with which Mr. Sloop from a dismantled state, was fully equipped & sent.\n\nI have\n\n(dred) G. S. Sullivan\n\na true copy\n\n(hy) A. B. Johnston.\n\nMy Lord\n\nGovernment House Hong Kong June 9. 1848.\n\nIn submitting the following two Despatchs with inclosures from H.M. Consul Thomason at Foochow foo, I am induced principally too so that Your Lordship may be aware of the\n\npirated extent to which Piracy has arrived & is carried on the trade between this Colony & Shanghae.\n\nFrom three Papers Your Lordship will gather that native Junks trading from one Port to another, are not perfectly able to protect themselves from the Pirates, & receive\n\nlittle protection from their own government so that they\n\nare compelled to go to much extra hire Private European vessels or native vessels called Lorchew, with European or Macao Portuguese Commanding to protect them: The persons commanding the Lorchew\n\nThe Earl of Palmerston\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nL.B.\n\nFC\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "Ted Preserve Your Excellency\n\n&\n\n... Macue, 9th June, 1849.\n\nThe Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Smuel George Governor of Hongkong,\n\nJe, Ver Bonhome; Maria Terra do Amaral.\n\n(Signed) Jean Maria (Lone Translation) [Signèd] S. d'Almado Castro.\n\nMajesty's Ship \"Maandor\" Macao Roads. 8 June 1849.\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's\n\nSir,\n\nFinding by the tenor of my Your Excellency's reply to requisition for the immediate liberation of Mr Summers that you had not the slightest intention of complying therewith, hearing, from yourself, that you had not the power to control the Judge, after delivering him, I regret to have been under the necessity of committing him.\n\nHis Excellency the Senor Maria Arreira do Amaral,\n\nGovernor General.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\n\nYour Excellency's Most obedient servant\n\nHenry Meppel, Captain H. B. M. Sloop \"Maandor\" & Senior Officer.\n\n(Signed) Afede Miranda.\n\nEsta Couple Cofficer",
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        "content_text": "overthrow of his former confederates.\n\nI have the further satisfaction to enclose an account of Piratical vessels captured and destroyed by Her Majesty's ships, between the months of May and October, 1849.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) H. G.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nBonham, Colonial Secretary\n\nPage 5\n\nInclosure in Despatch No. 142 of 1849.\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, TYPSUNG BAY, 30th September, 1849.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency, that on the evening of Thursday the 27th instant, I left Hongkong in search of a Piratical Fleet, commanded by the notorious \"Chui-a-poo,\" and proceeded to Harlaim Bay, where I arrived at Noon on the 28th, and found that after sacking the village there, they had gone to Tysami, off which place, I descried at 11 P.M., the Fleet under weigh, consisting of 14 Junks formed in two lines, making off for the S.W. The village at this Bay we observed smouldering.\n\nI attacked one of the largest I could reach, the wind being very light, at 11.45, and continued engaged with as many as I could bear upon, until calm and their sweeps prevented further engagement.\n\nI chased them with sweeps and light airs through the night, and came up with them again at near noon yesterday, the 29th, when, to my satisfaction, the wind being still very light, I observed the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Steam Vessel Canton coming from the westward; that vessel seeing me chasing, as soon as she could opened her fire, and thereby threw the Junks into confusion, when numbers began to jump overboard and took to their boats. Mr. Watkins, who had chartered her for the purpose of looking after the Coquette missing vessel, and who carries this despatch, and who eventually served in our boats, most kindly gave up his charter to admit of Mr. Jamieson, the Commander of the Steam-vessel, rendering me the assistance of getting near the Pirates, I so much needed.\n\nI have the satisfaction of acquainting Your Excellency that three Junks have been abandoned, and one blown up and destroyed, in these operations, the latter by the boats of the Sloop under the command of Lieutenant Bridges, Senior of the Columbine, of which I purpose furnishing Your Excellency more detailed particulars.\n\nThe remainder of this formidable Piratical Fleet, 10 in number, are now at anchor at the head of Byas Bay near Fan-sokong in sight, and I feel confident, if promptly assisted by the Fury, and such other disposable force as Your Excellency may be pleased to send me, can be effectually destroyed; as they shew no intention at present of coming out; and I have good information that they purpose repairing their damages where they are.\n\nWe have destroyed at least 250 Pirates since 11 P.M. of the 28th, but I regret to state that our loss has been three killed, one officer and six men wounded.\n\nMy ship's company having now been 40 hours at the sweeps and quarters, are necessarily much fatigued, and the sick list leaves me not more than 60 effective people on board.\n\nMr. Watkins will give Your Excellency every information of the proceedings of the Sloop under my command since noon yesterday, which, from my anxiety to put Your Excellency in possession of these proceedings, and to get the Canton under weigh for Hongkong, I cannot at present furnish.\n\nMy ammunition is much reduced, but if to increase my present stock would detain the expedition, what I have must suffice.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant, JOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\n10.50 A.M. 30th September, 1849, Sunday.\n\nHis Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir F. A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief.",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch.\n\nN 155 of 1849.\n\n294\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, CHOKUM, Cocon-Chinsa, 23 October, 1849.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.\n\nAfter leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St John's, Mong, Mance, Sungyue, and Tienpak, and proceeded to Now-chou. From information received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft. draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tsai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ho) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. He immediately ordered a Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him a passage, to prevent delay, on board the Fury.\n\nOn the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and women taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. We fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer.\n\nOn the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that I decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding into Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P.M., like terriers at a rat-hole we hunted for the Channel. Then a pilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river.\n\nOn the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his boat and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7.\n\nMr Hancock's boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenant, and Mr F. A. Close, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance.\n\nOn Monday the 22nd, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest.\n\nFrom the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:-\n\n  \n    Class\n    No.\n    Guns\n    Crew\n  \n  \n    1st\n    1\n    42\n    120\n  \n  \n    2d\n    16\n    28 to 34\n    75 to 80\n  \n  \n    3d\n    42\n    12 to 19\n    40\n  \n  \n    4th\n    5\n    6\n    30\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    64\n    1224\n    3150\n  \n\nOf these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-ng-tsai, but without much ammunition; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him—now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men, so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarins.\n\nI shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour.\n\nMajor General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing.\n\nMr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. As I was frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability.\n\nLieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal.\n\nI have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Wootton, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been very useful on every occasion.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.\n\nI enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrographical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known. Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.\n\nMr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.\n\nMr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as he was acquainted with the Coast.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nJOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\nHis Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c.\n\n* See next page,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]",
        "content_text": "Governor\n\nSir S. Bonham.\n\nJINUTE S\n\n1851 MARH\n\n6\n\nMR B? MRElliot\n\nMerivale 6\n\nM&Hawes\n\nEarl Grey\n\nEr\n\nEnt\n\nSir.\n\nL\n\n1836 Hongkong.\n\n224. 6 March 157.\n\n132\n\nThe Lords Commissioners\n\nof the Admiralty having\n\nrequested to be informed by whom the expense\n\nof passages granted to the\n\nBishop of\n\nVictoria in H.M.\n\nSloop Reynard\n\nbetween the\n\nand 15 ult... and\n\nbetween the 1 Nov. and the\n\n19th Decr last should be\n\ndefrayed I have to instruct\n\nYou\n\nto apprize his Lordship that no provision has\n\nbeen made for defraying\n\nthe expense of this visitation out of any public funds & that it will therefore be",
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        "content_text": "Date. \n\nLocality. \n\n1853. Jan. 17. Leong wen wan. \n\nNature of Piracy. \n\n2 For vessels, while at anchor at Leong kook at Teep fook. \n\n1853 Jan. 28. Chung toh Sven wan\n\n1853. Mar. 2. during the night, were taken possession of by pirates and sailed off westward. \n\n1853. Mar. 3. A passage boat attacked by pirates armed with sharp knives; money was plundered, and bhun Aisee was cut and drowned. \n\nA For vessel attacked by pirates. \n\n4 For vessels attacked and taken by Pirates. \n\nA large For vessel attacked by pirates. \n\nTotal number of Piracies reported. \n\n(True Copy), \n\n27. \n\nMain Colonial Secretary. \n\n(Copy) No 22. \n\nSit H. M. St. Sloop Hermes, Hongkong, 9 March, 1853. \n\nIn pursuance of your order of the 14th inst., I proceeded to sea in H. M. St. Sloop under my command on the morning of the 5th but, owing to the fog which prevailed on that day and the next, I was able only to go to Cheilang, where I obtained intelligence of the pirates alluded to in the letter of Mr. Wilson. On the night of the 7th, I passed near 5 vessels sailing as it were in order of battle off Biaser Point; but, as mistakes might arise in the darkness, and as some of them might escape, I passed about 12 miles to the eastward of them, and anchored till daylight. On the 8th, I returned; at 7 A. M. observed 5\n\nCaptain C. L. Massie, Senior Officer in China, &c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "4. One of these piratical vessels was in a sinking state; I therefore abandoned her: 2 of her crew would not leave, and, on Lieutenant Burton attempting to force them up from below, they commenced throwing stinkpots. A second lost her rudder, and became unmanageable in the sea this morning, that I felt bound to set fire to and abandon her. The remaining three are close at hand, in charge of Mr. Fraser, Master of this steam-sloop; I cast them off this morning, in consequence of the difficulty and danger of attempting to tow them in the sea that was running.\n\n5. These Pirates had captured an Amoy junk and robbed her; I liberated the crew of the junk, and have brought the Captain down as a witness; I have also brought four witnesses from Chelang and from junks. These vessels were identified as those that had fired on the village of Chelang, and also chased a fast cargo boat (registered at Hongkong). Their crews wore red turbans, dresses trimmed with red, and red badges on their arms.\n\n6. I am happy to be able to report that there has not been a casualty on board, beyond a slight scald or two from stinkpots, and only such trifling damage in cutting gear and sails as we can repair on board. We have been 70 hours under steam, used 49 Tons of Coal and 2 tons of Fire-wood.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) E. Gardiner Fishbourne,\n\nCommander, (H.M. Colonial Sloop \"Tweed\")\n\nTurn over.",
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        "content_text": "and that of the Colonial Sect,\n\nwith a view to the repression\n\nof abuses by the cooperation\n\nof the ships of war in Kowloon\n\nto which Ships of war have\n\nalone\n\na\n\nright of access\n\nI have &c., John Bowring\n\n \n\nPage 302\n\n \n\nCA\n\nJUNE 26\n\n1356\n\n203\n\nForeign Office Mission\n\nJune 23.\n\nGovernor instructed\n\n6 July 1856 - No.71.\n\nDraft with No. 504/3.\n\n\" I have laid before the Earl of Clarendon your\n\ninstant, enclosing\n\na copy of\n\na despatch from the Governor of\n\nHong Kong, drawing attention to the\n\nprompt assistance rendered by H.M. Sloop,\n\nthe Colonial Authorities,\n\nthe United States Consul, towards\n\neffecting the capture of nine deserters from the garrison, who were\n\nsecreted on board\n\nan American\n\nWhaler",
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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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        "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "324\n\n25\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nFRAM\n\nDara\n\n[NO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 7\n\nMERCHANT VESSEL&-Continual.\n\nJune 29 117 Dent, Beale and Co\n\nJan. 12 962 Lindsay and Co\n\nJan. 29 2, Duus and Co Jan 19 7 W. Husband Co July 14 50 Watson, aud Co\n\n925 W. Pustau and Co\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nThe Wongkong Register.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS-Continued,\n\nSarre\n\nArrival\n\nDate of\n\nTime\n\nDate of\n\nCOMSJONKER\n\nSups\n\nArrivTOMA\n\nConsta\n\nNAMR\n\nFLAG\n\nPOSH CAPTAIN\n\nRio\n\nFRUM\n\nBAILED\n\nCanco\n\nCONTIGNER.\n\nFast Coast\n\nDuich\n\nShanghae British\n\n2. Christian\n\nglsamstra\n\n4 Auckland\n\nBercha\n\n4 Mazeppa\n\nAn\n\n8 Vecilia\n\n23 Archer\n\nHongkong Feb. Leon\n\nדן\n\nDut. 764 ric\n\nEarl of Windeer Brit. sh. 1000\n\nkrawa 3JArcher\n\nAm. sh.160\n\nagond\n\nTime & Truth Brit. bk 670 Dod\n\nAuckland\n\n$Queen Phangnze Jau. 23 Maria Hay\n\nAm. hk 204 Nelson\n\nBrisach. 140\n\nBolton Brit str. 103 Harris\n\nDrát, s 200 steary Dri sh. 924 Middleton Aan. a. 1280 Osgood\n\nBordcan Sept. 10\n\neucral Sonrabara Jan. 2 Rico Calcutta Nov. 23 Kiar Bombay Dec. 30 General Shanghae Jan. 30 Ballnat Melbourne Doe, 1 Ballast\n\nGeneral Formosa Feb. Nineus FP Sundries\n\nAmoy\n\nBrat Cess Peb\n\n2 Treasure\n\nGenerat Amoy Peb. Ballast Bingapore Jan. 28\n\nAmunition Singapurs Dec. 24\n\nilico Meller Sov. 26 Baline 3. Francisc\n\nDiana. sebouer\n\nJan.\n\n100 Schaefer and Co\n\nFr. Lk. 406 Oreg Hara, bg. 260 Bigcon\n\nOrdar\n\nWat.l'ostaw andCo Schaefer and Co Lindsay and Co Order\n\nHenrietta Maris, bq. Due. Pagan Zephyr, ba July Vrieadshop, chip jJune\n\nDanish\n\n581 Schaeffer anil Co Jady A. Duff, barque 952. W. LawrenogaĈo Lady Mary Wood, c. Dec. 700 F. W. Lawrence Co Laalmenntir, ship\n\nLoulan Baillte, ship\n\nKelso, ship\n\nJan. *: 589 Ladway and Ca\n\nNov.\n\n$ 3709, Kennedy and Co\n\n509.&O. 8. S. N. G\n\nJan.\n\n7 8529, Bawinan and Co\n\nAng. 24 49man, B. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nBre. bk. Suo Klamp\n\nFeb.\n\nBrits 674 Tage\n\nA. Catr. 945 Drought\n\n.M. Robinet & Cy Wu. Pastau and Co Jardine. M. and Co 1. Walker Jardine, and Co\n\nHaldur, sehooner Lootse, schooner\n\nHamburg\n\nNov.\n\n14: W. Pustau and Cu\n\nMary Wionholt, ship\n\nJa\n\n1205ardino, M. & Co\n\nJav.\n\n160 W. Tustau and Co\n\nNapoleon HI, abip\n\nDec\n\n760 Busaeil and Cu\n\nElizabeth Rose, brig Lima, barque Mathilde, brig\n\nOct\n\n123 Siemsson and Ca\n\nJune\n\n919John Bard and Co\n\nKau.\n\n202 Turner and Ca\n\nNina, schooner File, ship Nightingale, ship Parade, qua Palmyra, harjua\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Burd and Co\n\nDoe\n\n708 Jardino, M. and Co\n\nHee. 1404Jardine, M. and Co\n\nbraly\n\n62 Welters and Co\n\nNov. 28 708 Captain\n\nBadast\n\nAugier and Cu Jardino, J. & Co tugwell and Cu\n\nParagon, skip\n\nBremon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Order\n\nPelican, barque\n\n2. 144. C. Schwabe\n\nPluto, stenmer\n\nFelis, arqu\n\nJan,\n\nbeefyall, Stiil and Co\n\nPruth, ship\n\nSAILED.\n\nChilian Frolle, schooner\n\nRemi, atenmer\n\nJape\n\n166W.M.Robinet & Ve\n\nRolls, lig\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nFeb.\n\n500W. Pustau and\n\nCedarsh Lacy, barque\n\nNAMS\n\nRo\n\nTexs\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCono\n\nCONNORRST\n\nSwntow Britisk\n\nSamuel Studdart, bg, Salmatle, ship\n\nSept. 1 451 Dent, Beale at Co\n\nالواد\n\nSir James, bang\n\nDec.\n\n7 Lindsay and Co\n\nHongkong Feh. No\n\n3 Alligator\n\n3 Magallanes\n\n3 Nimrod\n\n4 Waroola\n\n3.Scipion\n\n8 Baria\n\n19 Crisis\n\n4P. Van Burco\n\nWild Wave\n\nBrit bg 200 Boyh Brit. bg 1078tudes Sp. str.\n\nBrit. sh. 820arg\n\nBrit. ah 54 Alien Brit, sch. 200 Cheyn\n\nLaughing Water Brit, hk. 404 Omut\n\n6 Montriant\n\nChampion\n\n7 Si James Brooke Brit. str. 973 Skioner\n\n7 Dygden\n\nSw. ab. 240 Patterson\n\n7 Anos Justina Dut. sb. 500 Budeaburg 7J. Godfrey\n\nAm. t 486jGrant\n\nAlfred the Great Brit ] 640 Melutyro Grayhoaud\n\nSwatow Jan. 20 Anais\n\nAmoy Dec. 29 Tariew Fuhchau Nov. 21 Queensbury\n\nDec 8Folmala\n\n15 Agnes Garland\n\nShanghae Jan. 198chiamer\n\n12 Prince Royal 19,Sallow\n\n15 White Swallow\n\n20 Kate Carnie\n\nFr. sh. 82|Carignac\n\nAna sch. 240 Gregory Brit sh. 680 Casaldy Belk all asrisulte Brit. bk. 265 Thompso old. bk. 550 Schwarz\n\nBrit. sh. 502 Hamilton\n\nBrit. sh. 1293 Tucker\n\nAm. sh. 1200 Brown\n\nBrit, h, 401 Black.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VISELS.\n\nLondon\n\nNew York\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nOnder\n\nChina, whip\n\nApril\n\n300 Order\n\nSu R. Abercromby, si. Jan.\n\n743 Tammer and Co\n\nSheagha\n\nSundries\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nFazal Cerian, burqno Juue\n\n250 Order\n\nVindex, actioner\n\nJon.\n\n179 Dent and Ce\n\nBoern\n\nManila\n\nNantos, schoober\n\nAug.\n\n150 D, Laprak\n\nWhampoa, barque\n\nSept. 30\n\n378 Under\n\nWild Mower, ship\n\nfec.\n\nSingapore\n\nSandries\n\n175 Lindany and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nTht. bk. 250 Yeaser\n\nButaris ¡Sundries\n\nWm. Pustan and Co\n\nAmey\n\nFrench\n\nSingapor\n\nSundries\n\nHolliday, Wise and Ce\n\nBritish\n\nCanton, ship\n\nDea\n\n435 Deal and Co\n\nMeltwuns\n\nSundries Jardine, M, and Ge\n\nAbbotsford, barquo\n\nNov.\n\n425 F. D. SyDia and Co\n\n| Montrlant, ship\n\nFab,\n\n917ent and Co\n\nAkyalı\n\nSp.bg\n\nMaulls Duran\n\nSundnes\n\nSundries\n\nhilpa, Moore and Co\n\nAnn Key, schoenen\n\nApril\n\n121 Tait and fa\n\nAmerican\n\nAntoinette, barque\n\nSøpt\n\nBrit. str. 850 Payley\n\nStangha\n\nSandrite ], & 28, N. Ca\n\nBlack River Packet, bq. April 19,\n\n219 Scharffor and Co 205 Order\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nJa.\n\n586 King and Co\n\nFr. sh. 91 Brun\n\nStangha\n\nSundries\n\nDent and Co\n\nConfucina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nAm. sh. 360 Gray\n\nForth Seas\n\nSundries\n\nUrder\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nDee.\n\nSingaport\n\nSundries\n\nFletcher and Co\n\nChinchew, ship\n\nSept\n\nShaug\n\nBuutirios\n\nWzz. Pastau and Co\n\nRangoon\n\nSundries\n\nTurner and Ca\n\nEllen, barque\n\nOliver, bargce\n\nNos.\n\nPeb\n\nSan Fransisco Sundries\n\nOrder\n\nEmma, scheuer\n\n511 Holliday, Wise &Co 764adine, M. and Co\n\n785. D. Sype and Co\n\n226 Lya, Stil! and Co 688 Platcher and Co April 21; 120 Curner and Co\n\nMilam, ship Carrington, ship Channing, ship Competitor, siy Eagle, ekip\n\nEagle Wing, ship\n\nGolden Weat, ably\n\nB.\n\nDec.\n\n49% Raspell and Co\n\nNOF.\n\n100 aac M. Buli & Co\n\nJuly $556 King and Co\n\nNov, 101000 King and Co\n\n1174 Russell and Co\n\n1500 A. Heard and Co\n\nMelbourne\n\n¡Buodtles\n\nJamca StephoneNA\n\nEmigrant, baryas\n\nChi ah. 506/Smith\n\nBest Coun\n\nBundries Won. Pratâd and Ca\n\nEmily Annina, neh,\n\nAug. 19 Nov.\n\nOrder\n\nHenry Harback, ship\n\nNov. 16 740 Crampton, H. & Co\n\n165 Purlagjes & Co | Horsilo, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\ntall, Nya and Co\n\nHavant\n\nSuadrien\n\nOrder\n\nForerunner, schooner\n\nDea\n\n140 D. faprak\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nSingapor\n\nSandrica\n\nLondon\n\nTait and Co\n\nTena, &c. Heard and Co\n\nGom, brly\n\nJane\n\n254 Dent ausl Co\n\nMelita, schooner\n\nJuu. J\n\n689 Rosell and Co\n\n140 Kassell and Co\n\nHomer brig\n\nJals\n\n595 Order\n\nTeas, &c.\n\nLiverpool Teas, c. Cows, der Sundries\n\nJardino, M. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nMariner's Hope, brig\n\nApril\n\n250 Order\n\nNile, hrig\n\nJuas\n\nEid Angier and Ca\n\nRomances of Sons ship! Dos.\n\nEundou Teas, &c, Upadi\n\nWth. Paste and Lo Blenkin, R. and Co\n\nNymph, barqne\n\nDec.\n\n400 Liadeay and Ca\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh. Det. 81846|A, Heard and Co Norwester, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDec. 101287 A. Heard and Co\n\n241782 Ruwell and Co\n\nPet, barque\n\nAag\n\n375 Under\n\nDanmark, arque\n\nTeas, c Tens, &c.\n\nGrampton, H. and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n404 Lunevil and Co\n\nGlucions, brig\n\nLiverpool\n\nBrit, sh. 580|Rodger\n\nToas, e Sundrios\n\nKingsport\n\nMERCHANT VKSELS—Continued.\n\nA. Heard and Dent, Beale and Ca Gilian and Co\n\nBisters, brig\n\nJune\n\n182 Tail sud Co\n\nDee 330 Sterosen and Co Fan. 14 268Siemssen and Co Nov\n\n360 Overweg aud to\n\nUncle Tom, schooner\n\nSept\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nDet. 12\n\nto ruil, Still and Co\n\nUnder\n\nJan.\n\n188 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNoringaese\n\nJATH\n\n270 W. Pustau and Co\n\nAurora, schooner\n\nMay\n\n128 Order\n\n140 W. Puatau and Co\n\nPostum, steac\n\nJune\n\n236 Simen and Ca\n\nAmericum\n\nNov.\n\n210 Joan Burl and Co\n\nSAIZS\n\n!Data of Tou\n\nMorida, ship\n\nCONFIGNERS\n\nHelcus, ship\n\nNov. Junt\n\nDec.\n\n404 Squeer and Co\n\nโมน\n\n25 W. Postan and Co\n\nDate of Inors\n\nCommons\n\n{Arrival |\n\nSept.\n\n277W. Pustan and Co\n\nHongkong\n\nOct.\n\n340 Trautmann and Co\n\nAlmonde, banq\n\nAug.\n\n589Order\n\nJustina, barque\n\njAug\n\nMercurius, barque Fielades,\n\nJuly\n\nDec,\n\n230|Dreyer und Vo\n\nDen.\n\n225 Biomes and Co\n\nLygdon, shig\n\nHambary\n\nBonito, brig\n\n¡Nov,\n\n31 John Burd and Cal\n\nBuenos Ayua, brig\n\nDed.\n\n200 Dreger and Co\n\nChristinu, brig Puel, choomer\n\nApril\n\n170rder\n\nDew\n\n148 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nPeruvian\n\n250W.M. Robinet & Co\n\nAug.\n\n175W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nDeo.\n\n400 Order\n\nLug\n\n9 430 Order\n\nAourn Barrabout Butts.n\n\nJuly\n\n3240;der\n\nCalcutta\n\nNov.\n\n220. 1. Syaru and Co\n\ny 11 4168.0. Syme and Ce\n\nConn\n\nJuly\n\n325 King and Co\n\nAng, 25 500 King and Co\n\nAag, 10 985 Russell and Co\n\nFab\n\n216|W. Puetae and Co\n\nSabu\n\nAt Hongkong} British Anandale, ship And, steamer Anaye, ship Australia, chip Avon, Lacque Banner, schooner\n\nGaneber, barque Brothers, brig Caldera, ship\n\nCadiz, steamer\n\nArrival:\n\n8759 Lyall, Sul and Co J Feb. 5 163 Robert 9. Walker Jan. 13 878 Fletcher and Co Sept. 5 580 John Bardd and Co Sep. 39 280 Bus and Co Jan. 188ohn Burd and Co\n\nPet 485 Jardiue, St. and Co\n\nDec. 15 2400rder\n\nJan. 8 225 Order\n\nFeb, 13000 P. & 0.9. N. Cu\n\nCity of Carlisle, ships. 15 996Jardine, 3 and Cu\n\nClarendon, satp\n\nDeva, ship\n\nSinglet, sleemer\n\nEarl Grey, barque\n\nEarl of Windsor ship\n\nBena, brig\n\nBuranic ship Excellent, brig Falcon, ship Formosa, ship\n\nGleus, ahip\n\nGod Succe, sip\n\nHero, ship\n\nKensington ship\n\nLady Hayce, barque\n\nLaurick, brig\n\nLord Raglan. ship Tani, barque\n\nNarshall, Buhooner Maria Hay, ship Mazepps, schooner Pacifico, brig\n\nFeb. 1 850Jarding, M. and Co Jan. 18:1030 Russell and Co\n\nDoc 8 1888tomssen und Co Dec. 17 8737ardine, M.\n\nDiter\n\nAdmiral Zoutman, shipDec.\n\nAlbrecht Belling, bq.Nov.\n\nG. G. D. Von Twist, hq,fian. Oct. 10 300W. Postau and Coatic Liong, bargus ne Jaa. 18 3685iomsten and Co Nov. 28, 8438,Senseffer and Co\n\nAnon Elizabet,bą. Chriatias, leque General de Stiles, hop. Jan. 2 798|Under Hollandetrow, hargas Jacot. Lima, barke Jacoba Cornella, pq. Klazina, darus\n\nOosterling, harg Proteos, barque Regina, arqu Sumatra, aliip Danish\n\nSept. 10 799 chaster and Co OL 32 800 Schaeffer and Cu Feb. 192chaser and Co Jan. 17 charler and Co Dee. 13 363 Van der Haven Jan 18 443ucer and Co Jan. 473 W. Punta and Co Feb. 278445obacter and Co\n\nMay 10 Siemmen and\n\nIfercuian, brig Helena\n\nJau. 31\n\nCo\n\nHanbury\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbin, schooner Christian, belg\n\nDec. y Nov. 16 Feb.\n\n260\n\nFab 21 Lindas and Co\n\nJan. 26) 207 Camajce and Co\n\nDec. 26 728 Order\n\nNov. 385 Lyail, Still and Co\n\nSept. 26 430Jardine, M. & Lin\n\nJan. 14 406 Order\n\nLau. 16 784. Murray and Co\n\nNov. 600 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1 404 Lindsey and Co\n\nJan. 13 scoileder\n\n0 15 848 Geo. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 28Ajardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17 766 Jardine, M. & Cn\n\nJan. 12 274 Dent and Co\n\nDet.\n\n8 1988. K. Burrow\n\nJan. 31 994 Janline, M. and Co\n\nFeh. 4140anline, M. & Co Oct. 14] 146Deo. Dúddell T'aranverance, Largna Sept. 18 2Turner and Ca Princess Reval, supDec, 28; 900 Dent aud Co\n\n(Doc. 25 781onser\n\nQueen, brig Samarang, banque\n\nApoctly, ship\n\nFeb. 8 ĐuôiAngier and Ca\n\nDes. 25 5801Dent and Co\n\nJau 241031 Jamaa Stephenson\n\nSpirit of the North, ah. Kov, 11) 671jtibb, L. and Co Sultans, barque Oct 10 588schaeffer and e\n\nTime & Truth, bargde Teh. 3 578 Orlar\n\nUnion, leamer\n\nTruro, ship\n\nFenilia, ship\n\nVirginia alip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nWild Daynell, ach. Zephyr, schooner\n\nFrench\n\nEtoile, ship\n\nIndia, barqu\n\nLeon, harqua\n\nMaarl, ship\n\nSucces, ship\n\nVille de Dieppe, barque\n\nAnter\n\nAntonita, schwoner Antelope, T Archer, whip Auckland, barque\n\nBurnham, barque\n\nCarbon, shooner\n\nJan. 24 695 Order\n\nAng. 16 786 Thon. Husband Co Feb. 8 674 Jardine, Al, sad Co June 18 830 Lyall, Still and Cộ Nov. 8 143ardine. M. & Co Jau. 15 253 D. Lapaik\n\nJan. 156 Deat and Co\n\nJun. 31 148Dcut and Co\n\nJan. 24 539 Order\n\nfan. 18 615 Dent and Co\n\nFalk 2405,Order\n\nJan 24 156 Russell and Co\n\nNov. 14mier\n\nno. 221014 gail, Sul and Co\n\nDec. 3 112Order\n\nJan. 24200 Kussell and Co\n\nTeb. 31460 Roswell and Co\n\nFeb. 209.M.Robinet & Co\n\nOct. 28 245 W. Pulau and Co\n\nDue 26 300 K. Crashy\n\nCW. Bradley, j, bq. Oct. 9 218 A. Heard and Co\n\nDon Quixote, ship\n\nKtement, ship\n\nEureka, ship\n\nFrancis P. Sage, ship\n\n• Garland, schooner\n\nHelgu Mar, bergun\n\nJanes Marshall, big Kate Hooper, shig Mary Whitridge, ship\n\nMatcor, ekip\n\nMiana, schooner\n\nMin, geamur\n\nMonsoon, ship\n\nNorth Wind, ship\n\nN. B. Palmer, Jip\n\nDen 91438 King and Co\n\nJAN 33 400A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 51100A. Heard and Co\n\nNov, 191146 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 151138. R. Barrows\n\nDec. 26 560 Order\n\nJan. 16 1865. K. Darrows\n\nDec, 281488 Jne. Stephenson\n\nNov. 27 978 Kuseli aud Co\n\nao. 201088, Heard and Co May 306Order\n\nJ. 14 101 Bu-sell and Co\n\nJane 28 506 Thomas Hunt &Co Oct.\n\n81041 Jaa. Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1400 Russell and Co\n\nQueen of the Seas, spec. 17185Rll and Co\n\nRacebound\n\nRealute, ship\n\nShane Draper, sch.\n\nSportsman, shiy\n\nStar King, sly\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYoung America, wip\n\nAug. 28 580. E. Barrows\n\nSept. 25 801 Russell and Ca\n\nHai, 26 206 A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 20 626 Unter\n\nDec. 14177nder\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\nSept 202000. Heard and Co\n\nMeteos, ship\n\nPeruvian\n\nAndreas, orig Architect, ship Carica, arqua L'allau, barque\n\nSantiago, banne Ugarte y Santiage,\n\nSMAR\n\nNoortol, banque\n\nSan Juan, barquə\n\nhq.\n\nSiamese Crow, stalp\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpar\n\nDenia, schooner Bremen\n\nBertha, barque\n\nC. Metabets, you Solon, hanger\n\nChition\n\nAllanza, barque Spray, schooner\n\nNess Crans dinn Annie, barque\n\nMacao British\n\nW. Pustan and Co\n\n510 W. Puszu and Co\n\nJohn Bard sad Co Wm.Fustat and Co Jan. 15 540 die aussen end to\n\nTait and C\n\nNov. 16\n\nNov. 12 540. M. Rabinet& Co\n\nDar. 28 3505. J. das Remedios\n\nTall, 231 218 and\n\nJ.\n\nAcmel, brig Chico, brig\n\nClarita, brig Cara, skip\n\nkesits toge\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Horse, hocqus\n\nSiam, que\n\nSpanish\n\nSan Lorenzo, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nFubebau\n\nDritish\n\nCo\n\nMaste, bri\n\nDee & 9p. dos Remedios\n\nJan. 195. Robinet & Co\n\nSept. 15j 200 Order\n\nNav. 19 160 Order\n\nDee, 15 300inder\n\nAug. 26 250 under\n\nNov. Zayall, Still and Co\n\n1400W. Duxted and Co\n\nJan. 24 4702. S. Walker\n\nDet. 22 48fuhn Bond and Co Jan. 29 270/Onder\n\nDec. 220W.M. Robines & Co\n\nJuly 1307 Edward and Bailey\n\nJehn Macthic, ekip Feb. Rochampton, shijs Ang\n\nPortugues\n\nMetasje, barque\n\nNew Era, khij\n\nGaiden Raer, ship\n\nKingfisher, ship\n\nMandarin, ship\n\nSamuel Ronsell, ship\n\nSarah H. Snow, Ivy, Vancouver, ship\n\nHambog\n\nAtlas, barne\n\nSa Dent, Beate and Co\n\n289 fyn, Stilt end Co\n\n597 1..Robinct & Co\n\nTou Scimeter and Co 1543chaetler and Co 478sohaefer and Co 2448. D. Syme and Go 237 Adam Scott 190Schelfer and Co 424\n\n10. Nathabloy & Co\n\nOtto, barque\n\nVirginie, brig\n\nHamburg\n\nEsperanza, harqne Hannibal, schooner\n\n| fverbrook, brig\n\nLima, barque\n\nMary Boar, ship Pathfinder, barque Senatur, barque Pramin Amerika, belg\n\nSiamete\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Golffinder, baqme Sueroan, ship\n\nSparsh\n\nSanta Lucts, banque\n\nSwedish\n\nNov. 181296 Moncreiff, G. & Co Dea ¡Dec.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nمات قلات کا\n\nCLASS\n\nAv\n\nCanton Stoop\n\ni,kong !. W. Str. JiLong Sloop\n\nILong Flag Ship\n\nCanton loop\n\nCuroaandel Canton P. W. Br. Vatcounter anto\n\nHoteles\n\nHornet\n\nMam\n\n! Nakist\n\nNiger\n\n632 Dent, Dotle stud Co Elk\n\n600 John Herd and Go | Fary\n\nser. St. (kang Hospital Canto Ber. Sw. H.kongoro Ship\n\nFrigate\n\nPanton Bar Sta\n\nCOHKANDERS.\n\n12A, W. A. Haud\n\n8T. D. A. Fortescu 12 Licut. Beamish\n\n(lour Ad.\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n14. Jenkins 35 Doorglas HG.W.D.O'Callaghan\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\nH. T. Fla, Muater\n\n60 H Keith Stewart 19H, A. A. Cochrane 408FW.F. Nicolson\n\n14. Barnard\n\n49. 9. Hand\n\n40 Cdre. m, Ú. Elliot\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCONDEAND\n\n.ALEN\n\nÜs..\n\nENGLAND\n\nza Frigate\n\nRav.\n\nW. 7. Bate\n\n11. Macendie. Str,\n\nKit Boater, 26\n\n11\n\n136A. Hearl wait Co\n\nNov.\n\n9191ent and Co\n\nPastalcon, brig\n\nNov.\n\n200 Cantujee and Co\n\nPique\n\nSgus Frigars\n\nKol: Small, ship\n\nAug. 29\n\n663 Gibu, L. and Co\n\nKenos\n\nPibehta Bloop\n\nRempaon\n\nAmor P. W. Str.\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Buoknax, 1.\n\nSept.\n\n530 Russell and C\n\nSybille\n\nHogue Frigate\n\nMay 16\n\n800 Russell and Co\n\nAug.\n\n1288ardine, M. and Co\n\nJune\n\n78. lead and Oə\n\n¿Mag\n\n94 Russell and Co\n\nDo.\n\n420|Klug and Go\n\nJune\n\n518 Bus and Co\n\nOut\n\n420John Burd and Co\n\nWienu, Larque\n\nJuct.\n\n490Biomes ami Us\n\nActoun\n\nAlseri\n\nNingpo British\n\nCullou\n\nCamila\n\nkt. T. Calville\n\nSlop\n\nCruizer\n\n17 ber. Str. Sept. 25\n\nCarnulle. ship Lyra, Belovner\n\n15. Hot\n\n120 Lindy and Co Forestr\n\nA. J. Innes\n\nidun Beat Sept. 20\n\nSolon, barane\n\n6\n\n560 Turner and Uo 469 A.A.de Mello & Co\n\naughty\n\nGan Beat Sept 25\n\nWilminginn, schooner Feb.\n\n196 Bell and Co\n\nHüchilyor\n\nInflexibla\n\nr. Vorhert\n\nAL\n\nOsprey\n\nAlbert Edward, ship\n\nBritisk\n\nang.\n\n497. Bowman and Coh\n\nNov,\n\nAliyals, ship\n\nNov. 20 1247 Biriey, W, and Co\n\nStaunch\n\n1. Wildonan\n\nAlchemist, ship\n\nDe\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nStarling\n\nA. 1 Villiers\n\njun Boat Sept. 25 Gun Boat Ool. 23\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nb.\n\n19710166, Land Co\n\nAugusts, ship\n\nNov. 23 372 Lindmy and Go\n\nBallarat, ship\n\nNov.\n\n719 Dent ad Co\n\nChallenger, barque\n\nSeph\n\n175 Turner and Co\n\nChieftain, barque\n\nJan.\n\n20John Burd and Co\n\nCo..lucius, ship\n\nThee.\n\n400 Holliday, Wine & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nFLAQ\n\nCOMMANDERL\n\nDec. 19\n\nJune 15 566 Turner and Lo\n\nJan.\n\n127 William I. and Co\n\nCetinnt\n\nHongkong Fr. Str.\n\nSur Are\n\nL'et\n\n8501 & 0.2. F. Co\n\nSupt. 10 240 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nVirginie\n\nHongkong Fr. Frig\n\nCape, Plan\n\nForest Queen, ship\n\nNov.\n\n839 W.H. Wardley Co\n\nLevant\n\n18 Smith\n\nPortsmouth\n\nEassio Manens, barq. May 25 297 Jou d'Abreide Waris Carlota, Iryusi Jan. $30 J. J. don Rmuelion Slavina, banque\n\nTremelga, barqua\n\nFreach\n\n13ane 211 1705. 3. dos Ramedice\n\nSept.\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship Oct.\n\nAmerican\n\nLorisiana, barq\n\nDeich\n\nBerena, rig\n\nDoggershank, skip\n\n3751 inday and Co\n\n816Dent and Co\n\nShanghae\n\n249W.M. Robinet &Co Arrow, ship\n\n237W. Pustuu and Co\n\nApril 22\n\nOct.\n\nDet\n\nBebehneller and Co\n\nEverdina izabeth, og Jan\n\n600 Schneer and Co\n\nDee,\n\n189 Schaefer and Co\n\nFra\n\n753 Order\n\nJuct.\n\n530 Schaeffer and Co\n\nJAR.\n\nSt. Heleon, brig\n\nTonia, ship\n\nVrow Jobunag\n\nHamburg\n\nLaura & Fonis, big,\n\nKose, brig\n\nWillewina, brig\n\nPeruvian\n\nGrimeness, chip\n\n243jDrayer and Co\n\nJuly 14, 1769. M. Burrows\n\nJuly\n\n224 Schaeffer and Co\n\nOct. 15: 50 Order\n\nCrystal Palace, ship\n\nKila Jane, barque\n\nElizabeth, brig\n\nHein, steamer\n\nFazli Corrim, barque\n\nFrances, ship\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGeelong, barque\n\nDec. 125 Birley. W. and Co\n\nWaton and Co\n\nMay 30 302 Tail and Co\n\nJan 15 212 Hooper\n\nAug. 11 3420ma, B. and Ca 651 gal. Stiti and Co\n\nMaria Natividad ship Sept. 18 610w.. Robins & Co General Windham, ship.\n\nEast Coast British\n\nChin Chin, harque Eamont, schonbur Gazelle, schoenor\n\nHazard, schooner\n\nHelen, brig\n\nion.\n\n316 Camajarse Co\n\nJan.\n\n121 Dent and Co\n\nGulnare, ship Hellespont, steamer Tuchinnan, arque Just\n\nBat, ship\n\nApril\n\n15Jardine, M. And Co\n\nJuly\n\n144 Y. J. Mucrow\n\nJan.\n\n180Turner and Co\n\nHydronce, ship\n\nJane\n\n137 Carlowitz and Co\n\nMalacca, barque\n\nAug\n\n089 Carlowitz and Co\n\nPearl, schooner\n\niJuly\n\nW.M. Reniunt & Lo\n\nTrumpu. schooner\n\nMay\n\n300jD. Laprak\n\nAntican\n\nDerby, ship\n\nJuly\n\n1098A. Heard sad Co\n\nProgressive Age, brig\n\nNov\n\n296A. Heard and Co\n\nRinglorier, ship\n\nMay\n\n2156 A, Heard and Co\n\nSancho Pans, ship\n\nSept\n\n875 Russell and Co\n\nWitw, la ver\n\nUst\n\n$10Kinder\n\nFra 2002 Hargreaves and Co\n\nJan. 886Fadine. M. and Co Sept. 1 265 Deus, Buaie y Co Dec. 241 8201Birley, W. and Co\n\nC. Reilowas\n\nJ.F.C.Hanitou 12 loop\n\nC. T. Lackie\n\nA. V. Hamilto\n\nC.F.A,Shadwell 21 Ser. Str.\n\nC Campbell\n\n6 P. W. Str. Oct, 25\n\n(Gan Bost\n\n21. J. Bomalieid 4 Ser. Str.\n\nKith Stewart !\n\nGu Buat\n\nHos, H.Keppel 60 Frigata\n\nFOREIGN MIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nHongrong U. &. SI.\n\nStaigas U. S. Sh.\n\nFR-A. Guerla\n\n16 Fonta\n\nƒ m. A POOR Capt. Bell\n\nHongkong U. S. Sir.\n\nMandura\n\nMacao\n\nFort. Reig.\n\n90 Com. Tavara\n\nAmazona\n\nB+\n\nPurt.lorsha 6 Earnichs\n\nJorge Just\n\ndu.\n\nSelpion\n\ndr.\n\nSp. Ser.\n\nBg.\n\n4Brinnes\n\nAnies Ba\n\n14 Duran\n\nHongkongora Sv. 20 Capt, Boturin\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGRONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $25; 9 Months, $13; Three Mouths, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $15, Six Months, $2, Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- OISTER AND PRICE CURRENT' alone:--For One Year, $3; all payable in advanUSB, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER-Advertscments, not exceeding 5 lines,\n\nesch insertion, $1; cach additional line 20 conts; une balf of these charges for Repetitions AGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and GVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE GUERENT J. G. APIHOur, Rey, London, Mars, Jant, steak & Co, Cricuta: Mesars. Binaton & Co. Bombay W. S. Donos, Faq., Singapore, Messrs. Thorson, Ronkers & Ur, Batavia, J. P. Pzabek, Boy. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkung Register Ofice: Gage Street\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. Tuesday, February 10, 1857.\n\nThe China Mail Extra.\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\n“Chino Muit\" Office, Feb. 7, 1857- thon to the unsatisfactory state of his toast, my wife remarked she felt giddy and sick, him; he pretended to be overlooking the business the investigation as Superintendent of Police, the A man can overlook his business while walking affair being then eurelaped in mystery; and I imagine\n\nThe Criminal Sessions of the Supreme fairs, which had be shewn to be the We let the room after 3, she immediately felt sick\n\nshop\n\nthat the first instanco Mr Mercer acted as Culo- Court the most exciting that have occur reverse of is a fouriebing condition, his and smiled, I thought nothing of it at the time, but about the e\n\nwalked was to the verandah to light a chemot, when Aaxx, cock to The Herland,On the 15th January, eial decrewry-in fact it was an investigation into rel since the settlement of the colony-debts to one firm alone amounting to nearly in the wor af gtating the elgar I suddenly felt sick\n\nthe morning, got bread from the Esing shoes don't the case genotally. I usually, in cases requiring commenced on Thursday, and closed last $15,000. He spoke of the temptation and vomited. Thinking no more about it, I went know the peron-thes was generally brings it, he particular forestigation, maka peliminary acquiry sight. The case of most interest-the bold out to Alum, of averting the pantah in my hair to the Folke Hospital, but when Tranches is not one of the prisoners; this was about half-past 7- before sending them up to the Magistrate. It was trial of Cheong Alum and nine others, on ment with which he had been threatened the entraner leading up to the fif, I was again sick; \n\nAtoy, coolie to be Hachand, Saw Esing's people not my original intention to make a magisterial and when I got clues to St Paul's College, was age\n\nmyrassine's house on the marning of investigation in the present instance; I merely aga.a bring bread a charge of dilempt to poison-lasted fee by the mandarins, by the commission was aide off and on, up to a quarter to 10. the 15th January; they are not among the priscoera. wished to yet an insight into the case as Superit daye, and ended in a verdict of Not guilty, would be considered a highly meritoriona was sick 19 or vlock that night. Next habit of getting bread from the Esing shop the was a very singalar case, I propound we should sit of an atrocious crime, but yet ar net which The romiting was very violent. Mrs Dengr W. A. HARLAND, M.,Was I believe, in the tundent of Police. but her two hours or so, as it\n\nto 1.\n\ntime.\n\nars from that shog-down to the morning of the 16th as Magistrate, and we then commented to take do We are sorry we are unable to give the one by the Chinese authorities, deserving day I tapponed to enter the Police Office, where en eloquent addresace of the Counsel on buth of commendation and reward, instead of vision was going forward, and promised then fancy inclusive I are a mail piece of the bread paltional,\n\nto send some of the bread to Dr Harland for analy. that morning, Dr Chaldecott and Dr Hat.ca alo Next, bo\n\nSANDWITH DAINKED-Am in business in the sides, but must content ourselves with the punishment, at their harde. \n\nzation; did that night. [Cross-conmiasi by partook of it. About an hour afterwards fe faint sity, and live in the wee house with Captain Endi- De Brive,I did not take the bread myself to Dr and aíck, and incised to veuit, and within a few mere heads of the points dwolt upon; and referred to the departure of Alam and \n\nnott Faing enpplicà me with bread on the 15th minutes ufteur wande vomited slightly, and fole a pain January-I partook of the bread and was very ill- even these, we fear, will prove very io his father from the colony on the very Herland. I know caly the Sih prisoner (Alum) na \n\nworning the criminal set was wusumnat belong ag to the Eving shop. I kept the balled the Beach. I then took an emotis, which made at the inmates of the house whe ate of the bread perfect. \n\nup in my own room until I sent it to Dr Harland.me veil a bitła man, and for a little time alter felt ed; and commented strongly on the suspi \n\nwere Hi-I have not perfectly recovered up to this Of the opening speech by the Hųn. T. \n\nIn consequence cf my laers, I delivered the cious manner in which this was managed. By the ATTORNEY Uraat.]-Don't know the 10thy, but shortly afterwards was able to attend to \n\nprisoner, never mw him before at all. sent the same people who can to she house sick. About to remainder of the breast Mr May at the Ptice lice C. Anstey, the Attorney General, wo \n\nWith regard to the sickness of his family \n\nbread a ten minutes past to Dr Harland, by a hours afterwards the pain in the stomach returned, this was on the evening of the 16th-Dr Badland have no notes whatever. He dwelt, how on board the steamer-this was easily and coalie named Attal. \n\nbut I could not vomit. I bai diethms during the I think was presos 1 lave had many dealings with ever, on the atrociousness of the attempt naturally to be imputed to sea-sickness; ATIAL METAL to Dr Dempeter--On the 16th night, and next day a violent headache, wakacss of the Esing abug in the bakery business -I know the made upon the community, and the utter for there were no proofs of them aftor January, escried a paper parcel from Dr Dampster to the jibs, and xansea, Dr Iamos got sick sooner 9th and 10th prisoners to belong to the duche than I did; but I did ont see him, as he had gone 10th I are always understood to be the father of Faing impossibility in such cases of producing sufferings which the medical evidence had Dr Harland, Do not know what was in it, but ir \n\nwas given me by my master. \n\nca Dr Chaldecots, hearing of people being sick, Alum), he was always in the shop, and when the direct testimony against the parties accus- abawo were the invariable effects of argo- ACHING, servant to Dr Dempster-om the 15th took an emetic, as he had ate more bread than any was cut of the sloop, I have left by neders with him od. The evidence in this, as in avery nic, and under which the foreigner who January, received rome bread at may master's day of on Before I had filed breakfast, a Parsee ger Orn about the 24 ur 3d of January, our he made similar case, tour therefore be entirely cir- had partaken of the bread in the present from two men from Esing; they are not at the bar. teman aliud. 20 mil the inam of his house were a contract with Alura fura supply of breuis for the cumstantial; but he would adduce sich a \n\nThis was about 7 wack gars the bend to my sick, and blamed the bread as being the cause of it; I Russian curvest On the Mih I went over to the instance had laboured. He also spoke of \n\nmaaler to estipul it up the breakfast table. \n\nlef my breakfast to go and see them, and it was on \n\nEwing how to apeak to Alure about the contract, Oa TARRANT, Editor of the Friend of my return I first felt sick myself. Both Dr Chalecoss the morning of the 13th, the shop bep called our art jury, as he felt assured must to a certainty and Agent of the steamer to retura to the N indelibly the stain of crime apon the Hongkong that night, as a ruse on his my bread from the Haing shop, dawn to the 13 several days séta, attending to people who were black lettres out in frens of his door sunt him user prisonem at the bar, and draw forth au \n\npart, when be found his hopes of escape January, inclusiva-row the 1st, 3d, and the staffering from eating the bread; the Parses had to ascertain its pats, and in consequent of what unanimona verdict of guilty. \n\nthe boy told us, I had the conversation with hiari on frustrated, and that the poison had not had and 10th prisoners to belong to the shop-the 1st taken only band and a cup of tea-they had all been \n\nI believe to be general assistant and Collector of sick, I adviced them to take emetica. Some of thus the 14th. I teid hum the boy haul informed us that Dr Bridges comarcal his defence by the fatal effets intended had his efforts balls; the 3d I have known in two capaction in con- we axtended effured much more everely than schare the chop said he intended to leave the iny, and remarking that, the case was remark succeeded, the result would have been nection with Exing shop, the inst was as breme-de-bes all had similar syroptatns. From the symptotes wished to sell out. He admitted the chup did say ablo from the atrocity of the attempted another frightful tragedy like that of the liverer; the 9th believe to be the head of the in my own case, and of others who came to be. I felt but said that it was not his intention to leave, but he crime; admitting most fully that there had unfortunate Thistle. He noted the contra- Eing the 19th is I believe the father he ais? i ere what arannic had been administered in the bread, Lad put out the notice for the purpose of deceiving be an attempt to destroy the community dictious in Alam's statements about the have knows in two capacities—one as general assist- I haght down a piece of bread from the Parets, and the Mandarine, who had been traping him a great ant of the Taing shop I have ren bien, 2 ay may kept the remnant of our own. I had alan overal deal told him that would not antinfy one had by poison, but denying that the guilt of poison to the various witnesses and frequently. I saw the 1st prisver five or air day specimens, from Dr Dempster, Captain Paints, and deceived me in a former contract, and I would not yest such an attempt was in any way hrought finally wound up with a confident aanr-before the 15th, ou my ectering my printing offit, othere, and two savea from Mr GrandPre, which he unsil I saw that the bieenit was in the drying lots - bone to the prisoners at the bar. Extra- ance on his part of a verdict against all the he was sitting there, and presentat me a hill from hia took from the Eving shop and gare ints my uwa he most go with me and show in that the bread wa ordinary, be said, bad been the display of prisoners. \n\nsaster. I told him I was then rather busy, and sa bas.d. Ir Deropster's and Captain Endicott's I re- there. Its went with me in my boat to the bakery the mercy and goodness of God, in not a His Lordship the Chief Justice then the bill was not recripted, if he would leave it with ceived on the tin. So let the first alarm, I in the Ila-wen, and on the page down we had a me, I would Inok at it and have it settled. He then endeavoured to ascertain in a busty way what was in conversation on various matters. I had him if he single instance of death having cocurred addressed the jury,-directing them to said in master intended to have the colony-replied the bread, and Ur Bradford curing in, be and I from the attempt. He sormented strongly card from their wouls everything they in rather an impartiment way, and marle a motion to \n\nad bi kamily in Hongkong? La replied he had. I satisfied ourselves it was anovic... Néxt day, at the sard, having his fatally bore, he had better remén on the singularity of the course adopted might have rend or heard about the case it down again and not to go away until he got paid. request of the Colonial Secretary, we made s moral the end of the war no one could supply to by goveraronut in departing from the ordi- nut-of-doors, and to couline theneelves Seeing he was disposed to be saucy, I took him by the crest analysis of each piece of bread separately, cuit so walk-te would make a good thing of it, and nary course of conducting criminal inves outinely to the evidence. As regarded nine coline, said he and his master might go to the devil if and found they all indicated the presence of arsenin. Le protected. He said it was not his wish to go, but they phased, and told him to go ont. The Ed prisoner 1 The analysis for Ascoctaining the yountity tank he had heen threatent, and there were at that time tigations, and still more strongly on the of the prisoners, the jury would probably have a good way times, but the seas. 1 up place entaequently, and we found that one pasad 88 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguise. I told mode in which the Attorney General had agree with him in thinking the evidence pore you (the Alterary General) referto, was eu an in- loaf of bread contained nearly a drms of armenia, B0 \n\nbim if he world report them to the police office, bo conducted the cause, by displaying personal against them was very slight, amounting quest on the 38 January, upon a body that was found grains to the diant commit while arsenic. The \n\nwould be protected. His answer was, that on bis animosity against the prisoners, and making indeed solely to their connection with the board the Thiste, on which occasion be described br I ate was brown, the uther specimens were arrival at the bakery, he would convince me that he \n\nwhite-both kinda contained ausanie; much been the quotatione from trial which had taken Esing Bakery. With respect to Alura, bebimself as Parare Mate on card the steamer, To \n\nhad a large amount of property at stake-that it was the best of my knowledge und belief, the 9th prisoner ivai contined aufficient cause deart. I also, on not bis desire to leave, and a thought he would take place in the worst periode of English ori-was alewn to have been at the bakery on the (Am) was the charterer of the steamer at the time the alterion of the 15th, had two jars brought me my advice and reusia. When we tired at the minal law; and lastly, wornarked on the afternoon of the 14th January, when tho she was destroyed. In consegaenen of the way the d by a pokocurau-one containing yet used on the bakery, the people appeared to be mixing water and pancity of the evidence brought forward dongh was making; and if the jury thought prisoner gave his evidence at the inquest, I objected to night of the lash, the other the materials for making dough in dimus ms in the plass. After visiting for the proscention-which, he said, ovea that he mixed the arsenie with the bread, is bringing bad es my bowo objected on the yat, together with me foar and some pastry from \n\nthe drying room, and when leaving the bakehouse, 15th January between Gand? in the morning, when if there had been to defenes to offer, would or ordered it to be so toixed, tuy weak aw him delving it. A man war with bin ear \n\nthe bakery-pasta scraped from the table, and some \n\nexported Alum would go back with me, and offered pastry in tin moulds, I found no trace of arsenic or him a passage in the heat, but he said he bad some net buvo warranted a conviction on the \n\nfind him guilty; or if they were of opinion rying cau basketa-prisoner took the bread out of other meallic poi in any of the materials. The business to attend to, and would walk bot part of the jury. Ha divided the evi- that he consulted with the forumon Alun the Easkew and put them into my base. I said to analysia was fade in the presenes of Dra Bradford, was between 3 and 4 in the aftermon. They dence for the prosecution into three classes and Atmoi on the subject, Le would be him \"Da my ine fellow, you deliver cay bread, ús Kenky, Watson, and Elspeter. \n\nwere mixing our and water in two ho 1st, those especially connected with the accessory before the fact; but if they were \n\nyou \"He made no response, but yard a kind of A. HAND-PRE, Assistaus Superintendant of Police, showed me a room he said was the brand bakery, gistrod outside the door, saw the bread handed Hava baard D: Harland's evidence-i tak lie fact of the poisoning; 2dly, them wit- \n\nnot perfectly assured in their own minds of in, and immediately after went in and ordered my board to him from the Eaing shop on the morning of supplied 400 families with bread this was told re and they were mixing duugh theve te told me ha nesses who detailet facts connected with Aluni's connection with, and cognizance Comprador to anale Raing's bill, and not to take any the 16th--was promet at the Cowai Station, whey, by him in evidence of the husless he was doing, and Alom before his departure; adly, the of, the attempt to poison, they would return more bread from him, as I was afraid he would the yeast and others things found in the bakery bis eonarquent disinclination to leave. day statement class who described his conduct on board a verdict of acquittal. His Lordship after-puss \n\nI and a servant girl partusck of the were sent to De Harland Tent thera. (Oroei- made by him that be bad sold his business to me la false. the steamer and on the way to Macao. wards, in reading over the evidence, called bread that morning she ate a little left on my plate. questioned by Dr Batmaks.]—I was acquainted with I was asked by MeMncow, anice my first examination, All that evidence he examined in detail; the attention of the jury to the facts of pent to my room, and there folt a sensation of flatu shop on the Queen's Road, and the bakery at the About five minutes alcer leaving the breakfast table, the Esing abop perious to this affair-1 know the then stated what evidence be intended to Alo's own furally being sick from par-toucy-sit1 had been eating wow at first wok Seng Gardens be the plows from which the bring forward in defence; and wound up taking of the bread, and to his offera of to notice of is, but eat down on my chair, looking at trend is carried to the shop there was formerly a with 3 general comparison of the whole 450 and $100 to Captain Xavier to return me papers, as the boy handed them to the the papers bakery about two years ago-attanited in the shop in the 19th, when the evidence I gave was rond over to evidence, and a confident averment of his to Hongkong that night, as rims facin were for the Yoss-offe, and the hot was landing the Queen's Road. The distance betwixt the shop him, he wished me to think if he had aut said he bound three up to as team tho ilone, when I suddenly bohat the jury would acquit all the proofs of his inuocance; but the jury vomited over him. Shortly afterwards two friends \n\nand Jokery in shout one mails. I was nogcainted bean aid there were 59 mandarina I call the place with Alnu, the 9th prisoner, before the 15th-have Queen's Roud the shop; I never wow the th Poy the charge, as affecting the nino consider them merely as clever ruses on called, and I told them I was sick-they said a great soon his very clices; he was always said to be the prisoner in the bakery. The contest was for 27,000 apuially, depending altogether upon their the part of a guilty man is dread of us many people were sick-I said I might be poised, master of the Eng shop. I don't know if he had anyar 28,000b of biscuit the bargain wet in writing. employment by Alam. \n\npision, and if so, would treat them ac- and had better take an omeric, and got up to get on, parts he was reputed sole owner. There were a hot made with Alur personally. I never made a but again vomited violently for about ten minutes good aber arrested on account of the affair contract with the 10th prisoner should never hate On the conclusion of the evidence for cordingly. \n\nwas frequently sick during the day, and bave con- the defence, the Attorney General rose, The jury retired for about half-an-hour, dinner to suffer from it to this time. [Cross-ques were all taken in eustody to the Pelice Stachnasa, nnd of Alum as the principal. My visit to about 20 in the shop-about 50 altogether they thought of doing so always looked opon him as an and after a long and very unnecessary and on their return, brought in, ng above- tioned by Mr DAY,--Don't know that Bing has they were taken before a Justien of the Peace-Mr the shop were always on matters of business on a orga (the Chief Justice thought) defence of the mentioned, a verdict of Nor GUILTY 5 to 1; more than one shop in Hongkongate swam be Chades May: no examination was held till år \n\nale, and were not very frequent. Sometimes, when conduct of the government, and more ez- \n\ncarried on the businem of a Liker have beard be -a conclusion in which, on regards the evi- has a bakery elsewhere--laays been for the shop also everal other J.P.- Mr Gibb, Mr Gray; and unetines sold him large lots si suur would William Thomas Merter, another J.P., was presented at, I dropped in three or four times a week, pecially of Mr Mercer, in this affair-Mr dence, we extirely coincide; though we are Queen's Road West, but an not aware of baking duct know it the latter and gentleman were sit Mercer's conduct never having been im- by no means satisfied of the primouere being carried on there I durt speak preitiselying Justices. When the two bust pristners were would not comes with him: I do not think the Teava ray rouage with the 10th prismer for Almu, but pagned, though the irregularity of the especially of Alum'a-mucence; sud to having en baking golog on nt bis shop, but beigh the Attorney finest was present. The 10th prisoner panas Erglist-the conversation was proooadings of the committing Justines bad would much rather, as we feel assured this I re-i think i have seen an oven there. Cus.al Pelice Station 1 not the usual place for carried on, I think, through one of the pureers in the beon commented upov by Dr Bridges would the inry themselves. that the Eu- Bring has carried on the bakery business tere for £utigation to take place, last 1 have sent them shop. I understood, when Alam talked of troubles I have bean resident to the feland sinne 1897. proceeded to au analytics of the evilmen,glish law had permitted them to return of te don't know, in my eagarity of Editer of lose wegs the learned Attorney General, Mr Mereer, it was er dorost of his haking bread for Phratyn \n\nthere. In the Nuisances investigation, for the dorim, that he meant thata-he said. which he performed in a very able manor, a verdict of not proven. But we shall the Friend of Chan, or otherwise, whether Baing has and Mr May. Mr May is also Superintendent of Pa- laying before the jury in the clourist recur to this subject in our weekly issue. a bakery near the Americe Naval Stores. Ilave ice-end that is the proper place for Lan to be Mr the time the disturbance wok place in November. light the strong points of cash witaees's Du leaving the Court after being dis-frequently been to the Ering shop-especially sons for May was not present when the two last prisoners: As we were going down to the bakery, we mea fire months ago, when I performed some arbitration were bought apen the day of then activel for a boat, and he asked me to pull up to it, as he wished testimony as bearing against the prisonera charged, the prisoners were reapprehended business for Abas. When I have called, I have such amiation. I do not recollect any Justices of the He commenced with the proofs of poison- und conveyed to jail under warrant issued him in the shop, but do not know what he was about \n\nto ask the price of it, and buy it if possible-1 A ing, as testified to by the medical witnesses by order of H. E. the Governor with As for the 21 prisoner, my knowledge of him on tigation of a criminal charge. The Chief Magis for $1; he mid it was for his bakery-and on my Penetting it the Police Salons before, on the in- EQ --he afterwards said he had purchased at at 14 picul then to the identification of the prisoners what intention we are not advised. a brand-deliverer is evnfined to the one occasion trate, I believe, was sitting at his usual post at the remaking it was very den, be sie it was dry wood, with the bakery whence the poisoned bread \n\non the 16th January. The father he served me in Pusa Cour, while this examination was going for and particularly witable for hia bakery; I afterward the slip, but I do not know him otherwise than se was issued, two as the proprietors, others \n\nward at the Poilue Sation-Justices of the Peace the wood discharging on the whart [Hty tha an sasiu do not know his to barn an interest were atting as this time at the Police Court trying ATTORNEY UNERAL-The episods of the boat sa bakers, and the rest as distributors of \n\nIn the businem. \n\ncase, Mr May having been relieved from bin dutes curred alter the conversation about il coming here, the brood; and maintained that if the \n\nJOHN GREIG, Mewart of the dulluna, 1 am so Asistant Magistrale, bis presence being ra and bad expressed doubts of his doing so 3 the coa- guilt of mixing the arsenic with the Hong, \n\nquainted with two last prisoners (9th and 10th) ị quire for the Police forca. It is the invariable versation between the hout-man and Alumi was in er of directing ita admixture, wore brought \n\nsaw them in Esing shep- \n\nthe rim tongue; I saw no money pass hetwoen at that shop. A little Magistrate's Court the Inspector on duty enters Eome to the principal prisoner Alum, there \n\nbefore 7 on the 15th January, I was in the shop, sand \n\nthe parties in payment of Lise wood, could be no doubt that those who assisted \n\nbught me loaf, Saw he let prisoner, the 9th and Court. Uf 50 (or thereabouts) prisoners first talien, uti With gard to the poisoning of the bread, them on the charge shoot, and sends them up to the CHEUNG-ALCMC staten ent]cing duly caution- fu moulding the poisoned bread, or in die- \n\ntheth, they protended to be running abousin a in custody than not here are mill detained in the he is entirely ignorant-that the bread is made in one great hurry, out I would not see they were doing any Cross-road Sumiva at the foot of Wellington Street, part of the town, and he lives in souther-he never had tributing it among the community, monet! have a guilty knowledge of the affair: he \n\nthing particular, Could not see what they were oppraits Gith, Livingston & Co.'s godown-they sy id of doing such a thing. He first came to the doing, but they appeared to be attending to the dwelt strongly on the fact that no less a \n\nbusireas of the shop. Did not romak anything par \n\nhave been there sine their first examination on the Colony at unly 18 years of age-ie was first ext quantity than Tea Pounds of arsenic must \n\ntieula: about the prisoners; e 9th was weighing \n\n15th January. The Attorney and was present played by Mr Higham, who afterwarde went to when the best tre primers Prese asumined, but dolla, and the 10th was waiking about all three don't know if he took part is the investigation. \n\nCalifornia; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by have been put into the dough-toɔ large a \n\nMarrow, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Do Seer, parcel to be easily concealed from the \n\nwem attending to the buriness of the shop. (Explsina \n\nཚ་ CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police, Haut for when he made hisenite, a well as did other that the shopmen, not the prisoners were running heard the evidence of Dr Elarland as to the analysis of business. persons employed in the bakery. He \n\nabout.) 1 seat the load off to the Satana, Afterwards the yeaat, e, found at the bakery. There were machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr He some time afterwards purchase a next referred to Alam's presence at the very time the dough was being made J. C. DEMPSTER, Colonial Surgeon-Have been [Cross-examined by Dr Bass]-Often went to the iraking the bread The audement is perfectly cur- be purchased another from America, wich has ales yeusi, samples of dough, flour, and the water use for Duddeil, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, then to him and is father being in the in the habit before the 15th of getting bread from the Exing shop to buy a loaf. Wes in the shop two or cock, Cross-questioned by D BRIDGE)-Have arrived. He is supplied the Nars with it. \n\nKaing shop belenging to the 9th and 10th primer tre minutes on the 14th. Don't know anything alun beard Mr Grand-Pre's statement. Is ehop at the very time the bread was being chlained based from the shep that morning, not with about the 16th man, except that I saw bar in the \n\nat with \n\nan only lately be has repaired the premises, and set sold to the customers-nuxt of his express- \n\nMe Merter on the evening of the 15th to conduct the three machines at work. Liam is here reminded uy only partook of it, sheus baif-paat 7 or 8 lock, shop have frequently seen him thera-he was walk- ed intention of learing the colony-and | at breakfasi. After eating a small portion of the ing about the shop. I tou ao particular native of came in about 2, and we sat till 8. Iematened ing, he proceeds), On the 28th of the 17th, the inquiries- luvited Mr Mereor to join meha that all tea above has nothing to do with the poison- \n\narray of facte for the consideration of be into's oer of $50 and $100 to the Captain 16-Have been in the habit of taking and I were kept engaged the whole dry, and for tention to Alum panting a new cbop (plan with \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCRIMINAL NENOMINAL\n\nMonday, 24 Febrnavy.) THE POISONING CASE\n\nJarp-Menara M. A. MACLEOD, W. H. Strms, Jour LMON, W. A. BOWKA, E T. DONGANDO, \n\nand GEORGE WALL\n\nCHEONG ARAW, Chrono Aurap, Chaco Aco, OM ARON, TAM ALEEN, FONG ANDER CHENG Amus, Pura AcuUT, CHNCHO ALU and Cuong Wyr Kox-4dministering Poles will intent, \n\nFor the Prosecution,-The Hon. To Anstav, diternay General; Ma HCR, Crom Sulicor, assisted by Mr 3, C. TURNER, \n\nPor the Defens-Dr Daines and Mr DAY, Gunel Mersta GAFELL & BROWN, and Mr H. J. 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        "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n### SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1857\n\n**PRICE $1 per annum**\n\n#### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION \nto the FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE, per Annum, 18 Spanish Dollars, payable in advance quarterly or otherwise at option. Single Numbers 94 cents.\n\n#### TERMS OF ADVERTISING \nTen lines and under, 1 Spanish Dollar; Additional, 10 cents line. Repetitions, one-third of the first regular insertion, regular insertions per contract. Ships, First insertion, 15 dollars; subsequent insertion 15 cents.\n\n| MERCHANT VESSELS | \n| --- | \n| At Hongkong | \n| British | Anna Mary, ship; Albion, ship; Ancona, barque; Andeshin, ship; Baces, ship; Bengal, ship; Corigliano, ship; Day Spring, barque; Paintster, ship; Fakandria, sloop; Lady Canning, ship; Leeds Lyncx, sloop; ... | \n| To June 23 | Wardley and Co. | \n| Saune Turner and Co. | 311 | \n| May single | Kaye | Sept, schooner | \n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n**HOLLOWAYS OINTMENT**\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n\nTRADING STEAM VESSELS IN INDIAN WATERS.\nBritish: Lezhong-Ann, Eglel Conges, Iron Prince, Lad M. Wood, Beri, Rose, har rack, Shanghai, Squirrel, and Thinle, nel traile, Cano, Femá and Mirage, Shanghat Route, -Formosa and Hillespont, harghar-Veteer,\n\nFrench: Heong-Charles Martel,-In Ma can-Francis £!\n\n**NEW ADVERTISEMENT**\nHolloway's Ointment and Pills-Glandular swellings in the throat, neuralgia, tic doloreux, Phenantis, gout, fumbac, and other diseases affecting the glands, muscle, and nerves, are primarily eradicated by the persevering application of this healing, \"salutary, pain-destroying proportion. Irritating eruptions, ran pine serce, open wounds, burns, sores, and, in short, all the varieties of pestilential inflammation, soon lose their angry and painful character when treated with Holloway's Ointment. The Pills have never yet been administered, save with success, by hospital physicians and practitioners, in cases of liver complaint, or diseases of the buncle, whatever producing the desired results.\n\n**CIRCULAR TO THE SICK**\nThe first hospital surgeons and medical publicists of Europe, late the unparalleled anti-fat factory and healing properties of this Ointment: never ineditis Auto la se h. their nasal and military service.\n\nthe 49 in this country and throughout the world repose the wide reference in curative properties. It penetrates the sources of irritation and corruption which underlie the external evidences of disease, and neutralizes the very elements which fret and cause the malady.\n\nRHEUMATISM, SCROFOLA, ERYSIPELAS\nThese are among the most terrible and agonizing diseases, yet in their worst forms, and are still incurable, invariably cured under a persevering application of this king, healing, antidote to pain and inflammation.\n\nBut the Ointment and Pills must be used in the following\n\nBad Legs | CASAR- | Bite of Moschetas | Elephantiasis | Keune lisen | Scalds | Sore Nipples | Sore-throats | HAD DICARIS | Cancer | Barce | Contracted and | Burners | Stiff joints | and Sand-Flies | talan | Coco-lay | Cont | Salo-discs | Scurvy | Sore-heads | Ching-loa | Chin | Chapped hands | ent | Glandar Suell | Tumours | Wounds | Yawa | jegs | Labago | File\n\nMold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.\n\n#### VESSELS AT HONGKONG AND MACAO\nUNDER DESPATCH For Landun: Day Spring, H. Kate; ether, M.; North, H.; Par Baby- Shanghai, H.; For Beavk Orests, M.; For Joon: R van Reener; For Sing Sport d: Adela, M.; Star King, E.; For San Franciao: Elizabeth Martin, I.; Lizzie Jarvis, H.; For Manila, Juharna, M.; tur diam. Annic, 37.; For New York: Independence, H.; For Maveric: Fianco, M.; For Australia: Kensington, 11.; Phillip Laing, H.; For Shanglur: Blackburn, H.; Quickeup, 11.; Remi, H.; Wellington, $1.; W. J. Lewis, H.; For fe chose fu: Venili, H.; For Amoy, Aon, 17.\n\n#### TREATY TO CORRESPOND TO PAGE \nby W...\n\n#### VESSELS FROM ENGLAND FOR CHINA\nThe figures after each name denote the number of days out on the list of the current mail.\n\n| MERCHANT VESSELS | Days Out | \n| --- | --- | \n| British |  | \n| ... | ... | \n| At Bonghang |  | \n| ... | ... | \n| ... | ... |\n\n#### SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\nARRIVALS.\n\nAT HONGKONG.\n17, Semor (T), from Java.\n18. Helene (Br) from Hongkong\nJuly\nAT BANGSAR\n1, Ferie England, Kelly, om Hongkong.\n12, Charger, Kilich, from London and Anop.\n12, Am Str. Antelope, Lunch, from Heugknag\n13, 1.3 Pertmonth, Capt. Feste, front f'king\n13, Sir Lade Nession, Pirosst, from Cardiff, is\nApol\n43. Sling, Wentwons, from langkong.\n13, #ld haurell, MacFarlane, from Bangkong\n13, Str. Shanghai, Resk- from Hongkong.\n13, Gold Siete Am), Hepburn, St Hongkong.\n13, n. Baskervik, irote Flongkong.\n13, Wild Tare, Cheyan, from Singapore and Ful-chow.ta.\n13, anker, Thoms firm Swattw,\n13, John Jay (Amt, Wade, frogs New York.\n\n#### DEPARTURES.\nFROM HONGKONG.\n22, Reggard (kur, Drew, Shanghaa.\nForester\nTaughty\nFlightyer\n156-lis. Sir M. Saps. ¿W. K. Heli Fubchau 1.8 16 Delville Amor L.M.S4Jenkins Hangkong M. 3ouglas The River H.M.S17 Fellowes\n12 Panilion\nGabandones\nElonghong Guns Hawillen\nHospilet 10,\nHongkong (4.4.Ser! Goodenougla\nShaughne F.M.SForsyth\nHongkong H. M. SW\nMacan 31. 30e.Stewat Hongkong H., Ste 11 lon'ble Certrane\nThe River.M.S-Dew\n- Campbell\nSymask 'kerass, is\nRua Count\nCelesial, shi Estheit, sest\nHardweke.\nMum, schonies\nDutch Anos, brig Janibe, baryEZ Crestes algae\n\n#### PASSENGERS\nPer Sternhai, Mr Bor, and 7 Chinese.\nPer Lence, Hon. T. C. Anstey,\n\n#### SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA AND NORTHERN WATERS\n| Ship | Guns | Commander | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### NOTICE\nIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT in future under the Style of GILMAN & Co. as at Canton and Foochow.\n\nTHE A. pership KATE ROOPER (UR. Business in Sheage will be conducted Captain Jackor, kazing a taaside abla par- tion of hot sargo engaged, will have quick des patch. For freight of Passage, apply to JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 10th January, 1857.\n\n#### POSTAL STEAMERS TO MACAO\nAlteration in Time of Departure.\nTHE hours of departure for the\" ROSE\" and \"ROCK\" will in future b at a. M.\n\n#### TRIESTE ROUTE\nTHE AUSTRIA LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION Company's STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and by monthly Indian Steamera.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nTHE HOUSE and PROPERTY belonging to A. R. Jounaco, Esq., situated on Irland Lot No. 92, near St. John's Cathedral. Apply to DENT & Co.\n\n#### TO BE LET OR SOLD\nWith immediate possession. THAT Large and Commodicus HOUSE in San Courengo, Macao, (the one rere in the former ly occupied as B. B. M. Superintendary). For particulis apply by letter addressed B, care of the Editor of the Friend of China.\n\n#### TO LET\nTHE PREMISES No. 11 Praya de Manden, River side, containing DeFLLING HOUSES and spacious Copowys for Cotton and other Goods.\n\n#### NOTICE\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Foochow, and M ROBERT R. WES-TALL is authorized to sign our Firm at est l'ort by proellation.\n\n#### TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES\nTHE Directors of the AustaaN LLOYDS STRAY NAVIGATION COMPANY in Tris, have male Arcangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSA-CES to Losion, or to any Part of the Continent sent to them froin China.\n\n#### NOTICE\nMRA. A. De MELLO is. iz anthand to sign the cams of our Firma per procunition frera the 1st instant.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nA Pong Baskets of Janequzsan's CHAMPAGNE superior quality.\n\n#### NOTICE\nTHE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port between the undersigned under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co, expires this day by lege vitice uml mutual consent.\n\n#### SHIP CHANDLERY AT FOO-CHOW\nApply to STONE & Co. Foo-chow, 1st December, 1868.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nCOPPER SHEATING, for 19 to 80 oz and NAILS. Apply to GIEB. LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\n#### FIRE INSURANCE\nTHE undersigned, Agentia for the LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION and IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY, are prepared to grant Policies on MERCHANDISE and i BUILDINGS at this Pert.\n\n#### COMMITTAG ON MARITIME INSURANCE OF PARIS\nTHE undersigned having been appointed Agents for the Marine Insurance Ofits of Paris, aro anthorized to examine and approve ciuins for Gen etui and Particular Averages un Risks insured by them.\n\n#### SAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY, MANILA\nUNDER the Superintendenes of an Experienced ENGINEER. Orders for all kinds of binebi pery executed with despatch.\n\n#### JUST RECEIVED\nTHE finest usecrtment of Elighland Tweeta Turons, Plaids, Hoce, superfine Broadcloths Athol, Baimeral and Glengary Bonnets, S., &s. &, ever imported into this Colony.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nFINE Feschow BACON, MACEWEN & Co.\n\n#### MRS. LOSEE STRAW BONNET\nMaker and Cleaner No. 502 Lundbars Terrass. 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        "content_text": "## 16\n\nJ. M. B. S. Barracuda arrived on Monday evening last, from the Muena Passage Barrier. She brings no news of importance, save on attempt on the part of the Chinese to blow up H. M. Sloop **Comus** on the night of 20th ult. Two large Junks, filled with combustibles of various kinds, were sailed down towards Adams' Creek and, owing to the darkness of the night, were not observed till within a few yards of the ship. They were then descried by the guard boat, which at once opened fire on them, and caused their operations to be precipitated and to burst into flames. One Junk caught the ship's stern, the other her bow, but were quickly towed away by the boats of the **Hornet** and **Comus**, before any material damage was done.\n\nIn order to teach the villagers a lesson, the Steamers **Sir Charles Forbes** and **Coromandel**, with some boats of the squadron, proceeded next day to the village from which the Junks were sent, and set fire to it. The large squadron of War Junks have moved nearer inshore, having received some damage from the fire of the **Niger**. The **Niger** and **Bacchante** have been cruising in the river. Recently they visited Whampoa, where they found that all foreign property has been destroyed except the granite dock and Custom House. The worshipping place of the Parsees has been razed to the ground.\n\nA large fleet of Junks is drawn up before the town of Sheung-shan, completely out of reach of any ship drawing much water. The boats of the **Barracouta** cut out three Junks from under the guns of this fleet and committed them to the flames.\n\nThe **Nankin** and **Sybille** are at the Bogue; the **Niger** at Powder Island; **Avon** below Macao Passage Barrios; **Hornet** and **Comus** in the Creeks above the Barrier; **Countrer**, **Curaçao**, and **Sir Charles Forbes** at Tycocktau Fort, the guns of which command the river up to the Shameen, and can, if necessary, send shot into the suburbs. --February 4\n\nIn the proclamation by the Heangshan literati, published in our No. 2 of the 10th ult., the inhabitants of Tyckocktau, the large fishing village, or town, in the Typa, were warned against supplying their neighbours of Macao with provisions. This warning being disregarded, on Tuesday last the place was burnt to the ground. On Monday there is to be an attempt elsewhere, it is rumored. –January 31\n\nThe U. S. Frigate **San Francisco** steamed out to Kenting on Thursday, for the purpose of ascertaining the character of a fleet of Chinese vessels seen there by the Steamer **Lily** on an exploratory trip the day before. On getting within a hundred yards of them, a boat's crew, with two blue silk gowned, yellow-robed gentlemen, who presented their cards, and professed themselves to be officers of the Rebel forces. Seeing no reason to doubt this, Commodore Armstrong put about and returned via Macao. Mr. Caldwell, we are told, could have sent men with Commodore Armstrong, had he waited a little, who would have answered for certain piratical acts by the squadron in question; and, no doubt, Mr. Caldwell could have done. But, whilst these gentry do not interfere with the trade of the port, we do not see why we should constitute ourselves constant guard for the Emperor of China. Taking prisoners one day and releasing them the next—January 31\n\nReports have reached the foreign anchorage off Aga's Hill, of the wreck of an American Ship on the south end of Formosa in the fall of 1855, of the massacre of the crew by the indigenes, and of the burning of the hull. The vessel, we expect, was the long-lost clipper **Highflyer**, from California—February 1\n\nBy recent arrival at Ningpo we hear that nearly all the Missionaries have left that place for Shanghai; that ships are in a single watch, ready for slipping at a moment's warning; that the Steamer **Pekin** is night and day with her steam up; and that foreign residents, generally, are in a state of alarm; some of them having been without sleep for several nights—February 1\n\nThe French Ship **Port de Bordeaux** left Macao two or three weeks ago, bound to Havana, with a cargo of Chinese apprentices. When one day an alarm of fire was given from the between decks forward, and in frantic haste the officers and crew ran down to put it out.\n\n## OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA\n\n... (text omitted due to lack of relevance)\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG\n\n... (text omitted due to lack of relevance)\n\n## SOLILOQUY—HONGKONG A CENTURY HENCE\n\nI do remember a wondrous tale,  \nWhich I have heard my father's father tell,  \nOf a great poisoning effort, made to slay  \nMy ancestors, and spoil their festive gale  \nWho were of celestial origin:  \nAnd oftentimes my youthful mind would thrill  \nAt such conception of human heart.\n\n... (poem continues)\n\n## THE SECOND WAR WITH CHINA\n\nContinued from No. 3 page 14.\n\n### A GLANCE AT THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND WARS WITH CHINA\n\nPointing out, as we do, that in a retrospective view of philosophical breadth, the several movements of England down to the repudiation of Keying's Treaty take their place as appropriate preliminaries of War, we cannot exclude from such a comprehensive survey the want of adequate provision for this alternative of the choice afforded to China—a want which obtrudes itself at every step after the Imperial Court had thus clearly indicated the course which it elected to pursue.\n\n... (article continues)\n\n## SUPREME COURT. Criminal Sessions, THE QUEEN vs. Tan Prosecuted\n\nFriday, February 6th\n\n... (text omitted due to lack of relevance)\n\n## Concluded from Supplementary page 23\n\n... (text omitted due to lack of relevance)",
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        "content_text": "# SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\n## ARRIVED.\n\n### MERCHANT VESSELS.---Continued.\n\n| Date Arrival | Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Apr 26 | Sul | British | 170 | - | Ballast | - |\n| Apr 28 | Avventura | Dutch | 430 | - | Bombay | Sundries |\n| Apr 25 | Acorn | British | 280 | W. K. Hall | Shanghai | Sundries |\n| Apr 29 | Alcor | British | - | - | Ballast | - |\n| Apr 28 | Hebe | British | 471 | F. Brauns | Singapore | Rice |\n| Apr 28 | Hellespont | British | 930 | - | Shanghai | Sundries |\n| Apr 22 | Gravina | British | 125 | Herman | Amoy | Sundries |\n| Apr 19 | Sophia Fraser | British | - | - | Shanghae | Order |\n| Apr 21 | Koningen der Nederlanden | Dutch | - | Cusack | Shanghae | - |\n| Apr 20 | Aliquis | British | - | - | Shanghae | Sundries |\n| Apr 27 | Bunga | British | 290 | Meinertzhagen | Swatow | General |\n| Apr 27 | General | British | 591 | Halkieth | Melware | Ballast |\n| Apr 29 | Am. str. 1968 | British | 170 | Morice | Swatow-pr | 27 Ballast |\n| Apr 29 | Am. 500 | British | 367 | Treadwell | Bangkok | Apr ice\" |\n| Apr 28 | Brit. str. 30 | British | - | Crockett | Shaugh | Apr 28 Sundries |\n| Apr 28 | Gussell | British | - | - | Batavia | - |\n| Apr 28 | Loeven & Kup | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Sebaoffen & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | P. & U. S. N. Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Jardine, M. & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Heard & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n## BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\n| Class | Name | Flag & Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sloop | Acorn | - | W. A. Hood | Formosa |\n| - | Antagonist, | Dutch | - | Luque | - |\n| - | Alligator | - | Bowen & Co | - |\n| - | Avay | - | Despin | - |\n| - | Antelope | - | - | - |\n| - | Actaeon | - | - | - |\n| - | Algerine | - | - | - |\n| - | Albatross | - | - | - |\n| - | Alceste | - | - | - |\n| Sloop | - | - | Stabb | - |\n| - | - | - | Jenkin | - |\n\n## Sailed.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | Destination | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chusan | British | 280 | F.D. Synge | Calcutta | - |\n| Cruiser | British | 142 | W. Custou | - | - |\n| Belleiate | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Fermo | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Hiawatha | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Prudent | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Eureka | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Eliza Ross, brig | British | - | - | Chinchew | - |\n| Hanibal, schooner | British | - | - | Swatow | - |\n| Bauslie, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Bevereg, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Scotia, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Sorata, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Starlight, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Thracian, sloop | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n## GUN BOATS, DESPATCH VESSELS AND TRANSPORTS.\n\n| Name | Class | Flag & Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Castus | - | - | W. F. Lee | - |\n| Hero | - | - | - | - |\n| Caratyne | - | - | P. Saumarez | - |\n| Benefactor | - | - | J. Kerr | - |\n| Rachel | - | - | W. Arthur | - |\n| H. Ferdinand | - | - | B. W. Nicholas | - |\n| Sophia Fraser | - | - | A. J. Ince | - |\n| Cormorant | Gunboat | - | W. H. Jones | - |\n| Nimrod | - | - | W. J. Hunt | - |\n| Opossum | - | - | - | - |\n| Gunboat | - | - | - | - |\n| Troup-ship | - | - | - | - |\n| Guru | Des.-Str. | - | - | - |\n| Surprise | Des.-T. | 400 | John Band & Co | - |\n| Watchful | Gunboat | - | - | - |\n| Nera, schooner | - | - | - | - |\n| Wild Flower, ship | - | - | - | - |\n\n## MERCHANT VESSELS.---Continued.\n\n| Date of Arrival | Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Apr 20 | Chin Chin | British | 316 | G. E. Hand | San Francisco | Sundries |\n| Apr 29 | Cleopatra | British | 750 | - | Singapore | Sundries |\n| Apr 30 | C. Coventry | British | - | - | Amoy | Sundries |\n| May 1 | Caratyne | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 22 | Black R. Packet | British | - | - | Bygd | Sundries |\n| Apr 23 | Dick | British | - | - | Shanghae | - |\n| Apr 18 | Kestrel | British | - | L. Wich | Bhanglue | - |\n| Apr 22 | Antelope | British | - | C.8. SET | - | - |\n| Mar 25 | Wilhelmine, barque | British | 88 | Angler & Co | Thoyon | - |\n| Apr 22 | Venetian | British | 510 | Penrice | Fuhchau | Teas, &c. |\n| Apr 28 | Star | British | - | G. of Pechali | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Slaney | British | - | Peysaud | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Peysaud | British | - | G. of Peculi | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Levoque | British | - | IG. of Pocheli | - | - |\n\n## FOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\n| Class | Name | Flag | Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fr. Str. | Audacieux | French | 50 | Vrignand | G. Pehali Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Avenger | French | - | - | River |\n| Fr. Str. | Capricieuse | French | 40 | D'Aboville | Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Durance | French | 12 | Trebuchet | River |\n| Fr. Str. | Fusee | French | - | - | G. Peel Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Meurthe | French | - | Borelli | - |\n| Fr. Str. | Mitraille | French | - | - | River |\n| Fr. G. Boat | Nemesis | French | - | Sous | G. Peel Fr. Ship |\n| Fr. Str. | Nissard | French | - | Cu Niss | - |\n| Fr. Str. | Phlegeton | French | - | Monerelt, G. | - |\n\n## BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\n## SHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\n### MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | Destination | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aden, steamer | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Haschaut, ship | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Banner, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Earl Grey, barque | British | 770 | - | - | - |\n| Faerie, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Fiery Cross, ship | British | 2000 | - | - | - |\n| Frowning Beauty, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Hamilton, brig | British | 133 | - | - | - |\n| Hellespont, steamer | British | 2394 | - | - | - |\n| Job Shepherd, ship | British | 629 | - | - | - |\n| Jary | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Luly McDonald, ship | British | 679 | - | - | - |\n| Mauritius, steamer | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Perseverance, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Pottinger, steamer | British | 200 | - | - | - |\n| Rajah of Sarawak, ship | British | 525 | - | - | - |\n| Rabe | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Sarah Lacy, barque | British | 450 | - | - | - |\n| Scotland, steamer | British | 759 | - | - | - |\n| Taymouth Castle, ship | British | 682 | - | - | - |\n| Trafalgar, barque | British | 717 | - | - | - |\n| Vindex, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Whirlwind, ship | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Williamattilies, barque | British | 476 | - | - | - |\n| Zepage, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n### FOREIGN MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lion, barque | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Mariquita, ship | French | - | - | - | - |\n| St Paul | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Ville de Bale, ship | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Atmosphere, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Bald Eagle, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Cohota, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Derby | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Flying Sail, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Frigate Bird, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| George Lee, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Norways, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Orpheus, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Uriel, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Youths of CONCEF | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Alvor, barque | Dutch | 297 | - | - | - |\n| Amsterdam, ship | Dutch | 400 | - | - | - |\n| Betera Michiels | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Boven & Kap | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Hebe, ship | Dutch | 471 | - | - | - |\n| Jannetta Coralin | Dutch | 454 | - | - | - |\n| Lactor Energo | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Maria Diederiks, barque | Dutch | 270 | - | - | - |\n| Nora Zembla, ship | Dutch | 775 | - | - | - |\n| Phoebus, barque | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Stad Doken | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Damsh | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Alions, barque | Hamburg | - | - | - | - |\n| Susenas, barque | Hamburg | - | - | - | - |\n| Abu Lange, barque | Bremen | 288 | - | - | - |\n| J. Brightman, ship | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Jahu Stephen, barque | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Progress, barque | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Fresh Eagle, barque | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Antelope, brig | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Argonaut, ship | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Game Cook, ship | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Gravina, brig | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Dutch | - | - | - | - | - |\n| Almonde, barque | Dutch | 609 | - | - | - |\n| Henrietta, barque | Dutch | 400 | - | - | - |\n| Johanna, barque | Dutch | 550 | - | - | - |\n| Mercator, ship | Dutch | 749 | - | - | - |\n| San Jacinto | American | - | - | - | - |\n\n## RECEIVING SHIPS.\n\n| Name | At | Captain |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Australia | Hongkong | Bill Co |\n| Cams Family | - | - |\n| Toms | - | - |\n| Ch | - | - |\n| Faluti | - | - |\n| T | - | - |\n| Formlean | - | - |\n| Anuya | - | - |\n| To kee | - | - |\n| Imag | - | - |\n| Patainder | - | - |\n| Fitzgion | - | - |\n| Adventure | - | - |\n| Malamoodie | - | - |\n| Pidiehau | - | - |\n| Water Witei | - | - |\n| Chichew Temple | - | - |\n| Haud | - | - |\n| Tivi | - | - |\n| And Welch | - | - |\n| Woosing licort | - | - |\n| Vincent | - | - |\n\n## TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.\n\nTo the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT: One Year, $32; Six Months, $16; Three Months, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER: One Year, $15; Six Months, $8; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT alone: For One Year, $3; all payable in advance.\n\n## TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nAdvertisements, not exceeding 5 lines, $1; each additional line, 20 cents; one half of these charges for Repetitions.\n\n## AGENTS.\n\nJ. G. ANTHONY, Esq., London; Messrs. Jardine, Skinner & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. LALAROS & Co., Bombay; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROBERT & Co., Shanghai; J. P. Fisc, San Francisco.\n\n## GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5TH JUNE 1858.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\nVol. III, No. 158.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 5th September, 1853, was terminated on the 20th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New Series of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that **THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE** will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC NOTICES, of this Government.\n\nBy Order,\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20 July, 1855.\n\n## VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.\n\nNo. 15 of 1858.\n\nMONDAY, 31st MAY, 1858.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and all the Members, except the Lieutenant-Governor and the Colonial Treasurer, on account of indisposition.\n\nThe Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Council being read.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed the following amendments:\n1stly. That the words \"Pursuant to\" be inserted before the words \"The following Notice of motion\"; and that the words \"from the Attorney General was brought up and read\" next after, be struck out.\n2ly. That the words \"and moved\" be inserted after the word \"Memorialists.\"\n\nQuestion put, and passed---whereupon,\n\nThe amendments being made,\n\nThe Minutes were approved.\n\nThe Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Market Ordinance.\n\nSections 1 to 4 inclusive, were ordered to stand part of the Ordinance.\n\nSection 18 was recommitted and amended.\n\nResolved, that the Market Ordinance from Section 5 to the end be recommitted.\n\nTwo new Sections were introduced, and ordered to stand as Sections 3 and 6.\n\nA Draft of proposed Market Bye-Laws was read for the information of the Council, by order of His Excellency.\n\nConsideration of the Market Ordinance was resumed.\n\nSections 5 to 8 inclusive, were re-numbered, and made Sections 7 to 10.\n\nSection 9 was amended, and made Section 11.\n\nEight new Sections were discussed seriatim, agreed to, and ordered to be introduced next after Section 11, and to stand as Sections 12 to 19 inclusive.\n\nSection 10 was made Section 20, and amended.\n\nSections 1 to 14 inclusive, were re-numbered, and made Sections 21 to 24.\n\nA new Section was introduced, and ordered to stand as Section 25.\n\nSections 15 to 17 inclusive, were re-numbered as Sections 26 to 28, and adopted.\n\nSection 18 being re-numbered as Section 29, was recommitted.\n\nThe Governor put the question, that this Section as amended stand part of the Ordinance.\n\nUpon which the Attorney General moved an amendment, that the words \"Registrar General\" be left out.\n\nDebate ensued.\n\nThe Governor put the question, That the words \"Registrar General\" stand part of the Clause.\n\nCouncil divided.\n\nAyes (4.)\n\nMR DENT.\nMR LYALL.\nACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\nSURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nNoys (4.)\n\nMR JARDINE.\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE.\nATTORNEY GENERAL.\nCHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "## June 29\nE1th July 1\n\nOn this subject, it is requested that the Letter In any further communication following the date may be quoted. August/58.\n\n2\n\nSir,\n7208 Hugong.\n\nEN RECE\n.C.0\nJUIN 24\n185\n\nra 23 July\n1858\n\n30\n\nM AGENTS\n\nThe Person named on the other side hereof, having been Entertained onboard Her Majesty's I'm Sloop Tiny on the occasions and between the dates stated against their names; Lam Commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request that you will move The Secretary of State for the Colonies to cause you to be informed Whether the Expense of the Entertainment is to be borne by the Public.\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\nH. G. Romainn,\nColonial Office.\nBoard of Trade,\nDr. Merivale 26.",
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        "content_text": "# No 344 \n471 57 \n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHongkong 26 June, 1866  \n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to state that he has received your communication of the 20th instant with very great satisfaction, and trusts that further experience will enable future expeditions requiring joint action to be carried out with more secrecy and success.  \n\nA very great matter for the capture of the Pirates themselves is concerned.  \nHe regrets to perceive that the recent expedition was...  \n\nD. B. Robertson  \nCopy  \nH. B. M's sloop  \nCantine",
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        "content_text": "Naughtong h:83.\n\n24th July 1816.\n\nGevenner\n\nSir Richard Graves Maconelli Right Honorable\n\nEdward Cardwell, Mr. P.\n\nAracy\n\nDestruction of Pirate fleet of\n\n22 Juns and 250 Guns at Nainan (Sama Crest). Remounts on.\n\nInclesing.\n\n\"China Mail\"\n\n26th July 1866.\n\nIn 9189/66\n\n155\n\nDESTRUCTION OF PIRATICAL\n\nFLEET BY H. M. SHIPS OPOSSUM & OSPREY.\n\nWe have been favoured with the following account of the proceedings of H. M. Ships Osprey and Opossum during their recent cruise in search of Pirates.\n\nH. M. S. Osprey, Commander Wm. Menzies, left Hongkong on the 12th July, 1866, with the Gun Boat Opossum, Lieut. Commander Mainwaring, in search of pirates. They proceeded to Nowchow Island and thence to Quan Chou Wan, on leaving which place on the 16th instant, the Osprey unfortunately got on shore, owing it is stated to incorrectness in the chart supplied, but being under steam, with the assistance of the Opossum, and the rising tide was got off again without accident. They then continued their cruise to Hainan, searching several Bays and Creeks, as well as overhauling some Junks met with at sea, but without success until the 18th instant when on going into Ty-Yu-Lin-Kan Bay information was obtained that a number of piratical Junks were anchored at Sama or Samoy Bay. The Osprey immediately got under weigh and, followed by the Opossum, steamed in search of them. At about a quarter to 1 P.M. the Opossum made signal that several Junks were in sight. A few minutes after the Osprey having taken up position, which there was great difficulty in doing, owing to the shallowness of the water, commenced the action by opening fire with her 68 pdr. Pivot Gun, and almost immediately after with her 7 inch Armstrong Pivot Gun. The Opossum from her lighter draft of water was able to get nearer the enemy and at 1 P.M. opened fire.\n\nThe junks were in an admirably defended position, being anchored in a creek, the sides of which to a great extent protected them from the Osprey's fire. Just before the Opossum commenced the attack two of the heaviest armed Junks, one of which was afterward found to carry 16 large guns, opened on the Osprey with shell and rockets, and shortly afterwards the other junks commenced firing on both vessels. The action was briskly sustained on both sides, the Junks keeping up a very well directed fire, from which however, the high bank to the Northward of the Piratical craft much protected the Osprey as only a portion of their guns could be brought to bear on her, but the same cause prevented the Osprey from doing as much execution as she otherwise would have done it being impossible to get her opposite the mouth of the Creek there being only 1 Fathom of water. The firing was continued on both sides until 3 P.M. when it was determined to land and take the Village and Junks. A party of about 60 men, Blue Jackets and Marines, were accordingly landed from the two vessels, under the command of Commander Menzies, accompanied by Mr. Greet, Assist. Paymaster as Aide de camp, Lieutenant Meade and Mr. Sanders Gunner from H. M. S. Osprey and Mr. H. Thomas Boatswain of Opossum.\n\nThe landing was effected without opposition about half a mile from the creek, the Guns of the two ships (which were manned by various idlers and boys, as of course the best men were selected for landing) still engaging the junks.\n\nThe landing party passed over a slight undulation of ground and approached the village and creek, in which the junks were anchored, from the Westward. A hill above them was occupied by a party of Chinese who kept up a fire until dislodged by some men told off for the purpose. Passing round the base of the hill the men rushed on with a cheer and drove the enemy from the village to the junks, which they were also obliged to abandon and escape to the other side from the heavy and rapid fire kept up by the blue Jackets and marines, notwithstanding the efforts of the Pirates to check them by a well sustained fire of Guns and small arms.\n\nCommander Menzies then gave orders to board and set fire to the Junks which was rapidly done. Lieutenant Meade was most active in this duty and himself fired several. The total number destroyed was 22, some of them being very large and the number of men was estimated at over 700. The execution done was very great, and it was altogether a most dashing and gallant affair. Of the Junks destroyed 1 carried 17 Guns, 7 were of 15 Guns, 9 of 12, and 4 of a smaller number. It was a powerful force to attack with a sloop of 4 Guns and a Gun Boat.\n\nAfter the engagement the Villagers stated that the number of killed amounted to 130 but this is greatly over the mark; about 80 or 30 would be the probable number. One seaman belonging to H.M.S. Osprey was severely wounded by the fire from the Chinese who occupied the top of the hill during the first advance; he was struck in the leg by a musket ball and taken back to the boats which had been left near the original point of debarkation in charge of Mr. Paymaster Scriven and a few men and conveyed on board the Osprey.\n\nThe Mandarin Lyang who accompanied the expedition was unfortunately mortally wounded while gallantly trying to cross the creek; he was struck in the left arm and his elbow much injured (compound fracture) he however persisted in pressing on with a couple of the Osprey's blue jackets, and they had captured 4 prisoners when the Lyang received a Musket or Rifle Ball in the bowels, and fell. The men in the boat brought him out of action but before they were clear of the enemy's fire he received a third wound, this time in the left leg, two of the prisoners being also wounded by the fire kept up by the pirates. He was at once conveyed out of the creek in the same sampan, towards the boats, one of which immediately embarked and took him to the Osprey in order that Medical assistance might be afforded. He died on the evening of the 21st inst., much to the regret of the Officers, by whom he was much liked, and who appreciated his brave conduct.\n\nThe Osprey left Sama Bay on the evening of the 20th with the Opossum gun boat in tow and arrived here on the 23rd.\n\nThe Opossum landed the mortal remains of the Mandarin Lyang at Kowloon this morning where they were received with all the honour due to the Rank of the deceased. They will be sent to Canton tomorrow for interment.\n\nSince writing the above we have learned that the piratical fleet consisted of three separate squadrons. Two of the chiefs came from Macao and the other from Cochinchina. The latter had hauled his junks into the creek hoping to escape observation having been informed of the proximity of H. M. ships.\n\nThe burning of the junks is stated to have been a most picturesque sight. The calibre of the guns carried varied from 32 to 4 pounders; each of the junks carried stinkpots at the mast heads.\n\nPage 155\n\nPage 155\n\nPage 155",
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        "content_text": "40.\n\nproceeded to Bun Bun (with the boats of both Inbrets) distant about 12 miles from the anchorage.\n\nAfter considerable delay they then, but four men given up to me, regret unable to capture the Pirates.\n\nI have to report my arrival in Hong Kong with H.M. Sloop \"Henghly\" in company this morning.\n\n(Signed) K.A.A. Mainwaring, Lieutenant Commanding.\n\n\"Princess Royal\",\n\nHong Kong 2 March, 1867.\n\n191\n\n4.\n\nForwarded for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\n(Signed) George King,\n\nVice Admiral and Commander-in-Chief",
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        "content_text": "# In Street, In Houses, Number of Bers in Kak Hospital\n\n## 14.--Table showing the Number of unlicensed PROSTITUTES deprehended under Ordinance No. 10 of 1867, during the Year 1870.\n\n| Total | No. of Women Convicted | Discharged | Found Diseased |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 8 | 90 | 3 | 21 |\n| 8 | 10 |  | 38 |\n|  | 24 | 9 | 13 |\n\nThese women were taken from 8 Houses, of which 7 were declared to be Brothels under the Ordinance.\n\n## Appendix A. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE.\n\nRETURN of the NUMBER of PROSTITUTES, brought under the Provisions of the above Ordinance, during the Year 1870.\n\n| Number taken to Hospital on Certificate of Visiting Surgeon | Number examined and found Again diseased | Number who submitted voluntarily | Certificate of Visitation | Number against whom it was necessary to proceed by Information before the Registrar General | Total Number brought under the Provisions of the Ordinance |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 85 | 700 | 15,590 |  | 16 | 16,296 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 16,312 |\n\n| NUMBER DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL | Number discharged free from Disease | Number who still followed their Demer profession | Total Number discharged | Number who have returned to their friends, or emigrated |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 716 | 14 | 780 |  |\n\n*For Diseases vide Table C.\n\n## Appendix B. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE. RETURN for the Year 1870.\n\n| Total No. of Females admitted to Lock Hospital | TOTAL NUMBER OF MEN DISEASED ADMITTED TO |  |  |  | Total No. of Men Diseased |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Naval Hospital | Military Hospital | Police Hospital | Merchant Seamen and Civil Hospital |  |\n|  | 722 | 77 | 2151 | 48 | 2743 |\n\n| Average Number of Men in Garrison and Fort, (Per month) | No. of Men in Port per month | Percentage of Men Diseased, Garrison | Percentage of Merchant Seamen Diseased |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1,395 | 781 | 618 | 3.02 |\n\n## EXAMINATION.\n\n| Average No. of days per month on which examinations were held | Total No. brought by Police, or attended for examination | Total No. admitted to Hospital | Total No. rejected, not diseased |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18,037 | 21,484 |  |  |\n\n*For Diseases vide Table D.\n\n## Appendix C. LOCK HOSPITAL. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ORDINANCE. RETURN of WOMEN examined, and treated in Hospital, during the Year 1870.\n\n| DISEASE | No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Primary Syphilis, uncomplicated | 24 |\n| Gonorrhoea | 15,312 |\n| Do., and P. Syphilis, combined | 722 |\n| P. and Secondary do, do., | 15,596 |\n| Gonorrhoea and S. da., do., |  |\n| Primary and Secondary Syphilis and Gonorrhoea | 30 |\n| TOTAL | 0819 |\n\n| DISEASE | MILITARY HOSPITAL | NAVAL HOSPITAL | POLICE HOSPITAL | MERCHANT SEAMEN AND CIVIL HOSPITALS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Primary Syphilis, uncomplicated | 306 | 16 | 87 | 17 |\n| Gonorrhoea |  | 86 | 86 | 88 |\n| ditto | 60 | 105 | 25 | 30 |\n| Gonorrhea and P. Syphilis, combined |  | 2 | 13 | X |\n| P. and Secondary | 3 | 11 | 9 |  |\n| do., |  |  |  |  |\n| Gonorrhoea, and S. do,, | 777 | 218 | 84 | 274 |\n| do., |  |  |  |  |\n| Primary and Secondary Syphilis and Gonorrhoea |  |  |  |  |\n| Secondary Syphilis, uncomplicated |  |  |  |  |\n| Syphilitic Orchitis, ditto |  |  |  |  |\n| TOTAL |  |  |  |  |\n\n## Appendix D. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. RETURN for the Year 1870.\n\n## Appendix E.\n\nH. M.'s HOSPITAL SHIP Melville, HONGKONG, December 28th, 1870.\n\n## REMARKS.\n\n† Of the 215 Admissions into the Naval Hospital, 97 cases of Disease were not contracted in Hongkong. † Of the Admissions into the Merchant Seamen and Civil Hospitals were not contracted in Hongkong.\n\nMy Dear Sir,-As you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the subject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851, I was Surgeon of the Reynard, Sloop of War on the China Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong. On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease, which showed itself in the form both of hard Chancre, and large Phagaedenic sores. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home. The altered state of things at the present time is very striking. During the year and nine months that I have had charge of the Hospital, I have not seen a case of regular Hunterian Chancre I should say contracted in Hongkong, and only a few soft sores which healed readily. Judging from my own experience, that Syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success to your particular method of examination, which I have repeatedly witnessed. The instruments used by you are admirably adapted for bringing into view the parts, including the Os and Cervix Uteri, very quickly, thoroughly and without the least pain to the female. Could a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.\n\nBelieve me to be, Dear Sir,\n\nSincerely Yours,\n\n(Signed,) ROBERT POTTINGER.\n\nDISCHARGED,\n\n|  | 98 | 100 | 05 | 95 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 511 | 641 | 510 | 320 |\n|  | 122 | 115 | 115 | 41 |\n|  | 722 | 763 | 729 | 1 |\n| Hospital on 1st January, 1871. | 780 |  |  |  |\n\nDR. MURRAY.\n\nColonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\n## Appendix F. Statistics of Venereal in H. M's 75th Regiment from 21st December, 1868, till 21st December, 1870.\n\n1. Average Strength during the above-named period, 428.5.\n\nHongkong, 21st December, 1870.\n\n2. Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates:\n\n| Chancre, Hard | Chancre, Soft | Secondary Syphilis | Gonorrhea | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 | 12 | 10 | 39 | 66 |\n|  |  |  | 33 |  |\n\nThe forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no sign of permanent injury.\n\nThe above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment, and I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence, and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when \"Hongkong Disease,\" was a well-known by-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this \"scourge of humanity\" seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever-shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.\n\n(Signed,) W. RAMSAY, P. R. C. S.\n\nSurgeon, 75th Regiment.\n\n29",
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        "content_text": "# List of Names\nCh'an Lai-kam, Shi Shang-kái, Mok Sz-Yeung, Pan Teung-hung, Chu Ship-ok'ün, Tang Yik-man, Fung Ch'euk-wan, Chan Chitin, Ch'an Heung-pô, Tang Ki nhau, Kwok Nám-ping, P'on Chu-ngai, Lak Mi-kai, Tatúi Léung-hing, Leung Hok-ch'au, Chian Ting-chi, Ko Te d-hêung, Wong Ká-yau, Ch'an Sui-shang, Fung Ming-shan, Lam King-wan, Tám Tso-ting, Ng Chuk-sau, Lo Yénk-mún, Hu Wai-shan, P'an Wing-ch'an, Ng Kang-t'ong, Fok King-wan, Lo Hok-páng, Hà Chi-shang, Fung In-ting, An Kim-hing, Chiú I-t'in, Wong Yik-pan, Ip Chuk-k'ai, Lo Tam-kai, Tsé Sung-shang, Ts'oi Ping-din, Lo Chi-tin, Fung Kung-fú, Ling Ho-tin, Yau I-wo, Wong Yun-chi, Lam lú-fáu, Wong Kwan-tong, Li Chuk-k'ai, Kwok Tating-skán, Tee Oi-gan, Un Giới, O Máu-chai, Fung Him-shan, Pan Ping-kwan, Lò Lai-ping, Te'oi Mau-t'in, Ng Pat-shan, Fung Yuk-chi, Cheng I-waa, Fong Sui-fung, Ip Ut-lau, Ch'an U-ch'tin, Ho Chuk-shan, Fong Nam-t'ong, Lai Sam-do, Ho Shap-obau, Kwok Sui-ko, Hung Kon-fú, Wan Ts'ing-k'ai, Wong Yuk-ch'o, Rev. Lo Sham-ün, Li Ching-ko, Wong Kán-lán, Léung Shan-ng, Leung King-hám, Kwan Yan-chtit, Fung-Hou-shan, Li Fung-ah'un, Wong To-cheung, Chau Tsz-shán, Tsé Tsz-wan, Luk king, Pong Fuk-i, Chan Sing-mi, Chau Teting-wan, Li Cheung-chi, Tong Shan-tin, Lâng Lishing, Lăn Yêu\n\n## News Item\nThe Guests at Government House had a quiet day on Sunday. After luncheon, the Governor accompanied Dr. Keating to the Tung Wah Hospital, an entry being made in the Visitors' Book by the Doctor.\n\nAbout half-past four, General Grant, His Excellency, and Mrs Hennessy, went up to Victoria Peak, and on returning called to see Dr and Mrs Eastlack, whose acquaintance the General had made at Berlin.\n\nThe General and his party left Government House at half-past seven o'clock this morning, their host and hostess accompanying them to the Murray Pier, from whence they embarked on board the United States sloop Ashuelot, being received with a salute on reaching the deck.\n\nWe believe it is General Grant's intention to return to Hongkong, via Macao, on Saturday so as to be in time for the evening Garden Party which a Committee representing the whole Community propose to give him.\n\nIt is understood that after another quiet Sunday at Government House, the General will leave for Shanghai on Monday, the 12th instant.\n\n## Page Number\n3378",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of the Kowloon Garden Lot and Proposer Assessment for Seventy-five Year Building Leases Reassessment\n\n(Signed) J. M. Price (argued) N.B. Johnson \n\n| No of Stamp Lot | Name of Lun. | Area in square feet | Original Term | To year Leases | Original yearly Rent paid | Proposed additional Premium | Proposed new yearly Rent |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | Hd. Homes | 22,200 | 14-year Leases, 75-year Leases |  | $10:33. 6/12:00 | $99.17 |  |\n| 2. | C. A. Chater | 43,560 |  |  | $16 | 20: 217: 80 | 1921- |\n| 3. | E. & Workin | 143,560 |  |  | 18 | 37:649 | 18: |\n| 4. | J. D. Humphreys | 43,560 |  |  | 9 |  |  |\n| 5. | St. J. Holmes | 15,000 |  |  | 11 | 2 da Silva |  |\n| 6. | St. J. Holmes |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 7. | A. Chart |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 8. | J.A.S. Holmes |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 9. | A.B. Alves |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 10. | St. Moth H. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 11. | D. Komijer |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 12. | D. Nowbjes |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 13. | Jth. Stolibres |  |  |  |  | Ida Silva |  |\n| 14. | A. Millar | 15,000 |  |  | 19 | 15,000 | mil. |\n| 15. |  | 13,000 | mil. |  |  | 49,875 | mil. |\n| 16. |  |  |  |  |  | 728 | 2367 |\n| 17. |  | 20,200 |  |  | 16 | 6,330 | 18 |\n| 18. |  |  |  |  |  | 18,712 | 37,360 |\n| 19. | Its temes & A. Alves | 97,450 | 45 |  |  |  |  |\n| 20. | A. Baresto |  | #3 |  |  |  |  |\n| 21. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 22. | B. Shoop | 78,072 | 0 |  |  |  |  |\n| 23. | C. Wagner | 37,825 | 28: |  |  | $9,911 |  |\n| 24. | A. Mady |  | M. Muitdr |  |  |  |  |\n| 25. | E. L. Workin | 91,401 | II |  |  |  |  |\n| 26. | Francis | 29,009 |  |  | AJ |  |  |\n| 27. |  | 62,522 | 20:- 217:80 | 1921- | 64:16 | 17:27 -188:04 | 1667:44 |\n| 28. |  |  | 2012/7:00 | 192:- | 6:8878- | 6.88 56- 6.887- | 66:11 |\n| 29. |  |  | 6:19 67:50 | 57:48 | 66:11 | 19:96 217:48 | 191:72 |\n| 30. |  |  | 20:- 217:8 | 190:00 | 36:40 616:17 | 13.10. 10:-109.94 | 96:03 |\n| 31. |  |  | 46:39 4:22 | 444:0 | 9:30 107:25 | 19:28: 2:91 | 31.70 |\n| 32. |  |  | 28- 6:28 681% | 603 | 16:24/76:80 | 14:85. 44.75 | 487:20 |\n| 33. |  |  | 429:50. 20:-217: | 87. 192: - | 2484:90:86.344:03 | 17:87. 189: 12 | 166: 76t info. |\n| 34. |  |  | 3/2.61 273:41 | 2710 | 299.47 264: - | 27/09/297. - | 261:81 |\n| 35. |  |  | 183:3 | 1457:79 | 128: 78 |  |  |\n\nis unable to sign this Report but we may state that our recommendations are in entire accord with his views. \n\n(Signed) J. M. Price (argued) N.B. Johnson",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED C. U. 9647458 (REGO 3 JUN 36)\n\nVictor Emanuel at Hong Kong. 20 Feby 1886.\n\nI have received the enclosed Report from Captain Maclear, Commanding H.M.S. Sloop \"Flying Fish\", and I would request your Excellency to be good enough to call upon the Magistrate to explain why this charge was discharged owing to the charge being wrongly worded, the want of evidence; as, from Mr Mitchell-Innes' private note it would appear that it was from want of proof of money having passed, whereas under the Act 16-17 Victoria Chap 89, it is stated...\n\n\"Any person who shall without the previous consent of the Commanding Officer, bring on board or shall approach with the intent of bringing on board, any fermented liquor, or shall hover about any Ship, for the purpose of bringing or selling, spirituous or fermented liquor.\n\nTo His Excellency W. H Marsh, C.M.G.",
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        "content_text": "Page 76\n\nthe great improvement that has resulted from legislative interference, not only in reducing the extent but also the malignity of the disease.\n\nThe great outcry against the Contagious Diseases Acts now (for the old plea of the immorality of licensing vice has been partly abandoned) is that they deal unfairly in the case of the two sexes and, as the present opponents of these Acts say, punish the comparatively innocent female and let her more guilty partner in iniquity go free. This is a great mistake on their part, for these Acts are not introduced for the purpose of punishment but with the sole object of restricting the extent of contagion, and curing the disease. Moreover, in this Colony at least, the Acts are, as far as practicable, applied to the male sex equally. Thus, before leave is granted to seamen of the Royal Navy, they all undergo medical inspection, and are detained on board if found diseased. By a very slight outlay a similar inspection might be made of all merchant seamen, and I hope still to see that this will be considered to be one of the duties of the Health Officer or Officers of the Port. The whole of the Police Force undergo a similar examination once every month, and certainly the garrison might be equally examined. (Sir H. Storks recommends that the men should be examined at least once in seven days.) Lastly, as if to meet the objections of those who consider these Acts as one-sided, it is specially provided in our local Ordinance that all seamen known to be diseased, residing in any boarding house, must under a heavy penalty be reported to the Harbour Master for the purpose of transference to hospital. There only remain, therefore, the higher class of transgressors against whom it is more difficult to proceed; and, as if to balance this, the numerous Portuguese and European prostitutes who now frequent the Colony appear to be equally exempted from all interference on the part of the Executive. And here a very important question presents itself, viz., whether disease has increased among the class of young men who formerly frequented the native establishments. For my own part I am inclined to the opinion that it has so increased, but I am not prepared with statistics on this subject.\n\nLastly, I come to consider the question of the sanitary result of legislative interference in this Colony, and I am glad to be able to point to some very substantial benefits.\n\nIn 1859 I wrote \"Both among Naval and Military invalids the syphilitic amount to nearly 25 per cent. of the whole, and this is very nearly the same proportion in the Government Civil Hospital. In one ship numbering in all 523 hands, of which 300 had been on the sick list during the last quarter, 77 of these were for venereal diseases, being at the rate of 25.66 per cent. of the total sick, or 14.72 per cent. of the total strength;\" and that be it observed in one quarter. In the Government Civil Hospital the proportion of venereal cases was \"138 out of 591 admissions, being in the proportion of 23.18 per cent.\" Now if the Returns accompanying this Report be contrasted with that former state of matters, it is seen during the year 1869, as the result of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, that disease was greatly decreased.\n\neven in spite of the great number of cases sent by the Harbour Master, the percentage of syphilitic cases was reduced to 15.82. In the garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was only 6.83, according to a Return compiled from data furnished to me by Dr. H. Heffernan, the Deputy Inspector-General. In the Police, it was 16.60 against 31.00 per cent. in 1862 as shown in Table XV.; and in a most interesting letter addressed to me by Fleet Surgeon Dr. Maccoun, of the United States ship Delaware, on the eve of his departure from the Colony, he says:- \"Since my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this colony. During our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild.\" But the whole letter deserves to be carefully perused and I think, coming from a perfectly independent source, it is one of the most valuable testimonies that could be adduced in support of the good results of the system. And if we turn to Table X., we find that the type of the disease must have equally improved; at least, the average duration of treatment, which may be considered to be a fair test of the severity of a case, has diminished from 43.8 days in 1858 to 24.8 in 1869. I admit that the working of the Ordinance is by no means perfect, and I am still of opinion that all prostitutes, whether in so-called purely Chinese houses or others, should be examined. In this opinion I am not supported by some of those who are supposed to be peculiarly conversant with the habits of the natives, and in deference to their opinion those houses are exempted from the action of the Ordinance.\n\nBut I am confident that until all prostitutes are subject to the requirements of the Ordinance these results will be limited, for I am aware that the inmates of the so-called purely Chinese brothels will visit the houses of Europeans, although they may not admit them into the brothels under the dread of losing their license.\n\nThe only question that remains to be referred to, and that very cursorily, is whether the Ordinance under discussion has had any effect in withdrawing the fear of syphilitic infection from those upon whom it has had a deterrent effect. Such an idea will not bear investigation. The frequenters of brothels are either under the influence of drink at the time, or have lost all dread of the consequences. As long as young men be led into temptation for the first time because they can fall with impunity, vice will continue, and it is clearly the duty of the legislature to protect, if not the actual transgressor, at all events the innocent, from the fearful consequences of disease.\n\nPage 77\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1870.\n\nIn my last Annual Report, I entered so fully into the question of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance that I can do little more, on the present occasion, than refer to the statistics contained in Tables, A, B, C, and D of the Appendix. It will be seen that a great improvement has taken place during the past year. In the two Hospitals, the percentage of contagious disease contracted in Hongkong to all admissions, was 8.96, against nearly double that amount in 1869. In the Garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was reduced to 5.51, against 6.83 in 1869; and among the British ships of war which have visited this port during the past year, only 116 cases of contagious disease were contracted in Hongkong. In the Police, a similar improvement has taken place, and the percentage of infection has been reduced from 16.66 in 1869 to 13.75 in 1870. Again, in turning to Table X, we find that the type of the disease is undergoing a steady improvement, under the strict surveillance to which the women are subjected; the average number of days of treatment having further diminished from 24.8 in 1869 to 23.1 in 1870. The whole of these Tables, as well as Table XIV., convey a large amount of information, and will well repay a careful study.\n\nI have added, in Appendices E and F, a letter addressed to me by Deputy-Inspector-General Pottinger of H.M.'s Naval Hospital, and statistics from Surgeon Ramsay of H.M.'s 71st Regiment in reference to the freedom of men of his regiment from contagious disease. The evidence of these gentlemen is extremely valuable, and gratifying to myself under whose care the medical examinations have been carried on for the past twelve years. Both gentlemen have had experience of Hongkong, and known what \"Hongkong Disease\" was before the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance into the Colony-and both agree as to the great contrast. Dr. Pottinger says: \"Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony,\" Dr. Ramsay writes: \"I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer, in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity,\"\n\n†MY DEAR SIR,\n\nH.M.'s Hospital Ship \"Melville,\"\n\nHongkong, December 28th, 1870.\n\nAs you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the subject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851 I was Surgeon of the Baynard Sloop of War, on the Chinese Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong. On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease. [allusion made to the severity of the type. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home.] The altered state of things at the present time is very striking. During the year and nine months that I have had charge of this Hospital [allusion made to decreased severity of type]. Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success to your particular method of examination, which I have repeatedly witnessed.\n\nCould a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT POTTINGER.\n\n*Statistics of Disease in H.M.'s 75th Regiment from 31st December, 1868, till 21st December, 1870.\n\n1. Average Strength during the above-named period, 429.5.\n\n2.--Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates:--\n\n  \n    Primary Syphilis.\n    17\n  \n  \n    Secondary Syphilis.\n    10\n  \n  \n    Gonorrhoea\n    39\n  \n  \n    Total.\n    66\n  \n\nThe forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no sign of permanent injury. The above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment. I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when \"Hongkong Disease\" was a well-known by-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this \"Scourge of humanity\" seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever-shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.\n\n(Signed) W. RAMSAY, F.R.C.S.L.,\n\nSurgeon, 75th Regiment.\n\n200\n\nUnited States Flag Ship \"Delaware,\n\nHongkong, 12th March, 1876.\n\n†MY DEAR DR. MURRAY,\n\nSince my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this Colony.\n\nIn most of the ports visited by our ships the men have suffered from syphilis, and especially in Japan where the disease exists in its most virulent form. But during our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild. In proof of this, I would mention that the crew of this ship, numbering four hundred and seventy men, have lately been granted liberty and only five cases of chancre (chancroid) have been noticed.\n\nSuch a result as this proves the great benefit derived from the system; and on the eve of my departure from Victoria I deem it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to express to you my high appreciation of your labours in the cause of humanity, as well as to congratulate you upon the success with which they have been crowned.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT L. MACCOUN,\n\nFleet Surgeon, U.S.N.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\nREPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1871.\n\nWhatever may be said against the working of the \"Contagious Diseases Act\" at home, there can be no doubt that in Hongkong the results are most satisfactory and valuable. In Table C it will be seen that out of 480 men admitted to the Military, Naval, Police, and Seamen's Hospitals, 157 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong, and out of an average monthly number of 10,904 men in Port and Garrison, only 0.34 per cent. per month were diseased.\n\nExtracts from Special Report on Lock Hospital by Dr. R. Young.\n\n5-A reference to Table A shows that the type of disease met with is more amenable to treatment, from the fact that the average number of days during which patients were detained in Hospital has been reduced to a shorter period than has yet been reached during the past 14 years of the Hospital's existence. In 1870 it was 23.1 days, while during 1871 it has been 18.5 days.\n\n6-Tables B, C, D, E, and F show the amount of Venereal disease met with in the Hospitals of this Colony, and the measures taken to prevent its spread. It will be seen on reference to Table C that in two-thirds of the admissions into the Seamen's and Civil Hospitals, the disease was not contracted in Hongkong. But for the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, there would soon be abundance of Venereal disease in the Colony.\n\nPage 201",
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        "content_text": "59\n\nrround cold over I\n\nt\n\nIngi Se urino s'exobarob era dala VI na duchandolas que teid k on abertel... Jnewte voð end of\n\n2.4 8 do spodnell clot not\n\nInot frore five bon\n\nJanitor neov ber\n\nno de tebou! I\n\npeda no? douang\n\ndiv be reash\n\nboard for the night as the mat sheds being burnt down there was no shelter for them on shore and further he did not consider it safe to leave such a small party in the vicinity of the large number of hostile Chinese. He said it was necessary that he should return at once to Hongkong to report the matter, and suggested that as my orders were to remain until the following day and he did not like to take the responsibility of asking me to return, I should send him by boat to Sha-Sin four miles off from which place he would be able to walk to Kow Lung. However I considered that under the circumstances I was justified in returning to Hongkong, which I did arriving at 9.15 p.m.\n\nCommr.C.W.M.Plenderleath.\n\nH.M.S.\"Tamar\".\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(signed) Roger Keyes.\n\nLieut. & Commr.\n\nfod eu bo\n\nbed abuse.. 38\n\nstedatum edi\n\nbloop omt\n\nhuu bejaar\n\nb huge tek est\n\no ruibodaus ord\n\nsvo berfon\n\n!\n\nelf goodquchi atuvad boqsone\n\nSWOR BE Evel eg begsod\n\nvinismo Muor fue la en að au volia od don\n\na tuoda epetiv\n\n0 evol are bluco of .gidace\n\n..K BITE eft no new to ybod\n\nto puldund gnilir” èrasssoni no yo dyad vedysmo efin\n\nallapalý vidade\n\n1: revoo TE\n\n∙Howo to oniqli bas egnog\n\nAlia enem ex os 11 Jud\n\nblog eru gd betalana laa yozay berma\n\n¿QuQ¿JŠBog z¿eds to tuo mellé evinb od ang \"e'ows?\" add\n\npolnodem on bar of hide yall 31 Jod\n\nno miesto od cc/d velli Law now ald funlue of un ledne.\n\nForwarded to the Commodore.\n\n\"Tamar\", 18th April 1899.\n\n(signed)C.W.M.Plenderleath.\n\nCommander.",
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        "content_text": "158\n\n1\n\n6\n\nthe great improvement that has resulted from legislative interference, not only in reducing the extent but also the malignity of the disease.\n\nThe great outcry against the Contagious Diseases Acts now (for the old plea of the immorality of licensing vice has been partly abandoned) is that they deal unfairly in the case of the two sexes and, as the present opponents of these Acts say, punish the comparatively innocent female and let her more guilty partner in iniquity go free. This is a great mistake on their part, for these Acts are not introduced for the purpose of punishment but with the sole object of restricting the extent of contagion, and curing the disease. Moreover, in this Colony at least, the Acts are, as far as practicable, applied to the male sex equally. Thus, before leave is granted to seamen of the Royal Navy, they all undergo medical inspection, and are detained on board if found diseased. By a very slight outlay a similar inspection might be made of all merchant seamen, and I hope still to see that this will be considered to be one of the duties of the Health Officer or Officers of the Fort. The whole of the Police Force undergo a similar examination once every month, and certainly the garrison might be equally examined. (Sir H. Storks recommends that the men should be examined at least once in seven days.) Lastly, as if to meet the objections of those who consider these Acts as one-sided, it is specially provided in our local Ordinance that all seamen known to be diseased, residing in any boarding house, must under a heavy penalty be reported to the Harbour Master for the purpose of transference to hospital. There only remain, therefore, the higher class of transgressors against whom it is more difficult to proceed; and, as if to balance this, the numerous Portuguese and European prostitutes who now frequent the Colony appear to be equally exempted from all interference on the part of the Executive. And here a very important question presents itself, viz., whether disease has increased among the class of young men who formerly frequented the native establishments. For my own part I am inclined to the opinion that it has so increased, but I am not prepared with statistics on this subject.\n\nLastly, I come to consider the question of the sanitary result of legislative interference in this Colony, and I am glad to be able to point to some very substantial benefits.\n\nIn 1859 I wrote \"Both among Naval and Military invalids the syphilitic amount to nearly 25 per cent. of the whole, and this is very nearly the same proportion in the Government Civil Hospital. In one ship numbering in all 523 hands, of which 300 had been on the sick list during the last quarter, 77 of these were for venereal diseases, being at the rate of 25.66 per cent. of the total sick, or 14.72 per cent. of the total strength; and that be it observed in one quarter. In the Government Civil Hospital the proportion of venereal cases was 138 out of 591 admissions, being in the proportion of 23.18 per cent.\" Now if the Returns accompanying this Report be contrasted with that former state of matters, it is seen during the year 1860, as the result of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, that disease was greatly decreased. In the Government Civil Hospital, even in spite of the great number of cases sent by the Harbour Master, the percentage of syphilitic cases was reduced to 15.82. In the garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was only 6.83, according to a Return compiled from data furnished to me by Dr. H. Heffernan, the Deputy Inspector-General. In the Police, it was 16.66 against 31.00 per cent. in 1863 as shown in Table XV.; and in a most interesting letter addressed to me by Fleet Surgeon Dr. Maccoun, of the United States ship \"Delaware,\" on the eve of his departure from the Colony, he says:- \"Since my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this colony. During our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild.\"\n\nBut the whole letter deserves to be carefully perused and I think, coming from a perfectly independent source, it is one of the most valuable testimonies that could be adduced in support of the good results of the system. And if we turn to Table X., we find that the type of the disease must have equally improved; at least, the average duration of treatment, which may be considered to be a fair test of the severity of a case, has diminished from 43.8 days in 1868 to 24.5 in 1869. I admit that the working of the Ordinance is by no means perfect, and I am still of opinion that all prostitutes, whether in so-called purely Chinese houses or others, should be examined. In this opinion I am not supported by some of those who are supposed to be peculiarly conversant with the habits of the natives, and in deference to their opinion those houses are exempted from the action of the Ordinance. But I am confident that if all prostitutes are subject to the requirements of the Ordinance these results will be limited, for I am aware that the inmates of the so-called purely Chinese brothels will visit the houses of Europeans, although they may not admit them into the brothels under the dread of losing their license.\n\nThe only question that remains to be referred to, and that very cursorily, is whether the Ordinance under discussion has had any effect in withdrawing the fear of syphilitic infection from those upon whom it has had a deterrent effect. Such an idea will not bear investigation. The frequenters of brothels are either under the influence of drink at the time, or have lost all dread of the consequences. In no case, I believe, will young men be led into temptation for the first time because they can fall with impunity. As long as men are men, vice will continue, and it is clearly the duty of the legislature to protect, if not the actual transgressor, at all events the innocent, from the fearful consequences of disease.\n\n7\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1870.\n\nIn my last Annual Report, I entered so fully into the question of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance that I can do little more, on the present occasion, than refer to the statistics contained in Tables, A, B, C, and D of the Appendix. It will be seen that a great improvement has taken place during the past year. In the two Hospitals, the percentage of contagious disease contracted in Hongkong to all admissions, was 8.96, against nearly double that amount in 1869. In the Garrison, the percentage of primary disease to the total strength was reduced to 5.51, against 6.93 in 1869; and among the British ships of war which have visited this port during the past year, only 116 cases of contagious disease were contracted in Hongkong. In the Police, a similar improvement has taken place, and the percentage of infection has been reduced from 16.66 in 1869 to 13.75 in 1870. Again, in turning to Table X, we find that the type of the disease is undergoing a steady improvement, under the strict surveillance to which the women are subjected; the average number of days of treatment having further diminished from 24.8 in 1869 to 23.1 in 1870. The whole of these Tables, as well as Table XIV., convey a large amount of information, and will well repay a careful study.\n\nI have added, in Appendices E and F, a letter addressed to me by Deputy-Inspector-General Pottinger of H.M.'s Naval Hospital, and statistics from Surgeon Ramsay of H.M.'s 71st Regiment in reference to the freedom of men of his regiment from contagious disease. The evidence of these gentlemen is extremely valuable, and gratifying to myself under whose care the medical examinations have been carried on for the past twelve years. Both gentlemen have had experience of Hongkong, and known what \"Hongkong Disease\" was before the introduction of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance into the Colony—and both agree as to the great contrast. Dr. Pottinger says: \"Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony.\" Dr. Ramsay writes: \"I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer, in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity.\"\n\nMY DEAR SIR,\n\nH.M.'s Hospital Ship \"Melville,”\n\nHongkong, December 28th, 1870.\n\nAs you are about to leave this Colony for a time, I would beg to address a few words to you on the subject of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance carried out under your inspection. During the years 1849-50 and 1851 I was Surgeon of the Reynard Sloop of War, on the Chinese Station, and though unfortunately I am not in possession of my Journal for that vessel, I have a vivid remembrance of the sufferings of the crew from syphilitic disease in Hongkong. On every occasion when the men had leave on shore, a large proportion of them became affected with the disease. [allusion made to the severity of the type]. Secondary symptoms were also of frequent occurrence, often requiring the patients to be invalided and sent home. The altered state of things at the present time is very striking. During the year and nine months that I have had charge of this Hospital... [allusion made to decreased severity of type]. Judging from my own experience, I should say that syphilis has all but disappeared from the Colony, and I have no hesitation moreover in attributing this success... Could a similar system of examination be established in the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, a great boon would indeed be conferred on the Naval Squadron serving in these waters.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT POTTINGER.\n\n*Statistics of Disease in H.M.'s 75th Regiment From 21st December, 1863, till 21st December, 1870.\n\n1.—Average Strength during the above-named period, 428.5.\n\n2. Different forms of Venereal and the number of cases of each between the above-named dates:-\n\nPrimary Syphilis.\n\n17\n\nGonorrhea.\n\nTotal.\n\nSecondary Syphilis.\n\n39\n\n66\n\n10\n\nThe forms of Secondaries were very mild, amenable to treatment, and left no sign of permanent injury. The above figures speak for themselves, and show the great gain which the enforcement of the Contagious Diseases Act has been to the Government in preserving the health of the men of the Regiment. I may add that during an experience of 16 years as an Army Medical Officer in all climates, I have not seen a similar immunity. To me it is the more striking as I can look back on the prevalence and terrible severity of the disease which existed in this Colony in 1857, when \"Hongkong Disease\" was a well-known by-word. At times for an entire month there has not been a man reported as suffering from any form of Venereal, thus attesting the thorough manner in which the duties in connection with the Contagious Diseases Act have been carried out, and the efficacy of legislation against this \"Scourge of humanity\" seen in a Colony like Hongkong whose ever-shifting population, native and foreign, must render success unusually difficult.\n\n(Signed) W. RAMSAY, F.R.C.S.L.,\n\nSurgeon, 75th Regiment.\n\nMY DEAR DR. MURRAY.\n\nUnited States Flag Ship Delaware,\n\nHongkong, 12th March, 1870.\n\nSince my arrival on this Station in the Spring of 1868, I have been struck with the benefit derived from the system of Registration and Inspection of public women, so ably carried out in this Colony.\n\nIn most of the ports visited by our ships the men have suffered from syphilis, and especially in Japan where the disease exists in its most virulent form. But during our visits to Hongkong but few have been infected, and the type of the disease is very mild. In proof of this, I would mention that the crew of this ship, numbering four hundred and seventy men, have lately been granted liberty and only five cases of chancroid have been noticed.\n\nSuch a result as this proves the great benefit derived from the system; and on the eve of my departure from Victoria I deem it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to express to you my high appreciation of your labours in the cause of humanity, as well as to congratulate you upon the success with which they have been crowned.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT L. MACCOUN\n\nFleet Surgeon, U. S. N.\n\nDr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, Hongkong.\n\nREPORT OF THE ACTING COLONIAL SURGEON FOR THE YEAR 1871.\n\nWhatever may be said against the working of the \"Contagious Diseases Act\" at home, there can be no doubt that in Hongkong the results are most satisfactory and valuable. In Table C it will be seen that out of 460 men admitted to the Military, Naval Police, and Seamen's Hospitals, 157 contracted the disease elsewhere than in Hongkong, and out of an average monthly number of 10,901 men in Port and Garrison, only 0.34 per cent. per month were diseased.\n\nExtracts from Special Report on Lock Hospital by Dr. R. Young.\n\n5. A reference to Table A shows that the type of disease met with is more amenable to treatment, from the fact that the average number of days during which patients were detained in Hospital has been reduced to a shorter period than has yet been reached during the past 14 years of the Hospital's existence. In 1870 it was 23.1 days, while during 1871 it has been 18.5 days.\n\n6. Tables B, C, D, E, and F show the amount of Venereal disease met with in the Hospitals of this Colony, and the measures taken to prevent its spread. It will be seen on reference to Table C that in two-thirds of the admissions into the Seamen's and Civil Hospitals, the disease was not contracted in Hongkong. But for the Contagious Diseases Ordinance, there would soon be abundance of Venereal disease in the Colony.",
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        "content_text": "## XI-MILITARY FORCES AND EXPENDITURE\n\n### (a.) REGULAR FORCES\n\nThe following return shows the number and composition of the Forces employed in the Colony during 1906 :-\n\n| Corps | Officers | EUROPEANS | INDIANS | CHINESE | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  | Warrant Officers | Native Officers | N.C.O.'s & Men |  |\n|  |  | N.C.O.'s & Men | W.O. N.C.O.'s & Men | N.C.Os & Men |  |\n| General Staff (Officers only) | 4 |  |  |  |  |\n| Garrison Staff (W.O., N.C. Officers only) | G | 19 | GG+ |  | 683 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Royal Engineers | 11 |  | 243 | 65 | 319 |\n| 2nd Royal West Kent Regt. | 9 |  | 419 |  | 428 |\n| Army Service Corps |  |  | 27 | 31 |  |\n| Royal Army Medical Corps |  |  | 43 | 51 |  |\n| Army Ordnance Dept. and Corps |  |  | 31 | 37 |  |\n| Army Pay Department and Corps |  |  | 8 | 10 |  |\n| H.K. & S. Bu. R.G.A. | # |  | 405 | 431 |  |\n| 3rd Middlesex Regiment | 2 |  | 75 |  | 77 |\n| 119th Infantry | 15 |  | 750 |  | 774 |\n| 129th (D.C.O.) Baluchis | 0 |  | 15 | 753 | 777 |\n| Indian Subordinate Medical Department |  |  |  |  |  |\n| TOTAL | 93 | 1,525 | 38 | 1,913 | 65 | 3,633 |\n\nA small Cadet Corps was commenced in May 1906 with boys from the Victoria British School; there are now 13 of them, instructed in squad drill and semaphore signalling. They attended Camp, and are already very efficient signallers.\n\nThe New Headquarter Building was opened in December, 1906, and is already very popular. A well-equipped Gymnasium will shortly be installed, the necessary apparatus having been ordered from England.\n\nThe expenditure on the Volunteers, which is entirely borne by the Colony, was $47,351.34; compared with $58,311.12 in 1905.\n\n### (4) COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION\n\nThe Colony contributed $1,805,185.80 (being the statutory contribution of 20 per cent. of the Estimated revenue) towards the cost of the maintenance of the Regular Forces in the Colony and Barrack Service.\n\n### (e.) VOLUNTEER CORPS\n\nThe total establishment of the Corps is 443 of all ranks. The strength on the 31st December, 1906, was 297 made up as follows:--Staff 6; two Garrison Artillery Companies, 211; one Engineer Company, 39; Troop 41.\n\nThe members of the Corps are now all armed with the new M.L.E. Short rifle and the latest pattern equipment.\n\nThe period for the annual Camp of Instruction was extended from 10 days to 18; it was held in October, 1906, and was very well attended.\n\nThe Mounted Troop Camp was held at Fan Ling in the New Territories. The Camp took place during the Christmas Holidays, and was well attended. Much useful work was done.\n\nThe Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association numbered two hundred and fifty-one members at the close of the year, an increase of 38 members, as compared with 1905.\n\nMembers of this Association, who must be over 35 years of age, are required to make themselves proficient in rifle shooting, and undertake to enrol themselves under the Volunteer Ordinance in the event of hostilities.\n\n## XII-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS\n\nThe year 1906 is likely to be known by the present generation in Hongkong as the year of the great typhoon. Between 8:30 and 11 a.m. on the 18th September a storm of narrow diameter but great violence passed over the Colony. In the absence of warning, no preparations had been made to meet it, and great loss of life and property resulted. Fifteen Europeans were drowned, including the Right Revd. Dr. JOSEPH CHARLES HOARE, Bishop of Victoria, who was on a tour of diocesan inspection. Capt. L.A.W. BARNES-LAWRENCE, R.N., the Harbour Master, died on the 2nd October as the result of exposure during and overwork after the storm. 2,385 Chinese were actually reported missing, but the loss of Chinese life is believed to have been much greater than this, and probably exceeded 5,000. Fifty-nine European-built merchant vessels of 72,185 aggregate tonnage foundered, grounded, or otherwise received injuries, which in the case of eighteen vessels of 8,198 aggregate tonnage amounted to or resulted in total loss. In addition, 80 steam launches were more or less damaged, including 32 that were sunk, of which most were, however, afterwards raised. H.M.S. Phoenix, a sloop of 1,050 tons, went ashore and has since been broken up; the French Torpedo Boat Destroyer Fronde, though broken in two by a similar accident, was considered worth repairing; a number of Colonial Government vessels were damaged. 796 junks, 798 cargo boats, 275 sampans, and 544 other boats, making a total of 2,413 Chinese craft, were reported lost or missing. All the temporary and some of the permanent piers in Victoria and Kowloon were destroyed, and much injury was done to seawalls in both places and to dykes protecting cultivation in the Eastern part of the New Territories. 18 houses in Victoria, 122 in Kowloon, and about 50 in the New Territories were blown down wholly or in part or rendered unsafe for habitation. Considerable injury was done to the roads in various parts of the Colony, to the telephone systems, to public buildings in progress, to the pine plantations on the Island, and to the crops on the low-lying grounds on the shores of Tide Cove and Tolo Harbour.\n\nTwo days after the typhoon, a Relief Fund was started, of which the principal object was to enable the boating people to again carry on the work of the harbour. The sum raised amounted ultimately to $279,903, of which $127,494, mainly subscribed by European firms, residents, and sympathizers, was collected by the Relief Fund Committee, and $152,409, subscribed by Chinese in Hongkong and elsewhere, was collected by the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital. Of the aggregate sum, $244,892 has been expended in buying, rebuilding, and repairing 1,800 junks, sampans, and other boats, in recovering and burying corpses, in maintaining destitutes, in relief to widows and orphans, etc.\n\nThe great typhoon called forth expressions of sympathy from His Majesty the KING, from His Majesty's Government, and from various British and foreign governments and communities in the Far East. Another bright aspect of it were the acts of heroism and duty performed in the rescue and aid of sufferers and in the clearing away of the more gruesome evidence of the catastrophe. The latter work and the putting in hand of the salvage operations in the harbour and of the heavy repairs on shore were delayed by subsequent storms, of which one on the night of the 19th to 20th September passed within 300 miles, and a second on the 23rd passed just beyond this distance from the Colony. The centre of a third, moving from South-East to West, on the 28th and 29th, passed not far from Gap Rock, and resulted in considerable further damage. On October 1st, the typhoon signal was hoisted for the last time in the year.\n\nA disaster on a smaller scale than the typhoon, but not less horrid in its details, occurred about 3 a.m. on the morning of October 14th, when the S.S. Hankow (3,073 tons) of the Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company, within a few minutes of tying up to the Company's pier, and with some 800 persons still on board, burst into flames. Ninety bodies...",
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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\nBIA \n\nC \n\n‚ð sïumofon: \n\n.Y 400 \n\n•Whædley cung 4G [eno[56-dmeneducid wa I \n\nvolle of mænd min vo3 erom ob Jon bluse I Jedd mid blat I ein II: Gourolla fenosteq díjnom » ¿La andra edi miế od doejour bar sloeriencq-rom sd klvor JI „JacmoriJOT griwb eind west yem ek.eduta * in yædersnů odd to Ierongge \n\n· \n\n.eveol eid \n\nadd (in coince grol tid to frequon ni moiereg zir ing \n\nnniðrtiljer me exrt of 'exil en 41 live I \n\nTebir con hitrow I am os ob bloop en sem glubai shue omoc sal ledning I cua JudetƐ to youderocƐ edd ac no ti bære om di cmodluding so zu be so que era roimeê mednulot du? two \n\n-Holte vi » ck end gott Jean ed air blot I \n\n„di arttıgro) beri I conrrolle rint ta zerá tove I ? .@omm Isnol 5C-da-redueil of sxoqe I cuts bnim ni dan di par I \n\n•Wq fim.mo✪ eft er naagrdo \n\n. . . (.18) \n\nFord mongers [cmoloC-daeredumid at benis Iqra I .2.1 ehrminä snit erd to trebaodninoquè er etzo s'erundebow .TH \n\nconvwolle. Do 100 vid rðir golan, om ber \n\nJeog hien \n\nri eccreção do boq to two Tevor 3d DeBocque cam neime ,ode gyninizdrados \n\n... (.na) \n\n.VII.8.81 \n\nDRAFT. \n\ntrọng trong No. 6o Fw. F R.&. Stubber \n\nRS \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\nMINUTE. \n\nJumens 18/2/20 Bechatt \n\nMr. Grindle. \n\nSir H. Lambert. \n\nSir H. Roud, \n\nSir G. Fikles. \n\nCal. Amery. \n\n17 \n\n6117 20 Wollong \n\n415 \n\n16110 \n\nVi \n\nI have re, to ach. the \n\n388 of \n\nreceift of your deaf. No. ver. the in Dec. 1919, finding \n\nwith \n\nregard \n\nto the continuance \n\nto Dr. ŵt. A Chefman, V.D., \n\nCLO CU \n\npersonal alluce of the Command Alince of $900 \n\nCA \n\nyear \n\ndrawn by \n\nkim \n\nCoudt. of the It Song Vol. \n\nLord Milner. \n\nCorpo. \n\nA. \n\naffrove of \n\nyour \n\nrecommendation that \n\nLt. Col. Chapman and be \n\nallowed to draw \n\npersonal \n\nallnce. at the rate of $ 25 \n\na \n\nthe QJ Moya, \n\nmouth from the \n\n1917\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 12 in No. 1\n\n### Consul-General Jamieson to the Civil Governor\n\nCanton, May 19, 1921.\n\nON the 14th instant I received from the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs a communication to the effect that he had been verbally instructed by your Excellency and Dr. Wu Ting Fang to ascertain whether or not British vessels of war were conveying arms and ammunition up the West River for the Government of Kwangsi. This information was said to have been obtained by spies, and specifically mentioned H.M.S. `Foxglove` by name. I at once caused a letter to be written to Mr. Li Chin-lun pointing out to him that the information was too preposterous to be treated seriously, as His Majesty's ships carry no ammunition except for their own use, and asked him if it were likely that vessels carrying contraband to Wuchow would call in at Samshui in Kwangtung.\n\nOn the 16th instant, Mr. Wu Ch'ao-shu came to call on me, and, in the course of conversation, I expressed to him my surprise that any intelligent individual would for one moment believe that an ocean-going sloop, such as H.M.S. `Foxglove`, could have been told off for such duty, as owing to her draught of water she could not possibly enter the West River. I since learn that Mr. Huang Chiang paid a visit in person to Samshui on the 14th instant, and was told by the commissioner of customs that H.M.S. `Foxglove` could not reach the port.\n\nThat your Excellency should have given credence to a lying report furnished, I understand, by a motor-launch driver in Hong Kong, is matter of deep regret to me, as a slur is thereby cast on His Majesty's navy and on the bona fides of His Majesty's Government. As your Excellency is aware, the latter have bound themselves not to supply, or to allow to be supplied, to either the Central or the Southern Governments arms of any kind until harmony shall have been restored, and to this policy they have strictly adhered. Moreover, of the four British river gunboats, there is only one small river gunboat on the West River at present at Wuchow - one is at Canton, and has been here for several tens of days, and the other two are in dock in Hong Kong. How then can they be wrongfully accused of smuggling arms?\n\nAs a result of this ridiculous rumour, lecturers are publicly inciting people in the streets to boycott British firms and goods, and are even visiting the theatres for a similar purpose. The Press Union also proposes to hold a public meeting of protest. In view of the serious situation thereby likely to be created, I have the honour earnestly to request your Excellency at once to issue stringent orders for the suppression of the dissemination of these lies, otherwise, for any harm that may ensue as a consequence of this mischievous propaganda, the Government of Kwangtung will be held responsible.\n\nI have further the honour to warn your Excellency that, if the agents of your Excellency's Government in Hong Kong supply false information of this kind, calculated to disturb friendly relations, it will become my duty to address to the Hong Kong Government a request that they all be immediately deported.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n## Enclosure 13 in No. 1\n\n### Sir B. Alston to Consul-General Jamieson\n\n(No. 38.)\n\nPeking, June 9, 1921.\n\nI HAVE received your despatch No. 40 of the 26th ultimo, on the subject of notifications issued by the Hong Kong Government, to which exception was taken by the authorities of Canton.\n\nI approve the terms of your letter to the Civil Governor, a copy of which is enclosed in your despatch, and I consider that you acted correctly in leaving Mr. C. C. Wu's letter unanswered.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n6\n\nand financial, of sympathy on the part of individuals in Hong Kong with this Government, and has laid itself open to the charge of hostility to it. It was, to say the least, a gratuitous act and this Government has suffered in its prestige. It is this moral aspect of the act to which strong exception is taken, not merely the loss of material or financial assistance. Capital has been made out of the matter by the Peking \"Government,\" and it is taken generally as an act of partisanship by Hong Kong for Peking against Canton.\n\nAnother important fact should be impressed upon the officials of Hong Kong, that is, that more than 99 per cent of the Chinese residents there are Cantonese who have ancestral homes and property in this province and it is safe to say that the immense majority, if not all of them, are strongly in favour of this Government and are decidedly hostile to the Peking corrupt Government. Thus it is apparent that any unfriendly action or speech of the Hong Kong high officials towards this Government is displeasing to them though they may not openly express it.\n\nIn view of this aspect of the case, I trust that Sir R. Stubbs will not be deterred by any feeling of excessive loyalty to subordinates, but, in the same spirit in which he has made the present disavowal, repudiate the notifications in toto. Such an act would heighten British prestige in Canton, and would be the happiest augury for the friendliest relations between Canton and Hong Kong, which it is no less our wish to maintain than that of Sir R. Stubbs. I earnestly hope you will do all you can in the matter.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nCHAO-CHU WU.\n\n7 \n\n## Page 308",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTES\nI have arranged with Library to supply any further copies required.\n\n**MINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.**\n\nN°203.  \n1989734  \nC.O.  \n27201  \n9 JUN 24  \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,  \nHONGKONG, 5th May, 1924,  \n267  \n\ngot it as it seems important. Og Lama da fao. 4 copies of this report are required. The depts. stated that at the Conference, I will be represented. No delay is expected. Mr. Examina will examine in detail. See also ofron.\n\n27378  \nAnother official of the advisory has rung up to say that T.O. has intimated to them that certain officers would be required for duty on the West River and might usefully be saved to attend the Conference. They will try to produce the asked for Survey output by today.\n\n(viz. of 3 p.m. last)  \nSir,\n\nWith reference to your despatch No.70 of the 14th March, 1924, I have the honour to report on the case of the S.S. \"Hydrangea\" and other recent piracies and on the measures taken in this Colony to deal with this form of crime.\n\n2. The S.S. \"Hydrangea\", which was formerly a British naval sloop and has been converted for passenger and cargo service, sails regularly twice a week between Hongkong and Swatow. Owing to her peculiar construction, the ship is not equipped with the full number of grilles, etc., required by the Piracy Prevention Regulations, but she had been passed by the Harbour Master as suitable for the trade on which she was employed. She carries five European officers and four Indian guards. The usual search of the ship and all the passengers was made before the \"Hydrangea\" left the wharf at 4 p.m. on the 27th December, 1923. It is not known, therefore, how the arms were smuggled on board.\n\n3. At about 6.40 p.m. on that day, while the European officers were at dinner, the ship being then off Single Island, the two Indian guards on duty were suddenly disarmed by pirates who appeared from among the first-class passengers. Immediately thereafter, the officers in the saloon and on the bridge were covered by pirates armed with revolvers.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE**  \n**J. H. THOMAS, M.P.**  \n&c.  \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "to Chinese and Foreigners. It is noteworthy that\n\nshortly after Chang's arrival in Peking, the Bolshevik\n\nelement was eliminated from the temporary Cabinet created\n\nby Fong. On 27th November, Feng retired to the Western\n\nHills expressing his desire to retire from politics.\n\n10. Owing to the fact that at the beginning of\n\nDecember, Chang had retired to Tientsin with his troops, thus leaving a clear field for Feng and his Bolshevik friends in Peking, there were possibilities of the\n\nsituation becoming more acute, and H.M. Minister asked\n\nme to hold ships in readiness to proceed to Tientsin. Thereupon, I ordered \"Hollyhock\" to remain at Taku Bar and despatched \"Foxglove\" on the 4th December to relieve her, and to act as a wireless link at Tientsin. \"Hollyhock\" then proceeded to Hongkong via Weihaiwei\n\nfor refit.\n\n11.\n\nOn 4th December, I sailed for Shanghai leaving\n\nCaptain Hamilton of the \"Durban\" in charge of the conduct of affairs in the North with the \" Carlisle\" and\n\n\"Foxglove\" under his orders. I remained at Shanghai until the 12th December when \"Hawkins\" proceeded to\n\nHongkong.\n\nWhilst at Shanghai, I exchanged official\n\ncalls with Admiral Washington who was present in his Flagship U.S.S. \"Kuron\", and had the opportunity of meeting many British people prominent in the business world. I discussed the conditions on the Yangtse with Rear Admiral M. Anderson, C.B.,C.M.G.,R.N., whom I had asked to meet me at Shanghai should the service permit.\n\n12.\n\nAs land wire communication between Peking and Tientsin was liable to interruption and lack of military operators prevented continuous W/T touch with the Sloop\n\nat Tientsin, on the 5th December, I sent a message to the\n\nMinister and the Officer Commanding Troops offering to\n\nsend...",
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        "content_text": "THE CHINESE DISORDERS.\n\nITISH LABOUR MISLED.\n\nPEKING FEAR OF EXTREMISTS.\n\nPOWERS' DUTY,\n\nfurther outrages are reported from Anxiety still persists, however, ially in regard to the Yangt.sze\n\nthe House of Commons yesterday A. M. Samuel said that the forces at disposal of the Powers are sufficient the protection of foreigners on the and waterways of China in any con-ney that can reasonably be foreseen.\n\nis reported from Peking that detach-ts of Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have! posted for the protection of foreigners and the Minister of Communications given general orders to this end.\n\nDar Shanghai Correspondent points that, judging by the questions put in liament and the telegrams of sympathy to the Chinese strikers, misconcep exists in England as to the origin of arisis. He says that dissatisfaction conditions of labour in foreign mills extremely little to do with the due to political bla, which are\n\nof The Association shinations. itish Chambers of Commerce have nt to the Prime Minister & resolution ging the Government to arrange, with he other Powers interested, a conference rith representatives of the different pro-nos in China.\n\nDRIGIN OF SHANGHAI STRIKES.\n\nMISCONCEPTION IN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n{FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nSHANGHAI, JUNE 18. The questions in the British Parliament d the telegrams from the Independent abour Party and the Trades Union Hongre expressing sympathy with the workers of China in their struggle with apital, betray a total misconception of the origin of the present crisis. It is safe to say that not 2 per cent. of the original dispute is due to dissatisfaction on the part of Labour with the conditions in the foreign mills, which, though doubtless capable of improvement in some points, are unquestionably far superior to those of the Chinese mills. In regard to the disturbances at the Japanese mill, overwhelming evidence has accumulated that these were the direct result of the work of political agitators, and they wore not reproduced in other mills.\n\nAs for the child labour question, the only way in which it is involved is exactly the reverse of what is supposed abroad. The offence of the foreigners is not that they employ children but that they Tho propose to employ them no longer. agitators persuaded parents that the employers were plotting to turn out the children, sweat the parents, and save on wages. Of course, directly workers were called out on strike there was abundant inflammable material ready for a riot, but it can be asserted that without political machination there would have been no strike.\n\nApart from the usual student demon-strations, the Yangtaze Valley has been reported quiet the past two days, but the Chinesa of the better order are in-creasingly nervous owing to the craven yielding of the Peking Government to the extremists. One informant, whom I have quoted before and always found trustworthy, says the increasing fear among the Chinese of an ultimate explo.sion along the Yangtare Valley is com-parable to that of the Boxer year. He adds that the only effective prevention is a strong display of naval force by the Powers along the river.\n\n\"RED\" HELP FOR CHINESE.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nRIGA, JUNE 18,\n\nThe Red trade unions have sent the Chinese revolutionaries another £8,000, and the society for assisting distressed Communists abroad have sent Shanghai strikers a further £3,000.\n\nPROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS.\n\nthe\n\nPEKING, June 16-As a result of the foreign representation urging protection, the Government has brought in numbers of General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops to It has also posted patrol the city. pickets outside the principal offices of foreign firms and foreign residences.\n\nChang Teo-lin, who had been con-templating sending troops to Peking for some time, dispatched some to-day, and the first companies arrived this afternoon, occupying the Yellow Temple outside the North Gate.\n\nThe Ministry of Communications, in all circular telegram to-day, orders special protection for all foreign employees in the Ministry and foreign travellers on! the railways, and orders the dispatch of efficient police for this purpose.- Reuter,\n\nHANKOW, June 16-Of the seven Bol-ahevist agitators arrested by the Chinos authorities, one was shot by them this morning-Reuter\n\nFOOCHOW, June 16.-The students here are urging the Chinese employed by foreigners to strike, and are appealing to the Merchants' Guild to support the strikers. The Military Governor, how.ever, has posted guards in the foreign quarter, and all is quiet.-Reuter,\n\nBRITISH WARSHIPS IN CHINA.\n\nThe following list of movements of H.M. warships in Chinese waters was issued by the Admiralty yesterday :-\n\nThe cruisers Despatch at Hankow; Durban at Hong-kong: Hawkins arrived at Nang on Blondry ↑ the sloop Petersfield (with the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, on board), al. Shanghai: and the oruisers Diomede and Carlisle at Shanghai (landing parties).\n\nThe loops Magnolia, at Weltalwei; Holly-hock landing partyr at naukow Bluebel! left Hong kong for Swatow on Monday and Foxglove at Weilwei.\n\nI\n\n1\n\nTHE SHANGHAI MURDER. 71\n\n8\n\nENGLISH GIRE'S STORY. SHANGHAI, June 16. The British Consul General this morning made vigorous protest to the Civil Governor and the Foreign Commissioner with regard to the murder of Mr. Williams Mackenzie. [A report of the murder appeared in The Times yesterday.]\n\nMiss Duncan, who Was with Mr. Mackenzie when he was murdered, and who was herself wounded, in relating her experiences said :—\n\nWe encountered seven Chinese dressed liks coolles who stopped us near the Great Western Road Extension. Mr. Mackonale asked thema what they wanted, but the Chinese only laughed, at the same time turning the light of electric torches upon us. Mr. Mackenzie got out of the car, and speaking both in English and in Chinese, ordered the men to get out of the way. Thereupon one of the Chluamen fired and Mr. Mackenzie ran back, jumped into the car and started the engine. It then seemned as if all the Chinese opened fire together, and Mr. Mackenzie lurched forward, telling me that he had been shot and was dying. Meanwhile the car had gained speed, and se he fell I took the wheel and steered the car while the Chinese kept on Bring.\n\nMiss Duncan, who had only once or twice handled a car before, drove the car with Mr. Mackenzie's body in it for nearly three-quarters of a mile into the settlement, the car finally falling into a wide ditch.\n\nMiss Duncan shouted for aid, but, failing to attract attention, ran to a house occupied by two Shanghai Volun teers, who communicated with the police. Mr. Mackenzie was hit by four bullets, one of them severing the jugular vein. The police found on the roadside near the scene of the murder 12 32 calibre empty cartridge cases.-Reuter.\n\nBRITISH COMMERCE AND CHINA.\n\nPLEA FOR CONFERENCE. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce have adopted a resolution which has been transmitted to the Prime Minister, stating their satisfaction that steps are being taken in agreement with the other Powers to bring about a peace-ful solution of the present troubles in China, and adding:\n\nThe association urge his Majesty's Govern-ment to arrange at the earliest possible date with the other Powers interested a conference i with the representatives of the different pro-Places of China with a view to bringing about a Jermanent and satisfactory settlement in that buntry.\n\nFRENCH NAVAL CHANGE IN FAR EAST. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nPARIS, JUNE 16. The armoured cruiser Jules Michelet Ambrose left Toulon for the Far East. She\n\nHankow: Scarab, at Iohang: Woodcook, t Chinkiang: Woodlark (completed to full complement from Despatch), at Chinkeng; Teal and Widgeon, at Chungking.\n\nSUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP AND TENDERS Titanic (Depôt ship), at Hong-kong: and Marazion, at Weibaiwei.\n\nTimus,\n\nJune 7\n\nrried the flag of Rear Admiral Bazire, who will relieve Rear Admiral Frochet in the armoured cruiser Jules Ferry, as Rear-Admiral Commanding the French Far Eastern Squadron. This move was ordered some time ago and has nothing to do with the disturbances in China.",
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        "content_text": "I.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR.\n\nCONDITIONS IN SHANGHAI FACTORIES.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.\n\nSir,—The letter dated June 13 under the signature of Mr. Fenner Brockway, general secretary of the Independent Labour Party, calls for further reply.\n\nI have just returned to England from Shanghai, where I have resided for very many years.\n\nI have been successively chairman of The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, the British Chamber of Commerce, the China Association, and for the last four years I have served on the International Municipal Council, two years of which I was in the vice-chair. I think, therefore, I may speak with some knowledge on questions of material interest to the Settlement.\n\nI studied the report of the Commission on Child Labour with great care, discussed points of interest with the chairman and other members of the commission, and the report was also the subject of considerable discussion at meetings of the council.\n\nMr. Brockway states that children are torn from their parents and recruited in the mass to work at a speed dictated by the machine. That is not true.\n\nThe mills in Shanghai controlled by foreigners, mostly cotton and silk, employ female labour on a large scale, because the work is light.\n\nThe husbands are mostly employed on wharves or docks or as ricksha coolies.\n\nWhen the mothers go to work they find they must take their children with them, because there are no Chinese schools which they can attend, existing schools being too expensive for their purse, while the International Council could never attempt to provide education for the mass of Chinese children whose parents elect to reside in the settlement set apart for residence of foreigners.\n\nWhen the children reach the mills with their mothers, the millowners give them some light work to perform at their mothers' request, mostly to keep them out of mischief, but in no instance in my discussion with foreign mill-owners have I found one who wanted the children.\n\nHe would much rather be without them. They are not, he states, worth even the small money they are supposed to earn.\n\nThe Japanese mill where most of the trouble has occurred has built and equipped a school in its compound, and was experimenting with it when I left.\n\nThe owners have also brought their mill up to, and in some respects beyond, modern home standards, but that did not prevent the students and their Bolshevist \"friends\" from attacking them; in fact, they seemed to be singled out for attention.\n\nMr. Brockway disclaims all responsibility for standards of labour outside the settlement of Shanghai.\n\nThat, I may say, is not the attitude adopted by the child labour representative who recently visited Shanghai.\n\nDame Adelaide Anderson made it clear that foreign Shanghai millowners should refuse to employ child labour (which some British companies have already attempted) merely as an educative exhibition to the Chinese owner, with whom in all parts of the country she discussed the question.\n\nBut what becomes of the children who are refused admittance to the British or other foreign-owned mill?\n\nThe mothers merely transfer their service to the Chinese-owned mills— and they are growing up like mushrooms—who will readily employ them.\n\nSo that Mr. Brockway, if he is to deal with the question, must take responsibility for labour in Chinese mills, whether in the interior, or in the settlement, or on its borders, where they exist by the score.\n\nThe British mill may suffer from altruistic scruples and may with excessive labour cost go under, but that will not dispose of the child labour question in the settlement of Shanghai.\n\nLand Regulations do not make provision for the municipal council to take action against millowners employing child labour, and to alter the Land Regulations requires a further majority of the ratepayers of the settlement, the unanimous decision of the Councils of every nationality represented in Shanghai (almost every known country), and after that of every Minister in the Legation in Peking, and after that the ratification of the Chinese Government; and on much more important questions than child labour it has not been found possible during the last 20 years to effect necessary alterations.\n\nIt is not the British alone who are responsible, as Mr. Brockway appears to imagine; they are only one among many.\n\nThe secretary of the I.L.P. may rest quite satisfied that European employers of labour in China would welcome nothing so much as European standards of education, law, sanitation, and morality (which I presume he embraces under his caption of humanity), but these standards must be established in China by the Chinese themselves (with whatever aid we or others can or may be allowed to give them), and that would inevitably lead to the prompt abolition of extra-territoriality.\n\nEDWARD F. MACKAY.\n\nHubbards Hall, Harlow, June 16.\n\nMORE DEMONSTRATIONS.\n\nTIENIIN, June —Twenty-five thousand students yesterday evening marched in procession through the native city in sympathy with the Shanghai strikers.\n\nThe city police, reinforced by Chang Tso-lin's troops, kept order.\n\nA body of Chang Tso-lin's gendarmerie is billeted at the British Consulate in order to cooperate with the British Municipal Police in the event of trouble in the Concession.\n\nPEKING, June 15—A procession that included students, merchants, shop-assistants, and workmen went to the Chinese Foreign Office and demanded that the Government should sever relations with Great Britain and instruct the Tupan of Hankow forcibly to take possession of the Concession.\n\nHANKOW, June 15—Another rioter has died of his wounds, and the death-roll is now nine.\n\nThe defence troops are still standing by.\n\nThe British sloop Hollyhock has arrived and marines have been landed—Reuter.\n\nCANTON CIVILIANS' VENGEANCE.\n\nSLAUGHTER OF YUNNANESE FUGITIVES.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHONG-KONG, JUNE 15.\n\nYang Hsi-min, the commander of the Yunnanese who were defeated at Canton, has fled to Shanghai.\n\nHe states that his subordinates were bought over by the Kuomintang, and this caused the débâcle.\n\nForeign witnesses of the fighting at Canton describe the gruesome slaughter of individual Yunnanese by the civilian populace, who cruelly avenged the military domination of the past two years.\n\nDuring the manhunt throughout the city it is estimated that 700 Yunnanese were shockingly mutilated and murdered, including an officer who was crucified upon a telephone pole.\n\nForeigners at Shameen helplessly watched men who pleaded pitifully for their lives beaten and thrown in a half-conscious condition into creeks, where they were held down by bamboo poles or forced under water by showers of stones and drowned.\n\nFinally a party of foreigners, including British and French naval seamen, interfered and rescued several persons.\n\nA British officer harangued the crowd in Chinese.\n\nThe latter pleaded that they had suffered under intolerable grievances, but they desisted from further maltreatment of fugitives and refrained from making any anti-foreign demonstration.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS ON CHINA STATION.\n\nH.M. sloop Petersfield (tender to H.M.S. Hawkins, flagship, China Station), with the Commander-in-Chief China Station on board, arrived at Shanghai on Sunday.\n\nThe sloop Hollyhock arrived at Hankow yesterday, and the gunboat Gnat at Kiukiang on June 15.\n\nThe present disposition of the other ships on the China Station is as follows:—Woodlark (gunboat), Chiokiang; Woodcock (gunboat), Wuhu; Bee and Mantis (gunboats), Hankow; Cricket (gunboat), Changsha; Scarab (gunboat), Chang; Teal and Widgeon (gunboats), Chingking; Cockchafer (gunboat), Wanhsien.\n\nThe cruiser Despatch sailed for Yangtze on June 13, and the sloop Bluebell and the cruiser Delhi are at Hong-kong.",
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        "content_text": "landing party with the Shanghai Volunteers and Foreign Landing Parties.\n\n140\n\n9. I should like to take this opportunity of placing on record the friendly and co-operative spirit animating the United States, Italian and Japanese Rear-Admirals who have done their utmost to assist me. Information and movements of our respective ships have been freely exchanged, and at times mails and stores have been carried by and for British men-of-war. In fact we have acted as one Navy in support of foreign interests.\n\n10. The situation at the Yangtse ports has remained quiet and unchanged. At Hankow, a long deferred demonstration is planned for the 7th September, and in view of the possibilities arising from it, \"DESPATCH\" is, with your approval, remaining at Hankow until the 8th September, when on relief by \"HOLLYHOCK\" she will proceed to Wei-hai-wei, in accordance with your instructions.\n\n11. In Szechuan, the defeat of the ex Tupan Tang Sen by forces under Tuan Tsu King, now appears to be complete. This is unfortunate from the foreign point of view as Yuan has in the past, displayed strong anti-foreign feeling. On 21st August Bishop Howell and several other Missionaries were reported as being captured by bandits near Changtu, the Capital of Szechuan. Press reports state that the Chinese are endeavouring to effect their release.\n\n13. The situation at Ningpo continues to be peaceful and unchanged. \"HOLLYHOCK\" will on the 2nd September proceed to Hankow to relieve \"DESPATCH\" in accordance with your instructions. I do not consider that the situation at Ningpo merits the stationing of a sloop there, but would suggest that occasional visits be made.\n\n15. Should the situation remain quiet at Shanghai, I propose visiting River Ports in H.M.Ship \"KEE\" from 14th September to 10th October.\n\n(Sgd) D.M. Anderson.\nRear-Admiral.",
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        "content_text": "Page 453\n\nThe text appears to be garbled and contains nonsensical characters, likely due to OCR errors.\n\nGenerally speaking, the Commodore in every way did all that was possible to assist.\n\nIn Shameen Commander Maxwell-Scott's efficiency and thoroughness, his promptness and resourcefulness, and his organising power were invaluable.\n\nH.M.S. \"Tarantula\" and H.M.S. \"Cicala\" were retained in Canton for the duration of the strike, while H.M.S. \"Robin\" and H.M.S. \"Moorhen\" were there during a great part of the time.\n\nNaval ratings chiefly contributed to keeping all the essential services going; they manned the pumping station; they unloaded the daily supplies of food, ice, and other things from the Hongkong steamer and landed it on the Concession; they performed a number of miscellaneous jobs on behalf of the community; and they at first assisted in patrolling the Concession.\n\nThe Marines, who were quartered in Shameen, patrolled the Concession throughout the strike from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., they guarded the British bridge night and day, and they performed various other services.\n\nH.M.S. \"Robin\" and H.M.S. \"Moorhen\" in turn protected the wharves of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, situated some way down the back reach.\n\nCaptain Williams, a highly efficient officer, in addition to his regular duties, rendered particularly valuable service by his supervision of and insistence on sanitary measures.\n\never steps were required. He also sent up a body\n\nof marines at first 14, a number which later on rose to\n\n60\n\nunder Captain Williams,\n\nif required, and offered to send up a sloop as well, offer it was not found necessary to accept.",
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        "content_text": "whatever steps were required. He also sent up a body of Marines at first 14, a number which later on rose to under Captain Williams, He promised a further lot, which if required, and offered to send up a sloop as well, offer it was not found necessary to accept. Generally speaking, the Commodore in every way did all that was possible to assist.\n\nNaval\n\nIn Shameen Commander Maxwell-scott's efficiency and thoroughness, his promptness and resourcefulness, and his organising power were invaluable. H.M.S. 'Tarantula' and H.M.S. \"Cicala' were retained in Canton for the duration of the strike, while H.M.S. \"Robin' and H.M.S. \"Moorhen\" were there during a great part of the time. ratings chiefly contributed to keeping all the essential services going; they manned the pumping station; they unloaded the daily supplies of food ice, and other things from the Hongkong steamer and landed it on the Concession; they performed a number of miscellaneous jobs on behalf of the community; and they at first assisted in patrolling the Concession. The Marines, who were quartered in Shameen, patrolled the Concession throughout the strike from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. they guarded the British bridge night and day, and they performed various other services. \"Robin' and H.M.S. \"Moorhen\" in turn protected the wharves of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, situated some way down the back reach. Captain Williams, a highly efficient officer, in addition to his regular duties, rendered particularly valuable service by his supervision of and insistence on sanitary measures.",
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        "content_text": "## APPENDIX No. III. \n### SITUATION ON THE UPPER YANGTSE.\n**Memorandum by the Naval Staff.**\n\nThe disposition of His Majesty's ships on the Upper Yangtse is shown in Annex No. 1, and in Annex No. 2 is given the names of those ships which cannot normally move down river at the present time owing to the depth of water being insufficient.\n\n### Supplies.\n\n2. Supplies of fuel, coal and oil, are obtained from stocks held locally, the principal places where these stocks are held are shown in Annex No. 3, though the actual amounts held at present are not known accurately. Coal is usually sent up in river steamers and it is improbable that a heavy cargo could be sent above Ichang until the river rises.\n\n3. With regard to provisions, the ships rely upon local resources for fresh provisions, but the gun-boats can carry from 3-4 months of dry and tinned provisions which may or may not be expended; there is no information in the Admiralty to show what the situation is with regard to each ship. All ships can distil their own drinking water.\n\n### Considerations relating to Withdrawing Vessels above Wuhu.\n\n4. These ships which are at present immobilised (vide Annex No. 2) might if there was a sufficiently large \"freshet\" be able to move down river; the distance they could go would depend upon the duration of the increased height of the river. It is probable that very great difficulty would, however, be found in obtaining the services of pilots owing to intimidation; consequently, if the level of water rose sufficiently to permit ships to move, they might have to do so without pilots, which would entail considerable navigational risks.\n\n## ANNEX No. 1.\n### Disposition of H.M. Ships on the Upper Yangtse.\n\n| Place | Names of H.M. Ships present | Distance from Sea. Miles | Fuel |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chungking | `Mantis` (Gunboat) | 1,370 | Coal, 35 tons; Oil, 54 tons |\n| Wansien | `Teal` (Gunboat), `Widgeon` (Gunboat) | 1,146 | Coal, 36 tons |\n| Ichang | `Cricket` (Gunboat) | 970 | Coal, 39 tons |\n| Changsha | `Woodcock` (Gunboat) | 816 | Coal, 35 tons |\n| Hankow | `Bee` (Gunboat Flagship of R.A., Yangtse), `Gnat` (Gunboat), `Cockchafer` (Gunboat), `Woodlark` (Gunboat), `Magnolia` (Sloop), `Verity` (Destroyer), `Wishart` (Destroyer) | 602 | Coal, 28 tons; Coal, 35 tons; Oil, 54 tons; Coal, 35 tons; Oil, 54 tons; Coal, 35 tons; Coal, 250 tons; Oil, 363 tons; Oil, 374 tons; Oil, 365 tons |\n| Kiukiang | `Wivern` (Destroyer), `Scarab` (Gunboat) | 470 | Coal, 35 tons; Oil, 54 tons |\n| Wuhu | (Free navigation.) | 281 |  |\n\n## ANNEX NO. 2.\n### List of Ships which cannot normally move down River at the Present Time.\n\n| Name of Ship | Remarks | Place |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `Mantis` | Normally, cannot move down river before end of April. | Chungking |\n| `Teal`, `Widgeon` |  | Wansien |\n| `Woodcock` | Normally, cannot move down river before April. | Changsha |\n| `Verity`, `Wishart`, `Woolston`, `Magnolia` | Normally, cannot reach Yangtse before end of March. | Hankow |\n| `Wivern` | Normally, cannot move down river before end of February. | Kiukiang |\n|  | \"Normally means: Unless a sufficiently large \"freshet\" raises level of river over shallows long enough for ships to move. |  |\n\n## ANNEX No. 3.\n### Stocks of Coal and Oil on the Upper Yangtse.\n\n| Place | Coal | Oil Fuel |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shasi | 32 tons |  |\n| Ichang | 47 tons | Nil |\n| Chungking | ... | 537 tons |\n| Hankow | 400 tons in pontoons, A.P. Co.; 2,500 tons in tanks, A.P. Co. | 400 tons in lighters, Admiralty; 4,000 tons in tanks, A.P. Co.; 2,400 tons in tanks, Standard |\n| Wuhu |  | 400 tons in barge, Admiralty |\n\n(Corrected to 20th November, 1926.)\n\nNote.-Coal and stores are sent from time to time to Ichang in river steamers and even occasionally to Chungking, but supply to this latter place is most unlikely during low river.\n\nPage 75\nPage 76",
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        "content_text": "## Supplement to the Chiefs of Staff Report on the Situation in China of March 29, 1927 (C.I.D. Paper No. 784-B)\n\nRECENT telegrams from China indicate increasing determination on the part of the Cantonese Authorities and the forces under their command to take steps to enforce their will on the Yangtse and oppose with force the free movement of ships up and down the river. \n\nGuns are being mounted to cover the anchorage at Nanking. A gun on Lion Hill at Nanking is kept trained on ships under weigh. Ships on passage up and down the river report being fired on by guns of small calibre, machine guns, and rifles. Mines are being reported as being conveyed up the river in a Chinese gunboat. The situation is likely to be aggravated by delay in taking definite action. Each day of further delay will render more difficult the carrying out of the plans put forward in the Report.\n\nMarch 31, 1927.\n\n(Signed)  \n**BEATTY.**  \n**H. TRENCHARD.**\n\n### APPENDIX (A). DISPOSITION OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN WAR VESSELS IN RIVER YANGTSE.\n\nFrom Reports received up to 5 P.M., March 28, 1927.\n\n2. Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1,  \nMarch 29, 1927.\n\n**G. F. MILNE.**  \n**H. TRENCHARD.**\n\n| Location     | British                          | United States                    | Italian         | Japanese                      | French                        | Netherlands          | Portuguese           | Spanish              |\n|--------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------|\n| Changsha     |                                  |                                  |                 |                               |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Chinkiang    | Wivern (T.B.D.)                  |                                  |                 | Isokaze (T.B.D.)              |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Chunking     | Mantis (G.) Teal (G.)            | Monocacy (G.)                    | Nil             | Hira (G.) Hodzu (G.)          | Nil                           |                      |                      |                      |\n| Hankow       | Pruitt (T.B.D.) Villalobos (G.) Pigeon (S.) |                                  |                 | Urakaze (T.B.D.) Saga (G)     | Lagree (G.)                   |                      |                      |                      |\n| Ichang       | Verity (T.B.D.) Wishart (T.B.D.) Woolston (T.B.D.) | Elcano (G.)                  | Nil             | Seta (G.)                     | Balny (G.)                    |                      |                      |                      |\n| Kiukiang     | Wild Swan (T.B.D.) Hulbert (T.B.D.) |                                  |                 | Yanagi (T.B.D.)               |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Nanking      | Emerald (C.) Wolsey (T.B.D.) Isabel (Yacht) |                                  | Nil             | Tenryu (C.) Hinoki (T.B.D.) Hamakaze (T.B.D.) |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Ningpo       | Keppel                           |                                  | Nil             |                               |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Shanghai     | Hawkins (C.) Carlisle (C.) Dauntless (C.) Vindictive (C.) Scarab (G.) Cricket (G.) | Pittsburg (C.) Sicard (T.B.D.) Ashville (G.) Penguin (G.) Sacramento (G.) Pecos (Viler) Chaumont (Tpt.) | Libia (C.) (Flag) Muggia (T.B.D.) S. Caboto (G.) | Tone (C.) (Flag) Iaudzu (C.) Sendai (C.) Tokitsukaze (T.B.D.) Sumida (G.) Fushimi (G.) Toba (G.) Ataka (G.) | Jules Michelet (C.) (Flag) La Grandiere (G.) Marie (Des. Val.) | Sumatra (C.)         | Republica (Sloop)    | Blas de Lezo (C)     |\n| Shasi        |                                  |                                  |                 | Kashi (T.B.D.)                |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Wuhu         |                                  |                                  |                 |                               |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Wanhsien     |                                  |                                  |                 |                               |                               |                      |                      |                      |\n| Wusung       | Cockchafer (G.) Caradoc (C.) 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        "content_text": "No.H.K.0261/3.\n\nEnclosure No.5.\n\nCommodore's Office,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n5th November, 1928.\n\n28\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWith reference to the Colonial Secretary's letter of 31st October, 1928, No.3473/28c, I have the honour to inform you that although co-operation in anti-piracy action has been attempted through the Canton Government, this has proved abortive, and no opportunity for direct naval co-operation has occurred.\n\n2. The warning from the Police Department concerning the possibility of a ship being pirated and taken to Hong Hoi Bay was received on the 20th September, and shipping firms at Hong Kong were requested to report without delay to me any failure of W/T communication with their vessels on passage. This request was not complied with by the owners in the case of the \"Anking\".\n\n3. One of H.M. Ships was carrying out patrol duty in Bias Bay from 21st to 25th September, and a sloop was on passage from Swatow to Bias Bay during 28th-29th September.\n\n4. It is impossible to estimate how long after a warning is received a piracy may take place, and in this connection it is noted that members of the pirate gang concerned in the \"Anking\" piracy stated that they had...\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government,\n\nHong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "286\n\n287\n\n298\n\nNotes Comments\n\nA couple of photographs. The shark was probably Eulamia melanopterus, see H.K.N. I, p. 81. Length 6 feet 6 inches, weight 186 lbs. It was caught on a hand line made of hemp with a half-pound snapper as bait on a large iron hook. The fisherman was definitely trying to catch a shark and had a large bait and strong tackle on purpose. The sea was choppy, a fresh N.E. wind was blowing and few small fish were about. The previous week a number of sharks were about off Kowloon Docks and on 25th September Mr. Gillard tells me that at least 50 snapper were lost through shark taking them before they had been pulled up to the surface. This particular fish was played 20 minutes, pulled in to within 2 feet of the surface and then harpooned. It was not pulled on board but was lashed to the side of the sampan. Market value about $7.00.\n\nA few days later another shark was caught by the same fisherman and brought to the University, the principal measurements were taken and are given below. The shark was a female and contained two well-developed embryos each some 9 inches in length. Tip of snout to tip of tail 1,724 mm. (about 46 inches).\n\n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of 1st dorsal fin\n    495 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of 2nd dorsal fin\n    1,067 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Caudal fin\n    1,293 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Pectoral fin\n    399 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Pelvic fin\n    959 mm.\n  \n  \n    Tip of snout to anterior border of Anal fin\n    1,182 mm.\n  \n\nIn Fishes of Oceania H. W. Fowler, p. 20, gives an account of this species which we quote below as being, perhaps, of general interest.\n\nIn describing the habits of this species in Palmyra, C. Montague Cooke, Jr., gave me the following information:\n\nVery abundant in the lagoon at Palmyra in 1913. Sometimes as many as six to eight would be swimming around us as we waded in the lagoon, in about 6 to 18 inches of water. Most of these sharks were from two to four feet in length. I think the reason we excited their curiosity was the stirring up of the mud. On two occasions we had them follow us as we were walking on the shore line. As we waded in the water they continually circled about us, the circles gradually growing smaller. On several occasions they came close enough for us to step on their heads, when they would rush away. We caught six on lines one evening in our bathing pool on fish bait. The only specimen in the museum was a small one taken in a scoop-net, when it approached us.\n\nBall reports four seen at Fanning Island in July, 1922. They were called \"lagoon shark\" and used as food by the natives. The largest seen were perhaps six feet long, ranging down to three feet long. One from Guam, head 90 mm. long and parts of fins, obtained in 1923, in the Bishop Museum.\n\nThis species differs from all other sharks of Oceania in having black bordered fins.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nNotes&Comments\n\n289\n\nOther accounts and photographs of this or a closely related species of shark have appeared in H.K.N. I, p. 194 and plate opposite and II plate facing p. 220.\n\nHERPETOLOGY.\n\nVARANUS SALVATOR, Laur.\n\nG. A. C. H,\n\nIn Volume I of the Hong Kong Naturalist, the monitor lizard Varanus was called E (Gob kuci shae, this is the general Kwang-tung name for the great Tree-Gecko, Gecko gecko (L). common in the Canton \"game\" shops as food or medicine). Varanus, known to me as far north as Tsingyuen (23.4° n.l.) is a rare creature and as far as my experience goes is without a special name. My Chinese reptile-collectors called it tULLE (Kamm koei shae=Toad-Lizard), but I believe that this was an improvisation of the moment.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin,\n\n(This Monitor Lizard is known in the Hong Kong Restaurants as E, Ng chau kum lung sehr, Five-clawed golden dragon snake.)\n\nEd.\n\nBOTANY.\n\nSTERCULIA LANCEOLATA, Cav.\n\nThe common name given in H.K.N. III, 1, p. 24, is that used by the Punti in Kwangtung. From the Hakka on the East-river (Poklo-district), (Gu loeng hai-Little ladies shoes), in reference to the red and black colour of the open fruit,\n\nI heard the tree called\n\nPLATANTHERA SUSANNAE, Lindl.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin,\n\nIs known to me only from the Indo-Chinese coast-region of Kwang-tung and not north of the Tropics. It seems to be quite local. I found it in a dry grassy place on the White Cloud mountains near Canton on the way from Pakwantsi to the Sogatsi about 250 m. above sea-level, 10 plants near one another; and a second group of plants near Suliugun in the Lofao mountains about 550 m. above the sea. Flowers I have seen between 28th of June and 22nd of July. In spite of its moderate size (about 0.40 m. high) Platanthera Susannae is a striking plant because of its large white flowers, relatively speaking gigantic spurs and its strong sweet scent. Anyone who is familiar with the European flora recognizes at once its close relationship with P. bifolia; the smell reminds me somewhat of the European Gymnadenia.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\nR. MELL,\n\nBerlin.",
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        "content_text": "4.5\n\non 22nd December, 1933, by His Excellency the Governor, of the H.K.N.V.F. Committee consisting of Lieutenant Commander A.L. Besant, R.N., Lieutenant Commander G.C.P. Menzies, R.N., Messrs. H.S. Rouse and S. Hampden Ross with Commodore F. Elliott, O.B.E., R.N. as chairman, the first candidates were interviewed and twenty-four names submitted to His Excellency the Governor for entry as Cadets; whilst the following were recommended for rank of Commissioned officers in the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force :-\n\nAndrew Lusk Shields\n\nHarold Stuart Rouse\n\nTheodore Patrick Kenneth Kemble\n\nSydney Hampden Ross, A.C.A., F.S.A.A.\n\nLeslie John Davis, M.D., Ch.B., M.R.C.P.(Edin)\n\nHonorary Commander.\n\nProbationary Lieutenant Commander.\n\nProbationary Lieutenant.\n\nProbationary Paymaster Lieutenant.\n\nProbationary Surgeon Lieutenant.\n\nThe Very Reverend Dean Alfred Swann, D.S.C., M.A.\n\nProbationary Chaplain.\n\nWith Harold Stuart Rouse as Commanding Officer.\n\nOn 28th March, 1934 the following appointments were made by His Excellency the Governor :-\n\nJames Petrie, D.S.C.\n\nRobert Stock\n\nEdward Grossman, C.A.\n\nJohn Richard Bergne-Coupland\n\nProbationary Lieutenant.\n\nProbationary Lieutenant.\n\nProbationary Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant.\n\nProbationary Engineer Sub-Lieutenant.\n\nand on 21st June, 1934 the following appointment :-\n\nLieutenant Alan Reid R.N.V.R. (Clyde Division) has been attached to the Force throughout the year 1934.\n\n5.\n\nThrough representations made by Commodore F. Elliott, O.B.E., R.N. the Admiralty offered and His Excellency the Governor was pleased to accept the loan of H.M.S. \"Cornflower\" a sloop of 1,175 tons, as a Drill Ship for the Force. H.M.S.",
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        "content_text": "19\n\nService in South China later neighbouring H.K.\n\nand\n\nalso to enable the Admiralty\n\nhas been pressed by the Admiralty for\n\nM\n\nsloop which is in use for training\n\nunit\n\nby the Forces\n\nas\n\na\n\nvessel of\n\nlocal Guard.\n\nJam te.\n\nto be maintained\n\nwas by the\n\njudged, H. R.",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE\n\n### 4. Mobilizations (Contd.)\n\nRecruitment of Officer personnel from out-ports to meet increasing commitments has proceeded throughout the year.\n\n### 5. Evacuation\n\nOn 1st July, on forty-eight hours' notice, one hundred and forty-two women and children, families of mobilized and unmobilized members, were evacuated under a scheme modelled on the naval scheme and prepared in advance by officers of this Force. By agreement with the Commodore, these families were treated in all respects as civilian evacuees. It is considered that the scheme operated smoothly and with a minimum of inconvenience.\n\nIt has been reported to me by husbands whose families were evacuated under the H.K.R.V.V.R. scheme and by many others that by the steadiness of two members of that party, Mrs. J. Petrie and Mrs. R. J. Vernall, and by their constant efforts in looking after the welfare of the party, excellent service was rendered at a time of considerable emotional upset to all evacuees. Had these ladies not been the wives of the two Senior Officers of this Force, I should have made this the subject of special mention earlier. This report would, however, be incomplete if I did not record the fact.\n\n### 6. H.M.S. Cornflower\n\nOn 17th August 1940, the sloop, H.M.S. \"Cornflower\", was handed back to the Admiralty, and the River Steamer \"TAI HING\", loaned by Sir Robert Ho Tung for the duration of the war, replaced her as temporary Headquarters and Depot Ship. On 7th September, by authority of the Admiralty's signal to Commodore timed 2116/7/8/40, the \"Tai Hing\" was named \"H.M.S. Cornflower\". That signal approved the Commodore Hong Kong's proposal \"to retain the name 'H.M.S. Cornflower' in perpetuity for use of the H.K.R.N.V.R. Headquarters whether afloat or onshore\". This change \"can only be in the nature of a temporary expedient and the need for a shore Headquarters is as pressing as ever\".\n\n### 7. Expense of Operation\n\nAs reported last year, the Admiralty is bearing the charter fees, expense of operation, and upkeep of Auxiliary Patrol Vessels and wages of taken over civilian crew with these vessels, and upkeep of the three Shore Stations all under my command. Government bears the pay and cost of uniforms, etc. for volunteer personnel and the maintenance of H.M.S. Cornflower.\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pay Roll April 1940 to March 1941 inclusive | $788,537.86 |\n| V. bed plus S/V's. | $84,896.00 |\n| Expended (approx.) Emoluments | $55,085.00 |\n| Saving (Mainly in Personal Emoluments) | $29,811.00 |\n| Total Expended | $55,085.00 |\n| **Total** | **$843,622.86** |\n\nCommander, H.K.R.N.V.R. Commanding Officer.  \n1941\n\nPage 9\n\n## HONG KONG ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE  \nH.M.S. CORNFLOWER,  \nHONG KONG.  \n30th August, 1940.  \n**CONFIDENTIAL**  \nA.S.R. 71/40.  \n(Auxiliary Services Routine)\n\nIn A.S.F. 9 (1939), I gave a review of events within the Force over the first week after mobilization. Today, four days before the Empire has the anniversary of its entry into the war, we have the anniversary of our first mobilization. I would like to review events over that year in the confidence of A.S.R's.\n\nThe first few weeks after mobilization are remembered as weeks of work at highest pressure in the heat of summer. The adjustment to some semblance of order and routine was hard work, but it was accomplished with remarkable harmony and good-temper, and I owe a great deal to the excellent spirit that prevailed then and prevails now.\n\nTo the sea-going members, the first few weeks were occupied by officers in getting to know ships. It was not a case of getting to know their own ship because there was not any; they were given a different ship almost every day until they knew them all. To the Seamen Ratings, the first few weeks seemed as sublimely uneventful as life in general seems to the mass of Chinese, but to the Communication Branch Ratings, the acquiring of \"sea legs\" was a painful process.\n\nThe Minewatching Branch began watchkeeping and has gradually developed to a full degree of maintenance and control of stations, which was never envisaged in time of peace.\n\nThere was a shortage of mobilized officer personnel due to the main effect of the war not having reached Hong Kong. A balance between local sea defence requirements and the needs of employers to retain their staff had to be found. The Admiralty needed the men, but the Home Government stated that trade must be maintained - result, the formation of a local Reference Board to assess the claims of both parties. Other avenues for recruitment of officer personnel were therefore explored, notably Shanghai, from which port many officers have now arrived.\n\nSome more of the hurdles we have cleared:\n\n(a) Rapid expansion, greater number and variety of duties, more and larger ships.\n\n(b) Refitting of new vessels for service - difficulties due to heterogeneous collection of craft and initiation into the wondrous ways of the Naval Dockyard.\n\n(c) Due to the number of new ships refitting, necessity to send half-trained officers to sea, thereby interrupting their training and, at the same time, throwing more work and responsibility on trained officers.\n\n(d) Officers transferred to other naval services and replaced.\n\n(e) Disorganisation due to failure of some, in fact most, of the old A.P.V's to stand up to unaccustomed heavy duty.\n\n(f) No cooking facilities in ships. Improvised living quarters.\n\n(g) During the last six months, the worst weather ever experienced in Hong Kong, in ships providing inadequate shelter.\n\n(h) In the flotilla, there are single right, single left, twin inturning, and twin outturning screws - surely a world record for one flotilla.\n\n(i) The transfer of headquarters from H.M.S. \"Cornflower\" to the new H.M.S. \"Cornflower\" and the months of preparatory work required.\n\n(j) The hazard of typhoons (fortunately none really severe) and the attendant disruption of patrols and re-adjustment to a new roster.\n\n(k) Variety of guns to fight and minesweeping gear to use.\n\n(l) The embarkation for evacuation of our wives and families carried out by an organisation prepared by ourselves.\n\n(m) Many of us long overdue for Home Leave (that is a hurdle which we cannot expect to clear until after the war) and duties so arduous that local leave has been almost impossible.\n\n(n) The loss of our Officer Instructor to the Royal Navy last October and the organisation and training of new mobilized members undertaken by volunteer officers, a duty which had never been envisaged.\n\n(o) The formation, expansion, and training in the evenings of the newly-formed European Seamen Gunners Branch, in addition to training of other unmobilized members.\n\n(p) To H.K.R.M.V.R. was given the duty of carrying out Admiralty Equipment and Running Trials of M/S gear of R.C.S. \"VITI\".\n\n(q) The setting up of a base at Middle Island, where we established our own Signal Station and W/T communications and operated as a detached unit during Combined Operations.\n\n(r) The organisation by ourselves of attacks on the Island during Combined Operations - in one instance with fourteen ships in two divisions.\n\nThere was one hurdle we did not clear, that was the maintaining of the Examination Service by H.K.R.N.V.R. Officers. The need for four more patrols came when the minefields were laid, and we had insufficient officers to undertake both duties. Five of our master mariner officers were, however, given commissions in the R.N.R., and the balance required for the Examination Service was recruited by the Naval Authorities. Later, as numbers gradually built up, we gave in lieu seven officers to other naval services, as mentioned in (d).\n\nWhen we look back to 1939, we realize that we have travelled a long, long way.\n\nA word about the future:\n\nWe are impatient to be \"in it\" at home. Our unmobilized members want to be mobilized. All over the Empire, unmobilized men want to be mobilized; mobilized men want active engagement with the enemy. This World War is today being actively fought by a privileged few - a handful of H.M. Ships, R.A.F. planes, and A.A. Batteries. It is also being fought less spectacularly but no less decisively by others, of whom we are part.\n\nThose who served in the last war know how seldom the average man is in contact with the enemy, even in the famous Dover patrol of the last war. He knows these weeks, months, years of waiting and the self-discipline entailed.\n\nPage 10  \nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## WAS \nIt was straightforward. It was not a case of deliberate fraud.\n\nMr H. Lamb for Woolley said he had paid 100 per cent purchase tax on all raw materials he bought. He had now left the Army with an exemplary character. — Reuter.\n\n## GRAIN QUOTATIONS \nChicago, Mar. 21. To-day's grain quotations follow:\n\n| Commodity | Delivery Month | Price |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Wheat | May | high 183.50, low 183.50, close 183.50 |\n| Wheat | July | 183.50 bid |\n| Corn | May | 121.50 bid |\n| Corn | July | 121.50 bid |\n| Oats | May | 83.00 bid |\n| Oats | July | 80.75 to 80.875 |\n\n— United Press.\n\n## UNCLAIMED CABLES \nThe following recently arrived telegrams are waiting addressees at Cable and Wireless Office:\n\n## AMENITIES FOR TARS \n### Converted Merchant Ship Popular at Kure \nThe amenities ship Menestheus, which arrived recently in Kure, British Commonwealth occupation port in Japan, has been described by a sailor as being like an oasis of sunshine in a desert of snow, sleet and rain.\n\nThe ship is open daily to RN and merchant ship personnel in Kure, which now include the Duke of York and the destroyers Comet and Cossack, which were, until recently, in Hongkong.\n\nOriginally a merchant ship, Menestheus was converted for its present task in Vancouver at a cost of £3,000,000 and now carries a brewery, cafeteria and bars for officers and ratings, as well as a shopping centre, tailor, cobbler, dry cleaning service, lending library of books and a library of gramophone records.\n\nSailors crowd the ship every night for cinema shows and concerts by the Royal Marine Band from the Royal Marines School of Music and occasionally the Fleet itself puts on a revue, such as \"Pacific Showboat\" which was presented on Menestheus recently.\n\n## MERSEY SHIP AFIRE \n### American Vessel Carrying German POW's \nLiverpool, Mar. 21. Fire broke out this morning in the engine room of the 5,124 ton American vessel, Cape Douglas, lying in the Mersey. She had on board 1,000 German prisoners-of-war from San Francisco and had arrived in the river during the night, waiting for the tide to berth at Liverpool landing stage.\n\nThe fire started in the engine room at about 9.45 a.m. but by 11 a.m. firemen with breathing apparatus quickly had the flames under control.\n\nThe outbreak was caused by an oil pipe burst, which caught fire and squirted oil all round the engine room.\n\nLater to-day, a luggage boat came alongside the ship and took off all prisoners-of-war and British Army personnel.\n\nDuring February there were seven outbreaks of fire in ships in Liverpool docks and further three on March 1. 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Whang Pu | Machies Wharf |\n| Ships Administered By Commodore Minesweepers | Jewel, Welcome, Aire, Courier, Wave | sweeping; Serene, Liberty | West Wall |\n| Ships Administered By Commodore Minesweepers | Kelantan | No. 7 Buoy |\n| B.Y.M.S. | 2246, 2281 | Wellington Trot; 2153, 2080, 2018, 2064, 2045 | on Kelantan; 2017 | Aberdeen |\n| Dan Layers | MFV 280 | Survey; MFV's 1092, 1156 | on Kelantan; Orsay | sweeping |\n| Dan Layers | Trodday, Eduardo (MFV 2046) | Tidal Basin |\n| Oilers | Wave King | A9 Buoy; Vaeport | Hongkong Dry Dock; Wave Emperor | E2 |\n| Oilers | Wave Governor | M5; Wave Monarch | on Wave Governor |\n| Small Oilers | Brown Ranger | on Bermuda; Celerol, Darst Creek, Rapidol, Salt Flat | Coaling Camber |\n| Water Boats | Loma Novia, Seven Sisters | Coaling Camber; S.V.Y17 | Kowloon Boat Camber |\n| Air Store Issuing Ship | Fort Colville | AL |\n| N.S.I.S. | Bacchus | A14 Buoy; Fort Sandusky | A12; Hickory Crest | Machies Wharf |\n| V.S.I.S. | Fort Constantine | A1; Fort Duquesne | No. 18 Buoy |\n| A.S.I.S. | Hickory Glen | D4 |\n| Boom Layers | Baronia, Barbain | Boom Defence Depot, Kowloon |\n| Crane Ship | Seishu Maru | Wellington Wall |\n| Repair Ship | Springdale | Tidal Basin |\n| Depot Ship | Aorangi | M1; Aire | Dock West Wall |\n| Salvage Vessels | Salvictor | Taikoo; King Salvor, Prince Salvor | Wellington Wall |\n| H.D.M.L. Flotilla | 1080, 1150, 1108 | on patrol; 1105 | Wellington Basin; 1098 | A.S.R. |\n| H.D.M.L. Flotilla | 1107 | Aberdeen; 1082 | Survey; 1106 | on Kelantan |\n| Tugs | Rockwing, Rockcliffe, Rockpidgeon, Rockland | on Tidal Basin |\n| Tugs | Empire Sam, Empire Josennine | ... |\n| L.C.I.S. | 11, 12, 123, 163, 172, 218 | Coaling Camber, Kowloon |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | Vestal | A17; Kaskaskia | A5; Lignite, Brister | U.S. Anchorage |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | Parks | B15; APL 11 | B2; ATR 79 | B21; DD934 | D15 |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | LCs (FF) | B12; YMS 313 | on Vestal; YO 176 | on LST 991 |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | YO 68 | on APL 11; YP 348 | B16; AOG 10; LCS 32, 97; YO 79, YF 735, 738 and YP 641 | all U.S. Anchorage |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | ATF 93 | on YP 641; Charla | A18; YMS 8, 329, 338, 363, 836 | ... |\n| U.S. Task Force 74 | Tamalpais | near A1; Kermit Roosevelt | B21; APD 81 | S9; Kennegage | A5; Los Angeles | ...\n\n### Departures \nYesterday: HMS Whitesand Bay for ...; Pheasant for Subic; USS Kretchmer for Shanghai.\n\n### Arrivals \nYesterday: Foochow from Shanghai; Garden Park from Singapore; HMS Black Swan from Shanghai; Dunera from Singapore; USS Spangler; Glenartney from Singapore; Ocean Pilgrim from Singapore; Thomas Hartley from Nilgalu.\n\n### Projected Arrivals \nTo-day: USS Gary from Shanghai; HMS Bonaventure from Townsville; USS Los Angeles from Amoy; USS Cumer from Guam; Crista from Singapore.\n\nTo-morrow: HMS Bartizan, Barmond from Singapore.\n\n### Projected Departures \nTo-day: Hickory Crest for Sydney; HMIS Cauvery, Wingsang for Swatow; HMS Hogue for Shanghai; HMS Black Swan for Sydney; Fort Sandusky for Tokyo; Fort Duquesne for Tokyo; Empire Perlis for Sandakan.\n\nTo-morrow: USS Tolandia for Shanghai; E Sang for Shanghai.\n\n## OUTWARD MAILS \nRegistered mail closes a quarter of an hour and parcel mail half an hour before slated mailing times.\n\n### Saturday, March 23 \n- Wuchow (`Wig Sing`) 4 p.m.\n- Saigon (`Promise`) 2 p.m.\n- Canton, Shanghai (Air) 3.15 p.m.\n- Swatow (`Wing Sang`) noon.\n- Sydney (`HMS Black Swan`) 4 p.m.\n- Macao, Tsinshan (`Kwong Sai`) 9 a.m.\n- Shanghai (`HMS Hogue`) 10 a.m.\n- Sandakan (`Empire Perlis`) 10 a.m.\n- Japan (`Fort Sandusky`) 11 a.m.\n- Kongmoon (`Fook Hoi`) 4 p.m.\n- Canton (By train) ... p.m.\n- Shanghai (`HMS Hogue`) 3 p.m.\n- Swabue (`Kwong Fat I`) 3 p.m.\n- Amoy (`Wing Ping`) 10 a.m.\n\n### Sunday, March 24 \n- Macao, Tsinshan (`Kwong Fook Cheung`) 9 a.m.\n- Formosa via Keelung (`Sarpen`) noon.\n- Canton (train) 4 p.m.\n\n### Monday, March 25 \n- London, Calcutta, Rangoon, Durban, ... (Air) \n- Canton, Hoihow (Air) 3.30 p.m.\n- Macao, Tsinshan (`Kwong Sai`) 9 a.m.\n- Canton (By train) ...\n- Shanghai (`Glenartney`) 10 a.m.\n- Singapore, Sydney (Air) 2 p.m.\n\n## BRITAIN'S TRADE \n### Exports for Month Show Steady Rise \nLondon, Mar. 21. Britain's trade is still going well ahead and figures issued by the Board of Trade to-day show exports last month amounted to £60,000,000, a rise of £2,000,000, compared with the longer month of January.\n\nOur adverse balance—the difference between imports and exports of goods—dropped to the lowest figure for a great number of years £15,683,989.\n\nFebruary's increase was chiefly due to the rise by £3,900,000 pounds for manufactured goods, which accounted for £1,200,000—such as woollens and worsteds—clothes which went up by £800,000. These, however, were partly offset by the fall in export of food and tobacco. — Reuter.\n\n## THE MONEY MARKET \nThe Chinese dollar remained weak yesterday at about $23.875 to NC$10,000.\n\nPure gold was sold at about $400 per tael.\n\nThe pound sterling had buyers at $16.90 and sellers at $117.20; the Australian pound buyers at $12.45 and sellers at $12.65; and the United States dollar buyers at $4.50 and sellers at $1.70.\n\n### Unclaimed Cables \nComplete up-to-date lists of unclaimed telegrams are posted daily at the Telegram Acceptance Counter, and at 9.30 a.m. in the General Post Office, Cable and Wireless Office.\n\nExamples:\n2052/16 Mar. Liangseng Hong Kong, from Shanghai.\n2060/17 Mar. Pehoe, Hkg., from ... \n2077/17 Mar. Quekkaikee China tilding Hkg., from Sandringham.\n2066/16 Mar. Chan Yew, 144 West es Voeux Rd. 4-f., Hkg., from New York.\n\n## COTTON QUOTATIONS \nNew York, Mar. 21. To-day's cotton quotations follow:\nSpot 27.48 nominal; May 26.50; 26.90; July October 26.82; December 26.80; March 26.80; May 26.77 bid; July 26.75 nominal—United Press.\n\n### AIR MAIL TO AFRICA \nAs from next Monday, regular weekly air mail service from Hongkong to Durban, South Africa, will operate.\n\n## HONGKONG DOLLAR \n| Currency | T/T Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| London | 1/2.27/32 |\n| Singapore | 52.9/16 |\n| India | 823 |\n| U.S.A. | 247 |\n| Manila | 50.1/16 |\n| Canada | 273% |\n| France | 2970 |\n| Switzerland | 107 |\n| Australia | 1/63 |\n| U.S. Cross rate | 4.02%—4.03% |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948",
        "page_number": 73,
        "title": "CO129-609-5 Future policy- Press accounts of Chinese unrest over Kowloon evictions 19-1-1948 - 16-3-1948",
        "content_text": "BRITONS ARE BESIEGED\n\nLED by 2,000 university students\n\nof both sexes, a mob of 10,000 Chinese yesterday marched on the British Consulate in Shanghai, shouting for the British to get out of China.\n\nThey were met by armoured cars and police carrying light machine-guns and rifles, and were dispersed after three hours without causing any damage.\n\nWhen the demonstration began, all British women and children inside the Consulate were evacuated by a rear entrance.\n\nThe men stayed behind, among them being the commander of H.M. Sloop Alacrity, who had lorries ready to whisk all the staff away in case of violence.\n\n72\n\nPEOPLE\n\n18 JAN 1948",
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