OCTOBER, 1847,-XXXI DAYS.
Chinese XXVIIth Year, VIIIth and 1Xth Moons.
Northerly winds prevail throughout this month, occasionally veering to north-east or northwest; but the temperature of the atmosphere is neither so cold nor so dry as in the following months; neither does the northerly wind blow so constantly-southerly and easterly winds intervening every now and then. The winter usually sets in with three or four days of light drizzling rain.
Days of Days of
month.
moon.
Chronicle of events in China, &c.
1 f
23
Tinghái retaken, 1841.
2
24
3.S
2.
4 m
26
5 1
27
6 w
28
7 t
29
8 f
30
98
*
10 S
2
Chinhái taken, 1841.
11 m
3
12 t 13 w 14 t
4
5
6.
15 f
·7
Bev. J. A. Goncalves died, 1841.
Alexander H. Everett, U.S. A. commissioner
arrived and landed at Macao.
Supplementary treaty signed at the Bogue, 1843. NINTH MOON.
Lord Napier died at Maca, 1835, and Mr. Davis
succeeded as chief superintendent.
Halley's comet observed in Canton, 1835. Ningpo occupied by British forces, 1841.
Yukien, imperial commissioner in Chekiáng, com-
mitted suicide, 1841.
16 s
17 S
9
148 m
10
49 t
11
20 w
12
Nemesis and Phlegethon go up to Rüyua, 1841.
21 t
13
22 f
14
23 s
15
24
16
17
125 m
18 In Canton 1200 houses and 3 factories burnt, 1843.
|26 t
37 w
19
28 t
20
21
30 s
22
31 S
23
Terranova executed by the Chinese, 1912.
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