The Hongkong Government Gazette.
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4--A Return of the NUMBER and TONNAGE of MERCHANT VESSELS which Arrived at, and Departed from FOO-CHOW.FOO,
during the Year ending 31st December, 1855, distinguishing the Countries to which they belong, viz :-
DEPARTED.
UNDER WHAT COLOURS.
ARRIVED.
NATURE OF CARGO.
CHER WHAT COLOURS.
No. of SHITS,
TONNAGE.
83
20,270
British.
27
22.585
American,...
14
3,525
Sundries
Hamburgh,
6
3,243
Dutch,
Timber
Tea
Timber
RaBast
Re-exports
General
Fruit
Ten
2
740
Bremen,
293
Swedish....
...
1
191
...
Peruvian,
134
50,847
...
NO. OF SHIPO.
TONNAGE.
81
21,097
27
22,585
14
3.525
6
3,243
2
740
1
293
1
101
132
51,674
Ballast
Sundries
Drugs Tea Sundries
Tea
Hemp & Oil
Tea
Sundries
Tea
--
General
Tea
Olives
Wood
Tea
Petosh Consulate, Foochow, 1st January, 1856.
Front of TEA from FOOCHOW during the FIRST Six Months
}
of the year 1855.
Pritain,
1
.. } States, .** trent,
...
...
A otralia,
...
Total,
FRED HOWE HALE.
EXPORT of TEA from FOOCHOW during the LAST Six Months
of the year 1855,
...
...
***
Ib. 15,600,000
...
•
...
""
9.300.000
""
600,000
"
500,000
Total,
bs 26,000,000
Ibs 7,100,000
To Great Britain,
...
...
95
...
"
2,600,000 300,000 500,000
United States,
Continent,
Australia,
...
bs 10,500,000
ibs 4,500,000
...
...
...
---
...
...
carried in about the following proportions:
By British Vessels,
American,...
other Foreign Flags,
***
...
■nd were carried in about the following proportions:
By British Vessels,
American,
ether Foreign Flags,
3,000,000 3,000,000
...
lbs 8,500.000
15,500,000
"
2,000,000
Ballast Tea
"
Paper
Ballast
HOWE HALE, Vice-Consul.
Port of
AND. EXP
TIES.
gels m.c.c. 652.2.4.9
TOTA
Taels 60,800
,732.0.0.0
7,732
,699.5.0.0
4,69
1,213.5.0.0
Total,
ths 10,500,000
Tritish Consulate, Foochow, 1st January, 1856.
Diplomatic Department. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Trade, cke, &c., has received from Mr Consul Robertson the wing Despatch from Commander Fortescue, of Her Maity's Steamer Barracouta, reporting the destruction Piratical Junks in the neighborhood of the Chusan and cano Islands, which SIR JOHN BOWRING has directed be published for general information.
By Order,
G. W. CAINE, in the absence of the Off Secretary
to H. B. M's Plenipotentiary.
Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th February, 1856.
H. M. STEAM-SLOOP" Barracouta,” SHANGHAE, 25th January, 1856. F-I have the honor to inform you, that having received in- Pirmation that a number of Piratical Vessels were infesting the touring Islands, I proceeded for a Cruize in Her Majesty's Sp Barracouta, during which every bay and creek in the . Archipelago, which it was imagined could harbour any
ssle, has been searched. On the 16th, three Piratical Junks, 4,55ed with from 9 to 7 guns each and from 20 to 30 meu, were
Maien and burnt on the South-east side of Chusan.
such
O the 22d, two large and heavily armed West-Coast Junks were -tairs and destroyed at the Volcano Islands. I discovered from a Nå ramener found on board one of those junks, that these vessels had
2,3 committing unheard of depredations for the last 4 months in $se parts, and that during his stay on board (which has only been * day) they had taken and pillaged eight Junks.
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am convinced that the Coasting Trade must derive very great ceft by the destruction of the said Junks, and I think both from 1,6 añvervation and information that those Islands are free from Pira- 2,87 Bucal Vencls for the present.—I have, &c.
2,133.0.0.0 3,777.2.5.0
2,581.5.0.0
1,650.0.0.0 2,859.7.5.0
2,5
3,283.0.0.0 21.0.0.0
3,21
1,78
6,194.2.0.0 6,15
4,513.7.5.0 4,514
1,748.0.0.0
1,037.9.0.0 1,0:
O6,096.59..9 107.9°
(Signed)
T. B. HoBERTSOs, Esquire,
Her Majesty's Consul,
Shanghae. True Copy,
17.
THOMAS FORTESCUE,
G. W. CAINE.
Commander.
PROCLAMATION.
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, $148.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony £37** Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of C. HOWE HALIne, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief ish Vice-Consul.eperintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China.
Total,
the 26,000.000
FREDC. HOWE HALE, British Vice-Consul.
Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable HENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1855, entitled “ An Ordi-
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nance for the Amendment of the Civil Administration of “Justice :”
Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid. By His Excellency's Command,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Given at Victoria, Hongkong,
this 4th Day of February, 1856.
GOD SAVE THY QUEEN.
No. 18.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In continuation of Government Notification No. 12, it is hereby further intimated, that the “Chinese Passengers Act 1855" has now been officially communicated to this Government; and His Excellency The Governor desires to point out, for general information, that, in consequence of an alteration made in the House of Lords, the "Note' to Schedule A has become inconsistent with the body of the Act, and that the Penalty for breach of the Regula- tions has been reduced from Forfeiture of the Ship and a Fine, to a Misdemeanour.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 4th February, 1856.
No. 19.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency The Governor, with the concurrence of the Executive Council, has granted 12 Months' Leave of Absence, on Medical Certificate, to CHARLES St G. CLEVERLY, Esquire, Surveyor General.
Mr CLEVERLY'S leave will date from the Departure of the Mail Steamer on the 15th instant; and during his absence, CAPTAIN COWPER, R.E., will, as Acting Surveyor General, conduct the duties of the Department.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 7th February, 1856.
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