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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

TRÌBYD OF CHIN

AND HONGKONG GAZI

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL, 28TH 1842,

as prize money on the army, and navy, the res be carried to the credit of the consolidated fund.

evacuated by the British troops owing to the smallness of the force. Chinhae would

Tua case of the holders of the Elliot scrip, begin continue to be garrisoned. Several persons

therefore to look somewhat dark. There can be no had been carried off by the Chinese under hope that Parliament will ever make good their los the very walls of Ningpo; among the from the public exchequer, after Her Majesty's Mins number was Sergeant Campbell of H. Misters have refused to appropriate the ransom of the 49th Regimel ters state that General town where the opium was destroyed, to the object. The only source from which it can now be expected in upon.Nankin, and

from the Treasury of Pekin. But there can be little eities, but keep- || doubt- Sir Henry Pottingers

Bas been brought to reason,

Gough

what vast

can command for

commen- number of The evacua

the Chinese ing warfare, it is policy not to locate Il and slated garri tion of Ningpo will be heralded by the Chi- nese as a glorious victory gained over the rns being | barbarians, and will no doubt embolden||

them to more obstinately determined resis-

We

do exist)

insalubrity one of the

bar

agai healthiest in the world, and it is ful- ly certain that when proper houses, racks &c. are erected with the sanitary regulations which always obtain in English town, Hongkong will lay claim, and justly, to even a superior salubrity.

tance.

when the Emperor bas b

umbursement of the expenses of the war expenses will have swell to so large before the account is brought to a close,

that we

ma!

of some two Millions sterling to good the destroyed Opium, will be found to exceed the capabilities of the Chinese Exchequer. If it be discovered that the Chinese are not equal to the pay. ment of both sums, the weakest claim will of course go to the wall.

In these circumstances it is some consolation learn, from those whose experience qualifies them to give an opinion on the ubject that the loss sustained by the delivery of the twe

#twenty thousand Chests to

in a great measure, if Chinese Government

not altogether, made up, by chants have subsequently sactions. The destruction of

We have copied from the Friend of India the following article, and we fear the con- clusion arrived at by the Editor must now be but too obvious to the unfortunate bold the drug, did not fail to give it aners of the Opium Scrip. Unless compen- sation be obtained, we hesitate not to say the holders will be deeply aggrieved, con- fidence in public men will be wholly de stroyed, and our national honor will be sore- Tax Sydney papers are quite exultant at the intel.ly tarnished. Instances have before oc- ligence, that the G

Moasrox Bar.

open for coloniza

the northern

tations are

ure. Much c

ney on deposite

in these lands when

We are fully satisfi

this section of the

a supply

the colonist

We are

will be, that, lar supply of lonies and at a the case, when

are upon the thr

enry when

the Gh

of F

It

ele ta Colonic

this

ever

to give, on thi

ges so large a

and the Colonies.

ley, vary from seven pen are told on good authority, higher, than these ordinarily vince.

to throw

the Canton

curred, where the drafts of Functionaries on the home Government have been pro- tested for non-payment; but the dismissal or retirement of the Functionary has been the drafts.

ence of such unauthorised ain Elliott, despite such a practi- cal

mnation of his conduct, was still continued as Plenipotentiary, some year ore after it was known how deeply. the Government. Such

dismissal ect righte

Had the protest

the

sal of Captain

us even then.

No

can

The (in

deemed it grossly unjust inflict deep

on private usdividuals, for having

placed faith in a public officer.

which the mer. Opium-tran-

ge a quantity of anced value in

th market; and thus to contribute in some measure to reimburse those who had been sufferer Far be it from us to hint even in a whisper that their claim on the Parliament of Great Britain, which authorized the trade by its own Act, has been weakened by any such event ; only we venture te express our satisfaction. in learning that the profits of subsequent speculations for the loss thev suffered, and thus served to mitigate have in a great measure afforded a compensatio the regret, which might otherwise be felt if no relief should be given by the Government of England.

One hundred and seventy troops, we understood last week, was the number now

Amoy, but we are glad to learn that there are upwards of three hundred, although the Queen Steamer had recently been down for several detachments. The Steamer we learn arrived at Chusan from Amoy after a passage of only sixty hours.

From the late Indian Papers we learn, with deep regret, that the late disastrous cenes in Afghanistan will be the means

causing

es of about one hun- and e

officers be stricken from the army list.

LORD AUCKLAND had

had engaged his passage home in the Hungerford; and it is un-

THAT compensation is never denied to priest, peer or even an anticipative sinecu- rest of the privileged classes, the million Loan, the Scarlett job and a thousand faderstood that the Tenasserim steamer, stances, strikingly witness, How after taking that vessel down the river, will that the merchants of our prosecute her voyage to the Straits on her

iliar

› support, and pride-chould way to join the Expedition in China.

which cannot obtain its i

just

We have

this

Sing Free Press.

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