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THE FRIEND OF CHINA.

AND

WONGBONG

GAZETTE

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

VOL.

NORILLIA

Tue publication zette under the au will be discontinu public orders and

"The Friend of Chi

the Hongkong Ga

zette,” with the rignature

this date

rized Functionarion of the ( still to be considered an official,

ernment are

By order.

J Rob Morrison,

Acting Secreth and Treasurer.

Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842.

the Constel toed in a recent

gerated stories at River having f. t on the 3rd instant. was sounding and Ford shot were ely to the Fri- to the Governor, special orders to

o repeat much an act Batisfactory expla- here the Chinese were have been all in notice to the boat by to leave firing

THE CANTON RANSOM,

(from the

Foar William ș

of India)

THE appointments of Land Officer, Surveyor, and Acting Colonial Surgeon at Hongkong, are, under Instruction from Her Right Hon'ble Majesty's Government, to cease from 31st of the current month.

the

cil has great mation of the they have been forble the Court

The arrangements to be continued the discharge of the duties hitherto per- formed by the Land Officer will be notified in due time.

By order

Chas. E. Stewart.

Assistant Secretary and

Government House.

Hongkong, 17th May, 1812.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

reasure

THE Sale of two Boats (ordered confiscated and sold as having be

ically employed) of which notice

given that it would take.

the 14th Inst. is deferred till Saturday the

21th Inst.

WILLIAM PEDDER

letter to the

Para,

ing you that as

Majesty entertain ful exertions of and of our Service China, the Queen that a grant be made of money received. Canton under the Co

We now, enclose

54 of 1942-The ral of India in Coun. shing for the infor,||

igraphe, “hich to the Honor

Military ncil.

nity of appriz:

Price 11 monthl

Or

the engines, of 400 horse power, were constructed, by Messra Maudslay, Sons, and Field, with copper boilers and cliungo water apparatus, which keeps the salt wa ter below a certain point, and by that means prevents any deposit taking place, so that a vessel migla procesi on a yoyage to India without inscrustation to the extent of the thickness of a sixpenny piece. The cylinders are double,on the expansion principle, and the consump tion of fuel can be adinirably regulated to suit any aircumstance of slow or quick sailing, she has also disconnecting gear to work one wheel without the other if found necessary

Whilchall, Feb. 14th Tue Quean has been pleased: to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Jamsetjen Jeajeobhoy, of Bombay, in the East Indies, Esq.

the

GENERAL HOME INTELLIGENCE.

Urwards of sixty firms in Manchester, who trace distress of the cotton trade to the high price of pro- visons, trace that to the sliding scale, and recommend an early struggle for a fixed duty, Their proofs aro eertainly demoustrative.

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IRELAND.

THE Lord Mayor of Dublin says that the last ticket (for a teetotaller) he saw signed by Father Mathew was marked PIVE MILLIONS, TWO THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND Two. At least 10,000 more have taken Majesty's the pledge since,

tions an

ed to direct ortion of the sum Thorties at.

concluded by

one only

Minute by the

shall consist of the

SHIPS LOADING AT

Priva

LONDON.

Elizabeth, for Madras and China. Raymond, and Judith Allan, for Hongkong, Pink for Singapore and China. Anna Maria for Chins.

Orrier. The personnel of the

Lord Aberdeen, including the ide by the resignation of Mr. Un. Backhouse is as follows:

es, Viscount Canning and Mr. If, Precis Writer, W. B. Stohpford, Esq, Secretary to Lord Aberdeen, C. G. Dawkins Esq Collector and Transmitter of State Papers, Arch- deacon Goddard. In consequence of the press of busi ness relating to the slave trade, four clerks have been attached to that departmen

BY ORDER

Harbor Master,

Harbor Master's Office

Hongkong 12th May 1842.

lowen been

of an sum which may have 3 gratuity to any portion of the

son of Viscount Duncan

FROM THE PREN

DEFENCES OF THANTUNG PROVIN

Shan tung

nes the

ncamp

or the Mea

Tò Kwan foo (li

Province) kneeling

of ablet

troops are

still

office

mard,

The Hon. S Ponsonby, on, and the Hon, C. Spring

Rice, son of Lord Monteagle, are to retain their ap pointments as junior clerks

King of the French has conferred two gold ins Shape and Ward masters of the merch vessels, in testimony of ed by them to the French frigate ked in the China Seas in November,

that it is the intention of can

tax pr

of 3 per sintention to maka duties, The

gow railway was opened

requiring neither a damp soil Just been introduced from

Bolia Into

at the

for a