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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE,

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THE Government Notification with respect to the indicate that the attention of the Home Government fabricating weapons, than the art of writing consists in making Land officer, Acting Colonial Surgeon, and Surveyor,f war should recollect that the url of war ennaista no more in has been thus early directed to our local arrangements.

pons or manufacturing paper. In truth, if the Chinte, not a appointment of permanent establishments on our Tse-ding to our repeated experience of Asiatic nations, become the We hope we may add, with a view to the definitive

very probable-event--abandoneng their own rudo modes of war- faro, should attempt au imitation of ours, they will only, accor land,

Br letters dated London the 4th March, we find the aspect of Commercial affairs is still very gloomy. The recent failures in the East India Trade, have given rise to many sinister reports, affecting the stability of other firms engaged in the same trade. We would hope the worst is past; but it is appre hended in well informed circles, that the heavy losses which it is almost certain, will accrue on

FROM a correspondent in London we learn an March the 4th it was generally believed at Court. East India and China produce, now in transit, may

that again, her Majesty was as ladies wish to be lead to further disasters. It is expected the Im-who love their lords”. porters of Indigo, Bengal Silk, Tea and other staple products will be heavy sufferers more e especially seeing that these returns, were in most cases, made for British, Manufactures, which had realized rui nously low rates, both in India and China.

On the 4th of March the Tea Market was a shade Better Bohea 1s, 7d Company's Congou 1s. 10d.-Pouchong Is. 7d. to Is. 10d.—Souchong 1s. 10d, to 2s, for ordinary to good ordinary-Flow- ory Bekoe 33.-to-3s-8d. Caper 1s, 10 d Orange Pekoe 2s. 3d. to 3s. Twankay good or- dinary 1s. 10d.-Hyson Skin, ditto 1s. 9d. Ilyson, ditto, 2s. 3d, to 2s, 5d.-Imperál 2s, to 3s-Gun powder 2s. 3d to 4s. 10d-The arrivals during the Month were the Beulah, Simon Taylor, Asia and Bussorah Marchant, It is thought when the News of the heavy Exports from hence, arrives in England, the prices of Teas will importantly suc- cumb. The expected arrivals from Amoy and the Northern Ports will however, not for some time be realized

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Exported

Imports

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5,572,170 280,000

5,870,884 30,164,020-

Silk is firm and the scanty Imports will cause Chi -na raws to maintain disproportionately high rates; fair supplies from hence would bring them to their proper level. The last Sales were a Run of Good Tsatlee ex Beulah at 21-and one of fair to good Cargo, Sortat 196. Unless at low-rates this article will never again assume its for mer prominent position in the London Market. The importers of Coffee, Foreign grown Sugar, and Cinnamon have memorialised the Government for a reduction of Duties in the promised revisal of our Tariff. We do not hear of any movement with respect to our Staple article Tea, which we repeat, is burdened with an Impost, the amount of which, besides the mode of its assessment, is so wholly irreconcileable with sound policy and pol- tical justice, that it only requires to be urged in the proper quarters to obtain an amended scale of Du- ties, At present, the poor man's tea pays a duty of nearly 150 per Cent, whilst that of the rich man only amounts to about 50 to 75 per Cent on the first Cost Many parties of high standing (who have given this matter much consideration) venture to affirm the consumption of Ten might be donbled in the United Kingdom, within the next six years if a fair ad valorem duty were imposed thercon.

Money was easy, it was advanced by the Bank of England at 4 p, Ct, which was the current rate of Discount for undoubted

The general paper, want of confidence prevented investments and with Capitalists money, was said to be very abun dunt, In the manufacturing districts, glimpses of improvement were visible, and had Peel's amend ment of the Corn Laws been accordant with the just rights of the suffering many, we are assured the impoved tone and feeling engendered thereby, would have been almost magical: so strong is the disposition to hope for the best, among our Coun

trymen,

POLICE

AT THE CHIEF MAGISTRATES OFFICE.

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more casy victims. It will give them a temporary and a false confidence. They will meet us in greater numbers, and on a fairer field, and such being the case, the sure consequence will be, that a greater number will be shot and the contest be the earlier decided.

Olinese, what we want, and we want nothing else, is a peaceful When it is decided, what remains to be done? With the and unshackled cominorelal intercourse. This will be bont-we cured by refraining from every stop that can disturb the internal--- land is forthwith to be garrisoned by a depositions, close on the coast of the most commercial and popu Ir is said that the Fort an Kellett's Is-into confusion, which would not be difficult, would not tend to tranquility of the umpire, or to set an empire of 970 millions the extension of our commerce. Certain insular or peninsular tachment offorty men under the commands amparia, free to the commerce of all nations. They cought

of Lieut. Rogers.

the Queen's Road in that part of the town fronting In the burial ground, which is immediately upon upon Howwan Bay there has recently been erect- a brave British officer who fell in action. A copy ed a chaste granite Monument to the memory of of the inscription which we give below was handed to us by one of his companions in arms,

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY

OF

Lieut. Benjamin Fox R. N. AGED 29 YEARS

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H. M. S. Nimrod Who was killed on the heights

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During the attack of that City 24th May 1842. (on the reverse.) This monument was erected

his late Captain........ Messmates and friends AS A TESTIMONY

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Their regard and esteem

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

The news from China, which appeared in our last publication, was of a far brighter complexion than that from India; and in this quarter-overy hope may be entertained of a prosperous, though perhaps not of a speedy, issue to our quarrel. By the last account, we were in possession ef four important points on the coast of China-the great island-studded estuary of Canton, the long-established seat of our trade; the fine harbour of Amoy, close on the black-tea districts, and commanding the intercourse between Formosa and the mainland, the principal island of the Chusan group; and the castle and town of Chin-hae, with the great city of Ningpo, close to a green-tes district, to a county ab unding in silk, and at a. convenient distance for aback to the southern entrance of the great canal which conveys the taxes, contributions and tea from the rich provinces of the south to the populous but sterile districts of the metropolis.

These important acquisitions have been made by almost blood. less victories. The Chinese, although far from wanting physical Strength or personal courage, and still less intelligence, cannot, or will not, fight; and we think bot causes have contribuled, to our successes. This seems an odd anomaly, but it is not diffi cult of explanation. In practical civilization, in industry, and the other nations of Asin as we excel them, and, perhaps farther progress in the useful arts, they as far excel the most civilized of But in the military art the case is reversed, for they are in this below the rudest tribes that surround them, and Indeed below contempt. Hence their easy subjugation, twice over, by bands of Tartar shepherds, the handful of conquerors themselves become ing, in lapse of time, essentially Chinese, The Chinese have neighbouring nations and tribes, whe, for Interested motives, ràs with squals, and justly enough, look upon the pamper them with adulations, as nating but barbarians. A weak

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and anwieldy Government, which has to hold together a number of human beings equal to half the race of mankind, proclaims, as a potent talisman for maintaining its authority, that the Institutions of the empire are already perfect and admit of no melioration and hence improveme tor innovation are denounced as a species

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the of small extent, so as to be easily and cheaply garrisoned, Such is the thirst of the Chiness for commerce, and their skill would have little power to linder them, the emporia in questi in spite even of their own Government, which in its feebleness and activity in conducting it, and evading fiscal traminels, that

would soom become places of great commercial resort.

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with them by navigable rivers, canals, or tolerable highways, the six mame provinces of China, extending from the 20th to the 35th deree of latitude, contain, to say nothing of those connected enormous population of 140 millions, the most industrious of the whole empire, These are, in fact, the countries which produce all the tea, all the raw and wrought silk, and most of the minor productions exported by Europeans, and, moreover, that consume most of our metals, woolens, calicoes, and Indian produce

It rests with those who have, local and recent experience to de, cide on the actual positions; and we presume that when from selection can be made from a line of more than 1,280, mil hes coast,mere studded with islands, and more abounding in grod harbour and navigable rivers, than any other in that part of the world of the same oxtont, there can be no great difficulty i haking choice, One position within the estuary of Canton, where the people have beon long accustomed to the European trado, and where much capital and much experience are accu mulated, is indispensable, In the next province, Fokin, which produces most of the black tea, and all of it that is good, with a great deal of fine sugar, and of which the inhabitants are already distinguished for their skill and enterprise in foreign trade, we are in possession of the fine harbour of Amoy, with its conve. nient island; and this, therefore, may be suggested as a very convenient locality for an enporium. The next province, Che. kiang, is one of the most industrious and commercial of the em pire, produces green tea and raw silks, and in it commences the great canal which leads to the capital, while it is besides the seat of the Chinese commerce with Japan. Here we are in oo- cupation of the faland of Chusan, of too extensive an area, how. aver, for a secure and economial--permanent possession;-but- the fortress of Chin-hae, at the mouth of the Ningpo river, situa. ted on a promontory, and 250 feet above the level of the sea, will probably answer every purpose. The two next provinces are the richest of the empire, and contain between them above seventy millions of inhabitants. They produce most of our green tea, a great deal of raw silk, the great canal runs through them, and they contain, moreover, the embouchure and the much of the course of the greatest river in China-one which can only be compared, for magnitude and convenience, to one of the prin cipal streams of America. Should a position be required here, we imagine that to fix upon a convenient one cannot be difficult. Emporia ao situated, while they will command all that is val. uable in the foreign commerce of China, will be secure from all the petty aggression of which the Chinese. Government is ca- pable and, what is of even more consequence, by keeping us apart from the Chinese, save as from the greater danger of the suggestions of our own ambition. We deprecate, then, all' ter- ritorial acquisition, as not only valueless and burthensome in itself, but as inevitably, and in the long run leading us already overcharged with a heavy burthen of the same nature, to the conquest of China. For the same reason, we deprecate. all per manent diplomatic relations whatsoever with so vile se tricky, and so impracticable a Government as that of Chinn. Such z connexion would assuredly lend to insults-the insults to retabation and the rotalation pssibly to a revolution that might, as on the last occasion, throw the empire into disorder and anarchy for half a century, a rosult.not to be desired by a nation anxious only for the extension of a peaceful commerce. Examiner.

SIR JAMSETJEE JEJEEBнoy.—THE distinction which benevolent Parsee is cause for congratulation to the It has pleased the Queen to bestow on this amiable and whole native community of India.Although many might be found equally deserving, it must at the same time be admitted that none are more entitled to the dignity conferred than the gentleman who has been sc- lected to receive it. This participation of British hon- becoming pride, and convince those wealthy natives of ors will be accepted and worn by Sir Jamsetjee with India, who have the happiness to be subjects of the Crown of England, that its favoars in future will be dispensed without reference to caste or colour. We have also been highly gratified by an inspection of a very magnificent service of plate, intended as a present to Sir Jamsetjee The principal pieces, the candelabra, have inscribed on them the following

Presented to Jamsetiee Jejeabhoy, Esq., of Bombay, by Wm. Jardine and James Matheson, of Canton, as a mark of their sin.. cere friendship, and to commemorate their admiration of his liber, adly, orality in business, pure philanthropy, and extensive benevolence. when the

There are also on the base of the candelabro two chasings, representing the great services rendered by his gentleman in relieving the inhabitants of Surat at the time of the conflagration, he having distributed both food and clothing, with an unsparing hand. The ser- vice is for 24 persons, and of the value of £3,000. Monthly Times.

NECROLOGY.

By the monthly Times, dated London 4th March, we find reported the demise the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of Herteford. Tad, Ogle, Sir. H. W. Martin Bart. Ludy Mary Stuart, Hart Davies late M. P. or Bristol, the Countess Sebastiam.

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and Old Roberts the Hate Coachman, and the veteran matist Count Pozzo di Borgo,