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POLICE.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

(BEFORE the. Lieut. Governor and the Chief Magistrate.)

ON Thursday last, Assing, an Old Chinaman and eight others Charged with Piracy.

DANIEL Caldwell gaye evidence that he is master of the Thistle, and when getting under weigh Akoo came on board and informed him his Salt Junk with a Cargo worth abont 600 dollars had been captured by Pirates in the vicinity of Hong- kong. He offered me 50 dollars to recover it for him. On nearing the Island of Pang chow a Salt Junk under Sail was pointed out to me as his. On nearing her four Pirate Boats of about 70 or 80 oars each attacked and fired 9 Shots at me. In return. I fired 5 Shots when they sheered off boarded the Salt Junk and took the prisoners who offered no resistance. I found three of the origi nal crew confined with hands tied, under the hatch- es. Assing on returning to my berth came on board he was recognized as the hirer of the Pirates and endeavoured to recover the Junk again by intimidation.

phrase is, his senses would take leave of him the moment we took leave of his shores: a convention without security for its fall mont, would be a mockery, and the peace or the pactions we might enter on would be broken through and flung to the winds before- before our retiring stadrons were one-half the way back to Eng. China Expedition is a delusion, unless it secures to us a lasting and honorable peace; and the attainment of this can only be hoped for by our permanently maintaining on the counts of China the means of, at the shortest notice, making war. We must, in fact, occupy and retain along the Coast, portions of the celestial territory as ample as can conveniently and profitably be

maintained. This must be done, and that right speedily, though not till after we have shown the Emperor that if we do not insist on keeping the capital in our possession it is neither from the want of power, nor from regard to the imperial rights or person, but simply because Pekin suits us less than many of the positions along the coast.

YAN

In talking of the violation of the rights of nations in our con- quest or occupation of China. we suffer ourselves to be perplexed Ilated and organized conditions of society. The Chinese and with the idea and nomenclature appertaining to well-regu their rulera no rights whatever kindred to those which in Europe prevent one kingdom from interfering with the arrangements of another, unless by a line of policy which is in itself criminal and unjust, In China there are no institutions which either respect or protect the people, or are constituted or upholden for the public good, or by the public pleasure or consent. the present Tartar ruler-the right of the strong to govern over A Guelph or a Bourbon ha as good a right to the sovereignty as the weak or the unresisting But besides the internal rights of an individual nation which are in this case, and this sense, nonexistent there is no principle of national jurisprudence more distinctly recognized than this, that no individual people on the face of the earth is warranted to assume a position injurious er obnarious to the great Commonwealth of nations: no corporate

AxOo the owner of the Salt Junk in question entirely corrobborated the foregoing, as also other witnesses.

THE prisoners in their defence, allege they are not pirates, and had nothing to

four Pi They were which he had

rate Boats which attacked the the

hired by Assing to repair the bought.

ASSING (being an old man) was sentenced to 21 Months Imprisonment in Irons with hard la bour; the other 8 prisoners to Corporal punish- ment of 100 Lashes each, and to be imprisoned in Irons with hard labour for eighteen Months. The Salt Junk was given up to its owner and the Guns and Swivels found on board handed over to the Harbour Master's care.

CHINESE AFFAIRS. NOTWITHSTANDING the high hopes primarily entertained of the career of sir Henry Pottinger and Admiral Parker, hopes at first in some measure realized, for what they have done has been done promptly and well, the manly t ne-assumed by them con- trasted favourably with the miserable drivelling which preceded, -the course latterly pursued by them has been anything but satisfactory. The instructions of the successors of the Elliots were, we have much reason to believe, closely akiu to those by which the operations of the expedition were meant primarily to have been guided; that the system pursued since has improved, is referrible to the character of the individuals now in charge of it the principles by which it is governed, unless very lately altered, are rotten and worthless as ever. The makeshift, —the rnb.on-any-how-system of Lord Palmerston, so conspicuously dis played in the illustrious cases of the Canadian rebels and Amer. ican sympathisers, and in that of our interference with the affaire of the Levant, required but the China war-and-no-war arrange- ments to put the copastone to its absurdities. It looks as if the whole arrangements had been made somewhat thus-On the first outbreak, the destruction of three millions worth of British property is pressed on the consideration of the Foreign Secretary

Something wrong in China,"cries Cupid to his colleagues, "cant tell what it is, but something clearly wrong-must have an expedition, "twill furnish good berths for a brother and cousin of Minto's. I know nothing about the matter myself, they will surely find out when they get there what ought to be done; the India Company will fork out the money first, that will save all the bother about supplies till the accounts come finally in and then they must be paid. China is too far off to make folks critical about a little, blandering; they will surely manage as many victo- ries over the pig tails as will make this be forgotten, soff with the expedition, and let something be done." This actually seems to embody the whole views of the late Foreign Secretary, as well a those of the men who have managed the expedition from the com- mencement to the present hour. In England the most profound ignorance of the whole affair seems to have prevailed from the "first; we were fighting about something, and gaining victories, and the Tea trade remained uninterrupted, and this appeared to be all about which any concern was experienced. wellire member how forcibly the ignorance manifested by the tentiary and Admiral, as to the great and ultimate ends of mission, struck all with whom they came in contact in Bom in July last; an ignorance only one whit less sur their still more conspicuous indifference as to the means ing information. Sir Henry Pottinger and Sir Willi

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4. The claims of all deccased Officers and Men are to be included in the Abstracts of Companies, Detach-- ments or Departments, and it will be particularly speci fied, in the column of remarks, in the Nominal toll accompanying each Bill, whether the Heirs or Assigns of the deceased are present, as only in case of their presence will the amount be issued by Pay Masters, for the purpose of being paid over under the order and where the Heirs or Assigns are not present, the responsibility of Commanding Officers. In cases amount drawn will be deducted from the Bills, and transferred to the General Treasury by Pay Masters for deposit, until legally claimed. Officers and Men, absent from their Corps, will be drawn for one rejoining.

5. The Batta Bills for the Donations will be refer- red for audit and adjustment to the Public Department of the Presidencies to which Corps, Departments, or Individuals respectively belong.

6. Each Bill will be acompanied by a Nominal Roll of all ranks drawn for in it, agreeably to the following Form, and European Officers who may have been em. ployed on the Staff, or who may have been interms. Expedition, or who may be absent on leave, will pre- diately transferred to Regiments not serving with the pare and submit separate Bills supported by Certificates of Service in China.

Roll of Officers, Staff, Non-Commissioned, Private or

Troopers, belonging to -

Regiment serv-

community, however ample, or under what ever designation it ing with the China Expedition. may she

itself, is entitled to obstruct the march of civiliza fion, or to mar the happiness or improvement of the vast family of man. In this sense China has set herself up as an offence and a stumbling block, which must be removed by force from the united movement of the great human family.

Assuming that the conquest and retention of ample portions of the territories of China will be the next object of our operations, we think we may look forward to the ultimate results likely to accrue from these, as amongst the most important to the world at large of any which ever fallowed in the wake of conquest. The shores of China, indented as they are with innumerable inlets, studded with the most fertile and lovely groups of islands and furnishing the debouchures, of the magnificent rivers which spread

over and enrich the land, furnish perhaps the finest situations in in existence for the permanent sellements of a country such as England. There are hundreds of positions, such as those of Amoy and Chusan, where an easily defensible islet or penin. sula might be maintained by a single regiment, a frigate and an iron steamer; and where the inhabitants would flock in thou sands to colonize under the shelter of our guns, and the protection of our lawa. The Chinese people are on all hands admitted to be amongst the most industrious, and the most thoroughly imbued with the spirit of commercial enterprise, of any race in the Eastern Seas; they need but to be saved from the abominable tyranny which enslaves and torments them. In a religious p-int of view they present materials still more

the mis

sons of civilization; and ingiuntive and acute enoug and appreciate the truth, they have few or no prejudices, and no superstition in prevent its reception or its spr The priesthood.

are powerlem amongst them, and the, secular movereign demands all the worship an his own. Sweep this source of idolatry away, and the field is open for the spread of the Gospel.

We must now view the relations about to be opened up, not as referring to the civilized nations of the Western world - within those 20 years the seeds of human improvement have been sown, and civilization has spread with almost miraculous strength and celenty on their southern borders, Saxon races, transplanted mature and fresh-full of life and European vigour and resources, are convering the shores of New Holland in every direction. A diy promising to surpass that of any nation in the and. America alone excepted (for in relation ent to be called old),-- on—a distance lem than Good Hope and Ceylon, tide of benefits which

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ARMY

Rank and Names.

Colonel,

Lieutenant Colonel, Major

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&c., &c.

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Company or De

partment. Date of Casualty and where,

Date and nature

of leave of abi

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Remarks.

B. Commanding the Company. C. D. Commanding the Regiment. Examined E. E,

Adjutant,

A Nominal Acquittance Roll of each Corps, De tachment, and Department, will be prepared within one. month after the issue of the Donations, shewing the manner in which the distribution has been made, and the appropriation of all shares of absentees or deceased persons.

8. These kolls will be deposited in the Military Au dit Offices, for future reference, in the event of dispnted or additional claims to the Donations being preferred

9. The amount of the Batta Donation will be de bted to Her Majesty's Government.

No. 69 of 1842. Surgeon J. Thompson is appointed Superintending Surgeon to the Force serving in China. from the date of his quitting his Corps at Kurnaul. F. of 1.

CALCUTTA.

THE DEPARTURE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH FOR THE PROVINCES

From the Eastern Star, April 3.)

On Wednesday, the intended journey of the Govern or General in the North West Provinces was an of nounced in our daily paper, and on the following day the intelligence was confirmed by a Gazette Extraordinary specifying that circumstances made it expedient his Lordship should proceed thitherward unaccompanied by any of his Council, and that in consequence it was enact- ed he should appropriate the full powers of the Go- vernor General in Council, excepting only the framing of laws and regulations – V

We were further informed as to the parties proceeding by dawk; these being, Mc Maddock the Secretary in the Secret and Political De- partment Mr. Mansell, and Colonel Stewart Secretary in the Military Department, together with the whole of his Lordship's personal Staff-the dawks being laid Do 83 to admit of a start on Saturday next. The Body Guard will march up, and establishments are to follow by steam during the month. resolution occasioned

26th Foot-Lieut. George William Molyneux Lovett, from the 86th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Phipps, who exchanges.

49th Foot-Lieut. A. Mackenzie, from h. p. 30th Root to be Lieut. (repaying the difference), vice Gib

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