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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

AND DONGBONG GAZETTE

VOL. L.

NOTIFICATION.

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18TH. 1842,

THE publication of the Hongkong Ga zette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date: but all public orders and notifications appearing in The Friend of China and Hongkong Ga- "with the signatures of duly autho- zette,' rized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.

By order,

J. Robt: Morrison, Acting Secretary and Treasurer Hongkong, March, 23rd. 1842,

SELECTIONS

FROM THE PEKING GAZETTE.

PATRIOTISM IN PEKING. A considerable number of the higher classes at Peking have voluntarily come forward with large sums of money, placing them at the dispo- sal of their Imperial Master, for the use of the troops engaged in the present struggle. His Majesty orders a council of the Board of Appointments, directing them to deliver the funds over to the Board of Revenue, and to d

deliberate upon the favours proper to be bestowed upon these patriotic donors and friends of their country's good.

THE REVENUE OFFICERS IN CHE-KEANG. The Officers charged with the collection of the Revenue in Che-keang Province, hav- ing misplaced or lost some of their important papers, thus rendering their transmissions of funds to the Capital indefinite and con- fused, the Board of Revenue solicits the Emperor to allow the matter to be handed oyer to the Board of Punishments for in- vestigation and judgment. His Majesty complies with the solicitation.

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officers

monthly $12 yearly

just as we on a larger scale mot with an accumulation of reverses and disasters, when we

we carried our arms beyond the Indus into Affghanistan The Sikhs aro now quite convinced of their bad policy in having ins vaded Chinese Tartary, and are ready agree to any treaty with the Tibetans to guarantee its independence, and confine themselves s within the limits of Ladakh. The Rajah of Iskardo, or Bultee, (little Tibet) is just

How a prisoner, or an ally with the Chinese force in Ladakh.

In Gurhwal and Kumaon, the great snowy range is more defined;

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d certainly very far exceeding in gran deur any thing to be seen in the Mussooree or Simla direction. Our Passes, which are five in number, viz: two in Gurhwal and three in Kumaon, lead directly to the very crest of the range; and as soon as you have attained the summit by an almost uninterrupted ascent, with the exception only of the minor vallies of the tri- batary rivers which join the main stream in the grand valley, generally at about right angles to it; you com mence a very gradual descent into Tartary. On the contrary all the Passes in the Simla quarter, consisting of the Berinda, the Roopin, the Goonass, and Shatoul, take

you over only one division of the snowy range; and leave you in a more difficult mountainous country than ever; where you have to chimb Pass after Pass, before reaching the rugged table land of

table land of Tartary.

in a memorial to the Court details the par- ticulars of the Fall of Woosung. Three of the barbarian ships were shattered and many of the rebels killed and wounded. The Governor states that Chun-hwa-ching, a veteran officer and chief in command at Woosung fell at the head of the troops while bravely leading them forward to battle. The Emperor is filled with regret at the loss of so valued an officer, and orders high funeral honours to be paid to his remains, toward the expenses of which His Majesty appropriates one thousand taels. An ancestral Temple is to be erected to his memory and all his children are to be pro- moted. The Governor is ordered to make special investigations as to all and troops who fell at Woosung.

CAPTURE OF A BARBARIAN SHIP AT FORMOSA. IT is stated that on the first moon of the present year (March 11th 1842) a barbari- an ship having three boats in tow attempt This is a very short sketch of the Himala Passes, and I would not have ventured on giving it even, were ed to enter the river or inlet of Too-te- it not for the purpose of trying to attract a little atten- ung, in the district of Chang-hwa, Tae- tion to the countries beyond them; now that they are wan (Formosa). The Officers on the sta- likely to be the field of a long contest between the tion immediately arranged large bodies of Seikhs and Chinese, which will most probably be only terminated either by our leading our assistance to the troops in ambush all ready for an attack

former, to take and keep possession of Chinese Tartary upon the vessel. The barbarians however along the North base of the snowy range, or exacting sail from the latter, when we make a final treaty with thein, discovering the troops endeavoured to hack, but were prevented by large hidden menced on Ladakh. The most minute account of the hidden a pledge of their ceasing the -aggressions just com- rocks. Upon this the Chinese made a vi-

Garhwal and Kumaon Passes, by Mr. Trail, formerly gorous attack and took the ship, the high Commissioner of Kumaon, may be found in the Asiatic waves preventing the guns of the barbari- Society's Researches, for 1843. I have not seen ans from being served. A great many fell this account I regret to say, but am told it leaves out from the ship and were drowned, and one nothing of any importance. It is very remarkable that so few Europeans have visited these Passes, while so white and several tens of back barbarians many have flocked in those near the Sutledge, leading were killed. They also captured alive of into Kunawur. The Mana, the Neelung, the Dhatma, white, red and black barbarians several and till Mr. Lushington went to it last year; the tens, together with a number of traitorous far between, have been the visits to the Neetce and the natives belonging to Canton.

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Beeans Passes are quite unexplored, and very few and

The vessel had three masts, and the guns, fowling pieces and swords captured E-LE-POO. Concerning this Minister, late. were recognized as belonging to Ningpo, high imperial Commissioner in Che-keang, and the ship was supposed to have been on we find the following laconic sentence in one her way from that city to Canton. The like the points of the late Gazettes. Let E-LE-POO be dis- graced to the fourth rank, and let him become the acting Assistant to the Commandant of Chapoo RESPECT THIS.

Emperor expresses his high satisfaction at the event and promises imperial favours.

THE CHINESE IN THIBET

SINOR Zorawar Singh's death, no reinforcements have actually been made to the Chinese force. in Heoondes; (the part of Chinese Tartary north of our Kumaon and Gurnwal frontier, the Troops which were sent from Lhassa in Inner Tibet, to drive out the Sikhs, still remain, as they were in numbers, having after their victories proceeded on to Gartokh, and thenbe in the direction of Ladakh which province they have now invaded. - They ha lakoth (a place of imp

CANTON AND THE BOGUE. It appears that the five soldiers, who are said to have been the first to flee before the barbarians at the Battle of the Bogue, have been found out and arrested. The Emperor's vengeance is freshly aroused about the fall of the forts, and these five men are said to have caused by the example, the other troops to flee. They are therefore sentenced to be trans- ported to the cold country, and there to be subject to continual and distressing tail. It 18 a well known fact that the very first to flee at the attack upon the Bogue" we several boat ads of the officers themselves, tual Chi who were

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Juwahir. The channels of the descending torrents, the only paths which nature has provided for the ac

access of man into these mysterious regions are the objects of the most surprising, grandeur and magnificence. The terrific precipices, roaring cataracts and never-ending masses of snow clad montains; shooting up into peaks its of pyramids, and to heights varying from-21,000 to 26,000 feet above the level of the sea, cannot be described or conceived without being an eye- witness of them. Kumaon is altogether the grandest part of the Himala; the peaks, the valleys rivers and lakes, are all finer than any other. The mo

magnificence of the Kalee river far, far exceeds that of the Ganges or Sutledge and where it debouches from the hills pear Burm Deo there is a character of majesty about it, which none of the other rivers can pretend to excep- ing, perhaps, the Indus. At Burm Deo it is nearly twice the size of the Ganges at Hurdwar, and in the plains it takes first the name of the Sabda, (well known to the figer shooting generation, who have a most pro- per idea of veneration for it, and always speak of it

pect, and afterwards the Gogra. It joins the above Patna, after its waters being half ab by the sandy bed in which it flows after leaving

I formerly called your attention to the Ny Tal (like) in Kumaon since then a good many have been explorin it, and 1 doub: not you admired. One of

sed in molintain scen. place and have

And also every route to it

did not exagger: days and the Past at the