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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

H. M. Ships Dido and Endymion have arrived here with a Fleet of Transports in seven days from Chusan. Two days prior to their sailing, the Plenipotentiary left for Foo

to the development of our foreign commerce, Sir Bobert Peel has taken a glorious first step, so that regard to our aristocratic legislators, la coutume we shall soon cease to say with Molière, with chez nous ne veut pas qu' un gentilhomme sache rien

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the Vixen Steamer. He may be expected here m a Transport in some four or five days. The Admiral will not it

borare the return to Hongkong || souls in a state of destitution for several months

beginning of the new year, Sir Henry Pottinger's arrival here, is looked for in about a fortuight. The Imperial Commissioners are en route to Canton. A Proclamation by the Plenipotentiary pro hibiting British Subjects from visiting for the northern Ports,

According to the Home Secretary; four months since, there were 1,200,000 paupers in England and Wales, and according to the Commissioners of Poor law Inquiry there were in Ireland 2,800,000 every year. We have not space to detail the remedy which we think should be applied to such a social malady, but must content ourselves by saying a most important amelioration of the condi- ed, by the news of the peace with China. tion of the working classes would at once be effect-

The manufacturers of our Staples may now go to work, with a certainty that they will find in

Commercial Pond Tariff has been China a market, which will even outstrip_the

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principal meteors only, and the larger shooting-stars, have been recorded by the Chiness. The catalogue affords no indication

of periodical showers, as recently observed. And yet there is a remarkable approach to the modern monthly spoch of their most numerous appearance. Angast and Naber are now the me- teoric months; then, in the dynasty of Bound, July and October were the most prolifio in these ebenomens, as the following eye- rage for 588 yours, reospindled by M, Biot, will show

Meteors. January...... ds. February..... 84. March........ April........ 65, May

June............. 9**.

Metoore. 185

July. August....... 155.

September. 125.

October..... 208.

Noember... 155. December. 85.

sertion of M. Biot's catalogue' in the collection of foreign mo- mdir.

The report recommended, and the Academy approved, the in.

ELECTRO LACEWORK". Notice was then given of a plan adopt- ed by a gentleman in Cornwall (who was unable to obtain copper gauze for the improved Smee's battery), whereby he has fabrica ted the article himself from common lace or net. He strained it on a frame, and having saturated it with wax, applied black-lend, in the usual way, and deposited copper on it. Two specimens, one the result of five hours action the other of eight, were sub- mitted to the society, and excited general interest from the very beautiful appearance they present, a delicate but durable fabric of perfect metallic lace. It is not alone the application of this ( the purpose for which it was prepared, that renders it so important, as does the new channel for the application of this attractive art which it opens, Lace, with its infinite variety of patterns, as also the delicate fabrica of gauze, can now be solidified into copper, and then be either silvered or gilded, and framed into a thousa articles of light ornamental fancy.work,-card cases, baskets screens. &c. &c., too numerous to name.

THE "ANEMOMETER" Mr. Ostler's apparatus consista principally of

till the Scale of adjusted, has been issued. The most ami- growth of cotton machinery, provided that reason- cable feeling by the Chinese towards the able duties be levied on the articles in which alone British, is confirmed by every account. the Chinese can pay them. Sir Robert Peel is too sagacious a statesmen not to see this, and we Many visits to Ningpo have been made from Chusan,the reception uniformly friend-made, that a reduction of the TEA DUTY, will have sanguine hopes, if proper representation be ly. Our translated extracts from the Peking take place. So of Sugar, when the new Brazil Gazette with regard to the late treaty i me-treaty is made, but a stipulation in favour of refined, a large vane, which is fixed at the top of the building where ob- the product of China, ought not then to be for-servations are to be made. The motion of this vane is communicu. gottem I must be remembered that we can ted to a pencil resting on a sheet of paper; this at once registers the direction of the wind. On the axia of the vane, and at right clothe one third of the human race at 40 per cent

angles to the direction of the wind, is the pressure-plates, which cheaper than they can do it themselves. The

consist of a square plate of metal, pressing against four springs, China Trade is in its veriest infancy, to speculate and so arranged that it recedes in exact proportion to the force of on its inevitable magnitude would startle our sober the wind. The rain-gauge is a very beautiful contrivance, and minded, or rather our somnolent friends. The is so arranged that the rain is conveyed into a glass bottle nicely balanced on springs; the weight of the water dropping causes it language of truth would be treated as a mere

to descend, and so doing, moven a third pencil; which there fore, figment of the imagination. Hence we say no

registers the quantity of rain. When the glass becomes full, it more, other than congratulate our brother Islanders spontaneously empties itself by a very ingenious modificaton of the on the brilliant destines of Hongkong, the entrepôt clock, which makes the registering-paper move, regularly, in a syphon, Lastly, the whole machine is rendered complete by a and emporium which will have China on the one given time, under the pencils; and thus causes them to draw hand and England on the other.

lines indicating the duration and force of wind and the fall of rain, and shewing the precise time when any change took place.

In attempting to impress upon our countrymen the importanco of Eastern commerce, we have not in our minds the worn-out and limited markets of the Levant. It is to India we look under a wiser system of intercourse than we have yet pursued, but especially to those portions of the eastern hemisphere which offer a new field for the maritime energy of England--China, Japan, Corea, Siam, Cochin China, Tonquin, Cambodia, Pegu, and the rich and numerous Islands of the Oriental Archipelago.

In ex.ending on commercial relations with those, regions, wo appeal to the necessities and the tastes of mimi.able populations. 100,000,009 British subjects in India consume annually 6d. per head of British manufactures. Our late slave population consume 51. per head; our new colonial populatton 121. per head. If the 100,000,000 of our fellow subjects in Hindostan were to consume per head one tenth of the quantity required by one of our late slaves, India alone would take 50,000,0001. sterling of goods an nually from Manchester and Sheffield and Birmingham. Ex. tend this market to the native principalities, to the empire of China and its contiguous kingdoms, even at a much reduced ratio, and the result bafiles the most lively imagination and the most extensive faculty of account. Yet, are such results impossible? No grosser error than to suppose that the populations of these countries are deficient in taste for our productions. The fact as regards, the Indian nations, is precisely the reverse; and the Chinese are a people so essentially commercial, so ingenious, and

stormed, their coast rayaged.

The Prime Minister of England at the commencement of the session, when analyzing the causes of public distress, alleged as one reason, the disturbarice of our commercial relations with China. The great "anti-commercial" diplomatist listened to the statement of Sir Robert Peel in guilty silence. The reason itself was accepted by the country as valid, especially as the published return of our exports to China showed that they had decreased since the commencement of the war more than a molety.

NANKING.

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THE city is situCORRESPONDENT..

the banks of the Yang tsac- king, about 140 miles from it's mouth. The city itself which is enclosed with two walls, is three miles inland, though the outermost wall comes to within half a mile of the river's bank. These walls which are very high and strong, with good parapets and strong bas- tions, are still further defended by a broad and deep so flexible in character, that from all that we know of their tastes and habits we have no reason to presume the contrary.

canal, which flowing round them serves as a good moat. Yet these are the countries which we have selected for the

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country all round about is very beautiful, and the theatre of war, trampled on by our invading hosts; their cities scenery is very fine; the copses and marshes also contain partridges, snipe &c., of which together with other game, there is a tolerable supply. The gates of the city are of splendid construction, being boat and fortified in the strongest manner possible, from what little has been seen of it, the city does not seem to con lain many magnificent or splendid public buildings but the greatest attraction in that line (and perhaps of the whole Empire) is the Porcelain Tower which is built on the south side, about half a mile outside of the gates. This splendid structure is about 300 feet high, there is altogether not including the ground floor, nine stories, each of which are ornamented in the most beautiful manner. The walls inside. are for the most part gilt, and figures are also moulded upon them; this gift which is in an excellent state of preservation seems to be mixed with oil which may account for it's good looks. Though a large portion of the building consists of store and other materials, still the most part consists of beautiful white porcelain, which is made up in brcks of a foot in length and about half

of g We make the above extract from the TIMES August 4th, not that there is any novelty in the argument, but that we are glad to see any attempt made to draw public attention to the exhaustless commercial capabilities of the East. Hitherto, the ignorance on this subject was truly deplorable, and when our Ships of War, crowded the Mediter ranean ports, even the great Duke deemed a stout frigate quite ample for the due protection of the immense trade in this portion of the world

Literary Gazette.

THE cure of blindness by the fumes of Prussic Acid seems to have been recently effected by Dr.. Turnbull of London in many cases. Competent simple application for about half a minute of the authorities say, his new treatment consists in the vapour, inflammation, cataract, amaurosis, iritis &c. &c. have been successfully treated. According to the Literary Gazette, Dr. Turnbull explained the rationale, or rather the datum of the process to be, the well known fact that in persons who have died from the effects of prussic acid, the eye of the corpse remains for days as clear and lucid as if still in life. This led to experiment on the living subject and hence the development of this remedy for most of the diseases of the eye. It is said the Prince of Hanover will soon submit to this treat- ment, and his blindness, hitherto deemed incurable it is expected can now be removed.

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SIR GEORGE LARPENT Bart, has been appointed Chairman of the Commissioners for the levying of the Property and Income tax on the City of Lon- We are glad to perceive an augmented proposed by Government. Little as the amount is; confessedly inadequate though it be, yet it is a good sign, and we augur from it, that the time will come, when our operative classes will not be de- A graded to their present necessity of depending on the elecmosynary contributions of private indivi

Grant of £ 10,000 for national Education has been

Three hundred and forty five years smice, on the that in width. It is of an octagonal shape. From Juals for an education, which it is the first duty of

day we write, (20th Novr. the great Portuguese it's summit you have the whole Panorama of Nanking navigator, Vasco de Gama first doubled the Cape before you, which together with the beauty of the a State to give, which professes to have the well of Good Hope; yet how little

done to adjacent country, and the noble Yang teze in the dis-being of the people for its end and aim, condition of the tance forms one of the most beautiful views describ. improve the social and moral

You can also distinctly see the separation of Eastern World, and the Hindoos could now be able correctly described in the language of Arrian, the the Tartar from the Chinese part of the city, the part historian of the invasion of Alexander the Great, which is occupied by the former race being again wall- As to the Chinese, in language, manners and cused round, and fortified, it has much the resemblance of toms coeval with even an antecedent period, they are still unaltered.

king is pretty considerable, but not so great as might have been expected from so large a city, which was once the capital of an Empire.

a citader. This Tower which is in an excellent state of preservation from top to bottom is 500 years old, The agency of Steam, the democratic tendency being built in the reign of Yunglo an Emperor of the of our higher civilization (according to de Toc Ming Dynasty The trade that is carried on at Nan queville) the pressure of our home population, will necessitate mighty social changes in the Oriental world, that will eclipse in importance the events of bye gone times. The late war with China, the British occupation of Hongkong, are they nor every way, notable portents of impending cliange? Dull ard, must he be, who would not be constrained to think so, looking on

In and round about Nanking, there are many thou- sand Mahommedans, who openly profess their religion, ance, even but they seem to be in a state of great igno of the doctrines which they pretend to hold, and always ith their koran showed themselves ready to part (which not one in a hundred can read or understand or any thing of that kind for a very trifling pecuniary

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ACADEMY

To THE QUEEN'S and Honorable Company's N▲ val and MILITARY EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, NOW ON SERVICE IN China.

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despatch; by promptly attended to, and executed with great judgment, fidelity, punctuality

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