THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
AND DONGE ON &, GSZET TE
No, 6o VOL. II.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
ARRIVAL OF THE MANDARINS AT
HONG KONG.
"This world is all a fleeting show." On Friday the 23d inst., KE-VING, HWANG, and HAELING, the three Mandarins despatched by the Emperor of China, owing to the death of ELEPOO, to arrange the Tariff and exchange the ratification of the Treaty, arrived at Hong-Kong.
At an early hour in the morning the H. C. Steamer Akhbar, cast anchor in the bay, and a
discharge of fifteen guns about 5 P. M., announced to the astonished Hong-Kongians, that their verit- able Excellencies had at last arrived and were about to leave the vessel. I accordingly pro ceeded to the spot, and was much rejoiced to remark that they were received with all the honour and dignity becoming their exalted rank, KE-YING being no less a man than an Imperial Commis- sioner, a near relation of the Emperor, guardian to the heir apparent, and the third man in rank and authority in China.
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SHONG, THURSDAY JUN BOWE, 1948.
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of
played a separate tune for himself the effect truly wonderful. Behind the file carrying great swords that to cut, but had instead of ed looking handles, guns that had no but in lieu thereof were paint fierce and terrible colours, doub
when they could not kill. Among these away, “men at arms' four bearers were sweating and tottering under a small brass box Oh! hol now I see it that's what makes the world
ound. than Mandarins I could love thee-I could hug Oh divine Sycee none better know thy worth thee, how delightful to contemplate the filthy dross in that little box. Behind the came more long pointed pol men at arms, and a confuse bearers, every one most indust his neighbour's heels. Then the 41st Madras Native Infantr a small party of the same regime as you please, ye who heard true-The band surely mu
phony
do, ditto only lathe and a little less age.
rice § ! monthly Or 12 yourly
large boiled
was that of a Alter stuck on the top thereof,
press full of old-fashioned ompanions may be said to be more lean, a little less, grease,
After these No. 1 chop-men came a few En- glishmen, some in uniform and some not, but many of them having that imaginable but undescribable look about their physiognomies and carriage that
at all. No disrespect to my dear and excellent palpably showed, they were of that ofass that would rather stand in the pillory than not be seen
friend
Dan. O'Connell, then came the tail, the the very tag rag and bobtail of Hong-Kong, ch boasts the possession of all the refugees, rascals, and " "elegant extracte" of China, who have left their country for their coun- ood. From beginning to end are such a sion was never seen the March to was a joke to it. Glorious John him- would not have marched through Coven- with
chan patlandish cortege-Fal- regiment were patterns of elegance models of perfection i comparison, Pooh nonsense! fidget the whole affair is a tu, the case no doubt is, that the Emperor intends amuse and cheat the Fan-kweis, and laugh in his sleeve at their simplicity. I almost think that instead of sending a High Imperial Commissioner, and first chop Mandarins, he has sent down the corps dramatique of the Imperial Theatre at Pekin, or more probably still, some mummers of the Badler's Wells of its vicinity and our author- band did, and ities, good easy folks too stold to perceive the joke, have received them as veritable Mandarins, the real Simon Isures, thus realizing one of the best "jerts in the world, by giving a diplomatic authority and sanction to a company of Chinese Masqueraders and Jugglers, which nathelesg #ill but too apparent, when the auncations are ated and the TAY Commercial treaty pub-
Ouent
come already,
On descending the hill to the wide street run-instructions? for instead
have done the solemn and sub ming along the harbour, and known by the name
"the rogue's march" they of the Queen's Road, I found it crowded with coolies, rolling with machines its mountains, vallies, merry tune of the Campbells and lakes into as smooth a surface as possible, apart from the musical blasph Allah il Allah! Allah Chalim dur! this is indeed of the finest Highland airs, before benevolence, for doubtless the three great men have dried tea-leaved-complexioned dined on board the Steamer, and a smooth road was no historical truth in with an easy course mightily assists digestion.
Campbells are not coming, they Walking a little further I met a lank ugly and have been here ever since the 9th of loon, going at a brisk trot, carrying aloft a huge however, I know it was a mu circular bed curtain, on the end of a bamboo, and pect, to make a silk purse out of behind him at about twenty paces, four cooles, suppose it must pass at trotting, sweating, and tottering under a comically fat bit of humanity. + eglistening little eyes seemed ready to start out of the whitey-brown round face, that looked for all the world as if it had just been taken out of a cask of “prune mess pork well I thought, that must be one of the greatmen's, greatmen. "I daraxtim
Fitten, for he looks very unctious but let himi pass; close behind came another, and another, and so on, at various distances I
to their rank, until nineteen o
closely packed into
according
thies
Monmouth street look medan Gráira, i me, and the inmates so like each other, the appeared to have been cast in the same me and afterwards steeped in the "identical same tab" of dirty water.
The street now became rather grow
Coolies. Chinese, and
great men, at
and every ove
they come
tobacco in his
four half starved demi-nude
poor
an inverted
basket on his head, who was trying to urge them on before him, whilst behind him came four fat officials, who with bamboo in hand seemed nursing their wrath to keep warm, il est until they caught the fellow with the goats, as it was quite evident that they intended to pommel him well for obstructing the way, (that is to if they could catch him), but
lungs appeared
or conse
filer wo files. London Penny
Strand and more imposing telligence
in better condition than her official ones, albei pursy, I have no doubt
clear off. Close behind these ministers of decorum, came a natheless Celestials as they of the "boarding party Illustrated News, as daily Regent street of London „and respectable. There the very looks of one of boards for a shilling per day would look in vain for here tions one
their
of themselves and hid bardz enny boards
On
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right well they walked to the tun
June
- one cannot ex
One thing I had almost forgotten native worthies in the proce been badly drilled, as they per step (by the way, ever rate time for himsel
kwardness stopped be he boardman, or standard bearer, he rece head (never dangerous to a Clans nearest man in authority, which us the tim by felling him down on the mi
lay, and allowed his former frien and so often was this dose of bamboo adm ed, that when I retraged my steps after goin
of de kation,
least fifty of the awkw
complace
must have
or on the top of waiting, I suppose the
again to fall into thei again to be bambooed, if the of their country and the dignity of official quired it.
to the world.Communicated.
- On Friday morning, the 23d instant, a little be- fore seven o'clock, the H.C. steamer Akbar, bear- ing the Flag of the Commissioner, made her ap- pearance in Victoria Bay, when a salute of fifteen guns was fired by the steamer, and the Chinese Flag hoisted on board, it having been arranged that on this occasion His Excellency should be received with the same honours as those usually paid to the representative of Her
guard
Nemajesty. On reaching the deck of the Dima. of honour of the 55th regiment presented arms; proper Colonel Malcolm and Commodore Pepper, I. N., terests being in attendance to conduct him to the Quarter- rank re-deck. At the same time the personal Flag of the mmissioner, bearing in large characters, the in- The Viceroy of Tankin, appointed by Emperor, was substituted at the fore-royal- for the one previously flying, the smaller Lastefully displayed round the vemel's mmediately behind where Kr-tino was
The real lions now are coming! hark, the glori our din Officials
cials with bainboog running about, so busy doing nothing did not know what to do next, nor last, cracking the head of every reach, with their wands of office, thus
the power, the grandeur, and glor)
itial diguitaries, that now follow
chair carried on men's were laur
most suro Samt Vit
ttom of the wound danced and cambolled after the
Inder
the trip down the river. Kr-vING in-
the pleased
with ally on
commer
attendance from tho Excellency pro- HWANO, and the
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