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The Friend of China & Hong Kong Gazette

SUPPLEMENT TO No. 75. .

VICTORIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1843,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. With feelings of the deepest and most unfeigned orrow, SIR HENRY POTTINGER announces the death of the Honourable J. R. MORRISON, Esq., which sad event occurred this morning, at a few

ininutes past seven o'clock.

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Mr Morrison was so well known to every one, and so beloved, respected, and esteemed by all who bad the pleasure and happiness of his acquaint- ance or friendship, that to attempt to pass any panegyric on his private character, would be a mere waste of words, and Sir Henry Pottinger feels assured that his own private grief, is but the type of that universal feeling in which the memory and worth of Mr Morrison will be for ever em

balmed.

In a public point of view, Sir Henry Pottinger ger must look on the decease of Mr Morrison, as a positive national calamity, and he doubts not but it will be received, and viewed in that light, by his Sovereign and Country,

Macao, August 29th, 1843.

Published by His Excellency's command,

CHAS. E. STEWART,

J

From a Correspondent. CANTON 26th August. We are still all at sixes and sevens, The Hong Merchants who are the owners of the Pack houses and godowns declining to let them be used in carrying on a trade of which they are not now to have the monopoly, whilst they are to be squeezed by the local Authorities as if they had. Canton having no Custom house to afford convenience for the examination even of a ven of a single cargo of Goods.

The outside men it seems dare not begin on the New system, and the end of it is supposed will be, that the Hongs will carry on the trade much as heretofore, until the Northern Ports are opened and begin to tell,

TEA.-A good many of the best Chops of Con- gou have been contracted for, at from 25 to 29 taels short price.

SILK. Some No. 2 Tsatlee has been Sold at $440. Stock very scant.

IMPORTS-Long Cloths grey $280 to $3. Whites 88 30 10 83 60. Spanish Stripes 81 10 to $115, Long Ells 89 50 to $9 75 assorted colours. Ben gal Cotton 6 to 8 taels, all these are short prices. Opium Patna #800. Malica 8740. Money is quite a drug owing to heavy remittances and the payment of the insolvent Hong debts. Exchange on England 6 mos Bill 43. 57, the dollar. Freight

3 to 13 10.

The

onsular. Ofice is in a sad state of confusion in attempting to protect the Chinese

Exchange quiet, with few Bills in the market. The pate is about 21. at ten months” date. Sycee Blver C 105 0

Gold Do Spanish. Dolhurs

China Gold Bara

Mexican Ditto

10 0

0 p. 100 w 0

per an wt.

per 100

Hurkuru

111

"By the arrival of the Hibernia, we have dates fro New York to the 15th instant, and have statement of shipments from that Rud other China; which, being of magnitude, will, we of interest to our friends connected with that they consist of 250,000lbs of twist, and about one lion of dollars in value of domestics, equal to abo 210.0007 sterling, or 420,000 pieces, estimating

Pinang, 22d July-Gulnare loading for China. at 10s per piece-these are called sheetings and

being about 2 yards to the pound weight. The EUPHRATES, Captn. Wilson from Calcutta about 50,000 bales of cotton had been shipp

was in circulation here, about two months Cowasjee Family off Penang, which vessels left actual quantity sent forward onl 29 July, on the 6th of August passed the Ariel and but it appears by the statement ferr Calcutta on the 28th July. On the 12th off Pulo bales: preparations, however, were Pisang saw the Steamer Akhbar, and on the 13th ing the bales in a manner to resemble off St. Johns, the Steamer Victoria, she being charlieving that it would find more favo ters to Pinang for the Akhbar. From lat 14 to 18. continue to rule at the then existing tered by the merchants at Singapore to carry let with a view to more extensive operations, light north-easterly, airs and calius. Barometer, continued advices of the low price ruling from 29, 80 to 29, 60.

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but the market has been in full state ; few sales have been made

Importers.c

havuppreffived to submit to lower rates this week, privately, and the parcels entered at auction were mostly takes in; Is 04d to Ls 2d is the value of low and good sund common congou, cash, and 18 30 to 38 4d per lb. for fair Twankay. It has been fixed that public sales shall take place weekly: 20,000 pack ages are declared for Thursday next, the deliverice are still upon a large scale; there have been further arrivals, and several ships are at hand..

Bohen, Centon, in Flowery Pokos, good graf, & chis..

06 08 to finest.2 0 3 9

no doubt will have been carried out,

country”.

that

08.000

rates

The value of the domestics here stated to have been

country during the present year. The cloth is, if we shipped to China amounts, we believe, to fully one-half of the value of Britiscotton goods exported, to that mistake not, of a stouter description than has been usually sent from England.

96

London Journal of Commerce.

Export Manifest of Ship: Sultana, Wilson, Commander to China—1st July 1843.

Congo, ord to gdordo 11111 Twankay yellw leaf 1 2 alt diflo ditto to Mohamed Alloo-361 ditto ditto to

1220 Bales 6 half ditto Cotton, Consigned to Order 6 ditto ditto to Dadabhoy Manackjee 194 ditto 20

But mid rthr ersedel 0 104 Brightish leaf. 1 34 14 Alloo Mectabhoy-154 ditto ditto to Ruttonjee Har

Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. –21 do. to Mohamed Mixed blackish leaf1 0 1 1 Hyson kind. 1 6 1 10 musjee-152 ditto ditto to: Pestonjee Merwanjee – 334 Dorath strg & strg 1 2.1.3 Midling to good mid 131-8 ditto ditto to Dorabjee Nusserwanje - Blackish leaf... 1 2 12 Hyson skin yll If.0 8 10 Do Pekoe Bayour 182 flysn.com yw f1 6 18-half ditto to Elish Vishmany-150 ditto 2 half ditto

wanee -1176 ditto 17 Souchong, middling

but mid mid Mixed leaf.... 6 Good md brightak If 2 4 30 jee Ruttonjec-51 ditto to Hajee Dawood-

1 10 2 2 Dadabhoy Burjarjee -252 ditto 18 half ditto to Pesto Fine dito.. Good mid. bikishlf,1 10 2 4 Finest bright leaf. 36. 9

73.10 Yung Hyson, Twa

ditto to Dorabjee Manackjee-999 Bundles Shark fi Pouchong... 040 10 key flavor (ontn) 0 0 10

and Fishmaws, to amjee Visrain-182 ditto ditto Hung Muey 0 0 0 Md to fine Hyon fwr 1 B 30. Cowagjee Shapoorjee-52 ditto ditto to Hape Dawood Caper common 11 10Impl.coarse canton 1214-549 ditta ditto to Eliah Vishnany-282 ditto Wooplate Good and fine ... 1113 Middling to finest. Orange Pekoe good1 6 18 Gunpowder canton

12, 93, 6 to Order-600 ditto,Sharkfins and Fishinaws, to difto- Blk if Pkoe of to gdo 11 1 5 Mid to finest Fine and scented. 1 10 2 4 COR

25 Chests Opium, to Dadabhoy Hormusjee-2 Bundles Elephants Teeth, to Elish Vishnamy – 126, Chests O- * SILK.

pium, to Order-1 Box Broad Cloth, to diuo.

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2 6 5

In the silk market generally there has been a fair demand throughout the past month, and prices more firm appearance; the deliveries from the ware houses have also increased. In Bengals a good deal has been done in the recent importations of good portion is of ordinary ce of these descrittions has thing of fair and

same quotations. Ainus sma

to China 3rd July, 1843,

Export Manifest of Ship "Repulse" Marques

4432 Bale 120 half Cotton. 100-chews Opium, Consig Meners Jardine Matth

Olibanam, to Go

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Cutton, to R. D.

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lina, Mary. fary Catherine.

15r 1848.

260, Italy Wasto los

Chine 11, Italy

164. Tent

SPICES

110 at 12