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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG KONG GAZETTI.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Bucox's letter No. 2 we cannot publish, Hislast, we admit, drew attention to masters of public concernment, and has not been without effect in the proper quarter, still, the valuable portions of his last communication are a blended with offtmaive personalities that quite forbid its insertion in our colamns. Here we should

stop, but having no doubt, that with other soTED ADDRESSES, it will

get appear in the Singapore or Calcutta papers, we give a Sample of its contents. The writer stigmatises the late migra Don of the Government to Macao as a cowardly, abandonment

allowed to visit the city, and are uniformly treated with courtesy and kindness, by both the upper and lower classes. At Wooeung, trafficking is connived at by

the local mandarins.

other beneficial consequences, which this honor- able rivalry of France cannot fail to produce, will be the quickening of our national energies, and moreover, coercing our Home Government into

since for the Yangtze-keang, will be stationed at adopting some well donned system that shall It is said H. M. S. Wolf which left about ten days preclude the jobbery and mal-admistration now Woosung All

there awaits the arrival of the Consul almost synonymous with colonial rule,and, which, for Shanghai. it seems, our very latest founded settlements are to afford no exception.

of the faland, to escape the malignant fever then raging" can any. thing be more preposterous 7 we affect not to be honoured with the intimacy, friendship, or the acquaintance of H. E., but in com.

French Trade-In connexion with the foregoing mon with every resident, we were aware for some time past, that be contemplated visiting Maca, and had no fever been provedentiemarks we may mention that Mc. Culloch in his he would have gone thither at that time. As to the remarks about the "accidental govern r who isgreat in his litlenes, and in the absence of his superior head turned by his sudden sleva. tion &c, &c." they are eminently ridiculous, And we must tell SHOOT we see no wit in calling a person the FIN(10)AL 8E-

CARTARY although he may happen to be an important member of

the local G verament

We thank Nauricia for the very valuable communication which appears in this issue, and hope to be favoured with regular intel- ligence from the same quarter.

Frey's Communication we do not Insert-the affair being

Barisfactorily sealed-it is unless to revive the subject.“

H. S's Communication on the Indecent burial of our dead in the Bay, we hope to insert in our next, and thus reply to Ps query "Have we really, a HARBOUR MASTER and a-DEPUTY, DITTO ↑

LATEST DATES. June 6

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Geographical Dictionary gives the Estimated Value of the Goods manufactured in France in 1839 at £94,000,000 Silk and Silk goods is the largest item and amounts to £12,000,000. Woollens to £10,500,000. Linens € 10,400,000. Cottons £9,000,000. Leather £6,000,000. Hardware £8,500,000. These are the principal articles manufare. By the same authority we find that (Vide our last) is manufactured at Paris, Pouilly and Montpellier to the value of £240,000 per annum.

The Exports of France in 1836 were £36,000,000, The Imports £38,000,000 in total value.

Its Mercantile marine in 1838 consisted of

Ship of 800 tons and upwardanel Ships, 700 —to 800 tons.

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THE FRIEND OF CHINA,

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AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE,

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1843.

In our last we made some Extracts from the Pa pars by the June Mail, mentioning the appointment of M. LAGRENEE, as Minister Plenipotentiary to China, from France; also the determination of the French Ministry, to despatch hither a squadron, and henceforth maintain an Admiral's station in the China seas.

In the TIMES from which we then quoted, these arrangements are treated merely as the outbursts of national vanity or caprice. We entertain other and we think sounder views, of the ultimate inten: tions and policy of France.

10,735

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We are sorry to find that the sickness is still very prevalent, and many instances with a fatal issue occur. red last week.

We have not before dwelt on this subject, as we wish

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Of H M.Ships, there are now in Chusan Harbour,the Cambrian, Pelican and the Steam frigate Driver and the company's Steamer Medusa The Rattlermake troop ship left for your port on the 23d inst, and will it is expected soon return from thence to Chusan.”

Aum and 38 ditto Allabboy300 der 100 Bun- ditto

Export Manifest of Ship John Brown, J. Thornhill, Commander, to China— 10th July, 1843.

ined to Pestonjee 410 Bales 25 half Baler Cotton co Merwanjee, & Co. -356 do 25 half do Ditto, to Messrs. Russell & Co.112 Bago Gum ( Mother O Pearl Shells, to Mahome Bales Cotton and 1 parcel samples, dle Mother O'Pearl Shells, to Bamjee

to ditto 50 Chests Opium, to Messn Elephants Teeth to ditto -234 Bales 17 half bales Cotton, Bars Irons, 1 Case Ghms, and 6 Bundles True Pearls, to Orders - Bombay Gentleman's Gazac, July 11, 1843,

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ROBBERIES-Robberies have again begun to be eo every householder ought to be common in the city, i on his quart, and all new comer to the island should hke the greatest care in securing their property. On Wednesday morning at One O'clock a party of armed Chiness to the number of forty, attacked the house of the Comprador in the Bazuar, near to Jardine Mathie- son & Co's POINT. They first broke open the front door but on account of strong barriers fixed behind it, they could not obtain an entrance; before the inmates fired upon them, the thieves then threw fire balls, and other combustible matter around, in order to illuminate the house, and obtain aim for their weapons, and com- menced another attack-the firing however alafmed the watchmen of the nearest godowns, who hastened to the spot when the robbers retreated. This robbery was attempted within a short distance of a station of soldiers, placed there for the defence of the neighbour- hood, yet outwithstanding the firing and discharging of rockets' not one of them went to the spot certainly

it was their duty on hearing the report of fire arms to have at once gone there but most probably like ethers of higher authority in the Island good, quiet,

ed to allay all undue apprehension, but the removal of the Government to Macao, and the panic it produced if we may judge by the quick departure from our Island of almost all who could leave; compels us to advert ta By the last Mail we received intelligence of the this painful subject and to say that the best medical virtual annihilation of Napoleon's crotchet,of France Authorities uniformly ascribe the present sickness, not being supplied with home grown Sugar from to any climatic or local influence of a deleterious cha. Beet. In three years time (by an annually increa-racter, but wholly to the absence of habitable houses sing rate of duty on beet root sugar) Colonial and the suitable accommodations which are absolutely and Home grown sugars will be equalised, ere required for the healthy existence of Europeans in this

climate and especially during this, the rainy season. which time, the manufacture of beet sugar in But for the (we presume unavoidable,) delay in the of these guns during the night it is hard to say

France, will be defunct,

This is a most important fact, and viewed

Land arrangments and the prohibition of building, we in connexion with other significant circum-cerely belief the fatal fever now raging would not

have been engendered stances, will be fruitful, unless we much mis- take, of great consequences to the mercantile and Colonial interests of France. Already, an association of capitalists, headed by Baron Ter neaux, have acquired the larger portion of Cay enne, with the view to the better development of its tropical industry; and products, of which sugar is the staple.

We hold in short, that the abolition of the best root sugar monopoly, is but part of the grand de sign, and fixed determination of the French Go- verament, not only to have ships, but also to found Colonies, and thus create, and foster, greatly ex- tended foreign relations and commerce,

Almost simultaneously with this home legisla tion, we find. France acquiring territory on the Western coast of the Red Sea, and at the same time, making arrangements for forming settlements on, or near the Delta of the Niger, in the neigh bourhood of Cape Palmas. Then we have the occu pation of the Marqueses and Somety Islands the strengthening of the French post Madagascar- the extension of trading stations connected with Senegal and, lastly, we have ■ mus

and

a squadron, despatched to China, and an Admir- al's station fixed in the China seas,

We think we have cited facts enough to show that the French Government in earnestly bent o izing a comprehensive national policy, which place France in an assured position, with to her mercantile, marine, colonial

uade, and which shall be alike becoming sent resources, and their future development augmentation.

We are sorry to find the liberal

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pressed our hearty

WHAT With the insecurity of life and property from the numerous robberies and piracies-the prevailing sickness-the low tariff at Canton the contingent interference with our privileges as a causes above mentioned, and more than all the FREE PORT; it is no way surprising that some of the earliest friends of the tony have now aban doned it in disgust. All these circumstances com bined have induced such a wide spread fealing of disappointment, that deeply interested as we are in the fate of the Island, yet truth constrains us to avow that there is hardly an individual who has invested funds in Hong Kong, who would not, if reimburs ed his outlay, be but but too glad to depart, never to return. So drear and black are our present prospects, O-

Chops of the new Congous, have been contracted We learn from Canton, that a good man for at the rates named in our nothing doing about 100 bal arrived, for which 2500 is refused, The Export two months of July and August,

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Forthy menthey were asleep at any rate the affair should he looked into. On the same morning, Pome thieves entered the Merchant Seamans Hospital, situ. ated in the eastern suburb; among other things, car- tying off a watch and gun belonging to an inmate. On the same evening Capt. Bowra lest from the ground in front of his stores, two very ɓde thirty two pounders! how many thieves it took to lift one

there must have been many for it look more than twenty men to place them where they lay. It is cer- tain that they could not carry them through the town, alongside the wharf-but whatever way they weat it they must have been embarked in some large boat shows a pretty state of things when thirty too rounders can be carried away from a merchants door with impu. war boats which profess to guard the harbour, or is the nity. If carried away by sea where were the men of order about Chinese boats moving in the harbour after nine o'clock, already become add letter-the order forbidding Chinese to be ont of their houses after 10 rx, has always been a dead letter them pass along the Queen's road duri

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