THE FRIEND OF CHINA,
SND LONGBONG
NOTIFICATION.
GAZECCE.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
VIOTOBIA, THURIDAY #EPTEN
ALET
Lastly. As a general Rule where any THE publication of the Hongkong Ga-doubt exists, let it be borne in mind that
zette under the will be discontinue public orders and i
of Government, this date but all ifications appearing
in The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette with the signatures of duly au- thorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official,
By order
ROBT MORRISON. Acting Secretary and Treasurer Hongkong, March, 23rd, 1847
GOVERNMEN
NOTIFICATION.
His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in- Chief being about to proceed for a short time to Macao, on the Public Service, is pleased to announce that he will continue to carry on all his duties as Governor, &c.. during his absence.
All Letters and Reports to be sent as usual to the Go vernment House whence they will be forwarded.
By order,
RICHARD WOOSNAM
Government House,
Victoria, Hong Kong, 24th August 1843.
N.
the object in view, is chiefly to ascertain the number of certain Goods which are to pay certain specified duties, and that by mixing up two or three kinds of Goods which pay different duties under one head, this object will be defeated. By bearing these few General Rules in mind, a great deal of unnecessary trouble will be spared this Consulate, and the Con- signees of ships in the end.
Military Mandarin in praying for a reapite of offi.
cial duti should not merely have his request granted bur be told
the Emperor that it is accor that he was wounded in two places in the intensely wicked barbe
by
Ke
last year Again we like not that on an Island [ Chusan ] in the occupation of her Majesty's forces, and in a City Ting hae 1 we call our own till the war should levy taxes in the name of the Emperor of indemnification be paid that a resident Mandarin China.
ized and devastated Chin
(Signed) G. TRADESCANT LAY.
H. M's Officiating Consul for Canton.othing can be more explicit the local Mandarin (A True Copy)
CHAS. E. STEWART.
Chief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843, The following is again published by au- thority, for general information:
It has been lately Notified by PROCLA MATION of the CHIEF MAGISTRATE, to the Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be- tween the hours of eight and ten P. M. they are prohibited from being out of their houses without lantborns, and that after ten o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the following morning, no Chinese will, in future
But so it is, the memorial and edict are before us,
Goo-ven-ho, is commanded TO LEVY TAXES THE SAME AS BEFORE (Ching show chaou kew). We are told the payment of the taxes secures, the inhabi- tants of Chusan from the depredations and mid- night attacks to which Hong Kong has so long been exposed from the mainland..
We ourselves can testify that more than one Native informant has assured us, that neither life
nor
property will ever be secure in Hong-Kong, to the Mandarin at Kowloon. till we consent to pay an annual Cumsha or tribute
We say nothing of the vast warlike preparations now going on in the Northern provinces, to be pre- pared for war is to secure peace, according to a sons are merely a façon de parler Recent Can received ariom. We suppose too vilifying expres- ton exactions cherished relics of old affections. "How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity ? But hath not a fantastically quaint, but profound beggarliest truth, if û be a truth, is far better than the royallest sham 1-
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Noy attention to the annexed Circular which was issued at Canton on the 28th of July-having caused a great deal of oxtra trouble and unnecessary delay, His Excel-be permitted to go out, under any consider-author well said, for our encouragement.
Jency the Chief Superintendent of Trade ation, unless he can produce a pass in Eng- &c., &c., is pleased to direct its publication, lish, specifying his object in being out at so for general information and guidance, and || late an hour. to intimate, that Her Britannic Majesty's Consuls at all the Ports will be instructed to receive no ships Manifest, in which these simple and obviously necessary Rules shall|| be neglected.
By order of His Excellency, Her Britan- nic Majesty's Chief Superintendent &c., &c. &c.
CHAS E STEWART Treasury and Financial Secretary. Government House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, September 14th, 1843.
CIRCULAR.
British Consulate, Canton.
1843.
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A PROCLAMATION has also been issued, prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish these islands, and had with manliness and promptness ment, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at nie o'clock P. M., and until Gun-fire at daylight on the following morning.
W. CAINE,
CHIEF MAGISTRATE
Proclamation of the Púching 1 and his colleagues, These officers have lately issued a proclamation re- garding one Tsien Kiáng,a native of Chekiang, whom they designate a vagabond, a rustic of no repu- tation, and a scheming villain, and who has come to Canton to find a living- They go on to describe that this man, having ingratiated himself into the favor of the gentry and literary persons of the provincial me. tropolis, has obtained their aid and countenance in his seditious acts, collecting assemblies and publishing placards, by which he has disturbed the public and all these acts he has done principally with
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If Lord G. Paulet was sent to take possession of
carried
into execution by force, he would still have committed an act of unjustifiable rapacity and robbery. There is no British interest in the lands which requires a step of this kind. On the contrary the Hudson Bay Company are decidedly averse to oc- cupation under the English flag, and Sir George Simp son, Governor of that company, has accepted the office of envoy from the Sandwich Islands to the Court of St. James, for the express purpose of securing them adepen- dence of the islands. But Lord Paulet, after "closing every avenue to correct information, has put himself under the sole direction of the Acting Consul, who has long borne the reputation of being a talented and des- perate designer against the Government.
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The interests of the United States will auffer chiefly from the occupation by the English of these islands. Two hundred vessels, under the American flag, arrive here annually. There is now upon the islandí a large amount of American property. In case the canal uni- ting the two oceans is completed, the future import- ance of the islands will be immense. The Americans have civilized and planted the commercial interest the group, It remains to be seen whether the United States Government wil destructive to the fruits of
The above we have extracted from an American Paper and it is among the most moderate.
ainst the cension of the Sandwich Islands to Great
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