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had instilled new vigour into his Council and the other membges of the governmput, no less than five acts having en promulgated in loss than fourteen days.

The Steam ship Hindostan sailed for Suez on the 10th August with 112 passengers!

The number of Cooly Emigrants to the Mauritius had exceeded 12,000, of these 468 were Chinese. The Colonial treasury had been exhausted in. pay ing a bonus for their importation, and could and

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AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 1843.

It is rumoured that Sir Charles Napier will suc ceed to the post of Commander in Chief at Bom- bay and be succeeded in Scinde by Sir G. Pollock. A large party was to be given to Lady Gough by the community of Calcutta on the 1st Sept., and an Entertainment to Sir Hugh Gough by the officers at Barrackpore early in the same month.

had rather a startling appearance but their

no, wind, the fire was confined to the building it first began,

There are not in all Hong Ko dangerous, unseemly and unhealthy building those mat outhouses attached to thegodow fein. Road surely the Government - The Comm public health, or some other depart went has i of abating the nuisance and preventing a fire large scale, which assuredly those mat houses prepared to engender.

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Tais valuable Paper, established in 1841, is a complete mirror of the Colonial, Press, and circulates through h the whole of the

EMIGRATION DISTRICTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,

facilities for Colonial Advertisements in the Mother Country, being the only

HAND-BOOK OF REFERENCE FOR INTENDING

EMIGRANTS,

by which they can obtain information, respecting the Colonies they intend to visit, and the accommodarons as BOARDING, LODGING, OT TRAVELLING to be oblained on their

arrival; and it furnishes also, for the same reason, an excellent medium for advertising the sale of Colonial Lands, Farms, and

Captain Hoffmeister H. M. Troop Ship Jupiter and, therefore, prosents the greatest reports having spoken the Barque Cyrus of London, whaler, who informed him that he had fallen in with rocks and breakers N. Lat. 8° 43′0′′ E. Long. 111410" lying S. W. and by W. off the West London reef 20 miles. Also a shoal 5 miles in extent N. Lat. 70: 42'-0" E. Long. 1110 37 0, least water 7 fathoms. He was on it two days and has called it the Cyrus Bank, Captn. Hoffmother, Property, and also Colonial Banks and Assurance Compa eister thinks it is the same bank as before reported as the Pearl Bank with 0 or 10 feet water on it He also further says that there is a continuous line of breakers froin the Friendship and Aber. crombie shoals. Singapore Free Press.

We have received files of American papers to- the 10th of June, but they are entirely destitute of news of the slightest interest. The two great points that appear to agitate the Americans at this moment are the Irish Repeal Question, and their own forthcoming Presidential election.

We have to call the attention of our readers-to- the letter of a correspondent, A Churchman, which appears in this day's issue. Although we do not personally know the writer we give it a place in our columns as we conceive he very justly draws public attention to a highly important subject; the want of an Established Church.

Lamentable; indeed it is that, after an adequate sum (added to the contribution of the Government) has been so long subscribed for building a Church, suitable to the wants of the Colony, no steps should have been taken to commence the work. We hope that the influential members of our community WANT of Space in our last issue, prevented us

will exert themselves so that before the commen- from drawing the attention of our readers to the important official documents then published: We cement of the ensuing hot season a substantial build- are sure they must have been perused and scanned ing may be erected in place of the present mat shed, with the greatest interest, by our Mercantile friends, in which no one can remain for an hour without in- We would only say, we adhere to the opinions curring, in the cold season, the risk of an ague, in we have so often expressed, and

the hot, of a fever. although we might easily occupy our entire space with a de tailed view of the consequences which will result from the promulgation, and confirmation of the Supplementary Treaty, we yet restrain

in ourselves on the present occasion; as we would not have it suspected, that we are

we are endeavouring to excite any undue prejudice or hostility to a Treaty several of the provisions of which, are so diametrically oppos- ed to the views we have all along taken.

We must however add, that if this Supplement ary Treaty, be honestly, and fairly carried into effect (and we know H. E. the Plenipotentiary in the very last man who will shrink from so doing then the results as they affect our Island, and the ast coast trade now under the British flag, will far exceed what any of us ever contemplated as likely

or poss

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Exception we know has been taken to some of our animadversions on the delay

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We observe by the latest Sydney paper recei ved, that the resident Judge at Port Philip, Mr. Justice Willis, has been dismissed, and Mr. Jeffcot appointed to succeed him Mr. Willis's, conduct to many in the Province of Port Philip, has now met with its just reward.

Colonization of Borneo. The Schooner YONGE QUENE, Captain Hart, and the Brig ANNA Captain Lewis sailed from this harbour for Borneo on the 28th ulc. The expedition has been fitted out at the expense of, and is under the command Honble. Erskine Murray who sails in i Quene, It is Mr.

to open a com m the hope of land for the

most fertile and hitherto nearly unk

nies, of the existence of which valuable insututions in the Colonies, people in the Mother Country are almost entirely

unaware, and, therefore are induced to transact, Felore leavingTM hume, that business winch they would otherwise gladly leave till their arrival in the Colonies

The EMIGRATion GazettE AND COLONIAL ADVOCATS has alway a devoted its pages to advocating the various Colonial interests, not only affording to the intending Emigrant the fullest stores of information respecting the climate, cou, productions, commerce, and various advantages of each parucular Colony, and promoting, to the greatest extent, the various streame of Emigraton to their shores; but also, in the fairest and fullest manner, advocating the Colonial interests at home, so that they may be kept constantly before the public eye, their grievances redressed, abuses removed and discouraged, and the greatest possible advantages secured, The efforts of this Paper being thus constandy devoted to prevent the Emigration of British capital and industry to foreign countries and direct it to the British Colonies, the Proprietor confidently urges his claim, to the support of the Colonial community, and solicita the subscriptions and advertisements of British Colonists to this Paper

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