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THE FRIEND

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OF

CHINA

AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

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VOL. III. No, 110

VICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 27gu,1844.

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NOTIFICATIONThe publication of the Hongkong Gazette under the authority of Government, will be discontinued from this date but all public orders and holicalfons appeal in "The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette," with the signatures of duly authorized Functionaries of the Government are still to be considered as official.

Hongkong, March, 23rd-1842.”

J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurót.

COTTON FACTORIES IN CANADA. To the Editor of the Spectator.

TENDERS will be received at this Office for Bills to be drawn by H. M. Plenipotentiary in China on the Right Hon'ble, the Governor General of India, in Council, for two Lacs of Company Rupees (Cos. Rs. 200,000) in sets of Co. R. 10,000 payable at Fort William thirty days after Sight, in exchange for Mexican or other Re publican dollars of equal Standard, or Rupees at the rate of 225 per $100 payable into this Treasury, The Bills will be delivered on receipt of the dollars.

By order,

CHAS. E. STEWART.

was conspicubus in his exertions, standing over the hatchway during the hazardous process; indeed his gallant officers aided to the last, and loft nothing that human exertions could effect. The following cor respondence between the Admiral, the Minister of the United States, and Captain of the Missouri, Will be read with interest :-

Gibralter, August 28, "Dear Sir, I have not words to express the emoti ons I have experienced in witnessing the prompt and efficient aid afforded by yourself in person, and the officers aud crew of her Britannic Majesty's ship Ma-

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An United States newspaper mentions, that if is the intention of an American to establish a cotton-factory

the river Chambly, in Lower Canada; and it re marks on the low price of labour in Lower Canada, which has been the inducement for the undertaking. I was a party to a conversation which occurred In Lower Canada in 1841, with a son of a very distingui- shed merchant in London, in which the advantages of such an undertaking were pointed out. The reasons

Treasurer and Financial Secretary. \ labar, in the attempt to extinguish the fire by which chiefly were-firt, the low rate of wages, from the re-

Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 10th February, 1844.

CHINESE TREATY.-We have looked with some care into this document, and are satisfied that it errs

greatly on the score of over-legislation and meddling. In truth it virtually turns Queen Victoria and her establishments into custom-house collectors, tide-wait- ers, and police officers for the Emperor of China. To carry into effect the complex provisions of the treaty, Sir Henry Pottinger distinctly informs us, in his pro clamation, that he comtemplates the exercise of pow. ers beyond the law, for which he hopes indemnity from- the legislature: an announcement sufficiently pointing out the difficulties which even he imself anticipates. In the new treaty there is an express etipulation, making the British Government the bondsman. Now the costliness and, complication of all this machinery is but too obvious.

As to the charges on ships and goods, they are ge nerally greatly reduced. One serious omission, how ever, has been made in the treaty; the absence of all provision for warehousing room. The spot of ground allotted for this purpose by the Chinese of Canton, at the residence of European merchants, is extremely limited, and the rents charged for it exorbitant. Through the instrumentality of these warehouses, therefore, which are the property of the old Hong merchants, it is obvious that a modified monopoly may still be exercised, and the Chinese Government make up, in the shape of ground rent for the reduc tions in the new tariff. As to the duty on tea, we cannot discover that the Tariff makes any reduction"; and the principle on which it is levied is just the same as before. In fact, it is a duty on the weight; and consequently the same for tea worth eight taels, and for tea worth eight times eight taels. Now Sir H. Pottinger ought not to have done this. He had made a distinction of duty for the different qualities of ivory, of nutmeg, of ginseng, and of sharks fins, and might surely have done the for tea.

practicable; secondly, the great water power for mills to be found on nearly all the rivers-the St. Lawrence, the Chateaugnay, thei Chambly, and other rivers to the East; and, thirdly, the facility such a factory would afford, notwithstanding the existence, of any tariff, for the supply of a large portion of the States with cotton articles, chiefly those known as domestics," suited for the American market-of those cotton articles especi-

the United States steam-frigato Missouri was destroy-markable concentration of the population, and also the ed, on the night of the 26th instant; your active assis. short period of year during which outdoor labour is tance in rescuing the crew of the burning ship, when all further effort to preserve her was found to be una vailing; your generous hospitality in receiving the ding them the succour they so much needed, until ar- chief part of the crew on board the Malabar, and affor

rangements.could be completed by me for disposing of them elsewhere; and the considerate and cordial kind ness since manifested by you in rendering me every possible assistance in the provisions to be made for ally now made in America which are preferred to En- saving what of value remains of the wreck of the Mis-glish-made articles of a similar kind. souri, and for the restoration of the ship's company to ving discharged my own duty, your generous sympathy the United States. Next to the consciousness of ha

is one of the greatest alleviations of the heavy misfor- tune of the destruction of the Missouri while under my

command.

I shall never cease to remember your deportment on this occasion with the deepest gratitude, and to re gard it as alike honourable to yourself and to your Government. And,

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"I am, with perfect esteem and respect,

Your obedient faithful servan,

If the proposed undertaking should succeed, it is

compete in manufactures, but the difficulties of obtain impossible that the factories in the New England Sta- tes can complete with it. The States may hereafter ing subsistence and the rate of wages are not yet such as to induce many Americans to enter a factory, In- deed, a factory-lady in Massachusetts is a very indépen-

dent

person, She generally seeks only to obtain a certain sum of money in a limited time and to be off again. She makes a little purse of her honourable and industrious savings, and goes back to her family, per- haps to marry and apply her own funds to the fitting- up and furnishing of her own home. She cannot be JOHN THOMAS NEWTON. made a slave of, and those who employ her are com Captain United States Navy.pelled to listen to her terms and to treat her with much personal respect. This is certainly and excellent state of things: and it is to be regretted that the increas of population and of capital shower ever uCUTO But money floats about equalizing the price of labour down systers, however pleasing, and getting aside throughout the world, forcing competition, and beating

laws professedly made to protect labour, which obstruct he can more profitably investit there then in Massa – it The American will take his capital to Canadair

To Vice-Admiral Sir George Sartorius, of her Bri tannic Majesty's ship Malabar, Gibraltar bay.”

Gibraltar, August 28.

chusetts.

participate with Captain: Newton in expressing the "Sir-I beg you, would allow me the pleasure to grateful satisfaction which 1. in common with him and the officers of the ill fated Missouri, have derived from witnessing the zealous personal exertions of yourself and the officers under your command for the perserva- tion of the ship and the succour of her grew, and the generous aid you have spontaneously afforded in the arrangements undertaken for the return of the ship's of the greatest importance. It is the only part of company to their country; and I can confidently assure you, that while the impression of your prompt and indefatigable kindness on this occasion will never be

To Lower Canada this undertaiging may become

America where a manufactory for cotton goods has what I may call a natural opportunity for its cata-- blishment where protective laws, which it is to be

As to opium, there is of course no mention of it in the effaced from the mentory of those who have been its hoped will never for any object be passed in Canada.

Tariff; but, by a passage in his instructions to the Con- sul at Canton, we perceive that Sir Henry has involved the British Govemment in the responsibility of clearing the five ports of opium smugglers. One good thing, however, he has done on this subject. He has disobeyed the foolish orders of Lord Aberdeen to prohibit the import and storing of opium at Hongkong, and he has remos- trated with him on the impolicy of his views. The Chi rose Commissioners are still wiser, for they have re quested the British Goverment Act to meddle with the opium affair at all, but leave it to them, a

In one matter Sir Henry appears to have given way foolishly and rather mischievously to the Chinese, nor are the specifications of the Tariff very

ery honest on this subject. The precious metals, in any form, may be freely admitted into Chia without any duty; it in the shape of coin only

only can they be exported. Now the Chinese liave no coinage, and consequently the export of gold and silver is still contraband in China, and this contraband trade will consequently be carried, as it has been for some years back, to the yearly amount of a milion and air sterling! Thus the Chinese (if the allow them have the consolation to think th become rich by having more gold and ell

enry Himself may be

a better table by the possession of a superfluou

want, just as Sir

cooking pans,

is its multiplying the

and the Chinese From

ton it would have been

immediate objects, it will be warmly appreciated also, ted States. and gratefully remembered, by the people of the Uni-

"I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, your obedient servant,

"C. CUSHING. “Vice-Admiral Sir George Sartorius, &c.”

Her Majesty's ship Malabar, Gibraltar, Aug. 29. "Dear Sir have received your letter with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret pleasure at the man ner in which you are pleased to look upon a simple act of duty on our part towards suffering fellow beings regret for the heavy infliction of mental suffering which the recent awful, event must have caused you and your officers, but you more particularly as the

commiander.

"Accept, then, the warmest sympathy of the officers of the Malabar and myself.

We trust it will not be before the judgment of your country will relieve you from further anxiety, by confirming the opinion we all entertain here of the

determined courage:?

ur officers, and an

are not requisite in order to make it profitable. The population is permanent, kindly in its character, easi ly-governed, and singularly grateful for friendly and just treatment. It is to be hoped therefore, that the American who has undertaken to invest his capital among them will be an enlightened and humane mån, and that he will not be forgetful of that moral supe rintendence over those whom he may employ. and that attention to their education and wellbeing, whic have so remarkably dis

us comptemen în Similar undertakings.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Friend of China.

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