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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
The Friend of China is regularly filed in London
by Mr. P. I. Simmonds, Agent for the Calomnul papers, British and Freign Newspaper and ad vertising agency office, 18 Cornhill (opposite the Royal Exchange) who will receive any commu
nications, orders mid advertisements.
(To the Editor of the Friend of China.) Sa-Parinit me through the medium of your publication to pound out the existence of a ledge of rocks which I dia. revered the other day on sy passage from Chusan, luring a few miles outside of the Hishan Group being much in the way of vessels running to or from the former plase, must be endered very dangerous, and as nothing is said of it in
heathing direétion of the Inte murvoys of that heigh | bourhood, beliep it to have been hitherto unknown. 1 kupximate position is as follows from the northernmost BOMBAY denched rock of the group, N.E., B. *) and #1 mosi | SYDNEY from the southeasternovost izlel N. by F 1 B, 4 und 5 miles ; laying in NR. and S.W, ducetion, in extent 50 to 80 yants,
it was just sunset when I passed it, and we were gong Tery fast through the water or I should have sent a boat to examine is moresclosely; of i'a existence, however, there le By a doubt.
1 huve reason to think that at high tide and smooth water it may not break, but when we passed it broke every tow sounds, chiefly on the N& ond
As most vocab an enving Chisin sicer to pass cute the dishan Talands, to avoid the above reaf, they must either do no within about 1 to 11 miles, or at least 5 outside of the mtheeyament rock. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN WALKER.
» Will of the Wiep," May 8, 1844. 151 onwile reef Jasi Tent; bay being tight and nearly
side of mo at the time, for a plashing of lah,
Though some irregularity, this letter was only received on the 26th; we think the detention must have been ut Alacao...-Ev, F. or 0.1
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29m 1841.
No Civil Officer in the Service of the Govern ment can be permitted to engage in any Trade or other Lucrativo occupation oxcept by the express consent of the Governor, which consent will be a all times revocable. No Odeer may receive any Fee or Official Emolainent except his Sultry."
By Order,
havi
received a coup de soleil. It has always been red that one of the greatest concessions from the Chinese, was the privilege of hup of war stationed at each of those ports, for the protection of the lives and pro- perty of Brinsh and other foreign residents Suroly Sir Thomas Cochrane would not take it upon himself to withdraw these rossols at the prosent unoturo, when affairs in the north are so far from being satisfactorily settled, as witness the late disturbances at Shanghai and Ningpo, which although not of a serious nature still show the necessity of having a vessel of war at each of those ports.
On looking over our fle of papers by the January and February mails, both of which were anticipated by that of March, we observe The following Government Notification that the necessity of a reduction in the duties from the Register speaks for itself. We forbear on tea was making a greater excilemoni comments, being satisfied that His Excelleney's among mercantile writers than we wore aware conduct will be appreciated by all disinterested of. It does not appen, however, that a partion.
corresponding reduction on sugar has been 01 His Excellency the (overnor is pleased to direct all mooted, the impression being, that the mug calm. I took the rollos, which was about a halo out the following instruction from Her Majesty's Counted consumption of the latter would reum rurniment to be published for the guidon of Ferburse the venue for any deficiency in the for
in the Uolony,
mer: To dove the full benefit from such a ro sons holding Public Officen
duction, it must be mutual; it is necessary to increase the consumption of one to reduce the duty on both. The duty upon British Planta tion and foreign sugar is greatly to high, amounting to a perfect prohibition, so far as the wants of a large body of the people, are concerned. It is an extraordinary truth con. nected with the sugar trade, that although since 1811, the quantity of sugar entored for home consumption has undergone no taterial change, if anything rather declined, the pop lation has increased eight millions. This start inability of the poorer classes to purchase this ling fact can only be accounted for from the utritious production. There are many causes which must press upon the ture the necessity of important changes in sugar, as well as toa. In favor of the latter, we have now the acknowledged necessity of tak
GREAT
NOVELTY!
SIGNOR LUIGI DALLE CASSE,
Has the honor to announce, that on the evening of
TUESDAY, THE 4TH or JUNE, He, and the Foreign Company under his manage- ment, will exhibit a variety of Gymnastic, Ath- letic, and other exorcises, of the inost surprising description, at the
ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, Built expressly for the purpose, and situated al he back of the Four Nations," and opposite he Market-place.)
The entertainments will be arranged in the following manner.
ACT 1st-No. 1. Signerina EMILA, a young lady twelve years oki, will execute on the
TIGHT ROPE,
a dance of surpassing elegance and difficulty, in- terspersed with a variety of attitudes and leaps,
calculated to excite the wonder of the audience.
No. 2.
Signorian ANNA will excente: a GROTESQUE DANCE ON T2 TIGHT ROPE:
with various lents of agility, and will terminato by the Chair Equilibrium, which has been deemed thee plus ultra" of Gymnastic power,
ACT 2nd,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,
Colonial Secretarvi Government House, Victoria,
Hogkong, 24th
1814.
The Honourable William Adolphus Bruce, Colonial Secretary, is appointed a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of this colony.
Adolphus Edward Shelly, Esq. has been appointed Auditor General and Clerk to the Councils of this colony, ponding hur Majesty's pleasure.
*
Francis Colman MacGregor, Esq., has pre- cooded to Canton, to assume charge of his) duties, as Consul to that port.
The appointments of Captain George Balfour, as her Majesty's Consul at Shanghai, and Robert Thom, Esq., as her Majesty's Consal Ningpo, have both been confirmed.
at
All communication to His Excellency the Governor, on matters connected with the lony, and to be addressed to the Colonial Se jesty's Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of cretary, and all communications to her Ma Trade, to the Secretary for these departments,
*
United Kingdom, proportionable to that of New South Wales; but were these articles reduced in any considerable degree in price. the consumption would approximate that of this colony, closer than a superficial observor might be aware of.
SUGAR
Present consumption in the United Kingdom cwt. 4,035,845 a 258.
3d,
Revenue £5,005,207, Consumption in proportion to that of New South Wales cwt 23,524,500
Revenue at 158. £10,211,880) Revenue at 78. Od. „ 8,100,100
TE
Present consumption in the United King doin, bg. 35,000,000, Revenue at 35, 213. £8,823,160,
Consumption in proportion to that of Now South Wales, Ibs 280.000,000,000
Revenue at Is. £13.303,000 Revenue at 6d. „ 0,650,000 From the result of this short statement of ligures, we perceive that were it possible to m. crease consumption to that extent which now exist in ne or more British colonies, there would be a demand for tea and sugar which far exceeds the quantities now raised, at leng for sugar, it being impossible to my what quan city of tea is consumed in China and at the low duties of 6d. per lb. for the one article, and and 7s. 6d. pr. cwt, for the other, the revenue would be mcreased upwards of 63 per cont.
A correspondent writes us from Amoy— The arrangements which have been adopted by the Consul, Captain Gribble, are highly satisfactory, and every way conducive to the quick despatch of business; and there is loca delay here in entering and clearing cargo than ledge of the Consul has been of immense value at the other ports, The ponimercial know
in his position, and beneficial to traders resori legislamg to the part. Unless the absurd clauses in the Supplementary, against shipping, as settled by Sir Henry Pottinger, are rescinded, they must eventually drive British merchants to carry on the coasting trade under foreign flags. But for these clauses, wh press so grievously io the Chinese waters,
a much larger supply of the berly from China than former demands required;-unless
this is immediately done, our increasing trade on the ship thement, be a large
with the celestials will be crushed at the out set, and the manufacturing and shipping in- Lerests, which appear to be happily recover fing from a long period of distress, aguin thrown back into confusion, entailing rato on those who are now increasing their factorios in anticipation of au augmented demand for goods. Equally pressing are the causes for a alteration in the sugar duty. In our own colo nies, India especially, the growth is each yen: greater than its predecessor: and although in the West, since the negro emancipation, there terbalances it. The renewal of our trenty of has been a falling of, the East more than coun trade with the Brazils, where £1,000,000 of manufactures annually find a market, will also compel a reduction on sugar, their staple pro duction, if we wish to retaim our present advantages, as manufacturers for this oxton give country. It will not be necessary to put foreign sugar on a par with plantation sugar, to bring the former largely to use, with a difference of 10s. per ewt, of duty it would Her Majesty's Sloop Dido arrived from Cal- cutta nad Penang on the 2k, and Her pay the foreign grower, his labour boing so would be a Majesty's steam frigate Treen, from Chusan, the sufficient protection for our own much cheaper. This difference
i colomes, the The fest termed that of The Iron Foot on Captain Ceceillo, came over from Macao on
sanie ty The French frigate Cleopatra, quality of West India or Mauritius muscovados the Fixed Pillar," in which
being so much superior to that of Brazik Ma the 27th. Captam Cecoille, we believe, at nils or Batasin growth, as always to command, present is in command of the French fleet on in bond, 59. a cwt, more. the China station; he landed on the 28th under a salute. Yesterday the United States sloop, Saint Louis also came into port, last from Singapore,
No. 4.
man
Athletic Exercises by Signor DALLE CASSE-valuable paper on "the effects of
We publish the conclusion of Mr. Martin's climate upon The exercise of THE ROMAN CHAIR, in in our issue of today. It well merits which, his feat resting on a chair, he will bend is an attentive perusal from our readers, many of body over the back of the chair until his head whom are doubtless familiar with Mr. Martin's touches the ground, and then, without altoring the valuable work upon British colonies. position of his fout, he will seize an iron bar, weighing one hundred and thirty pounds, and ning foot long, and brandish it while recovering his exiginal pėsture.
No. 2.
SIGNOR DALLE CASSE will maintain his body in a horizontal position, having merely his feat to depend on for support, and in this difficult position, he will support rova
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No. 3. Horizontal posture of the Olympic or Revolving We have been requested by the Postmaster Pillar, in which surprisingly difficult position, he to take notice of the great inconvenience expe will seize and carry off a man, who, from the ve- rienced in sorting letters by the English and locity of the motion, will also be brought molens Indian mails, xs, from ʼn many of
of them being he attacked the Windmill,
adhesion. This matter has frequently been
there would, wi
and ducrativo carrying trade between this and thệ northern poría.”
We had lately occasion to point out a few defects in this unfortunate treaty; we mors especially alluded to two clausos, namely, that by which Chinese merchants purchasing in Hongkong are obliged to ship in a native vos sel, and that by which consting vessels are compelled to pay charges at each port on their voyage along the crust, and the same on the return, making in all seven times, in the coure of a six-would or two months' voyage, and
rolens into the predicament of Don Quixote when sealed with wax, they arrive in a state mancipate our negroes, and consequently raise Excellency might have dictated to the Celr
No. 4.
each time the same rate as a ship from Europe direct. W'a will not return to this part of the subject; the evident tendency to render nuge tory the advantages which ought to be derived from the northern ports being opened to our commerce, and 36 injure the interests of the British shipowner is e to the most BOINI tical observer. There is another grand whe in this specimen of British diplomatic simplicity which minst have occurred to the minds o many of our mercantile readers. We refer la the Chinese trade with Singapore. For the year ending April, 1843, the imports and ar ports in Chinese vessels trading direct will their own country was $5,418012, the whole of which was carried in Chinese botton, whose cargoes are admitted to their own ports free
plicable that even Sir Henry Pottinger ignorat duty or port charges. To us it appears inex as he acknowledges himself to be on mereat tile affairs, should not see the propriety of s curing part of this trade the shipping appears to have been entirely overload his own country. The reciprocity, princip the details of a treaty, the terms of the Cale tials. We would not censure because he die not take advantage of his own strength and from the humbled enemy. It is alike bon extort unreasonablo and exclusive concession able to himself and his country that he did
equality with their own, at least in so far ce the British vessel in every respect of a upon and to compel his crafly antagonists to pl
trade of Singapore and Hongkong sar the matter now stand? Take the case of corned, both being free ports. But how do Chinese and English vessel, onch m voyage from Amoy to Singapore, and return with an assorted cargo of a couple of
red tons of Straits produce ? The vessel rocdives on board cassia, compler barb, ten, mankins, &c. &c. free of any sup pare the con- daty she proceeds to the British portog les with the gapure, molik free of duty, pays no port ma
Valas purchases her return cargo of batelnut, róttat jeels, bond peppor, dec, dzo, free of duty, returns to
born port of departure, where she is again Testos are duty on cargo, or port charges. How ars cheap, the British Vistol At Amoy she genergilence of which in dues and duty on overy article
five and and bourd at the British port tho (greater than that churren, Inil by her return to t
worthy of notice again liable to dution and oburgo
South pro
tion in these duties. In England, that upon There are many urgent reasons for a reduc- tea will be a popular one with all parties Sugar is a more delicate question, The West India planters, who have sull much interest, sugar of free labour, and slave grown sugar, are opposed to any competition between the They say, with some degree of justice, if you
the price of labour, you are bound to give our The posture called that of The Iron Arm," brought before the public, both in the English produce a preference. So far they are right, on the Olympic or Revolving Fitlar, in which he and colonial papers; but the fashion of wax the most strenuous advocates of emancipation, although the cant of certain parties who were will keep a horizontal position by the mere grasp by no means so soeurą as a water, with naine terms as that of our own colomes. The do so; but we opine it was his duty to 1998
put town, although would now admit slave grown produce on the
establishment, having now three assistants and with the exception of India, most valuable We hear Mr. Scales has increased his the complete sacrifice of the oldest, most loyal, rms will nover obtain this, unless by
trust there will in future be little cause of of British colonial possessions. By a simul complaint. We are satisfied the duties of this ottico are much more arduous and expen. British plantation and threign sugar, with
reduction on the duties of tea, sive than Mr. Scales antcipated when betrunca of 10 per cwt, between the latter, nucopted the appointment. The pablo, bow they will all be put on a fair footing, increasing uver, must in no case suffer from my fouish the consumption of these necessaries of life bargain this Gentleman may have made. His also our ahontents of manufactured goods,
of his hands and muscular tension.
No. 5.
The Flight of Mercury," when with merely
his hill foot locked in the Revolving Pillar, Signor Dalle Cusse will swing round with immense va pility, snatching up, while in motion, a man, whom be will bear round with him.
ACT &
THE YOUNG BRAZILIANS will execute an immense varioty of
SOMERSETS, LEAPS,
and øvery other Gymnastic achievements, which Signor Dallo Casse (eels assured will afford the highost gratification to the audience
Tickets may be had of the Waterloo Hotel and at the office of the "Hongkong Linzette.“
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course is a straight ons ; attend to tie duties of jus appointaient in the meantime, and repres
without having to norifice them abroad for sent to the Postmaster General the great ex We had Istoly occasion to
lack of suitable articles of port penser attendent upon his ollice, which represumption of toran New Sout sentation we doubt not will into consideration, and the salary augmented essentially peopled by British ou
consumption in England New
Our correspondent at Chosan writes us in the United
and free, neerdaall or thro NB-Any laily or gentleman wishing to bring shortly by the Fren. In commercial affairs Brit their own arm chairs and footstools for comfort, there was no important change the drug not am wages will be pleased to send them in before nomi ol evin being quoted.
Doors opened at 7, performance la commence at half past 7 o'clock, precisely.
Tuesday next, with their names on the bucks of
them. Signor Dolle Casse will be responsible for their safety, and will rotira them the next day an the parties sonding for them
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