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Barrish SHIPPing at WhaMPDA. Ormens (Dan.), 200, Franklyn. W. H. Franklyn Masden, 217, Phillips, D. Burjorjee Sovereign, 243, Alain R. J. Gilamu Regina, 276, Quinton Dent & Co.

Grecian, 578, Watt. Lindsay & Do.

Maid of Athens, 217, Hews, Dent & Co. Herbrides, 572, Melville. Jardine, Matheson & Co Asia 557, Smith Holliday Wise & Co Carshalton Park, Carter ditto Ausje, 177, Potter. Holliday Wise of Co. Cursedjoe Cowasjee,335 Campbell, D,&Rustomjee Inglis, 1321 Isaacson, C. S. Comptou. Mary Bansyting, 585 Picken, Russol & Co. Cumberland, Major Ludany & Co. Royal Saxon, 442, Crawford, Jamieson, How&Co.

LOADING AT WAANPOA.

Sir H. Compton, 348, Boulton. Grecian, Great Brita

BRITISH Rearls at AlagLO

Fraser Rustomjse & Co. Syed Khan, Ropor. Hudson Ardaseer, 420, Milntyre MacVicat & Co. Black Dog, 140, Lloyd. Dailabhoy Burjarjee. Fur Harbadian, 139, Warren. A. Oruth. Will of the Wisp, 140, Walker, Captain Walker Madros, 521, Sluck, Jardine, Matheson & Co Royalist, 140, Lecs Boustend & Co

Admiral Moorson, 398, M Knight Fox, Rawson&Co

Isabella Thomson, Kitten

Ernaad, 501, Field &M.Rustomjeed Co A. Anderson, 499, Spatt Macvicar & Co Mermaid, Ryle. Me Vicar of Co. Goddess, Lovering. Macvieng - Go. Possidone, 392, Valentine. Dent & Co.

AMERICAN AT WHAMPOA AND MACAD. U.S.F. Brandywine, Commodore Parker U. S. Corvolte, St. Louis, Capt Konth, U. S brig Perrie, Tilton.

Conroy, Towne,

Lark, 287, Tibbits Nye Parking & Co.

PORTUOUESE,

ILME Tejo, Du Valle Angelica, Sanchez, A. J. de Minada. Gemeen, Lança. P. J. S. Loureiro Chad Março, Rivolt

SWEDISH Hisdeo, Gransberge, Russel & Co.

DUTOR

Trendy, Bakoma Reynvund & Co. General Chuts, Pace. Russell & Co. Sumatra, Crawford, Fletcher, Darkins & Co.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

side of Rodrigues round the West end to Booby Island, on the North side, and in no part does the reef extend beyond & and 6 miles.

Ships are recommended to pass to leward of the Island, giving

the North West part of the reef & good berth

I have, etc.. (Signed) J. MARSHALL Captain. Commander in Chief, etc. Capo Station.

from

The barque Cove, Capt. W. H. Palmer, the Mauritius, bound to London, and which put into Table Bay on the 14th inst. in a leaky state, is discharging her cargo,

THE FERNCH EMBASSY TO CHINA, -- Advices from Rio, received by the last arrivals, state the arrival in that port of the expedition destined to China, having on board the Ambassador to the Court of Pekin. The vessels consist of H, M.C.M. frigate L'Africaine, of 10 guns, and corvette La Victorieuse, of 28 guns, thay intended to touch at Table Bar and were to said on the 20th of last month."

Report from the log of the schooner Anna, At 7.30 am on the 31st Feb. anchored off the Bell Buoy, at noon, blowing a galo of wind; at 2: pm an Amerionn whaler parted, went on shore and became a total wreck 1 si 2. 80, the Heral

Diemen's Land, Cape of Good Hope Caunda (Lower), Nova Scotia, Jamaica, and Trinidad.

Of territorial importance and commercial value,

Canada (Upper) New Brunswick, British Guyana

· Damerara, Essequibo and Berbice,

comprising and Honduras,

Of commercial value, and maritime wility. Cape Breton Isle, Newfoundland, Mauritius, Gibraltar,

Malta, and the lomian islands.

Territorial importance.

Swan River, South Australia, and the other parts of New Holland not before specified.

Commercial value.

several volumes to demonstrate their varied cha racters, manners, religion &o. A few observations on the subject will not however, be irrelevant, s they may tend to prove how at present the very d veraity of the population is of great service to England independent of numbers, purauita feelings towards the parent state, by ils existing efficiency towards maintaining the integrity of the

empire.

In making this romark however, I would not wish it to be inferred that I advocate the doctrine divide et impera; there may be states of society that require the adoption of such political expo dients, but I do not therefore refer to the diversity of the British Empire as advantageous in principla Prince Edward Isle, Barbadoes, 81. Vincent's, or in its ultionste results; I wish merely to Groundh, Tobago, Antigua, Dominica, St. Chrisdicate that where a vast mass of people are under toplier's, St. Lucin, Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, subjection to a distaul governing power, the Singapore, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Cape very homogeneousness would be a dangerous in them to rebellion against the parent country Coast Castle and Accra, and Hudson Bay territo-strument in the hands of noy demagogue to lacio before reason and conviction had assumed the Maritime wiley and political consideration.

place of passion and prejudice. That bewert The Bahamas, the Bermudas, the Virgin Isles, which may be a bond of union in the beginning, the Falkland Isles, the Seychelles, Northlk Island, will, if not sedulously watched and guarded agains 31. Helena, Ascension, Heligoland, the Norman source of diffection and neparation in the Isles, nud Isle of Man,

rios.

This classification, though the least exception Merchand, with a number of coolice went on shore este ander det at the in Tombo Bay; and the brig Mary Alice, of West India Islands of St. Vicent, St. Lucin, &e

and the other settlements under the same boad, verpool struck on the reef and lost her rudder utro of Maritime utility, as well as commercial v 3, 45, the dns, parted, and drifted on the rocks, by affording protection to our trade and en blowing at the time a hurricane, since got off”

cotia, roports having sprung

January she experienc the 27th, in lut. 14. 0 rand

mencing from N Wat The leak increased to About 1,009 bags of →Minuritius Price Curl

120h

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emt.

| The British possessions in India alone, i a qu the continent of Asin, under the presidents of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, contain o dred million of British subjects.

1 say British subjects, for the inhabitants under

The Bark Graham, Captain Mitchell from Calouragement to our navy in like manner Barthe joint government of the East India Company, bydons, Prince Edward Isle, deu, are of territorial and of the Board of Control, owe the same fealty to the British Crown, and are entitled to the importance from the ridliness of their soil, and the products they yield, while some colonies that protection, as if they were born and living are now considered of territorial importance alone, within the precincts of England. The vast popu as the various settlements of New Holland, union now referred to is more diversified in chame are becoming daily of increased commercial value colour, manners, language, religion, and feelings than the inhabitants of the whole continent and maritime utility.

of Europe, whose numbers scarcely equal the citizens and tributaries of our possessions on the peninsula of Hindostan Some are bold nud warlike others timed and panciful; some of a lighrolive complexion, with Roman coses, and dark flowing hair, others of a negro unt and appeurance |—some with a polished tangunge, others using a barbarous jargonom Monotheists, others sunk in the grossest idolatry --some generous and confiding, If we look to the territorial extent of the Co-others treacherous and distrustful in short British Jonies we shall not be less surprised than at their Indin presents a very remarkable instange of vn.

ciety in the human race. number varied nature, and position. they occupy

miles. in Asia, Squaro West Indies

The Bark City of Pulares, exporinged a strong gale of wind, from the 22nd, to 20th January, in Ja So 0'S, nad long. 840 E, lat 1000'S, and long, 9370 E--Idið.

MANILA PRICES CURRENT 26 MAY

Sugar, white, por picul, 843 to 5; soconil quality, $3 to $3 4; brown, 2 6 to 981 Zebu, $2 J to 14 4. Rum, per gallon, 80 20 to 803 Rice, per caran, $14 to 82; carga, $12 to $131 Cigars No. 3, 49, No. 4, 86 8, No. 5, 802, in demand.

The mjaiu object, however, in view, is to show the varied nature of our colonies, how usefn they are in every point of view, and how valuable even a barren rock, in the midst of the ocean, may be to a commercial nation like England.

These points will be further exemplified in the chapters on Commerce and Finance, and in the other parts of this work,

COLONIAL POLICY OF THE BRITISH | North Amerion, excluding Hudson Bay

EMPIRE.

SECTION U

territory of 370,000 sq miles South America, including British Gay Tus Colonies of England are so distributed in ang Honduras and Falkland Isles their position, so varied in their nature, so vast in Africa, South and East their extent, so diversified in their products, and so | Africa, West

population, that it is very diffi. Australasia. cult to frame a

ARRIVALS AT ST HELENA, FROM CHINA, TO THE nominalona, nified view of them ju uny Europe.

“STU FRUKUARY,

Doo Blizn, in 77 days Quentin Leitch, in 98 days Jan. 1, Aden, in 71 days, 18, Du fres in U5 days; 17, Mary in 80 days; Sappho la 75 days; 20th, Mary Catherine in 81 days; 23, Passenger, in 70 days; Claudius in 80 days: 31, Euphrates in 70 days Mary Ann in 78 days Feb. 2, Viscount Sandon in 66 days, Juliet in 79 days; 3, Walker in 79 days

MANILA 8RIPTING,

mander except geographically, in reference to their territorial position in each quarter of the globe, as shown on the statistical chart of all the Colonies, given with the work.

If classed in reference to their position in the

torrid or temperate zones, un imperfect idea is a fordest of their expabilities, as elevation above the sa materially altora the products of the soil Moreover some colonies have part of their terri. tory on the verge of the tropical (us Australasia), others pass from the torrid into the temporate zóne (Lindoman) and others from the toperate almost into the frigid zone (the Canadas)

Or Aures

Total

in are u 550,00

In the West Indies and South America thore 13,000 | are nearly 1,000,000 of British subjocis, of whom 435,000

adargo portion are African negroes, and their des coudants, -n leaker part whiles,-«und a consihine- bla section, mualitões, or the descendants of the white and coloured races.

370,000 200,000

These three classes of negros, whites, and theit 60,000 derendnuts, although enjoying a similarity of lan 500,000

guage, (for the most part) of institutions, manner 1,500

and customs, are sufficiently distingumbed from each other to ren for their diversity a present bond 1,014,500 of union to Great Britain.

1,226,300 000 and let it be remembered that the fur greater part fertile and, in a large proportion, a buliivated territory.

A COMMON

In North America England has upwardly of oni milbert and a quarter of British Subjects, all Er ropeans or dieir descendants, widely located over an immense and fertile tarmstory, and attached to their father land by the strongest leg which can unite buman beings together, painely, origin or national consanguinity, and an identity. language, manners, religion, and feelings. The Canadiangs of French extraction, in Lower Camila, can scarcely in the aggregate bo considered an exception to the above general statement? buja wise government will other subdue any opposite turn their antipathies telings, or failing in

Arrivals-May-13, ship Mconsaur, from Singa pora in 24 days; 19, Spanish brig Sulvan, from Amoy in D days; ship Rooksby, from Muvan in 18 To divide them according to their acquisition days.

by conquest, cession, or colonization, would be Sailed May 20, English ship Bencoolen, for nugatory as the fortune of war has been the prin. Cowes Spanish shouner Carmen, for Mitcao; cipal meshy by which almoid all our preson, pos- Brunswick, Capo Breton, Prince Edward Isle, to the advantage it state.

93. Spanish brig Narciso, for Amoy; 24, Ameri- can barque Convoy for Macao; English brig Arab, for London.

Loading - American ship Chicorn, for China; Surat, for Boston Spanish brig Bilbaino, for China; British brig Fortescue, for London, schooner Cheerful, for Sydney chapan Sulong, for Macao; Spanish brig Sil, for China, Danish brig Frien, for Cowes Spanish brig Flecher, for Singapore: British barque Lord Petre, for China Robert Fulton, for Philadelphia; Spanish brig Maria, for China, British brg Stockton, ditto; Spanish ship Colon, for Cadie; Charlotte, for Boston

sessions have been acquired Australis, some parts of North America.

To divide them according to territorial im ponance, commercial value, or maritime utility, is the most practical mode of demonstrating their in trinsic worth, but this classification is also very difficult, as a colony may be posed of all the threo advantages, as British India; of the two former, as British Guyans; of the two latter, as Gibraltar, These three classes may be thua lilus. trated, and an inference may then be readily drawn how far a colony belongs to one or more of the divisions specified.

1. Territorial — British India contains upwards of half a million square milles, peopled by March 19-brig Hector, from Canton to Halifax, 100,000,000 British subjects; its territorial im

ARRIVAL AT THE CAPE OF DOOD HOPE,

Nova Scotia.

INDIAN OCEAN REEFS OFF RODRIGUES. (From the Mauritius Price Current, Feb 1) His Excellency the Governor directs that the accompanying copy of a letter from Captain Sir John Marshall, of tlor Majesty's Ship lair, to Reir Admiral the Honorable Jocelyn Percy. Com mandor in Chief on the Cape Station relative to the extent of the Reefs off the South side of the Island of Rodrigues, may be published for general information.

Colonial Secretary Office, 18th February 1844,

GEO F DICK, Colonisi Secretary

portance, in reference to the opinions elsewhore expressed, is therefore clear.

The commeros of India though yet in its in- fancy, amounts to upwards of 20,000,000 ster ling annually. Its maritimme utility consist in the quantity of shipping employed by the settlements, in the excellent harbours of Caloutta, Bombay, Cochin, Trincomalee, Quile, Poning, Tavol, Mur, gui, Malacca, Singapore, doo, along an extent of 5000 miles of sen coxal, with the navigation of the Ganger, Burrampooter, and Indus, in the number of excellent native sammen employed on its shorts, and in the cheap and sounds run

torials and resources afforded for hip building.

Guyana posaran

In the preceding arrangement, I place all the possessions under the government of the East India Company, logether with Geylon, Penang Malacon and Sincapore, under Asia the West fudin Islanda and the Bermudas, under the West | Indies Demarura, Essequibo, Barbice, Honduras, and the Falkland Isles, under South America, the Cennins (Upper and Lower) Nova Scotia, New

Newfoundland, and the Hudson Bay territories. unler North America: the Cape of Good Hope. Natal, Mauritius, and Seychelles, under Southern and Eastern Africa Biorm Leone, the Grambia, Cape Const Castle, Accra, St. Helenan, and As cension, uutler Western Africa: New South Wales Van Diemen's Land, Soat Australia, Swan Ri verand Norfolk Island, under Australasia and Gib raltar, Malta, Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zante, Paxo, Santa Maura, and Cerigo, the Norman Isles the Isle of Man and Heligoland, uudor Europe Thus we perceive that in each hemisphere, under every zone, and beneath various climes, England is ever present-holding the strongest points, enjoying the richest territories, and difus. ing bor influence to the uterinost extremities of

the earth.

SECTION II.

Among the numerous advantage of England's foreign possessions, not the least valuable is the diversified products which hor colonies yield, thus rendering her independent of the whole world for necessaries, luxuries, or these raw materials on which our manufacturing prosperity so much de- pends.

The geographical position of the colonies al most ruiliolently indicate the products which they either now yield or are capable of yielding sugar, coffee, cholio, cotton, silt, Uplum, dinnamon, gin ger, pimente, peppers, and all the spices indigo, track, rum, rim, pressered fruits, gvine, dro stuffs, drugs, a ta are the prodhen Ablatio, West Indian, South American and possessioon timber, corn, ojj. dax, fish, für voal, and and oil.

100,000 square miler on the south American Main watered by several noble riyors, containin large fertile acea capable of pporting several millions of mhibitnuts, and new enjoying a valuably.com merve to the extent of £3,000,000 annually, whith is capable of considerable increase in different pro ducts

rellur tas beförn re- (wool,

Her Majesty's Ship Inc. | | Port Louis, 10th Novembar 1888. Sis,Two British Merchant ships of consider able sommage the Queen Victoria & theOxford haring wrecked, on the coral reefy off the Bouth side of the Island of Rodrigues, within the last seven mouths, and the Masters of these vessel with that officers and crews having in their Protests declared on oath, that the said reefs exted from 111. Marvine millity. 10 to 15 miles from the Island, whilst hydrogra marked ollur na ilus phical authorities confine their tits within 5 or maritime positioni 6 mpos, this difference in their potions, If correct. Vantage LU would subject our commercial marise to consider Mediterranoah, I ablo danger, particularly as a large number of 16 mintala n com ships sight Rodrigues on their way from India to The South and Eur Mauritius and Kogland,

omdered the subject of sufficient importanco

to submit to Your Excellency the expedienay of my prending There in Ilvt Majesty's Ship dead

under my communi, for the

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Africa, Southern, Eastern and Western, as yet but u scanty population, compared with the extent of fertile territory. Our Southern posses sous at the Cape of Good Hope are the most densely peopled, and about 160,000 English Anglo- Dutch, Negroes, Hottentots, and Ruffres, are com prised within the precincts of the British Empiro. Our other possessions in Africa, on the Continent, and on the adjacent Islands, amount to about 120,000 of an equally varied and mixed raco: so that, in round numbers, we liave upwards of a the shores of quarter of million of subjects on the that vast and formerly renowned quarter of the globe.

Australasia presents to our view a rising empire, peopled for the greater part from the refuse of our grols and prison houses, and within the brief space of half a century, since its establishment as a po pal settlement, containing an aotive, Industrious class of Europeans and their descendants whose numbors, to the extent of about 150,000 mdd power, wealth and honour, to the mother country while the different settlements now forming on this Frost southern land and its adjacent consts, bold out the prospect of a rapid and valuable addition to the mere physical strength of the empire. In Ceylon and in our other islands in the oustern hemisphere, upwards of a millon of coluired, but comparatively divilized people, chin nod onjoy the privileges of British colonists,

In Gibralar, Malta, the Tonian, Talonda, thọ herman laloe, Heligoland and the Isle of Minn gland bar nearly half a million European Bua of various – maɔnora, lúnguages, religio ebone feelinga, andrely unrepresented in the

Gont, parliament, and to all intents and purposes

as colonists at Line

Britain.

What an

ense empleo dões Aliwa, poll, dust, hory, teak, brier sketch offer to the

dys, stulli ekins, and spices of it, the statesman, and the olive oil currants, wine, grain, require a widely extung AUTOPAINZ JUKAMSSTUTIN -

Vamol iden of so diversifie sligent think rollects on talk vüsk uhundance of sichen within the limits of the

deed the preceding list, there is himple reason to

nish dish Empire, el duple : Offører inte fant

rajolos at the lich and independent position which new mar Ragland is enabled, to laka ammar the variour, ül rolerende, jo náinni wbich porround her.

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