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ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the Friend of China.) Daan $10--Surely our excellent Governor will receive the warm approbation, of every night minded person in the Colony, for so manfully putting a stop to all Government work upon the Sabbath. This is as it should be. Long ago roade an attempt to induce one of the high Go- vernment functionuries to aid me in bringing this wane subject before Sir Henry Pottinger, He assured me that he sincerely desired to see something of the kind brought about, but remark. ed, that any such matters would meet with no favor from the Authorities, for there was not a man at Government House (the lamented Morri- so expoprad), who cared one fig about the Sab. bath Under such circunstances 1 of course took no steps, not wishing to throw pourla before swine. Happily we now have other Rulers, and their acts appal for themselves. Now would it not be an in perusting Fanturs in the Christian character of the Colony, were every foreigner, made and female, to resolve that they would henceforth attend some place of Christian worship at least once every Sabbath? Some of us take it a point to attend several times and at different places on each Sabbath. Why is it that in these ends of thy earth we are constantly guilty of neglect and sin, at which our consciences would reralt were we la pur native lands, surrounded by our patents, our sisters, vir brothers, and our friends? To this question, in view of a future Judgment, fot con science speaki
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
NO. IV.
The posture called that of The Iron Arm," on the Olympic or Revolving Pillar, in which he will keep a horizontal position by the mere grasp. of his hands and muscular tensión.
NO. V
"The Flight of Mercury," when with merely his loft foot locked in the Revolving Pillar, Signor | Dalle Casse will swing round with immenso a
pidity, snatching up, while in motion, a man, whom he will bear round with him,
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KNOX. [We most decidedly dissent from the opinion expresand by our correspondent, that not a man about Government houses Mr.Morrison excepted- cared a fig for the Sabbath day. His Excellency, Sir Henry Pottinger, was most regular in his atten dance at the Colonial chapel, and so far as 15# fan judge from outward appearance, with much earnestness took a part in the service. We have already stated our views as to the propriety or impropriety of a Government or individuals o ploying heathen labourers to work for them on Sundays, and we rejoice to see that our views upon this mattes are sinsilar to those entertained by Ilis Excellency, the Governor At the same time that we acknowledge the obligation, which we, and alt professing Christians are under, not to employ these men upon the Sabbath, we cannot perceive that, apart from their receiving I day of rest. which is partly the humane intention of the Deity, in appleting one day for this purpose-they (the Chinese) will be one whit botter, or worse than they now are. The Governiuent has done its doty and vindicated the character of the colo+ py, as being a Christian colony, but the ulterior benefits which may arise from this mensure pe beyond the control and unknown to man.: We notice our esteemed Correspondent's letter thus especially, as from our having introduced this sub- jeet some time ago, it may be supposed that Anne and easelses are of une mind on the subject which in point of fact we fire, with this difference, that, we do not coneur in his opinion ofthe religious & thing of all the renmbers of the late gevormooni. However the religious sentiments of our neighbour is not a fit subject for newspaper discussion, we
SACT III,
The colubrated “Dog, Munito, after exciting the surprise and admiration of Europe, America, New South Wales, and several settlements in the Fast, by his superior intelligence and sagacity,
will exhibit for the first time his incredible powers,
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From a list of the hundred and fifty words, in the French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and frock Languages, copies of which will be distributed, he will spelt any word correctly, and translate them at the desire of any of the audience he will also copy any word written by any of the audience on a board, which will be handed for that purpose,
XO. IL.
He will play at Dominos with any gentleman, who will, moreover, be permitted to use his own set of Dominos on this occasion.
NO. 1
Muj will select, display, and wave any National Flag, without the least hesitation, at the request of any lady or gentleman of the audience.
THE VOLNO BRAZILIAN wil execute au im mense variety of Somersets, Leaps, and every other Gymnastic achievements, which Signor Dalle Casse feels assured will afford the highest gra tification to the audience.
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with the shuffling, unsatisfactory, and vacillat- of the buildings, which, in a dark night, is ag. ing manner of the Surveyor General, the immirably adapted for a man trap, But the pression nance upon those present was highly other streets of the picture where are th favorable to Mr. Shelley and his coadjutor. -
Echo answere whore They are the poetical The heavy rams have caused the river to creations of the imaginative draftsman, for any "overflow its banks, and completely mundated thing approaching to the appearance of those stroots which in the original are laid down pa Canton and the surrounding country; so great
rallel with the Queen's road, would defy the in- a flood has not been known for ten years; in
dustrious search of the most inquisitive. We many places it has awept away the embank ments destroying much property, lives also- see ravines, with intervening ridges, covered having been sacrificed to its fury. The rice with huge stones and rocks,making an approach to them somewhat difficult--but streets of crop along the banks of the river is nearly des troyed; inland the crop is large and good. roads none; we see a few Bungalows raising The Canton raw silk has also been injured, their heads upon these ridges, but how their and will fall short of the quantity brought occupants will find access to them it is difficult to perceive; some of them will possibly be in forward last year, the quality also being info- rior. Owing to the flood all communication the predicarent of the Mammoth steam ship at Bristol, after building her in a dock, they have is out off, except by boats and business is consequently very dull, in the factories and discovered there is no gelling her out, the dif packhouses, in some instances, there is four ference between the ship and the said Bun foot water on the ground floor, and we hear galows,18 that in the latter case after being built that cotton to some extent has been damaged there will be no getting to them. From the in store, the ground tiers boing saturated with water, the eye is particularly struck with the incongruity of the town, as it now exists-wy dont bohold "squares in morasses, obelisks i bogs” but wó behold what is equally absurd, people building houses nominally ou streets, where no man would risk his limbs by ap. proaching after dark-which is quite inaccesible to ang vehicle or the foot of a quadruped loss firm than a mule.
THE COAST,
From Chussan our Correspondout writes of the 180 ultino. There is a revival of trade, the dullness noticed in his letter of the 7th being meaily temporary, and woollen goods are now in some demand, also cotton fabrics and Straits product. We regret to hear that the bonded warehouse system to which we alluded some months ago, and which it was then con- fidently expected would be carried through, has proved a failure. Keying opposed the plan, and bis influence was sufficiently strong to render all negotiations abortive In the meantime Therefore the matter is at rest. At) Shanghai several merchants have rented por- "tions of land near the consulate on which they intend to build houses and storos--the land rout is extremely moderate. The Helen Store art had nearly completed her eargo of teas and would sail from Shanghu for Loudon direct, being the first foreign ship that has loaded from the port for Europe.
especially to the port of Shanghai, but with a very slight variation will also apply to Ningps and Chusna.
Our quotations of prices current refers more
IMPORTS.
as we can ascertain, bad av allaire So far as are, there is no probability of there being ameliorated. It is impossible for those who purchase an allotment from Government at a high rate to be at the expense of cutting a road to their house; this. in a widely scattered town, would be too expensive for any individual to attempt. At the land saule, of course, there was nothing said about this, or anything ele, except the price; but if a man purchases a lot of ground upon a certain struel, which he suus laid down upon a government map, he is assuredly entitled to insist upon government keeping faith with him, and making that streep if DOL this is essentially a part of the bargain; specified it is implied, and until the street is. made upon which property was purchased, we do not think that purchasers are equitably bound to pay one farthing of ground rent.
The present Secretary for the colonies a quite ftorionts for the liberal view be takes Long Ells, in fair demand, good assorted
of the suppositious value of public property, and the many stringent regulations under which lots solling freely at 80. Spanish Stripes are
be enuses it to be brought forward for sale. His also saleable at $1,50; Camlets good assort- ment, at 890; and Habit cloth, in shall par-Lordship by raising the minunum price of cels, at paving prices, Gray Shitings are much wanted, quotations $3,50 a 3,80. White Shirt ings, also in request, at $3,80 a 4.5. Chintz 83, dull of sale with large stocks, Lead still wanted, the supplies not being equal to the demand, quotations 80,00 a 5.70. Tron, rod $3, bar $9,60, saleable, Rattans, scarce, sul- lings at $; Pepper quite saleable at 86. Be clu de mar il good, $20. Ivory, large, $100. Cochine of 980. Manilla Hemp 31.30, in fuls request a Liquid Indigo 88,50 for limited
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE, Opiuin has been sold to some extent at Patnu
$700 and Mahusa, wally good $500. Men VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6ra, 1841. tion is made of some sales at higher rates, and it was anticipated that instructions would soon We understand the treaty entored unto | be received to advance the price to $850 or between His Excellency Mr. Cushing, on be000, Nae opium vessels were laying outside half of the United States, and Koying, on the port of Shanghai, perfectly undisturbed; behalf of the Chinese government, has boon the amount of sycee given in exchange for the signed by the respective representatives of the drug at this port is rated at $500,000 per Two entries. The particulars we are not
month No attempts are made by foreigners acquainted with, but we presume they will be to carry the drug inside the port, bạt thự na- essentially the same as those arranged by Sir lives do so with perfect impunity. Henry Pottinger and Keying, and embodied in the treaty and Supplementary treaty. It is rumoured that Mr. Cushing will visit Peking previous to his return to America.
therefore leave the matter, which is one of great THE FRIEND OF CHINA, quantitios. These quotations are all duty paid. deliency, upon which we are Intlo fisted to judge --at least to judge uncharitabley -Eprror Fort]
SKONNOR DALLI CASSIS, HAS the honor to announce to the entry and inhabitants of this Colony, that the third per- formance of the FOREIGN COMPANY under his management will take place om SATURDAY “BÈXT,” the 6th instant. Signorina Anna having quite recovered from her late indisposition will perform and Signor Dalle Case is sure that (with the pre- cautions he has already taken) the performance will meet with the approbation of the public, and tend to give that satisfaction, which it was his intention the first performance should have done. By the kind permission of the Officers of the 4th ALN.L., their band will be in attendance, The Entertainments will be arranged in the following
ACT 1, NO. 1. SIGNORINA ENELIA, a young lady twelve years pld, will execute on the Tight Rope a dance of durpassing elegance and difficulty, nterspersod with a variety of attitudes and leaps, calculated de excite the wonder of the I
audience.
SjesOnInA ANNA will execute a Grotesque Dance on the Tight Rope, with various feats of agility, and will terminate by the Chair Equilibrium, which has been deemed the ne plus ultra of
Gymnastic power,
ACT 11.
NO. 1
thletic Exercises by Signor Dalle Cange The exercise of The Roman Chair in which, his fent resting on a chair, he will bent his body over the back of the chair unit his head touches the ground, and then, without altering the position of his feet, he will prize an iron bar, weighing one hundred and thirty pounds, and ging feet long, and brandish it while recovering he original posture.
30. 11.
Her Majesty's ship Castor Captain Grahame, will leave this port for Chusan on the 10th. The Custor will probably be kept for some time on that station, which from its contiguity to Ningpo and Shanghai, is the most favorable position on the coast for a vessel of war, if only one is to be alloted for the protection of British subjects north of Amoy
CANTON,
Our Correspondant writes of date 2nd. Instant. Thanks to Mr. Forbes, the American Consul, and the presence of a party of marines turbances are quelled for the present. The from the United States ship St. Louis, the diy Britial community strongly express their obil gation to Mr. Forbes, the Captain of the N. Louds, and her crew, to whose energy and timely and they, with all the other foreigners in Canton, were probably saved from scenes of plunder and riot it not of blood.hod. The American marines return to Whampoa on the 4th-the anniversary of the independence of the Republic, and it in rumoured there will be another outbreak by the rabble on the 6th They are evidently in a stato of excitement, inflammatory chops circulating sinong them, and it is feared they are handing themselves for a systematic attack.
The font termed that of The Iron Fool on held at the Consulate, to re Lonsider the pro On Monday, a preliminary meeting was the Fixed Pillar,” in which
posed plans for building Chinese government. ed by Her Majesty's
SIGNOR DALLE CASSE
will maintain his body in a horizontal position. having merely las fent to depend on for support, end in a difficult position, he will support förn
NOTE
Horizontal posture of the Olympic or Revolving Filler, in which surprisingly difficult position, be will acize and carry ulf a man, who, from the ve keity of the notion will also brought solene cofama into the predicament of Don Quizute when heattacked the Wladmill.
EXTORTA
TEAS. Good common congous can be pur- chased to some extent nt Taels 11 a 12. It is anticipated that a large portion of the new crop will be brought forward for sale at Shanghai and Ninggo this season. Silk, quoted at 8450 to 460. The crop will be large and the quality good, while prices, it is expected will rule lower than last season. Howqua has entered into large contracts for raw silk, intend- ed for the Canton market. Rhubarb. A good sample, consisting of 500 piculs is offered at Tues 19 Inferior quality something less. Alum, purchases at i81,20.
We were decidedly wrong in some of our romarks a few weeks ago, upon the land of fice we make the amende honorrible, and coo- neral, or his assistant does know something of fess most penitentially, that the Surveyor Ge surveying and mapping we have seen a plan of the town of Victorm, the fruits of eighteen months labour, and a very pretty plan it is too streets are laid out with the most mathema- tical precision, the water cources are curbed of their meandering propensities and flow between sober banks; the roads and streets, which are so ingeniously traced upon the paper, are of cour suppposed to be in good order; and altogether, were it stranger to age think it a very decent the plan of Victoria, he would be inclined to
Judge this plan does
ation and taste of thes
that there is such a w was designed and
the road and the ident from the putturo to the
formity, this str and regularity we hi
reality to hith
Fround lag. iary from the tile but it is bonoyed the original plan wil as definitely
be modified to meet the qurements of the community. Government will not build & Brai Consular house, but rent one until instructions shor are received from home. Mers Pope kitended the meetin mout, and the straightforward sness like manner in which theraselves gayo much satisfaction
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land from bs, to 128. per ore, was mainly instrumental in destroying die Australasian có lonies and ruining hundreds of industrious co louistuin one year the proceeds of the hand sales in New South Wales was reduced from £300,000 to £10,000; the sudden withdrawal of that large sum from the resources of the colony caning incalculable mischief. We are well aware that this, being a commercial co, loug, its prosperity will not be materially af fecjed by the liberality of H. M. S. Govern- ment, note that nearly all the British merchants in China have built stores and dwelling houses on the island. To some extent, however, the ipercase of the town is retarded, not so much by the high price of land, as from the fact that after purchasing allotments you cannot byild upon them, from the wait of access, or froni the utter impossibility of getting your ground lied out, the great inconvenience which strangers experience from the positive impos sibility of getting a house to rent, is solely caused by the neglect on the part of gover ment, as there are many capitalists in the c lony anxious for opportunities to invest in house property.
It would be some satisfaction to know that there was even a distant prospect of govern mont bestirring themselves, and making the streets which they have planned; but wo fear this important particular in laying out and building up a town, has not been take into calculation at all. If the
prices at which land is sold is not considered sufficient to cover the
expenses of making streets, the batter plan would be fol government to disbarse, in toe first place, and lovy an assessment upon houso rent to koop the streets in a proper state of repair, and pay an annual interest for the funds thus exponded. It is evident that something must be done, unless satisfied with the rudo attempts at engineering exhibited on the Quyen's to individuals, Were we in the position of all road, it has been determined to leave the rest incorporated town, there would be no dificulty whatever the municipal authorities could readily borrow what funds werd necessary) and assess the anhabitants to provide for thọ interest. Now, however, we are in the uns enviable position of having poither civil me gistrates, with power to attend to the require ments of the colony, nor independent members of the Legislative Council, to press upon government the importance of having the town Jaid out in accordance with the plans by which
ye been induced to purchase ground, Properly attempted to, will hold in largo Rastle colony, probably not less than per annum. We do not speak of embers of the Council, but members
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Tuition to extensive doare to bonent
not one has been offerett & bo8! Council this is an anomaly
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