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GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS a great number of Chinese and others have without permission and in direct opposition to Law and Custom settled them selves upon the Queen's Road and at divers places along the Coast of this Island, and have there erected Mat-Houses and in some Instances even Wooden Houses wherein they live and carry on business without paying any Rent to the Crown for the Land so occupied.

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTton that the Surveyor General of this Colony has received my coin- mands to give the aforesaid persons notice to remove themselves and Structures within a re- asonable time and at his discretion and iu default of their doing so to eject them and remove their Mat Sheds and other Structures, This Proclamation to be translated into Chi- nese and circulated throughout the Island,

God Save the Queen.

J. F. DAVIS. Governor &c. &c,

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.

H. M. Ship Iris, Captain Mundy, will sail for Amoy and Chusan, as soon as the weather moderates. She carries Mr. Alcock and lady to Amoy, where that Gentleman is appointed to officiate as Consul.

have long advocated, we must assert that, it will be with feelings of humiliation, we will pay our five dollars to the Registrar General, for a bit of paper, descriptive of our appearance

Cone, the Pastor of Dr. Devan; 5 Right Hand of fellowship by the Rev. E. Tucker; 6 Con The address of Dr. Williams, as are all his pub. cluding prayer, by the Rev. D. Bellamy. lic performances, was a finished and beautiful pro- We also hear objections to a tax being leduction, admirably adapted to awaken an interest We hear, that in the affray between the ofvied without our being represented in council. in the spiritual welfare of the teeming millions of ficers of the Proserpine, and the Chinese, only one man was killed. The Chinese are said to have made a brutal and unprovoked who attack upon the gentlemen in question, landed in company with Mr. Walker, chief clerk at the Consulate of Foo chow-foo. Mr. Pottinger, purser of the vessel, was severely, it not dangerously wounded. Dr. Startin was also much bruised and driven into the water Mr. Walker appears to have got off easier than either of his friends, though a blow was made at him with as mattock, which, had it not been warded off, would probably have proved fatal.

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By the Sulph we have received one Benga right to tax an unrepresented people. We right hand of

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absolutely electrifying-one, where in allusion to If by representation, elective representation, is China. The effect of two brilliant passages was meant, we are well aware that in Hongkong the excitement relative to the annexation of Texas, this will never be granted. He must be very he called upon the audience to aim after a múro ignorant of British colonial history, who does glorious annexation," the annexation of China not known that, before elective representation to Christ's spiritual empire. The other where ho is granted to any colony, that colony must represented China as a maiden looking across have an intelligent and independent consti- the wide waters to distant America, a biting op tuency, In Hongkong with, apart from the the veil that for ages had hung over her tawny military-less than three hundred European features, and reaching out her olive-dyed hand to inhabitants, such a constituency is not to be be seized with the grasp of kindness by Christian found. But if by representation, they mean America." But the Address is to be printed, and that, the Governor, or Her Majesty, should you will have an opportunity of prosenting it to name a few of the principal men of the colony, your numerous and intelligent readers. The other who are unconnected with Government, services were particularly interesting and affecting be members of the Legislative Council, and brought tears into many eyes, especially the to be

the presenting of the delivery of the then we say also, Government has no

The Rev. Dr. Devan and lady sailed from New look upon the exclusion of the inhabitants from York on the 18th of June in the Barque Valparaize, paper, The Friend of India of the 5th Sept.

The Ernand hence the 28th of June, arrived the Council, as a piece of great injustice-as Capt. Engles. They come to China under the illiberal in the extreme, and unconstitutional patronage of the American Baptist Board of For at Calcutta on the 30th of August.

The Friend of India, as usual, contains some Even in penal settlement, the principle of represeign Missions, and will be stationed at Hongkong,

Christian Watchmen.- well-written articles, but they are on subjects sentation is admitted, by the nomination of non purely local. As usual, also, there is some officials to the Council board. Besides Hong- bickering with the Englishman on military kong, there is another exception, to this prin- affairs, but to parties in China quite uninterest ciple of representation, in Norfolk Island ; which, however, it is but fair to the inhabitants The trial of the mutineers of the 64th Regt, of that island to state, is not a colony, but is reported to have closed; six of them having only a dependency of the Colony of New been condemned to death. It is rumoured that South Wales, and to a residence on whose the Commander-in-Chief and Sir Charles lovely shores, the only passport is a pair of iron Napier are at issue, as to the punishment which fetters; or a red Jacket, with loaded Musket ought to be inflicted. Sir Charles Napier and fixed bayonet. There, there are no “tickets advocates leniency, whilst the Commander-in of leaved mere introduction, such as we Chief insists on a severe example being mado. have mentioned, is sufficient in that hospitable The native community of Calcutta, had held place, to secure the party introduced, food and There, there is no repre- a meeting, on purpose to prepare an address, raiment for years. to be presented to the Honorable W. W. Bird, sentation, as apart from the military, there are Esq., the Duputy Governor of Bengal, for no free men to be represented. In Hongkong upwards of two years. The Friend of India we are differently situated, for although, we speaks favourably of Mr. Bird's administration, are few in number, we possess an abundance and thinks the gratitude of the native commu-of wealth, intelligence and respectability. nity is not misplaced.

Victoria, Hongkong, 21st Oct., 1844,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Rutherford Alcock Esquire proceeds this day to Amoy as Her Majesty's Officiating

By order,

ing ADAM W. ELMSLIE, Victoria, 22nd October, 1844.

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THE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1841. NOTICE-A Mail for England via Bombay by the Sci- TANA " closed at this Office at 5 P. M., Saturday 26th fast,

Post Office, Victoria, 2d Oer, 1844 NOTICE—A Mail for Madms per WoxESSTER coses At this Office on Thursday 24th. Instant at 5 P. Al.

Post Office, Victoria, 221 Oct. 18th.

NOTICE. In consequenc Church, there will be no Se

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the repairs, which are kalus carried forward on guilding used as the Colonial

unt further notice. NCENT STANTON,

Colonial Chaplain,

As was already known, from the Bombay papers, the execution of Colonel Stoddard and Captain Conolly, by order of the Ameer of Bokhara, is ascertained to have taken place in April, 1842, or shortly after the Ameer had received intelligence of the defeat of our army

in the Khoord Cabool Pass.

A Catholic Bishop, the Rev. Dr. Oliffe, and several priests and nuns, arrived in the Seringa patam, on the 18th of August. The Seringapas tam made the passage from Purtsmouth to Madras in seventy-six days; from Madras to Calcutta in six days,

Of commercial intelligence, there is not one

word.

A branch of the Bank of Western India will be established in Hongkong immediately. The branch will be under the management of Mr. Smollett Campbell, at present head of the establishment in Ceylon

Government appear quite earnest in their determination to clear the island of the lawless characters who infest it. By the proclamation which is published to-day it

In the back page we give a few extracts from the Indian press. We would refer to that froin the Bombay Times of the 17th of August, regarding Messrs. James Barber C.o's overland Agency. In the whole of our ex- perience, we do not remember ever seeing in an English paper, a more unfair statement than that put forth by the Bombay Times. The injustice of dragging forth a disputed account between a principal and Agent, without first giving the Agent an opportunity of correcting it, if there should be mistakes, is monstrous. But in the present instance, Mr. Bell has proven clearly that there was no mistake that the 2 per cent commission, charged Mr. Blackwell, was a perfectly legitimate charge, and in strict cons fornity with Barber & Co.'s advertised rates. With this evidence laid before Lim, the Editor of the Times impudently sneers at Mr. Bell's letter,and bogs that for the future he will neither tax his leisure nor inclination, in vindication of the character of his distant friends, from the groundless aspersions of the Times,

THE FRENCH EMBASSY TO CHINA, The vast importance of recent events in China, is only beginning to be developed; and the formidable Embassy which has just left our shores, justifies a little speculation as to the probable results of it.

It is not a popular view of the subject, to look with any apprehension upon the rising ex- citement among Western nations with regard reason to apprehend, that the ambition of the to China, and the Eastern seas; yet there is French is extremely likely to make this quarter. of the Globe the theatre of events, fully as striking as any that have occurred in the West

in modern times,

For some years past France has been silen- tly making extraordinary efforts to increase the number of her War steamers, and one return makes it out, that she already has the superio rity over England, both in numbers and ton- age. She has 103 while we have only 88, and the difference in tormage is 12,000 in her favour. Still she is dissatisfied, and more re- cently an additional impulse has been given to the attention of England, and we are building. this department, which has at last attractur 6 large war steamers to be prepared for what- ever may happen. Happen what may, no! the liberal policy of England, as the original. body fears the result. But may we not blame cause of these preparations for attack and de- fence? Have we not allured the whole world, to compete with us in the Commerce of China, and invited rivalry and competition, in the done with serious injury to ourselves?, only quarter of the Globo, where it can be

England has long enjoyed the glory of fight ing for liberty and free trade-and the honor of paying for it: yet it is as lamentable, to see this generosity responded to with exclusiveness We know not how the people of Bombay Jealousy, and abuso, as it is to see it preserver- ed in, in spite of every dictate of pendence, feel in such cases, but we are very well sa and regard for our Colonies. Recollecting too mat houses and to attempt to injure any man, either in his issued from the French press during the war sheds which have been built without authority, business or private character, by a misappli in China, France is the last that ought to reap and which there is every reason to believe give cation of the power which he possesses, as ma. shelter to thieves, has been determined upon, nager of a newspaper, his conduct would be any benefit, from the too liberal policy of It is solely the prudent policy of a wise and We ventured some months ago to suggest reprobated, and himself and paper discoun England, while we firmly believe it will be the the Anglo- the propriety of this measure, and we heartily tenanced. We hold that the Editor of the Bom first to abuse the gift, and the giver. rejoice to know that it is to be carried into ef bay Times, is as little justified in publicly in fect. There is a maudhin sort of sentimental vestigating Messrs. James Barber & Co.'s good old man, which restrains sympathy found to exist everywhere; and in invoices, as the Manchester Guardian would Mania. He may be suddenly removed, aut Hongkong we are not quite free of it. We be, in investigating the accounts sales of the as sudden a change of actions may be expect- has been writing up a war against England hear it said, it is a pity to tear down the houses wealthy Bombay firm, who are said to own the ed, where the national feeling is so ill disguis tection of our laws, and who when deprived of had a case in point, brought before our imine under a flimsy and fecble attempt to write of the poor people who have sought the pro- copyright of the Times. A few days ago, weed, that his second son, an Admiral of France, their present houses, will be homeless. This diate notice. A party, with whom we were

To corroborate these remarks, but not as sounds very well, but those very sympathizers, unacquainted, called and stated that he had abstractly, while the King himself, is about to if robbed, would be the first to cry out, reason to think he had been hardly dealt with, pay a visit of courtesy to our Queen. why don't the Government protect us by the agents for a vessel, by which he had Self preservation is said to be the first some cases of goods. The vessel had been having suggested them, we now refer to a pan- law of nature, and in obedience to that law, dispatched to Whampoa, and the goods sent phlet by the Prince de Joinville which breathics

that the pulling down of the be observed tisfied, that in China, were the Editor of a pa the Diatribes of abuse against England, which

it is an imperative duty of our rulers, to protect down to Hongkong, he being charged with the the most cool and deliberate spirit of hostility

us from the outrages of the aliens to our laws transit. Such we believe were the particulars which could be penned by any anonymntis

and religion, who if unrestricted, in a few years of the statement--but it matters little whether anglo-maniac, which has made a perfect fur- would render a residence in Hongkong

feeling; and partly from its diabolical tone. party at once, that it was a matter on which royal parentage, and as an index of popular gerous in the extreme.

we could, nor would have nothing to say It has met with well-merited castigation, de- opinion we respect, to some of the clauses of Mercantile disputes, if not settled by arbitrarision and contempt from the English, but these die Registration Ordinance. We confess that tion, are usually discussed and settled in a will not have more influence than derision andi the whole document is un-English, but at the

We hear objections, from parties quote, perfectly correct, as we told the meat in Paris-Bar & Ba

contempt have upon other madmen, viz. to add excitement to insanity.

We make no apology for introducing the

brochure. following lengthy extracts from this notable

court of law, but the columns of a public paper is no place for their discussion, the more especially, when it is done with such a spirit of injustice, is in the present instance, we see exhibited in the Bombay Times. We take it that, the duties of the Editor of a paper, are confined to narrating events; to the discussion of questions of public interest; to pointing out works of public utility; and to exposing the public inkings unknown to a nation who has never felt the quities of public men, butwith private character, private business, or private habits, the press has nothing whatever to do,

"Who can doubt that, with a well-organised steam Navy, we should have the means of inflict-

ing on the coasts of our enemies losses and suffer-

same time the state of affairs render it indes- pensible. All parties agree as to the propriety of a registration of the Chinese, but many object to that of Europeans. We were somewhat startled on a first perusal of the Ordinance, to perceive that it included the entire population of the Island, and had we a voice in the matter we would certainly object stoutly to being in

the evil, equally new for her, of a lost coufidence. cluded in the Registry. A white face should

miseries which follow in the train of war? And certainly be a sufficient passport in any British

as the consequence of these sufferings would come The riches heaped on her coasts and her ports, colony, and in point of fact, with the exception

would cease to be in safety, and that, whilt by a of Hongkong, we know of no British colony

ORDINATION OF A MISSIONARY TO CHINA. where a passport is necessary, but we must

On Thursday evening last, Dr. Thomas T. well-regulated system of cruisers, the plan of which bear in remembrance that longkong is an anomaly in colonial history, and that we must Devan, a physcian of eminence and skill, of this 1 will after explain, we should efficaciously war not seek elsewhere for precedents for city (New York) was ordained as a Missionary to against her commerce, spread over the surface of an cany hour that spacious and beautifol house equal. I continue to reason under the supposition) measures which here are unavoidable. The China at the Broome street Baptist Church. At every aca. The contest would no longer be un- was completely filled by an intelligent, and deeply d war, Our steam Navy would then have two fault of our late ruler, was in not carrying out his own plans of improvement, and in not interested audience. The order of the services, theatres of action totally distinct the Englisia by the appointment of the ordaining council, was Channel at first, where our ports could conceala adopting those measures, which he confessed were necessary for the colony. The present as follows: The Introductory prayer, by the considerable force, which, putting to sa talag Government, show a disposition to do the co- Rev. John Dowling; 2 An Address, on the cover of the night, would escape the English at any point of the coast of England yes. tony justice; and whilst we repudiate any de-claims of China as a Missionary feld, by the Rev. cruisers, were they ever so numerous in sire, captiously to find fault with any part of Dr. Williams: 3 Ordaining prayer, by the Hey, then would hader our force from meeting, beferá an ordinance, the main principles of which we C. C. Sommers; 4 Charge, by the Rev. Ur.daybreak, at a