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NOTIFICATION.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

tions of the police of the port, and Custom Hause, GENERAL ORDERS BY THE HONORA-paying, besides the duties of the goods, as per BLE MAJOR GENRAL D'AGUILAR Tariff, the anchorage of five mace per ton, without

C. B. COMMANDING THE TROOPS".

IN CHINA.

Victoria, 15th November, 1844, THE Major General Commanding has been

pleased to make the following appoint ments pending the approval of His Grace the

Commander in Chief.

Captain John Bruce of the 18th Royal Irish, Deputy Judge Advocate General, to be Asst. Adjutant General to the Troops serving in Chi- na, Vice Captain T. M. Edwards deceased, date of Rank 14th November, 1844.

Captain Faunce of the 2nd Regiment M. N.

further fees.

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Vessels that wish for a Pilot, are requested to apply for the same to the Patrão-mor for whose. service, they are to pay five tele on coming in, and other five on going out, and for the informa tion of all, the present Edict is fixed on its custo. ninry places. Macao at the meeting of the 27th November, 1844. I, Miguel Perzisa Simoens, Clerk to the Chamber and Commerce drew this | Pegado-Carneiro-Mello-Rocha-Silva-San fon.-Carneio.A true copy. Miguel Pereira Si

mocns,

The Royal Senate of Macao under the Supe- 1., will officiate as Deputy Judge Advocalerintendenre of the Governor, and the assistance of General, as a temporary arrangement till fur- the Judge, makea kitown to the public. ther orders,

Victoria, 4th December, 1844. Captain H. T. D'Aguilar of the Grenadier Guards, Assistant Military Secretary, to be Assistent Quarter Master General, Vice Cap- tain C. A. Edwards, proceeding to England on Medical certificate.

Lieutenant C. D'Aguilar of the Royal Ar- tillery A. D. C., to be Assistant Military Secre- iary, Vice Captain H. T, D'Aguilar, appointed

Assistant Quarter Master General.

These Appointments to take effect from the 1st Instant.

The appointment of Aide de Camp to the Major General Commanding will be filled up from the same date hereafter. By order,

J. BRUCE, Captain, Asst. Adjutant General.

Ist. That are admitted, to the Deposit at the Custom Houle, of this City, Cotton and all other goods, and articles from Europe and America, in- ported by any vessels from the ports, in and out, of, the Cape of Good Hope, paying the Deposit Duties of one per cent on the value of the goods, as stated in the Tariff; and in the like manner, the godown rent and coolie here, as stablished at the Custom House; such goods ns have no valna tins levied on them on the Tariff, will be subject to the Duties, according to the value of their original Invoices, regulating the Exchange as per sketch at the said Department.

2nd. The Deposit is thus understood; six months for all manufactured goods from Europe, and America, mid three months for Cotton, begin. ing to count ten days from the first landing of the gonds at the Custom Honse.

Bed. All such goods,, that rezonin to be cleared at the expiration of the time allowed in the form goin, are from thence subject to be cleared for consumption, paying their Duties in fall with the inst.previlege of being re-exported, should parties

wrish so

GOVERNMENT BILLS. WITH reference to the notice duted the 1st It is hereby notified that the rates of exchange for the ensuing mopth of December are fixed.

For Bills on India at Two Hundred and Twen- ty Rupees (220) for 100 Mexican Dollars; and for Bills on England, at Fifty perce Sterling (50)

for One Mexican Dollar.

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EDWARD PINE COFFIN, C. G. Victoria, November 30th, 1844.

NOTICE.

4th. Cotton can be deposited at the private godowns, out of the Custom Bause, paying on their being landed, the Duties corresponding the Dr. and find security, to be ans verable for the excres posit, Shippers, Proprietors, or Agență, ure to sign,

of the Duties in full; in default of upt clearing at the expiration of the time above alluned to for their Deposit: also for the fees of the Custom Hous Officer who assists the verification, and the weighing &c.

New advertisements, will be received, until 4

5th. Shippers, proprietors. or agents will coin- O'Clock, on the evenings previous to publi.municate at the Department of the Custom House, cation, viz: Tuesdays and Fridays.

when they ship off their goods on Deposit, as per $ foregoing, in order they may not be liable to the penalty marked in the $30.

LATEST DATES.

ENGLAND

Aug. 8

UNITED STATES

July 10

CALCUTTA

Oct. 14

BORAY

Oct. 6

SYDNEY

Oct, 10 Sept. Sept. 4

MADRAS BATAVIA

SINGAPORE Oct. 10 MANULA

Nov. 17 CHUSAN

Nov. 19 SHANGHAI Nov. 12 Foo.crow-ron Oct. 20 AMOY

Nov.

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are caused by the value put upon the Mexican Wo throw all these things aside, as being more dollar,which in both cases it is too much, and when connected with the past then the present, and look there is a double exchange in paying the party only at the works themselves. The tunnels, which who ought to receive sterling, he suffers first by are intended for drainage,built of solid granite have the dollar, but is again benefited by the rupee. a look of permanency about them, which would at We give an instance £100 n 4s, 4. gives once scare away all idle fears, of the intention of $461.50,which at an exchange of 225 yields Ro- Great Britain to evacuate the colons at no distant pees 19374: but turn the Rupees again, into steri-period. The main tunnel-we should say 34 feet ing and it only amounts to £3,10 34. govern-in diameter inside the bore - runs along the south mont pocketing, 1 per cent by the operation side of the Queen's Road. From the various gor- Supposing we put the true relative value upon ges, or ravines, descend branches, apparently Spanish dollars, and rapecs, the government cx- of the some size, which commence far back of the change of 225 will come out nearly correct. Thus town, near their junction with the main tunnel £100 a 4s. 334., $468,81, Rupees 1,0433, again other branches are formed, which take off the brought in to sterling at Is. Uld £99.11s. 8d. We contents to the sea. This portion of the improve- think this shows that the currency is radically dement is universally adinired, and as we have al- fective and in Banking would prove inoperative,in | ready observed, these massive granite tunnels have as much, as neither Spanish dollars, nor Rupees a look of permanency about them, which must be would ever be deposited in the Bank. No inan | agreeable to all the friends of the colony, · The having an account open would pay in 225 Rupees streets formed and forming, from the Queen's Road worth, at Is. 11d. £21.135. Bil. to be repaid in back to the foot of the mountains, are completely $100 Mexican, a 4s. 2d. worth £20,16.8; neither changing the appearance of the place. They open would he pay in Spanish on the chance of being up an access to many beautiful building sites, hicis repaid with Republican at a discount of 5 per cent, otherwise would be valueless-they add to the sn

If it is finally determined to give us a currency lubrity of the town, by being ograduully stopped of dollars and cents, the whole relative value of the down to the lay, allowing the water, during the coins must be altered. The true plan is to take them rainy months flow readily away--and they offer, to those who we found of exercise, an agreeable at the mint rates, without any regard to exchanges, which of necessity must fluctuate-if the real marketable price of coin at the Mint of London is, Spanish dollars. 4s 33., Republican dollars, 4s. 21, and Rupees, Is. 11d., such must be the rates upon which our currency is founded.

ride away from the dust and bustle of the lower part of the town, When the Buildings, in the course of erection, nu‹d the public works, are all completed, we may have some cause to be satisfied with the appenture of Victoria though three years ago in could not boast of any house better than a nat

We trus! dirt the money now freely expended will not be thrown away.

We trust that, the go- vernment whichra is to one comfort andunr health.

But the most simple currency would be £ S. and D., taking the various coins now in cirhovel culation at their ascertained value.

By this arrangement all difficulties, either iu hanking or paymen', would at once vanish. In lodging a som of money, containing a proportion of the three coins, it would only he necessary to write the par- tieburs on a slip of paper, carrying out the sterling, which when added would be the amount plac d to the credit of the account and passed through the. cask Book; in drawing, the check would be in sterling a similar calculation being made to that in depositing.

EXAMPLE.

$163, 81 cents Spanish, Rupees 1037, 4. $500 Republican,

£100.

93; 19,3 1042 3,4

£303, 2,7

by their present labours, will also add to our pros perity by giáng every encouragement to our com- merce--by placing a free from every restriction- by granting free ingress and egress to all vessels, so long as their character is suspected by making this in reality what it is declared to be, a free port-

AVERAGE PRICES OF ARTICLES SOLD IN THE HONGKONG MARKETS..

1st December, 1844. Beef, 12 cents per catty; Mutton, 40 do. do; Pork, 14 do. do.; Pork fut, 10 do. do,;. Capons, 17 do do.; Fowl's, 13 do. do. Ducks, 11 do dog A currency, such as we describe, would be fair Geese, 12 do, do ; Pigeons. 19 per 8: Quail's, Wild Duck, simple and equitable, and better suited to the 1 do p. 19; Partridges, I do. p. 4.

1 do p. 4; Tec, 1 do. p. 7; Eggs, I do. p. 160; character of a British colony than one of dollars and cents. That which now exists is unfair in Large-fresh-Fish, 11 cents p. ealty Midilling do, many respects having probably been arranged 9 do do.; Small do. O do. do. ; Pomfret, 12 do. hurridly by parties not very well acquainted with | do.; Large Soles, 11 do, do, ;. Middling, do, O du.. such subjects, and it leads to much incon | do; Sobsters, 5 de, do...; Crab's, 10 do do.. We expect to hear in a few Oysters, 8 do do; Prawn's, 12 do, do,; Shrimps, months, that some system has been definitely fixed, 10 do, do,; Large Salt-Fish, 10do do. ; Midtling as doubtless the subject obtained the early do., 7 do, do, Small do., 5 do, do,; Fruit, 3 du. attention of the prescut government, who have also do.; Vegetables, 3 da, do. ;. Politõus, 5 do. do; had some experience of its impracticality and Yamis, 2 da da... Eine Rice, 3 do, dix. ; Coarse do. glaring defects. At this present moment it is dif. 24 d. do.; Sugar Candy, 10 dn, do.; Five Suger, ficult to tell what is a legal tender-in the pur-9 do. do; Erown do., 6 do: do.; Bread. (not seki c'hase of a leg of mutten Rapers would have to be in the Market) 10 do, per 1 36. Jouf'; Fresh Bui accepted; but were the transaction the sale of a ter, do. 18 per 1 b.; Milk, do, 25 cents per quart- house, it is questionable, whether the buyer could bottle.

W. GAINE insist upon paying in Rapers or in Mexican dollars, unless there was an understanding to that

Chief Magistrate of Polico. affect when the transfer was agreed upon.

OPIUM MEMORANDUM

6th. The goods after being cleared for Deposit, can be shipped off by vessels laying in the harbour, or Roads, China Boats froin Canton, as also Portu-venience and loss. guese Lorchas,having a licence or passport from the Governor for the port of Hongkong, or for the ports of China, opened for Foreigners.

For the fall understanding of the public, it is made known by the present Edict. Macho at the THE FRIEND OF CHINA, meeting of the 20th November, 1944. 1, Migul

Pareira Sinocus, Clerk to the Chamber and Ca merce, drew this signed.—Pegado,—Carneiro. - Mello.-Rocha. Silva,—Santos. — Carneiro.

AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 7ru 1811.

On the evening of Wednesday a piratical vessel entered this harbour and landed some of her crew near Green Island; they plunder- ed a small native town of valuables to the ... amount of $100. and then escaped to their boat. The following evening [on Thursday] the pirates again entered the harbour, and boarded a water-boat belonging to Mr. Duus, from which they extracted a considerable sum of money. The crew of the water-boat, made a noise which was heard on board the H. C. Steamer Proserpine. Boats were promptly launched, and pursuit made, but the pirates again escaped,

In our last issue we expressed apprehensions of something of this kind. The recent attack

A true copy.

Miguel Pereira Simsens.

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We have received several letters complaining of Passes grated at Indore under the Proclamation on the Queen's road; some of our correspondents Inst the delay in excenting the proposed improvement of 1843-44, from. 27th Oct. 18-to-fle 27th July state that, they have suffered great inconvenience Dito at Bombay from the 17th

chests 13325 and a positive loss in their business, by the street. Oet. 1943 to the 30th Sept. 1844 798 immediately in front of their premises having been | Ditto from Est to the 2nd insent; opened for several months, on purpose to build the very substantial tunnel, which runs along the south side of the road. Upon this subject, we migin say a word or two ourselves. but we are too much pleased at seeing the work in an actual state of progression, to cavil at trifling personal inconveniences, consequent upon having a cual opened on three sides of the house, from which the blust."

IMPORTED

of the Harah, and yarious other affairs which / ftom wlience our military operations might be di proceeds (or proceeded) smells not "from Araby ↑ Ditin the Proclamation of 1833-14,

have not been mentioned in the public papers show that, the Ladrones are bolder and more punicrous than usual.

MACAQ

In our last issue when noticing the establish- ment of a branch of the Bank of Western India in Hongkong, we stated that the difficulty the tank would have to encounter would be the want; of an established colonial currency. More than two years and a half ago the Governor by procls mintion in the Gazette arranged that in the mean time, for Bazaar purchases, hire &c., [but without prejudice to mercantile transactious dol lars and Rupees, should be deemed a legal tender All dollars were to be taken at par with reference to each other and 24 Company's pees to be equal to one dollar. As a temporary arrange ment, when this island was still the property of China and only held by force of arms as a point rected, such a rude currency might be well suited to the existing state of affairs; now that the island Has been established into a British colony, and the branch of a thriving Bank has been planted, mie currency must be placed on s -very diffe rent footing. We believe that this subject has Yesterday, we received the following documents not escaped the attention of the local Government, in the Portuguese and English languages, which and that ere long a legal currency will he establish- to those interested in the trade of China are of ed by an Ordinnuce of the Legislative Council. great importance. We rend in these enactments Over mercantile transactions using the word of the Macao Senate the fate of their beautifu! mercantile as referring to large transactions he town. In the vain hope of raising a small reve,

tween European and Chinese Merchants the nue, by a tonnage duty, they drive foreign ship-currency of Hongkong will have little or no ping from their port ; and they retain an expen-influence--ag heretofore silver, whether coined or sive Custom house "establishment, whose labours will be light. Merchants will not bond goods in Macno, paying a duty ujon a re-export, when they can store them in Hongkong with equal security without paying any exaction whatever. Neither will vessels requiring to rest, enter the Typa or inner harbour for that purpose; paying tonnage does of 33, per ton, when the equally se cure harbour of Hongkong is opened to them gras faitously. The folly of her own children bus doomed Macao to certain ruin-they have thrown away their last chance; of this their empty houses and deserted harbour will soon give them proof

The Royal Senate of Macao, under the Supe- rintendence of the Governor, and the assistance of the Judge, makes known to the public, that from this date the port of the same City remains opened in all its anchorages for vessels of all nations to enter,subject to the Regulations of the port,and its fiscal Laws, and for the full information, of the public, it is made known by the present Edict, Macao at the meeting of the 27th November, 1844. I, Miguel Pereira Simoens, Clerk to the Chamber and Commerce, drew this.--Pogallo --Caracizo.- Mello-Rocha-Silra,-Sinks.- Carneira.-A true copy-Miguel Pereira Simoens

The Royal Senate of Macan, under the Supe- rintendency of the Governor, and the assistance of the Judge, inukes known to the public, that since this date the vessels that enter the inner harbour, outside, and Typa, will be subject to the Regula.

in bullion will be valued according the custom of the country. Sales.or purchases, freights, ex- changes and insurances may continue to be paid or received in Spanish dollars, and we presume so long as merchants come to such an understanding among themselves, the local currency will have no influence in the matter. That is if A. sells B. goods, amounting to $1,000 Spanish, B., cannot pay . with $1,000 Mexican on the plea that Me- sicans are a legal tender.

Under the posses granted previous

to the Bst taber 18432

from the 1st October 18-13 to than 24th himo,

25th ultimo

EXPORTED.

Chests 3,741

$8,839)

Chests 17,5831

Chests 18,321

H. H. GLASS,

Opium Agents

Bombay, 25th September, 1814,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVED. DECEMBER 3--Aletta (Dutch), Jolis, from Soura-.

baya- 19th October, at Whampo 4-chimede (French), Manila. 4--Fisct. Sandon, Lancaster, Whampoa- 4--Larne, Wilson, Bombay. 4-Ariel, Macfarlane, Harleens bay. 5--Arration Aptar, Durham, Calcutta, 5-John O' Gaunt, Robertson, Whampoa. 5- Dumfries, Thompson. Whampoa.

SAILED.

In our own case there was no pecu- niary loss-thuse, who had business did not hesitat to risk the plank which was laid across the mout which surrounded the citadel-such however is not the case with others. We are informed by à respectable Shopkeeper that, he is obliged to hire other premises, at a heavy rental, in order to carry on his bus ness there, until easy access can again From the 1st October 1843 to the be had to his old store. We would not willingly throw trouble in the way of the colonial Engineer, a very slight glance at the works now in progress, will show that his office is no sinecure, but we think the peculiar hardship of the case we men- tion is worthy of notice-and we assure him that an acceleration of that part of the tunnel,will confer an essential benefit on several industrious and respectable members of the community. From various other quarters we hear complints. One man buik his house uptra the lovel given him be- fore the roads were cut, and now that the work is done be finds the house, which should have been accessable by a short fight of steps, perched some ten or a dozen feet above the road--another (also building on the faith of levels obtained from the The existing currency is exceedingly defective, and office) is shocked to discover that the street is and any attempt at banking, until it is materially being raised opposite his premises, so that the changed, will be difficult in the extreme. Spanish usual order of things is reversed--the door being dollars as a matter of course, would never be de. gained by a discent of several feet. These are all posited in the Bank, as no man would latge them hardships for which there is no redress,and therefore in the chance of being paid back in other dollars at they are borne quietly; like ourselves the sufferers are glad to get the streets at any price. It is but a discount of 5 per cent. The error which was originally gone into by Government in their eat doing justice to the Gentlemen, now intrusted with culations, was in the value at which they rated the the Engineering and Survey department, to ob- Republ'e in dullars, and in all their payments they serve that, these levels were made and the survey profit by this mistake. We take is instance the pay at least partially completed, before they entered on ment of Gaveroment a servant, whose salary is in office. We must go a long way back to trace the Sterling money, and who is paid in fullars The source from which so many blunders have arisen Republican dollar worth 45. 24., is valued at 4s. in the Surveyor General's department.

lieve (though we spealesubject to correclios) that 4d, and he is paid $461,50, whereas he ought to have received $480, or it in Spanish, at their value in surveying a district it is usual to take a base line, of, is. 33d.. $163,81. The relative value be- generally the lowest plot of level ground in the dis. tween the Republican dollar and the Rupee istrict, and from that base all the elevations are mea nearly as much wrong, as that between it and the sured. In first commencing a survey of Hong. sterling money. Thus the $161,50 if turned into kong, this was not done, and each future survey

went on in the same way, until now, when Engine Rapers at 1s. 11, [their value],gives 1003,but at the Government rate of 225 per 100 Mexicad dol. ering has commenced, the levels are found to be Jars it amounts to 1038,4. Buth of these errors incorrecL

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DECEMBER 3-1. M. Str. Vixen, Chusan.

3—Tring (5pn.}, López, Manila: 5- Alchimede (French), Macao, 5-Duke of Bedford. Thornhill, Lowion, 5-Lurne, Wilson, Macao. 5--Charlotte, Carter, Whampoo,

UNDER DESPATCH.

For England, Hindostum, Aden, Custle Eden, Euphrates, John O'Gaunt, Jolas Wickliffe, and Dumfries

New York, Howpin and Zenobia. Sydney, Spy.

Bombay, Sir Edward Rayan and Ardusser. Singapore and Calcutta, Rustomjee Cowurjee, and Coquette.

Singapore and Bombay, Duilius, Whampoa, Thomas Fielding