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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
Betel Nut
Canvas-Eng, and
Scotch Cochineal Copper, sheathing.
i S.Am. Cordage, European COTTON, Bombay,
sh.ps. T's.
new
* Madrus Bengal
9 0
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No demand,
Grey
ditto ditto.
1
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2 75
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Nos:26 to 36 26
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3 20
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Nos. 38 to 42 29 Some improvement has taken place and we hear of Sales at Canton at a slight advance on these quotations.
Deliveries in Dec. 7947-Stock 31st Dec. 3776 Bales.
Chintz Furniture
3.50 per piece. METALS.
Straits
4. Plates No demand,
fron, Nail
"Hoop
have been tricked our of our immigration capital'; [tion, to oltam the redress of grievances which, un and the dust and gum trees, with the inferior class redressed, must destroy the best interests of our of labour, we have in exchange for it will make adopted country; but I would ask, was it because us but a melancoly retur. We had hoped that, from Canada was more loyal was it becansed Canada the demonstration of feeling exhibited in petitions was on a hostile frontier when she asserted her to our gracious Queen, the two Houses of Perlia rights that she was allowed the privilege of a ment, and the Local Legislature, to which so many responsible government, the lands of the Crown thousand signatures were affixed, some regard placed under the control of her Governor and Le would have been paid to auch an expression of gislative Council, and a loan of £1,600,000 gun. opinion; and that, at least pendente lite, or until ranteed to her by Great Britain? Is it because our remonstrances were decided upon by the Se Australia has the misforture to be removed 17,000 cretary of State, the obnoxious measure, would not miles from the mother country is it because she have been persevered in; but when we bear in has never been heard to complain, but with a pas mind that only a few nights ago, in answer to a sive endurance almost beyond belief, and submitted question from our talented and patriotic Chairman, to be deprived of a million sterling to relieve the the Colonial Secretary stated that the intentions pauperism of the mother country-because she of the Government were unchanged, it is time had paid nearly another million to control the in- for us to look seriously at the matter. What ported vice of the three kingdoms-because shi I again ask, will be the effect of this measure about had quietly submitted to the monstrous governs to be prosecuted, at a time too, when we ars but ment expenditure of £320,000 a year to faster, a reviving from a state of almost generál bankruptcy, system of home patronage-are these the rewards Will any one believe it, when I state that it will then-new infliction of taxation, and further res add a charge of upwards of 200 per cent on sheep; traints upon the enterprise of the squatter? Arc and, credat Judæus of 700 per cent on cattle these the rewards, I ask, which the colonists of and thus force every man who owns a head of Australia are to receive for their devotion, lovalty, either to consign there to the boiling pot, in order and attackinent to our beloved Queen? Beassured, Tin, Banca to anticipate, an evil which must sooner or later gentlemen, there is no disposition, there can be overwhelm him? I ask. have we any other alter. none, on the part of Her Majesty's Ministers to native and shall we not, like the peasant of the trample on the liberties, or sacrifice the prosperity Algs, take warning from the rambling of the im- of a colony this, which with a modicum of good pending avalanch, and seek protection from the sense in the administration of its affairs, with the danger while there is yet time? Why, if it was finest climate under Heaven, an enterprising popu deemed necessary to impose a further tax upon the lation, and is boundless pastures, would, if left squatters, was it not done by a small increase upon to its own energies, be the brightest gem in the We have been designated as fac the assessment ? But this did not suit the purposes British diadem. of the Executive, as fonds thus raised would have tious, and opposed to Her Majesty's Government; been under the control of the Legislative Council, but the answer to such an unfounded charge will whereas the extra licenses would from further pin be afforded in the recent appointment of a repre- money for an irresponsible government Let its sntaire in the British Parliament, not disguise it from ourselves—it is the Land Fund lection made on this occasion evince opposition? --it is the Wakefield system in another shape. In all that we ask, all that we implore is, that our five years we have to purchase no less than 640,000 grieyauces may be enquired into, and if found to Hitherto gen. acres, and together with licenses and other govern. exist, that they may be redressed. ment charges, to pay in that time the enormous tlemen, as I stated in my address to the electors sum of eight hundred and forty-five thousand pounds of Port Phillip, the report of any grievances of more, in reality, than the present value of all which we might require redress reached the ear of the stock in the colony But more than this, this the minister through one particular chaunel odious systent has been planned with the effect not only, and in seeking a more direct medium only to bring to the hammer a section of a squatter's of communication with my Lord Stanley, run, under the name of a homestead, but failing trust that the choice we have made in the Hono- his ability to compete with others in the purchase rable F. Scott will be acceptable to His Lordship, of it, without a right of preemption, to oblige hinran prove to him that we have no wish to embarras bidder, who would be purchasing net the three resorted to the ranks of the opposition la the mo to throw up his stock into the hands of the highest the administration other wise we should have
brought forward, parties of every grade connected with it are invited and consulted; bat in this the vital question of Autral a, of whom have t'e Executive asked advise? Mit asingle squatter appears to have been consulted I. The Land Con- missioners, creatures of Us own, seem to havə
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already devotes so much of his time to the Coun- cil, which necessarily renders my duties the more arduous; but I saw that these were not times to hold back, even although I might have interested motives ascribed to me; I felt, from the influence which was exerted in the case of my respected Friend Sir Thomas Mitchell, that it was my duty to make some sacrifice of time and inclination, to maintain in its integrity and unimpaired fruition that institution which her Majesty had graciously bestowed upon us, and which it is imperative upon us to guard jealously, not for our own sakes merely, but as holders of a trust which we are bound to han down intact to our posterity. Those who are opposed to the Government in the Legislative Council have, in the discharge of a legitimate duty, been called factious; but I ask you to look at the constitution of that assembly its elements have but little change, except as regards the nominees of the Executive, since its first session, when it was admitted on all hands, and even by those in high places, to be as good a sample of the intelli- gence and respectability of the colony as could have been possibly expected; vet, gentlemen, the elected members of the House, the free represen- tatives of 100,000 people, are supposed to be less wise in their generation, less able to discern the grivances of the colony, and to prescribe remedies for them, than the Executive, and that Executive in reality a unit. But allow me to claim your attention whilst I indulge in a short retrospect of colonial affaire. When Sir Richard Bourke- "ee nerabile nomen," as my friend Mr. Wentworth fe licitously expressed himsel-at the period of Sir R. Bourke's departure, I say, he left us with a full treasury, commerce was flourishing, every interest prospering, and contentment reigning throughout the land; but Sir Richard Bourke had not long left New South Wales, when we began to feel the withering, the blighting, the Upas-tree like influence of new men and new measures, and a scries of disasters ensured, of which we at this moment feel the direful offerts. First came the stoppage of transportation, and with it the withdrawal of a large amount annually from qur circulation-an amount which has been redn. ced from £350,000 to £170,000 per annum, an- nihilating the chief market which the settler had for his stock, and giving the death blow to agricul- ture for years to come. This was followed by a system of the wildest land speculations, fostered and pandered to by the Executive, whose hucks tering instructions were to the effect, as proved by the correspondence of the Government itself, hundred and twenty acres, bnt in real.fy the stock ther country, when a question of import-tance is, to put up lands for sale only in such quantities as was sufficient to "excite a spiret of compettition" Excite a spirit of competition, indeed! say rather, to call into action one of the worst failings of our nature--the vice of gambling Better in reality had it been for the colony if the £1,100,000 of our immigrative capital had never been amongst the large amount of deposits and consequent ex. been the source from which information had Been. us was it to be so suddenly withdrawn to relieve tended issues of the Bank of England, and the derived. And I have every reason to believe tha: Camphor..
of the unhappy pre-occupant, totally valueless to him without the run. It is said that the colony is now recovering; but this, I assert, is ewing to the advance in the price of our wool in the English market, and not in any way attributable to the me. asures of the Government here. It is caused by
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Spanish Stripes Long Ells, scarlet.
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Alun Annisced.
Cassia
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Çonaderable släpments making for England and Singa. pure.
Buds
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: 280 ( 4-350 0 บ No buyers, price nominal, stock about 1690 bales, TEA.
Congou Caper, Souchong Oftage Pekos,
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37 0 80 g
TEAS TO GREAT Britain from 30en
JUNA TO 7TH INSTANT.
Green,
+
5,116,344 s.
Black,
+
22,592,030 11
Total 27,708,374 lbs. Several chops of middling Cougou, sound Tea bought at 14 Tuels-the competition in Green Teas, still freeps up
the pauperisin of the mother country, leaving the hiatus valde with all its fearful consequences; and plethora of money at home, which, instead of find the framer of these regulations, although upwards giving us in exchange a class of immigrats so tu-
ing its way out here, is expended upon railroads of six y ars in the colony, has never been two tally unfitted for our wants. But yet, badly off as
in every quarter of the kingdom, where, in some miles beyond the boundaries of location (if we ex- the immigrants themselves might have been ou
instances, the traffic cannot pay the cost of the sur cept a steamboat trip to Melbourne and Moreton their arrival, their position was infinitely superior vey. It is also embarked in the most worthless Bay), a circumstance sufficient to account for the Galgal to that of the unhappy and penniless dupe whose whilst Australia, whose resources are unbona:ded, as we have every reason to suppose it will, in at- foreign securities, und in other visionary projects, ignorance they display. If the Executive persist. purse had been drained to bring them out. Then, stinks in the nostrits of the British capitalists. It tempting to curry out its threatened obnoxiis in the next place we find an expenditure of £360,000 for police and gaols, exclusively for the has ben industriously asserted, by tlusse who ap measures, throwing aside contemptuously the most convict department; as Sir Robert Inglis has truly pear on all occasions to have a peculiar interest in respectful remonstrances of the colonists, instead said in the Britsh Parliamental, as well might perverting truth, that all the grazing lands of the of the next five years showing us our exports, as I Portsmouth bear the expruses of the hulls, as Aus colony are pre-occupied by the large squatters, belure state, more than doubled, wealth pouring tralia be charged with those necessary for the con- This is another "wrak invention of the enemy" into us froin every channel, we shall find that our trol of the exported villiany of the mother country," before I came here, I was told the same thing but flocks and our herds have been destroyed--our | Hore then together we have an amount of two notwithstanding, I drove my sheep where the font property sacrificed, and those who have been rash millions almost exclusively applied for the benefit of white man never trod, others have gone beyond enough to persist in the face of those regulations; of Great Britain: and what would have been the me, and at this very moment I have thousands of may consule themselves with the prospect of being difference in our present condition had this money sheep on the way to outflank them again. When shepherds and stockmen to the Government for life. been still in the colony? yet we are branded at any man, who knows the extent and resources of I for one, from the experience I have already bad, home forsooth as a class of fraudulent debtors. Let this colony for grazing purposes, speaks of us as will not submit to the chances of their tender mer- them look to this sum of two millions, with its suffering from exclusive occupation, it most excite cics, but will boil down every head and hoof; and accumulations which, has been abstracted from us;
a derisive smile. Consider the almost illimitable as you are well aware, from the state of depression let us strike a balance between the old country and exfent of the country, the boundless tracts which to which bad measares had reduced the price of ourselves, and instead of being debtors, we will find yet form a terra incognita, extending a wide domain stock on my arrival, I perhaps as the solitary in that balance in favour of the colony. Anothe.
of enterprise from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, stance amongst my brother colonists, who by this step of the Executive was to hunt up the quit-rents. It is now admitted that Australian wool forms nearly operation could take away double the capital which as a desperate expedient" to prop the falling State; ne-third of the quantity imported into England; have invested in stock for myself and others. their collection had been allowed to fall into abey. we have almost supplanted the importations from Without egotism, let me ask what would the moral ance for many years, until most people had consi. Spain, and the German is now a buyer in the Bri-effect of such a circumstance be at howo, to say dered them forgiven altogether, and 1 need not tish market. Our export at present amounts to nothing of its effects on individuals here to whom i depict to you the melancholy and deplorable scenes
about 60,000 bales annually; but if the obnoxious have made advances? to which the attempt to enforce this dormant claim measures with which we are menaced are carried aying it would throw back for years the spirit of gave rise; beds and other household furniture con- out, it requires no seer to predict that in a short immigration, and the influx of capital into the signed recklessly to the hammer of the Govern. time you will see our most valuable export-that colony for who would be bold enough to attempt ment auctioneer; sheep were sold at 5d. per head, export upon the production of which every interest colonial enterprise, when they find those posses and cattle sacrificed in like proportion. I am bere in the colony depends-anaibilated. On the other sing every advantage had been obliged from de- reminded in speaking of this fact, that when it hand, if the squatter were left to the exercise of his strictive ineasures on the part of the Executive to abandon it -But let us look to the bright side of was recently adverted to in the Legislative Council own industry and enterprise, untrammelled by the subject: let the Squatting interests be only put the Colonial Treasurer mairely exclaimed, "Oh, rush restrictions or additional burdense I have nof no! the sheep were not sold at that rate, they were hesitation in saying that in five years our export of on a proper footing, fixity of tenure granted, the bought in!" This, gentlemen, this was the specions wool would increase more then twofold, and that at runs equitably assessed and determined, preventing distinction resorted to with a view to excuse the no distant day the pastoral lands of Australia might the possibilty of any mo nopo y, the wald we Executive from the odium of a course of procee he regarded as the sheep-walk for the world. (Loud find capital and immigration pouring in of its own. dings that had such general reprobacion,and which applause..) Gentlemen, I ask again, are these the accord form the mother country-then would we if persevered in, bid fair to excite the same spirit times to inflict grinding exactions upon an already have population and civilization in the interior. of passive resistancs which extinguished the Tithe over-taxel and ineritorious body of our fellow and not hear, as we do at pres at, the "eries of System in Ireland and I do believe that a fear colonists--who, instead of subjecting thent to op- 2000 of our fellow creatures starving in the streets was likewise entertained that the selling of private pressive exaction, it ought to be the object of a wise of Sydney, in the midst of plenty. But I fear, Jand-ander this process, would drive that belon and paternal government to foster and encourage; Gentlemen, have already detained you too long, ging to the Government out of the market, and and, as in the case of the Herring Fisheries at (cries of no, no, go on.) but I have found it difficult to this cause also, and not to the forbearance of home, to which our Chairman has happily alloded, to be less prolix upon so important a sujbeet as the Executive are we to ascribe the cessation of bounties rather than taxation should be the reward that to which I bave called you, attention; let me the attempt to exact the quitrents. Circumstances of the squatter. It has insidiously gobe forth that again assure you my countrymen, and the gentle which none cou d have anticipated have tended to the colonists of New South Walles are estranged men who have done me the honour to unite with place me in a prominent position in this colony. in feeling from the mother country, and in fact that you on this festive occasion, that I shall ever en- need scarcely refer to the Regulations affecting sa we are disloyal; but I hurl back the foul columby tertain a deep, a grateful appreciation of the vitally the interests of the squatters, promulgated with the indignation which should fill the breast of feelings which have prompted the present demons- by the Executive in April last, and which have every attached subject of our gracious Queen.tration. As the grievances to which I have adver- called forth such strong expressions of indignation (Tremendous cheering,) I may say to my country-ted affect us all alike, let me hope that we shall be from every portion of the colchy. Few who are men here, whose cheers unite in this sentiment, unanimous in obtaining their redress, and that we not immediatly interested have considered the that Scotland has given too many proofs of her shall struggle together for that end firmly, cousti effects of those Regulations, which it carried out. loyalty that her sons at this end of the earth should tutionally, but with determination, and I do not as we have reason to believe will be attempted, be subjected to such an aspersion-an aspersion yet despair, that our beloved Sovereign will see us must extinguish our chief staple-wool; and th the more scandalous. as I can, from my own know righted-end that the prosperity of Australia will it effect the rain of every interest in the colony-an edge, fearlessly and truly assert that the people of again returre interest, in the succees of which every men here th's colony are true to our beloved Queen, and that 1s identified. For I care not whether he be banker in no portion of Her Majesty's dominious are her nierchant, ship owner, or tradesmen, we only have subjects more devoted to her throns and British qur existence through our pastoral resouters-ou connexion, than in New South Wales. But, gentle- wool, our tallow, and our hides. We are all squat men what have we done to incur this reproach, fers to a man; and I glory in the name. If the underwhich others seek to cover their own popo facts were otherwise, from why sources are ve polarity? We have simply sought, by the legiti supported? We have lost the home expendimore; made and constitutional means of meeting and peti (Amber
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CANTON PRICES CURRENT, 15TH FEBRUagy, 1845.
IMPORTS.-Orri Patp.. Ale (best brands) 216 0 GSIS O per hd [Deary supplies, unsafenble at these prices, 10 50 **
o per cany
Bombay, Bengal, Madrus,
COTTON REPORT. Canton, for December, 18:44.
Deliverica. Stuck. 12,571 .... 01.492
if
2,470
8,831
21,316
38,60%
121,470 Bales
Total. 23,972
PRICES OF BULLION..
Sycee Silver, Large, 3 per cent. premium Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
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Carolus, 10 per cent. for sclected, Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent, discount.
EXCHANGE.
Bills on London at 6 months sight, 48, 5d. to 49. 6d. Commissariat Billy 30 days, 4s. 3d. per Mexican
Dollars.
Treasury closed for Spanish Dollars,
Navy Bills, 4s. 28. to 49. 3d per Mexican dollars. Commissariat Bills 30 days sig, 222 Rs. per 100
Mexican Dollars.
Court of Directors, accepted on ditto, 60 days, have been offered at 226 Rs. per 100, Difficult of Sale. Unaccepted 230,
FREIGHTS. To London of Liverpool, £3.10 a £3.15
50) R. tonnage ample.
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To Out-ports, s. per ton additional. To Amoy, per ton of 407 fort To ports north of Amay, & 8 to 10 Edited, Printed and Published by Joan Cant, At The Friend of China and Hongkung Gazztie, Printing Office, Caɛen's Boab, VICTORIA, HoseRose L.
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