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MILITARY PURPOSES. Tux Respective Officers of the Ordnance Department, are still open to receive TENDERS from Merchants or others, for the hire of Buildings for Military purposes, both as regards QUARTERS FOR OFFICERS and STORAGE FOR PUBLIC STORES; and comprising Build- ings which are now to lot, or which may be. come available for occupation within a short period.

Office of Ordnance 23rd October, 1844.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Friend of China.)

24th March, 1845.

Sin,-Can you inform me, whether the Govern ment of this British colony, levy a tax of one dollar, per month upon an unfortunate class of females; and by what ordinance, act of council proclamation or other legal authority, they can thus share the wages of infamy, and officially recoguise its existence ?

Your's &c.

AN ENGLISHMAN.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

pear cold, and look upon those who are its professed servants with distrust, it is not that they have became lukewarm or that they be grudge pecuniary assistance-it is the indis Cretion, the cupidity, and we fear in some in stances the insincerity of Ministers that too Loften chills the warn feelings of those who

would cheerfully support their cause,

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CARGO OF THE "WANDENER FROM SHANG- BAI TO ENGLAND.. Black

Congou Souchong

396,176

52.782.

138,959 lbs.

Green Hyson

12,157

Young Hyson Imperial Gunpowder

30,621

6.672 10,569

60,009 "

Total 498 977 lbs.

ponsible body-the odium (if any) is exclusively given to His Excellency-it may be said that to counterbalance this, he also is entitled to all the acknowledgements which good works merit, freely admitting this, we fear that were the account of approbation fairly balanced, there would be a heavy balance on the debtor

side.

here, is a source of inexpressible pleasure; still, I am not happy in the work, nor dan 1 be, natil my familiary with the language will enable me to tell them of a Savione's love. The few phrases which I have now mastered, are barely suffieint

can be made in teach where the tongue cannot. in my intercourse with my patients. But the press Each patient is provided with a card containing It is not to be supposed that Her Majesty's Jesus says, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God the following epitome of divine truth; "The Loril advisers will permanently continue the present with all thý hout, with all thy mind, and thy form of government in Hongkong. It is a neighbour as thyself." "God so loved the world:: commonly received opinion, that absolute go-as to give his only begotten Son that whosuover vernments are the strongest, and that in cases believeth on him should not perish but have ever- of emergency, they can act with greater decision Itsting life." "Believe on the Lord Jesus Crist and promptitude than one which is under the and thou shalt be saved." "He that beleveth not control of advisers, It may have been this shall be damned," Beneath this, are the name feeling which induced the British government and nation of the surgeon, and the register nume to entrust almost absolute power to one inan;ber of the patient and the disease. The patients they being under the impression(false) that the who could read, where desired to commit the pas peculiar state of the colony required that such ges of scripture to memory, and I have froipien- should be done. Than this, however, not ing tly the happiness of hearing it recited. The first to do so was a young Buddhist priest. Each patient could be more fallacions--we have lately seen.

who can read, is also supplied with truels. These the weakness and indecision of this government little messengers have this found their way fur THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ander circumstance which caused no alarm, into the interior. A few days since, a party of Were we askod, what are the peculiar except to themselves-and we know, that there merchants from Nankin accepted an assortment is no necessity for granting to any Governor gladly, and since then, a mandarin of high rank duties of this angust body and what advan NOTE--Our correspondent has rather startled tages do the public derive from their services? other than the usual constitutional powers be from a distant city, was also supplied at his own us by his query; and we regret that the result of we confess we should have some difficulty in stowed upon those who have charge of other Bri-

I have had a large number of the Ten Com- pur inquiries have by no means tended to convince answering the question. We are aware thats colonies. We trust that the eyes of Her us that he is wrong, although, for the reputation of the name which be assauce, we trust he is mis a certain number of the government servants Majesty's Ministors are now opened to the true mandments printed, also a particular account of stue of affairs in Hongkong-we trust that His an eclipse of the sun, which is to take place on the taken. We will endeavour to sift the matter beare members of the Executive council, the fore our next issue, and in the meantime we will sane Gentlemen, with the addition of a few Excellency will shortly be aided with a Legisla 21st inst. These have been posted about the not porinit ourselves to believe that, our rulers have others forming what has been designated the tive Council in reality, and that the present streets, in private houses, and throughout the a person employed for the purpose. There are imposed a tax which appears to sanction immo Legislative Council. We presume the duty of Council of advice will be forgotten. A popular neighboring country by my patients, ani ako by rality,

the first is to carry on the governinent, lending. elective logislature is out of the question; or giving His Excellency advice as to the mode but an assembly having some control over the few in the city who have unt read or heard the That message from Sinai. They promouce the law to in which this is to be done, and in carrying into Executive is absolutely necessary.

be good, but regard it as irksome, compared with execution such local laws as may be formed assembly should also be open to the press; the precepts of Confucius amt his commutators, Yet there is no insurejonutable obstacle to the con to meet the peculiar condition of the colony; and the sentiments of its members, as well as the duty of the latter body is to frame these the measures which are about to be proposed version of these atheistic pagas. He is faithful for the public god made known to the public, who has promised. It is only required of belie- laws-to legislate for the well being of the co-

vers that they be fand faithful, and the gospel lony-Such according to our opinions ought who certainly are the parties mainly interested

will soon achieve great triumphis amongst thess - to be the respective duties of the Executive and in the mattor.

people. Legislative Councils of Hongkong; and upon a due observance of them as also the having (From the American Baplish Missionary Magarino,) cfficient members, especially in the legisla tura much of the prosperity of the Colony depends. The short history of the colony will abundantly prove that, the Council, or councils, as now constituted, are unfit to minister to the THE FRIEND OF CHINA, we will not be so ungracious, as to point at limited requirements of the youthful settlement.

EDITOR F. of C.

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CHINA.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERE OF DR MACGOWAN

request,

Opening for trade at Ningya -Trip to Shanghai --Wusnag.

Dec. 19. The government steamer has come to Ningpo with the British cons and suid. "The port will he officially opeood for trade on the 1st January, when more foreigners may be expected, heartily welcomed by the people, who are inhilg og and also a number of foreign vessels. They are the most extravagant expectations of acquiring wealth, not seeming to imagine that foreigners come to make money rather than spend it,

27. "Ehave bora favored with a prissage to Shang- hai in the iron steamer. The opportunity was ton I closed my hospital for a short good to be lost. time, and embarked in company with the Rev. Dr. Medhurst and Dr. Lockhart, of the London Mis sionary Socidy. As we cast anchor each night, we were two whole days in making the passage, On the moming of the second day we entered the genai Yangiad King, This river is greater than our Mississipp', if the Mi-souri be not taken into the account. The low alluvial flats, extending from “ the Tatsial far up the Gulf of Pechili, reuder the navigation dangerous to the navigator, and uuïn- teresting to the traveller. The coast is so low that.

Ningpo and its population - The unburied dead. Ningpo, Dec. 15, 1843, Reserving for some other occasion a more particular description of Long, 121, 35 F, where the Yan and Ningpo, I will merely state that it is in Lat. 29,

the ordinances, which have alike roused the in-Yang rivers quite to form the Tatsiah, about dignation, and called forth the pity of the inha- twelve miles from the sea. The beautiful alluvial bitants, that such acts should go forth to the plain in which it is situated, is remarkably fortile work bearing the stamp of British colonial and populous, intersected by numerous canals and Boom information received by Mr. Fearon legislation; we would rather draw attention to dotted with villeges and hamlets. The population from the Chinese authorities at Cowloon, the unusual and constitutional method in of the city has been estimated at from 300,093 to Mr. Lena, the acting Harbour Master, wont which the Legislative Council is organised-we 600,00). I should place it at 125,000, including round to Shuckpatwan (Aberdeen) between would show that the stream is tainted at the the city and immediate suburbs. The plain, doub Thursday evening and Friday morning, and cap-fountain head, and that the until the springs are thess, contains more than half a million. It ranks tured several boats with eighteen men, he, thoroughly cleared from whence it flows. it as one of the most beautiful and wealthy cities of thornis stran z reagon ta lundiera ara izatera. Tipo Cowloon Mandarins were aware of thei-pre.

will contime'ns course, pure and wiht for the empire, and is certainly superior to any other city accessible to foreigners. The houses, stores, sence on this-island, and offered to assist in the

any purpose of utility,

streets, and temples, surpass those of any other capture with two armed boats and a guide:

place have yet seen in China. Moreover it is Mr. Lena availed himself of the services thus chief oflicers of the government, including the the cleanest, or rather. the least filthy city on the coast. It contains a pagoda, many elegant monu- tendered, and on reaching Aberdeen-about day- Commander of the forges, Colonial Secretary mental gates, several large basins, or lakes, where light in the morning, the whole party were laud Attorney General; in addition to the fishing is curicl oa by means of cormorants, and you get aground before you see it. It is said that secured while asleep in their boats. They were servants of government, His Excellency is en-is surrounded by a wall about five miles in eirenas every one of the vessels forming the late expedition armed with spears, guns, fire-pots and other missiles used by them on their piratical expedi-powered to nominate a certain number of the forenes. Over one of its rivers there is a bridge of grounded in the mud, some of them frequently inhabitants to seats at the Council board. As boats, connecting the city with a large village on

There is little to be seen until you arrive at Wo- tions; and on the return of the party another boat in other legislative bodies, either of the mem-the opposite shore. its situation, as respects 90.

sung, at the mouth of a river of the same name, of a suspicious appearance, the crew of which bers may bring forward such bills as circums-lubrity, does not appear 'unfavorable, yet foreign which leads to Shanghai, about twelve miles distant. were acquainted with the prisoners, was found tances may call for, the passing or rejecting of residents wil, doubtless, be subject to intermittels

Wusung is a military station, where the English met with considerable resistumce in the late war. moored between Green island and the islamfor) which depends upon the majority of votes As a residence in summer, it must prove trying to Hongkong they were also taken into custody,

Instead of continuing the trip up the river in the and there is reason to believe, that the guilt of

on foot, passing throug a very fortite and populous many of the prisoners will be proven before the

steamer, I landed at Wusung and came to Shanghai Supreme Court. It is said, that they formed

country. The houses are all formed of strips of of the crews, of large piratical: Junks then in

bamboo interlaced like basket work. They havo - the offing, and doubtless were on this island

a beautiful appearance at a distance, but are frail -- for unlawful purposes.

uncomfortable, and, on a nearer approach, are found to be sometimes rather clean, but generally very filthy The people appear to enjoy goist. health; many of them are quite fair and rubly, especially the women, whose feet are much less cramped than those of their sex in the cit es.. But few of the villagers could read. They were well clad, and in their deportment very friendly. The country is cut up by canals, as much for the pur- pose of irrigation as for channels of communica- As in all other parts of Chim, the only road was a raised footpath two or three feel wide. There inferior kind of cotton; with this exception, it is a are a few fields allotted for the cultivation of an

great rice district, yielding two crops of the best of the cereals, and also a crop of peas or beans every year. The whole country is now verdant with garden vegetables. -

In the whole affair Mr. Leng's conduct was most commendable, and we doubt not, will be duly appreciated in the proper quarter:

Ningpo, according to the provisions of the te treaty, is to be opened for trade. The British consul ani suite are soon expected. Murchants

and vessels will soon follow.

Artical at Ningpo-Hospital opened ---

Circulation of tracts.

tion.

given by the members the Governor has the the Entropean constition, because of the exces power to veto any acts be may be opposed sise bent and the indescribable filth of the place and people. The common practice of leaving the to after they have passed the Council, but this dead uninterred, though it does not appear to be power is only made use of under extraordinary detrimental to health, is exceedingly offensive to circumstances, The Council chamber is open the stranger. Turn where you will, you can scar. to the press, and thus the true sentiments of the ecly avoid seeing a coffin,-in every vacant lot, members cannot be hid from the public, nor in the temples, in the gardens, the fields, and by a secret conclave pass laws collectively, which the way side, these abodes of the dead abound, -- individually they profess to repudiate, Con- and many of them, falling to picces, leave the trast with this, the Council of Hongkong, and bones exposed to view. Happily, the mountains we see a farcical delusion, a legislative council which elcinipuss the plain will afford a safe ret It is sometimes useful-though not always in name, but not a legislative council in reality.reat during the sum aur months; where out-stat- pleasant to hear what others say of us. We Were the Pacha of Egypt, to form a Co. ions may be established among the villages, and copy from the American Baptist Missionary uncil of advice from the members of his house. missionary labors carried on in connexion with Magazine for September and October, a few hold, that council would quite as much be en-those in the city, extracts from the letters of the Rerd, Dr. Mac-titled to the name of legislative, as our mis- Gowan, a gentleman who has been some time named conclave in Hongkong, in China, and who was recently a sojourner

The fundamental error which was com- among us, though now, we presume, he is fol | mitted in arranging the form of government on lowing his pious labours at some of the out-this island, consisted in giving the Governor a ports. Without for one moment wishing to council of advice, and not à legislature; it shackle free opinion among Missionaries, or is true, It is designated by the latter term, I came here on the 1st of November. Alone, any other body of the community, or their in- though it does not possess one of the characa perfect stranger, and entirely ignorant of the

Description of Shanghai-Romanism, herent right to promulgate their opinions teristics of such an assembly, Our, so named dialect of the place, bud i envred into may plans among their countrymen, we at the same time legislative council meets when and where no to employ an interpreter, I could not have obtain Shanghai is a welled city, much smaller in cir- claim the privilege of protesting against incor man knows--His Excellency determines uponed one; no person here can speaks English. En eumference than Ningpo; but nearly as populous, It is unquestionably the greatest rect statements, reflecting upon the character certain measures, or comes, or sends, to the tered the gates by night, and found lodgings in the say 100,000, of any class of the foreign community of China, members of Council certain ordinances readylome quest for several days. My time was less than 2000 large junks here now; at sum

house of a broker, with whom trengained an un-commercial city in all the empire. There cannot without coquiring whether these statements for the Gazette, but they (the members of a legis mainly occupied in fruitless efforts to get a dwel seasons, it is said that three or four thousand are are the results of ignorance or of malice. The lative council) cannot arrest any act however ling. Finding the people were afraid of admit in the river opposite the city. By means of camila, Reverend gentleman in plain language, charges iniquitous or tyrannical it may be. They may ting in, I began to despair, and would, perhaps, it is in close communication with angelow, the Commanders of several vessels engaged in advise with His Excellency, but they cannot have been compelled to return to Chusan had not Chingkeang, Nankin, and other large cities, in the the opium trade, with having witnessed the ship control him-he is in his own proper person, the Master whom we serve interposed, by sending interior. Shanghai does not differ materially from Oscar, on board of which he was a passenger, in Governor, Superintendent of trade, Minister a merchant to me, who offered me a whats house; other Chinese cities. It is inferior to Ningpo in a situation of extreme peril, without exhibiting Plenipotentiary, &c. &c. with absolute power in the centre of the business part of the city free every respect. There is nothing here which will the least desire, or intention to render assis-to make and uomake laws free from any of rent, This gentleman, having heard of my compare with what in Ningpo I call Broadway. tance. To use his own words, the singglers local control, It is true he is amenable to wish to establish a hospital in the city, immediata beautiful street no less than twenty-five feet wide. did not. like the Cornish miners, decoy us into the home government for errors should be ely came and made this kind offer. It was gladly The buildings are as mean as the thoroughfares; danger by false lights, but they saw us hastening commit any and as they have given him great accepted, and in the course of a few days, the the whole city, and citizens too, are filthy in the on to destruction without firing a gun, or giving power, they will require much from him. We Ningpo Medical Missionary Hospital was establis (extreme. The most commanding view of the eity us any warning of the dreadful fate which they

is from the slimy summit of a pile of dirt; thu look upon the position which His Excellency hel. A few simple operations, which were suc- supposed awaited us.” With every respect now occupies 43 a most unenviable one; and essful, have already secured for the institution the highest eminence within thirty or forty miles. for the cause which Dr. MacGowan has es-

It is an important phím for missionary operas we fear, it is one, which his past pursuits have confidence and favor of the people. It is now the poused, and with every respect for the charac- not exactly qualined him for. He may be said Cessary for me to re-trict my practive to opthalmic tons, and I hope that ere long, the churches will enable the Board to nceupy it. Meners Mediju est. ter of a preacher of that doctrine which incul to derive little or no benefit from his concithaa tythe of the appitenots, so numerous have and Lockhart have just concluded to adopt a me

fatfections, it bring impossible to attend is more cates truth and charity, we hesitate not to avow, į not that we mean to assert that the members they become. Every thing at present being subtition for the Society with which they are connect. from our personal acquaintance with those he are not capable of advising with him-anhaste to the one great object of acquiring the ed; they are making arrangements fue & permanent calumniates, that a more uncalled for and but simply, because they must feel that advising colloquial dialect, the hospital does not receive esileno, here. erroneous report was perer disseminated or councilling without the power of control is a that attention which I hope to be able to devote At Shanghai, as at Ningpo, it is almost impres through the columns of the most unprincipled mere mockery. If we are correct in our opite it at some future day. Now, I regard it merely sible for foreigners to proence dealings. Water periodical.

sion, the whole responsibility is thrown upon the as an auxiliary to my studies. The reber which great trouble you qucceed in striking a bargain at Governor-the Council are a perfectly irres the practice of surgery afads to my fellowmen an exorbitant thi, the neighbours raise such a eta-

If the friends and supporters of missions ap.