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tap before danger was suspected, then any resistance, we imagine, would be contempt of Court on the other side.
In the Agra Ukhbar of the 4th instand, there appens a letter from the banks of the Sutlege, of the 29th Dec., which mentions that two Jews have come in with letters from Dr. Wolff, which had been brought by the brother of one of them to Baik, where ho died: These two henring of the circum-tance at Cabool went off to get the letters; which have now been made over to Major Broad foot. They confirm the intelligence already re- eived, that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Con nolly had been put to death, and that Wolf had left Bokhara for Persia.
Jany 13-The Gentleman's Gazette of the 3d instant affirms that the long expected addition of Battalion to the Bombay Artillery has acinally taken place and dates from the 1st instant.
Jany. 14-He is informed by a correspondent at Bombay, that Capt Kelner, Executive Engi- neer, is on his way from Mhow to Bombay, 19 embark for Aden in order tn superintend the for- tifying of that place with defences of the harbour and landward,
He has heard too, on what he considers very good authority that the Afghans were actual marching on Peshawar.
Brother Jonathan is determined no longer leave us all the disgrace of the Opium smuggling: and Mr. Leith has given his solemn, opin'n, that he has as good a right to be a smuggler as we.
We learn from the Star that the Directors of the Fire Queen Company met yesterday, and re- solved that their vessel should leave for Singapore as soon possible after the arrival of each mail from Europe. The passages to Singapore in first class Cabin is to be Rs. 350, and man and wife Rs. 900; in second class Cabin. Rs. 200 and 350 To Pinang Rs. 50 and Rs. 40 less respectively The two stern cabins are Rs. 1000 each for a fi- mily of not more than three passons, and Rs. SUO for a single person.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23,
(From the Journal des Debats.) ENGLAND, EGYPT, AND THE EAST,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
civilised nalion to take part in it. The people of COTTON,Bombay, the East are now as it were under the guardian- sh. ps. T's. ship of the more enlightened and powerful people of the West, and it is for their mutual interest that a work which will be for the benefit of the whole world should be undertaken by the whole world.
It was on
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The Courrier Français publishes the following letter from Aden:
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The Christian Advocate contains the gratifying
An English journal, which is usually well inform information that after the wife of Kalee Churned on foreign affairs, has published a note which Benerjea had escaped to her husband with her in would seem to give a certain consistency to reports. funt son her daughter also was given up, by the which a slight examination would have shown to grandfather; and the whole family are now living have little foundation. The Morning Herald has together in the Christian Institution at Bhowani announced that a treaty, of which the origin might pore.
be traced back to 1840, was on the point of being concluded between England and, we suppose, the You ask me for some details relative to Aden, Pacha of Egypt, by which Great Britain world which may be denominated the Gibraltar of the obtain possession of the port of Suck, the free Red Sea. I wish that this information may be use Tin, Banca passage from that place to Alexandria, and other ful to my country, and for that reason I send it important advantage in Egypt and Syria. This Aden, which was formerly callad Porins Rom- treaty, in which France was not to participate, was, nus, is a town of the Yemen, which, from its it is said, to be guaranteed by Russia, Austria, and position and on account of its recent occupation Prussia. The English journal added, that it did by the English, promises to become an importat not known by what intrigue France did not appear emmercial and military station, particularly now Steel to participate in this convention, but that it had that Egypt is advancing towards the period when reason to believe that England had nothing to do she will become a British colony. The town is with the exclusion. We are astonished that a
built in the crater of an exhausted volcano, and is journal so serious, and usually so reserved, could situato at the extremity of a small peninsula formed have so lightly given a piece of news of this nature of volcanic matter, and attached to the continent We do not believo in the existence of an intrigue, sebly by a low neck of land from 500 to 600 yards because we do not believe in the possibility of the wide, and which might be easily isolated by a canal. treaty in question. If it be true that England is to The harbour is a magnificent basin, capable of conclude with the Pacha of Egypt, in other words, contrining hu ianense feet, and is entered by a with the Ottoman Porte, a treaty, the origin of mrrow passage between two other craters. It which belonged to the events of 1810, it is clear would be easy to establish defensive works on the that this treaty could only have a character rocks surrounding these craters, which would place altogether opposed to that which is attributed to the port in safety against an attack. One reduubt If we remember rightly, England in 1840, in has been at vady raised as a security against the concert with Austria, Russia, and Prussia, waged Arabs, ever ready to attack the English in their war in the Levant for the sole purpose of re-establish position. From this point to the gate of the town ing and assuring the integrity of the Ottoman has been recently traced a road of about a league in Empire. She made war to prevent the Pacha of length. By which the defile is reached which forius. Egypt from raising his temporary" principality into the entrance to Aden. This defile, which is being a sovereign and independent state, to restore Syria fortified at this monent with a gate evidently cons. to tho suzerainty of the Porte, and at the sime tructed to resist other attacks than those of the time prevent any European state from establish- Arabs, is about 100 yards loog and four or five ing in Egypt an exclusive influence.
wide. It is cut out of a rock which stands. 150 yards this basis, very clear, very formul, that the treaty above the level of the spa. A formidable battery, of 1810, which France did not participate in, was commanding the entrance of the town, is in process concluded; and the treaty of 1841, which defini- of being erecte! above the rock on the left of the tsly regulated the regulations of the Porte with defile. A covered way with an arch thrown from the Pacha of Egypt, had no another object than one ck to an ther unites the system of defence to give to this state of things a unanimous confirnis- which the batteries commenced on the subnit of the tion. It is, therefore, quite impossible that England rocks on the left will complete. The other side is should at present think of aiming a blow at that abs slutely u zailable. From the most remote integrity, the maintenance of which was the only period these heights have been more or less fortified Alum -Lieut. Duflin, who recently prosecuted Mr. | motive of her policy in 1810; and we still less so by the different untious who have had possession Aunisted Henry Lashington of the Civil Service, to convic-how a convection of the nature spoken of could be | of Arabia. Lasconded these beights, and I confess | Camphor tion, for a defamatory libel, has made application connected with events which had a signification was astonished to find the harbour so easily Cassia for a portion of the penalty of 2500 Rs. inflicted diametrically contrary We are well convinced defende I, and this impregnable position surround, upon the defendant by the Court, towards the pay that England has no more the projca of conquested by a natural ginile of bastions, which only ment of the heavy expenses he has incurred in the and extension of territory at the eastern extremity wail to be armed to be capable of annihilating the prosecution of the suit. The application however of Africa than we have at the other end; and west formidable thants. I experienced the most Musk has been refused. It was naturally a subject of re-think we can declare with certainty that this painful emotions at the idea of the consequences Rhubarb mark that the prosecutor, by making his election to pretended taking possession of the town of Suez, of these preparations.. I cannot comprehend how SILK. bring a criminal action against Mr. Lushington, left! augmented by the concession of particular adra France and Europe regard with indifference Mug
T'silce his character just wliere it stood before. In the at tages in Egypt and Syria, has no "kind of foundland preparing a new Gibraltar on this road,
Taysanm fidavit which he has sworn the prosecutor declares tion.
fruitful in rielies, which extends from the European himself wholly innocent of the crimes of incest and
Ocean to the In lian Ocean by traversing Egypt | TEA, peculation, and the other offences imputed to him.
We must not deceive ourselves, it is a now And we learn from the Englishman that the sole
Gibraltar which is already erected at Aden reason for his not adopting the remedy of a civil
what is printed in an English elementary "treatise, action arose from the dificulty of serving a civil
| entitled System of Universal Geography, pag Bô1: – writ on the defendant; and that a civil action is now
This peninsula has much resemblance to the in progress which will give the defendant the full-
rock of Gibraltar, and may easily be rendered is. ast opportunity of justifying the charge.
impregnable
The English Government: has taken possession of it. Aden has the ad vantage over Gibraltar of possessing a harbour which is perfectly secure and capable of containing the most formidable squadron, and, consequently, of holding the key of the Red Sea against any power timt exists. Last year three British officers of engineers came to Aden to study a general system of defence, of which the works executed at EXPORT JUNE TO 1ST INSTANT. the untrance of the town are the commencomment. Every thing marches silently towards one object, In 69 Ships, from the Lady Amherst to the Cardelia. fatal to the liborty of the seas for every nation in Europe. The English act slowly in order to avoid. any remark, and in order to prevent those objec-- tions which will one day be made, when it is foo late. It is true, that England will reply to any objection. What we are doing is against the Arabs." Vain pretext, and a pure deception, for it is evident they are intended for more than the muskets of the Bedouins, To us French, the Including the Humayoon 1,127.635 lbs. English Government would not perhaps have
CARGO OF THE WANDENER " FROM SHANG- repeated what a superior officer of their nation said to me yesterday:Of what do you complain? Do you not perceive, that in consequence of the Black Congou cordial understanding existing borween the two nations, to labour to found at Aden a great com- mercial and military establishment it to labour Green against barbarism for the, interest of European civilisations? Let us now examine the origin of this new acquisition of our rival. By address and by violence, by a little good will and much force, the Arabs were successively reduced to see Eng. land establish at Aden first a simple storehouse for coal for her steam-boats; then it became necessary to place some troops to guani the coal; the other
PRICES OF BULLION. soldiers came to relieve the first, and both remain. Sycee Silver, large, 3 per cent, premium. ed. A small wall was next built, in order, it was Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
Carolus, 10 per cent. but the wall was constructed, and the soldiers remained. Then the year 1842 arrived-reports of war were circulated. It was feared that France Bills on London at 6 months sight, 48 41 to 4. 44. would use reprisals, and the English found them- Treasury closed for Spanish Dollars. selves under the necessity of occupying Aden altogether. All that, be it understood, to resist the formidable attacks of some plundering Arabs, who would otherwise have realised enormous fortunes by stealing the English coal, At present the rocks of Ad-n are crowned with cannon. The only entrance to the town is fortified, and the To Loudon or Liverpool, £3.10 @ £3.15 per tons of garrison is already composed of two regiments of infantry and two companies of Indian and Europe an artillery."
(From the Glasgow Herald.) MERCHANT SEAMEN,
Besides, it will be easy to trace the true origin of the @ rumours, The passage by Egypt is the most direct way to the English possesions in India, and for a long time England has been think: ing of rendering her communications on this point more easy and more rapil. It appears that the Peninsular Steam Packet Company had demanded of the Pacha an authorisation to form a line of railroad across his territory It is, moreover, said that the new Governor-General of India, Sir Henry Harding, had, when at Alexandria, propus On the 5th inst. an act was passed to amended to the Pacha to conclude in his name, and in and consolidate the laws relating to merchant sea- the naine of his successors, a convention which men and for keeping a register of seamen. There should sectire the free transit across Egypt of the are 65 sections in the act, and several schedules mail to India, merchandise and English passengers, annexed. By the preamble it is declared that the in consideration of a sum, by way of indemnity, to prosperity, strength, and safety of this United be hereafter agreed upon. If this proposition has Kingdom and her Majesty's dominions do greatly been really made, it is evident that at must be depend on a large, constant, and ready supply of limited strictly to some internal regulation, and scamen, and it is therefore expedient to promote cannot be considered to have a more general the increase of the number of seamen, and to afford bearing. Sir Henry Hardinge, before his appoint them all due encouragement and protection, and ment to the Government of India had been a for this purpose to amend and consolidate the laws Cabinet Minister; he must have been too well relating to them, and it is also expedient to keep a acquainted with the treaties which regulate the register of seamen." No seaman is to be taken regulations of the porte with Egypt, to have carried to sea without a written agreement or without a to Alexandria propositions which could only be register ticket, obtained from such seamen, ander discussed at Constantinople, and to have sought to a penalty of £20. The General Register-office of have given to a simple commercial contract the merchant seamen is to be continued under the style character of a political convention. If communica of "The General Register and Record-office of tions of this kind have taken place, it is possible Seamen," where all seamen are to be registered, that the Pacha received them eargely at first, led or at the custom-bouses of the several outports of away by the idea, of treating directly with a great the United Kingdom, and every applicant is re- Europeen Power, without the interference of the quired to answer the questions set forth in one of Porte. It is possible that he saw in it a sort of the schedules. Not the least important, though encouragement to the projects which he has a long nearly the last provision in this act, is the 74th time entertained, of erecting his Government into a sovereignity. But we believe that after pome section, under which relief can be afforded to Las- car seamen—a subject which some time ago reflection he better understood the true bearing of created a good deal of discussion, and is now pro- the overtures which may have been made to him. vided for in the following manner; And be it. He will have remembered that the treaties which enacted, that if any person being a Malay, Lascar, have guaranteed to him the hereditary government or native of the territories under the Government of his principality reserves also to the Porte the of the East India Company, or if any Asiatic or sovereign power to treat with foreign powers, and African seamen having been brought to the United he will have understood that England, who had
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Congou Caper Souchong Orange Peked,
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40 0 A83 37 0 % 80 0 Tes. There have been large purchases of teas within the last week, pussibly in anticipation of a reduction of duty at home. EXPORT OF TEAS TO GREAT BRITAIN FROM 30TH
Green, 7,394,819 lbs. Black, 27 474,957,,
Total 34,869,776 lbs. Exports by two ships in March. Green 332,075 lbs. Black 795,500
HAI TO ENGLAND.
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Kingdom on board any ship, shall be found or be taken a principal part in the conclusion of these said, to ebriate the necessity, for so many tro Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent, dincount.
treaties, could not have had an idea of departing from them.
It
in the United Kingdom, in distress for want of food, clothing, or other necessaries, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for executing Fears must not be, therefore, entertained which the office of Lord High Admiral of the United cannot be justified by circumstances, and treaties Kingdom at their discretion, to supply necessary of partition talked of which only allude to a and reasonable relief to every such person and railroad. Because the Emperor Nicholas made an excursion to London, and M. Nesselrode has seaman, and to maintain hin until he shall be sent on board some ship for the purpose of being been taking salt-water baths at Brighton, it is im- conveyed to or near to the port from which he mediately supposed that England and Russia have was shipped; and also to pay, defray, and advance divided the Ottoman empire between them. Things the money necessary to procure every such person are no longer done in this summary way. The and seaman a proper and sufficient passage to such great powers are so dependent one on another that port, and all such sum or sums of money as shall affairs must be arranged more in common. The be paid and advanced by order of the said Com. work of civilisation must be work in commen. missioners for or ou account of such relief, maint- certainly would not be for France to make any. enance, and passage, shall be and become a debt opposition to an improvement of the communica- due to her Majesty, and be recoverable as such, on across Egypt which is the great high road of with full costs of suit, in the courts of law, either Asia. This link, which will unite the old and the in her Majesty's dominions, or in the territories new world, cannot but be beneficial to the general under the Government of the East India Company, cause or progress o humanity. To wish to oppose from the owner and master, or either of thein, of such a measure merely because England would benefit more than any other nation from it, would the ship on board whereof such person or seaman shall have been brought from Asia or Africa; but | be not only a narrow and jealous policy, but unjust nothing herein contained shall repeal or annual any and immoral-When, therefore, this great enter- other act or acts now in force for the relief and prise shall be definitely attemped, France, far conveyance home of any Asiatic or African person from opposing, will give her hearty assistance. The act is to take effect from the Precisely because this result interests the general cause of civilisation, it must be the 'duty of every.
or seamnat." 1st of January next,
CANTON PRICES CURRENT. 25тu Manen, 1845, IMPORTS.-DETE PAID.
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EXCHANGE.
There has been an attempt to bring down the exchango to do. dd, but we do not hear of any sales at that rate. Court of Directors accepted no ditto. 60 days, have Navy Bills, 49. 21. to 48. 3d per Mexican dollars. been offered at 226 fts, per $100. Difficult of Sale. Unaccepted 230.
FREIGHTS.
To Amoy, G perton of 40 fort
5) . tonnage scarce.
To ports north of Amoy, 8.3 to 10
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