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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZËITE.
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From the degrading relation that exists bet ween higher and lower classes, spring the over. bearing insolence and arrogant pride for which the English people are celebrated over the globe. From being allowed to tyrannize over the serfs and menials of his own island, the Englishranu persuades himself that he is of a nobler order of being than other men, and assumes the same airs | abroad,
COTTON, Bombay,
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COTTON GOODS.
White Shirtings,
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2.50: a Grey ditto ditto. 2 60. SHIRT xos No improvement in price; sales in derate.
Yarn, Nos. 16 to 24 26. 0
Nos. 18 to 32 28 · 0 # 29 0 Nos, 35 to 42 32 0 YARN.--Low Nos, still in request;-
Chintz Furniture Nominal.
METALS. Tin, Banca Straits
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Adonis-do not believe yourself either "handsome" | How has he promoted them? The fine old art o
"Of a people descended from such a stock it or "gay"--but ugly, and irredeemably stupid; so humbug is certainly indebted to him for a more would be unreasonable to expect either manners. ugly, that your plainness would do no credit to a perfect development than usual; and if humbug is morals, or poetry; and we are not at all surprised battle-field; so obtuse, than even the awakening | recognized as one of the fine arts, we acknowledge er disappointed, therefore, by the unfavorable, re- cane of the drill-sergeant would be lost upon you." Moon to be a well known promoter" of it If get-sults of a cursory survey of their literature and Again, you have not a roving mind-you do notting pictures engraved, and assuming to oneself all their public and private history during the last wish to see the world. Besides, a mind may not the merit of the artist, te promoting art, then has century or two, and of their condition at the rove at its own sweet will according to army Moon promoted it. Louis Philippe is a very good cut time." rogulations and the world is a poor thing to see, | natured man, but he surely can't have Moon to with musket in hand and rounds of ball cartridge dine with him in the character of a promoter of at your back, Oh, youth, stay at home and see the fine arts. His Majesty might as well, on being Birmingham,
struck with a piece of music played on an organ. invite the organblower to the palace, instead of the composer, or even the organist. Moon has about the same relation to the fine arts as the organ blower has to the music; he only pulls away as hard as he can. thus supplying the empty noise, while others promote the ability. Moon is a print
*All the word laugh at a traveling John Bull seller, and has made what money he has by seiland his ridiculous humors. The polite Frenchman ing prints; so that the fine arts have promoted shrugs his shoulders, and laughs at the haughty him, instead of his having promoted fae arts. airs of Milord,' and compares him to his own
ledogue; the supple Italian cheats him and despises him; the independent Yankee pestors him with questions, annoys him with cool sarcasm, when he becomes testy, and treads most remorselessly on the corns of his self-esteem and his prejudices. Bull is obliged to suffer it all, and only finds his META's.With the exception of Lead, there is no mar- revenge, after he returns home, by writing a bookket for metals at present; lead has somewhat improved.
0° **630. 0 per ch cs to prove that all the nations of the earth are a set OPIUM,Patna, new, 620. ́old, 680 Yahoos, except the inhabitants of enlightened Eng land. To such beginnings, we conjecture, rans of the bucks on America for sometime past owe their producting,
And then the laurels of the 55th foot !? What, in truth, are laurels? Dissect, analyse them. You may-with a touch of fancy -trace in them the veins of withered hearts, Test them by true moral chemistry, and what are they 4 Blood and A homicidal wreath, fears-tears and blood! gilded by the world's Great Lic! And so, Birm ingham lad, cultivate coleworts, chickweed if you will, but avoid laurels. They are a plant of death, manured by human hearts.
In the United Service Magazine (No. 183), there is an article devoted to the doings of the cat--the weapon with which Madame Glory rebukes her naughty children:-
"Men have declared to me," says an officer, that the sensation experienced at each lash was as though the talons of a hawk were tearing their flesh off their bones."
Heat General Sir Charles Napier and the cat-- the real streamers of the recruiting sergeant -
PAINFUL COINCIDENCE.
A police report of Fist week says, there is a "Sack Protection Society" in exist nec, sacks being lost every year to the amount of £ 20,000. The sark which the East India Directors have given Lord Ellenborough has cost his londship nearly a similar sum,
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(From the Christian Watchman,} FOR THE CHRISTIAN WATCHMAN. THE MORALS, MANNERS, AND POETRY OF ENGLAND I have seen many hundreds of men flogged,
In the January number of the Foreign Quar and have always observed that when the skin is moroughly cut up or flayed off, the great pam Poets and Poetry of America. Among the bene terly Review for 1814, an article appeared on the subsides; and they bear the remainder without ficial results that are to be attributed to the said life, and the drummers appear to be flogging a lump of dead raw flesh. The faces of the spectators and Poetry of England." in the last number of the article, the criticism on The Manners, Morals, (soldiers) assumed a look of disgust; there was a low whispering sound, scarcely audible, issuing North American, inay be reckoned as one. from the apparently stern and silent ranks;-cupying a position somewhat different from that sound arising from lips that spoke not. but that of the critics who have preceded him, and view ing the English nation through a more transpa sound was produced by hearts that fell deeply:
The low sound sometimes resembled what may with a more strongly-marked and strikingly exact reut medium, the present writer has presented us be called sniffing, and may be occasioned by an likeness of the original, than any that we recol increased flow of tears into the nostrils."
to have before sen
The hoart sickens at this, and an unufforable feeling of disgust and indignation must possess the reader. We might have paused ere we committed the horror to our page, but that we utterly denounce that easy humanity which shrinks from the contemplation of wrong because of its hideousness.
There are abommations-however demoniacol→→ that must be placed before the startled eyes of a too easy world, and this flogging-this blasphemy against the divine nature of man-is of them.
Young men of Birmingham-nay, of all Eng land-take these things to your hearts, and consider well the streamers of a Sergeant O'Naill They look fine and gay; but they will tear the flesh like "the talens of a hawk." They are silky and soft; yes, soft as the paw of a sleeping cat but oh, young men "from eighteen to twenty-yo,
be sure of it the cat has claws!
THE COMIC BLACKSTONE,
Of title by Forfeiture.
Every cue is aware that amil the numerous games played by the law is the game of forfeits, of which it seems there are eight varieties, and if variety is charming in the singular number, the law of forfeiture, with no less than eight varieties, ought to be a most fascinating topic.
Property may be forfeited by lapso, which signifies a slip; and thus," says Selden, the proverb of Many a slip' twist the cup and the lip is verified. How Selden makes out any connection between the property and the cup, or the tenant and the lip, we don't exactly see; but we should be sorry to disturb the authority of any of those quaint dogmata that the old jurists so often revell-
ed in.
Forfeiture by breach of condition it would be a forfeiture of our own trouble and the reader's time to dwell upon, so we jump at once to forfeiture by waste, which seems to be founded on the homely saying that "You can't eat your pudding and have it," for if you pull your own house about your cars, you cannot very well continue to enjoy it. Tearing down your lan lord's wainscot and pulling up his floors is waste in the eye of the law, but it does not seem that walking in his cockloft and tumbling through the laths and plaster is such a waste as would amount to forfeiture.
It is also waste to convert one kind of ground into-another, such as meadow land into arable And it seems that, by strict right, a paved yard cannot have the stones torn up and imignonette planted in place of them. It is otherwise with the gardens in the centre of squares, which may be inondow to-day and grable to-morrow, because as nothing will grow, there is in lact no difference.
Opening land to search for a mine is waste in general, and waste of time in particular; but if there was a mine commenced, the tenent niay dig away with impunity.
It is waste on the part of a tenant if he cuts his landlord's timber; but if the tenant cuts his own stick, it is sometimes waste ou the part of the land- lord to go after him.
Another species of forfeiture is a breach of the custom of a copyhold; as, where the rent is à peppercorn, the tenant must seek out the landlord and give him pepper to the amount specified. The learned and facetions Bracton remarks that "Where the rent is pepper it is casily muster'd.”
The last method of forfeiture is by becoming a bankrupt, when everything goes to the assignee, to enable him to declaré dividends, sometimes to the true of two-pence a pound, like binck-heart cherries. A bankrupt seised in tail hes it instantly cut off, or at least so much of the tail as belongs to him.
MOGN IN PARIS,
Paragraphs like the following here appeared in most of the London newspapers; how they get there is a mystery we are not disposed to dive into-
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After describing the manners of the people the ter. And first he analyzes the nature of their lofty writer next proceeds to consider their moral charac pretensions to pride for birth. Of the bood royal
he says:
George the Fourth and his brother, the Duke of Cumberland and present King of Honover, were probably the most profligate men in Great Britain. The character of the former was marked with al most every stain of moral turpitude that can dis charged, and that not obscurely, with crimes at honor and degrade a human being the latter was which human nature revolts York, another brotherof the King, exceeded if pos sible the enormity of the wickedness of the others" Three of the soyal profligates, whose conduct the days of the Roman emperors, never has t'e we have noticed, ascruded a throne, and, since sceptre fullen into more weak and wicked hands,
The Duke of
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Pepper
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well. assorted; Camlets, English
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The import market for nearly every description of manu- Ladies factured goods continues very languid.
Alum
EXPORTS-ON BOARD.
Abase of our institutions and men, of our prin ciples and motives, of the United States collective 1y, and of the United States individually, of our books and newspapers, hotels and waiters,-abuse of each of these separately, and of all unitedly, has been poured out upon us by British crities ever Be notices the English clergy:-"As they are and statesmen have been analyzed and annihilated may be worth while to hok for a moment at the since the close of the Revolution. Our orators so fond of preaching intrality to other nations, it by one reviever, our pools and poetry by another conduct of their clergy, their own instructors in Auniseed Who roads an American book?" anil the lea- and infamy of English divines, nro presenteil, and Cassia the Rev. Sydney Smith has exultingly asked virtue. A few of the many instances of the crime | Camphor ding organ of the leading party of Great Britain the following pa-sige," froin a-tract by Dr. Wat- his, within the last three years, distinguished son, himself a respectable and beneficed clergyman China Roots rebels, who would have ended his days on the looks of lordly prelates hul be brought low; the Husk Washington as "the successful leader of successful of the establishment, is in ertel. The fofty Galangal gibbet hail he recieved his deserts." Indeed the supercilious airs of clowny doctors and perju e Rhubarb most exhilerating and interresting contributions to pluralists shall be humbled; the horrible sacrilge | SHKO the English reviews, have been penned for a suc-of non-residents, who shear the fleece, and leave cossion of years, by highly excited and anti-repu- the flock, this despoiled, to the charge of u inte blican Englishmen. To maintain the polite inter-restod hirelings that care nt for them shall b course of nations, if for no other reason, an article avenged on their imp ous heads, Latemperato pr. of the spirit and tone of this of which we are speaests, avaricious clerks, ani buckish parsons, the king, was demanded. Our men of letters. have curses of Christend) n, shil bo emfiunded.” been for too long a time silent; the kindly greet- tags of the mother country should occasionally be responded to.
As a natural consequence the cries and licen- tiousness of the nobility and clergy generate and
foster worse forms of vice in the lower classes And hence comes the necessity of their terrible penal code: The laws of Draco were, not half so bloody; the American luan showed less inge nuity in torturing his prisoner at the stake. A hundred and tocaty crines were punishable with death; and more persons annually suffer death in England than in the whole of Christendom besides. herse racing, boxing, and gambling, are peculiar The peculiarly barbarous and cruel sporis of ly English. They afford the reviewer another in. forence by no means favorable to the moral racter of the English people.
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But there is a class of American readers to whose attention we would particularly commend this article. We mean that class of men who forin their notions of justice, excellence, and propriety from English models; who from the land of the proscribed Puritans echo back the prejudices, crit icisms, and follies of England; men whose clocks keep English time whose heads, (if we may be allowed the expression.) are weathercocks, tht constantly point East until the arrival of the Atlantic steamers, and are than seen to whirl to wards every known point of the compass, the sport of British papers and reviews; men who es We have room to notice only one other topic timate the value of a book, as a fine lady judges treated of by the writer, the condition of their of the quality of her calicos. Argument will not laboring classes. He himself says, "It is necessary lead such minds out of error or they would have to be brief and moderate, to give only a few long since acknowledged that a deeply cherished items, and those not the most fearful ones, in the resentment towards a revolted colony, an incredi-long catalogue of woes and vices that lie open be. ble ignorance of our institutions and customs, anfore us, confirine by andouted authority." Indeed overweening vanity and conceit that obtrudes it
a faithful description of the crime and degradation self before cosy sense and distorts every view suffering and oppression of the working classes of all forbid that English writers shoul judge aright Great Britain could not be crowded into the two of any thing American. It is not, however, easy hundred and fifty-seven pages of the Review. We to see how any any, reading the statements and will, however, insert a single extract. He is spea- conclusions which compose this article, and allo-king of the occupation of the children employed wing to them the credit which cannot be denied in the mines. them will longer remain blinded to the shallow
mure of Britis criticism. A light outline of the artick referred to may afford some interest to those who may not have read the last nn.uber of
the Review.
Tsiilee Ta saam. Canton
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SILE, purchases of (run) 150 to 200 hales are reportal at
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TEN
Congu Caper Souchong Orange Pekeo, -line seen ed Twankay
Hysta Young Hyson. Hyson Skin Gunpowder Imperial
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29 0 800 180 38 0 40 083 0 37 080 0: TRA-The shipment of teas in Grest Britain, et ll goya
about 500,000 lbs, from Shanghai.”
on. The expert fronr 1st July to date is 39,033,316 be, with
EXPORT OF TEAS TO Great BuTTAIN FROM 30TH JUNE TO 1ST APRIL In 76 Ships, from the Lady Amherst to the Dotthorp Green, - 8,697,780 lbs. Black, 29 703.302
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Total 38,401,179 lbs.
-130,700 Ls..
570,600
Two Sirs IN APRIL. St. Vincent,-fireen.
Black Beulah, Green Black
130.700 400,130
In April,
1,292,139 lbs.
PRICES OF BULLION
and ragged trossers, is fitted with a girdle to Sycee Silver, large, 3 per cent, premium.
"The poor chill, wearing only a pair of coarse which a chain is attached, that passes between its legs, and is fastened to the wagon behind. Slow Spanish Dollars, Ferlinand, par Iv then, through the long gallery, over the broken Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent. dincount.
The writer commences with a humorous, ac-
and sharp surface, often through water several ins count of the early inhabitants of Britain.
ches in depth, the poor wreich creeps on its hands "The earliest notices we have of Britain reprend kuees, dragging the heavy weight behind. sent it as fruitful in barbarians. tin, and lead. Sometimes, instead of waring the girdle and chain, las continued so ever since.... Pecorum," says Julius Caesar, magnus numerous,' they have a vast number of sheep? they have them now, Aer: utuntur importato; but this at present is unnecess ry, as they have brass enough of their own. The inhabitants of the interior, he states, fed on milk and fl sh, and were clothel with skins.
mus he admittel, that, in these respects, a great change has taken place, and for the worse; for, at present great numbers of the British people are utterly
nulle to procure milk or flesh, and have no other skins to wear than their own."
Speaking of the Druidors ancient priests of Bri- fain, the writer remarks:
Carolus, 10 per cent.
EXCHANGE.
Bills on London at 6 months sight, 48 351 to 4, 43,
Treasury closed for Spanish Dollars.
Bills on England at 6 Months sight appear, to, fluctuate ;
3d, and good bills have been offered at 43 454 we hear of actual, sales at 44. dil, others are qouted at
Court of Directors accepted Bills, are scarce, Navy Bills, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 31 per Mexican dollars,
holders asking 225. Rs. per $100.
FREIGHTS:
To London or Liverpool, £3. Tás: a £1. per ton of
50 ft. tonnage searce.
To ports north of Amoy, 8 to 10 To Amoy, 6 per ton of 40 feet.
it creeps behind the wagon, the forehead resting against it and thys pushing it forward. The skin the girdle, and the heavy chain strikes against is often rubbed and bruised or by the pressure of the legs and excoriates them. And to these suf terings half-naked girls, from six to twelve years of age, are exposed for twelve hours in the day.""" The conduct of England towards the Irish-her intercourse with foreign nations-her violation of the laws of nations ani of commercial treaties, are discussed and exhibited, with great clearness
The recent purchases of ten have caused a demand for and force.. part of the article, on the poetry of England, must
A notice of these, as also of the last tonnage, and root of the available ships have been taken
up at from £3. 1., to £1.
(American paper, 16th Augúst.)
CANTON PRICES CURRENT. 3ED APRIL, 1845. IMPORTS.-DeTY, PAID.
-be omitted.
The early Druidical religion or superstition of these barbairns left its impress on the national character, and may be traced to the present day. The ancient hierarchy like the modern, had the exclussive right to teach the doctrines of religion, which ther inculcated in cerses, that sometimes had a hidden meaning; the modern Druids make Ale (best brands) .8.16 0 ̧ dßls 0 per bhd no verses, and their sermons sometimes have no meaning at all.”
Amber Betel Not
Mr. Alderman Moon, the well-known promoter of the Fine Arts, and the mover of the address of The city of London to the King of the, French, had the honour to dine yesterday with their Majesties And hence from the narrations of all ancient Canvas-Eng and at Saint Cloud, and has been engaged to pass the historians the reviewer inters, that the early Bri- evening with the Royal Family on Saturday tons were a race of sarage barlarians, distinguis | Cochines! next.”—Galigatni.
Scotch
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Id-only for piracy, robbery, and successful plan- Copper, sheathing We should be very glad to know:-15-Wat]den Parsing from the ancient to the modem con- are the Fine Arts Moon has prometed? and 2nd. dition of the English people, be observes.
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At Hongkong.
Vanguard,
At Whampoa.
Swithamley,
Ships Loading.
George Buckham,
Oriental,
Olympus,
New Margaret, Isabella,
Teas.
Edited, Printed and Published by Joux Cann, At The Friend of thru and longhong Gazette. Printing Ofae, QUEEN ROAD, JETORIA, HoxoRONG 1843,
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