"Native Trade WITH HONGKONG DURING THE
MONTH OF AUGUST, 1845.
SHE FRIEND DE CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETLE.
it is, but this important department of the public service has always been sadly mism
(From the China Mail, September 11.) GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, Lieutenant Edmund Sargent, of the 18th Royal and the Gentlemen in charge of it have Irish Regiment, having been placed at the disposal a wonderful indifference to the public con of Government, by the Honorable the Mofor Gevenience and interest. We may except the neral Commanding, is appointed Military Secretary late acting Post Master, Mr. Spring, who, al and Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor, though under control of the local authorities,
did his duty faithfully, we believe. The Post By Order,
V. CAINE, Master, or as our contemporaries designate him. Officiating Colonial Secretary the Post Master General, has his appointment from home, and is quite independent of the Victoria, Hongkong, 8th September, 1845,
Hongkong government. This must be to himself a very great comfort; but we sumbit to his con- sideration whether it is an apology fornegligence or dilatoriness in the performance of his duties, It is true, we are a long way from Europe, but complaints may even be wafted to London, and listened to, it may therefore be prudent to take a little friendly advice in time. We by no means approve of the lawless and brutal manner, in which a person holding no very high office under government, ordered a Corporal's guard to make a prisoner of the unfortunate Mr. Scales, who had refused to receive some letters sent after hours. It was an outrage upon decency, such as seldom occurs even in colonies in England it would have raised a shout of indignation from lands end to lands end. Neither can we approve, altogether, of the high handed measure of His Excellency, who suspended Mr. Scales from the duties of office, pending a reference to the home govern ment. That the Governor in Council has power to suspend any public servant there can be no doubt even the Chief Justice of he has a mind to do so-but is must be under extra-
The supplies have been very regular, and the communication with Tung.kwan extended.
There was only one junk from Kitjeo, which procured here a small cargo
cargo of Opium, Piece Goode, and Sundries, the valne not exceeding 10,000. Two junks (the first we know of) went with a cargo of Brazil wood and Sundries from Canton to Fubchon, and during their stay here made some small purchases. Two junks from Singapore, the one built fa imitation of a ship at Siam, and owned by a Singapore Chinese Mer. chant, are now unloading their Betel Nut, Rattans, and other Straits produce, which is either sent up to Canton, or sold at the neighbouring islands, There were several small craft from Tat-ho and other ports of Hae-yeo, which have bought a few goods
There have been 51 Salt junks here, which sold 11,700 piculs of salt..
The small junks, which bring the live-stock from Hae-hong and other places, have been frequently attacked outside the Ly-moon passage by fisher-
and two vessels were actually driven back to this port by a member of pirates, after having at tempted to run the gauntlet,
CHARLES GUTZLAFF:
Assistant Magistiate in the (hinese Department. Victoria, 1st September, 1845.
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1845
H. M. Steam vessel Vizen and the H. C. Steamer Pluto arrived from Borneo yesterday, the Nemesis came in the day previous. The squadron with Rear Admital Cochrane is outside and only waits for a
breeze.
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As to the purse
companions. The idea is no less true than it is absurd that all purposed original accounts respecting engagements in. variably follow ous the first Reports which have emanated under Official authority. These cannot be improved upon,
they may either be digested or distended, and no more.
Still every now and then we find some new axioms advanced as an earnest of happiar intentions; if not bearding a Ge- neral (one's own superior) in his strong-hold. To the fol lowers of Young England we can advance as tangible braut- ment or deduction on this head beyond actual collison with
we refused to accept on Wednesday morn ing, after our paper of that day had appeared. Now we most respectfully submit to His Excel fency, the Post Master General, that this is not fair-if we have offended, the punishment is not commensurate to the crime, grievance (it will be very curious if the Post Master has been already inoculated with the
The art of Book-making has improved considerably of Hongkong official epidemic, the squeezing paries immediately interested in these matters, system, his predecessor had a fearful attack of late years, it has taken the march of steam (and gas as well) for intellects have proved amazingly redundant in conse that moral leprosy) we are charged upon Cey. ton papers 7d. for each number, and for Ma-quence-rather fertile in production, if their results have not proved as happily fortile in consumption. This wil be found nila prices current 4d., we are also compelled in the present instance, which we trust will materially tend towards a literary dearth in the peculiar range of Travels to pay postage upon letters from Calcutta, al
compassing our quier" Sea-girt Islo.**
(Communicated.) though the postage has been pre-paid; we are further compelled to pay for bundles of old pers which we do not want, simply because we opened the envelope to see what were the cou- tents upon this principle, were a scamp in London to pack up his old boots and forward them addressed to a party here, the said party would have to pay postage if he opened the packet. We may be wrong, but this looks very like extortion-hitherto, at all events, In- dian papers have only been charged Id., and there has been no objection to receive back packets that were of no use to the party who received them. We again humbly request His Excellency, the Post Master General, to take our grievances into consideration and we promise him a puff when he deserves it— strong enough to fill the top-sails of a two decker.
RANDOM NOTES OF CHAMNEY ANGELO ESQ.
We have just got up from a perusal of Capi. Cunuing- hama Book on China
Here we have another addition to the already swoll list of publications treating on the Celestial Empire! We had anticipated the work which previously emanated was the last peaned on a once novel, but now thread bare subject; we wished it earnestly sincerely-for though scores have been written on China, practical illustration has in most Cases shewn the palpable negative to the pedantic and yet no less fabricated opinions to exquisitely garnished in all It was a deceitfull lull whieli rhetoric, dare command,
a niche in the projected Temple to Clis, not the meanest of
All the Works on China have been written by men who
ordinary circumstance. He incurs a responsi- bility which few men would care to have upon them, and if he cannot give the most conclusive proof that such a suspension from office was absolutely called for, he lays himself open to an action for damages. We hear that the Gover August 12 August 26 nor of NS. Wales on his return to England August 10 will be sued by a Judge Willis, formerly Resinned and now we have another aspirant towards winning August 30 dent Judge at Port Phillip. The Governor the number to be raised at Pekin by the Emperor to the August 18 suspended that Gentleman, and it is question- Muses!
able whether he will not be cast for heavy did not obliterate from memory the track to popular and easy damages. We are told that Mr Hyland is not a employment, while engaged in their undertakings. All or person who will permit the insolent interference nearly all have either held, or at the present hold, appoint of Gentlemen of the Yellow House" with the moots under the Government of Hongkong, and a perusal of the publications only refreshens our memory with an in. duties of his department. He knowns his pri- cident in the spirit of winch we heartily join. A family party. vileges, and will assert them. This is all very in the country had assembled to view some new engravings proper ; but he must also recollect that, though which their Bookseller had forwarded from town: the
meeting of the Commissioners on board the Blenheim rated a Post Master General, he has a very formed one of the number and was intended as an unusual small establishment, and it may be necessary treat, On the mother explaining the shades, lights, characters, for the expeditious delivery of mails, that he &c. to one of her daughters, the shrewd maiden artlessly renders services which are not usual in the remarked. "Yes, Mama I understand all, but Sir Henry Darrell is certainly the greatest, and best displayed, object heads of larger establishments with an abun-in the print-though he has the modesty to allow only a part dance of assistants, and that he also endeavours of his face to be seen. And then no look at the studied air of to conform to local circumstances and local a CALANOS as if he were only a passive spectator ..... I think I am right, dear Mother, Sir H. must have thought requirements.
aimself considerably superior to the group for he does not scruple evincing it rather conspicuously in the plato." And this remark most happily bears upon the works on China, beginning with that, flippantly stupid (both to data and material) pamphlet of Viscount Jocelyn to the laboriously detailed and lucidly obscure work of the present Interpreter to the Governor,
But, what additional information is it has been gained to bring such a number of men to write about China and all at different and no very distant intervals 7 Now, by way of rejoinder. We shall adopt our intended second reply first to facilitate our train of argument hereafter. Our wonderloving contrymen at houie, sink into their lethargic mode of exis. tence with anch rapidity, to which STEAM alone can afford a simile And these occasional bursts upon their retirement tend towards removing montony they say and at same time'
It is understood that there has been a boat action At Borneo, in which several men were killed, but we have not heard the particulars. Rumour says, that some boats from the men of war were rowing up a river when they were fired upon by the iatives, from under cover of banks, and that seven 01 eight men were killed and one Officer wounded The boats from the squadron landed a party, who burned down a town, but the inhabitants escaped
into the interior.
enjoying the distinction of P. R. Sor somthing like, and ive
savans Confucius and Fo
We have referred to complaints, and it is therefore proper that we should specify a few of them. It is generally remarked that there is a very great delay in the sorting of letters this duty was performed more expeditiously by Mr Spring, as well before the arrival of the The China Mail publishes an extract of a letter late Mr Scales, as after his death-We have re- from Lord Stanley to Governor Davis which "is ceived many individual and specific complaints. deserving of a more particular examination than One Gentleman had an important letter lying he has either time or space to give it” Our time in the post office for two weeks, although he is less valuable, we presume, than that of our con- temporary, and we have perused and re-perused the sent daily to enquire. It was of great conse document which will be found in our columns-quence that an answer should have gone to enable their keeping pace with information of the day Moro Europe by the September mail, but not receive the letter from the post office until munity, even in the very manufacturing districts, a morbid nary in it. It is a simple confirmation of what we
moment they entertain ideas respecting it to which the tales havo often asserted-Lord Stanley has been deceived after the Steamer sailed on the 1st of Septem-craving for aught relating to this Empire and to the present as to the public, sales of land in Hongkong. His ber, though it bore the post mark of 16th Au of fairyland can only be assimilated. And while things Lordship refers to despatches from the present and gust.-Another Gentleman was refused letters, continue in this state, no doubt, books will both be publish- the former Governor, as corroborative of the opinion under the excuse that the Post Master did noted and purchased--the effect occasioning the cause. Bu, we have had a work from Governor Davis, ample enough he had formed of the value of land in Hongkong, know him, and he only succeeded in relieving in material while digesting a thousand ideas on Chinese and also to the board of officers appointed by his correspondence from durance vile through Philosophy, Physics &c, And then, we have Mr. G. Tran Sir Henry Pottinger to value the land sold by Cap-the medium of an Attorney's letter. People on descant Lay's sentiments on Chiness music, and the existence Iain Elliott and Mr Johnston. Had we the honour board ship complain that, they are always a of an Imperial College at Hains to enable even Chinese of addressing ourselves to Lord Stanley, we would day later than others in getting their letters might in this manner ran over volume to volume as publish say, demand from the Hongkong Government These are a few of the grievances of whiched it seriatim order. We have thus argued and believed a copy of the minutes of this board of officers; de- joand a list of the lots sold at the last sale, and we hear, or which have been brought to our unil T.T. T's happy sprites Messrs Boo-bee and Ni-ni We now state what we know from appeared the best Chinese Philosophera-opposed to the notice. another list of leases that have actually been taken
Wo are somewhat diffident expressing ourselves upon up; demand a list of the European tenements in the personal experience. We may as well mention,
most intimate gel, we believe there is no such thing as an town, specifying those in the temporary occupation of that on the arrival of Mr Hyland. our contemthe Chinese tongue--our acquaintance with it is not the Government, also the number that areto det or sell poraries bestowed very handsome paragraphis Alphabet for it-that there are certain radiculs that the and your Lordship will have correct data upon, upon him; we, unfortunately, knew nothing pronunciation of words runs into the entering, departing, TAO that the characters are the same essentially through which to judge of the value of Hongkong property. about the Gentleman, and prudently said no ascending and descending, rites that evory district bas
thing, though from the information of the out the Empire,that a knowledge of 6040 words will en A very curious commentary upon the Colonial "knowing ones" we certainly anticipated & able a Foreigner to understand Chinese perfectly and that a Secretary's letter to the landholders who memoria brashing up in the post office department peculiar and softer speech (of expression simply) is used at Jized Lord Stanley, is the following extract from an however for once the proverb lies the new the Imperial Court, called the Court or Mandarin Dialect,
This is what we learn every day and clumsily garbled official return, published in the last Mail, of the tra- broom does not sweep clean. Whether it be we have so much served up: but abf reste not here. Ma- de of Hongkong during the past mouth. The that, we are undergoing punishment for our jestic scenery is noticed some proud summit: some Alp Sinall junks which bring the live-stock from Hae- neglect to circulate a puff we know not, like peak to win, while it strikes the most eloquent chord of the heart, and in train effusions of thought spring up hong and other places, have been frequently attack but certainly the Post Master General is which a lite time finds sufficiently pathetic and sublime to ed outside the Ly-moon passage by fishermen, and laying on the rod for some dire offence we require their being committed to paper; or, is it that the to wessels were actually driven back to this port have unwittingly committed. He has adopted grave stone of & country-man is discovered bearing date A. D. 1602. How our sympathy and sorrow cling to the by a number of pirates, after having attempted to two modes of punishment. The first-neglect remembrance of past times: Probably here lays intend the run the gauntlet." When the Colonial Secretary was descanting upon the piracy committed on a ing to deliver our letters and papers at the object of treachery, misery-murder, how frightfal must government boat twelve months ago on her voyage same time he delivers those for the Register have been the narratise if there were tengas to tell it - Wet in the life and death of the FOOK DEAR COUNTRYMAN. Perhaps, found the island, he took much credit for the infre may effect the interests of our paper. The it might be as mie is incocted and the result arrived at Let hun read Mr. second-high postage-touches that sensitive object of investigation is a Tree, a species of bastard Osk, quency of Buch outrages now. Gutzlaff's report, and endeavour to reconcile it with arucle, the purse, direct. For our Overland genus unknown, leaf very simpler, bears no acom : a tɛ- and then all particulars are faithfully detailed for the es, lus own letter. Of course, His Excellency will call paper of the 1st Instant, the latest dates weference follows to the Botanical gold-happy investigation Lord Stanley's attention to the fact, that one of the had from Manila was to the 2nd of August Entrances to Hongkong, is so infested with pirates The American Ship Montauk, however, as that native vessels attempting to run the gaunties rived on the 28th with papers to the 9th of are driven back,
August. Our contemporary of the Regist received his on the 99th, and was casbled The post office arrangements are becoming in his Overland, to quote Manila prices current Hanley
a week later than we did per papers by the
LORD A the subject of very general complaint, and we have had more communications on the subject same up were delivered on the tn of Sep than we can well insert. We know not how | tember, offer the Seaner had sailed. Again We transfer fits to our columns mersig se a specimen) upon Saturday the 6th lum: there were arrivals of the trash with which our officis gall themselves and from Calcutta and Singapore The Regs others. The whole altair in plain English amounts to this, that the export uade of Bangland in August 1845 was fer of the 9th had was quotations from the $10,000!!; the comasin uzun which would amount to papers bought by these vessels-h
The enormous gam of 2500 The Revd. Secretary must be must have been delivered on Sunday, or early
His co-mates in the public service talk of a large on Monday morning-ours did not come 10 error. focal trade. In their omnion it would be que reasonable to assess the colony to the time of 250,000 10 pay their sala hand until Tuesday morning.
a
pecial benefit of galline Anglo Chinese readers, to enable a case of oon wooden walls being imported into Hung. hong for either grajong or planting as occasion might re-
ADTESIAE VIAM ACT FACIAM.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
SEPTEMBER,
ARRIVALS,
10, Antelope (Ain.), Dumaresq, Cumsingmoon, 11, H. C. Steamer Nemesis, Russel, Manila. 11, Edith (Am. Stvarner), Lewis, Macao. 12, Dart (Am). Baylies, Shanghai. 12, City of Derry, Were, Whampoa. 12, Scotia, Strickland, Whampoa. 12, Myaram Dyarum, Puddicombe, Whampoa. SEPTEMBER,
SAILED.
10, Maggie, — Shanghai. 10, Hindostan, West, Whampoa. 10, Lady Sale, Castor, Singapore. 10, Brahmin, M'Arthur, Whampoa. 10, Huntress (Am), Lovett, Whampoa. 11, Red Rover, M'Murdo, Macao, 11, Louisa, Forgan, East Coast. 11, Ellen, Rodger, Whampoa. 11, Resolution. Wood, Macao and Calcutta, 11, Caroline, Phelps, East Const. 12, Circassian, Hore, Shanghai.
REPORTS. Spy Wooden, Amoy and Hobart Town. Syria, Stroyan, Whampoa.
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H. C. Str. Nemesis, Commander Russell.. H. C. Str. Medusa, Commander Hewitt, H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, King. H. M. S. Minden, Master Comding. Wellington,
'Hospital and Store Ship.-- Adventure, Repairing, Angelo (Am.), Clarkson. Antelope (Am), Dumaresq, Arun, Balls,
B. Hormasiee, Coates, City of Derry, Wore, Clown, Wyse, Colonel Burney, Bowman, Dart (Am), Baylies, Dhur, Cumberland, Edith (Am Steamer), Lewis, Favorite, Malmgrew, Gazelle (Am.), Chase, John Barry, Clarke, Little Catherine, ----~, Linnet (Am), ~—, Lyra, Grosvenor, Mor, Baxter, Myaram Dyaram, Puddicombe, Sarah Louisa, Oldham, Scotia, Strickland, Sidney, Scholelield, Spec, Cole, Spy, Wooden, Syria, Stroyau,
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J. Matheson and Co Oswald and Co
Russell and Co
Murrow and Co
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Bush and Co Dent and Co
J. Matheson and Co Dent and Co W. 1. Franklyn Emery & Frazer J. A. Durran
J,
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J M. and to Dirom, Gray and Co
Maclean,
Vrow Jaenia, (Dutch) Hoorning, Water Witch, Reynell, William Parker, Strafton, Wissahicon, (Am.) Webber,
Owners
C. S. Compton Murrow and Co R. Strachan Dearie and Co
Order
Dont and Co
J. Matheson and Co Wetmore and Co
BRITISH SHIPPING AT WHAMPOA.
Anita, King, Amazon, Abbott, Bombay Castle, Fraser, Brahmin, MArthur, Carthage, Fox, Castle Huntly, McIntyre, Charles Grunt, Pitcairn, Charles Forbes, Wills, Culdee, Campbell, Devil, Farley, Druid, Ritchie,
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General Wood, Stokoo, Glenelg, Harvey, Hindostan, West,
Dirom Gray and Co James Boorman, (Swd.) Rimmer, Russell and Co
William Scott and Co-
Turner and Co Macedon, Redknap.
Dent and Co Mary, Kemp,
Patna, Ponsonby, Pearl, Morrison,
Saghalien, June,
Sandersons, Robinson,
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Elolliday, Wise and Co J. Matheson and Co. Owner Fox, Rawson and Co
Murrow and Co
Kist,, As G. G- Tucken Eaq, Surgeon in charge of the TIED-On board H. M. 5. "Minden," on the 16th-
Hospital
Scaleby Castle, Lemon, Shah Allum, Page, Tyrer, Ellis, .. Victory, Hull, Wild Irish Girl, Buckton,
THE
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krawn in bis day, and every candidate to re-
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THE unterugned has established hinsself in this class as a Commsalon and General Agent in by se le brothers in a canection with Mesir Panten Brottersé Co Proposal! We are soring all for (areeshez, Canzon Appenzell, Neizerland carrying H.. ng bread deply (and the pain promo of percutan on business under this named on account of this
1. SUISTER. We respect consistency, and therefor that the Of Espegle, urrived on Monday: Cape paper
and makes Tarık is will show a figures how S10,000 a month of an expert were distributed to others on Tuesday morning en un system to much permi trade can afford C15,000 a year of around rent, and how Se month can support about a dozen of mercanule beans we were favored with our
ich by the way l grocer or beter eepornsity then herbeds outer of ide
Manila, 18 July, 1915.
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