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TIL FRIEND) OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZITIE.
Remarks
The squadron under command of Rear Ad-tence lest they should make any attempt against our VICTORIA, HONGKONG,
us from being murdered, because the robbers, find- CONCISE ABSTRACT of Meteorological OBSERVATIONS DURING THE CHINESE (APPROXIMATING TO | Miral Sir Thomas Cochrane will, it said, pro-lives; truly this providence, me thinks, has rescued
deed to sea on Tuesday,
ing no opposition, which I always thought useless, THE LUNAR) MONTH ENDED ON THE 30TH September, 1845,
began to plunder, and we in the mean time dermin od to go on shore to the fort built in the little is-- land of Ampin (distant within musket shot from the ship) and to come to the chief asking his pro- tection. We went to the fort, but before arriving there, we were robbed on the way of the little that the robbers permitted us to take off from the ship, so that we had nothing bat what we were dressed with, when we presented ourselves to the Man- delivered us to an inferior officer to lead to a Pa- darin. He after having heard our misfortunes, gods where we staid three days, well guarded but very badly nourished and without a bed, Two
Quarter Ending
Thermometer Pr Mean Range
faches of Barom Max. Min. Mean
1st on 8th Sept. 20 69 88 78 81,4 1,25
End on 16th
2083,8 90
Brd du 25th
20 84,9 90
t on 30th
2984
SEEN IN SAJ QUABTER
The legislative council will retain a painful recollection of the words "repeal and amend." They are now a days conspiciuous in the title of ta QUARTER." The weather during this Quarter was mostly fun and all their ordinances. A change has come o'er clear with light variable Breezes.
the spirit of their dream since their early days Excepting on the 4th day of this Quarter, on which thereof legislation, when with pristine feelings of 79 84,6 2 was a smart fall of Rain with fnctuating weather, the their awful powers, and with the true spirit of general character would bear a description similarly with eastern despotism, ordinance upon ordinance, preceding Winds prevalent chiefly from Westward was directed against the liberties and the pri- The commencement of this was particularised by violent vileges of the inhabitants, They have been 81 84,5 1,75 squalls on the first and third days. The and conning aroused from their dangerous dreams of dis-
fresh from the Eastward during the remainder.....
4th QUARTER.
and QUARTER.
During the whole of this Quarter the Breezes have been potism, and though it may be in a rough mannery days after he sent us to the Capital City Foinan
sensible that they must legislate as En-
20 80 83,3 1,90 first of the Quarter the Barometer ranged lower than inglishmen not as Mandarines.
general with high Easterly winds and indicated an appa- rent approximity of foul weather which however passed off with squalls and louring appearances,
Mean Range of Barometer during Month Maximum of Thermometer
Minimum of
do.
do.
Mean
do.
do
Depth of Rain fallen
20.807
90
078
83,4
90
6 Inches and 100
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS,
The appearance of verdure on the Hills and Shrubbery at this Season of the year is at its acme for plentifulness.
Flowers, more particularly the Balsam, resembling in colour the English Pink (exceeding in beauty those obtainable in England) are also very redundant.
The market gives supply of the following Vegetables and Fruits, some of each being cultivated on
the Island,
Yame (new crop) Potatoes (old crop) Bringalls, Spinach, Brokoli, a species of French Bean, Pumpkins, Radishes, Celery, Lettuce and young onions.
Of Fruits, green Oranges and Pumices, Plantains, Sours (denominated Chinese Gooseberry) Grapes, Pears &c.
(From the China Mail, October 30). GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The Honorable FREDERICK WILLIAM ADOLPHUS BRUCE, Colonial Secretary, having returned to the Colony, it is hereby notified. That the Honorable Major WILLIAM CAINE, and C. B. HILLIER, Esq., will resume the duties, respectively, of Chief Ma. gistrate, and Assistant Magistrate of Police. The provisional appointment of Lieutenant ARMSTRONG of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, as assistant Magistrate, to cease from this date.
By Order, at den
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, DESA Colonial Secretary, Colonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 25th Oc tober, 1845.
HONGKONG,
ANNO NONO VICTORIA REGINÆ,
No, 12 of 1845.
of Hongkong
Title.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
No. 12 of 1845 is to amend the notorious or dinance No, 1-known as the branding and mutilating act, The sting has been plucked from that sanguinary measure; and but enough of the original ordinance remains, to enable the Chiel Justice to punish members of the Triad society, "who shall be duly convicted in active participation in some unlawful act aris- ing out of his connection with the said Society," The mere being a member of this, or any
other secret association, is not now ofitself a crime in Hongkong.
Her Majes y's ministers are doing their duty in repudiating the acts of the local govern ments and we may express an earnest hope, that in their fature distribution of the patronage of the foreign and colonial offices, they will cernment than has hitherto been observable in display a greater degree of caution and dis
their appointments in China,
Our véracious friend of the Organ like the caged Starling has been taught some new notes by his keepers of the "Yellow House" which he chatters, no doubt to their infinite delight. It appears that we ruffled the plumage of the "big hirds," whose class in or nithology we leave it for better naturalists than we are to decite, and forthwith they have cackled some quackery to their Starling which he ephons with the minst infantite docility. The new tune is so characteristic of a servile toad
political Chief of the Island, As soon as this ge- nerons man heard our misfortunes, we began to receive a very kind treatment, which we could not expect; nearly, in the same moment he order- ed to give us shoes, beds, and good food, continu ing to treat us with the greatest kindness and sweetness during two months and twenty days we remained in the Island; being so condescendent that, when we said to him that we could not conform ourselves with his food, he ordered three dollars to be given us
be
to our likingery day that every thing might
On the 30th of September we
very.
As the Commander of the Fort and the Captain of the harbour could not steal, as they intended, on account of the precautions taken by Tocouin, they caused us to stay so long in the Island, by had not arrived, our egress should be more late, their intrigues; and if Taytó or the Captain-Gene- because the good Toconia could not do anything himself, being Chief of the treasure and the other of commander of Ampin, discharged him, and threa the military.Tagio knowing the bad conduct of the
tened the Captain of the harbour saying that, if in We have been applied to for a copy of all the eight day's time he did not give us a bout to leave local laws, with a note stating those that have the Islands, he will do the same thing to him Owing been repealed or amended; but wo confess it to this providence we embarked in a small boot to would be a task of some difficulty to furnish Amoy, and the old Tacouin gave me on our depar To the Editor of the Friend of China, the required information, through we have paid tre nine hunted dollars of our goods that he took from the robbers (*) This good man accompanied us SIR,I have this moment returned from an early some attention to the subject. We would to the landing place, and took his leave of us with walk and perceive among other matters that His suggest, that as an not of justice, those ordinan signs of true joy at seeing is going to Amoy where Excellency's Mat Sheds, with those attached to the ces still in force, he separated from the pile of he knew, we could and an opportunity to go su Post Office, Sepoy Barracks, and the General's new dese rubbish to which they buried, and pu- Luzon, and I hoped it also, we toft Formosa ve Honse are yet standing, may I enquire if these ex-blished in the form of a pamphlet for the be- ceptions are to be met with in the general order for nefit of the concerned." This hint is worthy | sorry to leave among an many knaves an honest the destruction of this description of erections, at ja the notice of the Organ, as it would bring gristman, and with unavoidable inconveniences we ar there an implied understanding, that all colonial or to his mill,
rived in the environs of Amay October the 7th and - dinancesaffect those only who have no official rank, as
were left in a burying place under the care it appears clearly evident that the powers from whom
of a watch-man. In the morning of the 8th I went emanated these instructions are themselves resisting
out of my prison, and as the watch-man said me nothing, I went to the villago to meet with the and encouraging a disobedience thereto; unfortuga. tely the Guns of Folly Eltery will not paint that
English Consul to relate him my misfortunes, and way, otherwise, I should have supposed them left
to beg he should take pity on us; because the China for the purpose of trying the range of the guns, or
inan intended to lead us to chinchew, and thence to for a little shell practise.
Canton by land which idea ninde og tremble. You may also be aware that there are at
consider ng the toils we had to suffer winter being By His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS
present some 6 to 8 foreigners composed of
very severe, and we almost naked. Arrived at DAVIS, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Portuguese, Italians and Germans employed at
the house of this honest men, who, I must say, be Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its open government House at salaries varying from
longs to one of the most civilized parts of Europe, dencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chic 8200 to $100 per month at the same time
received me at his house door after neating the Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in
am acquainted with more than that number of true
with the greatest indifference, without offering ne China, with tho advice of the Legislative Council born English gentlemen, every way as well qualified eater that we are induced to copy it in full,leaving any thing, only said he would tell it to the to fill those appointments, and whom it would be it for our reader to decide, how far a governo'clock in the afternoon without eating any thing. Mandarin. Came back to in my prison at two An Ordinance to amend the the better policy of our legislators to take intament, whose every act of importance has been from the other day, and meeting in the same con Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, en titled, An Ordinance for the Suppression of the If thro' your instrumentality some attention is denounced by the home government, are likely dition all my comimnions, I told them to go to a Triad and other Secret Societies in the Island of directed to these matters an end may be obtained for to be Intrusted with the power of forming a Portuguese Boat, where we went and eat; a mo Hongkong and its Dependencies.
which at present, I have but little hope,
bench of Justices, without receiving some nu
ment afterwards an officer and four soldiers ar- (20th October, 1845)
Jam, Sir,
thority or instructions from Her Majesty's mirived to the boat with an Interpeter of the Man- Preambulo,
1 WHEREAS it is deemed
Your most obedient servant nisters, who have been painfully obliged to re- expedient to amend the said
VINDEX,
pudiate nearly all their acts, as witness the Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, with a view to introduo- ing certain limitations, and giving additional cer- NOTE-Vinder may well express his astonish. ordinance which we publish to day.
tainty to its provisions: Be it
ment at the bad taste displayed by officials in break- We would, in the mast friendly spirit, recom- Operation of the therefore enacted and ordained ing their own laws; others have done the same mend the Editor of the "China Mail" to attend Ordinance No. 1 of
by His Excellency the Gover. We presume that it is a custom among the Chinese to the publication of the government Notifica 1845, limited to cor-
nor of Hongkong, with the ad- Mandarines, and from them our Mandarines take a tions, and leave the discussion of their merits to vice of the Legislative Council procedent in this as in other matters connected with those can do so with an untrammelled pen. thereof. That ng persons shall he considered as government.
Acknowledging the priority which every go coming within the provisions or intent of the before mentioned Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, who shall vernment ought to give to the preferred services of have joined the Triad Society in ignorance of its natives over those of foreigners, we must remind designs, or under the influence of terror, or who Finder, that some of the foreigners in the public sholl not be duly convicted of active participation service were employed at a time when English az- in some unlawful act arising out of his or their sistants could not be obtained, and that they have connection with the said Society,
served long and faithfully. It would scarcely be fair II. And be it further enacted and liberal to dismiss them now, to make way for Convicts to be and ordained, That so far as others whose only claim for employment is that ofed necessary to consistate a Bench of Justices, thotishman, had howe pity on us, and going to dine market as in to the said enactment provides birth. We think that Finder will concur with us Face of Deserters and that any Offender shall, in nd-in this opinion; as we are perfectly willing to ad- Leland, at the discredition to the other Punishments it that in all future vacancies, the Executive will tion of the Court. or Penaltics contained in the act justly by showing a preference to the applica Raid Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, tions of those who are born British subject. There be marked on the right cheek, the same be, and is may, at times, be a danger in intrusting the secrets hereby repealed: But it is further provided, that of government to foreign subjects.
EDITOR, in case of any conviction under these ordinances, or either of them, the presiding. Judgo shall in his discretion have power to direct, as an additional punishment, that after the expiration of the term of imprisonment to which any such offender or offenders may be subjected, he or they shall be marked in the manner usual in the case of Military Deserters, under the Left Arm, and be expelled or banished from the said island for the terms of bis or their natural lives.
tain cases.
banished from the
III. And be it further eqact- Persons returning ed and ordained. That in case to the Island after ba. any person or persons, after be nishment to be trans-
ing so sentenced as aforesaid, ported for Tulle sa
shall return to the said island, Brush Seatergent,
ho or they so returning shall or may be transported for life to such British place or settlement es shall at the time be pravidel for the reception of Convicts under sentence of trans- portation from this enlony.
Ordinance No. 1 enacted and ordamed. That so of 1813, not in apply-
their service.
the
10.
The Friend, for the information of his local subscribers," states in his yesterday's issue, that instructions have been received from home for the immediate formation of a Board of Magistra tes." This is one of the Friend's usual mistakes: no such instructions have been received from home, nor are they likely to be issued. When it is deem matter, we should suppose, will be left to the Local Government "China Mail."
darin saying that his master had been in the Con- sul's house, and that as the Consul would not uns. wer for us all, he was obliged to send us to Chin- chew and thence to Canton. Giving no credit to it, I went to the Consul's, related again what we had suffered, what we are to suffer, if the Chinamen take us to Canton by land, and that there, being a boat ready to go to Macao, we would cause no ex- penac to him, and last implored his protection in behalf of humanity, hearing this, he replied with the greatest indifference, and almost insulting our mis. fortune, that we being not Englishmen, could very well travel to Canton. A.....
So hard and inhumane an answer could not fail to cause me a very strong senation, and to the mate Pilot too, who was with me, and struck by il this Pilot said this European, at least this Eng with his wife invited us to do the same with his
servant in the kitchen ...............
If his first reception and answer disgusted me his invitation caused me to go, without saying him The following communication requires little com- a word, to the bout where the officer and the sol- ment. It was fortunate that Mr Syme was made diers were expecting me. When we were quarrel. aware of the digressed condition of the shipwreckling with them, and said we would not go out of ed Spaniards, and was thus able to redeem our the boat, and whom they were calling us, and en- national character from the charge of brutal in deavouring to lead us. Mr. Syme (an English humanity, which might else, with some appear-man leaving in Amoy) who came in search of 4ance of justice, have been cast upon it.
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us, and knowing our sitantion and circumstances, said that, by no means, we should go to Canton by land, and that he would do his best to send us to Macao. Really, from that very night he began to work for us, and in the next day every thing was ready, and Mr. Syme charged himself to ans- wer the Chants or our Governor.
Because ungratefulness is, to me, one of the greatest defects, that unfortunately inflict man kind, I have always endeavoured by all means to 30 avoid it, and to make known my gratitude to those
whom I have received the least benefit from; there 20 fore, as it lies not in my power to pay all innume. This generous man gave us linen, and made us Sorable good offices that I received, since my wreck the most generous offers. We owe the same favour in the faland Formosa, from the Mandarin Tacos to all English and American Captains who were in syn, and in Apoy from Symes Esq. I will pub hoy. I am sorry I can't recollect the name |nied me what is called riches, to show my gra- behaviour of the English Consul, offel us his lish them, that all may known that if heaven has of the Americas Captain who knowing the noble titude with, it has given me a sensible and noble ship, where, said he, he would keep us till there
that ma to poklah all bencfi's I was a for Macno have received; there being an other means to the 12th we went on for a Postogness Bost, and arrived here on the 15th safe and sound,
all sorts of pleasure, and meet so many generous and having forgotten the toil, Indured, I enjoy
crize and I will keep in my mind forever the in a little Island (distant sis miles from Formosa) name of Symes and Tours named by the natives Angrin, as the ship remain-
JOSEPH MARTINES, ed stuck in the stine, and free from being topped by
Ceptais of the Spanish ship Cupid. the waves, we staid fill the morning when innom rable Clupatsen of the best class came on board, Macan, 20th October, 1945,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 187, 1915,
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's IV. And it is hereby further Steam vessel Lady Mary Wood" sails this
thank them.
days time or else one that lasted from the seventh After having suffered three tempests in three
even o'cles in the east coast of Formes,
to any Society oơng lạr as the suid Ordinance No. 1 morning with the English and Indian malls, if the tenth of Juls, our s55 1m $ ground at souls grever will I forget the aftentions F have se, to any of 1845 ext be construed to and the following passengers. Henry Gribble Esq., and Dr. Batt, to England; Mr Nicol, provide any Penalty against
Ceylon Mr Connelly and Mr Jean van dur Brock, Singapore,
Members of any Secret Society ather than the said Trial Society, (under that or any other assamed name, the same be, and is hereby repealed.
J. F. DAVIS,
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 20th day of October, 1815,
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerch of Councils,
We hear that II. M. 8. Samurung sails to day. Sir Edward Belcher will resume his important duties of surveying the Bashee group of islands, and part of the coast of Borneo,
and as we were much afraid on arcount of the mix. I have no pesona dorment in Chiscas green by firanes that had occured a reressly to many de sane Trzin, hien decores the origin of the dir dal others that suffered shipwreck, I thought it contare, though I was obliged to give a more than 200 venient to opler the crew not to make any man, i dollars a tie office of Justice in the moantry
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