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THE TRIENU OP CUINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
mysterious silence. Having prostrated himself three tunes, Ins forehead each time touching the plate of zinc, and repeated another spell, he declared to the awo-stricken parents and, bystanders that he was perfectly satisfied of the nature of Finepoo's ailuent. luchan, the god who rides upona tiger, has been offended, and has permitted a malignant spirit to en- chant the youth.
same merchandises that they shall import or export been exposed for sale, and on the 7th of the present years, during which time he had made rapid proThis belief was deeply impressed upon the minds
by sea and that all the rights, privileges franchises, exemptions, and immunities, that are or shall be granted or allowed to any other nation, shall be 1kewise granted and allowed to the said British subjects, and his Britannic Majesty does hereby Consent that the same be granted and allowed to the subjects of Spain in his Britannic Majesty's king doms.
The quotations wero, in bond→
of all, when the student exclaimed, ay yon die in a jail for a falso priest and a liar P
the last war, by virtue and in consequence of the market as slave grown sugar, the price of the two constant opportunities of leaning from the villagers ctful anathema, proceeded to examine the eyes and schedules or the royal ordinances that were made must remain the same. If the additional consump | the great respect, in which he was lied. The hands of the supposed, mallman. He then mistříbéd thereupon, and agreeable to the Treaty of Peace tion of this country raised the price, by withdraw conviction of his greatness resolved him to make the sover magical circles on a plate of zine, and pro- and Commerce that has been made at Madrid, ining from other markeis a portion of their present his eldest son the candidate for official appoint. ¡duced the sacred tortoise, which he consulted in fie year. 1667; and that the said subjects shall be supply, all kinds of sugar, would be equally affected.ments, that he might through him perpetuate the treated in Spain in the same manner as those of So far as experience has gone, our anticipations honour of his name. the most favoured nation; and that, consequently, have proved perfectly accurate, although, as yet. As a preparatory step, the youth was sent to no nation whatever shall pay less duties for the the quantity of certificated sugar which has nerived study under a distinguished professor, to qualify woods, and other merchandise that are brought or has been comparatively small. The following com him for graduating at the next public examination - Hingpoo, for so was the first scion of Hing na carried a
daway by them from the kingdoms of Spain parison of the prices of sugar, on the 220d of Fe- by land, than the said subjects shall pay for the bruary, before any free-labour, with certificate, had med find been absent from his family for three gress in his studies, when he returned on a visit to month, shows that the produce of slave labour has risen equally with that of free labour. The prices his paternal roof. Here, caressed by his relations are taken from our Price Current, Economist, 22 and honoured by his neighbours, he relaxed noth-
The venerable divine, meekly pocketing the insult February and 7th of June, these prices being every ing his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge; indeed,
as the stingless shaft of insanity, then commanded week carefully corrected by eminent houses in the the youth was ambitious and aspired to become a city, in each department of business.
great man. With a volume of the sage Confecius, that a picture of the offended deity should be suspend. or an essay of Mencus, he would wander into the fed on a wall facing the south, and an offering of field's to study. The subtle doctrine of Budhism sandalwood incense and laquered pig be placed, and the discoveries of the astronomer Chong were with proper solemnities, before it. Having seen all alike familiar to him; and whether he on thus the room and everybody 245, Gd.-average 2 le Bd. Bates, the theory of transmigration, or digested the more being impions to watch a god while by joy lofts establishing an advance of 25. 3d.or 11 per cent. palpable truths that the earth is square, and that The priest retired with old Hing to smoke a pipo Feb. 22d.--Java, white and grey, without certifi-China is its centre, surrounded by a few stall is and drink a cup of tea, while he waited the issue of
cate, 32s, to 24s. 6d average 239, 3d.
lands, whose inhabitants are uncivilized barbarians, his spells and the offering. The poor old man was June 7th.-The same with certificate, 258. Gd, to the conviction was always present that he was garrulous and communicativo on the subject of lux
28s-average 20s. Od..
destined to be a child of fame. How it was that son's misfortune; and the priest, being naturally of establishing an advance of 3s. 6d. or 14 per this early promise of greatness was never realized, a charitable and sympathising nature, encouraged. cent. So that the low qualities of free labour sugar is inexpleble to to be feared, however, that him in the kindest manner to proceed. With what have advanced 11 per cent, and better qualities Hingpo was neglectful of the rites of religion, and exemplary patience and meeknes did the divine 151 per cent.*
that, by omitting to sacrifice to Kweising, the spirit gradually inform himself of the history of the case! of the north star, and patron of learning, he had Hingpoo would not be satisfied without poppies. Abl forfeited the protection of that deity, without which 'twas indeed lamentable; but hope for the best. After some time the priest returned to the room where the no scholar can ever hope to prosper,
offering had been made, and declared himself highly satisfied with the result. The god is appeased, said he; the youth will suffer no more.-Let him have the poppies!'
Next, the treaty signed at Paris on the 10th July, again alludes to
and 1773, and fully confirms the whole of these provisions Again, the treaty signd at Versailles on the 3d of September, 1783, especially alludes to he several treaties of 1667, 1713, 1715,1729, 1750, * and 1763, and confirms the whole of their provisions,, And to this trenty is appended a declaration, on the part of the Great Britain, referting to some con templated regulations to meet the new circumstances of the country, and to make which commissaries were oppointed under that treaty, as follows-
BRITISH DECLARATION, 1783. "When therefore the state of the trade between the two nations shall be treated upon, it is requisite to be understood that the alterations which may be made in the subsisting treaties are to extend only to arrangements merely commercial; and that the privileges and advantages, mutual and particular, be not only perserved on each side, but even aug. monted, if it can be done.”
Thus showing how careful this country was to prevent the existing reciprocal privileges being in any way invaded by the regulations which might be made by those commissaries.
Feb. 22d.-Java, brown and yellow, without certifi-
cate, 175, to 285, fid-average 19s. 3 June 7th-The same with certificate, 188.1
to
Well, then, with respect to slave-produced sugar the prices were
Feb, 22-Rio, brown and yellow, lás. Gd. to 19s,
average 17s. 2d,
June 7th.-The same was 178. 61, to 218, 04.-
average 19s. Ôd,
establishing an advance of 28. 3d. precisely the same as on Java, being, however, on a lower, va- luc, the advance has been nearly 123 per cent. Feb. 22d.-Rio, white 19s. 66. to 218. 6d. -aver
age 21s
June 7th.The same 228 to 278-average 24s. 6d. -establishing an advance of 38, dd, which is again
per centage.
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And last of all, by the treaty signed at Madrid the precise advanee ou Java, though rather a higher of decorum and the Confucian principles of puconut of how Hingpoo for some time smoked the
on the 28th of August, 1814, the whole of the tren- ties of commerce which subsisted previously to the year 1796, hetween the two nations, were ratified and confirmed. The first article of said treaty is as follows:
TREATY OF MADRID, August, 1814. "I-It is agreed that, pending the negotiation of a new treaty of commerce, Great Britain shall be admitted to trade with Spain upon the same con ditions as those which existed previously to the year 1796. All the treaties of commerce which at that period subsisted between the two nations being hereby ratified and confirmede
And thus the matter rests at this day, the last named treaty being still in force. We have ex. amined the whole of the treaties from 1867 to 1814, relating to commerce, and there is not one word throughout which in any way tends to abrogate the provision for reciprocal intercourse on the most favoured terms, which, more strikingly than any other principle, pervades the whole of the treatics which we have quoted,
Moreover, no later than 1837, when Lord Cla rendon represented this country at the court of Madrid, it became his duty to claim for British merchants certain rights under these very treaties, It appears that some peculiar privileges were en joyed by the French ships from the ports of Mar seilles and Bayonne, in their intercourse with Spain not generally extended to other ships, and these privileges were claimed under these treaties, and our right to them was recognised by the Spanish Government.
The question has indeed been started, whether or not these privileges extend to the produce of the colonies of Spain, or are only confined to that of her European territories. We cannot, however, see any ground for such a reading of the treaties. On the contrary, their general spirit would lead us to infer that many of them were made more in reference to the produce of the colonies of the res- pective countries than to that of the parent coun- try.-Morcover, the language of the treaties appear to us, in the most ample manner, to extend the privileges to the subjects. of each country, in any of their "lands" or "territories," in all matters concerning their persons or trade," and "as to all duties, impositions, or customs whatsoever, relating to persons, goods, and merchandizes."
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Under the shade of a cotton tree, fanned by the cool south breeze, flingpoo delighted to recline. and enjoy nndisturbed te sweets of literature. The grass was smooth and soft, and hundreds of
With what joy did the now happy parents cin large red flowers, with long steins, waved their beads in solemn dignity, seeming to sympathise in brace Elingpoo, who, upon seeing the loads of pop- his abstraction Now the student was of a cho. pies brought in, become instantly calm and collect- leric temperament; and on one eventful and nevered. The learned and holy priest was liberally re to-be forgotten day, having vainly tried to solve a compensed, and his fane spread for miles and inites rather abstrace question in metaphysics, regardless around.
We shall not detain the reader with a prolis ac- losophy, he vented his disappointment and vexation. And with regard to Cuba sugar the price has by lucking up by the roots a number of the ham-dried poppy stems, til, finding the supply insaf advanced more in proportion than any other, in less flowers. No sooner had he perpetrated the ficient, he was induced to seek a more economicel consequence of the great deficiency of the crop. act, than he became couscious and simmed of his method of gratifying his taste.
Suffice it to say It is therefore quite clear that slave-labour sugar folly. Moralizing on the necessity of self-com-that, after much thought and experiment, he die has advanced in price at least equally with free-mand, he was listlessly contemplating the havoc ho covered that by making an incision in the stem of labour; and that the relative prices are at least as had made, when he observed a milky humour the living plan, and collecting the exuding juice, high as before. If this be so, with our supply of gushing from the wounded stems, emitting a pe- he might obtain an unlimited supply of its heavenly sugar, subject to the 23s 4d duty, limited to the culiar and pleasing odour Hingpoo did not know principle, which, by exposure to the sun, became inspissated, and of much more potent virtue thun produce of Java, Manila, &c. how much more will that he had discovered OPIUM, it be so if the produce of Cuba and Porto Rico are
the simple stalk, Equally bootless would it be to also to be admitted at the awer duty Slave-labour
tell how the slave Ying, suddenly surprising thin and free labour foreign sugar will be, as they are
gpoo in the act of smoking dried poppy juice," be at this moment, relatively the same price, both
held with awe and astonishment its effect; how he repented to the cook what he had seen, expatiating being directly or indirectly determined by the price of our Colonial sager, and the differential rate of
on the beaming eye,. lustrous and dilated, and the duly between that and free-labour produce.
extraordinary happy teance in which he found his master. It will be enough to state, that the wonder fui discovery having transpired, spread with the rapidity of lightning through the village of Fragraut Streams, were nothing was soon thought of but, opium-smoking.
Curiosity prompted him to taste, and a portion of the juice soon passed his eagar lips. He tasted once again, and slept, and dreamed such dreams as made him sorry to awake. O gods and demons'! why did he wake?
Ilingpoo's feelings on the subject are thus stated, in a letter to his reverend preceptor, Dr, Wang- lecking, of Heavenly Wisdom Street, Nanking:
Day after day Flingpoo returned to the spot, and plucked the flowers and sipped their juice, so that So that neither the producer of Colonial sugar in a very short time but few remained. He then nor the consumer at home is in any way interested collected the dried stalks, and carried them home in the distinction kept up; nor can any effect bo. and stored them in his climber, sedulously guard produced by it in favour of the abolition of the slaveing the secret of his discovery from the knowledge trade. The same advance which has taken place of his family, Now it happened that his thrify on freelabour sugar, as equally taken plece on mother, one day superintending the cuisine, re- slave-labour, and if a higher price is to encourage quired soine dried sticks to feed the fire, and recol skvory, we acomplish it at this moment as much lecting that she had seen some, as she thought, in,
To the very learned Dr. Wangleeking, eminent as if we consumed Brazil sugar, And now, when Hingpoo's chamber, forthwith despatched the it appears inevitable that we must extend to Cuba younger son, Hinglee, to bring them, and the trea-mn, may be live a thousand years !-From his
stupid younger brother and pupil, Hingpso, of thes and Porto Rico, as we have already done to Vene-sured poppy-stalks were heaped upon the fire. zuela and the United States, the privileges intended
village of Fragrant Streams, of the foot of the only for free-labour produce, we cannot conceive
Willing mountain, who, prostrating himself nine on what grounds Ministers can persevere in the
times, humbly presents this at the board of the exclusion of the produce of Brazil, especially when we see with what serious consequences that policy now threatens us,
THE OPIUM SMOKER
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That which is round,' said Yenfoo, an eminent philosopher, two thousand year ago, cannot be squared; the black-haired race. children of Hear von descended Kiam, can never change; that which is, is, and so will remain to the remotes agcs! How the course of nature was interrupted, and the revered Yenfos proved a false prophet, will shortly be seen.
As luck would have it, flingpoo entered the kitchen at the moment, and beheld in a transport of horror his brother in the act of blowing the ignited stalks into a flames.
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Kweitsze, son of the feril shouted be, and smote the chill; may your mother be violated You ve burned my poppies!'
A must try!-
honour.
* Confucius aphorised, #Theres wisdom in a sons; a tree is good, and every flower hath virtue," The god like sage spoke truth; most learned and re- verend preceptor,
The poppy yields such fruit as few men wot në. Its juice is heaven, and the smoke divine.
• Ye gods and demons what delightful dreams I've dreamed ! A man of earth, I de forget the earth, to roan in realns colestial. What joys unknown are central in the poppy,—the rich maids dactor auri the beggar's friend! Woes are forgotten, sickness . hiles is heal, Bols become wise, and wise men rival gols, wis taste the poppy's juice; Saske, most revered preceptor, smoke, and taste of heaven's joys.
Three moons have passed. Oh, eminent man U the peach tree has blossomed and is bare,-since the radiant lustre of your countenance lighted on the Eccentric as this style of objurgation may ap. face of your pupil! Like the sightless beggar have per to European readers, it is by no means un.gropped my way without a guide: as a tender vino common in China; indeed, it is used by man, wo. deprived of its support have I drooped and withered. man, and child, on every occasion, whether to Since we parted I have been as a ship without a express grief, jov, astonishment, or rage. But to rudder, as an uprooted lotus floating on the wave! resume. Thick colunas of smoke arose from the burning stalks, and Hingo'a vago was arrested; his brother dried his tears and fell asleep; mamma became suddenly vafuble. Ighing and singing, to the great astonishment of the shures, who could by A most respectable room was old Hing, and very | no racans comprelived the egon of this glaring much looked up to in the village of Fragrant infringement of decorum; and Hugpoo began to Streams, at the foot of the Weiling mountain, write odes upon the wall with a piece of charcoal. where be owoed innumerable mow, or acres, of Hei-yah ? muttered the cook, "this is truly isto We do hot know whether any application has fruitful land laid out in fields of wheat, and maize.nishing! The cook himself bi cama excited, and yet been made on the subject to our Government and sugar-cane. For a man well to do in the world, cursed his mother, and the other slaves were noisy by that of Spain, but we do know that the attention old Wing was not uxorious: indeed he had only in fer, confusion reigned in the culinary depi of the latter is cogaged thereon; and we have rea- fire wives, and a stare girl, who upon attaining the ment of oli Hing's establishment. son to believe that a formal application, for the mature ago of thirteen, was to be preferred to the ing dish, the especial object of the lady's wish to
For the lightning glanze of Dr. Wanglooking, admission of Cuba and Porto Rico sugar, will honourable station of sixth, is string of pearls" the kitchen, nothing less, in fact, thun tender frogs very shortly made with our Foreign minister, if was sauall-that is to say, he had hot two soma; Stewed in oil, and garnished with sliced lotus and eminent man, from his younger brother, Hingpoo.”
• 3d Moon, both days, not already done. Nor can we see the slightest two pretty do daughters, or "gaden klus," | chestnuts, was actually spoilt -the whenreikes ground on which the demand of Spain can be re-being counted as mere incumbrances.
were burned, and dirty chopsticks pliced before old A ample of the opium necompaniol this epistle fused.
I would have been strange, indeed, if this worthy | Hing!
and, on the professor's decadendation, becarns It is then desirable that we should consider what i man had not been prosperous; his ancestors having The astonishment and wonder created by the populacia Nanking, whence it soon spread over the will be the effect of the admission of the produce of not only consuited the oracles respecting the site incidents (which were attributed by Nurse Pows empire Tans is was this the pernicious but en- the Spanish colonics at the duty of 3s 4d. The of his house, but having actually laid the first to the visit of a malignant them, who was known chanting luxury, or vice, of opíny smokbag took produceof Cuba was reinated last year at 155,000 stone under the infience of the Star of Justice
to lurk in the Weilling mastatain) was suceded root in China." fons, and that of Porto Rico at 35,000 tons-togelter Laxuriant clumps of the graceful baboy, and by grief and Susternation, won flingpoo insisted The proluce of the country soon became invent- 190,000 tons; while, from the whole of the British venerable leicher and cotton trees aboded the house upon having all the poppics on the estate brought fit to most, the increasing demand for opina,“ possessions in the East and the West, we imported from the morning sun, while the ground sloped home. What could he want with them? (the side which was accordingly imported from foreign coun no more than 204.000 tons; so that the produce gradually upwards from the front door to the fields, idest said nothing of the discovery he had wande juris to such an extent, that the consequent efflux of of the two Spanish island was only 7 per cent be offering not the slightest obstruction to the influx of Hag plucked out a Landful of his beard, and bullion alarmed the government, and gave rise tothe low the quantity received from all our possessions of wealth. Equally scrupulous had they been in fasted an entire day, aid consulted with Change most rigorous prohibetiana. The obstinate and faile The produce of Cuba will, however, very little ex- the internal arrangements, adhering strictly and the school waster, but could make nothing of his endeavours of the Son of Heaven to enforce these ceed half of that quantity in the present year, rigidly to the ancient custom. Over the door was on's alarming conduct. Nurse Posey shook her prohibitions, and the toyielding peninncity with owing to the destruction caused by the hurricane inscribed in letters of gold, on a vermilion ground. venerable hand, the knew what she knew. Had which the nation has clung to the luxury, hava in the autumn of last year.
Peare and happiness to all who go out or come her advies been followed, and the Sas boots, or plungel ons of the furst countries in the world into Looking only at these relative quantities, we in On the right of the door was a meets in the triangular spell, fod round his neck, the aptart of distress war, several a portion of the empire, cannot be surprised that the Colosul planter should wall where sticks of burning incense were offer. madness could not have seized upon him. In van humbled to the duet the protest monarch of earth. feel somewhat alarmed at such an apparent com- ed to the vids right and morning. On the walls and they argue with him: nether his father's coment petition. It has always been our opinies, since of the reception-tall were suspended numerous set or his anther's tears had the slightest offer the distinction between save labour and free-labour charms, the tontung king, or oil bras mitron open win. Erically fitile wire sugar was first comilisted in the session of last for repelling Comms counting a coneicuous place that he was of mm mind; and wha, claspersta year, that limiting the competition to the latter At each betinal was hung a Bazzer of coins of their apposition by baixos ex moderate, le seized would practically give no advantage in price either celebrated the is efficace in keeping out that the trembling steward by the tail, exclaising des to the free-labour sugar or to that of Celosial and die pool ob cestom of sling the seach cusers of the Devil, hang is the poppaat & general na growth, and that share-labour sugar would be to the door, on the first day of the year, yo ester
was for the spartant, and races, mised as much in price by the additional constamp i nezatried in was some family.
dcaputchal ber Üsey the Belant privat, to famous. tion of this counter, construent upon the admix | Old Fling being the elder of the village, for los si la usage, and the effcarious potency sion of free-labour prodore, as the latter would be loving frequently to settle disputes song hu of toy spella.
Updike sviral of this late man Flicpoo war We have always contended that, as the quantity of eighteen, when his drenice was never disputed, i free-labour sugar which would be asailing fo the hai imbibed a certain rolish fur power, not as be intrend w sales is she elimination, with keab market would be more than we could consume was weak of an evening lureslin refer the shade Joviande rehneet so do aut he say how nech be the existing differential dady, and, therefore, as a fof a loche and inhale thetagram and, shtohet areal ban arena hy his obstinacy. Tee priant, considerable portion would inte roseil in the side contong via the rich were wound his, be bot large promoted a new bagsize a roty por
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The annals of the work present. na amilar exe ample of the growth of a halt, which dourished, of its indulgence increment Prom the statesman who was fatered and prized, as the difficubles aul danger framed the prohibitions, down to the peasant whe was ruthlessly metified the their inftio geovent, all tasted the Lethean joys of fim pipe, all sought the dreaming world region the scholar to sharpen idealet to dryck coání, the strong pentant to forget realities
The philosopher Yenge for once was wrong I...
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