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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND
spend that sum really in hand upon any ordinary purpose. It is observed, that the more actual the presence of money; and the greater ile facility, the ics is the moral and prudential obligation by which its use is controlled. There is not a people under the sun which would not have occasica either to tremble or to laugh on the day that the French Minister of Finance came down with the amoun- coment of 120,000,000 francs positively remaining in hand, after Oceania, had all been paid for. With that money then in our pocket, what toy were we likely to buy in the fair? What more likely than Madagascar, or Formosa, or California, or Terra Del Fuego, or some other fair or commanding territory
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This sum falls very far short of the lowest est
(in allusion to the lese Dr David Shide,) and on the face of this small hill, when a native of Wako's mate that has been framed for a ship canal, and it
thron of Solomon (in allusion to the late De Solo-party, one of two or three who were with us, may appear a small ear for so long a linens that
men Horschell.) You hare called me from the shouted out. 4. Kowiti, Rowi when, on locking in contemplation, but it should be borne in mind
herds, to be to Isract a father and a priest, You bn our extreme right, and in the rent, we plainly that the ground has not if he purchased, that there
have placed the goverentent on my shoulders to saw the heads and shoulders of several well armed are neither bridges not tunnels to construct-both
guard with the staff of gentleness and the rule of men stealthily advancing upon our rear, through of which are among the heaviest itens of an Eng
honour, the holy flock of the people chosen of the the low bush and tern. We immediately crawled, lish railway, and that only one line of rails will be
Lord. Verily say soul trembled between hope and back from the breastwork down the slope of the required. In every point of view the advantages
fear when I reflect, how can Inspire to soar on hill, leaving Captain Denny with about seventy are incontestible of the scheme which renders the
high, to govern various congregations in distant en in possession of the breastwork, and, at the Isthmus a commercial thoroughfare, without the
localities? or how find strength of heart to remove word, the remaining party, chiefly marines and blus necessity of shifting the cargoes of the vessels em
the ashes, and to inspire, with the light of truth and jackets, with a few of the 9th, made a desperate ployed.. The railroad might be completed in two
faith, the thousands that encompasa me round charge, under a steady fire, upon the bush where years, whereas the construction of a canal, sup.
about? How sustain each spirit to give delight the men were. The southern face of the pah, to to each soul, and pleasure to each mind, to youth which we now became exposed, opened a most posing it to be within the compass of human exer- tion, would occupy ten and there is another highly The thought is provokingly diverting, Will Siras to the aged, to the exalted as to the lowly, to the galling fire upon our left and tear. Kowiti's party, important consideration, namely, the entire su Robert Peel forgive us a temporary insult to his poor as to the rich? To content all equally But joined by Pomare's men, being upwards of 400 percession of aquarantine. The rapidity of the sacked discretion Imagine the budget eagerly and my trust is in the Lord, the God of the spirite of all strong, reserving their fire till we were within transit through Egypt would set aside the necessity prematurely announced. Picture the Premier des flesh, as the son confideth in the love of his father, pistol shot, arose from their lurking places and for this precaution and the presence of a single cending to the Cominons, flushed with a surplus To this ward do I hearken, which speaketh in the gave us a smart volley, which greatly thinned our. guardiano would prove a sufficient, quarantee that and apparently beaming with fiscal remissioni, He recess of my heart gird thy loins and strengthen sard as The charge, however, being still kept there had been no dangerous contact during the stands before the fallest and most listening of hou. thyself, Droop not for I am with thee. His light up with loud cheers, we put them to the ront, and passages through Egypt Commercial interests ses, and studiously prolongs and accumulates the and his truth will lead me to cast aside the stumbl caused them to retreat, leaving many dead and. generally cannot fail to be materially promoted by steps which conduct him up to the climax of five ing block, from the highway, to put away the wounded on the field; many of Kowni's men, This mode of transporting cargoes access the neck millions actually possessed, and to be disposed of thorns from the pastures of my people, to restore being very daring, were overtaken and bayoneted, of land which disconnects Europe and Asin, and just as we pleased. After a burst of cheers sue the fainting soul from the shadow of death, to the while others retreated, and being flect, flinging off it must proportionably improve the revenues of his ceeds that deadest of silences with which men list protection of the Almighty. He will strengthen their mats and blankets, throwing away their pous highnese the Viceroy of Egypt. It is always ob. on to specches whose very syllables are prosperity and sustain toe. But deeds not words will I place ches full of ammunition, outstripped our party in served that the operation of a railroad is to treble or ruin. Une tax after aunther quickly rises to before you. Those will testify my righteousness the chase; nevertheless, many blue jackets were to the traffic upon a new line; and the improved rela. the mind of the breathless and expectant hearer on the future day, for it is not the spirit of arro - be seen a-head of all, firing upon them within pis- tions with China, as well as the success of a new The Preinier resumes-It has not been without gance that has caused me to aspire to this emitence, tol shot, while others were hewn down with cat- branch of commerce on the eastern coast of Africa, the most anxious thought and enquiry that we have nor has the vanity of pride called me to this lasses. At this crisis, a large red English ensign will both tend to swell the importance of the plan settled on the application of this unexpected sur guardianship, but solely the desire to exalt the was hoisted, with cheers, in the pah, which caused Let me here also in passing, revert to the highly plus. We felt how many claims might be justly Horn of the Law and to guard the way of the us at first to imagine that the main body had muce important subject of the coal beds which have been urgyl for relief how many burdens removed from Tree of Life. To vou, worthy and excellent gena rush and carried the pah; and having driven reported to exist within a reasonable distance of trade. We trust we are not mistaken in the per tlemen, with whom dwelleth the spirit of wisdom Kowit's forces into the wood of Ukaihnu, where the coast of Aystinis, in action the most con- suation we possess that the object finally selected and understanding, and whose main object is peace, it would have been imprudent to follow, retired; venient for the supply of the depots both at Aden und, you will rejoice to hear, actually accomplish for it is your glory-to you, I humbly supplicate, but on sighting our former place, we found that the and Suez. Sailing vessele are so obviously unfited, will meet the views of all classes. Instead of that each of you may according to his power and party left in possession of the breast work had been ted for the navigation of the Red Sea, that, as a frittering away this exceedingly handsome sum in means, sustain and assist me in my endeavours to compelled to retreat with great less, from a sally still further improvement, it would be very desira. a multitude of smaller boons, we judge it more lead your offspring in the path of righteousness and of about 200 of Fleki's people from the pah, who ble to construct all the steamers employed as mer worthy of the occasion to do one great thing. Wa good conduct, and to enlighten them in the way of were now attacking our rear. We, however, avon' chontmen upon such a principle as to do away considered that no one thing was now more wanted everlasting truth, that the youth of Israel may thirst came up with them, and a fearful slaughtering with the necessity of locomotive engince to bring than some great opening for our population and after the waters of the well of life, which princes commenced, being all thrown together-marines, them across the Isthmus. They might be fitted commerce. To my right hon. friend the Secretary bavo dug with their staves. On you, the heads of sailors, and soldiers. with propelling screws in lieu of paddle-wheels; in of State for the Foreign Department we owe the the assembly of Isreal, I depend for uid, that I way the place of which latter might be substituted rail-promptitute which has seized the opportunity and guide our youths, like unto the regle, tin allusion way wheels, so that the vessel on its truck could the tact which bas surmounted the peculiar difficul to his name Adler," being the Con word for work its way with its own engines,
ties of the negociation. Availing ourselves of the eagle, and in Hebrew" Nashur," which at times distracted condition of Mexico, and the pecuniary swiftly darts to its young, but at other periods embarrassments of its Dictator, we have, gentle, gently indicates its presence, though invariably so men, at the cost of only five millions, completed shapes its course, that the arrow pierces not its the purchase of the beautiful, flourishing, and, let offspring. May the good Providence shield both me add, the very improveable peninsula of Califor fathers and children, and grant you every blessing; nia." The feelings of the moment it would be and may that good fruit be your reward, which at vain to describe; let us suppose that when, in the maturity will be to you a sustenance and protec. course of a day or two, the hearers have recovered tion. N. M. ADLER,” from the shock, it would occur to some that they had witnessed about the sublimest possible human parallel to the incident of Moses and his gross of spectacles
(From the Times.)
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Our Parisian contemporary, the Presse will be in ecstacies to find that it has supplied matter for gravo imterrogatory in the Britishy Parliament, and to as grave responses from Premier and a late Foreign Secretary. Without the smallest idea that such an honour was in store for our ingenions neighbour, we extracted into our columos the fol. lowing paragraph from from the leading article of his Monday's paper. Holding that beauty is when unadorned adorned the most, we did not ourselves think it necessary to mar its simple beauty with one word of comment :---
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Extracts from a journal kept by an officer of H.M-S. “North Star,” Captain >ir Everard Homes
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One of the marines of the North Star, ly this severe struggle, unfortandoly fell a victim to tho teahawks, being wounded by one of Heki's moh, who afterwards rushed upon him and clove his head in twain; but was himself shot and bayonet. ed before he had time to raise his band again. Our men were now thrown into great confusion for a short time, when Kowiti's party attacked us again most fearfully, evidently determed, if possible, to drive us off this hill into the lake, when the whole party rallied, fixed bayonets, and made a secund. • chargn through a destructive cross-fire from the pah and Kowiti's forces. Here a most desperate fight ensued, which lasted some time, Kowiti's party and our own firing ut each other at pistol- | shot distance, our party using the bayonet when- But we fear that both gravity and mirth are lost
H. M. S. North Star, May 8th, 1845,
ever an opportunity offerred of getting near them, when, with loud cheers, the whole party made a on a nation which is incapable of imitating or com.*** prehending the true policy of our empire, and At half-past six, a general muster of the forces most determined rush upon them, slanghtering them "The fall of Santa Anna has exposed one of the whose disappointed hopes have dwindled into the took place, euch man's arms and ammunition ex-in great numbers, and keeping up a steady fire at vantest projects which the undermining ambition feeble instinct of envy and suspicion. There is amine, a quantity of axes and some long toma those who were again retreating to the wood, where of Grent Britain ever conceived It appears from nothing wo more heartily desire than that we could hawks, borrowed from Waka, were supplied to the it would have been madness to follow. By this the correspondence of the ex. President of Magica quietly had intelligible express to the French na blue jackets selected for pioneers, eight in number, time our numbers were much diminished, and wo with the British Minister that the former for a sum tion one great fact, vizan entire freedom on being fur seamen, to be Beaded by Mr Azouprav, again ruined over a neid or dead and dying, in of 25,000,000 pinstera, of which he had reserved this side the Channel from all those jealous feel Hazard, and four seamen to be beaded by Mr the breastwork on the small hill, of which we still, for himself a considerable portion, was on the eveyings which no Frenchman can speak or move ten Warrington, North Star, the pioneers of the regi- to the last, maintained undoubted possession, keep of ceding absolutely to great Britain the magnifi-minutes without betraying towards us, There is ment, carrying all their own regular implements. ing up a hot fire upon the pah, which was as cant province of California, considered so valuable not a single Englishman who would not rejoice Alseven o'clock, with light hearts, and still lighter warmly returned. Here we remained nearly four both by Great Britain and the United States, that to hear that France had established somewhere or stomachs (for we could obtain nothing to eat, the hours longer, but without any sings of Kowiti's the latter, in the year 1837, offered 5,000,000 dol-other, without molesting the rest of the world, a whole força set out for Heki's pab, distant three men making their appearance. Our force being so much reduced--not by wounded alone, but ranny lars for the harbour of San Francisco alone. It is populous and productive colony, or even made a miles. After a march of about two miles, we not necessary to dwell upon the extraordinary coin respectable conquest. Nobody here, duke or pos sighted the pab; and it will be bore necessary to others who were employed carrying their wounded cidence which exists between the means employed sant, layman or clerk, would feel the smallest give seme idea of its local situation. The pah is off the field, it would have been useless to attempt by the British Gevorgment with Santa Anna for uneasiness to hear that the French were “under placed on a slight eminence, with a hill distant an attack on the pub; and the Lieutenant-Cololiel the possession of California, and those formerly mining" all the savages on the earth, so long as about musket-shot from its northern face, forming after causing the retreat to be sounded many times used with Espartero for the possession of the is they were not massacreing them at the same time, a tolerable shelter, bounded on the west by ano- desired Captain Grant, with a small
party of Hands of Anabon and prince's off the coast of Africa." and going out of their way to pick a quarrel with ther higher eminence, and an extensive lako, Onnadiers, to go along the lake, and post themselves Such is the statement which Mr. 5. Wortley has as besides. Whereas you cannot have a minute's the east, and to the southward, within a short dia- | under the hill, for the purpose of covering our re- thought worthy of a question, and Sir Robert Prel canversation with any Frenchman or Frenchwo-tance, it was bounded by the wood of Okaihau. treat (in the event of a rush from the pah), which of an answer, for which he has prepared himself man without some absurd and detestable grudge At about a mile and a-half distant, Lieutenant duty he performed with the loss of a few men. by a diligent search of the shelves and drawers of about our universal domision peeping out. Phil Egerton selected an eminence timt he considered Through him we received a positive and written his office; while Lord Palmerston also has not lippist, Carlist, or Republican, they all conspire in a good position for the rockets, which was unfor- | order from the Colonel to retain immediately to been wanting to the gravity of the occasion. As this. The humiliation of England is the French tunately disapproved of by the Lieutenant-Colonel the main body, which we did by small bodies; but for the Premier, we don't know which most to man's great prize. The throne is pledged in the Commanding, and caused to be brought within having a perfect gaubtlet to run, as we were coin- admire the sensibility which has goaded him to hearts of the people to the man, whenever he shall distant gunshot, where they took up a position, pelled either to wade up to our middles in the lako repel the accusation from himself, or the chivalry come, that shall effect this. If the Duke of Bor- and at about eight o'clock, the first rocket was or eri sa the swamp in many places above our ances with which he has answered for his predecessors. deaux, or by whatever name he is now called, were thrown, the direction excellent; but, from its pro- in thick mod, which hindered us very greatly, We are but men the thing were creditable, by some strange chance to sink twenty of our war ximity to the pab, recochetted some distance on the while the north and west faces of the pah, to which wo should have beca malicious enough to leave it steamers, or kill 20,000 of our soldiers, he would other side, where it exploded. The second was we were now wholly oxqased, kept no a quick fire questionable whether Lord Melbourne ind bet ze he Henry V. by acclamation on the motrow after. then fired, which cut away the upper part of the with musketry and a couple of six pounders. With ally conceived that magnificent proposal.
Thett i not a café, or a promenade, or a private palisadings, passed through the paft, and out some much difficulty we, however, succeeded, bringing the It is a common saying that there is no story table in France, in which, however they may dis- distance on the other side, where it also exploded, Ireas of our wounded safely through the lake and without some foundation, So let us enquire whist agree about the church and university, the cles driving out dogs without number, and some few over the swamp, being compelled, from their nuga may possibly be the nucleus of this rumour. The sic and the romantic-liberty or legitimacy, natives; the small breach in the palisadings was ber, to leave all our dead on the field, save two, single element of truth is the sum of money specifi. they will not in a moment club forces to attack now quickly filled up.
who were brought away by the natives in the early ed, 23,000 000 plasters is a poetical version for the English aripocracy, English church, English At this juncture a storming party, consisting of part of the day. The main body had been empley- £5,200,000, which, in round numbers, is the pro- sovereign, English manufactures, Engish colonies, pioneers and small armed men of the North Star et all day firing on the northern face of the palty doce of our income tax All will remember the English everything. Our greatest sacrifices are and Hazard, under Commandant Jobason; part of from the hill facing it before mentioned, bus, surprise created across the Channel, and expressed our worst aggravation. In this very number of the Light Company and Grenadiers of the path, shout imagine, with but lule effect. Neverthe in the French Chambers, at the fact of so great the Presse is a quotation from the report of a sock under Captain Deany; the bath detachment and lex, it carried with it one good point; it must sum being so readily contributed out of the aber ery on colonization, recounting our crimen, and Marines, under Edeutenant and Adjutant M Leri, have drawn the attention of some few in the pah dance of our wealthier classes. "When will Fence concluding that all the ransom of 600,000,000 of numbering in all 216 (there were 350 of Waka's toward that part, thereby lessening the numbers with its infinitesimally divided wealth, be able to francs we paid for the saves was an execrable do people with the main body or reserve), extended oppoard to us on the hill to the westward raise the like for a sudden emergency?" plaintively vice to ruin the colonies of all other nations. We on the right, and särapced over a marsh towards remaping with the main body about an hour lott. ashed the Minister. Of course the next question can only reply, that such a sentiment, such an in- the end of the palg en wearing which, we observed ger it being near street, and having sent our wound was, why we made so great an effort! ¡Fa peasut aginatics, could not for one half second have found a party of motives on the bill to the right, with a eri on firat, the whole fures returned to the on- girl insaving her weges it is for a sure heart. So a home in any one, English bosom towards our small breast work thrown up on the side fieng rangment near Waka's pab, where we all wanE what golden drenus of apdution, and ukat atis | icons sod next declired corny.
the pab, towards which we were com advancing in supperies and weary to rest for the night. rions conquest, was fertidious Allion intuiding 7
double quick, through a well drected fire from the Souday, May 10th-The North Star having The simple project of reidering the petional fin.
pah. The nature on the bill, seoing our pany to weed on board all the wounded requiring bos anco is an ides ng unkepwa to France, Whai Tas Jess-We sprited from a Jewab per be larger than their own, and advancing so sud, pital treatment, sailed for Auckland, leaving the then, was more probable than that the income tax odical the translation of the Rey. Dr. Adler's les dudy on them, desctted their position, keeping up Howard, Mains Custle, and Velocity, ander weigh was intended to purchase sono splendid province less on his appointment of Chief Riti wa dhe Eri- retreating fire upon cot forest ranks, while the for Karerariki, to await forher erdene. Che the from como need, Liovnem!? Calformiertah Jews. The reply was in the Heleen haguage west face of the yah opened a testy Dad on our 14h ajo-anchorst of Azeldant, and Leded the in the car and to the eng of childhood, long-and fat framed in the spirited style Hanover, Hát tart, though sounding fex of " On getting mindent on the 1hh, we received on board euphonies, liquid and beam ful, with its bold riiday, 11th Sherat 1kb Jan. 5603, 4. E possession of the brewerk, walay down on our Constander Floberino in his cut, who on embark- ei mountains, and its decided pull, and the very dinal friends, syned of councillore, who love truth face, to wait the expenditure of the rearing ing, was chessed by a large pupalace, nearly all thing to save for. Mesivo, scd distress and delight aequay ; am of worth, the gentisca rockets, bee cofy having been fund wit of the wine, the gentlemen of Auckland being preach the the ed, apprised at home, end dated by ite stigte for the compr 1-to sow leaders of the coronity, trenght with ex. wide que a maggotssite, with we arrived at the Bay berry, ave just the Gorernsent an o
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