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METEOROLOGICAL
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VICTORIA,
MONEROYO,
REGISTER FOR THE WEEK
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SEMARKS,
not be shame that induces the Superintendent hid from the pablic the returns of trade drawn up by the Consuls at the five ports. We would not shy that he is desirous to disoblige the mercantile community and hence the neglect to make public these returns as formerly. It would be uncharita ble to impute such low paltry feelings to any Gen- tleman, much less to a man in Sir John Davis' posi- tion, and we therefore leave his apology to some more ingenious pen-it is enough that we respect fally point out the error.
The newspapers describe the British merchants in China as quite in a ferment from apprehension of Monsieur "Lagrené and Freuch commercial ri- ||valry. We utterly disbelieve the imputed fears, quite satisfied that in the nature of things there is not a shadow of foundation for them, and that our merchants there have far too much good sense to entertain them. France is not a market for the produce of China, and China is not a market for the produce of France. Of the staples of China France takes about one twenty-fifth part of the n that we take, and hardly any raw silk at all. France cannot furnish China at the same price,—indeed not at any price-with the woollens, cottons, me inls, opium, cotton and other Indian produce that we fornish, to the yearly value of near 20 000,000/ The Chinese neither drink Bordeaux nor Bunc. gundy, nor do Mandarins' wives dress in Parisian millinery, Where, then, are the grounds of tear for our commerce from French rivalry? Intriguers may trump them up, but our merchants, we will venture to say, never felt or expressed them. Chu san might be, to-morrow, a French possession with- out any more danger to our commerce than is in- curred by the French Protectorate of Tabiti. If the French be silly enough to go about buying cooking utensils at a great cost, without any food to cook, why should we be angry P
While an this subject we would refer to the police expenditure, an official return of which would be a curious document. We know that parliament has voted £6,000 for the support of the police of this town; an illegal assessment on house rent raises a large sum; a tax upon the ladies of the pave swells the amount. But what becomes of all this money? Surely if economically expended a less sum would suffice for the police of Victo ria. The last item the tax of $1 per month paid by the unfortunate females who reside in the China part of the town-supports a branch of the police, who have been impudently designated the Music
Yes incredulous render, the Munici- | PAL POLICE. pal police of Victoria are supported by the tax re- ferred to, and to distinguish them from their bre- thren they are labelled on the arms M. P. An M. Pin British China if will be observed is a very different personage from an M. P. in the United Kingkom. Some satirical wag must have suggest ed that the terin Municipal be applied to these men, and doubtless is quietly laughing at the simplicity of those who have followed his advice. Municipal we have always understood referred to the corpora tion of a free city; in Hongkong official language it has a very different reading, which we beg will be understood in future when mention is made of the Municipal police.
The police expenditure of Sydney N. S. Wales is £7,410,7,1. Of this one half is paid by the inha- bitants. Sydney has a population of 50,000 souls, and when it is remembered that until the last four or fire years it was the capital of a penal colony, it will be believed that even now the population is none of the most orderly. For the benefit of the Execu tive we publish the particulars of the police expen- diture of Sydney as officially laid before the Legisla. 4tive Council.
New advertisements, will be received, until
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UNITED STATES CALCUTTA
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LATEST DATES.
Police magistrata Commissioner of police
Six clerks, at £200, 2160, £130, £130, £115,
and 180 per annum, respectively
Two assistant clerks, at as cach per diem
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Allowance in lieu of clothing in inspectors, sore geants, and constables -95 men, at 3d each per diem
custody.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28ra, 1816.
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Since our last issues we hear Jiule local news The Chinese new year has set in with the customary noisyonerandus or joy...... on Monday algin men were flogged at the usual place; four of thers had stolen goods from the naval stores, and two (we hear,) were Chinese policemen who had been guilty of extorting money from their countrymen on false pretences Two Coroners inquests have been held; one on the body of a Municipal police man who was shot by a European policeman under suspicious circumstances; the other on a China: man killed in an affray with robbers who attacked some men engaged in quarrying stones to the west ward of the town A boat crossing to Macao with a European Gentleman on board was attacked by Ladrones a few evenings ago. The robbers pulled of from shore in an ordinary fishing boat, but they did not succeed in capturing the fast boat the crew which defended themselves with pikes. Some fire balls were thrown on board which burnt two or three men, but no lives were lost.
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THE ISLAND OF CHUSAN AND THE
TREATY OF NANKIN.
As to the errors of the Treaty of Nankin, the Tory Government is alone answerable for them, for it is not pretended that the Plenipotentiary did anything but act on his instructions.
It is now too late to retrieve ous errors. Chusan must be surrendered to the very letter of our ea. gagement, unless the Chinese voluntarily offer to give it to us on our surrender of the threa useless ports, which is scarcely probable. We must not even tamper with the subject by attempting to open a fresh negotiation, which would inevitably prova fruitless and discreditable. Fifty Chusaps would be uo compensation, even in a mere mercenary point of view, not only for breach of engagement, but for the bare suspicion that we had such a thing in contemplation. Sir Robert Peel, but especially the Duke of Wellington, who from experience' knows the immeasurable value of a good name among the nations of Asia, will, m all probability, not even entertojo the question, but, on the contra- ry, remand Mr Montgomery Marțin, with a smart rap over the knuckles, to his Treasury and his Borrataria. The Examiner..
CHINA.-Messrs. Hargrevo Brothers, flax-spin- ners and power-loom linen-manufacturers, of Leeds,' have in their possession several samples of Chinese grass. This article is represented as possessing all the qualities of flax, but in a higher degree than any other known to our spinners or manufactureis surpassing the best qualities in strength. fineness, and length of staple. The linen manufactured by them from this article greatly resembles French cambric, but with a more silky appearance. It would appear that the Chinese grass can be sup- plied in unlimited quantity; and if that should be the case it must be a subject for congratulation, that an article of such large consumption in this country should be presenting itself as another ex changeable commodity for our manufacturers, the rapidly extending consumption of which throughout China seems to be limited only by the means. which they possess of making a suitable return for them.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
JANUARY,
ARRIVALS.
23, Midas (Am. st.-shr), Poor, Canton. 23, Royalist, Lees, Cumisingmoon 23, Privateer, Martell, Cumsingmoon. 24, Warlock, Jauncey, Cumsingmoon. 25, Alfred, Napper, Whampca. 26, Afermaid, Gill, Macao.
JANUARY,
SAILED.
23, Dart (Am), Baylis, Cumsingmoon, 24. Titania, A. F. Auson, Whampoa 25, Preussissher Adler (Pruss), Schutt, Whampoa.
REPORTS.
Alfred, Napper, Sydney... Royalist, Lees, Amoy. Mermaid, Gill, Calcutta.
VESSELS IN Vieronta Hardown. M. S. Agincourt, Captain Lyster, Flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane. H. M, Str. Vicen, Commander Gifford, H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, Com. King, H. M. S. Minden, 2nd Mastor in charge Onner,
Hospital and Store Ship. Alfred, Najpur, Angland, Lane, Audaz, Oliver,
J. Matheson and Co Maevicar and t'o J. Matheson and Co
The island of Chusantis, according to the terms of the Treaty of Nankin, to be surrendered to the Chinese next year, supposing the Chinese on their side shall have fulfilled their part of the treaty. Hitherto they have acted with exemplary good faith nor is there the least probability of their failing in future to do so. Nothwithstanding this, we see the English press and its Indian correspondents urging the Government to retain Chusan under one pretext or another. Mr Robert Montgomery Mar in the lumbering, clumsy compiler, notorious for various quackish shifts and changes, has thrown op his treasurership of Hongkong, sad come to England with steam-power haste, in order to urge on the Home authorities the retention of Chusan. The Teatry of Nankin was by general acclama- tion pronounced quite perfect of the time it was Those who have marked the career of the local made. We never joined in the clapping of hands, government will not be surprised at any of their but saw in it serious omissions and mistakes, and We thought the omission of all mention absurdities. The imaginary Barratarja of the cele said so, brated Spanish author appears to be realized in of the opium trade, the cause of the war, a sad Hongkong, and even the eccentricities of that amus blunder; we saw in the multiplication of open ing varlet Sancho, must give place to those of the ports, conceded by the Chinese with extreme reluc rulers of Hongkong. We have said that no surprise tance, only the multiplication of points of collision can be felt at the absurdities of this Executive, but with the Chinese. We preferred, what the Chi-H. we have frequently had occasion to regret their in-nese would have conceded for mors teadily, the competency, and the antiquated ideas they have cession, in sovereignty, of three or four easily de formed of their duties as serpants of the public and feasible islands on the coast for emporia.
The Times seems now to be of the opinion we guardians of the interests of the few inhabitants of this island. Their actions are on recordaand we expressed three years ago, but it comes too lato Three of the newly-acquired do not intend dragging them before the public at with its advice.
“ports,” it says, “are good for nothing as places present; our purpose is chiefly to express regret at the omission to publish the usual statistical returns *of trade, vix, Amoy, Fochow.foo, and Ningpo, of commerce at the Consular ports. His Excel-There is more trade carried on at Chusan is a lency Sir John Davis has had some experience of mouth than at these places in a year.” commerce-though of commerce in its worst shape This is exaly what might have been expected and he must be aware of the vales of corrects happen in a place under British protection when statistical information as to the annual exports and compared with those under the bad and jealous imports. For instance his old employers in Lex. government of China. It must have been the case deiball Street knew the precise number of bales of ❘ with any conveniently situated and healthy loen woollens they shipped annually to their servants at lity selected for an emporium, had such been taken the Canton factory, with the quantity sold and in after our victories. The landed Chumn, in fact, store, and they regulated their future shipments ac has no peculiar facilities for trade. It is at least cordingly. Their instructions to purchase tea or
120 miles distent from the mouth of the Yang silk were also guided by their knowledge of stock Cheliyang, which, it is pretended, it commands, and demand and had the Canton Factors ceglected and its extem is far wo great for cheap and easy to furnish them with full particulars es to the im- defence, ports and exports of the port they would have been One of the pretexts for wheedling China out of rebuked to a certainty. Were His Excellency en- Chusan is the apprehension that the French will tirely ignorant of the value of correct statistical reoccupy it as soon as we bare given it up. The turns of the trade of the Consular ponts, he would carey of Louis Philippe, M. Lagrene, described be dameless-further than that he chewed a neglect the Times as state, jesuitical, and experienced of duty-in not making them pabic, but he cannet and far more than a match for Governor Davies, -fonth the plea of ignorance, and we are really whose appointment is proviconrim Ha hisseder,” is at a loss to find any exame for the delay to publish now in Chim. This brustable person is agropi- His very designation of Superistay to the same gwi authority, asuredly to go to dens of Trade (a ridiculous manoser by the way) Pekin, and there certain, by peguciation, to obtain might tell him that is e bis duty to protect and for Braces a cries of Chusin, courage commerce; bar has be done to f Wout ↑ Now wo will venisse te prefiet that M. Lagrené the question of those who can best wer-the however state be may be, will not permade the H1 M. S. Dedalus, Captain McCalas, Brith mechacas of Chips-end we are centres Charm to allow his even to go to Pekin, at IL M. S. Haard, Captain Egerton, that they will reply to a man. No, be maker pro that, whether be ever maches the Lesperial capital: 11. M. 8. Vestal, Capain Talbot, * Ex excourages the commerce of his country or not, le vill never permate them to code Chiara H C. Str. Pluto, Com. Airy, in Chin, ba on the contrary the zprezentus be o France That is caly to be done by gear and dien, King. wide is a clog upon & Bems readily balers lesson, which Franze has not the maste, ant, is Amherst, Blake, that the Governor feels stored to publish the to be taped, set the indicating, to kaze te Atat Rolaman. Row, terenus sui disbursemnos pitäe mimi, but is can-
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