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VICTORIA,
HONGKONG.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER FOR THE WEEK
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ENDING, 11TH JANUARY, 1846, Pluviomt.
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DEMARKE,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
It is hereby notified, that a Public Sale of Leases of Crown Lands will be held at the Land Office on the 25th instant at noon,
The Lots will be marked out on the ground Fourteen Days before the Sale, and Plans shewing their position and size, as also the Upset Annual Rental, with the General Conditions of Sale, may be seen upon application at the Land Office daily till the 25th instant, between the hours of 10 and
12 o'clock at noon.
Notice is also hereby given, that unless all Are rears of Rent due upon the following Building Lots are paid into the Colonial Treasury on or be fore the 21st of this month, they will be disposed
of at same time.
By order,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
Colonial Secretary
Colonial Office. Victoria, Hongkong, 4th February, 1846,
No. I. A RETURN of the Number and Ton.
nage of Merchant Vessels which arrived at and do parted from, the Port of CANTON during the Year anding the 31st December, 1845, distinguishing the Countries to which they belonged, viz.
ARRIVED.
Under what Colours,
British,
American,
French,
Dutch,
Belgian,
Danish,
Swedish,.
Austrian,
Hamburg,
Bremen, Spanish,
Columbian and Peruvian,
Siam,
Total.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA
In this instance-as in many others the of fice of Superintendent of Trade has been posi AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. tively injurious to the interests of British Mer- chart's, who will have no cause to regret when VICTORIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1816. the clumsy machine is broken down, and the Consular establishments entirely disconnect. The returns of trade at the Consular ports ed with the Governor of Hongkong. A Con- are in the course of publication in the Govern sul General at Canton, with Consular Agents, ment paper. We will copy them in the Friend of at the other ports are all that is required to pro Ching, and append them to the Overland pa-tect commerce, and this might be secured at an per for February in a supplement.
annual saving to the British Government of £15,000.
**Canton continues to be in a very unsettled state, and a residence there is far from agreen- ble. We have conversed with a Gentleman who left on the 4th. He has been many years in China, but at no tune does he remember so much hostility being exhibited towards foreig. ners by the lower orders of the Chinese. In the vicinity of the factories crowds of disorder ly people, who have no ostensible object for doing so, are congregated daily, and their gest ures and manner towards any foreigner who may appear in the back streets, are rude and of fensive. There is an evident desire to provoke a quarrel, which would be the commencement of serious riots,
NEW SOUTH WALES.
By the Brig Flibberty we are in receipt of papers and letters from Sydney to the 27th of December. The Fanny Connel had sailed for Manila and China, and the Anta arrived from this port.
The markets are represented as being in a satisfactory state; and the agricultural and grazing interests continue to improve.
Captain Beauvais of the Kestrel, and Mr. Dobson, chief Mate, are in custody at Melbourne charged with having killed some lascars on the voyage from Manila. From the evidence ad- duced the treatment of the lascars on board the Kestrel was most inhuman, the latest dates received in Sydney II. M. S. No further news from New Zealand. By
Castor had not arrived,
We give a long extract from a private letter, the writer of which is intimately acquainted with the affairs of the colony. We differ from our correspondent in the opinion he has form- ed of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Perhaps had he a little experience of Hongkong he would be more easily satisfied.
On Sunday one of the Gatekeepers was as- saulted by the mob and much injured; a drun ken soaman was also beaten for some alleged indignity he had committed on a temple, or Joss house. The same day a party
of
young Gentlemen crossed the river to view a Josa house immediately opposite the factories. This has alway been open to foreigners, nor is it known that they were ever insulted there be. fore. On Sunday, however, the party men. tioned were pelted with stones and driven back to their boats. By the latest accounts of the 4th-there had been no further outrages cominitted, but there were still nume- It is generally supposed that a change is to be rous suspicious characters lounging about the made in the government of the Australasian Colo- streets outside the factory walls. The respec-is-the whole being ruled by a Governor-Geno- table Chinese say that the Magistrates have little control over these people that they are (notorious characters-nor is it known where
they come from,
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Sydney, December 23rd, 1845.
ral. You will see by some of the latest Australian Journals, who the parties are it is rumoured, that' may fill the head seat Our present Governor (Sir George Gipps) will leave in all probability in January or February next, i. e. if his resignation It is the general opinion in Canton that had be accepted; for although His Excellency has re- the Pluto not arrived off the factories on the ceived an indirect intimation of the acceptance by afternoon of the 17th of January, there would the Home Government of his Excellency's desire have been a very serious riot that night. The to resign the government of New South Wales. I presence of a steam vessel would still be a check believe I am right in asserting that nothing official upon the mob, and add greatly to the security has been received by Sir George. That an im of the foreign Merchants. We certainly think portant change will take place ore long in the ge- that the Naval Commander in China is acting neral government of these colonies, it is the belief very imprudently in keeping the Pluto at Hong of all those acquainted with political affairs. It is kong, where her services are not required, and asserted (and I believe it) that Sir George was of leaving his countrymen in Canton without any but declined the honor on the score of ill health. It fered the Governor General hip of the Colonies; protection nearer than the ships at Whampoa has also been affirmed that Sir Charles Fitzroy, Before assistance could be rendered by II. M.S.brother to the late governor of New Zealand had Agincourt from her present anchorage the been offered the berth, and had accepted the same. factories might be destroyed. Such a catas Our Colonial Secretary (E. Deas Thompson) I have trophe is not impossible, and we apprehead been told gave directions to the son of Sir Thomas that should it occur the Rear Admiral would Mitchell -(our Surveyor general who is at present be severely censured for not having the Pluto on an expedition to endeavour to penetrate through moored off the factories,
the vast interior of this gigantic island. to the north- ward)-to write to his father by the first opportunity, stating the fact that Fitzroy was coming out. It Manchester appears to be rather a round is possible that the Colonial Secretary may know about way of hearing from Foo-chow-foo. The Merchants of China are however indebted to
more than the present Governor about the move. ments taking place at home, his father-in-law tho a Manchester paper for a most important des late Governor (Sir Richard Bourke) of this Colony, patch from Mr. Alcock, British Consul at Foo having it in his power to learn much concerning chow-foo, to the Superintendent of British trade the doings in Downing Street. There was a belief in China, It might have been expected that that Sir Henry Pottinger was to be the chosen; and Number
the Superintendent of British Trade in China really, all things considered, I think the Home Go- of Vessels Tonnage would have made public this important docu-vernment could not do better. Our Legislative Coun- 182 86,087 ment with the least possible delay, as it chiefly cil is by no means a popular body, instead of 83 38,658 concerns the Merchants resident here, and not being Representatives of the people they are pat
799 the Manufacturers of Manchester. Such a
ty dictators, thinking little of the interests of the body politic, excepting when closely connected with their own private affairs. The most talented of our Re- to be found in the world. I am half inclined to presentatives are the worst specimens of Christians think they do not belong to the genus-however, it is very certain they do not love their neighbours so well as themselves. It will be a good thing for the Colony when the time arrives for a new Election- some of the tools-the nooifles will then retire. The inhabitants generally of this Colony are of too sor- The expensive Consular establishments which did a character to advance with very rapid strides Great Britain retains in China, and the absurd to intellectuality. Our City Council on the whole appointment of a Superintendent of Trade have contains a tolerable sprinkling of common sense; often been commented upon, and we need not
some few of the members are so notoriously igno rant thai when they have the temerity to speak again repeat, what is so generally acknowledgoh ya gods-it is enough to make the angels weep ed, that the Americans, who have no Superin-indeed; they are shrewd enough to improve the tendent, but simply a Consul in the person of a of Vessels Tonnage Merchant, are much better protected in their 204 98.277 commercial arrangements at all the ports of 85 37,959 China than British subjects are, "Superinten
$ 1,176 dent of trade," if it is understand to be a person 113.342 who protects coramerce, is quite a mis-nomer as 1305 it refers to Sir John Davis. His Excellency, if 1,820 qualified for the office, which is doubtful, does not exhibit a desire to encourage or protect the commerce of his countrymen in China. Brought up in the worst of all schools, the 1,406 Company's factories, he pursues the narrow, 213 illiberal policy, of his old employers. The Bri- fish Government now represent the Potentates of Leadenhall Street, and to Downing Street is 327148.273 secretly conveyed a communication which would have been of the greatest importance to the Merchants on the spot, but which to people in England is of no importance whatever.
His Excellency did publish the Regulations
DEPARTED.
Under what Colours.
British,
American,
French, Dutch,
Belgian,
Danish,
Swedish,
Austrian
Hamburg, Bremen, Spanish, - Columbian and Peruvion, Siam,
3
2,972 course would have been too simple, open, and straight forward for the Superintendent of 948 Trade, who appears to be of opinion that his 2,066 duties in bis commercial cap city are simply to 567 communicate informations to the British Go
vernment, leaving the Merchants here in the dark, until the Privy Council for Trade give pu- 243 blicity in England to that which is only of im-
portance to people in China. 1,100
402 136,850
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1,484 520 1,406
1,674 507 1,484 520
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PRANCIS C. MACGREGOR,
#1 M. Consel Canton, 85th January, 1846.
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ways adjacent to their own properties, but like our Legislative Representatives, their minds are seldom bent towards the public, save when their funds are dwindling to the smallest coin. It is the general impression, that times are fast mending here; the merchants complain that the settlers, or squatters, after having disposed of their wool to them, and got hard cash, walk off without making their usual pur- chases of provisions, stops &c. for the year. The fact is the settlers, and squatters, at one time were in the hands of these merchants (commission agents-ta- ther) who bled them to the last drop, but did not al- together destroy them - they have recovered strength and now retaliate. The object no doubtof the equat provisions &c. with the storekeepers in the interior, ters is to spend the most of their money required for. who sell quite as cheap to there, every thing consi deret, as the Sydney Merchants.
I have set a small skein of Silk produced in Sydney (the thread is composed of eight fibrox) for your inspection, and if you would favor me with
of trade for the port of Fos-chow-Bao, wish a your opinia concering it, and what sill in that Notification stating that they were more favor.condition is commercially called, with the price per able than those of the other ports in China. Įlb., I shall be extremely obliged to you.
were sent from Hongkong with cargoes, which lieve, brought from some part of China. It only lo consequence of this, several large vesscla The variety of the worm we have here was, I be
on arrival it was found impossible to sell, and breeds pace & year. Perhaps you could infrom. after mourring expense, and considerable delay, me of the Banical name of the Mulberry tres apon these vessels had to seek a market elsewhere, reared here upon the Morus alts and the Morns which the insect is fed in China It has been Had Mr. Alcock's letter being published this age, and with considerable succes in a natural would not have occured, as in tive face of the ciphere, but I understand the lead of the Morus advice of that Gentlemen, no Merchant would have despatched a vessel with a large cargo | in bopes of being able to sell it.
Multicasta, is tes proper food for them. Any information upon the subject you can, give me de pracure for me, I shall estñen a great favor.
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