years.
Official
No, of
Vessels.
Tonnage.
of Paddy Paddy. of Rice. Quantity Value of Quantity Value of Rice.
STATEMENT OF THE GRAIN EXPORTS OF THE DISTRICT OF AKYAB FROM 1835-36 To. 1844–45.
Quantity of Land under Poddy
of Grain
Quantity
Total
Grain.
Value of
Total
Remarks
Cultivation.
Maunde Rupees Maunds Rupees
Mounds
Rupees
Acres
1835-36 374
48.248.
1844-45 536 184 44 415 1842-43 466 1841-42 431
1839-40 691 1838 39 400]
1836 37 660 1837-38 504 1840-41 709
48,909
64.575
51.8241
18,64,100 5.17.727 3,31,390 3.03,441, 7,68,170 1,48,660 5,48,460 2,06.093 16,21,566 4.94 680 2,38,703 1,55,904 17.37,841 4.18,500) 6,41,010 2,47,226
13.32,300
3,54, 91
*80,262
23,78,851
6.66.733
82.802
18,70,340
6,50,395
16.25.480
8,21.168
121.379
96,733
37.100
54,002
48.223
62,425 60016
69,038
22,12,968 7,81,388) 4,40,041 3,32,699) 2033,698 7,20,037 5,28,961 4,01,274 25.63.659] 1121811 26.59,900 11,31,087
1,58,025
1,35,910
Land under Pad- the amount of | ceding column is
Stated in the pre- The quantity
13,10.910 2,89,16 3,93,200 1,83,728 12,65,388 3,71,655) 2,70,400 1,81,452
15.35.788
5.53,1141.46,265
dy Cultivation in
Total, 5,72,440, 1,46,63,271,43,13,838 50,61,361 29,28,612) 1,97,24,582 72,42,650) 8,48,922 2,18,546 7,07,780 - 4,15.164 1484,001 3.42.442 8.42,748 4.94821) 24.26.734 8,37,263 15,56,700
17,04,810
4.72,889 6,33.71cl
1.39,454
the
district of
1,20,050
1.28,819
Akyab only.
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NOTICE.
The Union Chapel will be open for public worship during the summer months in the moming only, at 1 o'clock, begining with Sunday the 6th April,
The Amateur performers played on Wednesday evening last. We were otherwise engaged, and had not the pleasure of witnessing what we hear was very excellent acting.
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THE FRIEND OF CUINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
pay the very heavy ground rents. With the monopoly, a change commenced, which has daily made property less valuable, reduced the po pulation, and lopped about a third from the land revenue. Such has been the result of one piece of Hongkong legislation as refers to the government, and as refers to the governed, it has proved equally disastrous, as they have lost by Sir John Davis's silly acts, the fource of profit for which they were indebted to his predecessor, who legalised the opium trade in direct oppo. sition to his instructions from the British Go- uernment.
t. We cannot approve of Sir Henry Pottinger's behaviour to the landholders, and there are are passages in his public career in China which it is better to forget, but with all the difficulties he had to labour under-and they were not trifling-he left the tolony with the elements of prosperity. Sir Henry was a Soldier, with the straight forward manly sin- cerity of his profession-he did not pretend to be cunning of finance and although some of his municipal laws were objectionable, in no instance did he attempt such bigotted and in- acts as have proceeded, from the tolerant acts as Scholar who succeeded him. When Sir Henry We observe from a contemporary, that it is in coo- resigned his office to our present Ruler we had templation to have another performance under the some trade, and the colony had a revenue, both patronage of His Excellency Sir John Davis, and of which have since suffered by an over desire as uckets are to be sold and the proceeds, after to increase the latter. The land revenue accord- paying expences, handed over to the trustees of a ing to the public sales is about £18,000 a year fand about being raised for building a theatre, it is and had trade not been interferred with that to be expected that there will be a good attendance.
or even a larger amount would now be avail The Gentlemen connected with these entertain able to meet the expenses of the civil establish- ments, deserve great credit for their
ment. The licensing system was however intro In the almost hopeless task of raising a second duced, and building was arrested; parties al fund to build a theatre. Upwards of a year ago a handsome sum was subscribed to erect a suitable lowing their unimproved lots to lapse to the place for Amateur performances. It was expected that Crown. By the returns published a couple of the military would take a lead in the matter, and, months ago, we learn that in 1845 the amount of if we remember aright, the subscriptions are held ground rent collected was £12,000; it appears by them. It has been suggested, that the funds be therefore that€0,000 was lost by land which had now handed over to the trustees of the second theatre, lapsed toGovernment. This may fairly be ascrib whu intend carrying through their project, and we ed to the licenses, which at once arrested the pro will thus have enough to build a comfortable housgress of building. To counter balance the ac If the military, Gentlemen desire to favor the pus count, the Goverment by the opium monopoly blic with an occasional performance, arrangements pocketed £2,384, leaving a dead loss of £3,616 can be made for their having the house on alter- tothe revenue, not to speak of the injury sustain- nate weeks or months.
ed by the inhabitants. So much for the financial knowledge of a Scholar. Botter had it been for the colony, if on his arrival Sir John Davis had established a tariff of duties on all articles of European consumption, leaving the trade If the residents with the Natives unscathed, of Hongkong had been permitted to follow their pursuits, whether as Merchants, as Store. keepers, or any other calling, without having their energies cramped by the Government, they would now be in a position to pay any mu derate amount of taxation, but the policy which has first injured their business, and then taxes their purse, cannot be to much reprobated, and will confer an unenviable notoriety upon those by whom it was introduced,
porseverance
We are sorry to see, that it has been necessary to purchase ground for the theatre. Surely the Governor might have granted the requisite nook without laying himself open to the charge of prodi gality. A considerable number of the Amateurs are in publie offices, and His Excellency may be pleased to learn that their evenings are spent in such intellectual pursuits as a study of the drama.
We have been a long time without any new ordinances to comment upon-legislation has been chiefly confined to acts to amend or repaal previous bungling efforts. Coming events cast their shadow before" and the ad vent of another baneful law, having for its ob ject revenue, is proclaimed by execrations at the infatuation of those pedantic and narrow mind ed novices in legislation, who have been a clog upon the colony. The new ordinance imposes a custom house exaction of five per cent upon Wines we do not know whether beer and spirits are also embraced in the act. but as we think it very probable that they are, it may be prudent to lay in an ample supply be fore the force of the new squeeze is felt, in the form of a rise in the price of liquids.
Sir John Davis hay endeavoured to raise the revenue to the expenditure, and he has been unsuccessful; let him now attempt to re duce the expenditure to the revenue and he will succeed. Sir Eardley Wilmot, in introduc ing a more economical disbursement of the revenue of Van Dieman's Land, commenced with his own salary, from which he took one sixth. Sir Eardley Wilmot's allowances are a little over the half of those received by Sir John Davis, and Sir Eardley supports the dignity We have not heard whether the colony is to of the Crown and the character of an English be saddled with a Custom House establishment Gentleman, alike by his hospitality and liberal
Collector, Comptrollor, Landing waiters, tide contribution to public and benevolent institu waiters &c.and without such a force we dotions. It may be too much to ask that His Excel- not very well see how the duty is to be collect lency reduce his own pay, nor do we think that d. At present ships entering the harbour are the pay of the other official Gentlemen is indi- chiefly induced to do so, that they may receive vidually to much, but there is too many of them. instructions from the Consignees as to landing We look at the Treasury, the annual receipts goods; a copy of the manifest is left with the har of which are £22,242, and we find that to col bour master, and the ship after possibly landing lect and disburse this trifling sun, there is a Trea a small portion of her cargo proceeds to surer, a Cashier, a Book-keeper, a Clerk, twi Whampoa. A vessel arriving with a few Assessors and a Sub-Collector, their united hundred cases of wine on freight may not land salaries being over £6,000. In the various de- any portion of it in Hongkong, and of course partments it appears to be a general rule that the duty cannot be levied upon goods not entered for principal performs his duty by Deputy-thus the consumption. It will be necessary for the Col Surveyor General has been amusing himself is lector to place a tide water on board every shP Europe at the cost of the colony for nearly to see that the law is not evaded, and Consig two years, and when he returns he will find nees will require to go through the usual form that his Deputy has completed the greater part of passing entries at the Collectors office, and of the public improvements, and the working tinus in salaries for such Clerks, and officers bee will then require to give place to the drone. as will be indespensable for the duty of protect With the exception of the Colonial Chaplain ing the revenue, the amount will be eaten up and the Colonial Surgeon, the system pervades In England there is alway a large batch of all branches of the service-The Colonial Se. greedy office seakers, who have been found uncretary has four clerks; the Clerk of the Coun. fit for pursuits which require industry and judg- cil one; the Auditor two; the Chief Magia. ment, and it may be imended to palm off a few trate, an Assistant Magistrate, two Interpreters of them on this unfortunate colony. We do not and two clerks, the Sheriff a Deputy Sherif believe that the Executive seriously contein the Registrar General, an officiating Registrar plate realizing revenue by an ad valorem duty of and so it is in every department. The Chief Su five per cent on the Wines consumed in Hong-perintendent of Trade, is peculiarly fortunate-- kong; the measure appears to be one of those he has no fewer than four Secretaries and three mischievous experiments which may gratify the Clerks but as they do not form part of the conceit of Scholastic theorists at the expense of Colonial department we leave them to the cle the community.
The most immediate suffers will be the Store Santamasement of assisting each other to do nothing. These extablishments are fit for a colony keepers, a considerable portion of their business of third rate importance, where the duties are of being in supplying the shipping with wines and necessity immeasurably greater than they can other stores, This branch of our local trade will be in Hongkong, and with all respect, we sub- be driven to Whampoa, as the Opium trade has it to flis Excellency, that as he cannot raive been driven to Cunsingmoon, and it may be the revenue to the expenditure, he had better predicted that Agents and Commanders of sels when they find themselves annoyed about a few cases of wine, will avoid the port entirely
Objectionable, impolitic, and unprofitable as this new tax may be, we do not look upon it as so censurable, as the licensing system, which a
We have been regassted by Major Boek, can be proved has not only ruined our trade with the Chinese, but has also diminished the Commissioner of Arracan, to make public, sta- revenue which it was intended to aid. Previous tements of the average price of grain in that dis to the introduction of the opium and other trict, and the export from 1635-30 to 1441–4. tarms, there was a demand for building lots, and The foures are rupees and sixteenths of pees those who purchased at the land sales sewed) 9 Scers is equal to 18hs, fox. Six Foglih
disposition to improve, and were willing to weight: 12 Seersequal to 2lbs 10,2.
reduce the expenditure to the revenue, by de manding that office holders perform the duties of their appointments, or incompetent that they make way for those who can.
1845.46
1844 45
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19.4
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A. BOGLE, Major Commissioner of Arracan.
STATEMENT OF THE AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN EXPORTED FROM AKYAB FOR
PADDY FER: 100 Baskets of 9 Seers EACH.
EACH
THE EXPORT SEASONS FROM 1935-30 TO Cargo Rice per 100 Baskets of 12 SKERS BÁCH.
CLEANED RICK per 100 Baskets or 12 Skans Barit.
MONTH
OF
1815-40.
We beg
most sincerely to congratulate our.
worthy contemporary of official notoriety for the natonishing victory he has obtained over Chinese seclusion. Not only does he secure all the "gup” of the villages in the neighbourhood of Canton, but his emissaries have penetrated into the Templa of Budha in the centre of the city, and make púi. blic the sentiments of the leading nien who had assembled for the double purpose of feasting and discussing politics. We have the Chief Magis- trates speech, as if it bad been taken down by a reporter for the Morning Berald. Wo are quito electrified t the freedom of discussion among tha Celestials-the indemnity money-the surrender of Chosan-and the opening of the city to foreigners are all brought forward, and poor John Bull is haar- tily abused of course. Our worthy contemporary omita to say where his Correspondent was con- cealed on the occasion-it must have been in an in- vense pot,-ar perhaps the whole affair is one of those delusions to which the inhalers of the "drug" ar subject.
The "Hongkong Almanack, and Directory" for 1845 has been published, and is now for sale at the Store of Mr Rutherfurd.
This is the first Almanack that has been publish. ed in Hongkong, and were we disposed to bo cri tient, we would bear in remembrace the grent dif- Gculties which have to be contended with in getting up a work of this kind in China. In a very modest preface we are told that the Almanack was com- piled in hours apart from business, and we certain.“ ly think it highly ereditable to the Gentleman, to whose industrious habits we are indebted for a very useful book of reference. At times we are at a good deal of trouble in bunting up dates of othirs that have taken place in China (others of course are in the same posi ion) but by a reference to the Almanack they are found at once. The Ap pendix containa various local ordinances, and tables of the value of exchange, which will be found ser- viceable to most people in the Colony,
We
BATARIA.The Dutch War Steamer. Bronie arrived at Singapore on the evening on March 6th with datos from Batavia to the 3rd instant. have receive files of the Jaen Courant and notica auch items of interest as they contain:
Under date of the 4th February we find in the Jare Courant a long proclamation from the Cia. vernot General of Netherland's India, by which 10 appears that since the your 1916 a sum amounting to about $1 millions of florins in coined silver sent out from the mother-country has nearly or wholly disappeared from circulation and on that account the Bank of Java has over since July 1839 been unable to take up its notes by making cash payments. The Government, altho" not by any means bound to do so, wishes enable to holders of such Bank, notes to exchange them against Receipts of ƒ1‚ƒ”, 10:25, 100, and 200, which said Receipts shall The received in all the Clovernment offices as silver and that such Receipts shall be received at a rate of not under 95 per cent for Glovemment Bill of Exchange on the Netherlands. It then goes on to order that the 16 do te must weigh a Dutch pourt and the 120 shall be the value of 1 Guilder, &c. &c. But wo have no room forall the particulara-- Siraits Times, March 11.
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