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NOTICE

CE will delivered to Shareholders, applica-

I win bed five House are alternoon berveen the hours of 4 and 6; and hereafter to the Public between past 5 and 7 in the morning, till further notice.

Hongkong, 22nd April 1846,

SODA WATER.

N SALE-At the Store of Mr. John Smith in

Macao from Dr. Hunter's.

Soda Water Manufactory there. Macao, 11th January, 1845.

BILLIARDS.

TJOLMES & BIGHAM beg respectfully to in Ho

form the Gentlemen of Hongkong that they have opened a Billiard Room with a first rate, Thurstons Slate Table on their premises 2 doors East of the House occupied by Gen. D'Aguilar Gentlemen houoring them with their patronage wil meet with every attention.

N Invoice of lead piping ex“ Earl Powis,'' Afor sale by the undersigned,

HOLMES & BIGHAM.

Victoria, 13th April, 1846,

OR Sale by the undersigned:

FOR Allsop's Beer in bottle.

Byass's do. do.

HOLMES & BIGHAM.

Victoria, 22nd April 1846.

SODA WATER

AND

ERATED LEMONADE,

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE

a. . will be sold bying ruin. These alternations succeed each other

On Saturday 25th at 10 &ons of the under signed A superior Soda Machine complete and in perfect order &c. can be get immediately to work, being on the most approved principles,

DRINKER & HEYL Victoria, April 19th, 1846.

BOOTS! BOOTS] : BOOTS 11-

Subscribers have just received and offer for Sale, a large assortment of highly finished Dress and Waterproof Boots, Half Boots, Shoes and Gaiter Boots. DRINKER & HEYL

Victoria, 16th February, 1846.

THE

NOTICE.

RINKER & HEYL, offer for sale, at their DRI

Stores, superior Port, Sherry, Madeira, and Clarel Wines, Peppermint, and Cherry Cordials, Beer and Porter in Wood and bottles, Wine Bitters, Choice Butter in Kege, Neats Tongues, Tobacco, Cigars Old No. 3 and 4 Manila Cheronts, Paint Oil, and Turpentine in cans, Bright Varnish, | Ravens Duck, &c. &c.

Victoria, 16th February, 1846.

GOLD PENS.

with more or less of intensity. In 1841 it was con- fidently asserted by some great manufacturers that at last the day of England's decline had arrived; bat, when that partial depression had cleared off, the industrial energies of the country again resumed their elastic spring, and carried our prosperity to a higher point than it had ever reached before. At the close of 1844 we were enabled to say that the past year had been one of the most satisfactory | ever known in our history; and, fortunately, we have the same declaration to make at the close of 1815.

⠀⠀ The fluctuations we have alluded to are suffici ent in themselves to render it unsafe to compare succeeding years with each other; but all chances of error are obviated when we refer to a period | sufficiently distant to exclude the effects of acciden tal and disturbing influences. A person might | doubt whether the season had advanced in Febru- ary, or even in March further than in January, but all room for doubt would be excluded when June arrived, and he contrasted its warmth and life with the chill and barrenness of the depth of winter.

Any inquiry into the progress of the country, however briefly conducted, must certainly be use- ful. Since noisy agitators, bent on frightening the community to advance their own selfish ends, and

UST Received, and for sale, a few superior Gold flighty novelists, desirous of creating a sensation

Pens, in Silver Cases.

Jo

ALSO

by their fictions, have taken it on themselves to publish, expositions of our social state, very erro neous impressions have been circulated concerning An Invoice of Stationery, consisting of Plain it. Some newspapers, too, have diligently lent and Ruled Letter Paper, Plain and Raled Foolscap, themselves to the task of misrepresentation, and Account Current, Account Sales, Office, Envelope, we have had notices of meetings by rushlight and and Blotting Paper, Quills Lead Pencils, Par-moonlight, and reports of commissioners, who, rallel Rulers, Office Inkstands, &c. &c.

being used all their days to the luxuries of London DRINKER & HEYL life, are surprised to find that people live in cottages Victoria, 16th February, 1846,

with thatched roofs, dig the ground or tend cattle for a living, and are quite ignoraut of the fare of FOR SALE.

London taverns and potations of brandy and water. Were we to judge solely from their expressions of

wronght stories of wholesale starvation, we should be forced to believe that England was the most wretched country on the face of the earth, nad that her people were sinking lower, year by year, in the scale of existence.

то

be obtained at the manufactory of the under- signed.

SMITH & BRIMELOW.

DY

1177

If the consumption of such articles as coffee, sugar, tobacco, and spirits, uns lus recoin ea, same period in greater degree than thirty per cent., it will be evident that the people have grea- ter command over those commodities than they had in 1820. And there seems no fairer standard for testing their general condition. We are prevented from showing that there has been a vastly increas ed consumption of wheaten bread and animal food, because no official accounts of the sale of those articles are kept. But it is a fair presumption that man's hunger must be appeased before he thinks of buying tea, and that, in fact, whatever som he lays out in the purchase of that article, or in similar articles is an excess above what is required for his actual sustenance. We group together some cont modities of customs and excise that enter largely into general consumption. An interval of some- thing more than twenty years elapses between the periods selected, but that difference will not greatly affect general results:-

COFFEE CLEARED FOR HOME USE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE UNDER-MENTIONE YEARS,

lbs. 29,974,404 31,352,882

1820 1821

lbs.. 7,103,409 | 1843 7,693,001 | 1814

·

ТБА.

1820 1821

Ibe. 22,426,627 | 1843 22,496,571 1841

ths. 40,293,393

41,363,770

TOBACCO

1bs..

1820

16,058,508 | 1843

23.012,408

1821

15,828,950 | 1844

24,595,491

SPIRITS OF ALL KINDS.

Gals.

9,448.435 | 1943

Cals 18,841,860 22,031,495

1820 -1821

9,822,573 | 1844

1

No 1 and 2 Woosnam's Buildings, corner of Pot the undersigned a few Jars of superior Eng disgust with what they see, and their highly wisely spant but only whether the expentiture does

tinger Street,

SM

MITH & BRIMELOW have received ex Pre- cinsa, a quantity of Zebu Chocolate in suita ble packages which they offer for sale,

1&2 Woosnam's Buildings,

Queen's Road, 31st March 1846.

A CARD.

R. A. BRINE

Shipping General and Commission Agent and Auctioneer,

CHUSAN.

EGS to acquaint the merchants and others of

ness in the above capacity; and in soliciting their patronage, assures them, that his best endeavours on all occasions shall be to promote their interest. From his long experience in mercantile houses, his having been two and a half years on the island, and doing business on moderate charges, be trusts to

insure success.

Respectable reference can be given if required, Chrisan, 3rd April 1846.

ON

FOR SALE.

NE Bay Manila Poney, suitable for a Lady or Gentleman; apply to G. DEwan, at Mr MAC Kxion's Brook Cottage.

West Point, 9th April 1846.

BRITISH HOTEL,

KEVING HOUSE,

Queen's Road, Victoria,

WICHAEL GABRIEL has the honour tó au-

M'

lish Paint Oil.

C. MARKWICK,

Auctioneer:

Pottinger Street. Victoria, 19th November, 1845.

MCEWEN & Co.

Were these representations in any degree true, we should have little reason to boast of our high ENERAL Commission and Shipping Agents state of civilization, and of the freedom of our po U Wine Beer and Spirit Merchants.

litical institutions. The value of an enlightened And Auctioneers Queens Road & Chinams Hong system of government can only be estimated by Supply Ships, Families and foreign residents at the benefits it confers upon the community at large. the consular ports, with all descriptions of Stores, Directly the improvement in their general condi Salt provisions, Wine, Beer and Spirits upon motion ceases, there must be something wrong in the

deaate terms.

Also dry and convenient storage for goods. Victoria, 1st January, 1846.

BILLS OF LADING FOR THE OVERLAND

ROUTE.

OR sale at this office, four forms of bills of lad ing for goods or specie shipped by the P. & O Company's Steam packets. 1st for goods deliver. able at London; 2nd for goods deliverable, at Sonthampton; 3rd for goods deliverable at Suez: 4th for goods deliverable at intermediate parts

They are printed after the Company's forms on

Bank post.

Office “Friend of China” 25th October, 1845.

FOR

}

FOR SALE-At the office of this paper.

Compradores cheque books.

Ships Articles, with an abstract of the merchant

seaman's act endorsed on the back.

Charterparties, after forms Chitty. Powers of Attorney, after forms by Chitty. Bills of Lading.

Chinese Tariff of imports, and exports, for

houses.

nounce to his friends and the public, that be has taken those spacious and commodious premi-counting ses known as Keying House where he intends to carry on the business of a Hotel keeper, and he begs to essure those parties who may he pleaser S

to patronize his new establishment, that nothing shall by wanting on his part to insure to them the greatest comfort and attention.

Billiards can be engaged in airy and spacious rooms with a water frontage, at the following mates, viz:-

Day Gaines Night do

4 Rupee.

do,

NOTICE.

THIPPING ARTICLES, according to the re

cent act (Victoria 7 & 8 ) for sale at this

Office "Friend of China, Victoria, 10th October, 1815.,

office.

at this Office.

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system under which they live, for there appears no limit to the beneficent progress of hum in society in a Christian state.

The real greatness and strength of any country. depend upon the degree of confort and prosperity enjoyed by the great bulk of the people. If they are not in the miss hetter off now than they were ten years back--if they are not enabled to procure a larger share of the comforts of life-we may conclude, whatever show of splendour pervades the streets of our great cities, thu this empire is really in a declining state, and that the foundations of its greatness are giving way. But if it can be shown that the people live beter than they did formerly that, so far from having stood still or recorded, they have actually advanced in the scale of being, and consume, in proportion to their numbers, au ang- mented share of those commodities which are re- moved some degrees above the bare necessities of life-then the conclusion is forcal on us that the ward, and that each year will show some further work of social amelioration is going steadily for.

improvement in our general cond.tion.

There are persons who from seatinent or party. feeling take up with an opposite opinion. crease of luxury, and the decay of honest industry, have always been favourite topics of declamation In every age it has been asserted that the rich are getting more rich and the poor more poor, and the belief those representations have induced has some- times created great revolutions, and broken up the very framework of society and government The cry prevails in our own day, and has been adopted by statesmen of influence. Yet it is evident that the inevitable tendency of luxury and refinement

The in-

LINGUIST'S REPORTS, and NAVY BILLS or sale is to lesson, annat to widen, the distance between

Office Friend of China, 28th Dec, 1844.

THE PAST YEAR REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED.

the various classes of the community. In our time we have no seris, bearing their owner's name on collars of iron, our have ws any great barous feet- ing their thousand retainers daily. The mille classes, fast increasing in numbers and influence, | aro invading the ranks of aristocrney at annex- treme of society, and the masses of operative life at the other. As moury circulates more freely and are rapidly, it must eventually he brought nearer 10 loval. A taste for luxury is nae of the great avaus for the diffusion of wealth, and for falang the condition of them who minister to it.

It is not a question here whether the whole of the money expended in these commodities was

not in itself prove that the consumers of the above articles-that is the great body of the people-must of necessity have been better off, and had more money to lay out in what to them are the luxuries of life, in 1843-44 than they had in 1820-21.

Two articles in general consumption, the only two in addition to those quoted above which afford any test of the augmented comforts of the people, do not exhibit the same proportionate increase. They are sugar and beer:--

1820

1821

SUGAR RETAINED FOR HOME CONSUMPTION,

Cwt.

Cwt. 2,901,864 | 1843 3,046,882 | 1844

4,028,307

4,126,413

MALT.

Bushels.

1820

- 36,164,295 35,051,407

Bushels 27.886,210 † 1943 1921 - 32.003,465 | 1844 The consumption of sugar has not more than kep pace with the growth of the population; has hardly done so, in fact; but it is to be remembered that up to the last year no reduction had taken place in the enormous duties levied on it; and that, from the effects of slave emuncipation and the scarcity of labour, the supplies from our colonies were greatly reduced. and the price to the con- sumer raised. That the sonsumption of malt has not been greater may be attributed, first, to the en- ormous increase in the use of spitits during the last twenty-four years, amounting to much more than one hundred

per cent. and secondly, to the high duties which are still kept up, most impolitically, on the manufacture of beer. In 1822 the daty was

reduced from 3s 61 to 29 64 per bushel; the im

mediste offeci was to reduce the revenue from £ 5,360,705 to £3,618,000 But in 1836 this decline was more than recovered, the ravenue yielding £5, $43,950. It has since been stationury, or rather declining, yielding in 1844 only £4,702,996. The pertinacity with which the Government clings to the enormous daly of 20%. a quarter on malt, at the time that it proposes a large reduction in - the duty on brandy, is wholly unaccountable. A liberal reduction in the existing heavy rate would probably occasion little, if any, decline in the re- venge; while it would greatly benefit the cousu ner; and perhaps tend to the promotion of social mo- rality.

There is one other evidence still more decisive than any we have yet quoted, as to the growing prosperity of the working classes. It is to be found in the rapid accumulations of deposits in savings banks :-

TOTAL AMOUNT OF INVESTMENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

1330 - - £13,719,400 | 1944+ - £20,504,861

NUMBER OF DEYOSTTONS"

1990 - 412,217 | 1841 - - - 1,012,017 Thus in the spece of fourteen years have the sambor of depositors and the amount of investmentTM

It is a very gratifying

been more than doubled

THE undersigned legs to inform parties indebted to hiin. to pay the same as early as possible; claims on those residing in China, not paid, or ar- In treating of contemporary history, it is often rangments made to do so, up to the end of next necessary. if we would truly comprehend our own May, and those in Europe, &c., up to the end of time, to compare it with some period safficiently next August, (after giving due notice in (bo New- remote to enable us to decide what effect a cumursé Epapers of Names and particulars); will be put of years has produced on our social condition. If up for sale by Public Auction, and sold off to the wo merely viewed the year 1945 in relation to the highest bidders.

year 1841, we should hardly be able to arrive at Those who have established on the East Coast any suisfactory results to the tror position of the of China, or elsewhere, or have left China, since country, and as progress or decline, because the 1839, are requested to send their address, and their time is too brief to have caused any market dit secounts will be forwarded to them without delay. ference one way or the eier, and the few facts an

could establish migha be the consequence of ac dental circumstances rather than of permiss the increase in the use of luxurias bear nu kind of are yet in their infancy. Should they, as there is proportion to the increase in the use of comforts. you believe, continue to prosper as they have done, and to increase their acements in the We believe that the pal action of society in our day is provada a greater equality of enjoy same proportion, the vast majority of the labour- eat, and to render the rich less rich, and the ging people of this country will soon become deposi.

tars in them.

But it would be quite an inadequate view of the It can be shown by the most decisiva Lestimony

- JNO: SMITH

Macao, 18th February, 1846.

FOR

FOR SALE.-Ey the undersigned,

Champagne, Hoti,

Beer, and Stout, all of the first quality, EDWARD NEWMAX, Victoria 7th October, 1845.

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NOTICE

E the undersigned have formed a Pannenbip

WE

CAUSES.

of

But, if we refer to a period of twenty five and twenty years back, we shall be able to sitively determine, from the comparison of a nurs ber of facts, which denively test the social tion of the people, as well as the state of trade, of coummerie, and of every branch of indertrial par

la this way ceir con se fara a just estimate of

From all the sourses of information before the public there can be gathered no support of the pisive that the tendency of this age is to aggran- dize the rich, and to depress the poor, the the eatrary, the whole cartent of evidence is the other way. We find that property is gradually becoming dubled into master portions, and thar

effection that among the humbler classes of socio- ty there are apwards of one million persona enabled safe and to invest money and to an amount ave- taging £30 for each depositor. These institutions

for the transaction of a General Agesch, the national fottonen, for the pregards of a gross | geskaf inventivas, and is the superise condition of acceks it; and the artisan will frequently inves his

Auction and Commissi a business, of Vizora Hong kong, under the Firms of DRINKER & BEYL.

3. DAINKER. WES HEYL: Victoria, March 2nd 1944.

FOR SALE.

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suit, what is our present position as compared with the the progrees of the United Kingdom since the Siar to suppose that those thirty millions represent the past, sad whether we base adresool or meedom of the hat, wat has been raped beyond all the whole amount of the savings of the labouring el on 150 great highway of císlization zat com I grecadrat metrty clement of wealth and prosperity: Clasues; a large proportion of the superfhous capt tal must be invested in other ways The agricul sogacoted capiul, in exumbed somefce, aral kalupuree renta an all-itment of ground, and growing mamafutures, in great public works, in community is no daturbed by temporary dreams de pat body of the people. Da that portin e

saginge in the burnness of a relativa, or in the puz- tees, and at its parts are so able to scar shall stengt la Bartrate is the riftarts the follow,

churn of a dwelling, or in some speculation which onal fustration, that we only had its coures,

preiciaue him a high rate of interest. The savings. kamerun çavegur sea is geseral, to be perbalyzed | PROGRESOFTUS SATION SINCE 190, banke returns, antistatory as they are, afford na sad steady. Wors i edreness, it appears to do ne Before we prycard to me the facroute that bite wince then au badication of the growing wealth byr occasional jotka rather than by an equate so taken place in the cutqumption of those amount ant importance of the operative clases. Built it 104. Ju was, as cru, is importa, is m

fund eller ude i jedly viewed as top beat beat ne ha a new cimumalanes in the blatory of the world malactares, is carrying trade, are all extremely the grand & cummunity, we man but to bad an accumulation of thirty millions sterling A very superior Gas Water Fetisch alle. To's all fequety frames with both the heck this bar takes place in the per page by lurers of a country alone, and that

to be sold at Pabir Auction fraless dispard Brable mastness by the or four years togroet, istruge has been abous dirty per eunt

to the laut truly geare is will be porn arust eddancing at a rate which will double neetf of at private sale), co Sourday the is of boy, br/bes 60 back for 100 e re e UD 23 30 GE the undersigned.

chion 23 de pered Surring boges of oztuvaszán i prosperts, and at southis gloomy beers d'ingend-

DRINKER & REYL

BRIELLEVI CU TEL #EITE? HIWAOWNE.

very taniye putts. They, is 1856 g may ex- best the ambers will be £80,000 (2), in Eds £

· 10,000jum, and in 1980 $100,000,000. £ven tips