THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND BONGKONG GAZETTE.
(From the China Meil, May 7.)
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RETONAT RAPE at the Port of F00-CHOW FOO, during the Year ending the 81st December, 1845,'
ENGLISH.
ARRIVED.
DEPARTED.
NOX
Tonnage
Where from
Nature of Lango
June
305 GR108 264
Sept
Dec 15 10811
21 Shanghai Tea & Merchandise! 22 Amoy
Piece Goods 34 Hongkong Piece Goods 12. Hongkong Piece Goods
East Coas: Ballast
Value of Largo
+ 2. 2,153 5 June 23
Clearance
Date of Tonnage
Where Bound
Nature of Cargo
Value of Cargo
£
80534
Cork
Tea & Merchandise
4,142 18 Aug. 7 28,160 17 5 Aug. 15 37,6801211 Sept. 15 Dec. 18
103
Amoy
Piece Goods
264
259, 10817
Total Inpert £72.147|17| 0[ AMERICAN,
2,202 15 1,999 10 Nor. Ports Piece Goods 29,166 17 5 Shanghai Gen. Merchandise 35,452 19 638 18 10 Hongkong Tea
Total Export £68.459 18 4
Sept
08
Sept. 8
256
Nov. 29
166
98 Hongkong Goa, Merchandise 4,25516 2 Sept 27
258 Manila
D.,
6,334 88 Oct. 19
5 166 Dec. 943 15 Cotton Shanghai
Hongkong Wood
DJ. Do.
Tea & Crokery
Flint Stones
Total Export £
Foo-chow foo, 10th February, 1840,
From the China Mail, May 7.) VICTORIA, R
Our ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to
Trusty and Well beloved Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Barone, Chief Superintendent of the
Total Impon £11.518|12|10|
any personal debt or demand, the security to be demanded, either from the Party or Parties Res pondent, or from the Party or Parties Appellant, fot the performance of the Judgment or Sentence to
20 0 0 714118
41 18 4
776 5 0
RUTHERFORD ALCOCK,
Consul.
hai and Foo-chow.foo will appear in our nest, and, with the other returns which have not already been published in our Overland paper, they will be given in a supplement to the paper of this month.
Gardens, some Chinainen throw stones, and the policeman was obliged to abandon los cap. tive. A strong body of police was sent dolla and all the male inhabitants of the houses captar- ed and sent before the Magistrate.
Ché che number, fifty four were without sickets, and they were scourged and sent to Cowloon as already mentioned.
These we believe to be the plain truths of the case the offence and the punishment ar stated without any exaggeration.
It is for the public to say whether this as post -whether it is politic. It is for Sir John Dâvig to consider whether auch things do, or do not, damn the reputation of his governinent.
Hongkong is, or ought to be, a thoroughfar for the native traders between Samton and the north; also a calling place for Junks to and from Macao and the northern ports. Hong. kong, from its contiguity to China and the vil. lages on the branches of the Canton river and the islands of its estuary, ought to be a place of free ingress and egress to market people and small dealers. If this system of flogging is per sisted in, no native boat will dare to visit us at all, or if they do, the crew will not land, and their purchases and sales will be restricted to their operations with the Mandarin Acqui who carries the commerce af the colony at bes belt.
We are bound to confess that the registration system is in part a failure. We were in favour of it, and we certainly still think that it might be beneficial to the colony, but it must he worked differently, So long as it is made an apology for severities such as we describe, it injurious rather than beneficial, and so long is
render men to their brother Magistrates of the Celestial empire, it is a disgrace to the colony, and gives rise to the most unpleasant suspicions, there should be no community of teching no Between our Magistrates and those of China
Trade of Our Siobjects trading to and from the aufficient surely or sureties, or such security shall port is £72,147,17, of which £67,820.1it permits the Stipendiary Magistrates to sur
Dominions of the Emperor of China. Our Go
rernor and Commander-in-chief in nad over Our Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies; or in his absence to Our Lieutenant Governor, or the Officer Administering the Government of Our said Taland and its Dependencies, for the time being, Given at Our Court of Buckingham Pa- loce this Twenty-first day January, 1846, in the Ninth year of Our Reign
WHEREAS it is necessary to provision for per- mitting and regulating Appeals to Us in Our Privy Council from the Supreme Court of Justice of Our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies Now We do hereby direct and appoint that it shall be lawful for any person er persons, being a party or parties in any Civil Suit or Action depending in the Supreme Court of Justice of Our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, to appeal to Us, Our Hoirs, and Successors, in. Cur or their Privy Council, against any final Judgment, Decree, or Bentence, or against any Rule or Order made in any such Civil Suit or Action, and having the effect of a final or definitive Sentence, and which appeals shall be made subject to the Roles and limitations following that is to say,-
First, Every such Judgment, Decree, Onier, or Bentence, from which an appeal shall be admitted 10 Us, Car Heirs, and Successors as aforesaid, shall be given or pronounced for or is respect of a Sum or Matter at issue above the Amount or Value of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling, or shall involve directly or indirectly the title to property or to some Civil right exceeding the Value of Five Hundred Pounds Sterling.
Secondly The person or persons feeling ag. grieved by such Judgment, Decree Order, or Sen- tence, shall within fourteen days next after the pame shall have been pronounced, made, or given, apply to the said Supreme Court by Petition for Trave to appeal therefrom to Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, ia Our or their Privy Council
Thirdly, If such leave to appeal shall be prayed by the party or parties who is or are adjudged to pay any Sun of Money or to perform any duty, the said Supreme Court shall direct that the Judgment Decree, ur Sentence appealed from shall be carried into execution, if the party or parties respondent shall give security for the immediate performance of any Judgment. Decree, or Sentence, which may be pronounced or made by Us, Our Heirs, and Baccessors, in Our or their Privy Council, upon any such Appeal; and until such security be given the execution of the Judgment. Decres, Order or Sentence appealed from shall be stayed.
Fourthly Provided-nevertheless, that if the party Or parties appellant shall establish to the satisfac tion of the said Supreme Court that real and subs tantial justice requires that, pending such Appeal, execution should be stayed, it shall be lawful for such Supreme Court to Order the execution of such Judgment Decree, Order, or Sentence to be stayed pending such Appealy if the party or parties appel- lant shall give security for the immediate perform. ence of any Judgement, Decree, or Sentence, which may be pronounced or made by Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, in Our or their Privy Council, upon any such Appeal.
Fifthly In all caser security shall be given by The party or partica appellant for the prosecution the Appeal and for the payment of allanch Custs may be awarded by Us Our Heirs, and Suces-
perty or parties respondent
he Count from which any such Appeal brough shail, subject to the
TentfoBro determine the na ency of the several securi.
enbeless that to any
The trade of Foo chow-foo far the year quite insignificant. The gross amount of im.
was carried away by the ships which brought it. so that the actual sales of British gands Was £4,327,15,8. The exports, in the aggregate, being £883,4,3. The Americana appear to have been more successful at this port. They imported in three ressels goods in value £11,518, 19, 10, of which £4,285.16.2egotiatious except such as are provided for yo from Hongkong, was probably on British ac- count; and their exports were £776,,5.
be pronounced or made upon such Appest, shall be either a Bond to be entered into, in the amount or value of sach subject of litigation, by one or more he given, by way of morigate or voluntary con- demnation of or upon some immoveable property situate and being within such Island, and being of the full value of such subject of litigation, ever and above the amount of all mortgages and charges of whatever nature, upon, or affecting the same.
Ninthly. The security to be given by the Party or Parties Appellant for the prosecution of the Ap peal and for the payment of Costs shall in no case exceed the sum of Three Bundred Pounds Sterl
The returns from Shanghai exhibit a great ing, and shall be given either by such Surety pr Sureties, or by such Mortgage or Voluntary con-increase--though scarcely greater than was an- ticipated. The imports for 1845 are £1,082,207 demnation as aforesaid.
against £501,835 the previous year; the exports £1,250,091 against £487,528. In cotton goods the imports exceed those of Canton. the respective quantities being, Shanghai 1,283,875 pieces, Canton 875,020. In 1844 Shanghai imported 426,568 pieces of cotton fabrics, there is therefore an increase on the year of upwards of eight hundred and fifty thousand pieces.
Tenthly, If the security to be given by the Party or Parties Appellant for the prosecution of the Ap. peal, and for the payment of auch Costs as may be awarded, shell in manner aforesaid be completed within three munks from the date of the l'etitint for leave to appeal, then, and not otherwise, the said Supreme Court shall make an order allowing such Appeal. and the party or parties appellant shall be at liberty to prefer and prosecute bis, het or their Appeal to Us, Our Heire, and Surressors. ia Our or their Party Council, in such manper and under such rules as are observed in Appeal made to Us in Our Privy Council from Our Plantations
or Culonics.
Eleventhly, Povided nevertheless, that ang par. son or persons feeling eggrieved by any order which may be made, or by any proceedings of the said Suptrine Court, respecting the secur to be taken upon any such Appeal as aforesai, stall be and is hereby authorized by his, her, or the peti- tion to Us in Our Privy Council, to apply for re dress in the premises.
Provided always, and We do further ordain, direct, and declare, that nothing bereit, contained doth or shall extend to take away or abridge the undoubled right or authority of Es, Our Heirs, Bad Successors, to admit and receive any Appeal from any Judgment. Decree, Sentence, or Order of the said Supreme Count on the humble petition of any person or persons apgriered thereby, in any case in which, and subject to any conditions or restrictions upon and ander which it may seem meet to Us, Our Heirs, an Successors, so to admit and receive any such Appeal. And We do further direct and ordain, that in all cases of Appeal allowed by the said Supreme Court, or by Us, Our fleirs, and Successors. such Court shall, on the application and at the costs of the Party or Parties Appellant, certify and transmit to Us, Our Beirs and Successors, in Our or their Privy Council, & true and exact copy of all Proceedings, Evidence, Judgment. Decrees, and Order had or roade in euch causes so appealed, so far as the same have relation to the matter of Appeal, such copies to be certified under the Seal of the said Court: And We do farther ordain and direct, that the said Supreme Court shall in all cases of Appeal to Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, conform to execute, and carry into immediate effect, such Judgments and Orders as We, Our Fleirs, and Successors, in Our or their Privy Council, shall make thereupon, in such man ner as any original Judgment of Decrees of the maid Supreme Count can or may be executed,
V. R.
(True Copy)
By Command of His Excelleney the Governor,
FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,
Colonial Secretary. Colonial Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 6th May, 1846.
England
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THE FRIED
OF CHINA
Before the departure of the mail we will en- deavour to draw up correct statistical returns of the foreign trade of China as compared with that of previous years.
Last week a correspondent, under the signa ture of An Englishman, expressed strongly his disapproval of the wholesale manner in which the Hongkong Stipendiary Magistrates inflict corporeal punishment upon the Chinese. The most trifling offence involves a sentence to fifty or a hundred strokes of the rattan. We are told by naval officers that the rattan is a much more. severe instrument of torture than the cat. Ve have never seen the cat used, nor would we voluntarily have witnessed the disgusting er. hibition of a human being writhing under the rattan. It was not a matter of choice, however, Last winter about an hour before sun-set, (the usual hom for Europeans to take exercise,) we were surprised, not to say disgusted, at a spec tacle, which for the sake of decency it is to be hoped is not often to be seen ever in Hongkong. In the Queen's road, between the foot of Pot- tinger and Cochrane streets, a poor wretch was tied up to the door post of a public house, bext to the temporary station of the police, stripped, and his back lacerated with the rattan. ask not what crime the man bad committed the punishment may have been merited-but the hour and the place of its infliction were alike offensive. When we hear that criminals are executed on the public promenades of Eu- rope, and at the hours when they are most crowded, we will have some precedent for Hongkong magisterial proceedings, but at pre. seat--thank God there is none.
We
Our correspondent has written us a second letter, which we decline, or at least defer mak- ing public. We have however enquired into the circumstances connected with the scourg ing of upwards of thirty men two weeks ago, for not having registration tickets,
An Englishman did not exaggerate this atrocions affair. The number of men flogged was precisely FIFTY POOR; but the punishment did not end with the flogging they were handed over to the tender mercies of the Cowloon Man- dario, and it is but too probable, that the flog ging in Hongkong, was but the prelude to the tragedy that followed,
We are not aware of any local law which authorizes the Stipendiary Magistrates of Hong. kong first to punuh, pad then to send thair victims to be tried by another tribunal, It is true, that by the treaty with China, we are bound to give up criminals who may have zought an asylum ja the colony, when the Chi- Them But this voluntary sur
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EXPEDITION TO BORNEO OF H. M. 8. DIDO
(Second Notice)
We left Mr Brooke at the end of 1840 in possession of the Governorship of Sarawak. His Journal describes the difficulties he had to contend with,from the presure without as well as within. The neighbouring tribes were plunder- ing his villages and he had to asks war upon them. The courts of Justice had to be re- modelled, to the great disgust of the Chiefs of Sarawak, who could not understand the prin- ciple of equal Justice for all
The Governor was successful his
measures and after an expedition againt & Dyak chief, in July we find him on his way to Borneo Proper in order to effect a reconciliation believe his friend Muda Hassin, heir to the throne, and the ruling Sultan. It was also desirable also that the Sultan should confirm Mr Brooke in his office at Sarawak. The mission was entirely
successful. The Sultan and his heir were re- conciled Mr Brooke was confirmed in lis appointment-end we ought to mention a third object of the visit the liberatio of some las- cars belonging to the ships Sultana and Lord Melbourne, which was also effected,
Last month we were informed that the Sul. tan had murdered his kinsman and made war upon Mr Brooke and as we will hear more of his crimes and his punishmennt shortly we introduce him as sketched by MrBrooke four years ago.
I may here draw a nef sketch of the principal person- agea of this nosi primitive court, beginning with it worthy head, the Sultan-
"The Salma is a man past fifty years of age, short and puty in person, with a countenance which expresses very
obviously the imbecility of his mind. His right hand is gat-
nished with an extra diminutive thumb, the natural member
being crooked and diamed Elis mind, indexed by his face.
seems to be a chaos of confusion; without acuteness, wit out dignity, and without good sense, He can neither read might be expected, are of the lower order, and mischievo bor-write; is guided by the last speaker; and his advisers, as
from their ignoranes and their greadiness. He is always talking, and generally joking; and the most serious subjoris never meet with five minutes consecutive attention. The favourable side of his character ie, that be is good.tempered and godroatured; by no-mesos cruel; and, in a certain way, generous, thongt rapacious to a high degree. - pacity, indeed, is carried to such an excess as to astonish & Europes, and is evinced in a thousand mesatare presents I made him were unquestionably hands me, but he was not content without begging from the the share i had Mr Williamson, soucited more uides, anch as suger, pe reserved for the other Pangerans; and afterwards, through
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knives, and the like. To crown all, he was incessantly ask ing what was left in the vessel; and when told the truth- that I was stripped as bare as a tree in winter-he frequent- ly returned to the charge. In the middle of the night when qur boat came up with some gift for him, he slipped out his royal person, that he might see what packages there were must Ees, bowever, that this wee asi jatended for sto koow end, personelly, he did not beture very ill towards me, only dunning me occasionally. le regard to the Se- awak revonnue, he was eager in his inquiries; and wak ready, on the strength of his thousand dollars, and my generosity, to give me a list of things which amounted to 10,000 dollars in value. I may note one other feature which marks the mea. He requested, es the greatest is roll-b urged with the earnestness of a child, that I would send back the schooner before the month Rembar (Raden of without soft suger and daise?" What effect the exaggera the Turkey Jemarking, What shall I do during the fe
promises of Mr de Bouze must have had on such a temp may readily be imagined; and wbas ibè erit infuence of anch a prince on the country, used not be stated; for, Bike us : foole, he is difficult to guide where the phject is right, d facila whenever it promises any immediate adractege will ou add, that during my intercoures of sir days, be bas and any rate, und Battery and bad counsel have deprived given me the impression that he is nos in his right rand¦ him of the lala wit be might probably siginally kave pos-
Of Pengeran Mumin, the De Gedong and the Sakan son-in-law, i know, hue ad he is, in secret, & most diere? tuned upposer of mine 1 but I believe he, a well sa most, rene deercous of being rood friends with the English, and will
readily linen to whores which promise increas trada. He seemed to me a shrewd, caning man, fit for s Nekodat
Da Paugeran Usop se a man of middle age, short, setire, and tus, prisoner at
intelligent and, I may add, ambitious Pangeran Media Hassin will throw himself into the arms of the English, fram tality, and from the hope of a better order of things,
near Spring hie
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