ES & BIGHAM.
OF THE NAVY.
Bitons for sale by the every description. MACKAY & Ca
NOTICE
MARY WOOD
adian Gauze Under-shirts ufactured expressly for this tablished house of J. & R. gham. For sale by
Victoria, 19th June 1848,
F. FUNCK
JUST RECEIVED per Bangalore a consign ment of superior Trish Lens from the house
of S H. Mulholland & Hinds of Belfast,
ALBO
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
FOR SALE.
N Improved Letter Copying machine and ma- A hot stand by Royston & Brown, Lot don) complete, with Ink Books, Foolscap, Post and Folio Copping Paper & &c. Apply to,
Ma C. MARKWICK
Pottinger Street,
Victoria, 10th June 1940.
FOR BASE.
Feel gave it as inestimable recommendation to the
Protectionists,
ists, and ensured their support of it.
Thus the Carfew Bill exists upon its detriment to the Corn Bill. Locking up is so thoroughly its business that even before it has life as law, it looks up the Corn Bill. Even in embryo it sounds the curfew to free trade, The artifice of Sir Robert Pool has proved of that unluckly class practised by Little Lage and Marplot; and the contriver, in the midst of his success finds himself also in the most N excellent Horse, Gig and Harness, to be sech ludicrous entanglement. If he insists on the prio. rity of the first reading of the Curfew Bill, there is at Jones's Livery Stables.
an indefinite delay of the Corn Bill, for the settle. Victoris, 26th June, 1848.
ment of which the country is so justly impatient; and in default of which all interests are gravely suf fering. If he cuts the knot, and postpones the Cur No few Bill, be loses the only support by which he can carry it, and must abandon the measure. less, indeed, this would be; but a sore wound to Sir Robert's pride, and a grievous discredit to a Minis Yet this, after try which has no credit to spare. all, is the best way out of the difficulty, the retreat- with the loss of the impedimenta, being preferable to fixture in the Caudine Forks.
NOTICE.
LL parties indebted to the British Queen" A Tavern, are requested to pay the same; and parties having claims will send them in forthwith for settlement. The partnership is dissolved from
this date.
WILLIAM SAGE.
Victoria, 22 June, 1846. MERY, FRASER & Co., inform the Co EM A few dozen of beautiful Damask Table Nap-munity of Hongkong, that they have a hore
SHORE and FARRIER lately arrived, and though the establishment is rather distant from the centre i
IND
The Times well counsels
We often join in the grumblings at the man ment of the navy, but maintaining still bust is are occasions and opportunities of improvem is our thorough conviction that the two ser were never in a higher state of efficiency an never were there in them so many abi ng lous men devated to their professions, and than
The last example of what ghly skilled in them they can do we rate of inestimable value av. as regards the safety and peace of the i dup pire, but as it must tend to discourage the proper sity to war in other parts of the world. Engla has her share of faulis; she is overbessing proad, and much too proud for vulgar blue; b people who have draws false inferences irats
carrect their mistake oo seeing how the acqui disdaining to play the braggart, will have learnt herself when reluctantly forced into quarrel- might she exerts with such wondrous cave--t mettle that works miracles, like that of the here. who marched up to the Sikh tele de pont, verille. the fre of two tiers of admirably served cannon. t.
when reut by the storm of round abot and grape if in parade order, halting to close up their ma and toiling through nearly a mile of houry stud, bs if they bad nothing to do with but the dased vantages of the ground, and the shot and shell wetu
correctness of the line. Rich as are our annar war in all circumstances of conduct and bean we question whether they present day equal Luton gallant exploit, in which the native truppe so i gely and gloriously shared.
A small assortment of Ladies Figured Silk dres the town, Gentlemen may rely on having their The thing of course cannot be done before Easter, but it may nothing to them except as they they deranged the
horse faithfully and expeditiously shod ses of various colors, and elegant patterns.
Opposite the Catholic Burying Ground,
Victoria, 19th June 1846.
HATS.
F. FUNCK.
ONDON made black Hats of a superior quali
F. FUNCK. For sale by
LONDO
M
Victoria, 19th June 1846.
IR FUNCK has this day opened a Show-room In addition to his shop, and has op view a quantity of English made furniture consisting of
Sideboards,
Plain and Figured Horse Hair Couches, ChiBaniers
Reclining Chairs with marocco backs and seats, Chandeliers,
And a few pairs of mirrors in elegant gilt frames. Victoria, 26th May 1845.
RS. COOMBS beg to inform the Ladies of Hong MR kong that she has taken the premises adjoin ing the Hongkong Register Office, which bare this day been opened as a Millinery and Dress-Making establishment, and ventures to solick a portion of patronage, which it will be her endeavour, by punc 1uality and attention, to deserve.
Queen's Road, 26th May 1845-
MR
RS COMBS has for Sale at er millinery and dress making establishment, adjoining the Honghong Register office :-
Braided and Tooked Jacoonet and Boot Muslin Robes, Embroidered Tarlington
ransparent
Gallaren Worked Frocks.
do.***
do.
Je and Book maslla Insertion and Edging. Frenchmen, Wreaths, Bonnets, and Bonnet Caps. Dreas and Press Caps, Ribbons.
Lace Collars, shes and Manties. Wide nett, Lace rigid, &c., &c. Victoria, 2nd June 1846.
NOTRE
SMITH & BRIMELOW is respectfully to intimate to the Merchants of Toria, that they bars taken those dry and commoğlu downa in Keying House, where they shall be most happy to reseve Goods on Storage upon moderate
term
Victoria, 6th May 1848.
SODA WATER
AND
RATED LEMONADE,
то be obtained at the manufactory of the under
signed.
SMITH & BRIMELOW.
June 23rd 1846.
CHIPPING ARTICLES, according to the re cent act (Victoria 7 & 8) for sale at this office, Office "Friend of China," Victoria, 10th October, 1815. Ì
INGUISTS REPORTS and NAVY BELLS for sa
at this Office.
Office Friend of China, 28th Dec., 1944. BILLS OF LADING FOR THE OVERLAN
ROUTE.
"It is not, however, too late for him to retrage ble steps and disentangle bioself from the net of his own weaving. after. Next Monday week let the Government est to work in good sarnest, determined to pass the Corn Bill in spite of everything and to the exclusion of everything. Do not fear the cry of Ireland in danger.' There is no justice in it, for the repeal of the Curn Laws is an Irish measure as well as an English one. You are not disregarding the trus interests of Ireland when you offer the boon of cheaper food and un- shackled commerce. If the great measure were other than it is,if it were less humane, less comprehensive, less uni versal, and, therefore, less Irish, it might be another matter. But we know that it is all these, and the best proof that it is is the conduct of the Irish members themselves. Have they not all deciated to a man that they will assist the Minis ir to pass the Corn Bill, and have they not done so until this one discordant element was introduced amongst them in. deed, it needs no argument to prove that the repeal of the Corn Laws is of fur greater importance to Ireland, in every We therefore conjure to edendos,
02464*y.
He has thrust aside the Corn Bill to make
cannot make way for itself. The Irish debate, he may be There
POR sale at this office, four forms of bills of lag point of view, than a Coercion Bill, however ostensibility ne ing for goods of spese shipped by the P. & speed, the novice determination. He must see that Company's Steam packets. Is for goods deliver. it is unwise.
way for the Coercion. Bill, and now he finds that the latter able at London; 2nd for goods deliverable at Southampton; 3rd for goods deliverable at Size, will be interminable; Irish debates always are. 4th for goods deliverable at intermediate poss They are printed after the Company's forms on Bank post.
Office "Friend of China" |
25th October, 1845,
}
OR SALE. At the office of this paper.
Compradores cheque books.
Ships Articles, with an abstract of the mercha seaman's uct endorsed on the back.
Charterparties. after forms by Chitty. Powers of Attorney, after forms by Chitty. Bills of Lading, Chinese Tariff of imports, and exports, counting houseS.
(From the Examiner, April 11.) THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.
Hoc nge, says the Latin terim: "One thing at a time," The English but not so acts Sir Robert Peel. Ben he found that he did not get on quick. ly caugh with one measure, he introduced another. More powder more kill," argues the avage; and the more business the more dispatch seem? o have been the similar logic of Sir Robert Peol.
He appears to have thought that the House was
te no security for us that, if these are to have precedence, the months. How ridiculous, then, would be the Premier's po sition at the end of the session! A broken party, loss of power,
ass of milucave, loss of character, and all for nothing
Corn Bill will be read a third time before this day thres
ENGLAND'S LOVE OF PEACE AND
READINESS FOR WAR.
TRE AMERICAN SENATE AND THE CREPAN M: Polk backs out of going for the "whole Ore gon." The southern democrats have, at setze protested against being dragged into a war witi. Britain for the honour and glory of some barren degrees of latitude, And Mr Palk declares that he never went for the whole Oregon from his own
judgment, but because be felt bound to its a condi tion imposed upon him by the Baltimore Conven- tion. The Southerns and the Westerns have the
refore gone to loggerheads as to the true interpreta- tion of the Oregon clause of the Bulumyse d'ra- xention. Mr Heywood, senator for North Carolina, has declared that by the re-occupation of the Ore god" mentioned in the Baltimore Convention, more of the Oregon than to the 49th degree could not tại meant, for no American foot had ever been north of *. To this Mr Honnegan, member for Indiana, replied, that the terme of the Baltimore Convenion tied the President down to insist on 54 der. 40 min. latitude as a frontier, and that if he abandoned in "he would meet with infamy so profound, and daina. tion so deep, that the resurrection trumpet would noi wake him."
The language of Mr Polk's friend, Heyward, was equally strong. Mr Allen, the great champion fus all the Oregon, having declared, that England would never go to war for any degree of latitude. Ms fleywood thus addressed him,If you were
There is not a country in the world so desirous of peace as England, and that there is none better pre pared for war the brilliant campaign on the Sutlej most strikingly shows. It is clear that our arms have not rusted in peace, and that the service was never in a higher state of efficiency. And this ob servation does not apply merely to the fucces in a Wherever our sw. part of our immense empire. diers and sailors have been put to the trial, the same prowess has been manifested with the same glorian Englishman, and it was proposed to kick you pas and rapid success. In China, in Syria, in Scinae, aut in the retrievement of the Afghan di sasters, they have proved themselves irresistible, and it has been in avven vi vänmph There have been no protracted wars; no batres ampaigns; England has only had to stretch out her arm to
strike, and the foe has been crushed.
We have seen gigantic Russin opposed for two years by feeble Turkey, we have seen ber defied and
out of a territory (north of 49 deg) which you had occupied exclusively for forty years, would you not fight, sir? This argumentum gå hominem seemed to convince the Benate that Great Britain would fight. And Mr Allen exclaimed against the excrement as a British zot up thing
In fact, the poor whole Oregon" men are desent ed by everybody end no one seems more anxious to shake them off has M
to be loaded and discharged like a pop-gun, is which repulsed by the petty robber chief of Khire, and be for 54 deg. 40-min who, however he may
one pelles is made to drive out another. fut the por-gun won't go off. The bulls only stick in the
barrel.
From the moment when the Preoler began to bestir himself with special energy to expedie mat- ters, there was an end of progress. It was most provoking to see the complacent alacrits and actigi- No 1 and 2 Woosnam's Buildings, corner of Potty with which he put the cart before the horse, and Unger Birset,
the knowing emphatic air with which he then began to crack his whip, and to exbort to speed, as if he JUST landed the Adersigned, a stall Invoice had put things in the finest train for mavement that the wit of man could have contrived. The cart before the horse, howover, does not budge an inch; and the horse, in answer to the cracks of the whip, asks as plainly as a horse can speak to chage places with the cart; but no says Sir Robert Peel, it is a mater of eliquette that it should be so, and the cart must go before the horse one stage, only one stuge, and then the horse is to have his turn.
ex " " for sale at the
of J & W Bridges London Pale Ale in cases of 4 dozen each,
AISU,
A fine assortment of Oilman's stares, ex Alfred,
SMITH & BRIMELOW.
2nd June 1846. Woosham's Buildings,
A
FOR SALE.
FEW boxes of cold pressed Sperm Candles,
at the Stores of
SMITH & BRIMELOW. Wooanam's Buildings, Victoria, 12th May 1846.
bending her power for years against the Circassians, who have held her at arm's length, often defeating her, and in her small successes leaving her little to
boast.
as a theory, declares himself, through his parliamentary friends, to be practically ready to negotiate upon 49 deg. And his anxiety seems to be to get Great Britain to make sone orw offer of negotiation upon this basis. The end would be, no doubt, the passing of Mr Colquitt's motion. C giving notice for the cessation of the Gore.cor, accompanied by a recommendation to settle the stor tion by compromise, ma⠀
France in Algeria presents another example, Whole armies have been absorbed there. A deluge of blood has been wasted like water spilt in the des sect. It is the vain labour of the Danaides, with this difference, that the sieves are to be filled with; blood. The work is for ever to begin again; victo ry and disaster taking their tarns without end; siring a compromise, without it a war Adel-Kader crushed for over one day, and making, infallibly take place at the same time. head again the next.
Tet in Algeria France has a terrible military school. It has been described as the soldier mill, into which three men are put and growed into one doughty warrior. It might be supposed that there was nothing that such an army could not effec but yet they effect nothing-nothing decisive, It is quite pileous now to hear the Premier's prey. True, they have an elusive enemy to deal with, ers and entreaties for the first reading of his Co-and when they beat the Arabs it is like threshing ercion Bill. It stops the way, let it but be moved on a step, says he, and we will rattle on with (pe Corn Bill. But who put it in the way? It is as esty for you to back it, as for the Irish to consent to advance but then the etiquette of attection, as it WE
VE the undersigned have formed a Partnership comes from the Lords And Sir Robert Peel holds for the transaction of a General Agency, forth about the necessity under which be lies of ge Auction and Commission business, at Vilcoria Blonging a certain treatment to a bill coming down from kong, under the Firm of DRINKER & HEYL.
the Lords, precisely as if it was a dispensation it which he had no part but obedience. But fills do not come down from the Lords, as stones now and then fall from the clouds. Bilh do not come down from the Lords without hands, expecially Coercion Bills, which, as a late Lord Mayor used to say, are, awfully provided with clawa,
NOTICE,
S. DRINKER. Wx. S. HEYL
Victoria March 2nd 1846.
FUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE.-2 of
JUST
Farnams Pattern Force Pumps, suitable for raising water to any part of a House, and equally useful in case of Fire; also a quantity of Lead Pipe and Flanges for connecting the same, Ap-
DRINKER & HEYL
28th Ma 1846,
jstorm. May
and for sale, a few cases of supe.
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gir Robert Peel had taken his steps to bring it down. The bill came down from the Lords precisely as Whatever necessity came with the bill was of the Premier's own making.
In Lover's Birth of St Patrick the question hotly discussed whether the clock was top fast or the babby too slow, and some blamed the baljby, and some blamed the clock, but there can be rig soch dispute in this case the blame ca bly be thrown on the b
P
come
ass
Mr Calhoun very plainly stated his reeennus a l
1 (
cans, with British officers, would ass feesive from the south; the British them bes [9092 the north; the Indians, as allies, from a w Steamers along the sea coast and on diaken fact, Mr Calboan conjured up horrid bello on every side, Would it not have been adden to in troduce these probabilities earlier in the Jispute? stead of legislators by their bluster exciting bes President on one side to menase, and the peopl the other to agitate, and thus excite gratumush many difficulties which have arisen in the w
peace.
Mr Heywood, in the course of his ev compromise, spoke singular language for of the democratic party. He upbraider appealed to public opinion, or brought popul voice to bear upon a question of dip is ne intion. Fle said, that the people what I treaty-making power, and could ne with such a prower without disturbing a Garmin it. All this is very trae, very orthodox but remot oad from a member of the Baltimore Conven and of that party which carried Mr Polk's plan, and threw our Clay by raising a popular clamo for Texas and for the Oregon.
water. We do not deny the peculiar difficulties, though we have a notion that if England had chosen to encounter them; she could have found better methods of coping with them but let the causes of the failure of the French be what they may there stands the example of her long losses and miscarriages in comparison with England's instant successes, wherever the power of her symme has been put forth. Let it be that England makes better choice of her objects; that she does not in volve herself in schemes of conquest beyond her strength; such explanation is praise enough, which assigns to ber the armed wisdom of which Fallaa was the type Whatever the occasions ure, there are always the conduct and courage to meet them ingloriously returned to Preporucnate indeed and the sword is not long out of the scabbard, nor to the reluctance with which it is drawn, is the dazzling rapidity with which it performs its task
And most satisfactory it is to note that no love of war, no lust for conquest, grows upon these sur cessos. The nation, proud as it is of its triumphis, prizes them most as securities for future peace, not be encouragements to war. The public is never proach to freer trads. If so, the Whigs will after more pacific in its dispositions and aspirations than all, be the conquerors and the gaiter. nl the sincessful termination of bostilities
The split between the Southerns and the Weste: may lead to serious consequences, and may ne embarrass the President. Since the Both refu to support Western extravagance with regard to Oregon, the We may in return refuse to supp Southern efforts for the relaxation of the anfi; or 1 thus the session may pass awry without e red an **
though defeated on the affair of Texas:
And al-
SAILOR,
It is not for vain-glorious boast that we have they will have gained their pre other 8
at point, made the comparison between the repid achieve of preventing a war for the Oregon, and of beep. ments of England and the protracted wars and iming up unmodified the prohibitive tariff
the last twent
It is astonishing how often it happen in Ame
rica that the pasty beaten in the plections will TAN-
principles and mes, while
The election 2 triumph Yasunder quarrel outright, and hos lum they thought achered, st popular repetion and deches
Friend
Profiled by Jon Can
Printing Offer, Gopen Sykerty VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 1846,
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