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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

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asured him that he was; and the scene closed with the cheers.

All this was very absurd; but it serves to indicate the feeling of personal bitterness entertained by come at least of the Protectionist party towards Sir

Pect. For did the ridiculous-squabble and here. - At the close of the debate, Col. Peel went over to Mr D'Israeli, and informed him that he was ready to affirm what his brother would not, that Mr Dis reeli had slated what was false. The affair was immediately placed in the hands of mutual friends of Lord G. Bentuck by Alr D'Israeli, and Capt Roues by Cole Peel. The result was, that the intr was very properly compelled to withdrew has oilonsive expressions and to apologise-and so the

etter terminated.

THE SHORT TIME BILL. The supporters of the Ten Hours Billares me

Whigs who are abrils. heterogeneous collection. hing restrictions on commerce are for extendica restrictions on industry. Lord John Russell de factories, 93 he once sought comm the exception t the rules of economy ; but the time will come whch he will discover that protection is the tone of industry as well as of agricature. Tories mote consistently ergue for interference, and of both parties are many benevolent men whose zeal for the working classes out on their prudence. Bu besites these is no inconsiderable number of f tectionists, sare of whoqa vote for the Factory B out of enmity to the Ministry, and others who sais this opportunity, as they phrase it, "of paying t The list beat kunw Gunt the manufacturers"

Their object is airberus, but they are about:

everybody fra expec The debate was provoke Irish members, almost- arareilly the this purpose of wasting time. This is the tactie 5 which they hope, and with every apparent probabi lity of success, to defeat the Coercion Bill alge that period there have been ther in quite clear that they can continue t of Gambier plantations of delay it at every stage for so long a time that either Chinese industry, under the session will be exhausted, or the Ministry be ultan has been exeressad

up before it can poss through commition. The tao ang all has remarkable desire of discussion has been the view of aforag to immigration, the Stran the speech of Sir R. Peel, delivered on Tuva lay retail sau of Opam and sprits night; and that was perhaps even more remarkable put an mcreasing revenue at be for a luculental allusion to the Carn-bit, then for

Another episode decurred in the parliamentary manifest injury of Singapore, and any new light thrown by the miqjster upon his fr here have no power to prevent itture policy towards Ireland Sir R. Peel, indeed, proceedings, which ended in some degree to relieve

Our readers are aware ir means are not ill chosen.

With such a misture of motives, the best and e e checked by timeously resorting to addressed a very emphatic and significant warning the monotony of the dub so.

worst, is this bill supported, and the result in hkely yetem of farming monopoly. To to the Irish landlords, but he gave no indication of that Mr S. O'Brien who may be regarded as the has the rising sival at Johore affected any messures being in the contemplation of Gov-hair pressmptive to M3 O'Connell's sceptre, inti thal we understand the Farmers have ernment with a view to adjust the relations of land- mated his intention not to serve upon any railway to be the defeat of the Ministry by a agony be their doabi lord and tenant. Our readers will recollect that in committer, assigning as a reason, that be came overving no che point of agreement but the wise ter overnment and declared their lity to meet the monthly demands for rental of the consequence of ministers so pertinaciously adhering to England only for the purpose of attending to Irish ulion to diminish the productive power of the ce mphopoly, in consequence of the declining dom and

to their intention of having the Coercion Bill read a business, and that for him to take part in English mufacturers a sixth. for Opam and Spirits occasioned by the Sultan's first time, notwithstanding the delay which it beca. business, would be so for a violation of his principis, that each asuntry ought to be left to manage its engaging in the Trade Within the last week we stoned to the progress of the Cora Bill, they wate hear that six Chests of Opium and 50 leaguers of taunted with duplicity, and doubts were thrown upon own affairs. In fact Mr O'Brien intended that his Arrack were purchased by the Sultan for the pur- the sincerity of their Free Trade polies Specula-refusel should be considered in the light of a plea to pose of being retailed at Johore, and as the means of tions were also aftust as to the probability of the jurisdiction of the British legislature. Accord. communication between Singapore and Johore are compromise being proposed in the House of Lords] ingly, no order having been served upon Mr S. easy and quick, we may exp ct to see a still further and accepted by the Government. Sir Robert Peat O'Brien, to attend and serve upon a certain com. Com decline of the value of the Farms, and possibly be took occasion in the course of his spech upon the mittee, he refused. The Chairman of the

mittee stated the case to the house. A motion was called upon to pay an additional rate of assessment Coercion Bill, to refer to those injurious rumours, to meet the deficiency that will ensue.--Straits and declared emphatically that he would not listed made and carried, that Mr O'Brien was guilty of Tipce, July 1,

to any compromise, should it be proposed This contempt." The house proceeded with great con- is important as it affects the course to be taken by sideration for its rebellious member, by declining to Mr O'Brien, how the House of Lords. It is now perfectly well adopt any immediate measure known, indeed it bas been announced by the Noble ever, was inflexible. Ele refused to give way, and Lord himself, that Loid Stanley will give the Corn accordingly he was on Thursday night committed Bill every opposition in his power in the House of to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms. He is at Lords. Had there been any chance of the adoption present in durance, and is likely to stay there dur It has been remarked by Ministers of a fixed-duty compromise, we haveing the rest of the session. little doubt that it would have been adopted by the--and by some of Mr O'Brien's friends with cou. House of Lords. But now that is is chrions the siderable bitterness, that O'Connell, and J. O'Con. any interference with the Bill will lead to the break.nell, who originally adopted the same course that up of the Government and a dissolution of Parlin Mr O'Brien did, and who indeed may be said to be ment, the impression gains ground every day, that responsible for the proceedings of that gentleman, the Lords rather than provoke such a result, will very prudently obeyed the summons of the chair

Lord Stanley's oppo-

man of committees, and notwithstanding their ex- accept the measure as it is. sition therefore is not very likely to lead to say pressed determination to the contrary, have served

regularly since the beginning of the session. practical result,

JAYA.

The Dutch Steam Vessel Konigen der Nederlan den, arrived here on the evening the 30th ultim having left Batavia on the 25th ul

The Governor General took his departure from Batavia on the 23rd ult, in the Steamer Merapi, for Sourabaya, in order that he might be near the scat of war. He was expected to return to Batavia in aboul twenty days. No accounts had been received es to the progress of hostilities in Bally, but at Be tvia there is rather a desponding feeling on the sub ject. An absurd sumour had got abroad that the Balinese wereto receive assistance from the English atingapore This shews that people in Batavia must be ignorant of the existence of an Act of the Legislative Council of India which would render the empt to give such aid, directly or indirectly, na ex- tremely hazardous proceeding. This act, which is No of 1839, provides that" whoever, within the settlement of Prince of Walas Island, Singapore & Malacca, wages was against the Government of sny Power in alliance or at peace with the Government of the Territories of the East India Company, or at- tempts to wages such war, or by instigation, can spiracy, or aid, knowingly abes the waging of such war, or makes, or by instigation, coaspiracy, or aid in supplying or selling arms, equipments, or other- we, knowingly abets the making of any prepara- tion to commit depredations on the Territories of any such Power, shall be guilty of felony, and be able to transportation, for any term not exceeding four toon years, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding ten years." This act was intended at the time of is passing to prevent eid being given from Pinang to the Malays in their attempte to wrest Kedah from the Siamese burit would apply to any one in the Straite Seulements guing assistance to the Balinese so the Dutch netd Бе under no apprehension of their foes receiving aid from this quarter.

The new Recipiesen have already begun to be forged several forgeries of different amounts h

hav. ing been discovered. The author or authors are not yet known, but in the event of being found out a severe example will be made,

It is said that the Governor General amongst other extensive plans intends to erect Sumatra into a separate Government, as he has done Bornes, and that the Moluccas are to be made free ports. If this Last de true. L shews & a rapid adsancement in liberali ty of opinion, es such a proposition a few years ago would have shook the Council board at Buitenzorg with consternation and dismay. We are glad hpy ever that the Dotch possessions in the East are likely to bement by the introduction of the liberal principles of commerce which are beginning to be so prevalent in Europe and elsewhere, and no doubt they will reap large advantages from it. We should like to pee Java iself made the scene of

some of these changes, but we suppose it will all come in good time. The Batavia Races took place on the 5th and 6th ult. The sport was not very first rate, several of the hories falling lame, and the racing being in general very poor. The old Singapore racer, Lord Bnteman, ably maintained his former character in his new sphere, carrying off the Governor's Cup. The Face Hall was numerously attended and kept up with great spifi, until about & d'clock on Sunday morning

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The Sir Charles Forbes a Swedish vessel bound from Manila to Sweden, was obliged to put into Batavia, with six best of water in her hold. Part of her cargo of augar has been sold.

Accounts had been received at Bataria of a me shipwreck which had taken place in Tor

d of which we have gathered the fo- loge. appears that the ferone Laing on, while proceed ain coupany with the resool, struck upon a shoal

the boats. Two Catholic

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Some little apprehension was created at the be ginging of the week that the Bill was running some risk from another cease-no other than a coalition of Protectionists and Irish Repeaters. Mr Smith O'Brien addressed a communication to Lord George Bentinck, the Protectionist leider in the House of Commons, to know whether that statesinan and his party would consent to a mation for opening the The of Irish ports immediately for three mombs. f-ct of such a mesme, if not its object, being to

throw the Government Corn Bill over. Lord

George Bentinck, of course, eagerly caught at the proposal. The good sease however of some of Me O'Brien's friends, alr O'Connel ainengst the number, prevented it from ting made, and the only result of the move was to exhibit the lengtus in which both parties are prepared to go in order to Sustained as gt is holy embarress the Governinus

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The most important business that has been trang- acted in Parliament since our last, has been with reference to railways. Measures have been intro duced into both Houses of Parliam at with a view to facilitate the dissolution of railway companies, the majority of whose shareholders wish to wind up their affiirs. Such measures were imperatively called for by the state of railway property-and they have been received with very great satisfaction by a

Owing to the imperfections in the site of class--5. the law, the imineuse number of simreholders who hd iveaued their capital in railway undertakings, and who saw before then nothing buta prospect of loss from their worrying out of their schemes, were unable to withdraw from those unpromising specu- latrons, Tusobject of the Governorm interference is simply to enable such parties to abanden under. takings, in which they had no longer confidence. ever by the steady and earnest support & the Li-Already are pa, ties preparing to take advantage of berul party there is so danger of its being trapped this eneficii privilege to an extent that will reduce up in the House of Creations and the Corn Bill those railway enterprizes that were projected upon so gigantic a scale with Something liks reason. shall have been fairly disposed of

able dimensims An incident. less impurtant though! rather more

in another part of our paper will exciting, serves to indicate the feeling at present be found in outline of the Parliamentary proceed. entertained by the Protectionist party Towards Sirings since our last publication, in which there is no Robert Peal. In the course of the discussion that thing that calls for further notice here. arose upon Mr O'Brien's proposition to Lord George Bentinck, Mr Cobden dwelt with much force upon the joutility of attempting to defeat the Corn Bill, now public opinion had settled the ques tion this was cheered by Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham. Sir D'Israeli, replied to Mr Cob den, and in the course of his reply remarked with accustomed bitterness that Sir Robert Peel has cheered Mr Cobden when he, in the course of bis speech defined the people of England to be those who lived in the towns 1 repeat it," said Mr D'leraeli, "that the right honourable gentleman immediately cheered that definition of the people. The cheer came from the same right honourable gentleman who one was so proud of being the head of the gentleman of England."

Sir Robert Peel-I totally deny it." (Land cheers.

Mr D'Israeli- The right honourable gentleman totally denies it. If he means to say that anything

stated is false, of course Lkit dawn,”

And down be set.

A numerous meeting assembled in Exeter Ball, on April 29, to take measures for promoting the abolition of ponishment by death. A large body of, members of that worthy community, the Society of Friends, was present and the interest of the subject proved sufficient to level for the inament all diffe. rences of religion, politice, or class, in arraying sude by side on the platform, Lord Nagent, Messrs Bright, O'Connell, Ewart, Fox, and H. Vinent, and the Fers Mortimer, Cainpbell and Candlian, The assembly was enthusiastic and almost unanim. ous-tho sulitary exception appearing to be the owner of one voice in the crowd who enquired what other remedy could be adopted. Lord Nugem who was speaking at the the. replied by a meta- phor, "If the gallons caused an intense of crime, they were a poison, and if he told any one that what he was about to drink, was poison, that person had no right to ask him whái diệt le should live проп for the rest of his life."

The following resolution was moved by Mr There was a portentous si O'Connell, and is curious from the singular associa. lence for a few minments, then an attempto renestions which involuntarily arise with certain other the discussion, and then Air Newdegate rose to in sentiments of the honorable member expressed ba lerrogate, Sir Robert Peel as to whether he stated fore a different and forg that an assertion made by an honourable member in his place, was fulae.

Sir Robert Peet explained what he had said reference to the imputation of cheering a particul expression. What I said of the imputation wall that I totally deny it. The tonourable Mentlige for Shrewsbury said, that I had cheered a particular expression of the honourable Member for Stock. port-namely, that the towns had a right to dictate to the country party, and that I succeed bist definition of the word people. I said I totally deny it."

Mr Peter Bortlich regretted that Sir Robert Prel did not take the opportunity of Mr D'Israeli's were sitting down, to make the statement be had now same done. (Oh Oh Major, Macnamara thought was the explanation sulbeint, Lord George Bentinck retirked feat there was noviously same mistake: here would be an end of any feeling en

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Lord Jolin Manners thinks it very inconsistent in the manufacturers to oppose the reduction ad their working time at the moment when they are exposed to foreign competition. He tauntingly re minds them of their readiness to give up protection. and asks them where is their courage now

We can are no sort of inconsis. hours'limitation? shrinking from competition subject to the rea tency in this. A man may reasonably say, I do not want your shield, but do portie my hands; leave me flee to fight my battle without favour of "hindrance,"

Lord John Manners looks forward to some time protec.

when he can consent to the abolition of the five system; but what would he think of the argu- ment that because he dispenses with protection, and brares competition, he must be bound to give up a sixth of his estate 7 The mill-owners' and the spinners' time-is as much their estate as the lands of Belvoit are the estate of the Duke of Ratland;

a sixth of their properties, on the plea of improving and it would be as just to take from the landlords the lot of the agricultural labourers, as to take from mill-owners a sixth of their working time, on the same pretence of benefit to their operanves. But in the one case the advantage so obtained would be real; in the other, it is illusory; for with the sixth of the mill owners productive hours, must go the sixth, at least, of the operatives' wages, <

Mr W. Cooper warns the house that, if they da not legidate on this subject, the work people may be made to feel that their only resource is in strikes. There is not the least ground for this apprehension. People never have, and never will strike for the diminution of their wages. The wisdom of the Legislature alone is capable of that explit,

- Mr Labouchure, in his sensible speeh, menti, u- ed this highly significent fact:

There was no instance to be found in which a

workman had left his work in a twelve-hours

bapr lactory in order to go to an eleven hour mil. If such were the feelings of the working cla-ses, why attempt to legislate on the sulijter? He held In his hand a letter from Mr William Gregg, stab-

the result of an experiment on the eleven hours' system in his brother's factory of Manchester. positive luss (Hear. hear I was four that a attended the sacrifice of the hour, and Ali Gregg, therefore, proposed to share this loss with his work- men, by reducing their wages to the extent of the Yalue of half an hour's pay, and to take the other half bour as his share of the loss The work people universally rejected the proposeal, preferring twel ve hours' work at full wages to eleven and & lislf haurs' work at any reducido, however sinall."

The restric-

We do not deny the desirableness of shorter pe riod of labour what we contend is, that it should be left to the employer and the employed to adjust the matter; and ther the Legislature is sinning against pinciple in laying restrictions on industry and forbidding poople to work and capitalists to make full prout of their machinery

on already exists, it is srid; so do the other res trictions on industry, exiled protective as falsely as the short time project is so described; but the exis fence of the nuisance, rastead of being an argument for extention, only raises the ery for abolition. The commencement which the Legislature has made in meddling with factories cannot warrant advances, it being evident that every farther step made must go towards the quick of industry.

Law cannot make industry, Parliament, in its boasted omnipotence, ogonul mako industry; bot it may mar it, and past repair.

When we think of the hundreds of thousands dependant in this country on the prospersky of our manufactures, how serious is the reflection that all thie gigantic and yet delicate machinery may be That in the opinion of this meeting, no fallible jeopardized by few scores of idle gentlemen not tribonal should be lutrusted with the power of in knowing what they are aboot, meaning reatly well, ficting an irrevocable punishment, that awful in- but not seeing the inevitable elects of their pre stanges of the sundemnation. And execution of injects And how provoking it is to hear a mere ocent men, convicted upon what appeared at the gedy of their number buzzing out this kind of me the clearest evidence, prove the fallibility of self glorification about doings which may take the the best constituted courts, and the the necessity of bread from the mouths of thousands adopting soma punishment, which may be reculled I accept this bill Bays Lurd Jobs Manners, in the event of subsequent proof of the innocences An earnest of our return to a good, paternal, of the supposed criminal, in place of punish and patriarchal form of govenment, and as a beanst ment which takes away that which man is power. under which Whigs like Lord Grey, Tories like leas to restore, nnd consigns to a premature end a helpless fellow.heing thus closing the gates of mercy which God would leave will open, and shortening the time for repentance which he would still extend.**

self, Chartists like Fergus O'Connor, and Rs. dicals like the honourable member for Finsbury - (Hear, hear) my combine and unite for the com mon good of our common country-28 an earnest that the day is not far distant when the working men of England will be enabled to regard the House of Coninces with feelings of trust and gru- flude "-(Bear, fear ).

The Foreign Intelligence of the last fortnight is pot of much milerext. The revali in Gallica, three ens to spread and to afford a basis of operations to the disuffered in other parts of Spain - NAUTAGE 18 Whigs like Lord Grey, and Tories like himself! on the frontier watching for the best favourable op. Here as a pretty flight of the concert which in

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