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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

of the 42nd M. N.1 and the company of Ma the conduct of our Authorities with the doc dras Arullery, formerly garrisoned on that is trines they profess. They tell their papils to Chusan has been nominally handed over "keep holy the Sabbath day"--and the pupus to the Chinese the Mandarins having assum-point with derision to the building where & all their former duties they are extremely large concourse of people are met to show kori to formiguers.

their disregard for the Sabbath—and to add in the confusion of the teacher, they inform t that am Christian Rulers sanction this desecre tion-pay, for what we know, that they sell the privilege of insulting the religion they pro fess to believe.

id.

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10 20 73

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of Baroinster. | Maxx | Miu. | Hay

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70 88 82 85.5 8.9.W.

29 75 80 83 857

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4.5

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Fore part fuc; latter, bazy with Rain.

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NOTICE,

Fine, clear,

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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER FOR THE WEEKENDING, 18ru JULY, 1846.

Thermometer

Winds

VECTORIA,

HONGEONG,

New advertisements, will be received, until 4; O'Clock, on the evenings previous to publi cation, ris: Tuesdays and Fridays

LATEST DATES. -- May 25 Batavia United States May 7 Singapore Calcutta

Manila Bombay

Chusan Shanghai

Engiand

Madras Sydney

June 廿 May May

April 21

May 28 July June

June

20

THE FRIEND OF CHINA

RAIN DURING WEEK-2Į faches nearly

Meteorological Register for one year from August 1844, to August 1843, kept or hoard of a Ship near Chapel, Island East Coast of China,

NOON.

3. H.

92. HA

MIDNIGHT

AND HONAKONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24ND, 1846

NOTICE. The Lours of Divine Service at the Colonial Chapel on Sundays are at present à past 5 A. x., and £ .

VINCENT STANTON, Victoria, 13th July, 1846.

Colonial Chuplai

THE next GENERAL Mu by the "Braganza," will be closed at 6 P. M. on the 9th Tastat A Supplementary Mail will be made up the following forenoon, between the hours of 9 and 10 O'clock

Post-Office, Victoria, 17th July, 1845,

of

of

returned.

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By the Maid of Julpha from Foo-chow-foo, we have late advices from that port. Trade there is none, with the exception of limited sales lof opium; nor does it appear probable that Foo-chow-foo will be a place of commercial importance for many years. The only resident Merchant has abandoned the port. We hear that the parties who where plundered during the riots, are much displeased with Mr. Alcock, who has cut down their claims considerably, We are not in possession of the particulars, but we are told that the Consul has shown a greater to conciliate the Chinese, than at all

esire with the dignity of the nation be re-

presents.

We copy some Shanghai news from the Re- gister.

By the Audar, we have lettera from Shanghai to the 29th June. Trade continued dull, and it was not considered that there were any immediate pro spects of improvement. Several Junks that had Arrived reported that they had been plondered and ill used by Pirates in a square rigged vessel, (a barque or ship at the mouth of the Yang ts28. kenng. The crew appeared to consist of natives H. M. S. Wolf sailed on the of various countries. 23d to look out for the Pirate, and had not refur

ned on the 29th.

The US. S. Vincennes, with the Commodore an board had visited Shanghai, were she remained four days. The usual salutes where exchanged between her and the Wolf, also on the occasion of the Consuls visiting her, much to the astonish- ment of the Chinese,

The Audax reports having seen the Fincenner at anchor at Square Island off the Citadel of Ching bat (Ningpo) on the 80th June On the 3d and 4th July, saw the U. 8. 8. Columbus laying off Buffalo Nose, and gave them the latest Papers. On Saturday the 5th about 3 P. M. of the He. Shan Islands, spoke the Spec which bad put back in distress having the radder damaged and was making the best of her way back to Chusan. It was then blowing strong at SSW with a high sea The Audaz brought on her letters. On Saturday the 18th passed the Tonquin off the Lamocks, and early on Sunday morning the Danish Frigate

Galatea off Namoe.

The Espiegle arrived at Amoy on the 15th July and reported that all was quiet and peaceable at Fuh-chow-foo.

The inhabitants of the west end of the town were annoyed-some of them shocked--at the public profanation of Christianity, which was permitted during the whole of last Sunday, and up to a late hour in the evening.

It

appears that Acqui, to his other respecta- ble pursuits, adds that of keeper of a place of amusement where the public are regaled with exhibitions of Jugglery, Buffoonery &c. &c., by a company of strolling vagabonds from the Chinese provinces. These exhibitions are ac. companied with much a vise from crackers and the discordant musical instruments of the Na-

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It is five years to day (21st)since Hongkong was-tives. visited with a Typhoon, and from the appearance *We know not whether Acqui and friends the weather last night, a storm was not an have taken advantage of the absence of His probability. The quive boat sought shelter inside Excellency Sir John Davis, to commit with Stone Cutter's laland, and few of them have yet impunity this outrage to the feelings of a Chris We have been farored with the observations tan community-neither are we aware, whe- taken on board several vessels during the late Ty asked for and obtained or whether a

ther the sanction of the acting Authorities was phoon, though to late for this publication. They

a price will appear on Saturday, also in the Overland paper

was paid for the privilege of exhibiting a con- of Friday, with deductions drawn from the data they tempt for the Christian Sabbath. We simply afford of the correctness of the theory of storms, state the plain incontrovertible fact, that until We have also been favored with the observation 11 O'clock on Sunday last, such was the taken on board the Steam vessel Nemesis during uproar from the lower bazaar, that the nume the Typhoon of the 21st July 1841, which we berous European inhabitants on Oswald's hill,had lieve have not yet been made public.

their attention so distracted by it, that they could not read, and those who retired at an At a time when the presence of a Steamer early hour, could not sleep. is so much required at Canton, there seems to It would neither be prudent, nor is it desira. be a most unaccountable, if not reprehensible, ble that the Authorities interfere with the degree of apathy exhibited, with regard to re- amusements of the Native population, so long pairing the damages of the Pluto, occasioned as these amusements do not offend their neigh- by the late Typhoon.

bours, or have a. Lendency to bring religion We have ascertained that all requisite means, into conte apt. The Chinese gambling houses both of materials and Mechanics, are to be ob and opium shops are closed on Sunday--these tained in the Colony, sufficient to repair her places are only injurious to those who frequent for this service; and one of the principal as them, and were they kept open all night long, in the place, alive to the importance of securing the Christian community would know nothing her presence off the factories, have offered the of it. The theatre is a different affair, the use of their slip, upon which the weasel might sounds that issue from its walls are distinctly be raised entirely out of the watery and the heard at a great distance. If the Chinese are damages repaired in a comparatively short time permitted to have such entertainments on Sun

Yet under these favorable circumstances, day's, ut is but reasonable that they be required will hardly be credited that the Pluto still reto build a theatre beyond the limits of the mains on the beach of Cowloon, alter a lepse of town, where they may enjoy themselves, with 11 days, with no greater hope of getting her out outraging the feelings of others high enough out of the water to reach her da mages Then when she was beached on the 9th lost and with as little probability that a more favorable opportunity will occur within the next six months.

and

THE IN-AMICABLE AMERICANS. Jonathan is a singular politician. To the rough. mess of the woodman he adds the susceptibilites of a child. He can swallow a fact, and submit to a great necessity; but a word sticks in his throat He may be humble, but he scorns to be polite. We said, long since, that Jonathan's feelings and conduc towards England on this Oregon queation resem bled those of an individual, who has a handsome quarrel with another for some trifling cass, with à duel pending. The punctilio, the bravado, the reluctance to back out the deafness to the advice of prudent and of aged friends,--all the feelings of the young duellist, who has his character to make and his rifle ready, are precisely those of the Americans. We just have a singular example. The Senate of the United States passed the rate, empowering the President to give notice for terminating the convention with Greas Britain respecting the Ore. gon. This role was accompanied by the natural wish, that it should be followed by "amicable set- tlement. And the House of Representatives objects to the word amicable". It rejected the epithet, which is tantamount to voting, that it would prefer a settlement that was not amicable. If the settle.

ment could possbly be accompanied by a row, or an outrage, or a collision, or a respectable destruc tion of life, then it would be a satisfactory settle- ment, because not an amicable one. If the English leipotentiary were at once to accept President Polk's extreme proposal 10 lake 54 deg, 40 min. as the American frontier, excluding us from the Pa- cific altogether, this effement would not be pleas ing to the American House of Representatives,

use it would

would be en "amicable one. That

because

strife more, To annex and to swallow whole re- gions of losego territory quietly and amicably is too poor and pusillanimous a gratification. The Democrats ara evidently thinking of their bero, Jackson, whose conquest of Florida would, in their eyes, have been nothing, if he had not taken and

banged two innocent Englishmen. to mark and

decorate his triumph. The acquision of Texas was evidently so tame an exploit, that the gentlemen of the Lower House of Washington contému it. And in order at once to please them, and to render the southern exploit glorious, Mr Polk has ordered his general to attack and occupy Matamoras; for, though a settlement with Mexico might be desirable, an amicable settlement would be unworthy of the democratic statesmen of Washington,

But Polk seems after all, but an instrument, in the attempt exclusively confined to his own pros pects and aggrandizement. The true guide and split of the dominant party is Calhoun. And he was never serious respecting the Oregon, making 1 merely a blind to elarm England and guide her affairs and disputes of her own to attend tä, instead of allowing her to interfere successfully for Mexi- can independence. The aim of Calhoun seems to be an indefinite extention of the Union southward, which will place the Whigs and the traders, and the educand and the anti-slavers of the United States in a hopeless minorily. The Oregon franay has been a bail to amuse them, as well as England, whilst the successful designs of their political op- ponents have been directed to another quarter.

We do not think that it is the object even of these amicable democrate to create a war, for which they are not prepared, nod for which they durst out even ask

to prepare. But they have a Presidential election already in view. And they would carry this for Mi Folk, or Mr Any-one, not only as a democrat, but as a re-esting democrat. Hence the pecessity of keeping up the excitement, and prolonging, if not defeating, negotiations. And hence the necessity of a triumph, gained no matter how or over whom If obliged to accept the furty. binth parallel for frontier, Mr Polk will make an cnslaught upon Mexico. He has got Texas, and the support of his popularity and fame. seems determined to carne out something more, for

the Senate has remained firm to the insertion of We are glad to see, by the last accounts, that its epithet of amicable, and that the House of Representatives, rather that stifle the vote altoge ther, has been obliged to swallow this dreadful pill of a word, so nauseous to the throats of Measts Allen and Cass. Exomizer, Moy, 16,

** SHIPPING INTELLIGENJA.

ARRIVALS.

17. Emma, Bibby Whampoa

17, H. M. Bc. Young Hebe, Lieut.-Commanding 17, E M3 Ferial, Captain Talbot, Whampoa

Bate, Whampoa.

20, Maid of Julpha, Shilons, Amoy 19, Syed Khan, Smart, Chusan.

We may say with all truth, that we have no exalted opinion of Sir Davis govern- ment, but we are bound to admit, that such

Sapphire, Master-Commanding things do not occur when he is in the colony 20, Zephyr, Mann, East Coast.

Fittock, Chusan, with Troops. Mat least not that we are aware of) and we20, Kelpie, Sime, Ampy. have a con

that he will hear of clus yat 20, Aur Balliran, Chasan

SAILED.

the Authorites JULY

1017, Dartmouth, Stewart Whampoa. 18 Chuen Laird, Whampoa y

18, 11 MB Molverine, Commander Clifford,

20, H, ML S. catal, Captam Talbot, Chusan.

REPORTE

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2534 76 76-73.

2992 77.5

20 75/70

736 ENE

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77,673

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air mat.

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b.c.

29 70 76

29 90 76.5 70. 73

178

74

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209378

30.5 74

Calm

E.NE.

N.NE

b. c.

29710 80.574

East

4

b.

c.

2981 78 75

N.E.

b. c.

2987 77.5 76.5 72

East

5. b. c.

2991 76.5 73.5 72N.NE.

2001 775 27 74

S.E.

Nih

b. c.

29 97 78

79 74

hc. 20 86.79 77 74

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3xb.c.

bc..

77.5 79 73

N.E.

21 b..

b. c.

b.c.

29 84 78

29 9475.5 71.5 71

994 74.5 71

94.80 745 73.5

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b.c.

72 ENE

NELE

209877 23 73.5 ENE 1

99-2904745 716 22.

Nth

b. c.

29 77 821

32 78

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9/92/80 76.5 174

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bc, v

7472

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*10*20.90795 79.5 70

NE

20 00 80 82 76,6

29 80 80 79.

76

S.E.

29.88 70.5 75.574

NE

3

b. c.

29 39 805 74.0 74 200279 74 79

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29 90 72

80 178

29 67 87

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28 80 80 75

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0 b, c.

29 89 81 73 74

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Gordon Bent Conding.

(Repriving.)