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JULY 1845.

No 16

THE FRIEND OF CHINA SAND, HONGKONG GAZETTE

(From the China Anal, August 6,)

PROCLAMATION.

The Island of Chusen, having been restored to the Emperor of China in conformity with Treaty engagements, is no longer to be considered as one of

which trade is permitted. those ports or places

Brush subjecu ate therefore warned that after the departure of Her Majesty's 98th Regiment, which is fixed for the 22nd instant, any persons resorting to the Island, or to any of its dependencies, will become table to the Penalties provided by the 4th Article of the Supplementary Trenty.

GOD SAVE THE Quaen,

J. F. DAVIS, Given on board H. M.'s SL V Fulture,

this 16th day of July, 1848.

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VICTORIA, HONGKONG,

We advertisements, will be received, until 4

O'Clock, on the evenings previous

publi cation, rix: Tuesdays and Fridays.

LATEST DATES.

May 25

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Singapore Manila

Jane June 26 July 11 June Shanghai July

THE FRIEND OF CHINA

AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 87×, 1846.

NOTICE. The hours of Divine Service at the Colonial Chapel on Sundays are at present past 5 A. M., and 6 M.

VINCENT STANTON, Victoria, 13th July, 1846.

Colonial Chaplain.

H.

Our Sydney papers are in receipt to the 15th of June, but they are quite bare of nows. M. S. Castor arrived from New Zealand on the 10th on purpose to refit and return to the station. The war there appears to be over for a time. Heki, it was said, would have an au- dience with Governor Gray a few days after the Castor sailed-18th May-

We copy two short extracts; one referring to New Zealand--the other to Tahiri,

NEW ZEALAND.

The intelligence from New Zealand is oninter eating The following peragraph from The New Zealander of hay 18th contains all the news from the seat of war we have been able to gather :—–> H. M. S. Facehorse arrived from the Bay of La lends on Thursday morning. All is quiet al present there. In the middle of April some of the adherents of Heki, commended by the bier Pene Tauf, had an interview with Tatonn Waka and Mekoare at Bostanga, when they were cordially reconciled Pere Faur and his pro

24efurther connexion and 735istance to Heli.

whaler Laungion of Nantucket, off Howe's Island, three weeks from Sydney, during which she had pro- cured 100 barrels sperm. On the 21st March the natives of Tahiti commenced an attack on the French fordes bp firing from each end of the beach, which his was returned by the burraske ad block-houses. The French corvettes Fortune, Herome, and the steamer Phaeton, were e also moored off Papisty, bombarding it. On the 22nd the natives set fire to several houses, among which was that of Mr. Joseph When the Moore, which was totally consumed. Isabella Anna left Papieti the fight was going on briskly, which was decidedly in favour of the natives, as they had driven the French forces into their for tresses, where they then remained. Most of the English and American subjects sought refuge on board the various vessels in harbour, where they' were kindly received. The doctor of H.M. steamer Salamander had been fired at, and was wounded in the head, but not seriously. The Tahitians appear. ed determined to resist the French authorities, and it was expected that the contest would last for some time. The natives of the Navigator Islands were becoming very troublesome, and it was supposed Ibat Mr Pritchard would leave by the first man-of- war that touched there, or that he would adopt some measures for punishing them.

Our Contemporary of the Friend of China, re- marks that we appear to admire the liberality of the New Governor of Macao. So far as regards the pro- posed income tax upon the inhabitants, we certainly do not It is not only a great deal too high, bat is in its very nature inquisitorial and offensive, and will go for to counteract his other measures and deter wealthy individuals from setting there. The land tax of ten per cent is not greater than is paid in Hong kong under the form of rent, with the addition of five per cent for Polices rates, and we have good reason ic believe other five per cent were intended for tis under the name of road and bridge money Whether this and the proposed axcise upon wine and beer have been dis-allowed at home, or if those in authority over us," find they have already done mischief enough we know not. Their measures however have been sufficient to justify us, we consider, in maintaining that our neighbours have shown a greater degree of liberality, which is the point of view in which we have ever considered it Their progress for a con kiderable time has beep from a narrow and exclusive system towards freedom and liberality, though there are various points on which we do not consider the best measures have been adopted. Our progress on the other hand has been from a free port in reality, to oppressive and ruinous restrictions. We need only allude to the Ordinance for exacting securities from Consignees of Vessels, which for a time made several of the Firms here refuse to accept of that office for vessels consigned to them. The Registra tion Ordinance would have excluded our own Coun trymen from residing here unless like degraded Fel. ous they obtained a ticket of leave to enable them to. While the Opium Firm bids fair to prove just as effectual, if more slow in its operations in driving away those whose presence alone can benefit the Colony; which the other taxes propo ed if they bad been enacted would have completed in a still

do so.

more suntary manner.

While we agree therefore, with our Contemporary in his strictures upon the inexpediency of the incorne tax proposed at Macao, we are not thereby deterred frpni aaying that as compared with our Government here their measures are liberal, and at the worst, however oppressive their taxation may be prove, they have the satisfaction of knowing that it is self in- pesneck.

Our contemporary appears to have got his ideas a little confused. With permission, we will endeavour to disentangle them. When he first talked of the liberality of the Macao go vernment, it was in connection with the financial scheme of 10 per cent assessment, and 10 per cent income tax. The wildest of the financial measures of our Barratarien Legislators never approached an income tax of ten per cent---IF THEY COULD CHAIN THE MERCHANTS TO THE Rocks, 10 per cent would realize the most splend of their Utopian dreams. But alas] the game would not wait to be plucked; they would take wing were such an acthinted at. The illiberality af spirit exhibited by the Hongkong Govern ment in their endeavours to infringe upon the personal right of the subject, has no precedent, ib Macao or any where else; but fortunately, ill advised attempts at coercion have been re: pudiated by the Crown Lawyers, and the or- dances are now worthless as the paper upon which they are engrossed. legislation of our rulers are convinced that We are far from advocating the financial

but the worst of it falls far short of " Macao part of it is unconstitutional, and therefore illegal

liberality?

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(EDIron F. of C.)

same duties as the sugur of the most favoured nations: and, we believe, that Lord John Russell has given notice of his intention to move the equat ization of the duties on slave and free labour sugar. The following is a petition agreed upon at Glas. gow, in reference to these duties :— Unte the honorable the Commons of Great Britain

and Ireland in Parliament assembled: The Petition of the Undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, Shipowners and others interested in the Trade of Glasgoo. Humbly showeth, That while your petitionma hailed with the most lively satisfaction the measures tending to freedom of trade, which were submitted to parliament by her Majesty's ministers at the opening of the present session, they have, in cos mom with all parties engaged in trade, been sulgeet consequence to heavy loss and embarrassment in of the delay that has ensued in carrying these measures through the legislature, and of becsuing the tw of the land.

That your peliioners feel imperatively estad upon to crave the attention of your honouralia house to the alarmingly deficient supply of coloni and free labour sugar.

That while the stocks of sugar and molussen in the bonded warehouses, and the hands of the sugar refiners, and all classes of dealers, may fairly be estimated at forty thousand tonir less than the corresponding period of last year, and consequently prices extremely high, it has been ascertained, and is tally believed by the best informed parties, that the produce of the present crop of sugar from the West India colonies, will fall thirty thousand tons short of last year, while but a small portion of these deficiencies is likely to be made up by increased importations, either of colonial or free labour sugar from the east.

That under these circumstances, your petitioners are respectfully bat decidedly of opinion, that the only way of supplying the consumption, and main- taining the revenue, is to admit all sugar and mol. asses, the growth of Cuba, Brazil, and other count- ries, at the reduced scale of dutias upon which it is proposed to admit free labour sugar and molasses; otherwise the revenue on sugar and molasses, dur. ing the current year, will fall short of last by at least half a million pounds sterling, in consequence of the deficiency in the supply.

May it therefore please your honourable houso to take the sugar doties into early consideration, with a view to a speedy and final settlement of this most important question

And your petitioners will ever praƒ.— (Economist, May 10.)

BEIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

AUGUST,

ARRIVALS.

4. Anne Jane, Rowe, Whampoa. 4, Augusta Jessei, Harvie, Whampoa 4. Meerppa, acfarlane, Camsingmoon. 5, Island Queen, Pruen, Bombay.

6, H. Stuart, Wittingham, Liverpool. 6, Cumberland, Sinclair, Macao.

6, John Dugdale, Killock, Liverpool. 7, Minerva, G. Brown, Sydney. 7. Prima Donna, Jones, Whampoa.

SAILED

AUGUST,

5. Captain, James, Whampoa.

5, Fenella, Bay, Cape of Good Hope. 6. Cheerful, Patrick, Manila and Sydney. 6, Helen Stuart, Wittingham, Whampoa. §, Antilla, Barrett, Whampon. REPORTS.

Alfred, Adair, London. Arme Jane, Rowe, London. Augusta Jesset, Harvey, London, Dowthorp, Marwood, Shanghai, to day. Prima Donna, Jonca Hobart Town." Tas Bunch Barque Sumatra, sailed from Macao for Manila on the 31st of July.

The Dutch Barque Alla Tudu Barrie, arrived at Macao, on the Srd metant-last from Singapore.

YESSEES IN VICTORIA HARBOUR.

Turner and Co

H. M. Sc Young Hebe, Lient. Comding. Bate, H. M. St. Vulture Captain Maedongall HC Str. Pluto, Lieut. Airey, (Repairing.) H. M. Tr. S. Sapphire, Master-Comding. Fittock. H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, Master Commanding King. H M S. Minden, 2nd Master in charge Osmer,

Hospital and Store Ship. Anne Jane, Rowe, Augusta Jessie, Harvey, Alfred, Adair, Bomanjee Hormurjee, Contes, Cumberland, Sinclair, Denia, Hely, Dowthorp, Marwood, Good Success, Cowie, General Wood, Stokos,

·Island Queen, Pruen. John Dugdale, Killock, Jovin Corina, Durham, John Barry, Howard, Kensington, (Am) Kilham, depe, Bellamy,

aseppa, Macfarlane, Minerva G. Brown,

THE SUGAR DUTIES.

Much interest is now attached to the coming dis russion on the sugar duties, le consequence of the deficiency in the West India crop, and the great, Sproule, reduction of the blocks On Saturday last, it will be seen by our weekly table the stock of West Ladia sugar way reduced to 3092 tons against

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