The system of exacting ferries and halting places, the feudalage in Europe, still pre-
fan and esitised power in which of its being kept upon in this ago, in ony of Ceylon.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG KONG GAZETTE
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have received it at once, but for the fact that the Irish landlords have fallen into deep creams with guce of their duties. Their argument present distress are: from (the prodnice of the land to remedy hi, the tão be improved, which would be the best ant and confidential enthanasm, the usual social assurances, never
employment for the poor; but as the land sant a day;** ** Charoung people,
lota lack ready money, a loss is needed to be paid, my the resolutions adopted at Kells, by a obfged for their kindness"Glad to see any of them
rate upon, the land the surplus labour to be em- who may be in the neighbourhood of Windsor "
-but-the ordinary official latter of aceployed upon useful public works. A well consideredSpain; and, at the same time, placed in permanent and so on.
plan of trunk railway lines is the public work gen erally favoured in preference to purely local works, Such spem to be the opinions of the most intelligent; At many meetings, the views expressed may have been nexther so well defined nor so enlarged, but more grusping-after the fashion of a sturdy beggar Soms call upon Government to resume the giving of food and sortie of the labouring class expressly threaten violence if they be not helped. But still deliberation in good faith seems to be extending.
One writer observes, that the Kells plan would ultimately resick in a confiscation of insolvent est ES It does anam capable of being converted to steb a vigorous purpose, which the desperate circumstan ces of the country would amply jinslify. No doute, much of Ireland's weakness can be traced to divided ownership and usurious burdens, which rack the the land while they provent fmprovement: A sim
tion would be a real blessing for the country: it
items of the Ceylon budget are bad as those we have enumerated; but scarcely one of them which may not be terpect of ju leading to discourage productive infantry. Looking, how knowledgment from the Home Secretary How only in those which have been passed in re ever, what to an ordinary men might have seemed is it not discreditable to the British govern. a matter of routine, was differently construed by that hity years have been allowed to lapse his excellency. He saw the royal delight strug- without any attempt to improve system of taxa- gling with the cold formality of official terms, and The tion, which lake money for permission to grow the felt the necessity of an immediate answer labourer's food, which compels the labourer to buy post was closing when the letter arrived E Ela de monopoly price from government that salt termination in, this painful emergency was precise without which his fiori is crapulatable and but half-ly that of the Chancellor Brougham, when he pro- myurjabing, and which exact duties on the staple mised the good people of Perth that to bed he would produce of the island, and on all internal traffic, so no botake himself till he had written by the night's heavy as to have almost the appearance of fining post to William at Windsor. the producers sed merchants for being industrious and coloring But it is too weak ap expres alvg to say that the British government bes not at tempted to send the faulty system i found in operation. If the Dutch exacted heavy and dus toms they applied them to the construction and maintenance of canals and ferries, which under the British have been allowed to fall into disrepair. If
the salive governmemis exacted heavy tributes from the peasants who grew rice, they in return eon. structed tanks and artificial channels of irrigation, which even an ruin amid the solitude of once fer e Balda relapsed into forests, by their magnificence awaken a blush in the European visitor, who reflects that bis captured rulers have allowed to vanish from remembrance the benevolent structures of those in digenous sovereigns they effect to look down upon, Native rulere laxed only and continually irrigated: the English government, by its tax on "fine grains," extenda ite eftartions to lands which cannot be irri. gated, or do not need irrigation.
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I would not wait. I took upon myself to answer for the people of Guernsey. I know them well; and I am certain 7 was right.”
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parts were changed. The French government, an return for our protecting it against united Europe, has never ceased to bully and to renee as; t when, in return for this bullying, we resolved conciliate and be amiable, the constutional king of the French took advantage of our soft ham
Lord Abec to filth Spain from under our care. deen half consented to the marringe of the Infants. And now England is isolated in Europe; not for given by the Eastern Powers, for emancipating antagonism to France, by its monarch having już gled us out of every aim that we proposed 1094 selves from 1981 to 1885. cordial alliance with France, the freedom and ind
Instead of this as pendence of Spairs secured.
have enmity with Franco, with Spine the visi contrary of either freedom or independener. are decidedly worse of than if we had lost the batt of Waterloo. "The French role is this monanza (5 fully established to the Rhine, as it count lovve been by such w victory; whilst Spain, which men was decidedly independent of Franco, now emis into one of her provinces, its royal family audits Cortes being treaind sie mare beggarly dependents
But are we to botter this by espoosing the cause of Don Carlos, or by helping to re-deliver the peninsula to him and Don Miguel? amongst our Liberals would dream of such toy
and with Sovereigns. Kings and Queens with had enough of dynasties, and of allying with Coung Constitutions, or with mock Constitutions, are even more slippery and dishonest than Kings and Queens without them. And we have had ex- perience enough of the Bourbon race to prove that it cannot be trusted, that as far at least as honesty is conaarned. all its branches are rolleti Our future allins should be the People, and the liberal, we do not say the ultraliberal, parties of France and Spain.
No th
But in case there might be say person or persons who wished to send a private and personal letter to her Majesty, to say how happy he or they would be to see her Majesty, should she be that way again,ple, therciful, and obviously just process of conscnpolicy, such foul dereliction of principle. We have the Lieutenant-Governor was prepared to oblige
him or them.
If any man or any men wish to give his or their thanks to her Majesty, let them draw them out and give them to me, and I will send them.""
"I hope," continged his excell.
would be well if the conversion of bar labouring classes from pauper cottiers to industrious workmen ht wages were accompanied by a change of the insolvent and absentee proprietors into a substantial class of true landowners. — Ibit
This is true magnanimity Then followed the Lisgtenant-Governor's answer. Here, agam, feel disappointed. It reads very much like the IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE STEAM MAVY. formal answer to a formal compliment. But when Upon laying the first stone for the steam dook at it was read and ratified by the cheers of desembled Keysham, Lord Andland thas ably explained the Guernsey, the magnanimity of the Lieutenant-Go-habonal advantages of the workHe was grati. vernor again breakout;
fed at having been selected for the honour of hy. What a whatng the fret side of the Keysham steam basin, #bash be regarded as one of the most important of Cek public works, of which the constrution We undertaken within his memory, and the is excellency seems ready to becam gavin chup of which was to supply to the great, naval postman between Guerme) in his Sovereigns Welder or Devonshire, an establrahmem yet recommend him to hard on nee ad on his required for the repair and equipment of offeini front door better or forded to homers of the Royal Navy. It had been well W, or with care and desi
ere is only and usely fell by the late Board of Admiralty that this great day the application of steam to navigation had led to for Guernsey. During the reading of her Majesty's great ringes
resources of this country, in the
I wrote i expressed your sentiment We rejoice to learn, by the most recent intelli-one else write a better ackng gence from Cylon, that there is at length a fuir forward it." (Loud cheole chance of the work of reforma being begun. government has at leat become ashamed of taxing food grown on the island and food imported from abroad; of taxing cinnamon near 75 per cent, on its Palue, and salt 1,000 per cent. The principal la- bour in this Herculean enterprise will devolve upon the new Secretary, Sir James Emerson Tennent
one more mutes to be recorded in
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We can, of course, make no treaties with them; we can condescend to no intrigues. Our national habits are not those of conspiracy; nor do we want to takto vengeance on the French envoy's noctural subjugation of the Spanish Queen, by noctural at tempts to stir up her people. But in all acts we can consult the true interests and independence of the Spaniards, not asling their fies, and not seeking any selfish Imaginary objects of our own by such ways as would be unpalatable to the Spanish nation With Don Carlos, therefore, or his son, or
If capitalists can be found to risk their money on
that though the systert of naval warfare and his general, Cabrera, we can have nought to do. It is a noble though a difficult task that is assigned letter, the male a not so an athograph, preparation and maintenance of steameta, are in Paristoruande, there is of course no means of
him. No half measure will avail. He has to ex- puage an old, abeard, and corrupt code of taxation, and substitute a rational and equitable one in o place. We shall watch with inter progress of the experiment - 10s, Sept. 18.
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The arrangeres frite domble marriage at Ma drid go forward, in spite of the anticipated obstruc. tous. The dreaded Cortes bas met, and is even reported to seem pleased with the project.
.HE GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY, From the Daily News.) Young England laments that personal loyalty is
Meanwhile, the diplomatic turmoil abunt the affair extinct amongE (3. The complaint is cerrinly continnes, most favourably for newspaper writers; infounded The devout respect displayed to the furnishing articles, fierce and innumerable, to the Prince Consorte trowel at Liverpool is clicering journalists of London, Pagis, and Madrid One erience to the contrary. We are happy to record would think that heaven an earth were coming to- that the same fame barns bright in the Channel gorber, instead of the Infant Larisa and the Duc de Islanda London may be cold, but Guernsey glows, Montpensier. Mr Bulwer is undoubtedly writing We have no doubt that Alderney and Sark have most able notes in Madrid, petting the received con their inglorious Raleighs, who would fing down suitutional doct ines into neat fficial language; Lord whatever part of their apparel represents the El Normanby is described as bullying M. Guizot în bethan cloak, te save the respot ito na puddle.
Paris: Queen Victoria is said to have written se- We have not be much excited since Lord verdry on King Louis Phimppe, and some London Chancellor Brogam used to write by every night's journals let it be understood that their foreboding post to Kathy Millim the Fourth, to tell his Ma.
menaces reflect the lowering aspect of Lord Pal very popular he was, as by the glorious merston. The gentlemen connected with the Reception of her Majesty's letter at Guernsey, thank-press" burst with indignation at the small deference is the islanders for their loyal reception of her. shown to them by the parties to the Montpensier immediately on the arrival of the packet with her marriage. You would think that Lord Fulmerston Majesty's lever addressed to the Lieut-Governor, and "we" were the slighted guardians if not the the population of the loyal though limited island was offended father. We are not awere that when Queen ummoned to assemble the next day to hear her Victoria married Prince Albert, she asked leave of Majesty's race gracious message to them on the oc the Spanish Ambassador, or even look counsel of the casion of her recent visit, which message the Lieu-Madrid Heraldo. tenant-Governos bad it in command from her Ma. Mr Butwer is careful to allow Queen Isabella a jesty to deliver as soon as possible." Her Majesty choice, if it be a free one. This is a most shallow. fit the inhabitants could not wait. They assembled, pretence. The Queen is not aixteen years.
years of age; His excellency addressed them.
and if she were not guided by those about her, the really would be as headstrong as an allegory on the banke of the Nile"-ot at all a proper person for Mr Bulwer's approbation.
Inbagitants of Guernsey-faithful subjects of Queen Victoria-of the Queen of the great British nation which is spread over the whole globe. I meet you by her Majesty's command to tell you what were ber sentiments when she landed on your is land, as conveyed to me by the Secretary of State, At first I intended to have made this communication to you by priating the letter, but I thought that I would not allow may newspaper editor to stand be, txees, the "Queen and her people. I therefore deter. mined, as being more respectful to her Majesty and to you, to speak to you myself, and then nobody can deceive you"
The contrast between "Guernsey" and the whole globe is finely imagined. It shows the value of the island-not to be measured by geographical extent, and is calculated to raise yet higher the well own. self-respect of her firm at enlightened inhabitants The image of the newspaper edr standing between the Queen and her people is tremendous. We seem to e a gigantic figure thrusting in huge, bulk be tween the Lieutenant-Governor and the faithful "intercept the raysof copal favour, Govern determination, and the eason
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One absurdity pervades the whole affair-the refinement of sagacity which amplifies dangers in the remote future that may never exist. No royal alliances could well make Spain a worse neighbour then she is ; but, we repeat, a little infusion of better blood into the Spanish line might make her a better neighbour; and at all events there is a ludicrous frivolity in the solemn air with which amid the present anarchy of the Peninsula, some far reeing falks desery the perils to arise through the union of the young people and its obstetrical contingencies,
Spectator, September 19,
The actual state of Ireland exhibits a confi infiences, old and new happ
Opry and
it, is consolatory to observe, that the upon the whole, on the favo novelty to see the severat. trading on he exigen perlers, on political money whett
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sured us it has always been found to be du very other arm of maritime contest yet, that all our preparations would be imperfect unless vro hau besing in which our steamers could be received for repair and equipment, an
and factories from which machinery could be applied. The only establish mein of this kind was at present to be found at Woolwich, the distance of which from the wastern khore up the channel was a source of great incon venience. To the liberality mad wisdom of parlia. ment, it is further cus that these works have hnen – fouded: we are indebted to the skill of Captain Brandreth, and of Capt. Burgman, for the admira. le plans which have been adopted; and to the Fnergy and coremifting exertions of Messrs Baker, the contractors, for the progress which has been made in the work and in awarding the praise to those who have originated the vndertaking, be
England to see Spain independent, thong governed by a legitimist despot, than to have her as at present onder military despotism, yet at the same time Tepen lent on a foreign power. Our own preferen- des, however, are not alone to be consulted in dealing with the peninsula. We have but to remia true to the cause of liberal Spain, and Spaniards will in time, if not at the moment, be us to themselves,
In the meanwhile Don Enrigte, second son of the Tuluunta Don Francisco, seems to have taken good and just ground in his protest to the Cones. He acquiesces and joices in the preference shown to his brother for the Queen's hand. He acknow. ledges his having once pretended to the honour, and corroborates what we long since stated: ma- mely, that the French Court would have accepted him as a husband for Queen, if he could have ribue of the Hon. Henry Corry consented to French policy, and promise to be an who wan forward in planning and promoting a Arancesado. This he declined; and because he and to whom he neat been indebited for much for would not signi kway his own, his promised wife's, mation upon it. He would add that the present; and his country's independence be was ignonin- Bodor Admiralty had readily and modal sacnestly fously set aside. Don Enrique now protests a adopted this work that they were anxious, by all gainst any rights that may accrue to the offspring means in their power, to encourage and promote it of the Duc de Montpensier, in regard to the sun and in this feeling he and the other them bars of the cession to the Spanish throne. He declares such board were present to take part in the ceremonies, elsims to be contrary to the stipulations of the of the day. It might perbapa not be known to treaty of Utrecht. We believe that the official hose who were around him that the inclosure for instructions sent to Mr Bulwer completely second barine and building would contain more than with Don Enrique's view. Here, then, is a com- sixty strest that the basibu, stateen acres in extent, patilo to the future dynasty of Montpensier. The would conveniently hold at least nightera of bar marnaga resolved on in Madrid by Louis Philippe, largest steamers that the factories would be suffi. though opposed by his wisest cancellors, opens cient to supply every
ripučo of machinery, and the way not for one civil war, but two; and not that the sum to berezo d on the works, was for two disputania to the crown, but for three. estimated 1,800 000 Lättl mote then a year had plapsed since the work hid commenced, and chose who were present could bear witness to the vas!
excavations; and, ut the extensive, embankments
which had been already made. Twelve miles of
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For the prisen, however, the young Queen is entitled to every respect, in these events the has been the innocent victim! She has yielded to vio- lence to threats and she resigns herself to the dictation of France, in order at least to rllain a railway had been laid within the enclosure reven woman's liberty by some kind of a marriage. That of
test granite quarries had been engaged, she "may" avenge herself one day, is likely. So for the work, and 630,000 cubic feet of stone and that in addition to the feuds which, we have enu- ready been fecummulated about the works. Be merated as likely to spring out of these marriages, had
the promise made to him, that there are other fouds more fierce, more degrading, hight be hamited jalo the more demoralizing, which Louis Philippe cannot enyesra berend, that time | but contemplate as inovitable fraits of his policy, and we should | however he muy regard them without compunction
to the most or remötse.........
We perceive u disposition to place hope in Närvees. A vain hope, it was Narvaez's personal hatred of Don Enrique, whom he had insyked, and mjes for the who refused to pardon him it was this hatred, thai mainly brought about the selection of the Duke Cadiz The needy general is too deeply under French obligation to feel as a Spaniard Besides, although resolute in military matters, Nafynez has jody a weathercock in pollics. He has been for
world.
idate for Enrique, fir Trapani, for tho Cadias for Christine and against her co- with England, but never true to ber; red hard trifled with by France, yet duped by Rippe's blendishments in exile. The Espartero was some whit leiden, heavy, Bull, though solid. That of Narvaez is
on which nothing can be built. no lose sight of him and cer
Jet him return to Madrid, were mory writers bad far better bulant with regard Ib Narvaez, sa to ose wisdom they have praised and lunce they put trust, they have deceived as Lord Abendeen in 868 D. Louis Philippe.--
ina Püblished by JOHN CAER,
China and Hongkong Ofice, Gouna STREET Osta, Hungkong, 1846,
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