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THE FRIEND OF CHINA

AND HONGKONG GAZETTE. VICTORIA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2380, 1846.

WG CALFILE, UR CE part (UA, M. and 4 P. M.

VINCENT STANTON,

Colonial Chaplain.

NOTICE-Hwa Cabret will be open for Public Wor phy at 13 Desk A. and half past 6 Otelock P. M., during the winter month beginning with the 1st Novo- ber 1911

Vicceria, 19th Detcher 1948.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

of officers has reported, that the place into which the men were put, is unfit for human beings, and hardly tenantable for beasts of burthen. The men were taken from a comfortable barrack to an open The men have had stable, though the barracks have not been used to this day, and are not wanted.

SANDWICH ISLANDS. We have been favored with a file of papers to the 11th Nov. The Mary, Captain Suer krop, from hence

on the 18th of July the C.. S. Columbus, Commodore Biddle had arrived from China and Japan, and sailed

to pay the expense of conveying their baggage to for Calluo and Valparaiso on the 26th Septem-Dum Dob, brd now have to pay for bringing it bor; the Danish Comets Galathea Captain back again, in order to join their regiment in the Steen Bille, arrived from Japan on the 5th of October

The following extract contains some late in telligence from California.

LATE NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. By the ship Brooklyn we have received Cat fornia papers to the 19th alt, but have room only for a small portion of their news :

fort.

We understand that no medical comforts were A little more provided for the sick at Dham Dum. care and forethought, would not be amiss in such matters for the efficiency of a regiment depends in no small degree, upon the health of men newly arrived in the country.—Englishman, October 28,

Those ac

On the 17th of August Commodore Stockton

THE TRADE OF THE YEAR. NOTICE T Mano Divens Service in the Con had issued a proclamation to the people of Call

Wo this day publish our usual supplement, con fornia, stating that Castro had buried his artillery and fled the country; that the U. S. forces had faining the official accounts of the trade and havi tered and occupied the Ciudad de los Angeles, the gation of the United Kingdom, for the six montha capital of California; that the Ang of the United ending the 5th will compared with the correspond. States was then flying over every important place ng period of the two preceling years. in the country; that the territory would be governed counts do not present the commerce of the year in as other territories of that United States, and ibas a very flattering aspect. We must, however, bear the people were invited to meet and elect their civil, in mind that business bur necessarily been much officers; that all, of whatever nation or religion, unsettled by the important legislative measures which have been under discussion during the whole would be protected, but none would be permitted to remain in the country who would not agree to sup(session, but which, though producing a serious port the existing government, or, if military men, temporary derangement, are calculated to inspire take an oath not to take up arms against it; that ali great confidence in future prosperity. Another found abroad with arms, without permission, would cause which has operated materially to depress the be shipped out of the country; that thieves would be nenal busiarss transactions of the contry, has been put to hard hbor on the public works; and that the the derangement of our modemrial system, connect- California Battalion of Mounted Rifemen would be kept constantly on duty to preserve the peace and good order of the territory

The Proprietor of the China Muil has pu- blished, by authority, the six Consular ordi- ranges, passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of Hongkong. We would recommend the Residents at the Consular ports to secure copies of these documents; they are bound to gether, and in cases of reference, will be found moet convenient, saving the trouble of looking over files of old papera.

It is intimated that the Colonial Ordinances are also in the course of publication. This work will be even more valuable than its pre- There have been so many ordi- decessor. pances repealed, amended &c. that it has be- come a task to ascertaf what is law and what is not law. We have an doubt that the

-menggad in his undertaking As we think most of the Inhabitants will be desirous to secure a copy,

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In another notice-to the people he announces the 15th of September as the day for bolding elections- for Alcaldes and other municipal officers.

The Warren Cyane had sailed from an Pedro, ab 25th of August, with scaled orders, We at the following appointments in the Not- the District:-E. M. Kern, Esq., to command at Sutter's Fort: E. J. Sutter, Lieut. of the Fort, but Revere, SN, to command the Sonoma district, with fifty mounted men; Parser Watmough, US, N., to command at Santa Clara; Lieut. W. B. Bert lett, to be Ciril Magistrate of San Francisco; Stephen: Smith, Esq., at Bodega; and George Hyde, Esq,

at Santa Clara.

without resistance.

The Savannah safed from Monterey on the 20th of September, with sealt orders, and the Congress and Erie were also preparing for sen. Their object may probably be divined after reading the following official papers:—

with the huge railway undertakings of the pre sent year and the consequent difficulty in obtain ing the usual facilities on which the business of the country depends a

Another reason which, though of common ongin with the latter, his operated in a different way in relation to the trade of the year, is the enormous private losses which the wild speculations of the autumn of 1846 have entailed upon the com. minity Allough railways were chictly the objects of those speculations, yet they are notty be viewed in any way as necessarily connected with railway undertakings. In relation to the general con litian of the country and its commerce, the ima of 1915 is to be viewed in twofold light. First, we We hear that one or two appeal casos from

have to consider it in relation to its effects in divert ing an unusual amount of capital into a new chan the Consular Courts will shortly be heard before the Hon'ble Chief Justice. This might

The Congress returned to Montorer from the nel, to such an extent that even the amount of capi have been anticipated; and there is no doubt, southern ports on the 15th September, and the Catal required as deposits, by the stand ang orders of that the uncertainty which bitherto existed, apital of California had been taken pussession of Parliament, which was diverted from its customary uses, has been productive of the most serious in to whether there was an appeal to the Su-

convenience. And, secondly, we have to look të preme Court of Hongkong, has prevented many

that speculative munia, in relation to the actual from seeking redress from gross injustice. In

losses which individuals sustained by gambling in some instances, the awards of the Consuls, con-

railway shares Afar a as the business of the year firmed by the Superintendent of Trade, havo

has ben uffected, the latter has been a much more cast injurious reflections upon private character,

Important cause of depression than the former. In and the ukimata reference to the Supreme

fact, agar os regards the immediate effect of an Court is especially valuable in checking such

unusual and extravagant conversion of fluating ce- a-reprehensible-stretch of power,

pill into fixed capital, in railways or otherwvme, which can only be done by an extensive temporary employment ut labour, the general consumption of the country could not fail to be increased, and ba tiness, in all its branches, materially simulated in the meantime by such cause. But when we consider the immediate effect of the severe private Jorges which the speculations of 1815 entailed upon the community, we discover In extensive cause of curtailed expenditure, which could not fail to affect Every department of business, less or more. The railways onde takings and speculations of 1845 may, therefore, be considered to have aff cted bu siness in two distider ways The additional emp-

has been afforded by the extract ployment dinary expandiunce of capital has created on us

We last week reparted the examination in the Poles Court of a Aman named Chun-teen-soong, under the enspicion of being concerned in the piracy of the Primateer in June last, and principally so, as second in command of the piratical boats in the atrocious Murders which followed her capture. No further evidence being procurable (in the absence of Two of the Manilamen who saved themselves after being thrown overboard from one of the boats with their bands tied behind them) the man has been cozomitted for trial in the Supreme Court.

The circumstances under which the woman was secured are not a litle curious and romantic, and the activity and vigilance following her statement, which led shonly alter to the apprehension of the prisoner now awaiting his grind, will be entitled to reverd.

The Government offered a reward of $500 for such information as would lead to the apprehension and conviction of any of the pirates engaged in the murderous attack on the Privateer An English sailor, who has been in China, at intervals for several years, and speaks with some fluency the Portugese and Chinese languages, actuated with the hope of the reward, and also we believe as a friend of the unfortunate Captain Mantell, commence a moet determinated and systematic search for the mis- creants, peglecting no clue that could possibly lead to their apprehension. About six weeks ago, whilst in Macao, hearing ofthe death (by his own bands) of the Butler whe was on board the Frivateer, and in collusion with the pirates, he commenced an ja- quiry for the birth place of the deceased, and ascer- pained from a woman living in Macos, that he was where his mother was still living with the girl Assal the principal object of his search. For this place he immediately stared in company with a European Potiger and sight Chinames, on reaching a cer- tain distance, at day break one morning, they landed; and walking about a mile they came to the village: no resistance watherer was offered them:

200 20 alarm appeared to be received by any of the inhabi want, excepting the girl they were in search of, who terapled to escape by rucning up the hills she was pursued some distance, captured, and carried

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

"I, R. F. STUCKTON, Commodore and Com mander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Territory of California, do, by whority of the President and Congress of the United States of North America, hereby declare all the Ports, Harbours, Bays, Outlets and Inlets on the West coast of Mexico Sub of San Diego, to be in a state of vigorous blockade, which will be made absolute except against armed vessels of neutral ns.

tions.

"All contral merchant vessels found in any of the bays and harbors, on said const, on the arrival of the blockading forte, will be allowed twenty days

to lears.

Given under my hand, or this nineteenth day or August, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eix, at the Government House in the Cia dad de los Angeles, the Capital of California.

"R. F. STOCKTON,

CIRCULAR

"You are hereby advised that a war exit be tween the United States of North America and Me xico, and are cautioned to guard against an attack from Mexican privateers, and all vessels under the Mexican Bing.

which

usual demand for commodities suited chiefly for the consumption of the labouring classes; while the greater economy exercised to retrieve the losses of the speculations in shares (apart altogether from railway undertakings) has deranged and curtailed business of another class. So far, therefore, the ruilway man of 1846 has had two distinct and

There is another feature in the business of the

opposite effects upon the immediated business of the year, the one in a considerable degroo calculat session of by the forces under my command, and now

The Territory of California has been taken posed to correct the other. belongs to the United States, and you will find safe anchorage and protection in the harbor of San Fran cisco during any season of the year.

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present year, which is indirectly attributable to the speculations and loss of 1845, and which is worthy. of notice. The diffulty which dealera of all chs. ses experienced in procuring payment of money due to them in the early part of the year, led to the system of keeping much smaller stocks of goods, assisted

F. F. STOCKTON Commodore, c

U. S Frigate Congress We also leard, that the day previous to the si ing of the Brooklyn fram Santa Barbara, a mano,which they found themselves materially

by the rapid communicating which railways afford.

bon in a village about 70 miles distant up the river, Ciadud de los Angeles with the intet may be considered as a settled and permanent

that a large party of Californians and New Mexicans had risen at that place and compelled the Americans left there about forty to redre to the Government House, where they renamed in a state of siege that a party of them at the same time went to San Pedro, vibere, they made prizor

Americans, taking from one of them about 88 400 in specie that another

went on board the American dalia, under the pretence of took persession of her. produced a sigar paper, ou w

Into the boat, and brought to Hongkong direct. Bhelieve the bearer, in a haot

examined before the Chief Magistrate,

being kent a close prisoner for soura time. Tated to baitna bra statement she in to a man, she called a black

The discrip

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Wone

change

In the mode at conducting the business of

the country, that much smaller stocks will be re shed in second head. Indeed, the economy

which is that effected in the use of capital, is one of the most obvious advantages which the railway yalem confer upon the country. In the busu ness of the present year, however, there can be në shout forty mensdoubt that the

ension from the one system to unt of fransac manufacturers ountry, thap ww would baze

con main

the other

tion betw

upurier and

Second-

Provisions-Jimported in six monďka.

*wie

14.. 46,348.

$6

£1524

1,820

93.403

2.

307

23,057

27,194

123,230

Baron Beef, salte Beef, freak, Pork.

Total cwts.

Third-

..... 70,311

Grain-Tulen into constamption, in sice mondha.

1815

Wheat Barley, Oals

Rya.. Peag

ینا آنها

.

1846

43:8.

66,711.

212,510.

1,660,309 05,178

109,577.

178,150

21.

32

17.095

45,600.

42,050 $77,6-12

33161.

216,710

1,204.

478

Total quartors...

0-43.600

2,801,919

Fourth-

Beans. Indian Cor

Buak WhosN....

Flour and Miral taken into consumption in ske proaths.

Flour... Canent

Indian men Buckwheat meal.

Total.

189.5

Curte

37,738..

500e

פני

27.787

18-la ewto

2,109:371

437

87,734

12

£197,554

We have, therefore, the following comparison of the quantities of those articles necessary for the food of the people imported and Laken for col sumption in six months in 1845, under the law as it then stood, and in the present year, under the change which has been effeted -

1945

1846 Live animale of all kinds 2o. 6,890..... 35,490 Provisions

122,280 CATE. 513,88.. 2,301,249 .Cwts. 97,787......2,197,554,

Grain..

Flour and meal..

Nor is it east gratifying fact attendant upon

this enormous increase of supply of the first neces saries of life, that the interests of the British pro- ducer have not been in any sensible degree affected by it, for there has seldom been a period when all classes of English farmers were more prosperous than they are at the present moment.

It would be difficult to conceive a greater justifica- tion of the

polloy pursued by the government in tho present session than the gratifying facts which wo fin ve now placed before our readers; and especial

when taken in conjunction with the appalling calamity with which the country is now threatened by the total failure of the potatoe crop. Whatever sufferings the country may be called upon to endure, it must be a source of the highest satisfac- tion to all who aided in the accomplishment of free trade, to contemplate the proetical benefits which will be derived from these mensures, as shown by the remarkable effects they have already produceil What mis- in increasing the food of the people, fortunes and suffering might have befallen the pro- ple had the law remained unalte ed will never be known; and, therefore, the merit of those who adopted that policy may never be fully appreciated; at it is mossible to enry the feelings of these who, now seeing a recurrence of a great failure in the food of the imple, buve dune all in their power, during the last session. to oppose the wise and he nevolent inensure which have led to the beneft- cial results which the Trade Accounts of the Year exhibit.

With respect to the business in Foreign and Oolonini Prince, ull remarks will be found as a preface to the tables in the Supplement.

The most unsatisfactory feature in these accounts is that contained in Table 111, which exhibits the exports of British produce and manufactures from the Cnited Kingdom. By reference to that table,

will be seen that the amount of our exports in the last six months, compared with the same period in 1845, has diminished by 1.145,7607, but inking the three chief fabrics on which the labour of the country is employed, the reduction will be found much greater. Thus,~

7845

Cutton manufactures exported 9,590,323. Lineo manafactures.. Woollen manufactures

Total

1816

£ 8,899,792 1,678,252... 138 (20 4,907,088. 3,143, 50

.15,068,663....13,432,550 Of cotton yarn, the exports of the present year are much larger than in 1845; and when taken in connexion with the goods, the difference between the two years is not material. The comparison of of the manufactures, including manufactured goods. the two years of the above three important branches

yarn, is as follows:--

Manufactures and Pars. 1835 £ .12,375,900..

and

Cotton. Linon.. Woollen.

merce.

1846

£

12,423,5×5

2,130,149. 4,392,310..

2,799,797

3,520,718

Total.19,008,368.

1,744,092

The example which England bas sie in free trade is already showing its fruits in the influence it has produced on forei in governments, It is a notori Que fact that the Free Trade Tariff of the United Slates, which will come into operation on the 1st o December, would not hare been enccessfully carried through Congress but for the influence which car example threw into the scale of the advocates of that policy. There is also reason to believe that our ex- emple has not been without avail in the changes which have taken place

in Sicily, and lish show that in the Papal States-geous to our dom

But the effects of our policy are not to be measured by the results immediately seen in the acts of foreign governments, so much es in the res volution which it is calmulated to create in public opinion, and by the removal of national prejudices which have hitherto rendered it impossible for for reign states to act upon the policy which their mi- misters and governments deemed,best fitted to the True interests of their different countries, It is to the slower but more cerial effecta which our ex- 20ople must prodnce upot popular opinion abrund, that we must look for the full development of all the advantages which the acts of the present session are calculated to confer upon this country, in com mon with the whole human family - Economist.

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