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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG

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COMPARATIVE POWER OF THE CHIRE NATIONA dem, it is still iropossible for us to believe their con-

EUROPE

Hotel Novortheless, the Journal du Havre ans need to day that France was al this moment

ment contained

eringasin oxphililing to Madagascar, and that dundreful houses of Havre had received Trăm, the Government for stores, doo. We antha English ih in Island,

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SILK-There has been on unusual dulness throughout the month in China and Bengal Silks, and those offered on fish ulumo, by public auction here, were mostly taken in. The trade anticipating next year a large supply in addition to our peanut heary stock, sought a greater reduction than the im porinas wore them disposed to accent since which prices have givan way, making a reduction in die course of the month of 18 per lb. on Teatlees and | In 6d 2 28 on Trysaams, and for other Silks of the class in the same proportion. It is now fully ascer thingd there will be d'arge production of Silf in Ita- Jy, Turkey, and Persia, and these descriptions have also fallen from 6 to 7 per cent. In: WATH SILE there we still a falt business doing, without alteration

LEY (22 Binx Pison Cloans The a of manufactured large, particularly Corahs and Chap

uch, belongs exclusively to will no doubt, deam it its all these points, Spain only that qu to thaw us that

alpally, for the best has improved 64 41s per piece, all China piego goods aro prices norminal uni

month 16 this port are 171

145 bales Jy use Bill, und 9 cases Silk

Prices.

uga qulley at Un hollam of qualitede

Mexica to the height of marry hundred contains on ane spare mile one handel god awen.

de night and it would be an awkwardly dimer bs many person is 1hssip, sy ope

those who have fund the audacity a moments and burd a won in the very The crater of Copa Aden were sulter ancy, scarcely vul grleep, to rerung ita by que béich ofits fory month project mahe inïdule air wallation, Joulif Bithful would regard if, for the invasion

ahoro -~~ Howboy Timcn Sept. 10,

adasan has given an amusing extract we make no for a paragraph or Editor's stricture:

pexi to London, the city where Eng the most grandese, Woanay indeed pany Trapects it is superior to the me and that is easy to be undersipod. Lo where the climate is very cold, land depr, population very dense, the apartments are

all that they any he more easily mister, and that thay may occupy a Walking is preferred to the use of nual labour easily performed, in

according to Europen habits; chment to home, that spirit of hom senstitutes the happiness of an English which an Englishman always retains, yuding thirty years of opposito habits. In on the contrary, the excessive lient of the pires spacious, lofty, and it may be said through swhich the refreshing breath of breeze may be left. This same hent, the prejudices of the country, make it use carriages to avoid all severe cor rcises, to keep numerous servants, and in lead a completo ethic life, bence those obs edifices which have conferred upon Cul

well merited title of the City of Palaces, Those brilliant equipages which block up the des, those cooliers, those sepoys, those valets nds who run in each other's way in the of the most petty merchant as well as in that

Be Lovernor.

In the midst of this display, it is requisite that the Consol General of Frince should figure with all she dignity which is suitable jo bis rank. It is toper, then, that he should be a man of fortune

rad moderate as to compei him to economize his : a man who knows how to lay his money when the honour of his country requires it, in a ad a man who knows how to keep himself on a vel with those who surround him, even if he does pot surpass them.

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third more than Franco, and a potion of Austria and Prussia. perind the public, debt n

u dout the pro- At umrla, he agie - and ToVenus of learli hoivers wore ds fallowa England, Revue 63,400,0007; debt, 818,800,000): France exonne, 39180,0002, deb, 186 000,003; Austrine 20,880,000 debt, 19/000.000; Prussia, «revenno, 8.326 0005 Jati, 28, 9000 0004, Russsin revenue, 17,800,0002 debt, 0),300,000. Thus England is indebted to the extent of thirteen limea in revenue, while Frando and Rusen owe but four times their respectivo revenue, Austria and Prussia ilmore | mi than thrice. The relative, number of froops kept the up in tipe of peace by each nation, holds about the with some proportion the number of soldiers in the whole eliminated hint British emire, being 400,000, in France. $83,000, face, in Austria, 424,000, in Prip. 3 131,000) and in Russin, 1,000,000, –– These forces d'al however, he irrased in war time by two clinch a large part of the public revenne in each crunty in almorged by these two millions of soldiers, who consume the suma apportioned to their support in. productive mapper. A greit be doaltedly necure, if the five pur would mutually agree upon som ishing their largo standing arme

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RELIGIOUS TYRANNY

from the

Two singular duer tention, live just em charitable pena afavor nized Agnew, one of whom I MEMEKE! Bordan, Kant, and the other a Mr E. Hughes, of Smecth-hill House in the same county. These two saintly gentlemen, ntixious to rival sheir pro type, have, by letters, called upon the farmers of man who does not sign a pledas she will plund Kent not to engage, at the Wighterimns bli any

divine service in ban church on Sundays, So that, no cater how excellent a working the applicant for employment may be, or even if he hold he will be left to strave, and the same punjab ent the highest character for skill, industry and probity,

himself, under head and seal, to attend. Protestant will be inflicted upon his family, unless to binds worship on the Lord's day; whereas the largest and most unprincipled scoundrel will be engaged, if he only has the hypney so to bind himself. In the name of charity, we ask this pair of church going

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mugs and peasut persecutors how will they net if they find, at the Michaelmas hiring, either Mery of the The French editor's notions of Calcutta are rather tholica, looking for employment! Are they 10 be- theists, Presbyterians, Dissenters, or Roman Ca- magnificient. It is the city, he says, in which, next to London, the English display the most grandeur, clothing, because they will not barter their religious, left without employment, withus food, and without In sore things indeed, we beat the capital there

tencls for a mean of potage, and attend a church wealthy people are contented to walk on their own

frome which they dissent Perhaps the Siamese fea-bere eren the lowest clases move about in

saints will answer by saying that they will dhly com carringer These vehicles are so magnificent that it is certain any one of them would make the fortune Grant it, but how can those orthodox Churchmen pel cach man to allend his own peculiar church). of a Lendon showman, especially if it had its usual concile it with their consciences tu coerce, men lo complement of four fat and oaked baboos Our tend the celebration of toast k cer^niony which Louses, says the French editor, are sumptaour edi fices, which bare denivedly given to Calcutta the ther (Messrs Musgrave, and Hughes) believe

declare to be a damnable and an idolatrous name of the Cuts of Palaces, but he admits that the climate requires urge rooms; size being, wathink is a They hage

mony Like the shoemaker” only advantage we possess over people in Ed which they are completely ignorant, an

The French it is true, have livelier imagi-fering with other proplet Bilar than our own countrymen, and being more

selves walking-Boram for every accustomed to the mixture of dirvand finery and far

Their next attens will be nine arcles -TE dught le labonters and demente servent and good example, men good.Chri city, and that nothi hot house felis

a different to accurate foish, may be permitted mistake Calcutta houses for palaces, as Don kate mistook Spanish posade for enchanted Bren in Paris quelf, a door or a window by an inch or wo may be found to a room gilded furniture and costly hangings, and in one might step out of the finest house in ban ocean of mud, are bear that there is reform in this respect. However the cosão-

spirit of the Parisian editor undoubtedly him to overlook all par defects, and as we to claims to superiority he concedes it with

though if we bat boasted of ospree of Lor

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the Potato crop, and may have on the general. during the next six months. rotary debate, or any new esito deduss, this subject his OC-

eneral nitention than it other as a question of humanity The d stress which must inevitally the poor of Ireland and feas

ila post forsvud enna Jvations must be aeyere, gummate assistance that can most urgent - But in'n com ethink trans evil, and the from it have been greatly that the sides of the Pointo giate to right wil ion

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