THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
class of for this trade
froth 1st January 1947, under the Firm of Sver, 118ociated themselves as Appol this place, Mur Co., Mr MELVILLE remaining a long
kong
[Signed) F. D. SYME,
JD MUIR ARCHĎ. MELVILLE
try than in America-the wages of the operatives or shipping has seemed likely, almost to be 4 Lowell varying above theen in Manchester, while from the face of the ocean, by the client inept undersigned beg to intimat Dat they have the first cost of establishing factory, and the inci-colonial vessels; but in such a voyage as from Chi- denial expenses of carrying it ca, are much heavier
na to England, with a valuable cargo like te, the denie former than the latter place; and yet, with all employment of staunch sun-worthy ships in a matter these disadvantages, the American merchant under- of absolute necessity, and thus the better i
is the British merchant in the Chinese market, vessels would be always in demand
reason that the latter, in making his while the ship budding business in British manporte the simpla file, has to provide against a heavy and certain would receive a proportionate dumalus. The num ss in the article of his returns, owing to the quan- "ber of ships engaged in the transport of tea from Gy of tea brought into this country boing greater China to Grea Britain, as at
stated in the “ China that the public can consume at the present high Mail," for the year ending 30th June, 1816, is 117, duly paid prics. The American, on the other hand, but were such an increase in the quantity conau- Sen make his calculations without reference to this mod to take place as has been estimated, the directly certain loss, and the consequence is, that he is able import trade would require 277 ships. t; accopt a lower price for his goods (ban that at which the British merchant can afford them.
the ability of the Chinese to supply us with zay quutity of tea that we may want in exchange for our goods, no one familiar with the trade can Entertain the smallest doubt. The population of the Chinese provinces, according to the official census lakon in 1825, and quoted by Dr Morrison, was 012, being in the proportion of 288 persone $52,500 mile, which is inferior to the number treland and the Netherlands; and we may fairly conclude that, during the last twenty years, this po- palation has materially increased. If we assume the annual consumption of tea at 4 lbs per head and this is no unreasonable assumption in a coun- try, where. to quote from Murray's valuable work on Chinn, tea is the national drink, which is pre- sented on every occasion, served up at every feast, and oven sold on the public roads,we shell have tolerably accurate result ne to the total consump: tion in the empire. Indeed, this computation falls
akert of the actual consumption in the island of
Jesser, where 6 lbs is the annual allowance of each individual. Bacher to cre
If, however, we assume only one-half of the po. pulation of China to be users of tea, and multiply the number by 4 lbs to each, we have-
Teal consumption of tea in China
bh=705,752,024
Export to Great Britain and Ireland for the year eding 30th June, 1814, 8 shown by China Mail 57,584,041 Export to the United States (same auth
Je to Holland, as given in Davis, “China." Inland trade with Russin, Dayis a Chins
Export to Humburgh Bremen, Sweden, and Deinark, 7irgote này
Po to France and Spain, 4 cargoes, say Da to Bydney and South Australia, say.
Ľ
Amoy, 1st February 1847,
R
the United Kingens ande
the effects of former special boone may
so deeply rooted in
have even one on increasing long had been removed
But while the confdance of the
necessarily withheld from
them a participation in vileges of its other so
NINIAN Mawrond having been discharged it was implicitly gives
from my Employ has no longer any anthoris to sign, or act for me in any way whilever.
CHARLES BUCKTON.
Victor 11th February 1847. e
BAN. Chayrond is authorised to Sign for
HOLMES & BIGHAM.
Victoria, 12th February 1847.
To the manufacturer, ingrchan, and whipowner, nothing more need be said, the facts previously stated containing proof sufficient that their tutorest our firm by procuration from this date. is cupcerned in the reduction of the tos duties. To those who wish to see the working man provided with a beverage that does not incapacitate him from following his daily pursuit, that never leads him into excess, but rather tanda, to elevate his character, by bringing him home to his family, and inducing him to end his leisure hours with the the question, Whether ten shall continue high in price, or shall be put completely within the reach of the poor? le one that deserves attention, and ought to receive their serious consideration, Economist, November 14.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
FEBRUARY,
ARRIVALS.
10, Pandora, Cobb, Whampos, passed through
last evening.
10, Siewa, (Dut) Knudsen, Amoy.
10, Omega, Drewitt, in charge, Chínimo Bay. 11, Dhur, Cumberland, Whampoa. 11, Petrel, Hadley, Oumsingmoon.
SAILED.
FRERUARY, 18,602,348
2,000,000 10, Peirel, Hadley, Camsingmoon. 5,000,000
10, Angelo, (Am) Hastings, Whampoa. 3,000,000, Mischief, White, Calcutta, 2,000,000 44,000,000 || 12, Zephyr, Macfarlane, East Coast. 12, Mazeppa, Jauncey, West Const. 707,818,733
12, Nymph, Woodrow, West Coast.
The above is exclusive of the heavy exportation that takes pleace in Chinese vessels, to all parts of the East, where Chinese emigrants are sottled, such
"Tonquin, Cochin China, Cambodia, Slum, the Philippines, Java, Borneo, and the various settle. ments within the straits of Malacca. In compari son with such an enormous quantity, the forty-five millions of pounds consumed in the United King dan, sink into insignificance, being searchly 6 per
cost. of the entire production of the Chiness empi. r. It is, therefore, obrious that were the demand
yeare,
14 be doubled or even trebled from Great Britain, it would make very little difference in the Chinese market, since it would be only a question between leting us have twelve instead of six per cent. of their growth of the
of the article. When we remember that the tea plantatiains to malarly in three years, and that its leaves are then fit for picking, and that there is vast extent of country to which it is genous, running from the equator to latitude 45 deg. north, it is evident that were there a necessity for it the actual pr
production of tea in China
hina could be increased to an almost unlimited extent,
extent in the space of three or four years an extent far more than compensating for the extra three per cent which, in the first instance, might be required by the British. If any further evidence were wanting of the capability of the Chinese to supply a vast increased quantity of tea, it will be found to the past history of the trade. Whenever the price of
ARING TERKER any one description of tea has been high in En. gland, it has been followed by an
an overwhelming importation of that kind, showing that the Chinese lea men regulate the quantity solely by the demand for it, without finding any difficulty in providing the article. Thus, the scented descriptions of lea in Jane, 1844 ge to 35 21 and 3s 3d in bond. A China tute in news of this high price reaching.
the
REPORTS.
Narciso, (Sp) Vasques, Amoy, Dhur, Cumberland, Calcutta.
VESSELS IN VICTORIA HARBOUR, H. M S. Vestal, Captain Talbot.
H. M. Tr. S. Alligator, Master Commanding King. H. M. S. Minden, 2nd Master in charge Osmer,
Hospital and Store Ship, Angland, Marvin, Anona, Thomas,
Benanjee Hormusice, Coates,
hur, Cumberland, Fort William, labu Barry, Stewart, Kelpie, Bellamy
(Hulk,)
Lütle Catherine, London, Gibson, Mary, Seuirkrop, Narciso, (Sp.) Vasques, Omega, Drewitt, in charge, Orataza, Nail, Petrel, McNally, Siwa, (Dut.) Knudsen, Starling. Anderson, Sri Singapura, Tamar, Hall, Wave, Flackett, Young Hebe,
VESSELS
Drinker & Heyl J. Matheson and
1 Matheson and Co Lindsay and Co J. Á: Olding Dent and Co Bellamy Lindsay and Co
Dent and Co
Rawle, Duus and Co Captain
J. Matheson and Co Robt. Strachan Gilman and Co
Burd Lange and Co Macvicar and Co
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NOTICE. wishes for a actuation as Bervant to a Lady YOUNG WOMAN without encumbrance going to England. Please to address by letter to H. A, Office Friend of China.
NOTICE.
OMURRAY Co. beg to inform all parties indebted to then, that unless their back pc. counts are paid on presentation they will refer all such to the next Court of Bummary Juris. diction.
A
Victoria, 5th February, 1847.
PARTNER WANTED, in consequence of the retirement of one member of a firm, an op portunity offers to enter an old established and lu. crative business, no ono need appy who cannot command a small capital immediately:-further par ticulars may be had of Mr G. DUDUELL, Canton Bazaar, by letter or personal application.
Hongkong, 5th February 1847,
M
ESSRS. SMITH & BRIMELOW have really- ed instructions to Bell by PUBLIO AUCTION, OR a day hereafter to be named, a Colleenon of English Books of the latest cations, elegantly bound in all and Morocco, and most beautifully einbellished and illustrated, the above-mentioned works, togather with a number of splendid Engravings, (the subject being the signing of the treaty of Nankin) dan now open for inspection, and for private Sale, at their Slores. Catalogues of the Books will be furmshed, and due notice given of the evening of sale.
Victoria, 5th February 1847.
NOTICE.
TH2 subscribers beg leave to give notice to the
Tcitizens of Hongkong and give notice in the
have an Armourer, a Bell-hanger, &c.,&c, ull or- dition to SHIPSMITHING, in all its branches, they deis shall be punctually attended to.
EMERY & FRAZAR. Hongkong, 1st February 1847. BILLS OF LADING FOR THE OVERLAND ROUTE.
soveringly struggled
their rights, and that, a
quence if a perseverance authorny and influence of the transferred to those who agilnter f of such lows A gilation le uoll evil to country, and esa only be re public good by having for its object fis some enormous evil the parma unt which far outweighs the temporary which results from a popular mo which
Inw. Few will now be disposed
the
long as the removal of the religious and childr to a ceruin péring, the proencing i nell were fully justified by sucil on abilities of the Roman Catholles were the ob cate for which his popular influence was exerted, it l impossible unt to feel that he was performing & ser- vice to Froland which entitled him to the warmest gratitute of his coautrymen, and of the friends of liberty everywhere. But few, we think, will diffor with us in thinking that it haheen well for the best interests of Ireland, and for the reputation of Mr O'Connell, had his agitation ceased with the accomplishment of those great objects, or, at least, that it bad assumed a very different character than it hus.
what Ireland most needed to make loss privileges With a restoration of civil and religious liberly, really valuable, was a development of those extra- ordinary sources of industry, with which, in a de- gree far greater than any other part of the United Kingdon, that country abounds. Habits of steady and egatinuous industry required to be formed; self restraint upon passions which had grown lawless under oppression, required to be imposel, a provi. dent care for the future, now that the law secured industry, was to be acquired; and above all, a self- to every man equally the full advantages of his own reliance each tuan upon his own efforts, and a secu mighbour, as the fira conditions of permauent in pakus re-pect for the rights and property of his provement, were in he learned and acknowledged by
all.
What has agitation in Ireland done towards these great ende daring the last ten years? On the contrary, iw much has it done to divert the public min on them? If the Irish had been left undis- turbed to themselves the force of circumstances must lave tended largely to advancement in these respectą, As it is, their attention has been diverted by a ory for a repeal of the union, based upon such insufficient grown a as could only have imposed upon a peopte at ones ignorant and miserable, and, therefore, cre dulous; while their capital, for which so many pro- fitable means of investment offered all around them, has been wasted on an unmeaning agitation Ex amine the speeches of Mr O'Connell in Ireland for the last ten yeare, nud, we ask, how many intelli. Bible suggestions will be found by which the people could improve their material condition and social comfort, or their amount of education On the con trary, their great object appears to have been, to divert attention from all objects of real improvement to the ignis fatuus of a repeal agitation. And, even at this moment, while on the one hand he is demand. ing from England the immediate supply of millions to support the people, he in committing the mon strous absurdity of publicly demanding a repeal of the union with England as the only means of solving Irish wretchedness. What can such a course mean? No one, taking the whole life of Mr O'Con well, can regard him either as a knave or a fool, HIPPING ARTICLES, according to the re
though some of his more recent acts would expose cout act (Victoria 7 & 8) for sale at this office not alter tries hinn to the importation The most charituta explanation of of being both Office "Friend of China,"
Mr O'Connell's policy, and that which sums of his Victoria 10th October, 1845.
political friends, who cannot justify his used to make for lim, is, that he-runder judices of the masses, in order the
sale at this office, four forms of bills of lad. ing for goods or specie shipped by the P. & O. Company's Steam packets. Ist for goods deliver able at London; 2nd for goods deliverable at Southampton; 3rd for goods deliverable at Suez; 4th for goods deliverable at intermediate ports. They are printed after the Company's forms on Bank post.
Office "Friend of China" 25th October, 1845.
Smith and Brimelow"
J. Matheson and Co Macvicar and Co
LES AT WHAMPOA.
H. M. St. Vulture, Captain Macdougal.
the season, we did not receive the increased supply H. M B. Childers, Commander Pittman.
until the present year when the quantity brought
in has been so res that these classes of Lea are now not worth more than
The
gua
same circumstance has also occurred pawder ten and young byaan, of which the present heavy importation, consequen upon the high pri ces of 1844, bas reduced the in some anetan ces 30 or 40 per cent. Under the heat
in Mr McCullock's Commercial Dictio
the following remarks, whic pacity for incrassed produ
Bre
elucidate is Ca-
tos com
mencement of the last century, the entire consump
tions in this country the
did sot amount to 500. sumption of Great Brita United States amounts: and you every one, nchinato
the trade is aware, that has increased a hundred fol markets have been regularly
at the company ales they
abt and America, wherens The dönd continent and the
Cool
the
50 or 60 years We may therefor
cary on this point. The
pidly increasing ma
that empire, its quantities of ten, and Lo Lead, negative the iden crease in the consumis
have any percertible st cost price.
The allo
1836, since which a extracted from her Gr China have increpzeds price is lower then over
feas were scarcely ch
of the European hát do so: this now for ports; meanwhile, decline on the whole
To the shipow
fea would be a
being confined exclusively British bull
H. C. Str. Pluto, Lieut. Airsy,
Ann Bates, Slaughter,
Aden, King,
Argo, Bremer,
Amelia, Diaper, Cora ur, Soames,
alder Brathwaite,
Ellerslie, Pagen,
Britomar Solomon,
George Aufe, Murrey,
Hindustan, West,
Boustead and Co Crooke and Massey Fletcher and Co Boustead and Co G. F. Stubbs Ny, Parkin and Co Nye Parkin and Co
Boustead and Co-
Duke of Cornwall, Whitehead, KMacgregor and Co Graaf Van Hoogendury, (Dul.) teal,
Order &D. N. Cama Gray and Co erjee Lungrah
How and Co. indery and Co Russell and Co Macuan Dearie and On
Hardwellnes Ingleicood, Smith, Indian, English, John Cooper Grieg Lady Amherst, Ablett,
snilda Cornelia, ( Dot.) zeto Thompson.
na Oscar, we) Mellin
fuerte, Alva
Smith;
Jamieso
William Jardine, Small, Blenkin Rawa
Wild Fresh Gh/7, Buckton,
Tabella Robertson, Kell's
INGUISTS Ræports and NAVY BILLS for sal
at this Office.
Office Friend of China, 28th Dec, 1844,
FOR
FOR SALE. —At the office of this paper.
Compradores cheque books.
Ships Articles, with an abstract of the merchant
seaman's act endorsed on the back.
Powers of Attorney, after farms by Chitty, Charterparties, after forms by Chiny.
Bills of Leding.
Chinese Tariff of imports, and exports, for counting@bonsos.
JRE
an influence over them, which i Lageously in some extreme cases
ing the present emergency, But is Ireland aliva, s to: that dare not be told ar Irebind alw Auence which
pre
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