bands baden
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the cond. has not in the of Poroco Proper,
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
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rely will condems influence left predominant at Borney. No sooner, medy, and of which we can but darkly distinguish healing on the port however, had the allied furce retired than one of the the charcuter, will be met on the spot by all the measures, which the highest talent, combined with neugl vicissitudes of an oriental court occurred:
p's friends were taken into favour, and the attire sûreat information, can devise for their extinc.
ich. herents of the Raish of Sarawak wordeli barbarous
y maasnered. It was to demand an explanation of this outrage, as well as to secure the English Rajah from vengeance, which threatened to extend to hita- self, that the expedition sailed which we hare just
crimordinary has lately been the dent in the Indian Sean that the and the adjacent continent of
open nu ngrel and interesting & peter as the discovery of the In
The Spaniards. A few short question, though they had mturies, so were daily consted
recorded.
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thay are left to the taste of the makers. On this point. Engad neods no forced nor charlatan repo- lation, and Englishmen need no instructing what to admiro. They have a due appreciation of fit. ness; and our machinery in bandsome as well a The new Governor, like the Governor-General good. Railways, too, and most of what appertaine
to them, are beautiful as well as convenient. W of India two years ago, will have at once to turn to his frontiers-we trust with as complete anccees, do not borrow from the continent to construct such though less costly triumph. Our relations with our useful machinery. The thing is not an exotic; it neighbours there are somewhat singular. The is of home growth. It wants no pulling, no patru
nage, Pensions would be ill bestowed on those Such is the position of the English in Horneo. Caftros are sufficiently savages to preotude sur
who make their own fortune. Our machinery, It would be a burlesque to apply the principles of dealing with them as with a civilized nation, with intervention laid down by public law to such trans-
out being sufficiently so to offer the usual tractability like our ships, belongs to our minds and our habit
It is worked, as they are, by men who understand actions as these. Nations living by piracy may be of barbarians. They are not aborigines with a ma
tural rip the soil. Though their pedigree is it, and it is well worked. Between this needfular- at once considered and treated as outlawed comm718- hanta and seamen, were regarded mities, though there is a degree of hardship insp
not very functly traceable, they are supposed to ticle of home growth, the means of supplying our
des-
wants, of adding to our wealth, and securing out attention, and seldom mentioned plying the penalty of wilful crime to the ancient and be rather a degenerate than a savage race, with some miraculous vegetable time-honoured customs of a country; and the idea of cended distantly from the Caucasian stock, and still power, which has obtained for us influence over pile. Even the events of the war extirpating an entire archipelago of piratical com.retaining in their language and institutions some all the world; and the luxury of statuary, a thing of foreign growth, which belongs not to the great Occupation of one of these mag-munities smacks of a severity too bloody for cafe din vestige of a more alvilized period. Like par-
mass of the people, which is only darkly apprecint were insulcient to secure due cobsi- approval. Still, such considerations are small con- selves; they are settlere 3 and the tribe with which wo the memorials of almost the only anan solation to a vessel's crew sold into slavery. Buliare poouliarly concerned, and which has monopo-ed by a fow travelled connoisseurs, there is all the
viewed the Indian Archipelago in the the rank of these Sultans and Rojthis could be se
lised the title of Caffry, acquired, either by purchase difference that exists between the apontaurons and
the forced growth of iatge: Our mechanical in hich it in pasuming at present. For 30 riously accepted, nad it were worth while to inves or conquest from the indigenous Holtenfor, the die year our trader continued to traveres this highway gato our position and capacity in these expeditious trist which they now pocess, though their tenure of genuity is really unliveir skill in hero sculptare, in sor Esmern empire, without even a passing no- more minutely, the complexities might be curbu it is not supposed to be ancient. They are stationery, na importation which has never taken root in the ties of the rich divers which opened their gates If wo acted as principals, what wore our grounds?
not migratory; and as their population, unlike this national mind? lo toess on osery eida, nequiescing in piratfest ra-
Ifas allies, whose! We prasume Mr Brooks, though of aborigines generally in contact with Europeans, rage mara mantent and inveterne than those of he has secured his pashalie in perpetuity, is hardly is steadily increasing, they are inclined or impelled Balke or Tante, and content with a single post at independent enough to contract private alliance to extend the boundaries of their territory -a pro- the uber of this region, which was all that the especially against his own master, and with a Goject in which efter cholen or necessity generally spirit and ability of a single Englishman could pervertment whose subject and agent he alen is, Ele leads them towards our frontier. They are cattle- sonde bis Cavernoment to secure from the marauding and his Court have ecrininly not merged their rights stealers, too, of the most inveterate, kinda crime valence of native robbers, or the jealous monopoly na British subjects in their capacities of King, and of peculiar atrocity among a people of herdsmen
an European rival.
Counotl, and in this view they might demand the theft idaces summary retaliation, and border protection of our ships. It is true, too, that the Sul squabbles lead to forays, and forays to invasions: tan formally asked the aid of the British Gorem Amongst this singular race missionary zeal bas ment against his piratical subjects, and the inter- been peculiarly active; and Caffreland has for some vention of Sir Edward Belcher against his refrac time been a pet province of Exeter-hall philanthro tory Premier. But in this fast expedition, la carpists. To the influence of these insinuating oate- rect a change in the Sultan's policy, and revenge chists, who have threaded the remotest kloofs, and the murder of the deposed party-a result not un- pushed their stations into the dreary regions of pull usual in such courts,we suspect Admiral Cochrane adders and Bushmen, the colonists, as it will be re- mast have assumed a little fortunate baldness for membered, ascribed no small share of their late the occasion, when he wrote that there did not a misfortunes. There are two sides to this question, pear to him the Shadow of a doubt as to his right no doubt, as to most others, and there are not want- with reference to those principles which governing advocates of either; but if the missionaries have "European states ander similar circumstances," effected no political mischief in Southern Africa
We should be very surty, however, to have our they may well be proud of this single instance of
No buman remarks on this head misunderstood.
their uncompromised services. If the importunate being can doubt the abstract propriety of our inter-
class of their supporters happen to have influence ference. It is only a pity that we have not more at home, it is generally directed to the disparage frequently made our duty to protect the oppressed, meni, if not the derangement, of the political - and civilize the barbarous, our supreme law. terests of the colony 1 and if, as is more frequently hardly a creditable fact to refer to that in Hindoste casa, better counsels happen to prevail, the mon tan we have often regarded with such reverence the chief is hardly lose. The minds of the natires ure regal rights of a vicious despot as to let him tortore certainly, if not intentionally, possessed with ideas destructive of the respect due to the local Govern his subjects by hundreds when a motion of our arm would have checked his deeds of blood. If the rights of an aboriginal tribe may be overruled for the sake of aggrandizement or coineros, the independence of a tyrant may auraly be curbed for the sake of mercy and humanity. A British frigate should be A knighterrant in such seadus these, to succour the helpless feed the starving, and rescue the captive.
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It is
Now all things are changed; and if Sir Stamford Rables conli revive, he would find the whole nation ready to embrace his opinions, and to carry out his projects to a point which he could have hardly con- emplated himself We seem suddenly cognizant of the fact that a region of enormous promise is ready to yield we the virgin treasures of its soil, that is- lands no fast as to have baffled the intruding spirit of the Dutch and Portuguese, offer in their undis- covered interiors and misconceived populations an insatiable market for our goods, and an inexhaus tible supply of native riches in return, At a period when competition and familiarity, concurring with the stimulus to more adventurous enterprise given by recent legislation, have made the old emporiums of the world appear stale and unprofitable, we are pacxpectedly invited into a field of unbounded wenkh and fabuloud attraction which we seem neper to have heard of before. The prospect is of the most indefinite and superustural magnitude. Northward it extends to that mysterious empire which alone, in these days of research, preserves a character of geographical and ethnological romance. South ward it reaches to the phantom cominent of early marigatora-the Terra Australis Incognita,-pre senting the strange phenomenon of a country abounding the valuable productinga of nature, but as yet unpeople by man. Discoveries in Tropicat Australia have singularly occurred with advancesin the Archipelago.till we are now told, with no pam- pous or vaan glorious prophecy, that our rude north-There never was a British subject engaged from ero seuirments on this strange continent are to form the chief suation on a new high road of nations, by which steam is to connect the Torres Straits with the British Channel. A very characteristic symp- tor of our altered sentiments and enlarged las appeared in our paper of Wednesday, of which eix columns were filled with despatcher from an istand which ten years ago it would have seemed difficult to connect with any subject interesting to Britain, and which we still call by the wrong name which our ignorapes and indifferenco originally applied to it,
purer or more upright motives in a mobler or more exciting enterprise that Mc Brooke, and if he is not backed by the aid and countenance of his country it will be a terrible proof of the precedence we give to the suggestions of pride or avarice over the dio- tates of humanity and re on.--Times, October 2.
1
The accounts which or late despatches have anc. cessively brought from the Capo-the only quarter considered as actually at war-are meagre in the of the world, perhaps, in which we may now be
extreme, conveying no new intelligence of impor- A considerable portion of our readers, we suspect, tance, and scarcely even detailing a single incident have no very clear idea of the casus belli which took to characterize the nature or progress of the strug Admiral Cochrane to Borneo, nor is it, indeed, al- gle. Yet, next to tidings of such disasters as out together ease to be given. The boats of our abips pride and position would hardly allow us to antici- have forced their way up the Borneo river to the pate, these blank despatches are about the most un city, and compelled the Sultan to save himself by satisfactory that could well be received It is clear Bight This much is clear, and was a result which that up to our last dates, though the incursion of might pretty safely have been predicted of the ex- the Caffres had probably met with an effectual pedation. But the history of the whole transaction check, the nation at large was neither subdued nor is not so readily conveyed in a few words. We humbled. No person can doubt the power of our will take it for granted that the realer knows the reinforced troops to desolate Caffreland story of one of the greatest Englishmen of this cere
org, Mr Brooke, ofSarawak. The state of things then is this:-The independent Buitan af Borneo, amongst the Pangerans and Rajahs, whose authes rity is nominally subordinate to his own, numbers * Britt Jubject the duly constituted Rajab of Sarawak. The Rajab, some time after his acces pop to the throne, was appointed also British agent at Boraso, and still impersonates this somewhat angular duality of offices. With the additional element of that piracy which insular habits have made a profession and a virtue, the character of the Boraco Saltanate resembles pretty much that of the ad palire courts of India This troperial Majesty is pot otherwise than a good-natured man, though is becile and weak. His collation of Mr Brooke to the preferment of Sarawak was as honest and straight forward as appointment, on both sides, as could be Band in the hat of these peculiar transactions since Cure got the famous grant of the Dewannee from Chah Alam The new Rajah quickly exercised the best attributes of sovereignty by legislating for the deliverance and happiness of his subjects-the abject, as is well known of his whole career. Nor were his confised to this peaceful occupation, for he
arassed by piratical neighbours, who very existence of bis state and people. these restless aggressors
or support which gland, and the allied arewak conducted ised in 1843 and 1844 nier, which are rated tive volumes. The ne elrasive measures
1845 the
hen?
We do not mean to accuse any Christian teachers of directly preaching war; but a system under which the reverence due to constituted an- thority is groaned away in a sermon, or tampered with in a tract-under which colonists and their officers are described as godless and forsaken men, infinitely inferior to the sanctifed convert, and surely devoted to future punishment for their non- participation in the projected work-under which, ton, the prejudice or reluctance of the native is heated with no more consideration than the disap provht of the Governor, but everything is done, by the perversion of a text in season and out of season -ench a system might safely be expected to pro dune the fruits of disturbances and disorder, even if the experience of half a century had not changed a subject of calculation into a matter of certainty-
bid, Oct. 2.
THE STATUE," ***
What will artistic Europe say of our renowned Statue 1 For months have all our literary and cre- tical journals descented on this one subject. They have made Sir F. Trench's whim a national con- cern. They and the Board of Works have mixed her Majesty and the Government up with it. Its merits have been disonssed far more than the cons dition of the Dorsetshire peasantry, or the failure of the potato crop. A writer might know nothing of agriculture or political economy-he could not fail to know all about art; and to write about the
tely or the top 10 salate fred and as complaintue was as easy as walking. On ne subject has
is not from any apprehension of the result, or even
such quantity of paper and printers ink been ex- the difficulties, of the war that we conceive the pre- pended. Concerning our greatest general, and sent aspect of things so cheerless. It is from the loving for weeks and months engaged the ready. fact that there appeared, until a few days ago, no
pens of all the wits of the metropolis, it will appear prospect of any such settlement of the frontier as to all Forope as a great public work, and the nation would premise amend-nent for the future, or healwill be held responsible for the crotchets of Sir F the remembrance of the past The rather indefinite. Trench and his committee. If our public writers object proposed in the late Governor's proclam tion, of subduing the war party in Caffroland, might, doubtless, be attained though only, perhaps, by such indiscriminate punishment as would leave. the survivors in much the same mood as that for this on case the bins the red. The Center, on this occasion, been the aggressors they provoked the war by a most barbarous atrocity, have con ducted it with characteristic havoc, and have most. righteously deserved such retribution as that with which they have by this time probably been visited, But all these proceedings promise au avestigation of removal of the causes which led to the present outbreak, and may lead to twenty more. By what cordone or conciliation are our frontiers to be secured?
a
cient in gond, sense as he is in good taste, the ha- and more justly estimated it, and not been as defi
tion would have been spared some humiliation au
There has been, too, ao little expense. The grand procession, cost something more than Mr company of riggen, and an anty or orafobing a company of riggers, and an urmy of dray borsea all helped to bring the great horse to its station, and Inise it aloft, Elaborate machinery, as well he workmen, was brought from a distance. The work in progress, and when finished, was illustrated by numberless cuts, and in a season of inanition it was ignified foto a grand historical event. After all
the Statue 16 to come down. Her Majesty does not
not like it. Her
taste has decided against it whole toil, description, and illustration, are all To this question a few days ago there wasno obe in vain. "Trench's folly is not to be perpetuated, vious reply, but the appointment of Sir Hanyut it has not terminated before it has fixed disgrace Pottinger to the Governorship of the Orpe bas
on life Nation. We adopted and made his Yours and England seems likely to become the laughing-stock of Europe.
We are cat probably, an artistic people Wo write too much about the arts to lecl much/We ent - are perpetually lashing ourselves, or requiring
re to lach us into fervor of admiration. It is all, only a phosphorescent glow. There in
llen about our buildings than about the
they ero, in g
tricated us at once from most of tho e perplexities. which could not but be anticipated in any serious reflections on the bubject. It has been very thely remarked, that for the right accomplishment of tha most difficult of all political tasks, the gover of dependencies, goud men are a thor than gand regulations. Men, here the objects in remist ber of the cleverest bureaus in Chi
devien a scheme for
We should be inclined to recommend our coon. trymeg to be contented with achieving that in which they can excel. When a native genius arisea amongst us, like Hogarth, or Wilkies of Chantry, or Thom, let us cherish and encourage him, but let us not be led a Will o' Wisp chase by poor imita tions of a not very valuabile art. If those who have heen worked up into a great admiration of what seems unsusceptible of rule, and is only a questica of individual taste, chnet to persevero in their pursuits, lat as not draw, by multiplied comments, The attention of Europe to their ridiculous attempts and egregious failures—vor give to their abortions the importance of nationul undertakings. –– Econo- mist, November 14,
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGE MOD
MINILA (From the New Weekly General Price Current, January 10)
NEMARKS ON THE MARKET, IMPORTS
COTTON GOODS.-The demand hath for plain and coloured goods continues to be limited, but as we have arrived now to the dry sonson when the pre- vince draft and dealers, commence to resort to this
tal from all the provinces, business will nata. rally improve during the subsequent months, till the end of June, offering an outlet to the considerable socks now on hand.
EXPORTS,
SPOARThe crop in general is reported to ba very good, and the raw material will soon commeace to be brought to market; but as we have not yet received the October, and November Mails, no price is fixed for the current quality, nor is any contract been made that we know of. There has been some enquiry for Broum sundried, for which they ask from 235 a 33, according to quality, but we are - not aware of any purchases.
Corres-The crop has been good and some has been paid for France at 391. For England the highest offer has been 88 per picul.
HEMP Now commences the time for large ar rivate, but no ulteration in price is anticipated, the actual being 834 per picul unscrewed,
RICE -The late rains have injured the crop a good deal in the neighbouring provinces, and priers are likely to continue firm throughout the year, even without any demand for exportation.
SEGARS, In the auction of the 16th inst., the following were sold:
250 Mil Jaa, wero sold in lots of 350 mts at $8.5-6
8-5.0.
750 2.315
3,315 Mils,
1,773 Miles.
500 250
2,523 Mix A
**8-4-6
$7.3.0
3.6
7.2.6
SAPANWOOD, is more abondant and declining. EXCHANGE ON ENGLAND.The Government has offered to buy a considerable aum, and it is be- lieved that the holders will not sale months Bills for more than do 5d, and we have been informed that some have asked 4s 4d. Ox CHINA, 1 per cent discount and no purchasers.
FREIGHTS. None offering very few vessels in port, and none loading for Europe or Amerika.
The Remarks above are the same that we made in our last number. We have had no arrivals since, and the market has not suffered any alteration or improvement. M
The want of animation that is experienced in almost all branches of business, contrary to what generally happens at this season of the year, ney be attributed to two causes principally, want of res seld and orders for the purchase and export of pro- duce, and the little produce that has yet been brought to market owing to the ins that have prevailed this year to a later period than usual,
Some Bank, Bills have been sold during the week at de 3d, and Frivate Bills at 30 days at 4s 46.
. We have been informed, that a sale or contract for 3,600 picuts of Broan for Sydney, has been made. at 8-5-6 per picul
On Spain 3 month par. Few buyer.
London Treasury and Blank Bila 30 days on vil. Last Safes, Ditto PHTALK dito 6 monthabad,Last Salo
--- Chios, 30 days si 1 per cent ducdunt, and few purchaserk. *** Bingkpöre en dayahnya di sedans a
CURRENT FREIGHTONG QUA BRUNA SELAMA 100 per ton of 20 cute,
For Landon
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