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el before the lapse of a week, chiefly to the Cited States.

The imports of food, principally Indian torn, site to a vast amount, and, the grain markets He became lower.

SCOTLAND.

Thate has been a renewal of the food-rioting in North of Scotland; the scene this time being Ross-shire. On Saturday se'night sysuptors of sturbance broke out at Dingwall. A vessel come wship a cargo of grain. The people held meel- g, and after some demonstrations of turbulence a granaty: and having at length effected anzeked minirance, in spite of the exertions of the authori The vessel was then be, they mixed the corn. eted, towed away to the bottom of the canal, and diaground. The rioters were principally women d boys. The disturbances continued from the Monday to the Thursday, when a party of soldiers "Similar outrages took prace at Invergordon; and the district extending from Alness to Fowls The British Association, in addition to a previous san of 5,000L, bas remitted the sum of 8,000, to Chasgow committee, for the relief of destitution the flighlands.

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Frightful Destitution in the Highlands. We Meret to learn that destitution, disease, and death, committing the most desolating havoc amongst Highlanders. In Strobland the people are thout food, or the means of purchasing any. In e but were found a man, his wife, and five chil- dren crouched around the dying embers that were ag on the grate, over which were the ears of corn they were drying for their food. A poor half- basted wretch applied at a kitchen-door of a farm- house for food. His wretched condition excited pt, and he was brought in, and had bread and fish He ate the fish, but put the bread in given to him. Becket Upon being asked why he did so, he med that he would take the bread to bis infant hom he left at home crying for food. At Sleath Streath the burials are so frequent that a green sad is not to be seen in their churchyards, The people are glad to get a meal of herrings and cold water First, cholera attacked and carried them efnd now dysentery is completing the ravage. Although Sleath and Streath comprise a population 300, there is neither a physician nor s com- order of medicine in the districts. An old retired factor, whose infirmities render him incapable of tions, is the only person to whom they can

deling Increase of Ferer in Dundee. --During thirst two months of this year, death and pesti- making fearful ravages in this tre have been making Hown In January and February, last year, the ruths were 137 and 135, while in the corresnond-

onths of this year the numbers are 250 and and in the first week of March, 63. The two cenes of old age and young children have been the principal victims cut off, and it is presumed, as escried by the physicians of the infirmary, at the grarterly meeting of the governors, held on Monday est that numbers of these have perished from a war pmper nourishment.

IRISH EMMIGRATION THE COLONIAL

From the Spectator)

OFFICE

Mr Hutt proved in his speech of the 5th inst, k will be trupossible te extricate Ireland from

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

we supported eleven years ago! The Commis sioners of that time even recommended considera-

ble pecuniary sacrifices to defray the cost of emi- galion, and it would, no doubt, have been a wise economy. But Mr Ward's Committee on the Disposal of Waste Lands in the Colonies, which eat in the same year, pointed out how funds might be provided for emigration by the very process of systematic colonization, The colony of South Australia, now one of the most flourishing com- munities under British rule, was founded without the cost of a single abilling; for the money subec- quently voted by Parliament (and now in the course of rapid liquidation) was advanced to pay for the unauthorized expenditure of Governors appointed by the Colonial Office. It has cost the country a good deal to pay for the consequences of the efforts made by the Colonial Office and its repre. sentatives to prevent the colonization of New Żen. land; but the direct process itself has not cost the country a farthing. There is not a colony in our possession --- save within the Tropics, where the climate is unsuited to a multitudinous immigration of European settlers--which does not held out the means of providing sites for an unlimited amount of British colonists; those sites to be prepared for colonization, and the settlers to be conveyed thi. ther, wholly without cost to the country.

A large instalment of the surplus labour of Ire land, Mr Hutt has shown, might be drafted off at once, to meet instant demands in the labour-mar- kets of various colonies; and another might soon be taken, in the shape of labour to execute the pioneer work of colonization.

It is to permit and direct, not to originate and pay for these grent national movements, that Go- vernment interposition is needed; official interfe. rence having so long had the effect of prevention. When the present Lord Grey entered the Colonial Office, with a new construction of the department, which was said to include Mr Charles Buller, as the ablest Parliamentary exponent of colonization principles, high hopes were excited of some bene. ficial change in the working of the colonial depart- ment. It was not merely that the public looked to fulfilment of the promising speeches which gentle mon of that party delivered while Sir Robert Peel was in office and they were in opposition, but that they were understood to have mastered the sub- ject of colonial policy and colonization. With. holding no acknowledgement of some useful re- forms in matters of detail, we may say that public expectation founded on Opposition manifestoes has not been answered by official acts. Lord Grey seems to be fettered by some unseen influence ever and anon he tooks as if he went in fear. His recent assurance that he meant to follow in the footsteps of Lord Stanley (1) has given the im- pression that his timidity as a Whig exceeds his real discretion as a Colonial statesinan, and has not increased the confidence out of doors Re specting Mr Buller, who comes less before the public, the impression is different: it is not be. lieved that a man of such active mind and such distinct ideas can have, abated his own opinions from any Hamlet-like irreseintion; but he pos sesses only a subordinate position, only a consult- ing (if even a consulting) voice. He seems to be neutralized; and this fhet calls to memory another fact that the genius lock, the real presiding influ ence within the Colonis! Office, remains Co- changed.

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ant Du Ha pubz une tenen levere A few we cathely closely, and

was just the reverse, and so likewise the reaal died the par chatina la palacze Jeky appears to be...

Appoers," we sy, for it would be almost prest certainly belzer hing, have a mature to asemine that the Colonit Minster tay The make a the cice, <8/03 discinsel the whole of his policy; or that Ministabuse a previous, & The ters have finally resolved to make so totally made quate & use of the opportunity afforded by Ireland calate that the extreme rates of Cation of achieving a great inensure.

TO. LET.

led in at redovicity of trade win has been po cerddenly espccles

held beyond the month of April, and lat approaching, wedch will determine the secers

on which the late entrassien y grauztu wes bend, bat wagh we apprehend the retails of the

THE House lately known as the it George prove more satisfactory to counters thus will be to te

Hotel. Early possession can be given. For further particulara apply to

Victoris, 15th May, 1947:

NOTICE.

R. OSWALD.

MR GEORGE CLARENCE HOUGHTON having been admitted a Partner in my Busi ness, the same will be carried on for the fire under the Fins of Hunter, flovGirten & Co. JAS. HUNTER.

JUS

Batavia, in March, 1847. TUST received and for sale by the Undersigned, Seltzer Water. Claret, (Medce,) and Syrup of three qualities.

A. L. ENCARNAÇÃO.

Victoria. 18th May, 1947.

PUBLIC AUCTION. MARKWICK, to inform the Commu.

to expect, yet we do not anyone thong

a decling in the rane u the stupte si vond 167 Lal moth hower prices being taken for pwde than sat at persent de- mandel. The peat three of love months Kid De B SVAK "of much anxiety as to the flore. Il be weather continue. as fervaralte to te Agriralleriet, u let present vrug raspiciusis betokrus, we may Celeiate on a rapid deedING in the prices of pray bones, vehich wol of ver que INES Getal impulse to our Hops trade, com pics regretma ead, in the seamine, I'm Mamanez exprice of the dut few months, will tead to improve this toon my est Lorean. Carmendians. Taking the new of (22 protot un the las tare, we think that we are say in Mt Lean thu min are not fllenly to audergo 201 tefal deadhon free r present qsonsfiets.

Geops Mazat. — A1 to coyotes of Depart

there was a disposition manifested, by con Mauriacta-

rers, in work det fee, and the percucre.com 3f mto AME a alight. impulse to the Collea Market, which ronzoraj. from he previous degradijon, sam price lapen traky An attempt was seade to lardea 11 kore, the 20tr was to Brive bayers from the parkcu. Fer (no energ days little or nothing was dare, at length Muse data reky

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the deed of selen. The lex wortel, havero, Kešcí to bring shoot short thee," which is not mong pantal then it has been for a long time past. ¦ Prolabava berj

Legal under the prices at which they could be produced by The Residue of that Gentleman's Household the present rates of e ottan Sore considerable usies hi

been effected at prices within a shade of these of Ortise There clearances have given & title were to b A Piano Forte, and a Bay Arab Horse, about holders, bet prices are yet without improvement Priz 14 hands, with Saddle and Bridle, and Horse Cather and Meslepelsun kive also receded le price, and ora ing, &c.

C. MARK WHOg beg by the has received in the way, ens priens have rond, and to cover

structions to sell by Public Auction, on Friday, the 21st May, 1847, at 11 o'clock A. M., at the Re- sidence of GEORGE PETT, Esq., who is about to forcest on the markets of reduced rates, et fully to de leave the Colony.

Furniture, (in excellent order).

Terms and Particulars of Sale: -- As per Hand- bills.

Victoria, 17th May, 1847.

MR LESSER bags to inform the community of

Hongkong that he is deposing of his re maining stock cf Jewellery at reduced prices, being about to return to England, consisting of Ladies and Gentlemen's fancy and signet Rings, Bronenes, i Pins, Watch guards, Guld Pin and Pencil Cases. with a variety of other articles, all of the lavat fashion.

Victoria, 2nd March 1847.

NOTICE.

THE Undersigned begs in inform his Friends and

the Community of Hongkong generally, that in consequence of the closing elifier old established Shop known as Mr FENCK'S, Canton Faraar, hi has opened a GENERAL STORE adjacent there- to, and trusts, from assiduity to Business, to merit a Shaze of Public Patronage, and more especially that of the Inhabitants of VICTORIA EAST.

FREDERICK WOODS. Nullah Bridge, Queen's Road, Victoria East, 1st May, 1847.

NOTICE.

THE Undersigned has for Sale at his GENERAL Bron, Nulau Bridge, Qurga's Reason th Hams, Cheddar and Berkeley Cheese, Ox Tongues, Pickles, Sauces, Sardines, Tert Fruits, Bloom Zante Currants, Soups, Salmen. Stoces, &c.; Candles, Fowling pieces, Pistols, Gunpowder, and Percussion Caps Table Cloths, English Del, Canvas, Brown Hollands Lioco, and Cotton Socks! Deer Flasks; Bath Bricks; St Julien Claret. Also: very Superior Glass-Ware, cersisting of Wine, Claret, Heck, Champagne, and Liqueur Glasses, Finger Glasses, Temblers, Pint and Qeart De- canters, and Water Goblets and Decanters; Hoirce and Forks Spoons of Serts; and other Articles too numeroas to mention in an Advertisement.

FREDERICK WOODS. Victoria, 5th May, 1847. . BILLS OF LADING FOR THE OVERLAND ROUTE.

We are aware that our perseverence in declar- ing the existence of that mischievous influence subject d us to misconstruction from those who condition to effect the transition

did not take the pains to test our honesty by not- potoloteeding to corn feeding without a

ing our consistency; but we know also that the thinning of the people by emmigration working of the evil has since extorted a recogni. Mr Hul, indeed, resolved the case into one oftion of it from many who have suffered. We bare parithmetic. When the Archbishop of Dublin no enmity to Mr Stephen-quite the reverse; we his colleagues made their celebrated report on acknowledge his singular ability in the execution the Poor-law Inquiry, Ireland contained 1,131,000

of official workmanship; but we persist in declar- spicultural labourers, representing a population of ing it to be an arrangement fraught with injury to

fire millions of souls their average wages the

the Colonies, and with discredit to responsible. vere 24, or 2s. 6d a week but that tha po statesmen, an long as great public questions are cale. They will henceforth requiro a corn referred to the decision of a private, subordinate, cale of wages; to supply which, an additional and irresponsible officer of the Executive. To sadies for wages amounting to more than all the be effectual, it is not necessary that such judgmentsing for goods or specie shipped by the P. & 0.

should always be expressed in words; to be mis- chievous they need not always be professedly hos- tile. It is quite possible to defeat a measure with- out seeming to attack it. For instance, a propo. sition may be received with expressions of the most friendly willingness to promote its objects. but when you come to details, you unexpectedly find in the professed friend a disposition to detect flaws, as sharp as you could fear in an attorney on the other side with no corresponding dispo sition to show how the flaws could be remedied. A discussion is raised on the first point-is pro-

rental of Ireland would be needed —

sale at this office, four forms of bills of lad.

Company's Steam packets. Ist fer goods deliver able at London 2nd for goods deliverable st Southampton: 3rd for goods deliverable at Sod; 4th for goods deliverable at intermediate ports. They are printed after the Company's forms on Bank post. Office "Friend of China"

The annual value of the agricultural produce of reland was estimated by the Commissioners of he Poor-law Inquiry at £30,000,000. The num- t employed in the various kinds of labour were cut 2000,000. Were the whole of the annual Produce, including all that was now divided into Pages, profit, rent, and replacement of capital- were the whole of

of these funds to be appropriated to wages alone, the average rate of wages would sal amount to more than 78. per week.

To save Ireland from universal misery, a change her agricultural systems imperative. That tracted is at length satisfactorily closed; only to (From Ferguson and Taylor's Monthly Trade Cir

ystem, as shown in its broad results, is as ineffi-

be renewed on the next point; and so on, until the

et us cao bo. The subdivision of land in Ire wearied promoters of the scheme, with patience.

and, in patches ranging from one acre to ten acres ch, presents the keeping of stock, rotation of , systematic drainage and irrigation in short, Herents good farming. The Commissioners esti ale that it requires four labourers in Ireland to ise the same quantity of produce as one in Eng

; others have estimated the ratio of difference five to two. The people of Ireland cannot be unless the produce be proportionately increased at cannot be done without a large application capital and skill to the poll; nor that, without a horough change of system; nor that, without a general dislodgement of cottors wholesale eject ht in order to the consolidation of farms. To in the English ratio betweon enbuistence and People, you must introduce the English ratio he e capital, skill, land, and labour; to do this, will employ fewer labourers (wo or three fexer out of every fire disengaging a leath

plus of unemployed labourers. Though the Pracces may not be effected in that distract way, with such perfectly tangible, and separately and 3zed resalin, it will 24

reland cannot be extricated

isine without

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question

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25th October, 1845.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

cuker, and Muschestre Price Currest.)

No. 39, Charlotte Street; Wooley Street,

Mandeer, Merek 18, 1547.) and hopes broken down, yield every thing into the hands of the officials, insist on nothing lest the SIR,Our Marker, wan WRS. recently call and de- dolny should outlast their own lives, accept any pressed at the hate of our last Report, has experienced thing, and fually consent to regard a different little change as respects, densod, sardine measure foisted upon them as their own accepted by they are still mor the Colonial Office. This may be done with an

UNSTU JO JEHO MUSI

been much les

aspect of decorous consideration all round with anlation i stock the utmost show of submission to the superior Bolders to quote Minister with no ostentation of anything but seal

humble, indefatigable, sleepless vin dance. Such Printa

à conduct of quairy, indel is not statesmannlike, bare changed but lawverlike the lowest senso of the term fol

Although

We pointed at the enstence of this obstrealte cede influence years back; we described the desunit of colonists at the frustration of their most reasong blo hopes by some insidious proces fairly meet them to be grappledo quished. Phat obstruction - still

known 19 Worki 15

than ever, even in circler where might have been anticipsted.

Orom CHOR which Lord

very little higher than the old rates march ried bere pre- visus to the specalations in Cortes. 16-inch Britney best the same comparative rates, and the best describes 17237 be bought at about a sailing per pieni, visch, ei the pr sent value of the raw material is to the producer & redress feare 4-inch C. E. Lecia Long Cirku kaye, in several cises, been sold at rates verging closely upon the depe prices of last year, and at these reduced quotations Koene jarem parcels have beeo dispmed of, het withAEL KATIKA imparted any greater frames to the market. The ad

video from Ladia and Chins are not of a charactCY. DO IES prove either demand or prices for these fabrics. The ca parts of Grey Sairings to Calcity, in 1996, appear, from the rotaras, so have incarded, by 261,000 pences, toote ad the year procedior, and sales in ocxstince could only les effected by salewitting to a reduction on the company low rates at which itsaso suppães had been stumped. Unli stacks already bold can be fos of, a hout fady that porn. deral Merchant win add to theta bylavestuesis baik ha at bigher rates. Ty Grey Jazzpont: tare le hatte og merking doing, but there is a fait demand for foe G. 5 Centrics and White Jracourt Mwing for the Laird Sunter. The selmand for Steet Long latha or Fratoms and the lary makes of Demetics, igvery Kulted, and, as the stockus ei these Goods are you casparatively plentiful, they are of fered at rates which leave a rolaces loss to the prodevey.

Nu class of or textile fabrics bare bene se seriously af fected by the rise in Culten as those descriptiom of Goeds.. Alany of the Mazefacturers have bee competed to sbwa- den the prodacties, and the reed of others constrades these, to offer socks at rates a mere shade shore cid prices. mless Cotton speeddy give way, it will be lanpossible to buy these Goods so base as at present, as the cessation of prodacuan mer altimately cafe the end of present ware- merally are mech neglected, and prices may be quoted 28 ioanerative prices. Tebe, Fristerns, and Fastheas, go- a décline of sour jd, te jd. per yard on the grey fabric. ; -cutting and finishing reales witkent change.

Cerron Varna. Daring the latter part af et merib. there has been more cünity and a large business done, in Yerni, vamed, in many dostaneda, desitiens, by vertzia Spuppers being needs of bolding heavy Stecko pasients by the siew taken of the urobility of the Comum Mar K reading, and taking that, in such case, as Stacks Pere Righty, the decline in the sugle scald bare a c responding extent of Yarns, and again, by the decline whock has already makes place in Latten, samt Sprovers are able to make their Vares at midin ja, te jd, per fe, of Le lowest rates offered, and, new soring any prospectos an immediate impies emont, they have been contest to sell at the sacritice in ardor to keep en The cometeshops. Bare led in some extrusive speculations, based on the exporta- ten that the present dimicate of prodretion rest ever- tually lead to higher prices. Hayers have been La for all markets, bat fer Ludia decidedly the bearbest purchases have been rande Porps and Caps are to moderate re. gest, but there is a marked falling of in the demand for

BacpPorn MISSIT.-- Hivi cestinoes in the same quint state es fer some time past, without any prospect et sau. provement, as bolders conßace Bra at foramer prices, aud

operations are therefore contracted. Forns have expe

rienced are light increase of dentent daring the tenth, for both beme consumption and export, but at rates that do not realize cast, sed production, therefore, remains 35.. limited as possible For Pine Gaer, with the exception et Suk Strikes, and Fia Orkens, which tre in excelon regtest, there is bet & de Marker. The orders for the United States are rather more extensive, and world neve gives de improved tone to the Market, if not counterass- ed by the discouraging adenes from Germany. On the whole, the napect of this Market is sacariectory. A great many operatives #e reduced to severe privaĒDES and insentery teres, by the weet of deniass for their labrun. Der Mor

Cerro MABETTAt the commencement of the moth there was a little activity observable is the Liverpool afer ker, and specslators evinced & dispod can towards further operations Ts festes mes speeday checked by the pretty general resolve of Sprinter end Marsfactures, ir- respective or combinatens for the purpose to have re- Course 20** on time. The elect

the four

The year preceding. The kist

telas how huz Government plton and with those o