The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1857, Page 2

oi NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEEY. re new Parliament so soon asat is convened, The re- | In February of that year th —— fait of the war ts familiar to all. The Bagtsh ob- | 360 tons, sailee from New ress Of China, of | #6.455,000 direct exporte te China from the United | 94 1323, Ibu Batata mentions that it waa the general fifty years, what may we not anticipate ia the next le xistence of the eerous conflict which has sudd ¢ , WE 1 C leal r Canton, and re- | States in 1841. domestic produce aud manufactures | drink of the people of Chiva, waa prepared by the | heif century’ Our ports op the Pacific will be more | arisen between the €nglisb and the authorities ot sined i i m destroy and the | turned the followiog year with a rich luable | amounted to $2,622,000. ‘ 7 y ‘ > el ae on, cating 0 he ee | come =e Heh and valnable | arya conming tradeof China conducted with adjacent | '=eTsien of a amali plant in hot water, eadthat | contiguous to Japan and China, (tbe Yatter with her | Canton. That city in erteplately erecuated by Ee 26,000,000, or $30,000,000. They also ca four in the ensuing year a vessel of 84 tons made a | countries is large. In 1832, 222 junks were em | they used paper money as a curreacy. 400,000,000 people) than any part of surope. The | mour bas withérewn the detachments of troope other ports besides Canton to be opened to foreiga | successful voyage. This was soon followed by | ptosed, 80 of which traded to Siam, 20to J od ‘ i isi , i te i i il - | h ports, pono oy acquired the occupation of Hong Kong. | otbers, and in 1789, five sears later, igeen American Bochin China, 20 to Tonquin, 20 to fT to = & — merchant, who visited China | time must ere long arrive ween eallecads penn Fas cag rethnat ten eee unt yg Ther aso mace a treaty with the Chinese, by | ships arrived at Cuntoa. | Sumatra, and’10, great and spall, belonged to the | /2 1850, deseribes sah (tea) as the habitual beve- | nect the Pacific with the Mississippi river. accom | the ‘entrance of @ canal. which ‘uites Mars which an Ambasaador or Minister was to be re- ‘Phe trade with Chine avd the United States is of | island of Kattan, The importa and exports by these | Te of the people. Texeria,a Spaniard, aaw dried | panied by tciesaph lines. Between California snd | to Canton. In that position be is in & cond ceived, and consular agents permitted to reside in | two kinds—direct and indirect—thelatter being con- veseels were as follows: — eaves of tea at Malacca in 1600, which were used by | OT€R0n ard China. lines of large and powertul | resist all the attacks of the Chinese, and poe td the opened to trace; and in all matters of dis- | ducted by way of other countries. No official reports | Total ¢ the Chinese people In 1633'it waa found in use | *teamers will be established. Chinese teas and silks, rein ‘oveewenta aud instructions to recommence, if ite the right of Girect appeal was to be had to the | or statistics exist showing the amount of the indi- | Ere a a the Persians, who obtained it instead of reaching us by the way of the Cape of hey oon rect trade. The chief article of export. from | 1S Fa trade of the Ushruk Tartara, se Mirough the | Good Hope, wiileome tousoverion’ iro the Pacific. | "Yt vas pretended, in miccon elseegion ia P Opium smuggling was afterwards condacted ona | China to the United States consists of tea. | —_ 3,060,05 = 6 Its first introduction into Europe was in 1517, St. Louis or some other town at the West prob- | ment, that the dispositions of Acmiral Se: — grencer scale than ever. It increased until toe ex The total imports from China into the United | * pts 1050,857 5,008,009 | by “the Porwuguese, in the reign of King | ly become the great distributing point for Chinese | were ‘to be considered as disguising a Tetrest; tet ort from India to China reached, within the last | States in 1555 amounted to $11,048,726, of which junk seldom belongs t> one man. There are | Emanuel, but it was not until after the for- ® consumed in the valley of the Mississippi. It tatio ous, ear or two, the enormous value of about $25,000,000 | tea amounted to $6,545,115.. In 1853 the total im. | Sometimes forty, fifty or one hundred owners of @| mation of the East India Dutch Company, | 1# posible, also, if the A dantic ocean can be | oe ee ne ee Theta per annum. Opiam, in fact, formed the basis of | ports amounted to $10,573,710, of which tea em- | sinele junk in 1602, that the use of tea became known on | frotsed by telegraph cables, that the Pacific: | eoutinned the bombardment cf Canton and reduced exchange between China and the rest of the world. | braced $10,174,670. The increase of consumption | The prices of merchandise fn Canton in 1832 were | the continent. ‘The consumption, however, in-| PY Selecting chains of islands, can be crowed | {nat city to ashes. it was net even necessary, to ‘The opium sold was paid for in silver or Chinese | has not kept pace with the increase of population. | 98 follows: — creased slowly, and in 1670 it was unknown at | i% & similar manper. and by connecting China | yccomplish that act of destruction, to roceed “to teas, or other products or manufactures, The | The average imports of tea for ten years from 1790 “Dati. | Dort. ‘The Dutch, in their second voyage, bought | With the East India telegraph, a ‘elt, of | Gisembarkment. He preferred, ‘however, Com ‘Americans, with other nations trading with | to 1800, were about 2,500,000 Its., or a total of | 8 good deal of tea at 8d. to 10d. per Ib., (about the | telegraph lines will be made to surround the globe. | formably to the opinion which he had’ him. Cluns, when settling balances, would pay the ciffer- | 28,000,548 Ibs. From 1800 to 1812 the average im- | prices at the oresent day), which, though of com- | |The future witl orobably see a hundred millions | yeir expressed upon English commerce, id ence by giving bills on London purchased from Eog- | ports amounted to 5,000,000 Ibs., with an average | mon quality, sold at 30 livees per Ib. For some | of ibhabitants in the Valley of the Mississippi en- | connection with tbe English Governor,’ Bir lish nierchants—these the Chiaaman would again | consumption of 3,500,000 Ibs. From 1813 to 1820, | years the best Japanese teas brought from 100 to | gamed in direct trade with 400 to 500,000,000 of | Sohn Rowring, not to prosecute hostilities actively Raw cotton, per peeul, n yarns, per pie fine grade: per pre ‘pass to the English for opium. Were the 25 mil!- | the average imports per annum were 3,339,740 lo, 200 lives per Ib. in France. Prices, however, de- | Chinamen, sdvanced in civilization and productive | } ernment iions worth of opium to be cut off, or saddenly cease | making a total of Pe 717,919 Ibe, From 1821 to clined aan more general introduction of coffee | PoWeTs, and in daily communication by railroad, | thes Bal aan the feregepey en the E 4 {rom effectual prohibition, there would not be | 1833 the average ai consumption amounted to | , and chocolate te) aph and steamers. c lish could in teking that course towards the Chinese ecarcely silver enough found in the world to sustain | 7,000,000 Ibs. From 1834 to 1841 the imports | Money in China consists of: the size ‘The first notice of the use of tea in England was P e pote the trade of the United States start government demonstrate that their intention was the present trade with China; as it is, there is a cou- | amounted to 11,397,872 los., of which 17 380,565 | of an English farthing. made of copper; 720 a 1,100 | in 1660, during the reign of Charies I., when a | $ii") pobing in 1784, and, in 1855 reach a value of | hot to engage in & general war, but only to repl, tinual and heavy drain of apes ie going on from all | lbs. were exported, and 102,017,307 were fot con- | cash is equal to $l. ‘The tael is in the shape of a | duty of 18d. per gallon was imposed on all tea made ‘ sof e tons-per annum, employing about 70,000 | ly to insulting roceedings of the rere: parts of the world for tse East Indies, aud waich sumption, making an annual average consumption | horse's hoof, and consists of silver of about 6a. ster- | and so/d in coffee houses, and the excise on it, with | fON8 of shipping: or, embrace # total of ail imports | ment of Canton towards them. - promises to ultimately render silver very scarce and | of 12.752,163. The total value of all imports from | ling in value, or $1 44. malt liquors, coffee, &c., was settled the same year 38 490, yoo eight years—from 1833 to 1841—of | "ie European residents in the other ports— very high in value. To replace the disappearance | China from 1833 to 184] amounted to $56,490,499, of | Gold ta, seldom: uae an currency. When it is | on the King ‘tor life. $56,490.45 O; ane employ 315 vessels, containing an | namely, Shanghae, Nivgpo, Amoy and Fou'Tehou- of bersilver curiency France has been competled to | which the import of tea embraced $42,290,000. The | thus employed it is beaten into thin leaves. ‘The use ot tea in England was encouraged by the | 9®8T egate ge of 122,954 tona, me Oy pot, at the time of the departure of the purebase gold largely in other countries, and parti | number of vessels employed was 315, making an | The picul of Batavia and Madras is equal to 133} | Princess Catherine. of Portugal, who married bes 9 me jast mail, been disturbed in their commercial opera- cuistly in England, to keep up her circulating me- | aggregate tonnage of 122,054. The average annual | ibs.,and of China 133} do. A catty of tea is 1} lbs | Charles the Second. In 1660 téa was sold in England | NEWSPAPER TRANSLATIONS AND EXTRACTS | tions. It is pretended that even the mandarios (tai . Touch, per dium ; so that opium, h a pernicious drug and | value of teas was $4,698,894—about 75 per cent of | A tae) is 1} oz. at three guineas per !b., and in [666 tte price was i consider- awicked and ‘hie bee | , and alike destructive | the entire imports. The trade apparel about 35 The 8} 3 or dollar and other foreign coins, circu. | 668. per Ib. te use was dgteely snemested in | Translations from the French Journals— gr Sean atale os yoy ae on ‘an. to the life and bealch of the Chinaman, yet the con- | vessels, averaging 390 tons each. From 1842 to | late in Canton. England by the trade of the East India Company, Change of the American Flag—Indictment | culty, which ought not to exercise any tinuance of the trade is a question in the inte- | 1855, embracing the period of the first gold disco- Accounts are kept in taels, mace, candarines and | who in 1678 glutted the market by importing 4,713 Against the English at Canton—Mandarins | injurious influence upon the whole of the relations -est of the civilized world possesses a deep interest. | veries, the increased from 12,488 in 1842, to | cash. 5 the imports during six years afterwards to Ald Yeh—The Emperor’s Army—™% of Great Britain wi b the Celestial enpire, and there ‘The trade of China was greatly augmented by the | 70,815 in 1855. In 1848, the year before gold was | 10 mace, 1 tael, equal to 100 candarines, or 1,000 | only amounted in all to 318 ibs. {o i689 the mode Lg ad hamehfeag journals which, according to letters re- Giscovery of gold in @atifornia and Australia, | discovered in California, the tonnage was.only 24,383 | cash Ge. 8d. of levying the duty was changed, and 5s. per Ib im- | ™entsor the French and Spantards—Engiish | ceived Poun declare that the Emperor is ani- which will be shown by the statistical tavles in | tons, while in 1855, subsequent to the gold discove- Cash is of one kind only, and cast, not coined. It | posed, together as before 6 per cent on ita value, | Despatches—The Great Porcelain Tower De- | mated with sentimenta the most pacific. We felioi- another part ofthis article, in reference to the in- | ries, it amounted to 70,815, a is composed of of 6 parte of and 4 of lead. By the year 16%), the importa increased to 30,000 | stroyed—Progress of the Rebellion—Rell- | tate the journals which have their own correspon. crease of trade between the United States and ‘The following table gives the exports of tea from | The value of the tael varies with the value of one | pounds, and in 1700 to 60,000 Iba. a year, the a gion of the People—Quiet at Singapore— | dente at’ Pekin, but we will ‘it ourselves, until China since the year 1849. China to Great Britain and the United States for ten | onnce of Spanish dollars, in London, its standard. | price being 16s. per Ib. In 1721 the imports reach- | prade of Shanghac, &. there is further proof not to ve the exactness The discovery of goldin California caused a | years:— The tables given for ascertaining its proportional | €d 1,000,000 Ibs. From this period the imports pa epraalbree nor even the authenticity of those pondenta. at increase in Ai tonnage; » large num: Great Britain Cited Sales. | value may be caleulated in pence sterling by the | bare continued to sugment goescanpyienh ht saber doeupborcanatp tay Gaunt ple beg SA nothing pames as elowhere, it r of clipper sbips were built, of the first class, a "ounds. multiplier 1.208—thus, The following table shows the imports of teas into mi PECT OF CANTON AND THE VLOATING CITY. | ig jarins n with a a fastest sailing qualities. The - folly be 60d. a teen the heal pete Great Britain tor the years named below:— a3 not feel, wont by th eA {From I¢ Moniteur Universel of Paris.] bae do not feel wounded by the cannon whit Canton, the capital of Kouang Tong, 2,000 kilo- | the English fired upon the ‘tity of Canton; but lan was to load these clippers for California at | 60, 1.208=72. Wa 66, the teel will h rh rates of freights, and on discharging cargoes x a tae! be wort! 79.7284., and so on in the same at this stage of affairs it is hardly probable in'Ban Francisco to proceed to one of the five Chi- Gola ingots are mot rer ek oe ; metres from Pekin, communicating with the sea by | that the central P nese ports and take in another cargo for the United merchandise. The ingots are of ‘determined weight, | In 1846 the importation consisted of the river Chou Kiang, whose mouth is distant 70 | details of the stife oa the oe TR. does oe Bta' England—if for the former, then load Baty for home port Cece gp a igrcccing os proved enormously p' ble: ig & single trip , nee), and from 6 to 7 alloy. around the globe these ships often leaned nearly 4 steee ank ’ ate ener ingots are Seer eer ad weigh from Total deli the whole cost of the vessel. Some ofthese clip- | It will be perceived from the above table that from | one half te 100 taels, and are com, of 94 parts | Exported. perr—costing as high as $90,000 a $100,000—were | 1549, the year in which California gold was dis- | pure silver Stier a pond called by ime English shoes, the la: of which | Green miles, 1s governed by a viceroy, whose jurisdiction } interdict all relations with the En; the differ- weighs 10 taels each, and is reckoned 93 to 94 tones | Tuc : ; pare ial f alo extends over the province of Kouang 8i. This | Cut porte and that it does not prepare itself for war. ani of tro province under J antorty of one | ja mre aunt te cabinet o Pekin a vater cont nine viceroyalties of two united . ong #,) and that at that tn a Gaeta Bo fe cca Masanoet, time they bad not been able to transmit to the other Ibs sometimes paid for in a couple of these voyages | covered, to 1854, the importation of tea into Great | © Gold and silver are the catty of 16) Home consumption round the world. This led to their rapid | Britain increased from 47,242,700 pounds to 77,217. | taels.. The tael is divided into 10 mace, 100 canda- | _ The stock on hand in Great Britain in 1846 was | which separate the seats ‘administrations | Ports their instructions upon the attitude to be ob- le , is to 40.9 . , how- 2. troy, W ~ | Black is, 50, i i . ¢ inaction of the mands! sine ain frie en | ert pe doe TSH pon” | aera emma TS BME | Bee Seater tte Ge sitar: | it Hang hay Beret wultng tmpatenty c Ss eaceniine ten. oueet ae cmeteat, | EXPORTS TO FRANCEs The following table of weights is applied to mer- é —— often reproached. the arrival of the troops, which the Governor = nzeoai Ee Pee a an of proceed | ‘The exports of tea to France ave materially flue: | chandise :: TOM. 65+ 00s0s000eeee0 vessecceeeees+ «48,600,000 | In order to these particalars with regard | 88d demanded in great haste at ee, and returned to the Atlantic with guano. It was | tuated in thetwenty years intervening between 1821 sebige a conaeae S. Samiienh mepely St com. te the administra ve divisions of China, we will add 4" ee oe aoe PR Be phe Pl | sumption with that frem ce is su vacate, . adron “ on eet ae ee Oe ecredS collages wantie | 82d 1841. In 1821 they amounted to 56,000 kilo- East one year in advance of that period-. The trade | the de into districta,and the districts into | chored | the harbor, and Rear Admiral Sirens ef the Livestas “chen Bnglendand France | srammes (2:21 pounds, or about 2 1-5 pounds, Eng” with Canton was not intei after its ran- | small communities. The city of Canton belongs | Gu¢rin had placed a detachment of sailors on shore. ays rer “4 inte their serviceas | lish weight, to the killogramme). In 1826 they THE OPIUM TRADE OF CHINA. | som by the payment of $6,000,000, although the | to the department of Kouang Cheoa, and | Te American Commodore, equally with the Eng- ee ee er tak ke “ee | po : é * One of the most extraordinary articles of trade | war con in the north of China, forms a part of the two districts Pouan-You and Nan- | lish, took determined course in pursuing, with the nsporta; some of Ww we never | reached 150,000 killogrammes: in 1827, 276,000. an nse Hai. At the head of each province is a governor | Steamers of his squadron, the numerous Chinese it During the war an imme: speculation Since the return of peace and the falling off in Jp 4410 they d a 9,000. known to commerce is that of opium. A poisonous | d prove bord pirates whe made their rend t th th of the export demand for breadstuffs and provisions, an Page Gown'to'0,000._ In/18) May drug, alike demoralizing and destructive to life and bag ry Teeitetate to ls. 5d. er iw on ry araiee Mdopenteoe ie tho Deak ed func- | the Canton river, and who had already ‘tsekea the shi} is still found to be in excess of the | *sainwent up to 237,000. In 1883 they reached ‘i i eral foreign vessel sae erie ing and (reighta role very low, while 356,000: 1834, 648,000 killogrammes. In 1835 they | D&PPivess, when freely used; we find that from | the lst of August, 1839, news was received that the | tionary, somewhat analogous to the prefects of de- | sever! foreign vessels, Chinese will attempt é i under t tea trade China was when prices | pa its in France but with more extended pow- the dirgt ide with China is Ukely tobe interupt- drenped down to 46,000, and again rose, in 1838, to sana Depioings, under the away of the Portuguese | ‘went up to 1s. 8d. Onthe 2d Deiteon on Oagttae| Se ceemabie te ae re ee ee | aa bral pin tperllaten hen Berea mpd hy, the Prevent way. as of trade in all countries, | 116,000. In 1S37,they were 35,000; in 1858, 14,000; wand ee has, under mr liott’s order that no British ship should ascend the | ministered by a sub-prefect, vested, like the magis- | Pore aNcn of toss culony is sufficiently held in awe ee nae ened ei ae en BS 8,000; and in 1840, 26,400. pak pong 2 eee —. A heaps por- Canton river, tea advanced to 2s. per Ib, and in De trates of the Gepartanents in France, with adminis Seared thar Sodereiens prt ih be the imports as respects foreign nations, while their | The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce of ie sth aes po Sag ett a ary ie fe gh " ay the 16th of of Genuney, T340, the prefect nominates in each community a mayor en. | Si2Ce the warehouses of Victoria (the chief town in interval traffic is regulated by domestic production ' france, in 1843, published an inte docu Queen's ‘announced the recom: sted with the 4 the colony) are encumbered with merchandise, thi 4 » 3, - i victima. police and the eollecting of taxes. ‘ andise, the and consumption. | ment on foreign commerce, inca a oe | eee een Weing used by Chinamen | MeDded the vigorous prosecution of the war, when it | This later charge is rarely exercised fy men hav- English merchants having stored at Hong Koug INTHENAL PROPUCTION AND CONSeMETION oF Cana, | India and China, in which many valuable facts are | i, simmered or boiled over a slow fire, | 10seto 38. 2d. per Ib. The rumor of a treaty of peace | ing a claim to the the lettered class; they | Gane, 7 could import from the factories of Before speaking of the imports ana exports of | SY€% He estimated the number of lish vessels by which means it is prepared for mol , | being made sent down prices to 2s. 9d.; but on | are entirely subordinate |, who, by orders of We ha ‘. . ‘ of fagaged in India and China trade in 1840 at | in \vooden bow! pipes, in’ combination with | te Tefusal of Lin to ratify it, they rose | the sub-prefects. are su withou’ ceremony to e have read, in the letters of different China, we may be permitted to give some notice of 1,172, and a total tonnage of 505,376. Tre | M wooden.» it is flavored. Ite effects {to 38. 2d. On permission to land tea in | the do. To these functionaries must be added | fovrespondents, that the government of | the the latter portion of the subject. total ‘value of exports from Great Britain for | Derfuanes it ae duced by the inhalation of | Bdgland from American ships, prices tell to 2s. 8d., | the director general of duties, charged with the ad- | Fast jndia Company had refused to send troops All writers concur in representing the internal , the year 1840, to India, China and Oceanica, he sets | Ditrous oxide gas. Under ita influence its victines | Dut rose on the 11th March, 1940, to 3s. 2d., on the | ministration of the finances of -the provinee, the » under pretext that they nid dtieinaenilontn tiainilidas Jalde-teaelenate down at 254,640,000 francs, against 115,607,000 in lie down in a’ state of semi-sensibility to dream | Tumor that the (iovernor General ot India had de- | receiver general of contributions, and the super. | #lzea, Lp poy telly abrir into by the fanc- 1834, when the East India mono} ‘ceased, ; tionaries of the Crown, in the interest of the of official statistics we can only speak of their pro- against 102,636,000 francs in mopely Of these ex. | °7#y their time. omens me ett witle rons pg simfnistea tive Picsoed ie fap Rete tis om and thet up to that time the company had) Auction and consumption by analegy. Of their pro- porte In 1840, at least four-fifths, ‘or 180,143,000 | p Manecne Dacia” Bane te bie week om Diaite, | OF 1840 wae 46 500,000 Tbs. The highest price of the | They number, for the whole empire, 14,000 civil | Rot taken part in it. This news is evidently @uctions, tea unquestionably forms the largest {fAaBes, consisted of cotton piece and cotton | gnd who. sedded ia an oficial capacity at Hong | OR was 36. $d.,and the lowest 1s. 11d... | mandarios,a igure not very large when we consider Rise Poser omg Fart teeebecagpiys Pye, Se sa amount, and next to tea their silks. Rice, cotton, ” "The imports into Great Hritaln from India, China | Sone, in 1845:— i : the 17th August a etter ppesred int tbe laadee | ishtbitenta Theticcer idee ies orders which are transferred from the Board of Coa sogat and tobacco come next, which make up their , and Oceanica for 1840 embraced 77,012,000 Ibe. | ,, Whine habit hecamos incoterate it has to be resorted | Herald and Chronicle, said to have been put on | two provinces, whose extent is 407,000 . | Sol, and it has at leastas much interest as the me- bief staples. cotton, 17,057,000 Tha. coffee, 12162000 Tbe. flax | {0 cede men's duties are forgoien, Ani they can no | BOOFa of the Bombay steamer, after the closing of | tres (J hovorsbly for ths fee of Grost Deltnes Tene Citinn both progeces and consumes alarge amount S€¢d, 6,081,000" Ibs. indigo, 1,938,000 Ibe. raw ail | Toner ive without this poton. its symapuome are aim, | the mail, that the Fpperor of Chine poner honorably for the fieg of Great Britaia. It can on| ‘of cotton. and 24,384,000 Ibe. tea. culty of breathing, chalky paleness, discolored tecth and of all the “teas” that hos'i- Suxpoeed that the company have declined all par. The first cultivation of cotton in China for manu. , 10 cet 6 matt a were sent from British | withered kin. People perceive that it hurries them | tilities had recommended, and that not chests | for the ha ion expenses of a war which they have facturing purposes was in the thigteenth centary, India to China. to destruction, but it leaves them without power to desist. | had found their way out to coasters. fraud | exhibit in the , | Bot , and perhaps do no! a) ; though % was previously cultivated in gardens for The total value of the trade between the three When have prohibitions suffeed to destroy deep rooted | raised prices imi deny they fell again on | but it also shows h pean ge oug! i to be observed that at the moment ornament. The crop inereased largely until 1785 Presidencies of British India with all other countries, evil practice its exposure. The spirit of speculation finally | when they are i a y pg Ree mater me one towards er ireo and the ““nankeen” cotton cloth made i 1837-38, embraced imports 733,000,000 francs, | ‘The Eact India Company hold out induce- | knew no bounds, Expresses were run from Mar- Wo cng igete. | ter aittentt Yor then Ths pe Cabal, it wil) rom. it’ became kaown over the civilized world. roy Sexe ae Go. im from China in- | menta to the natives of india tor its cultivation, | seilles to London; large sums paid for early offi- The knowledge which the have of the | (o, “9 long campaign in Clie” That Ke Suberquently, its production was materially dimin- “aleutta in -42 amounted to 14,654,000 francs, | which isa government moerey It is chiefly | cial information; newspapers paid to insert false | prodigious power which the Western people owe to ae ieamee’ cua eens objecti shed, and for one year was almost given up, 24 trom Calentts to China 25,800,000, of which ced in the central cts of India, say in | information; the coffee houses near Someeeeee this energy of will, isnot only manifested In their lan. | jf ye a a a peace with Pers| © raise grain, in ordar to relieve tne couatry from Opinm formed 20,174,000 france. Total imports into ar, Benares and Malwa, to be sold to the com- | in London guage by the epithet of « devite’” which they bestow | 40.00) men eh tron oe eens, x Signed. Hea a famine. It is believed that its culture has not in. Calcutta, from all countries, for the same period, y ata fixed price, far below the price for which on the ans, but an evident proof of it is to be | posable, and it their pre f fe 7 oe. | Sence is demanded in China the company will ne found in the oe re which they ‘are Dey } longer find any difiealy in sending thetn there. crenaed materially for the last fifty years, this in- Were 120,512,000 francs. Ex, do. do., 201,458,- | jt is afterwarda sold, and which, as far back as in - ay for tie : i 600 francs. Total, 331,770,000 francs. A “ events foreign com merce iv ‘ion being supplied by imports 1839, yielded revenue of about six million dollars pray oe Beg mag Ta 1834 about. 40,000,000" Ibs The French trade with Calcutta for the same time | per annum. Reoy, showed imports to the amoant of 14,820,000 francs, | “ Opium was first imported into China in 1763 b; bat at the same time it takes care a 10 of @ violent crisis. The imported Ce ee Bombay, the’ Hoa, Leet of which 13,710,000 were in indigo. ‘France, for the | the ‘Portuguese. ‘The q mally ano a eity apart, elevated in the heart of Canton, | Merchandise ose net oull, ait end tes aro very high Wrodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, estimated in Same time, sent to Calcutta 3,510,000 francs, 1,233,- | to 100 or 200 chesta. The India Company's | | and surrounded by walls which the barbarians were | a at Shanghee and Fou-Tchou-Fou, (the bis able report regarding the growth of cottor,, pub. Ook when censisied of brates ard inet China | “Pests average about 149} pounds. Keeps a store in ofd China street, consontn to apetd | the vemels ar falen” very low. fngland wil at : pinm from I 73-74 the East India Com; commenced | | keeps a ‘ape! Q ished tn 1839, the growth of cotton in India at | in reaced from $3,027,000 in 1817, to $10,888,157 in the tmsportations, end in 1780 es i | | his day inthe midst of Buseeann, but. a eeleone | dearly for the homberdment of Can! Tt ie no! and in the rest of Asia at 110,000,000 Tn f 1633, and to about,$25,000,000 in 1855-56. it What In 1 portations 4 00,00 Tha. He also eat ated the Growth of | im 1840 China exported toas as follows:—To Great to China increased yo '2,000 ones Fm the first the world, in 1834, at 900,000,000 Iba. He, with | Britain 12,610,000 killogrammes; tothe Unites States | attempt at prohibition was made. Its cultivation Gther. writers, estimates the consumption of the | 7:69 ay dm and to France 264,000 do. Total, 21,- | has for a long period been prohibited in the empire. | ‘Turks at 2 Ibs. per head per annum In Southern In- tect din Siar cieataden of awit The smuggler afterwards succeeded the legal im- | Bee aan gow ol the word at our pn;o00, | Axia, the total for 1839 is pat down at 24,891,000, | P*Tts computed that hed China no tea or'silks to and taking balf of it as consamers of cotton, | killogrammes, and in 1840 at 25,522,000 do. ve in excl for opium, that the drain of specie would give, at 2 Ibs. per head, 1,500,009,000 Ibs. Ii WN He 1859-40, | a thirty years would have amounted | we estimate the consumption of cotton in China at | ‘ ,000,000. . . J Yossie via Kinkata introduced was $92,000,000. "The profita of the The tannin biackens salts of iron, and varies with | streets. Two of them, Old China street and New nanee wae aoe contain the fcllowing inte are used to some extent, and assume the present po a j prlatice of the empire’ to be, as estimated by Ro | pyriti-t tna India Company on the trade is estimated at $18,000,- bay me Ch een nee Chine street, running’ parallel to the river, are 00,000 1 ton. Bow the | ing he shuts up his merchandise under lock and key, | oa al tandin a ee nae one k - | and retarns to the walled city. Nobody, therefore, | Australia. A great numober of emigrants are em | which the Western merchants established thoir | Of €@igration, which'for the last five years bas bee | factories. Nine or ten hectares of a swampy #011, | by Sen ee \ towards the Western rivers of whieh it was necessary to rendee solid at great ex: | pi asecanrsccen pense, are the portion of land allotted to the foreign- . c ers, and designated the — of the berbacians, | NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS. the city of the red- | Onur late files from China and Earope dated at ts This part of Canton, built of granite and brick, | Hong Kong on the Lith of Febrnary and at Londot Incoluble bre tor Martin, 400,000,000, the consamption | Hiri <i Aw by cob 548, 000 per annum. The trade has increased from 200 occupied with Chinese shops. from east The Hong Register soys:—The cli r @iilamoune to 1400,000,000 lbs., which, divided by | (hersurinen ‘sniom | chests tn 1768, valued. at $1,000 000, to" 40,000 | obtained from tea in regular colorless cryntals, | to west, between the factories "and the islands, | Min bua changed er American for s Swedish. tug 400 Ils, to the bale gives 3 200,000 bales, about the | The commerce of France with the East Indies Chests, valued at $25,000,000, A ganda i oe 1 maid to | of the western suburbs winds the narrow and | in anticipation, we suppose, of Awerioa’s war wi erp 6 go Mpeg et Bat if we pres \ ofgernt | and China in 1540, was as follows: — ouae im: “ wanat tucee seoeaen = hf ae. van es to be.of a nourahing Sener joule fries Rf Soe, Sone ae China. tl y of the mass of the , Cat bad wabad 6 é , p + basis , considered treet otal ac- Sot ikely be toe case) they cousume about as much | Zia Yalve of mur ss -998.215,000 | Dy"opium with bullion and drafts on London, quality'for the human system. The ashes of tes trity of Chnton eee eee oe epemeen: | Se® HARTER eee tamer te ‘oma io tee. por baad oa, the ectemndion | _ Of the imports, indigo formed 22,000,000 franca; | chins coy 1ng0 an Toor ‘i seth oe Uhlorate of potash, ‘Tea in distillation also is said to | ous crowils and agitation afin ote, ntkode | i Mz would then amount to 8,000,000 bales. China does | -_ a, Soo expert, seasuaaotees of silk and wines | tonnage, and in 1854 66 vessels, of 45,000 tons. yield a volat oil and a small ee Se. bat a weak pictureof the bustle and movement of | not prodace sufficient cotton to meet her coarasp. nti oxpesteved ten tp thn Wel ee in hilly vomela tn 1854-56 were engaged on the coast —_— pe rapt hem Che = Physic sheet. Zzple presa and cron on each | " bm hy ~ 7 on yooh peed “and cole Qn | been large, inclading shipments to the Hanse Towns, | ‘Sin osmens conan et opinm in China in 1845 was | stimulant and then tly narcotic, according to | you aside with their large shoulders: the pot a holders of more than thirty = United States, abe imported, a« far | tie Levant, the Mediterranern and to Russia. sia 30,000 chests, sufficient to supply three millions of | the of the Tn moderation it is | the high dignitaries throw yon down to avoid the | %b¢, Seven wards of Yew lan, the five wards Boe ie. 80,000,000 Ibe. of raw comton from Bri | it 1939 imported 3,142,000 killogrammes, and in | people, allowing the average quantity to each Chi- | Considered quite healthy, promoting digestion and | trouble of nd. ° | ‘Twing-p'ing, and all the wars of Teung-kwoi tish India. ‘Thig taken from her actual consumption | 1646, 3,585,000 do. “It will be seen that next to | naman of three candarines daily, or 17 40-100 grains. | stimulating the urinsl The Chinese use. it | cians deaden your Complaints and cries with the | pp ing of the 12th month of the 4th yea ‘probable amount prod: |G in ni tates consumes: ] copsumers are those middling almost meal, without milk. | most disco: 1 g bey 4 a that China a ther a nome | largest amount of tea. From 1815 to 1834 the latter | po Ny webs une ‘eading 4 po misery = Taken JX... ily in large quantities it considered buman = manele that ever rent and tortared | In the ninth month ot this year, when the Englia! climate which i capable, with cheap iabor, of } imported 35,505,000 killogrammes, part o which | premature death : deleterious. | The reserved or Chinese city is surroanded by an | Consu! Parkes was eas up the quarrel on ac rodacia, cotton toe vast extent, and which by the | Was reexported. In the year 1832, 4,026,000 killo- | " ‘The total ion of British India in 1844 was | _ The tea consumed in Great Britain and the United | embattled wall eight or ten metres high. Here pear oh the petty 6! ton edout the matte Introduction of ped modes of caltare and the | ee bak Gs a tek as See chest $0541 chew. Spacsiations in the, drue C. oo yy song of the Great Yam-tze- | reside the Wieswey sad Gon ‘oxshenitee “ the PT | the lorcha, be lasned and ported ub esta cotton it ena’ jace | ‘xported. , ° - | lo 70 0] ’ latitude vince; here, 5 » gate behind sugal Been ee ei eh, ‘But Chine posseesce the | Ported from Canton for Europe, 1,044,000 killo- | rxtors bidding agninst each other seat’ ap a | freer. ‘The moet ‘avorable is the sterile | lations of the last’ treaties, ‘must stop “hoch | anaton tote inhalants, which ‘we level tea markets of the world, as we as eee grammes. ony. men | = of November, 1844, to 139,995 rupees per | hilly province of Fokein, in latitude 25 and 31 pr AEB AR way = | pp pe Fag tegen = net Ly over all the civilized world, and cou a osp' city, an } , , i] be disposed to abandon their van-| Next to tea, raw ailk forms the principal article of | The export from India to China im the years | annual average consumption of tea in different ‘of Canton has any charm for the traveller, | fort and cannon firing, the English “ape” J a expert trom @hinn. amar named below was as follows: 7ear® | countries is anid to be about ap follows :— ] _ he mont pass wg any charm for the traveller. | S66 are vo tue hops and dwelling hou China » Falue Pounds. | open country, aaa ee by oh ommmlbveatie | The chief silk port is Shanghai. The following fn ‘000 | Great Britain end treland....." 45,000,000 | the east and finds tities, and experts freely again, chiefly in the | table gives the exports of silk, raw and otherwise Q | Brtush North Ameria, | where the cemeteries of Canton are ‘oTfpe consumption, of sugar in the United Slates a Sun th Tosh, edule, ee five years, S e000 Boon'ooo | British Tedia ard Ha-tern Islands hill oo whieh Bagh Gough = ermenetied government bases its prohibition on | poin) jn Hritia Hunpive , his headquarters, “ * ives ane jog ‘ eutasen oma : wets tt moral infloeace on the habit, health and beupbenes. ang.Tong, the river which ‘Tits cperetions in the drainage of | prmmesuuter colonies. Sows of tbe mountains limit tho hori the precioas metals and upon the public revenues. Holland and her colonies foot green —— 3. Ite political lefieenee, in lending to inarrbor- | Helgiom. Wein iS | Then the eye ination disregard jepmark, Sweden amd Norway branches marked - Ge we. Spain and Portignal.. the sir. On the PROGRESS OF OPIUM RATING IW AND AND THE | German States . clees of the how UNITED STATR Tralian States sesne fertile fields limited } Not only have the Chinese Lecome Cevotees and | “stl American “wis takes in the floating consumers of the drog, but, within some fifteen or | Grand tot! 13,050,000 Cantoe, and curtoosl twenty years, the practice of nsing ithas made | ATTEMPTA TO EXTEND THR CVL-TIVATION OF TEA*| of _ pagoda fearful progress in Englond and the United States, IN OTHER COCNTHIES. The and in some parts of Germany. The Dutch are endeavoring to onitivate tes in te tans It is like tobacco—the -previons excessive use of | Java, and an official report gives the export of tea | ‘al which malt liquors, epirita, ten, Kc. it ix supposed, creates from that island to Holland for the year ending | with ite awan 0 imoonng - al lary , Rear! eeturee are to for . appear: % cenption by eet Denever, er iv Te esta tenes Ie ites mazet turing towns of oe pha sie st conshdorable | iar fg with mover ft Kind of Chitose nnd fan: corm wth fo for ere than one sum Mi * + it is way » has Hat facturing towns 5 henens manefactare irring : > cole hd more been Seaee doptkone extensive ure im. Candies and soap where the population is dense, and the means ot The Bast India Com; yy have snecesafully intro be hep e. | i an a yap = alec ape d ly a. ayer al RO. | lead i: “ png we (Noted ten and beer are | nsed, got Sacred ten 2 soe e province In ath nltee = bengered with Zolecte, citerion ae have thay Ay Pky prea ig eilke | tron manwivcrurer northeast India, re sup + ay wood | Our property has been 1, our 1 ‘ al . like our old cathedrals; houses pee ny og a ee Di ar reed Fa denver to | fasmebel tS neal hoe samt | ben infred. Wheres bevel eto argely produced for export, as shown under another te Uver establish culture near Greenville, §.C., whish, jE cecal pw tag) honses float in Nai TEN CIINESR MAxDAnING, 10 AID COMMIASIONE — la bigtt cost ot | Fis'sfter customers: ant thts Beetion cay We tence | (Corronpondence of he Hoag Kong Regier) COMMERCE AND TRADE BETWREN catna, THE UNITED TrAat Pes sta the aie ata it might be a oa hf Ly Ween yf ATATRS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. | | ‘The annexed table California by We ioe oe 7 be | mitt us to regard it meroly aa a ourlows and singolar ) ‘The ton mandarina who came ' tll after the conclasion of the first war between — the Unies States and China for ie i Sracte of country, the soil and climate of which ia ve. it is an important city, whose population is | have been here for a few hours, aad Bering Fng'sod and Oise, sll trode with foreigners was | YArm, Ura UNL W0 164 ert . in the past five years la ty edge pt OT “tmagie thw iy Uvided nto quarters consisting | ing for Case Branes, and from tere to Yan-auy configed exclasivel® to the mouth of the Canton . p the United States, but its & question of streets and avenues, cromsed by a great many hoats | Canton, Two of the mandarin have red of ‘ importa have increased from 157,84 iepecms river, and that conducted overland, chiefly with }%'.. Ther and in valee from $40,000 wr s4asred6, as the | [ab0r.__ Until we can compete with 4 is es of fantastic forma and colors; picture to demand for medicinal purposes could not have not hope to grow tea to advantage, oven fo meet | Toy , at dusk, all the habitations of this strange our Own and 5 Hhusia, at Kiachta. At the conclusion of the war is. buttons. They were sent to to aasiat Yoh. 2 duced this extraordina: reane city illuminated as on a festival day; imagine every- | and itis said that two of them were formerl four other ports wore opened to trade, as follows:— | }f!.--: Coat a email portion of whick ye ) it 8 | “hoe te aid to flourish well in Brasil, but there, aa | Where the agitation and movement of Phyxic street, | Canton in the time of the first war, with Com Amoy, Fuchow or Fuchoa, Ningpo and Shanghae. | 1s clear that the practice of using it asa lant has | wot] as here, the price of labor is a bar to any mate. | ®°4, by adding to this the continual noise of tam- | sioner Lin, The commercial relations with @hina and the | He (enetally by eo the consumption in | rial extension of ita cultare. wea eae LS) eerie tees ce Cae: you aes ak here is quiet, bat dy) ‘United States are regulated by the stipulations of a } crease he wy Tatio for some years to come, THR COMMERCIAL FUTURE OF CHINA. | . . om ge ¢ ‘tad fiags. T people are snre that treaty signed July 9, 1844, on the plan mainly of «| generally made ditect, whi ae aston escent en tm ere" | ae aztenion of the American population to ihe | "WY. PHNGL, TiN on, TURACUGENEA' | Rg do, any harm Gere, weal quewion th imilor treaty negotiated with Great Britain two | siderable amount made TRA TRADER. shores of the Pacific is destined to produce a great We published recently a resumé of the nows Binatone wexion 9 paren their attacking thi years previously, Both contain fixed tariff of datics | coumts for the excens of i ‘The is to be i to Ji on of the China trade. brought from China by the Inst mail, which left J carrying away the heads of the "cumamercial eto pueeg® 1836-7, the mercbandive in taken | «The plant is supposed pres hag og _congerypddad ad Gk ihn wit Hong Kong on the 3 of January. Out, correspon, ving Dare nas «| relations between the United States | in at Batavia, Penan, . , and to China. The Moorten tra- When wo ich have | dents ‘ns to add to It further details roman As ARMY. oe) Cham ware commenced as far back as 1754. ' ricam bottoms amount vellers make the eatliest mention of tea, Ascarly | been made in the trade of Chia within the past | to the situation of the European residents during the Petersburg paper gives the fellewip