Pakhoi on the evening of the 9h, having on board Mr. McKean (the Com: missioner appointed to the new port), for the purpose of establishing the Foreign Custom Ottice there, Mr. Stuhlmann sueceeds Mr, McKean, and is now in charge at Hoihow. The Feihoo, it appears, had the good fortune to save the lives of two Ohinese junkmen on her passage down to Hoihow from this port. When between Romhay, sai Hoihow, the two oaterare were found clinging to a swami j which lid capsized some nine hours previously, the rest of the crew having been drowned. The two poor fellows were taken on board, and having been fed, rigged up in dry clothes, and provided with a few dollars each, were landed at Hoihow—quite ready, we expect, to be capsized and picked up regularly once a-week on the same favourable terms. Captain Cocker has been deputed to survey Pakhoi and its neighbourhood, and the Feihoo will not therefore return to this port until about the middle of April. The port, we understand, will be formally opened on the Ist proximo.—China Mail. has signified his intention to leave Manila The late, Governor-General Malcampo for his mother country by the steamer Cadiz, which will leave on the 10th March.
General of the Exchequer, Sr. Chinchilla, leave for the same destination and in the same steamer.
His Excellency General Domingo Moriones, Marquis of Oroquieta and Governor-General elect of the Philippines, arrived at Manila on the 28th February in the steamer Cadiz. The landing took place with the usual ceremony due to his rank. The boat which conveyed H.E. on shore, having left the steamer, the American frigate Tennessee hoisted the Spanish colors at the fore top-mast, and fired a salute of 15 guns,
tery. The Cadiz also brought the new which was responded to by the, shore bat Director of the Exchequer, Sr. Mariana Carreras Gonsalez.
The Government will impose a tax of one cent per pound on beef or pork flesh issuing from the slaughter house, towards defraying the expenses of introducing a water-supply into Manila, The tax will soon come into force.
The importation into the Phillippines of gold coins daring the ist fortnight february amounts to $162,591.65, and that of silver coins is only $118. The exportation during the same period is $7,000 in silver coins.—China Mail.
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