1.  The value of the Company’s importations from China
   into Great Britain, as established by their own
   statements, is L2,000,000

2.  On this they charge 100 per cent, for their own
   especial benefit 2,000,000

3.  And the Government duty, as by law established, is
   equal to the original cost, and the profits charged
   by the company; both forming the sale price 4,000,000
          
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                                                 L8,000,000
Oriental Herald.

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DEATH OF YOUNG PARK.

It is quite inconceivable with what increased zeal new candidates for African discovery come forward the moment that the death of any fresh victim to this pestilential country is announced.  To the list of those who have already fallen, may be added young Park, the son of the late enterprising Mungo Park, and a midshipman of his majesty’s ship Sybille.  He went out in this ship with a full determination to proceed on foot, and alone, from the coast to the spot where his father perished, in the hope of hearing some authentic and more detailed account of the catastrophe than had yet been received.  With leave of the commodore, he set out from Accra, and proceeded as far as Yansong, the chief town of Acquimbo, distant from the coast about one hundred and forty miles.  Here the natives were celebrating the Yam feast, a sort of religious ceremony, to witness which Park got up into a Fetish tree, which is regarded by the natives with fear and dread.  Here he remained a great part of the day, exposed to the sun, and was observed to drink a great quantity of palm wine.  In dropping down from one of the lower branches, he fell on the ground, and said, that he felt a severe shock in his head.  He was that evening seized with a fever, and died in three days, on the 31st October, 1827.  As soon as the king, Akitto, heard of his death, he ordered all his baggage to be brought to his house, and instantly despatched a messenger to Accra, first making him swear “by the head of his father,” that he would not sleep till he had delivered the message; it was to inform the resident of the event, and that all the property of the deceased would be forthwith sent down to Accra.  This was accordingly done, and it did not appear on examination, that a single article was missing; even an old hat, without a crown, was not omitted.  There was an idle report of Park being poisoned, for which there appears not the slightest foundation.—­Q.  Rev.

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DIRGE

TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GEE, OF KEW,

Who died in consequence of being stung in the eye.