Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany / edited by P.L. Simmonds

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N 054.2 COL
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London : Simmonds and Ward, [1844]-1849
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Vol. 12 No. 45 (September 1847)
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Contents

SIMMONDS’S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. NOTES ON THE COMMERCE OF SIAM. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
CANNOT EUROPE’S COLONIES FLOURISH WITHOUT PERPETUATING THE CHAINS OF AFRICAN SLAVERY? 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24
REMINISCENCES OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA; OR, THE SMITHS AT THE HAVANA. CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DESCRIPTION OF A “VERY HOT” DAY AT THE HAVANA. MID-DAY, THE ELDORADO OF LOVERS. SOME INTELLIGENCE OF BLANCA CABRAL AND THE DOINGS OF SILVA DE COPAN. 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29
CHAPTER XXXV. THE ITALIAN OPERA. A BENEFIT NIGHT IN THE TROPICS —MR. SMITH’S LIBERALITY. MRS. SMITH’S NIGGARDLINESS, AND OBSERVATIONS ON ACTRESSES. 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37
AUSTRALIA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS. 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41
ON THE TIMBER TREES OF HONDURAS. 41 , 42 , 43
THE STATE AND NATIONAL EMIGRATION. 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53
REMARKS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR. 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE EMIGRATION COMMISSIONERS. TO THE EDITOR OF SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. 60 , 61 , 62
THE IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE OF HONDURAS FOR 1846. 63 , 64
FACTS FOR THE FAMISHED—A FEAST AND A FAMINE. 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85
THE PROGRESS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA* 86 , 87 , 88 , 89
REVIEWS. 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107
INDIA. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. 108
CEYLON. 108 , 109
NEW SOUTH WALES. 109 , 110 , 111
NEW ZEALAND. 111
MAURITIUS. 111 , 112
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 112
CANADA. 112
BIRTH, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. 112

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SIMMONDS’S  

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.  

NOTES ON THE COMMERCE OF SIAM.  

BY THE EDITOR OP THE “ SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.”  

It appears to us that too little attention has hitherto been given by-  

British merchants to the capabilities of Siam for large and profitable  

commercial intercourse. The trade with Siam, as far as regards British  

possessions, has been generally in the hands of one or two Europeans,  

and some native merchants from Bombay, and no attempt has hitherto,  

as far as we are aware, been made to give it wider and more general  

character, or to test its capacity for an increase both of consumption and  

production yet there is no doubt that in both respects there is much  

room for expansion in Siam, and that there is wanting greater  

attention from European merchants, and better tariff, to allow of Siam  

assuming much more important place in the commercial scale of nations  

than that which she at present occupies. Impressed with this conviction,  

we have hitherto taken every opportunity we could find, as well to  

exhibit the present aspect of commerce in Siam, as to show by what  

means and to what extent it might be improved; and it is with this  

object that we now avail ourselves of the kindness of friend well  

acquainted with the subject, who has placed few rough notes at our  

disposal, and which will enable us once more to state few facts and  

make few observations upon the commerce of Siam. Unlike Japan  

and Cochin China, intercourse with Siam does not require to be yet  

established it was placed upon legitimate legal footing even before  

we had achieved the same object in China, and all that now remains to  

be done is to prevail upon the Siamese Government to make those modi-  

fications and amendments in those parts of the treaty, as regards the  

residence of foreigners and the tariff of duties, which experience has  

shown to be opposed to full and free development of the commerce of  

the country. The Siamese King, like most semi-barbarous persons, is  

slow to perceive the advantages which would result to himself and his  

country from greater encouragement of commerce, and seeks in mono-  

polies for that revenue which he would better find in an expansion of  

trade and increase of the productive resources of his kingdom; and it  

may be that he dreads the effects of freer contact with foreigneis upon  

his subjects. But there is little doubt, that were the advantages of  

VOL. XXI. NO. 45. SHPTKMBER, 1847.  

 

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