The Straits Times, 30 April 1850

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1 8 The Straits Times
  • 20 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. AND SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. VOL Bth. published every [TUESDAY, APRIL, 30th. 1850.] TUESDAY MOKNIIMC NO. 477
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    • 652 1 KatEs of sriis(:j;,v r i ,> Annually. Sp. Dts. 16 v iialt-Vcariy.. 9 1 (Quarterly.... I One Montb 14 Sincle Copy— Une Rupee LIST OF ARTICLES FOIi SALE AT THE COMMISSION ROOMS Or COiVIIVIERCiAL-SQUARE,--SINGAPORE. Berlin wool of solan Jnconct White and colored itm>ts ami ihoaa, BafiUh ami From -1. LiaM
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    • 771 1 M&- QJL is^i Hare always on Sale an extensive and rhoin- ;issortment of the following jroods, selected specially for their Stores. WHOLESALE RK I All. roil EXPORTATION. MLLINERY HOSIERY L.-r n n o Berlin Wnol of as.-orted colors Articles for the Work I able Cuff^ ColUrg of Eng i ish
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    • 504 1 AOXN I London—^V Thomas <<• Cj I Calcutta— l').::rk"r and I o Chin..— Wil.iim Tustau C. Jii.i .m.. Lang* Co, THK LAW OF STORMS. The Editor of the Stmit* Time*, ui.'lfeel $rf<i>'-/ obliged by Captain* of Vtmkfurmtk n§ hir>. with pnrttc\ili:rs (extracted from the Ships Log, including <i >%,rraftt,nn of
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    • 327 2 CHRONOMETERS WATCHES, CLOCKS and MUSICAL BOXES fHREFULLY repaired and the performance I einrantecd by the undersigned. \J gnjranu GO OROOWADONG. "just imported. F X CHRISTIAN FROM CHINA. AND FOR SALE AT THE GODOWNS OF MRS. E- APEL CO-Commercial-Square. A N Extensive and choice consignment hl A N Bn d J.,«.n
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    • 629 2 CORRECTED PROSPECTUSSINGAPORE KACES, 1850. First day, Saturday, Wth May. First Race. The Governor* Cup value Drs. 150. For all horses, weights for age and inches— l 4 hands and aged to carry 9 st. heats R. C. Entrance Dre 5, h. f. Horses th;it have won a Race on this
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    • 502 2 TRIESTE ROUTE. OVERLAND ROUTE VIA TRIESTE. THE Austrian Lloyds Steam Sacit/ation Company's Imperial Mail Steam Packets leave Alexandria direct for Trieste 21 hours after the arrival of the Passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers from Culcutta, on about the llth of every month. The passage is usually performed
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    • 516 2 SINGAPORE BRANCHOF TUB INDIA AND LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY REGISTERED I N'C!)R POIMTKD LVDER VII fill VICTORIA. CAP rx. Capital £250,000 in 5,000 sUrw of £')0 each THE Undersigned have been appointed Agents for the above Company and are prepared to grant Policies on 1. The Lives of healthy persons
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  • 1726 3 PARLIAMENTARY NEWS. Presentation or a Petition against Hkaii Money.—By slr. Cobden, from a meeting held at the London Tavern, calling attention to the existence of a law on the statute book for the payment of head money, a law which the petitioners regarded as likely to lead to unnecessary
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  • 229 3 TO Til E EM iuK OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sm, lVrmit me to draw your attention to the language ol the statute under which head-tno-n»y for tha destruction of the Dyaks of Sarcbas is claimed. It Oeo.. IV., cap. 49, sec. 1) enacts t.i;ii there sluil be paid
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  • 767 3 The"Times"and its"Country Captains." TOIHK KOIToE OF THE DAILY KEWB. Sir, Another of the bluff and bronzed Sea captains of the Times newspaper, has presented himself tor our enlightenment in its columns —one Cuptain Alexander Cumpbell, for*y-one yearn in the sei-service, twenty seven chiefly in the Eastern Archipelago. I presume," says
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  • 402 3 TJ THE LDITOR of TUB DAILY NEWS. Sir, -The Times would have you believe that Sir James Brooke's allies were harmless as sucking d-jves. Take in auswer, an extract from the speech of Mi. Richards, at the meeting at tho Lond ii Tavern But a more
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  • 352 3 11. il, Reynard and t/u Pirates. The audacity displayed by the pirates in perpetrating this daring outrage in the immediate vicinity of the Colony, and the confidence and temerity with which they afterwards approached its coast for the purposes already mentioned, must appear marvellous to people at a distance,
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    • 299 3 JUST LANDED G. J. Daiie «fc Co. have received a prime lot of English Cheeses, and Yorkshire Hams of small sizes, averaging about 9 lbs. each. ALSO FIIOM CHINA Candied Ginger, Citron and Orange; and Soy of excellent quality in bottles. Singapore IStk April 1850. NOTICE. r p»E Interest and
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  • 68 4 THE Straits Times Singapore Tuesday, April 30th. 1850 We have to announce the arrival of the folowing passengers: 1 April 22 per Koningen Carolina Ameiic from Mamburg, Mr. Jn\in» Apol 23 per Ararat from Calcutta Messrs. Bevenhart and Mackenzie. We have to announce the departure of the following passengers: April
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  • 115 4 On Friday last the claim of Captain Troubridge and the officers and crew of H. M. S. Amazon, for salvage, in Re Parsee Merchant, was argued in the Court of Judicature, before a full Court. On Saturday morning Sir William Jeffcott gave judgment, and awarded the sum £300 or Cos.
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  • 14 4 We hear the Criminal Sessions at Malacca will commence about the 15th of May.
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  • 51 4 On Thursday last application was made to he Court of Judicature, by the widow, for letters of administration to the estate of the late Tan Tock Sing Esq. The property was stated to amount to nearly three hundred thousand dollars, the greater part of which consisted in 0I'Mjin and Gold
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  • 85 4 Revenue Farms— Annexed is the result of the sale of the specified monopolies on the 23rd instant. f t will be seen there is an increase on the value of all the farms, save the CampongGlam Market— the increase being f 7,955 on the previous year. 1849-50 1850-51 Opium per
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  • 1025 4 Education is a subject <* such infinite importance, to all classes ef the Community, that little need now be advanced to maintain the justness of the conclusion, that it is the greatest boon roan can bestow upon his fellow man. If we look at the position and circumstances of different
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  • 2921 4 The Criminal Sessions dosed on Friday last, the proceedings having occupied much less time than generally happens. On Wednesday last the Grand Jury made the following Presentment To the Hon'ble the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca. The Grand Jury having disposed of all tbr
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  • 467 5 Yachting at thb North Polk. How refreshing it is to turn from this company of ragamuffins to the contemplation of an English gentleman at his recreations. I say an English gentleman, not in any invidious spirit, but because the sports peculiar to this country have less of personal reference or
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  • 3041 5  -  Thom vs Carlylk 15 V For universal democracy, whatever we may think of it, lias declare! itself as an inctilahle fact of the days in wiiicli we live; and he wiio has any chance lo instruct, or lead, in these days must begin
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  • 1022 6 The Clippers Sir Herbert Compton ond Ardaseer, are both in Dock undergoing repairs, and w4fl be new coppered before they are floated out next springs. The Ardaseer will, it is said, be sent round to Calcutta, and be placed for the future on that line to China. The Sir
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  • 402 6 Thb Gov#.hnor Gknrral's Arrival. The Feroze War Steamer, conveying His Lordship lo the Presidency, was yesterday announced lo be at Kedgeree at eleven in the forenoon. At about a quarter alter four p. m. she passed Moyapore, and the second signal of four guns placed all Calcutta on the
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  • 2550 6 TORRES STRAITS— INTERESTING INCIDENT. The following interest communication, from the nble and acornplished author of the "Surveying Voyage of the Fly," comes very <« pr»po». The useless pest-house" of Port Essington is by this time, we trust, "blotted from the face of the earth." Captain Keppcl sailed from Batavia to
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  • 187 7 April 22 Dutch Bark Fulhall Khair, N'akoda, Minto April 12 23 Brit. do. Ararat, Rouse, Calcutta April 27 25— Am. Brig Frolic, Faucon, Bombay Mar. It 26— Danish Bark Indiancren, Holm, Akyah April 1 Brit. Do, Edward Marquard, Pike, Calcutta Mar. 21 and Pinang. Do. do
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  • 265 7 REPORTS C. Captain Faucon, of the Brig Frolic, reports having spoken the following vessels:— Vpril 3d. in Ut i 20 mm N antl Long. 86 deg 20 mm. East the bark Marchioness of Douglas, out 17 days from Amherst bound to London. April Uilh i" l«at. 6 deg. North and
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  • 478 7 The Bankers Mwjazine for February contains the following review of the Money market for the past month of January This mouth hns been very much quieter than the one which proceeded it. The rapid improvement in the price of the funds, which pm rise, in December, to a somewhat premature
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  • 1411 7 ON TUB T^A DUTIES. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, Sir Thomas Birch anJ Mr. CafdioM, loatboro fat Liverpool, accompanied by tlie faUewfag gentlemen: MeaoN, William BmMmo, Clnistopher BmmM, and Edward Biod'.ibb, on behalf of me mercantile interest of Liverpool; Mr. Win. Saw, as lcpresenti tf
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  • 855 7 Gknuink Eloquence. One man whom I saw sitting on the ground, leaning with his back against the wall, attracted my attention by a degree of squalor in his appearance which I had rarely observed before, even in Ii eland. His clothes were ragged, even to indecency— a very common circumstance,
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  • 317 7 SHIPPING IN THE HA RBOUR. NATIVE CRAFT BRITISH, Buffalo, Fatahool Mahasboly, Mahomed Samdanny, Mahomed Bux Kader Maidin Bux, Independence, Fame, Kirn Yea^ Soon, Samdany. DUTCH— Asia, Hoong Goan, Bintang Tujoo. Saumanap, Goatige, Bun Lee, Phoenix Ingbee, Hap Hin, Adenan, Sri Bintang, Fatahool Hair, Ann» Matha, Futtal Hair, Tanjong Piuang, Fathal
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    • 596 8 A VERY WONDERFUL CUIIE OF A DISORDERED LIVER AND BT#MACH. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Charles Wilson, 30. Princes Street, Glasyotc, dated February, 18th 1847. To Professor Holloway. Sir, Having taken your Pills to remove a denease o the Stomach and Liver, under whichil had long suffered, and having
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    • 1177 8 APATIKNTIN A DYINO STATE, CORKU OF A nisoilHF.il IN Til CHEST. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Robert Calvert, Chemist, Stokesly, dated January 29iA, 184/. To Professor Holloway. Sir, Mr. Thompson, National School-master of this Town, desires me to send you the parti Mian respecting a son of his, who
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    • 669 8 NEW SHIP'S ARTICLES. JAN Sale at tin- Straits p\j Times Pklss, (pnet •One Dollar each) tUt new form of Ship's Articles n accordance with the Act of Par I iament 7 8 Victoria. Cap. 1 1_> VALUABLE "HORSEST A 6111 FOII IHUSOTIExtrnct of a Letter dated Madras, Jut 10, 18-io,
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