The Straits Times, 15 April 1851

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    20 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. AND SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. YOl. 7l'H. PUBLISHED F.VERY [TUESDAY, APRIL, 15th. 1&31.] TUESDAY WIORFVJINC NO. &27.
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      627 1 „ks or tVHWßtrnga .v sp. hrz. 16 arly.. 9 o c;. Month U A >in?it l ""y— Or > "unee LIST OF ARTICLES F»h SUE AT THE COZXHXSI3SZON ROOMS OF COMMERCIAL-SQUARE,— SINGAPORE. &iu(2U&3 A.B»3PA.»3fiTu. f colon Jacnnrt— White and c>l"i''l i French Umb- Phw Ixiak sut.n .t nott Uw- shawls,
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      707 1 Etttve alvvtiys on Sale an fxtensiw and dioicc assortnient df the folluwinu; i^oods, selectttl s))eciallv tot fclieir Stores. WIIOLKSALE RKTAIL A rOR EXPORTATION. WILLINERY $fifr HOSIERY r,KI« rim Wool of .issorted color* Artirlei t..r tlie Work labl« s> CullSi C o allJ tl f Engiixh M»nil owtafioe 4raOMri unifacture /'"nu.'ts
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      491 1 AOKMTf London— W. Thoma* A Cc Calcutta— Thaeker and Co. OMm— William PiiMa-i C« liatavia Lanjji' .t i C. J. DARE& COS ADVERTIZEMENTS G. J. D AVLE VO SHIP CHANDLERS. AHctiimrrr* and Commi»»ion Aij< at E ALB AND RETAIL JJ7/«', Spirit and Beer Merchant* BOAT QUAY: SINGAPORE. BEG to announce
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      584 2 a medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on ther Scc ret Infirniiiics and Disorders of Youth and Matiiri'Vi usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exa ,,st the vital energies of Manhood; with
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      551 2 PENIM&UL.AR OJHEMTAL BTEAWI NAVIGATION COMPANY'S OFFICE. Ba ttery Ron d -^Singapore. rpilE Peninsular and Oriental -^/Jyll'lt i*\\ Company's steamer 1» kin. Bakkr. en route to Bony bay, may be expee'ed at Singapore about the 2nd Proximo, and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamer with t.ScEuiopean j Mails iit route to
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      644 2 A CARD. GENTEEL parties visiting Singapore, or Gentlemen residing on the Island, wishing to Board with a respectable family, may meet with very comfortable apartments in one of the most airy situations in the town. The house commands a fine view of the Roadstead. Application to be made at the
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      676 2 PROSPECTUS. SINGAPORE RACES 1851. First- Day, Tuesday, Uth May, Fihst Rack the Governor's ftp value 100 for all Horses, weights for age and Mefcei 1 1 hands and aged to carry 8 stone, hcaU R. C. Entrance #5 h.f. Previous winners to carry 7 lbs extra. Skcono Rack ClnhCupUn Ponies
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    European Intelligence.
    3137 3 Many fearful fires have occurred the vact prem j seg of Alderman Humphrey, in Tooley-street (ieneral Dowries'* house, near Ryde, Isle of Wight; B i x ji reS occurred in as many different quarters of I lie metropolis on this day week, where small lossrs were suffered: a
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    CHINA
    1802 3 Ova last Overland paper conveyed the intelli. I gence of the capture of the Chuy-apo, the rnurj derer of Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer 'Ihe trial of that criminal has been the principal object of interest during the month. As theiseemed to bo some feeling against the prisoner,
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    The Strait Times. Singapore: Tuesday, 15th. April 1851.
    180 4 The Strait Times. Singapore: Tuesday, 15th. April 1851. We have to announce the arrival of the following passengers: April 10 per Cowasjee Fanilv from Calcutta, Messrs. N. 1. Ezra and M. G. Muckertooin; per Pacha from Southampton, Mrs. McQueen, Miss Me. Queen, 2 Master McQueen and Miss Stabb*; per Charles
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    165 4 OUR attention has been called to three subscription lists in circulation for the purpose of raising funds first for the support of Toes Sing's Hospital, an object worthy ol our pecuniary as sUlancc, the healing of the sick and aidauce of the suffering poor then a collection is being made
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    255 4 Pjnang. We have received the Gazette of March 15th. 2'id. and 291h. and feel well pleased with the progress the new Editor has nuJe in the conduct of bis journal. Complaints were made of the general dry ness of the weather, and the he.it being more insufferable "than some of
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    33 4 Something new— We observe that a Mr. P. Escudie of Brusselles has taken out a patent for rendering all sorts of Pitch and Tar impervious to the heat of the Sun, and imcombustible.
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    191 4 MADRAS has long been disgusted with the existing steamer arrangements, the vejsels merely stopping a few hours at that place to the very great inconvenience of its citizens. Tired of protests and representations of the injustice done her, we see Madras has headed a movement against the P. and O.
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    55 4 The Sailor's Home. What has been done or is doing The mails are over, the steamers departed and gone, but no step, that we are aware of, has been taken to call a public meeting for the purpose of forming a committee 1 1 carry the measure into effect Whose
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    696 4 SULOO— The following graphic description i, translated from the Din rio of Manila; Three years ago, on the 19th of Februirv ISIS expedition, also brilliant in its results left our shores for the south of Mindanao. Its' flag was planted on the fortress of the enemy and punishment inflicted wherever
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    512 4 Tw 11. C. Steamer Scwramis has been se t to Tibbing Tingi t,, u tlain redress, in csm 4 great hardship, at the instance of a native trader whose vessel was wrecked on the Kaja.'s territory. From the statement of the N'.ko.l.i, i mied Akkay, it would appear that the
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      169 4 SHERIFFS SALE. fJY virtue of a Writ of Sequestration to me directed, dated the 10th. day of March 1851, and by order of the Court j in the Cause of John Artiier Palmer VS. John Richard Tavenor. I have seized and sequestered upon the following POLKA, Schooner of the burthen
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      596 4 NOTICE. MR. MUNCHERJEE FRAMJEE is authorized to sign our Firm by procuration. BYRAMJEE HORMUSJEE CAMA A CO. Singapore, 27th. March 1851. ~T~d~ALL TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. The long standing case between the Undersigned and the Firm of JeeJBRRHOT I)\--dabhoy Sons A Co., of Bombay, was decided on the 17th.
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      19 4 On the JOth. April, Mrs. Debeaux, wife of J. L. Debeaux attached to the Seaman's Hospital, of a Daughter.
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    307 5 Madlm un. We have been favored with a copy of the Maulmam Times of March 7lh. which contains a most daring instance of dacoily or gang-robbery, such as is unknown here even amongst the Chinese. It would appean that at one o'clock on the morning of the 6th. of March
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    92 5 The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamer Pacha, Captain McQueen, arrived here on the 10(h. instant having (eft the Needles (England) at noon on Dec. 19th. and Giliralter Jan. Ist. The Pai h.i proceeds this d.iy to Bom bay, there to await instructions from the Directors. As a first class ste.imer
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    46 5 Borneo Phi.vtks and Piracy. We have received the subjoined correspondence for Publication it will serve to shew that ths greater part of our community does not approve of the merciless slaughters which have taken place on the Coast of Borneo, on account of their intertribal wars.
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    2129 5 T J ot«m Hukb Esquirb, M. P. Ac. 4c ftc. IR Wo he undersigned (British) merchants and inhabitants of Singapore, have received information Jf Ur intent OTI t0 bring forward a motion in the H'Mise of Commons relative to the proceeding* of Sir James Brooke, K. C. B. which will,
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    Calcutta 15th. March 1851.
    766 5 Per Coioayec Funily" The 4th. O .vennj-nt tale of U,n;i u was held on the 10'h. Irnf. whiish re«>ilteJ at follows: Pttm IMJ Chttta HlthMt II U>v<»t Ml 1, »>1 8.-Bi.i'iJJJ d. uo. »A> *>. to M| Tli t« li.ti be«n M aJvance on the aye
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    225 5 —Englshnian We are sorry to le.im tlMt ttie third officer of the H. C. Sk-amer Enterprise, Mr. Fanjuhar, when at Moulmaiu, fell overboard and m lust. About a quarter of an hour before the accident he was seen siting on the bridge of the paddlebox. but nob-nly saw the unfortunate
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    EASTERN STEAN NAVIGATION COMPANY.
    425 5 E ASTERN STEAN NAVIGATION COMPANY. —A deputation introduced by Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart. M. P., consisting of Viscount Barrington, M. P., Viscount Ebrington,M. P., Right Hon. T. Mil-i.T Gibson, m. p., Sir William Molesworth, Bart. M. P Hon. F. H. Berkeley, >i P., Mr. W. 11. Staunlon, M. p.,
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    THE TRIAL OF MR. AND MRS. SLOANE.
    3729 6 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT FEB. 6. Before Mr. Juslice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Cresswell.) The first case brought on to-day was that of George Sloane and Theresa his wife. The public interest hail been so strongly excited by the details of the evidence upon
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    281 6 Tm Adtmtmmrfpmc* the fallowing daud at Uu O'ciock U.io uuriiii.^ U c aic ..S-.UICJ, Uoui a f«aft« in which coir^: iniur. nation mm} bo expected to exist, thai ibcie iscwrjf reaeM to believe th.it a Uoaiiuoa Muusirj a*lll U-- fcmacd, Loru John Hiwsclt Still reunn...the oiliceuf Putt Jiiuiaier of the
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    146 6 Tub Mail Steamku Indus. The steamer Indus, which lus just arrived from AlexaiiJi.i with Hie India mail, left Southampton on the 20th ult. The following is Ihe time she took ing from port to port on her outward lad homeward voyages, viz. From Southampton t Gibraltar, 6 days 6 hours;
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    IMPORTS.
    428 7 April sth. Pnm Hongkong by the British bark 1_39 barrels Hour, John Steel co. tfO m Bundok by the British shnr Psyche— 9l .|vg white pepper, 78 ctys coffee, 1 case China eFj 1 cut containing a seraphin, 23 pis rice, InJoue, 140 pis round iron. Ueo. Armstrong from
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    EXPORTS.
    594 7 April bth. —To Hurawuk by the British tchnr. Hood Luck. 21 coys (J'jcinn-Ciuiia suit, '60J pcs luug cioiu, 20 pis iiruisli brasswire, 60 c^r iinliob sarongs, 20 Ulits (Jtiiua tobacco, 40 bux lea, IUO peb Uiltisll red clutu, 100 ii.usketb, 'ioJ p«l blllisll grey Bliirliny, 10 pi* China iwiui
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      ARRIVALS.
      73 7 April, b Brit, bark Benares, Brown, Whampoa March 2S. n n l>o. shin Cow,i<:jce Family, Durham, Calcutta March IV. Do. bark Napoleon, Collas, Arracan March 9. Dutch do. Futhool Hair, Watt, Palembaug April 3. Brit, steamer Pacha, McQueen, Southampton Dec. 19. 11 Brit. do. Monarch, Duncanson, Akyab March 15.
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      DEPARTURES
      925 7 April 7 Span, steam r Magallanes, Medina, Manila. Brit. 1 1 i. Pekin, Itakrr, Hongkong. b Do. b.nk Julianiu, N.ikoda, I'ui.ru'. Do. brig Lanrick, While, Hongkong Do. ship John Brighlmaii, Scott, ditto. II Do. steamer Achilles, Kvans, Bombay Dutch do. BaUvia, Vandenmoore, Uat.ivu. 10 Am. ship Union, Me.icom, Rostoa.
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      Rates of Premia Of Insurance At Singapore.
      361 7 (ON GOODS) VOYAGES BY SAILING'VESSELS. Percent fo Groat I'ritnin -m Continental I'orts in Europe Macao, (JuuiMiiumoon and i siiling between 30th June iloti^kung or unii Ist March l, WiiaiujuiH sailing between 2Mb Feb. and Ist July 1 j Amoy, during the above period
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      VESSELS EXPECTED FROM EUROPE.
      71 7 Kli/.aorth Br^wrn li<rji» Jnhn Cooper Neptune AtUeiia Kuraght M try Ann L idy Kitfles Clara Ac.tJi i Martin Frederic* Mary Ray Coaxer Iteiie Chaucer Meg MerTiles J,.tiu Uibby UuepnKtowndtn. Ma\ London June rlyde Uth Sept ..(Ulo ltourne Liverpool l'itb. Nov. Hurtlcpool '2nl N<>. Clyde. 'i",th Not.
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      SHIPPING IN THE HARBOUR.
      261 7 "rRAFT-BRrnSH,-Maho Ined1 ned B»*. Independence, Dolphin, Swallow, Fame, 8.-ffal-DUTCH leng,Ko™PolM". Pen, Zepa.au, Jatu, UtH Bevy, Indramyo, Jalbalmas, Futthool Haw. ARAB— Nasseree. Aoi:n [Destination Ar K«tion A VkvsrlJ \>!««ri«' N*mf T"N« I Captain 11. Ms. snip DritUh schooner. Dritish brie Burmese brig British bark British bark Briti«h'sch<>oner
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    FREIGHTS TO LONDON & LIVERPOOL
    66 7 FREIGH TS TO LONDON LIVERPOOL Antimony Ore. 1. 10 per 'M cwt. Tui Jt 9. 0 Sigoui Boxe* 1. 10 Sl4Olll Bags 1. sper'2oc\U Uainbier ia basket* jL 2. 6 t* Ditto in bales. 2. Coffee in bag» 2. 5 per I cwt. Biack peeper "2. 10 per 1G cwt.
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    MONEY MARKET
    65 7 On 6' Months credits 4a. 10^1. per dollar. O;i C.i 1 titt i Tr-iiury '122 |>er MO dollars, (none) li.nnb.iy X) da; I light U- HO per dollars 100 Svt cc fchmi J»" N ft* l v premium for large Company's liupci-s >H cents. Java Uii'|M.e:» (now WO.
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      967 8 HEALTH WHEKE TIS SOUCHT HOLLOWAY'S PILLS riTRE OF A DI-ORl'F.Kfl) T.IVKR AND UTOMACII, WHEN IN' lV IN A MOST HOFISI.KBB STATE Extract of a Letter from Mr. Matthew Harvey, of Chaptt Hall, Airdrie, Scotland, dated the loth of January 18.50. To Professor HoixowaySir.— Your valuable Pills have been the means,
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      659 8 NOTICE. I Hereby declare, that I have appointed Meiers Fkkderick Lender Co, as my Agtnts for Singapore and all the neighbouring ScUements, and that they alone are authorized to sell and to receive orders for my manufaclures. Coofjne, ilfh Sept. 1818. JOIIANN MARIA FAHINA. The Genuineness of Joiiann Mari v
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      583 8 Gold leads, and Metal powder flasks, candlcsticls with shades, and spectacles, concave and convex. Bird Cag" and Tea-It etlles. Arlilici;il llowers and Ladies corsets. Green-peas in tins of 1 and 2 lbs. iMsages in Tins, Herrings in kegs of 12 i pieces each. Chocolate, Prunes, H.iisins, Currants. Cherries, Macaiony, Bonbons,
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      957 8 CURES FOR THE UNCURED 110 IOW AY'S OIHHEVF AS K.WRAORDINAIiV CURE OP SCROFULA <>!l KIN( i Extraetofa Letter from Mr. J. 11. Allidu»->Q'j n]\) ftreet, Cheltenham, dated the 22arf January 18.10 To Professor Hoi.i.ov. ay. Sir, My ol'U>t Mm, when about throe yea wan .ifflicted with a Glandular Swelling; In
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