The Straits Times, 18 April 1855

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  • 7 9 Straits Times Extra Wednesday, April 18th, 1855.
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  • 37 9 Calcutta, March I^th. The follow ing is a result of Opium Sale w hich W as held ihis-day Ht the Exchange Hall Chests. Highest. Lowest. Average Be har IHI 045 6:<5 639-1-8 Benares.... 1395 635 630 631-7-6
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  • 394 9 Time* (/ffice, April \%th, 1355. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamihip Singapore, Captain Baker, arrived here here thia day at noon having left Bombay April a the 101 li and l'inang *We ltith instant. yft an lei a list of passengers f or Singapore Dr. Burnett,
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  • 664 9 (From the Malta Times, March 13th. J Since the publication of our last number, w<? have received our usual correspondence and papers from the Crimea and Constantinople. Ihe latest dates from the seat of war are to the 20th ult. and from the Turkish capital to
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  • 112 9 (From our own Correspondent.) Constantinople, Ist Mnrch. They say the French have been very severely handled in an attempt to carry a Russian battery. It is almost certain that the Russians were forewarned by the treachery of some one in tho French camp as thpy laid
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  • 584 9 Hume. Only a fortnight h.is elapsed since we announced the formation <.f Lord i'almerston' Cabinet and in that short interval the principal memltcrs of which it was composed have separated and dispersed. Under the head of our latest intelligence will be found the sequel of this strange imbroglio which it
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  • 1057 9 Foreign. Our from and concerning the Crimea present little novelty, and if, upon the whole, it is rather more hopeful than it was a fortnight ago, the actual progress that has been made towards the great issue exhibits scarcely a perceptible point to rest upon. Our troops, reduced to a
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  • 1127 9 Home Affairs.— So at last we have a I abinet or provisional Government built up ia the old aristocratic way. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, a Whig red-tape worm, hating reform and entertain rug opinions hostile to any rational method of carrying on the war, succeeds Mr. Gladstone, and when Lord
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  • 545 9 Death of tiik Czin.— The startling intelligence of the death of the t'zur, in the very crisis of the struggle to which his policy committed nearly the whole of Europe, has produced a deep sensation in London. It was known here in the afternoon of the 2nd instant, within a
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  • 417 10 The announcement of the accession of Alexander 11. was received with general satisfaction, hb the harbinger of a pacific policy, that Prinoe being known to be 4 ati nctied to tbe moderate party, of which Nesselrodc is the head; while his liruther Constantine is the popular favourite of the old
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  • 139 10 Some minor appointment* having been filled up we give this list again Viscount Palmenton Fint Lord of Treasury Lord Cranworth Lore Chancellor Marquis of Lansdowne... (Without office) Earl Granville President of Council i^uke of Argyll Privy Seal ■Earl of Clarendon Home Office Hon. W. Cowper Under Secretary
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  • 590 10 So important an event as the death of the Emperor ef Russia has necessarily at thisj oncture great infldenoe wgly find that, under the opinion entertained bra Urea majority that an early peace is now more possible, arti«lee we receive largely from Russia, such as tallow
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  • 199 10 ArkiteO.— Feb. 16 Jacob* Cornelia, Batavia 17 Crest of the Wave, Shanghai j 22 John Bunyan, Hongkong Sagalien, Canton; 24 Queen Margaret, Shan ghai Nyverbied, LaUvia Luciparai, Latavia Helvoetsluys, b»tivia 25 Spirit of the Age, Shanghai 26 Lord Warriston, China Lady Elizabeth, China Elizabeth, Manila 27
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