The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 22 August 1844

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1 3 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869)
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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERITSER. TMVStSSKIY jnOHJVMjrCI, 3250 1544. Vo. 34. F>»l. Jl\>. CCCCIXTI
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      1013 1 GOVERNMENT SOTXTXCATXON. f I'M IK KII.OWING IS BIPLBLISHBD FOII OEWERAL mi >kmation NOTK t ii HERBBT GivrN,that a Light is now exhibit*] o.i the New Light House erected on the ,i Savage Rock at the entrance of the Arracan Rivet in Lat 2L° 5' N Long 92' 55, 38 E.
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      692 1 TO LET. Mf^nHAT well-finished and commodious JL House in the Cantonment, lately occupied by Major Ualdase, 4lh Kegt.N I. Apply to MARTIN, DYCRfe Co ~TO LIiTT" M^f^HAT Commodious Dwelling House. 1 ih High Street, adjoining MtGuthrie's Apply to GEO. ARMSTRONG CO. Singapore, Mth June 1844 TO LET. MflMlE House in
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      698 1 THEATRE ROYAL. MRS DEACLE has the honor to announce that On Monday nex* the 26th insiant, will he performed Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth (without life choruse's) beinu the last Tragedy, that will be represented during Mrs Deacle's stay at Singapore. MACBETH. Dramatis PersotiX. Duncan (Ring of Scotland) Edward. Malcolm Hector.
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      627 1 BY PUBLIC '.niON THIS DAY AT THE AUCTION P JOMS OF THE UNDERSIGNED. At 10 o' Clock priceisely 5,300 pie es Sea-damaged Grey Domestics. ft UK) During the day an extensive a9sor»ment of Superior Cutlery, Hardware, Telescopes &c. For— Cash F. MAHTIN. Singapore, I?nd Avst 1844. ~jTjst~openelt~ F M AT
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    BOMBAY.
    738 2 An Accomplished Thief. {FVom the Bombay Courier, July 2.) Some clever frauds committed tome months bark on two Pearl merchaate of Bombay are at present under investigation by the Polioe. It appear* that in the month of March last, a Marwurry named Shah Hemina Muorani, the defcDdtnt. arrived in
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    A Parsee in Search of the Philosopher's Stone.
    192 2 (From the Bombay Courier, July b.) A wealthy Parsee, named Dbuona Patell, obtained a warrant the day before yesterday for the apprehension of a Brahmin, who bad been practising on his creduli tj. The Brahiuin it appears induced him to believe tuat
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    SIAM.
    3267 2 [Froic thi Chinksk Repository for April.] Aht. 1. Notice* of the reliyion, manners and customs of tht Siamese. By the late M. Uhuguibhe. Translated from the Annales de la Fei. (Continued k*om our last.) Fanatics muti'atinj; themselves, or inflicting self torture in a wicked display of courage or piety
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    601 2 Aw/at Situation- Woide./ul Presence of Mind —The Barbadoes Mercury tehs. ou the authority of an ej e-witneBs of unquestionable veracity, a snake story more appalling than a«y that is to be met witb in the history of these terrible reptiles. It arp-ars that some time last summer the inhabitant*
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    150 2 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. Dear Sir, You well doubtless ha*e heard of the uncourteous conduct of one of ihe Mercantile tsublisliments here in relusing to receive am kiters at U»eujutfkeJoMiie_purpobe_of bem« dapAlchtd Z7 > y ar Bgo U Wa&a rafe thtQ 8 to «ee« ala^sa
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      504 2 Marryatts's Signal Books. Thompson and Taylor's Lunar Tables* Nautical Almanacs, for 1830, and 1842. Charts of the Neighbouring Seas A variety of China Goods, Japan Clowk, Silts B-Mketj Birds of Paradise, Letter and Foolscap Paper &t. WALTER SCOTT DDNCA N TH OU> MIISION OHAPSLoV GrJLOUVD FOB. BA.L.Z. f|MIE Undersigned t>eg
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  • SINGAPORE FREE PRESS PRICE CURRENT.
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      In this Port there are no Duties on Imports and Exports and Veesels every Nation are free of charges.
      1207 3 eqaai to BS9 grains troy. i rTT p*r satiation 7* Moder. I?""""-' \l >?&*• I LOVM 71 7| Large. ÜBEB8 1 li Small. )BpXsLl -"a CAM, A L.GNEA, 10, (Coffee Java
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      REPORT ON THE MARKET.
      647 3 EUROPE GOODS. Ahtrftng-, 36 m. 40 yards at #3.55 and grt 9 Sktell JTo'ln W J2£ pieces of 33 inch 24 yards of well stiffened grey Ueddapollams of a v* ow qU aht y .lightly damaged, only broojbt tfMO I LMpeT piece NoneofThe bT* >»« ch
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      Latest Dates.
      43 3 ".Prom England, 7th June, Overland vii Bombay. Prom Bombay, 20th July, via Madras. j Krorn Cai cutta, 24th July per Antelope. From China, 30th July H. M. itr. Sjiiteful. '•'rom Manila, loth July, via Chiua. from Batavia, 27th July per D'Arcy,
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      FREIGHTS TO LONDON & LIVERPOOL.
      55 3 FREIGHTS TO LONDON LIVERPOOL. Sug.tr in bags, i.. Gaiubiei in bkts X'A 3s Sago, in bags £3 3s in boxes £3 <u, Coffee i'3. per lb cwt. Pepper A3 per 16 cwt. Hides £3 IO« ('assia 7* p box. Measurement Goo4s £3 10s per 50 cubic feet. Viiiimony Ore, 5s
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      PREMIA OF INSURANCE.
      56 3 ON GOODS. To EußOPfc (not north oj Great Brit*m)l\ f cem Do. (north oj Do. America and N. S. Walts 2§ Cape of Ci .Hope St. lUlena. a Calcutta l| Bombay 2 Madras 1« Persian Gulph Kld Sea 4 Ceylon Mauritk s 2| China 1 Datavia 1
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.
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      13 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY MORNING, 22x D AUGUST, 1844.
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      East India Home News.
      2478 1 (From the Monthly Time*, June 7.) We find few items of more iuteiest in the last file of our Indian papers than those which pertain to increasing the facilities of transit, by various means auj appliances— whether by dawk, canal, railroad, river navigation. It will not,
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      EUROPE.
      1911 1 Indian Statesmen and English Politics. TFrom the Timet.'] The annals of the world both authentic and fabulous certain divers pretty stories of perenial sleepers, whose lute it was to be locked in the arms of Morpheus for »uece>sive generations These respecitiUc people (including the Sleeping Heauty and Mr 'tip
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        688 1 Comparative Abstract Statement of the Trade of Pinang with the undermentioned Places between the Years *****-43 and 1843-44. (upon. 1 4 i "^s*< l^^r's 7 "«-44. i»^nr"Di^Tr (oy's I Coy's 4^. L __Toy:. JU-J 'V.fe Coy's CV. to *Coy' s >l Rrttam.... 59 9.7 I5I.«5« S9« a|l To Great linuiu
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      On the State of the Naval Strength of France Compared with that of England.
      3292 2 On the St ate of the Naval Strength of France Compared with that of England. (Bv tthk Prince d* Joinvillb.) The aim of the present notice, it to call the attention of all serious and reflecting minds to the sUte of our Navy: the country, whose bearing towards itn true
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      London Gossip.
      1311 2 (From the Madras Atheuaum.) I am «orry to say there has bee:i a schism in the Funck cabinet which has led not ouly to the resign* turn of some of the Members bat to the publicatiou of a dailj journa elte of the same character uoder the nle
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      THE RENTUCKIAM IN COMPANY.
      542 2 Ye S and flu.omork me if erer I w*nt to be so fijed a*.... for there I with my leet drawn str^ht under my k,,e 8, u C ads up, ttU d 1,,,,d» Wd Cloge my le K like ne* recruit on drill, or a horse
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      SINGAPORE SCHOOLS.
      2722 3 TO THI EDITOR OF TU E SINGAPORE FREE PRESS Sir, Although I entertain great objection, as a < layman to News- paper Lonespondence, and aenerally .peaking would carefully abstain from it, yet M n.r |Wj occjsiou, my attention having been railed to certain statements made in your Editorial
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      DEATH.
      16 3 ax v^awnpore, on me liMli July, Major General J A Biocs, of the Bengal AnfUery.
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      THE FREE PRESS. Singapore, Thursday, 22nd August, 1844.
      1720 3 THE FREE PRESS. Singapore, Thursday 22nd August, 1844. Siam.— We leain that Java is not the only place suffering from a scarcity of the grand staple of food in the East— Rice. In Siam also there is a short coming. It j 3 not however in Siam, as in Java,
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