The Straits Times, 10 April 1855

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1 8 The Straits Times
  • 21 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. AND SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. VOL. Hth. published every [TUESDAY APRIL 10th, 1855.] t uesday morning NO. 735
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 932 1 ate or sußsraiFTio» JaßaaUy.. Bp. Drs. 1« j fiil Yearly.. 9 f Quarterly "I on e Month l| 1 A Single Copy— One Rupee. J LIST OF ARTICLES FOR SALE A T THE COMMISSION ROOMS OF JOHN LITTLE CO. COMMERCIAL SQUARE— SINGAPORE. Outfitting department. Poots sh° e and slippers. Paris
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    • 530 1 ay I.md, *c Muslin Gloves— French Kid, White and coloured, White and coloured silk, A thread Parasols —silk, plain, and figured Ribbons— silk, satin, bonnet and children's, a great assortment Thread cotton on reels, Silk, tapes, bobbin Needlrs, Pins, crochet Threaed, and needles Babies' Hoods and Hats— silk and satin,
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    • 757 1 Messrs. WHAMPOA AND CO.'S ADVERTISEMENT. wii—ini Itfessrs. WHAMPOA Co. have always ..n Sale an extensive and choice assortment of the following goods, selected specially for their Stores. WHOLES ALB RETAIL fOR EXPORTATION. Htfllfiurp ffiostc rn. Articles for the Work Table; flaliarine dresses Bonnets of the latest modes, from Paris; Chemisettes
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    • 815 1 f AQKHTS. I London— F. Algar A Co Calcutta— Thacker Co. [rene* J Hongkong— Armst'ong ft Law I Batavia Lange 4 Co. NOTICE CURSETJEE FROMMURZE. HEREBY gives Notice that he has withdrawn from the firm lately carrying on Trade and business under the style of I.itti.ic, CursbtJkk Co., and he
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    • 675 2 coat, and j-oke..; ci«»r S Manila No. 3 and 4 cig» r«et, Manila and Chin..; colors, 0.l and water, in tin boxes and cakes camphor wood trunks; crowns, for SZ. d i nn e r »nd tea serv,ce 8 dr.win(? cas-s; rfraks travellers writing fowling pieces, single and double ba«e."stoU,
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    • 763 2 INSPECTOR OF BRANCHES. W. Frederick Fkbgussok Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. T. C. Mobioh, Esq., 10, Old Post Office Street. Officiating.— W. RrroniK, Esq. BANKERS.— The Bank of Bengal. SOLICITORS. Robert Moslet Thomas, Esq. 6, Old Pott Office Street. MEDICAL OFFICER.— Duncan Stewart, m. d. Presidency Surgeon 29, Chowringhee Road. SECRETARY.— P.
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    • 558 2 SUN INSURANCE OFFICE. THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above office, are prepared to grant Policies, Risk payable in China, Singapore and Calcutta SARKIES MOSES. Singapore, 3rd March, 1855. CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE. THE Undersigned having been appointed Agent here for the above Office, are prepared to grant Policies
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    • 551 2 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Battery Road— Singapore. MAIL fJ^^^LINES OUTWARD MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental ComDanv, steam-ship SINGAPORE with the English mih of March 9th, may be expected to arrive a .-ingapore, en route to Hongkong, on or about the 18th proximo. Application for Freight and Passage,
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    • 977 3 JWoUceSPECIAL BILLS OF LADING. aWI A iircc 1 a l(^ Woods despatched ihe P. and U. Company's |B.S;c.-im 6lii(>b tv I'ina.nu, Galle, i\i ajpßHpjpnuA-, Calcutta, Bumhay, and io Hampton, Hongkong, Canton, and Shasoj re<|uire Special Bill* of Lading, winch J. be procured at the Stbaits Times Office '^Singapore, August, 1850.
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    • 800 3 and Co. to send him another canister of their Kevalenta Arabica, it agreeing so well with his infant. This infant was six days old when it commenced living on the Revalcnta. No. 52,418, Dr. Ories Magdeburg, recording the cure of his wife from pulmonary consumption, with night sweats aU( i
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    • 1147 3 The Mnfaiiibie Remedy. HOLLOWm°IiiiT»E»T. EX I RAORDINARY CURE OF SORE LEGS Copy o f a Letter from Mr. Michael Hyatt, of Meerut, dated the 29th of August, 1854. To Professor Holloway, Sir, A man in my employ, named John Jones, was for sixteen years afflicted with the most inveterate ulcerous
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    • 560 3 THE MONTAGUE ACADEMY roa bots. TIKHI- Boarders. Rupees 25 per mensem, exclusive of shoes, boots and clothes. Rupees 35 per mensem inclusive of all charges but clothes. Mr. and Mrs. Mont«gck personally superintend the Dormitory and Refectory, and take their meals with the children. N.B. English, Greek, French, Latin, Bengalee,
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  • 126 4 Strait Times. SINGAPORE: Tuesday. April 10th, 1855. mom We have to announce the tnival of the following passengers April 3 per Young Queen from Lingin, Captains Collis and Gilbert, Mrs. Norland, Messrs. N. and J. Paterson, Bark, Timon and Padman, 4 per Formosa from Hongkong, T. Ponbonby, Esq. and son,
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  • 151 4 Memorandum of Covers received for Delivery at, and dispatched from, the Singapore Post Office in the month of March, 1855. Received Per Steamer Koningcn der Nederlanden from 15 Itavin1 ta v in *.o/0 Cadiz from Hongkong 729 Norna from Europe 9,272 Do. from other places 2,023 Do. from Sydney 543
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  • 39 4 We have been requested to inform the members of the Grand and Petit Juries that their attendance at the Court this flay will be unnecessary. The Court will open to-morrow, and the business of the Session be proceeded with.
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  • 59 4 We beg to call public attention to the Instrumental Concert of the Mdlles. Colombat, BX the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. These young ladies have obtained marked approbation in Java, and propose, we hear, to remain at Singapore as public performers and privite teachers of the Piano, should sufficient encouragement offer.
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  • 71 4 On Good Friday the H. C. steamer Hooghly arrived here from Malacca, having on board :>ir Wm. Jeffcott, the Recorder, and the Court Establishment. The criminal session at Singapore will open to-day, 'ihe number of cases is heavy, no less than 41, but the offences consist chiefly of larceny. As
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  • 50 4 The H. C. steamer Hooghly left this on Saturday last for Malacca, for the purpose of conveying the Hon'ble Mr. Lewis Iron, the latter place to Pinang. The Hvoghly will remain at Pinang for Governor Blundell, and convey His Honor to Singapore, where he is expected about the 20th instant.
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  • 99 4 The bark Margaret, Captain White, referred to in our remarks in last Tuesday's Straits Times, has sailed away. On enquiries made at the Master Attendant's office, yesterday, our reporter was informed that, the Margaret sailed twe 11 days ago, without a port clearance 11 the Captain said he was goin&
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  • 175 4 On Tuesday last the schooner Young Queen, belonging to the Sultan of Lingin, arrived here, with the master, passengers, and crew of the late British brig Hamlet, wrecked on Crocodile reef on the Jiton ultimo. The Hamlet left this port on the 22nd ult. with a full cargo for Swan
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  • 167 4 China. By the steamer Formosa advices and journals have been received from Hongkong to the 28th March. Piracies continued to be of daily occurrence outside Hongkong, but Admiral Stirling had disposed of his fleet in such a way that it was expected that the pirates would be intercepted. From Canton
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  • 676 4 It is now nearly twelve months since the flower of the British army departed for service in the East. What were the hopes and expectations entertained at the time of their embarkation we need not particularize the worse than nothingness of the result has appalled all hearts and driven an
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  • 1063 4 Criminal Statistics. In the Straits Times of 6th February last, we published various abstract statements of the offences taken cognizance of at Singapore during the past year, accompanied by remarks on the classes of cases, their particularities, results, &c. We promised to return to the subject when leisure or opportunity
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  • 998 4 We subjoin some particulars, taken frow the North British Daily Mail, of B teani-screw clipper Lancefield, belonging to Messrs. Jardine, Mathesou Co., and intended for the Opium trade between (V't'utta and China. The Lancefield wae to leave England in March, under the command of Captain Oliver, formerly of the Red
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    • 351 4 The MjUW of Storm* The Editor of the SlraiU Times, will feel greatly obliged by Captains of Vessels furnishing himtcith particulars (extracted from the Ship's Log, including observations of Barometer and Thermometer) of occurrences of typhoons or hurricanes in the China Seas more expecially for notices to tt/phoonsfrom the Bashee
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  • 913 5 Colonial Gleanings.— By ihe mail steamer received tiles of Australian journals, cor.vejed o Galle by the contract mail-ship Madras. We roceed to give an outline of the intelligence contained |sj ihe colonial papers. Sydney journals to the 27ih January, notice ly. arr a of «he new Governor General, Sir illiam
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  • Correspondence.
    • 545 5 mont Conspiracy— Treachery and Ighobanck of Marcy. —The letter from one of our Washington correspondent*, in the paper, on the case of Captain Gibson, throws considerable additional light upon tliii curious rubject. It appi ars that the personal enmities of Belmont and his financial
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    • 1223 5 A Dublin Hoax.— Yesterday (says the Fr«*. man's Journal of Wednesday) the city wm in a state of unusual excitement, a rumour having been circulated to the effect that the Lord Chancellor announced in his court that he had received a com munication from the Lord- Lieutenant that Sebastopol had
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  • 1590 6 Russian Interpretation op the Four Points.— The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following communication from a correspondent who has frequently, of late, written in that paper on diplomatic matter* "As a complement of what I have already Bent you on the present sUte of affairs, I now transmit the
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  • 3776 6 Sib Chables Napikb and the Earl of Cardigan at the Mansion-House. Yesterday evening the Lord Mayor gave his annual dinner to the Aldermen oflhe City of London. The interest of the occasion was much enhanced by the circumstance that among the guests, upwards of one hundred in number, were the
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  • 1760 7 Prospects of thb Falmbbston Cabinet. Lord Palmerston is Prana Minister of England. \ftcr forty-four years of official life he has reached the top of the tree. Lord Palmerston owes the position he occupies more to his own abilities, and i onnexions, than perhaps any of his ast rivals in the
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  • 2593 7 Thr Availabt.k A ntauox fsm Against Russia. The immediate object of the present war is to defend Turkey from the attacks of Bussia. In extending their protection to Turkey, the Western Powers have been influenced by two motives. The first is a sense of the duty incumbent upon all civilised
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  • 1909 8 State or the Abmt in thb Cbimea. —There is a season for all things, and on the eve of a great national disaster it is some comfort to think that the present- yes, this very present hour is the season for a great national duty. As for the pending operations
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  • 241 8 Vert Likrlt. The Emperor of Russia is reported to have said, when informed of the sad losses on our side by the hurricane, that one ship would be enou ;h remaining to take what was left of the army back to England. Wab Attiri— The OazelU de Lyon* says',:—" An
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  • 76 8 Ma Maoorioor, M. P.— We (OLuyow Mail) have seen a note from this gentleman to a friend, in which he says that he has just returned from Paris, where he has been for some time past in the discharge of public business, with reference to a more free system of
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  • 398 8 The suspension was announced on Monday of Messrs. Mellor Hetherington and Co., a respectable firm in the American trade. The amount of their liabilities has not been stated, but the stoppage has been caused by the recent failure of Messrs. Morewood and Rogers and although the public gene rally have
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  • 221 8 April 3— British ichr. Young Queen, Nakoda, Linga Mar. 27. 4— Dan.", bark Fredrick Wilhelm, Leerbeck, Cape Town Feb, 1. P. and 0. Cos. S. V. Formosa, Tregear, Hongkong Mar. 28. M 6 H. C. V. S. Hooghly, Stewart, Malacca April 5. Brit, brig Sas*oon Family, Doller,
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  • 333 8 Bomb a* for China. Benavon Scott j._ w Faiie Allum Hardy a Mary Spencer Fisher Paul Johan Stuys Good Success Duraayne Vessels Expected fkom Maduas. Teaier via I'inang ■ereWe( S.V nerthon via pinang Jemima Frewyer direct Vessels expkcted from Calcutta. JEneas Brigand direct Cowasjee Family Dando
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  • 10 8 Vessels exacted prom Bally 8ultan Nun wick Sophi* Fratcr Oriffea
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  • 62 8 On England 6 Months credits at 4s 10id 4s 10id Jr. On Calcutta 231 per 100 dollars. Bombay 30 days sight Its. 232 per 100 dollars. Sycee Silver 8 to 84 per c«nt premium for Urge Company's Rupees 236 p<r 100 dollars Java Rupees (new) 280 per 100
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  • 43 8 FREIGHTS TO LONDON LIVERPOOL. Tin St Antimony 3. 5s per 20 cut. Coffee in bags 4. 159 per 18 cwt. Black pepper £4. 15s per hi cwt. Measurement Goods 4. 15s per 50 cubic f< r iuft:i Tuban £4. 15s per 20 cwt.
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  • 367 8 NATIVE CRAFT. BRITISH— Muhabooly, Atiet Rahman, Sisters, Albatross, Brittomart. DUTCH— Kim Tek Seng, Hap Eng, Mas Denok, Bara Sangnan. BALLY— Fattel Kair. ARAB— Fatty Roxack, Jadul Karim. MALAY— Young Queen, Fathool Kareta.— SIAMESE— Kim Enchong, Siam. Natio* A Viiiti. I Vbssbls' Namks I tons! Captu* \OKMT«.
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