The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 12 November 1846

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. .V*. 46. r*l. 11. THmiKJY c l«Ta JTOVMMBER, 1546. J^». CCCCfIXXXI
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 671 1 FOR LONDON. 2- QTBHE A. British B«rqu» VlCTOjEfift R1A C *l* WC Williamson, luring mosi of her Cargo engaged. SSSSL^B F or Freight or Pannage, apply to MACLAINE, FRASER It CO. Singapore, 4/A Noor^_iB46^ FOR LONDON, Calling at the Cape of Good Hope. -^2.1 QTB H E A Ba»qu« MARY
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    • 1293 1 ON the Ist January 1646. Messrs John Abeh»ETHiB f Wm. R. Rossell and Nathl P Kees were admitted Partners io our Firms or— SYME Sl Co. a t Sinennor a f SS? McMICKING Co. at Manila, and PITCAIRN, SYME Co. at Datavia. KER, DOERING CO. Glaseow 20/ A April 1846.
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    • 668 1 MTTX.E, CURSETJEE CO s advertisement. just receiveiTfor sale at little cuasetjee co's COMMISSION ROOMS. Mortimer', and Beckwith's, Fowling Pieces Riflp, and PiatoU vi cases complele fine fr«£ and Percussum Caps; Gentlemen's w£k and foCtd French Satin Scarfs, La diet French Sj|k Lad.es very Su^nor Scissors, black,b ue grin' and purple
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 837 3 Beer, Singapore and English bottled Porter Do Do Hollands, Whiiky, Liqueurs &c. &c Public Auctions held oh Mondavi and 1 hurtdat,* LITTLE, < URSETJEE O« FHCEMIX Fia* ASSURANCE COMPANY Or LONDON. ffiHE Undersigned having »>een appointed Agents I m Singapore for the above Company, are prepared to accept Assurances in
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    • 1648 3 CHUBCH Or ENGLAND IJFE ASST7- '> RANCE COMPANY m of London. r |i H E above Company having established b I I Branch of their Office at Singapore, invtei the attention of the Straits Community to the re- duced rates at which the Lives ol Europeans and their Descendants may
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    • 699 3 China Grass C lo.h and "ditto Handle* Europe silk Umbrellas. Handk erch.efs. 1 Ladies Fancy Handkerchiefs Manila Pina Handkerchiefs. Fine English Duck for Trowsers. p J*? aVer liats < Drab Black *JWff^-58Srei Black Curranls in jars. SsO »ed. Barclay Cheeses. Singapore S hi p and cabin Biscuits. Flour in ba*s
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 1764 4 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FREI PRESS Sir, I hive much pleasure in communicating to you the remit of our October meeting, inasmuch at it afforded, without exception, the best Races witnessed in our Coarse for many year*, indeed it is very ques tionable if better sport
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  • 391 4 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FRJ2E PEESg Dear Sir, nn tv About 1 2 months ago, (3rd Novr. 1 845) on the approach of St Andiew's day, I addressed you veutnnng to »agge« ibat its celeUaUon ,n ght be advantageously discontinued, and -the «sual demoiistration transferred to the Anniversa.y
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  • 20 4 I ai wanna, on the isi October, aged 70 John I Gillies, Esquire, for many years a resident there.
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  • 429 4 THE FREE PRESS Singapore, Thursday, 12ht Novr. 1846 The P. O. Company's steamer Lady Mary Wood, arrived here on Friday morning last from China, and sailed for Point de Galle on Saturday last. By her we received our files of China papers, extracts from which we must postpone until next
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  • 139 4 A public meeting was held on Tuesday last for ihe purpose of taking into consideration (he proposed Draft Act to provide for the appointment of Constables at the Straits Settlements which was very respectably attended by the' Merchants and other ersons, Europeans and Asiatics Mr W. H. Read was called
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  • 87 4 If the note published by the Straits Times on Saturday last as that we sent to Mr Pasley, is really and truly the genuine document, (and we suppose our contemporary has satisfied himself on that we owe an apology to the Straits limes for what we said on Thursday last
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 277 4 Newington, a «tilor, living in Adrian-court, Dover, a patient on boird the Dreadnought, and again at St. Tbomaa Hoepital, for tome weeks, for very bad ulcerated leg of long atanding. without obtaining the least relief at either of the above Institutions, but wai cured immediately afterwards by Holloway's Pills aad
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 707 4 "I ±MWAM. DEPARTURES. Date Fi* 9 Vessel* Name,. Captain From g'^jf Date iTiag Veuer, Names. Captain B^und for Not. 4 Arab barq Suod Bahn Nlquodah Pinanr 24th n l t No»r. 5 British ship Orixa Christian U?erpooT~ 4 British bug Dolphin Allauichay PinanJ 2tith v t 7 Britiih tchnr Hurr
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  • SINGAPORE FREE PRESS PRICE CURRENT
    • 1787 5 Singapore, 6th November, 1845. The arrivalf from Great Britain since tha departure of the last Mail have been the Charts* Cattle from London, Victoria from Liverpool, Blaktly ami Prmceu Royal from Glasgow. Mat hew Plmmmer from Newcastle. Mary Rtdly from Hsrtlepool and I'astiope* from Newport. Daring
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    • 688 5 PRICES. I Stocks.! So. Dallars I anchors) 7. 7. TTCwT. 6 7 targe. V "■ottlbs Ioo| 8| M W,n \f d Jorkb Gross ,Ift T 3S B»PpWe»8 »PpWe» ]ham Cable. ..Cwt. 6 Large "opper Sheathing Nails ..Picul 37 Supplies opp be, Tokens Dollar 640 Saler.
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    • 576 5 PRICKsT" S P. Dollar.:. 8 *00 Alum 7. 7. 7. 7. Picul I. SO •s.T^rp Aniseed Pica/ 7* fc J Arrack, Batavia Per BO Gallon 8 Snnni* BeesW ax, Pica. 82 18 Sales Bbtelhut, w 3 sop p |ci S to a Nona Ccbbbs
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS
    • 8 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS J?^£™EElE^" =^l»i
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    • 168 1 Mr Parley feeling annoyed at what he must have thought a deliberate breach of faith towards him. We again repeat that we never had any intention of publishing Mr Pasley's letter, and we do not think that our conduct J ja s ever been such, that after making this decUation,
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    • 36 1 Constable Simonides succeeded on the 30th ultimo, in apprehending a party of Gamblers id Tanjong Pagger. Yesterday they were brought up at Quarter Sessions convicted and fined, the headman Drs 50, the others each Dn 3.
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    • 459 1 Ths Polynesian of tlie Bth, Isih and 22nd August, has just came to hand, in which we find some very interesting details relating to the Polynesian Ulands, which we musi defer noti ing until next week. The paper of the Bth gives account* of the occupation of the whole of
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    • 74 1 [PROY OUR OVERLAND SUMMARY] The P. O. Company's Steamer Lady Mary Wood, arrived hare this morni'»g; having left Hongkong on the 30th ultimo. The following, are the Passeugers by her For Ceylon— Sir Wn. Hotte, and European ier- *•>«*! A. R. Johoitone Eagre, and Capt. Grible. For Alexandria— Mr fi.
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    • 1465 1 The dates from Batavia per H. N. M' Steamer Merapi, are to the 31st ultimo* We subjoin an extract from the Java Uourant. It gives us much pleasure to learn that the Governor-General of N. I. has at once acceded to the request made to him by the local
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    • 1082 1 (From the Pinang Gazette, October 24.) On ihe evening of the 20th instant, at about 7 P m there was a shower of little black insects experienced in the town, and in a very short time the tables, couches Sic, on which »he insects lit and from which they
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    • 239 1 Narrow Escape of the French Ship BeUona, We hear that there was bad weather outside on the 15th insiant, during the night of which the French outward bound ship BeUona had a narrow escape from destruction. She had got about 23 miles below Saugor, on the evening of the
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    • 695 1 From the Bombay Times, Oct 7) We hate received from Deesa full particulars of the demise of the late Rev Mr Hogg, who died by his own hand while suffering from a temporary aberration of mind. He had been on a visit to Mount Aboo for the benefit of
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    • Latest Europe News.
      • 1380 2 (From the Monthly Time*, September 24 The prospect of an famine in lieUnd, arising from tbe fsilure of the potato crop, is at the present moment the engrossing subject of consideration. It Las been forced upon the public mind by the unavoidable failure of tbe measures of relief
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      • 77 2 Much dissatisfaction (observes tbe Times) is expressed at the manner in which tbe new China medal has been executed. The medal is of silver, but the receptable for the ribbon is of albata, or German silver. Thus, while tbe medal looks bright, tbe receptacle looks dingy and
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      • 193 2 It is rumoured at the Clubs, that Sir Henry Puttinger will be appointed Governor at the Cape of Good Hope, and Mr G. O. Stanley to Bombay and that Sir J. Fitzgerald will be Commander- in- Chief at that Presidency. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have
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      • 267 2 On the Bth Sept., Mr Dyce Sombre, who has been staying for some time past at Dover, awaiting the in* vestigatton 'directed by the Lord Chancellor on accouot of ths recent application on bis beiialf, was entertained at dinner by the Commanuant and officers uf the garrison.—
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      • 132 2 Military Movkmknts —Bri^ade-Mijor Cuppage'* coa&pany, y<,u Battalion Royal Artillery, left Woolwich on Sept. 7tti for Southampton, to embarkf>r Gibraltar, to relieve Capt Shone's company, sth Battalion, stationed in tbatfoUiess aiuce August, 1840. At Brigade- Mttjur Cuppage does not proceed wub hit company, the commaud devolves oa Second Captain J
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      • 730 2 Our columns of yesterday related the services and recorded the death of a nobleman whose career of excellence could scarcely have been practicable in another country, and has seldom been rivalled in his own. No lets a field than the vast dependencies of the British empire c«uld have
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      • 312 2 Oq tue occasion of her Majesty's visit to Jersey* several of the poor people, who bad never seen a live Queeu before, openly expressed their ditappoiutment. Tuty bad eipected to see her Majesty arrive in ber coronation robes, with the sceptre in one band and the
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      • 167 2 The King of Prussia has received a letter from All, Rajah of liiouw, an islaud in the China seas, lying north of Sumatra, under the following circumstances M. Roettger, a Protestant missionary, whose function called him to Kiouw in 1834, on his return to Prussia
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      • 214 2 A parcel of biicks imported into Liverpool by the Annii, from Shanghae, which were originally reported by the master of the vessel aa being for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel comprises 15,000. The importation! which n« w take" place from forei«n, and frequently distant parts of
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      • 1604 2 The Island of Labuan, Naval station. {From the Morning Chronicle, Any. 6.) We have received iatelligence from Pulo Ktlamantan, or Borneo, to the end of May, at which time Mr Brooke's affairs and English interests were in an exceedingly uncertain state. The piratical spirit, which by our vigorous exertions had
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