The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 8 July 1847

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERGANTILE ADVERTISER. •l*o. 2». ¥lt>i. 19. TMtVU^n^Y MORjrMJTG, Sni JTIHEr]*, 184». "Vo. DICXXX
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      722 1 GOVERNMENT NOTITICATIOM. ViiHceof Wules Island, 28/A June, 1847. IT is lureby notified for general iuforraation, that 11 l Il.m'ble the President in i ouncil of India, Ih> bin pleased to recognize the nomination, by the Danish liovtrnmtnt, of Mr C»&org* Garden MicoL, as Danish Consul at Singapore. W J. BUTTERWORTH,
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      1304 1 I SODA WATER LEMONADE MANUFACTORY. Aerated Soda Watery doz.— bottles supplied 1 25 Boitles filled .....0 7a Aerated Lemonade bottles supplied .1 50 Boitles filled 00 Lemon Syrup Q uart Bottles. 400 Gentlemen requiring Soda Water or Lemonade can be supplied from the Founiain at all times during the day.—
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      634 1 MTTiE, CURSETJEE CO' s ADVERTISEMENT. FOR SALE, AT LITTLE CURSETJEE Co's PLANS y*'"**** o Hoom sfrom O c f ,ut. ID s 8 u r; e by and adjyi in Di9 ic »> JOHN TURNBULL THOMSON, Government Surveyor of Singapore. and s Unc lored nd colored Singapore, ISth June, 1847.
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    80 2 CfjsMMM Lur« Vii I»or^ Chc.s^.iti o- si HofTmau's Jams mho Btulet: Fruits. Sauces, Pi k Capers and Mu.*uni Sardines, Wiltshire bacon, S.ii, t »i lontiues, turns, and Clipce. Cab>n and Fancy Ri»cuiis. Sperm icetiii and les. WINES SPIRITS Sherry— J. Corkbum and Campbell's r%rt »ery superior. Champagne. Claret i»t quality
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    CHINA.
    479 2 (t'Jmtbe China .IL.il, May 27 The follow lu*. it the Ltnperor's reply to Keying'a 4espatche« announcing tbe recent occurrences at Canton We have received tbe official Notification presented \m as by Keying, informing us tbat on the I9tu day of the td moon, tbe Eogliab merchant!, with a number
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    The Queen versas Larkins.
    797 2 (JWm i/.e Ck i' limit, m.. i A trinl o f s' r > I>lc 'o >'<** U<ii- <i;t« QiH-en rer««« Larktns- too< j-ics yt-M*-iU.iT, before iJhief Justice Hulmeaid il Jary. i t ui,i Li-kins is pro rietor of tii- »rMtr, j!yu>« between Hongkong and I^Mtew,
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    General Order.
    813 2 From the China Mail, June 24. By the How. Majob-Gknkral D'Aguilar, c. b. Commanding the Troop* in China. Head Quarters, Victoria. Hongkong, 14th June, 1817 At a General Court Martial assembled at Victoria, Hongkong, on Monday the 7th day of Jnne, 1847 I'rivatea— Man Allie, No. 3817 Esop,
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    CALCATTA.
    118 2 Bocca Dhanya, a New fort of Bice [From the Gentleman's Gazette, May 31 We understand that Baboo Mahdub Rajkhoa, Mood siff of Gowhattee. has sent to the Editor of the Bhat. her, a quantity of new rice, denominated Bocca Dha* nya, the produce of a certain part of Assam.
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    BOMBAY.
    1420 2 Opium. (From the Gentleman'* Gatette, June I.) The Friend qf China in bit paper of too third of April latt, extracted the observations we made in thii Jcumal on the rtth of February, rel*ti?e to the Sar »eysmade on Opium 10 I bins. The Friend in a strange Article
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    INCENDIARISM.
    68 2 From /Ae Gentlemtn't Gazette, June 2. from t? X T',^"! toDOke Wtti to ii.ae CWnl I" W J! h C On and bout to P roc «d to Chin. Immedbte c .re «a. taken to eiti^ui.!, the fwo b.^° mwi u ~b.eqa.otl, took place, wh a iwo bale, were
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    SOUTH AUTRALIA.
    220 2 (From the South Awtralian Register, March 3.) .ah^h" 1 1 0 1 i nd fioari>hi »K P-rgrtphi have beea |oin f the round of the London journal, cllin* npo» •II the cur.osify hunters to visit the B«» D tU«~ P c dl 'y. «r<««" to fe..t their e,e.
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    Further Extension of British Commerce.
    549 2 The reportedintention of, the Britlah Governm. to occu,,, the* Bnd8 nd of L*bu«n was scarcely conL •d by the niuranre of it. actutl poneasion w |l" from the concurring »f t tiroony of London and Ant werp journal, we learn another contemplated ho >' A
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    SPDNED.
    1073 2 G3'j of ha teamar &ov~er©ign M (f»owt th* ydhcy .\.(,,i,u.g He>ud ftf«»e4 y) Hie B<>.-er<'iyHSie mi: rlf i Hr»-i..nt l i >M „n W. ii,.ei '.y, me 3rd iMtati', with he wi.nl fr« i the »c>iHliw«t(i, having <>" board ten eabln si .1 a >y steerage p u »*en.eri
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    POLYNESIA.
    396 3 Whaling Extraordinary (From the Polynesian April 3.) By late anival it would ■eem that the captured whalers" io Margarita Buy, Lower California, were actually bard rt work in the mines, though altogtber on their own book. The crews of the ships Hibernia and Krookline, having discovered ashore a vein
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    819 3 r© TU« LDn it i F THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS inLtipore, Ith Julu, 1847. l)t <ir SiT Hontit nie tl.n urfh ihe medium of your lO< »iu'«it! »h- |.ui»lic on ilie first appeari iot die J i intitl of ihe Eastern Archipelngu", i Innii cm -lamp ih«» importance of
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  • Obituary
    BIRTH.
    13 3 un the 7th instant the Lady of Lewis Fiuser, Esquire, ofa Daichtsk
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    MARRIAGE.
    23 3 At Edinburgh, on the ibili May, Thomas McMicking, E^qutte, to Agnes, only Daughter ol the late J. Abidrkw, Esquite, of Craigen Stirlingshire.
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    THE FREEPRESS. Singapore, Thursday, 8th July, 1847.
    1829 3 THE FREEPRESS. Singapore, Thursday, 8th July, 1847. The P. St. O Company's Steam Ship t'ottinqer. Captain Cooper, Lieut Steal>, R.N., Admiralty Agent, authored in the roads yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, having left Point de Galle on the 28th ult. She brings the May M.til. Ireland still continues in a
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      399 3 BHIPPINQ I2f JHE H&K B &O&. Vessel's Name*. Tons Commanders onsinne.r.n i Destination U. M. *»iip Vemon Fitzgerald, Esq li. M.tarq Royalist Lieut. Gordon H. C steamer Huughly Congalton li C sie.mer Nemesis Wallagc Span MtMMf MagaUmes 253 Last Spanish Consul Manila Sp. strainer Heiuha dt Custella 314 Moody Ditto
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      153 3 Captain Gravel, Captain Harris H. C. S. Messrs Whampoa, Pervi, Frankiyn, Badenoch, Mercer, Ball, Hyland, Gibb, Rees, Kirby, Garneres, aod Montenes, and Mahomed Gonny. fc*er|Pof linger. For Singapore Messrs Thompson, Rey, Etty Mr and Mrs Mofados, Mrs Teutania, Mrs Testania, Senr. Monsieur Tentanis, Madame Carard. For China Mrs Blake, Messrs
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    THE OVERLAND FREE PRESS PRICE CURRENT
    11 4 SINCiAPOKfi, THURSDAY, IST Jl'Ll, 1847.
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    In this Port there are no Duties on Imports and Exports and Vessels of every Nation are free of all charges.
    1332 4 not* are kept in Spanish Dollars divided into Cents. The usual credit on sales is as follows -..Europe Goods, S Months. Indian and China Do 9 Months. Opium, 2
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    REPORT ON THE MARKET
    268 4 Singapore* \&t July, 1547. Tub arrivals from Great Britain during the past month have been the Sarah from the Clyde. Anntf Jane from Liverpool, and Serbudda from Hartlepool. The two first called at Batavia and bi ing only a small supply of Manufactured Goods for this
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    EXCHANGES.
    156 4 On England. Sale* of 30 days' sight Sydney Bank Bills at 4s 3jd a 4» 4d, of Navy Bills at 4s 3d a 4s 3*d and of Private Bills at 6 'months' sight 4a 'd and 4s s|d at which th« greater proportion of remittances goet home by this
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    TONNAGE
    125 4 In a different column will be ft uud a list of the vessels cleared and a memorandum of their cargoes. Those now loading are the Eiphinstonc and Duke •</" Rexburgh, both for London; the former takes Gambiei principally at Is in bales and £6 per ton of 20 cwt
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    EUROPE GOODS.
    1049 4 COTTON GOODS. Cainbkicb.— Very little doing the only sale re- }>oried is a lew pieces 46 inch 12 yard goods at Drs 11 per corge. Grcy Shirtings' Have been in better ileraand, but principally for low qualities suitable to the wants of the Borneo tradeis. bales to the
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    WOOLLENS.
    95 4 The slight inquiry caused by the Junk tradsra has erased nominal price of Spanith &triptt at Drt 1 a 1.10 per yard. Bombazkttbs. Continue neglected. Gamuts No sties reported bat we hear of tale of 530 pieces at Drs 17 J per piece to the Cochin Cuineie ia barter
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    BEER, WINs & SPIRITS.
    22 4 BEER, WINs SPIRITS. Ale. Bats 3c Alltopp'i—Xoae in first hand« and much winted. Stock of Singapore- bottled being reduced. Engliih-bottied— lucreaasd consumption.
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    EASTERN ARTICLES.
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  • THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS EXTRA.
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      77 5 We l«ave much pleasure in am.ouMcing the appointment of Mr BftOOKE as GoOT of LdbiJHii with an appropriate alary W•■ it-arti that Mr William ximkh. for many years a member of the iv bar, has also been appointed to ial situation at Labuaii but whether ia judicial or executive capa-
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      Money-Market.
      406 5 •Al Evening —The English fund* li.ta rj qmet to-day, and witd a firm H-ip^r ■mC« MUla o, Hied at 17 t.» 4 for inon^y. n«.d lor tli- July optni-.^. «ux, ends* the lutlariica of t| le „,-sie favourable bank returni, a I lh* approbanalßUS rega.diii^ the cornujaik. t, .in
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      General Summary.
      3156 5 [From ihe Home Netcs, May 21.] TMt day, Monday, May 24th, is her M.jaaty'a itiih birth.day. She spends the day at Claremont, in thst p.ivacy which best suits such occasions. Hut hW Majesty .nd thfl Royal family ..turn to town in time tm th« Court and Urawi:.,? Room
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      East India Intelligence.
      428 5 Majer-General Sir John Littler, K.C 8., has beea appointed by the ourt of Directors of the East India Company, a provisional member of the supreme Council of India. The distinction c:>nfened on this gallant officer is well deierbed, and we- dombt not that the selection which has
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      Unitad States and Mexico.
      353 5 The Ccsrsrsa brings !advicea from New York i<> April. Information had been bronghl to New Orleans bv the steamer Misuchiift > that General T\\\j.z". with a force of 1.700 men, was advancing against Santa Anna, at Cerre noulo where the Mexican chief entrenched himeaifwith I.vidm troop*.
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      Portugal.
      429 5 I lie Journal des Debits slates lhat the Junta ha. positively refused io accept to proposals of tbe koverniiuv t bronghi t>» Oporto by Colonel Wylde, and demands thai the Qneen ihi aid uifamil to their conditions. ,v reform of the constitational charters, the immadiate conxocmiou ot tiie. Cortes,
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      Spain.
      78 5 The Madrid journals of ihe 12th int. n a t fl thai on Ihe ll.halHhem.nMter.relt the capital f or A1i jnet, moat probably occasioned by the late disturbance. i thepro^iocei Ar Seville the troops called oui and a collision ensnsed, the soldiers wen assailed by stones and were compelled
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      France.
      134 5 un rtior.uay me bread-riota in the departments had ceased; in the protiocet, ihe crops are in to fine a condition as io »,ve hopes of an unually rood hamst. M. Qdilion Barroi has laid a petition on Hie bareen of the Chamber of Deputies, from Jero me Bonaparte, tx-Kin
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      Belgium.
      191 5 The Queen of ihe Bel«ian« »ai in extreme pe«il on ihe Aatiunal «ailway,on lu^.^d^iy -he i «ri King had set out lor Wiesbaden, hia physician! h ving preicntf-d die waters of inai place the U i. accompanied him to Vertiert, and w a < reiun home Somefme had been
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      Italy.
      194 5 A leyer from (tome dated Tliursdaj, sutes thau the outnber of clandestine printers increases in an extraordinary manner, and that the police have made domiciliary visits and arrested several individuals The Pope has, it is said, ordered that the budget shall be published. The regular clergy have offered to
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      37 5 Arrival of the Way Mail. Tlie I*. O. Coy's Steamer Potthifjcr, .in COOPBB, (Admiralty Agent Lit-ut STI M' lt.V,) arrived at *2 o'clock yeiter- lay aiiernoon with tatt May Mail, from which we have made some extracts.
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    The New Lord Lieutenant.
    237 6 Dublin, May 22.— 1i is staled to-day that 'the Karl of i -larendon, Motfrtteg to present arrangements, leaves London for (he seat of his new Governniei.t, on Tuesday next, and will arrive in Dublin on Tuesday morning, in the course of which day he will be
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    Spain.
    163 6 We have accounts Irom Madrid to the 14th instant, including long details of a day's shooting enjoyed by the Queen, at the Court at at Aranju. z on the 9th. Her Majesty's escpestrun skill, and her adroitness with the fowliug-ruece, are much extolled On the 13ili the Queen bed
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    Germany.
    81 6 The Frankford Guze'te, of the Oil. indent, states that tlis'urnances connected wn'i the high price of proviMOua occurred at Leutmeiitz, in Bohemia, on ihe Ist instant. The people cut off the ears of a speculator in corn. The Hanover Gazette, of ihe 9ih instant, states that since the 17th
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    Miscellaneous.
    968 6 By a decree of the Lvidrath of the Cd.iiun of s «n Sw.tierland, ail the young men aie are interdicted from marriage before «hey are twenty two year, ol a*e and the females before they are twen.y l«fc IHREAiEMED FaMINE IN FnuLaD -Alibi*' mo MM puce;, in England art
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    Prussia.
    61 6 The King of Prussia hat issued a decree interdicting the hakeis f roin seiliniJ utw bread until after ihe is»h of Auiiust next, u havi,^ j, eeil irove ,-i the consumption of new bre«fi is much ih«n tha. of stale t.re,d The poice is to fix law ,i me
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    London Market.
    1528 6 (From the Home Newt, May 21.) A* e are glad to say that the Bank having adopted a more liberal system of discount, the Money Mar kt>t has been rather easier, so thut paper having six mouths to inn, which, at the date of our last, could not
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      189 6 Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVALS From Cuina— April 24, Gtenmore 27, Sir Robert Sale and Dartmouth 28, Cup t am ami >andcrson 29, Nabob and M.mtrose 30, Quieu of England May 3, Lady Sandys, Antitla and Hongkong 4, Julm 8, Du/ce ofCormtoalt 15, Cari6; 17, Tiscounf Sa nd,>n a i)d Simon Taylor;
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