The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 7 December 1847

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1 1 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869)
  • 30 1 THE OVERLAID SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. .4 JloMhiy Summary of General and Commercial Intelligence from the Straits, Java, Manila, *c JVb. 26. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY MORNING, 7th DECEMBER, 1847. Price 50 ents.
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  • 701 1 JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, AND EASTERN ASIA. (Published Monthly.) This-day is published Supplement to No. V. CONTAINING. 1. THR OF IHB MINTIRA, With SOme additional remaiks on tlieir customs &c Spirits hi Disease. jiells.— Incantations and Invocations. Amulet* Wishing Pl«cks —SUPERSTITION OF < Ul TIVATION— MaRRIAGK BIBTH and naming—
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  • 12261 1 f Tuesday, 7th November, 1847. H. M. S. Vcrnou, Captain Fitzgerald, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Inglefield, C. It., Commander in Chief on the India and China Station, arrived here yesterday morning from Borneo, Manila and China. The Danish barq Indiuneren, Holm, arrived at Batavia on the 29th
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  • 1341 4 In this Port there are no Duties on Imports and Exports and Vessels of every Nation are free of all char ges. Account are kept in Spanish Dollars divided into CeciU. The usual credit on sales is as follows -.—Euro ye Goods, •Months. Indian and Chima Do. 9 Months. Opium,
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  • 1537 4 Singapore Ist December, 1847. The arrWali during the past month comprise the Anne Jane from Liverpool the Ocean Queen, Orator and Grace Darling from London. Tbe mouth of November, in which trade is usunlly the most active during the year, has this featon passed without even
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  • 2837 4 iDrng. Today's quotation for Benares is Drs 555 a 59J per chest Patna and Malwa nominal. Turkey sales of Drs 4uo per picul to the extent of 25 chests. Pepteij, black. Again coming into the Maiket more freely. Contracts have been made at Drs A. 55 a 3,(i0 per pel.
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  • 1665 1 The H. C Steamer flonyhly, Captain t'nngallon. returned on Sunday last from tht; Northern Settlements. We jjive a few extracts from ti e Pinang 0 suite, of the 13th iust. received by this opportunity. A search of about ten days in duration, Was made by the Hooykfy for coal,
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  • 2498 1 By the steamer Queen of the Nether* lands, we have received Java Caurants to the 27th ultimo. They contain littl" news of any interest, save detailed accounts of severe earthquakes in various parts of Java. On the 16th October, the solemn investiture of the Panembahan of Madura took place
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  • 277 2 Per barque Anne Jane, from Liverpool.* 3,150 pcs grey shining, 6,730 pcs white ditto &50 pcs bleached fanif-s, 2CO pcs blue diuo 805 dc* yicconets, 1,121 pcs Turkey-red diuo, 96| cor dresses, 311 pcs cambrics, 3,400 pcs
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  • 574 2 Exports to Europe from Singapore, during the Month of November, 1847. To Cork for O r der% touching at Cop of Good Hope, by the 11 barg Aber/oyle Shippers. 200,000 Manila se^ars No 3 for Cape Town. Hehn, Meyer Co 7,231 pl« and 41 ctys gambier, 1,506 pis and 93
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  • 19 2 On the ft'h insant, \h^ Lady of W Traill, E.-q M D Assistant Resiliency >«rg«oa, of a Som.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 148 2 Shipping Zntelligenca. ARRIVALS. Nor. 6 Brit ateamer Lady Mary Wood, Erana, Hong. Kong 3Cth October. 6 Brit ateamer Pottinger, Cooper, Bombay 19th October. 7 Fr«neh barq Ocean. Poiasen, Pinang 2 1 it Oct 8 Brit ichnr Julia, Wright, Sarawak. 25tb Oct. 8 Amer brig Frolic. Fhuo.oo, China 28tb Oct. 8
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    • 829 2 "H Jdl bBFq AnnC Rigb7> LiTer P<>ol 6th 15 Hambro' barque Jeanette if Btrtha, KollL. Macao 15th October. IVolIiB 16 Brit schnr Syed Khan, Wilson, M«cs,,ar l.t NoTember. "16 OtetcSj*' Albert SCBnlOn Tvt CoMQ N 16 H. C. M. steamer Magellanes y Lt Lobo It. nila 20th October. Ma i;
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  • Overland Singapore Free Press
    • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. ,Vo. 48 f #>»*. ia. TMc/jtmi^r jnonjrMjrv, tjwo jDECejibek i^4». JTo. DCXXXIII
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    • CORRESPONDENCE.
      • 200 3 1O HIE EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS Can you inform me if there be any lieiMilaiion enant applicable to the Straits >tttlf(Dtm* win* li makes it imperative on Brirft m.ikert to make all t>rirk» of a < eitdin size? Or, if there be not, if die Court of Quarter
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      • 1158 3 fo THE EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FREK PHES Singapore, 30.A November, 1847. Dear Sir, Allow me to c.WI attention once mure o the Government measure, respecting a Copper currency (or tht Suaita Settlement**. It is now for the tits* lime they have evtr given themselves the double to provide anything
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    • 6657 3 THE FREE PRESS. Singapore, Thursday, 2nd Decr 1847. H. M. ship Melampus, Capt. Campbell J^. B arrived at Pinang on the 17th ult. irom South America. The Pinang Gazette of the 20th ult. which came to hand yesterday supplies particulars of the destruction caused by the heavy rains, of which
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    • 426 4 (From the Pinang Gazette, Novr. 20.) week two Chinese with some merchandize while proceeding u;> the Juroo, Province Wellesley, were attacked by Malay pirates vho tubbed tht'tn of their good:: and led the one killed and »he other wounded in (lie boat: We have not learned that any of
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 716 1 FOR LONDON, TOUCHING AT THE CAPE. MrpHE A 1. Barq OCEAN QUEEN, JL ap'ain Sutherland, will leave for the ahove Port on or about the I Oth proximo, having the greater part of her caiao engaged. For Freight or Passage, apply to ALMEIDA SONS. Singapore, \7th Nuwmber, 1847. ~FCR LONDON.
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    • 609 1 THEATRE ROYAL ON the Evening of WEDNESDAY, the 15»h iiiMant, Her Majesty's. Servants will perform the much admired Comedy called ANIMAL MAGNETISM To conclude with the Laughable Farce BUT HOWEVER. Tickets to be had and places secured as formerly. Dcors open at j past 7 Performance to commence at 8
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    • 759 1 Messrs Apex., Lender Meyer WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Merchants and Commission Agents, HAVE Just received a particularly chnce and miscellaneous collection of Gods fr< m different parts of Europe, which they have the r-lt-asure of offering to the Puhlic on mcst advantageous terms. It conMsts ol the following articles Piano Fortes,
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    • 708 1 NEW ARRIVALS. Ex "GRACE DhRLING." MESSRS LITTLE CURSETJEE CO. be* to intimate to the Ladies and the Public of Singapore, that they have just received an exiensiro and choice assortment from London direct, of the undermentioned Ladies, Gentlemen's and Children's Apparel and various other ariicles, all of the latest fashion,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1006 2 AND Fancy Biscuits iti tins. N. B.— The Indies' apparel &c. will b« ready for inspection on Monday Fikst Their' old stock they will sell off at %reut »e--duc turns Singapore, lit December, 1847. FOR SAXfc, A Few dozens ol Hock Rudesheimer Herg. ALSO Claret in casks. Apply to BEHW,
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    • 999 2 Ed 5 to 6 hours when the railway continuation to Lainach is finished,) the entire distance is to be done by Steam Vessel aid Railroad. The foregoing calculations aie based on the latest information legnrding ih- state of u' lie conveyance an Hit Comment of Europe, but as the extension
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    • 1757 2 SINGAPORE DISPENSARY. IN ronseqmnce of 'he E.tablishmem o» a Government Hospital, the undersiun-d have (in the mea lime) itiven up ihe Piivate Hospital attached to the above Dispensary. OWN KltS AND lIASTKK4 OF VESSELS, are respectfully informed that they, their p Trttnu.. and Crew, can be attended at auy hour
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 493 4 BHIPPIIffO in THE HAK'JOOR' I• M sieainer Ait>(t 1 58^ iVla«on v £«qre j 11. (J. steamer Auckland Young II C. steamer Houghly l.ongahon 11. M.briK Htugaove Clifford, Rsq b. ship General Wood 740 2»iokoe Jan Hums &Co Pmang D bdiq Jfttdericka 400 L^mori I Sirkie> Muses Arr*c«a Bally brig
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.
    • 12 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY MORNING, 2nd DECEMBER, 1847.
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    • 880 1 The //jg^'y left this on the 18th for Malacca an I S ngapore. Ina rains, noticsd ia our last issue, continued until Sun Jay afternoon and with short intermissions till M today forenoon. The oldest inhabitants ia tha pkce Jj not rejaember of tu'h cm'.io ml anJ su;h he»vy rain
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    • 2778 1 Commerce in the Straits of MalaccaEMBRACING NOTICES OF M4L4CCX, SINGAPORE PRINCE OF WALIS I9I.*ND, PKOVINCB OF WEI.LESLEY, EC I The British possessions in the Straits ot' Malacca :ue composed of three Settlement*, viz I'oolo Pen.urn, or Prince of Wait* Maud, embracing tlie province of Wellesley, a dependence of it
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    • 1297 1 Production of Sugar in the East Indies. What with the reduction in the duties in England and America, and the prevailing spirit in the remainder of £ur >pe. for cheap sugars, the consumption muat greatly increase; and as growers of the article are not prepared to supply this unexpected Ball,
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