The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 17 January 1851
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Title Section20 1851-01-17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. ¥\>L 17. SMJiret^POHJE, lit HP .11* MORJTMJrG, 17th JAjrUJLRY 9 1851. •*V :i20 words
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Advertisement834 1851-01-17 1 FOR LONDON. I'll HE A. I fast-sailing M, p SIR JSjQg X HENKY HAUDINGE. ot 60S R Tons burtueu, a^um Mc[)ui«ld, USfIBLH will sail tor the above Poit on or about the tOih inst. >he has splendid Poop accommodation and excellent family Cabins. For Freight or Passage, apply w JOZK834 words
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Advertisement814 1851-01-17 1 n NOTICE APnvate Hospital for Merchant Seamen was opci.ed on Monday, the 13th instant, under the peisonal superintendence ol Mr Little, Surg*oi». Terms 50 cents per diem. Aimgoporg \stkJonuary, 1851. ~NOTXC3B" IS herfbv given, that during the ensuing three months, commencing from lie Ist February, all Dofis found going loo«e814 words
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Advertisement719 1851-01-17 1 I Children's Cap* and Dresses Dresses— an elegant assoilmeot of Silk, Satin and Dress Improvers Muslin Krabroidered Praam, Scarfs and HandkerchttU Flannel— Plaiu and Piinted French Kid and Silk Gloves of colors Hose— cotton and silk Handkerchiefs— Bi!k, Grass-cloili, Cambric h Pioe Horse Hair Petticoats Long Clo.h of Horrock's manuiacime719 words
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Advertisement914 1851-01-17 1 NOTICE. I Hereby declare, that 1 have appointed Messrs Faco&RicK Lends* «t Co as my Agents for Singapore and all the neighbouring Settlement*, ai.d that »hey alone are authoriied to sell aud to receive oidert for ray manufactures. Cologne, nth September, 1848. JOHANN MAKIA FAKINA Tlip Genuineness of JobaMM Maria914 words
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Advertisement935 1851-01-17 1 Beilm wool, and patterns for embroidery. Blank Books an assortment. Ready-made diess and Polka coats. Waiscoat pieces of new vauerus. Woollen cloth, black and blue. Vinegar in ta^ks and cases of 12 hullitj. Split peas in kegs, Westphalia Hams. Hardware and Cutlery of every desciipfion. R-izor boxes and hooks and935 words
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Article1613 1851-01-17 2 TO THE EDITOR OF TUB slN<..\ V Kl. FUEE PaKSS Mr Editor, In your No. 24, dated 14th June last, you quote an article from the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant of the 23rd April 1850, which is headed, v Famine in Java. Samaranv, January 1850." The writer of that article1,613 words
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Article1740 1851-01-17 2 1. Act XL. of 1850 for Licencing Pawnbrokers in our Settlements, is 10 t^ke effect from and after the first day ol May next, but »he sooner it is again blotled out from the Statute book, the better, lor it U impossible to imagine a set of more incompleteREPORTER - 1,740 words
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Article27 1851-01-17 2 Al Singapore, ou Hie i-ith instant, llemiy RtciNALD, ide be ov«d Sun ol Mr fit Mrs li E. Kr* l. aged 3 months and 23 day*.27 words
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109 1851-01-17 2 THE FREE PRESS Singapore, Friday, 17th January, 1851. Memorandum of Covers Received and Despatched at the Singapore Post Office, by the Oveiland Sieamerß, during the Month of January, viz: Rkckivrd. Per steamer BaUtia from ItaUvU &c. 9a% Per Achilles from China §;j P«r Pekin from Ku^land.. '.5,875 from olber placet..109 words
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Article67 1851-01-17 2 The Bishop of Calcutta arrived here on the ll th instant, last from Malacca, and landed under the salute due to his rank. He preached in St. Andrews Church on Sunday, and on Tuesday morning eroUrked on board the H. C Steamer Semiramis, Captain Stephen, for Sarawak, where he will67 words
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Article597 1851-01-17 2 "c hear many complaints regards the rate of exchange at which pa 88a j money &c is received by the P. O Con pany. It appears that at present, while th. current rate of exchange on England i 8 4* 9d per dollar, the P. &O. Company w£ state their597 words
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Article433 1851-01-17 2 The maintenance of the Dutch Trading Company ha> been so frequently shown to be most injurious to the real interests of the Dutch Indian Colonies, as well as to the Mother Country, except to those individuals who are connected with the Company, that one would be led to imagine that433 words
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Advertisement722 1851-01-17 2 u>T or v. ARTICLES FOR SALE. AT THE COMMISSIO.\ ROOMS O9 X.XTTLE, CURSGTJfiE efc CO CuMMtRCIAL Sql/AHE— Simyaj,O,€ LAI)IES*aI>PAREL P*»Ub Wool of color. 'toet and Sboet. English aad Freaca. Bosaou direct frora Paris, silk, aatia and act» Donstahle and straw BalxarJao Drreana t M s— Blond and Lao* «iti aad722 words
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Advertisement277 1851-01-17 2 Mil (A rr oni eeaaalar ia>po«4a4ions from JUad Oil and g.rdinc SaU|e.-h.lia D and Getmaa T6D»ues. smoked an.l ..Watttfand Vermicelli. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Baskets, Cbina.made for clothes Buttoas, gilt for Coats and Jackets Caaileta (blue? and ashmere for ditto tlgars. Msnila No. S and 4 Cigar ra.es, Manna and China <277 words
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Article1028 1851-01-17 3 Surh facts aa these, one would think, should be sufficient to seal the doom of this obstructive Company, and yet we find it still upheld in all its entirety, and for its sake the Government turning into a mockery and an insult to foreign nations, the so called abolition of1,028 words
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Article110 1851-01-17 3 Tt will be seem from tbe report which we have given of the proceedings of the Municipal Committee, that the members of that body have recommended an alteration in the mode of levying Assessment on agricultural produce, proposing to take it upon the gross amount, instead, as at present, upon110 words
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Article839 1851-01-17 3 Below we give from the New Rotterdam Courant of the 23rd November, the regulation which has been passed by the king of Holland, relative to the throwing open of the mines in India to private enterprize. It will be seen that it is somewhat restrictive in its effect. Only Dutchmen839 words
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Article1508 1851-01-17 3 (From the Friend of December 1 Memorial. To the Right Hanonrab c Viscount P.m.mkrston, K. C. b.. Her Majcty't Principal secretary °f HUU /or Foreign Affair: The Memorial of the uudersigned Merchtnts of Singapore, interested in the Tiadc with Siam. Sheweth, Ist. Tbat your Memorialists beg Xt express their1,508 words
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Article142 1851-01-17 3 {(From the Bengal Hurkiru, Nov 28 Who will say that in 1 ndta at least, English jonrnalitni is not duly honoured by tliost* in authority The Bombay Gazette informs us that" Lord Falkland contemplate* the appointment of Dr Buist as Sheriff of Bombay for the ensuing year!" Dr Bnist,142 words
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Article663 1851-01-17 3 (From thf. Bengal Hurka>u, Deer. 12.) We learn iiom tlie Enyltshman (lint theie has been, some limn like a decided move t wards comprtiiiou lie > c in an tffer ot the Austiaiau Ll. jd's umi any to esablUh a line of steamers between Suez and Calcutta oo663 words
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Article1145 1851-01-17 3 (From the Bengal Hurka*u, December 1 6.) We reiiubiith from llie Pinatig (Jazitte, some We have italicized tbe words not for publication" because we c«n only understand tbeir meaning to be— Meiiri Editors of public j v m.ii be good CDoagh to spare Buy leuiml1,145 words
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Article500 1851-01-17 3 {From the Englithman, December IF.) When < ur last Mmlinain letters reached us Me staled that we had not received ibe newspaper* to which thej pfened, containing a report or the illtrcaiin in which Captain Crisp and his officers received from the Burmese au hoiities at Haoftocn. We have since500 words
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Article2271 1851-01-17 4 The Massacre at Aleppo. TO THE EDITOR OF Till TIMES. (Tfn the Timti, hovtmltr 12 Sir, A faaatietl Mosleou irit has burst into fury on the Christian population of ibia U»*n tacb a horrible) aad altogether unprovoked peraaeXttion aa ova in > our pontioo ou^bt to bear and England2,271 words
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220 1851-01-17 4 From Witlmtr Smith's European, Times, Novr 1 3.] In the original drsigo great care waa taken in ureiding on the material to be employed, la tbe first instance glass for the roof wan specified, Hoi. to the foot; tbis.tfter due deliberation, not being220 words
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Article140 1851-01-17 4 Airangeineuts htve been entered imo liy the General Sciew Steam Snipping Company with tbe Admiralty and tbe Post-office to conDmmce the new mail packet service to the Cape of Good Hope on tbe 15 b of Dec. ueit, on which day the mails will be made up iv140 words
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353 1851-01-17 4 Frightful Explosion— Nine Hundred Lives Lost. (From the Willmer Sf Smith' European Times, November 18.) A most dreadful catastrophe, attend. d wiili fearful lota of life, occurred at Constantinople on tbe 25. b uit. Tbe Turkish three-decker Nei.i Slievket, sbip of the line, 120 guns, was totallj dest.oyed by ao353 words
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Article169 1851-01-17 4 We stated some time since that a monster globe was in course of canstruction by Mr Wyld. M.P., for the exhibition. We understand that considerable pro* gress has been made in its preparation. The mountains will be in relief, the regions of ice will be shown in169 words
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Article398 1851-01-17 4 {From the Nautical Standard. Oct. 26.) Mr H. D. P. Cunningham, late secretary to Rear. Admiral Reynolds aud Moresby, has invented a contrivance lor retfing topsails from tba deck, without sending men aloft. Tbe plan has been fi'ttd on board of the Heniniuhr and Oiiental Company's vessel Iberia,398 words
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Article102 1851-01-17 4 (Prom the Nauticai Standard, November 16 The officers of the Mariner, M, just paid off on her return from the East India station, as t mark of respect towards thtir oouoaaadar, Captain Mathiaon, invited him to dine with tiiem at Townsharad's London Hotel, where the evening was102 words
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160 1851-01-17 4 Court of Inquiry on Commod re Plumiidge In coniequeocfl of certain representations made to the Admiralty by Mr Wymond Hanltfj, late secretary tv Commodore Pluasridge, when in tbe East lodie«, tbeir Lordships ordered a court of inquiry, composed of tbe commander-iii'Cbief at Devonporl, Admiral Sir W. li. Gage, G. C.160 words
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Article222 1851-01-17 4 There n at proaeot Ijing in the Mersey a ibipeaMed the lUnnati. whicb will leave this port with the first fair wind under novel and peculiar circuautancet. Tbe Haoßih is fine, frigate-looking veMtli, of 480 tons burtheu, which bai beeo purchtee'i by a Mancbtster gentleman,222 words
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Article605 1851-01-17 4 (From the Examiner, October 26.) The re is a bold conspiracy afoot. Even in the public printt we sometimes see tha finger- marks of a conspirator. Let u« also conspire. Tbe year of the great Exhibition is fixed upon at the moit proper time for the oatb>e<>k of605 words
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726 1851-01-17 4 Confusion of Tongues in the Babel of 1851. [From the Spectator, Novebmer 9 The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park U suggestive of many old memories. Iv rapid progress sets one to think of Aladdin's palace. Its material reminds us of the palace of Pandemonium, exhaled from Mammon's foundry, the first726 words
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Article292 1851-01-17 4 A Matsrkal Comi-limk nt.— The Hon. Rob. rt LindsHy, when living in Bengal, received a letter from bit mother, in which she iaid,— I undented, my dear Robert, that you are a great shipbuilder. Your talents in tbit lire Ido not dispute bu« I have one great fa»oui to ask292 words
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Miscellaneous761 1851-01-17 4 SHIPPING ITf TKB H&RBOVft. I Kisel* MwitK* i Ions Cownnndfirt \.»ns%nner.% i^txuitiim II C steamer fto»t>htt/ Stewart Aia.aJTa 11. V. brig T<iv>v\.... Bauson D. schur Polk* 165 Wyati WS. Duncan For Bale B.hrin Pantaloon 150 Konnyman Almeida N Sons Auarui B. ship Sir H Hwdt'itr I 608 McDonald Ohio London761 words
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