The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 18 April 1851

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. I'ol. IN. MraMo^r .uoMururG, i« TII 85 i. A*O. 16
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 740 1 peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office. liutU i if itutid Siuyuuoi e. mi i f¥iHE Ppninsular and Oriental Cnmvl\J\ i psny's steamer PEKI>, from ViJ^^ China, en route to Bombay, may he jQQSSF expected at Singapore about the 2nd ptoi mo, ami the Peninsular and Oiieoul Company's r v*
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    • 820 1 NOTICE. MESSRSLiTTLE,LURSETJEEiCO hav ju«t received LETT'S DIARIES FOR IHSI in great variety, adapted for the OouniinV house, ttc NOTICS. BOOK-BINDING in all its branches, neatly anc expedttiously executed at the FREE PRESS OFFICE. >tngapore, \6th J.nuary, 1850. Messrs WHAMPOA CO'S ADVERTISEMENTS. MESSRS WHAMPOA fc CO have always on Sale an
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    • 872 1 NOTICE, mil E RACE COUUSB is now 6pen forTrainint; M. Tea and C. ff-e will r e provided ever] •J'orn.n* a t the Grand Sland for Members of tlu Singapore Sporting Club. C. FER(,USON, Hi o Sec r etary. Singapore, 10M April, 1851 SINGAPORE RACES 1851. First-day, Tuesday, IZth May.
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    • 1260 1 RATES OP IN TUB SINGAPORE FREE PitESS FROM THE Ist JANUARY 1848. P CIS. tor Every Shipping Advertisement.... >>a 2. 50 For Every additional insertion after 1 month.... %%m q 25 House to Let, the same rate! Other Adv.nisemenis not exceeding 12 lines 3. 00 P month tvery t.dditional Insertion
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  • 418 2 TO TIIK miTJtt OF THE SINGAPORE FREE PRES«. Dear Sir, In your last issue, with reference to the P. O. S. N. Company you have expressed yourself a* follows M The Directors, we are glad to learn, have or some time past had the rates of passage money under
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  • 2348 2 Memorandum of I <ne s Received and Despatched at the Singapore Post OhVe, by the Ovcilai.d |H lama, dining the Monlli of A, ril, viz: I have reason to belli w that ihis cuurge has b. eu of l&te cuusukrnblv modified. Received. Per stesmer Batavia from Hatstia
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  • 463 2 Destruction of the Mission Fre s at Bankok. {From the Friend of India, March 20) We deeply regret to learn the entire destruction hy fire of the Mission House.*, Chapel, Printing oftue, woikshop and store room of the Missionaries at bankok. About twenty minutes to 12, on the night
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  • 709 2 Jung Eahadoor. (From the Bombay Times, March 5 When the Nepau'ese Prime Miniver first reached his own country, and resumed, or endeavoured to resume for it mas asserted be had not been successful—the reins of authority, the rumour ran that during his absence the h arts of his friends
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  • 1080 2 From the Bothbuy Tune$ t Ma r ch 5 We have to express our thanks for a copy of t!i« Report of the Commerce of Bombay (or ltU9 .'O, ui> lo the month of^uly of last year, and hopt th >t ilie
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 439 2 T)rawiny Pencils and Crayons Envelopes in caaes, or per 100 Foolscap, Letter and Note Paper inks, black, blue and ted LiOg and car«o Hooks Ledieers and Jiurnalr MfmomnduoD Hooks Pens— steel and Quilt Portfolios and Albums Travelling Caaea Wax pmin and fancy Wafers— initial, pc ka plain, Ate. WINES SPIRITS.
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  • 1583 3 (From the Htmboy Times, March 8. At no period within our annals hat India ever been i lifted with a prospeci of enduring peace promis- i |m as that which she at present enjoys when, even !,,d we an Ellet. borough for a Governor- General,
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  • 1042 3 EUROPE Foreign Affairs. [From the Atlus for Jndim, Feb. 34.] On tbe Continent, amidst very general quietude, two new camei of disturbance are lowe>ing in ibe distance. We he»r little of Dresden conferences of Schleswig battles of revolutions in Heise-Cassel. Tbe two last paltry affairs sre already reduced «o tbe
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  • 240 3 (F>om the Nautical Standard, February, 1.) Tbe Lords rummissioners of the Admiralty have •cain, and for the third time, advertised for tenders from parties willing to perform a monthly mail>pscket service with Australia. Tbe tenders are to specify the annual remuneration required by tbe contractors for
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  • 113 3 (From the Daily News, February 2A.) Viscount Joceljn Committee to inquire into the question of the existing steam communicntioos between England and India and to report whether any improvement! may be made in the conduct of those communication previous to the grunt of a
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  • 165 3 Some of tbe shareholder!* of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, alarmed at the appearauce of an advcrtiitemeut of the newly projected Eastern Steiru Navigation Company," and prematurely pinning some failli in a vacue tumour to the effect that the l\ ii n»nl.»r and <
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  • 46 3 It is s- id that efforts are be ng made at Liverpool to establish a new company to run screw steamera from that port to Calcutta- Tie proposal is to build irou hosts for the service o( 2,5u0 or 3,000 tons, with 500-hoise power.
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  • 382 3 The E. I. Company's Charter. In the Houte of Commons, on the 10 h inst.. Lord Joolyn Hiked the President of the Board of Control whether it wat the intention of the Government to move i conunittee on tbe E*st India Company's charter during the present session The reaaoo why
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  • 100 3 [Prom the Home News, February 7 Tbe Uazette of Tuesday, tbe 88 b, notified several Colonial and Diplomatic appointments, some of them alreadj informally announced. Sir Charles Augustus Hi zroy is reappointed CaptainGeneral and Goveroor-in-CJief of New South Wales, Captain General and Governor iivChief of Van Diemen's Land, Victotia,
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  • 71 3 (From the Home Xews, Feby. 24 Ad account is published, imong the Harlitmentary papers, of the Ea«t I mli-t Loinpany's cli&'ge* tor ttteainers and tioopH eninloy il at Labnan and on the coast of Borneo fiom Ib.i9 to 1849, inclusive. The expenses of the Bombay troops and steamers
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  • 158 3 Mr Hume addrebt. to lur Majesty, that the would be gracioutly pleated to appoint her royal comminioa to inquire into and report ou the proceeding of Sir Jimet broo-ke on the const of Borneo, in the ye ar 1849, and •peiUDy into the operation* of (he na»»»l forces of
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  • 281 3 Aberdeen Clippers for the China Trad e. The public journals have bt-.m titled during the past month or six weeks with the (eats of the Oriental American sbip of I OHO tons, which, in her Utt run, currying cargo of about 1100 tons, made the passage from Canton to London
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  • 440 3 The Eclipte, a beautiful clipper ibip, juit built, It now loading in Peck-slip, and is to tail for California and the Eaat ladies. She is toother of the fleet of rapid sailers that have, within a recent period, been iNoacbed from the New
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  • 374 3 Feby 20 Mr Stanley moved tlm appointment of a srlect committee, to consider the law of partnership, and the meant of liiniting;lubility so as to encourage enter* prise, and stimulate the employment of labour. Rapidly summing up the anomalies of tbe existing system, where vast resource* were allowed
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  • 97 3 From the Nautical standard, February Mr W. W, Bonney, the Inventor of the most effici«ut lifeboat we have ever had occasion to no'ice, ha* been, since Tuesday, by direction of the Admi rally, makiug experiments with Gutta l»eichaSpeaking I'libei on board H.M.S. Ejceilent
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  • 200 3 Our readers koow «bat the centre of Leicester»Bquare i, th« .pot fixed upon for the fraction of it building to receive Mi Wyld's liitendrd Globe. After much difficulty, nod the pnym-nt of no lew tb<in jf.{,ooo, the arrangement tor the ground it now completed. The builHin<
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  • 1609 3 om the Examiner, februiry 1.) For nauiht u eterytbiog, »nd e^rything It niu*ht. Rejected AJd>e*stt. We have fluently h«d occasion to advert to aa inrotiiUtPncy between Mr Cobden's arguments for re'rencbment and hia sound opiniona aa to dee trade. Economy is alw«ys necessary, economy ia alwaye a,
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  • 1593 4 vet Btr. sj||y u:»y Ols«j, ;>r<iT«- of the All III.; K -CCS ■I method of exj.res.ing rivalry ui,.m the -I) thii c u.Kry and Aunt-ru:*, ttse rlTilry 1 '••:■> tj be e'i.ouraj<ed. It matrers little w e'^r rhf < un.rd o. CoJJi.i« line „ro^uc« the quirk-
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  • 344 4 A nroiiiisiunce has reccull, occurr d in a li.wn in ot 'relaml, which 888 n fmt\ CMJBBM revefatieaa m tmmnimm mUk the ntrancr into a c.»n*''ni of a y9Ma l.dy, ihe.l-u^t.ter o' a hi hi y respectable gentleman, who although hiiuse r a Roman i -»ih»li
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  • 1210 4 {From (he Examiner, Feb. I ft.) India U OOSlffaaaaUy a source of s,.ine inconvenience to us, a.ui of a s-r^it ,ieal of *nxiety but ba it con« l«al««t „r iiic.»n«e«i.-ni, prcfi'dble or uuproli-able, it BMMt be held f^,t. Wa have placed ou s.-Ues. or
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  • 1850 4 {From the Examiner, Feb uary 15 It is whl knonii th, I by the XlXili article of the Ac< e Genn.inic out, deration, as *>ral»lislied 'in- on^r.ss ot Vicuna in 8 1 5 ftie subject of a J»nio« ol all Oenaaajr
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  • 66 4 adrJ ?im, a r T' T y be eiiera 'ly know,, a r the which n th!SCOUIItr >' «M* belMgi^ «o n .|iou, «nich refv.^e renprocal •dvama« M lo Situfa thin Xhvet T IaVVS ex.ra dury of cne-hMU, and the Lords ol the Tre-Jbu.y refused 10 *<rait
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  • 283 4 (Horn the Examiner, February 8 Our local readers, says Sun lerlamt it be £d to see, imSSFmrnVS!** Jj «.l| Iki port, h lh e ,ear 1860 has not b diD rum to ti... lrade wt;icll J br, 1|11!hl run, the prophecies of .Mr Hichmon T^*> to«.n the
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  • 307 4 iMfUaiethead Ob.e.ver' gives t i>e 10iu... account of an old woman, now one hur.Jr a 1 Uem, years or a?c M.r, Benion «J b u Kevmtoo, n- ar Raby asile, in the Jl Durham, or. c ixth o r February. ?.J a th, 3rd
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  • 54 4 At the Queen's Primus-office, in Ncw-MMM <qu*re, IS a middle aised woman with a wonderful fieid. She recollects me year and the chapter of every act of Parliament pjl Hliy su^ cf uu j, >he is only the forewoman 01 the hookfolders mtny auomeys are *ery much U fle -ted
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  • 131 4 A Yankee ins just invented a method lo catch rats He MJ«—* Locate your bed ia a t lace mud. •"rafllM vvnl. ((KM animals, and on retirii^ py| out Hie light. Tii*n strew over your pillow some Uruf>< snrllir.g clie.se, three or four red henirus, torn !tci l° r
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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    • 120 4 DEPARTURES. Aprnll .iritisu gtiip tow. Famiij/ Dii-Hxm CUm UtGl bar<l Af lf I)cn >ofc Y )oe:)f Paotian.k IJ Brituh br U Twi FrieiuU Farmer liafavia Sydney H British schor Conway Castle Turner Pin*n< Ml3 Brituh bart! tiarah *k*y M idra« .4 S^'L 8h P -4w««o» I E»ant Calcutta N 4
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