The Straits Times, 29 August 1854

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    20 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. AMD SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE. VOL. 10th. published every [TUESDAY AUGUST 29th, 1854] TUESDAY MORNINC NO 703
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      917 1 I|T II OF iVMOHHIOn iwutny.. »p. Dr.. 16 3»|f- Yearly.. 9 f Quarterly.... 4 one Month 14 1 A Single Copy— One Kupee. J LIST OF ARTICLES FOR SALE AT THE COMMISSION ROOMS OF JOHN LITTLE CO. COMMERCIAL SQUARE— SINGAPORE. Outfitting Department. PooW shoe*. nJ slippers, Haris ami London made.
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      548 1 Ny Lind. *c Mnslin Gloves— French Kid. White and coloured. White and coloured .ilk. thread Purasnls —silk, plain, and figured Ribbons— silk, satin, honnrt »nd chiMren's. a itre.it assortment I hread rntton on re-Is, Silk, tape*, bobbin Nredl»s, Pinn, crochet Thread, and needle* Babies' Hood* and flat.— (tilk and satin,
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      787 1 Me«r.. WHAMPOA AND CO.S ADVERTISEMENT. essrx. WHAMPOA Co. hare al-»ayt on Siile an extensive and choice assortment of the following goods, telectoi special ly for iheir Storet. WIIULISALB RKTAIL Jfc roil BZPORTATfON. ittillinrrp H ffioeurr;. Artitie* forth* Work Table; Balzarine dresses; Douuets ufthe latest modes, from Pans Chemisette* of th«
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      836 1 I London— F. Algir *Co < Calcutta— Thaclter A C«. (reae* I HongltODg Armst ocg A L»w I Batavia— Ltnge 4 Co. NOTICE CURSETJEE rROWMDnZE, HEREBY gives Notice lhat he has withdrawn from the firm lately carrying on Trade and business under the style of Little, CuhsktJRC A Co., and
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      659 2 coato and jackets; cigars Manila No. 3 and 4 cigar oases, Manila and China; colors, oil and water, iv tin boxes arid c.ikes; camphor wood trunks; crowns, for naval caps- .linner and tea services; dressing chsl's; de,.ks travellers writing lowlmg pieces, single and double barrel pistols, gunpowder and birdmg shot;
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      1092 2 HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. SURPRISING CURE OF A CONFIRMED ASTHMA AFTER FIVE YEARS SUFFERING. The following testimonial has been sent to Professor Ilolloivay, by a Gentleman named Middleton, of Scotland Road, Liverpool. Sir,— Your Pills have been the means, under piuvidence, of restoring me to sound health after five years of severe
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      1070 2 HOLLOW AY'S ol\ nit\l i A MOST ASTONISHING CURK OF SCROPULUI'ft OLCKRS A CASK LKlliinKl) Bi TIIK MAYOR OF BOSTON. Copy of a Letter from J. Noble, Esq., Mayor of Boston Lincolnshire. To Professor Hollowav, Dear Sir. Jfr«. Sarah Dixox of Liquorpond Street. Boston, has this day deposed before me
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      613 2 MARINE HOTEL, SAMAH^NC i rpHIS HOTEL.siiuattciontheroa," f the Bocrr!. in the vicinity of the (Justorn-hoiiie, offer*, b y its good and agreeable situation, to travellers. a n j principally to captains of vessels, an excel lent al>ode. The building has just undergone thorough r« pairs, the rooms ate large, clean
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      592 3 PENiN*ULAR ORIENTAL STEAM flAwem&rc ccMtPa.ny's orncE. Battery Jioad Singapore. OUTWARD MAILS. Thk Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation C° m P an y' s Steam Ship MALTA, Capt. I'tRCHAsEf with the European Mails of the 24th July may he expected, en route to Hongkong and Shanghai, on or about the 31st
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      651 3 TRIESTE ROUTE. OVEaLAHD 110UTE VIA. TRIESTETHE Austrian Lloyds Steam Navigation Company's Imperial Mail Steam Packet* leave Alexandria direct for Trieste after the arrival of the Passengers by tire Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers frooi Calcutta, on about the 4th or sth of every month and an arrangement has now been
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      1072 3 AHA CFRRS WITHOUT MFniCINF. 151. CONVENIENCE OR EXPENSE, BY T\V BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ARABICA M^ FO JO, tares 5o times its cost in other mraiis of cure and is the natural remedy which has obtained 50,000 testimonials of cures from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Archdeacon Stuart
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      805 3 »nd bladder, such ss stone or |tr«vel inflsrnms'orf irritation txti cramp of the crsmp of lbs kid n«ys and bladder, kirtciures and hen;Ortrioiils. 'i'his resJly invaluable remedy is employed with the most satisfactory r. salt, n.«i only in bronci'iml and pulmonsry complsinf, -where irrifaiiun snd pain «re lo be remov.
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  • Domestic Occurrences.
    • Obituary
      DEATH.
      18 4 At Pun Raffle*. Labuan, on th.- 22nd July, Edmund Scott Babkek. Esquire, Resident Director Eastern Archipelago Company.
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    Straits Times Singapore: TUESDAY, Aug. 29th,1854.
    3272 4 Straits Times Singapore: TUESDAY, Aug. 29th,1854. '■tJi'f-CM««— We have to announce ika inivalof the followiiil' pMwogtn Aug. 22 per Emma from Cape Town, Mr. Brown •2a per Lira* from Hamburg, Messrs. Reis and Kiuterman pu I'ort Wallace from Sea, Captain Shepherd, officers snd crtv.- of the wracked ship A. L.
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      285 4 Advertisement. JAITKEN, Sail-maker, &c. in returning j his sincere thanks to Agents and Comman- der" of Vessels for the kind and liberal patronage hitherto afforded him, avails himself of this opportanitj to announce to them, that he lias made j arrangements wiih the Firm ol John Steel it Co. j
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    China
    463 5 .-By the arrival of the P. O. o npany's steam-ship Shanghai, Captain "lunro, China advices have been received to the 17th instant. The Shanghai sailed from Hongkong on the 17th August at 2 p, m., and reached this port at 5 P. m. on the 25th. At Canton there
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    Calcutta.
    423 5 —The P. O. (Vs. sh'amslii|> Chusan, Captain Curling, arrived h«re on Sunday list at 4 p. m., having left Cal-t-itta August 17th at 7^ A. m., the 8«ndheads ou the 18th at 1 S. 40 m. v. m ant 1 nang the 25th at 1 I). 40 m. P.
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    4174 5 LOSS OF THE BARK A. L JOHNSTON IN TURRES STRAITS, AND NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BAKK PutiT WALLACE IN COMPANY. TO THE EDIIOR OF THK HTKAIT9 TIMES. Siß,- It is with feelings of the deepest regr.t 1 have to announce tho total lons of the Bark A. L. Jokuihn,
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    Are we to have Decimal Coinage?
    1476 6 - -Innovations and improvements in tins countiy are the slow work of years, and the result of continued agitation and repeated public discussion. We cannot, like our Continental neighbours, carry out revolutions and reforms by sudden impulses, but must be content to achieve them by
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    Trade with Cochih-China, Siam, and Japan.
    1505 6 New marts are opening up every day for the operations of Commerce, and it is satisfactory to learn that Sir John Bo wring, in taking up his office of Superintendent of British Trade in the East, has gone out charged with full powers to
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    The Rank of the Indian Army.
    764 6 In another part of our columm this morning will be found a brief t»nd simple memorial, the prayer of which, we suspect, while commanding universal assent, will be likely to create no little surprise. It is nothing less i hnn a request that some
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    Surrender of Deserters from French Merchant Ships.
    3679 6 —By an order in council dated July 3, her Ifajesty, by virtu* of the powers vested in her by the foreign Deserter Act, 18-52," is pleased u order that from this date seamen, not being slaves (and not being British subjects), who desert
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    French Policy on the Eastern Question.—
    1823 7 Some journals have expressed the opinion, or hare actually stated the fact, that the withdrawal of M. de Persigny from the French Cabinet was an indication of a change in the policy of the Government, or rather the Emperor, and that the I alliance
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    The Anglo- French in the Baltic.off Cronstadt,June.30.
    912 7 \lv Inter oil 1 of .1 une apprised you ot ihe main portion of ihr allied fleets being at anchor off the island of >.->kar. and within ?■<< nine*' distance of Cronstadt I >:i ihe afternoon of tba? date, tiring beiug heard in
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  • SINGAPORE SHIPPING
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      ARRIVALS
      235 8 Aug. 22— Brit ship Faize Allum, Hardle, Bombay July 26. Siam brig Kim Euchong, Nakoda, Siam July 26. M Brit- do. Mary Clark, Clark, Adelaide July 4. Do. bark Dudbrook, Mills, Bombay July 26. Hamb. brig Emma, Lund, Cape Town July 12. 23— Do. bark Lima, Peters, Hamburg April
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      DEPARTURES.
      136 8 Aug. 22 —Arab brig Gazelle, Nakoda, Zantibar. H. Ms. sloop Lily, .-anderson, Sarawak. m—Dutch bark Anelta, Ditto, Pontianak. n —Brit, ship Cowasjee Family, Dando* Hongkong. H M __p. »nd 0. Cos. S.V. Canton, Rotkell, Hongkong. m Brit, bark Marianne, Prancis, Whimpoa. 23—Do. ship Fathool Rahman, Me. Gregor, Whampoa. 24—Am.
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    Vessels expected from Europe.
    215 8 Vessels expected fro m Europe. Araby Maid Ridd.ick Liverpool 1 July Ambaskador Moore Cardiff 1 July Anna Paulowra luk Liverpool 30 June Antilla Cart Liverpool iiorneo Sutherland Glasgow Boreas Schields Swansea 16 Jane Bland (S.V.) Glasgow Bangalore Turner Do Caraciacus Marker Shields 10 June r-'ie'la Matheson Glasgow Gustav Adolph Gode
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    FREIGHTS TO LONDON & LIVERPOOL
    47 8 FREIGHTS TO LONDON LIVERPOOL in 2 5 ;am bier in bales £3. IS Ditto in baskets none Hgn Floor 3. 15 loffee in bags none Hack pepper 4. 5 leasurement Goods 4. 5 lutta Tuban 4. per 20 cwt per 16 cwt. per 50cn'>K per 20 cwt.
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    MONEY MARKET.
    62 8 On England 6 M onths credits at 4s. 9d. d r On Calcutta 238 per NX) dollars. Bombay SO days sight Rs- 288 per Hollars 100 Sycee Silver 8 to Si per cent premium for large Company's Rupees M 5 per 100 dollars Java Rupees (new) 280 per
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    Anjer Shipping News.
    148 8 The following vessel* passed inrougn me atrnns of Sundu on the date* mentioned:— Augast 4 Joshua Bales (Am.) New York for Hongkong; 3 Truro, Singapore for Loudon Jun van Galen (Dm Manila for Falmouih 6 Louts. i Bailey, Hongkong for Melbourne; Fleda, Glasgow fur B<«tavia and Singapore;
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    CHINA
    1441 8 Am extraordinary fish was seen txtween Laotao and Macao on the ruoiniug of Met; -lay last. Its length could not be traced for more than about forty feet, but it might have been double or treble that the jaws being enormous, aud resembling a Urge ship's launch broke in
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    SHIPPING IN THE HARBOJR.
    454 8 NATIVE (JKAKI' liKli'lsii tfutiy MmiitiiiriiTi. Jisihsl Katki. Hsmtsl Ami I. irni|itiiii. r'aixe tt°" bany, Futtaßarie.K. C. But, Sideria. Balls Packet, Tiaug Hiu, Sultan, Elizabeth, Muuabouly Pearl, Good Luck, Kirn Soon Hin, Frauces. DUTCH Serrio, Pospah, Futty Hokseiiij, Futtal Hair, Futtal Hair, Balei.keuguaa, Cornelia, Haat Hoir.Taujoiig Piuang,
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