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[es-ES]Record tools[es-ES] [es-ES]Displays[es-ES]	[es-ES]Details[es-ES] Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Número del objetoS1970-0052-003-0 TítuloManuscript, Double-sided CreadorCharles Dyce Descripción“Singapore. Some eight and twenty years ago Singapore was known only as an almost uninhabited Island taken possession of in the name of the Honorable East India Company, and that knowledge extended perhaps only to a few officials in Leadenhall Street, or in the Calcutta Secretariat who little dreamt that in so short a period the then barren and unproductive Island would soon rival and eventually eclipse the hitherto pet Settlement of Prince of Wales Island: be this as it may it is much to be feared, that even in this age of enlightenment altho’ it numbers upwards of sixty thousand Inhabitants and trades with almost every known quarter of the world, untrammeled by any restrictions on its commerce, a large proportion of the good folks in “Fader-Land”, with the exception perhaps of a few, who through connection in business or otherwise, have become aware that such a place does exist, and affords large outlet for their various manufactures, are still unacquainted with its real locality, size appearance & c. To remove this darkness therefore, the present sketches are with no small degree of differencesofferec, in the humble hope that those who have left the straits to enjoy their “otuem” in their distant homes, their perusal may in some measure recall scenes and rememberences of days gone by: to such as still make the straits their home, they may prove acceptable, either as an addition to their drawing-room table, or a welcome gift to relations or friends who naturally will be interested to know the whereabouts of their “absent ones” and to the public generally as a faithful representation of the Straits and of one of the most remarkable of British Colonies viz. Singapore, which stands a solitary instance of not only supporting its Governor, Court of Judicature, Troops and the whole establishment, including some Eighteen hundred Convicts from the continent of India without any assistance from the supreme government but of contributing a large sum annually towards the expenses of Penang and Malacca, wherein the first named the expenditure more than doubles, and in the latter nearly quadruples the receipts and all this whithout a single Custom House due on ships or goods or tax on property of any description. The revenue arises from the rents and sales and the exclusive privilege of retailing opium, Arrack and Seree or Pawn, being farmed out. _ These sources produced for the past year a sum of £53,000 Sterling, while the local charges of official salaries Expenses of Troops Marine flotilla and convicts amounted to £49,700 leaving an apparent surplus of £4,300 pounds, while in reality exclusive of the Troops, which being part of the standing army of India and consequently not properly speaking to be classed as a burden on the Straits for their Support the actual Surplus is upward of £22,000 p annum and this besides nearly £2,000 worth of political persions_. Houses Carriages and horses are taxed locally for the support of the Police” (Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 86) “and conservancy, and the former is now a very creditable and effective force, consisting of 187 rank & file, under whose arrangements crime is much on the decrease and it is to be hoped will still farther be reduced._ The census od 1845 makes the population to consist of the following viz: Europeans and Indo Britons . . . 616, Malays . . . 10035, Chinese . . . 32135, Natives of India . . . 5198, Other Nations, Troops, Convicts &c . . . 9440, Floating population . . . 2500, Total 60,924. The language of trade, and indeed that generally spoken by all throughout the Straits as a medium of conversation is Malay, which is exceedingly sinple and easy of acquirement_ it is called the Italian of the East from its extreme softness and absence of all guttural sounds. The Port of Singapore is free in the most liberal sense of the works and altho the offices of Harbour_Master, and Registrar of Imports and Exports both exist, still the former is almost a sinecure as the influx of a couple of hundred sail at one time would never fill the Roadstead so much as to require masters of Vessels to consult him as to taking up a birth and the latter is maintained solely with a view to procuring statistical information regarding the value of trade_ The information thus procured altho’ compiled with every care and accuracy, it is well known to mercantile men is much short of the real quantities, both of goods and tonnage – the lists published are taken from the actual entries, these however not being compulsory in as much as the penalty attached for non compliance could hardly ever be enforced as no establishment exists to check any neglect, it may be easily imagines, many goods are received and exported and many vessels arrive and take their departure without the owners or agents troubling themselves about the matter, and especially if the Merchant does not wish it to be known that he is shipping or receiving any particular article._ The value of the Import trade last year was in English money £2,895,227 and of the export £2,356,872 making a total of £5,252099 and these figures show an increase over the previous year of £1,68,940, so that the gloomy forebodings of many that the opening of the Chinese ports would be the death of Singapore, do not appear likely to be realized, at least so speedily as they anticipated. IT is foreign to the design of these remarks to enter into particulars of the exact number of Statute Miles the Island measures or the number of degrees minutes” (Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 87) Lugar de producciónSingapore Fecha 1816 - 1853 Nombre del objetoManuscript MaterialWatercolour & ink on paper Dimensiones H: 75.3 cm L: 60.6 cm H: 47.1 cm L: 55.5 cm

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Número del objetoS1970-0052-003-0

TítuloManuscript, Double-sided

Descripción“Singapore. Some eight and twenty years ago Singapore was known only as an almost uninhabited Island taken possession of in the name of the Honorable East India Company, and that knowledge extended perhaps only to a few officials in Leadenhall Street, or in the Calcutta Secretariat who little dreamt that in so short a period the then barren and unproductive Island would soon rival and eventually eclipse the hitherto pet Settlement of Prince of Wales Island: be this as it may it is much to be feared, that even in this age of enlightenment altho’ it numbers upwards of sixty thousand Inhabitants and trades with almost every known quarter of the world, untrammeled by any restrictions on its commerce, a large proportion of the good folks in “Fader-Land”, with the exception perhaps of a few, who through connection in business or otherwise, have become aware that such a place does exist, and affords large outlet for their various manufactures, are still unacquainted with its real locality, size appearance & c. To remove this darkness therefore, the present sketches are with no small degree of differencesofferec, in the humble hope that those who have left the straits to enjoy their “otuem” in their distant homes, their perusal may in some measure recall scenes and rememberences of days gone by: to such as still make the straits their home, they may prove acceptable, either as an addition to their drawing-room table, or a welcome gift to relations or friends who naturally will be interested to know the whereabouts of their “absent ones” and to the public generally as a faithful representation of the Straits and of one of the most remarkable of British Colonies viz. Singapore, which stands a solitary instance of not only supporting its Governor, Court of Judicature, Troops and the whole establishment, including some Eighteen hundred Convicts from the continent of India without any assistance from the supreme government but of contributing a large sum annually towards the expenses of Penang and Malacca, wherein the first named the expenditure more than doubles, and in the latter nearly quadruples the receipts and all this whithout a single Custom House due on ships or goods or tax on property of any description. The revenue arises from the rents and sales and the exclusive privilege of retailing opium, Arrack and Seree or Pawn, being farmed out. _ These sources produced for the past year a sum of £53,000 Sterling, while the local charges of official salaries Expenses of Troops Marine flotilla and convicts amounted to £49,700 leaving an apparent surplus of £4,300 pounds, while in reality exclusive of the Troops, which being part of the standing army of India and consequently not properly speaking to be classed as a burden on the Straits for their Support the actual Surplus is upward of £22,000 p annum and this besides nearly £2,000 worth of political persions_. Houses Carriages and horses are taxed locally for the support of the Police” (Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 86) “and conservancy, and the former is now a very creditable and effective force, consisting of 187 rank & file, under whose arrangements crime is much on the decrease and it is to be hoped will still farther be reduced._ The census od 1845 makes the population to consist of the following viz: Europeans and Indo Britons . . . 616, Malays . . . 10035, Chinese . . . 32135, Natives of India . . . 5198, Other Nations, Troops, Convicts &c . . . 9440, Floating population . . . 2500, Total 60,924. The language of trade, and indeed that generally spoken by all throughout the Straits as a medium of conversation is Malay, which is exceedingly sinple and easy of acquirement_ it is called the Italian of the East from its extreme softness and absence of all guttural sounds. The Port of Singapore is free in the most liberal sense of the works and altho the offices of Harbour_Master, and Registrar of Imports and Exports both exist, still the former is almost a sinecure as the influx of a couple of hundred sail at one time would never fill the Roadstead so much as to require masters of Vessels to consult him as to taking up a birth and the latter is maintained solely with a view to procuring statistical information regarding the value of trade_ The information thus procured altho’ compiled with every care and accuracy, it is well known to mercantile men is much short of the real quantities, both of goods and tonnage – the lists published are taken from the actual entries, these however not being compulsory in as much as the penalty attached for non compliance could hardly ever be enforced as no establishment exists to check any neglect, it may be easily imagines, many goods are received and exported and many vessels arrive and take their departure without the owners or agents troubling themselves about the matter, and especially if the Merchant does not wish it to be known that he is shipping or receiving any particular article._ The value of the Import trade last year was in English money £2,895,227 and of the export £2,356,872 making a total of £5,252099 and these figures show an increase over the previous year of £1,68,940, so that the gloomy forebodings of many that the opening of the Chinese ports would be the death of Singapore, do not appear likely to be realized, at least so speedily as they anticipated. IT is foreign to the design of these remarks to enter into particulars of the exact number of Statute Miles the Island measures or the number of degrees minutes” (Sketches in the Straits, Nineteenth - century watercolours and manuscript of Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia by Charles Dyce, Page 87)

Lugar de producciónSingapore

Fecha 1816 - 1853

Nombre del objetoManuscript

MaterialWatercolour & ink on paper

Dimensiones

H: 75.3 cm
L: 60.6 cm
H: 47.1 cm
L: 55.5 cm