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NEW SERIES

SATURDAY, MARCH 16th, 1833

GOVERNMENT NOTICE
 * Colonial Secretary's Office,
 * Perth, March the 9th. 1833.

Notice is hereby given that the undermentioned individuals have applied at this Office for permission to leave the colony per the Cutter "Jolly Rambler" viz.
 * W. H. Harris, and family.
 * R. Powell, and two Sons.
 * By His Honor's Command.
 * Colonial Secretary.
 * Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTICE.
 * Colonial Secretary's Office,
 * Perth, March 14th. 1833.

Notice is hereby given that Mrs, Chipper has applied at this Office for permission to leave the Colony per the Ship Cygnet.
 * By His Honor's Command
 * Colonial Secretary.
 * Colonial Secretary.

NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given, that the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Colony of Western Australia, will be holden at the Court-House at Fremantle, on Monday, the first day of April next, at the hour of nine in the forenoon.

Dated the 8th day of March, 1833,
 * Clerk of the Peace.
 * Clerk of the Peace.

PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED

THE UNDERSIGNED have this day dissolved Partnership by mutual consent, and executed a Trust Conveyance of all their real and personal property in this Colony in favour of Mr. D. Scott, Deputy Harbour-master Fremantle. Those persons who have claims against the late firm of Clark and Spyers, and who are willing to accede to the Trust Deed, are requested to send their Accounts to the Trustee, who will pay them in the order of their arrival from the readiest of the funds, of which due notice is hereby given, and those persons who are indebted to the late firm, are requested to pay their accounts forthwith, and to take this notice as a demand for payment.

Fremantle, March 8th, 1833.

FOR PORT AUGUSTA, AND MAURITIUS; Will Sail on the 24th Instant THE Barque CYGNET, .—For Freight or Passage apply to the Captain; or, to
 * Agent.
 * Agent.

Fremantle, March 1st, 1833.

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION RICHARD LEWIS BEGS to inform the of Perth, Fremantle, and the Public in general, that he will offer for Sale by public Auction close by Captain Mc Dermott's Store, at Perth, on Tuesday the 19th day of March, 1833, at 1 o'clock, the following articles, viz:—5 tons of superfine Flour, in lots of one bag each, as it may suit purchasers, a quantity of black, blue, drab, and olive broad Cloth, narrow ditto, to be sold in coat lengths, a few reams of English foolscap Paper, a quantity of superior Currants, a few bundles of china Paper, tin Saucepans, and fish Kettles in different sizes, tin tea Kettles do. Coffee pots, Cullenders, basting Ladles, tinder Boxes, cloth Caps, Hogs lard, black Paint, red Lead, white ditto, stone Blue, fustain shooting Jackets; a quantity of plain Tumblers, a whale Boat, with masts, sails, and oars; negro head Tobacco, 4 boxes of Raisins, a very superior double barrel Gun, single do. salt Beef, one deal Table, a pony Cart (quite new), a very splendid English cart Mare, 6 years old, and heavy in foal, and in excellent condition, good for the saddle, and considered to be a very superior plough Mare.—A bill of a short date endorsed by two responsible persons will be taken in part payment for the Mare, Cart, and Harness, if required, but the arrangement must be made with the Auctioneer, previous to the Sale. Hay in lots of 5 cwt. each, and a number of other articles.

J. H. MONGER BEGS to notify to the Public his removal from the Lakes to  nearly opposite Mr. Mews's, where an assortment of sawed Timber will be kept for Sale on moderate terms.

FARMS TO LET.

These farms will be let together or separately as may be agreed,on.—Apply to, Solicitor.

Fremantle, March 4th, 1833.

TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, On Monday the lst day of April, and following day, at the STORE of, at Fremantle the following articles; Beef, Pork, Rice, Tobacco, Wine, Segars, Live Stock, Several Houses. ALSO, The Hull of the Rockingham, Masts, Rope, and a variety of Articles, particulars of which will be given in the next Publication.
 * LIONEL SAMSON,.

Fremantle, March 14th, 1833.

THE PRINTING-PRESS IN TURKEY, , in his very interesting account of the Kingdom of Caubul (a country near the higher waters of the Indus, between India and Persia), and of the scattered Afghan tribes dependant thereon, gives the following anecdote of the Nailpeekhail, who, like the rest, profess the Mahometan religion, but are so barbarous that even reading is looked down on as an unmanly accomplishment among them.

"Some men of Nailpeekhail found a Mollah, or doctor of the Mahometan faith, copying the Khoran, or their Bible, and not well understanding the case, they struck his head off, saying, 'You tell us these books come from God, and here are you making them yourself."

The Turks are not quite so ignorant as this, but even they, not many years ago, when Sultan Selim introduced the art of printing, were led to believe that it was sinful to print the Khoran—that nothing but the pen and hand-writing could, without impiety, multiply the copies of their Scriptures. Other works might go through the press, but unfortunately, at the time, the Turks read no book except the Khoran, and so the inestimable benefit of printing was to be thrown away upon them! This absurd prejudice originated in, or was kept alive by, the Turkish copyists who gained a livelihood hy transcribing the Khoran, each copy of which cost the people a hundred times as much as the copy the press could have afforded, and the printed copy, besides, would have been infinitely the more distinct and legible of the two.

The present Sultan, among his many reforms and improvements, has succeeded to set the press to work in earnest. Many elementary works have been printed, some three or four of a higher character, on History and general Geography, and now a newspaper (that novelty for the Turks!) comes regularly from the Sultan's Printing-Offices, and is circulated through the vast empire. We are informed by a friend, who writes from Constantinople, that it is a very interesting sight to see the effects that have already sprung from these salutary measures. Instead of every coffee-house being crowded as it used, to be, by idle, silent, stupified loungers, doing nothing but smoking their pipes, you find them now (in less numbers indeed, which is also a good thing,) occupied by men attentively reading the newspaper, or conning over the last "new work" neatly printed, and sold at a very cheap price. Before this, and almost up to last year, they were in the condition that all Europe was in four hundred years ago, of previously to the invention of printing, when only the comparative rich could afford to buy a book or anything to read. Even on the quays of the port, and in the bazaars of Constantinople, you now see Turks occupying their leisure moments with the productíons of the press, which is thus becoming day by day more and more active.