The Sun. — London, England, 1851-07-11 00:00:00

,st o°ll Szrewale was of an enlightened, paternal, and civilising Character. The letter was as foiloes " I have spent tour days a: Sarawak. I have conse crated the church according to the request of the dicce aan the Lerd Bishop of London. I have inspected the state of the infant mission, and conferred fully with the i nc l eratigable and zealous chat lain and missionary, the „ 1 . 1 . 6 17. T. MeDeugal. I have conversed also with the gen try, and have read the seas ral work.; published on the event, which have occurred in the lest few years. It is my' full p. rsuasion that ilo re is no mission en the face (tithe earth to be cotnparea with that. of Borneo. I: has been thrown Ken to Chrieden enterprise almost by Miracle. One of the darkest tecesses of heathen ig,no rincia cruelty, and desolation, where piracy, and mar der, and conflagraden, end headhunting stalked abroad in open day, and the aboriginal inhabitants were in the sure way of being exterminated utterly, is now, so to ? Peak, like the paradise of God. Deliverance has been Proclaimed—security of person and property, equal sights, an enlighteni.d and paternal distributive u stiee, the arts of life, an extending commerce, are already established at Serawak, and spreading along the whole western coast of Borneo. The M lles° sea is free from marauders, and all Europe and America may pursue their peacetul occepaions from Singapore to Labuan, 700 miles. The Christian mission is begun, to sanctify and adorn all these secular blessings. Two things, quite unexampled • favour the design:-Ist. Englishmen have become first It leve to the oppressed Dysks by a single Engl i sh gen tleman of benevolence, talent, and singular wisdom and tact of government, who has received us a token of gra titude from the native princes, a tract of land about seventy miles by fifty, as his own naive territory. To the benefit of the inhabitants of it, this gentleman, who l a now recognised as the Raja of Sarawak, is devoting hid time, his fortune, his zeel, his health, his body and soul. The noble Government of our honoured and be loved Queen Victoria at home has come forward with der admirals and brave captains to assist in reducing the pirates which infested the coasts to silence and tran quillity y de pl eds of almost usexamed . last engagement with the pira es, t bout a year heroism and The a halt' since, when 120 war-boats, with 2 000 bandits, were I ntercepted in the very act of plundering and setting Cre t o villages, sinking native vessels, and murdering Their crews, has humbled and alarmed the whole tribe, and the chiefs are sending messages to Sarawak, pro titling to turn themselves to honest occupations. In th e meantime the population of the town has increased, In nine years, from 1 500 to 12,000 souls, and including the whole territory, to 30,000. In truth, when I stood on the hill on which the church is erected, and viewed the subjacent town, stretched on the riser's bank, and 'viewed the mission-house and school on the college hill, Which commands the opposite shore, I could not but break out into thanksgiving to the God of all grace for his wonderful works; and during the very solemn service of consecrati on, I l oo k e d w ith amazement at the neat Wooden edifice, with its early English arches; its nave, 70 feet by 22, and 35 high; its side aisles, and its hand some communion-plate placed on the holy table, and its Christian congregation-43, of whom 11 were Dyak and Chinese —school children seated in the aisle; and when I assisted in administering the blessed Supper to 19 com- I Xllnicants, besides the clergy, my heart was almost too Lfull to proceed. Will England, then, fail to support t ne work thus prosperously begun? Impossible ; it is Lot in the nature of our Christian Britain to forget that sh e Was herself, 1,400 years ago, in as low a state of barbarism as the Dyaks, infested with European pirates, 1 . 4 . 1 i they are w i t h A s i at i c now . N o , s h e i s we ll aware ;bat what the gospel has done for England it can do for Borneo." le trusted, if th e name o f R a j a B roo ke were handed d own in th e hi stor y o f thi s coun t r y as that of a bene factor, it would not also be said of him that he had done service to his country, but that it had not been a PPreciated, azt r ill o r • URQUHART said that the friends of Sir James oke should have beets the first to court inquiry. For f l ! I "la part, he should never stand in that House the sued of any man who, when his conduct was impugned, s hrunk from investigation. He was not present last y e ar whe n t h e su bj ect was b e f ore th e H ous e, and he had, I tt erefore, studied the papers on the subject which had been laid before the House, and be could not find one of tittle . the evidence to prove the fact of piracy and justgy attack upon the Dyaks. He had faded to discover 14 0 evidence to establish the piratical character attri buted to the inhabitants of Sakarran and Sarebas. The Confounded and Learned Gentleman who had spoken last had 11founded th . 1) k and the Malays; but the cl..crip top • . e }a t a _ given in those papers of the pirates of the Indian is " 3 showed that the Dyaks were not pirates. The I st rates had all well-built vessels, armed with artillery, tulltiosurdany fitted for open sea service and long voyages. They sailed out of the eastern or western ports, ac ding as the eastern or western monsoon suited, and Went round the coast pillaging as they proceeded, and S tur ned o by th e oppos it e monsoon to e njoy during the wPtitituous season the produce of their piracy. 'fleet Was th e character given in those papers of the pirates plyto Indian Archipelago; and it certainly did not apt I) tat the Dyisks, who were described as having vessels 3a t ted to continue longer than five days at sea. The Yaes th at - 1. 1 tact, were not pirates, for the best of reasons, st, re lue Y had not the means of being so. But supposing Ine 'lnks were pirates, what proof had they that the g n they h a d attacked were guilty of piracy ? The Were, of the Admiralty to officers of the navy not to a tt ac k an y vesse l which they had nut viewed 1 _ t n t he act of piracy, or respecting which they had not tan oh evid ence as wou ld sat i s f y a court of j ust i ce i n Eng and. If by their vote that night they decided that no 1 nquiry should take place into those transactions, then they had better entrust the whole administration of the affairs of this great empire to the officers of the Crown than appear to share their reeponsibili'y while they only Cloaked their crimes. Mr. M. MILNES said it was net denied that the 'delays were addicted to piratical pursuits, and he be lieved it was equally certain that the Malaya had in some instances been enabled to induce the cognate, but Wider and weaker, race of Dyaks to j ein them in those Pursuits. If he were to admit the justice of the charge , advanced against Raja Bruoke, he should believe te at * the naval officers on the station, and that Cap'ain Bep• till in hi s a tt ac k of 1545, had been implicated in the 'ell plot. Now, it appeared to him that that Was a most gross improbability. Sir James Brooke had established his fame as a great civiliaer in that remote Quarter of the globe, and against such a man those I. h arges of atrocious cruelty ought not to be lightly be 4111ecl. It aeared that 500 persons were all that had b een killed i n pp the ceurse of those transactions, and it further appeared that the English forces might, by Z' t ting off' the communication with a small neck of land , a ve . slaughtered a touch larger number. At the same time tC he should express his sincere gratification that Would had totally abolished that very obnoxious, and he even say barbarous practice, of granting head tlit'neY for pirates. He could not help thinking that "who had so vehemently discussed that case had pursuedfound a most unwise and pernicious course. When he w e st men like his Hon. Friend the Member for the s Riding of Yorkshire (Mr. Cobden) assimilating r o o : prooeedinge of Enlishmen to some of the worst a r 'dings of 0 her nations he became strongly im „"st'rl with the belief that his Hen. Friend was inflict titg the greatest injury on two causes in which he no x ti n ebt felt the liveliest interest—the one, the character of There and the other the welfare o mankind at large. dad s Yves nothing which 'tendert more to harden the %p ig .* Of the public than cases like that of false and a ll loo s humanity. It was muce to he regretted that a thg n like Sir J. Brooke, who had established fir hims, If a. a 7 highe s t reputation for justice end humanity in the I.'s should be liable to have his character ruined by the i re publics ion of private correspondeect . . — e ga e hear.) He could not admit the polfcy of appeint gr the proposed Commission. Was that, Commission to to Borneo; to establish itself at L dsuan or Sara wak;ba and wasi t t enter into communication with these i I ts? He believed tlaet such a mode of proceeding Would be perfectly absurd. TheY and hl attention, all had dll laidth e _before them, great accuracy o ul f t el tnati°n' they valid possibly require upon both sides ...setae to a determination go the question, and he thought that they ought then to M r. H. DRUMM tress o had deprectgOND—Tne Hon. Member for Mon .n to reject the motion. ed the imputation that in bringing forward this motion he was ',cone as the tool of any one. Member might p l ease to vasnot his with to inv alidate any testimony the Hon. give in his own favour up on that Rolm, but he might be permitted to observe that some- Itta . es persons were the dupes of others without knowing It. (A laugh.) Th ere were persons also in toe w orld Who knew h ow to traduce others, and, for his pert , he Could not believe that, iron be ginning to end, this mo tion had any ot h er foundation than ap , zonal determi atio nto r u i n the character of Sir J. Brooke. He be 4aerreiaipeiag ed ththe o Company was at present proceeding neces sitated th e ruin of Sir J. Brooke, because he would not let t e pers e o L . company go on cheating. The deprecation of man allusions came with a very bad grace from a _ who, being in the employment of another, and en gaged in applauding him to the skies, went to a private f! 11 . d of that man, and said, " It is owing to my mercy Is not convicted."—(Cries of " Hear, hear. ') But t°c etne to the case brought forward by the Honour i_eenber for Montrose, the real difficulty of answer •"tg it cons isted in this, that there was nothing ;, h.," to reply to which bed not been replied to vettka_fferet, year.—(Elear hear. To tho Hon. Member for who last ear)y as wandering heaven knew W ho were the matter appeared altogether new; but to those T a v e n 4svere present at the former discussion it was evi -1 • 11 3' the old story over egaio —lear. lt was proved , as l t o y . e a ar_ by the evidence or every historian . and traveller had written on or visited the part of the world in P lu e t ? tt " , that the people whom Sir J Brooke attacked , vre pirates. The commercial associations of Manches utri Glasgow, Liverpool, and London petitioned the Go- Yerna segt mer chants Tor protection against them. Were our mer it, thane e auch idiots as to ark for protection against pirates, Sutton of none in existence?—(Hear, hear.) The f or h , 8 ' the country hart actually entered into a treaty there a crd of piracy. Did not he know whether on a irates or nee ? Was the evidence of Judge as the tact that . point to be thrown overboard, as well that dies pirates were taken in the act and ac knowledgedtheag,, their Offence? To avoid these difficulties g Member for ' Oh n , said he, 4, - Montrose started a new dodge. ere pirates there, it is true, but teheQ people calld D Th y P a r k ' s are not so." But unfortunately i n ng t td s e a p d ositions proved the contrary. A little learn- It w e , got h % p g. er ' l ls thing even as regarded a blue-hook. but as the HonniNtinti'in to read much from that volume; Member for Stafford had argued that the I) yeks could no . t be 'Area- a because f Ido n ly small vessels he taey la f mast ( 1 1 " w a passag e f rom p a ge 88, as t ° he lv i s ra :-- t, [The Hon. Memb er read a passage in w hi c h ri eggd wihhwere described as h aving small vesse l s one mast and a s i ng l e Bec ause t the Dy a k s use d t h e sort of square sail, &c.] am 114. V n e . ssels best adapted for th eir piratical practices the *deluded pirates at aMll.e_nkbleireawr,issenly eluded they wer e not d glitgr 4 e . 1 4 additimi to the letter 9 f the Bishop which THE had been read by the Hon. and LeranedMember for Newcastle, he would tike the liberty of quoting a pas sage from a letter written by a clergyman:— " We have now with us several influential chiefs from the neighb wring rivers, and among them the headmen of the Sakarran Dyaks, who have come to ask the Raja to take them under his care, and to send a Euro pean to govern them. Their principal, Orang Kaye, is an especially interesting old man; he has always been against piracy, and wished to put it down, and, now that his people have agreed to give it up, he is quite happy." When this chief expressed his pleasure because his people had agreed to give up piracy, it might fairly be assumed that up to that moment they had been pirates. —(Hear, hear.) This alone ought to be sufficient to establish the fact in the mind of any rational man. It might not, however, produce that effect on the Hon. Member for Montrose The Hon. Member would not easily admit that he was satisfied, and, if the House were not to escape an annual motion on the subject until he made the ackuowledgment, it would have to euhmit to the it ffction for many years to come.—(Laughter.) Hear what Captain Hastings said:— "If I can he of the smallest service to you in giving any aesistance to resist the cruel and unjust persecution which some evil disposed persons are waging against you, I beg yeti will command the services of, my dear ' Sir James Brooke, yours faithfully, " G. F. HASTINGS." This letter was dated February, 1851.—(11eur, hear.) Again, hear Captain Wallage:— " I offered a reward for all prisoners who should be brought to me, and, in consequence, one Dyak was cap tured, and this man freely allowed the predatory and piratical habits of the Sarebas people and his own share In them fur many years past." That letter was dated the 17th of October, 1850. The following passage was from the deposition of a native:— "I, Mahomed Kassim, of Singapore, trader, do sin cerely and solemnly declare, that many years ago, at the time when Mr. Crawford was resident at Singapore, I went from Singapore to Sadcg, on the north-west coast, of Borneo, on a trading voyage in a prahu of about fif teen koyans. I remained at Sadong about eight months, and during that period went to various places on the coast. In these expeditions the boat in which I went was always well armed, as I was afraid of the Dyaks. During the time I remained at Sadong seven Malay prah us, belonging to Bruni,Sambas, and the neighbouring islands, were cut off by the Dyaks. The Dy:.ks cut off the heads of the people found in the prahus, no matter what nation they belonged to, and took the goods." Bat it was useless to read these passages, for they were but a repe►ition of what had been stated before. Mr. Crawford was a great authority with the Hon. Member for Montrose—he was a perfect Godsend to him. Mr. HUME said, he had not named Mr. Crawford. Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND would not let the Hon. Member off on that plea.—(A laugh.) Mr. Crawford came s.s a witness before a Committee appointed to in quire into some other matter—au Ordnance survey, or something of that sort—and, having got him there, " Oh, oh !" thought the Hon. Member for Montrose, "I will get something out of you about Borneo." Mr. Crawford was not very well acquainted with the habits of nations in those parts, as was evident from an anecdote related of him. It was stated that he went once to visit the So vereign of Siam; and some person, by way of a joke, told him that it was the custom for strangers to take off their shoes before appearing in the presence of the King. Mr. Crawford accordingly left his shoes at the door; but when he quitted the audience they were gone, and he had to walk home barefooted through the mud. — (Laughter.) The Honourable Member for Montrose expected that Mr. Crawford would prove a great card for him; but when he came to be examined he stated that he knew nothing of the matter, except what he had got out of Sir James Brooke's diary.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member was not very nice respecting the quraters to which he applied for information. As long as he could get up a charge against a colonial governor, he did not stick at trifles.—(Laughter.) Some time ago there appeared in the Daily .News a letter written by a Mr. Miles, the same gentleman, he believed, whom the Hon. Member had that evening referred to as the author of a letter, without naming him. Mr. W. H. Miles, was a gentleman who followed the occupation of a butcher. with which he united the more honourable profession of a boxer, and it happened that owing to a little misfor tune he went abroad at the Queen's expense.—(A laugh.) Lord Bacon said that there were two ways of making a man wise, by books and by travel. It was Mr. Miles's fortune to profit by the latter:— " Mores bominum multorum vidit et urbes." —(Laughter.) This gentleman went out to Borneo, and on his return to this country he took it into his head to write a letter to the Sultan; and, remembering that great sovereigns, when they visited other countries, were usually treated to a review of the troops of those countries, in order to inspire them with an high idea of their military prowess, and wishing to convey a fine impression of England to the Sultan, be (Mr. Miles) re solved—for great men were never at a loss for resources —he resolved to send him a picture of the Horse-guards —(Laughter)—and here it is (said the Hon. Member, holding up the letter with a vignette view of the Horse guards at the top of it) —(Continued laughter.) The letter was as follows: "My Dear Sultan,—Alth in London 1,600 miles awhay from you I do not forget you and Borneo and when I come back to Singapore I shall come and see you I have teed all my friends in London what nice old Gentleman you are—(Laughter)—and are mush pleased with the account of Borneo and the plusent life the Malaya lead the Queen bad A little boy the other day I should not be surprized it it is not called The Sultan — (Laughter)—l must buy some little present in London for the Sultan Before I leeve Mrs. Miles and all Her frien Is sends there Kind Complements to the Sultan tender L my respe c t s to P engaren M o l mean an d P e ngaren leta •cootar and all the other Pengarens and nobles of B t ru p n i i n e i ' O this will find you all well believe me Dear Sultan " Yours Respectfully " WILLIAM nENRY M ILES , "late Pengaren Mil es L a b uan . " London, 24th May, P.S. This is the Queens Birthday I drank your and Her very cocci Helth in A bumper and wished you might live A hundred years." Now, upon the strength of this letter, ho denied that the lett( r which the Hon. Member for Montrose had received and published as his was written by this man.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Drummond) would like very much, it the Honourable Member would hand over the manuscript of the letter to him or to some of his friends, and allow the handwriting to be compared with that of the letter he had just read.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Drum mond) believed that the letter read by the Honourable Member was cooked; for the fact was that Mr. Miles could not spell, and therefore be could not bafe spelled this letter, which was published in his name; and he did not believe the handwriting was like this.—(Here the Hon. Member tossed the letter across the House to Mr. Hume.) But he had no doubt he could easily get ano ther handwriting to resemble the one the Hon. Gentle. man had got.—(Hear, hear.) The whole of this trans action from first to last was a very discreditable one.— (Hear, hear.) There was, he knew, a mock patriotism which thought that it was always doing the public a service by finding fault with people in office, and parti cularly with those in distant settlements; whereas it was to official men in dktent settlements that they ought to be more than ordinarily ready to extend their protec tion.—(Hear, hear) The House should remember the many worthless adventurers who went out from tbie country to those settlements fI. the purpose of repairing their broken fortunes and character, and with whom official men were necessarily thrown into contact; and how any mark of just severity which might be mea sured out to those characters was sure to furnish abun duet opportunity for slander.—(flear, hear.) He did hope the: the House would, with a high hand, reject this motion, although be could not hope that that would put an end to the meter. At the bottom and root of it all was the author to whom he had before pointed, and so long as he was alive (so we understood the Hon. Mem ber) be bs bowel that the slanders would live also. Mr. MACGREGOR, on the part of the Archipelago Company, of which he was chairman, denied there was any foundation for the charges of fraud which the lion. Member for West Surrey had brought against the com pany; and said ho believed the Government would bear him out in the denial. Mr. DRU NI MON D said ho meant the manager of the company. The truck system, disreputable in individusls, was more so in a company, and still more so in an inci pient colony, where the inert scrupulous faith ought to be kept with the natives. It was managed thus—a shop was le pt by the company's superintendent, from which the native workmen and Lathe traders received half their or pay_ baland ball th e i r mone y d ema nds, in goods. Thus a piece atiher, or grey s hi r ti ng , cos t s in Singapore 2 dollars, or 1 dollar 90e., which the native must take to pa yment for 3 dollars. If the native refuses, be could not de.l with the company nor work for it. The fact cam e out in court, before Sir J. B roo k e and two other judge s, in this the c om p an y' s su p er i n tendent handed in a quant it y of " written in "paddy" (rice in husk), which which ad he was way,—to e s t a bli s h a d ate on a t r i a l in a witness, receipt was signe d b y the nati ve plaintiff in the case. in English for above 200 The mdaey.. e r r s e ,p ( ar i ni p de t e aeasa b native paid in grey s hi rt i ngs; so that stated that half the either the superietendent bad chewed the company or the company bad cheated the people; but, in either cas e, the people were robbed..--(Hear, hear.) Mr. B. COCHRANE sa id that, after th e speeches which had been made, it was unnecessary fir any one to rke in defence of Sir James Brooke.—(Hear, bear.) H e hoped, however, the House would allow him, as ho had been requested to do so, to re!er to the testimony of his relative, Sir T. Cochrane, with regard to Sir J. Brooke, in a letter addressed to the First Lord of the Admiralty. The language of the Hon. Member for Montrose led to an impression that Sir T. C( chrane was opposed to the conduct of Sir J. Brooke. Now, Sir T. Cochrane stated that on two different occasions Sir J. Brooke had placed himself under his command, and that his first acquaintance with him was in 1845, w h e n piracy b e came daring on the west coast of Borneo, to an extent to endanger not only Britich commerce, but the p eace of the inhabitants. Sir T. Cochrane further stated that in the following year Sir J. Brooke rendered him important service, and resided six weeks on board the flag-ship ; and that he found him to be " one of the most mild, considerate. single-minded men he ever met with." — (Cheers.) With regard to the attack on the Sarebas and Sakarran tribes, Sir T. Cochrane was of opinion that it would not have heal resorted to if there had not exia'ed an absolute necessity, and that having beard that these tribes were disturbing the Sarawak settle ment, he a ffered to place a force at the disposal of Sir J. Brooke to bring them to reason; but that so far from availing himself of it, he informed him that he wished to try gentle and peaceful means.—(Hear, hear.) With regard to the loss of life attending the attack, Sir T. Cochrane accounted for it partly by the utter careless ness which Malaya, when irritated, displayed concerning their liven, often looking upon self-immolation as SUN, r :'• • LON DON, virtue, and a thing to be desired,—(Hear, hoar). Such was the testimony of one every way competent to form an opinion. His (Mr. B. Cochrane's) anxiety on the present occasion was to have his name associated with a debate and with a vote which he hoped would satisfy the public generally that a public man bad done his duty nobly and in an honourable manner.—(Hear.) Mr. GLAI)STONE said that in his judgment the Hon. Member did honour to himself by availing himself of the very testimony which he had quoted as to the character of the distinguished man accused on this oc casion, against whom, as appeared to him, no inconsi derable amount of personal animosity existed.—(Hear, hear.) In this hostile feeling with respect to Sir J. Brooke, he did not share. There was nothing which had been said by his lion. Friend who had just sat down, so far as his limited knowledge extended, in which ho should not be disposed cot dially to concur. He re garded Sir J. Brooke with great respect as a man of energy, truly British, and as being in his heart and in tentiene—w betever errors of judgment he may, like whirs, have fallen into—guided by a philanthropy truly Christian.—(Cheers.) He could not vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Montrose on specific grounds, which he would afterwards state. At the same time, he must say, he could not concur in the unqualified lan guage which had been used in opposition to that motion.—(fleer ) lie could not vote for the mo tion, because it appeared to him to combine together a great number ot subjects that had no proper con nexion, and to assume, in too marked a manner—if not exclusived.y—the character of a personal charge against Sir James Brooke. He thought the Hon. Member for Mentroie would be the first to admit, if his motion was of such a character, that by voting in favour of it he would imply a presumptive acquiescence in that charge. In respect to the general position of Sir James Brooke, and to the combination of offices in his person, however critical that position might be, or however expedient it might be as a rule of administration to combine such offices, he did not think that the House, addressing the Crown for a commission of inquiry on the subject, which belonged more properly to the Executive, would be alto gether just. With respect to the charge as to the de struction of a certain number of human beings, if cor rect in his view, there was no reason why Sir James Brooke should be selected as either singly or mainly re sponsible for these proceedings. That was a point upon which they were competent to form an opinion, and he wished to know who those persons were, as it would be the duty of the House to call on them to render an ac count of their proceedings. He understood Sir J. Brooke to be invested with a threefold official characteri-1. As Raja of Sarawak; (2) as consul in the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo; and (3.) as Governor of Labuan. But in no one of these capacities had he any authority over the forces of her Majesty. What he might have done, had the action alluded to taken place in the waters of Labuan, was a different matter; but, as it happened, it took place 100 miles distant. With re spect to that action, he understood Sir J. Brooke to be an advising and consenting party, if not the party primarily responsible. If the House should think that there was a misuse of the naval power in the waters of Borneo on the 31st July, 1849, it appeared to him that they were not entitled to call on Sir J. Brooke—who was not the person in command—to bear the responsibility, but must deal with it in the ordinary form, and hold the party in command responsible for the use or misuse of the force entrusted to him. On that ground he could not accede to a motion which served to indicate that Sir James Brooke was the person on whom the responsi bility of that action ought to rest. But he must also confess that with regard to the other and main point, he could not come to the same conclusion as the Hon. Member for Montrose—he meant, the point whether the tribes attacked were piratical or not. He was not in clined to say that it was a point placed beyond the pos sibility of doubt, but after having taken the greatest pains in examining the evidence, it appeared to him that the balance of testimony was in favour of the opinion that those particular tribes were to be dis tinguished from the rest of the Dyaks, and that they were what might be termed piratical, though their piracy was not of that formidable kind which led to the attuck of European vessels.—(Hear, hear.) If that, then, were the point at issue, ho was bound to say that a piratical character attached to these tribes.—(Hear.) Upon this point, he must say, he attached importance to the evidence of Sir James Brooke. He had such en tire confidence in his humanity, honour, and integrity, that he received his evidence, even where he bad an ap parent interest, with the most unqualified confidence. — (Hear, hear.) This matter, too, he had reason to be lieve had been judicially argued before Sir C. Rawlinson in 1849. That part of the question he believed was before him; and the evidence then was sufficiently mi nute to convince him that the judge had decided that these tribes were piratical. This matter, too, had been argued before Dr. Lushington. The objection to the payment of bead-stoney had been made by the Queen's Advocate, on the ground that the parties were not pi rates; and Dr. Lushington, he believed, bad come to the decision that the tribes were of a piratical character. But even if there were some doubt remaining on his mind on this subject, he must at the same time say that no suffi cient ground had been made for an inquiry such as the Hon. Member proposed.—(Hear, hear.) But then he came to what constituted the real difficulty in this case; and after listening to the sarcasm and satire of the Hon. Member for Surrey, he said that this question was not ne that was to be disposed (If by taunts directed against the Honourable Member for Montrose.—(Hear, hear.) As to that Honourable Member it was not often his for tune to vote on the same aide with him; but still he was bound to express his conviction that no man brought greater honesty of purpose, or greater determina tion to do justice, in every case like the present that he undertook, than the same Hon. Member.—(Cheers.) They had now to consider what was the real question that was submitted to their judgment. In his opinion the terms of the motion of the Hon. Member were liable to objection—that it fixed upon Sir J. Brooke a responsi bility that did not pre-eminently belong to him; but then it was for the House to determine, not how the blame that attached to these transactions was to be distributed, but of the fact that was placed before them—namely, that there had been a great destruction of human life, and whether that destruction had been warranted? — (Hear, hear.) He brought no charge cf cruelty against those who had been engaged in this enterprise. He be lieved no such motive influenced them; and if he doubted that there was legality in their proceedings, he did so admitting that they believed that they were acting ith a view to what were ultimately the interests of hu manity. But admitting this did not dispose of the ques tion.—(Elear.) When in that House they heara the name or .‘ pirates" mentioned, it was supposed that was the whole question. It was not so. Their relations with pirates were regulated by law; and if they were, then they were found to observe the law when dealing with pirates as when dealing with other criminals who were not pirates, or with persons who were not criminal. What was the law in thus dealing with pirates? It, was chiefly needful to refer to two Acts of Parliament. The first Act referred to head-money, and it was most vague in its language as to the manner of treating pirates. It gave rewards for the capture and destruction of pirates; and there was, in point of fact, nothing in it to impeach the legality of these proceedings. By the Act of 1837 circumstances, however, were changed. It declared that in all cases an act of piracy was not a capital offence. It enabled them to kill pirates, to capture the rest; but by the second section of that Act it was enacted that if a person acting as a pirate resisted his being captured, he was liable to be put to death; that all persons en gaged in active resistance were liable to capital punish ment. But then when they came to the third section of the same Act they would find it declared that any man convicted of an act of piracy, not connected with resistauce, should be liable, not to the punishment of death, to which he would be subjected before the pass ing of the Act, but to be sentenced by the court to transportation for life. Instead, then, of piracy being a capital offence, it was one only liable to transporta tion. Here, then, they had to observe that they had in flicted the punishment of death upon 500 persons. There were only two cases in which they could do so—in case of active resistance, or their not submitting to capture, and in the attempt.to capture slaying them. He put this case to the House. to her Majesty's Government, and espe cially to the law officers of the Government. Did these 500 persons thus put to death fall under one or other of these cases? He did not quote the evidence of any men whose handwriting was questioned. He quoted the account ot those engaged in the transaction, and who stated the parti culars of it as one that did them high honour. Were these 500 persons deprived of life without a legal warrant, such as there would be in either of the cases he had sup posed?—(Hear.) When the action began there was partial resistance from some of the prahus ; but that resistance was partial, and it very soon ceased. The resistance was followed by flight, and the flight by pur suit; but then it was only a nominal pursuit, for the means of flight were ridiculous as compared with the means of pursuit. Now, what said Captain Wallis? That he saw 16 or 17 prahus escaping, and on their com ing abreast of him he fired a broadside loaded with ca nister shot along their whole line—he raked them along his whole ne as they were escaping, and not resisting. --(Hear.) Now, what he asked for was a vindication of this proceeding.—(Hear, hear.) According to this evi dence, a great number of lives were sacrificed when the men were not resisting. These lives were sacrificed de liberately—(Hear)—but whether from humane motives or not he did not inquire; but they were sacrificed with out that legal sanction which was required when they were dealing with pirates, as if they were dealing with any other class of criminals. This, then, was the diffi culty that presented itself to his mind. This it was which justified them in addressing the Crown for an inquiry, not as against Sir J. Brooke, but into the whole'of the proceedings. It was to the Government he looked for a vindication of these proceedings, and he hoped it would have been made through some Member on the part of the Government in the early part of the evening; for it was their duty to inquire into every such case ----to ascertain the legality of the proceedings of their officers abroad as well as at home—it was their duty to do so, as the only permanent security and guarantee for the rights of every man amongst them.—(Cheers.) ' Lord PALMERSTON said—l confess I never heard l w e t h e i l c y h e all o arguments a t n h d an th i e n f t a h c e ts h p a r e v s e e ben a m d or e e ba c te om in p compliment e o i n f n s a wat sustainuyh r i i n ac g lh en t ha h yen a dq t pour t ue h o rsp o u oi os g f ne h dh h hhi e sei s o ul ft en (Hear, hear)—and I must pay t h e H on . M em b er for o brings Montrose s tr 9 the n g d wmo tiona sub mitss shown to th this in tHouse,he evening.l could not b u t see th a t hi s convic tions, n which were so strong when the subject was last debated, have been somewhat shaken this year—(Hear, hear) —and although he has not altogether departed from his sentiments previously expressed, still those who heard him—and I am sorry to say that not many of those who are now present did s? —(Laughter) —still they must have remarked that he did not show the same confidence in the soundness of his conclusions which he exhibited on a former occasion.—(Hear, hear.) The question lies, as it has been Bait' by the Hon. Member. tor Stafford [ (Dir. Urquhart), almost in a nutshell. The question FRIDAY simply is, were the persons attacked by the combined force in the Indian service—by her Majesty's forces and those under the command of Sir J. Brooke—were they or were they not pirates?—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman who had spoken last has remarked that no member of her Majesty's Government has risen till a late period of the debate to state the views of the Go vernment. His Hon. Friend the Under Secretary for the Colonies did rise at an early hour; hut he gave way to another who had been more fortunate to attract your rye. The real question, then, here, is this—were the Dyaks so attacked pirates, or were they not? In determining this question I shall first address myself to the argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman who has just sat down, and who admits for the sake of argument that they were pirates; but who contends that there was illegality in the manner of dealing with them as pi rates. The Right Gentleman contends that the change in the law effected by the Act of 1837, by which capital punishment imposed upon those convicted before a court of law was abolished, and transportation substituted in its room—that that change prevents the destruction of p-rsons as pirates. The argument bus no applic Awn to the case in point. If those re moils had been captured —if they had been taken prisoners, and if upon their being taken prisoners they had been, without trial, or a sentence of a court, executed, then I should admit that the argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman would be applicable. There can be no doubt that since the law had been altered that courts of justice can no longer ap ply the penalty of death to persons convicted merely of piracy; and it a court of law did order their execution, or persons without trial had executed their prisoners who were pirates, then the objections of the Right Hon. Gentleman would apply. But s then to deal with pirates under the law you must have possession of them as prisoners—you must have taken them.--(Hear, hear.) Now the peculiar character of the Malays is that they preferred being killed to their being captured. — (Hear, hear.) Tale the analogous case of an ordi nary enemy in common war. It is not lawful to kill a prisoner taken in war ; you are not at liberty to deal with him as you please; but as long as he is en gaged as your enemy, and until he asks " quarter" and puts himself in your power, you continue your hostili ties against him. You do so until he by his own act places himself in your power, and claims your forbear ance. Until he does that you treat him and pursue him as au enemy.—(Hear.) I cannot, then, conceive how the Act of 1837 can have any reference to a transaction of this kind; but then taking the broader question — were these parties pirates or not? I remember in de bates on this question in former years we had much broader assertions than wo have heard to-night. We were told that there might in those Eastern seas be tribes who were engaged in newly-described operations, —it was admitted that they had a strong disposition for amiable proceedings designated " inter-tribal war"— (Laughter)—harmless at the least to others,—but, as to piracy—as to directing attacks upon merchant ships—as to pillaging square-rigged vessels ! Oh ! there was no such thing as piracy like that in the Indian Archipelago! —(Laughter.) Why, I have laid upon the table of this House proof upon proof that there was piracy, in the sense of attacking square-rigged vessels—in the sense of murdering crews—in the sense of plundering every thing; and that this prevailed for years over the whole extent of those seas.—(Hear; hear.) That very document to which the Hon. Member for Montrose has referred as being laid on the table to-day,—and which i I regret I could not have given him much sooner n order that he might have more fully mastered its con tents—is an uninterrupted history of operations of the Netherlands Government for years against a vast and extensive system of piracy in those seas.—(Hear, hear.) I have a dispatch from the Consul at Manilla, giving an account of the operations conducted the other day by Spain against the pirates at Sooloo, and in that dispatch he draws a contrast between the accounts he bad to give at former periods and at the present time. He states that—" Whereas it was my duty in former years gone e o le t ve th ry e e b r y oN t , o e record c ord wrecked merchantmeninstances o f o ft.. attacked, ieto becomingre atall of American, British, and other square-rigged . vessels s h u a m vi e n d g tdoishaapvpeeabreeedn carried never e d off b h e y e n p con sequence of the recent operations of the British ships of pirates ; ef . no b w el , r' 'i g n . pre war upon the northern coast of Borneo, and the opera checked. —Meat', opera tions of the Dutch and Spaniards, s e e v C e u n l t e s , and for th ethe moment, proceedingsof considerablyth e trade is hear.) I suppose that no man now who has read the papers that have been laid upon t he table will for an instant deny that piracy to an enormous extent has pre vailed all through the seas around Borneo. NVell, th e n, the other question is, and it is a very simple on e , were these tribes of Dyaks of Sarebas alone and singly exempt from the guilt which tainted the other tribes and nations in that country ? Why, Sir, there are two proofs that they were guilty of that same crime. We have the depositions of two masters of native vessels who were examined by Commander Butterworth, and who declared, as the papers on the table proved, that the Dy - ake of Sarebas were known habitual pirates, and that though they themselves had not been attacked by them, they knew them to be habitual pirates. We have other proofs, which my Hon. Friend could not find in the papers delivered this morning. These proofs, by a singular coincidence, include the report of a person made by him to the Dutch Government years ago, which stateddistinctly the Dyaks were pirates, which &scribed the way they commenced operations in the same kind of light boats and vessels which my Hon. Friend contended they could not commit piracy in; and the report further said the weapons consisted of swords, javelins, and spears; in short, he described the very kind of expedi tions described by my Hon. Friend as a proof that the Dyaks were not guilty of piracy.—(Hear, hear.) We have proof that piracy to an enormous extent pre vailed in the seas of Borneo, and it is impossible to say that the Dyaks were exempt from guilt, or to deny, after the concurrent testimony of masters of native vessels at Singapore and the report of a person to the Dutch Government, that the Dyaks had been guilty of the crime of piracy in a particular way. What, then, has given rise to the charges against Sir J. Brooke?—(Hear, hear.) Ido not w i s h t o pursue the inquiry from whence arise the sources of this persever ing, this malignant persecution.—(Fleur, hear.) I eml not applying these words to a n y one i n thi s House. But, Sir : lam convinced this R ouse , b y an ove rwhelming majority, will negative the motion of my Hon. Friend — ( 6 11 i r e j a r e , m h e e s a rß)r—o Brooke ) —and r b e y ti d re o s in f g ro s m o publish i e t o v e t s h t e i g a w t o i o r n l d t Ns t a h t untarnished character and with unblemished honour.— (Cheers.) lam persuaded h e w ill cont i nue to enjoy the estimation of his country men as a man w h o , o vercoming difficulties and facing dangers in distant climates—pre viously almost unknown—has done much to promote themdra.rckoesßt Ib)aErbNaraigsmre.e—d(lLvtotuhdthceheeßrsi.g)ht c el o v m a ns iz e a r u c o e n aLd to th r e eg in io t e er s e w sts ht o eh fthe h country, and i to infuse f Hon. Gentle (Mr. (Mr. Gladstone) th a t p ersons emp l oye d by the Ad miralty ought to look after pirates. We paid a l ar g e sum towards maintai n i ng a f orce i n t h e I n di a n and Chi nese seas. The com pl ement o f s hi ps to p r otect these seas was 17, with 3,700 men , w hi ch, w i t h their relief, made up a force of 25 vessels and 4,200 men. This force was kept up not to guard those seas from pirates, but to protect our commerce in the Indian and Chinese oceans ' would wo o 1 d comeput down t o the th e Noble Borneo L p r i d r ,s tea question,s. ° h° wilee Having a larg e f orce th ere, w i th a respons ibl e admiral, we ought to look to th em rat h er than to p roc lamations at Fishmongers' Hall di nners b y Si r J . B ro oke that be parties slaughtered i n th e B emoan seas p i ra t e s or not? Let not the Nobl e L or d ta lk of the l arge majority in that House. H e cou ld te ll hi m if the ev id en ce which could be produced was disregarded, that circumstance would give tenfold fo rce to thfeeline t h a t existed on the the H He subject. His Hon. Friend had brought forward the evi dence of five letters written by naval commanders stationed on the coast. Three had given their names, two had not disclosed their names, but had furnished them to his Hon. Friend. On e l etter was from Com mander Daniel, who stated that h e never h ea rd that the Dyaks attacked English vessels; Sir Edward Belcher expressed the same opinion, and so did C o mmander Young. They were willing to give e vidence on the sub ject it' called upon. The other two writers both stated that the Dyaks were not pirates. Ile believed that the feeling of these captains in the Indian seas was largely shared in by the service generally, who felt the humilia tion which these actions brought on the navy indiscrimi nately. Here were five witnesses to the circumstances alleged against Sir J. Brooke, and be believed their evidence would have some effect on public opinion. He had not the honour of knowing Sir J. Brooke personally. He might be a very honourable man; but what had been his career in Sarawak? Sir J. Brooke commenced by certain transactions with a Borneo chief, which ended in his becoming master of the territory of that chief and getting a grant of sovereignty confirmed by the Sultan of Borneo. When he heard of this occurrence he was anxious Government should not become partners in this territory, as we had already too much of the same sort of territorial acquisitions under our control. His alarm was not unfounded, and he believed both Sir H. Peel and Lord Stanley, who were consulted, were of opinion it was not for the advantage of this country that we should have. more territory of that kind. The next thing they heard was, that Sir J. Brooke was at war with his neighbour, and that English vessels were called upon to take part in the contest. Sir J. Brooke took credit to himself for putting down pi racy in Borneo, which was 2,000 miles distant from his territory. Why was Borneo imported into the question at all? And when he found ships of war engaged in this warfare, he naturally inquired whether the Dyaks were pirates or not. He would refer to the testimony of Mr. John Crawford, who was as well or better acquainted with the races and language of the Indian Archip e l ago than any other living man. He was of opinion it was not advisable we should take possession of this new terri tory. Mr. Crawford said, the Dyaks of Borneo were wholly distinct from Malays, and, therefore, when these races were jumbled together, as they had been in the de bate, ho was satisfied the subject was not properly un derstood. He could bring authority to show that the Dyaks were not pirates, and be therefore wanted proofs to j us tify the cruelties exercised towards these people. Ho wanted proofs that the Dyaks were pirates. He had never heard an instance adduced in which Dyaks had committed an act of piracy against English ves sels. He demurred to the doctrine that we were to go over to the Sultan of Borneo, and ask him, a Have you anybody to kill ?" Before w e kill e d p eo • pie, we should have inquired whether th ese Dy a k t ri bes had not grievances to redress that justified their acts. But then he found there was the occupation of more than Sarawak. Sir J. Brooke had been lauded for his disinterestedness ; but he found that Sir J. Brooke had already gone into his neighbour's territory carrying on the war there. How had Sir J. Brooke been condncting himself since he was in Sarawak? Every one knew where the pirates abounded ; but had Sir J. Brooke confined himself to those places? From the year 1839 to 1849, Sir J. Brooke. had been engaged in attacking and taking P,yak villages and vessels. Though Sir J. Brooke went out as a governor of La- EVENING, JULY 11 1 1851. burn he was always found 300 miles distant—at Sara wak, making war on the Dyaks, not putting down pi rates. The evidence adduced did not appear to him (Mr. C.) to prove that Sir J. Brooke was engaged in putting down pirates. On the contrary, it showed that he had been carrying on a war with his next neighbours —a war of tt rritory, by which he thought he would be enabled to take possession of his neighbour's lands as well as those of which he had possessed himself in Sarawak. The country had a right to ask that some proof should bo given that these two identical tribes had ever committed ono act of piracy upon any European vessel. Tho manner in which this question was met was a monstrous insult to their un derstsnding.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that whatever the decision of this House might be, the country would nut let the question rest where it was. Ile thought the Hon. Member for Montrose deserved the gratitude of the civilized world for his attempt to rescue the country from the stigma that pressed upon it, so long aN this matter was allowed to remain as it was (Laughter.) They were disposed to thick no more of this amount of human life then if it were so many dogs that were destroyed. And the opponents to this iequiry head even mixed up in their arguments professions of religion and Christianity. But did they present them selves to the inhabitants of Borneo as Christians and as followers of the New Testament, which even commanded them to love their enemies, when they slaughtered 500 unfortunate beings, who had never done them any harm? If the country had not moral force to insist upon an in quiry into this matter, never let them sat themselves up again as patterns of r,ligion and morality. On the con trary, let them at once candidly admit that they had been guilty of the greatest atrocities upon the coast of Borneo. _ . . . Sir F. THESIGER called the attention of the House to the many proofs contained in the papers before the House of the tribes of Sambas and Sakarran being pi rati s. This question bad been the subject of judicial inquiry and of judicial determination. In 1844, on a question arising as to the right of the crew of the Dido to receive heal-money in respect to an engagement had under the command of Captain Keppel, the provisions of the 6th George IV. were discussed, and the question was whether the tribes of Sakarran were really pirates or not? The judge who presided on the occasion was one known for his high intelligence, and whose feelings would revolt from the bare idea of oppression or cruelty. The Queen's advocate raised the question. That learned judge pronounced that the proof was conclusive. On the 31st July, 1849, the same question arose before another judge. Deposition after deposition was produced, which proved clearly and dis tinctly that these tribes of Sarebas and Sakarran were pirates. The decision of the judge proceeded on that ground, and then the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire appealed to the House for proof of that important fact.—(Cheers.) He thought that the Hon. Member for the West Riding of Yorkshire must be very hard to be satisfied if he did not take these facts as conclusive of the proof.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir Fre deric Thesiger) rose principally to address himself to a question raised by the Right Honourable Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone); and he was anxious that it should not go forth to the world on the credit of that Right Honourable Gentle man's reputation and authority that any doubt could at all exist with regard to the legality of the proceedings. The point which the Right Hon. Gentleman had taken was this, namely, that an Act having passed in 1837 which reduced the punishment for piracy from death to transportation, that, therefore, it was not lawful to put these pirates to death unless they had resisted, because under the second section of the Act it was only in case of resistance that the parties were liable to capital punishment; and the Right Hon. Gentleman further said that although several vessels had been engaged in tbis enterprise, only a few of. them had made any re sistance, and therefore it was not lawful for those en gaged in her Majesty's service to do more than capture the other vessels that were not so actively engaged in resistance. He (Sir F. Thesiger) should venture to have thought that, where a number of vessels were engaged in one common enterprise, and a portion of them had offered resistance, that that circumstance was quite suf ficient to warrant an attack upon the whole of them. — (Cheers.) He would concede to the Right Hon. Gen tleman that, supposing the case was one which came within the Act of Parliament, it was then. not a lawful course to pursue. But let them see whether the Right Honourable Gentleman had not made a mistake upon this subject. They knew well that not the law, for there was no law with pirates—(hear)—but the general rule was, that pirates were the enemies of the human race—(Hear,f hear)—and might be exterminated to protect peaceful commerce throughout the world.— (Hear, hear.) The law in regard to piracy in England was dependent upon the 6th Geo. IV., which, for the encouragement of its suppression, gave head money in respect to every person on board every piratical vessel. But, said the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Act of 1837 reduced tho punishment from death to transportation. No doubt it did, but then his Right Hon. Friend must have perceived from the character of the punishment that it was not applicable to the Malays and Sakarrans. —(Loud cries of " Hear, bear.") This Act applied only to British subjects.—(Cheers.) It would be extraordi nary for them to think of transporting the subjects of another country under the provisions of an En gli. h Act. — (Laugh ter.) It would be ridiculous for them to attempt to bring such parties to trial and to transport them beyond the seas to any place where her Majesty might think fit. --(Hear.) At that late hour ho world not occupy any more of the time of the House. He trusted that tbi unfounded accusation, so pertinaciously and unr,lent ingly persevered in, would be at last put an end to by a triumphant majority that night.—(Cheers.) Colonel THOMPSON would state the reason why he would vote for the Hon. Member for Montrose. He no more believed in Dyak pirates in Borneo than he be lieved in dragons in Cappadocia.—(Laughter.) The evidence adduced was as convincing and overwhelming on their side as it was possible to adduce. That evidence might not tell in that House, but it would in the country. Mr. FORSTER said if these parties were not pirates he wished to know what they a ere? He held iu his hand an extract from Lloyd's List, giving the number of vessels captured or destroyed sinc3 August, 1839, to February, 1831, upon the coast of Borneo, by which it appeared that upwards of forty vessels had been sacrificed by these pirates.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME, in reply, denied the accuracy of the statement, and declared that he could adduce the most unanswerable evidence (if this inquiry were granted) to disprove these assertions. Everything that had passed that evening convinced him more and more of the correctness of his original statement.—(Laughter.) The Hon. Member concluded by stating that he would take the sense of the House on the motion. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it ... Majority ... ... 230 -.----211 The announcement was received with loud cheering. The Stock in Trade Bill then went through Commit tee, so likewise did the Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bill, the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Bill, the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, July 10. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall, before Lord CAMP• BELL and a Special Jury.) HEAD V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. HEAD AND WIFE V, THE SAME. These were two actions which had been brought against the Eastern Counties Railway Company to re cover compensation in damages for certain injuries which the plaintiffs had sustained, in consequence of a collision which took place upon the Eastern Counties line on the 23d of December last, by reason of the alleged negligence of the company's servants. Lord CAMPBELL suggested that both actions should be tried at the same time by the same jury, and this propo sition being acceded to by both sides, the cases proceeded tocethPr. Sir F. Th es i ger an d M r. M. Ch am b ers , Q.C., a pp ea r e d for the pl a i nt i ffs; r and Mr. Crowder, Q.C., and B ()- M. vill for the defendants. The nature of the plaintiffs' cases will be fully under stood by simply premisi ng th at th e co lli s ion took place by the Enfield express train running into the Hertford train, while the latter was waiting for only a few mi nutes on its down journey at the Stratf o rd s tation. Trio evidence given by the plaintiff's' witnesses was as fol lows: William Atkinson examined —I was stationmaster at the Shoreditch station on the 23d of December last. There was a book kept there of the times when the trains started. The Brentwood train was advertised to start at 4 20, the Hertford t rain at 4.30, the Enfield ex press at 4,45, and the Norwic h ex p ress a t 5 . The Brent. wood train called at every station. It w as a stopping train. The distance from Bishopsgate to Hertford is about 31 miles. The Hertford train did not stop at Mile-ena or Bow, but its first stoppage was at Stratford. The Eefield express ran by Stratford, and stopped t wo miles beyond Stratford. The Norwich express did not stop till it got to Waltham. The Brentwood train, to the best of my recollection, started at 4.30, 10 minutes after its time. The book is kept by one of the company's servants, a porter on the platform. He is appointed to keep the time. Mr. CROWDER here objected to the witness's looking at the book. The witness continued—The Stratford train started at 4.40. My impression is that the Enfield express started at 4.52. Cross-examined—The Brentwood train leaves the main line just before the Stratford station. The Hert ford train goes on the Cambridge line. The Enfield ex press goes to Marsh-gate, four miles beyond Stratford. The Norwich express continues on the Cambridge line. About Christmas there is a great difficulty in keeping the time. There was a dense fog on the 23d of Decem ber. It was impossible to see anything worse. Fog sig nals are prepared for use on that line. They explode by detonating powder. All the officers at all the sta tions ere provided with them. Persons are appointed to put them on the line. On this day we bad given out 1,000 or 1,500, and persons were appointed at 150 or 200 yards apart along the line. I have no doubt they were used on this occasion; at least, I issued more from time to time. On this occasion you could not see a leathern for more than five or six yards. Re-examined—The times of the trains have been al tered since the accident, but not immediately. I cannot recollect exactly the time of the change. I was changed shortly after to another station, which is considered an inferior station. It is the duty of the engine -driver, when he seas a signal which indicates caution or danger, in the first case to slacken his speed, and in the second to stop altogether and wait for further advice. I dis patched men down the line with the signals. By Lord CA3IPBELL—The engine-driver of the En field express was on his engine, close by when the Hertford train departed. The engine-driver's attention was called to the Jact that the Hertford train was behind its time. William Wills, examined—l was a porter at the Strat ford station. It was very foggy there on the night in question. The Stratford junction is about 150 yards from the Stratford station. There was no telegraphic commu nication between them, and there is none now. I re member the Hertford train coming at about five o'clock. It was due at 4.41. I cannot say at what time the En field express train was due. No fog-signals had been put down between the Stratford junction and the Strat ford station. The Enfield train seemed to be coming on fast. I and another servant went to the end of the plat form, and tried to stop the train by shouting. The train did not appear to slacken speed. It seemed to be going about 12 or 14 miles an hoar when it pitched into the train. It drove it the length of three or four carriages. It broke the carriage in which Mr. and Mrs. Head were. The ends were smashed. The middle compartment was not so much injured. The train ought not to go more than five miles an hour over the junction point. The Hertford train bad been about three minutes at the station. The passengers were all out, and the train was just going on. Cross• examined—The place where the fog-signals would be placed would be on the other aide of the junc tion. Signalmen w ould be between. There were people on both ends. Mr. Richardson was immediately on the platform. Every care and attention that could be paid was paid to the persons injured. The fog continued till about twelve o'clock. The carriages were cleared away as quickly as possible. We tent Mr. and Mrs. 1I isd on to Broxbourne as speedily as we could. Some people were more injured than they were. Re-examined—l don't know whether Mr. and Mrs. Head were told that they must stop at the Water-lane station. I don't know when they were fJrwarded. By a Juror—The train usually passes the station a twelve miles an hour. After passing the junction they put on their steam. John Murray examined—l was station-master at Bow when the accident happened. I recollect the Brentwood train caning to Bow. I can't recollect the time, but it was too late. While there the Hertford train came up. It gave the Brentwood train a slight shock. There was a fog-signal laid down as a caution. Two were not laid down, because the fog-men was out of signals. He might hold up a flag, but it could not be seen at any distance. The Hertford train was d-tained five or six minutes. I sent a man back immediately to stop the Enfield express I believe the man left one signal on the rail. I observed, or at least heard, the Enfield express coming. It did not stop. It passed Bow at seven or eight miles an hour, and then appeared to put the steam on. It was behind its time when it passed. I cannot say whether the Norwich express was then due. The Bow station is about a mile and a quarter from the Stratford junction. Alter the accident there was an al teration in the trains. I got two dozen more fog-signals that night. It may have been two hours after the acci dent. I had not heard of the accident then. I did no thing to stop the Norwich express. Cross-examined—l had a large quantity of fog-signals that day on account of the fog. Theman who had used up his fog-signals came to me for some of mine. I had a greater supply of men in consequence of the fog. Re-examined—When my fog-signals were gone I bor rowed of the drivers and guards. Benjamin Richardson examined—l am station-master to the Stratford station. I remember the Hertford train coming up. I was attending to a female passenger who had fainted in consequence of the collision at Bow. I was pro vided wit`: fog-signals. I believe none were put down be tween the junction and station. The train came on at fastish speed. I ran over as quickly as I could. The last carriage was second-class, the next was a first-class carriage, in which Mr. and Mrs. Head were. Both of them were carried out. They were suffering very greatly; but I had not much opportunity of attending to them, as my attention was otherwise occupied. I promised that they should be taken to Broxbourn as soon as possi ble, and gave instruction to that effect. I assisted in removing Mr. and Mrs. Head from the carriage. Mr. Head could not walk. He seemed shocked. Mrs. Head was carried. They remained in the station until medical aid arrived, for about an hour or more. He wished to be taken to Broxbourne, where he resided. At that time there was no telegraphic communication with Lon don. Since that, one has been made. The trains were not altered for some time, about three months. Now, the Hertford train starts at 20 minutes past 4, and the Brentwood train at a quarter to 5 o'clock. Cross-examined—We are obliged to have a good many trains following one another rapidly. I sent out a man expressly beyond the junction with fog-signals. I believe there were one or two extra hands at the sta tion in consequence of the fog. We got medical men almost immediately. We got every one we could get. Re-examined—The Enfield train ought to have stopped between the junction and the station. The fog-signal was put down, but I cannot say it was attended to. Charles Foster examined—l was a porter at the Water lane station on the night of the accident. That station is six miles from the Stratford station, about 60 yards before the line turns off to Enfield. Mr. and Mrs. Head were in a carriage in the Enfield train. The carriage in which they wore was taken off, and pushed by hand on to the Water-lane siding. The train then proceeded to Enfield, which is three miles and a half distant. The engine returned as soon as it had conveyed the train. It remained at Water-lane until the down train came. Mr. and Mrs. Head remained in the carriage an hour or an hour and a half, till they were taken on by the half past seven o clock train from London. That was a slow train, and usually arrived at Water-lane station at four minutes past eight. It was later than usual that night. It was foggy and frosty that night. The engine which remained was idle till the slow train came. Cross-examined it remained for the down train for Broxbourne. George Griffiths examined—l was a porter at the Broxbourne station on the day of the accident. The train arrived at 25 minutes past eight with Mr. sand Mrs. Head. They appeared to be suffering from an accidoerl. I carried Mrs. Head to a carriage—a fly —and 5 0 00 ed a ponied them to lloddesdon, which is about a rpilr° Head half distant. I carried them both up stairs. in is of the firm cf Charrington and Head, the the Mile-end-road. bre wers Cross-examined—l took them in the could. aht, 6,ra T t h fo e ; w o e n re th b e o e th ven in ing a I had, and took the best care of them of _ medical man at had left, and I Thomas Ausell examined —I ft , b e st .. co . nveyence saw them Bow. I went to the station the at Ho d a d e e c s i d d o e a n t. much to the cold. very exhausted state. cann ot . 6 Y how much of that the Th sa eLlai n n i t g i ff _ s .: would _are a bad effect. Mr. The exposure a. Both was owing to tt t i o as accocldident and how how Head was much bruise downward, legs had begen to swell very much from the knee I concluded there was no fracture, as Mr. Head told me he walked from the station to the carriage. I applied warm fomonta tions and leeches. I continued to attend him more or less for three weeks. t 4 —e was in bed during the whole left him, still in bed, to the (c)lfiait that ee im o t fD e ir. Locke, of e,of Hoddesdon. It was impossible for him during three weeks to get out of bed. He suffered intense pain upon the slightest attempt to move. Fever might have ensued. If there had been an actual fracture, it would have been infinitely less painful. Mrs. Head's system had sustained a very great shock. The irries of both the parties were much the same. Mrs. Head's legs were also much swelled. Mr. Head 4 'iT had an abrasure on his leg, which afterwards along, and gave him a great d ea l o f su ff er i ng . Mrs. H ea d had inflammation of the periosteum, which con tinued for some time. It might have been attended with peril. Mrs. Head also kept her bed, and endured much suffering. She had not recovered when I left off attending her. I . have seen th em b ot h severa l t i mes since. iifr. Head is now recovered. A month after I ceased attending Mr. Head he was still lame with a contracted leg. I saw Mrs. Head about three weeks ago. She has in a great measure recovered, but I don't think entirely. She has general debility, and cannot walk to the same extent as before. At the latter end of March she was unable to walk without support. Crcss.examined— The legs might have been broken, but were not. Fever might have ensued, but did not. I did not meet Mr. Bransby Cooper at . Mr. H ea d' s. I knew he went there. I knew he had given a favourable opinion of the parties. He was sent down by the com pany'. Mr. Locke examined—l am a surgeon at Hoddesdon. I attended the plaintiffs with the last witness. They were not able to move to have the bed made for about a fortnight. At the end of three weeks they were wheeled into the drawing-room. Neither of them could pat a foot to the ground fur a month. Mr. Head was obliged to tee crutches. He was not able to altend to business :bed tid. the middle of February, He has since been bodily ill from the effects of the 4h( ck. Mrs. Head is suffering at the present time from varicose veins. That may re main for some time. By Loid CAMPBELL-1 received my professional re m,meration from Mr. head. Mr. Partridge examined—l am clerk in the brewery et Mlle-cnd. Before the accident the plaintiff attended to the brewery daily. He was the acting partner. He was away about seven weeks. Mr. CRowDER then addressed the jury for the defend ants, and denied that the company's servants had been guilty of any neglect of Mr. and Mrs. Head. E ver y poss:ble attention had been shown to them, and, so far `Nuts the suggestion from being true, it was proved that Mr. Bransby Cooper, a most eminent surgeon, was Bent d o wn by the company to Hoddesdon, where he held a consultation with the plaintiffs' medical attendant, the result of which was that ho gave a favourable account of their condition. The main question was, whether the accident was occasioned by the negligence of the defend ants' servants. The Learned Counsel then contended that every thing possible had been done by the corn,. 7 un avoidable. If, however, the pany's servants in order to a vo id t h e acc id ent . Thi s was to the fog which came on, and jury should be of a contrary opinion, h e was sure they rendered r a would think that the case was not one in w hi c h the corn et attributed b t u h t e e d ac entirely eid ent i pany should be punished by being called upon to pay heavy damages. Lord CAMPBELL, in summing up the evidence to the jury, said they were now trying two actions, the one brought by Mr. Heart to recover compensation for the injuries which he had sustained, and the expense to which he had been put in curing himself and wife of the injuries which they had sustained by reasop of th e negligence of the company's servants ; and: the second sought by Mr. Head and: his wife to re cover compensation for the personal injury which Mrs. Head suffered. It had been agreed that the same jury should dispose of both actions at the same time. If there had been no negligence on the part of the company they would be entitled to a verdict, but if there had been such negligence he (Lord Campbell) thoughtithe plaintiff had done well (though he was , as h a d been 'described, a rich brewer) in bringing this action against the company to recover compensation. He (Lord Campbell) was happy to say that in this case there was no personal miscon duct on the part of the servants of the company. They appeared to be decent men, and had given their evidence very well and very creditably. But it would be for the jury to say whether they had any doubt that the com pany had been guilty of negligence. In the first place they must consider whether the general arrangement 4 which had been made by the company for the starting of the trains did not show negligence on their:part. /ac cording to the time-bill the Brentwood train, which was to stop at Mile-end and Bow, started at 4.20. The Hertford train, which was to stop at Stratford, and net at Mile-end and Bow, started at 4.30. Then came the express train which was to follow the trains which were to stop at Mile-end, Bow, and Stratford; and that train started at 4.45. It was to start only a quarter of an hour after the train which was to stop at Stratford. The question for the jury to consider was, whether this was a reasonable arrangement for all weathers; it being admitted that no alteration could be made to suit a change in the weather, such as the coming on of a fog, to which the Eastern Counties lino was peculiarly liable. Even the times indicated by the time-bill did not appear to have been kept, for the trains were behind their . time; and, instead of their being a disiance of a quarter of an hour between the Hertford train and the express which followed, there were but twelve minutes. The question for the jury then, was, whether it was a pru dent thing for the station-master to start the express train after he had only twelve minutes before started the Hertford train, which was to stop at Stratford. If the jury should be of opinion that there had Leen no im prudence, but that the accident was inevitable, and arose from the state of the weather, they would give a verdict for the defendants' Another point for the consideration of the jury was the want of detonating balls which were used as fog-signals. The person at the Bow-station who had charge of the signals found that his stock was ex hauitid. He had but one. The consequence was that the Enfield train, not being aware of the danger, came up to the Stratford station where the Hertford train stilt was. It was detained there for a few minutes in conse- quence of there having previously been a collision at the Bow station Iwtween the Brentwood train and the Hert ford train. "'ere, again, if the jury should be of opinion that there had been negligence in theso arrangements, they would find n verdict for the plaintiffs. It they should come to consider the amount of damages to which the plaintiffs were entitled, the jury would be-ix in mind that those sufferings bad been very gre a t. Let the jary think of Mr. and Mrs. Head's situa tion, waiting for an hour or an hour and a half in the carriage at the Water-lane station, without any person to assist them, till the train came from London to take them on. They had also been detained iu bed for above a month. The jury would not give the plaintiff greater damages became his leg had net been broken, on Ora principle that " my wound is great because it is no small," but such a fair amount as would be a reason able compensation for his injury. The company had acted most properly in employing that most eminent surgeon, Mr. Bransby Cooper, upon whose professional character his Lordship pronounced a warm eulogium, founded upon a personal knowledge of many years. It was impossible that the company could have acted more properly than they did, sending Mr. Cooper down to Iloddesdon to render the plaintiffs any assistance which might be needed, and which his skill might en able him to afford. If the jury should find a verdict for the plaintiff, they would give him reasonable damages for his personal sufferings, as well as for the expenses which he had incurred, and for his loss of time. They would g i v e damages to Mrs. Head, as a compensa tionf al orh so er personal sufferings. The jury retired for a short time , and , on t hei r return into court, gave verdicts for the plaintiffs, with 1,000/. damages. The jury were again sworn, and assessed the damages in each action at 5001. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.. Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, was present at a Field 1 13 'r . in p c h e ip Albert, e presidedrt, attendedat theby Day of the Troops in Hyde-park yesterday forenoon. Lieut. -Colonel H Royal Highness the the C. Council for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset House, yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took an airing in an open, carriage and four yesterday. The Queen went in State last evening to honour the Royal Italian Opera House with her presence. The Royal Procession quitted Buckingham Palace at seven minutes to eight o'clock in the following order: — The first carriage conveying three Gentlemen Ushers. Sir Frederic Smith, Mr. Arthur Blackwood, and Col- Diggle; and the Exon of the Yeoman Guard in Wait' ing, Captain Phihlis. kin The second carriage conveying the Silver Setiv Waiting, Colonel M'Douall; the Field Offcerhie P.sait". t ' ing, Colonel Hay (Coldstream Guards); and g ee t Gordon, and of Honour in Waiting, Mr. George G ran the Hon. W. F. Forbes. Equerry in W a i t The third carriage conveying the rr in W • ing, Lord A. Charles Fitzroy; the faciuHeuiti Seymour; al to the Prince, Lieut.-Colonel Fraud Bowater • the Groom in Waiting, Sir Edwß Colone W and the y d Groom in Waiting to the P rince. the Bedch • amber Wo- The fourth carriage convey'Fo vs rbes; th man in Waiting, Visco untess the e Clerk Mar shal, Lord Alfred Poget),, and Treasurer of the Household, Lord Marcus 11", . in The fifth carriag e Coneev z 0 Maids of Honour, the Hon. Eleano r Sta nley ann tue tw Waiting to th p Ho Caroline Caven dish; the Lord in Chamb ". • rince, Viscount Clit- den; and the sr; eriaine Lord Edward Howard. e COIR The sixth eso' n ' a g 7 . o Ylng the Maids of Honour in %Vaiting, tbe 112. e. Waiting, Lord and the Hon. Lucy Kerr; the„ tLorcaer Waiting, Lord Elphinstone; and the CaPtaiYeoman Guard, the Marquis ofDonegal. The seventh carriage, conveying a Lady of the Bed chamber, th Marchioness of Douro; the Gold Stick in waiting, Vi:count Combermere; and the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, the Marquis of Abercorn. The eighth carriage, conveying a Lady of the Bed chamber, the Countess of Charlemont; and the Lord Steward, the Marquis of Westminster. The ninth carriage conveying her Majesty the Queen; his Royal Highness the Prince Albert; the Lady of the Bedchamber h Waiting, the Countess of Gaiushorough; and the Mester of the Horse, the Duke of Norfolk. A detachment of the Life Guards escorted her Ma je3ty from the Palace to the Theaare. Her Royal ll4,7htless the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Sir George Couper, and Lord James Murray, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with her presence last evening. A deputation of seamen, consisting of Messrs. Smith, Chalk, Oliver, Fraser, and Holman, headed by Mr. Clay, .P., and Mr. Hudson, M.P., waited upon the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere , on Wednesday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Falconer had an i n t erview with Earl Grey eel y 3 terday at the Colonial-office. Mr. James Haywood had also an interview with the Noble Earl. Sir Hamilton Seymo ur had an interview yesterday with Lord John Ru ssell, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. George Ha milton, and Mr. Maeartney bad • an interview wi th the Commissioners of Railways yes. terday, at their office in the Board of Trade. Victoria-street, the new and magnificent communi catio well Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parlia. e at n , will be opened for public tre4o oa the lot of August, COLLECTION OF FINES (IRELAND) BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY reminded the Government of the pledge given that no Irish Bill should be brought on at so late an hour. Colonel DUNNE also protested against proceeding with the Bill. Sir W. SOMERVILLE denied that any such pledge had been given, but under the circumstances would not press the Bill. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and ob tained leave to sit again. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. STAFFORD moved—" That when this House meets at twelve o'clock on any day except Wednesday or Saturday, if the business has been disposed of before three o'clock, or at three o'clock precisely, notwith standing that there may be business under discussion, Mr. Speaker do leave the chair without putting any question; and that the House do resume its sittings at five o'clock." Mr. BROTHERTON opposed the motion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER also op posed it, on the ground that the adoptio❑ of any rigid rule on the subject, especially at so advanced a period of the session, would greatly obstruct the progress;of public business. The motion was then withdrawn. The other business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a few minutes past One o'clock. Mr. Peto paired off with Mr. Alderman Thompson, on Lord Naas's motion. Mr. Baldoek paired off in favour of Lord Naas's Spirit Bill, with Colonel Anson, against. 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Collins, jun., the two candi dates who have announced their intention of soliciting the suffrages of the electors (the former on Liberal, and the latter on Conservative and Protectionist principles), have been ac ti ve ly engaged during the week in canvassing the borough. Mr. Watson, on Mon da y evening, addressed the electors from the Elephant and Castle Inn. Mr. Collins, the Conservative candidate, addressed the electors from the Crown Inn, on Tuesday evening. The nomination takes place on Saturday and the polling on Monday. A letter from Clonmel to Mullinhabone, a distance of twelve miles, now takes two days to reach its de stination — a ll under the improved system of railroads and steam ! Dublin Evening Mail. ...... ',, the 1