The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-10 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

(1/1031 THE CORILISPONDENT OP TEI DAILY NEWS.)
THE HAGUE, Fps. 6.
Captain de limit van den Broecke has been charged
by the Bing with the portfolio of Marine.
The subscription opened in this country in aid of
the British Patriotic Fund has just been closed. The
total amount subscribed is about 4,000 Boring (3404)
The Journal des Pays-Bas recommends that Cap-
UM Gibson should be put on his trial again in this
country. For doing this, and for reproducing the
correspondenoe u originally published in the 11 em
York HeraM,the ministerial papers accuse the Journal
dee Pays-Bar of a want of patriotism. It would
undoubtedly be fruitful of inconvenience if a verdict
once given by a colonial court could at any time be
appealed against in • home court of justice; but
Gibson's trial in Batavia has been throughout such an
entire piece of judicial bungling, such s complicated
net-work of acquittals and committals, that the course
suggested, if adopted, could hardly, on account of its
very exceptional character, be twisted into a prece-
dent.

The following, which I take from a Dutch news-
paper, published in Java, is well worthy of the
attention of Mrs. Beecher Stowe. Worked up in
her pleasing style of negro narrative, it would serve
admirably as a pendant for a picture or two of hers
in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Contrast makes such pic-
tures wonderfully striking; and such a contrast as
this might possibly have the effect of showing her,
non-abolitionist countrymen into that humanity
which her own elequent reasoning and indignation
have failed to awaken in their sordid hearts. The
communication is dated Grieve, district of Sourabaya,
Island of Java, Nov. 20, 1834:
"Last Wednesday we were witness to a touching
scene. In the market-place of Gnus., a slave family,
consisting of father, mother, and eight children,
from three to fourteen years of age, were to be
publicly and unreservedly sold by auction. They
had been the property of a deceased Dutch widow
lady, who had always treated them with the greatest
kindness: thus they were deeply grieved at being
obliged to pass into the hands of a new muter,
and they gave expression to their great affliction by
tears and sobs.

" The public crier put them up at 6,000 florins.
Though a crowd of people had assembled, they kept a
profound silence. Thecrier grainally lowered his price
to 2,000 florins, but nose would buy. Then the
father of this slave family, availing himself of the
privilege granted by law to slaves put up to sale at
a public auction, offered himself 5 florins, and at the
same time throwing himself on his knees he besought
the spectators not to make a higher bid. Not a word
was spoken ; a silence of a few moments ensued, and
the entire family was adjudged to have been unre-
servedly sold to itself.
" It would bedifficult to describe the joy experienced
by these slaves on hearing the fall of the hammer
which thus gave them their liberty, and this joy was
further augmented by the presents given them by
numbers of the spectators, in order that they might
be able to obtain a subsistence till such time as they
could procure employment. These are the acts of a
noble generosity that deserve to be remembered, and
which at the same time testify that the inhabitants
of Java begin to abhor the crying injustice 'of
slavery, and are willing to entertain measures for its
abolition."