The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.

JAVA.—Barxvia.—The whole of the troops and
the naval force connected with the third and unsuc-
cessful Bally expedition have returned to Java, Lieut.-
Colonel Van Bwieten, commanding-in-chief. reaching
Batavia on July 26th, per steamer Phoenix, with the
intelligence of the completion of all arrangements.
The Rajahs have acceded to all the demands hewer. in
a position to make ; the refractory chiefs have been
removed and friendly ones put in their stead. Up to
July 28th, the Billy ambassadors were will at Batavia,
but were to be sent back in a veer steamer. All is not
quiet in the Dutch possessions. The resident of
Palembang has found it necessary to request the pre-
sence of additional troops. The Governor-General
has ordered three steamers to be in readiness
to convey troops thither. A grand fete was about
to be given at Batavia to the returned Bally troops,
which fete is to last two days and nights; the ex-
penses are eructated at 20,000 florins, the full
amount of which had nearly been raised by public
subsuiption. The Governor-General was preparing
to leave for Celebes and the Molucca Islands, intend-
ing to reture after an absence of four months, during
which period M. Iteyost would act as Governor-
General. It has been correctly ascertained that the
coffee crop will fall short 6,000 piculs this year, and
the sugar will be nothing equal to last year, the
falling of of the latter being caused by the frequent
and extensive inundations which have occurred in
Java.

LABUAN.—lntelligence from this place extends
to July 26th. We have designated the colony
" Young Sierra Leone," and right well does it de-
serve the appellation. The accounts now Wore us
bring intelligence of farther sickness amongst the
troops, attended with marked mortality ; to prevent
the sepoys being depressed all possible meansare em-
ployed to conceal the ached amount of deaths. This
great mortality:amongst the troops will prove a
hard bargain to the British government, as it
has been arranged between her Majesty's and
the East India Company's government that the
widows and families of sepoys dying at Labuan
shall receive full pension-money. Fever and ague
prevailed amongst all classes of the inhabitants. The
Semiramis had a heavy sick-list during her stay
this vessel has been ordered by the admiral to re-
main at Singapore until further order', so that the
, solitary isle is left without& guard-ship, the ministry,
apparently, getting ashamed of the Labnan job."
Her Majesty's ship Meander arrived at Labuan on
July 23rd. This frigate, in the passage from Me-
anie, had got upon a reef, off the Island of
Sanity, on the morning of July 17th. To ex
tricate her it was Lund necessary to throw
her guns overboard, which was successfully
accomplished on the 19th, without damage or
accident; in 24 hours after the Mreander recovered and
remounted all her guns. At one time the Meander
was considered in a perilous situation, and the pin-
nace 'e Si despatched to Labuan fur assistance, but the
ve-sel was fortunately extricated before the Semira-
mis steamer reached the spot. The Maunder was to
leave Labuan with ore hundred tons of coals for Sin-
gapore; after receiving on board stores and provi-
sions at the latter port, the Mee ender proceeds on spe-
cial service to California. By the way the whole of
the surface coal having been removed, the operations
of the Eastern Archipelago Company have been
suspended until the arrival of machinery which
had been despatched by a vessel from Sin-
gapore. Sir James Brooke was still away at
his S rawak principality, where he was likely to
remain until the operations against the Sakarrans
and Seribians were completed. The Maunder having
been ordered to the Pacific, Grain the Hon. H.
Xeppel will take no part in the expedition, the task
devolving on H.M.S. Albatross and Royalist, the
H.O steamer Nemesis, and the forces of Rajah Brooke
and hie native allies.
SINGAPORE, AUGUST s.—The absence of the
Governor and the non-arrival of native traders leave
the place dull. The great increase of tigers infesting
the low jangle has made the districts distant two
miles from the town very insecure, and will seriously
affect the production of pepper and gambier. Scarcely
a day passes without persons being carried on
aid on one occasion during the past month,
no less than three Chinese cultivators were de-
stroyed on one estate, a fourth man escaping
with difficulty. The English bisque Prudence, of
London, from Penang, bound to China, having on
board a valuable cargo of rice,opiam, birds'nests, &c.,
struck on the Two-and-a-half Fathoms Bank in the
Straits of Malacca, and immediately filled. Cargo
all lest ; crew saved, and reached Malacca. The Bel-
haven, from London, on the morning of Jelly 30,
struck on a reef at the eastern entrance of Rhio
Straits, and in a few minutes after had seven feet
water in the hold; after hard-pumping, the vessel
was kept afloat until the morning of the 3 tst, when she
wss run ashore on the Singapore sandy. beach, where
she is discharging her cargo, partially damaged.
Business here is dull, with stocks accumulating. The
Bogie traders are looked for at the end of the month
with their supplies of produce from Celebes and the
Moluccas.