The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-20 00:00:00

At Whamvoi the storm mos lees violent then in the outer
meters, end the Emma 'hipping did not suffer. A great
litany Chins Costa were destroyed, witn considerable loss of
1 fs. At 9 pan. et the 31st, it blew fresh with heavy gusts,
" having an seetward tendency ; " at half pest 2 am., of the
Ist, heavy gusts, with much rain and forked lightning ; the
barometer e 29 ; at 4 a.m., a heavy rade at E.N.E. ; at 7
•m. wind heavy E.8.E.; at 12, wind moderate et S.E. ;
bur:atter 29.30.

At Canton-the barometer at no time fell below 29.30;
at 9 p.m., it began to blow hard from the north with au east-
ward tendency ; at half-past 2 cm., fierce blasts and forked
lightning; at 4 a.m., the gale moderated, keeping in tee
E.N.B. quarter. Owing to the crowded state of the river
the loss of Chinese boats was dreadful ; it is said that near
the foreign factories upwards of 1000 people were drowned.
The weather appears to have been Null in the north of
China. " Accounts," says the China Mail, "of the dis-
astrous consequences of the heavy rennin the north continue
to arrive. Several rivers are said to have Mandated whole
districts, and the most terrible ravages of the Hoang•ho are
apprehended if the rains continua."

SINGAPORE, Oct. B.—On the 19th of Sep-
tember, Colonel Butterworth, Governor of the Straits, re-
turned to this place after having made his usual tour through
the Straits. On the 20th, Lawrence Nairne, Esq ,of
Penang, was sworn in as sheriff-elect for the incorperated
settlements. The grand jury at Singapore, on the sugges-
tion of Sir Christopher Rawboson, the recorder, bag recom-
mended that the office of sheriff be abolished, and that an
inspector ef pri•ons be appointed in his stead As the duties
and responsibilities rest with the deputy-ahrriffs at each of the
three sett/ements, there is no use of retai iing the office of sheriff
except for the emoluments attached to it, and which are
always bestowed on some needy or greedy favourite. The
criminal sessions opened on the 20th ult., and terminated on
Oct. 2. The cases were light and of the usual character
among Asiatics. On the 23rd the Spanish brig-of-war Ligero
arrived at Singapore from Cadiz. This vend has on board
nine Spanish gentlemen, who are banished to the Philippines
for being rankels and obnoxious to the existing eovernment
of Spain. Eight of them are freemasons—a worse crime in
Spain than radicalism. The brig will remain here some time,
awaiting the arrival of a steamer from Cadiz with marry poli-
tical prisoners. On the 23rd her Majesty's brig Espiegle
arrived f. om Hong-Kong, and left on the Mth. Mr. Camp-
bell, the late acting chief justice of Hong-Kong, who, as the
temporary successor of judge Ilulme, excited so much in-
fecting in that colony, is a passenger by the Espiegle to
England.

MALACCA, Ocr. 6.—At the beg:nsing of last
month her Majesty's steamer Inflexible arrived at this settle-
ment, with several convicts transported from Ceylon for
having t►ken part in the late outbreak. They were tried by
a court-martial, and sent off to this place without being able
to communicate with their flea& The brig Iluccanesr also
brought on a number of convicts, transported for political
offences during the Ceylon disturbances. One of these
convicts is a European (a Sootchman). The American set-
tlement at Salengore, of which a notice appeared in the
Daily News a year ago, is on the eve of being abandoned,
owing to an imprudent act of the managers in supplying the
Rajah of Salengore with Smarms, in contravention of the
treaty with the British government. The Rajah, finding he
had got into a serape, took means to stir up the Malays and
Chinese against the Americana, and the latter have been
forcibly driven out. The American gentlemen will lose by
the adventure about 10,000 dollars. Sufficient evidence has
teen adduced to prove that Mr. Weaterhaut, the assistant
British rerident at Malacca, negotiated, or took an active part
in negotiating, the arrangement entered into between the
Americans and the Rajah, which hilt led to Mr. Wester-
haut's suspension. The affair has been reported to the
Bengal government for its determination.

LABUAN.—There is intelligence from this settle-
ment to the 26th of September. Sir J. Brooke had u-
rived at Sarawak, and was expected to reach Labuom during
the first week of October. Our Singapore i.orrespondent
writes : _ .

" The news from the new colony of Litman continues to
afford a discouraging account of the hcalthfoin-ea of the
settlement. The Borneo or Labean fever has visited all
who have remained on the island a short time; a great num-
ber of the Chinese labourers died, and the survivors MA to
Bruni. Such was the paucity of labourers that the ship
William Shand, with the housis, offices, &c. of the govern-
ment officials, remained at anchor without discharging, in
consequence of the absence of coolies. Many of the Klieg
coolies bad suffered from fever, and others had fled. So
incomplete have been the arrangements for opening the
colony, that articles of food were not obtainable. Her
Majesty's ship Royalist, and the Europeans on shore, re-
ceived a temporary supply from the Auckland steamer.
The Am l a (the captain of which died of Borneo
fever on the lit of September), had been sent to Kimanis,
in charge of ore of the: lieutenants of tho Auckland,
in order to procure bullocks, rice, and other articles
of food. The Lieut.-Governor, Mr. Napier, and his lady,
who arrived at Lehi:twirl the Auckland, in the middle of
September, were in health, but how long they would
continue so, was highly problematical, as their peons and
domestic servants were nearly all suffering from fever. This
unhealthiness is not surprinng : the island is, so stated in
the Daily News • year ago, a continued swamp; up to the
middle of September no steps had been taken to drain the
island, hence the violence of the local fever and its great
mortality. Coupled with the paucity of provisions (the
crew of H.M.S. Royalist were, at the date of our correspond-
ent's letter, on halt rations), this malignant fever is difficult
to overcome. Mr. Burns, having completed his arrange-
ments with the native chieftains at Bintuloo and Tauten,
had arrived at Labium to meet Sir James Brooke, but was
seised with fever ; his recovery was doubtful. The
barracks for the troop, from Singapore were still
on paper ; no steps had been taken towards their
construction ; they were, however, to be got ready by
the middle or end of October. The site selected for the can-
tonment is one mile distant from the projected town of Vic-
toria, the way to it being a swamp knee:deep of mud, over
which a sort of road was being raised.
Licut. Gordon, of the Royalist, had completed his survey
of the coast of Borneo, or rather of the bay between Sarawak
and Cape Sirick : also surveyed the months of the riven in
the bay, and took the ship up the river Rejang, as also up
the Si,iki, a small river branching off the Rejang; the latter
river is esteemed the finest in Borneo, having sufficient
water to admit of the largest frigates creasing the bar. Hay-
, ing completed a survey of the river, the Royalist proceeded
towards Cape Sirick, and thence along the coast towards
Point Barrem, where the Royalist's tender, the Breeze
cutter, was caught in a squall, got into the heavy breakers
end went down; she was subsequently got up, but the chro-
nometer, &c. in her was destroyed."