The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-13 00:00:00

unfair eet•off to a ethnical gimping of liewenT,
life means of pkumrs, ths pertemel
life. All alcohols mikado:M*4oM asslflo
part of that (*inhales,. The rellsers—
man mime by fascination and the emiltsdlopi
criminal berinam, than it has &tat leriebn
latioa.
Let say of us consider the aci'ia *or. of oars.
everpday life, carried on even to an advanced ige,
faded bow easily the err wuty or imminenceot death
oaa beset wide as a data rlay or deeply iellasseing
idea. How natural is it that what has to hula in-
flames o the promarons shoedd have IMO at all on
those whose lot is misery, and with whom mime has
became a neanwity or a ageeslation.

Ws not loag essafr a paragraph, somewhere, to
the direst that Sir JAW Beams bad volunteered a
to surname' that his salary as Govereor
gol;C=, should be reduced to 5001. We know
set whether Sir JAMS has really dose so, or whether
the pwagniph was but a friendly hint of what it
eroaM be 'rodent in him to do. Nor does it much
emitter. Even 6001. would be an exorbitant sum to
pa • man yearly for doing nothing.
The heat Is, Sir 'Mauls' behaved most shabbily I
Lalsegur.ffiisee he has bosoms its nominal goeuneer.,
Mad lase Mess receiving twelve ce fifteen hiedtilf
under that name, he has only ted it mein
wise, fee a few days each time. He has hien es
guesting ths part of the Genghis Hien of
that he has had ono time to think of litallea.
hatteltea no t to asteldish law aed eSer
or promote the of the rewedi if
plow. He is Wriggles Laboan into WI
with Bag wke not unnaturally begin
Maui open it, ISalleirms. in the 811.00111 job.
, This is hard sessoles for Leman, which is no way I
=sae for the Seeawak doings. There is at
as isesbanstible ripply of coal of excellent
and essly worked. It might be made to
!'os the coiling stations at Hoag-Koos and Sings-
. gat Cap_e Turk, when steam navigation is ax-
le New South Wales • and probably at
Batavie end Manilla. With the extension of sem-
la the Rioters Archipelago, the demand far
kesteani assisted= would mores.% and with is
Ohs value of the Labe= beds. Lohman is marked by
rime the a great coal depdt, a packet station, and •
selmnerdel emporium. There has been much da-
mns them, based; it could not well be otherwise,
esedderbas the nature of the locality where the anae-
mia sent oat by government saw fit to plant them-
selves. Bat situations may be don the island
net inferior in point of ealubrit found on the island
.et inferior in point of .slubrity to the avenge of
trlitstations.
ito do justice to the natural capabilities of
Labs= will require a very different kind of manage-
ment from that initiated by the Colonial-offior. The
office has doss its best to swamp the island with an
alimonies serener and a hod of useless officials, who,
having nothing to do, must do mischief, in order to
look as if they were working for their salaries.
Labean can at fiat be =thin bat a ooal aed
packet station. The coal would be moot economically
worked by private adventurers, who waddle, willing
enough to pay a moderate @disarms for permission
to enemata and sell the coal, and for prettied= to
their lives sad procenty. Foe example, the work-
ing the coal beds under a certain extent of suttees,
the construction of roads or laying down of rails,
and erecting wharves and jetties might be farmed
to a company or individeaL The wed depots at Sin-
gapore, Hong-Kong, &c., would mania with these
undertakers. As the demand increased, and the con-
cern showed itself to be profitable, new adventurers
would farm the beds under the adjoining lands, or
the original speculators would do so in order to open
new pits. A settlement of overseers, managers, pit.
moo, slopeellera, provision dealers, would grow up
round the pits. All that would be aired to protect
this settlement from foreign would be a
block-hoses strati; enough to resist any unforeseen
native attacks during the brief intervals between the
visitsef the packets or the British men-of-war cruis-
ing in those sees. A moderate guard of native troops
officered by Englishmen would Naos far the garri-
son. A superintendent, to act as governor, with a
clerk, a salaried judge, and a harbour-master, with
a body of constables, would be all that was at
Ant required for the civil government of the
settlement. The 'signoras* on the coals, and the
round rents or prices of ground required for build-
tag and gardens oregricultural purposes would, at a
very early period, suffice to defray the moderate ex-
pleffitere of such a government.
The settlement at the cal mines would soon come
to be regarded by the native commerce, as a harbour
of refuge when pirates were abroad, or is the stormy
eam Merchants would be induced to settle there
as a metrical position habitually mewled by the
navigators and traders of the Archipelago. It would
become an emporium of trade for all the neigh-
bouring eisantrise ; a depot whence the inhabitants of
please where law was less strong and oppression
men to be feared, would obtain supplies from mer-
shoats who were reluctant to venture among
them. The population of the settlement would
lacrosse mere rapidly than the supplies of
food predeeed ea the island; the cultiva•ors
on the adjacent main of Borneo would find a steady
market there. The native traders to the settle-
ment would insensibly contract the tastes, opinions,
and priaciplee of a more advanced civilization, and
dimming* them among their countrymen.
As the settlement grew in wealth and population,
its social relations would brooms more complicated;
more and mere extensive public works and institu-
tions would be required. The settlers would be the
best jeeps of what were and what were not
essemea7; the superintecdenee and control of
them weld be beet left to some of the
meet intsiligent and respected members of the
esmimenity, nominated by the public voice;
and the means of defraying the expenditure incurred
fhe the cosmos good would naturally and equitably
be defrayed by common coatributions, imposed and
levied by there reyessetatives of the people.
The whole expense of the government required by
sash a community need not exceed what would be
willingly and &emfally limbo by its members.
Ground resets, the 'signory on coals, with a very
slight impost, would defray it all, leaving the settle-
ment free him onetime datiss or he:bow dess,which
are es apt to *tee sway hada The whale govern-
ment. might be denied en by the soled mw el the
sedhciesh under die }use issue el a govenda. The
nemistion et he roam meths Jodie would be
meet advaMeseen* left to limo mown, has avoiding
the sick et a spirit d osedomildp in seek high fano-
densuise. The exposes of the loml garrison might
be borneby the inhabitents ; but. ia return for allow-
ing its oaken' to mak ia the British army (se timed
the West India Regiments do), they might hold their
essmaisioos from the crown. The civil rights and
liberties of the settlers would De retested by the
rigid vested exclusively in their repressatatire
=and appropriating the revenue; and thus
the governor to ad by and through a cows-
di enjoying the *Deaden., sad support of the local
t:zre. The influence conssded to the mown by
It to aoudade the governor, the judges, and
the Assn of the garrison. weal& be ao laces than a
becoming aoknowledgmeat he the palladium derived
by the setthmeat from British mearifwar, and from
its being wad as an integrant part of the British
esedoisma
la Ms manner a dowishin British community
might, 4 &short time, be iihed at Labuan. U
veil open a new and lucrative market for the pro-
FM el British industry. It would accelerate the
isygewnt of commerce and extension of eiwidation
to the elipelago. It would by its Mums and
example turn the minds of the natives from piratical
to Ewe worthy and humanising pursuits. And it
seed not cost the mother country one farthing. It
would in short be really a British colon of which
,Britain might be proud, not a mere
of job.

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the ether poets histittally Wont Om* ohm this OM-
pleat, a female ealllB forward NA soli dot doe =at te the
void to see her bubo* whsa Hs =deb oiled bee =-
prefer ammo ordered a rope to be Med need tier waist,
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boa mask fojered. It bother appered that whisk
sole. youth esoplabliey, too-
Wm boys' boos bees
sea= via sesseis. A =neat vie food, but the semi
bad oiled behos is weld be easeuesd. As latiasties has
shoo bee awe that the wilmoss were deceived fa
Abbe these sets et selpetbility spa the impish' sad sate
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