The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-22 00:00:00

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OUTGOING MAILS.
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evealag of Nov. SI.
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rude 11, on Nov. 27.
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Mow Meaduras, New Weems, sad Illesieo, and ezeladiug
them sot Madeira, St. Jam.de.Niesragas, New Granada,
Mil, and het, will be made op on Dee. 2.
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will be made op ow Des. 4.
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Mort, Ceylon, India, sad Chins, via Mathaneptce, will
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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEIMER 22.

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Tan chief news from India is that of a ratzia made
at all the villages, to which the Sikh chiefs had been
allowed to retire, and of their being brought in
petwby the jealous conquerors of the Punjaub.
Had IlseFresch done such a thing in Algeria, bow
load and depreciatory would have been our exclama-
tions! These chiefs, it seems, communicate! amongst
each other, and broke the ride of that "silent," or
"separate system," which Lord Dstuouste imposed.
According to the Peatonville system, introduced into
the Rest, these nobles are all to be severely punished
and deprived of the ltde liberty and indulgeses
hitherto left them. D‘es the Czar NICHOLAS, it
whom we so complain, treat his foes more ungene-
rously or suspiciously than this?
It Is, however, the financial state of the country,
brought before the Indian public by the documents
laid before parliament in July, that attracts the chief
attention. And we must ouch u it is time that some
warning or agitation from India on this vital subject
should come to rouse parliament and the home go-
vernment to bestow some attention to it. Never, cer-
tainly, was there a period in the history of our con-
nexion with India which more loudly called for legis-
lative inquiry then the last decade.
Toe Bombay Bi-Mosahly Times, says—
Foe the last tea years we have been spending continually
from thoncquarters of a ratline to two millions and a hull
our means we have extinguished since 1838 a
Dalawe is the treatary of nearly tea millions—converted a
surplus of hems hall to • whole million kite a &Snit of
doable this 1111101 int—sad got rid of an utilities sines then
made to our reveals. of neszly two Billions a year. Oar
gram annual expenditure accounted fur in this way has for
see past seven years exceeded by four millions what it was
just ten yam ego—the total amount of some thirty 'Whom
the. arising having bees throws away oar wars by which
neither the goverment nor the onantry, the people of Zee-
land nor the people of India, have gained ose Morrie far-
thing, or were likely tip have dose so, had all that ever was
expected 'roar oar Sanwa bees realised. Against all
and every one of oar military exploits have the Court of
Directors stedfsetly set thimmilver—it I. to her Majesty's
government, and the people of Xnaland, who give titles,
pri.sions, pose mosey, votes of thank, is parliament, and
"mend immunity to lighting governors-general and cora-
manileruth•chief, that the whole is due.
In the ten yearn, war has followed war; province
after province his been added to our dominions,
prince after prince hag been deposed and reduced to
captivity; our frontiers have been extended again
and again ' • an old and established principle of Hindus
thoession hes bren est aside, when it interfered with
our territorial advantage ; and by the stroke of a
Governor-General's pen the etatutable policy of eon-
acquisitivenees has been reversed, and the extinction
of all native sovereignties been declared to be our
duty. Nor has any one of these occurrences or acts
provoked the series. attention of parliament. Yet
fur this negligence there as not the encase of con-
current prosperity, or of progressive improvement.
The army of India has in the like period
been increased by little short of 100,000 men,
and the cry is that its strength is still insufficient.
We have seen how far the expenses of the Indian
government have far exceeded its revenue, though
that revenue, under the pressure of severe sessounent
and bevereecollectioe, has annually augmented, and
little or nothing on a comprehensive or adequate
scale could, in the face of a large deficit, be done in
the execution of those great public works (soolt as
roods, canal irrigation), on which the mittens! pros-
perity of India so mainly depends ; the condition of
the people thus taxed and deprived of the means of
sending their produce to market has, of course, dete-
riorated, until, to sae the appropriate language
of the Report of the Cotton Committee, it
has become " abject •" the clause in the
lest Charter Act Which was intended to
open to them the higher departments of the govern-
ment of their own country, and by lowering 'shrift
to economise the coat of that government, has bees
allowed to remain a dead letter ; the salt monopoly,
condemned by every principle of justice and humanity,
has been allowed to continue in a country where the
staple food of its inhabitants requires a condiment,
and salt is the most salutary condiment ; the police
remains to be more oppressive to the people it wee
meant to protect than the robbers it ought to have
put down; throughout the country poverty is making
mighty strides • and in the towns immorality,
extravagance, and dishonesty, are the most striking

Take, for instance, the metropolis of India, Cal-
cutta. We have there Been the funds of a joint-stook
bank literally divided amongst some half-a-doxen '
commercial houses, and hardreds brought to ruin by '
their plunder. The officer of the Supreme Court,
appointed to protect the interests and the fortunes of
the widow and the orphan, has, by a Wog career of
unchecked gambling, dissipated the funds assigned to
his safe custody. And now, it is made apparent by
evidence taken before a public commission, that the
whole police of Calmat* has been under the corrupt
direction of • rich native, to whom its heads were
earrurly indebted ; and that he, in his taro, made it
the elegies of oppression, vindictiveness, and greed.
Yet Calcutta is the seat of a hithly.paid go-
vernment : has its councils, its legislature,
its boards of revenue, police, &c. Now, when
such outrageous venality can be practised in
the capital, what may nit be expected in the pro-
vinces ? Who after this exposure, with such evidence
before him, with such an example set in Calcutta can
doubt that the astounding " Revelations of an Or-
derly," which are now amazing and horrifying the
twos, are literally true ; that the corruption which
the Writer, from his personal experience, extending
over Monty years, describes asissrvading every iefe-
rior branch, not merely of the Merfaseil police, but of
the onvta of justice, is a verity oppressing the info-
rmed, sellingjestice,and oseeigraing handreda to ruin P
Usderernch &system as he reveals, property is without
legal protectim, no mu can tell what his rights are :
bribery, popery, forgery, are the prevailing agencies
in the marts of .fneties, monopolies are extending
themselves, and all sorts of tyraaaise and oppressioas
are meths&
Bet these " Revelations cf an Orderly," it will be
urged, are published eassymously, and so carry little
aellhoefty with them. Bat what inducement is there,
we •reply, fee any ram la the 'eyries of the Indian
goviromeat to six his sum to • work taking an an-
faveimible view of the results or the policy of that
'Overtime, when we me the treatment Captain CU*.
NISONAN has betel, experiessed p Ice his " History
of the Sikhs" he es seed the policy pursued towards
that imp* and, within six months after its publics-
kilos ig orders from the Coat
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writes? Nor la this only Weiss. d Ile oat's
anxiety to repress censures cm it
that
has lately warred. A native d
man ia that government has mengla e-
d to
be so theservice
becat'
ame, &wimp a recent visit tothis
country, he printed and pat into private circulation a
very interesting pamphlet containing his views of the
wants of India. For this meritorious ant this gentleman
was frankly told by the chairman of the Court of
Directors that he bad forfeited all claim for future
=under the government of India. Bat
111
of instances of such treatment, with the
het barb UP, that though the number of English-
men employed in India far exceeds the number em-
ployed is all our other oolonies, and though the
system of the Indian government accustoms them to
literary composition, we have fewer works on Indian
subjects—fewer travels, fewer researches into the
history, fewer published details of the actual state of
its people, than of any other British possession ? Yet
in every point of view India contains more attractive
materials for publication than, we might a!most my,
any pert of the non-European world. The want of
information, the absence of publication, is entirely
owing to the jealous vindictive system of the East
India Company.
The Indian government is throughout a paper sys-
tem; it consists of reports, despatches, minutes, and
all sorts of documentary correspondence. The sub-
collector reports to the collector, the collector reports
to the Board of Revenue, the Board of Revenue re-
ports to the Governor in Council, the Governor in
Couecil reports to the Court of Directors, and the
Court of Directors reports to the Board of Contra.
All looks fair and @miller, and smooth and happy,
acd prosperous on paper : but all this mass of
writing is unverified by effective supervision, or by
actual superintendence. It may contain the truth;
but it may also be a continuous succeseion of mis-
statements; and the probability is, that it is untrue;
fait is acontrolless system; and the reporters have
a direct pawed and pecuniary interest in s ndiog in
flattering accounts of all around them. The consider
of a distant district gets up and sends in a skillet
=on the Feathers of its resources, the well-
of its people, and the increase of its revenue.
This report, in due course, comes home. His friends
and relations here are timely inform dof its cep
preach; the attention of his patron in the Court of
Directors is drawn to it; the patron, in his turn, calls
the notice of the examiner of correspondence to the
document; it is flatteringly referred to in an out-
going despatch; and the reference ensures promo-
tion to its writer in India. With such rewards for
glowing pictures, who would send hcme a desponding
report ? Under such a system it is impossible that
the people of India can be well governed ; and in
spite of half a century of such pleasing documents, it
is apparent that their conditi.n is deteriorating.
Now, what is primarily wanted is a verification of
the local results of the Indian government ; some de-
pendable account of the state of the inhabitants of
British India—acme authentic icforma'ion as to the
' increase or decay of their numbers, as to the propor-
tion which taxation bears to the produce of their
agricultural industry, as to the state of their morale,
and as to what has been done for their future im-
provement. We kliow enough, tar more than
enough, e the wars in which we have been engaged
in India—enough, far more than sough, of the cor-
rupt ected;tion of Europe in society in that country:
bat of the red, the actual state of the 'roe we know
little or nothing, and can know little or nothing, until
the results of the East India C =patsy's government
be verified by competent authorities.

Oua Singapore ewreepondent reporls some judicial
griings at that settlement, which merit, and we
ccei
uebrnot will receive, the attention of the English
public now, and of parliament as soon as it meets.
They may be designated a comic afterpiece to the
traody enacted at Siksrran, and w led be amming
enough were the/ not stamped with a degree of
brutal ty that reuders them revolting.

Our readers cannot have forgotten the appalling
description of the English war steamer crashing
through the thronged array of tho native flotilla and
a the spectsee which the sea presented at daybreak.
The heroes of that inglorious triumph, in which the
giant power of steam crushed the frail boats and man-
gled and submerged their crews, without expossig
the English force to any el roue danger, are not satisfied
with barren kurtle. They must have plunder too ;
and, as their adveraaries either had nothmg worth
taking or lost it in the sea, they have turned about to
compensate themselves by picking the pockets of
Joint BULL.

The captain of the Albatross has preferred a claim
for " heal money" in the Admiralty Court at flings,
pore. He rents his claim upon the allegation that the
Nemesis, Albatross, and Royalist sunk and captured
98 prahus and kiUed 50u men. He asks head money
(" the bounty") for 3,435 mea, the estimated rumbar
lof the crews on board the flotilla. The sum demanded
at lint was 33,00 W. ; but on second though.. it was
feared that this might appear exorbitant even for
such wholesale butchery, and an offer is made to
osasponnd for 24,0001.•

At the time the steamer left Singapore, Sir
CHRISTOPHER RAWLINSON, the Queen's Judge, was
sitting in great perplexity sifting the evidence—
little better than conjectural—offer. d in support of
this extraordinary claim. What the learned Judge's
decision may be we will not presume to anticipate,
but we have a shrewd guess as to what the decision
of what BINTHAN would have called " the public
"pinion tribunal " in England will be.
At present the Sakarran affair presents mare the
ce of a war between Rajah BROOKI and
appearance of a war between Rush Bxooxa and
his uafriendly Dyak neighbours than of the expedi-
den of a British force against pirate'. We
base, on the one hand, the Rajah mustering his
native fleet, and on the other a hostile native fleet
advancing to meet it. We have three English
war-vessels acting as auxiliaries to the Rajah.
We have a naval battle, followed up by an invasion
of the territory of the Dysks, the demolition of vil-
lage', the capture and slaughter of inhabitanta. Of
which of his titles—Oovern,r of Lebuan or Consul in
Borneo—the Rajah availed himself to impart a legs(
character to his tne'ructions of the officer in command
of the British squadron, does not appear. But the
real nature of the tunuction is sufficiently obvious:
it was a war between the Rajah of Sarawak and
some neighboaring chiefs or tribes. The Bntish
squadron acted as auxiliary to the Rajah ; and to the
Rajah, la whom service they were tor the time being,
let them look for their pay. They acted not in de-
base "[the British territory Laboan ; not in defence
at laglish traders in Borneo ; but in defence, or for
the aggrandisement of the territory of Sarawak, held
lby Rajah BROOKE, by a foreign title, in virtu* of a
grant (or an alleged grant) from a foreign prince.
The public will look with curiosity for next year's
estimates. Will this 24,0001. for one night's work in
the 'service of the Rajah of Sarawak figure among
them P On what ground will ministers rest the title
d the claimants? How will the, describe it? The
most apt illostratios of the service by which the 'maim
alleged to dam been earned would be to imagine a
steamer of CUNARD'S line dashing in among a Beet of
coasting sloops and fishing craft, and running them
down right and left. If the statements in some of our
Singapore lettere may be credited, the exploit might
feirly soosgb be left to be, like virtue, its own
reward. Many of the person engaged Cm (*p-
aid, we are informed, declare that it was " fine fan,
sad will be well paid for.'

• The hilarity remark by the editor of the China Mail,
out the Widow of the head-inottey eystaa to frustrate the
suds of justice, h full of good sense, and as applicable to the
affair of Bahama as to the provding' against Chinese
pirates with& Welted it. We Mast the coselediag exhorta-
tion will nil be dieragusied by the venetian to whom it is
ahlmosol : The rmodefiose of our lonise as to hied-
messy estomege the laditerimiaste destrustioa of pirates
and supposed pirates. but nod to prevent laveangsdeos,
tibia would he a null owe consist method et sopposedig
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BONG-KONG, Barr. 30.
The Brims, a esiterganised foes—a banditti—is
essarelusesetreliable by the einem) their quiet is se-
cured swim paid Mt of the imperial treasury. This
is in Ceuta. But this is not the only form
whoa psi -will is parthased by hush-money, anyeed
sepreseed by the imperial troops. Lawless
hob la the west and north have, within the last two
egging years, chosen piracy as their means of =b-
abs's. Between them northern and western pirates
the mast deadly enmity mists—they an, in fact, mem-
bers rivall Lineys, and invariably engage mortally
Wkllleialiee throws one in the path of the other. The
Wiese these piratical hordes are an well known as
the governors of chartered institutions in England,
and they pay a portion of their ill-gotten gains to the
corrupt mandarin,. The leader of the western holds
is Sha'p-ung-teei, whom head-quarters are at Hainan,
sad an command one hundred junks and a form of
sight thousand men. This man had attained tied
degree of power that he was courted by the audio&
ties, who, knowing they 000ld rot put down las
sturdy buccaneer, sought to make terms with him,
and we believe his agents are still at Canton, nego-
tiating for terms more favourable than the Viceroy is
disposed to wink at.
The attention of the English authorities has been
directed to this nest of pirates, who most successfully
cut off many junks and small trading vessels an their
way hence or to Singapore. So long u their atroci-
ties were confined to junks, no notice appears to have
been taken. Other events have tracspired which
have forced the matter on the attention rf the naval

eoramandetein-cidef. Oa July 11, the brig
.Dido left
pet for Singapore and Calcutta, and on the following
day, the Stith (a clipper ship, belonging to Mesa's.
Jardine, Matheson, and Co.), proceeded to the same
destination. By a letter which appeared from the
captain of the Dido, in the Singapore Straits Zinn,
it would teem, in besting down the Citing Sea, the
Dido was standing towards Hainan, when a great
number of suspicious junks were obi:need, some of
which endeavoured to intercept the Dido, but ailed
by
atfdair breeze of wind, she got away after being
some four or five mil s. At the time the Dido
was standing off from Hainan the Sylph was ob-
served standing in, since which nothing has been seen
or heard of the latter vessel. So long time has now
espied that little doubt is entertained that she was
cut off with a cargo of treasure destined to Calcutta.
An appl cation was made to Admiral Collier, then at
Singapore, to despatch her Majesty's steam sloop
Fury in search after the vessel, but as this powerful
steamer was required to accompany the admiral, in-
structions were sent to the senior naval officer here,
and Captain Troubtidge thereupon despatched her
Majesty's steamer Medea' Commander Lockyer, to
Hai- an. The Media's draft of water was too
great to permit her crossing the bar of
the river in which the piratical junks were
careening, and the force was too strong
to attempt cutting them out by means of her boats.
Five junks were at anchor in the outer creek ; these
were most effectually destroyed. One seaman of the
Medea was killed by a round shot ; Mr. Midshipman
Wilkinson, four seamen, Sergeant Hanwood, and
three marines were wounded. The Medea returned
to Hong Kong, front whence she proceeded to
Whampoz to relieve the Columbine sloop, which
vessel has been ordered hcme. The Canton steamer
was chartered by the owners of the Sylph, and
steamed for Hainan, having on board a lieutenant
and party of marines from H.M.S. Amazon. On
the evening of Sept. 9, the Canton paned the piratical
feet, which had quitted the creek immediately after
the Vedea's departure; bat bad the latter blockaded
the river until the Canton arrived, the entire fleet
must have fallen into oar hands. Next morning the
Canton engaged one junk (the boats having been
beaten off by a shower of spears and stinkpot.), but
finding themselves no match for the steamer, the
Chinese took to their boats; some reached the shore
in safety, but one wee intercepted in which were from
50 to 60, the major pert of whom were killed ; the
prisoners were brought on here. On 19th, the Phlege-
thon, steamer, p:oceeded in quest of the pirate
chief, accompanied by three boats of H.M.S. Amazon
under the command of Captain Hay, of the Columbine.
After cruising about, • junk, which had been cerured
by the pirates, but again liberated, was descried, and
from the people on board it was ascertained that the
piratical fleet bad st.stained great injury by the
typhoon on the nieht of the 13th ; several wrecks
were observed at Salt-to, but the pirates had quitted
that place, and their place of refuge wig unknown.
The Pi legethon returned here, and on the 23rd again
proceeded to sea, with H.M.S. Amazon in tow. After
various fruitless searches after the pirates, the
Awn in 'laded on the 25th for Singapere, and the
Ph!egetaon returned to Hong Kong. On the
Medea's reaching Whampos, Captain Lockyer
discovered six junks at anchor there, which
had formed part of the piratical 8- te. The
intelligence was immediately communicated to
Bowring, who conferred with the Viceroy
I See, and the latter approved of a seizure of the
jugs being made. The relay of a day was fatal, for
*.pirates -wa ved information of our intentions, and
moved off during the night.
The change of the mossoon has been ushered in by
the occurrence, on the night of the 13th, of a typhoon,
but less violent than on some previous orcalons. The
American clippers, Frolic and Antelope, were die-
masted, and put back; several other vessels sustained
much injury. No fats' accidents are reported, but
fears are entertained for the safety of the American
clipper, Coquette, which left Shansbai for this port,
and is now long overdue. The Greyhound and In-
vestigator, the former from Tutirorin, and the latter
from Calcutta (both vessels last from Singapore), are
also overdue.
From Macao we learn that all was quiet: the senate
had shown the utmost determination to maintain
order, and the inhabitants of the city had voluntarily
given 10,000!. for strengthening the fortifications.
The Viceroy wrote to the senate of Macao, and also
to the representatives of foreign powers in China to
the effect that the head and hand of Governor Amaral
were in his possession, tend would be given up to par-
ties authorired to receive them at the barrier. On two
several occasions a deputation of state, accompanied
by the foreign consuls, proceeded to the barrier by
appointment, but the head and hand were not de-
, livered up, and the Mandarin stated they would not
be made over until the senate surrendered the three
IChinese whe were witnesses of the foul murder. In
the meantime the Viceroy is alleged to have beheaded
the metal murderer (a man of rank) or a substitute
is his stead.
In the preceding remarks on piracy two important
eireamstances have been omitted, which are now sup-
Intelligence reached Hong Kong on the morn-
of Sept. 28, to the effect, that pirates had captured
eve war junks off the southern point of the Lemma;
dles war junks were on their way to the Bogue : in
ipasting through Cap-sang-moon, they were chased by
six pirate boats, which boarded them, put their crews
to death, and carried the commanders (small class
Mandarins) on shore, where a fire was kindled, and
the unfortunate officers were burnt alive.. This out-
rage on the imperial naval officers ought to convince
foreigners of the utter helplessress of the Chinese ex-
ecuftve to uphold authority. The Americans appear
determined to do something towards the suppression
of piracy. A Canton letter of Sept. 27, obeerves--
" To-day a petition to Congress for two small steamers
capable of steaming 15 to 20 miles an hour, was
headed by R. B. Forbes, and signed by the American
houses here." The Hastings, line of battle ship, with
Admiral Collier, arrived here on the evening of the
28th, and his Excellency detained the departure of
the mails for 24 hours, so as to enable him to forward
his despatches.
SINGAPORE.

The arrival of the Bugle traders in increasing Bom-
bers hes imparted a tone of cheerfulness not merely to
trade but to society generally. Oo &pt. 13, her
Majesty's ship Hastings and steam-sloop Fury quit-
ted for China. The Admiral's health is still very
precarious—paralysis has got too severe a hold upon
Ibis Excellency for medical wines to remove. It is
mid that Commodore Plumridge prat oda to China
1 to hoist his dog in the Hastings, and that the Ad-
mind will proceed home in the Cambrien, but the
Admiral is so extremely vaelUatory that he does not
know hie own shed for a day together.
The Maunder has ailed for Alaska' sad

,-- NOVEMBER 22, L

dar*ia..l ta;lnia the Hon. H. Koppel wag.,
not to depart without teceivicg.the warmest
avian of his numerate friends here, vibe in him
to a public diaper prior to his departure. The Alba-
tross is now her% but will leave in a day or two for
Penang and the rust of Sumatra. Captain Farquhar,
of her Majesty's sloop Albatross. hen Preferred
claim for bead money on account of the 8 katran atd '
Berard afar. its claim k,,inght before the
Admiralty Court, here—the sum, at Apt, weeset
down at 33,0004 bat, on reflection, this has been re-
&toed, and the claim is now made for 20901. for the
Albans., Royalist, and Nemesis, being for 88rabos
taken and destroyed. 500 men killed, and the bounty
on 3,436, the estimated number of men in the
piratical flotilla. Thus, John Bull la called upon to
pay 24,0001. to gratify the avenging band of
Rajah Brooks. We wed not wonder at our travel
officers berthing Sir James Brooke, whose policy
places at their acceptance a gratuity of 24,0001. for
one night's work. It is high time these outrages
were inquired Ida John Bull will not submit
quietly to have 24,0001. filched from his purse, as an
encouragement to indiscriminate slaughter on the
ousts and up the rivers of Borneo. The case comes
on again to-day (Oot. 8) before the Admiralty Court,
where mach painstaking is displayed by Sir Christo-
pher Itawlinsoo, the Queen's Judge, in sifting the
evidence—little better than conjectural—offered in
support of the extravagant claim.
JAVA.

-
BATAVIA, SEPT, 29.—The Governor General is
absent on a tour through the Celebes and Moluccas,
and during his absence little of a political nature will
be undertaken. The Bally affair has been disposed of
to the greet gratification of the Dutch,. who have
most sucaessfolly backed out of an inglorious retreat,
and induced the Balinese to acknowledge the sove-
reignty of the Netherlands. Fresh treaties have
been made with the sovereign princes of Slonkong,
Karang Assam, Balaling, Bali-Bsdong,Tabanan, and
Gianjar. These treaties all acknowledge the com-
plete sovereignty of the Dut.b, and agree to carry
the Dutch flag over their own, in acknowledgment of
vassalage. These princes also agree to prevent any
Europeans', other thin licensed Netherlanders, to
settle in their country : they likewise stipulate
to discountenance unfair salvage, slavery, and
the slave trade. Inundations have been fre-
quent and much injury has been done to the
crops. The Merapi. mountain (volcanic) had re-
cently shown alarming symptoms, and caused much
anxiety to the inhabitairs in the vicinity. On Sept.
14th a strange rumbling noise was heard; on the
15th ashes were poured forth in great abundance, to
such an extent, indeed, as to destroy the crops of rice,
tobscco, and coffee. Many houses were also destroyed,
but fortunately no lives were lost. Some of the stones
which fell were as large as pigeons' eggs, and were
thrown to the distance of ten miles from the,
biro cf the mountain. At Timor, and through-
out the Moluccas, many shocks of earth-
quike had been felt. At Amblyna the shocks
felt were less severe. The larashe Cburant affords
partiTsliire of an encounter with a tiger, which is of
sullies lit interest to translate and give to the reader
' entire : . .

•
From the R•sideney, Rembang, a communication has
been received of a rare instence of the istrepiiity of a native,
which has been crowned wilt an extraordinarily firtunato
result. This native, named Wiro Rpl, went at 9 o'clock in
the morning of the Ist August to the forest situated near the
dears Dugan, intending to search for Areen leaves (daun
gibing) to make mats of; and he bad provided himself with
a hatchet, fit to cut grass and Nan wood. Shortly after his
entrance Into the forest he discovered, at a abort die
tacos behind him, a tier of the largest kind, ready
to spring upon him. Without awaiting the leap,
Wiro Dipo timid( attacked eke mons'er, and gave
it some wounds with his light weapon, which
reused the tiger to fall down roaring, dragging his
a salient down with him ; but the last succeeded in raising
hiintel% and in giving a number of blows to the tiger, who
finally expired under them. Wiro Dipo came without any
wound out of this battle, and it is believed that this nearly
inexplicable circumstance may b• ascribed to the rapidity
and in,repidity with which Vitro Dipo anticipated the leap
of the thee, and to the fear which Vie must have caused to
the tiger; the timorous as well as cruel nature of this kind
of animal teing suft iently known. The skin of this tiger
was measured afterward•, and it was then found that i.s
length from the nose to the b• ginning of the tail amounted
to 6 feet 2 butes, and including the tail 8 feet 6 inches and
a half.

COLONIAL.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide journals have b en received (overland) to
the 28th August. The government Gazette of
August 9:h contains an acc:unt of the receipt's and
expenditure of the colonial government for the
quarter ended 30th of Jane, 1849. Tee net customs
receipts are set down at 13,9291. (of which 8,0421.
were for spirits, a:_d 2,7901. for tobacco), and other
source., 18,4011.; making the total receipts 34,330/. ;
whilst the amount of expenditure is set down at
26,7811. Tt4o Adelaide Tunes, August 27th, charges
the return with unfairness,and inserts that but two
months' salaries are set down, so that at the end of
the year a large deficit will be apparent, and that the
expenditure continues to exceed by 30,0001. annually
the receipts. The Corporation Bill has been repro-
duced in an amended form, read a third time and
passed on August 23rd in the Legislative Council.
The bill does not appear to be a p-polar measure, and
the local journals accuse the council of unfairness in
passing the measure. The Australian Register of
August 18th announces that Mr. Smellie, the Advo-
cate-General, was about to be raised to the bench, in
which case Mr. Milner would succeed as Advocate-
General. The other journals contradict any such
prt.posed arrangements, but the Register reiterates
its belief that they will take place. At Glen Ormond
silver lead smelting had been and was still being car-
ried on to a great extent, the silver being separated
from the baser metals and the lead b ing manufac-
tured fur various domestic purposes, as well as for
exportation. The Adelaide railway companies having
amalgamated, operations have commenced by a call
on August 17th on the shareholders. The bill for the
railway was before the Legislative Council, which
proposes to allow eight per cent. on deposits.

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