The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-17 00:00:00

CEYLON.

(Frost the Oarland 05atmr.)
COLOMBO, JCLy 11.—In both the planting and the
commercial weald then is sow a eampasativo The oid
Wise mop is all gathered mad wary all shipped ; while of
the sew atlas has se pt riposted, if we lacer a small nasa-
lity is Ladsesaava. We applied the mast Illemasad aof
staple capons and impacts at the port of Colombo. Allow-
ing kw ever-totrise, Oat :oddio4 lee Um shi?tawits at °elle,
the total export et cafes ippon to be not hie than 340,000
awls.

The lesdlnc event of the month has b:rn a vlitical
monstralon ea the part of tb• turgbare, torah's,' HI stales
ezprewioas of loyalty to Emplanes Queen and attachment
to the British rule, and equally strenuous usertione of their
dimatiefaction with many of the acts Mae local government
—especially of its head.
Bad as matters keystone on under L,rd Torrington's rule,,
we vesture to assert tbut not half a &rot people in Cer.on
would bear without dismay • eonfinastPn of the rumour
speaslated on by our Indian mitemporarlee, to the effect that
the island is to be handed over to tn• Lost ladle Cfmpany.
W. trust no such doom is io store for us. We are now

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merely impeded in cur onward vial's:. ; swamped in the
e.utpany's .rer•`rown dominionekwe shou.d be thrust back a
century at Weal.

INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO.

The OeerAznd Singapore Free Press, of Joly 1,
says: Knothicg of importunes hss oc:orred in Singapore
during the put month, affording matter for remark, with
the except:on of some atrocious murders perpetrated on
petterral and unarmed &hermits and boatmen, in the Siren-
-10311 river and near the Red-stiffs, by Meiays, who appear
to htve bean led to commit these mimes principally
fee the sake of the small quantities of ries and other az
tiefee in the possession of the parties attacked.
It la not thought probable that the mural will he ills.
cowered, as the parts of our island where these murders took
pi.e.t are left total.y unprotected, sod there is very little
known of the burnt' of the bad characters who abound in
the Old Straits, and mbar by plunder and violence.
We have partioulan of "piratical attacks" made by Chi-
, new Junks upon naive trading vaseels in the C nine Sea, near
the entrance of the straits of Singapore. In bath cases the
"pirates' were ussneceeefut. The Hanourabl3 Company's
steamer Nemesis eruized few some days in the Coins Sea in
marsh of junks, bat did not fall in with any.
Ktporte era rife that the Siamese Cr. in • state of much
slum en account of tee approaching visit of Sir James
Brocke, and that means are being taken t 3 prevent the ap-
proach of any veggie to Bangkok.
H. M. S. Hastings, Captain Austin, arrived here on the
30th ult., having left Hong li rag on the 20th May last.
From Java we have: very little news this month. The
disturbances in Bintam seem to be nearly suppressed, and
them are no accounts from the refractory district in Sunatra
with the imoeption of a small expedition sgaiast a petty chief
in one of the islands off that coast.
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The Dutch authorities at Sambas, it is reported, have
little bees under the necessity of taking proceedings meant
the Chinese settlers on that part of Borneo, in consequent.:
of their refusing to surrender a sampan puk it, which was
introducing opium into the Chinese eistricte, in viola-
tion of the opium monopoly enjoyed by the Sultan of
Samba.. The pukat had proceeded to &okaying, which
is the principsl point of communication with the Chilies*
districts, and the demand for her delivery made by the Sam-
bas authorities havieg been disregarded, en expedition, con-
tenting of two steamers, a schooner of war, and a
number of gun-boats, with a force of about 1,000 men,
chiefly Malays, was sent from Sambas to lienkiwung in the
beginning of June. An attack had been made urn the
Chinese, end it was reported that two or three Dutch officers
had been killed or wounded, but according to last aeconnte
the affair was still undecided. The Chinese are said to
possess iteanderable stores of arms and ammunition, but
whether they will be able to hold out for any length of
time seems doubtful, although the nature of the country,
completely impassable except by narrow footpaths, would
make operatiose by regular troop very difficult, in tie
event of the scene of contest being transferred from the coast
to the interior. The Dutch steamer brings no news on the
subject.