The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

[ON AT SARAWAK.

LISTER FROM SIR JAMES BROOKE.

The following pampa from a letter from Sir
Jenne Meeks, addressed Io a personal friend, describe the
event' of gas late iasurreados:
..BALIDAII, XARcu 15.

" I may sow relate more tireunntatially the wreath of
the last kw weeks. Sarawak was as peaceful as It had ever
been, and lbws was no canes to eudte dissatigaraton among
the Chinese or raise suspicion in our minds of any hostile
designs; yet a conspiracy had been formed which had its
✓omificadons in Simmers and la Chios. A follower of
Trate, the rebel chid, had arrived In Sarawak, and seta
whoa* who had been totalled the country, secretly re-
tamed from Singapore. I Ind been unwell for some days,
sad ca the night of the 18th retired early to bed. My servant
was sleeping in a room war mine, and Mr. Steel and Nicho-
las occupied a small bungalow close by. Between twelve
awl one o'clock I was awakened by yells and shots,
mad, asking my sword and revolver, I opened a window and
OM
that the house was surrounded. The noise told me it
was by Chinese. I opened door by door in the hope of find-
ing mains for escape, but in vain. I told Potty (his native
servaa!) that our deaths were at band, sad, as the last hope,
went down to the bathinrroom, which we. under repair.
The door was not fastened. I opened It gently, and, seeing
the ay char, nut across the lawn to the creek on the right
hand of the house, and took the water close under the bows
of the boat which had brought the murderers to their bloody
work. I carried toy sword and pistol across with me.
Glad was I to touch ground on the far aids, thee* not
above thirty yards. I struggled through the deep bud,
and lay down exhausted and panting In the road.
laneweimg breath, I get to the nearest isms. and,
Alera• Mood pulled up to the Datoo 1311111•Strig.
iLlon moo. I was too mama/ to do mass, and
Heel e hied, weld not have Pithead assess es ardor to
ash • pethictebbn raowd. Hen Cheshienit imbed me
dm • abase waist Oa the nth H. Waived
Stye
be ark wa apps bgeg See the abs-
more weld St seterel. g a bele et nearing
afiia
the B. gone, Imp
ulled to the Sow. above,
end pereneded the people to seam their thaws 101 i
valualase to prams, and to cross to the mobile or left
bank of as river, so as to prevent the samßeeekiken attack-
ing awn by land. My than, Arthur's, sal kiddleton't
were nag afore this to aims. We got the yam and
children across the river, and Arthur. Onsabook,
and myself retired to the IMO to to the hoer of
Nakodah &yak. lice Crymbis joined in Ida He elli-
genre alter en bases Slam lbw bet as 'Seth had
been taken, NA with it ell ear =A asaii.eithnti-
btu, Ice. It hed best dahried tar men
and two prams; flute Otis yews NW or
two waded, and girth's Swath 14 gird by a
mlit lie ebb. Xiithrms, Bluth mil Pleg
Mla am altar sae r. The kW* wath at,
erashg beds at Stith bat ably le as
=we able et ow allArs. We red at
kooky bag east we mold to sainsts tialslfeati
eel te perm he week a Shoot se oar seism ebb*
r• In I esai ion nab tbe lib Mill&
Adam et as Poor
• insoasell the PS% eiyhg to 1411=
Csselhamik owl his wife escaped bl their tatbammi deer.
the sea dbal, mil he protected bar throat with in hle
bne, ha graft the belie, ewe et then usslaa red
ftem w eggenki- rise and at her dam Her hirtand
brad la anew the the wthearth beeljdr with• twist
be et his body wombed It the shaft, he
struggled to get the 'pear. gAgy, beaver, Wing go
with his right Mad, in which he • short mood, be an
Crookahank scar the fleshy put of ihe ans. Both bar
gyred, both let go the spear, and Chadolimit, week with loss
of blood, sad belie% ing his with de_ed, sniggered away and
reached toe. She, young and beantlful, lay 'for twelve
hours weltering in her blood, comer= and calm
in this extremity. One fiend hacked at her had
till he cut off the long names which protected it ;
soother tore her rings from her flews; a third—
for the mks ofoor common nature let it be told—gave her
water to drink. By this time the remainder tithe Eneopseas
had been assured of protection; but when the bishop asked
the leader's progenies to carry her to his kora he warn told
that eke should be left to perish. At the bra was
greeted, and she as relieved sad tends, and Is now, God
be ponied, recovering. Midellaca's Hams wee attacked at
the same time and in the come meow so the others. He
with ridicule/. the poor wife hid hi a bakery
71=beraing rafters fell sheen her, Mae
mid, from her toweel.
meat, saw the samilents about the brd fbee eldest
child. The mother was ; she wished, she mid,
to rash out, but art move. The youngest
child was moldered and throws into the flames, where
poor Wellingtoa's rumba ware likewise coomamed,
hie head bora off in tame& shine attesting his previous
molder. The day
_broke, ammolder. I said, sad shortly after I bend
that the Chinese had mewed the annieces of safety ; that
they Ind communicated with the bishop, and seat for Helms
and Rapped. I then, border of doter geed, started for
Siek, • small stream which km its outlet far below the town;
it wee a wild walk ; we swam the stream, washed out every
track of our footsteps In the mud, and took refuge in a man-
grove swamp as dark carman By eight eclair two small
boats came to carry us sway, end ia an hour afterwards I
was in Abong Buyong's proton maimed by forty men, with
six .realer boats in company. Our party awaited of Arthur
Crookehank, Crymble, Middleton, and racy, and, slier the
trials and fatigues of the twenty-four hours, we slept as
though migration had not overtaken us. On the untrukg
following I landed at Baking, and I wish I could explain to
you the trader are, the generous sympathy showered upon
Sir James Brooke preemie to describe the steps taken to
supreme the insurrection,—his narrative confirming the ac-
count which we published last evening. The punishmeot
has been almost as sudden end far sharper then the treachery
and lest acmes of the miscreant body. A thousand and
more have been killed in different places, their flourishing
setttementa destroyed, and "not a rooftree to cover their
dastard heads in the country." Out of a population of 4,000
or 5,000 not more than 2,000 bare . and half this
number Is composed of women and &Sara. "The
Chinon," says the Rajah, " sat play no further treachery
hare, and in future we shall prevent their beinassociated in
contraries, disavow them, MI reduce them to a daily obedi-
ent* to the laws end a strict surveillance. Sarawak hes
now paned through the ordeal that Hong Kong is prang
through end Singapore has yet to meet. The country is
secure, the authority of government has been vindicated ;
the principles on which it is bead proved to be tight by the
fidelity and ardour of its native population. Orr guns have
been recovered with • proportion of out ninaketry, end the
priocipal lose falls on myself, on Crookshank, and Middleton.
For myself, I may say that I never knew the small value
of worldly goods till I lost them. I do not pretend to soy
eratimental rant over my noble library, my costly plate, or
all the decorations and tokens of honour which were ono,
showered upon me and have been lost even more soddenly
than they sere acquired. Man's happiness cantata not
in such things, end be destroys the chances of
finding it if he persuades himself that It does.
• • We aro really not much hurt; our finances
will suffer, but sal recover, ea oven now, owing
to the openly and complete destruction: of the Kumagai,
confidence is not wanting. Thelon of the company is trifling.
It is fortunate that you will hear of our detester and its
retrieval et the same time; and, for myself, Imay say that I
am in good heath end epirits, and reedy to rough it e.th the
best of them. Our ladies behaved with great fortitude and
resignation. Charles Johnson, a• usual, has been my right
hand, and every government servant has declared ho will
follow its fortunes in evil as well as in good fortune. I have
written to retrench every superfluous expense, and I have ap-
propriated my pension from the East India Company to pay
the pension. I grant to others. Everything else is amain-
ono No books, no rapers, no wine, nooohing.'
Sir James Brooke, in his letter also remarks on the coed!.
deuce and lust of dominion which everywhere possess the
Chinese when resembled in large bodies, and the feelings
were roused by the new. received from the north. Whether
the grog rebellion which now convulses the empire be the
canes or the effect, it is said that an energy and a spirit of
daring are to be fouled among the Chinese of the present day
which they hardly portend some fifteen years ago. It seems
that their plan was not to destroy, but to revolutionise the
settlement. They would murder Sir J. Brooke andrvery one
connected with the administration, but they world spare
the bishop and the other Europeans, take them ands,
their protection, make Sarawak a Chinese settlement,
and emery en a trade with England on their own
account. Englishmen only wanted to make money,
sad as long as the trade of Borneo wee kept open no one of
us would care whether Sarawak was a British or • Chinese
settlement. "To upset the government," writes Sir James,
"by the murder of its prod* Akers end its head, end to
establish other Englishmen to carry en the trade, an the
entotestion of Chine at Singapore well acquainted with my
relations with my own country, with the rated position of
Sarawak, and rammed with the idea that the murder of
Sarawak officers sod the Sarawak Rajah would be a matter
of supreme indifference to the British , nation, provided that
trade was continued and cottons sold.' This it is to have •
reputation.

It is stated in aristocratic circles at Vienna that
Prince Alfred do Windischgraetz, though 70 yews of age, is
about to marry the Countess d'Anereperg. The princes
first wife, see Princess de Schwarmnberg, was killed by the
insurgents in the insurrection at Prague in June, ISIS.
The Gazette du Midi complains of the conduct of
the hotel-keepers at Toulon, who have tensed the r kit of the
Grand Duke Constantine to good amount by fieeelng the
visitors out of llfr. a day for a miserable bed-room, with
every other charge in proportion.
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The authorities at the War Department have
sanctioned the issue of 6d. per diem by the relieving officers
of wishes to all those soldiers' wives, married with leave,
who have been left behind on the occasion of their husbands
embarking with their regiments for special service in China.
A public banquet will be given to Major Reed, at
GO ltighbury Barn Tavern, on the 13th of neat month.
The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev.
Baronet Minton, 8.A., late of Liverpool, to the incumbency
of Percy Chapel, Tottenhana-conrt-road.

IVATEIN, M.P., AT YARSOCTII.

Yesterday evening, Idr. Watkin, who, in eon,
junction with Mr. MeCuHigh, defeated the tory candidates,
Sir E. Lacon and the lion. Mr. Vereker, at the late demise
for this borough, addressed a "monster meeting
constituents and supporters from the balcony of
the blar Hotel. There could not have been less
than 7,000 persona present on the quay, and f 4,..
Watkin's speech was listened to attentively throw,.
out, and enthusiastically applauded. Mr. MeCullsen
was prevented attending by the sudden death of his figher.
but the cordial and hearty greeting with which hie mem
was received, unmistakeably testified the affectionate regard
in which he is held by the constituency which plved hits a
the head of the poll. The meeting was presided ova ty
Richard Hammond, FA.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA ILLILWAY.
(THIS DAY)

This morning the fifteenth half-yearly Meetiag
of the proprietors of the above railway was held at the Lee.
don Tavern, Mr. W. J. IIAXILTov, chairman of the berg
of directors, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN before the laminae was cement col, ia.
traduced to the meeting Mr. Witte, who had just returned
from Bombay, and whom the director. had remedy Impound
director. Ha experience in India would be of great mist,
ante to him in the diocharge of his duties in the bow
management of the company.
Thu report was then read by Mr. Warn, It
stated that the connect drawings and specification
of the North Eastern Extension line, running tame%
the Borer cotton field to Nagpuor have been received, la,
whole line from Weiland to al igpour being divided into tire
sections. Looking to the length- of line now under con.
struetion on the South-Eastern Extension to Sholapeor,wj
the probable demand on the native labour of the country, ssii
the inadvisability of having too large a quantity et per,
mancet way material and rolling stock to send oat from this
country at once, the board determined to confine their opera.
liens for the present to the three tint sections on this pee.,
Lion of the line. Tenders, therefore, were invited in ten
country, for three only out of the five, and them banana
been let. They are as follows:—Contract No. 11, b.
Wand to the foot of the Ghent, a distance of 26 miles,
which bas been let to Jarovetjee Borabjee, a Bombay en.
tractor ; contract No. 11, the Thull Blunt Inches, a
distance of Di mike ; and contract No. 12, ben
the top of the Ghent near Egutpoora to Bliosawal, a
distance of 190 wiles. Then two latter have hem let to
Mesas. Wythee and Jackson. The most important of tams
works is the anent of the Thull Gout, and it has bean su laid
out by the chief resident engineer as to avoid the necessity
of stationary engines. An alternative line a under
anudderatiun, involving features of a novel and intereet
character by which the gradients will be materially redo
although theline itself may be considerably lengthened. Des
Mg the last half-year, while the average of miles open has
only biereased from 60 to 88 the receipts have maimed
from 16,5721. 9a. 10d. to 1A,6551. 9s. Id. At the mine tiros
the percentage of working expenses has been database!
from 46.8 per cent, to 39.3 per cent., while the net mean
during the same period have been raised from B,BIW. k
to 14,9181. 125.; subject however to moms hatis
of expenditure, which there was not time to
adjust before closing the accounts in India. Waco
the last meeting at shareholders • further liaaolat of
2,000,0001. capital he. been issued, guaranteed 6 pee eat.
interest. The present capital of the company therefore
amounts to 6,000,000!, In shares of 201. tack ; and 333,3001,
in loans upon debenture bonds at 4i per eat. interest,
issued for a determinate period office years, In conenance
of the retirement of Mr. Nicholson from the office of saps
intending director, and the resignation of his Mat as a
director of the company, the board have resolved to appoint
Mr. Watts, hitherto secretary to the committee at Bombay,
to be the secretary of the company in England. They
conceive that such an appointment will be mere satisfactory
than that of a sumantending director, and they look far-
ward to Mr. Watts experience and knowledge of the am-
pony's affairs in Bombay as of the greatest importune.
The board have at the saute time elected Mr. L. It. Reid,
formerly member of council end acting governor of Bom-
bay, to till the office of director, vacant by the intimation of
Mr. Nicholson. The directors who at this period nail
from office under the provisions of the act, are Mr. J. O.
Frith, Mr. A. S. Ayrton of London • and Colonel Melva],
and*. I'. S. Cowie Bombay ;ad of whom are eligible
for re-election. Mr. James Andertun, one of the auditors,
also retiree from office ; he is also eligible for re-elective

W%• capital account i;jncthe commenoenrentto December
31st last shows :—Receipts, 3,039,0041. la. 10d. ; disburse-
ments In Bombay, 543,8211. 2a. 4d. ; and in England.
880,2241. 3s. ; total disbursements, 1,424,0451. 6.. 4d. •
Wince, 1,614,9531. 16a. 6d. The revenue accounts for th;
half year ending December 31 1866, show remipts, by
coaching traffic, 12,0391. 5.. 4d., by merchandise tray
12,4961. 3e. 9d. • ' total, 24,5364. 9s. Id. • disbar...mats,
9,6461. 17s. Id.,lenving a balance of nett pro Sta for the heal
year, 14,9081.12 a.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report.
congratulated the proprietors upon the prosperous revue
of the undertaking. The receipts were Increasing bey
expectation on the portions of the lino already open!,
while the program of the works on the other perm
tions was highly satisfactory to the company. local an
s=s. It was not nn•eraary for him to go at any mg
into the details of the management in India; ill
the information that could be given on the 'abject bad
been furnished to the shareholders through the median
of an elaborate report which the directors had thought 6
right to publish, and which he hoped had reached the hands
of every shareholder. The intelligence brought by the hat
nail showed that the traffic receipts of the company bad
reached an avenge of 13,000 ropers per week, and that the
progress of the works ' continued catielactory. Since the lad
meeting Mr. Nicholson had resigned the utiles of m 7
and in hisplace the directors, as he had already stated, 0
appointed Mr. Watts, a gentleman well known in Bombay.
In answer to question.,
The CHAIRMAN gutted that since the formation of the
company 176,8061. bad been received in England sad
36,3.71. in India from the Esst India Comply
sa interest. The length of lino already opened was 86
miles, and the rolling stock and machinery for working t,
had cost 7281. per mile, bat the company were in possession
of a larger quantity of rolling stock than was absolute',
required for the 83 tulles.
Mr. Piaci found fault with the propene of the mar.
taking; the eonipany bad been in existence seven years a
a half, and yet they bad only eighty-eight miles of railway
open, an extent of lino vait9y disproportionate to
the enormous amount of capital paid up. There
was an item in tlw accounts which he wanted te
have explained. The sum of 3,7001. was set down fee
engineering expenees in England, whereas their railway Tao
in India. The shareholders ought to have something more he
their outlay than the mere live per cent. they received
from the Rut India Company ; and he should, therefore.
move that the that paragraph in the report, stating that the
progress of the company was satisfactory, be expunged-
-1 he amendment having been duly seconded,
Mr. ELMSLLY demurred to the statement of Mr. Price es
to the progress of the works. It was late in 1831 Wore a
spade was put into the ground, end having had some U
the making of railwaye, both at home and rei"e
India, be in
could assure the meeting that there was no ground
for coniOaint in this instance.
Mr. BENSON asked whether there would be any (linden
of the surplus profits beyond the 5 per cent. before the mine
line was completed.
The amendment was then put, and negatived bye large
majority.
After some further explanation. connected with the se-
count's. the retiring directors were re-elected; and thanks
having been voted to the chairman and directors, the Far
needing+ terminated.

STREET 13IPROVYNIENTS IN LONDON.—MI. FWD.
cis Benumb is to read a paper on this subject before the
Society of Arts, this evening (Wednesday). The paper will
be illustrated by numerous diagrams and drawings as will ris
by a complete model of Loudon, made to scale, showing the

levele. The plan includes the embankment of the Thames,
and it is calculated that the land reclaimed will more the
pay all the expenses of carrying out the when*, includieg
ample comreneation to ell whose interests are affected.
THE QUEEN r. SMITH AND CUTTS.—It Will be
la the recollection of oar readers that at the last scares IT
INS county an indictment, which had been removed by
euctlerari, wee to have been tried by a special jury caw
tas Bishop of Oxford's Act, against a Mr. R. E. SMith, d
Plnchingdeld, and Mr. John Cutts. his attorney, foe h
pt tie', to the procuring and prevailing upon Mill HO* a
=lady under the age of 21, to live with the defendot
but in vineequence of the delicate elate of the idyl
health the trial wee adjourned. At the some time it we
haven that en action had been commenced, the dimes
Wag laid at 1,00 W., against the defendant Smith, who
eappiard to ho very rich, for a beech of promise at
nutmeg° at the suit of the same voting lady. Ii
few (Jaye the jury ass to have amused the real damages
which she WMt entitled, but on Wcdneeday last, we hive. go
defendant Smith, in propriti personef, claimed to fulfil!!
contract. How or in what manner he had been olobd.
upon, it is impossible to say; it is riiniul" tlti
L=l/ reapectablo gentleman of the profession liaa bM
by Smith to endeavour to arrange terms of NP
dement with Mr. Shepherd, of Hoisted, the young 1141.4
ve
legal adviser, and that very tempting offers of "pc=3
the task h less. The lady,
reparation" were rejected with a finances which
it is said, took care to let
the defendant Smith know that it was not the meals
but the man " alone that would tempt her to Iser
the right of appeal to a jury; and therefore it may ce
fairly surmised that the defendant Smith could no lOW
constancy, Be that, however, no it may, a incetiztir. it N"4„.....
withstand such an unequivocal proof of her attachment sad
took place the Mlle evening at Mr. Shepherd's ofhoci wet
certain "confessions and concandons" were made whisk
led to the "happy pair" being duly married on Friday lads
by licence, by the Rey. D. Fiwner, at Holy Trinity ciau
Halsted, in the presence of severe gentlemen who `ri_u
the ceremony. The defendant wee heard fondly
heartily to repeat the solemn vows and obligatioes we".
if faithfully kept by both parties, will not fail to prod*•
that true heppineea which those who witnessed the cow
'loony most heartily desire they may both long lire to eel*
—Ems Herald.