The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 80, Imo.

shield for protestioo." The shield, we may add, is
as oblong patallelogram, not broader than a human
lady, of wicker work. Of these fugitives from vic-
torious enemies, unarmed when compared with
Reign& warms, more than 1,000 were killed without
renistanse and apparently without being celled upon
Vito destruction did not stop hers. The expedition
wended the Ramble. when " Pato° wssfeelifia
sad burst ythe natives [Rajah Bareoin's were],
and man villages in the neighbourhood ware also
deeftoyeL. The expedition also amended the
Rejang, " destroying everything in our way, and
only misting with slight resistance at one or two of
the strongest villages or plates." It is complacently
added in Commander FARQUHAR'S report, that
" a coasiderable number of the enemy were killed."
This rapplementary pillage and massacre is totally
overlooked by the advocates of Sir Ulan BROOKS.
It was at his seegestisa, epee his representations,
under his inspection and control that it was effected.
It was utterly needless, even supposing the
Serebu !NUB' to have been what he
rep:mated, for that flotilla encountered by
his force when eying from defeat, lad been
utterly destroyed, and one.helf of the on
board (its crews, who had been into ser-
vice, and captives u well as wanton) slain. The
burning and slaying on the Raabe' and
Rojas' was unprovoked and wanton anapes-
tic.. The fighting men were deed, or skulking
in the jungl
life in
e : none remained but pead es estarboel pe w-
eals. Of the amount of human
this foray no record has been kept. But the
barbarities exercised were great, may be inferred
from the a=getie puenthems in Sir JANES BROOKS'S
letter to FALDIMUSTON of Ist October, 1849:
"The rewards given for the capture of Dyak women
and children will, I trust. load to a more humane
!Totem of warfare." " Mil lead," not "hew lei."
No wonder that Lord PALMER/YOH, hnosediately on
;Ilof this extraordinary commaniaation, wrote toi
ea Baooxa : "With reference to your des-
patch No. 10, alluding to rewards given for the cep-
cure of Dyak women and children, I have,to request
that you will explain the circumstances which led to
the offer of those rewards." This was written on the
let of January last. The answer is a month overdue.
Either no explanation, or no explanation that will
bear to be published, has been given.
Os these proceedings the Bxentiner remarks with
truth :

Stem* says of enodeety, G:ve it its head sad it is a ?nisi
and roaring lion, and the same rosy be affirmed of zeal for
bnamaity, which goes sometiams to extremes, looking an-
eommealy like labsamaity, and title week as as being t►e
character of &jab Brooke'. manure of the Dysks.

The Spectator, too, remarks with greetjtistice of the
lest debate of this subject, it the Roussel Common :
The soh► feet as yet male eat ie, that we have sot got to
the bottom of the shatter. It seem imp walble that Brooke
and Wise tea Ws be hottest t sad It tells essinet air James,
that ministers, his pauses, are sot forwent te la, the whole
feels nakedly before the public. _ _ _

The comments we have cited from the two leading
weekly papers, and the obvious anxiety of the nmes
to exonerate its client, Sir 'Amu, from the blame of
the MOW, ofJuly, 1849, sufficiently indicate how pub-
lic opinion now stands in relation to this ugly question.

FRANCE.
PARIS. MONDAY STUMM.
The Minister of Public Works has made the follow-
ing proposPions to the committee of the budget rela-
tive to the completion of the railw4 from Paris to
Avignon. The minister proposes to grant the lice as
far as Lyons to one company, and that the section
from Lyons to Avignon should be completed by the
state. The concession of the line from Paris to Lyons
is to be made on the following conditions: ninety-
nine years of possession; four per cent. interest
guaranteed on the capital expended, which is not to
exceed 190 millions; share in returns above eight per
cent.; reimbursement to the state of sixty-five
millions, fifteen being in ready . money, and
any in five annuities with interest. For
the completion of the section from Lyons to Avignon
the government would demand a credit of 18 mil-
lions upon the budgets of 1850 and 1831 ; to begin
immediately the works on the section from Avignon,
to Valence.
By the Canteens, arrived on the 27th lost. at Havre,
we learn, that op to the 20th of May the French mer-
chants had not succeeded in persuading Roma to ac-
cept the modifications of the treaty of Lepredour de-
mended by the French government.
The Monileur contains a government circular to
the prefects of departments in relation to the English
Exhibition of 1851.
The Danish ambassador has bad yesterday and to-
day long interviews with the President of the Re-
public. The French government is preparing, in
concert with England and Russia, negotiations in
order to terminate the differences between Denmark
midi:Schleswig by a treaty.
It is soppcsed that the recent defeat suffered by
Dachies -

the will render more easy the arrival at some
definitive result, which, while it guarantees the exist-
ence of local rights, will prevent the question from
assuming • dangerous magnitude as a Russian or
German one.
In the Areembly's sitting of to-day the budget of
the Ministry of Marine was adopted without debate.
Next came the budget of the ooloniee, in the discus-
sion of which there arose a question of con-
siderable interest. M. de Flavigny addressed
ea Itherpellation to the Minister of Foreign
Afffiks with regard to the reparation due to
the numbeats of Havre and Bordeaux, in consequence
iof the sdnare of fifteen of their vessels by the govern-
ment of the United States at San I/fascism. General
ILahitte replied that the title of those French subjects
to satisfaction was incontestable, had been acknow-
ledged at Washington, and that the French govern-
ment would prosecute the affair so as to obtain fall
compensation. Then the house pawed to the budget
of finance, which was voted without any debate of
interest. At the deemed of the president of the As-
sembly three bills were placed on the order of the
day between the two budgets, namely the bill on the
police of theatres, the bill on the railways from Tours
to Nantes, and from Orleans to Bordeaux, and the
bill on the colonial indemnity. The Assembly then
adopted the purely formal articles of the budget,
which remelted definitively fixed at 1,367 million,.
M. Charles Lagrange has proposed, as an amend-
ment to M. Ginudin's motion to redoes the pay of
representatives, that every representative should sa-
entice, in addition to one-third of his allowance, half
, his income to the state.
Several arrests in connexion with the affair of the
Nemesis Club were made last night. Among the
number of arrested is M. Vannier, former commis-
sioner of the provisional government in the depart-
ment of the Cote d'Or.
Some factious writers attempt to get up a subject,
of irritation against the English government out of
the declaration of Lord Palmerston, that England had
never acknowledged the French conquest of Algeria;
and reproach the government with its readiness to do
the bidding of a government which makes such a
statement, by the decrees on quarantine which ap-
peared in the Moniker of yesterday.
It is rumoored that Baroche is about to retire from
the cabinet. This is far from improbable, but as yet
there is not sufficient grounds for the report.
The friends of Lamorreiere intend to bring forward
this general as a candidate for the presidentship in
1852.
To-day the term expires which is granted to elec-
tors excluded from the new lists for appeal to the
'the

branches, under the &aspics' of the new administra-
tion. The paper is to be printed at Rouen. The first
number is to appear on the 4th of August.
The Boerne was oessipied w ith the liquidations at
the and of the month. No news w a givea oat.
There wee a rise of 16 centimes on the Five', which
closed at Mat O. and of 10 teatimes on the Threes,
Iwhich closed 68.36.
The besinses thee far transacted at the fair of Bam-
ako has best very satisfactory. Important transact-
tions have Wimples. in the mannfactared goods of
Rome, sad prises have a tendency to rise. Woollen
goods also have sold well, bat summer articles have
been less la favour than those of winter. Articles of
Paris sad objects of loamy have gate off well. On
the whole, the hie hie been ialisissly superior to
those of the two yam.
Letters from districts date that the
late rains have dose memo tfeaefts to the oats and
barley, which wen beginning to perish from the long
drought. Nee hers wesoestertained that the wheat
harvest mild set be so ptedwetive as was Impeded
some days pair, net and meet having made their
appearance in some districts. In the wintgrowing
districts there is hat little badmen doing. The vines
have a most ?sift appearance, but the stock of
wine on hands ameegie the growers is bat small, and
they refuse to sell except at a price to which the
buyers mhos to submit.

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