The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-19 00:00:00

SINGAPORE

A public tnfeting, convened by the Sheritt, had
been litld at Singapore fif the pitrpose of taking
into consideration the rncent Chinese outrages at
Sarawak, and to address Sir James Brooke, congra-
tulating that gentleman on his fortunate escape
and the reestablishment of his power.
A series of resolutions was passed expressing
sympathy for Sir JArnes, and declaring it to be the
opinion of the meeting that he was entitled to the
confidence of the British Governthent. The final
resolution was as follows!---

.
That it is the opinion of this meeting that the late out-
break in Sarawak is sufficiently indicative of the feelings
and tendencies of the Chinese, to warn all of the danger
of temporising with a class devoid of all proper feeling,
who view clemency as cowa, dice and concessions as
weakness, and to demand from the Legislative Council of
India those acts which have been frequently asked for, and
without which it is impossible to control the turbulent and
disaffected.

A. committee of four gentlemen was appointed to
carry out the resolution'

WEST INDIA MAIL.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.
The Orinoco arrived here yesterday. She left
St. Thomas's May Ist, and brings both the West
India and Paeifin mails. She had on board
specie in dollars 324,000, and 429,000 dollars in
gold.

The Orinoco eperiencecl, in the homeward
voyage, light easterly winds till the Bth May, north
and north-westerly winds till the ' 13:11, southerly
breezes till her arrival in the channel, and in the
channel light airs and calms.
The dates are—Honduras, April 7; Mosquito.
18; Carthagena, 25; Colon, 23 ; Jamaica, 27; De
morara, 25 ; Trinidad, 25; Barhadoes, 27 ; Gren.

ada, 25 ; St. Vincent, 26 ; and St. Thomas, May

She brings 216 passengers and 754,858 dollars•in
specie. _ _ _

- Jamaica was healthy, with hut little news
stirring. The Kingstown Standard contains, iu its
packet summary a long account of the capture of
a slaver with nearly four hundred slaves on board
The Standard says—

An unexpected and most providential event has con-
qrmed in a remarkable degree the grounds on which the
remonstrances that are now proceeding from this colony
against the continuance of the African slave trade will)
Cuba have been based. The answer invariably re'urned
by government to petitions and memorials from the British
colonies on the subject of the public infraction of her
treaties for the suppression of the slave trade by Spain has
been, that these petitions have been based on a delu-
sion, there bring in fact no slave trade with Cuba
which called for strong coercive measures. Hitherto
we have been compeled to fall hack on evidence
supplied alimart wholly by the American presi ; and
although there probably could be no better secondary evi-
dence in such a case than that of the press of a country
whose ports were confessedly and notoriously the great
nurseries of the trade ; still it was impossible not to feel
that testimony of such a nature was liable to question in
official bureaus, and required at least some confirmation in
fact before it could be pressed with confidence, as con-
clusive of 'the bad faith of Spain. This confirmation has
at length been Jr,rded us at a most opportune moment.
On Sunday the 12th inat., the Pit Dace of H. M. Briar
Arab under the command of Lieutenant Stubbs, R.N.,
after a search of ten days in and about the keys on the
South side of Cuha, succeeded in capturing a
schooner of 150 tons, name and nation unknown, frgether
with 370 slaves, survivors of 500, shipped at Kabinda on
the Coast of Africa, aNd destined for disposal in Cuba.
The circumstances of the capture are precisely these :
On the secon4 of April, the pinnace left the Arab
off Trinidad de Cuba, in c-mmand of Lieut. Stubbs, a
marine, and 15 m, n, on a cruise. On the 4th, shout half'
' past ~ine o'c'ock, the pinnace anchored in Bocha Grande,
w' ere she found a Caymanas ,choone.r. the Star, Cap ::in
McLauchlan, who informed Lien. StArbs that there were
three wrecks of slavers on " Man-of War Key," off Thicha
Grande, from one of which Captain McLauchlan had
obtained a smol quantity of copper, about one and a-half
miles East of Cape Breton ; the slavers, the Captain stated,
had been on shore for about two months. He also stated