Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

CHINESE OUTRAGES AT SARAWAK.

The Chinese who attacked Rajah Sir James Brooke, at
Sarawak, murdered Messrs. Wellington and Nicoletts, and
wounded Mr. and Mrs. CrJokshank, have suffered a fearful
retribution at the hands of the Malays, having beau nearly
extirpated from the countr:. bpi their relentless pursuers.
It appears that, not contented with the mischierthey bad
already done, they returuad to the town in greatly in-
creased force; but the whole yak population was in
arm:-, and the Chiutse had to retreat, closely pressed. by the,
Malays. A letter in'the Pinang Gazette

About 1000 to 1500 Chinamen have lied tlielrlheads taken off by the
Dyaks, who are in arms in all directiOns. The Chinese had held pos-
session of th town for about two days, b3fore tho steamer Sir James
Brooke arrived, and were in-the forts, and about the town. The first
shot from. the steamer's long 18-pounder cleared the fort, and in a
short time they were all swarming out of tlie.toirn, the steal:der all
the time hard at work with guns and r:fies, which did considerable
execution. Every day, boatloads of heads were arriving in Sarawak,
the Dyaks were flaming in thousands, and cutting the Chinese off in
all directions. They are all cleared oat of the Sarawak territory,
only 150 or so out- of some 2000 to 3000 h3.ying: escaped.. 4111 the
Chinese women went over safe, about 701; and of _all the booty they
got in Sarawak, they possess very little now.. One of their ruses of
trying to get quit of the Dyaks was to throw money among them.
The Chinese were marching in a body of about 2000, including 700
women and children, and the byaks hovering abotit them, occasion.
ally making a dash at a corner, detaching 40 or 50 from the main
body, and whipping off their heads with great zeal. The Chinese
harrisad a, terrible lesson -is -Sharawak. Their manneriOf going
about it, was to take hold of a. Chinaman by his tail, and whip Off his
head with great dexterity ; one blow sufficed. I hardly eipect the
slaughter will stop here, the Dyaks having their blood up, andlexpect-
ing the Chinese to have a deal of booty, will -pursue them till not a
man is left.

Only ten or twelve Malays and Dyaks have been killed
in the pursuit. 11r. and Mrs. drookahank were nearly re-
covered from their wounds, -and quite had been restored.
Mr.- Russell, a metallurgist, was 'in the interior Of, the
country at the time; bat he Was flared by the fidelity of ten
Matays who accompanied him. The Dutch Resident at
Pontianak, who hicilieen applied to for asssi,tan'2e, idstatitly
despatched a.war7steamEr. to the assistance of Sir James,
but it did not arrive until all danger .was happily over.
The Straits Times says,,—

Mach as we regret letting loose the Dyaks to commit the most
savage decimaton er rather destruction of a whole people, we_cannot
sympathise with the diabolism of the Kangsi, who both indivkbsilly
and collectively, have always received at ths hands of Sir James
Brooke Borneo justice—a code regulated by circumstances. The
diabolical attempt of the Chinese Binge has met with the punishment
it deserved; no reasonable being will pity them, hot►ever mUCh they
may regret the frightful sacrifice of human life. ci sesta : >

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•
STEEPLE CHASE EXTRiORDINART.—Some time this spring, during
the height of the "smolt" season, and when the vigilant watchers
near Innerleithen were locking around them more vigilantly than
ever for victims, two of these argns-eyed gentlemen espied an individ-
ual a fishing in the Tweed, at the beautiful locality known as Tweed
Green. Him they iixtmediately recognised as an" old offender"-7-that
is, he had been convicted of having one or two smolts in his posseseioii,
on the testimony of one or other of the bailiffs—although the question
as to their being amolts, was, asyet, a matter of dubiety, or at least of
opinion, Forthwith the two myrmidons—who virtually at present
administer the law on the absurd smolt clause of the Tweed Act—
accosted our friend, and demanded to • look into his basket.
who is one, according to the language of this Chaldee MS , whose duties
lie in the way of " horsing upon horses,"—had been taught wisdom by
experience ; and knowing well that whether the fishy prey he had
captured might contain a " happenia' brnte" of a smolt or not, that
such would be sworn to be the case, he politely informed his visitors
that he could not give them the pleasure of a look :into his creel.
Moreover, he had taken the precaution of having padloAred h;s
basket, on seeing which-the poAce of tiliViveed resolved upon the
employment of physical force. Two to one, thought 'Jahn, is hardly
fair play, and as he was likely to get the wont of it, he considered

prudence the, betterpart of velour, and at once made a dash through
ttteaviter;.pfirstred by his persecutors hot haste. Never was .a race
_ .

for A:bandied pounds. more keenly contested than the Redestrian' feat
which now began to be_accomplithed. The " racingurid chishig on
Canobie Lea" fps to gisielny conception of it, inasmuch a 5 the fact'
of the three competitOri• -being on foot enabled the leader and his
pursuers to take many deviuttis, and strange ways. The romantic
woods'of Holstein% were. threaded, Jehu showing rare game, and his
followers still determined to db .or d:e in ins capture—one at least
bang 'unwilling to 165 e his laurels won Af at Peebles at the Play" and
011 the green, atlnnerleith.en, in many a keen competition with the
athletes of the district; But all. Was in-vain, and our herb at last, on
the precipitous and rather • trying ground of Newbiec-aigs beat his
followers to n:deati(stand, encumbered though be was with basket and
rod. 'We have' not learned. she "time". taken In this exciting race of
three:Miles, but we can .wet- believe that 'it was a rasping pace
throuktibut ; and heavy Golds we believe will be taken on Jeftu sho ld
htb}dvdrWiner the, fist. fur Lena ...Go at at. nouan's Nimes.—Border

WAAT COMETS ARE VADS OF. —That the entire mass of most

comets, and nearly the entire mass of the rest, is composed of
far distant and infinitely minute particles, is proved In various ways.
The comet of 1832 is one of the few which panne a r,gular course
round, tits sue; like the planets; and it .ts the only one which at t'its
'same time encroaches upon the path of the earth. It travels throtgh
an elliptic (elongated oval) orbit once in ebrnt sit years and three
quarterS;.- and once in this.period, therefore, the earth and the cornet
arrive respectively at a point-where it is possible they might rivet: --In
1832, the panic was m occasied by the fear that thesli bodies would
meet at this point. - This, however, they did not. Thecometpassed it
on the 29th of October, the earth On the 30th November,, when a dis-
tance of fifty millions of miles separated them. In 1805, when,there
was no panic, the distan_e betwaen them at this point was only_ five
millions of miles. As calculated by rago and expressed by Lardner
--‘.• It has been shown that a rstun! n g the numb or of comsis which pass
within the earth's orbit to be the greatest that it can be imagined to
be, and that the magnitudes orthese amets ba :Asot the greatest that
they can be conceived to be,, the chances against a collision of the
earth with aay Indic:l6nel csmct would be 281 minims to one."
conclusion, which IS bated upon strict mathematical re issn'ng, wi 1,
we pr ..sume, be sufficient to reassure the timid on the subj act. The
comet which appeased in- 1811 was followed by a train 130 millions
of miles long; while thatof 1843 had a tail twice the length of that of
1680—namely, DO milons of miles. This is so large a proportion of
the entire space comprising the solar system, that the event of the
earth'ilnamersion In a comet'sbrnsit does noteeem hivhly improbable,
as it Is nevertheless said by mathematicians to be, The -conse7
quences ofsnch tut event it is impossible to foreknow, strictly !speak( ag.
—lllustrated nines. .

re • • eren Mee CiC:DR.—i suicide of a meet determined nature
took-plate on Saturday last, on board a vessel lying in tee Peol;inamed
the Grimsby. It appears that the 'vessel kid cleared' the thistom-
house on yesterday, enid was ready for sea. About flint o'cloek this
Morning the mate was on deck, waiting for the captain to leave- the
cabin, as' he had te tiered a boat to bring him to tows. He was,
however, sudden y alarmed by the report of fire-arms in the cabin,
and on going:down. he was horrified to find the captain (Ilartly) lying
On the fitter dead, with the roof of thenvouth and the tippets part of
the face completely blown away. A•naun wis lying beside him witli
which it is supposed he committed fhe frightful' act, by placing the
mltaleof it in hiarieouth. 'He had lately taken charge of the vessel,
and was a young max, P_yelrs of. age.. The constabulary at
once noteedee no the vosel, toed en buyer'. tell be hod as 50011.43
the coroner arrnree—S!igo Independent. . .
• • rti6ii- BEildirte,V AGAsoNDs.-1 em tarormed, on good autherity,
that not a day' had pared over einpo Hr. O'Bren's return that he has
not received one or more letter; from parties applying for money,
One fellow writes to say that he got -a "prod" in the badk at Rabin-
garry, and wants the " loan" of lepound to buy a plaster—another
evs he loitt ff siatistlon in 1848-efn account of having:" boldly avowed
his opinions''—eaen atenioant has. his story, whether true or false it
matters not. 'These 'creatures are for the most part utter strangers
to ;O'Brien—net one of them has a particle of. claim upon him. Do
these ereantreseivhoeeer they ark, reflect for ar instant upon all that
Smith O'Brien has endured—his trials, his !sacriecel, his penal exile
`With its-theasand unheard of tortures and hninillationee Do they
consider that he has suffered -enorrnenny in property—lo an extent
that.thatitibilc know not 'of?, iSerelyi if they didithey would mot be
so mean as nowt° , fellow inns hie•quietehonatnand;disture, with their
lying importunities, the piece of mind of one who has already made
the largest aserifice,forteounttrynad. hopourtha: the.hietore of. patriot
tiena records.- I. an; sorry to. say that, _With .his ninal etteets of geed ,
nature,,Cintrien,. ate r.roat peronal ieconveuience, has-responded t 6
manyof ;these fraeduleet :appetite. To have heerkerted .te there all
would iieve required not only its ewnestete bnnhis.brother's to boot.
It is sad o. think that thereeee num theres.elvee Irishmen, who
would stoop to ;such ;nommen'. eel I, have described, The mitten-4Y
7conviets lit Van. Dieman's,Laail would live been asliseped.oficalch
conduct.- , tknow of only oee inetonce where •an attamtinof nib na-
ture to impose on Mr. O'Brien was mede in ;Trsiaania. Ealering one
day kite conversation with a et Act wozkinan, Mr: O'Brien( observed ,
that he was sorry to see auy hies countrymen 'in teat situation, and
inquired fo7 what cense ho :hal- beeettrensportad " Ole,, thin, just
for nothia -at. all, yer bonen," replied tee man.. ," Well, bat, the
authoritiep, I dare ,ay," said O. Brien, `• had same exonse.for punishing
you?" " Troth they had, yer honour,'; said teefellow, e't stole is
triftle—helf-a-crowa or so." '* Teat vies .wrougrsettl'O'Brien." why
did yon do-co " Arra, thin," replied the 'camp, Pif I didn't do It,
how the devil could I get the gun to join yer heaonr, at eiallingarry?"
Nearly•-ae trustworthy en the; :sad convict, and Tete tta moan, are the
parties who now f or Smith O'Brien with • their begging lettere.—
New Ilferit Irish WOWS. • . ,
THIS -CMiTLE OF NE WC ASTLZ tuO Castle was titre ,r. open at
\% hi telhe- public ; and, pass'ng throngh tee "gartn " ter ..
"stinare'rie4it Is elite& inethliginerenen of rekrieril:,iit) on u,5;
eventnft, our attention was attracted by the bezz and stir. • The mo-
dern bettlements of the Old-Norman keep wore thickly inverted and
wonite-ed ;'and an oeessienaleepper, thrown- down among the swar-
ming Preehiles of a , poor laid pop u':ois loetlite, tproduend an mush
scrambling
lecturtnettii the
the steps, we met the -worth* warl or, o.nd tnielred nr. Bruce was 44 a bishopric or a terth kiliigher • citelea7 - Walking up
people inside ?
on the modern' eysteeenoVn.' " And whateis the modern system ?"
'thvie" waetlierejoinder. end no !!' • Wal ropet; "Wit go ,
sure enough , the vat e rung with in este
In thelibraryevere lots of young people and old—exertining he enrlO-
sitiea, pure ovcreteeient Couraets,,and looking at the, books. Sonia
there tvera who ,
had pairA, ont, and found happinuess enough in each
other's eyes. The greenbelt crowded—and with such en, aat can-
blage of-welt-clad workers-as the Conqueror never loo'eal Tipton. On
the roof,- in a charmingesammer evening, were hundreds of honest
lads and bonny hues. The "Allied Band" occupleita Weer, and
rameittawin muslce-o f the tetanal, of watch we will not say a word,
good .or bati,lest the pertitanet
and
opponents of rho players cress the
Tytin, irsd fill our .Pees ovith unmusical letters. Clestrving a,ercular
spent); oil na.roof, onoccupicd, we iuquired,of .cue of 11.1 artioans;who
ale:listen in fermlug the! ring-1, _What is there, going pn ?" Amidst
the nin• of tram-eon a- d we uualit itelittintely the, word,
q,lntiradrilea." Once or ;vice the question was repeated, and, catching
•only- the last Viable. of "Kvetarilet,n we were no wiser.; until,
gulaPti" hials6'S tail:": the. meanest c'Pneite." . our. informaet con-
a temptuoes'-y vat ens w dauaiatt, . then; if, ye.ken
whit that means." And the next moment the beaux- paid belles' of
the inner circle advance:' into the open -area, and commenced a
set of quadriles with all Elate and- grace moat marvellous to the t}n-
iatiAtat, ; We came away, asking if than ware no lesson to be learnt
from the-seer-e. Here were hundreds of yonng,peopleenjoyitg them-
telvee without perilous -itlmulante--allured only by quaint quarters,
'music, -and a -dance—a, place of Pleasant' meeting and innocent di-
-version. Is it not well, thee, to provide suent laces for the:ntot
ple—placts where, with slight. means of eejoywant provided, they
may be left themselves to strike oat their reereationt ? As we des-
cended the steps, the vigilant Norman warder, N' sblg, bad seized
some unruly Saxon maiden,' and was dragging her into the keep:
while a- woman in the garth, more conscious:than we of hoe tins,
" was crying, •
Sarre her met? put her i' the dungeon!''—to the in,
treaeted terror t ttR. red-haired captive.-e-rintesAeatf Observer,