The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-18 00:00:00

YEEEDENSTEIN.

Tuesday, May 28.—Visited the Coolies on planta-
tion Vreedenstein. The number located here on the
10th of May, 1838, was 31 men, of whom six are
dead, leaving this day 25 ; of these, three are laid
up with the chigoe sores. There are no females or
children on this estate. Their indentures, dated Jan.
26, 1838, contain the same terms and conditions as
those of Anna Regina.
The work done is the same as executed by the other
labourers, except in trenching. In some instances they
do a greater quantity. They complain that they are
not supplied with onions, chillies, and tamarinds ; that
they have a deficiency of oil in lieu of ghee, and musty
dholl. They also represent, that from their former ma-
nager they received an allowance of tobacco and rum,
which has been stopped.
Their present manager has allowed them sugar for
the last two months ; once since their arrival in the
colony they have received pork, which was issued during
the present month.
They appear contented and happy on the whole ; no
one has ever maltreated or beaten any of them, ex-
cepting in one instance—a man of the estate, a negro
named " Barrington," who had some misunderstanding
with the Coolie " Phargoo," and gave him a few blows,
for which it appears he was punished by imprisonment.

..Aungt ia,tne sirdar
Kunshung- Sing
Mungoo Sing further complains that Mr. Jacobs took
from him one dollar, being the amount paid to him for
a dhootie, which he sold to Buxoo, who, is now dead.
Kirath Alio makes a similar complaint against Mr.
Jacobi, who, he says, took from him one dollar, being
the amount he had received from the said Buxoo for a
blanket.

Lookun complains that on landing from the ship Mr.
Jacobs seduced his woman by name Mollie. On in-
quiring of the woman as to whether she would go back
to her husband, who was willing to take her, she said,
" I am not married to him ; when I lived with him he
beat me ; I will not go back to him. If Mr. Jacobs
does not come back, I shall die."
The Coolies, to a man, declare that if Mr. Jacobs
is permitted to return to the estate, they will no longer
do any work. They say, " Jacobs is a bad man, a very
bad man." "If he does not come back, we will do
plenty of work."

. .
In reply to a question as to where they wero
punished, they say, " Mr. Jacobs always has beat us
either in the field or in our own houses."

" When punished; were you ever tied under these
steps (those leading to the manager's house), or by
order of the manager?—We were never tied or
punished under these steps. Mr. Jacobs has always
beat us without the manager's knowledge.
"By whom do you get paid, and do you receive your
wages monthly ?—Mr. Sanderson himself pays us
monthly ; Mr. Jacobs sitting or being by him."
Their work, the manager says, " They do not do
quite as much as the negroes, but they do it better."

BELLEVUE.
The number of Coolies located on this estate in May
1838, was—

Men BO Females 2 Children 0
Died

Remaining this

day - 60 2
Total

Sick in hospital

The indentures are dated the 29th of December.
1837. The terms are similar to those before detaile4l.
These people are in a high state of uneasiness, owing.,
as they represent, to the great number already dead and
dying. " We get a small sore ; this sore gets larger.
then we poor Coolies lay down our head and die."
" We get nothing here ; pray take us and send us ba;•k
to Calcutta." They complain that they do not receis
onions, tobacco, or sugar. This last article is said not
to have been supplied, because " there has been none
on the estate for the last six months."
It is impossible to describe the miserable state aril
condition of the sick Coolies. Twenty-nine of them in hos-
pital, who have but one nurse to attend them. The casei
are all bad chigoe sores, which must from the first has',
been, if not wilfully, most inexcusably neglected. Nine of
these cases are now all most beyond cure. Judging fruta
the treatment these unfortunate men have already ex-
perienced, the whole 29 will perish, unless prompt rne.i.
sures be adopted for their having the constant atten-
tion of a medical gentleman ; two or three visits in a
week are not sufficient to afford that constant attention
which the present exigency requires.
The effluvia and stench on entering the hospital are
very bad. The manager, whom we found suffering
from the effects of fever, informs us that, " I really
lieve I got my attack of fever from going into that Coolie
hospital."

There are no hospital conveniences of any description
whatever ; in fine, these poor people seem to have been
altogether neglected.

LIFE SALVAGE CASE.—On Saturday the
claim made by John Lawrence, master of the Martha, of
Colchester, for saving the lives of the captain and crew (.f
the Severn, which had struck on the Gun!feet Sands, th
particulars of which we gave last week, when the case vv.ii
adjourned, again came before the Magistrates at the Castle.
It appeared from the applicant's declaration, that after Ole
vessel struck he was proceeding towards it, when he picked
up the captain, his wife, and daughter, and the crew, who
were in a boat, and while he was detained in getting then
into his smack five other smacks proceeded to the vessel,
and when he arrived would not allow hint to take any p rt
in the service. Ha then proceeded to Harwich, with the
captain and crew. As he was under the necessity of
throwing a quantity of fish overboard, of the value of
he claimed compensation for his loss and services, under
the provisions of the Act of Parliament above alluded to.
The case occupied the bench for a considerable time,
when the Magistrates consulted, and the Chairman told
Mr. Church they agreed that the claimant was entitled to
compensation, and they awarded him 401., but he must
pay his own expenses. Mr. Abell applied for a copy of
the award, feeling satisfied that his clients would appeal
against the decision of the bench.—Essex Herald.

A oorrespondent says, that in the week of the
I Association, no less than 16,000 persons passed along the
London and Birmingham Railway. Say, instead of 16,000,
that only 6,000, on an average, pass from end to end every
week. The saving of time, over the shortest modern
transits,
is seven hours to each individual; but call it six
hours, or .s quarter of a day, 6,000 quarters make 1,500
days, that is, four years forty days per week, or 113 years,
255 days per annum, of available time saved to the travel-
lers on this line alone. The Birmingham line is 120 miles
long. Five years hence, the lines begun and to be begun,
and which will then be completed, together with those
already opened, will be equal to at least forty lines, ea,:h
of the same length as the London and Birmingham. The
annual saving of time, from the adoption of railroad tra-
velling, will, in five years, amount 4,550 years per annh:n,
or to express it in another form, supposing the actual tra-
vellers to be two millions in number, the years of every
one of them, for all practical purposes, will consist of ;;74
days instead of 365. —Birmensihani Journal.
GEOLOGY.--At one of the meetings of 'lle
British Asneciation, Dr. Buckland drew attention to a
slab of sand—once on the sea-shore, which had the i,n-
pression of the footsteps of a monstrous bird. There verve
also the marks of a shower of rain, and the heavy drops of
of a thunder storm. By these, be said, we could det.,r-
mine which way the water ran, and in which way the wild
blew.
Ile then exhanted a slab, in which were imbed,!4:d
a shoal of fishes. " Now' said he, "we know certainly
that they were all killed in an instant, and that just afer
dinner—for we can dissect what their stomachs cont3iii.
They were probably potsoned by a gush of carbonic gas,
from internal fires below the bottom of the sea.