The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-29 00:00:00

CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA

ENGLAND AND WALES.
The following is the Return of Deaths from Cholera and
Diarrhoea, reported to the General Board of Health
October 27, 1849 :
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Diarih.
1 0
1 0
4 0
1 0
6 0

Basford (Bulwelt) •..
Berwick
Bridgewater ... •• •
Bridport (Bothenhampton)
Cockermouth (Maryport dis.)
Cookham (Bray) ...
Devizes (Potterne)
Dudley and Sedgley
Gloucester ..•
Hardingstone (Piddington)
Hitchin (Baldock) ..• ...
Huddersfield (Lockwood)
Isle of Wight (Newport)
Knaresborough
Lancaster (Skerton)
Leeds ...
Liverpool . ---
Madeley (Much Wenlock) ...
Newark ••• ••• • •
Newton Abbott (Torquay) ...
North Witchford (Chatteria)...
Pembroke ...
Ripon ...
St. Faith (Wroxham) •••
Salford (Regent-road) •••
Selby
Stockton (Hartlepool) •••
Stourbridge
Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth)
Swansea (Llangafelach)
Walsall (Borough) ...
West Bromwich
Wigan (Standish)
Witham (Coggesball) •••
W 3 cornbe (Princes Riaborough)

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NOTE.—The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found im•
practicable to distinguish every place separately.
The house-to-house visitation of the metropolis having
almost ceased, no further returns will be published.

EXPEDITION OF SIR JAMES BROOKE
AGAINST THE BORNEO PIRATES.

The Albatros, 12, Commander, Farquhar,-arrived
at Singapore on the 4th of September, from a recent
expedition led against the pirates of Sakaran and
Larabas by Sir James Brooke, in which it appears
more than eighty-seven prahas and about 1,200
pirates were destroyed, whilst there were very few
casualties in Sir James Brooke's squadron.
The force employed on this occasion was the boats
of the Albatross, Commander Farquhar; the Royalist,
12, Lieutenant Commander Everest, and her boats ;
the Hon. Company's steamer, the celebrated Nemesis,
Master Commander Wallage, and her boats ; and
the Ranee, steam-tender, Mr. Baker, engineer, in
charge.
Commander Farquhar, as senior officer, had the
command of the squadron, and the following is the
detail of the boats and force :

Her Majesty's ship Albatross' boat—gig, Com-
mander Farquhar, one 1f -pound swivel gun and ten
men ; pinnace, Lieutenant Brickwell (second in com-
mand), one 12-pound howitzer, one lf pound
howitzer, and twenty-two men; cutter, Lieutenant
Wilmshurst, 12-pound light brass howitzer, one 3-
pound rocket tube, and fifteen men.
Her Majesty's ship Royalist, with twelve 12-
pounder brass guns, and one 12-pounder howitzer,
Boats—Royalist's cutter, Lieutenant Everest, one
3 pound brass gun, one 3-pound rocket tube, and 15
men.

Her Majesty's steam-tender Ranee—Mr. E. W.
Baker, engineer in charge, one 6 pound rocket tube,
one swivel gun, and 7 men.
Hon. Company's steamer, Neinesis, Commander T.
Wallage, two 32 pound traversing guns, four 6 pound
brass guns, and two 3-pound rocket tubes. Boats of
Nemesis—No. 1, paddle-box boat, Mr. Williams, 3-
pound brass gun, and 19 men from Albatross; No. 2
paddle-box boat, Mr. Goodwin, 3-pound brass gun
and 9 men ; cutter, Mr. Alexander Baker, one 3-
pound brass gun and 8 men.
Sir James Brooke joined this force at the mouth of
the Moralabis on the 24th of July, and on the 28th
Sir James Brooke, with part of the native force,
anchored off Kaluki. The other detachment was sta-
tioned at the mouth of the Sarebas ; the Nemesis took
up a station in the bay between the two rivers, and the
men of war's boats in line shorewards. They remained
in this position till the evening of the 30th, when
word was brought that the pirates, after threatening
Palo, had proceeded to a river named Si Maring,
and anchored there. On the evening of the 31st it
was intimated that the piratical squadron was ap-
proaching, when in about fifteen minutes all were in
motion to meet them, the Nemesis proceeding sea-
ward to prevent their escape to sea. As soon as she
was descried by the pirates they made at once for the
Kaluka River, ,where their progress was intercepted
by the native boats and those commanded by Lieu-
tenants Wilmshurst and Everest. The pirates then
as a dernier resort made a dash to reach their own
river, when they came in immediate contact with the
men-of-war boats, and the action became general.
Commander Farquhar, who directed the operations,
was in the midst of the melee giving orders. Two
large prahus were seen by the commander escaping
seaward, and the steam-tender was ordered to chase;
the nearest one having barely escaped one of her 61b.
rockets, made fur the river, and met a pirate's doom.
The Nemesis, which had been dealing death and de-
struction to all around her, ran her down, and the
scene which took place as her crew, about sixty in
number, came in contact with the paddle-wheels,
beggars all description. A large Congreve rocket
from the little steamer entered the prahu that had
continued out to sea, and rendered her destruction
complete. A signal was now made to close, and the
scene, as witnessed from the bridge of the Nemesis,
was most exciting. At 12 30, on the morning of the
Ist of August, Commander Farquhar commenced the
ascent of the Sarebas to prevent escape by the Rem-
bas branch. Of 120 prahus which it is said started
on the expedition, and all of which were in the bay
the preceding evening, more than 87 were destroyed.
On the 2d of August the expedition proceeded up the
river. On the 4th it reached and destroyed the town
of Paku, and also an adjoining village. On the 7th,
Sir James proceeded to the Sarebas territories, and
the Nemesis returned to the mouth of the river. On
the 11th the ascent of the river was commenced, and
on the 14th the Nemesis, with her attendant native
squadron, anchored off the Kanawit river. The small
steamer, the European boats, and the native prahus,
were ordered to continue the ascent on the 16th. The
whole of the settlements on both sides were destroyed.
The Ranee returned on the 18th of August with
several men sick of fever ; and we regret to state that
the crews of the Albatross and Nemesis were also suf-
fering from the same cause. Sir James Brooke was
landed on the 24th of August at Sarawak, and the
Nemesis arrived at Singapore Sept. 4.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The royal mail steam-
ship Cambria, Captain Shannon, took her departure from
the Mersey this afternoon, for Halifax and Boston, with
the usual North American mails and about 80 passengers.
His Excellency Sir H. L. Bulwer, the new-accredited
Minister to the United States (whose intention to pro-
ceed by this steamer to America was announced in one
of the London journals of Thursday), has not taken
passage in her. The inward mails, &c., from New York
of the 17th, and from Halifax of the 20th instant, per the
steamship Canada, Captain Judkins, may be looked for
to arrive at this port on Monday (to-day).
METROPOLITAN 'TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW AND
ORPHAN FUND.—A meeting of compositors connected
with the daily paper press was held on Saturday, even-
ing
at the White Hart Tavern, Catherine-street, Strand,
for the purpose of considering " proposals for the esta-
blishment of a Typographical Widow and Orphan
Fund," Mr. Hartwell in the chair. Resolutions approv-
ing of the principle were carried unanimously, and a
provisional committee appointed, consisting of eight of
the profession connected with the various daily papers,
for the purpose of carrying cut the object of the proposed
soci, ty. Votes of thanks were carried by acclamation
to tl e chairman, vice-chairman, and to those parties
especially who bad so generously rendered their ser-
vices by amateur dramatic performances for the benefit
of widows and orphans created by the ravages of the
late epidemic.
We are informed that Mr. R. Cobden, M.P., and
Mr. C. Gilpin, attended at the Home-office on Saturday
to present petitions from various parts of the country, in
favour of a commutation of the sentence of the wretched
woman now lying under sentence of death at Taunton
Gaol for the murder of her husband, and daily expecting
her confinement. These petitions were signed exclusively
by women.