The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

4/ I2i; Yearling Sussex, 2/ 8i to 3/ 17i; Old Hops, 11
to 4/.

V.' 0 OX.

During last week the imports of Wo( 1 into London
amounted to 362 bates from thirribmgb; 1,179 ditto from
Port Adelaide; 539 ditto from TagaurN; 3 ditto from
Antigua; 30 dhto from 11, gs,clort ; 100 ditto from
Naples; and 6 ditto from Bombay. 0,1 the whole a
fair average business is passing is Ole private contract
markets, and late rates are welt supported. The stocks
held by the manufacturers ,re represented es mail.

-1845. 1846. I- 1847. I 1848. 1849.
Stock this day 17,9t(1": 16,310., 31,708 43,231
Price of Y. C. .... ;04250•:(610
to4B-sas t 0
Od :4580sOoda •450s800clato
t 037083
060 d
[,
Delivery last week •. '2;666 2;101 3,010 2,356 2,894
Ditto from June 1.. 31,802 42,391 46,204 50,880 41,341
Arrivals last week • 3;810 360 1272 347 .5,084
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Ditto from June 1 ... 66,502 50,€82 54,413 75,052 62699
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Price of Town •• •• 45s Od 525 6d 495 Od 495 Od 398 6cl
STATEMENT OF TALLOW sIIIIi'ING AT ST. PETERSBURGII.
1849. 1848. I 1347. 1846. 1844.
Tallow dispatched Casks. Cask.. Casks. Casks. Casks.
from Cronstadt to
Nov. 12, O.S. .... 116,201
shi.s loading and
lighters 2,168 ....
Total loaded off .... 118,369 .•
Loaded afterwards • . • • .. • • • • •• • •
Total at the close of
the navigation.... 115,369 123,394 131,864 .113,223 113,008
London.-- .• • • 48,381 70,617 60,8211 55,508 53,924
Liverpool 17,890 11,743 15,182 14,412 19,157
Bristol .......• .. 4,214 5,28 4,451 3,787 3,723
Other EngliBh por Es 13,915 11,733 10,946 13,669 9,597
Ireland ...... •• • • 4,903 4,110 6,483 6,787 6,304
Scotland ........ 9,71;7 9,337 7,564 6,281
Germany .....• 13,075 8,161 14,77'1 8,598 6, 32
Frame .......... 7,341 623 8,978 2,471 7,843
116,201 129,501 1131,173 , 113,058 112,961

LAW INTELLIG

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CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
Thia being the last day of Michavim as Term, the Lord
Chancellor heard appeal motions after giving judgment
in the appeal of

so as to afford any satisfactory evidence to Parliament of
the sum.ssful application of those labours which it
had anxiously given with the view of diminishing the
amount of crime. Having simply mentioned a charge
against a young man for shooting his father, without
making any comments upon it, Le next alluded to the
case of murder, saying that if the party charged with
the crime was shown to be the individual at whose
hands the deceased met with his death, the other
circumstances connected with it would place no difficulty
in the way of their coming to a decision. He would at
once relieve them, if they plttced any confidence in his
opinion, by saying, that if the circumstances were spo-
ken to by the witnesses in the same manner in which
they were disclosed in the depositions, it would become
their bounden duty at once to risco the ease in the
course of further inquiry. After referring in detail to
several other eases in the cab nder, the Learned Re-
corder remitted the jury to the discharge of their im-
portant duties.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A tall gaunt-looking woman named Morris was
charged with having assaulted two of her own sex.
Mrs. James, the wife of a fish•dealer in Clare-market,
proved the assault. She was standing in the Nelson
public- house on Saturday night with :friend, when the
prisoner came in and assaulted them in a very desperate
manner.

The friend of the complainant, a young woman named
Andrews, with red hair, confirmed this statement,
adding that the prisoner, who lived in the same court as
herself in Clement's-lane, was constantly attacking her
reputation, and she went in what is called "fear of her
life."

Mr. HALL—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say to
this? Prisoner—Why, its all false, as them ere wimen
has been a sayin of. The truth is they insulted
me first, and not bavin bin satisfied of rippin up my cap,
Bich here is the remains, •
,they sets to and tares my
gown up. _ _ _

Mr. HALL—But it seems you attacked them first.
Prisoner—Well, my good man, they are both bad 'uns,
and that carroty one there has sedoosed my husband
what works at a rag shop.
Mr. HALL asked the officer who had charge of the
prisoner if she was drunk when he arrested her.

Prisoner—Yes, I was very drunk, and so they was too.
I'll call a witness, if you please, air, which is a female.
Mr. HALL—Very good; call her.
Mary Cope was then sworn. She said these two
females was a standin in the passage, when the lady at
the bar comes up, and has some words with 'em. With
this she ups with her fist, and knocks James's bonnet off,
and then James turns round and tears her cap and
gown to pieces, while the other one goes for the police.
Mr. HALL—The prisoner says she was not sober ?
Mrs. Cope—No more was none of 'em. They was all
drunk together.
Mr. James said the prisoner had been charged with
assault before.

Prisoner—Oh, you bud 'un.
Mr. HALL asked the officer whether the complainant
or her friend was drunk?—Tbe cffiecr said they were
not.

Mr. HALL had no doubt that the prisoner was a most
violent woman, and as this was not her first offence he
should fine her 31 or three weeks' imprisonment.
The prisoner was then removed in custody.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TIII MORNING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
ES—The recent intelligence received from
he distant waters of the Eastern Archipelago is of a

nature to demand public attention and inquiry. In
the present state of cur information w•e cannot divest
ourselves of the impression, that by the signal chas-
tisemcit recently inflicted on the Bornean pirates, Sir
James Brooke has rendered eminent service to the

cause of civilizatiun and humanity. On first reading
the accounts of the conflict—or slaughter, should we
not rather call it ?—at the mouths of the Sarebas and
Zaluka rivers, one is naturally affected with a very
painful feeling. Here is the case of 1,500 or 2,000
barbarians, who in an incredibly short space of time
were blown to atoms, and their boats or prahus sunk,.
burnt, or destroyed by a body of British seamen, with
all the resources of civilizmion at their command.
This was no "naval battle," it was a "naval execution."
It remains only to be seen whether the victims had
deservedly incurred their fate, and whether any milder
measures than those actually adopted would have been
sufficient to obtain peace for the present, and security
for the future. We are so far removed from the scene

of action that we are of necessity compelled to form a
judgment without any possibility of acquiring such
accurate information of details as would have rendered
an opinion more satisfactory to ourselves, and more
convincing to the public. As yet we are rather in
possession of an account of the warlike operations
than of any minute and circumstantial description
of the state of facts which necessitated them. We
are thrown back, then, upon our previous know-
ledge of the condition of the Eastern Archipelago,
by the light of which we must read the earlier and
more meagre paragraphs of the intelligence recently
received. We know from the earliest times in which
these waters were visited by European travellers,
that they have been infested by hordes of law-
less pirates, whose rule it was, and still is, that any
ship, or maritime village, of which they could possess
themselves by force of arms was their own absolute
possession. The luckless crews of the ships, or inha-
bitants of the villages, which might be so reduced,
were assassinated as a matter of course, and the
women, if any there were, carried off to dishonour
and slavery. These things were not done in secret.
Piracy was, and is, with certain of the inhabitants of
the Archipelago, a gainful trade—an honourable
profession. As you would say of a particular spot,
"it is a fishing village," so you would have described
another as a " tcwn of pirates," as much so as Algiers
was before Lord Exmouth's days. The avocation of
a pirate descended from father to son naturally, and as
an acknowledged fact. We need not dwell upon the
extreme misery inflicted by such a state of things
upon the more peaceful natives of the Archipelago.
Coasting intercourse was crippled, not to say annihi-
lated ; traditions of blood and slaughter were perpe-
tuated from father to son ; their more intimate ac-
quaintance with the European element of civilization
was almost indefinitely postponed ; and, in short, this
fertile and noble section of the habitable globe was
left to struggle on, as it best might, under the undis-
puted sway of murderers, pirates, and common sea
vagabonds. Of the consequent prejudice to European
commerce and of the injuries inflicted upon Europeans
it is not our design to speak at length, for it was
morally certain from the first, that when the Eastern
pirates were once fairly set to try the conclusions with
32 pounder traversing guns and rocket tubes, their
fate was sealed. We know something of the modern
history of Eastern piracy from the diaries of Sir
James Brooke and the published testimony of
Captain Keppel, lately of her Majesty's ship Dido,
and now of the Ma:ander, nor are we aware that
the testimony of these gentlemen has been impugned
on any material point. We start, then, with the
assumption that they have borne true witness. If
this be so, it follows that for some five or six years
past great efforts have been made to bring the
pirates to abandon their unholy trade, as well by
peaceful remonstrance as by inflicting upon them a
series of petty defeats, which should have brought
home to their minds the real nature of the power
with which at length they were called upon to con-
tend. To our judgment, the praise or blame to be
awarded to Sir James Brooke, as director of the
recent transactions, must depend mainly upon the
quantity and quality of his previous efforts to turn
away the Eastern pirates " from the wickedness
which they had committed," and were yet minded
to commit, before inflicting upon them the terrible
slaughter of which we have recently received the de-
tails. A tremendous responsibility 1 For the utter
and complete destruction of the piratical hordes Was
certain from the moment the final and awful resolu-
tion was taken to turn against them all the resources
which the experience and science of Europe have
developed after ten centuries of almost unceasing
warfare. It appears that in July last the purpose
was fixed of directing the expedition against the
pirates which has been attended with such sanguinary
results. The European force consisted of less than 150
men in her Majesty's ship Royalist, the Hon. Com-
pany's steamer Nemesis, and eight boats. On the
evening of the 26th of July the expedition anchored
off the mouth of one of the Bornean rivers, and on
the 28.1 intelligence was received " that at large
force of upwards of 100 prahus were out from Sare-
bas, in the direction of the Rejang, with the inten-
tion, It wag supposed, of etiacklng the town of Siriki."
The position of the British force was instantly taken
up. " Sir James Brockel and a detachment of the
tletiVe auxiliaries, anchored off the mouth of the
kaluka river, and the other detachment at the
mouth of the Satebese4he nemesis in the bay
between the two rivers, and the men-of-war's
boats in line shorewards." It was not until
the evening of the SOth that decisive intelligence
was received that the piratical fleet had actually at-
tacked rule, and *eh then lying In a river called
Si Maring. On the evening of the 31st of July a
scout boat brought news that the pirate fleet of up-
wards of 166 large prahus, each manned by 50 men,
was approaching. Upon the particulars of the conflict
chat ensued it is nut our intention to dwell. In the
%tin in• which they reached us they were laid before
the public in our impression of Friday last. Suffice
it to say that the horror of the scene that ensued can
scarcely find a parallel in the history of warfare. Of
120 piratical prahus said to have been in the bay on
the evening of the 81st of July, 87 were destroyed,
with an immense loss of life. Even of those who
escaped the death shot of the British force, many were
cut down along the shore and in the jungle by the
- a the operations in

native auxiliaries. Of the me..... .
a military point of view we presume there can ue
doubt. The expedition accomplished its purpose
the most complete manner. Nor do we lay much
stress upon a fret which has been noticed, that no
prisoners were taken, although so ruby of the
pirates were slain. Where prisoners could have been
secured in such a case as this is not very readily
intelligible. The captives would have outnumbered
the captor:, and turned their weapons against them-
selves. But, as a question of policy, .Sir James
Brooke baa himself fillip up a broad and distinct

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