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barbarians had been most complete. Of one hundred
and twenty prahus which it is said started on the ex-
pedition, and all of which were in the bay on the
preceding evening, more than 87 were destroyed, and
the loss of life on their side must have been immense
—indeed, it has been placed as high as 1,200 men.
On our part, saving a few slight casualties, all were
unscathed. The observer was compelled to ask him-
self could destruction so immense, success so complete,
at least one-third of this ruthless horde sent to their
account, be effected in a space so brief, and with a
European force so small ? Had success attended the
p'rates our fate was certain. No more convincing in-
stances of their inhuman disposition need be cited than
the fact that the bodies of women were found on the
beach on whom they had wreaked their vengeance.
They were all decapitated, and the bodies gashed
from the shoulder to foot. These are supposed
to have been captives taken by the pirates on
the expedition from which they were returning. It
was afterwards learnt from a Malay prisoner, that the
piratical fleet had gone out in the confident belief that
the Malays of Sarawak would not act against them
during the Ramadan or Mahomedan fast month ; and
that after plundering Palo they had gone to Si Maring
and from thence to Mato, which they attacked, seizing
on the voyage two trading boats, one from Sarawak to
Singapore with a cargo of sago, and the other coming
from Singapore to Sarawak with piece goods. Very
large numbers of the pirates escaped into the jungle,
where they were pursued by our native auxiliaries.
On the Ist August we were rejoined by the steam-
tender, and received the information that Sir James
Brooke would join us on the following day. On the
21, the native force having arrived, we weighed and
proceeded up the river, where we anchored on Fri-
day the 3d, at eight A.M., having ventured as far up
an unsurveyed river as was thought prudent. At
noon the larger prahus were anchored inshore, and
the smaller prahus with the steam-tender and men-
of-war boats 'proceeded up the stream, and an-
chored the same evening off the site of Paku, the
town formerly • destroyed by Captain Keppel, in
1843. At day-light on the morning of Saturday the
4th August, the further ascent of the river was
prosecuted and the town of Palm destroyed. The
steam-tender was prevented from reaching this spot
by the immense trees which extended across the
narrow and tortuous stream, in ascending which the
men-of-war boats had to be carried over or depressed
under the various natural and artificial barriers that
existed every few yards. She then returned to a
village a few hundred yards lower down the stream,
and destroyed it and a large prahu secured on its
banks. Commander Farquhar hearing guns, dis-
patched the Nemesis's cutter with orders to lie by
the steamer during the night. She, however, corn-
'
I menced the descent the same evening, steam being
up, and reached the Nemesis at nine on Sunday
morning, with one European killed and two wounded,
bringing intelligence of the death of the two sons of
the Orang Kaya of Lundu, two of the bravest of the
native chiefs, who had been cut to pieces by the
pirates on their first landing in the jungle off the late
piratical settlement of Paku. The boats returned from
Paku on the morning of the 7th, and it was deter-
mined by Sir James Brooke to ascend into the Sarebas
territories by the Rejang. The Nemesis then pro-
ceeded to the mouth of that noble river and wooded,
and was joined by the native boats on the 9th.
On the 11th, sufficient wood having been procured,
we commenced the ascent of this river, and proceeded
upwards until the 14th, when we anchored off the
Kanawit river. On the 16th, the European boats,
small steamer, and native prahus were dispatched to
ascend this river, which occupied two days, and the
whole of the settlements on either side were totally
destroyed. A few prisoners were secured, but the
major part of the inhabitants betook themselves to the
covert of the dense jungle. Amongst the captives
taken up this river was a child whose peztectly
white skin and faiLhair word inlluee tEe beserthat
it was of European•isktacgon. This tittle innocent
will be brought up 'amongst. tia. span family of
orphans under the charge of the lady of the Rev.
Mr. M'Dougall, the excellent missionary resident at
Sarawak. ,On the evening ofahe 18th the Rance
Aturnn to us with aeveraen sickA4 fevtriir
and cone poor fell with a barbeth•spear through
kitral-kr'hich it was fun impossible to extract with
safety, and which was 1911FefoLe filed of level with the
back ; very slight hopes entertained of his re-
covery. The nativAtad Euron boats, the
former laden with goods recaptured from the Sare-
-613 Dysks, rejoined us on the succeeding morning.
At noon we were again under weigh, and at 4 r. 31.
anchored abreast of the 6, the natives of which place I
hal been aiding and abetting the Sarebas men in their I
predatory excursions, but as the chiefs promised to ,
refrain from connexion with the Sarebas pirates in I
future, the town was spared, Sir James Brooke fining
them and taking one of their principal men as a
hostage, and also bringing away some brass guns.
All having been amicably arranged, en the morning
of the 22d we started on our return, and were some-
what ala)ined on arriving off the Kanawit for the
safety of the steam-tender and gig which had been left
here, but during the day we discovered them proceed-
ing downwards. On arriving at Rejang a supply of
wood was speedily procured, and on the 24th Sir
James Brooke, who had quitted his native boat and
embarked on hoard of us, was landed at Sarawak.
Mr. Crookshank, who had joined us up the Rejang
off Kanawit, brought intelligence of an attack of the
Sakarrans on a fishing village at the mouth of the
Moratabas, and of the murder of five of its inhabi-
tants, several others being seriously wounded. He
also communicated the pleasing news that the
Mteander had been seen by him off Tanjong Po, and
all were most anxious to welcome Captain Keppel to
the scene of his former exploits; but the expectation
of seeing him was soon put an end to by the intelli-
gence that the Mmander had sailed for Singapore.
Such are the particulars of this most successful
expedition, in which a steamer, steam-tender, and
seven men-of-war boats, with a European force of less
than 150 men, and the small band of native auxiliaries,
totally destroyed a piratical squadron consisting of
upwards of 100 large prahus, manned by not less
that fifty men each. They fearlessly ascended fur
days into a country unknown to them, tracking the
evil-doers to their inland haunts, and destroying their
houses and ill-gotten treasure. Commander Farquhar
and the officers under him proved themselves worthy
representatives of the noble service to which they
belong, by the courage, coolness, and perseverance
with which they followed out their dangerous, severe,
and exhausting labours, and the Nemesis added
another to the daring and successful exploits for
which she has become celebrated in maritime annals.
The rewards which are .;11. to skill and bravery will
no doubt be awarded in ample measure.
The cases of fever on board the Nemesis and Alba-
tross are, we learn, numerous. This, however, was
to be expected, since thirty-two days in open boats,
subjected alternately to heavy rains and a scorching
sun, are more than sufficient to produce disease in
climates more healthy, ..41.:d more congenial to Eu-
ropean constitutions, .Lat experienced in Bornean
rivers.
On the occasion of the departure of her Majesty's
ship Albatross, after her recent successful expedition,
Captain Farquhar and his officers gave an entertain-
ment to Sir James Brooke and the European inha-
bitants of Sarawak. After dinner, Captain Farquhar,
in an able and complimentary speech, proposed the
health of Sir James Brooke, which was enthusiastic-
ally pledged by his numerous guests assembled. Sir
James's reply was in substance as follows :
"He felt deeply the honour which had just
been paid to him ; for several and different reasons he
priasd this compliment greatly, and in returning his
thanks he would take this opportunity of refuting
some statements which had recently appeared in a
Singapore newspaper." After mentioning his reasons
he proceeded thus :—" He would treat the matter
without passion ; it was very evident that the person
who furnished those statements had been present
during the expedition, and he would acquit him
of any malicious intention in offering his crude
and ignorant observations to the public, without
having positively ascertained the truth or false-
hood of what he so rashly advanced ; he need not
add that these statements were false and baseless,
and must have emanated from a most ignorant person.
This greedy informer has doubted whether the
people of Sarebas, residing on the Rembas river,
attacked through the Kaluka were pirates, and has
made one or two as extraordinary statements as ever
emanated from ignorance, and which were greedily
set forth to the discredit of a public paper. Every
statement there made is recklessly false or shamelessly
distorted ; he would notice one or two of the most
striking examples, and if on reading this confutation
from a person whose hands are officially tied, he re •
avers his statement, he must be a rascal indeed. It
is there said that four peaceful and unarmed men
were decoyedaboard the small boat called the Ular,
and subsequently slaughtered in cold blood ; the fact
being that they were fully armed, they were people
of Rembas, and after wounding two of the Ular's men,
were killed resisting in their own boat without a word
being uttered by them. They had some sirih ; but
is a pirate the less a pirate because he sells crum-
pets Then again, it is said a single toothless old man,
,floating on the river, was barbarously massacred
the fact was that he was in his war costume, return-
ing from a head hunting expedition at Sassung; he
was a large powerful young man, and fought despee
rately to the lest i ALA might he not asks bow would

S YMPATH Y with LEDRII ROLLIN.
Last night a meeting convened by the " Fraternal
Democrats" was held at the Farringdon-hall, Snow-
hill, for the purpose of " adopting addresses of synl.
pathy to the citizen Ledru Rollin and his brave com-
patriots, who have just been sentenced to transporta-
tion for life," &c. The hall was crowded by an
assemblage composed of the usual attendants upon
Chartist meetings, with a good sprinkling of women
and youths, or, as one of the speakers termed the
latter, " men of the future."
Mr. BUCHANAN, who moved a resolution condem-
natory of the French expedition to Rome, insisted
that Ledru Rollin in opposing the Government had
gone no further than had been done in this country in
1688, and only sought to do what was now recog-
nised by the law of this land as perfectly con-
stitutional.
Mr. BRONTERRE O'BRIEN followed, and argued
that Ledru Rollin, in protesting against the violation
of the constitution by the French Government, had
only exercised the duty expected from him as a
representative of the people. He (Mr. O'Brien)
lamented that the ignorance of a large portion of the
population of France, particularly the agricultural
portion, was so great that they were incapable of
selecting the right sort of representatives to keep
their rascally Government in check. After adverting
to the mercantile power of England, which he said
had ever been the greatest means of depriving Europe
of the full benefits of the three revolutions of France,
and which power must be put down ere any, effectual
good for the people could be done, the speaker con-
cluded by seconding the resolution, which was
carried.
Mr. HARNEY next proposed two addresses—one to
Ledru Rollin and those of his compatriots who have
been fortunate enough to avoid arrest, and another to
the families of those who have been recently con-
victed at Versailles. The former address, a somewhat
lengthy document, accordidg the approbation of the
meeting to those " who tilt June 13 last nobly
attempted to save the Roman Republic from de•
struction, France from,dishonour, and European
freedom from t......csiispirlicy of the enemies of human
progression," -was fuppUted by a long and warm
speech l'resalr. Barney, who said that the Govern-
ment of FAnce, having-tiolated the Constitution by
setae iiTg Eti) expedition to' Rome, the majority of the
Assembly, by their refusal to sanction the impeach-
ment of the President and his Ministers, proposed by
Ledru Rollin, had become participators in the crime,
and were equally traitors to France and the world.
lie justified Ledru Rollin from the taunts that had
been cast on him for remaining in England instead
of standing a trial, by appealing to the results of the
trials of those who were arrested as a specimen of the
justice he might have expected.
Other speeches were delivered by Messrs. Rudd,
McGrath, Townsend, &c., and the meeting was wound
up, alter an appeal iron, Mr. Harney to induce those
present to join the "Fraternal Democrats," by a
series of cheersforliossuth, Ms zzini,&c.

BRITISH INSTITUTION.—Yesterday the studies made
from the works of the old masters were exhibited to the
governors of the institution. The pictures, as usual, are
selected from those exhibited in the spring, and the
adoption of Mr. Turner's " Shipwreck" and landscape
as subjects for study is a raro instance of honour to a
living master. Cuyp's Winter scene, Dietrich's Black-
smith, Greuse's picture of a Girl, Salvator Rosa's land-
scape, Titian's Holy Family, and Diana bathing, and
Guido's David and Gone), aro the other principal paint-
ings. The students exhibit their ordinary timidity in
shrinking from the highest department of art, Salvator
Rosa's landscape boasting 16 copies, and Grouse's Girl
14, while David and Goliah can find but two imitators.
Titian, indeed, has found eight copiers of his " Diaea,"
but then this work is on a small scale. The copies, as
usual, are of every degree of sizo and every degree of
merit.
COLLECTION OF THE MP Duxr.--The Lords of
the Treasury have decided not to call upon parties for
sureties for the payment of the eecond moiety of the hop
duty for the year 1848. The following circular has been
issued by the Inland Board of Revenue to their collec-
tors:—" Sir,—l am directed by the Board to acquaint
you for your guidance, that in all cases in which the
first moiety of the hop duty for 1848 shall have been
paid, bond without surety may bo taken for the second
moiety, observing that although the condition of such
bond will be for the immediate payment of the same, yet
the Board will grant iudulgence, and not enforce such
payment before the 15th October, 1850, except in the
event of circumstances occurring which may in any case
induce them to apprehend that the debt will he endan-
gered by delay. In all other respects the regulations
already fixed are to be observed. lam to adil that the
several supervisors in your collection have been so-
quainted with this order, and directed to make it known
to their respective districts.—l am, Sir, &c., W. STAN-
TON. P.S.—The requisite bonds willbe forwarded to you in due course, by the storekeeper at this office."
Tarn WRECK OF TUB APOLLO STEAMEE.---The
boilers of this steamer, which sunk in Nortf.fleet Hope,
many years since in a collision, have been recovered
within the last few days by the excellent arrangements
and indefatigable exertions of Captain Rowlands, the
principal harbour-master of the port of London. It will
be remembered that several accidents have occurred in
raising the ship, and that on one occasion the Water-
witch steamer sank on the wreck of the Apollo in an
unsuccessful attempt. Almost everything, however,
had been recovered except the boilers, which are between
60 and 70 tons weight; but now, with the aid of Jumps,
lighters, and gear from her Majesty's dockyard, Sheer-
ness, Captain Rowlands has weighed the boilers, and
has landed them near Grays.
GAME' LAWS.—A deputation of the National Anti-
Game-law Association had a lengthened interview yes-
terday morning with George Thompson, E'qa M.P., and
Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., regarding the practical
benefits which would result from the withdrawal of all
legislative protection to game. Mr. Thompson, being
fully impressed with the importance of the subject,
agreed that he would, at subsequent meetings on
Financial Reform, impress upon his audiences the social
and economical evils arising from the game laws, and the
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resulting from legislative protection to game.—Scolsman
of Wednesday.
GRAY'S INN, Nov. 21.Williani Harrison, Esq.,
and Richard Reader Harris, Esq., were this day called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Lavv, by the Liouourable
Society of Gray's Inn,

LECTURES ON CONSUMPTION, &c. &C.—Dr. Cronin
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