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

CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA

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. Diarrh.
Basford (Bulwell) ... ..• 1 0
Berwick ••• ••• ••• .....
1 0
Bridgewater ... ..• ..• 4 0
Brici port (Bothenhampton) ... 1 0
Cockermouth (Maryport dis,) 6 0
Cookham (Bray) ... ••• 0 1
Devizes (Potterne) ... ... 1 1
Dudley and Sedgley ... ... 2 2
Gloucester ... ••• ••• 0 1
Hardingstone (Piddington) ... 1 0
Hitchin (Baldock) ... ••• 7 0
Huddersfield (Lockwood) ... 0 1
Isle of Wight (Newport) ... 1 0
Knaresborough 0 2
Lancaster (Skerton) ... ... 1 0
Leeds ... ... ••• ••• 0 2
Liverpool ... ... ... 0 1
11.1adeley (Much Wenlock) ... 1 0
Newark ... ... . . 1 0
Newton Abbott (Torquay) ... 1 0
North Witchford (Chatteris)... 2 1
Pembroke ... ... ... 0 4
Ripon ... ... ... ... 0 1
St. Faith (Wroxham) ••• 1 0
Salford (Regent-road) ••• 0 1
Selby ... ...
...
... _ 1 0
Stockton (Hartlepool) ~. 3 0
Stourbridge ... ... ... 1 0
Sunderland (Bishopwearmouth) 2 0
Swansea (Liar gafelach) ... 1 0
Walsall (Borough) ... ... 4 0
West Bromwich ... ... 0 1
Wigan (Standish) ... ... 2 1
Witham (Coggesball) ..• 0 1
Wycombe (Princes Risborough) 3 0

Total 49 21
NoTE.--The deaths are returned according to the
superintendent registrars' districts, as it is found ins-
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, Air. 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 11-pound swivel gun and ten
men ; pinnace, Lieutenant Brickwell (second in com-
mand), one 12-pound howitzer, one 1i 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, Nemesis, Commander T.
Wullage, 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 brats gun, and 19 men from Albatross; No. 2
paddle- b)x 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 derider 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 me/6e 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 for 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, SATURDAT.—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
i pro-
ceed by this steamer to America was announced n
.one
of the London journals of Thursday), has not tauen
passage in her. The inward mails, &c., from New York
of the 17th, and from Halifax of the 20th instant, per the
steam-ship Canada, Captain Judkins, may be looked for
to arrive at this port on Monday (to-day).
METROPOLITAN TTPoGRAPEICAL 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 Typegraphical 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
sow( ty. Votes of thanks were carried by acclamation
to tie chairman, vice•chairman, and to those parties
especially who had 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 num,

EXECUTION AT JEDBURGH.
On Thursday last John Wilson, one of the two
railway labourers convicted at the recent Justiciary
Court at Jedburgh, for the murder of William
Lauder, at last St. Boswell's fair—and concerning
which we published the full particulars at the
time—underwent the utmost penalty of the law in
front of the county gaol ; the other man, Brady, who
was also found guilty of the same crime, obtained a
respite, for three weeks, but respecting the course the
law will ultimately pursue regarding him nothing is
definitively known though it is generally believed that
his sentence will be commuted to transportation
for life. At an early hour the town presented an
unusual and bustling appearance. Throughout the
entire night it rained incessantly, and when the day-
sky broke it still continued. Notwithstanding large
numbers of country people flocked into the town, and
congregated in the neighbourhood of the Council-
house, when a burgher guard, numbering upwards of
200, armed with batons only, were drawn up.
Shortly after 7 o'clock A.M., they proceeded in
regular marching order under their respective
officers up Castle-street, and defiled in front of
the gaol, and on both [sides of the enclosed ground
within the outer gate they took up their station.
About half an hour after a detachment of upwards of
60 soldiers of the 21st Regiment of Infantry
marched up to the prison, and lined the space imme-
diately around the scaffold. On the top of the gaol
the black flag was hoisted very early. The death
bell within began to toll about half-past seven o'clock,
and continued up to the time the unfortunate man
was brought out, which was exactly eight o'clock
a.m. Wilson ascended the step leading to the scaf-
fold, accompanied by a Roman Catholic priest and
the magistrates, with a firm step, but pale face. He
was dressed in a blue jacket, light vest, and drab
trousers—the same, it will be remembered, as he
alleged he had on on the fair-day. He joined in tho
reading of the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and a por-
tion of the 15th chapter of Ist Corinthians. He
appeared extremely fervent in his devotions, and
ofttimes lifted his face to Heaven. If he made any
confession to the priest, it is not known, but just as he
was about to ascend the drop he was asked by his
spiritual father if he had any declaration to make, on
which he spoke nearly as follows :—" I am going to be
launched into eternity to face my God, and I am not
going with a lie in my mouth. I neither lifted stick
nor stone en the fair-day. I am about to suffer for
another man." He then pardoned the judge, jury,
and witnesses who had condemned him. He also
freely forgave all his enemies. The executioner
(Murdock of Glasgow), a feeble old man, and said
to be upwards of eighty years old, the same
functionary who officiated at the previous execution
in Jedburgh eighteen years ago, then adjusted the
rope around his neck, after which he handed the
napkin to Wilson to give the signal when he wished
the fatal bolt to be drawn. This was done almost
immediately after it had been handed to him, and in an
instant he was suspended in mid air. Death must
have been almost instantaneous, considering the depth
he fell ; and, as he scarcely gave a struggle, his agony
must have been of brief duration. He was apparently
about 20 years of age, about 5 feet 8 inches high,
dark-complexioned, and by no means abandoned or
fierce-looking, though his features indicated much
firmness and determination. He was a native of the
county of Down, in Ireland, and, as will have been
gathered, a Roman Catholic. The Provost of the burgh
and the Catholic clergymen were with him till an
early hour in the morning. He rested but little,
but was wonderfully composed and collected.
The number of persons assembled to witness the exe-
cution was not numerous ; we are of opinion that it
did not exceed 2,000, amongst which were a few
women, a great number of whom left the ground when
Wilson ascended the scaffold. All appeared to be
more or less affected by the scene—a few of the
burgher guard fainted, and many shed tears Most of
the spectators were from the country, there
being comparatively few townspeople present.
Hundreds of country people arrived t)o hits
to witness the execution, but they dl pressed
forward to obtain a view of the body as it
swung to and fro. There were no "navvies" present
at the execution, but a dozen arrived shortly after,
and a few of them, as well as a woman who was in
their company, wept very much and very bitterly
on beholding the dead body, which was cut down
about nine o'clock and interred within the precincts
of the prison. It is now eighteen years since any one
has been executed at Jedburgh. The last individual
who suffered so ignominiously was Thomas Rodger,
a native of Coldstream, who was convicted of the
wil:Ul murder of an Irishman, near Kelso. Much
sympathy was felt for Rodger in conse-
quence of his previous good conduct and cer-
tain other extenuating circumstances. It is somewhat
singular that whilst the last man previous to Wilson
should have been hanged for murdering an Irishman,
it should have been exactly reversed on this occasion.
It is also worthy of remark that similar weapons
should have been used in both cases. It certainly
says a good deal for the morality of the border
counties, comprising those of Berwick, Peebles,
Selkirk, and Roxburgh, containing somewhere be-
tween 110,000 and 120,000 inhabitants, and extending
over an area of 1,684 square miles, that only one
execution should have occurred during the long (but
not too long) period of eighteen years.—Border
Advertiser.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Oct. 25:

ASSETS.

... f. 275,401,631 09
• . 128,388,820 00
130,032 00

Cash and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills past due .••
Bills falling due in Paris, of which
17,279,f. are from the branch
banks 44.543,705 75
Bills in the branch banks ... 77,658,027 00
Advances on coins and ingots... 5,461,300 00
Ditto by the branch banks 212,797 00
Ditto on French public securities ... 20,693,446 10
Ditto by branch banks... 1.730,025 00
Ditto to the State oil Bons du Trisor... 50,000,000 00
Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... 50,000,000 00
Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 00
jientes, disposable funds 42,581,428 13
I Investments of the new branch banks in

the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...
Real property of the branch banks
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
Bills protested at Paris ••• •••
Ditto at the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches ...
Miscellaneous
Advance to the department of the
Seine ••• ••• ••• •••
Loan of 3,000,000 f. to tho city of Mar-
seilles ...

12,779,541 39
4,000,000 00

2,616,212 00
200,000 00

230,000 00
3,140,342 50
2,074,135 00
315,789 97
326,059 00
681,227 85

3,000,000 00

... 1,075,000 00

E 737,239,579 78