The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-30 00:00:00

btrlT Xbition

NE WMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

Sweepstakes. T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 1501.
Lord W. Yowlett's Fauchon filly
Duke of Rutland's Alexa

Handicap. T.Y.C
Duke of Rutland's Paultons
Mr. Lowther's Lyons

A dead heat.
The One Thousand Guineas Stakes. 1
Mr. Gully's Mendicant
Mr. Bowes's Mowerina
Lord Orford's Prussic Acid
We are sgain indebted to pigeons for the above, al
clerk at the Eastern Counties :telegraph having refuse.;
to admit our reporter, and afterwards furnished him
a very different report of the above.

The Ireton steamer, that left Ostend at three Sestet
day morning, passed Blackwell at one in the afternoon, bad
several passengers of distinction en board.
Wirith'HinEth:laSsTt AfeGwS" dayslN(sDayEs DER.
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have been served on parties in this town who had shares allott.-ae
them in some of the new railway schemes; and, remarkable Be tio
factowp ahaaEyvoae
NpbpeEeearLri,yastrieNtaarGdf.euLpl eying forthwith. The tradesmen in
between two pigeons, they°wbnii
y, in a match ,
nnttiVnn.egdbni red! d-Pbelonging to K eellf,ol:4 ealf
Kent-road, flew from Dover to London in one hour and twenty'
minutes.
SUPPLIES OF FOREIGN MEAT.—The state of tby
home market in the supply of the staple article of food for our -our
and mercantile marine has lately been such as to cause not °°ld3
much enterprise amongst speculatcos, but anxiety amongst the
se
of the Admiralty. One of the me,st important facts connectenc
the former is the deficiency in o,uantity as well as quality e'en,
Irish meats, owing to the rapid means of transit afforded by 11'00,0,
of steam communication making it more to the interest oLt tnel.
farmers to transmit their catti.e alive to this country than to jet fate
jate
capital lie dormant ill curing the meat. So great has been t coal"
deficiency in quality that the Lords of the Admiralty were dire
pelled a few weeks ago to isnue orders to the Admiralty of tior
rent stations to purchase supplies of fresh meat to compensate e till.
deficiency which this has caused in the rations. At the ear°oooo
0
the Lords of the Admiralty have not been inattentive to the
of obtaining an adequate supply from foreign sources, and for car'?
purpose have given a fair and extended trial to the process of,,etet
by pneumatic pressure, by transmitting samples to the four cf"jce "j
of the globe, which being returned, were opened a few dale r0v.,1,0
the Victualling-office at Deptford; but the results were ne'a
sufficiently satisfactory to sanction the general adoption
~00
principle. A newly patented process is now under e freea
trial, which is for the purpose of preserving meat I°,,,it to
state for foreign countries, Ns hich is equally applicable to
r..e-sotso,
fish, and, if successful, must produce same very important
to tOe.egt
this country. In all experiments, however, connected
te ration of food for the naval and mercantile marine, eol-t,
care is required, from the fact of any innovation upon De.t
blished mode of life and habits proving very injurious to leer . o
of the seamen. At the same time, the introduction of e
Itil ie
foreign sources is most importan tin a commercial point o.;friele'4o.
at a recent meeting of many Members of Parliament and to
free trade, held in Monument-yard, where specimens of Zen 1001,
scriptions of foreign food whicl'i are now admitted duty_._:tor asi
new tariff were exhlbited, Bowring very pertiOOfte
"Why should there be so ma ny millions who do not rib 15 day
toes
food, or taste it as a huzury, when it can be obtained within poteval
sail of Great Britain? The millions who • rejoice_,tein
would be stimulated in their rejoicings' if they could neryed Too'
food to eat with them." The ' recent importation of P.reedy
from Australia is only one instance of the enterprise Lied op?..ii ot
mediate operation as soon as the Legislature has de._..o"(
presentsubject of commercial restrictions,mseorculiauleheon ieatiheembuanrrseatstsleindenstt.aate;eds, • ti at gilif,l nail
ivy,:
Every cargo of salt meat from America and other 131!__ use 0. _
added, is readily bought np on :its arrival here, for 1.7,A not 0° ra
ping, as it is a matter of notorie ly that many vessels W.
8- leave the ports if dependent alone upon the herae 'e sing
ZOOLOGICAL SoClETY...—TheSttnniVerSarY.ol7Albelnl.
etshteerdEaayrlinoftht theatre of
eosfidetnhte,
in the
clhnastirit.u_t;fx
thatteetertil:r:
veryt numerous, and amongst the company w`4j3art;o
hwsAterualescackland, Lord Braybrooke , and Sir J. P. Boileau'd or; v
General Briggs, Colonel Syl me, Dr. Henderson, an
eating members,

1

LITERATURE.

I

THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
V,. IXXPT
U. de Lainartine, some da;, s since, in the French Chum-
Fer of Deputies, took occasion to advert to the rc.ecrtests
larely
male by the English, and enumerated among
them the isle o o
f Borneo. This is a fact not known t
eglishrcen, for the only result of the late war against
the pirates is understood to be the cession of the small
island of Labuan to the British by the Sultan of Borneo.
.Re or some other chiefs still rule over the whole of the
‘large island, with the exception of James Brooke, who
happens to be Rajah of Sarawak. It was to the psei-
t!on and authority of this singular individual, and not to
the occupation of Labuan, probably, that the French-
plan alluded to, and he therefore could not have paid a
higher compliment to the system of colonisation
adopted by the English, and the admirable working of
the system in almost every part of the globe. One
Englishman, first of all, by his enterprising spirit,
humane views, and perhaps romantic turn of mind, gets
a footing on a small spot in Borneo, reconciles the na-
tives to his person and authority; and the conquest of
the whole island, therefore, M. de Lamartine seems to
think must follow as a matter of course. In the pre-
sent number of the Foreign Quarterly we have a very
graphic account of this James Brooke, and some of his
adventures up to the period of his settlement in that
country. Speaking of him, the reviewer says, "It is
customary to set up romance as a sort of standard of
comparision, but romance has nothing of the kind to
show. Mr. Brooke is a hero much greater than a
writer of fiction would have dared to invent. It would,
in fact, scarcely have been safe, because it would have
outraged probability to endow an imaginary character
With half the great and good qualities which evidently
belong to this man." His history certainly is remark-
able, and the following sketch, drawn by an old intimate
and friend, will enable the reader to form an idea of the
grand and philanthropic places of this Rajah of
Sarawak :
" Mr. Brooke was the second, and is now the only sur-
viving son of the late Thomas Brooke, Esq., of the civil
Service of the Eart India Company; was born on the 29th
of April, 1803; went out to India as a cadet, where he held
advantageous situations, and distinguished himself by his
gallantry in the Burmese war. He was shot through the
body in an action with the Burmese, received the thanks of
the 'Government, ;and returned to England for the recovery
of his prostrated strenth. He resumed his station, but
shortly afterwards relinquished the service, and in search of
health and amusement, left Calcutta for China in 1830. In
this voyage, while going up the China seas, he saw for the
first time the islands of the Asiatic Archipelago—islands of
vast importance and unparalleled beauty—lying neglected
and almost unknown. He inquired and read, and became
convinced that Borneo and the Eastern Isles afforded an
open field for enterprise and research. To carry to the
Malay races, so long the terror of the European merchant
vessel, the blessing of civilisation, to suppress piracy, and
extirpate the slave-trade, became his humane and generous
objects; and from that hour the energies of his powerful
mind were devoted to this one pursuit. Often foiled— often
disappointed, with a perseverance and enthusiasm which
defied all obstacles, he was not until 1838 enabled to set sail
from England on his darling project. The intervening years
had been devoted to preparation and inquiry—a year spent
in the Mediterranean had tested his vessel, the Royalist,
and his crew—and so completely had he studied his object,
and calculated on contingencies, that the least sanguine of
his friends felt as he left the shore, hazardous and unusual
as the enterprise appeared to be, that he had omitted no-
thing to insure a successful issue. ' I go,' said he, to
awake the spirit of a slumbering philanthropy with regard
to these islands ; to carry Sir Stamford Raffles' views in
Java over the whole archipelago. Fortune and life I give
freely ; and if I fail in the attempt, I shall not have lived
wholly in vain.'
" In the admiration I feel for him, I may further be per-
mitted to add, that if ever any man possessed in himself the
resources and means by which such noble designs were to
be achieved, that man was James Brooke ! Of the most
enlarged views, truthful and generous, quick to acquire and
appreciate; excelling in every manly sport and exercise ;
elegant and accomplished; ever accessible; and, above all,
prompt and determined to redress injury and relieve mis-
fortune, he was of all others the best qualified to impress
the native mind with the highest opinion of English cha-
racter."
He has succeeded far beyond what any imagination but
his own anticipated. In 1838 he set out on his expedi-
tion, and after numerous adventures, now enjoys almost
complete sovereignty over Sarawak, a country of consi-
derable extent, and rich in mineral and vegetable produc-
tions. His exertions, guided by discretion, and deep in-
sight into human nature, have given him dominion over
men of different nations and creeds, and placed him in a
situation in which he may at the same time soften the
asperities of the savage character, and open up im-
portant commercial relations with his own countrymen.
The occupation of Labuan will be of service in that
respect, as it bids fair to become a mostimportant station
amidst the countless islands that lie between Borneo and
New Guinea, and Canton, and the coast of Australia.
The island abounds with inexhaustible mines of the best
coal, said, with the exception of those of New Holland
and India, to be the only coal mines in that part of the
world, and it may therefore be regarded as an acquisition
—though not so great as that imagined by M. de Lamar-
tine—destined to be of important service in the event of
war, and of immediate use for commercial shipping.
There are several other articles in the Number, that may
be read with advantage. That on the " Progresistas and
Moderados in Spain," will enable the reader to form a
. .

tolerably correct idea of the state of parties in that coun-
try, of the conduct of Narvaez and the Queen Mother,
and some other of the statesmen, all unequal to the task,
who have successively been placed at the head of affairs.
The influence of Narvaez at Court, the writer
seemed to think remained undiminished, and
his appointment of Generalissimo gave him more
power than ever. This was written after the downfall
of the Rosas Ministry ; and the writer, perhaps to
-t.
show that he was right as to the influence of Narvaez,
announces, in a postscript, that the next Cabinet, that of
Milaflores, had been broken up by the arbitrary will
and pleasure of General Narvaez, who had also suspended
• the Cortes and abolished the liberty of the press. He
ought really to have given a second postscript, announc-
ing
nished from Spain. The article on the war in the Pun-
,' jaub is written in a very unfair spirit, and with a degree
of malevolence and misrepresentation unbecoming a re-
spectable journal. According to the writer's views, Sir
Henry Hardinge is an imbecile, and " has proved him-
self to be a political Don Quixote, who erected immense
windmills, that he might encounter the labour of
overthrowing them." Ills Quixotism " has studded the
whole land with widows and orphans," and his
great. his unpardonable crime is, that he had not an army
of 50,000 men posted on the banks of the Sutlej. It is
of no use to reason with a man who can maintain such
an absurd proposition. The only information in the
article is contained in a postscript, giving a view of the
casualties in the modern battles of India as compared
with those of Waterloo. We seleet a few :—At Water-
loo the loss was lin6 ; at Assaye, lin 3 Meanee, lin
11 ; and at Ferozeshah and Moodkee, 1 in 6. The
writer, with characteristic unfairness, does not give the
proportion at the battle at Sabraon (it was not 1 in 10),
nor even mentions that decisive action.

No. VIII.