The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 28 1848.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, JAN. 15.--The last dispatch was by the
Volcano, on the 12th instant. The day following her
departure it blew a fresh breeze, which subsequently
became a hurricane. Last night the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Indus, which left Malta
on the 13th, put back, and early this morning the
Volcano, with that portion of the India mail sent
through France, returned to port with damage. The
Hecate is to proceed with the mails when the weather
is moderate.

The only item of naval intelligence is the return of
Vice-Admiral Sir C. Parker, with the fleet under his
command. A portion has come into the great harbour,
and a portion is standing in.
One of the liners got foul of another in entering,
but, as far as was seen from the look-out, got free
without much damage. No communication has been
geld with the ships from the shore as yet.
The Harlequin is ready for sea. Her mails closed
yesterday, and she is only detained by the gale.
The Bellerophon troop-ship arrived at Corfu on the
9th instant.
The Tartarus steamer closed a mail for Constanti-
nople at 11 A.M.
The French steamer from Alexandria, due yester-
day, has not yet made her appearance.
Neither the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer, with the India mail of the present month,
from London, nor the Flamer, with the portion dis-
patched overland through France, due on the 13th-
14th, has made her appearance. For them the gale
is a fair wind.

JAN. 16.—The accident of yesterday is very trifling.
On entering the port, the flying jibboom of the Hi-
bernia, by some mishap, got foul of the Rodney's quar-
ter boat, which was much damaged, and the boom
was carried away.
The fleet is from Palma and Cagliari. The vessels
arrived are—the Hibernia (flag), the Rodney, the
Superb, and the Trafalgar, with the Gladiator and
Odin steamers. The 'Vengeance, which left this for
Cagliari on the Bth, has put back. The Thetis fri-
gate remains at Naples, and the Bulldog steam-frigate
is at Palermo.

The Volcano mail-packet has suffered much da-
mage.
The Hecate steam sloop left this port for Marseilles
at six P.M. last Bight.
The Flamer mail-packet, with the outward India
mail (London, 7th inst.), arrived last night, and goes
on to the lonian Islands.

The Indus (Peninsular and Oriental Company),
second attempt, left port at five this morning.
The Euxine (Peninsular and Oriental Company),
with the bulk of the outward bound India mails,
arrived this morning.
The Ariel, which is to convey to Alexandria the
Euxine'a mails, is ready for sea. The Euxin• pro-
ceeds to the Levant and Black Sea.

PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—ADMIRALTT
This morning, by the first express train of the South-
Western Railway, a Board of Admiralty, comprising
the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First
Lord ; Captain the Right Hon. Lord John Hay,
R.N., C. 8., M.P., Fourth Lord; Captain Alexander
Milne R.N., Fifth Lord; the First Secretary to the
Board, Mr. Henry G. Ward, M.P.; and Captain
Henry Eden, R.N., Lord Auckland's private secre-
tary, arrived at this port on an official visit. Their
Lordships were accompanied by the Countess of
Ellesmere and two of the Ladies Egerton, whose
brother, the Hon. Granville Egerton, goes out in the
Meander to join the Vernon flag-ship, in the East
Indies, as naval cadet. This young gentleman was
also of their Lordships party.
Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-in-Chief ;
Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott, C. 8., Captain
Chads, C. 8., Captain Milne, of the Admiralty, Flag-
Captain Eden, Captain Martin, and Flag-Lieutenant
Cochran, proceeded to Gosport at neon, and escorted
the distinguished party into the Clarence-yard by her
Majesty's railway, where Sir Charles's barge was in
waiting to embark them, on entering which, and the
Admiralty flag being hoisted, a salute of 19 guns was
fired from the flag-ship Victory, but no yards were
manned, their Lordships having countermanded that
ceremony on account of the inclemency of the weather.
The Admiralty flag was transferred to the mainmast
head of the Fire Queen steam-yacht on the august
*.arty boarding her, and then their Lordships became
in a very unpleasant " fix." The Fire Queen would
not start when her machinery was set in motion, and
although she had the experienced master, engineers,
and crew of another steam-vessel lent to her for
the occasion, she refused to " move on," in
which strait the Commander-in-Chief took
Captain Chad's barge and proceeded to his
sailing-yacht, the Fanny, and ordered her to pre-
pare on the instant for the reception of the
Admiralty party, which her master and crew at once
did. In the meanwhile, however, their Lordships'
"bargain," the Fire Queen, suddenly resolved to go,
and out she went accordingly to Spithead, and in the
course of twenty minutes transferred her gallant bur-
den to the decks of the Meander, 44, whose distin-
guished captain, the Hon. Henry Kleppe], received
the party at the gangway, and escorted them over his
fine ship, with whose entire economy and efficiency
their Lordships could not be otherwise than satisfied.
Their Lordships witnessed the getting out, manning,
and pulling of the barge and pinnace with which the
Meander has been supplied, on Lord John Hay's
plan. These boats were pulled round the ship several
times, and notwithstanding there was at the time a
very heavy sea running, the boats exhibited first-class
qualities; they were quick to handle and steer, easy
to pull, dry as possible, and very swift withal. Cap
taro Keppel provided a superb collation for his illus-
trious guests, of which they partook. At a quarter
to three they left the ship under a salute of 19 guns,
and embarked in the Admiral's sailing yacht Fanny,
Acting Master Scarlett, commanding, and with the
Admiralty flag flying, came into harbour, at the
entrance to which their Lordships and the ladies dis-
embarked into the Admiral's barge, which landed
them at the Sallyport-stairs, whence they proceeded to
the George Hotel, where Lord Auckland remained
and received a few friends, whilst the other members
of the Board were escorted by Captain Yates into the
dockyard to make a few observations before dark.
• Sir Charles Ogle entertained the following guests
at dinner this evening :—The Earl of Auckland, Lord
John Hay, Captain It Eden, Captain Milne, Mr.
Ward, Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., Captain Charles
Eden, of the Victory ; Captain Chads, C. 8., of the
Excellent; Captain Yates, of the Illustrious ; Captain
the Hon. H Keppel of the Meander; Captain Martin,
of the Prince Regent; Captain A. T. Austin, C. 8.,
of the Blenheim ; Mr. Cochran, R.N., his Flag
Lieutenant; and Mr. Fincham, master shipwright of
the dockyard.

The Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton
returned to town by the 5.30 train of the South-
Western Railway.
The Raja of Sarawak (Mr. Brooke) has officially
intimated his intention of arriving at this port to
embark in the Meander on Sunday night.
To-morrow the Lords of the Admiralty make an
inspection of the dockyard, steamworks, &c.
We have much pleasure in giving publicity to a
noble act of spontaneous benevolence on the part of
the officers and crew of the Excellent, guneery-ship,
Captain H. D. Chads, C.B. This morning, before
Captain Chads proceeded to pay his respects to the
Lords of the Admiralty, the whole of the crew of
his: ship, without any previous hint, solicitation, or
announcement, came forward and volunteered one
day's pay each towards the relief of the widows and
fatherless children, or other surviving relatives, of the
drowned crew of the unfortunate Avenger. The
brilliant example was immediately afterwards followed
by a similar act on the part of the officers of the
ship. Comment upon the gratifying event would
only rob it of that lustre which surrounds its unpre-
tending charity. So worthy an example is truly in
,
character with the name of the ship and will doubt-
lessly be speedily followed by other officers and crews
in commission.
The Powerful, 84, was brought down to-day to be
commissioned, as the sea-going guard-ship for this
.
station, by Captain the Hon. R S. Dundas.
The steam-tug Echo was sent out to Spithead to
tow in the Fire Queen steam-vessel, in the event of
her breaking down ; the latter, however, came into
harbour without assistance.
The Lords of the Admiralty slept at the George
Hotel.
ong breezes ;
E.N.E.—Strong Wind E weather hazy,
and very cold : five P.M.

THE COMMAND AT COVE.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Hugh Donald Mackey
arrived in Cove, on Sunday morning, per the Sabrina
from Bristol, to assume the command of the Irish
station, vacant by the death of Sir Thomas Ussher.
The Sabrina entered the harbour about 20 minutes
to five o'clock A.M., bearing
.2 blue light suspended
from her foremast,
wluch, signal Was immediately
answered by her Majesty
s steamer the Crocodile.
The Rear. Admiral was immediately conveyed in a
barge to the Crocodile, where he hoisted- his flag
under a salute of 13 guns. lie shortly after pro-
ceeded to the Admiralty-house.

are informed
THE HAT TRADE AT MIMIC—We
that the hutting business is a little more brisk than it
has been for some time past. The operatives have
suffered much kern want of employment.
A SURPRISING CURE OF A BAD COLD THAT HAD
SETTLED ON THE LUNGS, BY HOLLOWAY'S I'm Ls—
. Kruger, residing at 33, Curator street, Chancery-
lane, was reduced to a mere skeleton, owing to a violent
cold, so that her liver and lungs had become dan-
gerously affected. When she last attended Bartholo-
mew's hospital her
mother was told by a medical gen-
tleman That he scarcely thought she would live to
reach home." Her father then, as a forlorn hope, com-
menced rubbing her chest, sides, and loins With Hollo-
way's Ointment, and gave her those famous Pills twice a
day, which, to the surprise of all, saved the child's life.
—Sold by all vendors of medicine throughout the civi-
lised world, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
244, Strand.

DUTCH ENCROACHMENTS ON
ENGLISH TRADE IN THE EASTERN
ARCHIPELAGO.

Repeated obstructions offered by the Dutch autho
ri'ies, at Macassar, to British subjects proceeding to
trade at native ports in Celebes, have compelled the
Singapore Board of Trade to memorialise the Home
Government, and, at the same time, petition the
House of Commons. The memorial of the Board to
Lord Palmerston is a brief synopsis of the following
petition, a copy of which has been forwarded to his
Lordship.
To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain
and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.—The peti-
tion of the undersigned merchants and traders of
Singapore,
Humbly showeth,—That by a treaty concluded
and signed at London on the 17th day of March,
1824, between his Majesty and the King of Great
Britain and Ireland and his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands, the mutual rights of possessions and
commerce of these two Powers and their subjects in
the East Indies were fixed and defined.
That more particularly, by articles 1,2, 3, and 4
of the said treaty, provisions were made for the trade
of the subjects of either Power with the possessions
of the other in the East Indies, and for the trade
with native Powers and states, which last to be open
to the subjects of both Powers upon an equal foot-
ing, the said high contracting parties mutually bind-
ing themselves not to make any treaty with any
native Power in the eastern seas tending, either ex-
pressly or by the imposition of unequal duties, to ex-
clude the trade of the other party from the ports
of such: native Power, and that any article in
any treaty then existing on either party having
such tendency should be abrogated ; and the
said contracting parties further engaged to give
strict orders to their civil and military authorities,
as to their ships of war, to respect the freedom of
trade thus established, and in no case to impede a
free communication to the natives in the Eastern
Archipelago with the ports of the two Governments
with the ports belonging to native Powers.
That it appears from the special exception made in
regard to the Molucca Islands by article 7 and as
explained and defined by the notes interchanged be-
tween the English and Netherlands plenipotentiaries
on the conclusion of the treaty, that the freedom and
equality of trade between the subjects of the two
Powers, and with the native Powers and states, was to
be of the most unrestricted nature, and more espe-
cially as regarded the commerce with native states,
and was to be wholly regulated by the provisions of
the said treaty.
That notwithstanding the wide and important field
for commerce presented by the Eastern Archipelago,
and the increasing taste of the natives for the manu-
factures and goods of Europe and Continental Asia,
the British trade in this quarter for some years has
been of a stationary nature, and latterly has been
evidently decreasing, which your petitioners believe
is to be ascribed in a great measure to the active pro-
ceedings of the Government of Netherlands India in
extending their influence and dominion amongst the
native Powers in the Archipelago, and at the same
time using every effort, in violation of the provisions
of the treaty before referred to, to impede and exclude
the trade and intercourse of British subjects with
native Powers ; proceedings which they have for some
years been allowed to carry on unchecked by any
remonstrance or opposition on the part of the British
Government.

That a very recent instance of the determination
of the government of Netherlands India to take
every means in their power for excluding British
trade from native states is afforded by their conduct
in regard to Macassar, which was opened as a free
port on the Ist day of January of the present year
—a measure which, notwithstanding the temporary
injury it was anticipated by some, it might inflict on
a branch of the trade of Singapore, your petitioners
hailed with satisfaction as being the first step on the
part of the Netherlands Government to carry out
fully and in good faith the provisions of the treaty of
1824 for equal liberty of trade, but which they now
find, on the contrary, is made a pretence for further
restrictions and more entire exclusion of British trade
with native Powers or states under Dutch influence
or controul.

That your petitioners annex to this petition certi-
fied copies of three letters addressed to the Hon. the
Governor of the Straits settlements, and two decla-
rations, by which it appears that the Dutch authori-
ties at Macassar have declared that port is the only
place on the Island of Celebes open to foreign trade,
and that they threatened with seizure and confisca-
tion any British trading vessel proceeding, not only
to ports on those parts of Celebes which the Dutch
have taken possession of, but even to ports of native
states on that island which are still independent, or
with which the Dutch are only connected by treaties,
and, to which, by the 3d and 4th Articles of the
treaty of 1824, British traders have a clear right of
access,

That the treaty between the Netherlands Govern-
ment and the Sultan of Jambie, a native state on the
Island of Sumatra, dated the 15th day of December,
1834, which so far back as the 31st of May, 1841,
was declared by Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, to be at variance in a num-
ber of its provisions with the treaty of 1824, and to
" have a direct tendency to inflict on British commer-
cial interests the injury against which the treats, of
1824 was intended to guard," is still maintained) in
full force by the Netherlands Government. ')hat
under the provisions of the Bth and other articles of
the said treaty with the Sultan of Jambie, the regu-
lations for shipping and trade of Netherlands India
have been
i put in operation at the port of Moeara
Aompeh, n: Jambie, by a recent Besluit of the Go-
vernor-General of Netherlands India, a copy of which,
as contained in the Java Courant of Ist May last, is
hereunto annexed, and by which unequal duties are
imposed on goods imported and exported under the
Netherlands flag, and from and to Netherlands
India ports, and under the flags to and from the ports
of other Powers respectively.
That your petitioners beg further to represent that
for many years past a very considerable trade has
been carried on by British subjects with the island of
Bally. That the proceedings of the Netherlands
Government in the month of June, 1846, against
two of the most powerful Rajas of Bally, resulting
in the permanent station of an armed Dutch force in
the country, and the exaction of treaties acknow-
ledging the supremacy of the Netherland; over these
states, have produced an injurious effect on the trade
between Singapore and Bally, and your petitioners
are apprehensive that the British trade with Bally
will be danger of extinction by the incorporation
of that island with Java, a measure which they be
lieve will ultimately follow the present proceedings
of the Netherlands India Government. That the
treaties from time to time made by the Netherlands
India Goverment with native Powers in the Indian
Archipelago are invariably intended to affect British
trade in one of two ways : first, by obliging the
native rulers to forbid foreign trade, and thereby
totally excluding British subjects ; and, secondly, by
allowing the introduction into the states of such native
Powers of the Dutch regulations for shipping and
trade, whereby an unequal system of duties is im-
posed ; in bothsases the freedom and equality of trade
guaranteed by the treaty of 1824 being destroyed.
That all the proceedings of the Dutch in the Eastern
Archipelago above referred to have an injurious effect
on British trade, which instead of attaining that ex-
pansion and importance in this quarter which it is
capable of, and being productive of benefit both to
England by opening up fresh markets to her manu-
factures, and to the natives of the Archipelago by
affording them favourable means for the exchange of
their varied produce, is yearly becoming more uncer-
tain, and even under the most favourable view, re-
maining stationary in amount and value. That your
petitioners seek for the British trade in the Eastern
Archipelago no exclusive privileges or advantages but
only the freedom and equality so distinctly provided
for by the provisions of the treaty of 1824.
That your petitioners consider that one great cause
of the disadvantages under which British interests in
the Eastern Archipelago at present labour arises from
the channel of communication between the British
subjects settled in the Archipelago and the British
Government being of so circuitous a nature that much
time is lost before their representations can find their
way to the proper quarter, whereby irretrievable in-
jury and loss are frequently suffered before any means
of redress can be provided, and the effect of which is
to discourage parties from making representations and
remonstrances, the issue of which is so distant, and
to cause them to submit in silence to encroachments
and aggressions on the British trade by the Dutch,
the redress of which is attended with so much delay
and uncertainty.
That your petitioners venture humbly to suggest
as a remedy for this great inconvenience that autho
rity should be given to the Government of the British
settlements in the Straits of Malacca, or other com-
petent persons to exercise a general superintendence
over British trade and interests in the Eastern Ar-
chipelago—that such superintendent should be placed
in direct correspondence with the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and that a British man. of-war,
destined specially for the service, should, as far as
possible, be placed under his direction and control.
That such an appointment already exists in regard
to the British trade with China, and it appears not less
necessary for the prosperity and protection of the
British trade in the Eastern Archipelago, more espe-
cially as the East India Company do not, in any
great measure, seem desirous of exercising any in-
terference in the Eastern Archipelago. That the
refusal of the Netherlands Government to permit the
residence of consuls or other agents of the British
Government in their possessions in the Indian Ar-
chipelago, seems to render such an appointment es
that suggested by your
.petitioners the more desirable
for the protection of British subjects in the Nether-
lands Indian dominions, as they have at present no

officer of the British Government at hand to whom
they can in emergent cases appeal-for assistance or
redress. That the cultivation of friendly relations
with native Powers in the Archipelago by such an
officer of the British Government would tend greatly
to the promotion of British trade and interests gene-
rally, as such Powers have ever shown an eager desire
to seek the friendship and alliance of the British Go-
vernment, but which desite hitherto has not been
responded to so fully as it ought to be, chiefly, as
your petitioners believe, from the want of a proper
and permanent channel of intercourse.
That the appointment of a superintendent of Bri-
tish trade in these parts would afford great protection
and encouragement to British commerce, by placing
on the spot an officer of the Government, who could
at all times be readily appealed to by British mer-
chants for advice and assistance ; who could inquire
into causes of complaint and report upon them
directly to the British Government, and who could
better judge of the grounds of such complaints and of
theineasures necessary for their removal than persons
at a distance, who have neither the means nor time
for a full and searching investigation. That com-
plaints may frequently appear founded on inadequate
causes, because the whole grounds for them cannot be
traced out and laid open by private persons who have
not means and opportunity of doing so, but which a
duly authorised commissioner of Government would
have it in his power thoroughly to inquire into and
judge of.

That your petitioners further respectfully suggest
that much of the present ignorance of the proceedings
of the Netherlands Indian Government, in regard to
native states, arises from the neglect to enforce the
observance of that part of article 3 of the treaty of
1824, by which the contracting parties bind them-
selves to mutual communication of all treaties or en-
gagements then subsisting, or which should thereafter
be concluded, between either of them and any native
power in the eastern seas, and the making of the same
public for general information.
That your petitioners have observed with much
satisfaction the measures recently taken for establish-
ing a British settlement on the island of Labuan, not
only as affording a practical recognition to form
settlements in the Eastern Archipelago, but as mani-
-1 resting the intention of the British Government to
extend by every means in their power British trade
and influence in the Eastern seas, and they anticipate
much benefit to British trade generally to result
from the increased intercourse with Borneo and other
native states, which it will no doubt lead to.
That your petitioners would lastly respectfully
represent the desirableness of immediate measures
being taken to follow up the proceedings so success- '
fully begun by the British navy few putting d9,wn the
piracy on these seas which has hitherto operated so
prejudicially to the interests of commerce, by visiting
the Sulo Archipelago, the head-quarters of the most
formidable and extensive of the piratical communities
in the Eastern seas, and there exacting such engage-
ments from the chiefs of Sulo as will put an end to
their nefarious proceedings.
Your petitioners humbly pray your Hon. House to
take what has been above stated into your favourable
consideration, and to take such measures as may seem
best fitted for promoting British trade and interests
in the Eastern Archipelago, and procuring from the
Netherlands a more strict observance of the treaty of
London, dated 17th of March, 1824. And they will
ever pray, &c.—Singapore, November, 1847.