The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-23 00:00:00

THE SUN,

But so much I know; that the present absolutistical
atmosphere of Europe is not very propitious to
American principles. I know a man who could tell
some curious facts about thaiesn,mt ahtteeirie,vebuttheats
he
Mr. Hulsemann, really I
would be so ready to leave Washington. He has
extremely well digested the caustic which Mr.
Webster has administered to him so gloriously ; but,
after all, I know enough of the public spirit of the
sovereign people of the United States to believe
that it would never admit to whatever (i. e. permit
any) responsible depositary of the executive
power, should it be even willing to do so (which
to be surd) your high-minded Government is not wil-
line. to do, to be regulated in its policy by all the
or Francis Josephs in the world. So I
shope that the sovereigns of thi3 country—
eielu:l6sdeernnatni;
the people
—will make the declaration of independence
of Hungary soon formally recognised ; and that it will
care not a bit for it if Mr. Hulsemann takes to-
morrow his passports. Bon voyage to him. But it
is also my agreeable duty to confess that lamen •
tirely convinced that the Government of the United
States shares warmly the sentiments of the people
in that respect. It has proved it by executing in a
ready and dignified manner the resolution of Con-
gress on behalf of my liberation. It has proved it by
calling on the Congress to consider how I shall be
treated and received. And even this morning I was ho-
noured—by the express order of the Government—by
an official salute from the batteries of the United
States, in such a manner in which, according to the
military rules, only a public high official capacity
can be greeted. lam told that I will have the high
honour to review your patriotic militia. 0, God, how
my heart throbs at the idea to see (i. e. of seeing) this
gallant army enlisted on the side of freedom against
despotism ! The world would be free, and you the sa-
viours of humanity! And why not these gallant men take
part in the mighty demonstration of the day, provid-
ing that I was right when I said that now-a•days
even bayonets think 2 Citizens of New York, it is
under your protection that I place the sacred cause
of freedom and independence of Hungary.
" After the ceremony of speaking and shaking
hands had been gone through with at the Garden, a
procession was_formed, and, escorted by 5,000 troops,
marched through some of the principal streets
to the City Hall ; and thence Kossuth and his
family retired to their lodgings at the Irving House.
At midnight he was called out of his bed by a
serenade of 900 musicians, chiefly members of German
clubs. An immense and disorderly crowd also assem-
bled around the hotel, and demanded a speech from
the weary Hungarian, after which he was permitted
to retire to bed again."
On the Bth and 9th Kossuth was engaged in re-
ceiving addresses and deputations from various parts
of the Union.

SLAUGHTER OF A EUROPEAN CREW BY

MALAYS.

The Overland Free Press, dated Singapore, Tues-
day, Nov. 4, says :—" Amongst the news this month
from Singapore is an account of an outbreak of the
Malay sailors on board the British barque Fawn,
while on her voyage up the Straits from this
to Calcutta, resulting in the murder of the
whole of the European officers and passengers,
and the destruction of the vessel by fire." The
particulars as far as they have at present tran-
spired, are as follow :—The barque Fawn, a new
vessel, owned at Calcutta, arrived from China at Sin-
gapore, and left the latter port in progress of her
return voyage to Calcutta on September 28. When
at Singapore, Captain Redgere, the muter of the
Fawn, discharged a portion of his Calcutta-shipped
crew, and in their stead took Malays, Javanese, and
a Cochin Chinese who had turned Mahommedan.
The captain, it appears, was rather of an irascible
temper, and what is termed a strict disciplinarian.
On the sixth day, after leaving Singapore, about
noon, the burra-tindal (head of a native crew)
was observed sitting on the fore-hatch smoking;
upon which the chief of spoke harshly, and
asked him if he intended to set the ship on
fire. Words arose between them, and ultimately
the chief mate gave a thrashing to the burra-
tindal with a rope's end. The captain appears to
have approved of the mate's conduct. Indian
Lascars do not much heed this summary mode of
punishment, although few experienced commanders
in the country service would disgrace his chief
native officer in such a manner before the crew.
Malays are proverbial for resenting any such indig-
nity, and, as in the present instance, take the earliest
opportunity of revenge. Apparently the matter was
passed over; but such was not the fact. The burra-
tindal gained over some of the Malays, Javanese, and
the Cochin-Chinaman, and resolved to be re-.
venged on all the Kafirs (Christians) on board.
It is usual when ships sail at night through
the Straits of Malacca for the captain to remain on
deck all night, dozing occasionally in a chair. This
circumstance was taken advantage of by the muti-
neers. At midnight the burra-tindal and his confede-
rates found the unsuspicious captain sleeping in a
chair on the poop; they dispatched him with
knives, and threw his body overboard. The por-
tion of the crew (Bengalee) not in the plot, at once
fled to the ship's tops, or other places in the
ship. An European named Elphick, who was pro-
ceeding in charge of a horse to Calcutta, also sleep•
ing on deck, was likewise murdered, and his body
cast into the sea. The chief and second mates retired
to their cabins and armed themselves ; they offered
a stout resistance until after midday. The infuriated
Malays literally cut the second mate to pieces;
but, finding they could not get at the chief mate,
they commenced with axes to cut through the poop-
deck into his cabin. Finding they had effected an
entrance, the mate rushed out of his cabin and
jumped overboard. All this time the captain's wife
and a Mrs. Becham, who, with her child, was
voyaging for her health, were spectators of the
frightful slaughter going on. Having got rid of
all the male Europeans on board, the burra-tindal
and another ringleader proceeded to Mrs. Rodgers'
cabin, adding the crime of rape to their previous
atrocities, and behaving in the most outrageous and
revolting manner, totally unfit for publication.
These two ladies, the child and cuddy, male and
female servants, were then placed in one of the
quarter-boats to be lowered and sent adrift in the sea.
On the order being given to lower the boat, the
fiend burra-tindal stood by and held on the after
fall, so that the wretched inmates were cast into
the sea and perished,- save one man and a woman,
whose husband was one of the crew. The wretches
then fired the vessel, crowded all sail, and steered
for the laud. On nearing the shore the ring-
leaders quitted the vessel in te long-boar. casting the
latter adrift, and landed at a place called Bruas, about
48 miles distant from Penang. The remaining por-
tions of the crew, finding the fire gaining on the
vessel, quitted in the captain's gig and pulled for the
drifting long-boat which they secured, and then set
the gig adrift. Those in the long-boat proceeded to
Singapore; when near the latter place two of the
men took advantage of the others being asleep,
swam on shore, and reported all that had occurred
to the authorities. After some days several of the
men were captured, including the Cochin-Chinese,
others delivered themselves up, but six escaped.
The Hon. Company's steamer Hooghly was dis-
patched to Bruas to see if the vessel could be saved,
and with letters to the Baja of the country to de-
liver up the guilty parties. In the meantime some of
the men proceeded in a native boat to Penang and
surrendered themselves up to the police, but these are
not believed to have taken any other part in the out-
rages than such as they were in a measure compelled
to do by threats. The ringleaders, after some ex-
cuses on the part of the Raja, were secured and
taken to Penang, where they will be tried on the
17th of November, by the Recorder, Sir William
Jeffcott.

The barque ROA, of Liverpool, from Bombay,
bound to China, passed the Fawn, when she v.as on
fire standing in for the land, but did not proceed
to her assistance, or it is probable some of the
unfortunate creatures canted out of the quarter-
boat might have been rescued from a watery
grave. The master of the Rajah on the following day
fell in with her Majesty's ship Amazon, and reported
what he had witnessed the previous day. The Amazon
went in the direction indicated, but found no vestige
jany vessel, the Fawn having, it would appear,
u
1"cl to the water's edge.

The buiIatING'STRE ET BAZAAR.
itself deserves a few words. The altera-
treive and complete. Instead of the
perfect forest •
I:evernents
; animals
n,airveo sppreecmiailsleys,and han d -
Lions have heel
cs we gradually lose ourselves,
sfoornimeel; pinroPikviedtitior
wandering about these
m e note
o_ Gallery seems to
su c c variousnd additionsi
na nad
and iron roofirg. We see opening °f
inf c.9leumns, girders,
prospect the
Instance that
wearied the Children in the Wood. n that
are as deceptive as those
Long befo-e
reach them other bazaars and exhibitions have led us
we
us astray. 'To covertheie over with a tolerh-41Y nn-'
interrupted building, is, in itself, evidently no easy task,
and we have consegvntly buildings seated upon other
buildings where ordinary ones would have roofs—stories,
jutting out over other storie9, upon giant cantilevers, and
the whole connected and linked together with all the
modern profusion of iron appliances, suggesting what a
strange gaunt iron skeleton it would make with its
sinews and flesh of timber and bricks and mortar fallen
away—a
,curious and characteriAic ruin of the 19th
century, contrasted with one of our old baronial castles
of the 12th. The whole evinces a tact in economising
space, that does considerable credit to the architect, Mr.
IW Aa.Boulnois, the son of the proprietor. An addition
to li
butda thmee recentTus ti da'dsdpiorataioa and alterationsnwasmade havebyMr.b:e
Grima-
doll,nexecuted by Messrs. Win.land and Holland.—Builder.

STRALSUND, DEC. 14.--Tho Union, from Hull to this
port, which was stranded near Ancona on the 12th, was
got off after throwing part of her cargo overboard, and
towed is here very leaky,