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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
ALTERATION of TRAINS for MAY, 1857.
DOWN.--The 6 a.m. Tra.in.from Paddington will be eon•
tinned on to Salisbury. '
Tile 8.40 a.m. Train from Paddington will leave at 8.20
and will be proportiimately earlier at all Stations.
The Morning Express to the Myth will leave Paddington
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and be ten minutes later at all Stations.
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arriving at Chester at 8.50, Birkenhead at 9.25, and Liver-
pool at 9.40 p.m.
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tinned between Didcot and the North, and in place of it an
ordinary train will leave Paddington at 5.15 p.m., arriving at
Birmingham at 2.25, Chester at 11.15, Birkenhead at 11.45,
and Liverpool at 12 o'clock.
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The 9.15 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued,
and in place of it a Train will leave for Windsor and interme-
diate Stations at 10 p.m.
The 2.45 p.m Train from Paddington will be continued on
from Swindon to Cheltenham, and intermediate Stations.
The 4.50 p.m. Express from Paddington will be continued
as an Express Train from Swindon to Cardiff, and will run to
Milford Haven on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, in
connection with the Waterford steamers.
The 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddington will be continued on
from Chippenhamto Weymouth, calling at principal Stations.
UP.:--The 9.30 a.m. Train from Rea•ling will leave at 9.20,
and be proportionately earlier as far as Taplow.
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will be ten minutes earlier as far as Taplow. •
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tFrom theNtie -York Express)
Mormonism hitherto has been popularly associated
only- with the grosser immoralities, and looked upon by
most people of the Sates as a revolting plague-spot upon
civil'zed society, which would die out in the cour,e of
time by virtue, so to speak, of its own rottenness.
.We are now beginning, howeier, to get.glimpses of the
"ism" from a different stand-point, the addition to
our knowledge of its nature and disposition thus gained
is certainly not of at-character to reaiizettheexpectation
that the pestilence is going to abate without a severe
siruggle, sooner` or later, with the ‘ powers that be."
As long. as the Mormons broke the moral law simply
by themselves away off on the borders of Salt Lake, the
best thing that could be done was • to let them alone ;
hut, as they are now making a serious demonstration
against the civil law, and exhibiting a spirit of-Open hoe-
tility towards the constitutem and the Union, it becomes
a graver question than ever what is to be done with them.
The letter of Judge Drummond to the Attorney-Ge-
neral of the United States, resigning his office as Justice
of the Supreme Court in Utah, tor the season that be was
not permitted to exercise its functions without impeti ling
his life, shows that the Federal Government is utterly
powerless; and, such being the case, it devolves upon
Federal Government to assert its authority. No time
should be lost in a business of this kind If there is to
be organized resits' ancs to the execitiun of the laWs,that
organization will gain strength by the lapse of. time.
The case is a clear one. We are for " toleration" in
the most liberal sense of the word ; but is it toleration
to countenance a system which, i practised in any one
of the States of this Union, would send its disciples to
the State priion or penitentiary for bigamy, adultery, or
disorderly conduct? We are for respecting all religions,
but what religion is there in a creel which is constantly
at war with good morals and those 'fundamental princis,
pies of Christianity upon which the institutions of the
Republic itself may be said to depend I
- As soon as the Federal Government is satisfied of the
truth' f Judge Drummond's statement, that it is out of
the question for an United States' judge to sit in Utah,
steps should at once be taken to enforce its authority.
The appearance of a few regiments of the United States'
Dragoons, in ail human probability, would exercise salu-
tary influence upon Brigham and the elders: It is high
time that those gentlemen were given to understand that
though encamped in the heart of Utah, Utah is United
States' territory, over which the Federal Congress has
jurisdiction, and to resist that jarsdiction in the Man-
ner so set forth
_by Judge Drummond is a species of
Higher Law-ism, which must draw down upon the r
beads certain retribution.

Sporting Intelligence.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

TUESDAY.
Handicap Plate of 50. cove, A.F. (1. mile 2 furlongs
•
78 yards.)
Mr, Howard's Saraband, 5 yrs, Bst 121b...(J. Gipater) 1
Captain Christies'eaestrel, 4 yrs, 7st Blb ...(Walters) 2,
Captain Lane's Firmament, 4 yrs, let 81b (Fordbilin) 3)
The following also ran :—Tyre, Cripple, Lady ill3P-
renee,.TraitOr, ,and Eupatoria.
-Betting-7 to 4 aget Saraband, d to 1 each apt,
Eupatoria, Lady Florence, and Firmament, 8 to. 1 aget
Tyre, 10 to 1 aget Kestrel. Won by half a length
three lengths between the emend and third ; Tyre WAS
fourth, beaten a head from Firmament; Eupatorta, Lady
Florence, and Traitor, were next, welt up with Tyre.
Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, with 25 added, fur 3-yr
yr-olds and upwards ; the winner to be sold for 3001.
if demanded, Ate. Ab.M. (7 furlongs 212 yards.)

" Balidah, March 15. .
-‘ I may now relate more circumstantially the
events of the last few weeks. Sarawak was as
peaceful as it had ever been, and. there was no
cause to excite dissatisfaction among the Chinese
or raise suspicion in our minds of any beadle de-
signs ; yet a conspiracy had be'n formed which
had its ramifications in Singapore and China. A
follower of Tien-Te, the rebel chid', had arrived
in Sarawak; and some criminals, who had been
banished the country, secretly returned from Singa-
pore. - I had been unwell for some days, and on
the night of the 18th retired early to bed. My
servant was eleepiug in a room near Mine, and
Mr. Steel and Nicholets occupied a small bunge-
low close by. Between 12 and 1 o'clock I was
awakened by yells and shots, and, seizing my swo:d
and revolver, I opened a window and saw that
the house was surrounded. Thy noise told me
it was by Chinese. I opened door by door in the
hope of finding means for escape; but in vain. I
told Panty (his native servant) that our deaths
were at hand, and, as the last hope; wont doivn to
the bathing-room, which was under repair. The
door was not fastened. I opened. it gently, and
seeing the way clear ran across the lawn to the
creek on the right hand of the house, and took
the water close under the bows of, tee bo it which
had beought the murderers to their bloody work.
I carried my sword and pistol across with me.
Glad. was I to touch ground on the far side,
though not above 30 yards. I struggled through
the deep mud, and lay down exhausted and
panting in the road. Recovering breath I got
to the nearest house, and, launching a canoe,
pulled up to the Datoo Bandars kampong. All
was in confusion. I was too exhausted to
do much, and Hercules himself could not
has restored courage or order to such a panic
stricken crowd. Here Crookshank joined me bleed-
ing from a severe swordcut in the arm. He believed
his wife to be dead, and we both apprehended that
the massacre.would 'be general. Finding all hope of
restoring affairs at the Bandars One, I pulled to the
kampougs above, and persuaded the people to se-
cure their women and valuables in prahus, and to
cross to the opposite or left bank of the river, so as to
prevent the assailants from attacking them by land.
My house, Arthur's, and Middleton's were long
before this in flames. We gorthe women and chil-
dren across the river, and Arthur, Crookshank, and
myself retired to the Arne side, to the house of
Nakodah Bryak. Here Crymble joined us with.the
intelligence that after an hour's defence our fort or
palisade had been taken, and with it all our owls,
small arms, ammunition, &c. It had been de-
fended by Crymble, with four men and two pri-
soners ; three of the defenders were killed, one or
twowounded, andOrymble himself had been grazed
by a spear in his side. Middleton, Steele, Rup-
pell, and Penty dropped in one after another.
The bright fires went out, and the dull morning
broke at length, but only disclosing to us the hope•
less state of our affairs. We remained quietly at
Inkodali Bryaks, doing what we could to 'Animate
the native?, and to prepare for such a defence as
our means allowed, should we be attacked. I-may
here relate the fate and misfortunes of our fello w-
sufferers. Poor Harry Nicholetts was murdered
on the grass trying to reach my house. Crook-
shank and his wife escaped by their bath room door.
She ran first, and he protected her retreat with a
spear in his hand, but, in passing the s able, one of
these villians rushed from the opposite side and
cut her down. Her husband jobbed his spear in o
the miscreant's back, but with a twist of his body
he wrenched it out, and,, se;zing the shaft, he
struggled to get the spear. Suddenly, however,
letting go with his right hand, in which be held a
short sword, he cut Crooksha,nk across the fleshy
part of the arm. Both staggered, both let go the
spear, and Crookshank, weak with loss of blood,
'and believing his wife dead, staggered away and
reached me. She, young and beautiful, lay for 12
hours weltering in her blood, conscious and calm in
this extremity. One fiend hacked at her head till
he out off the long tresses which protected it ;
another tore her rings from her fingers ; a third—
for the sake of our common nature let it be told—
gave her water to drink. By this time the re-
mainder of the Europeans had been assured of pi o-
tection ; but when the Bishop aslied the leader's
permission to carry her to his house, he was told
that she should be left to perish. At length the
boon was granted, and she was relieved and tended,
and is now, God be praised, recovering. Middle-
ton's house was attacked at the same time and in
the same manner as the others. He escaped with
difficulty. His poor little wife hid in a bakery till
the burning rafters fell about her, and, from her
concealment, saw the assailants kicking about the
head of her eldest child. Thismother was paralysed;
she wished, she said, to rush out, but could not
move. The youngest child was murdered and
thrown into the flames, where poor Wellington's
remains were likewise consumed, his head borne
off in triumph alone attesting his previous murder.
The day broke, as I said, and shortly after I heard
that the Chinese had assured the survivors of safety,
that they had communicated with the Bishop, and
sent for Helms and Ruppoll. I then, hopeless of
doing good, started for the Siole, a small Stream
which has its outlet far bele W the town ; it was a
wild walk ; we swam the str earn, washed out every
track of our footsteps in the ..mud, and took 'refuge
in a mangrove swamp as dark came on. By eight
o'clock two small boats came to carry us away, and
in an hour afterwards I was in Abong Buyong's
prahu, manned by 40 men, with six smaller boats
in company. Our party consist ad of Arthur Crook-
shank, Crymble, Middleton and Panty, and, after
the trials and fatigues of the 24 bourn, we slept as
though misfortune had not overta ken us.
" On the morning following .I la tided at Sabong,
and I wish I could explain to you the tender care, the
generous sympathy showered upo a us. Here we
received information that the Chine se, after forcing
the Europeans and Datoos into oatl s of fealty, had
agreed to retire up the river. It e tee clearly their
intention, having, as they thought, iisposed of my-
self and Arthur, to take the country into their ow n
hands, to be friendly erith the Mal 127 s and Dyaks,
to patronise the Europeaess and to en courage them
to trade in order to the supply of thei r own wants.
There were two
.parties requesite to tl le success of
this notable project. My intention v ras to proceed
to Sakarran, to collect as large a fort ie as I could,
and with it to retake the town, or to command a
base of operations in its vicinity. liv ,vaited, how-
ever, the intelligence, and on Sunday 1
of the retirement of the Chinese, I was , again enter
ing the town, when down they came a,
before we were in any manner pre; area to rec.enieve,
them properly. The consequence was, IL eya gat d
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This was the only
re-
the town before I could even land, and
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tired with all the Europeans with the 11
tion of proceeding to Sakarran.
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ill fortune, but I did not show it. There ye were,
ammu.nitior panic
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tives to be provided for
town in flame ss, and
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from Saarran was our only hope, and. with, a base
leanwdithfioeueitnfigrweairtmh
for operations we might rally the people, efearoe
and act against the enemy, The next re4prning;
stahneiar

was on my way to Linda, when the steamer hove in
sight. I boarded her. Skinner was most zealous
and active. Here was the very base for our opera-
tions we wanted. We drove the miscreants out
of the town, found. the Datoo in a cluster of
prahus, and heard that he. had re-captured nine
campaus, and • one of our prahus containing
stores of powder, some guns, &c., of which we
were in great want. This was the first blow
.struck at the Chinese. I felt assured that each
day would improve our 'resources and diminish
t'iose of our enemies., Their body of men was nearly
annihilated, for taking the jungle behind the town
or making off by the road, as they had no boats to
carry them away, they were cut off by the
Dyaks or starved. My next measure was to let the
,land Dyaks loose upon them, and within a circuit
of 30 miles ft ono Siniawan, Bau, and 'Bella, they
were driven into titer defences with great loss of
life, and all communication between Bau and Sinia-
wan prevented, except by means of large parties of
armed men. Night. and day they were harassed by
alarms ; every straggler was cut down. In short, it
was a gu rilla warfare of the most harassing cha-
racter, and quite shut the enemy up in their two
places tif strength, Bau and Siniawan. The want
of food was sure to do the rest, and it was a mere
q iestion of time how long they could hold out.
Simovar and Bank were each covered, the former
by the tort of Mal), the latter by its landing
place, but early in the month the Chinese again
came forth in five prahus and began ravaging the
sbank4 of the river. I was collecting my people and
reassuring t tem after their panic. • The Datoo
Bandar, on the 9th, was in a single. Way prahu
on iris look-out at Linda Tarak whenithis Chinese
p erty came there. They declined an engagement
on the water, but Funded and threw up a stockade,
which they defended with four guns and manned
with ahont 250hien, armed. with muskets and
rifles. The Datoo came down, himself in a small'
boat, and by 1 o'clock on the 10th we got off two
more large prahus; some 30 Dyak bangkougs as a
reserve ; other prahus were preparing, and some
followed the same evening, but too fate. These
three praline ranged themselves in line and dashed
ae the Chiuese stockade, landed sword in hand, and
carried it without a check. The Dyaks cut the
Chinese to pieces in the jungle, and the half-hour
before sunset cost our enemies from 100 to 120
men. Again the remnant was distressed in the
jungle. Our party returned ; had it ascended
the river, no man, woman, or child of our
enemies would have escaped death or cap-
ture. This defeated party consisted of their picked
men, and their two great leaders were killed
in the stockade. A panic now seized them. On
the night of the 11th I heard that Balidah and
Simovar had been abandoned, and, hurrying up
the following morning, the intelligence greeted me
that Bank was likewise deserted, and had been
burned, and that the Chinese were in full retreat
towards Sambas. This took us by surprise, but
our force got upon their trail on the 13th, and,
after three days' desultory fighting, drove them
across the frontier with great slaughter, the enemy,
however, making a desperate resistance in defence
Of the women an children, and the efforts of our
people not being able' to break them. Had 24
hours' delay intervened to allow a concerted attack
we shoul I have had them all; but as it is we may
be thankful, for a mere remnant of the body of
Chinese men bad escaped, and the capture of the
women and children was not to be desired. Even
now, however, this wretched mass, driven to the
further side of the Sambas river, must suffer great
loss, and may altogether perish in the wild jungle
for want of food and from exposure. Thus the
punishment has been almost as sudden and far more
sharp than the treachery and first success of this
miscreant body. A thousand and more have been
killed in different places, their flourishing settle-
ments destroyed, and not a rooftree to cover their
dastard heads in the country. The numbers starved
in their flight by being lost in the jungle it is diffi-
cult to reckon, but it must be considerable, and out
of a population of 4,000 or 5,000 certainly not more
than 2,000 have escaped, and half this number is
composed of women and children. The punishment
has been severe. The Chinese will play no further
treachery here, and in future we shall prevent their
being associated in companies, disavow them, and
reduce them,to a daily obedience to the laws and
a strict surveillance. Sarawak has now passed
throughthroucountryh
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has been vindicated ; the principles on which it
is based proved to be right by the fidelity and
ardour of its native population. Our guns have
been recovered, with a proportion of our mus-
ketry, and t e principal loss falls on myself, on
Crookshank, auu Middleton. For myself, I way
say that I never knew the small value of worldly
goods till I lost them. I do not pretend to any
sentimental c int over my noble library, my costly
plate, or all the decorations and tokens of honour
which were once showered upon me and have been
lost even more 'suddenly than they were acquired.
Man's happiness consists not in such things, and he
destroys the chances of finding it if he persuades
himself that it does.
Now, a word more as to the causes of these
events. Wherever there is a Chinaman there is
the conceit of supremacy and the desire of domi-
nion. When associated in bodies, as in Sambas
formerly, and thence in Sarawak before my arrival,
this lust of rule grows stronger. The stringent
proceedings of the Dutch have recently thrown
many desperate characters
.into Sarawak, and the
miserably feeble Government of Singapore, with its
toleration of secret societies, has strengthened the
Chinese Kungsi hero and given it advisers aware of
the state of British affairs and policy. 'Without
such advisers the idea of encouraging trade while
murdering the officers of Government would never
haee entered the head of any of the rude Chinese
here, and without the means of livelihood from
without and the support of the European commu-
nity •so mad a project could hardly have been
uniertaken. To upset the Government by the
murder of its principal officers and heads and to
esfablish other Englishmen to carry on the trade,
was the suggestion of Chinese of Singapore, well
acquainted with the isolated position of Sarawak,
and possessed with the idea that the murder of
Sarawak officers and the Sarawak Rajah would be
a matter of supreme indifference to the British
nation, provided that trade was continued and cot-
tons sold. It was a high compliment to my governs
ment that, murdering me with the intention of
obtaining power, these stupidly clever Chinese
desired as little change as possible. They forgot
the ' native element, and. hence their destruc-
tion. has come. It was a grand superstructure,
cleverly, devised by men acquainted with Engiish
policy and mode. of proceeding, but miserably based
es regards the feelings and the ferocity of the native
population. I think I have told you that one of
Tien Td's follower—i. e. follower of the rebel and
Hue leader in China—has since been ascertained to
have arrived in the country. It is probable thathe
Was the greet Singapore mover and agent, and to
all these causes to encourage the attempt to acquire
power and plunder by means of treachery and mur-
der may be added the poverty of the Chinese,
owing to the scanty yield of gold during the last
eight months. r- will only add that to penetrate
their designs was impossible, and without a clue to
the designs and its advisers their attempt was not
conceivable. True, some rumours had been afloat
three months before that under guise of a reliesius
procession the Kungsi people were toforce the gaol
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my life, as I was in Singapore. Crookshan.
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and its retrieval at the same time ; and, for my-
self, I may say that I am in good health and spirits,
and ready to rough it with the best of them. Our
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THE PRINCES OF DUDE AT GLASGOW.—The heir-appa-
rent to the throne of Onde, and his uncle, attended by
a numerous suite of native domestics, arrived in this
city last night (Monday) at 11 o'clock, from Liverpool.
he illustrious v►sitors were received on the platform of
the Caledonian Railway by the Lord Provost and the
magistrates, who accompanied them to the Queen's
Rotel. They were waited upon by Lord Ardmillan,
who had the honour of an introduction to the Princes.
It is under, food that they purpose attending the Judges'
levee this morning, after which they will visit some of
the most attractive buildings, &0., of the city,--North
Rriti4l4 Nail.

and _anson.
The first publication of the Marning _Herd
comenced in the year 1781, the Standard in 182 i,
and the St. James's Chronicle was founded on the
St. James's Evening Post, a paper of considerable
circulation, so far 'back as the middle of last ceu-
tiny. It included in its proprietary the names of
Bonnell, Thornton, the elder Cohnan' Garrick, -
George Stevens, the Shakspere commentator, and •
Dr. Gillies, the historiographer of Scotland ; and.
among its contributors were Goldsmith, Churchill,
Murphy, Alexander Chalmers, and Ma:let du Pan,
daring a portion of the French revolutionary
times. •
The property was put up in one lot and was
erous and intleential, and. in-
offered for sale under the orders of the assignees of
Mr. Edward Baldwin, a bankrupt, and with the
consent of his mortgagees. The attendance of Vie -
bothcpiuuldleic4wseayseralp
canuir,nali,t3
in the City, no wspapi r
proprietors, paper manufacturers, and • print:•rs.
The auctioneer, Mr. Christie, opened the proceed-
ings by observing that the property he had to off r
for sale was of a rather novel character. With the
eiception of 19 shares in the Globe, which were sold
by his friend, th'i la'e Mr. George Robins, in
1846, this was the first occasion within his memory
on which a London newspaper had been offered for
public sale. Tee deposit to be paid under the con-
ditions of sale, viz. 25 per cent. on the amount of
the purchase-money, was somewhat large, and per-
haps
it might be thought desirable for him to state
what was to be done with it, pending the comple-
tion of the contract. The amount would be ;
invested in Exchequer-bills, and the secu-
rities themselves deposited with Messrs. Hoare, •
the bankers. The purchaser of the copyrights would
have also to purelia=o the leasehold. premises and
the plant, at the valuations which he would now an-
nounce. The plant, including steam-engines, machi-
nery, printing-presses, types, and other chattels aud
effects, was valued by Messrs. Harrild and Sol a
on the 2st of April at 6,1901. 3s. 6d., and. the lease-
hold valued by Mr. CharlesTlarding, the eminent _
surveyor, at 6611., making the total valuation of
the plant and. the leaseholds' 6,821/. 3z. 6d., and •
that amount would have to be added to the
price of the copyrights. The present moment wy.s
singularly favourable for purchases of this kind.
The country was entering upon a new eta of great
p litical interest to, the Conservative party. It was
true that that party was in a minority ;o neverthe-
less they were powerful in numbers, pwerful in
influence, powerful in wealth, and that party was
the supporter of this property. These papers were
necessary t) the exist nice of that great party, an 1
formed part of their political life. He had before -
him the amounts paid for advertisements in the
three papers during the last five years, and the total
was 146,643/. 55., giving an average of nearly
30,0001. a year. In 1851. the amount was 31,6901. .
lls. ' • in 1852, 31730/. 18s. ; in 1853, 30,9791. 2s ;
in 1854, 26,4841. 48. ; and in 1855, 21,7581. 104.
He had no returns for the last year, nor could ha
furnish any information for that period. The papers
came into the possession of the assignees on the
11th of February last, and since that period th,:y
had been carrying them on at a small profit—some
thing like 700/. The assignees had determined to
put the property in at a fixed price—namely,
13,5001., and an advance of 100/. upon that amount
would effect a bons fide purchase. The cost of the
purchaser would then be, including the valuation
of the plant and leaseholds, 20,451/. 3s. 6d.
Mr. Christie then formally put the copyrights up
at bidding on the part of the official assignees of
13,5001., and it was intimated that one bid of not
less than 1001. would constitute a sale. A length-
ened pause ensued.
A person asked what the bankrupt gave for tin
property ?
Mr. Christie said he could not tell, but this he
could say that the Morning' Herald alone cost
29,0001.
After waiting some minutes it became evident
that no publi7 sale would take place ; not a single
bid was offeed, and eventually the auctioneer said.
he had no alternative but to withdraw the property.