The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

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Had time permitted to have organised a concen-
trated attack, not au individual wouldhave escaped •
As it is, the wretched fugitives-are driven into the
jungle, where a vast number of them must perish
from. want and exposure before they Clll reach a
place of security.
According to the most moderate estimate at least
1,000 Chinese have been kilted at the various
places, while all the flourishing settlements of the
Chinese (except at Kuchin) have been destroyed.
The exact number of Chinese who have perished
during the retreat it is impossible to say ; it must
be considerable, since out of a population of 4,000
to 5,000 Chinese belonging to the Kungsi, not more
than 2,000 escaped the late retribution, inzluding.
women and children.

Much as we regret letting loose the Dyaks to
commit the most savage decimation or rather de-
struotiou of a whole people, we cannot sympathise
with the diabolism of the Kungsi, who, both indi-
vidually and collectively, have always received at
the bands of Sir James Brook Borneo justice—a
code regulated by circumstauc.s. The diabolical
attempt of the Chinese Kungsi has met with the
punishment it deserved; no reasonable being will
pity them, however much they may regret the
frightful sacrifice of-human-life. Experience too -
sadly proves that at the present period kindness,
humanity, and forbearance are either misunder-
stood or but too lightly apFreoiated by the Chinese,
who think they ought to be dominant for no earthly
reason that we can discover, but because they are
cruel and vain.

Having thus disposed of the leading events front
Sarawak, there are a few matters of both general aud
local interest which we cannot allow to pass ; the
owi•siou would be rather unjust, inasmuch as toe
circumstances are fresh in our memories. It appears
that on the 27th February, when affairs assumed a
rather ugly aspect, Mr. Helms (tho agent for the
Borneo Company) was despatched to Sambas, to
inform the Dutch authorities tbere how matters
stood at Sarawak, and to request assistance. The
assistant resident at Sambas expres-ed great sym-
pathy, and immediately despatched a fast boat to
Pontianak, where the chief resident was then stay-
ing. The latter, without hesitatoo, despatched a
war steamer, with such soldiers as he could well
spare, accompanied by an offer of further assistance,
siiould it be necessary for the protection of British
lives and property—an act quite characteristic of
our Dutch neighbours. The Dutch war steamer
arrived at Sarawak on the 15th inst. (when all was
happily over), and after staying three days returned
to Sarawak. /

On inquiry amongst the Chieftains who acted
against the Obinee, 'it was found that their loss did
not exceed 12 Malays and llyaks.
The Chinese resident at Kuchin were completely
restored to cOnfidence wh en the steamer left, and had
re-opened their shops. So great, indeed, was their
reliance in the stability of the Rajah's government,
that not one of their wives or children was sent
away to Singapore in the steamer. A letter received
from Sir James Brooke mentions that most of the
guns taken by the Kungsi had been recovered, as
also a large proportion of the muskets carried away
from the forts. The loss by the late outrages
chiefly falls on Sir J. Brooke and the government
We are right glad to notice that Mrs. Cronksbank
hal nearlyrecovered flout her injuries, and her hus-
band's wounds were doing well. Sir James and the
bishop were in good health and spirits.

REVOLT OF CHINESE COOLIES, AND
GREAT SLAUGHTER.

The Chinese coolie trade bids fair to rival if not
surpass in horrors the African slave trade, which it
has cost England such expenditure, both of money
and the lives of her most gallant sons, to put down.
Last month we heard from China of the officers
and crew of a French vessel, which left with
coolies for the Havannab, having been cut off, by
the coolies, all the officers and some of the crew
murdered, and...the vessel destroyed._ Then last
week the Henrietta Maria, also bound for Haven-
nail, arrived here, having been picked up at sea,
without her officers, and the few remaining men of
the crew giving rather contradictory ac.a3unts of
what had become of the officers and the greater
nu.uher of the coolies with which the vessel origi-
nally left Macao. This week has brought accounts
of a fresh disaster, surpassing in the horrible nature
of its incidents anything that has yet gone before it.
A boat reached Sing spore o'i Monday last con-
taining thte chief mate and six passengers of the
Peruvian ship Carmen, who coinumnicated the fol-
lowing shocking details :—The Carmen sailed from
Swatow on the tat of March for Callao with 200
Cilium coolies and seven passengers. On the Bth,
when off the Great Natunas, the interpreter gave
information that the coolies intended to take the
ship, on which measures were adopted to secure
them. Next day everything was apparently quiet
until the alarm of fire was given, some of the coolies
having thrown burning straw into the bold, appa-
rently with the intention of taking the crew off their
guard while trying to put out the fire. This did
not succeed, however, as the crew armed themselves
and drove the coolies down below, putting on the
hatches. The attempts made to extinguish the fire
proved fruitless, and two boats were lowered, in
which the officers and crew and seven passengers
interpreter embarked, and pulled off from the ship.
There being no sails in the boats, the captain in one
of them, with 12 or 13 of the crew, approaChed the
ship for the purpose of trying t, procure them;
but at the moment the boat neared her the ship
went (lowa, and it is supposed the boat must have
been carried down with her by the suction, as no-
thing more was seen of it. The whole of the coolies
perished with the vessel. The remaining boat made
the best of its way to Singapore, the persons in it
suffering severely from their exposure and want of
water and provisions, their being nothing in the
boat but two baskets of sweet potatoes. In addi-
tion to their sufferings from these causes, they were
attacked off Palo Tingi by a small Malay boat,
containing three men and a boy, who ki led one of
the passengers and one of the crew, besides wound-
ing some of the others. The Malays did not, how-
ever, succeed in overpowering them, and they at
last reached Singapore in a very miserable condi-
tion. A gun boat has bsen sent out to ,the east-
ward in the hope, although it is a very faint one,
that the boat in which the captain was embarked
may have escaped destruction, and that he and Lis
companions may still be alive, and so requiring as-
sistance.—Singapore Free Press.

INDIA AND PERSIA.
(From the Bombay Times of April 2.)
The interest of the war is much abated since the
arrival of the last Engofli.csohurmsaeigl
eonnetrahleth23atdtuhletinmexot,
othneee wxipllecatnantioounnbceeinthge conclusion of peace. We are
still, however, disposed to believe that the expecta-
tion of its immediate issue is too sanguine, and we
base our conviction on the fact that our conduct
has excited an intense feeling of indignation against
us at the Persian Court. It is contended by a class
of writers in this country that it is justifiable, in.
dealing with Asiatics to use another diplomacy.
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than is known in Europe—in other words, to prac-
tise deceit against deceit ; and our conduct towards
Persia would seem to ingrate that this new doc-
trine is but the expression of our recent practice.
It is forgotten that as a nation we owe as much of
our influence in Asia to our reputation for in-
tegrity as to our swords, and the danger of this
error can hardly be exaggerated. We felt it neces-
sary some time since to direct marked atteetion to
the conduct of Commander Jones, our resident at
Bushire, who himself is our informant, in his
printed despatches, that he had succeeded in main-
taining perfect, up to the moment when our fleet
appeared before the place, the illusion that our
preparations to invade the country were simply a
pretence. We find the Persian Court consistently
complaining that, without any declaration of war,
and while Ferukb Khan was negotiating with Lcri
Radcliffe, and, as it now transpires, while our own
envoy was declaring that we did not intend war at
all, our forces were despatched to the Gulf, and the
mp
invasion effected. Had such conduct been mani-
fested in Europe,dar
ite
dwouldhavufliceuddetnotly, outlaw
the power thatthe
violate, have sufficed
impudently,
law of nations.
Our news from the Gulf is very scanty. Prepara-
tions were being made at date of our last advices to
embark a large part of the force for Mahamra, at
the mouth of the Kuran ; but the operation was
much delayed by the prevalence of violent north-
west winds which characterise the period of the
year. The Persians were said to have, assembled in
force a second time in the neighbourhood of

a small canoe-boat for assiitance: The DaNiiiiiiSPAPER
tened to Kuchin to secure reinforcement ,
the 10th March he returned to the stockad
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large prabus and some Dyak bangkongs , fetrot,.. 7.-.tl.
Thus strengthened, the Datoo, with hi ',401M 0 ~*= 4.7
tnadea dash at the Chinese stockade, whet .c.,,14t —40,4 ,;t1,..,„"
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with his party and carried the place witho "6, -!, ,r,.:: -.:,--,i, 4-, Al .
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The Chinese in the stockade were cut to p-3
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half an hour theyiost from 100 to 120 men ; th4est II S
in the stockade, having lost their boats, took to the
jungle: We may remark that the defeated party in
the stockade consisted of picked men ; their priuci-
p.l chiefs were killed in the assault. The effect of
this signal attack was complete. A panic seized the
Kungsi people, which was eagerly availed of ; the
Chinese successively fled from Balaida, Siniawan,
and Bau. By the night of the 11th March the
Kungsi people were in Lull retreat towards Sambas,
closely followed by bands of Malays, who availe
themselves of every opportunity to cut off the
stragglers. The Chinese retired in a close body—
so close, indeed, that their assailants failed to canoe •
disorder, and made a desperate resistance in the
presence of their wives and children.

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