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

pretty full, and, we believe, accurate account-of the
affair
On Monday, the 231, as the Queen, steamer. was on
her way from hence t,) Macao,-aid when the efficers and
European passengers were at tiffin, the Chinese pasaen-
gers, with the crew, -amounting in all to about thirty-
five, turned -one of the cannon eleced in the gang wae
.into the_cabin door and fired its contents (grapeshot)
among the Europeans there, consisting of the captain
and engineer ; Mr. Cleverly, late marine surveyor of
Whampoa and Canton ; Mr. Weir, late chief engineer
to the Sir Charles Forbes ; and also t So or three Portu
guese with their wives. The captain received a blow. on
the head, and immediately jumped overboard. His fate
is unknown.. The two engineers ..vould not fight, and
were kill-d by the Chinamen ; the Portuguese hid them.
selves :under the table.: Mr. Cleserly's escape, arid the
indomitable courage and perseverance' he displayed, t'
almost beyond t elief..* His thigh-hone was broken by a
grapeshot from, the first discharge of' the cannon ; not-
withstanding which he kept the whole bard of savages
at bay with a revolver for about twenty minutes, and
shot twhor three of them when they tried to enter the
after cabin, where be was. When, he had no further
means of resistance he threw a bamboo chair from the
cabin window,-stripped off his clothes, and jumped into
the water, where he remained for an hour-anti-a-half, and
was picked up a lorcha bound to Nlaetao, to which pl,ce
he was taken ; and though be may probably 1 iSe his leg.
it is hoped tie life will be saved.
The Spanish steamer Magallanes left Macao about 7
or 8 o'clock the following morning, in seerch of the nu-
fortunate Queen. She toek a peep into Cum-singonoon,
and a turn round the north end of Lanten, and returned
to Macao about three o'clock without having seen any-
thing. Not likely that she would ; hut I suppose the
officers had to be back in time for the evening's mas-
querade, and- therefore could not spare leisure for a
efurtpeepeetarch. It is to be hoped that the Auckland's
seareT7ffir—be mere feettrhotteteeeeShe444l, .li(4-4.- lel ttife-
yet, having been absent now two days.
The Queen bad on ,board about 120 chests of
opium, besides other cargo ; 37'chests more were
to have been sent from the. John Adams, but the
delivery order. reached Captain Roper so late, that
by the' time the opium was put into the- boat the
Queen .was under weigh. ,The steamer has been
taken to Chun-Chifne, and is there at anchor,
surrounded by a fleet 'of fifty-seven mandarin junks;
her female passengers were reported tO aliVe
and well. •
Several 'respectable Chinese were also passengers
in her, and the rumour of some of A-tumor's pe .Ple
being concerned in the capture is entirely imagi-
nary—at all events. the most energetic inquiries on
the thalject have been unable to trace the origin•of
the rep pit.
P.S. As we are going to press, a note from a
friend in Macao has reached us. It is as fol-
lows :
Mi. Cle.verly is getting along favourably thus far, and
there is hope that he wilt not have to submit to ampu-
tation. Ile was sitting alone on the upper deck, while
the other passengers, all the Portuguese, were at dinner,
when a Chinese passenger cams up and asked biro why
he did not also go down to dinner, and recommended
him to do so. Soon after he went_ towards the cabin,
at which time there was not an officer of the vessel any-
where on deck. Twelve er fifteen first-clase Chinese
passengers had come on' board at starting, and there
were several other natives, over none of whom alas there
the least supervision, nor WAR a cautionary guard placed
from the time of starting. The loaded muskets were in
the chest on the tipper deck, and were all seized by the
Chinese, who then descended Rear the wheel-house, and
began to drive the others aft. They also fired from the
above into the cabin, where the captain and passengers
were at table, while some remained on the top, and kept
every passage forward closed. Captain Wynn and Mr.
Cleverly, stood near the, door, and the latter shot two
Chinese.
The captain was wounded in :the head and jumped
,overboard, followed by,Mr. Cleverly, whose thigh-bone
bad been shattered by a ball—both of them convinced
that further resistance to the Chinese was useless. Three
others were also then in the water, the steamer being
near the south-western end of Lenten. After remaining
about two hours in the water, Mr. Cleverly managed•to
attract the notice of the crew of a lorcha, who lowered a
boat and picked him up, and on reaching the lorcha,
hoisted the beat up to the davits, from which pesition
he
managed to haul himself over. the taffrail and get do sn
into,the cabin, suffering great pain from his wound all
the time., When he was piCked up, he saw nothiog of
Captain Wynn or of the Chinese who had jumped over-
board ; soree.ef thetn.may have reached land. The cap-
tain and mate of the lorcha treated him kindly, and he
reached. Macao about 7 p.m. ; and in less than: 3 hours
after the rescue was carried up to his own house.
The Queen had 150 (1120) chests of opium on board,
and it is reported that a passenger recently arrived from
California bad a quantity of gold dust with hint. Ido
not learn bow many Chinese passengers were on board
besides the scoundrels, but with them it is supposed the
firemen were in league to get the property. Tht re was
the most culpable carelessness,. I am told, tivt n to leav-
ing the gun-chest unlocked, while the guns inside were
loaded and the caps on.
The Queen was seen passing north of Cum-sing-moon,
bound westerly, and has probably gone to Kenkong or
Fatihan, but no further tidings have been heard of her.

COLLISION BETWEEN THE CHINESE
AND ItIISSIANS.

(Front the China Mail)
The Peking Gazette of the 22d. November last
contains a notice of collision between the Russians
of Omsk and the people of Tarbagttai, or Tashtava,
the most distant portion of the Chinese empire in
contact with the Siberian frontier.
The large province of Ili, at the eastern extremity
of what the maps call Independent Tartary, is
divided into two parts, Ili Proper, t the south,
and Tarhagatai, to the north. The latter is the
country of portions of the three tribes of Elassack,
Eluth, and Chahar, and also of certain Chinese
deicendants of some hundreds of fa.milies carried
thither in the middle of last century to form a mi-
litary colony.
From a memorial of Chalafautai, the Chinese
resident Minister, published in the above-men-
tioned Gazette, it would appear that the Russians
(throughout styled barbarians) have frequently had
occasion to drive back their ne:glibouts, who per-
sist in crossing the frontier to dig for gold. This
has produced discontent, and some Chinese and
Mahometans,* so treated, avenged themselves by
firing a Russian barn, or warehouse, one or
more buildings. On being seized by the. Chinese
authorities, they defended themselves by a
counter allegation of murder against the Rus-
sians. This was found to be without any pr of,
and they were sentenced, principals and acces-
Stades,- to what the Resident insists was a sufficient
punishment. His decision h td, however, been
revised at Peking, the Superior Courts assuming,
from the evidence, that the delinquents had burned
dwelling-houses as well as magazines. His memo-
rial is to disprove this, and Co defend the original
sentence, on the ground that it imposes a penalty
legally commensurate with the oflence, no intent
being proved to do bodily harm ; also that it serves
the two great ends of maintaining the dignity of the
state and assuring the peace of the frontier. He
lays stress withal on the fact that when the barba-
rian (Russian) commissioner came to Ili, in 1851,
" to discuss regulations of trade," he, the commis-
sioner, peremptorily refused his convent to a pro-
position that life should be given for life, in case a
Chinese were killed by a Russian.
The Resident's static'n at Sui-t sing, otherwise
Tuguchuck or TarbagatS, is perhaps 2,000 miles
from Pekin. His report.. was sent off on the 191 h
May, and on the 16th July, that is in 58 days, a
note from the Great Council reached him, to the
effect that the Emperor would further signify his
pleasure concerning the. cave. The Board of
Punishments' minute eventually arrived on the
26th September.

•
THE SLAUGHTER , AT SARA.WAK.
(From, the Straits Vines of March 21.)
On Tuesday last we lamed an Extra givitig an
outline of the recent outrage 3 committed by the
Chinese at Sarawak, pat ticulara of which were
brought from that place by the schooner Good Luck,
Which sailed on the 21st ull imo and arrived on the
10th instant. Although rut nours hal been current
that the Kungsi contemplatei lre&sting the authority
of the local government, tb latter appear to have
treated the matter with indifTe rence. Soddenly how-
ever, a large body numbering about 2011 Chinese,
came down the river, on and lc efore the 17th Febru-
ary, and at midnight commen:;:lld a most determined
at tack on the Government peopa' e and property. They
first secured possession of the wo fort', one below
aod the other above the town of,' Kuehn' (the seat of
-Rajah Brooke's authority), whi, were only g,ar-
risoned by 12 men, and having' furnished them
selVes with all the arms and smut. dtion in the foits,
they proceeded to the work of cle4ruction upon
which they had ventured. This 17as at midnight,
when all were asleep. One party "nada an attack
on the residence of Sir James Brooke, whilst the
remainder assaulted the Houses of gr.- Crook•ak,
also a Govern-
of air.
the magistrate,. and Mr. Middleton,
previous Sir James
ment official. For some days
Brooke was unwell, and was about iazt proceed to
Sitnunjang, on the Sadong river (the seat of the
gentleman,
Borneo Company's operations),, for tango
On the night in question his servant was sleeping
in an adjoinibg room, and under the s ame roof was
residing a young and very promi-ing:
The surprise
named Nicolets, who had joined the ittlaws circle
as a gut st within the last 12 months.
and consternation Was so great, ancithe meaeures

of the attacking party so well organised, that all
communication between the different European
members of the community was impossible. While
the Chinese att tcked the front of the house, Sir J.
Broke succeeded in effecting an extraordinary
escape ;he passed down the bath-room and swam
across a creek near his house, by which means he
succeeded in gaining the Malay village ; thither also
others of the European residents happily reached
shert'y afterwards. The assailants fired into Sir
J. Broote's residence, killed Mr. Nicolets (whose
body was buried in the ruins), plundered the place
of everythitig of value in their es intuition, and
then. set fire t ) the building, ruthlessly destroying
Sir James Brooke's excel'ent library and the
valuable collect'ons of his whole life—a loss which
frien,l or foe muss equally regret. At the hi
of Mr. Crookshank the assailants met with
a firm: sistance, but that gentleman was over-
pewered ; he defended his amiable and recently-
married lady wi h the utmost gallantry. Mrs.
Cm &shank was brutally wounded before his eyes,
and dragged away wh-n he was no ,longer able to
&fend her. Mrs. Crookshank was believed to have
been kille I, hut happily next morning she was
found in the jungle. Her wounded body was co-
vered with cocoa-nut leaves. .She was removed to
the -Mission-house, where, under the skilful treat-
ment of the Bishop, the Rieht Rev. Dr. M`Dou-
gsll, she was at the date of the latest advices doing
well. Mr: Crookshank, after passing the night in
the jungle, by some means reached the Mission-
house' next morning in an almost insensible state.
The house' of Mr. Middleton (also in the service of
Sir J. Brooke) was attacked ; his house was fired,
anal tWo of -his children unhappily perished in the
flames. Mr. Wellington, a metallurgist, in the
VetirviEe---or the Borneo .Company, a guess of Mrce
Middle' on's was killed and his head cut off, pro-
bably under the mistaken supposition that he &so
was in the service of the Sarawak government, as
the head was given up on the fellowing day. The
government treisury was plundered of everything
it contained, which we regret to hear was consider-
able ; nearly every European had placed his money
there as the most secure place. About 10,000 dols.
belonging to the Borneo Company was carried off.
In the course of a few hours a large amount of go-
vernment property was destroyed.
. Next day the Chinese Kungsi stated that they
had no hostile intentions against any one but per-
sons connected with the government ; indeed they
expressed a wish that Bishop M'Dougall.and Messrs
Ruppell and Helms should act as their chieftains,
'whilst they unreservedly declared their determi-
nation to destroy Sir James Brooke and every one
in his service. During the day negotiations were
opened with the Chinese, and it was arranged that
they should depart, unmolested by the Malays,
with the plunder they had obtained; at 4 p.m.
they started up the river in their boats.
The immediate cause of this frightful attempt to
destroy the whole -of the Government European
authorities at Sarawak is stated. to be the stringent
measures which Sir Jas. Brooke has found it expe-
dient to adoPtto prevent opium smuggling. Some
heavy flues had been levied on the smugglers, the
amount being paid by the Kungsi ; and latterly
some of the offenders had been imprisoned. But
these seem scarcely sufficient to account for such
ruthless slaughter and destruction, not sparing age
or sex.
Sir Jas. Brooke is stated to regard the affair as
trifling and soon to be retrieved. The Government
gunboats and the Malays were in eager pursuit of
the Chinese, and if the latter are overtaken the re-
tribution will doubtless be severe. The Malays
everywhere expressed their confidence in ST Jas.
Brooke. The arrival of the steamer Sir James
Brooke, belonging to the Borneo Company, was
anxiously looked for, and'as that vessel left this on
the 21st ult., she would most likely reach Sarawak
on the 24th The European _ladies had, we hear,
quitted for the mouth of the river, where they
would he safe under the protection of the Malays.
On the arrival, of the news here the Singapore
agents of Sir 'J. Brooke and the Borneo Company
lost no time in chartering the schooner Walerlily,
and loading her with arms and ammunition, as also
some volunteers for service. The steamer Inflexi-
ble, which sailed for Hong Kong, took the Wa'er-
lily and gunboat in tow, and we hear that t' e Star-
ling will took in at Sarawak, on her way to China.
Sir James Brooke, by latest, advice, had departed
for Simunjang, on the Sadong, the scene of the
Borneo Company's operations, and where a large
number of coolie s are employed, with the hope,
no doubt, that his presence would prevent any ris-
ing on the part of the coolies in that quarter.
In our hurried Extra of Tuesday last we stated
that the Chinese authors of the above sad outrage
were refugees from Sambas ; in this particular we
were in error. The Kungsi comprises the Chinese
settlers Sir James Brooke found at Sarawak on his
arrival there. The formidable character of these
Chinese is given in Mundy's first volume, p. 289
et sequel, an I to resist their then demands Sir Jes.
Brooke (p. 294) says he was prepared to push the
affair to extremity "if they did not yield to the
terms demanded," whilst he prophetically observes,
" I look fortvard to future trouble in that quarter,
but by just government and fair trade they may be
brought to good temper, and at any rate the chances
are we shall strengthen in a greater proportion than
they will be able to do." Tue recent outrage has
clearly shown that the strengthening means have
been overlooked, with a fearful result too.
( Prom the Straits Times of March 23.)
The 13ritish steamer Sir James Brooke, belonging
to the Borneo Company, ar ived at Singapore yes-
terday (Sunday), having left Sarawak on the 19th
inst., by which opportunity we have received late
and important news, which we hasten to lay before
our readers:
Our latest advices by the steamer Good Luck
were to the 20th Feb., at which date Sir James
Brooke had retired to Simunjang, on the Sadong
river, the head-quarters of the Borneo Company's
operations. Messrs. Crookshank, Crymble, Steel,
and Penty accompanied the Rajah to Simunjang ;
the objectof the Rajah's visit to that quarter being,
as we now learn, to collect forces in the neighbour-
ing rivers, with the view of returning to Sarawak.
We previously announced that the Chinese Ktingisi
people (the insurgents) bad evacuated the town of
Knehin, and retired up country, and that the Ma-
lays were preparing to start in pursuit. We,now
continue the narrative of events.
- It appears that on Sunday, Feb. 22, Sir James
Brooke received intelligence of the retirement of
the Chinese, whereupon he returned from the
Saelong to the Sarawak river, but before be could
land the Chinese Kungi had a second time ventured
down the river in great force (between 500 and 600),
anti with feelings whetted, ,as it were,, by their late
partial success, and yet chagrined at their f Attire to
overturn the Rajah's authority. The return of the
Ch nese with so large a force somewhat surpris d
the Raj +h, and compelled-him to retire or venture
a collis.on with an inadequate force. In the mean-
time the Knug-i people availed themselves of the
time to commit further depredations on the Govern=
went proper y. It now be.ame apparent, that most
extensive means were needed to suppress the add
Vance of the Kuugsi people, whose object appeared
to be to secure for themselves the entire paramount
authority, alike indifferent to brute force, base
treachery, or the vilest measures. Under these cir-
cums'ances Sir J. Brooke proceeded to Linga, to
secure the co-operation of the chief and the people
of that district, but on his way the steamer Sir
James Brooke, from Singapore, hove in sight most
tirneously ; her arrival was not merely opportufn:,
but the site of her anchorage formed the
bias eOl 11
subsequent operations. Sir J. Brooke
,?..rupartny.
at once proceeded in the steamer t J - ). c
soon succeeded in driving the miscreants out of
the town. On inquiry and searc himself agar that
the Datoo Bandar was defending nst the
Chinese, amid a cluster of prshue The Datoo suc-
ceeded in recapturing nine sampans (boate)' and one
of the Government prairies (vessels) containing
•
stores, gunpowder, and opium, &c.
The body, or main force. of the Chinese, driven
from the town, were finally either cut off by the
Dyaks, or were starved in the jungle. At the outset
about 100 of the Chinese were killed. The warfare
msemed a mode of irregular attack. The Dyaks
were let .lowe, who from a large circuit, ba tue-like,
drove the Chinese into their fastnesses, accompanied
by greal, loss to the retreaters, where they were
hemmed in ; in other words, there took place a kind
of guerilla warfare of the most harassing character,
erievously thinning the number of the rebels. Still
the Chinese were undaunted; from tteir stronghold
they ventured an attack in five praline, and com-
menced ravaging the banks of the river. 'lbis was
on the 9th
_March. The Datoo Bandar was sta-
tioned in a single prahu at Tangah Lidah (the
junction of two rivers), about 15 miles above Ku-
chin ; meeting theeKungsi in their borate, the Datoo,
in his single prahu, offered battle, which the Kungsi
declined. Thinking this to be an excellent site, the
Kungsi landed, and construe ed a stockade, which
they armed with feur guns, and garrisoned by about
250 men with muskets, &c. Believing themselves
to be secure, the Chinese very foolishly neglected to
secure their boats, which were captured by their
oppouents. Leaving his war prahu near the stock-
,ade, the Date() chivalrouely proceeded to Suchin in

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a small canoe-boat fir assiaance. TI10; ‘;,
toned t Kuellin!to secure re:niorcem ' •
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the 10th Miti-c he ntiirned t,;th- stocha
large i•ralius and Dy-,:k a a glongs as row'
,
Thus strengthe nee', the Dam.), with his 3 praline,
madea dash at the Chinese stockade, where he landed
with his patty and carried the place without a repul.sel (
nee in the stogliade were cut to pieces ; in
ii hour they lost from 100 to 120 men ; the mat
in the stockade, havinglost their boats, took to the
jungle. We may remark that the defeated party in
the stockade consisted pf picked men ; their prin ci-
Rd chiefs were killed in the assault. The effect of
this signal attack was complete. A panic seized t) e
Kungsi people, which was eigerly 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 Samba;,
closely followed by bands of Ma'ays,_ who avant,
themselves of every opportunity to cut off the
stragglers. The Chinese retired M, a close body—
so close, indeed, that their assailants failed to cawe
disorder, and ni,cle ,a desperate -resistance in the
presence of their wives and children.
1.1,:c1 time permitted, to have oriartised a•concen-
traiped a tack, not an individual woulahave escaped- .
As it is, the wretched fugitives are dr iyen into thejingle,
wiiere a vast tiumb9r of them Must perish
from want and exposure Wore they can rcach a
place of security.
According to the most moderate estimate at least
1,000 Chinese have been kil el at the various
pLices, while all the flourishing settlements of t' e•
Chines., (except at Kuchin) have been destroyed.
The exact number c,f Chinese who have perished •
during the retreat it is imcossiltle to say ; it must
be considerablei since ow of a population of 4,000
to 5,000 Chinese belonging to the Kungsi, not more
than 2,000 escaped the late retrib4.ort,,
women acid children. •
Much as we regret letting loo,e the,Dyaks to
commit the most savage decitnation or rather di,-
srruction of a whole people, we cannot sympathise
with the diabolism of the kungsi who, both indi-
vidually and collectively, have always received at
the hands of Sir James Brook Borneo justice—a
code regulated by circumstances. The diabolical
attempt of the Chinese Kungsi has met with the
punishment it deserved; no reasonable being will
pity them, however mush they may regret the
frightful ,sacrAce,pf, hurnau,life„,gxpeitieuce too
sadly proves that at the. 'piesent •ijertod. kin3neilf, -
humanity, and forbearance are either misunder-
stood or but .too lightly appreciated 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 fro:ma
Sarawak,Dth ere are a few matters of both general and
local interest which we cannot allow to pass ; the
omission would be rather unjust., inasmuch as the
circumstances are fresh in our memories. It appears
that on the 27th February, when affairs assumed a
rather ugly aspect, Mr. Helms (the agent for the
Borneo Company) was despatched to Sambas, to
inform the Dutch authorities there how matters
stood at Sarawak, and to request assistance. The
assistant resident at Sambas expressed great sym-
pathy, and immediately despatched a fast boat to
Pontianak, where the chief resident was then stay-
ing. The latter, without hesitation, despatched a
war steamer, with such soldiers as he could well
spare, accompanied by an offer of further assistants,
should is be necessary for the protection of British
lives and property—an act qttite 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 Chieftiins who acted
against the Clriue;e, it was found that their loss did
not exceed 12 Malays and Dyaks.
The Chinese resident at Kuchin were completely
restored to confidence when the steamer left, and hs d
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 receive d
from Sir James Brooke mentions that most of the
guns taken by the Kung,ii had been recovered, as
also a large proportion of the muskets carried away
from the forts. The lass by.,the late outrages
chiefly- fills on Sir J. Brooke and the government
We are right glad to notice that Mrs. Crookshank
had nYarlyrecovered from 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 .Havannah, having been cut off by
the co lies, all the officers and some of the crew
murdered, and the vessel destroyed. Then last
week the Henrietta Maria, also bound for Haven-
nab, arrived here, having been picked up at sea,
without her officers, and the few remaining men of
the craw giving rather' contradictory accounts of
what had become of the officers and the great3r
number of the coolies with which the vessel orivi-
Daily left Macao. This week has brought accent; is
of a fresh disaster, surpassing in the horrible mature
of its incidents anything that has yet gone before it.
A boat reached Singapore on Monday last con-
taining the chief mate and six passengers of the
Peruvian ship Carmen, who communicated the fol-
lowing chocking details :—The Carmen sailedfrom
Swatow on the Ist of March for Callao with 200
Chinese 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 th tir
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
batches. The attempts made to extinguish the fire
proved fruitless, and , two boats were lowered, in
which the officers and crew and seven passeng ra
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 to procure them ;
but at the moment the boat neared her the ship
went down, and it is supposed the boat must have
been carried 'down with her by the suc'ion, as no-
thing more was seen of it The whole of the co dies
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 baskws of sweet potatoes. In addi-
tion to their sufferings from these causes, they wore
attacked off Polo Tingi by a small Malay boat,
containing three mea 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 iti overpowering them, and they at
last reached Singapore in a very miserable condi-
tion. A gun boat has ben sent out to the east-
ward in the hope, alrh,,ugh it is a very faint one,
that the boat in which the clpt Lin was embarked
may have escaped destruction, and that he' and his
companions may still be alive, and so requiring aa-
sistance.—Singapore Free Press.

INDIA AND PERSIA.
(Front the Bombay Times of April 2.)
The interest of the war is much abated since the
arrival of the last English mail on the 23d ultimo,
the expectation being of course general that the next
one will announce the conclusion of peace. We are
Etill, however, disposed to believe that the expecta-
tion of its immediate issue is tco 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 Asiatic= to use another diplomacy
than is known iu Europe—in other words, to p •ac-
tise deceit against deceit ; and our conduct tow: rds
I Persia would seem to indicate that this new doc-
trine is but the expression of our recent practice.
It, is forgotten that as a nation we owe as mucn 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 attention to
the conduct of Commander Jones, our resident at
Bushire, who himself is our infurrnant, in his
printed despatcheP, 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 cansistetitly
complaining that, without any declaration of war,
and while Ferukb Khan was negotiating w:th Lord.
Radcliffe, and, as it now transpires, while our own
envoy was declaring that we did notineend war at
all, our forces were despatched to the Gulf, and tho
invasion effected. Had such conduct been mani-
fested in Europe, it would have sufficed to outlaw
the power that dared violate, so impudently, the
law of nations.
Our news from the Gnlf is very scanty. Piepara-
tions were being made at date of our last advices to
embark a large part of the force for 111ahamra, 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
toted a second time in the neighbourhood of