The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

THE BORNEO PIRATES

The following sequel to the account of the above action
of the Nemesis with the piratical fleet, off the Borneo
river, is extracted from the Singapore Free Press, of
August 5 :7" Nine captives arrived here a day or two ago

from Bruni, part of those who were on
pirates attacked by the Nemesis
been taken by the marine mag

and we shall give
the substance of the statements made by some of them.
One of them, named Muda, states that he is a native of
Lingen, from which he sailed about four month ago in a

Board the fleet of

epositions had

istrate,

prahu, of which he was nacodah, along with seven other
men, for Pulo Sahassan. They fell in with a fleet of
pirates one day's sail from Lingin, by whom they were
seized. They took the men out of the boat and shared
them amongst the different prahus, tying their hands and
feet, plundered the boat, and cut her adrift. They then

proceeciect to manta, wliere tney semen several persons ;
at Pulo Soobie they took seven men and women, and at
Pulo Tambelan they seized three or four more. During
their passage they saw a large schooner with raking masts,

and also cited a brig of Sarawak. At Pub Sahassan they
were fired upon by the inhabitants, on which they thought
it best to sheer off. They then debated whether they
should touch at Sarawak river, but it was finally
determined to proceed to Borneo Proper as it was said a
steamer was in Sarawak river. They anchored off Moara
river at eight o'clock at night, and next morning seized
two fishermen on the shore. Between eight and nine
P.M., they descried the steamer coming down the Bruni
lat noon the action commenced. The prahu, in

of thirty had bi

nd wounded. Of the captives a woman and a boy were
tot, the prisoners being made to sit on deck during the

where they were attacked by the Kadyan Dyaks, who,
however, on ascertaining the captives, treated them well,

ud took them to the Sultan at Bruni. About forty
pirates were brought in alive, and the captives were
desired by the Sultan to take their revenge and cut them
up. This they declined, saying, " God is great and will
punish the wicked." The sultan's people then tied the
hands of the pirates, and about 200 fell on them, and cut
them to pieces, the Sultan undertaking to dispatch half
the number, while the other half were handed over to
s I Pangeran Moormein, The captives, about fifty in all,

were trey Kindness by the Sultan and his people.
This man relates, that while they were at Pulo Siantan the
boats were hauled on shore to have their bottoms charred.
One of the Chinese captives being sick and unable to work,
they hanged him up to a tree, and then all fell on him and
cut him to pieces. Another person of the name of Buwang
states that he is a native of Columboo, a small island to
the southward of Lingin. About four months ago, at
three o'clock in the morning, their village was attacked by
nimtpq mnfliar and turrt, ei cf

cape in a small boat, and directed their course to Lingin

feet being tied. The pirates then coasted along to the
eastward, touching at several islands, such as the Tambe-
lans, Siantan, Soobie, Sahassan, &c. They took several
people at these places—men, women, and children. They
several times threatened to throw his little sister, a child
of ten months old, overboard, because she cried, but at
Buwang's entreaty they did not do so. Another of the
captives says that he saw the sick Chinaman bun. up and
cut to pieces after a feast. There seems to Cave been
from seven to ten captives in each of the pirate pradus,

7
and it is probable, therefore, as only about fifty have been
collected, that a number must still be in the jungle, or
have been killed in the engagement, or afterwards by the
Dyaks on landing, being confounded with the pirates.
Every fresh detail we receive only adds a new horror to

the picture of pirate life, and here we find it in the pirates
amusing themselves, after a feast, by hanging up and cut-
ing a poor Chinaman to pieces."

IRELAND.

Dr. Curran, whose statistics respecting fever in Dublin
caused much discussion a few months since, fell a victim
to that malady last Sunday.
On Wednesday the annual exhibition of the Ballinasloe
Agricultural Society was held on the fair green. The
articles of farm produce exhibited was very fine. The spe-
cimens of linen and frieze were excellent, and proved suf-
ficiently that if proper encouragement were extended to
the poor people an important and useful branch of trade
might be introduced throughout this part of the country,

TUE NEW IRISH PARLIAMENT.—ANOTHER MEETING
OF FIVE M.P.'s.---rhere was another assemblage of the
new Liberator's tail in the smoking-room at Radley's
Tavern on Thursday, and they resolved to do that which
they resolved upon at the previous meeting, and nothing

'egan, .1

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_
Daniel O'Connell, Esqrs. -
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting on Monday was
well attended. A Mr. Edward Murphy occupied the
chair. The principal speakers were Mr. John Reynolds
and Mr. John O'Connell, the latter of whom designated
the landlords as " murderers of the Irish people," and
demanded of the government at once to call parliament
together, otherwise they would be participators in their
guilt. The rent was £35 Bs. 4d.
The majority of the Hon. Edward Stanley—Lord Stan-
ley's eldest son—was celebrated at Ballykisteen, his lord-
ship's Tipperary residence, on a scale and in a manner to
which the inhabitants of Ireland have been too little ac-
customed. For three successive days the tenants and
labourers shared the hospitality of their noble landlord,
and nearly six hundred persons testified, by their joyous
countenances and happy demeanour, their enjoyment of
the scene.

HERRING FISIIERY—IRELAND.--Off the Irish coasts
the herrings have appeared in enormous shoals, although
peculiar in their range, for the Penzance and St. Ives
boats failed for more than ten days in meeting them in
the usual tracks. Last week incredible quantities have
been taken in Dungarvan bay, and several large vessels
are there saving them en masse on board, and taking them
to Liverpool. Herrings never were finer nor in such num-
bers as this season in Greatman's and Costello bays,
Galway.

AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT.—A correspondence
has taken place between the Lord Lieutenant and the
Duke of Leinster, relative to the proposal of his Excel-
lency to send out experienced agricultural lecturers to in-
struct the peasantry in the best and 'most approved systems
of husbandry. In furtherance of that admirable project,
the Lord-Lieutenant and the Duke of Leinster have each
contributed £5O, and a special meeting of the Council of
the Agricultural Society of Ireland has been held to com-
plete the arrangements.
A MODEL IRISH M.P.—Mr. Guinness, member for
Kinsale, has taken an extensive dock and stores, with the
intention of building a patent slip and dry dock for vessels
frequenting that port, or passing the harbour and requiring
repairs. Mr. Guinness also contemplates building a num-
ber of substantial dwellings for the use of workmen who
will be employed. He has assured his constituents that
the profits of these undertakings shall be expended exclu-
sively for the benefit of the working population of the
borough. .

BREACH OF THE SABBATH.-At the Ardglass petty
sessions, held on Wednesday, the miller of Sheepland was
fined in the mitigated penalty of half-a-crown, for work-
ing his mill on the Sabbath day. This should serve as a
caution to others not to transgress in a similar way. But
is it not a sad and humbling thought that we are obliged
to go back to the reign of William the Third for a statute
to enforce the decent external observance of the Lord's
day ! Such is the fact, and all we can boast of is, that
the law under which the above desecration of the Sabbath
was punished has, as yet, escaped the repealing ptocess of
these enlightened times.7-Downpatrick Recorder.

OPPOSITION TO THE PAYMENT OF RENTS.—The com-
bination against the payment of rents, already mentioned,
is spreading rapidly in Ireland. Now that the corn is in
the haggards the landlords solicit something on account of
the two or three years' rent due, to enable them to meet
the increased poor-rates and their own liabilities ; but no,
the word has gone forth that the tenant must be fortified
against all risks of scarcity before he part with a bushel of
wheat or a pound note to any creditor. In the mean
time, the landlord is harassed by claimants who are as
heartless as the writers in the government newspapers or
the Irish poor-law commissioners. Let him serve an
ejectment—and then prepare his coffin or fly from the
country, if he value his life. Let him remain at home,
and trust to the honour of his tenantry and the mercy of
the commissioners, and the poor-house must become his

residence.
THE CORN MARKETS.—It is rather a curious circum-
stance in the price of breadstuffs that, while native grown
wheat has fallen fully ss. per ouarter from the 20th to
Monday the 26th, Indian corn should have advanced 3s.
per qr. It is not easy to explain this difference, unless it
may be attributed to the arrivals of foreign wheat into the
English markets. Yet stranger still, large cargoes of
Indian corn continue to arrive in our port. Last week
there could not be fewer than 60 cargoes heavily laden
maize, arrived in our harbour from foreign ports. The
price of wheat in the Cork market has fallen ls. 6d. per
barrel. Good oats were purchased yesterday at 10s. per
barrel. The Ocean steamer, for the greater part laden
with corn, leaves Cork this day for Liverpool. While the
price of wheat continues at from 255. to 265. per barrel, it
will be a remunerating one to the farmer, that being the
price of any good wheat offering for sale.—Cork Consti-
tution.

AN INCORRUPTIBLE REPEALER.-Mr. Chisholm Ansty,
the repeal member for Youghal, having been solicited by
one of his constituents to obtain a situation for his son,
writes a reply which would have astonished Daniel O'Con-
nell. Ile says in the course of it—" When I asked for
your vote it was not for myself, but fir the cause which
you and I professed to serve. If you ' voted for me against
your interest I sacrificed mine by becoming your candi-
date. I am more odious to the Minister and to Lord
Ponsonby, and to the Duke of Devonshire, than you can
be. And yet, if I consulted my interest, I should try to
sand on good terms with all these; for I am a poor man

and necessarily dependent upon my personal labour for
my support. Other men have got into Parliament to push
their fortunes. It is right that •such people should hold
themselves under a per onal obligation to the electors
whose votes enabled them to get there. I got into Par-
liament to serve the country, and particularly the borough
town which sent me there. I not only do not seek place,
but, if place be offered to me, I mean to refuse it—so
long, at least, as Repeal fails to command the support of
Administrations. To this I stand publicly pledged. But,
pledged or not, such is my resolution. Every year, there-
fore, that I am a Member of Parliament, I may,—and
probably 1 shall—become much poorer than I am now.
But I cannot by any possibility become a farthing richer
by my seat. It is clear, then, that I owe no personal
obligation to my constituents, who elected me only on the
public grounds on which alone I sought their confidence."
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_ itOMISH PRIEST.—Among the cases tried at the ses-
sions on Saturday was that of a man named Buckley
against a priest named M`Carthy, for assault. Buckley is
employed by the Rev. Mr. Cotter, of Donoughmore, to
carry about bibles and tracts for sale, and, these being in
no favour with the priest, his reverence, according to the
evidence, set to and horsewhipped him, flinging his books

tween the acts, and pummelling him, by way of variety,
with the butt end of his whip about the face and head.
The first thing that appears to have aroused his reverence's

wrath was a tract on -purgatory

That profitable im

ture is a sore subject with the papacy, and this worldly
son of the church militant was naturally indignant that
profane hands should presume to meddle with it. He
therefore laid on with all his might, and to the fleetness
of his limbs Buckley probably owes it that he was not car-

ried home with br-ofcen bones. The jury, however, did
not agree, and his reverence is_restored_ to his parish to

resume with invigorated ardour his practical illustrations
of apostolic rule. Where the jury found their difficulty we
do not inquire ; but we hope they discovered it in some-
thing stronger than the very unsatisfactory defence. The

some o'

detente satisfied ode jury, and ivir.
their sanction to assault and horsewhip every man who
hawks a bible through his parish. Nor have his flock
been slow to profit by it. What's good for the priest
must be good for the people, and the latter, taking license
fro 7ZI the non-agreement of the jury, and stimulated, it is
said, by some savoury exhortations, assembled in great
numbers round Mr. Cotter's Church, on Sunday night,
with lighted barrels, and celebrated his reverence's triumph
by hooting and shouting, and terrifying the congregation
—Cork Constitution.

EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE IN CORK.--In Cork, twelve
months since, a young gentleman, a Roman Catholic, stu-
dying for a profession, was in the habit of visiting the
hrmen of a fradnernan a TTnitorinrs rehn had a handenme.

Havipg to prosecute his. stuc

Dublin

took his leave, iras absent eleven months, never wrote to
the lady, and on his return to Cork did not renew the in-

called on him, and desinanded what his intentions were.
The student disclaimed having ever promised marriage, or
intended marriage. His visitor asked him to confront the
lady. He consented. On entering his father's drawing-
room he found her in a bridal dress, her family dressed for
a marriage feast, and a Unitarian clergyman prepared to
perform the ceremony. A brace of loaded pistols lay on
the sideboard, and the student, in fear, consented, and
was married ! As one of the party was a Catholic, a priest
was in attendance, and he performed the ceremony ac-
cording to the rites of his church. At the conclusion the
student claimed the protection of the priest, who obtained
for him permission to depart. He left the house and did
not return. The double marriage was announced, on the
l'ith ultimo, in the Cork Examiner, which paper, last
Monday, vouched for the fidelity of the facts, but stated,
" there had been an engagement, as we are informed, but
the engagement was broken off formally, on the part of
the gentleman, a day or two before the circumstances
which ended in an unwilling marriage taking place. Let-
ters written by the lady and her sister are in the possession
of the gentleman ; and as the whole affair is under the

proceedings at law, these letters must, ere long, become
the property of a curious public. We shall only say that
they will have a very decided influence upon the case. The
lady, it is rumoured, loved " not wisely, but too well ;"
and the gentleman pointedly denies he could have been the
individual so loved."

RAILWAY AFFAIRS,

A. fatal accident occu

'ed on the London and Brighton
DAT afternoon. As the

way on

Portsmouth train was going from Portsmouth to Brigh-
ton, one of the guards, named Hart, was adjusting some
luggage on one of the carriages as the train was going
under an archway near Angmering, when his head came
in contact with the arch, and the poor fellow was killed on

the spot.
From official returns it appears that the amount of
traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of rail-

..4zut),848, thus accounted for :—£111,094 for the
conveyance of passengers only, £47,550 for the carriage of
goods, and a remainder of £48,204 for passengers and
goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an in-
crease of £24,225 over the corresponding week of last year,
when the mileage was about 2,525.
At a special meeting of the Wear Valley, Middles-
borough and Redcar, and Stockton and Darlington Rail-
way Companies, it was resolved to lease the Wear Valley
(which now includes the Bishop Auckland and Weardale,
the Wear and Derwent, the Weardale extension, and the
Shildon tunnel) and the Middlesborough and Redcar line
to the Stockton and Darlington, at a rent equivalent to 6
per cent. on the capital.
COLLISION ON TILE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A
collision took place near the Reading station on Tuesday
morning last, by the up and down train coming in, contact
with each other. The accident is attributed to the
" switchman," or " pointsman," having given the wrong

way, wa

signal, and thus caused the train to pass on to the impro-
per rail. Several of the trucks were destroyed, and pro-
perty to a large amount damaged and destroyed ; but no
personal injury was sustained.

INCREASE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The Great Western
traffic returns during the last thirteen weeks have, without
the opening of a single additional mile of railway by the
company during the last twelve months, exceeded those
for the corresponding thirteen weeks of last year by no
less a sum than £11,500, or nearly £lOOO per week. A
remarkable fact connected with this increase of receipt is,
that, notwithstanding the depressed condition of the mer-
cantile world, the Great Western Company have, during
the last two weeks, carried more goods of a general de-
scription than they had ever previously conveyed in the
same period. The goods' receipts for the last week,
amounted to £5,280.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—We are happy to learn
that in the course of about six weeks from the present
time the electric telegraph will be completed between Lon-
don and the North. The delay which has occurred in
completing the line of communication, by the fixing of
wires between London and Rugby, is anything rather than
creditable to the greatest of railway companies. We re-
joice that the reproach which it involved is to be so soon
removed. At the present moment the telegraph from
Liverpool can communicate with York, Hull, Newcastle,
Berwick, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby,
Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln, and Rugby, and when
the chain is completed between the latter station and
London, all the towns at present connected with the me-
tropolis will, of course, be also in communication with the
north.
DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morn-
ing, a luggage train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way, on coming down the incline from Cowlairs station,
acquired such a velocity while passing through the tunnel,
that the men stationed at the breaks had not sufficient
power to arrest its progress. The train was heard by seve-
ral persons coming down the incline at such a rapid pace
as to excite alarm, when, almost immediately after, a tre-
mendousic with the fearfulrashwasheard, mhichomsheonotkumtheint neighbourhood.
The train,
penetrated above fifty feet into one of the railway com-
pany's stores, situated above the Star Hotel, bringing
down in its headlong career a thick stone gable and two
stone partitions, and entering into two of the offices con-
nected with the stores. The scene of ruin here presenting
itself was most appalling ; three breaks, with a number of
trucks lying piled above one another, and covered with
the stones of the gables and partitions, and the beams,
rafters, and flooring of the storehouse, were lying together
in one mingled mass.. There were four or five men on the
trucks at the time; three have escaped with their lives,
although two of them are severly injured, and two are still
missing, one of whom, James Macarthur, a married man,
was seen on the foremost break immediately before the
collision took place, and there can be little doubt that he
has met his death among the rubbish. One of the guards
leaped off the train as it emerged from the tunnel, and es-
caped with a slight cut on the head and a few bruises; the
other two who have been found were lying among the
ruins senseless, covered with large stones, but recovered
in about twenty minutes after, so far as to be able to
speak. They are both very severely bruised.

FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER

(Prom the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion,")

The autumnal dresses are frequently ornamented with
velvet of contrasting colour, and the demilongue sleeve-
pointed cuffs, fixed by a velvet mend, and on the flounces
several rows of narrow velvet. The form of dresses varies
but little : corsages are always tight, ornamented in a va-
riety of ways, revers brandenbourgs formed of chefs in
guimpe, with buttons ; a new style of guimpe trimming
forms a series of leaves, imitating oak, &c., placed con-
trariwise from the throat to the bottom of the skirt, in-
creasing gradually in size. Among the newest materials
for travelling dresses and robes de chambre is the chatoy-
ante. It is of grey worsted Chene, with large check of
red, orange, or blue silk, made with a single deep flounce,
en biais, and corsage guimpe also en biais. The skirts
seem to be increasing still in length, and are worn shorter
in front. A pretty novelty for walking dresses are those
of cachemire, with. application of cachemire on the front of
the corsage, and chatelaine in rich rosaces, pines, &c.
Redingotes are very much worn, and generally in the
amazone style, but shorter, sometimes of the waistcoat
form, showing the muslin chemisette.
Bonnets begin to assume an autumnal appearance,
capotes of crape are often ornamented with velours epingle.
Capotes of taffetas are made with pinked trimmings, and
nceuds of velvet inside, the deep colour of which forms
contrast to the light bonnet. Neglige bonnets of fancy
straw are lined with gros de Naples, and ornamented in-
side by poppies and tulle of paille color, with double ba-
volette of taffetas, pinked and simple mends and brides of
pinked taffetas. Cock's feathers will be again fashion-
able, one half black, the other green, blue, or any con-
trasting colour. Another novelty are the marabouts and
follettes glaces, with the natural wings of insects, the varied
tints having much effect both by candle-light and in the
sun. New mantelets are in preparation for the autumn ;
the prettiest are of cashmere satin, and satin de Chine.
Many new styles of trimming will also be introduced in
manteaux ; the Girondins of black, or very dark coloured
satin, the reine Marguerite of velvet, and the Marie
Stuart, are spoken of.