, 1875-12-11

MS oarque Into GrlmSby, IN which finally he.
succeeded. Alone he managed TO set the
foresail and mainsail and to light the side lights
and the binnaole light. and then steered to.
wards the west. He was so ~fatigued that he
several times fell down from sheer WEAKNESS.
and during the night be had several squalls.
The cabin was flu of water, which did much
damage as it rolled with the rolling Of the
vessel, and when he got the barque into the
Humber, Captain Hansen's strength was all
spent. That seems to us, in its way, a greater
feat, because a lon4lier feat, than many a
liiot-boat rescue in which the immediate peril
is far more threatening. The courage OF, q
group Of associates is always much greater
than the sum of the courage which each indl-
vidual in the group would separately exhibit. So
ciety is a bank which pays a very fair bonus
on all Individual investments of feeling in the
common stock.
Great Britain has another little war on hand
this time in the Malay peninsula. Sultan Is.
mail, the pretender to tbs c~hiefship of Perak,
who was set aside by Sir A. Clarke in favour
of the elected chief. AbdooIlah, has organised,
1t is believed, all attack on Europeans. At
all events, the Residenoy was attacked on the
1st or 2nd inst, and Mr.. Birch, the Resident,
q Ceylon civilian of much experience. murdered.
On the 3rd inst. the news reached Penang, and
on the 9th, Captain Innes, with a party Of Her
MaieSty's 10th Regiment, and some policemen
relieved the RtSidency. On the following day
they assembled the river Perak, we fear without
cannon, and attacked a sf0ckade in which the
insurgents had entrrnched themselves. They
were beaten, Captain Innes was killed, Lieu
tenants Elliott, Booth, and eight men of the
10th were wounded, and, We presume, some Of
the native police were lost. The Governor.
Sir w. d. Jervois, was on the spot. the faots
We're known on the same day in Hong Kong
and Calcutta, and fifteen hundred Europeans
were instantly despatched from the latter place
to Perak. On their arrival, the insurgents will,
of curse, be attacked in force, and meanwhile
the Governor and the British troops remain at
the palace Of Sultan Abd0ollah. The chirf i'm
p~orlance of the affair consists in two Slde.tacts.
viz, that Europeans must DO used to repress
MaIayS, who would beat SepOys, and that
Sultan Ismail may succeed in p~roclaiming a
religious war. The mere order of an obscure
chief will not make a war religious, even 10 his
own territory, but religious feeling. among the
Malays has been greatly excited by the long
defence of Acheen, where the Dutch make no
Roadway.
The annual banquet at Guildhall to the
Ministry Of the day came off on Tuesday. and
the company were addressed by Mr.. Disraeli,
Mr.. Ward Hunt, and Lord Cairns. Lord
Derby was not present, and not a word was
said about the Slave Circular. We have com.
mented on what seem to US some very grave
utterances in Mr.. Disrael'S speech elsewhere,
and need only menti n here that he acknowledge.
ed the imminence of war with China a month
ago, and spoke with unusual warmth Ia
acknowledgment of Mr.. Wade's efforts to avert
it adverted to the Princes reception 10
India, az proof of the tranquil y and prosperity
prevailing there aud declared that the sue.
cessful confederation of our Colonies in North
America, and the projected confederation in
South Africa, showed that the Government
regarded the Colonies not as a cause of
exhaustion, but as a source of wealth, Of power,
and of glory. He maintained that at home the
Government had entered on the path of social
Improvement, and defended permiss We legisla.
ton as the result Of confidence in the co opera.
ton Of The people. Their policy had been
charged with want of dramatic effect, but Is
had diminished he death rate of a great nation.
All this was, of course, subordinate to the main
purpose Of The speech, which was. in our judy
ment, to warn the English people that events
were at handin the East which might call for
most serious exertions.
THE comments on the grave utterances al.
luded TO above conclude as follows: "But IL
the danger should present itself In the form
which the British Premier refuses to contem-
plate'-that is, if the three Emperors, mauag-
ing to stick together. decide that Turkish op.
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