The Sun. — 1867-11-01 (London, England)

HORRIBLE 2REATMENT OF EUROPEANS BY  SAVAGES.  The Foreign Office has received a despatch from Sir IL St. George Ord, the Governor-General of Penang, detailing the result of an expedition to the Nicobar Islands to rescue some European women and children captured by the natives, and to punish them for the numerous murders of crews of vessels which endeavoured to trade with the natives. The despatch, which is very voluminous, is addressed to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and is dated " Government House, Penang, Aug. 20, 1867." It appears that the last act of atrocity was committed on a Liverpool merchant vessel called the Futtay slamtradingby to Nicobar Islands, when she w Islam, attacked the natives, and 21 out of 21 of her crew were murdered. This and many other massacres led to a determination on the part of the governor to punish the natives, but the Nicobar Islands being just without the limits of the China station, the senior naval officer did not feel justified in permitting one of her Majesty's ships to proceed on a duty beyond its limits. Subsequently the Government of India acquiesced, but prior to an expedition being sent the governor instructed Captain Bedingfield, R.N., in command of H.M.S. Wasp, to proceed to the coast, accompanied with proper interpreters, to make inquiries respecting the reported atrocities. That officer proceeded on his mission, and learnt beyond doubt that the reports of the murders were correct; and, further, that white women and children were held in captivity by the natives, and were exposed to the greatest brutality. The governor thereupon resolved on despatching her Majesty's ships Satellite and Wasp to endeavour to rescue any captives and punish the perpetrators of the outrages, and to take such steps as would impress upon the natives generally the danger of continuing their piratical attacks. The despatch thus proceeds : " The ships returned to Penang about ten days since, and the substance of the reports, which will be sent in detail to the Admiralty, is as follows : They first visited the island of Great Nicobar, where they discovered ample evidence of the islanders having been the authors of the attack on the Futtay Islam. . . No natives were seen, and no communica' tion could be held with them. The village in which these relics and those of other ill-fated vessels were found was burned to the ground, and a placard stating why their town had been burnt was affixed to the trees for the information of the natives. The expedition then visited the central group, and experienced the greatest difficulty in communicating with the natives, although promised that if they gave up any captives they should not be twalezited. They were too conscious of their misdeeds to be willing to trust themselves in the power of the ship. One of the natives, however, who was in the expedition ascertained beyond a doubt that a white woman and her two children had been a few months before alive on the island. The unhappy lady is supposed to have been the wife of some person on board one of the ships seized by the savages about two years since. She gave birth to a child almost immediately after her capture, and after suffering the most terrible indignities, on its becoming known that she had been seen by the merchant captain before alluded to, it was considered dangerous to allow her to live. After an ineffectual attempt to poison her and the two ,children, they were mercifully released from further suffering by being taken into the jungle and knocked on the head. rhe principal actor in this tragedy evaded capture and got away to the island of Katcheive, where, from its inaccessible character, he was safe from pursuit, He is said to have carried with him a white