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Frain the Straits Times, December 12th. THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.

From our to-day's shipping list it will bescenthat there are no tewer than seventeen American merchant-men

at present in our Harbour, and that they include some of the largest ships at present riding there. Havin gross tourage may be roughly set down at 12,000 tons. Some of these have been lying here now for upwards of turce and most of frem for at least nicaths,

hal that period. And all this, at a time when there is no duluess in the feight market; but, on the contrary, an active demand for tonnage to all parts of the world. It is, indused, to us a home

pietare-the only one we trust for to have

many years to come-of the wide spread evils of war in these Dioderu days. But it is

is a picture quite unique in its naturn; for the nation to which these sixteen Buc

STRAITS

TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL.

wn, on being eatiglied of the identity ofte person and the voting ticket will person where signature it bears, and that the have of a person is registered in the tut such voting call to vote, shall depist

tickel in the closed box. Xili. As an asie eiection is en- pleled, the Sheriff or lis Sheriff to de

eps, le the presenter of elace who are elerted.

as shall be present, bijl the voters or such of the

curtain the number of

votre given for eacl, person; and he Shar

ᏗᏝ

this,

we

in an election where four hundred the framers of the act judged that, and fifty votes had the right to be r corded, there would always be a goodly company present at the polling place;

however,

had a ple Lave

bow Ba occasion to conclude is never to be expected, and we know that many votes are recorded in the presence of the Sheriff and voter alone. Sneb a provision is not so much one

Fot the protection or purity Four elections

us for the satistaetion of those who are candidates for municipal dise tinctions; it is always a bad policy to Conduct I such matters in a manner that can give the least grounds for dissatisfaction on the part of those who strive, or are made to strive, with due another for such expression of the

ae his Peputy shall thereupon publicly dequired for the clare the names of títo thươu persone for what the greatest number of votes has been give. and shall de fare such per to bu duly ced: ed Municipal Cazarrssiences of the sitibarn,

XIV. Ja case any one of the pegg 10 ulected 20 Refusal to scrva serpensa adunicipal Cor

missioner, the Sher his Depary shall. inuadalely altor suci - Fazal, declare the name of the person best number of votes been given, and that declare such last mat tioned perasm to be duly elected a Muna

for

confidence of their fellow citizens,

fration Report €168,000--we arrive gross revene being by last adminis

at an average per head of within a fraction of twenty shillings; and if, the three Settlements instead of taking together, ve compare the revenue and population of Singapore alone; the pro- portion will be much higher. Indeed, it would be

very dim

difficult in any part

of British India, to find a place that repays a higher Revenue in proportiou to its population than does Singapore; and it will be strange if this excessive Revenne cannot be made to meet all legitimate charges.

enf

ap-

Pal Coatinissoner sa the place of the perva From the Straits Times, December 12th in the British Burmah

The Forests of course the great

are, source of wealth ki Burmah, and it pears that during the past year timber upon a very large scale has been out, and this without detriment to the pre- servation of the Forests. The anaiber

ings cul

cut by Government and Ly 40,000, and the number of in contry was 97.000. alluding to the other agricultural resources the

There is

is little opportuni- report sayst ty of improving agriculture among the iligensns people of British Burdah. is rice, seriously Daly one crop,

ships belong has a navy perhaps fusterated. Provided always, that no per PROVINCE OF BRITISH BURKAI. | log's beaught into Burnuh from for-

cond only to that of Great Britain, and the enemy with which she has to is but a schism from herself, pos- cope is no sessed of no port that is not blockad el and

downing not more than five or six vessels on the high seas; and yet there is no apathy and nothing to blame on the part of the United States Navy. The tactics with which the Federals have to combat are without preendent, and the means to enable hem sucessfully to do so have not yet been devised.

national law that

tion.

#il

very

pr

Nuil

"that

52,100 Indian

is nevertheless estimated to be belosounds, was brought down from Up- the actual population which cannot

per Barmah. The ruly method by

ann xhall be carpetent $ Minimum soles to be elected a Mua! requisite for elee epal Comissioner of

By the courtesy of the Resident either of the maith a copy of

Councillor here, we have received a the Annual Report on the unless the emier f voies given in his faður skull expast ten.

Administration of Province of British By the first of these Sections de

Burimah for the year 1862-63. The Sherift is boud to prepare a cloed report is a very

interesting one as box with a slit in it, into which leis

contains

valuable, and of course at once to

he lens as all voter's tickers as reliable information as to the condi- engages their attention. It is easily soon as has ascertained the identity

, requires le labor, and, above tion and progress of this portion of of the parties presenting them wih

of all, is the most profitable crop they can win India, being the first complete Govern raise. A population of cather more the signatures at the foot, it being the object of the act that the foot, it evidently

for all the Divisions of the Ponies The area of the three Di 333,223 tons of rice in tha

than two millions exported abroad nates of the persoas voted for shock

last vision of the provinces Pegu, Tenaste Cotton is now less cultivated However much we may sympathise

year. than kept strictly secret until the lese rim and Aracar is set down at a little

it with the South as the weaker power

of the poll. Far from following bring the most extensive, The popu

was song years ago, solely because rive milce, Transserin against the stronger, and as a people

the intention of the Act in this cation of the entire the late year ex-adapted to the grated casing 1852.

Over 90,000 square

is found to pay better. Yet there is secking its

its independence; we can cular, the Sheriff's here, or these acing

no doubt hot cheat British Bushat has scarcely hail with satisfaction upon

province areord- in their stead, have hitherto conducted

well al climate

peculiarly ing to the erasus the advantages thus gained by

their

the municipal elections abuust in die

of cotten. The corsair fleet. It is laid down in inter-rect contravention of it. It has been

eeeds two millions, and this though large quantity exping showing an intense on previons the æ ãuty and

the practice as soon as a voler delivos

years 63 from Rang on. of a belligerent is to take and destroy"

lis ticket, for the Sheriff to pick u the property of the chemy wherever

the names voted for, and publicly une he can find it without

violating the

them down on a sheet of paper; and protection afforded by a neutral pow- further to declare, when asked, the state er; but we have always been accus- of the poll at any particular moment. tomed to look for some corresponding Now, it the four sections of the act risk in this work of devastation, and

which we

have when this rixk

wanting and destruc-jection, it will be seen that the Shriff it

quoted be read in tion becomes cold blooded as well as

is clearly directed to ascertain the wanton, then we view it with repug state of the poll at the close of the nance, The Military struggles of the cleation only, and then to declare only Confederates on their borders not

the names of the three persous for jbly wahl fouth our admiration

whvin the greatest nutubers of votes and

respect, for they are distin-

are recorded, and no others. And if guished by bravery and daring hat we bear in mind that in these elections The achievements, if

there is no candidature, and that pro- so they may be called, of the Alubiona and Geor

ple may be voted for who have no de gia can be tolerated only as we would

elerate a bad cons that may

sire for municipal distinctions, it is way lead They want to a good end. A nation is sensitive of anything touching its honour, but it ecting the sensitive of anything affecting

ut its pocket and prosperity people, and it is just possible that the interrup Lina tu Anterican trade occasionet

is also sensitive

by

these Confederates corsairs may cause American merchants to become ho- nest and carnest advocates of peace.

When this war is over,bowever, there can be little doubt that some motion will be made to amend the interna- tional law se as for the future

pre-

vent a repetition of the Alabama sys- tem in lines of war. At present we ust all agree that the tolerance of the system arises from a defect in in- teruational law; but as it is a defect

in favor of the Scath, strict neutrality will

I not permit its being remedied while hostilities last, though we must all trust it will early be a matter of re- form when they are over.

From the Streits Times, December 12th, THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

A careful perusal of Act XXVII of 1856 of the Legislative Council of in- dia, relating to the Municipal Com- missioners of the Settlement, strong-

ly

inclines us to think that the clee- tious which have been hitherto held bere in pursuance of it have been more or less illegal. Before going into a cou sideration of their provisions, however, it is better for us in the first place to lay before our readers the four eco- tions of the Art upon which we in- tend to comment.

XI. At the time and place appointed for The election, the Sheriff Voling tickets.

or hos Depaty shall at tend with a closed box with an opening for the reception voting tickets. Every voting ticket shall bear the signature of the voter and the panes of the paisons for whom he wishes to vote.

XL. voy voter baring written en his voting Reket the numes Manner of eating of the persons for whom a wishes to vote, and having signed the same, shall

tend at the place of slution all perante his voting ticket to the Sheriff or his Deputy,

cu-

very proper that, unless among the number elected, their names sind not be made public; for it may often happen that but one or two votes are placed opposite their names, and which might, to those not acquainted with the peculiar native of

the elration give the idea of thei elrehon,

Jac.

of their being

20g umpapu If the latter part of Section XIII is read in conjunction with the first part of Section XIV, what we have advanced

berse very efear-

ly apparent; for it is said that it any tuenther elected to sit declines to do so, then (which implies, not sooner,) the Sherid shall declair the name of the person for

wdery

the number of votes is recorded.

Hext highest

Another matter in connection with these elections in which the sheriffs have been seriously at fault is, that it has beca

to Gusical for in the names of rale-payers

the Sheriffs to

I three qualified

! ticket of such Natives:

as

un the

s cannot write

Pictation presumed of eve

to the

is to be tetation of the voters. This is not only in apposition to the letter of the Act which declares

"that the vater having written on his voting the ket the names of &c., S., shall de- "liver it to the Sheriff';

Put it is also a very dangerous practice, and may give rise, if not to any positive unfair Jess, at least to

a very great amount

of had feeling and suspicion. We are distinctly of opinion that each voter should himself write on his ticket in the character of his own language the ames of those he intends to vote for if this were done, and we would be satis fied that these

Native

voters at least knew for whom they were rating, which at present there is to such reason to fear they do not. It would he very easy for the Sheriff to tave these tickets translated into English after-

wards.

A very desirable provision, too, which the Act seems not to have taken into consideration, is to have three or at last two ocials present at the elec- Livo, andnot the Sheriff alone. No doubt

alone is

"Bal

the as

ture in British Barnah is by the sct- tlement of European Landowners in the interior of the country. The ex periments in cotton were continned by whe Forest Department. The Egyptian and New Orleans seed produend fifty und pounds per acre of cleaned cotton. The seed had been sows too early, and the polis ripened before the hears rains but for this circumstance

were over

the correctly ascertained by yet which we can hope to improve agricul import The population of Peguend

working of the census re

thirds of that of the nearly Livu entire r

province. The

e compiler of the statisties on population, while remark- ing on the rapid increase of the po- pulation of the Province attributes it, immigration, partly to partly to the returns being each year re "accurate and partly, it is hoped, fron I causes", we think big that wrot at ail an unreasonable conjecture for, we find that the sexes in British Bur mah, unlike the Straits Settlements, are pecity equally divided.

The condition of Revenue and Ex- penditure in Burnati is satisfactory The gross rercipts amount to about 2910,000, while the expenditure is sot down, exclusive of some small items which de not pass through the Chief Commissioners ifice, at £830,000 being made up of

Angual Cost of Troops.. £ 350,000 Civil Admnistration...... Puble Works (Imperial) », 160, 800 » 350,000

£ 890,000

The chief sources of Revenue are; first, the band Reveune equal to £3,000, which is

s composed of the rents of land per arre, and also includes

rents for tea and five years seem to have been

of the river 6sheries.

tases introduced

with gout effect where! maperupied

lands are

are not su

Under the Superintendage

ment, extensive irrigation works have been constructed at the expense of the themselves, in the tits trict of Prome dans and channels bave heen constructed which now afford a upply of water to 27,000 acres of Kire land. The secount important item of Revenue is Sayer equa; to £251,000 which includes Sea fishery, tax Capitation tax, and forest revenne. The third item of Revenue is from Cus- toms equal to £194,000, and the last important item is Abkaree or Opium and Spirit tax which brings in about £80,000. The remainder of the re- reane is made up of Income tax, Salt, Excise, Stamp, Law and Justice, Ma- rine and Miscellaneous.

It will be seon that though the sources of Revenue io Burma ure more numerous than those in the Straits, including

luding as they do Income tax and Customs.Neither of which we have got here, yet in comparison with the population it falls far

behind

ind

that of the Straits. Taking the popu- lation of British Burmal at two milli- ons, and the Revenue at one million sterling, the proportion per head is ex- artly ten shillings; while, if we as- same the population of the three Set tements of the Straits at 170,000, the

larger. The Sea Island cotton seed it is probable the yield would have beco

tobacco have been introduced, and they failed altogether. Foreign varieties of

have succccded,”

From the Straits Times, December 13th POLICE VACCINATION.

As would be seen from an anounce- ment we made a few days ago, the Police Autlurities bere continue to extend as far as they can the advan- lages of vaccination. The credit of the introduction of this measure is due cutirely, we believe, to the Chict Commissioner, Mr. Dumas, who has been must indefatigable in his exer- tions to inaugurate it on

perma- nent basis; and who has taken very greas pains to obtain the best instru inents and a regular supply of whole- some vaccine, independant of the lo- cal medical profession. The obstacles which

originally stood in the way of the measure, but which have now very materially iwen overenitic, are of a huch more seris elracter than is generally believed.

In

been

discouragement of the Profession, whe a the first place, there was the silent from a jealous care of their own pr vileges, rather we fear than from their anxiety for the people's safety, have de accustomed to enlarge upon the of the application of vaccine dangers of by any but well skilled hands. It is Tisual in bear quoted, where, from a lack of medical skili, read a

400 great

confidence

Chec on part of inexperienced persons,

the Uisease itselt, instead of the res has been communicated-in

of

cases

oculation has been performed. Aud words, that instead of vaccination, in to give the implied warning the force

a local habitation and a naine We are told that many years ago Residency Surgeon or his assistants, when vaccination was attempted by the

ticiple now begun by the Police, ea what istered" the wholesale prin- it had very soon to be abandoned; asin other, death by small pox had several enses, falling closely one upon the resulted from the operation to perfectly bealthy subjects. Now, there is nothing more fair than that those who have devoted practice of a profession should have their lives to the acquirement and a prescriptive right to the emoluments

Bout

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335

Pom the Straits Times, December 19th VACCINATION BY THE POLICE.

it was declared by a majurity that the

of some twenty-five thousand souls, It is exceedingly gratifying to know most advantageons place for the Bridge was at a point half way be-

that at the present me, there is

To the Editor of the Daily Tams tween Market street and Bonham not an enemy in the state of Sarawak,

DEAR SIR,In a revert afiel on vac for the first time within of the memory street. To this declaration the Come

generations. There is no doubt, that cuation you have lied Mr. Dumaan's missioners paid no attention, further than to dechire, with a strange incon trade both Export aud Fampert will attempt at its more general introduction, sistency, that they did at believe the naturally bollow the event. The pre-sut so ne, 1 su sure, will question the fitness of the gordini prose which you have voice of the mecting represented pub-ducts of the Kayan try are chict

!ty confined t

Gutta Peralta, of awarded to a most worthy chief of the tie opinion; however, no mume was

which there are very extensive jan Police; tur, it is to us degilored that you said about Flint street, and it was

should have considered it necessary to slander the profession by attributing to nderstood that the idea of the Bridge gles; beeswax, rattus in endless and of very fine quality

some of it members a spirit of opposition bad been altogether abandoned. regularly

duests of the best description, to Me. Duran's adupable moverent. So matters remained until the be-

with 110 In cerisin than you would not have when camphor and numerous ginning of the present

year,

45 doubt mineral deposits of value yet it leaked out that plans and men-

acted tas nojually, unless impressed by developed and likewise has been wrong information on the subject; and were being sent Home, furst in the streams. The surface of you will do justice no less to yourself than with the view of getting it to be the country is audiating and admira- to the wonders of the medical presion

that result from it; and besides, it would be a very dangerous thing, es- pecially in the pratice of medicine, to open the door to all emmers by die pensing with a qualification test. But

of in this matter gratuitous vaccion tion by the Police, there can he so rubbery of fees from the Profession. nor do we think there is any grounds in fear that the misadventures said to have occurred in olden times will happen here again. The Commission-

of Police" faruished with supplies of fresh vaccine; and though the operation is a very simple uac, the Deputy Commissioner is al

his rounds be ways accompanied on one of the Hospital apothecaries. If the local Profession are really alarmed about the safety

of Police vaccination, they might show it by periodically and by tum devoting a day to the Police eircuit,

But the chief dificulty with wh which the Police have had to contend, is the distrust of the people themselves in the effluency of the preventative. This fortunately has greatly disap. peared of late, and though the grow op people are in different as to them- selvis, a very little persuasion only, is necessary to get their ta sabait tvir children to the operation. Indeed, it the disposition of the

of the people undergoes

a

as favourable a progression during the next few years as it has done of fate, vacation will be all but general and the discase itselt we trust redue- ed within the

ence

very

:

surements

foot

10

passenger suspension Bridge thrown across the river at Boubam bly adapted for cultivaties, with ap- Strect. This was such a palpable mis.parently good wait and line river com- nse of the public money, that the

kunizations both above and below the In addition the above, we rapids. In raised had the protest which was effect

of leading to

to the abandonment tuas state that one of the murderers (Sarawak at Messrs. Fox and Steele of theschemic and the Commissioners then

signified

sified the wholesome inten. Guvernment Officers) has been brought tion of placing a permanent trate into Sarawak and after investigation Bridge in

in its place, and for this pose petitioned the Governor to bring into force an ael empowering them to culleet trils.

As the money bad to be raised and the

the sh materials in

1 rained from Home (the proposed bridge

merved; but

il

Ife

was condemned and executed. was the last and principal offender, and although he eluded justice for nearly years, at length suffered the death, he sa jastle merited.

being an iron ore it was under- From the Straits Times, December 19th, stood that more Can a year won

would THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS. elapse before the work could be com- ¦ Is there is any truth in the follow- this delay no dissatising paregraph, taken from the Columbo faction was expressed, as it was kouwo narrow limits which

Observer of the 3rd inst., the Georgia that the work in the

would be a ned the precaution imposes; it is to be koped

or Tusculoare most be in the neigh therefore, that no one will either write good one. In the meantime au Eu.

The impression bourhood of Ceylon. or say anything tending to stake confid. gienesing from mande an offer to erect in Colombo was that the vessel allud-

in

The Bridge, to the

el to was the Alabama, but this we temporary foot restrict their usefulness.

pulled down as soon as the perma circuits;atud en of those Police

know to be impossible.. Singapore has never yet bzes com-

nent one was finished, in considerati of in the lurervat receiving the pre- pletely free of small-pox, True, is

scribed tolls. The offer was deelined, ravages have seldom extended to Europeans, but nevertheless the yearly bat it seems to have suggested to the number of its vietines makes

Commissioners the desirability of sa suport-

loot temporary bridge, which ubody wanted ; and so they were led to enter infon contract whereby they will spend $2,900 (without extras!)and disfigure the Town with a cumbersome, useless ejussite.

ant items in our mortality, and we are ito exert ourselves to the nost bound to for its suppression. We announced yes- terday, that the reports from the vie rious Police Stations indicated an i erease of the disease. There is n thing alarming i in such an announce. a call to additional ment, it is simply as exertion, which we trust and believe the Police Authorities will respond to. They cannot cure but they can prevent; and we know that is these diseases, as in all outer ills, "preven tion is better than

as eure." Let them increase the nther and extend the jimit their vaccinating circuits, con- fident that though they may encounter the steers of the Prefession, they have got the approbation of the cotamianity,

it is only just to mention, bonerar, that save mal of the Medient une hard evounats gratuituts`y them wun doma to them for that purpose.

From the Straits Times, December 19th. THE RIVER BRIDGE.

18 June last the Municipal Com- missioners, much against the rompu- strances of the community, resolved to creat a temporary foot bridge a Cross the River between Bonham street and the Post Office landings and accepted the tender of an engi- neering firm to do the work for $3,900. This fender was accepted, if we re- member, in August, and the contrac tors were to complete the Bridge with- in four non has from the signing of the contract. Four months passed away, without any appearance of the work

asing carried through; and we