of its many incompetent and ill-conducted officers; while it would exercise a salutary influence over
October 31. All --Spectator,
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JARRIVALS.
16, Jadson, English. Whampoa,
17, George Fyfe, Murray, Whampos. 18, Poppy, Cole, Macao.
19, Sarah Ann, Dunnett, Tahiti.
19, G. Henrich, (Han.) Henrichson, Shanghai. 19, Gazelle, Anderson, East Coast,
PASSENGERS.
Pet George Henrich, Messrs H. G. Wolcott, C. M. Wolcott, W. H. Rushton, and W. Pyke.
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REPORTS.
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George Fyfe, Murray, London.
Indian, English, London.
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tion, lastrad af consisting, as in the other great islands, of nations of from one to four or five mil lions, they consist of petty tribes of a few thousands. Of these petty tribes there are probably sot fewer than twenty, speaking twenty different and distinct languages, unintelligible to each other ever at heads, to pickle and store, than on anything else war, and far more intent on cutting off each others
The reader may see these interesting and jocund Bavague to the life, in the act of dancing a hornpipe, with a girdle of human pickled heads, (malo and female, dangling at their foins, in one of the prints of the lively book of Captain Keppel. Various are the trophies of war that men delight in,--cannons and banners captured in the field at the point of the bayonet by Europeans;-pickled heads, whip- ped on the shoulders of unwary, way worn, way- laid travellers, by the Borneans!
In all the other great islands the inhabitants have for ages possessed the knowledge of letters, and in each island there has been invented, according to Maradon, one or more alphabets. The inhabitanta of Borneo, on the contrary, have neither inverted letters themsoves nor adopted the invented lettera of others.
There is nothing in race, as there is in some remote islands of the Archipelago, to account for thin, for the native Borneand are exactly of the same blood as the huminized Jamns and Sumatrans, their feighbours Nether can it be pleaded for Borneo, as for Australia and New Zealand, that the larger animals for domestication we wanting. for, not only are the ox, the buffalo, and the hog natives of the island, bai thote soemy, and that of nan, the tiger, is absent. The native Borneans, in a word, are neither as brave nur so civilized as the native Britons of Julius Cwear, and are an for below the Javanese in civilization, as the Britons were below the Romans,
The most civilized as well as numerous, of the present inhabitants of Bumen are all colonists from other countries, Malays from Sumatra, natives of Celebes, of the Philippines, and Chinese. The latter are in rather a rough and rude sinte, work. ing in gold mines, and are probably on a parity with cornish miners or English navigators, turned loose into a jungle, without leaders of capital, but with plenty of employment The Malays have their present condition des not tell well for their been settled in this island for some centuries, and
exchanges. They would seem to be even worse than they were 324 years ago, when first ween by Europeans--by the first circumnavigators of the
bed by Pigafettt, who was one of them
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G Henrich, (Ham. Henrichson, Boustead and Co
Indian, English,
John Barry, Stewart,
Lute Catherine, London, Gibson, Mary, Sevirkrop, Nymph, Woodrow, Oralava, Nail,
Calc
Popp Petrel, Hadley, Red Rover, liver, Sarah Aua. Dunnett, Statesman, Rowitt, Starling, Anderson, Sri Singapura, Tamar, Hall, We, Hackett, Young Hebe,
J. Matheson and Bush and Co Lindsay and Co Dent and Co
Lindsay and Co Dent and Co Rawle, Duus and Co
Dent and Co Robt. Strachan Dent and Co Gilman and Co
J. Matheson and Co W. Pustau and Co J. Matheson and Co
Maovicar and Co Smith and Brimelow J. Matheson and Co Macvicar and Co Alex. Robertson
VESSELS AT WHAMPOA
H. M. St. Vulture, Captain Macdougal.
H. M. B. Childers, Commander Pittman, HC Sr. Pluto, Lieut, Airey,
Ans Bales, Slaughter,
Amelia, Diaper,
Argo, Bremer,
Calder, Brathwaite,
Britomart, Solomon,
this
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A modern geographies has been dreaming that Borneo contains a population approaching to foar millions. If the recent Dutch accounts of the po. polation of the small but fertile islands of Madura, Bali, and Lomboc are to be relied on, and they are more authentic than any thing we possess about that of Borneo, any one of these, which in size bear about the same relation to it that Man, the Wight, or glesou delo Britain, contring more
Chinese Tariff of imports, and exports, for inhabitants. counting housus.
PROJECTED COLONIZATION OF BORNEO.
TBOY days before Cin
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by a
Canton an shack which sec
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for the firmness diaplay and the abistance they dhant Shipping in the river, bility, have occasioned an extensi and properly.
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It is quite evident to us that, at the Mr Brooke, Sir Thomas Cochrane and other na val officers before hire, must have mischievously. and unwarrantably mixed themselv internal intrigues and violences of vernment, The Admiral's despatch conclusive evidence that can be requir point. Our readers inay remember mat, in the summer of last your July, wo belliya, Shr Thomas Cochrane entered the Bruno River, with a squadron of small vessels, at the request of the Sultan, communicated through Me Brooke, lò at- back a rebellious chief, Tangerau cop, whom he drove from the place after sustaining n avere logn in killed and wounded from the resistance he met with, and in the documents now e company the despatch, the Admiral tell us that the Sultan also requested him to attack Serl & Housman, because it was Serif Housman's intention to ruin Brune, in consequence of the troaty antered into by the Sultan and Mnda Fassimowith the Queen of Great Britain." Now comes the vent, vili vice, part of the business. Sir Thomas add I went and attacked Seriff Housman, and annihilated him, at a great cost of British H? When the Gazelle necount of this gallant exploit-for it really was a gallant expinit--appeared, we unhesitatingly con demnde the proceedings of the Admiral on the same grounds that we now condemn them that it was
now Bunt 150me: 103mg-
justifiably mixing himself and the Braish flag up with the intrigues and cruelties of a semi-barbarous people. The result proves the correctnces of our views, for Sir Thonias Cochrane now tells the Admiralty that this last expedition to the city of Brane was planned to "call upon the Sultan for an explanation of his conduct with regard to the atrocitine attributed to him." Now these atroci Rajah Muda Hassim, Pangeran Bedurudeen, and ties were, the ordering the death of his uncle,
many other of his relations." And why was this done? Because they had instigated the destruc tion of Pangaran Usop and Scriff Housman, whom the Admiral had, a short time before, at the Sultan's request, "annihilated at a great cost of British life."
We surely cannot be mistaken when we say, that it is not for such purposes as that our squadron io. the East Indies ought to be employed. Let us re- press, by all means, the piracies of the Bornese and the other Malay tribes in those seas; but allow them to carry on their internal intrigues, bloody though they may be, without the hostile interference of this country. It would be too great on undertaking for Fogland to become the Magister morum of all the The colonization or the conquest, or the gétile barbarous islands of the Indian Ocean. We the tment of Borneo, or of any portion of Borned, will, more regret this conduct on the part of the British in our humble opinion, be a very good schene for Admiral, because it way form an exculpation for
the unjustifiable conduct of the French naval au burying Englishinen and their money in a tropical
thorities in the Pacific, which we have so recently amp; also, for swumping no inconsiderable por- tion of English reputation for common songe and had occasion to condeïan; should we remonstrate,
the French Government may meet us with the t forecast; but good for nothing else. to reference to these questions, therefore, let us hear no more of quoque argument, and point to Borneo and Sir Tho the monster island;---no, not even under its sound-thas Cochrane as a set-off to Tahiti and Captain ing and exotic name of Kalamaotan, a name, by Bruat. But we also regret thy and most mequiva the way, which, we take leave to suggest, is procally condemn it, because it is à departure from those principles of neo-interference with the internal
On this subject we should like much to See a little knowledge, and common intelligence substi tated for the dense cloud of vapour and thetoric im which we have seen the subject lately enveloped. Borneo has been praised and recommeded as "a great and fertile" island. The greatness is unques- tionable, seeing that it is more than three times the size of Great Britain, but as to the fertility, it has certainly never been proved, or even tried bybably as unknown to a Bornean as clesperis is to
a Spanish mufeteer. any one fit to judge. The equator runs through it, leaving the larger portion in the northern hemis. Boustead and Cophero, but a handsome slice in the southern too,
a slice bigger than our own island The remotest part of Borneo from the Equator is but seven de grees away from it, but the mass of the island is not above half that distance. If we fancy ourselves on the sweltry banks of the Maranon, we shall have a tolerable notion of the climate of Borneo It is hot and moist; there is neither a winter, a spring, nor an autumn, One eternal, damp, ardent summer has reigned there from the creation.
Fletcher and Co Boustead and Co Nye, Parkin aud Co Boustead and Co Order
Graaf Van Hogendorp, (Dut.) Steel,
Harrie, Inglewood, Smith,
C. Sapoorjee Lamgrah Jamieson, How and Co Russell and Co Maclean Dearie and Co
Nennen,
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J. Matheson and Co Russell and Co Turner and Co Fischer and Co Rawson and Co Captain
VRESELE AT MACAD.
Isabella Robertson, Kelly,
FJ. de Paiva Agro,
J. A. Durran Sinon, (Dut.) Knudsen, Burd Lange and Co
AMERICAN AT Whampoa and MACAO. Eagle, (Am) Poot, v
Russell and Co Horatio, (Am.) Cracker,
Nye Parlin and Ca Vancouver, (Am.) Fuller,
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That is not, we presume to think, a place fit for the colonization of man of the European mce-of'a creature framed to live within the temperate zones. There, he can neither labour to live, nor live to multiply. As a dominant caste, he may exist by: the toil of an inferior race,-that is, by holding that race in virtual slavery; but that, and it is not much, is the utmost be can hope for.
The island is probably rich in metalliferous ores, as gold, antimony, and coal, all of which, but no others, have been found; but we can say no more of what we know so little about. Judging by these very ores, the probability is, that Berneo is inferior in fertility to all the islands of volcanic formation which yield no rich ores, such as Jara and others of the same range. ^
The scheme of occupying the uninhabited boa healthy island of Labuan is me of a very different character; and really promises valid advantages at no risk, and linle cost. It lies about halfway up the Chinese Sea, and, with a good harbour, and coal at hand, promises to be a valuable naval and military post, a convenient commercial emporium, as well as the most commanding position for the suppression of a rampant piracy, which has hitherto
affairs of neutral countries which are now most properly admitted to be the true, and the only justi- fable policy, which this or any other nation can
pursue.
Mr Brooke is unquestionably the instigator, the Alpha and Omega, of all these exceptionable measu res; and it may be necessary to say a few words of that gentleman. It is impossible not to admire the chivalrous enterprise which Mr Brooke has exhi- bited since he first undertook the
He has managed humanity,
set cruisora and Bets defunce. The cost of establishing himself in Borneolous task of
maintaining such a post ought not to exceed that of a single frigate, and for the purposes described, it would be more efficient than a dozen of them. Examiner.
BORNEO,
ADMIRAL COCHRANE AND THE SULTAN.
his affairs with admirable skill, great and a good deal of romantic temerity. He has succeeded in acquiring for himself the supreme go- vernment of an extensive district in the SB E of Borneo, and, certainly, so far as his influence has extended, has done much towards humanising those with whom he has been brought into farbiliar and pacific intercourse, But this very chivalry, this enterprise and emerity show that Me Brooke is a man of undefined ambition; and a passage in the
(From the Shipping & Mercantile Gazelle, Oct. 6) Having given considerable attention to the lengthy despatch which Sir Thomas Cochrane, our despatch of Sir Thomas Cochrane to the Admis naval Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has rally, prompted, we have no doubt, by his com addressed to the Admiralty, detailing the operations munications with that gentleman, throws some of the British squadron on the coast, and in the light upon this part of the subject The admiral, rivers of Borneo Proper, we cannot discover either in writing from the River Brons, Borneo Proper, motive or justification for the belligerent propensi-under date the 20th of July, says ------- ties in which the gallant Admiral has been indulg ing. Sir Thomas Coohrane is well known in the service as a fighting man; that is, he is a brave of
But the great defect of Borneo fios, perhaps, less in soil, or even in climate, as far as native civiliza Olyphant and Cotion is concerned, than in the character of its physer and he is one whom we would rejoice to see
sical geography. A glance at the map will show that it is a solid mass of some 260,000 square miles, unbroken by deep bay, galf or inlent, that might make one part of it easily accessible to another, or to foreign intercourse There are parts of Borneo which cannot be less than 250 miles distant from the sea. This distinguishes it unfavourably from all the other great islands in which civilation has made progress. It is, in all respecte, the continent
Hu-kuang,
This being the first instance that this Solemn Ride performed in this Colony, the faithful are earncet ly requested to attend a
The Ceremony will begin at 8 o'clock A. M.
-FE. ANTHONY FELICIANI,
Rom. Cath Pref. Apost. of Hongkong
Victoria, 20th February 1847.
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AT Messrs FRANKLYN & MILNE's rooms
on Monday next 22nd Inst., at 11 A
Invoice of Needles, Cutlery, Steel Pens, &c.
20 Casks of Salt Heef and Pork
of barbarous Africa on a reduced scale..
Borneo does not appear to have, like the other islands of the same archipelago, great mounts chains, with broad valves between but the interi seems, generally, to be mountainous throughout, cutting off communication in all directions. Inter-
mcult by the hare. course is rendered still more.
of heat and primeval forests, the natural offspring moisture, which covers the whole face of the lans.
probably not leaving through the cleared and cultivated aros connty of Rutland.
land no wholesome
to build a civilization
oreove
aporate:
35 Cases Champagne, and a quantity of Port, line of some 2,000 miles of forest Sherry, and Madeira also Eadies side Saddle; like a barrier to cut off communicati
and a Portfolio, containing 26 coloured Lithogra-stranger phic views. in Affghanistan by Akinson, and un-ne look to the condition of the
dry other articles.
actively employeil, on the event of a war, from un impression we have that his zeal and intrepidity would justify every confidence that might be placed in him, and that he would fully realize the expecta tions of his country and his friends. But there s, and Admiral Cochrane is a time for all things, should know that during a period of peace there are other duties to be performed by our naval com manders on foreign stations besides fighting du Lies which, if not quite ro ngreeable to their feel are fully as responsible as any they can he engaged in, and equally necessary to the welfare of the
The east which has caled forth
tiona
tants of Borneo, we shall see the frath of this post.
authorities have not
In the mean time the common people had reco
vered from their panic, and commenced returning to the town, and by the fourth or fifth day Dearly every house was inhabited, and the sam
sentedawelf as on ordinary occa
Rocking round the ships to sell produce with as mich port, and I am persu
more grattring to the me that Lens man (such their govermar hare felt conf the pr
no pre
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