About thirty more offenders of this class were brought up, but ae in all previous cases of the kind, they were discharged with a warning—probably for the encouragement of others. The Police state their inability to stop the nuisance, owing to the fireworks being discharged in all sorts of out-of-the-way places in the native parts of the Settlements, and also to the seeming impossibility of getting such offendera as are apprehended punished. two clans having taken it into their heads to attempt each other's extermination. By the Intest Straits' papers the riots appears to ha been quelled, but inasmuch as the troops were would not have been amiss. Altogethior, the called' out, little information by telegraph public have been just as well: off as telegraphic cable existed, and the Singapore Reuter's agency has fully vindicated: the reputation it has taken such pains to acquire, of being several weeks behind the age.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.