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It is not necessary, as they see and admit with satisfac¬ 
tion, that litigants should enter into a pecuniary competi¬ 
tion with their opponents to purchase the favour and 
countenance of their judges. 
“ The occasions requiring the employment of armed 
force are becoming rare, and disturbances are strictly 
local. The real power of Sarawak is based upon the 
remembrance and gratitude due to the late Baja Sir 
James Brooke, as well as upon the firm administration 
and even-handed justice of the present government. No 
one visiting Sarawak can fail to observe the respect and 
affection in which the present raja and his family are 
held by the entire community. The fact is as noticeable 
among Europeans as among the natives ; and I may 
observe that the European staff is socially on a par with 
the officials of the generality of our colonies. The mode 
of life among the European body is quiet and unostenta¬ 
tious, but of hospitality there is abundance, and no visitor 
leaves Sarawak without pleasant reminiscences of his stay.” 
This authoritative statement as to the present condi¬ 
tion of Sarawak must be highly gratifying to all friends 
and admirers of the late Sir James Brooke. Under the 
cautious phraseology of an official report, we cannot fail 
to see the record of a splendid and almost unexampled 
success in the art of government—a success effected 
under difficulties far above the average, and to be esti¬ 
mated by a standard far truer than that of commercial 
development, namely, the happiness and contentment of 
the entire population. 
Dutch Borneo 
The possessions of the Dutch in Borneo are about 750 
miles in length from north-east to south-west, and have 
