6 DECEMBER 1873, Page 3

'The Dutch will have as much to do at Acheen

as they can manage. They must conquer the place or give up their benefi- cial scheme of conquering Sumatra, but Acheen is the only inde- pendent Mussnlman sovereignty in the Far East, and the Malays are swarming up to help her ruler. He has, it is stated, 70,000 men, and if half of these are Malays and he has procured any decent arms from Constantinople, the Dutch will have terribly im,t work of it. No troops in their service not Dutchmen will well-armed Malays,—a work quite formidable enough to Europeans.