The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-07 00:00:00

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Calhsam,l. V UUees.l. G. Shore, O. Mon ea, sad B. (Saban; Kisco L. Moots sod I. Baden LYCZUK.. Tim Imams. THE latriclitiollS STEANGSL Mr. H. IFIAMoomb.—THE MASERS OF RAVENSWOOD. Maws. leakier. Jar(tut, Fula. barry, Widdianall, Fitzpatrick. in= : M.l. as stas Tema. ICswortkr, - lavear, C. lacitrat. BRITANNIA. =al IMMO, OLD DADDY LONGLION AND KR /MINT CINOUIL-IL . sad Nada,* atartaisbach.--Jobany Day, the the Crew of the 1.0- Walker.—several tittrvivon of the Orel; oTt ZeTe - nien, with Hlos, the Coxswain, will appear.-01mar.—B1 ET= COLD. HIGH WAVIER AT LONDON-BRIDIIL Thig DAT — Llionise. Ma. Mamas, 6b. 5011. 11:41101MOW Mania& 71‘ ....Aftirsoes. 3sa LONDON. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. Hut MAJESTY'S Speech at the opening of Par liament was not more remarkable for the variety and importance of the topics with which it dealt than for the caution with which they were, one and all, handled. Ministers evidently felt that every step they made was through an enemy's country, and picked their way as among pitfalls and through lurking ambushes. The skill with which upon subjects not only debate able, but already ardently debated, they have avoided giving a challenge, renders the speech a model of circumspect composi tion. No doubt there will be fierce controversies sooner or later upon almost every one of the topics with which it deals. The Js mice insurrection, the Fenian conspiracy, the Alabama correspondence, the new Reform Bill, form legitimate subjects for criticism ; and some of them offer suitable opportunity for testing the strength of rival parties and principles in the House of Commons ; but they will not be raised in the shape of an amendment to the Ad dress, which, like the Royal Speech which it echoes, commits the House to nothing, and might as naturally have been framed by her MAJasnos Opposition as by her MAJESTY'S Ministers. With the exception of the speeches of the mover and seconder of the Address, which in each case gave promise of parliamentary usefnlness, the topic which occupied the House last night, to the exclusion of every other, was the fearful mortality which, during the last eight months, has devastated the herds of Great Britain, and the alleged lathes of the Government in re spect to it. Last year it was the fashion in certain quarters to hold Sir Grottos GREY responsible for all the murders and burglaries committed in any part of the country ; and now the desire seems to prevail on the benches of the Opposition to bold him accountable for the Cattle Plague. The priority given to this sub ject was characteristic. Members of the various parties have felt strongly, according to their temperament and political bias, on the mur derous scenes which have occurred in Jamaica. The slaughter of Europeans and negroes at Morant Bay has moved them deeply. But the slaughter of cattle in Great Britain has gone home more thoroughly to the susceptibilities of the country party ; and it is upon this point that they are most eager to impugn the alleged misdoing., or rather the inaction, of the Government. Mr. CARDWELL has a tempo rary reprieve from assault, a more eligible victim being ready to hand in the person of Sir Gsonox GREY. The chief accusation directed against the Go vernment is, that it did not violate the law, by at once euspenaing all traffic, internal as well as external, in live cattle ; or summon Parliament to give it the authority which is assumed to have been necessary, but which the Government believed it could do without. Viewing the matter solely in the interest of the producers, the country party would have prohibited the circulation of cattle within the limits of the kingdom ; they would have slaughtered all tainted animals, and every animal which had been in contact with a beast " suspected of being suspect;" and they would have dealt out the same measure at the ports of debarkation to all foreign cattle landed in England, granting to the owners of the beasts thus made away with compensation out of the Imperial revenue. No doubt in this way the disease might have been put an end to by putting an end at the same time to all the possible re cipients of it, and the agricultural interest, being fully indemnified, would have had no strong objec tion possibly to the adoption of this course. But the Government thought that the consumers ought to be taken into account. The substitution of a dead meat traffic for the traffic in living cattle would have revolutionized the trade ; it would have been long before it could have found its way into new channels, and flowed regularly through them ; and the great towns would have witnessed alternately a famine of meat and a glut of it, involving its waste and decay. The scheme which the country gentlemen on the Opposition benches are angry with the Government because it did not adopt would have rendered the supply of meat to the great masa of the people extremely precarious, and would have compelled them as taxpayers to pay to the stock-farmers the full value of ani mals from which as consumers they received no benefit at all. On these points the replies offered by Mr. T. G. BARING and Sir Grows GREY were in all essential particulars conclusive. Mr. BARING'S speech would, however, have been abler if it had been shorter, and he would have exhi bited better tactic if he had not managed, by unnecessary disparagement of the Report of the Commission, to call up Mr. Low; who seemed to enjoy the opportunity offered him of airing his rare gift of precise statement and speciously falla cious reasoning, and of striking a hard blow at t►e Government which has declined his services and rejected his recommendations. Mr. Lows seized with characteristic eagerness the occa sion presented him of covertly vindicating in a epecifio instance that theory of beneficent despo tism which his great reform speech more explicitly avowed. It is undeniably true, as he stated, that local affairs should be left to local authorities ; while matters of general import should be dealt with by the general government. Bat it does not follow, as Mr. Lows seems to think, that the moral government should outatep the limits THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUAIt* 18e6. of the law in dealing with matters which come most thoroughly within its own pro vince, nor do the affairs of many , locali ties necessarily belong, from their multiplicity, to the general government. They are local within their respective localities, howsoever nu merous these may be. As regards the measures adopted for the extirpation or mitigation of the cattle plague, Mr. LOWeR theory conflicts with his criticism of the proceedings of the Government, which has recognised and precisely applied the dis tinction on which he insists. It has drawn up general instructions, and left the authorities of the various districts to apply them in accordance with the local conditions, necessities, and opportunities which they know thoroughly and at first hand, but with which the Home-office can have only secondary and very imperfect acqusintanoc. If Ministers had known in July or August the extent of the calamity which impended over the country, and could have got the nation at large to foresee it too, they might have tried the "stamping out" process afterwards recommended by the Commissioners usefully and with success. But until the calamity became too serious to be treated in this way public opinion would not have tolerated its being so dealt with ;I and a nation accustomed to free institutions will not trust arbitrary powers to the Executive to be used against its own judgment, on the chance that the Executive will sometimes—though it is scarcely an even chance—be right when the nation may think it wrong. Lord Caarreounifz, who shares to the full Mr. Lowx's distaste for what both seem to regard as the cant of liberty and self-rule, appeals to the example of Belgium as a confutation of English practice even on English principles. Belgium is a country with a constitu tion which resembles our own ; and under it a Liberal Ministry has stamped out the cattle plague. But Belgium acted with the advantage of British experience, and therefore on ampler knowledge than our Government possessed at the correspond. ing stage of the disease in this country. Even if the objections of the Opposition to the conduct of the Government were well founded, the discussion of them last night would have been premature. It involved a waste of Tory rhetoric, and of what is far more valuable, of the public time. The past, be it as bad as it may, cannot be undone; and the measures to be taken for the future will be most conveniently considered, when the bill of which Sir GEORGE GREY has given notice is be fore the House of Commons. If, indeed, Lord CRINDOURNE and his friends were prepared to ' ask for a vote of censure on the Government—and to be consistent they should not stop short of this —the debate of yesterday evening would have been to the point. As it is, it was a barren battle of words. the adjourned debate upon thie nnichAressd topic. The Star will only add that the remswinable and ohasselerintio certainty d Yr. Robert Lowe is no menus of she degree in whisk the facts and oonsidmations Involved is this question have been wabstantially seri* eL Lord M. bourne said he wished he was se sure d anything as Toni hiscaulay was of everything. What would he have said of Mr. Robert Lowe' _ The Advertiser says everyone who reads the royal address must be struck with its essentially negative character. A vaguer one was naves spoken from the throne. Evidently the forthooining Reform Bill will be based on the homes°. Witte principle; the only consolation is in the thought that if the country has been deceived by the Russell cabi net on a subject of so much importanoe punishment will swiftly follow. Sir Charles Wood, it emus, is to be snoseeded at the India-Office by Lord de Grey, the Marquis of Hartington taking the head of the War Der artment. Mr. Manifold replaces Lord Dufferin as Under-Secretary of State for India, his lordship retiring, after only • short experience of office, as it is nrosesary that India should be represented in the House of Commons. Mr. /loosen snooped. to the Vice-Presideney of the Beard of Trade, held under Lord Palmerstonby Mr. Hutt. The Times is not disposed unduly to disparage the ap pointment of Lord de Grey to the India Office ; but it sketches oat for his lordship a course of study and a line of conduct in terms which seem rather to imply an impree. lion that the new minister has yet to prove hie fitness for the post. Firmness in dealing with 00-ordinate autho rities or the assumption of subordinates, together with a high degree of administrative power, ought to distinguish the Indian Secretary ; and all these qualities, it says, Lord De Grey must now do his beat to acquire. Lord Harting. ton's appointment the Times considers to be excellent, his lordship having shown eminent ability, industry, and businees-like h►bits, and possessing, also, like Mr. Cobden, the recommendation of bringing young blood to the adminis tration. One of the two chiefs of the departments direct lag the national defeaces will now fortunately be in the Common'. The Times would hope that Mr. Stansfeld's reappointment will meet with no objection in any quarter. He showed himself an intelligent and industrious admi. nistrator at the Admiralty, he has excellent talents, is a good speaker and a stanch member of his party. He will probably apply to the Indian Department that special study of abstruse details which it requires, and represent it ably in the House of Commons. Lord Dafferin will, the Times presumes, be provided for in some other poet, all the go vernment would not willingly kw his services. Between Mr. Hatt and Mr. Monsen the Times forbears to strike the balance of loss and gain : they are both right honour able men. The Star says th►t if Mr. Bt►nefeid accepts the ofsoe the fact may be considered an indication that the government is sot likely to fall short in the duty it owes to the country with regard to the substantial character of the Blom Bill. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE ROYAL SPEECH AND THE DEBATE. The Times observes that in the debate on the address in each house, the subject of the cattle plague has been held to overpower all others—foreign politics, colo nial government, and constitutional reform—in import anee. In defending the policy of the administration Lord Granville and Mr. T. G. Baring possibly may have had the better of the argument ; but, if so, it must be confessed that the success of the defence was rather owing to the unskilful nature of the attack than to the real merits of the action of the government. No one can complain that stringent measures were not adopted by the government before the report of the Cattle Plague Commission appeared, bat what they have done since is MOM open to censure. Making every allowance for the perplexity of the situation, end remembering that even her Majesty's ministers are but men, they must still be condemned for failing then to recognise the necessity of uniform action throughout the kingdom, or to turn to account the machinery which was reedy at band to execute their Orders. It is to be hoped that the lessons of the past half-year will lead them now at alienate to adopt a course of vigorous notion, and the country is not without hopes that in the bill announced by the government something may yet be done to redeem the inaction of the peat. As to re form Lord Grey end Lord Derby were almost the only peers to express any hope or fear on the subject, and in the more popular assembly no one had • word to say about it. It is quite evident that the peers are not afraid of any re volution, and the commons are not anxious on the subject. The statement that no bill willbe introduoed until certain dor torsi statistics now in proems of arrangement are submitted to the legisl►ture leaves it to be inferfel that the measure which will thou be brought forward will deal only with • reduction of the franchise, to which, and to which alone, these ststist , cs would seem to refer. We must wait till more is revealed to us, but is dealing with reform, as in dealing with the rioderpest, the administration ought to be aware that delays are dangerous. The mitigated pomp and the reduced ceremony which marked the proceedings within and without the House of Lords yesterday do not appear to the Daily News to have been snob as to impair the sense of historic dignity, or to weaken the venerable •acciations of the place sad the time. In the touching circumstances of her Majesty's re appearance and resumption of her duties of state, is her mournful self-restraint and silent isolation, and in the affectionate homely recognitions that sought to console the loneliness of her coming and her going, the privileged and select audience within the house foundsomething of • com pensation for the royal robes wearily exhibited and wearily thrown aside, and even for the excusably uncertain elocu tion and intonation of the Lord Chancellor. The comment• of the Daily News upon the debate will be fornd in another column. After noting the loyal reception which her Majesty encountered yesterday on her way to parliament, the Poet proceeds to criticise the Speech, remarking that, unlace Lord Palmerston. who was always opposed to making the Speech too long, the protest Prime Minister has taken good osre not to leave himself open to the charge of passing over any topic to which reference could possibly be made. As to reform, no one ooald fairly accuse Lord Russell of shelving it, but the ill-natured might suggrat that he bee rather ungenerously thrown upon parlia ment the odium of giving it the go by. The policy of the government in connexion with the cattle plague furnishes bat one of several base. of attack to an opposition who, in no unequivocal manner, indicated last evening their intention of endeavouring, if possible, to die lodge the present occupants of the Treasury bench. The Herald contrasts the earnesteese with which speaker after speaker on the opposition side took up the subject of the cattle plague with the comparative iodiffer. mace of the m'nisterial benches, and legate that an indictment 'against a ministry was never more strongly made out. On other topics also, especially in the case of its defence against the speech of Lord Derby, the govern ment cut but a very sorry figure. The Telegraph cannot agree with the declaration to which Lord Faversham sought to pledge the House of Lords, that the administration deserves censure because it did not prohibit all importation of cattle at the time when the approach of the Underpart first became imminent. 'Mader popular institutions like ours, no government could have adopted exceptional and abnormal measures, in terfering with the customary freedom of trade, unless public feeling bad been in favour of so grave an extension of power ; and &trier the early stages of the disease, the country was certainly not prepared for any such Nothing could be a greater national calamity than the in troduction of party considerations into the discussion of the preventive and remedial measures we aught to adopt ; end the Telegraph regrets that, on the fleet night of the ses sion, the opposition should have sought to give the debate a factious character. The Star sees originality and thought In the speech of Lord Frederick Cavendish end something feed% and earnest in his utterances as to reform. The speech of the attoooder, Mr. Graham. the new member for Glasgow, was a yet abler effort, and woo from the bonne unusual op. pl►nes. In the matter of the rattle plague the defence of the adimisittrat oa is not ountpiete, and we mud await LATEST INTELLIGENCE (tam's rasa SPAIN. MADRID, F. 6, Emma. In today's sitting of the Senate the debate on the address in reply to the Queen's speech was re mined. The Minister of State said that the re cognition of Italy by Spain had no signification beyond the renewal of diplomatic intercourse between the two countries. The amendment which had been proposed, regretting the recognition of the Italian kingdom, was subsequently rejected by 100 to 65 votes. . . At the recent meeting of senators, the Marquis Balamance read a paper demonstrating the neces sity for settling the passive debt and recognising the English Certificates. ROME. gOll3, FIB. 6. This morning the Pope laid the foundation stone of the new church which is being built by English Roman catholics in this city. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Fn. 8. The rumours which have been in circulation of a rising in some parts of Roumania are entirely un founded. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FEL 7. The extra screw steamer St. David, Captain Aird, from New York on the 24th January, ar rived here this morning. Her news has been fully anticipated. The African mail steamer Calabar has passed Holyhead. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, lila 6. The Ripon left here at 10 a.m. yesterday for Marseilles, where she may be expected about the 11th inst. ; letters in London, say 13th inst. The Syria left at noon on the 4th for South ampton, where she may be expected about the 17th instant. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS (HEAVY) GIBRALTAR, Fn. 6. The Euxine leaves Gibraltar at 4 p.m. to-day; she may be expected at Southampton on the llth instant. All well ; weather fine. THE OUTBREAK IN JAMAICA. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. This morning a blue-book of 279 pages was issued from the parliamentary printing office, containing the papers relating to the recent riot of names in Jamaica, and the suppression of it by Governor Eyre. These docu ments comprise as many as sixty-one despatches from Mr. Eyre to Mr. Cardwell, with many enclosures ; and thirty three despatches from the Colonial Secretary, eighteen of which are addressed to Governor Byre, and the remainder to Governor Sir Et IL Starke. Of those now shwa, the lint dispatch from the Governor of Jamaica 4 dated Oc tober 20, 1865 ; the4lastipecember 9. Mr. Cardwell's first communication was written on November 17, and his bet, to Governor Eyre, on December 16 ; his last to Sir H. K. Storks was dated January 1. In a despiteli dated Oct. 23, Mr. Eyre writes that it was evident the " rebellion" had been instigated by the lan guage and writing of persons in a better sphere of life, chief of whom was Dr. Underhill and some of the Baptist ministers in Jamaica. Under these circumstances he (the Governor) had dismal it right to examine the letters coming by the last English mail for certain Baptist minis ters. One of these letters, from Dr. Underhill to the Rev. J. Henderson, of Montego Bay, Mr. Byre enclosed, and he quoted from it the following passage : "In Jamaica the people seem to be overwhelmed with discouragement, and I fear that they are giving up in de. &pair their long struggle with injustice and fraud.* To such expressions as three Mr. Eyre attributes the out break, and he adds—" If nothing can be done to stop at home the pernicious writings such as I refer to, and if Jamaica is to be retained at all, it will be aeoessary to pass a law in the colony authorising the deportation of all per sons who, leaving their proper sphere of action as ministers of religion, become political demagogues and dangerous agitators." Extracts from Mr. Cardwell's despatch, dated Novem ber 17 (the day after the receipt of the first account of the outbreak), were laid by Governor Eyre before the Jamaica legislature, published in the colonial journal; and trans mitted to this country. The passages omitted by Governor Eyre turn out to be important. "No doubt," he says, "you will have mach further intelligence to communicate to me hereafter on the subject of the measures of ity to which you have felt it necessary to have re o arse. If you had time, in forwarding these en closures, to make yourself acquainted with all their °entente, it will have been evident to you that they contain many pssaages which will require to be explained as soon a. there shall be sufficient leisure for the writers to explain fully the proceedings t, which they relate." . . . "I entirely agree with you that measures of severity, when dictated by necessity and justice, are ha reality measures of mercy, and do not doubt it will appear that you have arrested the course of punishment as soon as you were able to do so. and have exerted yourself to confine it meanwhile to ascertained offenders and to cases of aggravated guilt. I observe with pleasure thi!hope you express that if no further outbreak occurs you will, in a short time, have been able to proclaim a general amnesty, except to actual murderers." Governor Eyre's rejoinder is apologetic throughout. On Nov. 23 Mr. Cardwell writes again, asking for explanation of certain siatemeata (made by various officers es to their doings in killing end dogging megrim), and adding that, without satisfactory explsnatioe, " the severity inflicted w:11 not appear to have been justifiable," Mr. Cardwell also asks for copies of the proceedings of the court-martial, and fall partimbirseuerally. On the same day Mr. Card well wrote a special despatch requiring from Mr. Byre the reasons for hie assertions as to Mr. Gordon. and the proofs of his guilt. The foot of his removal to Monet Bay, where martial law prevailed, is pointed out, and the de spatch concludes: " I desire also to see it clearly established that he WIN not executed until crimes had been proved in evidence against him which deserved death ; and that the prompt infliction of capital punishment was necessary to rescue the colony from imminent danger, sad from the horrors of a general or wide-spread insurrection, and the repetition elsewhere of such a slaughter of the white and eoloured colonists as had taken place in the eastern part of the island." Oo December 1 Mr. Cardwell writes as follows : " In your despatch No. 251 of the 20th of October, you say that ►on mecca doubt that the rebellion of the estrus in Jamaica is in a gre►t degree clue to Dr. ITederbill's letter, and the meetings held in connexion with it. That letter wee originally addressed, not to discontented per sona io Jamie*, but to me ; and wee by me forwarded to you for your report I am desirous to know whether it was by your sanction that it first obtained publicity in Jamaica, and if not, what, so far as you know. were the eircumstaoose under which it became the cause of political agitation.• On the same day Kr. Cardwell wrete, alluding to the despatch from Mr. Eyre, dated Oct. 23, and says that while it was in the discretion of the Wand authorities le open letters arriving from England, it is to be hoped no further interception of letters will take plan, and it is added only, ie very ear:optional oases, could inch a course be justified. The letter of Dr. Underhill has, it is said, been seat to the writer, and Mr. Eyre is instructed to nod the others he has stopped to this persona to whom they are addressed. °slue serum mischief would follow such a emu The despatch cosicludes . . " However reel - enable may be the sporeheosions which yon express as to the geared effects of the injudicious and inflammatory Isagnage upon an excitable and imperfectly instructed people, it is not easy to see what steps can be taken for the preveation of the evil. The measure width you suggest is not cies to which i should wish you to have recourse. The repreaskre of overt proceedings might lead to secret proesediegs not less, but more dangerous ; and the banishment of persons who are known, and may be made responsible to the law, might have the effect of de volving their inflames upon person who are more obscure sad less amenable to observatioe. so --- 11rp3rUrit that we give it satire: " Doirularetreet. Dee. 1. 1865. " Sir—ls roy dereeteh of the number sod date wee Mond la the margin I oiled your attention to pelage s requirieg explanation in the reports of Who're employe against the issergent wines and to the albums of the minutes of prowasdings of courts martial which one of the despatches addressed to you by Major-General O'Connor had purported to endless. " I have now received your further despatches enume rated in the minim but they do not contain any mioute of the evidence takes by the courts martial. No doubt the extreme pressure of burin's', consequent on the insurrec tion, and attendant on the meeting of the logielature, most aossunt for the absence of these enclosures, and render your present reports pl an rts y in im so p n o a run e potinpotainints are still complete. u l eex am p t in n to ed th o ie n ca which it is necessary that her Majesty's government should be in possession of all the information that can be given. I " Irendow soapy of a letter from the Admiralty, with a copy of a despatch from Commodore S , r Leopold M'aintock, dated the Bth November. This officer states that it will be impossible to ascertain the total loss of life . in the insurrection, but that 1,500 would perhaps be a mo derate computation ; that, at the date of his letter, arrests were being daily made, and the prisoners sent to Mount Bay, and a large proportion of them hewed. " I °eclipse also extracts from • report made by Lieut. Adceek, of the 6th Regiment, dated 25th of October, and transmitted to Lord de Grey in a despatch from Major-General O'Connor, of which I enclose a oopy, dated the 7th November ; and I enclose an extract from a news paper of a letter purporting to have been written by Captain Ford, in command of the St. Thomas-in-the-Rest irregular troop. Thew extracts, equally with those •110001- pimply; my despatch of the 23rd November, require sepia natio°. I should be glad to learn that the letter in the newspaper is aot authentic, and if any official reports have been made by Captain Ford I should wish to be furnished with copies of them. "And in reference not only to the particular reports adverted to in this and in my former despatch, but to the proosedinp generally, lam desirous to point to the main topics which, in the opinion of her Majesty's govern ment, demand your report : "1. The number of persons tried, and of those sen tenced by courts-martial, specifying the charge and sentence, and whether or not the sentence was executed, and under whose authority, and whether minutes were taken of the evidence on which the sen tence was founded in each use ; all minutes of evidence so taken to be appended to the return. The return should show also at what places and times respectively the offences were charged to have been committed, and the accused persons were arrested or captured and tried, specifying in each case whether the offence was committed before or during martial law, whether the arrest or supine) was made during martial law, and in a place to which martial law extended ; and if the person accused was arrested or captured Ma place to which martial law did not extend, and removed to a place to which it did extend, there to be tried by martial law, and for an amuse not committed during and nodose Martial law, it should be stated by whose authority this wen done, and whether under the advice of the Attorney-General of Jamaica. h 2. Whether any persons were hanged, flogged,or other wise punished without trial ; and if so, by whom and under whose authority in each case, specifying the name sex, colour, and quality of the person punished, the attar; and date of the punishment, the nature and date of the offence, and the grounds on which it was assumed to have been committed. "3. The number of persona, so far es can be as. eartained, who were shot in the Held or in the bush, their names, sex, quality, sod colour, and whether adults or °blither., sPecsfying in all cues whether they were resisting or flying, whether armed or unarmed, and if armed, with what weapons, whether such as are used only for purposes of offence, or such es are need also in agricultural or other peaceful occupations. "4. Whether any and what oral or written instructions were given to officers in command of delaslimests sent in pursuit of rebels, whereby they mitt _know ma what evidence or appearances, other than ho stile action sr attitude, they were to assume that those they might meet with were rebels ; and whether these 080111 N, any of them, were led by their instructions, or otheuries, and without authority induced, to assume that all meow flying or hiding from pursuit, or all persons found with plunder, or all persons leaving their labour on plantations were to be regarded as rebels and shot when met with. Copies of all written instructions should be furnished. "5. Colonel Fyfe being the only officer mentioned as employed with the Maroons, whilst divers parties of the Maroons appear to have been sent in various directions out of the immediate observation of Colonel Fyfe, was there any and what control exercised over the opera- Hoes of those parties, and what was it expected that the nature of those operations would be ; end of what nature, in point of fact, did throe operations prove to be. "In your despatches, in the addressee of the Legis lative Council sued Roue of Assembly, end in the reports of the naval and military officers engaged in the sup pression of the insurrection, the loyalty of the Maroons in resisting and defeating the efforts of the rebels has been spoken of in terms of grateful commendation, no doubt sincerely felt and well damned ; and I observe one of the measures now to be proposed to the legis lature by . one of the members of your executive com mittee is 'Mauled A Bill to employ the Maroons as a permanent Auxiliary Militia Force,' " I have, however, been greatly concerned to find in the enclosed despatch from Sir L. McClintock the following statement :—' At least 800 were shot, chiefly by the Maroons, who entered with tierce zeal into the bush hunt alter rebel norms.' 1 have to request your immediate attention to this subject. I trust it will appear that Sir L McClintock has been misinformed, and that an impression so nofavourable to the employ ment of the Maroons—as impression which I certainly should never have derived from your despatches and those to which I have above referred—will not turn oat to have been well founded. _ _ It appears from your spee:h to the legislature, and from the addresses of both its branches in reply, that you and they were of opinion that there had existed a wide spread and diabolical conspiracy to murder the white and mixed races, and amongst those races themselves this opinion would appear to be almost universal. Proofs of this conspiracy were adverted to as existing, bat they are not to be found in the papers yet sent home. I request that you will furnish me with them as fully and com pletely as you can without delay. " In making these inquiries, I beg to be understood se directing your attention to the principal points on which I desire to be informed, sod not se prejudging say person concerned in any proceeding.—l have, he., (Signed) " EDWARD CARDwm." Some of the despatches refer to a conflict of authority between Major-General O'Connor and Governor Eyre, the former expressing his opinion in presemos of Colonel Elking ton "that the Governor had exceeded his authority in ordering the troopship Urgent to Barbealces for reinforce ments." This little quarrel is, however, a mere episode. The remainder of the blue-book contains the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica is the onset meat of a "New Constitution" for the government of the island, and depositions of various persona before justices of the peace on matters relating to the actors in the oat break. The later despatches of Mr. Cardwell are addressed (from No. 19) to the new Governor (Sir H. K. Storks), and ber Majesty's letters patent appointing the various mem bers of the " Commission to Inquire into Certain Dilator. beams in the Island of Jamaica, and into the measures taken in the Course of their Suppression," are given. In consequence of the disclosures recently made as to the state of the Lambeth and other casual wards, the casual wards at the 'unions workhouses and unions In the south of England have been considerably improved. A fatal accident happened near Windsor on Holiday. Some waggoners in the employ of Hr. Thom, farmer, left Windsor on that day with some loads of barley for Staines. On their way back they took what is called the lower road, which runs on the sloping bank of the liver, and which was partially covered with water. The first waggon, driven by a man named Hambledon, had not gone far when it was carried into the stream, and the man and his horses were drowned. The late storms and floods had, it seems, swept away pert of the bank of the river. THE HEALTH or LONDOIC—It appears from the rehire issued by authority of the Registrar-General that in the week that ended on Saturday, February 3, the births registered in London and twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,400 ; the deaths registered, 3,351. Tbeansual rate of mortality was 29 per 1000 peewee Lein. In London the births of 1,100 boys and 1,071 glue,, is all 2,171 children, were registered in the week. In the cor responding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average num ber, corrected for increase of population, was 2,185. Ti'. deaths registered in Loridon during the week were 1,417. It was the fifth week of the yaw ; and the average num ber of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,519. The iv:tual number was leas by 132 than that °bulged by computation. Bronchitis has been decreasing slowly during the last four weeks. The number of fatal eases referred to it io the first week of the year was 219 ;le the present return it is 161. The deaths from pseamonia also exhibit a decrease ; and the samber in the week is 76. Phtblsis was fatal in 178 mass. There were 21 deaths from small-pox. In the ninth districts there were 6 (3 of which were in the Small-pox Hospital) ; in the central districts om; in the east districts 8 ; sod is the south districts 8. None in the west districts. Of 86 deaths from whooping-cough, 7 were lo Isliagton west sub-district, and 6 is that of the Hackney-road There were 19 deaths from diarrhma. At 6, Little Hermitage-street, St. George in-the-Bast, on 26th January, the wife of a general labourer, aged 53 years. died of " cholera.' There was also a fatal case of cholera infaatum. In the Adelaide-rad, Hamp stead, a gentleman, seed 79 years, died of exhaustion follow's( yeriola. At ST. Natildaetmet, Hackney-road, es Bth January, a needle-woman, aged 48 years, "asthma seettlerated by destitution." (Inquest.) The following four deaths by carriage accidents in theatreets were regis tered in the week :—A carman, aged 76 years, run over by a van on London-bridge. Died on 24th Januari Guy's Hospital A eowlereper, ared 61 years, run over his van at Lewisham. Died on 25th January in Gay's Hospital. The see at a general dealer, aged 11 years, run wee by a vas. Died ma 26th January in Siriseer-street. Somers two. A house-painter, aged 37 years, rapture of Seer. knocked down by a cab. Died oa 23rd January in Univer sity College Hospital. WKITZELLL, Fin. S —The Queen has been phased to premise the Reversed David Strong to the church and parish of Harr, in the presbytery end meat of Ayr. vacant by the resignation of the Reversed Maw gal (since deceased.)—Gazette. :he Court. The Queen went in state yesterday to the House of Peers to open the amnion of parliament with a speech from the throne. Her Majesty wore a rkh black silk dress, with tnin trimmed with miniver and crape, a Mary Quest of Scots cap, with a long veil, the cap ornamented with large dia monds, with a small coronet of diamonds and sapphires worn at the back of the head. Her Majesty wore a dilmond necklace and cross (the latter containing the miniature of his Royal Highness the PrinoaConsort), and the kob-i-noor as a brooch, as well as the riband and the star of the Order of the Garter and ,the Victoria and Albert Order. The Qaeen left the palace at a quarter to two o'clock and was escorted by a detachment of the Royal Home Guards. Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk Marshal, attended her Majesty on horseback. The Queen returned from the House of Lorda to Buck ing Palace at three o'clock, and was received by the Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain- The Prises and Prince= of Wales, attended Ly the Countess of Macclesfield, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Earl Spencer, the Earl of Mount-Edgeumbe, Lord Henri., Major Teesdale, and Mr. C. L. Wood, were present in the House of Lord.. The Prince and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe sod Prince Christian of Sohleswig-Holstein, were also present in the House of Lords. The Princess Helena visited the Duchies of Cambridge at St. James's Palace. The Queen, accompanied by Primer Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Christian, left Buck ingham Palace for Windex. Castle, at half-past 4 o'clock, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athol!, Lieutenant. General Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Hon. D. de Boa, and escorted by a detachment of the 6th Dragoon Guards. The Prince of Wales mot to the House of Lords yester day afternoon. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. The Earl and Countess Cowley and Lady Fewlorowna C. Wellesley have arrived at Olaridge's Hotel, from Frognal, Rent The Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian ?bade have arr:ved at Claridge's Hotel from Brecht's Castle, Forfarshire. Lord Minkellin, M.P., is still at Naples, and is not expected to return home at present. It is remarked in one of the accounts this morning of the scene in the Bosse of Lords yesterday, that one of the most notable of the new arrivals was the lady who came into the hones escorted by the Earl of Lovell, e, and who was reeognieed as the Lady Anne Isabella Noel Sing Noel, the granddaughter of Lord Byron. As she took het seat among thepearesses' daughters there were few who did not regard with a pscul , ar interest the somewhat pale fax, light brown hair, and bright intelligent look of the daughter of " Ad i." The Chancellor of the Exchequer to-morrow will Wag forward a bill to enable the Public Works Loan Com abinism to make advance. towards the erection of dwell. lip for the labouring classes in populous plant. Mr. Hibbert, on the 27tb, will introduce into par- Himont a bill to permit capital punishments to be carried out, ender certain regolations, within the interior of prisons. On the 6th of next month Mr. O'Reilly will move for • select committee to inqui7e what changes may with ad- vantage be made in the system of national education in Irellnd in order allow greater freedom and fulness of religious teaching in schools attended by pupils of one re ligious denomination only, sod to guard effeatually against proselytism and protect the f►ith of the minority is mixed schools. ro insure accuracy and facility in taking divi sions, in the House of Commons, it is requested that every member, whether personally known to the division clerks or not, will give his name, distinctly sod audibly, as he passes the division desk. The Post has an amusing account of an ancient ceremony which was performed yesterday by some 70 per eons—peer;, oommoners, officers of the household, Tisanes of the guard, policemen of the A division, marshals, and heralds—viz., of going, each with a lantern in hood, through the various rooms, corridors, vaults, and the lower parlia mentary regions generally, on the " searoh for Guy Faux." No such conspirator was discovered in the vaults, but one vulgar wag was heard to say as the last membsr of the prooessiou disap peared down the trap-door behind Kr. Speaker's chair, that ell the Guys had gone down. Not only wen there so conspirator concealed in the collars, but, strange to say, there are no cellars in which he could conceal himself. All the lower regions traversed are broad spacious halls, formed into galleries by rows of piers carrying the arches which support the basements or floors. Everything below is is perfect order, clean whitened ; had the erploration, how elvee interesting in a seisietdic point of view, or however gratifying to the curious, answered no practical purpose. The French Opposition deputies lately held a meeting at the !eidetic* of IL Ittr:e. k. Thiers was present, as also three now 'osmium M. Girod-Pourol, Doug, and Hallos-Cleparide. It wes decided that three matMdestate should he prompted ; ono oa Algeria; sesther for as arricultaral loquiry ; end • third to &mead the " eempletioe of the edifice." A emstraittee, composed of MW. Jake &moo, Jules Fevre, LeojaMds, Palleams, said Picard, was °Waal with the task of preparing those esatediasits. IMPERIAL PARLLISIENt HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS The amazes took the chair at a quarter red u su ., Lod stealsom Mr. Etanyoa, Mr. A. Dunlop, and Mr. Devereaz took the oat., PRIVATE BUJ& A great number of ratting were presented for %A L _ dnction of palest* bills, in Gam where the esia i li naki —eb had been complied with. ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. 0. FOSTER pprrsmtd petit:loco undue returns for the bao y ysot Owrabndion* Boxsotaple, and Nottingham THE LATE G. W. GORDON. Mr. T. POTTER moved an eddies kg eapy ocrrespoodenos in relation to the resseval Q . ir Gerdes from the magiseraey y s i m i ss , sod stances conceded with the Merest Bay loolt-sp u so ""li The motion wee speed to. NATIONAL DEBT. Mr. CHILDERS, an behalf of the Oltasedier Exchequer, moved, " that this house will, ap ou T i ••• resolve 'teen late a committee to melds, the Debi Acts." Agreed ie. SAVINGS BANKS BANK. AND POST-OFFICE BLVINA It wag also, 011 the MO4l;ll4Mr. CHILDERS, mu m _ "that this house will, opal Thursday, resolve Sisk *1 eoromittee, to amide/ the &Asp Basks Ads sal th office Savings Bank Ante. EAST INDIA (ELECTRIC) TUMULI'. An address for returns on this subject wee sped u n the motion of Kr. AMOK. The Moues adjourned at five minutes to I eekek, CONVOCATION OF rrns PROMOS 01 CANTERBURY. —(THIS DAV) This morning the prelates and clergy of these} vocation of Canterbury re-assembled at Westaissim The Archbishop of Oanterbory took the reds is Anee's Bouatpoeiree at 11 o'clock, and pram wt gal by the Bishop of Salisbury. No buainess:fst was disowned, as a general meeting of Bs la Colonial bishops was ansonnowl to be l a Palace, on subjeets of rowans !mportaore te *say The sittiog was eonesquestly adjourned at a (me o w, o'clock. The Archbishop of Canterbury stated that he Ing mired • letter hearths Home Semeterr, &Whir( fig,, day of national humiliation for the cattle plans. r In the Lower House the Venerable &Admen steth presided, sod there were present the Dialed pa mineter, Canterbury, sad Ely ; Archdeacons il Coulson, Randall, and Ady ; Sir Henry Th am p i tt Sir F. GOlO Crawley. ANTI•MALT TAX DEPUTATION TO PHI MI. OELLOB OP THE SIOHNQUIB.-(THIS Dal Thia afternoon, at 2 o'clock, a numeroatilie tation from the anti-malt tax meeting held m Lail Freemason's-hall waited oa tho Chancellor of iheladaya in Doweing-street, on the subject of the malt tes„ i s deputation was introduced by Colonel North, Y.P. A miss thorns present were Lord H. Thyme, ILP., Colossi ha M.P., Mr. Dodson, M.P., Sir F. Kelly, ILP., Mr. Sag M.P., Mr. R. Dattoo, ILP., Mr. Besse, M.P.*. Svaa s IL P., Mr. Barrow, ILP., Major Parker, M.P., Ite t s Cane, IL P., he. OPENING OP MUSEUMS ON SUNDAY& A great meeting of the working dame, as, vaned by the Working Men's Lord's Day Rest Aes* was held last night in Exeter-hall, is oepositial ii opening of museums and kindred institution rbag The large ball was crowded to overflowing, sod kid were unable to obtain admission. The Earl of it occupied the their, and is opening the prosediem mil I wished simply to state that he had received a polite hi from Messrs. Lesley and Morel!, on behalf 1 gab day League, declaring that the characks el the anie was likely to be misunderstood. Thee. peewee ea ' plaited that It was not open or public, ea abodes ank i only be obtained by ticket. That was quite tros, sell this sufficient reason—it woe a mating of three Atha opposed to the opening of mama= on Sudsy, lab direct object of it was for the habitat ni encouragement of three who alone eatertaised bias Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., the Common Serjesst,ps posed the first resolution, as follows : " That every maim a right to, and used of, the day of rest, of which hs agi not to be deprived, except to perform works of ars* and in the opinion of this meeting the copse* of ma tie., on Sundays, is totally unnecessary, wield MP wrong on the staff of attendants, pioneer the way tab Sunday opening of every exhibition, gallery, ttesteimi other place of amusement throughout the empire, WO • sanction and impetus to Sunday labour is may ion meats of trade, to the great injury of the wed* time The learned gentleman enforced the principle labia.* arguing that there was no 'nearby for °peeks edibles on the Sabbath day ; nor was it desired by thou far Aim benefit such • measure woe said to be intended. TM me ing classes bad sever been more` bliti ca n ted than they were at the prese sod this education was secured without the di of the policy advocated by the Sunday Lessee. Thula Mosel part of the question was therefore illassy. lii where was the opening to stop? As a lawyer healing that no act could be framed which might est be se Wed autzrverted as to include every dessiplica Opals meat. Nor would it stop there. It weld 101 l labour being extorted from the working masts the oolong day. Suoh a proceeding would be opposed to brim* but it was not upon scriptural grounds that he eitbells urge the matter. He advocated the existing prohileass a neosesary protection for the working man, the PSI IS weak to protect himself. It was in this secular miasma spirit that he submitted the resolution for their= lir. S. Salmon, • working man, seconded the The Rev. Cumn Miller supported the resolution hate theological point of view, and insisted that the ebesmi of the Sabbath as a day of rest was • dirks othplisi He was afraid we were rapidly comiog to a system rthi Sundays, mid he Mauled the ratioaaliso of the On MIN retrograde step in the religious belies of the pu ll' (Hear, laser.) A parson in the body of the hall sib re ineffectual effort to oppose the resolution, but thee* men ruled that he could not be heard, and VOB .!!! to the meetiog the resolution was wiled by ow' tion. Mr. Joseph Payne moved the second ranion " That owing to the great success which has 'Wald Saturday half-holiday and the early closing wow* there are but few of the working classes who meld 210 so disposed, occasionally or habitually visit the Mil Museum sod similar institutions on week evenings. tsllgom by the large attendants on week evenings at the 1 too Museum and the industrial exhibitions bailie mai parts of London, and that a committee of working wale appointed as a deputation from this meeting to wall Earl Russell, to seek his lordship's inflames in Ime s opening museums on week evenings, and that t a t Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury be respectfolll to introduce the deputation to Earl &melt" Be haled and smarmed upwards of 5,000 criminals dories fessional career, and he was inclined to believe that!' of the oases their offences bed originated in SabbethM o6 , tion. The Rev. Newman HaU seconded the resolatios,T denied that say religious body was responsible for tit! h teroosition of the law in the case of the St. Maratha lectures. He supplied SOON statistics tombs, to stew& the great majority of the working classes were Was& to the present movemeot. The resolution, like the IA was carried by acclamation, as was also a third &dal, it to be " the opinion of this meeting of working say inquiry into the wishes of the working class es lei opening of museums, &a, on Sundays by wars al • trade societies only would be most unfair and partial. • 11 large proportion of the working classes are cemeasa with trade societies. and that a copy of this resolalios • sent to the metropolitan members of parliament" The Abbe Doguerry, cure of the Maelet; to peach the Lent sermons st the Tuileries. Mastic, who bee neveral times refused the mitre. is owl' to the Buiprens, and charged with the religious MOMS of the Primo Imperial. ATTLIIPTED MIIRDIR.—A determined atfeffe murder was made yesterday afternoon in the Meow vicinity of Finsbury. Between 3 and 4 o'clock nen eons musing along Bidonatreet observed a man ha dress stabs man muck younger than himself. The mu staggered, and axolotl:led, "Send for • doeve• I dying." A medical man we. immediately in and finding three wounds, one very dawns'. sa"" lower region of the throat or nook, be dressed therl. bad the sufferer removed to St. B a rtholomew's pitaL A person who had witnessed the oroureme lowed the assailant until he met a po • to whom he mentioned what had hapPeeei who said he was cie hie way to the stauon.heme himself up, was then taken back to Eldon street. given isto custody by Mr. Beery Golding. alluded firm of Messrs. Sadiron sad Co., upboloteror d street, Finsbury. He was recognised as a.": 0 kmss merly in their employ, but one they bad hug IS to discharge In consequence of dissipated Witt redm 6 eomplained of by enstoenen to whom he w; fixer of furniture. The moulded man he likewise 7 1 i Bed se we of the salesmen of the l asi ' 1 1 respected. At the station.honse the primmer P" as Adam years of age. Observing Messrs. Hadgrove s salesmen named Hansom abati s he said, " I meant it for you se well ; its bees lug _time." Re wao perfectly sober. A table Weil ham' is hk potshot. It would seem that Esell fee soar thee ea the watch to waylay some per" s h iii ley of Yews. Sadircent, who • few weeks aces tamed - Ida a eheracter for sobriety. No particular h jrg kagWit to have been entertained by him gall° WWI elide. John Fox, the wounded was, he. •..• Mae family liming at Camden-town. He gereealy wearied. COUR . ] After Tara NIA the Lead i TITIAZZAI VA further hi ID lV l SkortSfe, Philbriok were 40., Yr. Vernon for Y t he ddendant r. h o f ego. I have and a half. I &posing to the to that stated by siy— Subject to solute control of the some rules an that be bad the p biter than the oth before I become p rice. The first ca. with regard to the all the meters' al the express Wan the first thing Ii lowing afternoon him that be had I remarked it was then saw it we been tampered poi sdhering to it, as not put it in the nothing with it, me that be had that afternoon • of the key is ink I west to his rocs hiss, aid asked in • joking m 0007 of the key. able thing to do, In it. I odd, '• spot think so Askt 000ununiested et About a quarto sad said to me not to mention key to Dr. lie a diebosolKaktle t I never said them aignifr bat I Dr. Niirthoole, a him that the pia dishecouralie thi the it to Dr. Na the least desks always beau a are never allows got the wax am next minplaisit found him up at have been in b I then took believing—in f thing he had dars o l p ter he hies hers, b Kim ; on the foil he had len two better me into t that afternoon. I turned a quoit and three others could not we hit covered up in tb them at the time Saturday mornii him to the bone( 27th, I found students are not be there, and to hour after that 1 etneleat—that any right to be i one. as they as them and called Plaintiff replied, He said, "1 has It, to which he s then said, " The repeated " It in should box his • the hedge • few picked it up don't give me the home to-nil return to the be connected with I Dr. Northoote, him before. I Plaintiff came k Be emse to my venation with conducting him so lowered in It would little a he wanted to sp and my threat. , that it was not the pistol was. was an 'quiver regard to boxini sever think of ternary for a sag Not mimed te I said I was out ment it as • the feet hi ro4M7in"..m of y • tit frequently exer out is order to lege in this ran Dr. Northoote ; graded him to studying Om. morning and I i Shortly after I I told him I did mod I would owe thee I told hin Dr. Northeote bins aid the pis next offence he to that that I n Mad there ws moat violent fee under the impel nmeifeeted Seel and petty annoy of them, and pr it mime to an op rote's object to almost sure it b jog bad revived I found • dozen them the plaint , they had before the paper I It, and it was it waa • list masted, some • eras. I tit{ I could not meant, but on dente met me a nobility of Osool positive Informs manifest Seal I, two name be iv that one of the *bathe had just rupagainst ti onnatiou frog beadsociety, and gad origin fonad • pocket haves quickly 0 were " A B 110," Asti-Bnolem St the list of the a , P the setae or me 1 or read my c ' rams I amid hint what I had attend to it. I log. About 9 o in Dr. Nortbool At 11 o'clock. t = book to doing so Whoa my door i • boy to " David, 2116 at last," Re mined "Low Itched "I hail to five It me ; 4einimd it" I take it ;" he you have to riot to give Thee I must t Weetioo on h on Ms I opened the be la_ ring " all rivisd. Yoe queue of this and I the. t .atainst the chtu an albet •a d too late for hit too late to hell .orthoote. and 'mar • I saw Tetonootdd not di that be .. attheotes rani ordered the pL Went to the pet I. LAI