The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

?Es JAMAICA MASSACILIA

Imst night • lecture was delivered upon this
subject at the CieyttadeOluieet. CleehswArrntl, by the Rev.
A. Boum, who has jut rammed from lissehierteg, which
is situated is the heart st the &started districts. where he
was durisg ths vomit oatbreek.
The proceedings cornmeal:ea with • religious sureioe, atler

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The Rev. BALDWIN Snowy, who occupied the char, in-
trodueed the lecturer, chierriss that nothiag touched the
honour of England more time the recent proceedings in
Jamaioa, and it wee very impede:A to have the renal-
many of an eye-witness with Wawa to whet had actually

taken place.
The Rev. A. Bowers then ears forward aad stated that
there were many ports ia Weems, to the labs pro-
media. is Jamaica upon which further infra
matins was required. He claimed to be an in-
dependent witness, not belrgiag to say party or in say way
connected with the missionaries. He should abstain from
entering into any details of the butchery which bad tikes
place. Hie blood altenkatell boiled with Indigestion and
roe cold with horror sod disgust at what be wirers&
He considered " oar black brother" sot • very respectable
Mabee, for he was afraidol Wahines' ferocity, but he blushed
deeply when he reflected on the acts of the white men.
The soldiers hop had been bind to dorm_ were is many
cease genre ilirely callous sad te the mar
mon feelinp of humanity. The residents bad bre smarting
for sense thee wide: near kris, renneeeled tee shoo by
robbery sad doodad What bed bra done by the soidiey
wee done in cold blood, but boodle adokowledmad the eery
of the governor in sadestiag those sufferingrom
distress, and in enemies crime. Captain Hole beef ex-
pressed himself rick of the **me week of slaughter to
which be was cradecened. The lecturer himself, while be
owed his danger to the wickedness of Infuriated measles of
the negro sue, owed also his life to bleak men and
women. He considered that demeagration, romp, sad
plunder were the three immediate cares of the outbreak,
and the demonstration, which finally grew Into reirence to
lawful authority, undoubtedly arose oat of the disputes
between Mr. Gordon and the authorities of U. Thomas to
the East. Those disputes coentraced as early r 1
when Ms. Gordon OM* as the triad of she people, and
was defeated in his candidature for the assetation of
St. Thomas. After his defeat, Mr. Gordonbrought •
charge spinet the ftti66, whose name was Cooke, oe pre-
petering certain abuses, sad acensed him of mis-
appropriating the funds of the poor. He then &-
embed at ooesidereble keels the progress of the
dispute, which eviatually led to
by the dismissal
of Gordon from the megistroi goverear.
his exclusion from the Terre by • j tof Justice
CMargill, and his subsequent farads expulsion by the curs,
86704 Kettelbokb. In the of these disputa,
Gordon frequently appalled to the people to support him
as their advocate, butia every instance in • perfectly on-
starter! manner ; and It wee la referrer to or el these
appals that the well-known address, which bad been
foolishly called Gordan's proolamalcoo, had bees made.
The lecturer reed impious errors from the remarks made
by Mr. Gordon at vasty meeting, sad before the Intros,
as well as is the colonel parrs, in which he charmed the
race with exercising • baneful influence, spoke of the
rector se jesuitism!, and referred to the judgment of Justice
Cargill in no measured term. He wieationed that all the
dispute with the rector originated as the question whet
hee
Gordon, who bad been originally baptised and confirmed In
the communion of the church of Etglaad, had not
forsaken
that oommunion, sod rendered himself ineligible to serve
as eburchwardea, in consequence of his having subsequently
received adult baptism. He stated, however, that
no complaint or writing of Mr. Gordon bad re-
ference to any date subsequent to the 29th of July, for
which the custos had summoned a meeting, and it was in
respect to that meeting alone that be had shade as
to the people to come forward in defense of their :ree.
He then proceeded to touch upon the land tenure questioa.
and the disputes arising out of it on the Middleton estate.
There could be no doubt that carter of the pogrom, amens
whom was Paul Bogle, believed they had • title to squat on
that estate derived from • petallike worded in slave
times by owners of the estate to some of the slaw to
erect cottages or huts there and reside in them. Them
could be no doubt whatever that Paul Bogle and Ida co-
rioters came to the court-borne at Merest with the avowed
determination to resist force by force, and that they were
undoubtedly rioters in the wont sere of the word. At
the same time he remarked that the rater was altogether
unequal teem the ink and that all the atrocities
committed by the bleats were dose in the heed of the
moment, while, on the other band, the marberes and
flogging wire la cold blood. He quite admitted that the
military measures of Governor Byre and General Nelson
were admirably taken, sod if there was any intention on
the part. of the blacks to rise throughout the island, the
manner in which the disturbed district was hemmed in by
the military mast have prorated the insurrection from
spreading to other districts—and ft was well kerns that
nothing had a greater tender, to spread than an ineeneo-
tion when the people were dinortested and distressed.
They, therefore, could not, without ascertaining in the first
place whether • rising was in contemplation or not, deter-
mine whether Governor Here was justided in his measures
or not ; for he quite admitted that if it could be proved
that such • rising was about to take place, the riveter
had reedited the greatest sorrier. That was an open
question for the commission to investigate. The other two
features of the outbreak on the part of the
megrims were revenge and robbery, which were only
very partially indulged in. At the seer time
be said that the intentions of the rioters were not to be
measured by the actual number of the whites killed,
because most of them reaped through the 000nivasee of
black friends, which tended to show that the spirit of
hostility to them was far from general among the ens.
It bad been said that the wstehwurd chosen was "colour
for colour," and then wee vstainly evidence to show that
Paul Bogle was endeavouring to form an organisation, but
there was an entire absence of evidence to show
that such en organisation was greed, or that it was
in fact anything more than • local agitation.
He boleros left the question of the existence of
the conspiracy end the employment of the Maroons
in the heeds of the commission, and he concluded by oh.
serving that the interposition of the home goy/roma:it was
calculated to do much good, berme in all probe.
bility it would lead to • full investigation of the coedi.
don of the people, and the difficulties under which the
blacks undoubtedly laboured in the disposal of their produce.
His opinion was that it was imperative on the government to
pass jest laws, to give equal advantages to the negroes, and
to promote their morel end intellectual advancement by an
organised maim of education and moral training, while at
the same time planters as well r Degree must learn that,
wherever distress they suffixed, the goverment could not
relieve them, but they must seek in • change of occupaton
or employment a mere of living, instead of endeavouring
to obtrio it through the operation of unequal laws. He
trusted that the result of the inquiry would be the remo-
delling of the government of Jamaica sod the amelioration
of the condition of the negroes.
The lecture was listened to with great attention, and at
its class the lecturer was loudly app'au.led.
Oe the modoe of Major.Orieral Gooowle, • cordial vote
of thanks was gives to the lecturer.