The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-19 00:00:00

KENT.

THE NOBLE ACT of Sa;iiiOgers, an orphan girlovho
rescued a child, the infant son of Mr. Tucker, a clerk on
board the Poictiers, by descending into a well 63 feet deep,
at Rochester, has received from the Queen a &nation of 101.
m a mark of her Majesty's gracious approval of her mu: age
and fidelity ; and tier Majesty the Queen Dowager has also
been pleased to forward 251. The money raised fur the
poor girl will either be invested in the funds or purchase a
life annuity.
CHANNEL ISLANDS.

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THE POWER OF THE GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY TO
EXPEL ALIENS from that island has often been a subject of
angry discussion in the journals of the place. The Guernsey
Star of Monday says :
In the notices ',which we have given in previous numbers of the
report of the criminal law cornmiwioners, we base not true-bed on the
recommendation contained in that document for controlling the power
&named by some of the eovernors of the Channel Islands off eaprlling
aliens. The report, in epeaking of this araumed power, says The
island in nearly in the condition of a garrison town, and unquestion-
ably the governor, who is reeponsible for the military defence, ought
to have • power <kilns kind." • • "It is, however, liable to &bine."
• • "The proper remedy Gems to be that, wherever the power
is exerted, the governor should be required to report the can, with
the special circumstance., to your Majeetv's Secretary of State."
The condition, then, according to the opinion of the commiseioners,
on which the governors ought to proem the power of expelling aliens
is, that it shall only be exercieed for the "military defence" of the
islands. This condition defines the limits of the power in vacation.
Whatever is not included within throe Weds is excluded from the
power of the governor. It mmt be mov.W, or at least believed, that
the presence of en alien affects the military rem of the Island, or he
cannot be expelled. Now thin dictum is a tacit but emphatic condem-
nation of the conduct of the late oir Edward Gibbs and Major-General
Napier, in the two es es which Wet brought under the notice of the
commienoners.—The former was led into an abuse of his power foe
the purpose of preventing an old Jersey tanner marrying
French girl; and the latter was betrayed into •
similar error by listening to the intemperate eminences of his
own wrath, excited by his %infra I.e Conn, haring put the polioe
on a fake scent when hunting for another man whom It was the lieu-
tenant-governor's plearure to arrest, bot who, be it otnerved, wan not
charged with any political offence. In neither awe had the act t-f the
lieuh-governor anything to do with the military defence of the L'aed.
Indeed, in a time of profound peace no such care on well co= ; but
even had we been at war, it is not very easy to conceive how the mar-
riage of an old man could bare endangered Avery, or how the mysti-
fying of a constable could have affected the safety of Guernsey. How-
ever, the diecuraions which have taken place on this subject, followed
as they are by the declaration of the coaunianoners, will prevent the
tecurrence of arbitrary and dangerous ragarice, such 68 those referred
to. Henceforward no Insentient-governor—whether of the eery
character of air E. C.ilite or of the rennin nature of General Napier
—will fall into ouch deplorable errors as they respectively committed.