The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

by the knowledge that the tease Y well-fi
Bat even in an economical view,therestire,
be found to pay. A hundred WM of
men, moat of them prolonbly atiaarting
are lost every year ; a hundred eiantof 016,
women, and children, all more or lam I
of use in their generation. It may be
difficult to compute the precise value of these
lives, or the precise sum which in poor rates, in
immense policies, in ices of trade or eustoin, their
sacrifice oasts, but we must acknowledge that it
can be no small sum: And to save even a few
out of the number would be good interest on the
outlay in bridges which we have recommended.
Other measures of police may doubtless be use-
fully enforced, sad we have on former OCOSSi3DS
adverted to some of these. We may hope that
the completion of connecting lines of railway will
somewhat diminish the heavy traffic of vans, end
we must wish amen to the Pneumatic Deepatch.
Company, whioh proposes to distribute packages
underground instead of through the streets. Much, i
too, might be done by prohibiting stoppages to
load or unload in some of the most fre-
quented and narrowest thorongbfares during the
busiest hours, for evets stoppage creates a
block, and every block implies danger as
well as delay. We may ask that the traffic should
be guided into certain routes ; that the streets
should be made lees slippery by being better
swept ; that water and gas companies should not be
allowed to tear them up, in defiance of the provi-
sion of subways, for the reception of their pipes ;
that bill-posters should be required to pursue their
vocation at night, and not drive passengers into
the gutter during the day; that hoenircarriere ea,
distributors of handbills should be impartially
suppressed in places where there is not room foe'
the legitimate users of the pavement and roadway:
Bat none of these methods for facilitating passage
is so sufficient in itself as to exclude the others.
We seed them all, and every other device which
can be suggested with a view to diminish the
destruction of life which disgraces the admi-
nistration of our streets, and which the hard
figures of the REGISTELAB.-GENIERAL so emphatically
proclaim.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

THE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA.
Enough is known, the Times observes, to show
that the conspiracy was a dangerous one, and that the
rising bad all the character of previous sure out.
breaks—the only difference being that the leader
in this ease, Mr. G. W. Gordon, was a man of
property and position. It may be that Gordon,
while organising the movement to eeterminate the
whiter, intended to keep in the background, and that
his arrest was owing to the government having received
information of his procesdiup. For information on this
"abject we mast wait for the next mail, which wi'l no
doubt throw • light on • good deal which is still mystatioui.
The trial of the ministers of religion, and of othen said
to have been connected with • secret society called the
"African Liberation &day " will probably teach us more
of the causes and circumstances of the rising, and the
nature of the influence which Gordon and his friends ex-
ercised. There have been also some arrests of Heytians,
but the Times is not inclined to ascribe much to the teach-
ings Tel these people. Meanwhile the authorities appear
to have acted with commendable promptness. II the
island is to remain inhabitable by the whites, it is evident
that for some time government must be administered with
• strong hand, and if this cannot be done without extraordi-
nary powers, those powers should be freely weeded to it.
The Daily Rees commences with the remark that the
facts reported by the Jamaica journals clear the ground of
• great many assumptions which bad passed unquestioned.
There have been no simultaneous outbreaks to show the
existence of an organised empire/3y. So far from the riot
in St. Thomas being a sudden attack, it grew slowly oat of
resistance to arrests ordered by the magistrates during the
preceding two days. The vilest and most degraded of the
population were attracted to the scene, and from St.
Thomas detached patties proceeded to one or two neigh-
bouring residences, attvked and plundered them,
beating and wounding such of the inmates as were
obooxious to them. But this was the sum total
of distarbanoe—ol "rebellion." Nowhere in the colonial
papers are the arises of more than 15 persons who lost
their lives at the hands of the losurpets, given. It wee
right to deal sternly with armed resistance, but it appears
from OW. Hobbes despatches that those who came is seek-
ing protection were thought worthy of death and executed.
Captives made by special constables out of • "camp " were
hanged forthwith ; and the terrified recognition by • "little
fellow" tied to Col. Hobbes stinop, • revolver at
his head, decided the fate of "captains, colonels,
and secretaries, out of, an immense gang of
prisoners." Others who were simply proved to be
"stragglers" were lashed to • gun and catted, while one
who after receiving about 47 lashes was thought to look de-
Unity at the ProvosXMarshol, was taken from the gun
directly and strong up. The savage race of Maroons, who
40 years ago were the slave-catchers of the planter', were
let loose upon the people, and we reed of them decorated
with their war paint, shooting men over the country, and
dancing • war dance round the gallows of some who were
hung. Such accounts must fill the English nation with
horror and dismay. Withholding its opinion of the
ramifications of the alleged conspiracy and of the guilt or
innocence of those who have been arrested, until evidence
arrives, the Daily News finds that the military despatches
and the newspaper correspondence prove one thing suffi.
ciently, that the dominant race has utterly lost courage and
self-command. They prove that in an agony of apprehen-
sion officers and civilians are ring with each other in
cruelty, that the thirst of blood, which we denounce
in savages, can take possession too of English
heart*. The Daly News implores our government
to send out at ones some one who con stop this horrible
outbreak of insane passion, and to make an unflinching
investigation, to remove from the national Setif*
even if we cannot otherwise punish, meu who are drawing
on us the sxeoratioa of the civilised world. Even in her
retirement the Queen herself unit tremble with indigos.
Mon to see bow those who beer her commission deem it
fitting in her name to wreak their mad vengeance on the
noresistieg captives that fall into their hands.
The Pose is of opinion that in dealing with such insur-
gents as the Degrees of Jamaica, it is absolutely essential
that they should be mode to feel the full enormity of their
crimes by indicting on them, without consideration of en,
the greatest punishment which it is possible for human
justice to impose. This outbreak most lead us to adopt a
different attitude towards the negro population, and it
might be well for the government to sweep sway the
equality which has hitherto ex'ated between the colonist*
and Degrees.
The herald is sou the government will be supported in
any proposition they may make to recognise the services
the Maroons have rendered. The island must be rid of all
the known agents in this miserable revolt, and the severest
of our secondary punishments will be • light doom for
them.
The statement that two hundred rebels had been
put to death may possibly, the Telegraph thinks, be
an exoneration ; though, if that number happened to
be caught, it does not see what else was to be done with
them. The absolute right must be maintained of British
, officers to shoot, bang, or otherwise slay any British sub.
Ijut found in arms against the British crown. The Telegraph
I would be glad to learn that the number killed was less ;
1 but it does not question the justice of the doom, and it
rejoices that there was the vigour to onions it.
1 The representatives of British power, says the Star, seem
so have displayed • fury of indiscriminating zeal which Alva
himself might commend—which Claverhonse might deem
. not unworthy of imitation. It requires strong nerves to
read through the ghastly narrative. The accounts of the
rebellion, its purpose, its projects, and its strength,
' are vague and speculative indeed; but the story
!of its repression is printed in clear, deep, crim-
son lines. It is to be presumed that there is
' evidence is the possession of somebody to prove that the
riot which broke out in front of the court-bows at lforant
Bay sae actaally the premature explodes of a widely

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f u republic eff whidly ire Be
separation from o upwards of 40.1.1' ago, has Lea '
growing riaber and richer, sod has enMhd almoat uninter 1
reptsiffy bleriep of peace. Spain can destroy the
OWL, commons. but it is impossible for her to reamed
her Tale. She le Mmotaing a sooree of trouble is Europe
aid the world, sad doleg an astenat of damage to Laicals
which her smeition aid power by no moans *title her to
WEIL. The attack upon Para was bad enough, but it is
the last straw that brciles the camel's back, and this out-
rage upon Chili, coming so soon after the other, is really
too mooch for the patience of the most pacific.
If the Chilisas alone were concerned, the Telegraph says,
We could afford to leave them to mettle their own affairs,
hsl
ae Berland is • larger customer with Chili than all the
rest of the world put together, she Ls a right to express
hoe opinion. Our collective trade with the various South
American republics is of immense extent, and increases
'with great rapidity. If the mode in which the aggressor is
premoding be allowed to Looms a precedent, it is cot too
mash to my that there will be so security left fee British
isborests is those transatlantic communitioe. Dee cause,
Moreton, might to be shown for such action as Spain ban
taken. Meanwhlb, if Chili had been connected with a
powerful empire tbis could cot have happened.

THE /WAIT Writ niSOCrrat.
'the dates ere correctly lino, the treaty of pease with
ameba was accomplished only oa Mornay last ; ao that.
the Times rods us. • the gam of 48 boallint4lll.
puce was actually reolltad in London from • remote town
on the unexplored frontiers of China. It is now super
&mum to mora"se on the policy which occasioned these
proosedings, but the grand error cOoldsted in the mission to
the mud of Montan. There is realm to believe also that
the Envoy was charged. with objectionable proposals.
Wilma we asset weal by a bony is aectuity
siplasisso, which is the more nesereary now that the pro.
risco' borderieg upon Bhootan are his
oommercial
importance ; Nadi if we have gained this by the war, we
ought to be perfectly satisfied with the treaty.
The Telegraph hopes that we hive missed by the treaty,
the Deoara—shat le, the venous paws leading out of the
Plains into the mountains—or we shall have to do oar
work over again. If we have those spurs, with • few
forte and • light gun or two, we can keep the bill
people upon their good behaviour, and perhaps teach
/ them Nome decencies of life.

ILIWILLAVZOINI.
The Times Is not greet'', struck with the redaction
announced in the French budget, amounting in all to the
striking off from the estimates of 1,000,0001. sterliog
but nevertheless the proceeding is calculated to produce a
favourable effect upon the public mind of Euro
pe_.
The changes In the army, at all ts
that there is no immediate Intention of going to
war, and no one will rejoice more gamely than the English
nation if this should prove a step towards the introduction
et a new era in which the army shall be simply a defence
of the nation against foreign enemies. After some fluctua-
tions the third Napoleon has, the Times hopes and believes,
at last compreheoded that it is in his power to bestew upon
the country, by giving freedom to its energies sad deve-
lopment to its yeoman, that happiness which has been
sought in vain in so many fields of battle.
The Times this morning publishes an address from a body
calling itself the Free Trade and Fiusocial Reform League
of Victoria, appealing against what they characterise as
the illegal conduct of the administration. This letter leads
the Timor to give the facts of the contention between the
council on the one side and the admimstration and sesumbly
oo tire other, caning itself to the conolnsion that it is not
easy to see hew Sir Charles Darling will justify his endues.
The Victorian ministers have on this occasion been sup-
ported by the assembly, bat the machinery which they have
used and which the Governor has sanctionod might be em-
ployed agaiest the assembly bye ministry supported by the
council, or in opposition to the wishes of both houses. It
Is fatal to the very spirit of representative government.
Following the example of the Star of yesterday, the
!We-graph has a widely printed article upon the ministry
sad their polimaThe substance of the somewhat vaguely
written paragraphs is that the ministry will no doubt be
strengthened by an infusion of sew blood, bat some of the
recruits whom it may seem desirable to enlist are still
undetermined ; others may, for various reasons, have
considered it inexpedient to give a favourable reply ; and
others again may either have declined, or not have
been consulted at all. It may, perhaps, be inferred
from other remarks by the Telegraph, that Lord Stanley
has 'gain declined to take office, that personal reason. for
the moment operate as an impediment to the intern of Mr.
Stansfeld to office, that Mr. Goethe° and Mr. Forster are
likely to represent, though not alone, the "new blood," and
that some statesman already holding office under Lord
Russell will re place Sir Robert Peel as Isiah Secretary.

w COUTI.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 16.

The Doke and Duchess of Somerset had the
honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family
yesterday.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Crown Prince and NM-
I ems of Prussia and Princes; Helena, left Windsor by a
special train on the Great Western Railway, at ten minutes
before It this morning for London.
Her Majesty on arriving honoured Mr. Armstead and Mr.
Calder Marshall with visits to their studios to seo the
progress of their sculptures for the Prince Consort's Memo•
vial in Hydr.perk.
The Queen afterwards drove to Buckingham Palace, sad
retuned to Windsor at a quarter past one o'clock.
Her Majesty was attended by Lady Waterpark, Lord
Charles Fitaltey, and Colonel H. Poorionby.
The Prisce and Primrose of Prussia remained at Book.
ngham Palace.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The ministers present were—
Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Bari de Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C.
P. Villiers.

Mr. James Walker, Governor in Cbisf of the Windward
Islands, had an Interview with the Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, at the Colonial-office, ►esterday, preparatory to
his lassie, fur Barbsdoes, the seat of bis government.
Dispatches were reosived yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the Australian colonies, Ceylon,
Hong Kong, the settlements on the West Coast of Africa,
Malta, GibsHer, and the West India Islands. Despatches
were seat to the Governors of the West India Islands, Bri-
tish Columbia. Vancouver's Lamed. and Canada.

Taz Pzmcz Or WALES'S YACHT DAOMAIL —We
(Chan Seri Chronicle) understood that his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wass has beat stsciottsly pleased to request
that Ms ysibt the Dogma (built by Messrs. Harvey, of
Wyanhoe) should belong to the pert of Colchester. The
Datum has aooordiesly bees logslly resistant by the
registrar fur shipping for this port
The Dare of Leinster will leave town to-morrow
to visit Xt. and Lady Jane Repton at their seat is Bedford.
shire.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Staf-
ford nouns, Si. Jsmerb yesterday mornlag, for Lil '
Newport, Salop.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton will take np
their residence for the season the week after next at lksr•
ton Lags, Welton Mowbray.
At the desire of her Majesty, Lady Augusta
Manley has written a letter of condolence upon the death
of the late Vietionnt Gort to his bereaved widow, expressing
her Majesty's sympathy in the great affliction that bee
false upon bet and the family of that esteemed and L-
ambed noblemen. . . .

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The death is announoed, ►t his residence, No.
19, Leiseteripadesa, Lancaster•aate. of Admiral Sir Horatio
T. Austin, X. 0.8.. is his dab year.
Mr. Frederick W. Seward has ealikiently
rs-
corered to Melee the ditties of Assistant Secretary of State
at Weibingios. He bee sot bees Is attendee°e at the State
Department as yet, bat he trimmer cadet beWaser at hie
teddenel.