The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-16 00:00:00

'RESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 180.

wigwag, It is believed by the sellitary antborities4hat the
proceedings of Paul Bogle and his comrades woe a pre.
matoreoutburst of a section of the pesenntry who thought
that they would have sufficient support from the rent of
the island to give them impunity for the murder of the
obnoxious costae and his friends. That there sa vague
but general purpose to rise upon the planters, to revenge
supposed injuries, and to plunder the estates at the first
suitable opportunity the Tinics noes no raison to doubt.
The Jamaica negroee have done this before, why should
they not do it again'
The Daily News objects to the sews in which the Times
Offers the remark that " the colon co
y end the mother untry
are at terrible cross purposes." In the eye of the law, of
the two Houses of the Legislature, and of the imperial
government, the colony of Jamaica consists of all its inha-
bitants, and those who apply the term exclusively to one
section of the people nee a jargon which is only proper to
slaveowners. Moreover, we have not hitherto been permitted
to know the mind of "the colony" even in that restricted
genes in which the Times uses the words. The colony—
that is to say, the white people—did not know ita own con-
ditto°, as is shows by the application of the Assembly to
Governor Eyre for information, to which he chiefly re-
plied by referring to their own acceptance of his statement
as accurate a few weeks baare—aad by the candid ODD.
tendon of the two leading journals, the Colonial Standard
and the Morning Journal. The editors of the Watchman,
the Sentinel, and the County Union were all arrested by
the authorities. The opinion of the blacks is, therefore,
left out of the question, and the more sober of the whites
were usable at the time to speak freely. Even members of
the Assembly did not feel at liberty to do so. Martial law
having since ceased, people are beginning to spook out, and
this the Daily News proceeds to show by remarkable ex-
tracts from the chief organs of opinion in thecolony,accusing
the legislature and governor of panic ; and with having
gone rebellion mad ; and rebuking the manner in which,
under " the spell" of an exaggerated apprehension of danger,
"even (to use the words of the Colonial Standard) the mast
amiable and benevolent persons talk in an unconcerned
manner of acts of cruelty and revenge, at the mere mention
of which they would shudder io their sane momenta." These
journals acknowledge that the danger was immensely ex.
"gyrated ; thaw ore he can learn the feeling with which
his acts are regar in England, Governor Eyre is celled to
account by the Assembly of the island and the colonial

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The Herald still looks in vain for any sufficient pretext
on which the government may rest its defence for the sus-
pension of Governor Eyre. When Mr. Gladstone went to
Cephalonia he went to Inquire iato the grievances of the
lonian Islande:s, but the chief commissioner was neither
suspended nor recalled. When Sir Charles Trevelyan pub-
lished his indiscreet comments on the acts of his official
superiors he was at once dismissed, but the ant by which
his diamissal was rendered necessary was one which he
himself boastingly avowed. But when Sir Henry Storks
lands he will astonish everybody in Jamaica by the an.
nonncement that he comes to depose the man whom the
colonial parliament has been thanking, whom the colonial
public has been glorifying.
Replying to Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, the Star remarks
that if we take for granted the wildest stories of organised
conspiracy and insurrection which have been circulated by
the satellites of the late Governor, and which find pretended
credence in the tory camp in this country, then it is
prepared to prove that the acts of the Jamaica officials,
as related by themselves, have been to the last
degree illegal, cruel, and remorseless. The Star
thee reproduces a frightful Bogging case of a reporter to the
Watchman, which is given by the colonial paper for whose
trustworthiness Colonel Nelson hes vouched. The Ciell is
simply ace out of many which violate every principle of
equity, and what we know of them is derived, not from the
friends of the unfortunate creatures who have been made
to suffer from the summery and ruthless prejudgnient of a
drum-heed court-martial, but from the unquestionable
authority of correspondents who, instead of concealing their
sympathy with the work of torture and blood, exult sod
gloat over it as something to excite unqualified pride and
• i election.