The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-07 00:00:00

on behalf of the party
and consequently, on Sir
showing, there is no need
• change of Government. -
trials a man may have had already, another one is
never to be refused him. The convicted prisoner
has nothing to do but to repeat his demand for •
fair trial, and the jury must be ono* more sent
into the box, and the proceedings begin all over
again. We fancy that this system may in tune
become • tiresome one for the prisoner as well
as for everybody else concerned. For our-
selves, we have been so often told that
the Tories are going to give us one more trial,
that we own to being • little weary of the process.
The Liberal party has been again and again ar-
raigned, and again and again convicted, and we
should really like for once to see the sentence car-
ried into execution. Why will not the Conserva-
tives put us out of our misery 'I Are not all the
years that have passed over our heads since we
were first terrified with the threat of the Conser-
vative reaction • sufficiently long probation I We
call upon them to abridge our sufferings. We are
quite past improvement. It is no use giving us
any more chances. There is no reformatory process
which can ever turn us into decent Conservatives,
and, therefore, if the confidence of the country has
really been transferred from the liberal to the
Conservative party, we implore its present holder
to assume the externals as well as the reality of
power.

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OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

JAIIAICA.

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weak-

mews of Mn. Yelverion's character, would seem to
give SOON support to the current theory that the pen
of a malevolent spinster furnishes to our Saturday con-
temporary sows of its spiciest sways. It would be hardly
possible to oonoeive an article more cruelly calumnious
which yet managed to evade the consequences of the law
of libel. A. Scotch jury has decided that it is fair criticism
to reiterate cynically through sentence after sentence that
a lady of hitherto unasmiled fame is and must be an im-
moral woman. No greater privilege was ever claimed or
asserted by the Ptre Dochesne, the London Sadirsat, or the
Dublin World of infamous memory.

IMISCELIANDOUS TOPICS.
That the mown should be able to secure succeseive ow-
elation!, in the Fenian trials at a moment when we receive
such unwelcome evidences of the numerous ramifications of
Fesianism, is regarded by the Times as highly satisfactory,
as having a material effect in dissipating what remains of
the brotherhood in Ireland. Two of the members of the
Fenian executive have now been convicted ; sod when
Kirkham, the remaining member, has shared the suns
doom, Stephens, wherever be may be, will be finally de-
prived of his moat effective instruments.
The Post hoe an article in which it is contended that the
public aids to education at the command of English
people, an not merely equal to those possessed by the
Americans, but even more considerable.
The Herald dwells upon tho important services rendered
by the Earl of Derby during the operations of the General
Relief Committee at Manchester. No one else, it says,
could have filled the position of chairman with euoh ad-
vantage to the country. The Herold is sure that no
radloel egltator will henceforth be able to persuade
the operatives of Lancashire and Cheshire that
the party of which Lord Derby is the chief, can be the
anemia of any measure which can conduce to the happi-
ness, the prosperity, or the elevation of the working Mau.
The Nereid tells the shareholders of the Great Eastern
Railway that for their present knowledge of the true state
of their affair, their thanks are mainly due
to to Captain
Jervis, all of who's leading allegations appear be justified
by the results of the investigation.
The Tckeraph insists that railway collisions ought to
be impossible. Let our railway authorities decide what
is the shortest distance within which aa express train at
full speed can be stopped. At intervals separated by each
distances let us have signal stations ; and let every train
be absolutely ordered to pun up at once, unless the signal
at each of these points indicates that the line is clear to the
one next succeeding. If this were done, we could have no
such catastrophes, as that which occurred at Staplehurst, or
which ail but happened at Willesden.

The Times learns with the utmost satisfaction
that a full and searching inquiry is to be instituted forth-
with iota the Jamaica rebellion, observing that at present
we are not in possession of sufficient information to justify
us either in acquitting or in condemning the civil sod mili-
tary authorities of the colony. Private letters and extracts
from colonial narapapers have been published which un-
doubtedly betray ► degree of panic and ferocity which does
little credit to their authors, but this is far from
being reflected in the governor's letter ; and for aught that
we clan tell, Brigadier-General Nelson and Colonel Hobbs,
though complimented for their vigour in following up the
rebels, may subsequently have been censured or punished for
their too summary administration of justice. Governor
Eyre himself, the Times believes, acted under the
stress of an overwhelming necessity which his witted
have failed to appreciate. Even had he overrated
the extent of the disaffection, it does not follow that
he was woe' in approving the execution of Gordon, or that
if Colonel Hobbs and his troops took a brutal pleasure in
the aufferinp of their victims it wee shared and approved
by the governor. As to the causes of the rebellion, the
baptist missionaries themselves do not dispute that a large
measure of the poverty and distress of the natives is at-
tributable to indolence, and it is clear that no enormities
which may be brought home to the planters by the inquiry
can equal those which the blacks, if left in possession of
Jamaica, would inflict on each other.
The Daily News thinks they are not the most judicious
friends of Governor Eyre who vehemently protest against
any judgment being passed on his public acts, on the
ground that he has not yet been beard. It would be much
more true to say that he only has been heard,
since no are else has been allowed to speak. No
further information can alter the character of Mr.
Gordon's removal from Kingston to Morant Bay,
and his trial by oourt•martiel, No possible explana-
tion can justify the homicidal expeditions reported by
officer after officer after Governor Eyre himself bad de-
clared the " innrrection " suppressed, and these facts an
sufficient to prove the governor's unfitness for his post. Our
own practice of pronouncing opinions upon the acts of
foreign governmente,and always insisting on the neoessity of
justice as the foundation of all possible government, renders
it natural that the public should be much more indignant
when our own agents prove unjust, and sanction wanton
bloodshed, than when foreign governments are in fault.
What are we to Wink of those who have invective and
denunciation for injustice and cruelty abroad, and nothing
bat apologies for them when they ere committed in the
name of their own country
The Daily Telegraph accrued a certain section of the
community with treating Governor Eyre with shameful
injustice. If it can be shown that a spirit of disaffection
existed throughout the island—that there was a widely-
spread conspiracy, of which the outbreak at Meant Bay
was merely a local result—that there was actual danger
of a immoral revolt of the negroes—end that this state of
things was, in great measure, brought about by the
speeches and writings of Gordon—the verdict of the coun-
try will be that Eyre's r:goor was the truest humanity-
In the meantime the Tekgraph will fearlessly proclaim
that, up to the outbreak at Mount Bay, Edward John
Eyre was one of the noblest types we have now of English
heroism—manly sod godly, gentle and just.
Lend Moho the other day expressed his belief
that the volunteers of Englvid would act like their
brethren in Jamaica, but in this the noble lord, says the
Star, calumuietes the force. They are happily prevented
by law from being called out in aid of the civil power ; but
if the law were unfor innately the reverse, they would leave
the honour of firing ball cartridge into a promiscuous crowd
of men, women, and children to the planters of Jamaica.

ne gem

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 6.

The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday after-
noon with Princess Helene and Prince Christian of Sleswig-
Holstein.
Priucces Louise went to London last evening, and
honoured the performance at the Adelphi Theatre with
her presence, and afterwards returned to Windsor Castle,
attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Mary
Laseellss, and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Plat.
Prises Christian Tinted theCevalry Barracks at Windsor,
and returned at one o'clock.
Prince Frederick of Sleswig-Holstein, first cousin to
Prince Christian, visited the Queen.
The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley
arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of
dining with her Majesty and the royal family.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. The ministers pre-
sent were—the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran-
ville, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl fde Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right lion. T. Milner Gibson, and
the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

A deputation from the members and friends of the
Baptist Missionary Society, iotrodaoed by Sir S. M. Peto
Bart., M.P., and consisting of Rev. Dr. Gotoh, Rev. F.
'hegira. Rev. Dr. Paterson, Mr. W. H. Watson, Mr. G.
T. Romp, Mr. W. Stead, Mr. G. H. Leonard, Mr. E. J.
Robinson, Mr. Richard Harris, Mr. Henry Angus, Mr.
Thomas Prise, Rev. W. G. Lewis, Rev. J. H. Hinton,
A.M., Rev. S. Manning, Rev. Dr. Roby, Mr. James Bette,
Rev. W. Brook, Rev. T. A. Borne, Mr. Frederick
Benham, Mr. J. Everett, Rev. Geo. Gould, Mr. G. E.
Foster, Dr. Underhill, Rev. J. H. Millard, 8.A., Rev. F.
Tucker 8.A., Rev. Dr. Angus, Mr. Henry Woodall, and
Mr. W. Barnard, had an interview with the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-office, yesterday, to
present a memorial praying for au inquiry into recent pro-
cuttings in Jamaica.
Lieut.-Colonel Mane, Governor of Heligoland, and the
Rev. John Morris, of Jamaica, severally had an interview
with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the Colonial-
office, yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester-
day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Prseeat
Lord Chelmsford, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. V. Williams, and
Sir J. Colvile.

THE OPENING or PARLIAMENT.—It will have
been remarked that in the announcement of her Majesty's
intention to open the new Parliament it was stated that
there would be certain modifications in the accustomed
ceremonial. We are informed that her Majesty, instead of
using the old unwieldy State coach, will occupy what is
called " a dress carriage ;" that the robes of state, instead
of being actually worn by her Majesty, will be laid upon
the throne, and that the speech itself, instead of being
read by her Majesty, will he read by the Lord Chan-
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
Field-Marahal Commardiotie-Chief, held a levee yesterday
afternoon, at the Horse Guards. Upwards of eighty officers
attended.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aurnale will leave the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis-
bury's residence at Hatfield to-morrow for their residence
at Twickenham.
The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Louisa
Prey are still remaining at the family residence is Port-
man-square. The noble duke is in remarkably good health.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady
Victoria Scott left town a few days ago, on • tour of visits,
on their way to Dalksith Palace, N.B.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived in Paris from
England.
The Earl of Lonedale has left his residence on
Carlton House-terrace for Ventnor, Isle of Wight.
The Earl Russell is suffering from a severe cold,
and was in consequence unable to attend at the Cabinet
Council held yesterday afternoon.
The following is an extract from a letter from
Kingston, Jamaica, received by way of New York :—"
rrived here safely, and the voyage has done me good. I
uiss Loscwoirrit LND THE " SATURDAY REVIEW." came here at a horrible time, as you will see by the papers I
The Tdegraph thinks that the verdict extorted pester. send you. The big wigs believed that all the blacks were
day from a divided jury is a victory without a triumph ; about to massacre all the whites, and Quashes has caught it
and the hisses which greeted it somewhat balance even the with a vengeance. The flogging sod hanging here have been
moral effect of the voting majority. The Saturday Review frightfully indiscriminate. The exportations of Jamaica
has undertaken to supply the weekly sneering which an news by this packet will hardly snit the English market.
educated public requires. That is perfectly legitimate—to The planters wanted martial law to be generally proclaimed,
every one his ”iitier and his right ; the country curates to exterminate the black squatters, as they are celled. It 'P-
end the young gentlemen of the club, who thus psarathat inceniggerentancipation, &mho here,instead
imbibe their hebdomadal doge of bitters, have of loving his old master and working for him, goes up the
what they want, and what they like, and nobody mountains, clears a piece of land, and becomes an ludo-
is the worse or better. Only a paper which makes Pendent freeholder. He gate terribly taxed and becomes
a good business out of laughing at misfortunes and • turbulent radial. The government hung a rich
' deriding earnestness of all kinds must not mind if its own man, named Gordon. He was slightly touched with the
toes are trodden upon. The Saturday Review it generally tar brush and had • sneaking kindness, therefore, for the
wise as well as witty and savage ; so that we wonder it at. nigger. Hs was a clever fellow and gave the government
tacked this lady, even at the moment when she seemed • deal of tremble. As thou as the disturbances corn.
most prostrate. That it did so "in the interests of noosed the governor handed Gordon over to the military,
morality "is • joke so good that we honestly wish our con- who made short work with him. I fancy the drumhead
temporary had the criticism of such a plea. The Scotch law, which huog him, would hardly hold water in England.
jury has let him off, only to draw forth palpable Ards of It is rather sichasing to read the papers. The slaughter
the verdict which the public desired. Had he lost the of the blacks has been immense, and has bees dons too
legal game, slander against women—which was vary suer much in the Minim style. I should have been bcannicint
lent at sixpenos—would undoubtedly have seemed a costly before ilia if it had not been for this bccribac rumpus,"
luxury at three tboarod posed. sterling, and one to be Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
hereforward avoided ; but possibly that respectable sum • Idol office from the Governors of Mauritian sad Malta.

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