The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-20 00:00:00

FOHNBItOODKN'SGOLDALBZRT CHAINS.

'OHN BROOMS'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS.

SW
WINTER OVERCOATS of the BLS!
NATsems us kept tor Impaction or tale at
HAMILTON sud KIM VTONS,
Tailors and Overcoat Makers.
106, STRAND, apposite Exeter O&M

LONDON must have a Sup a
per nd Music Room
for Gentlemen.—lonembee we wait foe y EVANS'S
sitar the Covent Garden 09nes and the Theatres.

tie ervreoo.

TO 008.11.103PONDINTS.
Adventist:sank lateadecl tor The Uproot " London Venlig
per. moat be at the Ofdoe. 10. Smiverbeetreet. by Two
on the dap of publication.

HATILUtKIT.
THIS IrEnso. TRUE MILKS AFTER MARRIAOK
DOD UP. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mx. Rowe; Wee Henry Moore,
DM L. —tr E COCK telirL
Mathews and Chippendale Mrs. C. Mathews.—Andthe BALLET.

PRINCESS'S.
Tits Erwin, QUIST LODOINGS.—After which IT IS
=TIM TOO LATE TO MEND. Messrs. V 11•1Ile,
T. Mead. D. Murray, Wham. F. Tilden. J. G. G.
ining. G.
e, G•l.Mu-
ssy, and R. Claim% Mims L. Moors and IL Rodgers.

LYCEUM.
Tula Emma, THE DAY AFTER THE WHORING. Mr.
and M. Homan.—THE WATCH CRY. Maws. Yachter.
Wlddicomb, 8. Emory, C. Ret•IMIS, Raymond. Fltspatriali,
and Clifford. Yin Elaworilm.—And SURREY cHICKWILED.

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LONDON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 20.1

FOR some months past it has become evident
that a new phase is gradually being developed in
the conduct of joint-dock enterprise. Unwilling
to incur any longer the reproach of being entirely
pastes in the hands of their boards, shareholders
now seem disposed to run into the opposite ex-
treme. Mere subservience seems to have given
place, not to fair and legitimate criticism, but to • ran JLMAICA issettalcrion.—oorsasoz zritz's Dearaecii.
spirit of indiscriminate opposition, and it is worth The Times finds in Governor Eyre's despatches full =-
considering whether the new position of affairs may firmation of the views which it has expressed on the causes
not prove worse than the old. In a material point of and the nature of the insurrection. It were useless to
view the interests of public companies are certain to follow the special pleadiege of those who refuse, totheee
inhere
int
tbhutet the gri
suffer. Mismanagement by a practically irrespon-al pesesd thea. Fosertmuenspete
country°many whvaeoes afo
have
Bible board has before now caused many losses, thew lira ,r, raeweet Didier, and whose arida... is Agin.
:don areof
but there are also other losses which may be safely cient to refute the platitudes of rhetorical senti
mentality.
predicted to follow from a house being divided Three people know well enough that the negro
but what he hadhad •
no
Against itself. It is becoming • common belief Crews—no grievances, at least,
that the interests of the directors and shareholders mode of redressing. The foul treasons end murders
which he has pilioettedyiewe were
thdeue
et the
r oeufsy and d hatred
are antagonistic. Wherever this is the case the e
constitution of the company is faulty. In under- numerically inferior, but which he feels to be
takings intrinsically sound, however, it ordinarily morally superior, to his own. Ile dreams of the glorious
happens that directors have individually a very Weed in which hs lives &slag Mined ili rrPettlitf
much larger stake in the concern than the majo- by himself and his posterity, and the vicinity of Hayti
theof their constituents, and hence they have' and its barbaric independence have fostered his
the strongest motive to act in a manner dreams of veugeence sod his dreams of aggfandisement.
most advantageous to all. I t is for thin I Th.
by die° mptints of greedim whatun ion( cop.! orii.t. were supplemented
most
ca
reason, therefore, that any proposition emanating ' that phase Christianitya which touches onia thea equality
attractions for the negro,
from men who have the greatest reason for all men having ever had singular
making a right judgment, and, from their posi- sod then two contemporaneous events of grave moment
tion, the best means of forming it, should be coespired to concentrate hie mind sad his efforts. The
received at all events with attention and respect. slave in the southern states became free, end the Spaniards
Directors, like all other individuals, are liable to were ignominiously repulsed from San Domingo. The
latter event especially produced a deep sensation throughout
err, but in this matter ordinary shareholders are the offtthhe West Indies. We are now witnessing the
much more likely to be wrong. In any case, to iteatt. o
arrive at • safe conclusion, there is only one course The Daily News does not discover in the despatch a
open, that of calm and temperate discussion. word to convey the notion that the ruing at Morant Bay
Let each side give their reasons, and let each was par``f an organised conspiracy. Governor Eyre, in his
weigh their opponents' arguments well and care- speech Kingston, expressly says that there was no or-
fully, and then the materials exist for passing an ganisation. Plainly the rising was an outburst of long-
impartial judgment. emoulderiog discontent, the expression not of reason but of
paeans. Dr. Underhill*. letter, to which the governor at-
A second disadvantage is that of a gradual lower- swiss such mischievous importance, was a most temperate
ing of the tone of the directorial body. No man, representation of the causes of popular suffering, and, even
with any respect for himself or position in the world, if it were otherwise, its publication
of Jaw
amaica,as not his sot.
her It
Ma-
was
will consent to accept a seat at a board while he addressed not to the Regrow but to
knows that he is thereby exposing himself to an *stye Secretary of State, sod first saw the light
antagonism conducted on an Old Bailey model. when
it
At wasa
one
puthliathhede
mineetiJngitmas tahtehbyweGreovehrneorld
Any one who has watched the later course of joint- alter. Governor Eyre had, made the letter known, the
stock enterprise will readily perceive that while fullest confidence was expressed in the good intentions of
financial magnates and men of mark have been England, and the last resolution was, " That three cheers
gradually resigning the directorships, their places be given in honour of our most gracious Msjesty the Queen,
have been filled by persons far lower in the social and the philanthropist& of Great Britain, for their watch.
scale. It is with extreme difficulty that the fulness over the interests of the people of this colony,whom
oldest and best established companies at present theye chairman .their magnanimity
of this meeting, emancipated
26merchant,yea"ago."h
find suitable candidates to fill vacancies. Third since been wainewe at alacli:ta'aenceagiromarthe diyeturbed diWelt:
or fourth-rate men can, of course, be got hurried off to the scene of excitement, placed before the
easily enough ; but there is a great scarcity, not epuauletted politicians to whom he was obnoxious, and ere-
merely in the first, but even in the second classes. cuted under martial law. It was Mr. George William Gordon.
It seems only natural that this feeling of repug. ; As to the military executions nothing can be more distinct
=nee should become stronger every day. A great i than a statement in the despatch that of the large number
merchant or banker will never submit to go i muted. inthceomld blood, only only
Beysome a:a:tabor personally
co;
through a round of personalities and coarseness I cees we ere
Into infer, the riot mas murdersisolated ()nett% anest:thee.
which would be thought indecent even in the petty lis no justification whatever for sanguinary retribution
contests of a parish vestry. The result will inevi- 1 spreading farther than its original limits, run can it
tably be that the management of public companies jbe said that rach • retribution VMS called for because
will become more and more • profession for per- there was • conepiracy intended to break out st a future
sons with just sufficient means or credit to buy or dat4- N' evidence ,nia. ene,ir„ eanapi...raey furnish p,,,,,rndneted,'
borrow their share qualification. Seriously moon- and if it
.gex'tsfo'r ...Zitioc:”uutc*i.u."-intend-7,-- ereTe
venient as thin practice is already felt, the evil The scree remedy yet Mr. Gordon at Kingston, mwheyre;
promises in a few years to be magnified tenfold. „isssisi law was not in force, and his removal to a
There can be no doubt, for instance, that district when militia officers, members of • body who were
the door will be opened to a vast amount his avowed opponents, formed part of the
presence a t a board of two or he is tried—where he had no assistance of counsel, no time
of jobbing. The
one, of wealth and to procure evidence of innocence, no protection against
three members, or even
position is generally an effectual safeguard injustices .iunggethe learning suit eneharreerer of the pre.
against anything but a very small development of illegal
gay.) The precedeot would warrant our peen!
the system. This check once removed, and no went in sending off any English prisoner to be tried by
one can say how far it will go. It is contrary to court-martial in any proclaimed district in Ireland. The
in-
human nature to expect that men living upon English nation cannot afford to let its principles and tra.
their directors' foes will be as proof against ditions be thin turned into the system which it denounces
temptation, especially when they can persuade in Poland. We have made the negro.s our fellow-subjects,
a wrong,
themselves of the absence of all as •"d "ea"' foe oar own sakes as much as their'', 'a to
vindicate the provisions of our law, and the dictates of
millionaire. honour and humanity.
In discussing the question of the relations The Pool is willing to believe that
the mansed theu Baptist
tist
between a body of directors and their shareholders, ministers in Jamaica disapproved of
we have not hesitated to point out and condemn of their colleague% but all are nearly equally to blame for
the shortcomings of the former. It is with the having, by their unfortunate counsels, made the Degrees
more confidence, therefore, that we reprobate the hiving,
with their Present position. The mune
wbieh
notable'a exacrejEijoaanshaameagt ai:ith ted
he approval s Wet which
of li •at ci
ewithex-
may
faults of the other side. Foremost among these t
may be reckoned an apathy to their true interests, penance of public opinion in this country, sodash mainly
which no amount of expostulation appears sufficient contributed to the speedy extinction of the rebellion. The
to overcome. It is in vain to urge on shareholders Post is inclined to think that if order is to be maintained,
that some part more or less active should be taken the action of the authorities mast always contiane to
in supervising the conduct of a concern which may, bedistingniebed by that promptitude and vigour which in
perhaps, contain their whole fortunes. The result j Earn" are the characteristies of petered governments-
Whether the white a. well as the black population should
is that the whole power gradually falls into the I
be compelled to submit to a firm rule may be a matter for
hands of a minority, who, either from natural tem- subsequent consideration.
perament or from a love of authority, are ready at We have, says the Star, in Governor Eyre's despatch,
any cost to thwart everybody else. If this state of ', the whole defence, and in itstrugg therele with is not a line
reb to shnow tThe
hat
affairs should continue much longer it cannot fail to jln VIA engaged is • a ellio.
have a disastrous effect on joint-stock enterprise. 1 doctrine that to urge • political complaint on • public
Since the more respectable and influential portion j platform is punishable by death is taught and practically
of the proprietors choose to hold aloof, they must enforced by his
hßehrosedlletonCymi.usGOtrefdteorithead member of the
submit to see their investments wasted to please mssLegislators . was hanged
ofg a pimace in jam:Cost ipso thatfat
the fancies of a few crotchety individuals. Sup- se accomplice in rebellion. The Star greatly mistakee the
posing, what is by no means an unlikely instance, Pettish people if those who have made themselves re-
that the influence thus exercised brings the coos- aponeible for such deeds are not taught a lesson of respect
patsy to loss, there will be none so ready to con- for the laws which they have entrap& for the free natl..
as precisely those people who totioos which they seem unable to understand, and for
damn the directors the humanity which cannot even accept the plea of panic
have persistently refused to give any assistance as a justificstion foe indiscriminate sad purposeless
whatever towards counteracting the manoeuvres of i slaughter.