The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-02 00:00:00

SESp, SATURDA.Y EVRNiNG, DECEMBER 2, 1865

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The iltaii.lielsks that fib trial, as wear as those Aka WINDSOR CASTLE, Pic. I.
preceded ft, point to the necessity of expunging from t►e
Act,
w• an esactment like the Foreign Enlistmeiti 1 The Maharajah Duleep Singh and the Mahe-
Act, which is simply delusive, and of supplying its place ranee arrived et the Cud° yeaterday on a visit, and dined
by some law better calculated to fulfil the objecta for
which the former was designed. 1 After dialler the private band played the following saw.
with her Majesty and the royal family.
The Herald trusts that this is the last of the Confide. lion of music in the drawing• before the Crown Prince
rate proaecutions. As it is, we owe our serape from the and Primes, of Prussia, the Princesses, the liisharatjah and
disgrace which a conviction would have brought upon us, Maharanee, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting :
not to the sagacity or firmness of our ministers, or to the
caution with which the law has been set in motion by ' overture., •:,Pjoinometh!....•.'
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those in authority, but to the conscientiousness of an ' Adagio and Allegro ...................... Reissiger.
&Wish jury. :-.one de Lancer. La Beyedere" ........ Auber.
The Teleyraph regards these evasions of the law as ut• To-day is the birthday of the Princess of Wales.
overture, . :
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avoidable. No neutral nation can be expected wholly to The Queen, with the Crown Print* and Princess of
repress them, or do more than zealously enforce its behests Prussia, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon ; and
by all practicable means. Where like services are te be walked and drove this morning, accompanied by the Crown
performed, there will be always men as astutely ignorant ' Princess and Princes' Helena.
end ingeniously blind as the defendant who has just been The Crown Prince wont out shooting.
acquitted. The verdict in such a case as the present will Hie serene Highness the Prince Christian of Slatwig-
generally be •' Not guilty ; but take care not to do it
oon-
again••• Holstein arrived at the castle this afternoon from the con-
tisent.
The Crown Prince of Prusaia drove to tbe South Western
station, and accompanied Prince Christian to the castle.
, Hiatus' is in attendance on Prince Christian.

GOVERNOR [TER AND MR. GORDON.
The Times regrets that no second despatch from Gover-
nor Eyre, received by the last mail, has yet been published
by the Colonial-office, u anything like trustworthy intelli-
gence must be dependent on official documents or the
chance letters of respectable private persons. The Times
has not thought it necessary or right to publish the
glinted and incoherent accounts from the Jamaica
papers that came to hand by the last mail, bearing
as they did the marks of enormous exaggeration.
Bat the proceedinp of the condo-martial, with the num-
ber of the prisoners tried, the sentences upon them, and
the minutes of the evident* in the principal cases, it is de-
sirable to obtain as soon as possible. Mr. Eyre, General
O'Connor, Brigadier Nelson, Colonel Hobts,, and
the
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officers, military and naval, who were engaged against
negroes, or who sat on the ooartontartial have been de-
nounced in the plainest terms as murderers, sad they must
suffer under the most intolerable of imputations, vela& it
is shown that they honestly did their duty, and did not
exceed it. The conviction of the Times is, that when the
whole history is inquired into it will appear that there was
good reason for believing that severity was necessary.
The Daily News does not find that three who are loudest
in deprecating censure of Governor Eyre and his colonels
have anything to say about the illegal trial and execution of
Mr. Gordon. While the evidence on which Mr. Gordon
could be fatly convicted is wanting, facts which support and
strengthen the presumption of his innocence pour in from
every quarter. Considering the distant* of Jamaica, it is
surprising to how many persons in this country he was per-
sonally known. The affecting letter to his wife, written in
the hour which was all the interval allowed between the
announosenent of his doom and his execution, speaks too
well for itself, and has already spoken to millions of gene-
rous English hearts. A heavy responsibility rests upon the
imperial government, which, knowing the facts, leaves the
administration of Jamaica for a day longer than is neces-
eery in the hands of men capable of perpetrating such
deeds u the execution of Mr. Gordon.
No more touching letter than Mr. Gordon's, says the
Star, was ever written by man or woman on the verge of
eternity. The mas's heart is laid bare to the scrutiny of
the world, and not one of his relatives or friends need
blush at the result of the examination. No one who
reads the letter, who weighs its simple phrases.
who studies its spirit, and tries to realise the posi-
tion of its writer at the time it was penned, can for one
moment harbour the thought that he was privy to any act
of violence at Morant Bay, or was the sort of man to coun-
tenance under any circumstances deeds of outrage and mur-
der. No man in England can escape the responsibility which
is now imposed upon the entire nation, individually and
collectively.
The Globe remarks that what the Queen's government
could not do in England the Queen's Governor could not do
in Jamaica. There would be no safe living for English sub-
jects in say dependency of Great Britain if the broad shield
of British law were not thrown over them wherever the
British flag waves. The country will demand, and we cannot
doubt the government will institute, strict and impartial
inquiry—for what justifying domino, or under what sup.
Need justifying circumstances, the late Mr. Gordon l
and
was
taken from beneath that shield, and consigned for tria
execution to men of the sword, heated with conflict or
with chase, and—as far as their written words indicate—
rather more capable of the " savage virtue of the chase"
than of the calm temper of the judgment-seat.

Count von
The Countess of Caledon has succeeded Lady Waterperk
as lady in waiting.
Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood,
and Lieutenant-
Colonel I)u Plat, have succeeded Lord Charles Fitzroy and
Colonel El Pousonby as equerries in waiting to her Majesty.
Mourn Hill. and Sounders have bad the honour of photo-
graphing, at Windsor Castle, the Crown Prince and Crown
BOOM,
Princes of Prussia, arid Prince and Prinessa Louis of
with their children and other members of the royal family.

A Cabinet Council visa held yesterday at the 1
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Downing-street. The ministers present were—
Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir Georg e
Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon.
Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the
Riht Hon. T. Mner Gibson Lord Stanley of
Alilgcrley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Present—Lord
Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner,
Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir
Lawrence Pest