The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-06 00:00:00

THE JAMAICA MASSACRES.

Panthers sues."
TEN JAMAICA MASSACRER.—We are informed that
ou Tuesday evening neat a public) meeting on the subject
of the recent musacrea in Jamaica will be held in Exeter
hall. The meeting is convened noder the auspices of the
British and Foreign Anti-Slaver? Society.
THE NEWS FllOll JA.MLICA.--The Went India and
Pacific Steamship Compusy's steamer Cuban arrived in the
Money cc Monday night, with advice@ from Jamaica. Her
latest dates are, however, three days earlier than those
i brought by tits Shannon on the 28th ult.
Manama" Dtc. s.—The Menageries Impe-
rials* stammer Said, with India and Chins mails, arrived at
this port at three p.m. to-day.
RAILWAY COMMUNICATION WITH THE CITY.—
The great isoonveoianoo to business in the city felt donog
the lest few days from the stoppage of the Cheapside
thoroughfare has led to Inquiries as to the progress niacin
in the Metropolitan Inner Circle Railway, which (in con.
union with the enemies in a few days of the piece of the
northern section bet wean Farringdocarest and Itoorgate-
strut) will be the first moans to restore really free commu-
nication between the City and the West-end of
London. From a statement furnished by parties con-
cocted with the uodartaldog it appears that the
extol:aim from Farringdonoweet to Finsbury-circus will
be opened on the Ist of January seat, and that the works
are now in active progress at various points aloof( the Sao
from Cannon-street to Kensington and Bayswater. The
section between Victortwetetion and Wramiostor-bridge is
that upon which the chief difficulties are met with, and upon
thistle works are sow well &doused. The Campden.hill tun-
riail and the works at the Cannon-street, Blackflies% West-
minter, Beompten, and Kensington stations have also bees I
vigorously oommesca, and upwards of 1,000 mes are
employed, who, by arrangements for lightiog with gas, are
enabled to work when required by relief gangs during the
whole 24 hum. It appears consequently that there is •
fair prospect of the arrival of Use time whew minor
having appointments in the City will be able to calculate
ea !Whig a train every three minutes that will coevep
them from any plisse west of Temple-tar to station,
i within $4,0 or three minutes' walk of the Royal &shine
and the Bank of England.

A public meeting, which completely filled the
upper room of the Town-hall, wee bald an Mosdey
night at Brighton, to express as opinion epos' the insurrec-
tion in Jamaica, end the mama takes to suppress it. The
meeting use convened, upon requisitios, by the mayor
(Mr. Alderman Martin), who took the Asir, an/ the ma-
jority of those who bad signed the memorial were present on
the platform. Letters ware received from Mr. Deleon
iltonand
Lord Cavendish (the county members), the Revs. Elem
end Goalty, sad Mr. Marigold. regretting their inability
to skied. His lordship wrote—" I think the state of
affairs is Jamaica is most serious, ad I hope the gave-a-
nent will institute a strict inquiry into it. I am glad •
meeting is to be bald at Brightom"
Mr. CONIIIOIIAII moved the AM noolation :—" That
, this meeting 1410111•1111 with grief sad indigestion the
report, as presented by Governor Eyre, of the lament.
able events which have recently occurred is Jamaica. That
while regarding /with reverence the majest of law and
justice, when rightly sad wisely it regards
with horror end amazement the sacrifice of • reeerded.
It appear, that sot only hie indiscriminate official embower*
has been inflicted for the alleged insurrection in the locality
of the disturbance, but, in the same and deputed authority
of the gimes, an honourable citizen sad member of the
legislature, who had rendered himself obnoxious to the Go.
vernor by opposition to his schemes of taxed" has
been forcibly taken from his home (a town far sway
from the some of disturbance, specially excepted
from the operation of martial law), oonveyed to •
district where martial law bad been proclaimed, then
summarily tried, and ignominiously executed. Buck
usurped authority, and violation of all law and justice,
has met a stain urn the natioa whirs,demands • full,
searching, impartial investigation by the goverameut of
this country, with all the history, circumstances and events
in any way connected therewith that the honour of the
British nation may be purified, and the rights and privi-
leges of the subject protested."
The Bet. It. V. PETCS seconded the resolutioe, and in
doing so noticed the discrepancies in the various amounts of
the origin of the alleged insurrection, and also as to the
negroes being fired on by the volunteers.
Mr. It. M. Wane said if it was sot for the remarks of
our old member, be should not have addressed the meeting,
but he had yet to learn that the authorities in Jamaica had
done wrong, and natil they had the whole of the facts before
them, they had no right to become their judges but whoa
they had the fell evidence before them of the crimes which
had been committed, then he would be one with them to
bring the guilty parties to justice. (Chests.)
The resolution was then pat sad carried by • very large
ma jority.
The Bev. PAXTON HOOD next moved that a memorial,
based on the resolution just passed, shoald be presented to
Earl Russell, es First Lord of her Majesty's Treasury.
Be ridiculed the idea of getting at the truth from the oon-
tradictory statements which had appeared in the news-
papers, end strongly reprobated the flippant and heartless
tone of Captain Forbes' letter, while describing the flog.
ginp and executiom that had taken place. He alma es-
premed his conviction, based upon a statement of Mr.
Price, • member of the J•03111Cd1Conocil, that the Governor
had threatened to compass Mr. Gordoe's death, and that this
was became he had opposed the Governor's pleas of illegal

i.
r.
Mr. toasts seconded the resolution.
Mr. Wurrx, the senior borough member, next rose, and
addressed the meeting. In the course of his speech he
said—Reference has been made to the deserved prune's.
meat of Governor Wall at the beginning -of this
ceetury. You ell know that he was tred, tiou-
&mood, bud executed at the Old Bailey, on a
charge of wilful murder, he having some twenty years
before caused a moldier to be flogged to death for alleged
mutiny at Gores, of which island Wall wu then the
Governor. This act of retributive justice has been warmly
extolled as the best evidence of the equal working of
British law, sod is otherwise remarkable as show* that
DO length of time—no personal interest—no official or family
coneedoo—ean exempt the guilty from !aged punishment.
(" Hear, hear," and applause.) And more than this, that
dreadful doom of Governor Wall rightfully demonetmted
that, even in the most distant Farts of the Britigh Ear-
m-
pire, our fellow subject/ were protected. by the imp
tial administration of justice at home, from the cruel
exorcise of authority, and from the wanton abuse of power
by British officials abroad. (Applause.) God rent that
in this, our own day, these principles of equal justice may
receive a signal acknowledgment end a further and notable
exemplification in the condign punishment of Governor
Eyre and the guilty instrumenta of his murders. (Ham,
hear.) Hence it is that I venture to urge my fellow-
mountrymen to strongly impress upon the government the
urgent necessity of immediately rescuing Jamaica tress the
horrors of Governor Eyrie garage rule ; sad I would fain
hope that measurs hare been already taken to recall that
delinquent Governor, and at the same time to deliver the
island of Jamaica from the frenzied polity of his partisans.
We must all now strive to make the voice and authority of
England felt and feared by those outrageous wroogdoers
in Jamaica—Omar, hear)—and, acting thus, we shall beat
help to wipe away. the stain from our country's honour,
and to vindicate the majesty of British law, too atrociously
violated, alas, by Governor Ere.. (Loud applause.)
Protester rawcgrr, who, as ruing, was received with
load and reiterated cheese, said—Englishmen's sense of fair
play will prevent their saying anything about Governor
Eyre or his accomplice until they have been fairly and
equitably tried. (Hear, hear.) I have avoided saying any-
thing that will enable my political opponent/1 to say that I
have prejodged the question ; I rely want Earl Russell to
give mamma saturance, and I will thank him for it. I may
be of presumption in saying this, as an untried
member, but there are questions eo which any man hits a
right to speak—even .child has a right to condemn cruelty
—(cheers)—but when I go into the House of Commons, if I
end the English government has lost a moment in doing
everything in their power. as soon the new' reached them,
to see justice done, I will tell them that I have lost my
ooafidence in them as the government of this country.
(Cheers.) One gentleman has said that we have met here
as Manchester men. Well, if we had belonged to the
Manchester party it would not be a very heavy chugs,
What have the Manchester men dose? When the people
werelatarviag, they determined that the commerce of the
nation should be freed from the hoods of imonopoly ; and
when they themselves were starving from the effects of the
late war, they nobly said, let us starve rather than a bale
of slave-grown cotton should come into this musky.
(Cheers.) gentlemen, this is what Manchester mem have
elope, and if we are like them it is no disgrace. Bat we have
not met to-night as men of Manchester or any other place,
but because we are men—because we are Englishmen—men
of a great and free nation ; bemuse we are Christian men ;
because we *guard hear rumours of horrible cruelties
without =skies inquiry. I have also felt that with
regard to the negro there Is something unsound in the
hearts of many. You may emancipate the slave', but you
leave those who have profited by the slave trade somewhat
demoralised andcorrupted—and this may, afterall.be the so-
Idiom of those difficulties and disorders in Jamaica. But I
will always say this, that I would be the first to Amount*
Christianity as a sham and delosice, if it taught lemmas of
kindness only to those who have a white skis. (Hear.)
If it means aeytbieg, it means that we should love all to
whom life is given in this great and beautiful and glorious
world, where all are equally the week of the all-wise Au-
thor of nature. (Lood sod prolonged cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. W. D. SAVAGZ moved thstMr. Conihtim die Bev.
R. Y. Pryer', the Rev. Parton Ho, and Mr.' Marriage
sent the memorial
Wallis be appointed a deputatioa to pre
to Earl Russell, and that the borough members be requested
to accompany them.
This was carried unsuimonely. as was also a vote of
thanks to the borough members for their attendance.
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MEETINGS AT LEEDS ♦ND BEADFORD.—Large
meetings, &led by the Mayon of Leeds and Bradford,
were held last eveoiog in both those towel, urging upon
government to institute • searching inquiry into the
recent eve•te io Jamaica. At both of them !imitations
were adopted roodemniog the policy pursued towards the
black race, and memorial were adopted to Earl Buena
calling for a fall investigation.

TnEJAMAICI MASSACIM4. —The Sieck of yesterday
gays :--!' Is the Eagliali papers received today scarcely
scything is talked of but the Jamaica insorrectiew. Some
cry out spinet the barbarity of the repression, others con-
sider it radlciently jostified. The latter, we think. are
wroog. The esognioary measures adopted by the authori•
ties of tie eolooy whichvmd as amount of indivistios
j throughout Europe is we ars glad to say Eoglaad has
shared. The executios of Gordon has been very sevswely
coniktmoed there, sad the touching farewell letter written
by the victim to his wife and friends has contributed sot a
, little to impress public °pinkie io this 110.141 . It was a
1 Christi.is dim*, sod the mottos it bee produeed in •
1 Christian country like Eaglatd may be imagined."


'OHN BROODKN.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES•

(THIS DAY.)

THE COTTON Fauna.
The great lesson of lessons which the Times'
derives from a review of the manner in which the cotton
famine wee met in llogland, is the extreme importance of
gentlemen giving their time and attention to local duties.
We of too hear the weak complaint that the badness of the
weld is in the b►nds of vulgar, self-asserting men, wholly
destitute of the high qualities which we actually expect in
position and power. it is everywhere the coarse and hard
man of business, or the man of shallow dexterity, or some-
body else we would despise if we could, who carries the ves-
try or the corporation, or the oommittee, or the bench, or
the college, or other body. Nothing can be more idle
than such complaints. The people whose dominion we as
object to are perfectly justified in holding their own, and
occupying, possibly, the only sphere in which they an ever
hope te distinguish themselves and feel their own impor-
tance. If the community suffers wrong and if the public
interests are sacrificed, the fault is in those who
with a loftier inspiration fled themselves inca-
pable of contending for the lead or indisposed for
the effort. If a man has better light than his
neighbour, be is all the more bound to act up to it and give
his neighbours the benefit. He may choose to think hie
present opportunity hardly worth the effort. It may be the
merest trifle ; the distribution of a charity or security
against a trifling fraud. Yet we see the great conservative
chief and former premier devoting himself for four years to
a work of the very same nature. He has been doing all this
time what every gentleman will find be bee need to do in
hi own neighbourhood, and what he ought to do if he ex-
peas to be ever a statesman.
Alcorilieg to the Telegraph, the best characteristic of the
effort which is now consummated was that it owed its
origin and orpniaation to the people, and not to the govern-
ment That will always be the boast, and the just boast,
of a most dangerous period. Yet the government, I
though it was Dot asked to grant supplies, was able, as
a sod of official contribution to the fund, to subscribe the
Public Works Act of Mr.Villiers ; and while that thought-
ful measure spread relief over a large field of the distress,
it brought the collateral and curious advantage that it
made the time of famine in the cotton counties a period
of sanitary and municipal improvement. Many public
works have been constructed, and some remain to be
completed, which cannot fail to produce a new era of
health and comfort in Lancashire.
The Star does not doubt that much of the success which
attended the distribution of the relief fund is due to the
judgment and the patience of the distributors. When
Charity walks out blindfold she always makes dreadful
havoc of the moat precious plants and flowers in the
g►rdens of the poor. But who shall say how much is due to
the independent and manly spirit of the Lancubire popu-
lation? Have not the men who bore up so bravely and
showed in themselves such a patience, such an intelligence,
such an indomitable spirit of honest independence, earned at
least the spontaneous concession of their right to tyke part
as free citizens in the political system of their country?

been committed to prison for refusing t; .It may be, even is WSrin 1 ea* be mai& akin • the Oaring facts now
peem,Llg=s rem. thee Governor
---------------- their task of work, two for attempting to deal from
GLNAL GOLD CHAIN ALLNUFACTORY the ward, and twelve for deetroying their olotbes. *ill sated 1;;Z:at and idnial ananadanaa'with Saw.
08116. MUNIIINITA-BTAISI 00Vilfr-GAIIDIN. apart e, promoted against him,: the fact
2-------------.---- I Every attempt to check this offense has up to this • have Idea entirely overlooked that Monett Bay
time been unsuccessful. Suite of conspicuous make i was the scene of massacre and crime, for the inglement of
---.-- and material, and suite which the sitting magistrate which, though not actual participation therein, erchdon was
DUN =O DEN'S GOLD In ABD GRAINS. . pronounced to be " too good," but which were again 1 triad and executed. The question then will be, ceubj
gamier do otherwise than remit the prisoner
------------------------------ torn up in the same workhouse on the day the cut- 1 the
Milt BROODIZMOOLD ALBERT CHAINS . / . to the jurisdiction prevailing in that district, where
I prits were discharged from prison, have been tried the slaughter had been committed? If this be the
'in vain, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion I the whole, oharge of Illegality fells to the ground. Of
1 rdon,
übt. so far as th
He seemse Past has seen, there
have been the oho
iefan
arrived at by our authorities, that the punishment the guilt of Go
at present awarded is altogether inadequate to the ecerosly
be a do to
offence, conspirator, and to have been constantlythos consulted by
who actually participated in the musters at Monist
We may here add that at the workhousesAd
dnot • doubt
where it is the custom to fumigate the ooanseBay. there i 4
ed
Red tke iatens tebfatehheewwhais aware tor
eeo
1 vagrants' clothee when vermin-ridden, there Beams, on the 26th of December next. P°P
to be less clothes-tearing than elsewhere. Upon The news by the Cuban particularly mentions the eaten•
inquiry yesterday evening at those of St. Martin's- Hoe of Mfr. Lawrence, overseer of Mr. Gordon's property of
in-the-Fields and St. George's, Hanover-square, at the Rhine, and also the execration of Mr. Samuel Clarke.
both of which the tramps' garments are baked and The Star informs us that Clatke, who wale • person of pod-
purified when necessary, we learnt that instances of tioe and influence, wee chairman of a meting last June, at
clothes-tearing were comparatively rare. Of course "" eh°ented werstgivwein.for the
.Queen, and at which he west
this fact does not bear upon the scoundrels who out iaLltmn in tothinwaicountry,
anopterihea
gnotgvanernoPtar pastor welt
wit.
of sheer wantonness destroy the suits provided them; resolutions of the meeting. On the let of November
but when the unbearable filth and discomfort of he was tied op and publicly flogged for losubordi-
the vagrants' rags are considered, It seems desirable nation, in other words, it is supposed, for denying
that, aa fur as possible, means should be taken to the right of a court-martial to hold him in custody.
prevent their clothing being a torture. Not very or to try him ihn any m
was t, Inner fTherea allegedoffence.LaThe
long ago we were at the Bow-street police-OSn), when charge
riot he"entreated. and-
mme
even.
that eon the morning of the
a constable brought word that a man was lying 'dolma Dr. Major, who lives at Rhine, not to go to lament
completely naked on the pavement of the dark Bey ; and after the doctor's departure he wrote later in the
arches in the Adelphi, and that he (the constable) day, and in all probability after he had heard something
had humanely but unavoidably " giv' him leave to of what had been enacted, to Mrs. Major, stating that the
lie there" until some rude coverieg could be sent Doctor would be quite safe, bet he was afraid that Bares
motion/dr.:eh
hisellletten
todwoomedo
for and the shivering wretch be taken to the nearest "d Orden. on tathleaslininderbill
workhouse. Further, the description recently meetings, wee held to be conclusive evidence. His desire
given us, by Mr. Superintendent Durkin, of the to prevent Dr. Major from going to a place where it was
condition of the clothes torn up, went far to rob known the people were excited, and rioting was likely to
malignity ; and as one of the take place, and his subsequent endeavours to cu the fears
the offence of its of a lady, were, in the eyes of the mart-martial, diabolical
great grievances of the St. James's-park keepers
is that the vagrants frequenting their domain
crimes'
swarm with insects which creep from their
bodies to the grass, the apparent madness
for clothes-tearing has perhaps more method
in it than clean and well-dressed readers might sup-
pose. Still it is essential that it should be put
down, and if it be found necessary to alter the
form of punishment awarded it, care should be
taken to discriminate bet ween the blitz kguard whode-
stroys out of sheer spite and the poor wretch who
has been driven half mad by the unceasing worry
of his unwelcome parasites.
The variation in the number of applicants at the
different workhouses is as great as ever. The num-
bers at Marylebone we have already given. While
St. Martin's was all but full on the night of our
visit, St. George's had more than 50 per cent. of
its beds for males vacant ; and while—and this
anomaly is as striking to us as ever—during last
week 93 men were housed at Bermondsey, but
eight men were sheltered at St. Olave's, a couple of
streets off. It is by the way somewhat singular,
after the severe strictures which were necessarily
passed upon the Bermondsey board, that their
casual wards should now be quoted as favourable
specimens of their class. Yet so much is this the
case that a country board of guardians have within
the last few days applied for particulars, that they
may frame their tramp wards on the model of the
new one at Bermondsey.

IRILLND.
The Times criticises the arrangements at Richmond
&kiwi'', in Dublin, which it says is believed to be a nest
of Fenian'. It yea high time that the prisoners should be
removed from it. The scheme found in the pocket of the
patriotic young lawyer's clerk, Mr. Alfred Aylward, being
draws up in • moment of convivial excitement, may not
express the real purposes of the Fenian loaders ; but it is at
List not more absurd than others which have been made
known, or than that which is being carried into practice at
the Fenian Capitol in New York. Thee atima all seem
men of pretty much the came stamp. are O'llahonys,
Labys, and Aylwards multiplied indefioitely. Each is very
paltry in himself, but, unfortunately, Ireland possesses so
many thousand specimens of the race that their combine.
Lion may be exceedingly troublesome to the cause of peace
and order.
The Herald is gratified to see that few of the well-to-do
climes would have anything to do with this movement,
but clung to the aide of the government even when the
government seemed to have deserted them. The rebellious
principle in Ireland remains a mere residuum at the bottom
of Irish society. Thu Herald expects little from Mr.
Fartescue, whom it describes as belonging to the
milk-and-water school in polities, but thinks that
from the plethora of Irish legal advice now at the command
of the governmeot, some good ought to come. When was
it before that the Attorney-General. the Solicitor-General
and tbs law adviser to the castle, were all able to take
their seats together on the Treasury bench There can be
no excuse for the retention of bad or unsuitable laws on
the statute book,'with so;many legal heads laid together to
mend them.
The Post has Donis recount of the treatmoct of Fenian-
ism by the Canadian press and Canadian politicians like Mr.
McGhee. It is confident that the movement will soon cease
to trouble the people of Canada. It may, indeed, have one
good effect, namely, that of urging forward the confedera-
tion project. A great reaction ham taken place in New
Brunswick in regard to that question, and there is now
every reason to expect that before the close of the next
session of the Imperial Parliament an act will be passed
consolidating into one powerful confederacy the whole of
British North America.

1118CSLLANZOOS Toms.
The Times invites attention to the extraordinary demands
for money for productive or unproductive expenditure which
within a day or two of one another have been made upon
English capital. Apart also from our numberless projects
at home, which have the redeeming merit that they are de-
signed to be reproductive, we Sod Austria just *egotist.
ing a loan of 10,077,0001. ; a loan in Italy is regarded
as inevitable ; the Pope is about to raise 2,000,000/.
sterling upon a mortgage of eoslosiasticsl property ;
Spain will doubtless attempt to obtain indirectly
what cannot be got at directly Sweden has
borrowed 1,350.0001., it is pleasant to believe, for the par.
pose of completing her system of railways; and Turkey an.
Deana* a fresh loan of 6,000,0001. contracted with the
Credit Mobilise on terms more excessive than any which
the Sublime but unfortunate Porte has yet been forced to
wept. Probably Russia will soon reappear, sad M. Fould
mast soon have to borrow money for the imperial protege
in Mexico. These borrower, scattering the produce they
have not amassed, keep up the rate of interest, embarrass
the operations of trade, retard the progress of manufactures,
and depress the (condition of the labourer. The capital
which would have been devoted to fresh production and
the improvement of the state of the industrial classes is
wasted in military shows abroad, or is wore than wasted
in the maintenance of injustice and oppression. We suffer,
but the effects on the nations themselves are far more de.
plorabie.
The Daily News fiods gloomy symptoms for the Emperor
Maximilian in the continued resistance of bands of na-
tionalier, and in the fact that where his empire touches
on the frontier of the United States it can hardly call a
town its own for one week after another. If it were true
that the Emperor bad resolved to withdraw his troops from
the outlying portions of his territory, and that the Em-
prams Charlotte, to whose ambition the acceptance of the
Mexican throne was chiefly due, intended to return to
Europe, this could only signify that Maximilian was pre.
paring to retire with all the honours of war. The French
people will one of these days wake up to find that President
Johnson's government, though it has no desire to precipitate
events, iofiexibly adheres to the doctrine that European in.
terventioo ill the affairs of any independent American
nitre is au attack upon the security and independence of
the United States.
The Times fears that the preliminary report of the com-
mittee appointed to investigate the affairs of the Great
Eastern Railway Company is little calculated to restore the
confidence of the shareholders. It is impossible that such
disclosures should not involve changes in the direction.
The Times presumes that the report will be discussed at
the special meeting of the Great Eastern Railway Company
which has been convened for the 13th of December, to
authorise the two measures recommended by the com-
mittee.

THE MELTING OF PARLIAMENT. —The following
royal pro:lamed appears en lest evening's Gazette :—By
the Quems.—A Proclamation—Vietoria, Whereu our
parliament stands prorogued to Thursday, the 28th day of
December instant, we, with the advice of our privy council,
do hereby publish and declare that the said parliament
shall be further prorogued on the said 28th day of Decem-
ber instant, to Thursday, the Ist day of February next ;
and we have given order to oar Chancellor of that part of
our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a writ
patent for proroguing the same accordingly ; and we do
hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal
will and ple mire that the sad parliament shall, on the said
Thursday, the lot day of February next, assemble and be
holds° for the despatch of divers urgent and important
affairs ; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the
knights, citizens, and burgewes, and the commissioners for
shires and burghs of the House of Commoos, aro hereby re-
quired and commanded to give their attendance accordingly
at Weetminiter, oe the said Thursday, the lit day of Feb-
emery next. Gives at our court at Windsor this sth day
of December, is the year of oar Lord 1865, and in the
, 29th year of our reign. God save the Quiet.
Tai RZPRZEILNTAT lON or Lzom IoNSTEIL. —Mr.
°Aherne Hardy, who at she last electioe was returned
both for the Usiversity of Oxford and the borough of Leo-
mauler, has elected to sit for the university, and Mr.
&shard drkwright, a gentleman of some local intimate,
him been introdueed as the conservative candidate for Lee-
mineter.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EN'NG• DECEMBER 6, 1865

LATZIOX INTICIALIGENUE.
UTTER OF ARMiIt*AL PAEJA TO THE
ENGLISH MINISTER AT CHILI.
The Madrid Epoca of Saturday publishes a note
addressed on the 12th of October by Admiral Pareja
to the English minister at Chili, relative to the
bombardment of Valparaiso. The minister ap-
pears to have written to him that he could not
believe that Valparaiso, where the greater part of
the property belongs to foreigners, and whose
warehouses contain almost exclusively merchan-
dise belonging to English subjects, would be
bombarded. The Spanish admiral replies that it
is for him to interpret the instructions of his go-
vernment, and that if a proper warning is given to
neutrals to remove their eflecta, it is an incontes-
table right of belligerents to resort to bombard-
ment. He cautions the foreign merchants, there-
fore, to take needful precautions for their own pro-
tection, mit may be that under his instructions he
may be called upon to attack everything belonging
to the republic.

(mwrsa's miasma.)
AMERICA.
ARRIVAL
SH OFINGTON. THE CITY OF
W
(Via tßoolto's Point.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 25, Moasmo.
The New York Times says that the Federal
government have no ground for demanding the
surrender of the crew of the Shenandoah. The
American consul's acceptance of the surrender of
the Shenandoah as a war vessel precludes the
Federal government from complaining against the
British authorities for discharging the crew.
The recruiting superintendent of Pennsylvania
has been ordered to despatch 450 cavalry recruits
to the department of the Gulf.
The Governor of Alabama, in his message to the
Legislature, urges the adoption of the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery, and the passage of
a clause for the protection of negroes.
President Johnson has informed the Governor of
Mississippi that the Federal troops will be with-
drawn as soon as it is manifest that peace and order
can be maintained without them. Measures should
be adopted to give freedmen the necessary protec-
tion to enable them to assume all their constitu-
tional rights.
The Governor of Mississippi, in his message to
the Legislature, recommends that negro testimony
be received in the Courts of Justice, and that
measures be passed for the protection of negroes,
and for the taxation of negroaa, to support vagrant
blacks. Re approyed the adoption of a special
code for their government.
The Governor of Louisiana has called a special
session of the Legislature to elect members to Con-

SPAIN.

by which the decree oi the Sib of September last,
prohibiting the importation of such domestic
saimals as might cause the introduction of conta-
gious typhus into France is extended to all quadru-
peds, with the exception of horses, asses, mules,
and dogs.

MADRID, Dec. 6.
Reductions in the expenditure for the (*Nation
of the indirect taxes and for the administration of
justice have been decided uvon by the government.
The post of Director-General of the Lotteries,
with the staff attached thereto, is suppressed.
The Patric and the Correspondencia state that
the Queen will only return to Madrid sifter her
oonfinement, and therefore will not be present at
the opening of the Cortes.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL
(Adore Lord Chelmsford. Sir J. Coleridge , Sir F., Nroeia
Williams, sad Sir J. Colville.)
Slra Qumni O. DALLDIO3Z.--1112 " GOLD FTILDS" Or
AUSTILAILL.
This ease, whioh was sr:Witted to isvolve au imp
ostsm
qs.itica to the righte of tbe erown in the 'ruts lash
of Australia, was renamed this zooruing.
Q.C., for the respondents, addressed thatlordships, sad oostended that the mown had no poet: to
m o pesos to whom a lore hod been promised,
Toobject of the legislature was to ipvt encoursgmot
to the parties to cohost* the mote bode sod to too
them In
possessioof Newca
stle " 711147 Indeed the lump
of the Duke of in his despatch was to that
effect.
Lord Chelmsford said they bad to decide on the leo
question, and not on the words ci the Duke of Newcastle.
Mr. Bovill said be bad only used the despatch Woos.
firm his point. The learned counsel urged that the teal
legislature could only deal with " waste lands," mg
with legal rights.
will
The Attosser General reply, aid the rase will as
espy the day, if not longer.

oes fee the orirstetzsa
:Zoe nessiov•d • great desl of so.
nosived
—.0,48 daring the eighteen innT

1011111'
OS wee the plaintiff's Ceir Theo
baring addreasad
B ertmint Bellantine less b
boor $e rid it wee • lennint•bl
kae. defende
o esnts bad anti.
wee
dltty to no
.eugger
1080,,Lbsimin.• ooTotgat="4.
bad wtth candour and
•76,- aa abe or" end it WU to
01 Oro elt9l adopted in es
obi aed sasor.•
iraooN'ation fo
•riWwr
ssa winp when I I
tbs claim was sr
rishrar. °miaowed it t`,
to have itinvestigstad
Milos did not dad mar
did rem strange to the delft
te mike 800. a yes; and it t
got is estimating that return there
sot, they bad merely to
it was f ben that a man of the
aloft& Add° is UN and if be t
mit rim gemerally fell to otliL
of obscurity Th
siusonadill
eis e y
6.l.istirs
6int sod no=oredirmation
Ws soy easily obtained if true.
lots or Mr. William= had r.
ybot were the net profits on the
Ises bad with them. 0110 of
gay eampealss had toft deal with w
dot ears winds lip than. Mei
goo without Imitation they ntati
gai speasation ; but there
ggidtarsy to have invatigetal
lC
rasa* was one of them.
the Lord Mid Julio* slid the
bendak°!_alt inquiry offios. and
elms rota not tallow it to eel
tfor thorn, but whet we
e of the sooident, and
diva receive for the ice of by
a Joshed been put to in cow
The *Miter about tweats •
based a verdict for the plaintiff

COURT SAND!
C
Swags at Nisi Prise in Midi
Dyke aad • Con
lasi.upat o
This was interpleader isms t
sow property belonged to the
ky whom they had been seized
Kr. Earns appeared for the
Eladel Atkinson for the doled d
This plaintiff wee • widow.
1
bee ma wee a cab proprietor
mews. ger cam wee that In 1
ia three cams, 2001., at
guestkm, and afterwards eut
nristens was that plait ii
Mot it wee extremely immol
the 2301., sad an alleged eon
effect that the plaintiff's
auditors.
ail lordship maid that he dl
se to this anirerestion was re
that the plaintiff had to pay f
lease, that her takings was
ma that she had six children
heeds; upon the probable to
The jury fogad for the deg

COURT OF PROBK
(Before the Ji
ealamst AND ONININT
Kersleke, and
tiffs ; I[r.lidlestoe, Q.(
isfeadeets.
The dadendente propoondi
sf Deessabff, 1863. by Karl
Wllleakell, Staffordshire,
timber, 1864. Probate was
&lOW of the de
=seof nudes execuVot
The lesdater La his yonti
*ewes, sad such like artu
some a manufacturer of h
left property worth about
maa, sad given to drink.
sad the female plaintiff
sosiesetion. In 1863 1
eassad wife, who accepted
break himself of his intern
do so, but be did not kat p
log ho went to Birmiughsi
rtam tremens, and was
20 days. After this he real
will dividing his propsair
bat in the year followist, I
named Grinffey. It was
&II the testator say
ia 1863 the Grinder' de.%
pretence that his dsoBt
attempted to make him si
glided that this made 111,n
mite the will before the
wagger shoat 3W. a ysar
(The case bed not made
Pim)

COURT 01
(Baton pti

iU irrsviste.—
The bankrupt, Janne
Cit GoatTelt-rcad, !Chu
was one of the ,4
Company (Limited).
Minos and the caste
" oonsequence of
a director of the
(Limited), now in pr
the Court of Chan,
sampany being of ''
unless at a sacrifice, s'
emitters of the compan
prolimioary statement .
IS ecommt of the temp
about 20,0001. The ler
American Finsnelal Cor
shames the 84rend Ms
mine of 30,000/. blew
of Houndediteb, are cri
motes of the bankrapt /4,

This was the Ent si
tads, and Kr. WWI
esSimae, Mr. Riau]
VIS promedfuti.
(Before ld
131 ILZ J. C. SHACILLIT
The bankrupt, John
unrehant of BotolDb
directors of the Strand
mitred the mum of lit
'l%4lSi:rand Idualeal•
hem induced to =eke
Puy to upwards of lh
Me said company hay
till the Strand Yawl
realise more than thc
Bible." The liabilit,
Steveos's cam. Ti.•
riain Company is ate,
eorepaoy to the auto.
This was the &Wiwi
nem The earns men
Mr. Saffery, the •
sPPoinied the solicit

MIDDL

Henry Parker, 1 i
indicted for Stealing
id Silvio Davie.

levity of the mirth,.
Guilty ; wed the ot.
Fir* him the bow-
led wish your ler&
Hodgkimou
The Foreman of
Yr. Payne wan
Parker.

Mter the two pr
The Foreman ea
had what we OA
about the irmoconc
&en him the bet
etrougly to reprimi
The prisoners
aosir .

Payne (BAdr
tbongh they have
lave a very strong
Irish to vire you
at the same time.
yrryetrong swirl
to give you a cell
bring yea here ibit.
Preßllolll upon it.
?0, robbed 0(11

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Wu, womb, troy
may redeem year
11110 Spa, yen will
taa*wk sad beh

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