The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

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nada and Mexico, for perraii liberty of warship'
in those countries, are kngipn eapbout the git-
tholic world. King Vic-ron EMMANUEL is in a like
situation, obnoxious to exactly the same denuncia-
tions—a ruler who has forgotten his highest duty,
and who robs the Church of her rights by the
licence he allows to heretics. The priests denounce
this liberty as a wrong done to Gon. The favourite
text is brought out, to be perverted for the ten-
thousandth time : " Who will rise up for me against
" the evil doers I Who will stand up for me against
" the workers of iniquity Y " The preacher is
eloquent, the people are superstitions, and haply
burdened with the recollection of peoosdilloes
which may be expiated by zeal. The rest follows
naturally, and in due time we get a story like that
which has now come from Barletta.

We pity the victims of fanaticism, and we do
well : let us also pity the fanatics, who are them-
selves in turn victims of the ignorance in which
they have been reared. Their deeds shock us by
their grossness, and yet it may be that, having re-
gard to the measure of light vouchsafed to them,
they are not more guilty than some nearer to us,
who, without their excuse, act as if Heaven
were pleased to see men inflicting punishment on
those who differ from them as to its will. If the
penalties which, in the form of social exclusion,
political disability, and pecuniary tributes, we
maintain against certain classes of religionists have
not even the excuse of this error, then we have
little reason to pique ourselves on our moral
superiority ever the authors of these outrages at
Barletta.

OUR OONTFAPORARIEB.
(T 111.3 DA.I.)

TM; DISTI7III4I.IICIII IM JAMAICA.

After giving a summary of the main facts com-

militated by its canespeadeat in the last intelligence
from Jeassiea, the rinse says most of the of foes °ones:nod
in mitring down the rebellion have new had the opportu-
nity of telling their own story. Upon the whole, they ap•
pear ease esneisteat with each other, and iadicata less
dimpocidea to Meaty everything nailer the plea of military
seamanly than we might have expected. There are many
meamptione in them, however, w►ich no civilian, still
lem a lawyer, can possibly aceept, and some explicit or im-
plied admissions 'click aompromiw indirida.ls very deeply
If it should ultimately prove that the allows bad really
exaggerated their own misdeeds, to piste. the Jamaica
publis, sr their military superiors, it will be a great relief
to the English public, which bee felt tie shame of them
refleated oa itself. Upon this question we met await the
sordid of the communion ; but, whatever that may he. no
amends hosorobk will be due to the feeling. of persona who
tins mistake crimes far merits, sad credit themselves with
revolting Wastes* end amity until made to understand
that people at ►ems regard each actions with horror.

The Daily Saes, Risme*, ansiyaing the evidence of the /
alms, seas up by saving :—lt is now for governmeat to
determine wheelers. oaken of either service who could be
guilty of aria not merely of indiscretion, but of oold-
blooded malicious nevagery, are proper persons to hold her
Majesty's onandesioa. We have now the explanations of
the officers inculpated, and it is tints to mak whether more
evidenes an be needed than their sown admission. Per if
snob men remain in the army and navy, those services ca
which we all look with national and social pride, whose
hotter... has as yet bees uninspeached. whose gal-
lantry sad gentleness here been unstained, most
bear the reproach of sheltering nem who have
ordered women to be flogged ; who paraded flea, eon-
, damned and uscoodearaed, to witness executions ; who
bribed a wife to betray her father to the gallows with the
lure of her hasbead's life ; who held rep for imitation by
their subordinates the sample of a brother officer who was
" kerning like fee and whe did all this amidst a popu-
lation unfeminine& dimmed, abjectly suing for mercy.
Referring to the act of indemnity paved by the Jamaica
legislature the Daily News rays the English nation cannot
be parties to murderers sad women-doggers pardoning
themselves, and then coming home to smile triumpbaatly
at our futile indignation ant our vain appeal to the out-
raged conitit tine.
The Herald, while justifying the conduct of the govern-
ment and the officers generally, does not deny that there
have been eases in which officers or private soldiers engaged
in vindicating the law have olmmitted 'eta of unnecessary
severity—perhape of wanton cruelty. Every mail from
Jamaica serves to strengthm the conviction of the Herald
that these instances we. e few acid Tara With the solitary
exception of the charge of murder brought against the Pro-
vost Marshal, Ramsay, about which it reserves its eoliths.,
these gravamina, as a/siost white mite, appear to the
Herald to resolve themselves into allegetions of unnecessary
severity, deserving, perhaps, of reprim sad, but in no point
of view eirAstel.

Be the victims ton- hundrA or three thousand, says the
Tekprapd, the question renew whether any of them were
put to death midst tlr. illotality does not depend epos
arithmetic. Stem and inexvible should be the punish-
ment for murder, reline, and revolt ; nor are we amoegst
then who would have shuddered at even a larger weed of
retribution, had th I guilt of all who suffered been clearly
pretext. Bat we eaueot, f r the very credit of oar nee and
name, to nay nothing of at '1 highs r coesideratione, tolerate
tuts of melte' or savagrry which Walt be natural enough
in Hayti tr Dahomel . Happily, the number of women
dogged, like that of moo shot or hanged, proves to have
bees flagrantly era 'grated ; but the dogging of women at
all—under any csocreinble riremostanoss whataoever—is
an outrage upon oer own manhoo I, and an offence against
the eiviliastioa whose mi,isrers we sr,. Again, the muti-
liana of Vie des I—w t one not on what plea—le utterly
and absolute' y able rent to our inducts.
Another heavy Ira I of Janatcs evident*, writes the Star,
has been laid upon the national consciences. Fiat, martial
law was proclaimed bemire of unsupported allegations of
oonspiracy, and when procaimei it was interpreted by the
commode, of the sores* to mean that the whole popula-
tion were to be deemed rebels till they proved the ',pu-
trefy. No wonder that Warn of the direst cruelty flowed
from each a spr ng. It wiol he the duty of the home go-
Viesll2lllll, le trace the eel to irs fountain heed. They
mud introit the mercers of oar eolocies that they are
sot only is avid sots of trutaity which lower us to the
level of sarapety, but te guard seams: any infringement
of note dirty-bonght mistimes of persoeal liberty and
civil wepanibility whieb, wherever the Brach flag dies,
are the birtbright of her Majesty's subjects.