The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1867.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONEL—WEDNVIDAY, APRIL 10.
IN the kito se of eommoss, yesterday, after
our report left, the Mints, &c., Assessment Bill
was read a second time, and referred to a select
committee.

On the order of the day for going into com-
mittee on the Tests Abolition (Oxford) Bill,
. .

Mr. FAIVOETT moved that it be an instruction to
the committee that they have power to extend the
provisions of the bill to the University of Cam-
bridge. He said his desire was to put Cambridge
on the same footing as the bill proposed to place
Oxford. Although nonounformists were permitted
to take the M. A. degree at Cambridge, it was prac-
tically a barren distinction, and nonconformists
who had taken it considered it perfectly valueless.

Mr. SELWYN Raid it was vet:), inconvenient to
have to discuss this subject in this manner, but it
might have the advantage of revealing the true
character of this measure, which had been soiNe-
what misunderstood in conselnence of a speech
from Mr. Gladstone. Since the act passed in 1850
admitting dissenters to Cambridge, the university
had fairly and freely admitted nonoonformista to
their colleges, their scholarships, and to all their
prizes. They had reserved only that which the
legislature reserved—namely, the governing body—
which was reserved to members of the church. And
they had admitted not only dissenters and catho-
lies, but Jews, and in their examinations had even
granted certificates to the fair sex. He denied that
there was any grievance ; and he combated the
argument that the universities were national insti-
tutions in the sense that the house could subvert
their constitution.

Mr. NE:ATl:considered that though the legisla-
tion might be different as affected the colleges of
the two universities, the legislation as to the uni-
versities themselves ought to be identical.

Mr. GLaDerrowe thought this was a question
that ought notto be dealt with by partial legislation,
and he had not been able to support this bill on
that ground, independent of the further ground
that he did not find in the bill a settlement of the
religious question. It seemed to him that the
whole of the religious question ought to be dealt
with, both for the colleges and the two universities
alike, and therefore he was prepared to vote for
the instruction.

Mr. B. HOPE said the instruction would place
Cambridge on the same footing as the future Ox-
ford which the right hon. gentleman would bring
them to, and to that he would never consent.
. .

Mr. COLERIDGE reminded the house that they
were not considering the principle of the bill, but
simply whether the instruction should be agreed to.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE said, inasmuch as he had
given notice of amendments which would restrict
the operation of the bill, and as this instruction
would enlarge it, he must vote against the bill.
Mr. Hara.sv opposed the instruction, as did also
Mr. NEW Deters, who objected to fuistingliberalism
on the university.
On a division, the instruction was carried by 253
to 166.

The house then went into committee on the bill,
and negatived an amendment moved by Sir W.
11xsautxrre, to insert the words " except being or
becoming a member of the convocation of the said
university ;" and the other clauses having been
agreed to, with the necessary alterations to make
it apply also to Cambridge, the bill passed through
committee.

Mr. BEATE moved the second reading of the
Associations of Workmen Bill. He said by a recent
judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench it had
been decided that trades unions were in restraint of
trade, and were therefore illegal. In consequence
of this they were deprived of the right which they
had before practically exercised of proceeding sum-
marily before a magistrate against any defaulting
office bearer of their associations. The object.of the
bill was to give them that right.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the bill,
because by it the sanction of the legislature to •
past and continued violation of the law would be
obtained. if the particular rules which made the
societies illegal were repealed, the societies might
be placed under the Friendly Societies Act.
Mr. T. EII7I:HE2I said the remedy the Attorney-
General proposed was absolutely impracticable.
The members of these societies considered their
societies were legalised by that act, and they left
off their old system. At present in every large
town in the kingdom there were large sums in the
hands of the treasurers of the societies,
against whom if they were defaulters there
was now no legal remedy. He appealed
to the house whether it would leave these societies
in this state, and warned them that if they did
they would cause a feeling that they were unjustly
dealt with to rise in the minds of the members of
those societies, numbering hundreds of thousands
of persons. All that was asked was that these
funds should be protected.
Mr. F. POWELL opposed the bill, though he
thought the case of the Friendly Societies Act
ought to be fairly considered by parliament.
Mr. MILL said if he were a party man he should
be delighted at the course the government had
taken on this bill. A mine had been sprung upon
these societies by an unlooked-for declaration of
the law, and the only equitable and moral course
to pursue was to leave the matter in the state in
which it was before that declaration was made till
the whole subject could be legislated upon.
Mr. BARROW said the object of the bill was to
give these societies, which had been trading on false
pretences, aright which they never had. The hon.
gentleman proceeded with his objections to the bill
until the clock pointed to a quarter to six, when, by
the rules of the house, the matter dropped, and
the house adjourned almost immediately afterwards.

THE REFORM LEAO CE. —Last nights meeting of
representatives of Reform League branches and trades dele-
gates was held at the Sussex-hall, Bouverie-street, under
the chairmanship of Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson. Mr.
Odgers proposed the following resolution :—" That, in the
opinion of this meeting, the government having declared
their intention of upholding the rating suffrage and two
years' residence, have rendered the bill entirely unsatisfac-
tory, and that we cannot regard any proposition as satis-
fying the demands of working men unless the compound
householder and lodger be recognised as citizens and en-
dowed as such with the elective franchise." Mr. Davis
seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr.
Malthorne, and agreed to. Mr. Cremer introduced a repo-
' lution to the effect that a vigilance committee beappointed
to act during the time the House of Commons is engaged
in committee on the Reform Bill, for the purpose of
scrutinising the action and votes of the members, also to
consider the action and character of the various amend-
ments of which notice has or may be given, and that the
committee be empowered to convene at any time a
general meeting should it become necessary to take active
steps to give effect to the wishes of the people on the bill
now before the house. The resolution was agreed to went
eon. Mr. Bannister brought forward a resolution in favour
of holding open air reform meetings during the Easter
holidays. The proposition was condemned as seeking by a
" aide wind "to secure the holding of a reform meeting on
Good Friday in violation of the promise made by Mr.
Beales to Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Gladstone. The
consideration of the matter was ultimately adjourned for a
week.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—Yesterday, in Mr. Dedson's committee of the House of
Commons, the subjoined bills were passed through :—The
Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway ; the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway; the Devon and
Somerset (Deviation) Railway ; the Newry and Armagh
Railway ; and the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway.
The Thames Navigation Bill was passed by the oomndttee
in Group 0. In Group 3, the committee proceeded with
the further consideration of the Ilfracombe Railway, the
Devon and Somerset (Extension) Railway, the Devon and
Somerset, and Bristol and Exeter Railway, and the Devon
and Somerset Railway Bills.)

THE GREAT EASTERN.—lntelligence was yester-
day received in Liverpool to the effect that the Great
Eastern bad arrived at New York the previous day, in com•
palsy with the Inman Company's steamer City of Antwerp,
which left Liverpool the day after the big ship. Consider•
iug that the Great Eastern had new screw boilers and a
new eccentric paddle shaft, the trip out to New York is as
favourable as could Lave been expected under the circum-
stances.

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f4TOMACII, 111111 liver, curing dyanepaia
flan', constipation, dmrllnca, acidity. headache, neuralgia. hys-
teria, palpitation, sleeplessness, debility, waging, cough,
annals. fevers, conouniption. low virile, 40.000 annual cures
which had roxinted an medicines, including that of Ala liolinese
tba Pope —Tina, at la. lid.: lib , 2a. Vd. 12Th. 22a. ; tab.. 40s.
—Du Barry and iteguntbireet. London ; also at Fortnum
and 11,won's; and at ul, firamcburchwireet : 4, Chenpaide
and lte), oxford uncut; and all grucars and elatuuts.--(Adver-
iissaacat.)

THE TRIAL OF GENERAL NELSON AND
LIEUTENANT BRAND.

CHARGE OK LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoCKLURN.

After our report left yesterday,
The learned Lord Chief Justice proceeded to say
that, to his profound astonishment, he hail lately
read in print • statement that Petition of Right
was of no efficacy beyond the shores of Great Britain,
and hail no application to the niartial law pro—
claimed by the Governor of Jamaica. Whoever wrote
that statement must have wholly niiscontrued the character
of that statute. The Petition of Right was not an enacting
statute. but put a limit to the preram. tive of the crown,
and declared what was the law and constitution of this
oonntry. It expounded the common law of England,
which was tipplicable, as he had already shown, to the
colony of Jamaica. Military writers hail asserted that
what was called maned law could be arbitrarily mita-
blished and enforced ; but for the most part they hail
been misled by an erroueons reading of Blackstone. It
was true that the Irish statute of 1798 gave statutory
power to proclaim martial law in that country, and this
was recited as an " undoubted power ; am! the English
statute passed in 11432, for the continuance of martial law
in Ireland. did the same in strong tenni', reciting the
" acknowledged " power of the crown to exercise that
right. But it must be r.ineuthered that this was
not an enacting or declaratory statute, but merely
a reservation made by parliamentary authority of
he crown's nrerogative ; and he concluded that the pro-
visions of these statute* were of far miter weight than
the mere opinions of learned but nut judicial persons.
But undoubtedly there hail been nojudeial decision on the
subject of this conflict of opinion; and further, he hail
not had the advantage of hearing the questioniargned and
discussed by members of the bar, and hence he felt that
he had a most difficult duty to perform. Further, his
learned colleagues were absent on circuit, and it was only
yesterday that he had been able to have the advantage of
consulting the learned and experienced judge who now set
by his side. Rut it would be for the grand jury, first, to say
whether martial law could be proclaimed in Jamaica by
the governor standing in the position of the sovereign ;
and next, whether, under the authority of the tribunal,
constituted by that proclamation. the putting to death
of Mr. Gordon was justified. Next they would have
to consider whether, t-tippoiting there watturisiliction, the
putting a man to death under such circum-
stances would oonstitute the crime of wilful murder.
Supposing there was no jurisdiction at all, and that the
judicial functions had been exercised by persona having no
authority, and life wait taken, then in point of law that
would undoubtedly be murder, for it wan murder to put a
man to death without justification. But when such an
act was done under a wrong notion of the possession of
jurisdiction and bona fide, although it might not be
murder, still, if such were the views of the grand jury,
the justification of the act ought to be made before a
jury of the countrymen of those who had taken upon
themselves • jurisdictinu they did not peeress, and who
under it had put to death one of the subjects of the
Queen. Such was both the common and the statute law
of England ; and Fr a thorough wrongful jurisdiction was
exercised it deprived the crown of its brightest preroga-
tive—the prerogative of mercy, which would be put an end
to. But it seemed that the Jamaica Act of 1780, for calling
out the militia in that island, enabled the governor,
if necessary, to proclaim martial law ; and
so also did the Colonial Militia Act of 1645, passed
in the ninth year of the reign of the present Queen.
Now it could not be forgotten that in no colony had the
mine of slavery been so severely felt. Mr. Montgomery
Martin, in his History of the Colonies," stated es
approved authority that between the settlement of the
colony and the year 1832, a period of 154 years, there had
been no less than 28 insurrectious of the negroes, being an
average of one insurrection in every 34 years, and that
these had been put down with • degree of violence and
barbarity at which any man may well shudder. In 1760
no less than 1,000 negroes were executed, or put to
slaughter of every kind and description, under martial
law ; and in the rebellion of 1831-2 • vast amount of exe-
cutions was made, and punishments of the most ex-
treme severity were resorted to ; and therefore it might
be taken that, according to the views of the inhabitants,
the governor had authority to proclaim and enforce
martial law under the statutes to which he had already
alluded. He now came to another branch of the subject,
namely, whether the late Mr. George William Gordon was
amenable to the jurisdiction of the court-martial who tried
him, supposing they possessed lawful jurisdiction. On
this point he reminded the grand jury that Kingston,
where Mr. Gordon resided and had a placed business, was
exempted from the proclamation, and that hearing that
warrants were out against him after the outbreak, he pre-
sented himself at the residence of the commander-in-chief
(General O'Connor) to give himself up, and there he was
arrested by the governor and the cantos of the parish,
taken on board a war steamer, and conveyed to Morant
Bay, where martial law was in force, and a tribunal ready
to receive him. Ho doubted the authority of the Fovern or
or costae to make the arrest, and he was of opinion that,
having arrested him, they ought, instead of taking him to
Morant Bay, to have handed him over to a civil tribunal,
which could have been found in Kingston. The governor and
custos were not military authorities, and their taking him to
Morant Bay to be tried by a court-martial was a wholly
unjustifiable proceeding on their part, and raised the im-
pression that this course was taken because it was thought
they could not obtain his conviction before • properly
constituted civil tribunal. Now as to the constitution
of the court by which he was tried. By its constitution,
consisting as it did of one naval and two military officers,
it was of such a mixed nature that it was null
and void, and was not a properly constituted tri-
bunal. lie now came to the evidence on which Gordon
had been convicted, and which was remarkable for its
inconclusiveness, and was utterly worthless. He had
before him the record of the proceedings, and was deeply
grieved to have to all attention to this ppart of the case,
which was of such jnfinite gravity. His lordship then read
in extenso the whole of the evidence taken beforethe court.
martial, and at its conclusion remarked that depositions had
been received from absent witnesses, and taken behind
the back and in the absence of the accused ;
which were totally inadmissible as evidence in •
properly-constituted court of justice, honestly desirous of
discharging its duty. It was, however, for tLe grand jury
to say whether Mr. Gordon ought to have been convicted
on the evidence which he had read to them. It was for
them to say whether what wag done had been honestly
done. In his letter s and publications he (the thief
Justice) could not find anything which indiaatedany inten-
tion to promote an insurrection. On the contrary, the do-
'temente indicated that he was • MA of rr Intention

cumuli; inclicateu t......, -
was the very essence of crime, and there was an absence of
proof of any such intention as was ascribed to him ; and
on the whole in his case there had been a lamentable
miscarriage of justice. He bad now done his best to
discharge the arduous duty he had undertaken. and it
now devolved upon the grand jury to discharge theirs.
Three cad events had occupied a large portion of the
public time and of the public attention, and few
persona had not felt an interest in the ample dis-
cussions which had taken place upon them, and no
doubt persons had adopted different views. On the
one hand, it was thought by some that the course
taken in Jamaica was a scandal and a reproach on those
who were concerned in the tortures which were inflicted,
and was a reproach on the very name of England. On the
other hand it was put that if this insurrection had been
permitted to take its course, it would have been attended
with consequences so horrible to contemplate, that any
means for its suppiession and extinction was justifiable,
no matter how contrary to law. But he could not forget
that this rebellion or insurrection had been put down and
crushed by a few military as soon as they appeared on the
scene, and whose only business it was to pursue anal cap-
ture the offenders and bring them beck before the military
tribunal& In his bumble judgment, if ever there was a
case which called for the application of martial law,
locking at the consternation and alarm which pervaded
the whole island, looking at the circumstances in
which the white population was placed, looking at the
small military force available, and, further, looking at the
consequences which might have ensued, this was
the case. All of the gentlemen he addressed might have
formed opinions of their own on this important matter,
and it was for them to say whether those who bad acted
in the exercise of this martial law ought to be held up to
public reprobation, or whether they ought to be crowned
with the approval of a grateful country. He begged the
grand jury for God's sake in the midst of these conflicting
opinions not to allow passion or prejudice to enter into
the sanctuary of justice. They bad now the law before
them, and they had to say whether the law had been
honestly, fairly, anal impartially administered in this in-
stance. If they thought that this was a case in which the
conduct of the accused ought to be submitted to the con-
sideration of a tribunal of competent jurisdiction to
fully consider anal authoritatively decide the important
questions of law involved, then he must say that the
safer course would he to let this matter go
forward ; but if they were of opinion that the
accused ought no further to be harassed by criminal
proceedings, then they would say so by their finding ;
if they thought the matter called for further inquiry,
they would final the bill. He had detained them at ex-
treme length, but not longer than the importance of the
case demanded. Ile had now completed his duty to the
best of his poor ability, and they would now act according
to what their consciences directed, and do justice between
the accused and the public.
The delivery of the charge by the learned judged occu-
pied nearly six hours.

A statue, in marble, of Andrew Marvel, the
patriot, and M.P. for Hull during the time of the Com-
monwealth, is now being completed by Mr. Keyworth,
jun., of Hull and London, for presentation to the Corpora-
-1 thin of Hull by Mr. Winship.
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