The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

THE JAMAICA NAV&

The arrival of Sir H. Storks in Jamaica is
described by the Daily News, oa the faith of advices
from the colony, as diffusing a feeling of confidence
among the people to which they had long been
strangers—loyal men living in oontinaal peril even
until the actual removal of Governor Eyre. Happily
we shall not be so dependent for information as here-
tofore on the oclonial press. The letters of English
oorreapondents, who will unite impartiality with intel-
ligence, are beginning to arrive, and before loss the num-
ber of sources of information will be considerably
augmented. Those at present received do little more than
record the first impressions of strangers, or echo the
opinions of those residents with whom the writers have
come into contact. The statement by one of the corres-
pondents that only 500 Degrees were killed is wholly
irreconcilable with other assertions made by officials
under their own signature. The Jamaica government
opposed a motion made in the House of Assembly for an
inquiry respecting the numbers slain. The Rev. R. Gor-
don, of Kingston, Jamaica, head master of Wolmer's
Grammar School, whose letter the Doily News printed on
Friday last, and who was one of the clergy prevent with
the Bishop of Kingston at the induction of Sir Henry
Storks, states his belief that at lout three thousand, in.
eluding infanta, children, and women, were slaughtered ;
and if any attach importance to the extent of the loss of
life thus caused, the estimate of • resident in Jamaica
may be thought of equal authority with the second.
baud report of a new corner. The Daily News
gives further extracts from Jamaica correspondence, show.
ing that the lettter from the Rev. Kr. Radcliffe, a Ares•
byter of the church of Scotland, published last November,
and about which much discussion has taken place, instead
of being a truthful narrative of the late outbreak, is full
of statements which are strangely untrue.

The Post regrets that the negroes in Jamaica should
have misunderstood the suspension of Governor Eyre, but
thinks it will not be difficult for Sir H. Storks to disabuse
them of the notion that henceforth they can murder their white
fellow subjects with impunity. He has arrived at an oppor-
tune moment, for the legislature has disappeared, and
there are none who can control his authority. Unfor-
tunately the treatment of Mr. Eyre by the government
has led the negro population to conclude that his entire
policy was assumed to be wrong, but the consequences of
this error have to a considerable degree been neutralised
by the unanimous adhesirn given to Mr. Eyre by that
portion of the colonial population which, notwithstanding
its usequal numbers, the negroes will be compelled to rt.

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The Herald says there can be no doubt now that the
whole body of the white inhabitants of Jamaica are tins-
nimotui in approving of the conduct of Mr. Eyre, and it
contends that every day makes it clearer that the
measures of repreesion and the execution of the rebels
did not pass the bounds dictated by justice or suggested by
the obvious necessity of self•preservation. It is true that
there are some in England who still maintain the innocence
of Mr. Gordon, but the list of names found amongst his
papers afford additional proof that he was at least privy to
the rebellion.

The Telegraph sees in the events in Jamaica fresh evi-
dence of the incapacity of the negro for political life, and
even for conspiring successfully, and finds that as the facts
come more completely there is all the greater reason to
believe that an organised and widely-spread plot existed,
the consequences of which, bat for General Eyre's prompti-
tude, vigour, and dogged English coinage, might have been
appalling. A day may come when Englishmen will wonder
why he was put upon his trial. You try a man by °Durk
martial, and very properly, if he loses his ship; but you
do not ask him to surrender his sword immediately after
he has saved his ship. Already most of the charges against
him have faded away, and the notion of "cruelty" seems
to be abandoned by almost all except those whom one
would positively wish to retain it. But the teak before
the oommiseonere is still a grave one, for they must in-
quire into the state of the island, and make suggestions
for its future government—just the course advised by Mr.
Eyre before the late revolt.
The Star immures the special correspondent of the Times
for making such positive assertions as to the facts of the
revolt and the state of public feeling, after a residence in
the colony of only eight and forty hours. He has ap-
parently allowed himself to fall passively into the hands of
those who know how to make him the medium exclusively
of their own views and their own stories.