The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-08 00:00:00

THY JAMAICA BLUM BOOK.

Though it is quite true, observes the Times, that Governor
Eyre's proceedings were most unscrupulously prejudged, it
is equally true that he has failed to supply all the facts and
documents upon which he relies foe his justification, the
tide of public opinion somewhat turning against him from
an inevitable inference from specific allegations left unto-
lute& Against the conviction of the colonists of a wide
conspiracy on the part of the blacks, we have, on the other
hand, to deal with the startling fact of many hnadrals—
how massy is uncertain—being. put to death by the sum-
mary action of martial law long after the insurrec-
tion bad been apparently crashed, with the enormous
disproportion between the number of whites mur-
dered and the lowest reported number of Meeks
executed, and with the absence of evidence adequate
to support Governor Eyre's view of the emergency.
Lord Derby, in complaining of the conduct of the govern-
ment, doge not inform us how a governor, virtually
on his own trial, could be expected to institute or carry
out such an inquiry as alone could satisfy parliament or
the public. Does he assert that the acts of a represeata.
tie* of the crown must never be called in question?
Does a naval officer consider himself "deposed" or "de.
graded" when he submits to a court-martial for the loss
of his ship! As to the power of the commission over
witnesses,—to doubt that Sir Henry Storks will ob-
tain the requisite authority from the Jamaica legislature,
is to suppose a determination on the part of the colonies to
resist impartial inquiry, which would go far to justify the
worst suspicions that have been indulged by their most
fanatical enemies. The Timer also disputes Lord Derby's
assumption, that the despatches of Mr. Eyre previous to
the outbreak represented, and most have conveyed to the
Colonial Minister, a similar estimate of the disloyalty in
the island to that which he subsequently made.

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Governor Byre's Ant despatch relating to the dis-
turbances, dated October 20, was followed by as
many ea 76 others ; but the Daily News, after a care-
ful scrutiny, expresses its fear that the public will
no more be satisfied than Mr. Cardwell has been with
the contents ; that, in abort the very serious, but very
general, st►tements contained in the first document were
not supported by particular facts in the others.
There is nothing to show that the Governor ones
thought it necessary to vindicate the execution of Mr.
Gordon, though it is doubtful whether he ever meant
to impute to that gentleman an intent;on to raise a rebel-
lion. A glance at Mr. Cardwell's despatches shows
that the home government perceived from the first
those aspects of the Governor's administration which have
been so strongly condemned by the public, and hes been
from the first well aware of the peril in which Governor Byre

had placed the reputation of hie country. It is evident now
that it was in kindness to Mr. Eyre that the despatches on
both side. have been withheld from publication here, and
Mr. Cardwell has suffered for a time in consequence. The
friends of Governor Eyre cannot complain. He is formally
relieved of the trouble of answering the searching inquiries
in Mr. Cardwell's despatch of Dec. 21, that Wainer Wow(
been transferred to the royal commission. He is to draw
the full salary of the Governor of Jamaica; and if the
royal commission should be able to report that, instead of
meeting riot by riot and murder by murder, be has pro-
tected the innocent and punished the guilty, he will be
amply rewarded,
The Telegraph finds additional evidence in the despatches
in support of its belief that the Jamaica negro is scarcely
better than a savage, and that as a rule the black is no
more fitted for self-government than en idiot or a child.
It speaks of the " infamous harangues" of Mr. Gordon as
having inflamed the passions of the negroes, and dads Mr.
Byre throughout the correspondence acting as mode-
rator, almost as umpire and arbitrator ; the writer
leaves the perusal of the despatches with e
stronger sense than ever that in him we have
one of the very purest types of English manhood.
Of Mr. Cardwell's despatches the Telegraph could
hardly assert that they are generous, but they are fair, and
show a laudable zeal for the good fame of England. Mean.
time the friends of the ex-governor have not the slightest
cause to for a full inquiry.
The Star finds it only due to Mr. Cardwell to say
that his share in the correspondence entirely relieves
him from the imputations whicb, to epee& frankly,
he cut upon himself in his speech at °Hord.
The month of martial law was clearly, it says, an interval
of license, in which the fullest play was gives to every evil
passion and every bloodthirsty instinct. Mr. Eyre, how-
ever, was not unconscious of the deeds which were bele(
perpetrated. Before he knew of the horror which his
policy had excited at home, he frankly wrote to Mr. Cards
well that " the retribution had been so prompt cad terrible
that it was never likely to be forgotten.' The blue books
contain no proof wh►tever of an organised iosarreesiss•
The Star remarks also that it is singular that until the
state of public feeling at home was known, colonial politi-
cians boasted of the number of negroes slaughtered rather
than otherwise.

DIATH OF LORD MONTEAGLE.—We regret to learn
that Lord Moutonle expired on Wednesday morning at his
seat, Monet lrenchard, Limerick. Lend Mooingle's health
had for some time been in a failing state. The late peer
was the eldest son of the late Mr. Stephen Edward Rice, of
Mount Tronahard, by Catherine, daughter of Mr. Thomas
Spring, of Bollr:divan, in the county Kerry. He was born
Feb. 8.1790, and married, lint, Lady Theodosia Buy,
snood daughter of Edward Henry, Let Dal of Limerick,
which lady died Dec. 10, 1839 ; sad secondly, in 180. Mary
Anse, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Mershon, of
HaUsteads, Oumberland. By his list marriage be had a
family of nine sous sod daughters, his eldest eon, who would
hairs enneeded to the title, the Hoe. Stephen E. Bring-
Rios, havieg died be the spring of last year. The eldest
eon of the late Hos. Stephen Edmund Spring.Rioe, end
grandson of the late lord— namely, Thomas Spring-aloe,
born 31st May, 1849--succeeds to the peerage.

The geological survey of India has now been in
operation for about ten years, under Mr. T. Oldham, LLD,.
as director. In the various presidencies, but especially In
Bengal asd Central India, its ossistaab have thoroughly
investigated and mapped oat an area more than tyke that
of Great Britain, or 185,000 miles.

King John of Saxony, under the pseudonym of
of " Philtlethes," has just published the third arid last
Tallow of his translation (with notes) of the " Divine
Comedia" of Dante.

The Bishop of Nice and the protestant pasteur,
M. Blabs, have got up a pititioe, which tbey request their
respective osegregatioes to eigm spiest the gambling which
Roes on at the Casino of Moose°.

The Queen's speech was forwarded to Paris in
slim minutes by lye wires, and appeared im all the
evening papers shortly afterwaeds.
"E. S." writes to the Timm that in his
opinion the disease which has proved so fatal to our
cattle is nothing more or less than diphtheria, and that
if Immediately upon any aeiss•l heist taken ill caustic
was applied to the substance resembling liver or fungus
which is foreleg inside the throat, the rattle plague
would soca disappear. The resiedles used by humus
beings whea veering from diphtheria should be *lonia
eat, ealy is a mush stresgsr ferva.— The High Sheriff of
Cheshire Maim his faith, despite one er two waseseessfal
esperimants, in the protective influesse of vaccination,
provided it be done in time, 'rhea so disease is lurking
in the system, and whoa the operator is as esperisseed
pews&