The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

NE MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL AT JAMAICA,

The general court-martial appointed by the
Rome-Guards, at the suggestion of the Jamaica Royal
Commission, to inquire into charges preferred against
Ensign Cullen, of the Ist West India Regiment, and Staff-
Assistant Surgeon Morris, for alleged excesses committed
by them during the suppression of the Jamaica insurrec-
tion, commenced their sittings at tTp-park Camp, Jamaica,
Toasday, the 2nd inst. The charge is as follows :
" For scandalous conduct unbecoming the character of an
officer and • gentleman, in having, on the 21st of October,
1865, in the county of Surrey, in the island of Jamaica,
during the continuance of martial law, which had been pro-
claimed there for the purpose of suppressing an insurrection
and for the preservation of the public peace iu the said
island, cruelly, wantonly, and wrongfully caused three
men, severally named Richard Walton, Tommy Miles,
(Vim Torn Bell, and John Mac Call, alias George Macquarry
Mac Call, to be shot to death, the said act not being done
by him, the said Ensign Cullen, in good faith, for the
Purpose of suppressing the said insurrection, or for the
Preservation of the public peace in the said island."
After the prosecutor (Brevet-Col. C. H. Daniell, of the
28th Regiment) had concluded his address the following
*tames were examined :—Hon. E. Jordon, C. 8., the
governor's secretary, as to the proclamatiun of martial law
and the royal assent to the Indemnity Act ; Captain Hole,
as to the order despatch rag a detachment of 50 men under
command of Ensign Cullen, and Staff Assistant-Surgeon
Morrie in medical charge, from Manchionesl, to move at
daylight next morning to the post-office on the road be-
tween Bath and Manchioneal ; and Mr. Henry Clarke,
clerk of works, of the Royal Engineers' department, as to his
Survey and plan of the post-office, kc. The court then
adjourned. On Wednesday, the 3rd, at 7 a.m., the
several officer, composing the court embarked from the
Ordnance-wharf on board her Majesty's steamer Barracouta,
Captain Bevan, for Port Morant, to view the place where
it m alleged the men were shot. The prisoner, Ensign
Cullen, under escort of Adjutant Cooper, accompanied
the court. The steamer arrived at Port Morant at 1
o'clock, and the members of the court were landed, and
immediately proceeded through Golden-grove to the
Plantain Garden River Post-office, and minutely in-
spected the locality. The court then assembled in the open
sir. It was then noted by the Deputy Judge-Advocate
that the court had made the inspection. The portion of
Mr. Clarke's (the clerk of works) evidence on Tuesday,
which had reference to several drawings of the locality,
vat read The court was then cleare and, after a brief
dehheration, was reopened. It wasd, announced by the
Flreeldent that, after mature consideration, the court had
aecided to grant ths request for an adjournment made by
the Prieoner, and the court was declared adjourned till the
16th inst., at 10 a.m. The party then left and returned to
Port Morant Wharf, driving through Plantain Garden
River District and Bath. At 7 o'clock the next morning
(Thursday) the Barracouta left Port Morant and reached
Eingston at noon.

FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—
OE Saturday night Mr. Wm. Banner, the pariah clerk of
Brinsley, Notts, was returning home from Nottingham,
sad as the train was stopping at Langley Mill station, he
%cued the carriage door and was stepping out, when be
was struck by the door, and the unfortunate man fell
between the platform and the mils. He was taken up
dreadfully mangled and died on Sunday afternoon. At
the Nottingham railway station, the same evening, a young
taro, named George Elston, a shunter, was doing what is
celled etlouble shunt, and whilst so engaged he slipped off
the buffer is the train was being backed, and fell with his
Moulders across the rails, one of the waggon who'll ran'
ling over his neck, completely severing his head from his
1,17. The accident took plam in the presence of the
Pcintiman, who was utterly unable to render any mos.
ituce. The poor fellow has left a wife and child.

REMARKS.

It is blowing heavily from southwest on our western and
southwestern cuasts, with a heavy sea in the Channel. Baro-
meters have fallen since yesterday as rapidly as they had pre-
viously risen. Cautionary telegrams were sent to the western
rtd northern coasts yesterday. This morning cautionary signals
have been hoisted on the southern and eastern coasts.

EVENING CLASSES FOR WORKING MEN.—Yes-
terday evenin; the first course in the present season of
evening lectures to working men, in connection with the
Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council
on Education, was commenced at the hall in Jermyn-street,
by Professor Huxley, F.R.S., his subject being "Binds
and Reptiles." A large number of working men availed
themselves of the privilege of attending the lectures, the
fee for the course of six being six_pence.
DEATH OF MR. CHARLES DAVIS. —The death of
Mr. Charles Davis so soon after Mr. James Mason was
rather singular, for both were perhaps the most elegant
horsemen of their day. A more loyal servant than Davis
the sovereigns of England never possessed, and it was a
proud reflection to him to know that they estimated him
so much. Mr. Davis's father, so says " The Druid," in
his entertaining volume of " Scott and Sebright," was in
the household of George the Third, and it is stated in proof
of the long existing connexion between his son Charles and
the court that when he was a lad of 18 he rode side by side
with anotherlad with abrace of horsepistols, with the King,
whose horses being knocked up after a terrific run from Alder-
maston to Reading, rode home in a butcher's taxed cart,
and talked of nothing but crops and stock by the way.
The only emblem of royalty on this and other occasions of
• similar nature were the yeoman prickers. Hobby, • bay
horse, was the King's last and best hunter, and by the royal
order no hand but Mr. Davis's was permitted to shoot
him, and his ear is still kept anion.; that great huntsman's
treasures. with the first hare (a white one) he ever saw
killed. Mr. Davis's appointment as huntsman was
gazetted in 1822, when George the Fourth, with whom be
bad always been a great favourite, wrote to him himself,
saying, " It delights me to hear you have got the }wands ;
I hope you'll get them so fast they will run away from
everybody." As • hunstman he never had an equal, and
it is saying something for him to state that he got on well
with all the different masters of buckbounds under whom
he served, as • visit to his house at Afoot Heath will show,
• for it contains no end of testimonials from them. In the
royal procession up the New Mile at Ascot, which
he always headed, he was one of the meet conspicuous cha-
raiders ; and the grace with which he sat his famous grey
horse, The Hermit, was, when once seen, never to be
; forgotten. In Sir Francis Grant's picture of " The Royal
I Hunt," which was painted for the late Lord Chesterfield,
he is portrayed to the very life ; and there is another very
good portrait of him in circulation, taken on another
favourite horse called Traverser. On his retirement from
! office last year a handsome pension was granted him, and
he was allowed to remain is his house. By the Queen's
• express command also, • riding -hone was kept for him so
that he might amuse himself when he felt iodised to do
so ; and I may say, without risking contradiction, that no
• royal retainer ever died more regretted than Charles Davis.
Argus " of the Post.