The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

TWOPENCE

not cause of the:Minimal. not only to them, bat to us, that
the great calamity which afflicted them has mow ceased
for seer ? Do we not cordially rejoice that, purged
from the silt and stain of slavery, the great
North American country is about to eater on
a career of prosperity and greatness, and to take a
foremost place in the community of nations? (Own.)
We desire to see the provinces of British North America
emaciated together in • link of the &meet union, strong in
their own resources, powerful for their own government
sad for their own defences. and remaining, as they loyally
desire to remain, united nada. the crown and under the
name of Enema, (Chews.) In oar colonial administrs•
Hon we have parted with much of the power which foumerly
belonged to this country. Many of our onuntrymm are
settled in distant parte of the globe. What we retain we
desire only to use for the increase of their power, of their
welfare, and of their growing greatness, and we desire to
see them forming communities under the British
crown indeed, but is a great degree self-depeo-
dent, and owing their strength, and refooroesh and
industry, and power, to themselves; and we feel that
when we concede to them the power of telf-goveru-
ment we throw upon them the burden of providing
far their own support. (Cheers.) These are the prin-
ciples on which we think Eustis/armee, wherever theg
are, ought to be governed, by which they desire to be
&mama and we feel that they are principles which teed to
strengthen the same and power of &Weed, among here at
home, but in every portion of the globe where their industry
and desire for progress and prosperity shall lead them to
settle. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, 1 will now my •
word respecting another colony very differently
circumstanced. You are well aware of the anxiety whir
the great colony of Jamaica has caused to her Majesty's
government damn the last few months. I shell sot follow
Captain Fans into that portion of his address in which he
touched upon party politics. I shall confine myself entkil
to tops..wwhichare free from any reforisce of that k
and thall eely pay that which I think it right you should
know and width you expect to bear from rum Gentlemen,
you are perfectly aware that in the middle of the math of
October onions disturbances took place at Morant Bay,
on the south onset of the Island of Jamaica,
and continued for some days—that they spread
to a place on the east of the island, end , nearly
to Port Antonio on the north of it. Now, mond all the
controversies on the subject, one thing has never been dis-
puted, and that is, that by great promptitude on the part
of the authorities, and by the skilful disposition of the
troops, comparative safety was speedily restored to all m-
ama, of whatever race or colour, who desired to live in
peace and orderly submission to the law. (Cheers.) But
serious questions have arisen as to the measures which were
taken in the course of that rept-swim and after that coon-
parative safety had been effected. Now the plain
truth is that we are not in pommies of sof&
Meet information to enable us to arrive at a re-
liable and just conclusion on this subject on which
questions have berm raised. (Hear, hear.) That being so,
we have felt it to be our bounden duty to institute ea in-
quiry into the matter, and we thought that inquiry could
only be complete end satisfactory if it was instituted in the
island itself. (Cheers.) Accordingly we have obtained the
services of that distinguished man Sir Henry Storks, who
left the seat of his government at Malta and bas proceeded
for a time to take the government of J and to m-
ade over the inquiry there to be conducted. ptain Fans
ban taken the opportunity of proposing a question to me,
and it is a question which I have not the least
objection to answer to him and to you. (Cheers.)
He asks me whether the temporary interruption of Governue
Byre's command was intended as a stigma upon Governor
Eyre, or whether it was a necessary concomitant of the
institution of the inquiry in the island. I have great
pleasure in telling my fried that it was not intended se •
stigma upon Governor Eyre. (Loud cheers.) I hold it to
be the duty of every man who has the (airmen of in
Englishman in his heart—and I am quite aura it is the
duty of her Majeety's government, and more particularly
of the individual who now addressees you—when be insti-
tutes an inquiry, to avoid all prejudgment of the result of
that inquiry—(sheen)—and I can oily say that when
the whole business comes to be laid before the
imperial parliament, that I trust it will be seen that
to the best of our ability, end se far as the circumstances
of the OW have reedited it possible, we have done all in
oar power to obteiu a fair and full inquiry, and to avoid
in any degree prejudging the result of that inquiry with
regard to those who, be it observed, were compelled by
their duty to act under the circumstances in which they
were placed. (Cheers.) I trust I have satisfactorily
answered the question of Captain Pane. (Loud cheers.)
Gentlemen, we thought that for the good of thmcolony, and
for the oompleteoesa and effectiveness of the inquiry.
it was moat important that all the powers of
the crown, civil ea well se military, should during
the conduct of the inquiry be vested in a single
hand, and as soon as we had determined upon the inquiry
we communicated with Sir Henry Storks, and as soon as he
reached this country he received the commindoe from the
crown, and is at this moment approaching the shored of
Jamaica, and about to enter upon his duties. We have also
been able to moue the services of two other meet distin-
guished men to imist Sir Henry Storks, and to-morrow they
will leave this country for Jamaica. I think, therefore, we
have done that which it was our duty to do, and I trust that
we are free from all imputation of having in any degree
prejudged the case. (Loud cheering.)
Mr. NZATE, M.P.. also responded to the toast, and
famed to the Jamaica question, observing that whatever
exaggeration there might have been on the part of those
who were called pseudo-philanthropiate, they did express,
perhaps with some exaggeration, what he believed to be the
real feeling of the educated and humsneople of this
country. (Cries of "No, no,"and hear, bear. He begged
every one not to commit ,himself prematurely to any ex-
pression of abrobation of what he in common with the
country at large might, upon obtaining greater knowledge.
hive to denounce, reprobate, and condemn as mamma of
excessive severity. (Hear, bear.)
Several other toasts were afterwards given and re-
sponded to.

THE "TIMES" AND THE CONFEDERATE
LOAN.

The following correspondence is published in the
Ne,o York Tribune :

No. 32e ffeacle.strset, Now Yea, Sept. 22, 1865.
Mr. J. T. elano, Editor of the Fir/A(4.—Si; —re.
United States government have obtaloed and given cur-
rency to a list of British holders of the so-called Confederate
States hoods. Your name appears thereto as the bolder of
said bonds to the nominal value of 10,0001. In common
with a number of my coantrymeo, British citizens of New
York, I consider that, in view of the extreme hostility dia.
played by the Times toward the United States throughout
the late rebellion, and its persistent advocacy of the incur-
sesta, seine explanation is due to the public on both shim
of the Atlantic, with reference to this pecuniary interest of
the editors in the success of the rebellion. While admitting
your unrestricted right, as a private individual, to invest in
the promises to pay of any insurgent community, I
protest against the principle (or utter lack of principle
rather) that leaders of public opinion is your position may
sow broadcast ideas, criticisms, and prognostics, presumed
to be unbiased and disinterested by the great maws of
English readers, when, io reality, the writers were secretly
identified by the closest of all sympathies with the issue
they so strenuously advocate. Independent journalism you
surely cannot claim as a feature of the Tuna. I beg leave
to inquire whether these bonds were purchased by you, and
for what consideration? If you decline to 'newer these
questions copies of this correspondence will be furnished to
the press of ail city for publication, and in that ease the
unfortunate impassion now prevalent will require no fur-
ther confirmatioo, that those bonds were either presented
to their recipients or obtained by them at a merely nominal
price.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
JAB. C. JOHYsTON.
likillarney•house. Killarney, Oct. 23, 186.1.
Sir,—At this remote corner of Ireland at which your
letter of the 6th ult. has reached me, I cannot find a copy
of a letter to the editor of the Morning Star contradicting
the calumnies adopted by that paper, and to which you say
the United States government has given currency, to the
effect that I held a large amount of stock in the so-called
Confederate Loan. I therefore &newer your letter directly ;
and declining to avail myself of the excuse which you suggest
might justify me as a private individual In waking such
an investment, I admit at once that 1 should, as a jour-
nalist, have proved myself unworthy of all public coofi-
deuce had I bought either Federal or Confederate stock
during the late civil war. I deny, however, most explicitly,
that I ever applied for, ever had allotted to me, ever pur-
chased, or ever possessed, in my own name or io any other,
any Federal or Confederate stock, or had any personal or
pecuniary interest whatever in the result of the late con-
test If thee, as you say, the United States government
bas made this charge, 1 submit that it is bound in honour
either to prove or retract it, and I am sure I shall not
appeal in vain to the desire to ascertain and publish the
truth which has promptedlyori to seek this explaoation from
your obedieot garnet. Jiro. T. DUANE.
J. C. Johnston, Esq.

BLACRWALL AND GREAT EASTERN RAILWAYS. -
Yesterday the Black wall Bkilway came into possession of
the Great Eastern Railway Company, under the terms of
the lease which has already been submitted to the share-
holders of the respective companies. Nearly the whole of
the servants of the Blackwell Company have been retained,
and it is understood that Mr. Louth, the mansgeM
continue to have sharp of the working of this now new
district of the Great &uteri scheme. It is stated that the
transfer of the Blackwell line will led to greater facilities
being afforded the public, and that the Great Eiders Rail-
way Company having now obtained tennis= In the
heart of the City, some of the through train, will even-
tually be run to and from Feadrircb•eirest, for the =cow-
oxidation of Ipersons frequenting Marii.lane and the neigh-
bouring markets sad docks.