The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

TICE DEPARTURE OF SIR HENRY STORKS

FROM JAMAICA.

Sir Henry Storks left Jamaica by the mail steamer '
which arrived at Southampton yesterday. Previous
to his departure an influential deputation waited
upon his excellency, and presented him with an
address containing 2,688 signatures, all of which
had been obtained in about ten days.
Sir Henry Storks made the following reply :
To the magistrates, ministers, freeholders, and other
inhabitants of the parish of St. Catherine.

Reverend Gentlemen and Gentlemen,—Accept my sincere
thanks for your address. If I experience great satisfao-
tion at the flattering terms in which you allude to my
administration of the government of Jamaica, I am no leas
sensible of the kindness and warm feeling towards myself ,
which have dictated this address. It is most gratifying to ,
me to find that my efforts to restore harmony amongst all
classes of her Majesty's subjects, to maintain order which,
under unhappy circumstances had been broken and dis-
turbed, and to carry on this government under
peculiar difficulties, have met with your approval.
The important duty entrusted to me by our
gracious Sovereign, was not only one of inquiry and ad-
ministration, but especially a mission of reconciliation to
contending parties, and of peace and good-will to all classes
of her Majerty's subjects. If I have been successful in
the objects of my mission, I am mainly indebted to the
cordial and kind aseistanee I have received from all. For
not from one class or from one colour but from all without
distinction, I have met with support, good feeling, and
a just appreciation of the difficulties in which I was placed.
I augur a prosperous future for Jamaica. There is much
to do before the machine of government is got into work-
ing order, and before all classes participate in the advan-
teges to be derived from a just and impartial
administration, and from the prosperity which
follows confidence and security in good insti-
tutions. To accomplish the great work of inaugura-
ing goodgovernrnent and of restoring prosperity, no one is
more fitted than the eminent man who is now governor
of Jamaica. A long and distinguished career in her Ma.
jesty's Indian possessions, embracing the administration of
the great province of Bengal, in which his excellency ob-
tained the approbation of her Majesty and of her Ma-
jesty's government, and secured the confidence and good
will of those whom he governed, pointed out Sir John
Grant as eminently qualified to fill the responsible and
difficult position which he has lately assumed. But
to be able to do all the good he desires, and to
secure the welfare and prosperity of the colony,
lie requires that the law should be obeyed—that order
and tranquillity should be maintained—and that he should
receive the confidence and support of all classes. I am
persuaded that what is reviled will be freely given, and
that all will unite in assisting him to perform his arduous
and responsible duties. It now only remains for me to bid
you, my kind friends, farewelL I shall ever retain a
grateful recollection of your kindness, and shall be always
too ready to devote my best energies to promote the in-
, tercets and prosperity of Jamaica. I sincerely pray and
trust that the Almighty may extend to you and yours all
r prosperity and happiness.
IL K. STORKS, lAeut.-General.

Having read the above reply to the address and
handed it to the Rev. Mr. Phillippo, hie excel-
lency said he would express to the deputation, in-
dividually, his acknowledgments for the cordial
support he had received from them in the per-
formance of his duties. He had spoken to them in
their official character in his reply to their address,
he now noticed them as his friends and neighbours.
He had • right to say he knew them
and familiarly, and valued them for the grol:Madigle
he had acquired of them. The address which
had been rolled up, and handed in from the floor
where it covered a space of about 30 feet, he said,
taking it into his hands, he should cherish
as a valuable memento of his govern-
ment and as an heirloom to his family.
' Mr. Hill, as the senior justice of the precinct
heading the address, remarked for the magii-
trates with whom he was associated in public
duty, that they received with grateful acow-
lmenta his excellency's approbation. They
had had occasions unhappily in which they had
been called upon to meet the impatience of the
people by decision and promptitude, and his
own experience has taught him that the work of
government was only safely performed by avoiding
to provoke retaliatory violence. His excellency
then very cordially shook hands with each member
of the deputation, and expressed his high gratifi-
cation with the kind feeling manifested towards
him, especially as he recognised each as his imme-
diate neighbour, and subsequently introduced the
deputation in a flattering manner to his Excel-
lency Sir James P. Grant, who received them very
courteously. The deputation then withdrew.

THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN
MOWERA-tries„. —At the Clerkenwell police-court, yester-
day, Mary Butcher, a married woman, of Wadi:ad-street,
Somers-town, was charged before Mr. Barker on remand,
with feloniously, wilfully, and of her malice aforethought,
killed and murdered Emma Butcher and Agnes Butcher,
bet children. She wee further charged with feloniously
attempting to commit suicide by drowning in a waterbut,
on the 21st of July last. The circumstances of the case
have already been reported in our columns. When asked
what she had to say to the charge, the unfortunate woman,
who did not appear to hear or understand what was said
to her, and who appeared very weak and faint, in answer
to the ofEeer by her side, made some incoherent remark
which was not understood in court. Mr. Barker com-
mitted the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court for trial,
and she was then removed from the court, and at once
taken to Newgate by the police in a cab.
NOVEL WAY OF OBTAINING CLOTH. —A good
deal of amusement was caused at the Liverpool police
court, yesterday, by the case of a tailor, named Nwilhain,
who was charged with cutting off the tails of a number
of coats. Needham, finding himself in want of cloth, and
being averse to buying any in a legitimate way, availed
himself of the collection of a crowd of people opposite the
Adeiphi Theatre, Christian-street, to cut off the coat-
tails of a uninlair of vectstors with his tailors' shears.
He was speedily arreste4 but not before he had secreted
a large bundle of cloth. The :pewconants, who appeared
in court yesterday, presented vry comical appearance.
The • was fined in the amount of the damage
whin he bad caused, and in default would be committed
to prison until the sum was paid.
Professor Simonds, after examining a flock of in-
fected sheep at North Wahham, says the drew. is not of
the nature of cattle plague, but one essentially affecting
the pulmonary organs.'