The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-19 00:00:00

PROBARLI.

TIMMY. ---
ON NORTIIIIII WIDSMIDAY.
&~ B.E. to N.M. trash to Coati= N.E. to with fresh to
gals, 10010 rain or grow,squalls.

snow.
Varrng. strong, equal- Wirral!. Varying winds, fresh
ly, unsettled. to strong, unsettled
As nest above. SOUTHERN. As next above.
B.& to Nit , fresh to a YLITSJUI. Similar to above.
Sale, rain at times.
Northeen=Bootissad. Wisters=lreland. Wales, and net-
osnelea. lionthern=lnglais Channel and bay at Biscay.
lowlarstwieet ward llaglast sad North Sea.

COLLEGE or PRECKnons.—A meeting of the I
council of this corporation was held oe Saturtiay, the 17th
instant. Dr. Adams, the Rev. T. F. Lea, and the Rev. R.
Wall waste-elected members of the council. The diploma
of associate was patted to Mr. J. J. Lomax, principal;
Mr. J. Hutchinson, viceprieciral of the Hertford Pro-
prietary School ; and the following gentlemen were elected
sasenbers of the college :—Mr. J. Carr, Brampton-bocse,
Newcastle-uuder-Lyee ; Mr. B. Battler. Blenheim-house,
; Mr. G. H. de Fraine, Diocesan Grammar
School, Southern ; Mr. D. Davis, 8.A., Qosemegnare,
Lamest**. ; Mr. A. E. Gardeeer. Hope-boase School,
Monet Ararat, Richmond ; Mr. W. Soott, Worsley Minna%
Pembsrtos, weer Wigan ; Mr. G. Neame, Surrey-house,
Littlehamptou ; Mr. Jas. Cox. Hyde-road School. Man-
chester ; kir. W. Lapin, Heath-mount, Hampstead ; Mr.
R. G. 'bin, Mansion Grammar School. Leathn bead ; Mr.
C. F. Pinches, 31, Finsbury-square, B.C. ; Mr. W. Wood-
man, Broadway School, Harkin ; sad Mr. G. T. Pboby,
Grammar School, Southampton.
JOCKNYB AND TIMM EMPLOYERS. —A parish Mink,
does four times as much work as one of these urehios for a
salary at which they would turn up their pates, as it would
not permit them to indulge in the luxuries which force of
example has rendered necessary to them. Therefore it is
time some check should be pat upon a class who,
I without education enough to make out their own
• accounts, give themselves airs and traces which are
positively sickening, and they should be biught a lesson
that because nature has framed them on a diminutive
seals, which gives them a superiority in the calling they ,
have adopted, that feet doss not exempt them from fulfill-
ing the obligations which they owe to society; but while
noblemen and gentlemen will put themselves oe a level '
• with them, and ask them into their draving-rooms and
dining-rooms, they must reap the fruits of such mistaken I
kindness. Children*s heads cannot stand it, and when they
find that, ss mom as they stead of their apprentkesbip, the
pommel= of the Atli call upon them is contested for as ,
warmly as • seat for a county, mid see their bad gram-
matical phrases quoted in newspapers like the opinions of ;
I John Stuart Mill, it is not surprising they should carry on
Iss they do. Indeed, when ape node the rate of pay ie the
' army sod navy list, sod compares it with that of these
yousgsters, it electrifies one to think that a boy weighing
scan:way more than a good-sired haunch of mutton can
commend more remuneration for his services than a post-
captain who has served for 20 years.or tbe calomel of
regiment who has brewed all the &mates of the globe. Yet
such is the awe • and this boy, it is said, reeeives from the
Marquis of Hastings a retaining salary of 500 f. per 000111Z1.
I seclusive of fees ; and, according to report, rather than be
subject to the same annoyance and disappointment. his
employer will cancel the agreement at his own risk. For-
tunately for the Turf we have some jockeys left, yeah se
Johasy Osborne, Challoser, A.slintall, Pentium. Wells,
Edwards, Costume, and Daly, who are @bikingexeeptions
to the root of their brethren, and who. btheirWein*
. I tam% respectability, and mauler, deserve every, imitation.
sad sae sever likely to forfeit either the geodes nion el their
Ariaslorars cc Meat erd the racing ws reasaL—
, " d PoO.
(lama Noartneas froesirsi., CAIXDOAIAN-ZOLD.
—,Numiter of patients for the walk aid* Marsh 17,1,088,
et whisk 282 sere macaws,

(Prom the Titus.)
There is no longer any reasonable doubt that
cruelties of which it is impossible to think without shud-
dering were perpetrated in the suppression of the Jamaica
insurrection. Some, Weed. of the worst stories crigioally
told have melted away under the process of examination,
others h►ve been materially qualified by counter evidence,
and many seem to have been attached by mistake to
innocent persona. Still, more than enough remain un-
shaken and even undisputed. It is now certain that
scores, and perhaps hundreds, of prisoners were flogged
before being hung, and oftee before being tried. It
is certain that some, though it is uncertain how many,
were compelled to run the gauntlet, after being flogged,
through a crowd of brutal spectators, who were allowed to
insult or pelt them as they pleased. It is certain that
several, at best, were shot or hung without the pretence of
a trial, at the caprice of an officer or subordinate. It is
certain that Mr. Ramsay, the provost-marshal, stands
charged by a multtnde of witnesses, black and white, with
excesses for which a parallel must be sought among the
infamous ementricities of Oriental despots. It is carts*
at least—for the statement rests on the authority
of the resident magistrate at Bath—that be
flogged with hie own hand fifteen men who bad
neveirlseen sentenced, and were to be sent before the
court-martial at Menai Bay. It is probable, moreover.
that men were bribed with the hop* of life—a bop not
always realised, to betray their accomplices ; that persons
accused of crimes were refined permiesiou to call witnesses
in their defence, and that some were executed the only
proof of whose guilt was their being foaled wounded. These
are things which cannot be dismissed with commonplaoea
about the' dire necessities of war, and the unfair-
ness of scratioisiog retrospectively through a micro-
scope the proceedings of men confronted with an
overwhelming danger. They are acts, sot mili-
tary, bat judicial, done for the most pert after armed re-
sistance had ceased, and when there was nothing to prevent
a deliberate separation of the inoocnit from the guilty.
• • • Upon the whole, the inference we are compelled
to draw from the facts hitherto disclosed, subject, of
eonree, to correction when the result of the inquiry shall
be made known, is that on abuse of power, beyond all
excuse or palliation either is nature or degree, will pro-
bably be brought home to several British akin arid
a large number of British soldiers or sailors. It
is a conclusion from which our readers will bear
us witness that we long shrank, and which to base
accepted hastily would have bees almost es dishonourable
as to shut our eyes to it now that it is forced upon us. It
is right we should recognise before all things in a great
political emergency the paramount obligation of securing
the public safety. Grier comes before liberty, the rights
of society before the rights of the individual. Had the
Volunteers drawn up before the Monet Bay Court-house
killed some hundreds of people instead of only a few
by a volley fired in ■elf-defence, or bad any number
of rebels caught red-handed been bagged upon
the nearest trees, we should not have inquired
too closely into thej legality of such acts. We
are prepared to p yet farther, and to contend
that a government or any other constituted authority is
entitled to a strong presumption in its favour when engaged
in quelling an outbreak commencing with a massacre. But
presumption milt yield to proof, and we cannot but discern
through much exaggeration and many inventions the proof
that a reign of terror did prevail after the necessity foe it
bad nosed. A time tomes in every such crisis when the
" dop of war," however pronely " le talip," oughtto be sternly
recalled, sedates which the higher law must be invoked in
vain. It seems to have bean the °hie( fault of Governor Eyre
that be failed to appreciate this, and, oppressed with the
burden of his own anxieties, asked no questiose about the
operation of martial law. The moat cruel wimp are often
Minded through a division of responsibility between these
who give orders without seeing them executed, and those
Aube asseuis them without oessulting their own con.
sciences. It will be for the comrnissiNters to this (senses
to apportion the blame between these two, and their task
is one that few will envy. They will carry with them,
however, the sympathy and support of the nation, which,
jealous as it rightly is of its military character, will never
suffer the sacred principles of justice and merry to be pro-
faned with impunity in its service.

CRYRTAL PALACE FLOWER SHOW.—Amongst the
attractions for the ensuing fortnight is Menet. Ontbash
and Sane annual display of spring flowers, which has been
removed from the nursery at Highgate, and now graces the
nave of the Palace. It c Aisiale of the usual varieties oh-
tainshle at this early season, viz., snowdrop*, crocuses,
jonquils, tulips, hyacinths, lilies of the valley, and a few
others. Some of the tulips are very pmfeot both in shape
and colour; there are also some very beautiful hyacinths,
and some exceedingly sell grown lilies of the valley. The
exhibition, which steads under an awning 300 feetlin leng eh
between the eestre trasespt sad tie trot ical department,
affords ia its varied hues and refreshing scuts a ilessirg
relief to the adjacsnt and familiar features of this portion
el the long vista of she central emus.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BRIG EITOII.—A desperate
attempt to murder a widow named Pollington was made at
Brighton as Friday night, by a man who is still at large
and =known. An Pollingtoo is the keeper of a small
grocery at the corner of a street facing the Level, the
large open recreation ground at the northers part of the
town, sad just as she bed Mooed her shop oa Friday
ight, about half-put 10 o'clock, • knock was gives at
the door and she said, " Come is." A man walked in,
and she saw that be was the same whom she had
Dotiord running towards the house from the Level as she
cloael the door, not thinking that he was coming to the
shop. Hs first asked to be supplied with some white cot-
ton, which was evidently an excuse, for be immediately
changed his mind, sod said it was black cotton that be
wanted. This was given to him, and he then asked for
white three'. As dire. Pollinirton was turning rotted to
serve him with the latter article she received a terrillo
blow from behind, which felled her to the ground.
Raising herself up. she screamed " Murder !" and the
fellow streak her solo at the heck part of the heed ; but
this fortunately did not render her insensible, sad slit con-
tinued to cry for help, when her assailant decamped.
Some neighbours who beard her cries came to her assist-
ance, and surgical aid was soon procured. The poor woman,
although conscious. still Lei io a very precarious condition
from two serious wounds ia the back part of the hoed,
evidently inflicted by a life-preserver or some blunt, beaity
instrument. Mrs. Pollington keeps a little money by her,
which it was thought was ksowu to the fellow, and bad
tempted his cupidity ; and it was evident, from his running
towards the poop as it was being closed that he had been
watching his opportunity.
A CHILD MURDERIER.—At the West Riding
Police-court, Doncaster' on Saturday, Frederick Mason,
who said he was bat 10 yule and 6 wooers old, was
charged with attempting to murder two children named
Davies, respectively aged 5 and 3 years. The elder of the
Davieess—Patrick, nod s—was called upon. His state-
ment west to prove that the prirouer enticed the chil-
dren sway from their parents' home, near Rusiogton, on
the southern borders of Yorkshire, and that when
he had taken them half a mile away from any habita-
tion he commenced besting them on the head sad feu,
with a stick. He then threatened to throw them tido
the river, and took them ono after the other and
flung them into the River Tone. He thee sat on
the bank, and because they cried out he used most blas-
phemous language to them, took them out, beet them a
second time, flung them ia again, bed sat es the back
eating some braid and meat sad watabiag then struggles-
He then ran away and left them, and a mao named George
Crosby found them ie the watet —the gyl with only her
heeds t of the water and hoe feet fast t
in the mud • the
boy a little sewer the side of the stream. Whelk he
reined them be took them to their father's hat, and so
serious are the Injuries they had received that the girl
suffered from crievuleioas for a long time, and for two
boars was insensible ; and, had it not been for the piomp-
. titude of Policeman Cowes, who administered brandy,
end directed that the child should be rubbed
with salt until Mr. Lister, surgeon, arrived, the
prisoner's brutality, Mr. Lister believed, would
Lave proved fatal. The girl remained In a dangerous state
esti' Monday sight. Mr. Woodbead, who append for
the prisoner, at the request of his pinata, pleiddeedd that be
woe drsak at the Mine, and that, having had a plot of
Ilea end some bread sod mutton, be, in oompany with
i three othez boys of about his owe age, bad takes his share
' of half •• galloa dale, to which some gin had beta added.
Mr. Lister, however. said that the prisoner was quite sober
whim he saw him immediately after he had attended to the
Andres, aid the police officer confirmed this statement.
Ifs magietrates committed the prisoner (who throughout
, the hearieg seemed wispily indifferent to he post ion) to
like Ista trial at the neat Leeds guises. and refused as alt-
sileatios that was madetfor ball for his appearance.