The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-10 00:00:00

BURNING 4 11010.

That New York Trainee of lannary 1a has an
ertkle entitled " Bainlag Slaves," in the maw of which
the following horrible story is quoted from the Union Springs
Otates, •jownal of,Xabama
" The deceased has the reputation of having, even to a
fault, ever been a kind and humane master. On the
day before the murder, Mr. J. had whipped this
toy Milford, or had him whipped, for sues =bd.-
:neurone, and had him chained or locked till Monday
morning, when he went to him, talk of his chats, and told
hire to •go to the mill and go to work.' The boy reads slew
impudent reply, when Mr. J. told him If he did not sop his
insolence he would knock him down with • lock,
sad turned to walk away. The boy then took
an as that wee lying near and struck Mr. J.
on the head end knocked him down, dropped the as
and walked away • few steps• then turned and went
back, took the sx and struck him three times more on the
head, and retired a abort distance and aat down, making
no attempt to maps. A pubic meeting of the
Mauna, indiscriminately, was celled on Woke, lay, to
determine what should to does with the negro, when the
proposition was made to burn htm sliver every one,
to the *ember 0200 or 300, voting foe it. That evening,
at 3 o'clock, in the present. of 600 persona, he wee chained to
• tree and burned. Just before the tire wee set be
confirmed the above statemeat in every pardenlar. He
stated also that he had determined to kiß his toaster
some time before—that his having him whipped
the day before had not Instigated him to the
Motel deed—that he had his knife open In his pocket to
do the deed when his master should come to unfasten him,
but his heart failed him; but that when he told him if he
did not stop his insolence he would knock hint down, be
proceeded to movie his fell yourpme. The culprit
cased to chow soy signs of life two-sad a-mil
mina es from the time the torch wee spplod.
On the 244 k sit, Mr. Simon B. Thornhill, who
resided near Troy, Mo., punished one of his Degrees for mitt.
ounduct. The negro then twitted on his master with • large
knife and stabbed him, which canard his death in two days.
The zero was taken to Troy end maned in gaol. The
&tide mused much eiciti went in the county, and en Ilstarday
very large cumber of pereons oolltrted at Trey_, repaired to
the gaol, took the m order r out, and lynched lair:thy horning."

THE lONIAN ISLANDs.—The aleembly hal only
dose what ft has been ready to do at say time thin tea
yews ; and the English immnent, repeateated by its
loud High Commissioner, hse, in our jedgraset, acted
wisely as well as generously, in laying op-it the canet• which
have ndaced the administration of the Wars to • thorough
dead-lurk, andpermitt.ng discontent itself to /peak out. To
Wk of these proce:dlage ea disloyal and Okra, is as shoes
of words. The lesions owe no allegiance to r, nor to the
Qaten ; and what law, oar that of force, forbids • pro-
tected state to ask emancipation of the promoting power P
We hear much of the treatise of 1916, but 'hoes who talk
wet loudly of them conern'ently forget that if the conven-
tion of Palis nett alas the liberties of the lonians, it limits
also the rights of Cheat Bti.ain. The real violators of that
onevesUon ere those who would, is i• host say consent asked,
e aware tbo prrotorste into a dominion—the free and is-
&morsel Mate" into • dependency—to whom the Lord
High Commissioner is • ample g meteor, and the lonians
subject.* of a state of which try are not really atlases.
Men who feel this position • degreding one have dome no
mote than they have • right to do la asking to he freed from
it, and Mr. Glads•ose has acted in p elect confermity with
his pails (which is not that of a governor) Is 11031/1.
rem to do Uhl • legal way.-otienliess.