The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-06 00:00:00

TO THZ IDITOZ OP THE =PIM&

Siii,—Huiiugth;itaTceadu4at7aken by the mili-
tary authorities for the suppression of the late riots
and disturbances in Jamaica an enormous, but
unknown, number of the black and coloured people
were flogged. Amongst the number of these
wre cbed and unfortunate creatures thus punished
it is credibly stated that more than 300 were women
and young girls, and we are told that they were
flogged with that severe instrument of torture called
the cat-o'-nine-tails. The English public are en-
titled to know something more about this flogging
of women to enable them fully to comprehend the
enormity of the transactiou. It must, therefore, be
understood that flogging women in Jamaica
means flogging naked women. Men are flogged
on their bare backs and shoulders. It is
otherwise with women—they are flogged, ac-
carding to Jamaica fashion, on their naked
posteriors. However shocking this may be to
mention, it is not the lees necessary that the fact
should be known. The person of a woman flogged
is publicly and indecently exposed iu shameful
nakedness. The revelation of the facts relating
to such floggings of women by the West ludiau
slave-owners was the circumstance that most
powerfully roused the indignation of the people of
this country against negro slavery, and moat pro-
minently conduced to its abolition. I am alto-
gether at a loss to conceive that, under aoy possible
circumstances of insurrection or warfare, it could
be necessary to resort to this abominable and
ferocious punishment of women. The subject is
quite unfit for a woman to think of, but it is ab-
solutely necessary for the ends of justice, and a due
regard for outraged humanity, that these things
I should be known to the women of England.
If I have wrongly described the mode of flogging
women in Jamaica, Brigadier-General Nelson, who
is reported to have authorised these women
floggings, is now in this cout.try ; therefore I shall
be glad to be contradicted and set right by him in
this matter, if it can be shown that I am in the
wrong.—l am, &c., H. PRINGLE,
Formerly Stipendiary Magistrate, Jamaica.
Chelsea, Jau. 5.

The Royal Mail steamer Atrato, which left
Southampton at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. with the Jamaica COM.
missionera on board, started just as the terrific gale from the I
sonth-west was main', which lasted until 3 a.m. on Wrd-
Dodgy. It wu thought that she would lay to in Yarmouth.
roads daring Timothy night, but it how now been ascertained
that she did not do so. Captain Jellicoe, her commander,
on approaching the Needles just before dusk, determined to
go to sea at once, and to sea he went. Such a night was
scarcely ever experiecoed. The sea sometimes appeared to
tower 30 feet above the monster steamer, and the funnels of
the latter seemed occasionally almost to dip into the sea. No
boat could approach the Atrato, and her pilot had therefore
to be taken on. Os Wedsenday morning when the gale
ceased the Atrato was off Dartmouth. She signalled for a
boat to land her pilot, and immedi►tely started for the
Atlantic.

THE LATE MR. ROBERT ORRIDOE.—This gentle-
TIIU4 son of the late Mr. Charles Orridge, of Cambridge, ,
whose death we recorded is our obituary last week, and '
who. as a barrister, practised at Cambridge, Peterborough,
Willits*, Ely. Huntingdon, Bury, Ipswich. and London
and Westminster (Central Criminal Court) Sesame, end
went the Norfolk Circuit, was called to the bar in 1853.
He married Mow Evans, daughter of Mr. Evans. of the
eminent km of Bradbury and Evans, the well-known
printers, and sister of Mrs. Charles Dickens. jou. Mr.
Onidge was as extensive contributor to periodical litera-
ture, in indefatigable and *Detain( advocate, and a true
friend, and by the steady pursuit of those qualities, rather
than by any brillnnoy of iatelleot, he had secured a lucra-
tive and steady inoreseing. practice. He bad been ailing
for some time before hie death, and at last succumbed to
disease of the heart. He leaves so claildreo.—Conbridge
Independen
yt.
-Foam-01,ms, Jam. 3.—The Queen has been
to approve of Mr. Joseph 00Viil as consul at Prince
trzdd tor the Limited Maks of Areezioa.—
Gauge.

The country population in portions of Virginia
and Mississippi are flocking to the large towns,
fearing a negro outbreak at Christmas. No negro
riots are as yet reported, except at Manchester,
Virginia, where a coloured mob released two co-
loured prisoners from gaol
At Alexandria, Virginia, a fight has occurred
between the blacks and whites, in which four whites
and six negroes are reported to have been killed.
Secretary Seward, in reply to a request of New
York merchants for the friendly intervention of the
United States in the Hispano-Cbilian dispute,
replied that tke friendly offices of the United States
had already been, and were still offered, and it
was hoped good would result therefrom.
The owners of the ship Nora, in consequence of
the repudiation by the British Government of the
claim for damages for her destruction by the Ala-
bama, have appealed to the Federal Government
to support them in their claim, pince they,as private
citizens, have no other means of redress.
It is reported that a movement is on foot for a
compromise between the Fenian factions. Great
numbers are said to favour the retirement both of
Mahony and of the senate.
The Hamburg ship Newton, from New York
for Hamburg, has been totally wrecked off Nan-
tucket. All hands were lost.

Captain Semmes has been arrested by order of
the government, on the ground of having during
his tight with the Kearearge hoisted the white flag,
and escaped under cover of a cessation of hostili-
ties. Captain Semmes claims to have been in-
cluded in the Sherman-Johuston capitulation.
The Mobile Register of the 19th inst. pronounces
the Government Cotton Agency system in the
South to be a total failure, a social misfortune, and
a source of great robbery and corruption.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.

It is stated that General Grant will shortly visit
the Rio Grande in the flag ship of the Gulf
squadron.
Doubtful Mexican advices-reeeived via;San Fran-
cisco, but bearing no date, report that a revolution
has broken out against the Emperor Maximilian.
Intelligence received in New York by direct
steamer from Vera Cruz on the 13th December
mentions rumours that Juarez had resigned the
Presidency.
Matamoros papers assert that Colonel Jean-
ningroa had, as a ruse, permitted Escobedo to occupy
Monterey, and afterwards surprised and totally
routed his army with great slaughter. IThe re-
publicans claim that Escobedo withdrew from
Monterey with the loss of 30 men.
Doubtful ad vices vid New Orleans represent the
J uarist General Diaz as carrying all before him.
The whole State of Oaxaca was in arms against the
imperialists, and the liberals were masters of the
whole coast between Vera Cruz and Tuspao, as well
as to the south of Vera Cruz.

Intelligence from Brownsville to the 7th lust.
states that additional correspondence has been ex-
changed between Weitzel! and Mejia, urging
mutual grievances. Weitzel intimates to Mejia,
by General Sheridan's authority, that if outrages
upon American citizens such as he complained of
were continued, no excuses for such conduct would
be accepted. " You will not be permitted," says
General Weitzel, "to commit acts against the
United States which are not accidents. The; Fede-
ral government will not accept your personal
apology for your bad faith." Mejia returned
Weitzel's letter with a verbal message. The latter
iuformed Mejia that be considered his .letter
unanswered.