The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. 27.

In to-day's sitting of the committee of the Cortes
on the address to the Queen, Senor Casanueva re-
quested permission to bring forward a protest in
favour of the temporal power of the Pope. The
Ministry assented to this request.
It is rumoured that the state of siege in Madrid
will be raised on Tuesday next.

SPAIN AND CHILI.

MADRID. JAs. V.

The Politico of to-day says :—" Several vessels
bearing Chilian colours have appeared off Valencia,
and given chine to some Silesia coasting brigs.
It is asserted that the pursuers are not Chilian
cruisers, but simply pirates under cover of the
Chilian flag."

NORWAY.
CHRISTIANA, JAIL 27.

The Storthing have rejected, by a majority of
two, the amendment to the constitution proposing
annual parliaments.

JAMAICA.

The West India and Pacific Steam Company's
steamer American, Captain Kidd, arrived at Liver-
pool yesterday, with advices from Kingston to the
sth, and Port-au-Prince to the 9th instant. The
American brings 2,000 Barons of indigo, a large
quantity of cotton, &c., besides 10,000 dole. in
specie.
The special commission to try the political pri-
soners lately confined at Morant Bay has been ap-
pointed by his Excellency the Governor, and was
to hold its sittings on the 22nd inst. t has not
transpired that it will sit in Kingston or Morant

Bay.
The magistracy, clergy, and other inhabitants of
the pariah of Trelawny have presented an address
to Governor Eyre, sympathising with him in regard
to the heavy responsibilities, and expressing the
greatest pleasure in stating that his excellency
" discharged them with so much wisdom, energy,
promptitude, and decision of p —from no
selfish oonsideration, but under aurSe7; sense, we
feel assured, of your excellency's duty to our beloved
sovereign, to the loyal inhabitants of this island,
and all its beat interests."
To which his excellency made the following
reply :
Mr. Cuatos, Reverend Gentlemen, and Gentlemen,—lt
would at all times afford me sincere pleasure to receive
such a gratifying assurance of the good opinion and aprro-
val of the numerous and highly respectable and influential
gentlemen of Trewlany who have signed the address pre-
seated to me by your respected custos ; but it comes doubly
welcome to me at a time when the acts to which you refer,
nodostaken from a deep sense of my duty to my sovereign
and to the colonists of this island, and with a full and
anxious appreciation of the painful responsibility of my
position, have been so maliciously misrepresented, and so
unjustly maligned by a section of the English press, and
by parties at home who have no sympathies with their
fellow-countrymen suffering under the atrocious barbarities
Inflicted by savaged, became those savages have a black
skin ; though they do sot hesitate to call the just retribu-
tion which overtook the ruthless rebels of St. Thomas-in-
the-East by the names of " murder " and "massacre."
It was trying enough, gentlemen, to have to encounter the
harassing and anxious duty of putting down the rebellion,
and taking steps to preserve peace and tranquillity in the
other districts of the colony, but it is very hard and moat
unexpected to have to rebut accusations founded upon
exaggeratioe, miarepresentation, and untruth. I shall
have much pleasure in transmitting your address to her
Majesty's government as a proof that in the island where
the actual circumstances ought to be best known, and
• where the magnitude end imminency of the danger to the
entire colony Gan best be appreciated, that the foul asper-
sions disseminated by a portion of the English press are
unjust and undeserved. I thank yon, gentlemen, most
gratefully for your loyal address, and for the hearty ex-
pressers of your willingness' to co-operate with me in any
mammies necessary for the protection of life and property
and the Sass sad welfare of the island at large. On my
pert, I would amuse you that I shall ever be ready to do
my duty faithfully, sod will sever shrink from seeming
any amount of responsibility which the public safety re-
quires me to *mamba% (Signed) E. ETU.

Tan Rai RIEPTORIST FATHERS IN CANADA.
Noweanaa, JAI. 9.—Redemptorist raglan ha St. Patrick's
have forbiddea the congregation to pall, bay, or read the
Winces., and the bishop has issued the same prohibition
to French Catholics, owing to o correspondent 'Wiwi; that
the Bedeniptorista were makieg money by the sale of
scapuleries, he., which the editor eostradioted in the neat
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