The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

JAXAICLL

The following oorrespondenoe has passed between
tb• Eight Has. L Oardwall and the ennunitten of the
Anti-Slaves, Booker.
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k with extreme reluetaeoe the committee of the
British end Foreign Anti-Slavery Society venture to tree-
pees ups. your time ; but they feel impelled to
eel your attention to certain eirournsteacee in im-
perial with the Royal Co"mohelou of Inquiry
in Jamaica, which appear to them calculated
sanously to thradea the impartiality of its proceedings.
The appointment of (Captain Hurst—late side-de-camp to
eitennsor Ryre—as military secretary to Sir Henry Storks,
estaned to your memorialists open to grave objection ; but the
last mail brings the istellrgenee that a Mr. Lynch has bees
selected to fulfil the office of solicitor to the Royal Commis-
siou. This Mr. Lynch is the brother-in-law of Mr. Pom-
my, who exercised the functions of Provost-Marshal during
the prevalence of martial law, end is represented to have
been chiefly responsible for the indiscriminate floggings
and hangings, without trial, which took place at Monist
Bay. The committee reepeotfally submit that Mr. Lynch's
family corms:ion with Mr. Ramsey would seem to reader
him • most unsuitable perms to hold an office so important
es that of solicitor to the Royal Commission, an officer
upon whom devolves the duty of preparing the evidence
to be laid before it. The committee would also sob-
ntit„that the executive committee, namely, the Honour-
able Meyers. Westmoreland and Maack, and Dr.
Hamilton, who acted under Governor Eyre, continue
In power, although deeply implicated in the arbi-
trary proceedings which took place under martial law.
It is obvious that, with the late governor's aide-de-camp
acting as the present governor's military secretary, with
Mr. Lynch,the ex-provost marshal's brother-hi-law, as soli-
citor to the Royal Commission, and with the executive
committee of the late governor in the foil exercise of that
elmost absolute authority wbioh they possessed under his
rule, and having at command the funds of the island, a
t combination exists, which there is great danger may be
esoployed to defeat the objects of the oommiasion, sod ap-
pears to deprive it of that character of impartiality which
the committee are sure her Majesty's government desire it
should possess.
The committee suggest that the remedy for this undesir-
able state of things would seem to rest, under present cir-
cumstances, with his Excellency Sir Henry Storks ; and the
petition of your memorialists is, that the considerations
set forth in this address be laid before his excellency.

On behalf of the committee,
Josua Coma, Chairman of Committee.
L. A. Caastratorzow, Secretary.
Zr, New Broad-straet, LC., 16th Feb., 1866.
The following is Mr. Cardwell's reply :
Downing-street, Feb. IG, 1866.
Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Cardwell to
acknowledge the receipt of eo address of to-day's date
from the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slsvery Society, and to inform you that a copy of the
address has been forwarded to the Governor of Jamsica.—
I am, air, your obedient servant,
(Signed)
Joseph Cooper, Eaq.

PUDIRIC Roans.