The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

MIL ON 1I OATTLN PLAGE:R.

Though confessing that at first eight there is a
good deal to recommend Mr. Hunt's proposal totally pro-
hibiting all movement of cattle, the Thad is not prepared
to say that the government in their bill empowering the
local authorities to issue licenses for removal under general
regulations are In the wrong. The government propose! is
that a magistrate's license may be given for removal, on a
certificate that the animals, and also the premises on
which they are kept, have been inspected within a
certain time, that the cattle are perfectly healthy, that no
disease exists at the place from which it is proposed to re-
move them, or within a certain distance from the line of
route along which they are to be moved. The bill will
give power to arrest persons who are found to violate
the law, and carry them before the nearest magistrate.
With the present strong feeling throughout the country,
that the disease can only be suppressed by the striated
precautions, these provisions will probably be found aril'.
cleat. At soy rate, the government bill is the moat stringent
that is consistent with anything like local administratioa.
The source from which the compensation is to be drawn
may be left as the second part of the bill, for more leisurely
discussion. There is reason to hope that the leading prow:-
aim of the government measure will pass forthwith into
law.

The Daily News regards the distribution of functions
between the central and local authorities as little short of a
necessity, since the government does not possess either the
organisation or the staff of °Moen necessary for carrying
on the operations which would be easy under a cen-
tralised system. The ooly question which can arise is,
not as to the propriety of dividing duties between the im-
pedel and the local functionaries, but as to the sagacity
and discrimination with which the line of division is drawn.
In itself the government bill seems likely to meet ettlii-
olently the purposes for which it is introduced. A mann
which would more completely suit the agricultural classes
would cause the opposition of the large towns. and
would produce the delay which is ruin. It is, there-
fore, to be hoped that in its essential points it will be al-
lowed to become law with all possible rapidity.
The Pow observes that the government have based their
measure upon the deliberately expree.d opinioes of the
most experienced men both in Eoglsad and Boogied, and,
in the difilosit sad tryieg circumstances in which the
country is placed, it is apparent that they adopted the
best, if not the only, guidance afforded to them.
The Herald greatly prefers Mr. Hunt's bill ; and is certain
that the whole of the agricultural interest will prefer it
also. If the government would, therefore, tome forward
frankly and accept it, or sograft its leading provisions upon
their own, they would be supported by an overwhelming
majority in parliament and outside its walls.
Though the government project falls short of what would
have been arranged if the French Emperor or the Our of
Russia had been in our dilemma, the Tekgroph thinks it
on the whole the most thorough-going th►t the genius and
eirounistaoces of a country like this permit; though when
we read how a bit of packing-cloth carried the peat into
Aberdeenshire, we feel that all this precaution, with its
untold burden and trouble, so carefully dished, so pa-
tiently, we doubt not, to be received, may be upset by a
milkmaid's apron or a veterinary surgeon's top-boot. Re-
lengess slaughter of all beasts attacked or suspected, with
a cordon of sentinels along every pasture fines, and a ukase
to Use people to live oa fish and fowl and bread for a
month, is what a Czar might decree, and what would
" stamp out the cattle plague." Is England any such coop
cragt is impassible ; and the Telegraph really thinks that,
if a mere quarantine is to be tried, the measure introduced
lest night, duly amended in certain details, and completed
es to one or two omissions, may prove sufficient to check
this terrible visitation.

The Sear fears the measure will sot add greatly to the
credit of the government, and wishes they had either de-
layed their intervention a little longer or made it simpler
in character and more legitimate is principle. It is im-
possible to witness the adoption of the principle of compels.
adieu without serious apprehanaloas. A large number of
those who will thus be relieved are men of ample mesas,
and it is evident that all the objects of the national com-
pensation ought to have been pined by snob ingenue
societies as Mr. Newdepte last night described as ene-
omefally in operation in Warwickahhe. The government,
however, have been quite enable to resist the pressure put
upon them. A panic bill Is the result, and a panic+ bill is
one of those things which, like stupidity, even the gods
fight spinet in vain. We can only therefore pick up a few
crumbs of consolation from the fact that both in reference
to the transit of cattle and the area of rating for °empties-
Nation, government have still bad the courage steadily to
adhere to the principle of local action and local respond-
bility.

00113.1119PONDENCI 7111011
The Timor, Doily New, Morning Herald, Thiegrisph,
and Bear of today contain lettere from special corres-
pondents at Lipton. The chief *objects are the Jul
sitting el the legislature, the °pang of the royal ocsontio-
sin, and the owneosessenent of the trials al alleged eon-
opinion before a special eoromission.
The nem correspondent, as before, communicates
rather the aura= opinion of pongee is the
Wend with whom be has once lan sesta= than
espressos views ef his own. He deeeribes the nemess who
hove docked into Kingston to volunteer evident* as
arriving generally in a pencils= state. They are still full

of wl}{t'. iibis gootift!..is to do fee them, end in some
quarters eaghlaint is wide of their " Open insolence and
defiant Ma." Going le,er the grounds Aged there in dal
fence of the measures which were taken in Mr. Gorrina's
case, the writer expresses his belief that at the time thief
was hardly a while or a coloured person in Kingston who
did not think ens Governor deserved the highest praise for
taking upon himself the responsibility of Mr. Gordon's ap-
prelsensiee, which was considered so important that King-
ston would bare bean at mos proclaimed in order to secure
it. The conespendeat also gives a variety of other state-
ments, which are part of the evidence to be advanced by
Mr. Eyre before the commission.
Some extracts from the Daily News correspondence will
be fasted in another co! min.

The correspondent of the Herald reports an overwhelm-
ing concurrence of opinion in the colony in favour of Mr.
Eyi e, and asserts that a feeling of insecurity prevails. He
predicts that not more, at the most, than 1100 negroes will
be found to have lost their lives. The office in Kingston,
it seems, of the Jamaica committee had been open for a
fortnight for the reception and preparation of evidence,
and every day a crowd of negroes had collected at the
entrance.

Some five or six columns are aosapied by the corres-
pondent of the Telegraph in describing the voyage of the
Atria°. His first act on landing, it seem% was to call
upon Mr. Eyre—a fact which he hopes will not damage
any credit be hopes to gain for impartial statement.
Many, he states, who were at first supporters of the late
governor h►d now turned against him. The jurymen at
the special communion were nearly all white men. The
reports which Governor Ere had been called upon to fur-
nish to the Colonial-office with regard to the capture, trial,
and axe:lotion of Gordon were just completed when be re-
ceived intimation th►t he had been superseded by Sir Henry
Storks, and th►t the Royal Commission had been sent out
from England. Instead, therefore, of despatohing the
documents atone. to the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nise, Mr. Eyre will hand them over to Sir Henry Storks
for the use of the commission, requesting that they may
afterwards be sent home to be laid before parliament.
The Star prints no lees than nfne columns of special oar-
respondenoe under the heading, "The Reign of Terror in
Jamaica." The letter, indeed, begins, " I am about to ,
unfold a tale of horror." When it is remembered that the
correspondent of the Star is reported to be Mr. Gorrie,
the banister sent out to defend the interests of the negroes,
it will be understood that his narrative consists chiefly of
stories brought to him by the crowds of nagroes by whom
the chambers t :ken for the Jamaica Committee had been
besieged. Many of these statements are appalling in dia-
meter. If they are to be relied upon, numbers of Degrees ware
executed against whom there was not even a shadow of °vi-
deo*. One statement is that Provost-Marshal Ramsay went
into the prison yard and in presence of a number of misera-
ble men tried and untried, openly proclaimed that if any
one would give evidence against Mr. Gordon he would not
only save his own life but be rewarded by the government.
There can no doubt that women were flogged. In a cottage
at Cooley s husband was shot in the arm by a party of
soldiers, but escaped into the bush. The wife herself,
because unable to mention the biding place of Paul
Bogle. was thrown on the floor in the presence of
her children, and received 50 lashes on her naked body. For
two days and nights she was kept outside closely tied up.
.There are other details as to her alleged torture which we
forbear to give. An old man on his way to the gallows
gave his hat to his eon. The Provost-Marshal instantly
ordered the boy to be tied to a gun and flogged while his
father was being executed. The lad, on being un-
tied, was compelled, according to custom, to run the
gauntlet, and was knocked down and had two ribs broken.
A day or two afterwards he was hang. The murder of
Mr. Hire is the best of proofs that Mr. Gordon had nothiog
to do with the rebellion ; for Mr. Hire was Gordon's most
intimate friend. At the courts-martial, men were con-
demned to death after scarcely tan minutes' deliberatioo.
The mode of Gordon's execution was most barbarous ; the
sailors pulled the temporary platform of barrels carefully
away so that he should have no drop, and he struggled
keg before a sailor mounted the beam sod jerked the rope
to pull it tighter round his throat. The usual pulling of
the legs and breaking the neck completed the work.

the Court.

O:3I3ORNE, Fn. IL

The christening of the infant Prince, the eon
and heir of the Prince and Princes' of Leiningeo, took
plena at Osborne yesterday, which was the anniversary of
her Majesty's marriage, in the presence of her Majesty the
Queen, the Prisons Helena, Primer Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and Priam Leopold, the Prince and Primness and
Princess Alberta of Leiningen, Princess Roheclohe, and
Prince and Princess Hermann of Mohanlohe.

The sponsors were Prisons Hohenlohe, the Grand Duke
of Baden, represented by Prince Hermann of Hohenlohe,
and Prince Edward of Lelaingea, represented by the Prime
of Waimea.

The infant resolved the names of Enrich Edward Charles.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. G. Protharo,
rector of Whipplogham.
The ladies and gentlemen of the household, Yrs. Pro.
thero, and s me of the officers of the royal yacht, had the
honour of being present.

FIB. it

In sousequenee of the very unfavourable weather her
Majesty and the Royal Family were prevented attending
Divine service yesterday.
Lord Proby, Comptrollor of the Honeehold, had an
audience of her Majesty this morning, to prevent the address
of the House of Commons, in answer to the Speech from the
Throne on the opening of Parliament.

The judicial Oommittea of the Privy Clausen suit yester-
day. Present, the Lord Justices Knight &nee and Tur-
ner, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lourenoe
Peel.

Despatches wean received yesterday at the Colonial•office
from the Governors of the North American Provinces,
Bermuda, Vancouver's Island, and the West India Islands.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF War E:l.—Yester-
day morning the Priam and Primes of Wales drove to the
Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, en route
for Theme, on the Wycombe branch of the line, in order
to enjoy • day's fox-hunting. Their royal highnesses were
both attired in bunting costume, the Princess of Wales and
the lady in waiting wearing dark coloured riding babite.
After enjoying some first-rate sport they returned to the
Theme station at 4.55 p.m., the Prima of Wales, on the
return journey, riding on the engine from Theme to Wy.
combs. In the orioles the Prince went to the Strand
Theatre. amocapanied by the Earl of Mount-Rdgoambe, the
Hon. Mr. Barks, Mr. Woodruff*, Major nodal*, and
ether gentlemen. _ .

The announcement of her Majesty's sanction
having been obtained in the bestowal of • pension on Lady
Eastlake le Inoorreet. The grant of the joust= was her
Majesty's spontaneous act, tinsolielted, and =applied for
in any way. The anooanoemeat of it by Pend Rosasll
reached Lady Eastlake at Mika, on her journey to England.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge en-
tertained a dielinguishei party at disuse last evening at
Gionoseter House, Parka's".
The Countess of Dudley gate s " dance" last
evening at her noble mansion in Park.buse. The company,
which consisted of about 210 of the elite of society, began
to arrive at half-past 10 o'clock. The house sad ballrooms
wens brilliantly illuminated and tastefully deeorsted.
Dancing commenced about 11 o'clock to M. Wallentein's
fall orchestra, and was kept up with great spirit till
after 3 o'clock this morning.

The Marchioness of Salisbury has issued cards
for asssiabliss cm the lbth sad 24th instals at the family
mansion in Arlington-stmt.

The Bishop of London received the members of
Sims College at dinner yenterday evening at London House,
Bt. James's-squaw.

Mr. J W. Pease, IL P. foe South Durham, bag
been prevented by 111-health hos taking his east in t►e
house.

A meeting of the Roman catholic inhabitants of
Ireornere was held a few daya ego in the oourt.house of
that town, to mosso their indigestion at the wanton out.
rage committed a short time previOnsly by the breaking of
the windows of the beauti►ul litt'eProteeliant (throb. The
meatier was called together by the Pef4e6 priest, the Rev-
Archdeacons O'Sullivan, who atroegly desoueoed the per-
petrators of the outrage, and spoke of the kindly feeling
whisk selnisted bll4OllOll Ys and the Protestant ialiebit.
sere of the tows. 1 sahneelphiss list was opened, end M.,
ideinding SI. frls the archdesooe, were contributed to re-
pair the dump which had bean done.

4.4TEtT EiTELLIGENCE.
411 E OVERLAND MAIL.

Ws have this morning reosived advioss in anti-
cipation of the Overland Mail. The dates are :
Hong Kong, Jan. 1 ; Madras, Jan. 13 ; Cal-
cutta, Jan. 6 ; Melbourne, Dec. 23 ; and Ade-
laide, Dec. 27.