The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

[STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

. Diamond. For this purpose a fund amount-
! ing to 6201. has been raised by public sub-
By the arrival of the above mail we have advises scription, and is to be distributed by a com-
from Bombay to July 24, and from Calcutta to mittee appointed by government, who, will also
July
The Calcutta Englishman, -of the llth July says make it part of their duty to recommend the
I most deserving of the men for those medals
it is daily receiving accounts of the fearful inroads ' which is England are the recognised reward
of the famine amongst the population of Cuttack, iof those who have shown similar bravery.
While we notice these satisfactory indications of
Delmore, and Midnapone; of tluastrenuousexertions . a proper
; and of the made to meet it by the local officers feeling and sense of duty on the part
of government and the harbour authorities, we
apathy displayed by the authorities in Calcutta.
It is informed, it says, from reliable sources, that have at the same time to record two additional
a traveller lately passed in a morning's Dak 22 wrecks, which by a strange coincidence happened
on the tame night and almost at the same place,
bodies on the roadside ;that he saw three children
not far indeed from the spot where the Jeddo
dead together under one tree ; and when, shocked was lost. We allude to the ship Chapman,
and disgusted with the sight, he interrogated a
laden with coals from England, and to the
government official whom he afterwards met, the
only answer he received was—What can we do 4 barque Vicary, with merchandise from Zanzibar,
We have no rice—and the relief at command is which were totally wrecked on the night of the
12th inst. near Although (a little outside the
but a dribblet in the ocean of distress and misery , harbour,
on the eastern shore) ; but it is grati-
around. i bring to be able to add that no lives were lost in
The Englishman adds : I either case. These occurrences seem to prove a
The Board of Revenue haa been surfeited with reports, necessity for some beacon in the neighbourhood
and yet, when the crisis comes, the whole government i ~,,,1 ‘.
roach
machinery seems unprepared to meet it, and thousands °I 'etuuetig°, to warn off vessels that app
die hem the absence of a little forethought and average that dangerous spot."
knosim4 on the pert of the government, who sha . The trial of Captain Jervis continues to fill co-
tters letter arrangements than allow, as they have lumn after column in the India papers. The pe-
tisgiit:att'enae/ vm".rltiseYnit4Lb6oe;rre to
its
trig Utjanhia eximila
hi:a hairejoth. eivil suits
relief doled oat is fawn from the surplus of the old sub- brought against --- • Captain Jervis removed to
acriptions for the North West famine, end from private Simla has been rejected by the court at Lahore.
resources, and the rice purchased by the Board of Revenue i A Calcutta paper complains that while important
with these funds is bought end sold again at ridiculously military events are in progress on the frontiers of
high prices. Every arrangement has been left to the India, the Commander-in-Chief is " immersed in
local officers, who, in this ease, show a bright example to frivolous litigation about pickles and sauces."
their tomatoes.
The Times of India says that the timely and ._......_
copious fall of rain in Eastern India has led to a
material improvement in the condition of the va-
rious districts. The half-starved rY°tll an again I The committee of the British and Foreign Anti_
engaged in the cultivation of the soil with all the Slavery Society have issued an address to the black and
enemy that remains to them, and the re its re the coloured population of Jamaica, of which the following
oeived by the Bengal government regarding the
is a copy, and have addressed a letter, of which a copy is
condition of the crops continue most assuring' '
justifying the belief that all apprehensions of further subjoined, to Sir John P. Grant, the new governor.
famine will soon be dispelled. " The incoming TO THII SLACK AND THE COLOURS() POPULATION
crop of rice, which will be ready for harvest 1 .
about the beginning of August (it adds) pro- ' address OF JAMAICA.
Permit us, your sincere and long-tried friends, t
anti-
mises to be one of the most abundant that you a few words of hearty counsel. The
slavery men and women of Great Britain toiled hard in
Bengal has been binned with for forty years. past years to obtain your freedom. They have since
In the western districts of the Lower Provinces, watched over your interests to the best of their power, end
however, the rain fall has amounted to an actual are still striving to promote the abolition of slavery in
other countries. They now aak you to strengthen their
deluge, causing gre at damage to the indigo and
prove himself
mulberry crops. It is said that `rivers which, in handa, by showing that the black man can
to be a good subject of the queen ; that he can sot only
the middle of June, were as mere silver threads support himself and his fannly, but improve his condition
amidst an expanse of sand, after forty-eight hours' by honest industry, and that be can strive bard to train up
rain were torrents thirty feet deep and miles in his children, and to procure for them the blessing of
breadth.' The country which has suffered most peV7tiir the The prisons
is
a'n important
sad
time, a turning
is that between the Rampore Haut and Bhulpore history of Jamaica. The events of the
Latin, few mouths have fixed public attention upon you, and
stations of the East Indian Railway, which has a wider interest is excited than has been the case sines the
been swept of everything. Floods are very wi. days of emancipation. We deeply deplore and utterly
usual in this district, and consequently no prepare- condemn the acts of violence which were committed at
tion had been made against their approach. The Morant Bay sad in its neighbourhood by a few misguided
le • but the many innocent sufferers have our warmest
I indigo crops in the valleys of the More and Adjie symeaci,y. Your friends hope much from you. They
have been completely destroyed, and this being would earnestly exhort you to a continuance of steady
the third bad year for indigo, much privation industry. The prosperity of Jamaica depends upon you.
and loss must result. Another result of this Every idle man who sits down in his house when he ought
flood has been a week's interruption of traffic on to be earning wages, or working in his grounds, is doing
the East Indian Railway, with the exception of a his part to impoverish his country as well as himself ; and
every man who robs his neighbour's provision ground is
hundred or a hundred and fifty miles in the neigh- doing all he can to ruin and disgrace Jamaica.
bourhood of Calcutta. It has always been felt that Let the well-disposed, the honest and the industrious, set
the bridges on this line—as indeed on some other their face steadfastly against evil-doers. There is an old
Indian lines—were neither sufficiently large nor saying that "Prevention is better than cure." Begin then
with our children. Teach them from their earliest years
substantial to stand even a less severe teat than to y k the truth, and to be strictly honest. Let them
that to which they have just succumbed. We now learn from you, their parents, that first best lesson, " The
learn that through communication has again been fear of the Lord," which "is the beginning of wisdom."
partly restored." • Give theta the best education in your power. Commence
The Englishman publishes the following news with them early. Let their daily study be the Bible. Do
g
you, yourselves, set them the example, bearing in mind
respecting the progress of Russia in Central Asia : . this great precept :—`• Train up a child in the way he
The pogrom of Russia in Central Asia has begun to should go' and when he is old be will not depart from it."
assume such dimensions as toexcite the anxiety of the most Avoid all violence, and obey the laws of your country. Be
stolid. A strong reaction is taking place in favour of the constant in your attendance at a place of worship. Re-
deposed Ameer Sher Ali Khan ; and a brother of his who member that all unrighteousness is sin. Jesus Christ
was at Tukhtabol, in Turkistan, hes induced the troops to offered His life for our sins, and we should pray for the
throw off their allegiance to Afzool Khan, and declare in holy spirit to help us to live to Him who died for us. In
Sher Ali's favour. In consequence of this state of feeling all times of trial and temptation pray to Him, and His
the old troops are regarded by Afzool Khan with ex- grace will be sufficient for you. We earnestly entreat you
theme suspicion, and he has been compelled to disband to rember that God has given his blessing to honourable
many of them. A private letter, which we have marriage ; aed that his displeasure rests on all who despite,
every reason to consider trustworthy, states that his Holy °effluence. No country can prosper whose inha•
the Amer is in constant communication with the bitants live in disregard of the law of (kid in this matter.
Russian envoy who has arrived in Cabul, and that You are placed in a beautiful and fertile land. If you
they have arrived at a perfect understanding together. honour God, He will bless and prosper you ; but those
The English agent is said to have been dismissed, and to can never prosper who, after they Lave been redeemed
have arrived in Peshawur. The Russians have taken from the yoke of slavery, remain the willing slaves of sin
Samarkand, Skein Subs, Merv, and Koorchee, and are at and Satan. Let the thousands of the honest and the in-
present encansped at the last-named plats, wich they are dastrious, the God-fearing men and women among you,, do
fortifying, and are preparing to advance. The distance of their utmost to persuade their careless neighbours to
Koorchee from Bokhara is about forty-four miles. From cease to do evil, and to learn to do well." There are
another sourceit is reported that the Russian government those on the watch who may be ready to take up an evil
has collected an army of 200,000 men at Ak Musjid and report of the labouring people of the West Indies ; but
Verne, in addition to that engaged against Khokan and none of them can do you any harm if you your-
Bokhara, with the object of conquering the whole of the selves, or some among you, do not give them occasion.
provinces of Central Asia, and that the Czar would have It is our earnest desire and prayer that the past may be
carried out his schemes of conquest before, but for the overruled for good, and that the change in the government
Khan /kasha of Khotan having applied to the British of the island may Is blessed, both to the white Inhabitants
government for aid. They have also is another direction and to you. Under the impression that upon yon, more
taken two of the cities of Ili, from whence they intend than upon any other clam, depends the future well-being
sending fosses against the Kalmuck Tartars. . of Jamaica, we have felt constrained to address to you this
In a supplement it gives the following additional our Christian appeal.—We are, on behalf of the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, your sincere friend,,
news from Cabul: William Allen, London ; Robert Alsop, London ;
Since going to press we have received further important Alfred W. Bennett, London ; Thomas Mims,
news from Cabul. A part of it may, probably,, appear London ; Samuel Bowly, Stroud ; William
exaggerated, but we believe it to be mainly correct ; and it Brewin, Cirencester ; John Candler, Chelins
certainly faithfully represents the state of native feeling ford ; Robert Charleton, Bristol ; Joseph
and belief on the subjects referred to. It is stated Cooper, London ; James Cropper, Kendal ;
by parties in Cabul well acquainted with what is going John Cropper, Liverpool ; Josiah Forster,
on, that Mahommed Azim Khan is at that place, making London ; Robert Forster, London ; Charles
arrangements for attacking Peshawur by way of Kohet, Gilpin, M.P. London ; Thomas Harvey. Leeds ;
being hostile to the English government on account of the John Hodgkin, Lewes ; William Morgan,
treatment he received at Rawul Pindee, and other causes • Birmingham ; Richard Peek, J.P., Kings-
and it is confidently affirmed that all the frontier tribes bridge • Henry Pease, Darlington i Henry
from Bijnore and Swat to Belooehistan are ready to rise Sterry, London ; Edmund Sturge, Birmingham ;
and army themselves against the British government George Thomas, Bristol ; Frederic Wheeler,
the moment the call to arms is given. Afzool ban is still Rochester.
at Cabul, and is in daily conference with the Russian L. A. Csmasesovzow, Secretary.
envy; and it is said hat the Remain army is about to
march from Koorchee, where we last reported it, to 27 New Broad street, Loudon, August 15.
Budukshan, vie Hissoo and Danoo. From Budukshan to
Cabul is twenty marches, vie Candoor, Buglai Pooh-
Khoma, Sanasik, through the pus of Sheikh Alee. The
road by this route is good and supplies abundant. The
Bokhara State is believed to have made terms with Russia,
or to be about to do so. In the meantime the dethroned

Ameer, Shere Ali Khan, is at Kelat, endeavouring to raise

THE RECENT TROUBLES IN JAMAICA.

TO HIS KICILLENCT SIR JOHN P....013ANT, 1L.C.8., OOTTANOS

THE SHOOTING SEAMON.—The reports we hear
from many parts of the country are anything but encou-
raging. In many districts of Scotland whole uroods have
been carried off by the disease, though, in others, to use
the words of our informant, " the broods nearly approach
the average." In one part of Scotland " grouse are posi-
tively scarce ;" while on some of the l'orkshire moors
they are said to be rather beyond the average. On one
moor in the north of Derbyshire, with which we are per-
sonally acquainted, the nests which were seen were fairly
full of eggs, and as the grouse were setting " deep" at the
time of the frosts in the month of April, they litbeen
tle
harm. The weather there, however,
very wet and stormy during the last fortnight
and consequently, the gratae are beginning to
" pack" already, as many as from 30 to 50 having been
seen together. The broods there are about the usuel size
via., consisting of seven or eight young ones. The report:
we have seen in some of oar contemporaries about the "
broods in Scotland averaging 10 or 12, axe, we imagine,
calculated upon about the same data as the distances at
which we hear occasionally of their being killed, and we
are pretty well able to form our own opinion as to the
width of margin required fur imagination. We would
venture to assert, and we do so advisedly, that if the
broods on a moor average seven or eight, it has more than
its average share. Pheaaents in Derbyshire have not fared
so well. They had not begun to set at the time of the
1 April frosts, and consequently in many nests more than
1 half the eggs were frosted. Bares on the low lands have
I done well, and a fair average rosy, therefore, be expected
on the moor. In the wet, rushy enclosures there has
been about the usual number of snipes' newts. From
Norfolk we learn that the game prospects are enanung-
ing, though not so great as they once promised to be,
the early rains having destroyed many of the young birds,
and although very unary good coveys are to be met with it
is no uncommon oocurrence to hint them consisting of
only two or three young birds. Bares appear to be more
abundant than last year, but pheasants less so, notwith-
standing so many are batched under hens. From Kent
we kern that the coveys generally are of good size, and
very plentiful, and the young birds strong, forward, and
healthy. There are of course ' spotty " places with barren
birds, as there always are. In some parts of that county
great numbers of young birds were destroyed by the heavy
thunder showers, many of them having been found actually
sticking in the mud, from which they could not with-
draw their feet. The nides of pheasants are reported to .
be up to the average, many of them consisting
of from seven to ten, and very strong and healthy. '
In parts of Surrey, however, loud uouipliunta are made of .
a kind of distemper among the partridges, several young
ones being found dead, and completely wasted away. An
old keeper assured us he had " never seen the like " be-
fore. Flom Somereetshirc we learn that birds are " very
plentiful," the coveys being large, and the young ones
strong on the wing, so that they de not appear to have
suffered at all from the rains, es in many other parts of
the country. Pheasants are reared in vast numbers, like
bare-door fowls, in the preserves, and this year are nume-
row., strong, and healthy,though they can hardly be called
game in this artificial state of birth and education. Hares,
however, in that part of the country, says our informant,
are not nearly so numerous as formerly. On the whole,
We axe inclined to think that the present season may be
looked upon as rather beyond the avenge in the south,
but ia the north we fear it will be found to be rather be-
low it. —Land and Water.
THE SourrnsH FisHEEHut.—The report of the
Commissioners for the British Fisheries its just beea
issued for the year 1865. It relates exclusively to Scot-
land and the Isle of Man, to which alone, notwithstand-
ing the designation of the Beard of Commissioners, its
care now extends. Whatever may be thought of the
powers with which the board is invested, or the preprint
I of their continuance, the statistics which they furnish
year by year are valuable, and it is to be regretted that we
have no similar statistics of the English fisheries. The
herring fishing of 1086 has not been equal to that of seve-
ral previous years, although, from the high prices of cared
herrings, it proved very advantageous to the fishermen and
cetera. The quantity of " white herrings " cured in 1865
amounted to 821,763 barrels. In 181,4 it was 643,650}
Rom AND BRANDY CONSUMPTION. —The quantity barrels, in 1863 it was 654,816,1 barrels, whilst in 1862, the
of rum imported into the United Kingdom in the first six I most productive year in the whole history the Scottish
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months of the present year was 3,129,740 gallons, or herr* fishery- it was no lees then 8.30.904 barrels. The
132,425 gallons more than in the corresponding period of annual average of fifteen years, from 11450 to 1864, both
inclusive, was 641,062 barrel,. It is, however, to be born*
1865. The quantity on which duty was paid in the same
month' of this year was 1,m2,14.51 gallons, an increase of ' in mind that during this time red herrings. have begun to
entered for I be cured on the Scottish coasts, end, what is of far more
111,516 gallons as compared with the quantity
importance, the quantity of herrings sent fresh to the
home consumption in the first half of the preceding year.
by railways. It may, therefore, be confidently
The exports exhibit a considerable declennon—the figures 1 market has greatly Increased, owing to the facilities
for the six months ended 30th June last being 795,W30 It I afforded,
lons, and for the same space in 1865,935,026 gallons. I inferred that, although the quantity of white berrinp
stock in the bonding warehouses on the 30th of June last I cured in 1865 was below the enrage of the previous 15
of herrings actually taken was much
amounted to 7,176.508 gallons, or 195,930 gallons more ! Yee" tiretitY
than the quantity stored under the Queen's locks on the ' Pester than the beginning of that period. Of late, also,
same day in the previous year. Of brandy, the import, the herring fishing has begun to be prosecuted at seasons
when no such things were formerly thought of, even
into the United Kingdom during the firat six months of '
1866 were 2,956,343 gallons, against 1,681,201 gallon, in . in winter, and may now be said to extend over the
mioning the very eatenaire tame,* . whole year ; although the great herring harvest is
the same time in 1865;
of 1,275,142 gallons on the import returns of the first half ill. the letter part of summer, and it is only their that
of 1955. The quantity entered for duty was 1,324,974 nerfmg• are cured, those that are taken at other
gallons for the six months ended 30th June last—an urn- 2080001, and of which the quantity is now eery, eon.
ma:nation of 166,136 gallons se compared with the quan. ' siderable, being sent at once to the market, either air
tity entered in the corresponding months in 1865. The ' fresh herrings, or in the form of kippered herrings,
exports of this foreign spirit likewise show a falling off— i blown, he. The cod and ling fishery -of 11145 was little
the quantities shipped in the first six months of the pee- . different from the average of the ten or twelve previous
sent year being Z 7,9118 gallons, against 287,814 gallon' in years. It was rather more productive than that of 1864,
the like parka of 1965. The stock accumulated in the but not so productive as that of 1863, the best on record.
bonding
repepeacin on the 30th June last was 5.1,46,ey The itinerations incident to all fisheries may be illustrated
ns—an amount 885,892 gallons in excess of that noti- .by comparing it with that of 1861, the least productive
teeth, the
°meta
account. no being in warehouse at the i year for many yews, which it exceeded in the quantity of
same date in the previous year. i fish cured by nearly one-half of the whole amount of that
1 years fishery. The
.quantity of cod. Ig, and hake cared
ou the Scottish coasts to 1865 was 112, cwt.., whilst in
DESPATCH or THE AUSTILALIAN litana.--SOUTH
1961 it was only 82,34141 cwt.. This of itself
aurrow, Accost' 20.—The Peninsular and Oriental Cm; ,
pany's steamship Surat, Captain Jameison, sailed ~___ bow may serve to
tam our view over a considerable number of years,
afternoon, with the mails for Gibraltar, the Meditananese. i M.; "cleasri. it is. in 'Potion° concerning fisheries.
.pt, Allen. Ceylon, India (.3**l4 11/4"1.7), 94114* I and to avoid j bassi] from of
)(auntie', Australia, and New Zealand. The sures took _,,a .._ _.,___.it ,g lee: comparison our year
out 48 first and 21 second class passengers, and on freight —!mr"mer 'a WI "Maar, to take into Mag.,
datatiea at one* the produeo of a mm 4, and not to found
• neral ge cargo.
Mee looality.—Cotedoniait Mercury.
Qtriswerowie, Artotral 20.—The extra Canard genera 'lull"' en the facts ascertained es toa pstg.
steamer, Palmyra, arrived bare at 5.20 p.m. te-day, with . :
ONTINTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING DAT.
sal66dP pr aS"Mgi del n.oces atBb6/.24p/25 All"..:lrsuaDdete;Pier= Metlear, AUGUST 90.—Admissions on payment, 6,742;
nds all across. ditto b 7 mom tickets, 1,492. Total visitors, 8,244.
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