The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

JAMLICA.

Suspending the delivery of a decided opinion upon the
matters under inquiry by • royal commission, the Telegraph
feels bound, at the same time, to record the progress of
events, and it takes the oc.naion of doing so to-day in order
to show the general belief of the colonists that the pro-
ceedings at Morant Bay were the result of a widely-spread
conspiracy, and that they have approved by legislative act
the conduct of the governor. A letter signed "
Creole" is the chief authority to which the Telegraph
refers. This letter repeats the accusations against Gordon,
with which the readers of the Jamaica papers are familiar,
with the exception that a statement is made of • young
girl alleged to have been detained in the woods for three
days, and who, when rescued from her "cowardly ravishers,
wu a wreck." Her father, it is stated, died of •• broken
heart. The Tc'egraph also suggests, though without pro-
teasing belief in it, that it is possible Gorion's English ac-
quaintances forged the letter said to have been written
when he was at the point of death.
The Star invites attention to the emphatic opinion of two
eminent members of the bar—Mr. Edward James, Q.C.,
and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, that on Mr. Eyre's owu state-
ment his conduct was unlawful and unjustifiable. There ,is
a comforting usurance in their opinion, that society is not
dependent solely on Ministers for redress. The wrongdoers
" may be indicted in Middlesex under the provisions of 42
Geo. 111., c. 83, they may also be impeached in parliament,'
and " any person in this country may prefer • bill of in-
(Belmont."

)U8 TOPTCB.

The Time comments upon the loss of credit to the
country and the actual loss by the depreciation of cotton
goods, through the condition in which those goods are found
on their arrival in other countries, an evil which the com-
mittee of the M►nchester Chamber of Commerce attributes
to the adulteration that takes place in the soaps and
other materials employed in the proems of dressing the
cloth,--sspecially the nee of sour sour instead of starch.
The trade has incurred a stigma which must be
removed. Is it impossible for the honest men to clear them.
selves from this stigma, and to place the individual
delinquents under some stronger moral cogency than their
own imperfect knowledge or unenlightened consciences?
The Post expresses a doubt ss to the termination of the
African slave trade. It ►ltogether distrusts the conduct of
the Spanish government, and hopes no false economy will
induce our Haters to withdraw our maimen for some years
to come.

The Star be. heard, on authority which it regards as
trustworthy, that the Emperor of the French has positively
intimated to the cabinet of Washington his willingness to
withdraw his troops from Mexico at any moment on condi.
tion that the g ivernmeat of the United States recognises
the empire of Mexico. The TelegrapA, on the other band,
earnestly hopes that republican propagandism will not in-
terfere with the Franca Emperor's monarchical bantling.
Left to himself, Maximilian will be to Mexico what Na-
poleon 111. has been to France. Every week of the young
Emperor's sway is pregnant wi►h improvement and re-
form. That the clamour of the Washington Congres will
be uplifted in menacing thunders is morally certain ; but
if American menace be treated in France as it is treated in
England, no bones ars likely to be broken.

London City, the Herald says, contains 339
thoroughfares, of which 70 are main streets, some 3.5 miles
of streets at least, for which the City Commissioners of
Sewers pay 16,0001. a year for the proper and effectual
cleansing. And yet, when we say that the staff employed
by the whole four contractors combined, to sweep, and
cleanse, and cart away daily before noon time, the refuse
from these 55 long miler of streets, and the every court,
alley, lane, place, and market connected therewith is under
120 men and 30 carts and horses, we are fearful of exaggera-
tion.

A Brussels correspondent says :—" I was at a
little theatre the other night called the Molii7:re, where
I saw en amusing pies. called Primrose Farm. It repre-
sents English farm life—time, Hemp, Prince Regent.
His royal highness comae upon the stage and makes
love to Miss Mary, with whom he sings and dance,
as, by the way, does M. Sir Robert the Victim, whl
exhibits a most extraordinary get up. The worthy
divine is addicted to wine, churchwarden pipes, and moral
sayings ; his royal highness to Mary, dancing, sieging, and
boxing, for be he. a turns to with James, the farmer ; and
James, the farmer, to bagpipes and jealousy. While all
this is going on the Prince of Wales, as we learn from the
ringing of a bell, is proclaimed regent ; James marries, in
consequence, Mary, to whom the Prince gives a dot ; the
"Madre" gets a good living ; and everbody is satisfied that
it is an exact reprenentatioe of English mentors and
customs, the more so as his royal high.... sings (quite out
of tans by the way) " Yankee Doodle," and the band
plays " God save the Quell."