The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

THI GOVEIMMERT OP JAMAICA.

The Times remarks that some previous knowledge of the
eoestitatioual panties of Jamaica is needed in order that
Mr. Oardwell's measure, introduced into parliament last
sight, may be appreciated. The negro population has
sot reached the standard of adoration sad public spirit
neermerry to the moors et *restitutions! government ;
sod meat Greets have goo* far to demonstrate the man-
nem of the whites to govern than. Is advocatiag a sons-
oil, wholly nominated by the grown, "to consist half of
°facials sod half nos-ofileiale," Mr. Eyre justly urges that
so other would represent soy bat the piloting isterests,
or would be able to deal impartially with the real
misery and alleged grievances of the engross. It
now appears that many of the leading men is
the colony saw this from the first, and doodad
the effect of periodical elasticise in reviving Nita-
ties, but did net believe that the home goverment
would assume the responsibility of which they were
emulous to relieve themselves. No sooner were they re-
assured oa this poiut by Mr. Zyre's communication than
they hastened to place the destiny of Jamaica absolutely
at the disposal of the crown. Sash an sot removes the only
&faculty with which ea a former ocessiou prevented this
island from being made a crown colony, sad may truly be
numbered among the Wined saws of its present critical
state.

The Daily News, rdsning to the many commode and re-
bukes which Jamaica has received from our wisest states-
men, poiate out that whet we have now seem is the mew
queen, not of a &Unroof institutions, but ci a failure of
character such as co iuetitutio•s can be certain to preveak
The material prosperity of the phut:ere was always of •
precarious kind, frequently compelling them, ewe whoa
they had a monopoly of one market and the power freely
to import slaves, to make urgent applications to parliament
for relief. When emancipation came, the energies of the
eolo•ists, supported by the tory party in this country, were
wasted in disputes with Ragland, instead of being
spent is soo•omy, industry, sad the judicious Implies-
tion of capital. Earl Grey in 1853 told than that
their statute-book preowned nearly *bleak for the previous
air pare as reprds laws calculated to improve the con-
dition of the population ; end thus they entirely lost their
bold open the negro, while the finances of the Woad were
administered with a wastefulness warmly to be credited.
Whether in the absentee of a considerable infusion of fresh
blood into Jamaica the population can be morally and
intellectually :wended, may admit of question ; but
nothing bat the active intervention of British authority and
justice can save the Wand from immediate ruin.

Tll "sin" AID rus BUIOLIII.

Four of our contemporaries this morning give their
readers &narrative of the expedition of the thieves to Mr.
Walker's jewellery shop is Cocchi% with the minute per-
t ealers which the action against the maker el the safe has
brought to light. The Tines remarks that the one
thing which rendered the robbery practicable was
the desertion of the premises for six-end-thirty
hours together. In the twelve hours of a single eight
the work could not have been done. The real security
given by these safes to the public consists In this, that
they render robbery impassible, except under conditions
not commonly realised.
The Herald sympathises with Mr. Walker, but feels it
unecessar► to say a word on the unreaeonablenese sad in-
justice which would be involved in treating persons like
Yearai. /Mow as the virtual insurers without premium of
the contents of all the cafes they have ever made.
The Tekgroph describes " Counsellor Kelly," the whiner
in court yesterday, as be appeared in the court. As he
turned the laugh agaiast those who tried to maks sport
of him, it was impossible for a thoughtful observer not to
sprenlete aa to the apparasee which be would have made
in a different costume. H;s fees was mobile, sensi-
tive; the brow was broad and bright; the eyes
alert and keen. As the orator and humorist of
felony, the man was a type of a low intellect de-
praved ; but the intellect was, at any rake, so lower
than that of some who gloated ever his predicament. The
cleverest men at the bar were those who were most streak
with the cleverness of the criminal. He was not beaten,
after all, by the much over-praised intellect of the detective
polies. It was a woman's jealousy alone that led to the
discovery. It seems a pity that he cannot be turned to
some amount. He is wasted at Milbank ;he might be of
some use at Scotland-yard. His "last ineareation*—to
borrow Balsao's phrase—might be that of a clever thief
°itching clever thieves.
The Tekgraph, expressing its hearty coaceirreses with
the verdict of the jury, adds that Messrs. Milner will pro-
bably be well repaid for their trouble in successfully de-
fending the action, by the remarkable testimonial which
they have received from Mr. Thomas Oaseley, " Teen's is
Basler than Milner's, and ariflith's is eerier than Tan's."

The Sta►, with some little disgust, describes the hero of
the burglary se explaining the details of hie exploit with the
manly pride of Olive explaining his deeds to the House of
Commons. Laughter followed every one of hie smart hits;
only the grave decorum of the court interfered probably
with his receiving what writers of a certain class invariably
call an " ovatioo ^ from some of his delighted hearers. The
Lord Chief Justice camplimented Ida as his abilities ;
loused counsel interchanged jokes with him ; the reporters
professed themselves wholly unable to do justice to the ex-
traordinary coolness and *hymnist which ►e displayed in
the witems-box. The Sear has no taste for robber warship,
sod neither admires Mr. Cbeeley's impodeeee nor dies:wen
any great abilities in the breaking open of a lock.