The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-19 00:00:00

PARIS, Jain 18.

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With these words, which drew forth a burst of
applause, Garibaldi concluded ; and, withdrawing
into the recesses of the hotel, was seen no more for
six hours, during which he was chiefly employed
in transacting business with Colonel Bruzzesi and
his subordinate officers. In the meantime the mob,
and volunteers alike, had been manifesting some-
what noisily their impatience at Garibaldi's pro-
longed disappearance ; and so, when he showed him-
self at the balcony for a few minutes, before his
final departure, the general took occasion to ad-
: minister a quiet rebuke ; reminding the volunteers
that nothing was to be achieVed without discipline,
he added, somewhat bluntly, " and whatever you
do, don't take every possible occasion of making
these demonstrations."
The enthusiasm displayed everywhere during
Garibaldi's return to Como was quite indescribable.
Wherever the steamer stopped it was surrounded
by swarms of country folk in small boats, and
every village girl brought her bunch of flowers,
content to have thrown her offering towards Gari-
baldi even though it should fall into the water far
short of its mark.

REPORT OF THE JAMAICA COMMISSION.

Id. H. thorns IdsuiraisioL
Brusszu. Ovum.
J. B. Idstmirs
Charles B. Bounden, Secretary, Bing's Hot"
Spanish Town, .4619, 1860.
Mr. Cardwell, in his despatch, expresses the
general concurrence of the Government with the
conclusions at which the Commissioners have ar-
rived. He reviews the circumstances under which
Governor Eyre maintained the duration of martial
law to its utmost statutory limits, but with the
strongest disposition to make every possible al-
lowance for his difficulties he expresses his full
agreement with the Commissioners, that by the
governor's act the people were deprived for a
longer period than was necessary of the constitu-
tional securities for their lives and property ;
that convictions were procured on insufficient
evidence ; that the punishment of death
was unnecessarily frequent ; that the floggings
were reckless and barbarous, and the burning of
houses wanton and cruel. " Her Majesty's
government have arrived at these conclusions with
I the greatest concern ; they are desirous of recog-
nising every consideration which can extenuate the
condemnation it necessarily involves. But their
principal anxiety must be to prevent the recur-
rence in any future case of proceedings like those
which they have disclosed. It appears to them to
be evident that even in the first excitement of the
disturbances, and still more at some later period,
if martial law was to be allowed to continue, in-
structions ought to have been issued to the officer
to whom the actual conduct of the ope-
rations was entrusted, which would have
rendered such an abuse of power im-
possible." Her Majesty's government do not
im-
pute to Mr. Eyre any personal cognisance of the
severe measures adopted, but inasmuch as it was
his bounden duty to restrain them within the nar-
rowest limits, and to inform himself of what was
being done, they " cannot hold him irresponsible
either for the continuance or the excessive severity
of these measures."
Of Mr. Gordon's case Mr. Cardwell says that her
Majesty's government concurs in the opinion that
"the evidence on which he was convicted was wholly
insufficient to establish the charge on which he
took his trial." The proper course would have
been toarrest him on considerations of public safety,
and reserve him for trial before a regular tribunal.
" But his trial by court-martial, and his execution
by virtue of the sentence of that court, are events
which her Majesty's government cannot but de-
plore and condemn."
Mr. Cardwell states that copies of the Commis-
'loners' report, with the evidence, have been com-
municated to the War-office and the Admiralty,
who are the proper judges of the conduct of the
officers engaged in the recent transactions. Sir
Henry Storks is to cause careful investigations to
be made into the cases of civilians. " Great of-
fences ought to be punished," and the Queen's
government will rely on the Governor for that pur-
pose, and await his report of what he has done.
The despatch concludes with the following re-
ference to the position of Mr. Eyre :
It will be evident from what I have already said that
her Majesty's government, while giving to Mr. Eyre full
credit for those portions of his conduct to which credit is
justly due, are compelled, by the result of your inquiry, to
disapprove other portions of that conduct. They do not
feel, therefore, that they should discharge their duty by
advising the crown to replace Mr. Eyre in his former go-
vernment ; and they cannot doubt that, by placing the
new form of government in newer ds they are taking the
course best calculated to allay osities to to
general confidence, and to establish on firm and solid
grounds the future welfare of Jamaica.