The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

'TAE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10. 1866.

am the right boaeurable gentleman interprets that lion is complete—if that information bad been complete
Omni I should have beat rather disposed to when parliament mot the next parseraph which her Ma-
bare said nothing that mild be onpleamet to the govern- have
would hue been advised to put in the speech would
meat, and to an administration with whose p lacy I hope have been in different lama. The paragraph pledged the
to conform. (Laughter and cheers.) The right boo. gen- goverment to give that information to the house. sad it
*wan miebejnat as well be charged with having med. • ie the intestine of the goverommt, at the earliest period
party attack upon me, standing on that side of the table, that they ass do so in the present session, to lay • bill
and cheered only by the petty of which be is one of the before the house founded on that iaformaeion,
recognised leaders. (Hear, hear.) Bathe charges me with Mr. T. B. POTTER said he took part in the fiat meet-
baying prejudged this question. (Hear.) Doss be recollect Ing that was held is Illanthesier on the subject ofJamitioa.
that lowly every paper which advocates his polities in this The antecedents of Governor Eyre were laid before the
country was writing strongly in favour of Governor Eyre, meeting very fully, and every credit was given to him for
end applauding the unguisary transactions which, under his conduct in Australia. All that that meeting asked for
him, had taken place in Jamaica ? (Cheers.) Does be was iovestigation, and • deputation was appointed to wait
know, further, that several speakers, well-known mambas on Feel RoeselL Tbey asked simply for au tavestigation,
of his ow. perty, had spokes at different meetinEotictohe judging Mr. Eyre from the evidence of his own despatches.
came sewn (Hear, hear.) I did not prejudge or There was nothing coodemnatory of Governor Eyre. but
Byre I took Governor Byre'. own statement—(ahem}— simply • wish that the name of Reiland should be vindi-
and I said then what I repeat now, that there is sot a cased from what they considered wee a blot on her
judge on the beach in the three kingdoms who would under- entestolusen.
take to say, either in private or in public, that Mr. Gordon Mr. BOUTERIE, alluding to the rumours afloat,
was not clearly murdered. (Hear, bear.) The right hoc warted the government that • reform bill which dwelt
gentleman wished for farther evidence, sad was content to merely with the exteosion of the franchise and left the
take Governor Eyre's owe statement. (Hear, beer.) If it nomination and corrupt boroughs untouched would not be
had been • statement of some paper in Jimmie& or New acceptable to the liberal party. He believed that much of
York—for news from the West Leese often comes to this the dissatisfaction with the present state at things wee
ecientry by way of New York—l should mot for ors caused by the unequal distribution of electoral power, of
moment have thought of courlemning Governor Eyre, or which be mentioned several glaring instances, sad el-
even of discussing his proceedings ; but it was when I saw t hated the government not to leave this opening for future
his own despatch, with fourscore paragraphs, written with agitatios.
the greatest deliberation and the greatest precision, in I Sir H. HOARE also expressed his belief that a "
which be stated his owe share in that transaction, that I barrelled" bill would not be satisfactory, sod argued that
condemned him, and I put it to the house that the country the manufacturing towns and the large egricultural counties
knows perfectly well whether say of the evideoos which were entitled to a greater share in the representation.
has sines been received has in the slightest degree lesteoed Mr. NEATE, on the contrary, was of opinion that the
the gravity of the charge against Governor Eyre. (Hear, most expedient manner of dealing with the question was by
hear.) I recoiled that this hoar some years ago, when the separate measure*.
noble lord the member for King's Lynn sat on this side i Mr. P. TAYLOR urged the government to deal with
as minister for India, an honourable friend of mine the question so as to settle it for some time to come.
(the hon. member for Northampton) brought forward a ease The report on the Address was agreed to.
where an officer of the English army shot five hundred The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in
seethe in cold blood. The noble lord got up, not to defend two Bills to amend the National Debt Acts and the Savings
him, for he knew that was impossible. He never had in Basks and Past-office Savings Bank Acts.
his hie and never will have m the course of his life, • The home adjourned at 10 minutes before 7 o'clock.
more difficult and unpleasant undertaking than he bad that
evening, In appearing to offer some sort of excuse for an
atrocity unparalleled. I hope in the history of Englishmen.
(Cheers.) There are persons in this country, many of
whom would have been glad it this matter could have been
hushed up. They have not learned after 30 years, so far
SS this parliameot is ormeeraed, with respect
to legal freedom In Jamaica, to regard times
unhappy negroes ss subjects of the Queen of
African descent. (Hear, bear.) They were brought to
that country not by their own content ; they and their
forefathers have suffered every species of oppression and
wrong. Their cry finally weeded to heaven, and the
people of this country, outraged in their consciences by
the continuance of that wrong, fotoed this parliament to
give freedom to that black population. (Hear, bear.)
Piot) the hour of their filmdom to this hoar it has been
merely the freedom guaranteed by this parliament ; it has
not bees +auctioned or guaranteed by the assembly and
goverment of that island, and there are sow many persons
in this country, I am satisfied—l grieve to say it, I
think it is • hideous thing among us —who do not
foal the same sense of wrong and injustice when anything
like this happens, if it be inflicted only upon those unfor-
tunate "niggers." (Cheers.) I regard those men, and it
is right I should so regard every man of them, before the
law and before the sovereign authority of the Queen, every
life among them as important as any life in this country or
In this house, and it is idle to tell me that when I stand
upon a platform before thousands of m countrymen, when
this great question is is the balance, lam to consider the
lives of 2,000 subjects of the Queen, because they are black,
as nothing in oomparimon with the feelings of Governor
Byre and his accomplice.. (Cheers.) I tell the right
hoe. gentleman that it would require a very much
stronger moue than hie, and I tell those who sit behind
him, that it would require somethith more appalling thee
their cheers to keep me sliest under circumstances like
these. (Rear, bear.) I believe, air, that at this moment
there is not a civilised and Christian country in the world
In which all thoughtful men are not directing their eyes to
this country to observe what will be the course of the
government on this question. (Cheers.) 1 siren with the
right hon. gentleman that the government is right in ap-
pointing a commission ; but not that they appointed it too
soon, but that they delayed it too long. (Hear, bear.) 1
complained in one of those speeches to which the right
bon. gentleman has referred that my right hon. friend the
Colonial Secretary allowed three weeks to pass from the
time he read that despatch to the time it was announced to
the public that • commission was to be issued. (Hear,
hear.) I understand there were remits for this delay with
which I was not then acquainted. I did not conceive for a
moment that the Secretary for the Colonies wag • man hard
and cruel and unmindful of them whose iotereste he was
appointed by the Queen specially to guard. But now when
the commission has been appointed—when the cir-
aurnatanoes have been before the public, I have
no complaint to make to him or to the government.
I am content to leave the matter now for the
thorough examination of the commission. There are others
who have gone to that island from this country as commie.
Moller, appointed by the public, and I have no doubt but a
thorough inquiry will be made, and that justice will be done.
(Hear, bear.) Why, sir, if such transactions as these could
take place is the island of Jamaica, and there was no man
to point the finger at them in this country, what might
happen in all our other ciloaies and in all the other depen-
(thecae of this wide empire? (Hear, bear.) And if law be
not law to the negro in Jamie', how long will law be law
to the working people or to any of their friends in this
country? (Hear, bear.) I say, sir, that the right hoc
srenileman has allowed, it may lie en official sympathy for
Governor Eyre to weigh with him in this matter, and be
hes thought it necessary to give me notice that he would
corns down to the house and proemial a solemn censure
upon my conduct. (Laughter.) I tell him that in all my
public speeches f have ever made, sad they are not • few,
as the house knows, there are none, there are no passages
in those speeches to which I will, to my last hour, more
adhere than to those which the right bon. gentleman has
commented upon ; there is nothing in them that I have to
*oedema myself for ; there is nothing in them that I retract,
and if the same aircumslateass were to hippie again 1
would repeat those passages, and if God gave me power, with
more burning indignation would I condemn atrocities that
have out • foul blot on the character of English gover-
nors. (Cheers.)
Mr. MARSHexpreseed abope that when the proper time
came there would be no more ooqoetting on the subject
of parliamentary reform. There bad been too much co.
quettiog already ow both sides, but so far as he was con-
cerned any attempt to lower the franchise would moot with
his hearty dlionprobation.
Mr. B. JOHNSTONE congratulated ha ?dainty's govern-
meet on the very modest position occupied by the question
of reform in the speech from the throne. The boa. member
for Birmingham had told the country that if the question
of reform were dallied with the wbig party, as • political
body, would become extinct ; but he would say that if the
wh'g party obeyed the behest" of the boo. member for Bir-
mingham to the matter of reform the party would indeed
beams extinc'.
Mr. CARDWELL—I am me the house would camider
it exceedingly wrong In me to desire to continue the dis-
mission that has been raised with regard to Jamaica. The
course which her Majesty's government has endeavoured
to pursue is, while instituting an effectual in-
quiry into all them matters which appear to
them to require it, to avoid all prejudgment of
say part of the question. I should ill fulfil that
intention were I to continue beyond the length which the
home is pleased to enoirtain it the discussion of that sub-
ject. All therefore I wish to rise to say is, that like the
right hon. baronet, I have known Governor Eyre only by
the reputation that be bee obtained end preserved is the
service. When I first heard by telegram, through the
United States of America, that these deplorable occur-
rences had taken place, I sent for the Governor of Beebe-
does, who happened to be in this country, and athed him
if be could give me any assistance is explaining what these
transactions could mean. His reply was, " I can give you
no assistance on reading this enigma ; but this I can tell
you, that if the circumstances ham been such as to seriously
alarm Governor Eyre, they most have been circumstances
of great moment." He meant to my Governor Eyre was
a man of couriee and a man of humanity. I feel it my
beneden duty to avoid saying anything that shall preludes
either is his favour or against him, but I do not think it
right that in the meanwhile that which is • fact in the
ouie,nuriely, the knowledge of the reputation which he has
heretofore maintained, should be kept back from the
house. With regard to the mode in which the ooeduct we
have pursued has been spoken of both by the right hon.
berated opposite and the hen. member for Birmingham,
there is nothing that his Mien from them that calls for
particular reply or remark. They appear both io the mail.
to three with the course that hes been pursued by the
government ; and if the right bon. baronet opposite thinks
we were • little too precipitate, sad the hoc. member foe
Birmingham thinks we were not quite rapid enough, I am
willing not to enter into that part of the subject, but to
leave it to the future consideration and judgment
of the house. There is, however, one point on
which I wish to mt the right honourable baronet
right. He says, what has frequently been said, that be is
afraid that too meek Inflame has been exercised ore the
course which had been punned by • certain pressure,
and particularly by a certain deputation to which he took
occasion to refer. But the fact of the case is that when
that deputatioe waled epos my noble friend, Sir Hairy
Storks was at the moment on his way front Matte having
received from me informatics of kin appointment which
he now bolds (Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY—I wish to my a word m to what fell
from the right honourable member for Droitwich, end the
construction be put on what I said in answer to • question.
I said I agreed entirely is the opinion that it was very un-
desirable that the question of reform should be kept
dangling es a party gaieties before the country. He said
that the answer I gave was that it wee a matter of 00M.
plete nneartaintywhether • bill founded on the information
we have yet to receive will be presented this year or
next year. I essealaly 'flooded to give nee to
no each uncertainty. What I said in answer to the gnos-
tic, meant, whatever the expreedon might be, that until
W day for the latrodualon el the bill bad been Sled, sad
until we were is a condition to lay that information before
the bowie, it was Impossible to say what the Marvel might
be. (Laughter and cheers.) It the information had been
completed—and if the bill as the general principle of which
the government ens *greed, but with regard to the details
they ammot My them Mime the Mem meta eel Worm-

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Atha Terre NW Pries Bitting@ M Westaaloster.—(Betorie
the Lord Chief Justice and Speeial Juries.)
000Pri V. 7112 IDOL 013ILIAL 011111 Ms OOMPAIT
(1.111173 D).
This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff through the
alleged mealier:le of the detendsem' eervante. The dr
tendaate pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Huddlestoe, Q 0, and Kr. Streeten were counsel for
the plaintiff ; Mr. Hawkins, Q. 0., and Mr. Giffard, Q.C.,
were counsel for the defendant.

The plaintiff is a cab proprietor. and on the Sib of May
Last be was driving a fare along High Holborn, and
when near Bury-street the occident occurred which
gave rise to the present action. The plaintiff's
cab was smashed his horse, which he valued at thirty
gaieties, was so injured that be sold him for 101. The
plaintiff was taken to the London University Hospitii,
when it was discovered that be had sustained a compound
fracture of the left leg. He remained in the hospital from
the 6th of May luta the 12th of August, and when he
left the hospital be had to be carried. He was now
obliged to use a stick, sod he walked with difficulty. H.
represented his gross 'entitle at 61. per week —havieg a
six day plate only—and his net earning' at about 21. 15s.
to 31. per week. The company disputed their liability,
contending that the accident did not arias from the negli-
gence of the driver of their three-horse omnibus, but from
other causes. The evidence was, u usual, very conflicting.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, 150/.