The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1866.

THE DISTURBANCES IN JAMAICA.

(VllOll OUR BPSCIAL COILIUMPONDINT.)
SPANISH TOWN, Aram 9.

The Royal Commissioners have at length con-
chided their arduous and laborious task. All the
circumstances which attended the recent disturb-
ances in Jamaica, and the measures adopted for
their suppression, have been most minutely and
patiently investigated, and the sad history of the
whole affair is recorded in the minutes of the
evidence that has been taken. A most lamentable
story it must be admitted to be, no matter
what opinions we may entertain as to the
questions which are mainly at issue. If the
occurrence at Morant Bay was but a premature
manifestation of an organised conspiracy, hav-
ing for its object the destruction of all the white
and coloured people of Jamaica, it is painful to
think that thirty years of freedom, of church mi-
nistration, and of missionary effort, have left the
blacks in a condition so little superior to that of
brutes that they could entertain such bloodthirsty
and fiendish designs. But if, as appears to
me to be nearer the truth, the outrages
committed in St. Thomas-in-the-East were
the result of local discontent and agitation
only, were wholly unconnected with any organisa-
tion in any other part of the island, and were
strongly condemned by tho black population of
almost every parish in Jamaica, it is still more
painful to contemplate the savage measures of reta-
liation which were directed by the authorities—
civilized men and Christian gentlemen as they
claim to be considered—against the population of
the disturbed districts. To suppress an active
rebellion, or to prevent the spreaddof a revolt,
measures of most exceptional severity may at
times be necessary, and may therefore be
justifiable ; and it is only upon one or
other of these grounds that the hangings,
and shootings, and floggings in St. Thomas-in-the-
East can be justified, or even palliated. I find it
hard to believe in the existence of active rebellion,
when it is proved upon the testimony of their own
officers that the troops never encountered any body
of rebels in the field, and during all their numerous
marches and counter marches never met with the
faintest resistance. And after listening to the evi-
dence which has been given as to the state of feeling
among the black population in other parts of the
island, I have failed to discover in it any proof that
the temper of the people was so favourable to the
spread of an insurrection, which Mr. Eyre
himself described as " hemmed in " within a
week after it had broken out, as to justify
the terrible measures of repression which were
adopted. I know that this opinion is opposed to
that of almost every white man in Jamaica, or pro-
bably in the West Indies ; but it is the opinion
which I have formed, not upon loose gossip and
idle tales, but upon the sworn testimony of
witnesses, many of them most unfavourably dis-
posed towards the blacks ; and it is a conclusion
which I believe will be forced upon the minds of
most men in England, who, free from the passions
and prejudices which warp the judgment of resi-
dents in this part of the world, will carefully ex-
amine the evidence which has been taken before
the Commissioners.
Although my sight is tolerably strong, I do not
profess to see farther into a millstone than my
neighbours, and I shall therefore make no attempt
to inform you what will be the nature of the com-
missioners report. If it fails to give entire satis-
faction to any one, it will only share the fate of
most similar documents, and under any circum-
stances there will remain this ground for congratu-
lation, that if its conclusions are erroneous, the
evidence which will be published along with it will
afford the means of demonstrating their fallacy.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

The slender Birmingham wire, which we recently
traced from ita arrival at the gutty percha works in
the City-road, through the various processes of
manufacture, until it left Morden-wharf, Green-
wich, a complete submarine cable, is now being
coiled at the rate of two miles an hour in the vast
tanks of the Great Eastern. The Amethyst hulk,
which we saw receiving its precious freight the
other day, is now moored alongside the great ship
off Sheerness, while the Iris is being laden in her
turn at Greenwich, and will supply the Amethyst's
place directly the latter is emptied. Thus, manu-
facture and stowage go on concurrently, and at the
moment one part of the great wire is receiving its
elementary coating of Chatterton's compound, or
perhaps being spun at Birmingham, other portions
are being laid down in the great ship ready for the
final and momentous paying out. The directors
of the Telegraph Construction Company hal, e
chartered the Medway, a ship of 1,823 tons, to ac-
company the Great Eastern on her voyage out.
The Medway will carry some hundreds of miles of
the cable of last year, and in the event of the expe-
dition being successful, will redischarge this into
the then empty tanks of the Great Eastern
at Newfoundland. The Medway will then start to
locate the spot where the broken end lies, to
fix buoys, or it may be to commence the picking
up. Captain Anderson, to avoid taking the Great
Eastern to the Nore this yew., will go direct to
Beerhaven from Sheerness, and will there supply
himself with coal for the voyage. The length of
time to be occupied in an expedition during which
the double process of laying down one cable and
picking up another is to be gone through, is
necessarily estimated at a much higher rate
than the one of last year, and some
seventy days are spoken of as the period the
Great Eastern will be away. Assuming her to
leave Sheerness from the 29th Juno to 3rd July
next, three days will take her to Beerhaven, where
she will stay nine days to take in coal. Allowing
five days for waiting for favourable weather, for
splicing with the shore end, and fifteen days for
the passage to Trinity Bay, we may look for mes-
sages from America about the beginning of August
next. The Great Eastern will again supply herself
with coal at Trinity Bay, and at once follow the
Medway to the grappling ground ; this will take
three days, and eight more are given for grappling,
and five for returning to Trinity Bay and laying
the remainder of the old cable. This done,
the return of the Great Eastern to Eng-
land will take twelve days more, and bring
her home about the second week in Septem-
ber. In each case a margin must be given to
the foregoing figures, but they are based on present
calculations, and may be taken as authentic. It will
be seen that they assume success throughout, and it
may be added that on an elaborate series of prob-
lems having been drawn up by authority, as to
what would be the effect of different calamities or
casualties, should they arise, the responsible
leaders of the coming enterprise have answered
every supposition satisfactorily in writing. The
issue time alone can solve, but whatever may be
its result, the more the preparations for the
Atlantic expedition of 1866 are known the more
they will be regarded as marvels of forethought, of
precaution, of skilful analyses of cause and effect,
and of logical deductions patiently, laboriowdy,and
courageously worked out.

Tun OXFORD TAmoss.—Upwarda of 250 jour-
neymen tailors of Orford agreed last week to strike for
wages, acquainting their employers that unless they ad-
vanced them at the rate of 25 per cent. they should de
no more work :the masters, after having a conference with
• deputation from the men, st ones agreed to their bums.

when their names Ire mendoned--snch, for instance, as Oeylen,
Hawthorn, and the Midsummer colt. Lord Glories?' lot were
backed to win £4OOO at 60 to L There was no plaarbettini, but
the proverbial slaughterer of The &abhor offered to lay 6.000 to
LOW that Radon beats more than beats him in the Derby.
Cloalni prices at 3 p.m.

DUBY.
9 to 4 apt lard Lyon (t) 33 to 1 apt Knight of the
6 to 3 Rustic (off, 3bCrescent (t
1 wonted) to 130)
100 to 7 Harlan (1 freely) 1000 to 10 Westwlck (t
100 to 7 -- Vespadan (t) and wanted)
90 to 1 ctoyStockwell— 1000 to 10 Ceylon (of)
Briber/ (off) WOO to 11 Hawthorn (1)
56 to 1 Blue Maud 1000 to 5 cby
Midsomar S
ff) tockwell
io
26 to 1 (Rabbet 'off) (t and of)
30 lo 1 Monarchof the 1000 to I Maawnste(tdo)
Glen (1 to 60 to 1 Lord Glaahow's
£4O) lot (t to 3.401

ASCOT SPRING MEETING.—Tokhns.2.
TR! DERRY TRIAL PLAT! of 100 'ova, added to a sweepstakes
of 10 sore. each ; three-yr-oids, 7st bib ; four. Bat 12lb ; fire. elz,
and aged, Bat Rib ; selling and other allowances. Swinley
course
A PLATE of 100 sore., for horses which have never won 100
3-yr-olds, 7st 91b ; four, Int 10lb live, six, and aged,
Bet 121 b ; maiden 4-yr-olds allowed bib; five and upwards, 121 b.
T. Y.C.
A Mtn of 50 son. ; 2-yr-olds, est 21b ; three, Sat 101 b ; four,
10st Rib ; Ave, six, and aged, ltlet Bib ; selling allowances, lc.
The Old Mile.
FIRST YRAR 07 THE FIRE? SPRING BiIINIAL STAINS of 10
eon, each, with 100 added, for 2-yrnids ; colts, Bat 9lb : fillies,
Set 7th. Half a mile. (37 subs.) Captain, Fitzroy, Problem,
Ruthven, Bllnkhoolie, The Rescue, Ettrick, Red Cross Knight,
Reigning Beauty. Duane., c by Haaild—Harridan, King Charles,
Hornet, Vigor, Venom, Faux Pea, Huntsman, Alrel, Nice, Knight
of the Garter, Katherine, 0 by Dundee—Blanche of Middlebia,
c by Thormanby—Cordelia, Miss Bateman, Opopmax, Veruiam,
Friponrder, Water Cure, Ephyre, Miss Mizabetk Seville, Fair-
feld, Scipio, Libertine, Collins, Feodor, Var dyke.
TEI DUI! DR BRABANT STAR= ;HADdioap) of 400110 M, added
to a sweepstakes of 25 son. each. 15 ft. and 6 only if declared ;
winners of a handicap after April 19, at 10 a.m. , 61b extr.x ; pe-
nalties accumulative. The New Course (1 rafts 5 furlongs).
(74 subs., 49 declared Age.)
st lb Age st lb
Bengal: 5 6 Eleanor
Redraft* 4 4 Baring
Undid 6 3 Xi 3
Merry Wife
5
Brahm Sealainn
Auditoa r
Gores 4 11 lon
Hollyfox
5 7 Lincoln Green
3
Filbert 4 4 gby Yellow Jack—
Merry Hart
Pintail 5 2 lionitrees
Helen
Cutaway 5 2 Haakhazareton Maki .... S
TRI GRAND STAND PLAT! of 200 son., added to • sweepstake;
of 15 soya each, 10 ft, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bat 81b ; fillies, list 81b ;
winners, 3lb extra; penalties accumulative: maidens, if
they have been beaten, allowed 31b. Five furlongs. (42 stain—
Six May (bred In France;, Captain, f by Voitigeur—Wombat,
Bravura, f by Oxford, dam by Mountain Deer—lbis, Lady Bugle
Eye, Nancy. ktaydew, Red Maud, Vigor, Charles 11., Hunts-
man, Australle, Ariel, Pussy (by Diophentus), Ruth, Knight of
the Garter, Marksman, Stocks ill, Amour Propre, The Hatter,
ArehlmClarice,
age, Pussail hlaDragoon, Achievement, The /take, Frlponnier,
nd Slater, Camilla, Ch n, Moleskin (abler
Sealskin), e y Parmesan--Clairvoyente's dam, Lady Craven,
Harpenden, Fitzwilliam, Libertine, Collins, Laverne, Confes-
sional, cby Vedette—Firmament's dam, cby Promised Land—
Maid of Lincoln,
A HANDICAP PLATE of 100 eon. added to a sweepstake, of 5
soya each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; winners after April 28, at
10 a.m., 61b extra ; second to receive 20 son. Half-ainfle.
(18 subs)
Age et lb Age at lb
Coup d'Etat
Qui Viva 8 8 Charlemagne 6 7 6
Min Roland
Is. 3 3 Steamboat 8 7 2
Cedric
Inngham
0 Meld of leak
0 Blrkdale it 7 0
3
3 613
Drone 3 0 The Mammon
Indian Star 3 9 Isis
Venturi:4o= 3 8 Lord Craven 5 8 7

THE PARIS RACES.
(RNOTZZ'S ?SUGIURA)
PARIS, Aria 29.

The Parts races were rum today with the following results

PUX DI SKRTILIFS.

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tabs inttlitstna.

MILTROPOLITAN OCHYNTY COURTS.
(Bitting days appointed for the t week.)
yWrit2llllrMUL, 8L Martin's-Luse.—W , May 2; Thurs-
da,
Bwousairar,Portiand-read.—Tuesday, May 1; Wednesday, I ;
Thundo.Y. 3 ; Friday, 4.
Mcarussons, Maryiebonawoad.—Tuesday, May I ; Widnes
dalluirrigday, 4.
Danean-tartues.—Tuesslay, May 1; Wednes-
day, 2 ; Thu May, ; Friday, 4.
ANORRDITCH, Old road —Tuesday, May 1; Thuredity, I.
Bow, Bow-read.—Monday, Ap41130 ; Friday, May 4.
8011TRWMUL, Bwan-str—Monday, Aped 30; Tuesday, May I;
Wednesday, 2; Friday, 4.
Lemurs, Camberwell New-road.—'rnesday, May 1; Wednes-
-4
OP LONDON,
turday, b.

Thazsday. Ew a; e.-

BAIL COURT.—Aparr. 28.

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Sittings at Nisi Rine at Westminster.--(Before Mr.
Justice Mellor and • Common Jury.)
The court sat this morning only a abort time, in conse-
quence of the oases in the list having ea unexpected run on
them ; and as the parties in many of them were not pre-
sent, the cases had to be struck out.
CASTLZ e. BASB.--THI DIVISION ON TIM WORN JILL.
Mr. J. 0. Grifiltte appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Had-
&mien, Q.C., for the d.efendant.
This was an action to recover oom in damages
for personal injuries received the alleged negli-
gence of defendant's servants, the endant being the
celebrated brewer and M.P. for Derby.
When the cane was called on,
Mr. Huddleston said the defendant and his witnesses
were not present. He could only attribute it to the ex-
citement of the division on the Representation of the
People Bill, the defendant having voted that morning with
ministers. (Laughter.)
It was then arranged that the use should be made •
remsnet to the after-terra sittings.