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the doctor looked up inquiringly to the roofs and
windows in the streets adjacent, and came to the
conclusion at once that an explosion which had left
such things standing must be considerably short of
the explosion of a gasometer. We feel no disposi-
tion to controvert this argument, or to impeach,
indeed, the general assumption on which the jury
returned their verdict of " Accidental Death." We
think as they thought, that " governors" should be
more effectually secured, and we are of opinion that
when unskilled workmen, who had given some evi-
dence of carelessness, were employed in such aplace
as the meter-house, they should never have been
left, even for five minutes together, without effec-
tual supervision. But the great question which
touches us all is that of allowing these reservoirs of
gas to retain their position in the heart of the me-
tropolis. We cannot say that Dr. Letheby's as-
surance gives us either confidence or satisfaction ;
indeed, we fear that most people will retain a livelier
impression of what, according to his description, the
explosion of a gasometer might have done than of
the more consoling features of his evidence. Gas-
holders are certainly offensive as well as unsightly
structures, nor will it be easy to persuade the public
that they may not be dangerous. They were placed
where they are when such matters were less cared
for than at present, but a correspondent has shown
that in this very circumstance lies an easy escape
from the difficulty. When gasworks were first
established land was comparatively cheap. Its value
in this city has now risen so enormously that it
would probably answer the purpose of any company
in a mere pecuniary point of view to sell their pre-
mises and remove to a more distant and cheaper
situation. This would give the public security
without damage to the companies, and the expedient
should be taken promptly into consideration.
HERALD.-Of all the white races the English was
the first which made a practical application of the
theory of negro freedom. Early in this century the
idea began to dawn on the mind of civilised Chris-
tendom that it was inconsistent with the golden
rule on which Christianity is founded that any one
section of the human race, however inferior, morally
or physically, it might seem, should be held in sub-
jection or oppressed by any other section. This
country had the most to lose by the carrying out of
this principle. It redounds much to the honour of
Englishmen of the last generation that they did not
hesitate to do what they believed to be just and
right, at whatever sacrifice of money and political
influence. It is now more than 30 years since sla-
very was abolished throughout the British domi-
nions. The change -which has been effected in
America as an accident of sectional strife, and by a
fierce civil war, was accomplished by England in a
time of profound peace and in cool blood. She
thought it not too late to atone by one magnani-
mous stroke for the errors of the past. She paid
down her millions, she ruined her West India colo-
nies, but she struck the chains off the negro at once
and for ever. Had she not set this example it is
probable enough that negro emancipation would up
to this day have been regarded as a visionary
scheme of impractical philanthropists. Most men are
still agreed that the negro is inferior to the white
man—a creature of lower development, if not a
different species. Many men, and good men too,
are even now of opinion that in subjection to the
superior race lies the negro's best hope of im-
provement and prospect of happiness. We grant
that the question is a difficult one, thoughit appears
to be receiving its solution in the history of our
times. What we wish to point out is, that the
English, having taken that view of it which is most
favourable to the negro, have, in some sort, earned
a title to the gratitude of that race. The eman-
cipation of the blacks in the West Indies, followed
up by the most earnest and constant efforts
to extinguish the slave trade by negotiations and by
arms, has caused us, not unfairly, to be regarded
throughout the world as the champions of the Afri-
can, against whom, at one time, the whole of Chris-
tendom seemed in league. If the sudden emancipa-
tion of the blacks in the West Indies, followed, as
it was, by the most disastrous results to the pro-
sperity of those once-flourishing colonies was blamed
as Quixotic by politicians of the day, to us the deed
may seem to have been justified on the simple ground
that it was right. Fiat justitia neat cceluen should be
the motto of nations, as of individuals. But when
the Government of Great Britain, in its passion of
self-abnegation, went so far as to accord to negro
and white, once master and slave, an absolute equa•
lity of civil and political rights, it made a doubtfu
and dangerous experiment, and introduced a prin.
ciple the justification or condemnation of which de.

pended upon the issue. In rising in insurrection in
Jamaica the negro has pointed a more deadly weapon
against himself than any that could have been forged
by the bitterest enemy of his race. In deference to
what he believes to be the right the Englishman has
granted him, not freedom only, but equality. Of all
places in the world the black man has been most in-

Clulgently treated in Jamaica. On the roads, in the
marts, in the streets, in public conveyances, the
negro of Jamaica is the acknowledged equal of the
white man. Negro voters jostle the white man at the
poll; negro magistrates sit side by side on the bench
with Caucasian judges •, negro legislators take their
place in the House of Assembly. In making a quiet
and orderly use of such privileges these blacks had it
in their power to show their gratitude to the race
which had been the first to emancipate them, to
prove to the world that they were worthy of freedom
in its truest and largest sense. Their behaviour is a
sad refutation of the assumptions of their friends,
a proof of the folly of our rulers in giving political
power to the breed which, by its vast numerical
superiority, is able to use that power so much to
our hurt. The negro in Jamaica has been spoiled
and petted by the Government ; he is pampered by
the bounteous soil, which produces almost spontane-
ously its richness of tropical produce. In this island,
where the population is but 70 to the square mile,
he is able to sun away his days in the most voluptu-
ous indolence ; in Barbadoes, where there are 970
inhabitants to the square mile, he is forced to work
in order to gain his livelihood. The abundance of

productive land enabled the runaway slaves and
freed men, called Maroons, to establish a sort of
independent colony in the northern part of the
island in 1738. Seven years later these blacks en-
gaged in a widespread conspiracy for the extermina-
tion of the whites. In 1795, the Maroons, again
rose in revolt, and were not quelled until after a
bloody struggle in 1796. In 1831 there was a for-
midable negro insurrection, attributed to the disap-
pointment of the slaves who had been prematurely

excited by hopes of their emancipation. While their
were yet slaves the negroes may have had some ex-
cuse, may have deserved some sympathy in ill-ad-
vised efforts at independence. They have now no
cause of quarrel against us. We have treated them
with the most unparalleled generosity and thehost
lavish indulgence. The freedom which we have
granted them has .degenerated into license when it
is too late to revoke the boon or to revise our

policy. The vagueness of the successive telegrams
which we receive from Halifax throws a sort

of mysterious horror over this negro rising,
which at first we hoped might have been but a
trifling e'meute, but is now described as serious,
and characterised by great barbarities. If the
negroes in Jamaica are only united they have the
white men in their power, for they outnumber
them by more than 20 to 1. According to the
census of 1861 the population of the island was

441,000. Of these tlie-re were barely 14,000 Euro-
peans, including Creoles. There were 81,000
mulattoes, and 346,000 blacks. It is true that the
military establishment, consisting of two or more
regiments of the line, one West India regiment, the
artillery, and the militia, constitute together a
formidable force in case of need. Reinforcements,
too, have been hastily despatched from Halifax, in
Nova Scotia, and Nassau in the Bahamas. Whether
excited by emissaries from the continent of North
America or Cuba, or, roused to emulation by the
deeds of their brethren in San Domingo, the negroes
in Jamaica will find that in defying the British
power they have entered upon a conflict which is
sure to issue in their ruin. For the safety of the
white colonists in the island, and as a salutary lesson
to the black race everywhere, we trust that the ring-
leaders in this wicked revolt will be sternly and
summarily dealt with as soon as they are caught.
The problem of the destiny of the negro, and his
proper place in a polity in which he is brought in '
contact with the white, now so hotly debated on
the neighbouring American continent, seems about
to be illustrated to our cost and his in that hapless
island where we have given him so fair a chance of
vindicating his position in the world and his right
to self-government.

[NEW ORLEANS. —The British and American
Steam Navigation Company's steamer Bolivian sailed from
Liverpool on Tuesday with a large cargo and full com-
plement of passengers. The succeeding steamers will be
the Carolina, sailing on the 21st inst., and the Alabama,
sailing on the sth December.

The steamer New York, arrived at New York
from Panama, has brought specimens of gold ore taken
from the newly discovered Isthmus deposits near the line
of the Panama Railroad. More extensive discoveries were
expected to follow, and the Panama and Aspinwall people
were anticipating a great rush to the new diggings.
IA DVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Pills.—Dark and cheer-
less, indeed, is the present season when the weekly deaths
are far above the average. The cause is probably diffused
through the dense, damp fogs which have been so preva-
lent of late. These pills purify the blood which has been
contaminated by foul gases, and give tone to the nervous
system, whereby typhus, typhoid, gastric and bilious fevers
are warded off. Holloway's pills are also the best known
promoters of digestion, the surest regulators of the liver,
and tha most valued andi effective of all aperients. When
the health is impaired with loss of appetite, vigour, and
sleep, this medicine will be found a certain restorative, and
will rarely fall to effect a cure.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening,

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
William Webb Follett Synge, Esq., her Majesty's Consul-
General in the Island of Cuba, to be her Majesty's Judge
in the Mixed Court established at Havana under the Treaty
of the 28th of June, 1835, between Great Britain and Spain
for the abolition of the slave trade.

DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Melmoth
Osborn, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate in the Colony of
Natal.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 10.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Gerald Hyde Charles
Stracey, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Laurence
Richard Dowdall, whose appointment has been can-
celled.
3d Hussars—Alfred Lucas Henry, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase. vice Stevenson, promoted.
4th Hussars—Cornet Henry Hyatt Collings to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice John Barrett L. Nevinson, who
retires ; Cornet Arthur Brandeth Corrie has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Com-
mission.
16th Lancers—Lieutenant Douglas Alexander Graham
Cunningham Graham, from the 78th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice D. G. Sandeman, who exchanges.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Edmund Penrose Bing-
ham Turner to be Captain, vice Captain and• Brevet-
Major Emilius Fazakerley Craufurd, placed upon half-
pay; Lieutenant Henry Colebrooko Lewes to be Se-
cond Captain, vice Turner.
Military Train—Lieutenant Biddulph Lee Warner, from
the 21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. V. Lambe, who
exchanges; Troop Sergeant-Major James Wightman,
from the 21st Hussars, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice George Penrose Pritchett, promoted.
4th Regiment of Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William
Creyk, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ebenezer
Miller M.D., who resigns.
7th Foot—Lieutenant William Daly to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieutenant H. S. Harrison, promoted on
20th June 1865.
Bth Foot—Lieutenant James Q. Palmer to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Robert D. Forbes Sheriff, who retires ;
Ensign Nash Short to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Palmer ; Lewis Lovat Ayshford Wise, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Short.
10th Foot—Ensign Nicholas Edward Carr to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Chaigneaux Colville Par-
kinson, deceased ; Ensign Edward George Green to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice J. J. Kennedy, whose
promotion on the 20th October, 1865, has been cancelled ;
Ensign Thomas Orton to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Richard Stephen Burgess, who retires ; Ensign
William Cooke, from the 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Carr ; Augustus George Bridge, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Orton.
11th Foot—Lieut. Christopher Garsia, from the 89th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice E. H. Vaughton, who exchanges ;
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Denis Joseph Canny to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice R: T. Scott, appointed to the
Staff.
12th Foot—Capt. and Brevet-Major William HenryQueade
to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet-Col. John
Francis Kempt, deceased ; Lieut. William Keough to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Queade ;
Ensign Alfred Woodward to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Keough ; Ensign G. Lyford Barry Thomas
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Arthur Leroux
Whipple, deceased ; Ensign Albert James Hesketh Dau-
beny to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Woodward,
whose promotion, by purchase, on Aug. 8, 1848, has been
cancelled; Ensign Aloysius Miley, from the 59th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Daubeny ; Gentleman Cadet Owen
Williams, from the Royal Military College, to beEnsign,
without purchase, vice Thomas.
14th Foot—Ensign George Callwell to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Henry John Harington, who retires ;
Herbert Lovell Woodland, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Callwell.
15th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant George Brooks, from
a Depot Battalion, to be Quartermaster, vice Alex. R.
Mitchell, cashiered by sentence of a General Courts-
Martial.
16th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Roberts, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice W. Cooke, transferred to the 10th Foot.
17th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Evelyn
Wood, from the 73d Foot, to be Captain, vice J. T. 13.
Mayne, who exchanges ; Lieut. Harvey Lambert M.
Ravenhill to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Henryß. Jackson,
who resigns that appointment.
19th Foot—Lieut. George Dalton Michell, from the 66th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. A. Warden, who ex-
changes; Gentleman Cadet George Edward Langford,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Remnungton, transferred to the 88th
Foot.
20th Foot—Frederick Wm. Birch, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice George William Hely Hutton, who re-
tires.
21st Foot—Lieut. Alexander Clark-Kennedy, from the
46th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. H. Anderson, who
exchanges ; Lieut. George Vautier Lambe, from the
Military Train, to be Lieutenant, vice B. L. Warner,
who exchanges; Liout. Wm. C. Ralston to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant F. G. Jackson, who resigned that ap-
pointment on June 9, 1865.
22d Foot—Capt. Robert Stockholm Brydges Leech, from.
the 24th Foot, to be Captain, vice R. H. Dillon, who ex-
chenges ; Sergeant-Major Arthur Tatham, from the 15th
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Walter Jones, deceased.
24th Foot— Capt. Robert Henry Dillon, from the 22d Foot,
to be Captain, vice R. S. B. Leech, who exchanges.
25th Foot—Hamlet Wade Thompson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Edward Law Durand, transferred to
the 96th Foot.
37th Foot —Thomas h Becket Sargent, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Dillon, transferred to the 66th
Foot ' • Arthur Thurston Crosse, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Sargent, transferred to the 78th Foot.
43d Foot-2 Lieutenant George Garland to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Arthur R.. Close, killed in action ;
Ensign James Thomas O'Brien be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Garland ; Lieutenant St. Vincent
Alexander Hammick to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant
Garland, promoted.
46th Foot—Lieutenant George Henry Anderson, from the
21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Alexander Clark-Ken-
nedy, who exchanges.
49th Foot—Ensign Charles Barter Bogue to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice the Hon. John Arbuthnott, who re-
tires • Ensign Benjamin George Huniphrey, from the
66th 'Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bogue ; Lieutenant Wm.
Hugh Thomas to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Hincks,
promoted.
50th Foot—Ensign James Bromfield, from the 43d Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Thomas Waring, killed. -
51st Foot—Lieutenant Henry Steuart Tompson, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice E. D. Oliver, whose promo-
tion, by purchase, on the 30th June, 1865, has been can-
celled ; Ensign Robert Stratford to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Edward Dudley Oliver, deceased;
Gentleman Cadet George Denshire, from the Royal Mi-
litary College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Stratford.
53d Foot—Lieutenant Robert Waller, from the 76th Foot.
to be Lieutenant, vice B. Simner, who exchanges.
59th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Adrien Wyatt-Edgell,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Miley, transferred to the 12th Foot.
60th Foot—Francis John A delbert Wood, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice E. C. Wood, transferred to the
86th Foot.
61st Foot—Henry Lindsell Green, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Thomas Disney Leaver, whose appoint-
ment, by purchase, on the 11th July, 1865, has been
cancelled.
62d Foot —Major Joshua Grant Crosse, from half -pay, late
88th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet-Colonel R. G. Am-
herst Luard, who retires upon temporary half-pay; Cap-
tain Edward Hunter to be Major. by purchase, vice
Joshua Grant Crosse, who retires; Lieutenant Arthur
Lake to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hunter; Ensign
John Boughey to be Lieutenant, 18,7. purchase, vice Lake;
Thomas Duncan William Dunn, ent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Boughey.
64th Foot—Ensign William Charles Mathews, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Herbert Grant, who re-
tires ; Richard William James Dennistown, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Mathews.
65th Foot—Surgeon Thomas Esmonde White, M.D., hav-
ing completed twenty years full-pay service, to be
Surgeon-Major, under the provisions of the Royal
Warrant of the Ist October, 1858.
66th Foot—Lieutenant George Archibald Warden, from
the 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice G. D. Michell,
who exchanges; Ensign Frederick Baines Dillon, from
the 37th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Humphrey, transferred
to the 49th Foot ; Lieutenant William Lowther Beattie
to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant John Mahony, who re-
signs the appointment ; Lieutenant Arthur Wybrow
Baker to be instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant G.
D. Michell, who has resigned that appointment.
73d Foot—Captain John Theophilus Bolton Mayne, from
the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major H. E.
Wood, who exchanges.
76th Foot—Lieutenant Benjamin Simner, from the 53d
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice R. Waller, who exchanges.
78th Foot —Lieutenant David George Sandeman, from the
16th Lancers, to be Lieutenant, vice D. A. G. C.
Graham, who exchanges ; Ensign Hugh Gough Grant
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arthur Joseph
Stourton, who retires; Ensign Thomas It Becket Sar-
gent, from the 37th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Grant.
81st Foot—Major John Arthur Gildea to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet Colonel Henry
Benny, who retires upon half-pay ; Captain and Brevet-
Major Robert Bruce Chichester to be Major, without
purchase, vies Gildea ; Lieutenant James Alexander
Deans to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-
Major Chichester ; Ensign John de Montmorency Arm-
strong to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Deans.
83d Foot—Ensign Raymond Oliver de Montmorency, to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thomas Edward
Brackenbury Townsend, who retires ; George New-
combe Stevenson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice de Montmorency.
85th Foot—Lieutenant John Davison to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Lieutenant F. White, promoted.
86th Foot Captain Hugh Francis Massy, from half-pay,
late 19th Foot, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Robert
Edward Henry, who retires upon temporary half-pay;
Lieutenant William Ker Gray to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Hugh Francis Mass'', who retires ; Lieu-
tenant William Law Brockman, from the 4th West India
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice T. Davies, who ex-
changes ; Ensign-Manfred Leslie Palmes Jardine to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gray ; Ensign Edward
Collins Wood, from the 60th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Jardine.
88th Foot Lieutenant Theobald Burke to be Captain,
without purchase, vice George Stretton Watson, de-
ceased ; Ensign Frederick Auguste Samuel D'Acosta to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Frederick M.
Maitland Mapleton, deceased ; Ensign Henry Howorth
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Burke ; Ensign
Frederick Augustus Remmington, from the 19th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice D'Acosta.
89th Foot Lieut. Erasmus Harris Vaughton, from the 11th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice C. Garsia, who exchanges.
94th Foot—Ensign Stanford Norman M'Leod Nairne to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John Hassarcl, de-
ceased ; Gentleman Cadet Frank Tudor Campbell Do
Vernet, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Nairne.
95th Foot Ensign Arnold David Saportas to be Lieu-
tenant,by purchase, vice Edward Chapple, who retires;
Charles Ere Wheeler, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Saportas.
96th Foot—Ensign Edward Law Durand, from the 25th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Paid H. Caradoc Bettridge, who
retires.
98th Foot—Lieut. Chas. Graham Heathcote to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Kingston Brett, who retires ; Ensign
Henry John Goodwin Robinson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Heathcote ; the Hon. Montagu Curzon to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robinson Gentleman
Cadet Harry Cooper, from the Royal Military College, to