The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-06 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION •I.N JAMAICA.

HALIFAX, Oct. 25.

On Monday night information was received by
telegraph from the United States that a negro re-
volt had occurred in the Island of Jamaica.

It is said that the negroes had applied for relief
to an extent the authorities were not in a position
to grant, and, taking umbrage at the refusal, num-
bers of the coloured population armed themselves
and commenced a riotous attack on the white in-
habitants. Upon information respecting this re-
volt having reached the authorities here, it was de-
cided to despatch H.M.S. Duncan with the 17th
Regiment to the scene of the disturbance for the
purpose of quelling the insurrection.

The Duncan will sail on Saturday next, and on
her way put into Bermuda, where some companies
of the regiment now serving in that garrison will be
embarked for Jamaica. Yesterday General Doyle,
in replyto a request made by a number of merchants
for information concerning the negro outbreak in
Jamaica, furnished the following statement, which
was posted in the news-room in the afternoon :

" The Governor of Jamaica reports, through
Consul-General Bunch, that a rebellion of negroes
had occurred in the eastern district of the.island of
Jamaica. Mr. Bunch's letter bears date the 18th
October."

Fatal Accident on the Metropolitan Railway.

On Saturday evening an inquest was held at St.
George's Hospital, by Mr. Bedford, on Thomas
Welch, aged 35, engaged on the works of the Ken-
sington Extension of the Metropolitan Railway. On
the 16th of October last deceased was engaged in
sinking a pit of considerable depth. To raise the
clay which was being dug from the bottom a large
skip or bucket was used, being raised to the surface
by steam power. This was being raised, and had
got 20ft. up, with about three-quarters of a ton of
clay in it, when suddenly the iron hoop handle broke
on -both since, aced the skip wan dashed to the bot-
tom of the pit, striking deceased on the head and
chest, and inflicting a fearful wound on the temple.
He was at once conveyed to St. George's Hospital,
where he expired.
Henry F. Perley, civil engineer, and agent for the
contractors for the works, stated that the iron handle
was an inch and half in thickness, and if it had been
of good material ought to have borne a weight of
27 tons. He had examined it and found that it was
made of crystalised iron, with a short grain, a very
inferior manufacture. It was not the practice to
test bought materials. The skips were supplied by
a firm in Thames-street.

The medical evidence showed, that beside the in-
jury to the head, the deceased had sustained a frac-
ture of the chest bone. Death was caused by
pyaemia, or blood poisoning through the fracture of
the skull.

Verdict—That the deceased met his death through
an accident, but the jury were of opinion that the
iron used for lifting weights should be of greater
strength than that used, and ought to be properly
tested.

Oppressive Monopoly of Railway Companies.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir,—lt is perhaps but little known to the public at large
how vastly oppressive and injurious to individual rights
and interests is the gigantic power possessed by railway
companies, who, acting under the sanction of Parliament,
think themselves authorised to invade every kind of landed
or household property, regardless of the loss and, in many
instances, ruin to the rightful owners. We have cases of
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locality where be had established himself, suddenly finds
himself and family reduced to abject poverty, and without
the prospect of recovery, surely such a case, and there are
many of them, should be provicted against by Parliament
requiring a clause in the Railway Act for such contigencies
before arming the company with their authority. Again, it
frequently occurs that a widow is left with a young family
to educate and support and thought to be comfortably pro-
vided for, her husband having carefully laid out his means
for that purpose in the purchase of reversionary property,
and to place his children in due time in good positions; but
this property being within the bounds for some new line of
one of those great monopolising companies, is demanded and
taken possession of for a small sum based upon its present
value regardless of the reversion which in a few years would
treble its present worth, and upon which the whole family
had placed their reliance for establishing themselves at a
proper time according to the ;lows and intentions of the
testator. This should be a case for which the railway com-
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A ►SUFFERER,

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.--Mr. Norman Mac-
pherson, advocate, has been appointed to fill the chair of
Scots Law in Edinburgh University, vacant by the resig-
nation of Professor Moir.

SECRETARY OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Mr. R. S. Reay, the pre-
sent chief of the audit department of the company at
Euston Station, is, we are given to understand, to be the
new secretary.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Mar-
quis of Hartington, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lord
and Lady Alexander Gordon Lennox, Sir Frederick John-
stone, Mr. G. Gladstone, and a select circle of friends have
been the guests during the past week of Mr. Chaplin, at
Blankley Hall, Sleaford. The party separated on Satur-
day.
AMERICAN INGENUITY.-01 all the " smart " in-
stances of Yankee ingenuity, perhaps the smartest is the
trick played upon the authorities of Now Brunswick after
their recent offer of a bounty of three dollars for the snout
of every boar killed within the colony. A large number of
snouts was brought in, chiefly by Indians; but in course
of time it was discovered that most of the trophies wore
imitations only, cunningly manufactured of India-rubber
and gutta-porcha, by clover manipulators in the Sato of
Maine, who sold them to the Indians at haN-a-dollar
each. The profit on the trick was handsome ; but as the
Blue Noses (New Brunswickers) have long boasted they
could not be outwitted, the snout manufacturers are per-
haps enjoying a satisfaction beyond that of mere pecu-
niary gain.