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London, England, 1865-12-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 15, 1865.

We have now good reason to hope that the days
of the perpetration of intolerance, and the high
posts and solemn assemblies appertaining thereto,

are numbered. The arrival of the last Jamaica
mail has been most opportune, and more especially
has every lover of justice and fairplay cause to re-
joice at the appearance of Colonel HILL and Colonel
NELSON. The testimony of these gentlemen will be
invaluable at this juncture, and effectually put to
shame and silence the malicious and malevolent
parties who have nearly worn themselves out in
their frantic efforts to make the worse appear the
better cause. A more crushing reply could not
have been given to the clamorous and vindictve
apologists of the negro in this country than is con-
tained in the advices that have just reached us. It
is stated that unless prompt and vigorous measures
had been resorted to most direful consequences
would inevitably have ensued, and that the rising
of the blacks all over the island would have been
general. Furthermore, we find that a very different
opinion is entertained by those who were on the
spot and well acquainted with all the details than
is held by the sanctified set over here, who are
scandalised beyond measure, and frightened out
of all propriety of language and demeanour.
We heard before this that the House of Assembly
and the Legislative Council had thanked his Ex-
cellency for his promptitude and firmness in dealing
with the insurrection, and we can find that previous
to the departure of Colonel NELSON he had a
testimonial presented to him of two hundred
guineas by the House of Assembly, accompanied
by the thanks of the house for his distinguished
services in putting down the rebellion. What does
Exeter Hall say to this? What does the Birmingham
orator think of his famous declaration at Blackburn,
that if murder had not changed its name

in this country he hoped Governor EYRE and his
accomplices would stand at the bar of justice to
answer for the death of GORDON and others. The
bead and front of the offending has landed on our
shores. Is Mr. BRIGHT prepared to indict him, and
will all the noisy men who have been drawing off
our attention from all other affairs by their violence
and excitement appear as chief witnesses 9
and that is, a greater mis-
One thing is certain,
take was never committed by -Ministers of the
Crown than was made by Earl RUSSELL and his
colleagues the other day in consenting to suspend
the Governor, in order to appease the unworthy
wrath of an unreasoning and prejudiced party. He
has stumbled on the threshold of his career, he has
dragged his Cabinet through the mire to satisfy the
scruples of men he should never have listened to
with the intention of following their advice or being
guided by their decision. What becomes of the
unsatisfactory circumstances to which mysterious
allusion was made by Earl RUSSELL, in his speech,
to the deputation, and also referred to elsewhere.
Nothing has transpired in any direction where re-