The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-09 00:00:00

INDIAN CARRYING.

The report of the directors states that their anti-
cipations at the half-yearly meeting in June had
been borne out by the result of the year's working.
The revenue account for the year showed a fair
balance of profit, and as heavy deductions had been
made for the earnings in Calcutta to cover the loss
incurred in Bombay and Madras, and as a large sum
had been written off against this year's account for
bad debts of previous years, in addition to a pro-
portion of the loss by fire at Madras, the directors
considered that there were good grounds for more
favourable anticipations for the future. The Bombay
business for the year had been worked at a consi-
derable loss ; but the improvement which bad been
effected during that period in the management and
conduct of the business had given renewed confi-
dence to the public. The receipts for the months
of July, August, and September last had been more
than four times as much as those of the correspond-
ing quarter of last year. In the Madras Presidency
the course of business during the six months ending
the 30th of June last showed a decided improve-
meat, so that the net result of the operations for the
whole year had proved more favourable than it was
for the first six months. The Quartermaster-
General, in recommending to the Government the
renewal of certain contracts which were about to
expire, had reported " that the transit arrangements
had been satisfactorily carried out by the com-
pany." In the Calcutta Presidency the receipts had
kept up well during the twelve months, and had
even exceeded the amount which might have been
expected from the results of the first half of the
year. The total gross receipts for the year in this
Presidency were £148,704, and on this the percent-
age of profit was larger than in the previous year.
During the year 28 new agencies had been opened
in Bengal, the North-West Provinces, and the Pun-
jab, which had naturally swelled the expenses for
the year, and diminished ;or the time the divisible
profit. The sum to the credit of revenue account,
including the balance from last year was £3,096 (out
of which a dividend for the half-year ending Dec.
31, 1864, had been paid), and the reserve fund set
aside out of revenue amounted to £1,500. The direc-
tors now propOsed to pay a dividend, as before, at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of income tax,
for the half-year ending the 30th June last, and to
carry over the balance to the next account. The
capital account showed that £50,000 had been re•
ceived, and £32,862 expended, leaving a balance of

£17,138.
GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.
The traffic receipts for the week ending 1cii;?...1&
amounted for local passengers to £6,944, for foreign

" My Lord,—We ask permission, as committee of
the Peace Society, to express to your lordship, and
to the Government of which your lordship is the
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head, the feeling of deep sorrow and shame with
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deprecate, in the strongest manner, the acts of vio-
lence and outrage committed by the coloured people
at Morant Bay and elsewhere, even though, no
doubt, the outbreak was immediately provoked by
the volunteer force firing into the crowd who were
assembled in the Court-house-square, to vindicate
certain of their rights, which they believed to be im-
perilled. But it appears to us, my lord, that the
authorities of Jamaica, in the means they have taken
to suppress and punish the riot so occasioned, have
gone beyond all bounds of justice or necessity. The
lieutenant-governor acknowledges that there was
no organisation' among the people ; that the
troops who have passed through all the disturbed
district have nowhere met with any resistance ;'
that not a single casualty has befallen any of our
soldiers or sailors, who are all in good health.' And
yet, in the face of these admissions, he and those
• acting with him seem to have given unlimited per-
misSion and encouragement to soldiers and sailors,
and volunteers and Maroons, to seize and flog, and
shoot, and hang, at their own discretion, any
coloured persons who might fall into their bands—
men, women, and children. This is done sometimes
after the mockery of a trial by court-martial, one
of which consisted of two sub-lieutenants and an
ensign ; but often without the semblance of a trial
of any kind, the people being shot, as one of the
officers engaged in this work describes it, 'merely
for running away' from those who were hunting
them down like wild beasts. It is admitted by those,
concerned in this terrible slaughter that numbc,rs
of persons have been tortured 'and killed, of moaose
participation in the riot there was no preter,ce of
proof. In justification of these acts, it is alleged
that a widespread conspiracy existed among the
negro population to murder all the white, and co-
loured people%and to establish a black republic in
the island. But up to this time no evidence what-
ever has been brought before the public in support
of this allegation ; and it is rendered utterly impro-
bable by the conduct of the blacks themselves, those
actually engaged in the riot having spared several
white lives even in the first outburst of pass'Lon,
whilst others afterwards protected and succoured
with the noblest devotion many of their white Lieigh-
bours, who were supposed to be in danger from the
fury of their more exasperated brethren— And
surely, my lord, it is something new in the adminis-
tration of British justice to deliver whole districts of
country over to military execution, not far anything
the inhabitants had done, but for som eating which
it was suspected some of them intend.ed to do three
months afterwards. But above all, my lord, it ap-
pears to us that the way in which Mr. G. W. Gor-
don, a member of the Legislature, and heretofore
well known as a gentlemanof property, intelligence,
and large benevolence, was apprehended and exe-
cuted, admits of no justificatAon whatever, except on
principles which would bring into jeopardy the
liberty and life of all 'her Majesty's subjects in
every part of the wein, and utterly undermine
some of the most sol ;Inn guarantees of the con-
stitution. We earnestly hope that peremptory
orders have been despatched from the Colo-
nial-office long before this to put a stop to the
wholesale and -indiTriminate slaughter in Jamaica,
which is filling the whole civilised world with indig-
, nation and horror. And finally, my lord, we bcg
r-cpcttfn;;s• and '7nost- urg%smitly to-pres.z.: upon your
lordship and the Government the duty of tustitut-
ing an immediate and searching inquiry into the
whole of this deplorable business ; and if it shall
appear that there has been a reckless effusion of
innocent blood, that those who have been guilty of
this crime shall be brought to justice.

" JOSEPH PEASE,. President.
" SAMI'F,I, GURNEY, Treasurer.
" Ricusr,D, Secretary."

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

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(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of Sir Charles Crompton, Knt., one of
the Justices of her Majesty's Court of Queen's
Bench, late of 22, Hyde Park-square, was proved
in the London Court on the 20th ult. by the trus-
tees and executors, namely, the Hon. Sir Colin
Blackburn ; his sons, Charles Crompton, Esq., bar-
rister, and Henry Crompton, Esq., barrister, of the
Inrer Temple ; and his nephew, Stamford Hutton,
Esq., barrister, Lincoln's Inn, power being reserved
to Lady Crompton, the relict, and Robert Hutton,
Esq., the other executors. The personalty was
sworn under £60,000. The will is dated 1860, and
two codicils, 1864, and September, 1865. He died
on the 30th of October, at the age of 68. Sir Charles
bequeaths to his wife .£5OO immediate and £3,500
at the end of twelve months, and leaves her ladyship
all the plate, linen, china, pictures, wines, carriages,
and horses absolutely, and a life interest in the rest
of his estate, real and personal, which, after her
decease, he directs to be divided equally amongst all
his children. To his clerk, Henry Philpot, he has
left a legacy of £lOO.
The will of Frederic William Benecke, Esq., of
63, Moorgate-street, and Denmark-hill, Camberwell,
win nasdonswb,yorliiiis
trienldieetr, sole2o executrix.,ooo.The
Thewt s Ppr personalty
testator died on the Bth of August last, at the
Europmischer Hotel, Heidelberg, Germany. The
will is dated May 1, 1840 ; a codicil, March, 1854;
and another, December, 1859. The testator is de-
scribed as a denizen British subject ; and was of
the firm of Schuuck, Souchay, and Co., merchants.
He has bequeathed the whole of his property to his
wife absolutely.

The will of John George Appold, fur-skin dyer,
of Wilson-street, Finsbury, was sworn under
£140,000 personalty. The executors appointed are
Mrs. Appold, the relict ; George K. Smith, Esq.,
of the Grove, Highgate ; John Lloyd, Esq., of Elul
House, Belsize, Hampstead ; and W. E. Dawson,
Esq., of Plumstead-common. The will was made
on July 7, 1853 ; and the testator died Aug. 31,
1865, at the Clifton Down Hotel, aged sixty-five.
Ile bequeathed to his foreman, James Nicholls, and
wife an annuity of £lOO during their lives, and to
each of his workmen £1 for every year they have
been in his employ or that of his father. To each
of his executors £5OO immediate. To his wife he
leaves a life interest in his estate, and at her decease
:Inns toi tf uxt i570000f
he bequeaths a further sum of £2,000 to each
to°
exe-
cutor then living,; andad
at
ivil
friend, William Gresler, Esq.,
Engineers £1,000; to the children of each of his
oliktehesi
e the
axileledurteonr so
f£ls,i,soOlaote
of Cheapside. The ultimate residue of his property
he bequeaths as follows :—One-fourth to his ne-
phew, John Appold; one-fourth to his niece, Sarah
Appold ; and the remainder to his sister, Catherina,
wife of the Rev. O. S. Grucher.

The wills cf the under-mentioned clergymen
have been proved:-The Rev. Henry 'Van Notten
Pole, M.A., of Walthatn-place, Maidenhead,
£120,000 personalty. The Rev. Francis Ellis
Jervoise, 111. A., vicar of Long Compton, IVarwick-
shire, and Lashain, Ilauts, £40,000. The Rev.
James W. Arnold, D.D., of Leamington Priors,
£12,000. The Rev. John Guthrie, vicar of
Calne, Wilts, £llO,OOO. The Rev. Edward Gibson,
MA., vicar of Ashby Magna, Leicester, £20,000.

TRADE WITH FRANCE.—From a return-just pub-
lished, it appears that the imports of merchandise from
Franco to the, United Kingdom for the threeo quarters of
the year amounted.to £20,790,537, whilst the exports of
British and Irish products amounted to only £67 7217 280.