The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

THE REBELLION Ii; JAMAICA•

The following private letter, from the Major of
the Ist West India Regiment, has been kindly
handed to us for publication

" Up Park Camp, Jamaica, Oct. 24, 1865.
"My Dear Parents,—An awful xebellion has
broken out here. On the 11th inst. the blacks in St.
Thomas-in-the-East, at a place called Morant Bay,
rose in revolt and murdered all the gentlemen assem-
bled at the Courthouse in vestry meeting—Baron
von Kettleholdt, the custos, all the magistrates and
clergymen they overpowered, and killed the volun-
teers, only 18 in number. Ttley burnt the Court-
house, took possession of the volunteers' arms and
ammunition, let the prisoners in gaol loose, and bar-
barously mutilated and killed several gentlemen
without mercy. I send you a newspaper with the
whole account. Colonel Wilson, our deputy-adju-
tant, has been made brigadier-general, and to him,
under General O'Connor's orders, is due the quick
suppression of the rebellion.

" On Wednesday, the 11th inst., we (the Ist West)
were being inspected by Major-General O'Connor
at six o'clock a.m. Baron von Kettleholdt was
passing through camp at the time ; he stopped near
my house to look at the review, and was much
pleased with the appearance of the men and their
manoeuvres, and was heard to say if this show was
all in earnest how grand it would be. He went on
to Morant Bay after the review at four o'clock p.m.
That same day he was inhumanly butchered.
" The general, with Colonel Nelson and staff,
left us at eight o'clock a.m., and came back at 12
o'clock at noon to see our books, orderly-room, hos-
pital, men's dinners, barracks, &c. ; but in the
meantime they had been apprised of an anticipated
riot at Morant Bay, and the first thing they ordered
me to do was to warn one captain, one subaltern,
and 100 men to get ready to start at a moment's
notice. The men were ready in 10 minutes. The
inspection went on and concluded. The general
saw the party under arms, and at four o'clock the
Wolverine, the only man-of-war here, steamed up
to Kingston. The men were marched down and
embarked, but did not leave Port Royal till next
morning. Captain Ross, the captain who went,
only arrived to see the carnage and bury the
slaughtered and mutilated bodies. Marines and
sailors were immediately landed.
" Next day the inspection of the artillery at Port
Royal went on (of course we did not know of the
riot). The general had a gunboat to take him down
and back to Kingston. I had a boat to myself, and
being anxious to get back to camp in case any more
men might be wanted in a hurry, I left them at
Port Royal, and on my way saw the gunboat, which
had reached near to Fort Augusta as I was getting
into Kingston, suddenly, turn back and go into Port
Royal again. It seems a messenger was despatched
to inform the general of the riot. lie went to the
Aboukir guardship, got the Onyx, his gunboat, to
go on at once with Captain Luke and 100 more of
my men stationed at Port Royal ; the general then
came back to Kingston in a man-of-war boat.
Next day martial law was proclaimed in St. 1 homas-
in-the-East, county of Surrey—Kingston excepted.
Colonel Nelson was appointed brigadier-general,
and went on to the scene of the rebellion. A com-
pany of the 76th came to camp and on to Port
Morant ; another 50 of my men, with Mr. Kelly,
my adjutant ; 50 more of the Ist West to Rock
Fort, with Captain Strachan, then to Spanish Town;
50 of the Ist West to Old Harbour, with Mr. Hop-
kins 40. to Linstead, with Mr. Allinson. I left
here with 100 of the 76 (royal) Regiment, and 150
of my own. The Urgent transport came in and
was immediately despatched, after coaling, to Bar-
badoes, for the 3d Buffs and the 2d West.
" The Plantagenet steamer was despatched to
Nassau for 200 more of the Ist West regiment, and
both are hourly expected. Two Spanish men-of-
war came in to give assistance, and some more Eng-
lish ones. The admiral is sent for.

" Brigadier-General Nelson yesterday hanged G.
W. Gordon, the chief conspirator, a coloured man,
sentenced to death by a drum-head court-martial.
Ile has been planning the rebellion for the last
three years. The mob rose before the ap-
pointed time—everything was not quite ready.
They were to have risen at the race time or at
Christmas—murdered all the white men, and some
of the browns, friends of the whites. The browns
were to be under the blacks—the white ladies and
women spared for the blacks and to be slaves.
" Many corps and companies have been formed
in Kingston for its protection. Every one is armed,
&c. I have here upwards of 70 insurgents, pri-
soners, from all quarters—gentlemen, black Baptist
preachers, Methodist preachers, Italians, an Eng-
lishman, a dentist, several Haytians, two generals,
and a host of other cut-throat looking fellows.

" The old pensioners are formed into corps,
under Mr. Vallantine.
" The neck of the rebellion is broken, but the
country is by no means settled, and will require a
strong military force to keep it in order now and in
future.
" The Maroons have behaved most loyally, and
been of good assistance in hunting and taking pri-
soners. Hundreds of the latter have been hanged
and flogged.
" The Ist West were the first in the field, and
have done good service. Colonel Nelson says they
are the best Bashi-Bazouks he has seen. They are
nearly all mounted now, and ride like devils.
" The sailors, as usual, are most active and effi-
cient, and a terror to the rebels, who meet from
them speedy justice and retribution. Some of the
atrocities committed by the insurgents, and mostly
women, equal those of the Indian mutiny—such as
tearing out the Rev. Mr. Herschell's tongue by the
roots before dead—ripping and cutting up Mr.
Price when alive ; and, to his cries to leave a little
life in him, replying, ' No, you are a friend of the
white men, not a bit of life will we leave you'—
digging out the eyes of others—cutting off the
baron's head and hand, and saying, holding up his
fingers (held together by threads like sausages),
There, these fingers will write no more lies to the
Queen about us.' Dr. Gerard they were going to
kill, but spared him when he said I am a doctor,
and may be of use to you.' Captain liitchins died
like a hero ; he commanded the 18 volunteers ;
lie was hewed and cut to pieces ; he crawled to Dr.
Gerard, clung round his neck, pleading to his savage
assailants for mercy ; they gave him none, but re-
doubled their cutlass blows, which, as he clung on
Dr. Gerard's breast, he (Dr. G.) could feel on his
chest through Capt. Ilitchen's body ; and so they
butchered him as long as he showed any symptoms
of life, and he was literally chopped to.pieces. Many
other atrocities they committed--drank the blood of
their victims mixed with their brains, when taking
the oath, to rid Jamaica of all white men, divide
the lands, keep the white ladies and women for
,themselves to be their slaves. The mob set fire to
the Court-house, where the gentlemen were defend-
ing themselves as best they could ; and on the roof
falling in, they butchered them as they came out.
Torrents of rain have been falling ; but thank God
the worst is over. (‘ IL A."—Liverpool Daily Post.

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The second ordinary meeti ior the seszion 18.,-:5- ,
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66 of the members of this in :ttute was held last i
evening, at Conduit-street, ' ver4quarei :Itilt,e'
Edward I'Anson in the chair. ICI _I S
The minutes of last meeting having been read

and confirmed,
The CHAIRMAN announced that various donations

of books and publications had been received. The
thanks of the institute were ordered to be given to
the donors.
Mr. Charles John Innocent,- of Sheffield ; Mr.
Edward John Tarver, of 1, Trinity-place, Charing-
cross ; and Mr. Henry Wadling, 26, Queen's-road,
Camden-square, weic elected associates of the insti-
tute, Mr. W. Mackinnon, of Stirling, was elected a
fellow.
A letter was read from Mr. Ruskin requesting
that some proper mode be adopted of conveying to
the Institute of British Architects his sense of the
honour which they had done him in electing him an
honorary fellow of the institute.
The CHAIRMAN announced that it had been
under the consideration of the council to form a
committee for the purpose of putting themselves in
communication with the President of the Council
in
England and the members of the French Exhibition
for 1867 abroad ; and it had been resolved that a
committee should be appointed, to be composed of
the council and ten members of the Royal Institute
of British Architects, and of two representatives
from several other kindred institutions, and to
be called the " Paris Exhibition Architectural

Committee," for the purpose of securing the
suitable representation of British architecture and
. of the arts common to architecture, as practised
in this kingdom, in the Paris Universal Exhibi-
tion of 1867:- --It was also resolved that the pre-
sident be requested to communicr te to the Presi-
dent of the Ccuncil the formation of this com-
mittee, and to take steps to place the committee in
formal communication with the British commis-
sioner and the Paris authorities. It was proposed
to call this committee together, and as a first
step to obtain two gentlemen who would be willing
co act as secretaries in promoting the objects of the
committee. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. WHITE, F.S.A., fellow of the institute,
read a very elaborate paper on k Iron work, its
questionlegi-
timate
Ir on f whichallpuisu.pggoseesst.edTihtsiselbfyws
Uses and proper Treatment." The first
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tvoastlinieafidtentehses
standpoint for argument upon its merits and capa-
bilities. He maintained that iron ought to be used
only for its proper purposes. So long as brick, and
stone, and wood existed, that was to say so long as
the world lasted, these alone would be the staple ma-
terial, the true and universal medium for the ex-
pression of art in forms essentially and strictly ar-
chitectural. But did he, therefore, ignore the use
of iron, and say that it was incapable of artistic
treatment ? By no means. In its degree, and in its
proper fashion, it was capable- of as high artistic
treatment as other material, though not to the same
extent. For the expression of bulk, upon which the
proportion of all true architecture—irrespectively of
any particular phase of it—so materially depended,
it was utterly inefficient. For the highest class of art,
again, namely, for the representation of the human
form, and for other followings of nature, it could
never compete with stone or marble, with silver or
gold, or even with bronze. In the higher forms of
art the hardest of materials oftentimes were chosen
in spite of their hardness, either for their intrinsic
value or for their capability of manipulation, or for
their fitness to exhibit in a durable and striking
manner the spirit and precision of the artist's hand
and the power of his conception. In every one of these
respects iron was far behind all the other materials
he had named. Hence, hesaid, it was not a material
of the highest class, in its relation to architecture as
an art. In constructional or mechanical branches
of architecture it henceforth existed as a sub-
sidiary which could not be dispensed with. In
extensive works, to be built with vast ac-
commodation, and at a moderate cost, or
within a short limited space of time ; in engineering
works, and such as were more strictly utilitarian
rather than architectural, iron would hold its just
and undisputed sway. The main argument for iron
was its utilitarianism and its general adaptability
to such extensive works as he had referred to. It
had, however, been admitted that at present it was
useless as compared with brick and mortar for walls
of warehouses for the storage of combustible ma-
terial. It was difficult to conceive of iron as of a
material strictly architectural in the sense in which
brick and stone were so. Its very nature forbad it.
It was not even a question of equal availability with
brick and stone for building purposes, but a question
of equal availability in combination with an equal
capacity for giving expression to form. It was not
pretended by the advocates for iron that anything
but cast or rolled work could be used on a large
scale. Forged work would be useless in the main
structure. It could only be introduced in the sub-
sidiary ornamental details. For the main construc-
tional .
portions of domestic or ecclesiastical build-
ings, or of public civic buildings which were to be
monuments of art, there need be no fear of the good
sense or the good taste of the country being so
changed as to adopt the universal use of iron. The
minimum of bulk which iron presented placed it
beyond the pale for church architecture especially
It might be used with great advantage for temporary
churches. The author then passed on to an elabo-
rate review of the chief of the different modes of
treatment and other processes which could or could
not be justified by a strict observance of the dis-
tinctive qualities of the material, and concluded
amid the warm applause of the audience.
A brief discussion of a technical nature followed,
and a vote of thanks to Mr. White for his able and
elaborate paper brought the proceedings to a close.

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of the City detectives at Vigo, in Spain. The prisoner,
who is only 19 years old, was clerk to Mr. Elliott, a solici-
tor, and having obtained a blank cheque from his master's
book, he filled it up for the sum of £620, and forged his
signature so cleverly that the money was at once paid him
in notes, which he exchanged for gold. The police were
communicated with, and from inforniation received they
came to the conclusion that he had left England in a ship
for Oporto. A telegram was accordingly forwarded to the
police authorities of that town, the prisoner was taken into
custody, and £5OO in gold was found upon him. He was
detained for some time, but as no one appeared against him
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