The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1866.

Guards. The troops arrived at Portsmouth from
Bombay in the chartered troopship Talbot.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. F. L. Elwyn, to the
Princess Royal ; Lieut. R. H. Eyre, to the Bristol,
as supernumerary; F. Gaskell, to the Duncan, as
supernumerary ; Lieut. Henry D. Macauley to the
Sutlej, as supernumerary ; J. W. Read, master, ad-
ditional, to the Princess Royal ; L. Swift, chief en-
gineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Rod-
ney ; W. Anderson, chief engineer to the Asia, for
service in the Victor Emmanuel ; Sub-Lieut. H. D.
Eden, to the Caledonia ; F. P. Lyne, assist.-pay-
master, to the Lion ; C. L. J. Underwood, assist.-
paymaster, additional, to the Royal Adelaide ; J.
H. Wallis, assist.-paymaster, additional, to the
Hastings ; C. C. Watson, assist.-paymaster, to the
Cumberland ; J. R. Veitch, master's assistant, to
the Victoria ; and G. Paul, second class assistant-
engineer, to the Star.

The Cattle Plague.

SURREY.

Yesterday afternoon, according to previous an-
nouncement, a special meeting of the magistrates of
the county of Surrey took place at the Sessions-
house, Newington-causeway, for the purpose of
issuing new and important orders with reference to
the cattle plague.
Mr. J. E. Johnson, the chairman of the Quarter
Sessions, presided, and among the magistrates pre-
sent were the Hon. Locke King, M.P., Sir William
Jolliffe, M.P., Hon. W. Broderick, Mr. Denison,
M.P., Lieut.-Colonel M'Donald, Mr. A. Boyson,
Mr. T. Tilson (deputy chairman of Quarter Ses-
sions), Mr. R. Baggallay, Q.C., Mr. T. Best, Mr.
Grissell, Q.C.
Mr. MARSHALL, the Clerk of the Peace, read the
report recommended by the committee formed at
the last meeting as follows :—" Notice is hereby
given that by authority or order of the Lords of her
Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, dated the 23d
of November,- 1865, and 16th of December, 1865,
the Justices of the Peace for the county of Surrey,
in Quarter Sessions assembled, do hereby declare
that it is expedient that from and after the Ist day
of February, and thenceforth until the 10th of
March next, no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or
calf shall be brought in any way into the county
aforesaid, with the exception of the following
parishes and places, viz. :—Bermondsey, Camber-
well, Christchurch, Clapham, Hatcham, Lambeth,
Lambeth Palace, Newington, Rotherhithe, St.
George's, St. John's, St. Olave's, St. Saviour's, St.
Thomas's, Streatham, and such parts of Battersea
as shall be occupied by the station of the London
and South - Western Railway Company at Nine
Elms, and which excepted parishes and places
are hereafter in this notice denominated excepted
parishes and places. Nor shall any such animal as
aforesaid be removed except under the conditions
hereafter expressed, over, along, or across any high-
way or public road not being a railway from place
to place within any part of the county, with the ex-
ception of the parishes aforesaid. Nor shall any
such animal be removed from any other part of the
said county of Surrey. That it shall not be lawful
for any person to remove any one animal in contra-
vention of this notice, or otherwise offending in re-
spect thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-
ing £2O. Provided always that within the part of
the said county which lies beyond the limits of the
said parishes aforesaid nothing in this notice con-
tained shall make it unlawful for any person, with
the previous licence in writing of two justices of the
peace in and for the said county, to remove any
such animal from any place to any other place—
both places to be named in such licence, and to be
within the distance of five miles from each other—
for the purposes of slaughter only, within 48 hours
from the date of such removal; nor for any person
with like licence to remove any such animal from
any land or place being in his own occupation ; nor
for any person with the like licence to remove from
any land or place in his own occupation any cow or '
heifer, being his own property, to any land or place
aforesaid where a bull shall be kept, for the purpose
of such cow or heifer being served with such bull,
and bring or send back such cow to the place whence
the same shall have been so removed. Every such
licence must specify on the face of it that the jus-
tices signing the same have been satisfied that the
cattle plague is not existing, and has not for two
months existed on the lands or places, from, to, or
through which such animals as are not intended for
slaughter are removed ; and every such licence shall
be liable to be, and may be at any time be, revoked by
justices acting iu and for the said county. And fur-
ther that, by virtue of the order of the 15th of Dec.,
1865, and the 20th of Jan., 1866, nothing in this
notice contained renders it unlawful for any person
to send or carry away any one animal as aforesaid by
railway, through the jurisdiction aforesaid, from and
after Feb. 1, when this order comes into force. The
order made on Jan. 19 last shall be repealed ; pro-
vided always such repeal shall not invalidate any
license already granted, or terminate any proceedings
already commenced ; and, further, that the said ex-
cepted parishes and places will be under supervision
and inspection of the Clerk of her Majesty's Privy
Council and Metropolitan Police, who will be in-
structed to enforce any penalties -which may be in-
curred."
Mr. BLACKBURN moved an amendment to one of
the clauses in report, " That it be lawful to remove
fat cattle for immediate slaughter within three miles
of London-bridge."
The CHAIRMAN observed that the order would
only be in existence one month, and he thought such
an amendment unnecessary, as those districts were
under the orders of the Privy Council, and the'Secre-
tary of State had issued orders for the police to assist.
It was suggested that it should be lawful to re-
move calves 14 days' old from one place to another
within three miles, provided a license was obtained.
The Hon. LOCKE KING supported the resolution,
considering that it would act very beneficially to the
public and all parties.
The Hon. Mr. BRODERICK objected, contending
that it would be injurious.
Mr. BAGGALLAY followed on the same side, and,
after some discussion, the resolution was carried.
The CHAIRMAN consequently directed the report
to be amended accordingly. He likewise informed
the meeting that he had received a letter from Sir G.
Grey setting forth that Sir R. Mayne, the Chief
Commissioner, had directions to employ the police
in assisting to carry out the resolutions regarding the
cattle plague. He also said he had received a memo-
rial from the butchers residing in Camberwell,
Lambeth, Stockwell, and Southwark, requesting
the justices to modify the order made by them on
Jan. 19, giving them the same right and power as
n Middlesex. This had been considered in commit-
tee and amended in the present report.

Ossington. Mr. Denison's loss now exceeds 50 ; Mr.
Burchell has lost 21, and on both farms there are a
number of cases under treatment. Mr. Buttery,
near Sutton, has 10 dead and 7 ill. At Grassthorpe
two cases have occurred—one died, and the other
animal was slaughtered. The farmers of the dis-
trict have many of them tried vaccination. Mr.
Cope, the veterinary inspector, has vaccinated
some hundreds of animals, and has hundreds more
to vaccinate. On Monday last Mr. Cope inspected
a herd of 80 animals at Annesley-park, the property
of Mr. J. C. Musters. Several had been ill, and one
had been killed under the impression that it might
be the plague. Mr. Cope found 20 decided cases of
rinderpest, some of them in an advanced stage. In
Mr. Tollemache's second letter to Lord Belper as to
the results of vaccination, which appeared under
the head of " Cattle Plague" in the Times of yes-
terday, the writer is made to say, " A friend of mine,
Mr. Akroyd, brother to the member for Halifax,
lives near this. He has about 100 vaccinated ani-
mals, all well at present, with the disease raging
round him. He has lost three—viz., a bull vacci-
nated, a cow vaccinated, but which 'did not take,
and a heifer, which was vaccinated and took, but
was very ill when vaccinated." Instead of " a bull
vaccinated," read " a bull unvaccinated."

and for ever emancipated him by the introduction of
an agency more powerful still. He has no right,
however, and civilised man has no right to allow
him, to pass his existence without in any way con-
tributing to the advancement of mankind. Capt.
Pim next proceeded to apply the principles he had
endeavoured to establish to the explanation of the
insurrection of the:negroes in Jamaica, and to the
measures adopted by Governor Eyre for its suppres-
sion. In this portion of his paper he spoke in very
severe terms of those who had censured the governor
for his energetic proceeding. In reference to the
proclamation of martial law and the trials by court-
martial, he said his countrymen generally confound
the two ; but there cannot be a greater mistake.
The latter is a law applied to the trial of naval and
military men who voluntarily make themselves
amenable to it by the act of joining the respective
services. It is written law, based on the Articles of
War and the Mutiny Acts, and also on the custom of
the service, to use the technical term. Martiallaw,on
the contrary, is in fact the absence of law. The Duke
of Wellington's definition is zlear,and,like everything
that has emanated from that great man, to the pur-
pose. " Martial law," he said, "is neither more
nor less than the will of the general who commands
the army; in fact, martial law means no law at
all ; therefore the general who declares martial law,
and commands that it should be carried into execu-
tion, is bound to lay down the rules, regulations,
and limits, according to which his will is to be car-
ried out." The removal of Mr. Gordon from King-
ston to St. Thomas-in-the-East was, in Captain
Pim's opinion, in strict accordance with the laws of
the land, and he contended that the trial was deli-
berate and impartial, and that the officers who tried
him constituted a competent tribunal. Alluding to
the conduct of the Government at home in the mat-
ter, he condemned in no measured terms the treat-
ment that Governor Eyre had received, and he con-
trasted it with what it would have been if Lord
Palmerston had been alive. "On Governor Eyre's
devoted head," he observed, " will descend all the
wrath of Exeter Hall and its followers ; and, al-
though he will, doubtless, come out of the furnace
unscathed in reputation, yet the anxiety and trouble
he is now enduring must make him an old man
before his time. Little did he think when the news
of Lord Palmerston's death reached Jamaica that
he, of all men, would soon have bitter cause to re-
gret the loss of a statesman who , never turned his
back on a loyal and dutiful public servant. To the
thinking Englishman and true lover of his country
a lesson has been taught, of no small import, by a
withdrawal of the curtain which usually shuts out
from public view the weaknesses, follies, and vacil-
lations of official routine. In the conduct of Jamaica
affairs we have laid ourselves open to the sneers of
both Europeans and Americans, and no one can
foresee what mischief may accrue to us from the
exhibition lately witnessed in high quarters."
Captain Pim contended that some well-con-
sidered plan of firmly governing the blacks
muss be adopted, or the whites will shortly, in
self-preservation, be compelled to abandon Jamaica.
He expected the latter alternative, because the prin-
ciples on which distinct races ought to be governed
are not yet understood by our rulers. The negro
should be made to work ; he had been encouraged
to look upon liberty as license, and thirty years
of such teaching has vastly prejudiced his ad-
vance in civilisation, and at the same time ruined his
country. All practical men were united to the belief
that the first step to remedy the evils under which
Jamaica groansis the abolition of the Assembly,and
constituting the island a Crown colony. Alter thi%
primary step, he suggested that certain laws should
be enacted, with special reference to the blacks—a
vagrant act, for example—the sole punishment
banishment. If the negro is idle and debauched,
he should be sent out of the country ; those who
are disposed to work should be hired by contract,
for a given term ; breach of contract on either side
severely punishable ; no penitentiary or prisons as a
premium to negro sloth, but the one punishment—
banishment. Hayti, which is within sight of
Jamaica, should be selected as the locality for the
future residence of those negroes to whom the new
regulations in Jamaica might prove distasteful.
The laws of Hayti exclude the whites from any
rights whatever, but the country is open to a black
man, who becomes a citizen at once ; and we have
no doubt that the Jamaica blacks, leaving their
country for their country's good, would be received
with open arms by the Hayden brethren. At all
events, some well-considered plan of governing the
blacks must be adopted, or the whites will be com-
pelled to leave the island. At the conclusion of the
paper, and frequently during the reading of it, there
were loud bursts of applause, especially at those pas-
sages in which the negrophilists of Exeter Hall were
mentioned, and Governor Eyre was praised.
Several gentlemen personally acquainted with
Jamaica and with the negroes of Africa took part
in the discussion, including Mr. Aria, Mr. Semper,
Judge Hibbert, Mr. Winwood Reade, Mr. Harris,
and Dr. Hunt, every one of them joining in their
commendation of the conduct of Governor Eyre,
for whom three hearty cheers were given before the
meeting separated.