The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY&
Cash.

Acct.
... 848 75
• ... 1120
... 851 25
▪ 550
... 555

Orleans ~
Northern.
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian.
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa .
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- - ... 202 50
- - ... 412 50
- - ... 427 50
- - ... 177 50
- - ... 217 50

JAMAICA.

The following is an extract from Lee and Night-
ingale's correspondent at Kingston, dated Decem-
ber 16 :

" The House of Assembly has reached the close
of the sixth week of its present session, and has been
occupied in the consideration of measures sug-
gested by, arising out of, or rendered imperative,
by the rising at Morant Bay. The acts which have
passed both Houses of the Legislature, and received
the assent of Governor Eye, up to this time are 11
in number. The 11th is the Act to Alter and
Amend the Political Constitution of the Island,'
which was adopted by the Assembly on the sth inst.,
by the Legislative Council on the 7th, and received
the governor's assent on, the same day ; and that
act, which was sent home to the Colonial Office by
the last Royal Mail steamer, may be published in
England before this express arrives. The previous
ten were steps leading perceptibly to the issue which,
when the packet left, was supposed to have been
reached in the Constitution Amendment Act ; and
it now appears that that act itself was but a shadow-
ing forth of a final measure, which is to hand over
the control of the colony to the home govern-
ment entirely. This bill, suggested by the British
Government, and supported by the Colonial Minis-
try, passed its first reading in the Assembly ou
Thursday night, and will in all probability be ad-
vanced another stage on Tuesday next. That it
will be adopted, if not in its entirety, at all events
in substance, is not doubted on any side of the
house. The point upon which some warm discus-
sion may possibly arise is the ambiguity of the pas-
sage relating to the executive committee. It is felt
by an influential party in the house that any
change, to be efficacious, must comprehend the
abolition of that committee ; inasmuch as its cha-
racter—not that of any individual member or mem-
bers, but of the committee itself, as a paid Cabinet
supplies a perpetual source of strife. If it can be
made evident that it is not in contemplation to re-
tain that body, while the other sections of the Go-
vernment are abolished, the bill will pass with very
little difficulty. • It may be necessary to substitute
a clause to place this matter altogether beyond ques-
tion, but this is likely to be an easy process. Once
through the Assembly, the bill will go at once
through the Council, and the governor's assent
being a foregone conclusion, you will most likely
receive by the next mail the act which represents
the self-immolation of the governing body of
Jamaica—their assertion that the island does not
contain the materials out of which a responsible Go-
vernment can be from time to time constructed.

" Pending this event, it will be interesting to the
public in England to know precisely what has been
the course of legislation here since the island was
dismayed by the murderous outbreak at Morant
Bay. Murderous—nay, worse than murderous—
for neither the local newspapers nor the corre-
spondents of English journals can bring themselves
to put upon paper an explicit account of atrocities
which were then committed, as much by the black
women as by the men (if men or women such fiends
can be called) upon the unfortunate victims of that
outbreak. We speak in whispers, even now, of the
deeds that were done to living and dead alike before
the terribly necessary retribution which was ex-
torted from the whites had commenced ; but we
dare not write them, for humanity's—for decency's
sake. The wording of some of these measures is
sufficiently strong to show, far more clearly than
any ex parte statements can, how solemnly the rulers
of the country went about the work of self-preser-
vation, when the lapse of three weeks had allowed
them to recover from the fever which attended their
first awakening."

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—It has been decided
that a requisition shall be presented to the Mayor of Leeds
requesting his worship to call a public meeting of the
borough to consider the propriety of memorialising the
Government and petitioning the House of Commons in
support of a substantial reform in the representation of
the people. The requisition is now in course of signature,
and will be presented in ft few days.—Left :I Mercury. ,