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evidou es cal Tuesday, litlet r-4e,r6iso•L% .
ings of the locality, was read. The Court was
and, after a brief deliberation, was re-opened.
nouuced by the President that, after mature consi..._
the Court had decided to grant the request for an adjourn-
ment made by the prisoner, and the Court was declared ad
journed till the 16thiust., at 10 a.m. The party then left
and returned to Port Morant Wharf, driving through
Plaiutain Garden River District and Bath. At 7 o'clock the
next morning (Thursday),the Barracouta left Port Morant
and reached Kingston at noon."

4d.
STAMPED sd.

Supreme Court of Law are being held in Spanish
ITown, without the power of adjournment, and will
sit until Saturday week. The members of the colo-

The Public Pars.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

vial Bar and the solicitors are engaged there, and
the professional gentleman, the Advocate-General,
who has willingly consented to render his generous

Sia,—l beg to draw your attention to the follow-
ing correspondence on the above important subject,
and to request the insertion of it in your journal.
The latter was forwarded to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and to the First Com-
missioner of her Majesty's Works.—l am, &c.,
HENRY DOLBY, Hon. Sec.

aid, is busily engaged in the Court. I ask the Court,
which has the power of adjournment, in simple jus-
tice, and at all events for the honour of the service,
to postpone this prosecution so as to enable me to

be provided with proper assistance for my defence
during the progress of a trial which will so seriously
affect my character and my prospects for life as an
officer and a gentleman.'

Association for the Suppression of Public Immorality,
St. James's Vestry-hall, Piccadilly, Oct. 20.
I have the honour to lay before you the following com-
munication from the committee of this association.

" The Court was then cleared to consider the ap-
plication, and on re-opening asked the prosecutor if
he bad any opinion to express on the matter ; to
which he replied that he had no desire to express an
opinion one way or the other, but would leave the
matter entirely in the hands of the Court, feeling
satisfied that the ends of justice would be met in
whatever decision arrived at. The Court then de-

The object of the association is to promote the improve.:
ment of the public morals.
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The committee feel that itsjs a duty incumbent on it re-
spectfully to seek your interference in order to put down
the grossly immoral nuisance caused by prostitutes and
their associates in the public parks of this metropolis.
The committee, in common with every lover of public
order, has long viowed this question with much concern.
Having been painfully convinced of the incalculable evil
consequences which have resulted from the existence of this
universally-admitted nuisance, the committee had hoped
that the authorities would have interfered for its removal..
The evil, however, instead of being mitigated, has become
so much worse as to call forth public complaint.
The committee respectfully submit to you the disgrace
and mischief of such an evil being allowed to exist in the
most public parts of the metropolis, and the great injury
thereby inflicted, not only on the west-end of London, but
on the entire community.
The committee is endeavouring to check the exhibition
and practices of public prostitution, and feel that its efforts
, are tea great): iteut thwakted the Government not ex-
ercising its undoubted powers for suppressing the uuis&noe

sired that evidence of the fact should be given, and
Mr. Lewis, the prisoner's solicitor, was sworn, and

the several matters contained in the document veri-

fled on oath. The President, at this stage of the
proceedings, said that he thought it right to state
to the prisoner that Mr. Counsellor Gibbs was pre-

sent only as an assessor to the Court, and not to
assist in the prosecution ; he was there merely to

enlighten and advise the Court and the Deputy

Judge-Advocate on any point of law which

might arise,. The witnesses.then .left the Court,
and the prosecutor was called upon to make any
observations he might have prepared to open the
case. The prosecutor then read from a paper the
nature of the charge, which, he said, was in sub-
stance having cruelly, wantonly, and wrongfully
caused these three men in question to be put to death.
He believed that iu the end that would be the simple
issue, and he believed that before the case closed
they would be able to put aside all legal questions
whatever, and to determine of their judgment upon
the charge by answering one question :—Did the
prisoner cruelly, wantonly, and wrongly cause these
three men to be put to death ? The Deputy Advo-
cate-General then entered into a lengthy explana-

in question in the public parks. An immunity for such a
nuisance in a locality peculiarly under the control of the
authorities operates most disadvantageously on the efforts
that aro being made to suppress a similar nuisance in the
public streets.

This committee, therefore, beg to express a hope that,
in the interests of public morals, decency, and order, you
will be pleased to direct that this immoral nuisance be en-
tirely removed from the public parks of this metropolis.--
I have, &C., HENRY DOLBY, Hon. Sec.

Whitehall, Oct. 24, 1866.
am directed by Mr. Secretary Walpole to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., and its
enclosure, respecting the suppression of prostitution in
the public parks, and I am to inform you that the matter is
under consideration.--I am, &c., BELMORE.
Henry Dolby, Esq.
Association for the Suppression of Immorality.

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tion of martial law, and of the bearings of the

Island Indemnity Act on the case, and summed up

as follows :

" ' You will observe, therefore, and this is the substance
of my previous remarks, that the statute does not give in-
demnity unless the act be done for the suppression of the
rebellion and the preservation of the public peace ; and I
may say more, the act must be dono in " good faith " for
those purposes, for we may import those words from the
preamble, and fromthe reasonable interpretation of the sec-
tion itself. Now, you will also observe that the charge
against the prisoner alleges that he cruelly, wantonly, and
wrongfully caused the men to be put to death, and ex-
pressly alleges that the act was not done by him " in good
faith for the purpose of suppressing the rebellion, or pre-

Office of Works, &c., S.W., Oct.'24, 1866.
Sir,—l have laid before the First Commissioner of her
Majesty's Works, &c., your letter of the 20th inst., relative
to the nuisance caused by prostitutes and their associates
in the public parks of the metropolis. I am, in reply, to
acquaint you that the Board are taking steps for the better
watching of the parks under their charge, and that if they
can diminish or remove the evil of prostitution in those
parks they will gladly do so. I am, however, to add that
they are armed with no despotic powers beyond the law
for that purpose.—l am, &c.,
GEORGE RUSSELL, Assistant-Secretary.
Mr. Henry Dolby.

serving the public peace." On the part of the prosecution we
shall endeavour to prove this, and if we prove it we may say
that the statute affords the prisoner no answer—no defence.
But now, if it should occur to you to inquire why the prose-
cution thus in the very charge anticipate a defence which
the prisoner may perhaps never putforward, I may say that
the allusions to martial law appear to have two purposes in
view :—firstly,—To inform the Court and the prisoner of
the nature of the act which will be urged against him ;

The Impeachment of President Johnson.

The Economist is averse from the plan said to be
contemplated by the Radical leaders—the impeach-
ment of the Presidett. On the whole, it says, there
seems absolutely no evidence that Mr. Johnson has
intended to violate the law. Violent in his passions,
he has used all the power which he believed him-
self to possess on behalf of his own friends, but that
is all ; and we are very much mistaken if the people
of the North will not strongly object to set so im-
portant a precedent as the impeachment of a Pre-
sident on so weak a case as this—whether, indeed,

and to remove at the outset misapprehension of the law
which might possibly arise ; secondly,—To assist the pri-
soner to the full benefit of the statute, if the facts of his
conduct entitle him to its protection. With these remarks
I shall now leave the statute ; and before, however, going
to the facts, I will offer a few words upon the formal
part of the charge. It was framed upon the 79th article of
war, and the act is charged as " scandalous conduct unbe
coming the character of an officer and a gentleman." The
penalty upon conviction of such conduct is appointed to be
cashiering. Itmight seem that such a charge of scandalous
conduct and such a penalty as cashiering are hardly ade-

they will not be tempted to withdraw their confi-
dence from the party which proposes so dangerous
a precedent for the future.
Should Mr. Johnson, misled by passion or
ignorance, or an immovable conviction of duty,
attempt any overt act against Congress, then, the
Spectator remarks, of course impeachment would be
easy ; but if he confines himself to his legal Lower,
paralyses business, recognises the old legislatures
in the South, and steadily vetoes Northern bills,

quate to the crime of cruelly and wantonly caustig three
men to be put to death. It might seem, perhaps, that it
would be better that a charge of " wilful murder" should
have been preferred before a civil tribunal, which has pro-
perly the cognisance of such high crimes. There may be
greater obstacles to such a course than we may be aware of,
but, in truth, all such truths are irrelevant to our duty.
I am sure you will feel that it is enough for us that the
charge has been framed by competent authority in England,
and this Court has been appointed to try it.'
" The prosecutor next detailed the circumstances con-
nected with the charge as to marches of the detachments
from Alanchioneal to Golden Grove, under Ensign Cullen,
and of their halting at Plantain Garden River Post-office,
and remaining there for three or four hours, which he said
'was of great importance. Of what occurred during the halt
at Plantain Garden River the prosecutor said :
" ' Now, as to what took place during the time, the wit-
nesses for the prosecution will toll you that on that morning
the three men who are named iu the charge, together with
another named Francis, were taken prisoners for stealing
nails and corn at Duckenfield by one Holiday, who took
them to ono Phillips, the head man on Duckeufiold, who
delivered them over to three constables—Bryan, Hill, or
Wills, and another to be handed to the military. As
the throe constables, with the four prisoners, were ap-
proaching the suspension-bridge, one of the prisoners,
named Francis, got his hand out of the rope that secured
him and made his escape into a cane-field. About the same
time some of the soldiers saw the prisoners and began to
cry out, as the witnesses will depose, " Prisoners are com-
ing ; prisoners aro coming." The three prisoners were
brought into the Post-office, and were secured to a post
or to several posts in the piazza, and they were delivered
over to Ensign Cullen. The witnesses will toll you that
Ensign Cullen directed the men to be flogged, and that appli-
cation was made to Mr. Manning, the postmaster, for some
twine to make a cat with. Some conversation then took
place between Ensign Cullen and Dr. Morris. Nothing
was said to the prisoners, but in the presence of Ensign
Cullen, if not by his direct order, the three men were un-
tied from the posts by the soldiers and were taken about 80
n wentwereethen
forthwithw ith emthe,eeaunrdedEntesiagn Cullenbambes
yardsa oTff
h. Dmre. Morris
fence, and shot by the soldiers. Ensign Cullen was looking
on, probably, it will appear, at a little distance in rear.
Whether he gave an order to fire immediately before the
men did fire is not so certain. One of the prisoners was
not killed by the discharge, upon which Dr. Morris took a
rifle and fired it at the prisoner (as witnesses will depose),
killing him. The soldiers then returned to their houses,
and shortly afterwards resumed their march to Golden-
grove, where they arrived the same afternoon. Gentle-
men, the facts I have been describing will be deposed to by
a number of witnesses, who declare they saw them take
place with their own eyes. There will be the three con-
stables who escorted the prisoners : there will be Mr. Man-
ning, the postmaster, who is a respectable tradesman, and
holds the Post-office under Government ; his servant boy,
Donaldson; Duaney, who keeps the lighthouse on the
coast; and Anderson, the schoolmaster. These men were
. •, 1.

impeachment will, one fears, be a dangerous pro-
cess, even in the ;lands of the stern men to whom
the elections will entrust the representative power.
The Spectator does not mean dangerous in the sense
that they may excite the President to armed resis-
tance. That is the fancy of men accustomed to
consider armies machines. The South cannot
conquer the North, and the South alone would be
behind the President, who would iu a week find
himself without a Northern officer of mark, with his
scattered army resolved not to fire upon the people,
and a quarter of a million militiamen who have seen
service advancing amid enthusiastic approval
straight on Washington. But there would be
danger of reanimating the Democratic party, of
creating the sympathy which always follows any
neglect of the true principles of justice, and of
alarming every State in the Union with the spectacle
of a central power, which to secure a political end
would strain the ordinary law. •

The last returns published by the Bank of France
show a certain improvement in the commercial and
industrial activity of the country during the last as
during several previous weeks. It is, however, so
moderate that the ordinary demands which occur
at this season of the year suffice to account for it.
The cash in hand has diminished by 15,758,000 f,
the accounts current by 6,000,000 f. ; the discount
of commercial paper augmented by 11,600,000 f. ;
advances by 2 millions, and the circulation of Bank
paper by .3f millions. Of the 11,600,000 f dis-
count 10,000,000 f. are in Paris and 1,600,600 f. only
in the departments. The branch banks show an in-
crease of 5,000,000 f. in accounts current, whereas
during the previous week they were augmented by
10i millions. The returns for the 20th of October,
1865, showed the cash in hand to be 431 millions,
millions,
atnhed
discountprivate aact-
paper 674 i circu-
discount of commercial
circu-
lation and
emcilasliohnsin,
lc ao thi oh nt o s
ef
übr
ra
ennkt n
lost
oe s
6ial p4apgearveutl;
r
of Bank 761 millions, private accounts cur-
rent 1231 millions, the discount being then 8 per
cent. The present returns show an augmentation
of 737,000 f. in the accounts current with the Trea-

eye-witnesses to the whole transaction, and will detail it
all to you circumstantially ; and Duaney will tell you that
he knew the man Watson well, as a man who had taken
messages for him from time to time from the lighthouse to
Kingston,
and that when the man was going to be flogged
he told Ensign Cullen this, and gave him a good charac-
ter. The man, Francis, also, who made his escape into the
bush, will tell you that ho heard a gun go off. On the, fol-
lowing day (Sunday) the three bodies were buri ed and
this was done by some labourers who reside in the neigh-
bourhood, and who will give what seems to
o be y
so b ver sauried tis-
factory evidence of the identity of the
bodies ,
The conclusions
with those subsequently exhumed.
from this evidence would seem to be-1. That three men
were shot to death ; 2. That Ensign Cullen (who you will
remember was in charge of the detachment) caused them
to be shot to death. That he did so cruelly, wantonly,
and wrongfully, and not in good faith for the suppres-
sion of the insurrection or the preservation of the public

sury.
The Moniteur of last Tuesday contains a paper
from the pen of Edmond About, strongly advocat-
ing a universal coinage. In former days, he remarks,
when nations IA ere divided by months of time inter-
courseeianucgofabi-
was comparatively rare. In our days we
can compass 500 leagues in 48 hours, and the great
European family, in which we
e include e
more the
inh
their
commoditiestats ofthein a
United
monthStates,than
our ancestors did in 100 exchange
years. Gold is desirable, as well as silver, on ac-
count of its portability. Village life bears now the
same relation to city life with regard to money require-
mAeln3etsasaaust,ciotny
eluitfeerinuogwradno.ess,
is topa4at
surrounded
peo-
ple who gain, spend,
and who reoard gold. enjoyitnmdlx
generations.
by
comparison
lessmore
consideration,than himself,
b
be-
cause it is far easier for them to obtain it. This
represents past civilisation and that of
the future. The village is the past, the city is the
future. There was a time when the inhabitants of
Paris and Marseilles lived as divided as the cot-
tagers of Brittany and Alsace—a time will come
when the cottagers will have the same wants m!
requirements as the Parisian of to-day. A,rsgol4
coinage will be as indisp b
ensable to the villagi- u
the twentienth century as it would have eeu use-
less tothe townspeople of the tenth cennttuarnyd.
ping
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peace.' had concluded his address the fol-
lowing After the prosecutor
mined :—Hon. E. Jordon, C. 8.,
as to the proclamation of martial
the
Royal assent to the Indemnity Act C •
; Captain
law and the
order despatching a detachment of 50 men
Hole, as to the
Ensign Cullen, and Staff Assist.. Surgeon
command of
Governor'switnc s sSeBect.rae ye,xa'
under
morris in medic.ll charge, from Manchioneal, to move at
y ght next morning to the post-office on the road be-
tween Bath and Manchioneal; and Mr. Henry Clarke, clerk
(',f works, of the Royal Engineers' department, as to his sur-
vey and plan of tho Post-office, &c. The Court then ad-
journed. On Wednesday, the 3d, at 7 a.m., the several
officers composing the Court embarked from the Ordnance
Wharf on board her Majesty's steamer Barracouta, Capt.
Bevan, for Port Morant, to view the place where it is
alleged the men were shot. The prisoner, Ensign Cullen,
under escort of Adjutant Cooper, accompanied the Court.
The steamer arrived at Port Morant at 1 o'clock, and the
members of the Court were landed, and immediately pro-
ceeded through Golden-grove to the Plantain Garden River
Post-office, and minutely inspected the locality. The Court
then assembled in open air. It was then noted by the De-
puty Judge-Advocate that the Court had made the inspec-
tion. The portion of Mr. Clarke's (the clerk of works)