New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-12-14
From Our sreei.i c, respondent

LONDON, Dec 2 1865
The Jamaica HassGcres and the cattle plague
are with few smll exceptions cheerful topics OF
converse on this particularly appropriate weather
Every mail nagns the atrocity OF the former and II
n we're not Q distpt questou-one o. those which
Brtons find IL dintnit 70 reelse and toward which
they come VIII. nfrs,,hes. being lalebdy committed
to the side OF their cou1trymenI should expect
that our next session q Parliament would be enliy ed
by a second Warren Hastings Trial. with Gov. Eyre
al the bar Mr. Butt taxing the place OF Burke and
perhaps Darby Griffith. that II sheridan At first The
Daily Ntrs The star Tts Spectator, and those whom ~
il The thing To snee- at un English" and Thu
manitariln" decidedly In the minority but with
the arrival OF fuller aeyices the business has assumed
such a bloody aspect that there indications OF the
great body Of nonconf0my or dissent from the church
Of England taking II a. and mahug--no. not party
question Of II. but Oneworth much more honorable
appollatiOn. As sincerely hope II viii do. The re-
ports read horribly k, Of those Southern panics 10
which slyehodine citizensthe prototypes Of the
gentlemen planters OF Iamaica-were chronlealy ihOle
10 In their good old tims OF national ascendency-pan
les originating in isolated exceptional Outrage OF only
the fears OF the master. 10 assuage which black blood
was made TO flow IKE water. Two thousand human
beingsfree British ,ujcctskilled In cold blood shot
scOurged hanged; women tried and executed ny court
martial sayages set b hunt down unressting fugi
tiyes; laws superseded the forms Of justice dispensed
With men slaughtered in patches on the evidence Of
boy ordered 10 point out the guilty under terror OF
immediate death; mile road rendered impassable
the eround-why 1t was yertablc Uthe terror. Ike
that which the slnguIaTy B0urbanists perpctratcd IN
the south Of France u 1915, only the latter lnsted
louger-namely five nDnths GOV. Eyres three weeks
bloody assiZcs-" slaughter still going on needs
some Kind Of extenuauOn and Of better quality than
has yet been offered People observe that during riot
at Morant Bay, bacl mob stormed the court mouse
after il bad been fired from Its steps-and murdered
II whites; but whether the murders were accompanied
with the horrors VIII ch much has been made is by
no means clearly established. Beyond this everything
.,t 10 fafa IL Of "A
has been made at resistance; not single casualty has
occurred 10 the white butchers. Gov Eyre IN speech
70 full Of blatant bombst that II would he lndlcrous II
It's ,ubect were CHASTITY declares that the island
has been saved from ndiscriminate massacre OF the
white inhabitants by lis seyerityand the blessings OF
Providence 1t is S1waIrows dispatch TO Catharine
the Second OF Russia over agan
GLORY TO God and to tie Egpress Powers
Eternal such names mingled lsmails ours"
II lie can prove his assertion the proof VIII go lar 20
excuse his wholesale sanghterings-not otherwise III
not and he escape unnanged with what lace shall I'm
glishmen dare TO cant about Austrian executions IN
Hungary, Russian cr,ees IN Poland, ana so on why
the vengeance OF which Haynau and Monrayieh were
The IN strumenis and which has made their names IN
famous throughout Europe, was childs play compared
with Gov. Eyrc's reprsssyc measures In foahd ana
Hungary the opponents at rate had arms IN their
hands and were in opcn instruction. Ii has been
reserved for British officer % Kill 2uOJ nnfeslstihg
unormed and deieDseless human beings on mere
suspicion. fine act be allowed ITO pass without .ne
slefnest and prompiest investigation, God ana mas
will assuredly hold this people answera0e i0r nassacfe
nnnaralleed in civilized times and Christian country
Ubserye that IT'S areh,justiter The Times we Doast'
ING editorially that recent intelligence confirms Its
nreyious views and printing Gov Eyres speech TO ihe
Jamaica Assembly boldly suppresses Reuters terrlnc
Topographic summary. That it seems, there was no
Getting over OF sofening away. This, think, Is the
Ioge instance record Of the utter dslngenuty ana
dishonesty OF the leading Journal, but bless YOU as
have more than once had occasion to repeat tne
readers and believers in tins precious print commonly
reod no other paper and so idiocay welded 10 IL
thet thew doubt and dispute all intelligence Afforded ny
other sources IL didn't see 1t in The Times,
should think Tie Times would have had It, II 1t had been
trne" are the commonest OF observations among
Brtons OF the Podsnappsh order. and having thus put
the question asde they think It quite disposed
OF Really the ultra Roman Catholic believer IN
the infallibiity of the Pope is no more OF
a bigot than many "ety" man in this sage
metropolis aud / am half inclined TO think that the
title OF British Bible" applied by 1hackeray to the
Teerage ought with justice DC affixed to tne daily
oracle OF Printing House Yard. And, Of course, IAs
inns doesn't know Of the existence Of this feeling and
trade uponAt Oh no certainly not no more than
your amiablo Herald always addresses itself TO TIE
djrer and wickeder side OF human nature, with sue
cess very much akin TO that Of its English prototype
.JupitorJeants, however. viii find II difficult to
burke the question. Already a deputaton from Man
chester has waited upon Earl Russell and used such
strong language that the reporters were requested 10