, 1866-01-12

forces within the colony. LII lH6 PIcSoHt
instance there are manifest reasons why
this arrangement should be made. The
existing state Of Jamaica is far too crltl-
cal to be exposed 10 the slightest risk OF
divided counSels, such as those which
have prolonged and aggravated the war
in New Zealand. How far Governor
Eyre and General O'Connor may have
agreed or differed as to the measures
to be taken against the Jamaica lu>ur-
gents we have no means OF knowing, but
It would be highly impolitic to prejudice
the success of Sir II. StOrks' mission by
allowing any restriction or encroach-
ment on his responsibility. Being tenn
porarv Governor of jamaica and PreSI-
dent of The Commission Of Inquiry, he
ought also 70 be Commanded OF the
Forces, nor can any one OF these three
duties be severed with safety from the
others. No one but the acting Governor
could duly prosecute the inquiry 10 one
could be intrusted with the supreme MI
litary command but the person rommls-
stoned by Her Majesty to inquice into the
alleged abuse of it Ivy another Genera.
officer, and this person, as we have seen,
must also be the Governor. BY COM
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olher way, we may hope ihat SIR ii.
Storkes will be able TO paclty jamaica
and to reconcile The demands OF equity
with the interests of public order.
A more orduouS aud delicate task has
seldom been COnGded to a servant OF
the Grove, and it is due to Sir IL. StorNs,
no less than to those who have selected
him, to express the conviction that 1t
could not have been confided TO one more
worthy of confidence. There are few
officers OF the same age who have seen
more active and various service than Sir
II. SlOrks; there are none, perhaps
who have had equal opportunities of
showing that which is the better part OF
yalour in so many trying emergencies.
Again and again Sir ii. StorkS has been
called in to solve some difficulty which
was not Of his oWU creation. A great
part of his life has been spent IN special
services. He was on special service at
the Cape of Good Hope in I846, and was
ASsistant-Adjutant General for the two
following years in the Cafre War; he
was afterwards Military Secretary at the
Mauritius, and also acted tor some ume
as the Private Secretary OF the Govern
or he COmthanuCu Il WoCtty anu HOt
very docile foreign contingent at Smyr-
ma and Scutari during the Crimean War
having managed to organize them effect
lively, he managed to disband them peace
ably when the war was over? he filled
the difficult post of Secretary for Military
Correspondence when the new relations
between the War Office and Horse Guards
were first established he kept the Ioni-
an Islands in good order, if not in good
humour, after the publication OF Sir J.
Yourg's despatch had disclosed our half
formed intention of evac4ating them, and
he Withdrew from a situation which II
was a feat to have held at all amid The
g~reatful applause of the whole popuIa-
ton. He has now been transferred for
a time from the government of Malta to
that of a colony which at this moment
engrosses the whole attention of the
Colonial Office, and is distracted by trou-
bles that have caused violent agitation
in this country. To this great trust he
was only summoned by a Geographic
message 10 Malta on Wednesday night,
and it deserves to be recorded as an act
of prompt devotion to the call of duty
that Sir II. Slorks was on his way IN the