The Bee-Hive. — 1872-07-13 (London, England)

SATURDAY, JULY 13,1872.  his duty to defend it to the last extremity. Few would have blamed him or thought of blaming him for any severe measure he might have resorted to for the purpose of bolding the rights of the British crown intact. If, through cowardice or imprudence, he had allowed the authority entrusted to his keeping to drop from his hands, he would have been despised and punished on his return to his native land, because all necessary power was placed at his disposal for the vindication and maintenance of his authority as Governor of the Island. But surely one of the first conditions of power is that it shall not be abused; that that which is meant as a protection shall not be turned into an oppression ; that that which in its right exercise is a blessing shall not be allowed to transform itself into a curse.  Now, it may be asked in all fairness, if it was in this spirit Governor EYRE and those under him uphold the power and the rights of the British Crown? Was there a line of any kind drawn between the rebellion, if it could at any time be so called—existent, and the rebellion hopelessly crushed and trodden out? Hero is Mr. Bo witrNo's description of what took place drawn from the report of the Royal Commission. "Up to the 20th of October -Governor Ernu was justified in all the steps he took; but for thirty days, from the date of the proclamation of martial law, homesteads were destroyed, villages were burnt, ' and people were sacrificed without regard to age or sex. Governor EyrtE stated that the houses burnt were only negro huts, but these villages had been compared to the villages of Switzerland for beauty, and the inhabitants were described as living in comfort, and in some cases in downright luxury The total number of persons put to death during the existence of martial law was 439, of. whom 351 were condemned by courts-martial, fifty were shot or hung without trial, twenty-five wore shot by the Maroons, and ten otherwise killed. Of the whole number 114 were put to death before the 20th of October, fifty-two on that day, and 273 wore executed in the twentyfive days following. The total number of -persons flogged was six hundred, and as many as 100 lashes were given to one man and thirty to a woman. One man, after being tried and receiving fifty lashes, was tried a second time and executed, and another was tried three times and at last executed."—But why further allude to this devil's rigadoon ? this grotesque dance of devastation and death, in which arson was a jest and murder an amusement? The British . people have been shocked and sickened by it from the first moment its awful details wore made known. How the working men of England regard it there can be no doubt, and there is as little *doubt why the Parliamentary mind and the Working class mind are at variance, on a question so important to the honour and to the interest of the nation.  Disturbances, emutes, revolts, rebellions, are usually excited by oppressive laws, or by unjust and tyrannical methods of administering the law. Those who engage in them are usually the poor and down-trodden. The workers of the world are the usual revolters against established authority, for they are the chief sufferers from a tyrannical exercise of power. On the other hand the law-making and the law administering classes are those -whose duty it is to Empress and punish disturbances, however justly provoked.