The Express. — 1847-03-23 (London, England)

COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.  GUIANA.—Ti ceent ofthefortnight intervening between the despatch of lait m sad that which preceded it, was a public meeting, at which the governor presided, to promote a subsertption for the relief of the starving poor in Scotland and Ireland. The generous: feelings of sympir.,:v expressed by the speakers—the sincerity of which has been shown by the activity of the committee and the proven. of subscriptions—show that distance only enhances the sense of British nationality. One passage in the opening address of the governor is striking enough, when we turn our thoughts hack to the anti-emancipation times, when such vehement appeals used to be made to our sympathies for the poor negroee in the West Indies. " While I address myself generally," said his excellency, "to the present sumessobly, wh, require no exciting appeal to their generosity, I du most earnestly call on the Creole labourers of this colony— mast of whom Aare rampant:ire affluence and luxury— 'to think of the starving labourers of Ireland and Scotland. I call on the labouring population to show their gratitude for the benefits they have received, in due reward for their industry, and to prove that they can feel fur their white starling brethren who reside across the Atlantic, and who, whatever may be their industry, cannot obtain food." The first session of the supreme Criminal Court, under the system of trial by jury, had ceased. The following candid and honourable testimony to the working of the sys•on is borne by the Royal Gazette, which had beets sceptical as to the expediency of introducing it : The jurors cleverer credit; except, perhaps, in one instance, their verdkte were, according to the potadar irk 1, which we consider to 'rei always right in questions of justice, tale and nennibla. In thin ren;set there wan a great improvement over the 11.11,411+. We own we were among those who hal feat" in thin peculiar country," or we have no often beard it called, th;jury cycle', would prove unman ape. able, and a failure. We are agreeably dirappointed by Iwuld sea be ashamed to avow the teeth. Our intermit,e in, that if trial by Jury has worked so enoothly, MI with equal nmoottincos may work inning us other changes framed upon an Englinh model. One drawback the Gazette Li:dicer, the extreme prolixity of the proceedings; and sensibly suggests that circuits might, to a comiderable extent, remove this disadvantage: Surely it would he cosier for a or judge, with two or :Mee of tap elerlin of the public buildings, to travel occasionally tiro Malvelpl63, than for two or there hundred gentlemen to be enetantly dragged up tram the country to the public haddingn in tmoreetews, away from their homes and their Imminent in order to attend legal trial* for two or three weeks together, sin juices or anomie. A Coolie had been condemned at the SCIVIiOII,I to be hung for the murder of a female of his own nation. The coroner's inquest on the death of a Coolie, noticed in an extract from the Guiana Times, in our summary of the news received by the preceding mail, had terminated. The jury found that he had died of a disease of the lunge, and of no other cause. From the remarks of the Guiana Times it would appear that some rather discreditable efforts had been made to "get up" a case ageinst the police out of this incident. During the fortnight the weather hod been uncertain, though not unfavourable to the planter*. A great deal of ram had fallen, but there had been several very hot days. Cultivation was flourishing as much as could be expected under the restricted ripply of labour. The agricultural population were steady and quiet.  •