The Express. — 1866-11-13 (London, England)

DITOSH ON AMERICA.—The Rev. Professor 31`Cosh, of Queen's College, Belfast, whohas just returned from a four months' tour in America, has, in the course of a public lecture at Belfast, stated that wherever he went in the United States, in sermons, public addresses, and otherwise, he earnestly pressed the duty and importance of Christians in England and America cultivating a closer friendship. He had visited black schools in Washington, Virginia, and Baltimore, established since the war, and found that the negro children had made as much p in elementary learning as persons of the same age irt3rZslaud could have done in the same time. The Freedmen's Bureau schools had in July last 123,000 pupils, and the adult blacks were eager for instruction. He (Dr. M`Cosb) had urged the President to educate the negroes while they bare an appetite for it, lest they should fall into habits of profl~'gacy. The education of the United States was (unlike the 'an) Christian, and was at the bottom of the pb comfort seen among the people. A New d of the better sort was (he said) one of the sights in the world to a philanthropist.  The Kingston Morning Journal of Oct. 24 contains the following : Those of oar English readers who know anything of Jemaioa affairs, of the morality of what is known as " the upper classes "—above all,of the administration of justices will not be surprised to learn that Gordon Ramsay, Woodrow, and two persons of the name of Codrington, the first charged with the murder of one George Marshall, and the others with having unable:dully Rugged several innocent ms esti women, have all escaped Judie°, but some sicprise will no doubt be felt when it is imams that the grand jury, in the teeth of the judge's charge, ignored the several bills of indictment. The court was held before the Hon. Mr. Ker. The Attorney-General was present. The grand jury was composed entirely of planters and the overseers and bookkeepers of planters, all of whom it is well known had for some time stood pledged to Ramsay to acquit him. The learned judge oertainly discharged his duty faithfully. His charge to the jury was an elaborate and faithful exposition of the circumstances of the case and of the law bearing upon it. "The question for your consideration," said he, in concluding his charge, " will be, has the crown, upon the evidence which will be laid before you, established such a prima facie case against the defendant as to render it proper that this case should be remitted for the fuller inquiry which it must necessarily receive at the hands of a petty jury? Upon this subject I owe it to the administration of justice to remark that you ought not to have a doubt. If these witnesses speak the truth, they hate told a tale which no system of criminal jurisprudence but is under a positive obligation to investigate. I need scarcely observe that by finding a true bill, you do not pronouuco the defendant guilty, but merely call upon him to say what he has to urge by way of defence or explanation." The grand jury retired, and in less than a quarter of an hour they ignored the four bills respectively against Ramsay, Christopher and James Codrington, and James Woodrow. The Attorney-General informed the court that no further proceedings would be adopted against the prisoners; whereupon, by order of the court, they were all discharged.