Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-01-05 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GORDON'S COURT-MARTIAL.---AS a specimen of the ignorance that characterises these pseudo-philanthropical eentlemen, it would be a monstrous pity to omit all mention of one little point immediately connected with the army and navy, and upon which Exeter H ill has rung its changes with a vengeance. Mr Eyre has been accused of handing Gordon and other rebels over to the tender mercies of a court-martial composed of "three youths," "three striplings," " three beardless boys." It has never occurred to them to reflect for one moment that the lieutenant and commander in the Royal navy is an officer of both service and reputation, and that a man may he au ensign with grey hairs in his head. It so happens that t,te two naval officers were commanders, and of the ensign am enabled to speak personally, and to add that he has Worn her Majesty's uuiform for very many years, aud is tman whose judgment is in every way to he relied upon. I merely mention this fact to exemplify into what blunders ignorance will lead people, and to clear away an impression, entertained even by m tny of Mr Eyre's supporters, that the court-martial which tried Gordon was ai ',lipase(' of mere inexpsrienced youngsters. Bein'igh Army an-1 Navg Review. A JAMAICA MISSIONARY'S OftistoN.—A missionary in Jamaica, in a letter dated Nov. 3, to a friond in Edinburgh. says :—" The diabolical idea appears first to have tinitered into the mind of George Win. Gordon, about three Years ago, of murdering or banishing from the isltnd all the white men and respectable and influenti ii brown men, and putting it into the possession of the blacks. He was a !nen who had a pretty good standing in society, and was member of the Assembly for the pan ish of St. Thomas-in  .110-East, now almost desolated. He elute a great profession of religion, and was for a time a leading member in %II- Watson's Church. He was kind to ministers, and I have more than once spent some time with him, and was pleased with the Christian way in which he conducted his family, generally presiding at worship one part of etch day. Alter he was elected m flithlie of As.iembly he became a loud and constant advocate of all popular rights. On this account, and by his interminthlo harangues, he disgusted many, and raised us a host of enemies for hlinoilf  ill the Assembly. It was generally thought be was harshly treated, both by the governor and castes of his own parish, now murdored ; and he giit into viohtitt quitrrels with the clergy and the leading men of the parish. I have no doubt that he was mightily puffed up by the notice that was taken of hint, and especially as. being generally accounted the leader of the popul tr party. In all his ambitious ilesigns, finding himself constantly thwarted and ctotetuptuonsly treated by his opponents, the thought of get ling ri.l of his enemies appears to have takeu p ',session of his oriail. Ti tic.: tinplish the Infer ii design, he seems to imagined that the oily way was by an outbreak of the people ; and this led to the mad and horrible thought of destroying all the present influential men in the island. It now appears that for the last three years he has been making preparations for this genet al massacre, mid for the last thrite months has been indefatigable in maturing it. . . By the inltnirable skill an I promptita,le of the igevernor the power of the reb ds was in three days annihilated, anil in three weeks almost every vestige of reli dhoti obliterated. I d iubt not that, in addition to the wid ispread desolation it has occasioned to the p 'ash in which it broke tint, and to the misery of untold multitudes, whose houses have been burned, and they themselves forced to hide in 'lens and thickets to preserve themselves from military execution, more than a thou-moil people having been either shat or hanged, and a great multitude severely lashed. Such appears to be the end of this wicked revolt. Gordon some time ago joined the Baptists, and became a 'reacher am tog them ; but I fear he we a wicked hypocrite, awl a savage at heart. Ile WM hanged at the Court-house, where the slauthter Cl+lll-I!.iced, unpiti‘sl by all, and leaving a name to be execrated ny all good men."