The Express. — 1866-01-29 (London, England)

JAMAICA.  The West India and Pacific Steam Company's steamer American, Captain Kidd, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, with advices from Kingston to the sth, and Port-au-Prince to the 9th instant. The American brings 2,000 Barons of indigo, a large quantity of cotton, &c., besides 10,000 dole. in specie. The special commission to try the political prisoners lately confined at Morant Bay has been appointed by his Excellency the Governor, and was to hold its sittings on the 22nd inst. t has not transpired that it will sit in Kingston or Morant  Bay. The magistracy, clergy, and other inhabitants of the pariah of Trelawny have presented an address to Governor Eyre, sympathising with him in regard to the heavy responsibilities, and expressing the greatest pleasure in stating that his excellency " discharged them with so much wisdom, energy, promptitude, and decision of p —from no selfish oonsideration, but under aurSe7; sense, we feel assured, of your excellency's duty to our beloved sovereign, to the loyal inhabitants of this island, and all its beat interests." To which his excellency made the following reply : Mr. Cuatos, Reverend Gentlemen, and Gentlemen,—lt would at all times afford me sincere pleasure to receive such a gratifying assurance of the good opinion and aprroval of the numerous and highly respectable and influential gentlemen of Trewlany who have signed the address preseated to me by your respected custos ; but it comes doubly welcome to me at a time when the acts to which you refer, nodostaken from a deep sense of my duty to my sovereign and to the colonists of this island, and with a full and anxious appreciation of the painful responsibility of my position, have been so maliciously misrepresented, and so unjustly maligned by a section of the English press, and by parties at home who have no sympathies with their fellow-countrymen suffering under the atrocious barbarities Inflicted by savaged, became those savages have a black skin ; though they do sot hesitate to call the just retribution which overtook the ruthless rebels of St. Thomas-inthe-East by the names of " murder " and "massacre." It was trying enough, gentlemen, to have to encounter the harassing and anxious duty of putting down the rebellion, and taking steps to preserve peace and tranquillity in the other districts of the colony, but it is very hard and moat unexpected to have to rebut accusations founded upon exaggeratioe, miarepresentation, and untruth. I shall have much pleasure in transmitting your address to her Majesty's government as a proof that in the island where the actual circumstances ought to be best known, and • where the magnitude end imminency of the danger to the entire colony Gan best be appreciated, that the foul aspersions disseminated by a portion of the English press are unjust and undeserved. I thank yon, gentlemen, most gratefully for your loyal address, and for the hearty expressers of your willingness' to co-operate with me in any mammies necessary for the protection of life and property and the Sass sad welfare of the island at large. On my pert, I would amuse you that I shall ever be ready to do my duty faithfully, sod will sever shrink from seeming any amount of responsibility which the public safety requires me to *mamba% (Signed) E.