Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-12-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE 111:11ELLION IN JAMAICA.  • -The Jam tica Assembly had passed the following  tions  state of tin language bet' of night nit drilling beim of the insect of applicatio for extra poi corps, &C., t rebellious in' and that in were best ab peasantry at and alarm. " Even ii large malt were the which could ments of th the governoi the eastern martial law. " But thi information opinion, is branches opening r "The coming fr best means absolutely , opening at hroughout murderous openly  tary  governor  1 •  from  endorsed  address,  expressed,  resolution " That referring to his excellency the governor's speech at the opening of the session, wherein his excellency the'governor has stated that a mighty danger threatens the land, and in order to avert it, and prevent, so far as human wisdom can, any future recurrence of a similar state of things, and that the legislature must examine boldly, deeply, and unflinchingly into the causes which have led t ) this danger— Resolved—That his excellency the governor be requested to lay before the house all such information as may enalie the house to deal with this question in the manner indicated by his excellency's speech, and as m iv not be inconsistent with the interests of the public service.'  'ro this the governor replied by the following message : The governor acknowleges the receipt of a resolution of the Honourable House of Assembly, expressing a desire to be put in possession of all the in'ormation upon which the executive arrived at the opinion that a mighty danger threatens the land.' " With every desire to place the fullest information before the house, it is manifestly impossible to produce all the grounds upon which the opinion above quoted was based. It consisted partly of oral inforimition from gentlemen or others connected with the different districts partly of information contained in private letters to the governor, and in letters to members of the executive committee, or to other gentlemen of position, which were shown to the governor; partly of represencustodes or magistrates, of the alarming jr districts, of seditious and threatening tog openly indulgedln, of threatening letters, eetings of the peasantry, of unsanctioned ig carried on in various places, of statements :ure and unprotected state of the parishes, cots for troops for men of war, for arms, lice or constables, for formation of volunteer the whole tending to show that sedition and itention were widespread through the land, most of the parishes the residents, who de to judge of the temper and feeling of the .ound thorn, were in a state of apprehension  in Kingston, well protected as it is by a y force and by the volunteers, so convinced lagistrAtes that a state of things existed not be met by the ordinary civil arrangee country, that they especially requested to return from the seat of the rebellion in parishes, in order to place Kingston under  ie best test perhaps of the accuracy of the upon which the government founded its to be found in the opinions of the two A' the legislature, in their replies to the  itlemen comprising the Legislative Council, various parts of the island, and with the of obtaining full and accurate information, the views expressed in the governor's , that there is scarcely a district the island where disloyalty, sedition, and intentions are not widely disseminated and " whilst the members of the honourable  opt hrt BMA °pig,