" I beg you will assure the gentlemen who have signed this document that I highly appreciate and value such a friendly support, and their truly Eng lish demand of fair play for an absent public officer, whom, though unknown to them, they are unwilling to see condemned without some proof of his conduct. " It can hardly be denied that the emergency occasioned by the rebellion in Jamaica was a great one, when fchafc rebellion spread twenty miles in one direction in two days and "a half, and fdrty miles in another direction in three and a half days; or that the peril threatening the entire island was most imminent when disaffection, seditious feeling and sympathy, with a readiness to join the rebels, were known to exist in almost every parish ; while at the BaraG time the local Executive had not a single soldier available to send to any locality whatever should further outbreaks in other parishes have taken place. "Under such conditions the most prompt, certain, and severe punishment of those who had actually risen in rebellion became necessary, as a measure of self-defence, to insure the public safety. " I do not doubt but that the inquiry now being instituted will make all this, and much more, • fully apparent to the British public, and that the result, by showing the necessity of the steps taken, willjusti'y the opinions so kindly expressed,aud tho action so considerately- taken, by the influential gentlemen who signed the Cheltenham memorial to Mr. Cardwell. " Believe me, my dear sir, yours very faithfully, S.Evke. " To Colonel C. P. Kennedy, 13 Lansdown-cres cent, Cheltenham."

[From the Times, March 9th.] You can hardly have an idoa. of the soothing effect produced in this country by an article written in the spirit of your last on the laud question. This is the real root of popular dis content. The tenants, as a rule, make the im provements,, in many cases- increasing the value of fche laud tenfold. The rent, iv the course of years, is multiplied in the same proportion. 