Reports of some of the Ne...
iteports or some or tfe Iegro tLrias consequent on rne in- surrection at Demerara have lately reached this country: but as the proccedings against Mr. SMITir, and the death of that gentlenxan, have absorbed the liieftemporary interestansing out of the above nmelancholy disturbance, we shal merely state, that the Court-martial had amongst its memben'two individuals on the staff of General AMURtAY, and six officers of the Demerara Mtilitia1 wvho it is to be presamed'weve slave-proprietors also in the colony. We do not object tG a Court so constituted, that it must have been vicious in inself, or that it. must have been wilfully selected by the Governor of materials laying it open to suspicion. It ig possible that every member of tnat Court may have been most conscientious in the verdict he prronounced: 'and it is but probable that no better tribanal could Shave beeis frined from among the white inhabitauts of D1eierara. "Tiio Blacks vrere prosecuted, and both found guilty-: agonst one was brought tbe testimony of two mAnagersO :the estate of which~ the accused was among the most,active as- sailants. No act of personial violenca was proved, against this insurgent; but, being a man in authorit'y of somhe sort, it was no doubt conceived to be a matter of policy to'single him out as an example. The second- Negro ,was one of a gang who attacked the house of a Mr.' WALROUD atbte4k nf day, with extreme ferocity, They shot his two -Ofiveig, fired at and wounded his wife, and spared his life only on condition of his signing a paper in* testimony of their "good conduct." No evidence for tbe defence was offLred in either case, whether as to facts or character. The part alleged to have been performed by M11r. SMI1TH, iS referred to incidentally in the comrse of these prosecutions.