30 DECEMBER 1865, Page 1

Mr. Fergusson, F.R.S., the most eminent of our living surgeons,

has been made a baronet, one of very few who ever received this honour for their eminence in surgery or medicine. He has marked his well deserved appointment by showing how very lame he is in moral and political logic, i.e., by writing a letter to the Times to justify the massacres in Jamaica, on the very relevant ground that he has seen the gentle- man who was nearly murdered at Mr. Hire's house, and whose life has been saved in spite of the many wounds inflicted as if by a miracle. Mr. Fergusson does not argue from this that it was quite right to kill the persons who inflicted those wounds, but that it was quite right to kill hundreds or thousands of those who did not. How wicked, he says, to sympathize with some thousands of negroes (who committed no murders), when here is a man nearly murdered by negroes, and here are twenty or twenty-two more quite murdered by them. The logic is not, we hope, professionaL Mr. Fergusson would scarcely be impressed by the moral logic of any one who remarked that a physician, Dr. Pritchard, had quite recently murdered some of his nearest and dearest friends, and yet the Government, in evil sympathy for this wicked class, had made one of them, Mr. Ferguson a surgeon a baronet.