9 DECEMBER 1865, Page 3

Captain Bedford Pim, having been on the West India station,

writes to the Times to justify Mr. Eyre. His main argument is that the negroes are lazy, and his proof of it evidence that at Kingston women coal the steamers, and everywhere in Jamaica do the hardest work. Very good ; then negro women are admitted by Captain Pim to be industrious, and why were they executed? He means of course to imply that the husbands do not work, but if he will visit Belgium he will see women toiling in the fields, and if he goes deep enough into the interior helping to drag the plough. Does Captain Pim really mean to assert that because a race is not 'civilized enough to exempt its women from work, they are therefore to be shot down like partridges ?