The military news this week contains more executions, and accounts
of the most brutal floggings. It is said that at Bath, though the executions have not been so numerous as at Morant Bay, the floggings have been far more so, and the special corres- pondent of a Jamaica paper asserts that at Bath there have been from 500 to 600 whipped, and that not less than 200 of these were women. "A White Man" writes to 'Thursday's Times to plead for white men, accusing the Rev. W. Arthur, for instance, amongst others of being "counsel for the murderers of the Rev. Mr. Ilerschel." The truth, however, is, that Mr. Arthur has been singular among the philanthropists for expressly approving every execution of those taken red-handed, and apologizing even for -what he called "moderate vengeance." What he demanded is precisely what "A White Man" demands—that the negroes should be treated exactly as whites guilty of the same crimes. That, however, is just what "A white man with relatives in Jamaica" does not mean. He thinks it justice that thousands should be hanged, and thousands more brutally flogged, for murders in which above three or four score could not have been directly concerned.
