Lord Elcho presided at a dinner of an agricultural society
in Haddington last Monday, and seized the opportunity to explain how much his "blood boils" at the criticisms on the conduct of the Jamaica volunteers in slaughtering negroes with so liberal a hand. He appeared to believe that the English volunteers would in the same position have acted like the Jamaica volunteers, approved the gay and inspiriting language of an English Captain Ford, and "en- joyed" picking off flying negroes as that gallant captain explains that his soldiers enjoyed the sport in Jamaica. We doubt if the British volunteers will thank Lord Elcho for representing them as fraternizing in spirit with the exultant conductors of the negro massacres. And we doubt whether it is quite wise even to suggest to the people of England that the volunteers may yet be turned into an engine of slaughter in case of a second Peterloo.
