subscription from six thousand to ten thousand pounds for his prosecution. It is well understood that the object of the trial is simply to put on record a judicial decision that may afford protection to the people in our colonies, however remote and of whatever class or condition. The assertion of right in such a case is worth any sacrifice.

In the meantime we ask in sober sadness, what has been done for the relief, defence, or succour of the surviving victims of the outrage? They have been cast into the shade! It is only recently, and by the visit of the missionary, that we learn their real condition. Practically, they have received no essential help.

The question may be asked, What more can be expected to be done for Jamaica? What if these five thousand victims of cruel wrong receive no direct attention, will not the state of the Island be improved for the future? What appreciable effect can be produced on the commercial prosperity of the entire community by meeting the case of the black widows and orphans? Will it raise the dividends of any commercial company a single farthing? What is the continued misery of a wretched district in comparison with the settlement of grand constitutional points that may tell on the future history of England, like the acts of Hampden and Sydney?

In return, we may put questions of another order. Is there no danger that if the condition of these helpless sufferers be practically disregarded, the old leaven may taint the prosperity of the coming era? Of what avail are all the manifestations of indignant feeling in the glowing articles of public journals, in speeches addressed to Parliament or to the popular assembly, if they are not followed by acts of humanity and Christian kindness? Will not the most eloquent pleader in the court of law feel that half the force of his argument for justice to the oppressor is lost when pointed to the sable clients still left in misery and destitution? How would the story of the good Samaritan lose its interest, if we were told that leaving the wounded victim to perish, he went in pursuit of the "thieves," and contented himself with securing a mounted patrol.

The present state of the case we feel to be most painful and humiliating. We have attempted in these pages to state the claims of those who could make no appeal for themselves. It would be unsuitable in every way to continue this strain, if no help could be obtained. Our course of duty of late has been somewhat trying, but at the last moment we have a gleam of light. A Christian lady writes to propose a RESTITUTION FUND, and offers, as the first contribution, a sovereign from a widow in humble circumstances in Newcastleupon-Tyne, the fifth donation of the same amount she has given for the Freed-men. Surely in the widow's mite more is given than in all the contributions of the wealthy and the powerful. The way is open. Our valued correspondent says, "When in Great Britain Mr. Teall seemed quite pressed down with care and anxiety for the future of Jamaica." Well, he is gone "bound in spirit" to Morant Bay. He is not alone there. Mr. Parnther, the Wesleyan

minister, is a man of kindred spirit. We have before us a letter to Mr. S. Constantine Burke, in which he says, "I shall only be too glad to render you any help in my power to enable you to carry out the benevolent object contemplated by the Freed-men's Aid Society.' I shall be prepared, whenever you desire it, to furnish you with the names and number of persons who have been great sufferers by the reckless burning of houses and other destruction of property, and who are deserving any aid that may be proffered for their present painfully distressed circumstances." We can rely on these friends, Mr. Samuel Constantine Burke, Mr. Parnther, and Mr. Teall, to act with others as a local committee in Jamaica. The time is come when those who really care to do justice and to show kindness to the surviving victims of the military raid may prove their sincerity. If we can make RESTITUTION, the blessing of those who are ready to perish will come upon us. The opportunity should not be lost. The simple beginning at Newcastle is hopeful, for it shows that apart from all party and distracting questions there is a spirit of disinterested benevolence that will yet find practical expression. We trust all our friends will see that to interpose with help under the present auspices will be to realise the crowning satisfaction of their long struggle in behalf of Jamaica Let us leave on the scene of desolation some permanent traces of British kindness that will prove to all that our philanthropy was no pretence.-W.

THE REVIVING OF HOPE.

For the first time we have to write of Morant Bay with feelings of relief and encouragement. A christian minister worthy of confidence and of the most cordial sympathy, has directed his steps to Morant Bay and adopted the station as his sphere of labour. We honour him for his zeal and compassion, and earnestly pray for his success. We take heart in the prospect afforded by his settlement. All the wealth and power of a nation cannot create the kind of agent needed for service of this nature. The firm faith, the practical wisdom, the tender pity required at such a juncture can only come from above. The right kind of Christian teachers can be supplied. The simple narrative of Mr. Teall will speak for itself. It comes in time to call for the practical help many are willing to afford, if they can only see a proper course pursued for the restoration of the people. We turn to those of our readers who have a clear eye, a warm heart, and an open hand. Here is a fair opportunity for doing good under the most interesting circumstances that can be imagined. cannot raise the dead. Many who suffered innocently sleep in the dust. himself has wiped away their tears. But in this deep seclusion-far removed from the active conflict of our times-are the living victims of outrage and wrong that we have shown to be without a parallel. Is not the time come to render vigorous and cheering help to those who can say after such wrongs, "We feel no resentment?" We raise no ecclesiastical questions; for the

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moment we desire truce from political strife, and plead for the credit of England, and for the honour of the Christian name, that the wishes of these excellent men who are in the field may be met. Let us provide at once the means to build the schools and to afford some solace to these patient and suffering widows and orphans. Those who are really interested in the matter should go quietly and earnestly to work to supply the funds. The sufferers "cannot recompense" their kind helpers. There will be no great eclat in rendering the service-only those who feel the joy of doing good as beneath the eye of Him who came to heal the broken-hearted, will be moved to acts of prompt benevolence in a case of this kind. We can leave the matter with them, and though we have felt great sadness in the thought that the "outcasts" seemed to be forgotten, we begin to cherish the reviving of hope.

In a letter received by the Baptist Missionary Society, the Rev. W. Teall speaks of

A HEARTY WELCOME.

"On Friday afternoon I got to Yallahs where brother Palmer and wife were expecting me; and so, on Saturday morning, I arrived at my destination, Morant Bay, and was very kindly received by Mr. Parnther, the Wesleyan Minister, who entertained me very hospitably till I got a lodging. Having been thus located, I went out to look after the people. First I went to Mr. Killick's chapel, and found it in a very ruinous condition. There has been no service in it for a long time. The acting minister was hanged in martial law. The really handsome pulpit has recently been almost destroyed by sailors from a gun-boat. I next went to seek for Father Telford, a deacon and trustee, but he was from home, so I walked back to the Bay, and went into the Market-place in front of the burnt court-house and found some Baptist people, with whom I arranged to go up the valley on Sunday, they promising to send down a horse for me to ride. On Sunday morning, however, as no horse came, I started and went by Stanton to Spring Garden, and thus missed the horse which was sent by Morant Road. The first service was held in a class-house, which was saved from being burnt by a marine, who was about to fire it, but seeing a Testament on the table did not carry out his intention. The people had not been able to meet since martial law, and no song of praise had been heard there for months. The notice was very short, but soon the place was well filled and many could not get in. It would have done you good to have heard how lustily they sang for the first time after the late sad events. When the service was over a man named Clarke got up and said, 'Fambly! this is a happy day! We were without hope but God is good.' He wept as he spoke, and many faces were wet with tears of joy. After the service I took an egg and a biscuit and cheese, which Mr. Parnther's housekeeper had very thoughtfully put up for me, and then we went over to Stony Gut and had an open air service I stood under the shade of a mango tree at the corner of Paul Bogle's burnt chapel. There was a large gathering by four o'clock and they seemed much affected. There were the widows of Paul and Moses Bogle, and the poor woman Livingstone, who was half-strangled in the chapel and then tied outside of it in the soaking rain for many hours. One man said to me, 'Minister, they used me very bad. They cut up my back, and shut me up for nine days and nights in the condemned cell. They burnt my house and everything I had: but I thank God, Minister, I don't feel any resentment. My breast is clear.'

"The previous day some officers from the 'Cadmus' had intruded into Stony Gut and alarmed the poor people with abuse and threats, and my presence was hailed by them with delight.

"The people are in great distress, having been robbed or otherwise deprived of all they possessed, and it will take them a long time to recover their position.

"June 21st.-Yesterday afternoon I rode up in the mountains to look at some places which are in the market, and to ascertain if they would be suitable for centres of stations, but found they would not do. On my way back I had a good congregation at Spring Garden, commencing the service when the people returned from their grounds about 5.30. I did not get back to the Bay till nearly eight o'clock.

CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE.

"The people here generally strike me as being considerably lower in the scale of civilization than those at the west end of the island, and I hear that superstition is rife amongst them; there is, therefore, much to be done here, and whoever may be brought here will have a most arduous work. Still I think circumstances are favourable for the commencement of the Mission, and I shall, if suitable arrangements be made to support and help in securing chapels, schools, &c., be willing to undertake it.

"But if the Society wish to have a Mission in St. Thomas-in-the-East, and to have that Mission successfully prosecuted, they had better at once put aside the three years' theory and resolve to sustain the work to the extent which may be necessary. You cannot apply to a field like this the principles which may regulate your practice in those parts of the island in which our Mission has been long established: but you must make up your minds to a very considerable outlay to begin with, and to guarantee to your Missionary a sufficient sum to enable him to live, and heartily prosecute his work. What proportion of the needed amount of salary could be raised here is very uncertain. At first however, it would be very little, if anything.

SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION.

"The following things strike me as necessary to the successful working of this Mission:"1st. Rent, or lease, or purchase, or, if necessary, build a suitable house for the Mission family in a position central to the work to be done. I have offers of land from two or three persons for this purpose free of charge.

"2nd. Assist the people to put up such commodious but inexpensive chapels as, once erected, would not be beyond their power to keep in repair. I say assist, because, though the people could give but little, if any, money towards the erection, they could many of them give materials or labour, and they ought to do this to the full extent of their ability.

"3rd. Then as to the support of the Missionary, though at first the Society might have to provide nearly, if not quite, all, still, as the Mission got into working order, the people ought to be trained to give according to their ability to meet all the expenses of the Mission.

"4th. Schools might, I think, be secured without troubling the Society at all, as aid to commence them might be obtained from other sources, and they would shortly be on the same footing as the other schools of our body.

"Lastly, permit me to say that I think you should lose no time in forwarding such guar antees and instructions as the case requires, that the work may be entered upon withou delay.

"May the Lord give heavenly wisdom to us all in this important matter, and may the result be glory to Christ in the social, moral, and religious improvement of the people in St. Thomas-in-the-East.

"The Committee of the Union in Jamaica having received the report of the above visit have unanimously requested Mr. Teall to occupy this new and important post. To this call he has promptly and heartily responded. No one in Jamaica could be selected better adapted to it; and Mr. Teall will have not only the warm sympathy and good wishes of his Jamaica brethren, but also of the Committee and his numerous friends in England."

WORK DONE.

The questions connected with the condition and prospects of the Freed-men have awakened earnest discussion in every form. Every step to improve the condition and to raise the character of the negro seems to provoke some controversy. To ourselves the course of duty seems to be perfectly clear. If we admit for the sake of peace and quietness, that a race treated as chattels for many generations has not attained to equality with those who have reaped the accumulated advantages of ages of civilization, it is the more needful to seek their intellectual and moral elevation. Admit that the negro is weaker than the Anglo-Saxon, yet an inspired apostle tells us, that "those members of the body which seems to be the more feeble are necessary; and those members of the body which we think to be less honourable, upon those we bestow more abundant labour." Suppose that the service of the coloured people is not quite of the same order as that of those who have received the highest culture, it is nevertheless indispensable. A sable friend of ours contends that the labour of the negro is just as essential to the world as the force of steam. "Take away steam," he says, with an air of conscious importance, "and how would you manufacture goods? How would you travel?" Steam in itself as melting vapour is not worth much, but it may be utilized as we all know, to move the world. Our American friends are directing their efforts to make the negro valuable in the best sense, on his own account, and for the advantage of mankind. Their common sense in the matter affords an example worthy of imitation. They "bestow abundant labour" on the Freed-men. As an illustration we give the following extracts from the report of our friend Mr. Walden of

FREED-MEN'S RELIEF IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

"The school year closes in July-the teachers returning North before the first of August to recuperate their health and strength during the vacation-therefore in writing of each year's work, we mean the school and not the calendar year.

"BEGINNING OF THE WORK, 1862-3.-During the summer of 1862, after the successes of the Union armies in Tennessee and west of Mississippi, the coloured refugees-'Contrabands' as they were termed-congregated at Corinth, Miss., Helena, Ark., Cairo, Ill., and some other points. On the 5th of September, 1862, Gen. Ord appointed Rev. J. B. Rodgers, Chaplain of the 14th Wisconsin Volunteers, Superintendent' of the Contrabands at Corinth-one of the first official acts in their behalf in the West. A number of coloured refugees had already congregated there, and others came in daily. On the Sunday following the above appointment, five hundred came to the camp; on the next day, eleven hundred more appeared; in about one week, the multitude of helpless beings gathered there, numbered about two thousand. A few days later followed the first Proclamation of Emancipation. As winter came on, the inmates of all the camps being poorly sheltered, miserably clad, destitute of food and the means to provide it, suffered incredible hardships. As their sufferings became known in the North, the sympathies of the humane were moved. Among the first to visit the sufferers at Cairo was Levi Coffin, the long-tried friend of the oppressed race, who in the days of slavery had fed at his own table more than three thousand of its fleeing victims. When rumours of the suffering among the Contrabands at Cairo reached him, he went there at his own expense, to inquire into their condition, and to relieve them so far as he had the means at hand. On his way thither, he fell in company with two of his long-time