Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume V, Number 3, 20 January 1866 — English Column. FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

FOREIGN NEWS.

The Executions in Jamica.

Puhlie l».ive leen n England to protest r>^ain-1 thp .:rur?lty ot t.hf'Oovernor of Jamaica, who ha> exerute«i more two than thoosand negTo*?s on account of the . late riots thert-. There wa? nota rtgular rebe{- ; lion there, but oniy a loea! disturbance, m a town on the enst end of ihe isSand. Amobassembled to rescue a prisoner, thejud2e unwise- | lv ordered a small company of solders at the t court house to fire on them, and killed seve- j ral persons. In revenge, a large multitutie I assembled and took the court house, murdered j the judge and some of his friends and seve- j ml soldiers, 12 in ail. There W)S a good deal of plundering, and one planter was kilJed afterwards, but this was all. Such wholesale butchery a 4 * the government of Jamaicn hos perpetrnted is hardly paralleled in history. A deputation in England lately waited on Lord John Hussell, who promised to have a through investigation inade into j tbe case. '

Death of King Leopold of Belgium.

The Cholera.

The Steamer.

The Kins; of Belpum, Leopold 1. is dead. He was quite old and feeble, so that it was not unexf»ected. He was the best in Europe, loved and respected by his &übjects, and by foreign nations also. Many tiines he was chosen by other governments to act as arbitrator to settle their disputes. He was unele of Queen Victoria, and has reigned sit»ce IS3O. He was like our own good King Kauikeaouli, in his love for his makaainanns, nnd in his respect to the liljeral Constitution whieh he faithfully maintained for them.

The Cholera is abating in Frnnce for the present, but physicians believe that it will appear again after the cold weather, and prevail next Mimmer both in Euroj>e and the U. S. A. There is to be a Congress of delegates sent by the ditTerent governments to consult on the best means of averting and mitigating it.

The Steamer Ajax was to have sailed from San Francisco on the 6th inst., and is hourly expected. She is 1236 feet long, 35.J feet wide nnd 25 feet deep. She is eapahle of carrying 2000 tons ol cargo. nnd has besides ample nccotninodation for 200 cabin, passengers. She has a magnificent dining room, whieh togethor with thc state rooms is clcgantly curpeted, a largc promcnade deck above, bath rooms supplied with hot and cold wnter, an iee house, and every luxury that ean be hnd nt sea. lt is said thot she brings 100 passengers. The price whieh she charges for cabin passagc to or from San Francisco is 75 dollars either \vay and for steerago passage 8-10.00. Six dollars a ton for freight.