The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY

ing one summer, asserting As Isnee 'raft*
in various quarters, lingered ' dnrthe I
to break out with terribly • 'ol
the following summer, aqm
before us, it would b 6. f iotAx ..,-‘oobost
more data than we at present possess, tSit the
epidemic of 1866 is to prove a startling exception
to those which have already viated us. It would
'be madness to allow ourselves to be influenced
by such an expectation, and, lulled into security
by a decline which is probably only of a tempo-
rmy character, to neglect those precautions which
can alone give us the right to look forward to such
an exemption.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

There are few persons, the Times thinks, who
will not sympathies with Mr. Eyre in the circumstances
seder which he has returned to England. After many
years of arduous publics service, during which he has dia.
played many of the qualities which most win the admira-
tion of Englishmen, he returns in disgrace under the die-
•ppeoeel of his superiors and dismissed from his post.
Under sash circumstances, the great majority of his
countrymen would willingly forget the lamentable
error for which he has been already severely punished,
and remember only the long career in which it Is the
only blemish. Bat that they may do this they
mast be assisted, to a certain extent, by Mr. Byre him-
self and by his friends. If his unhappy error in judgment
is to pass from the public remembrance, he mud be con-
tort, u far as possible, to accept the deliberate verdict
which has bon passed upon it, and to avoid aide( any
atinceemary challenge to public opinion. If Mr. Byre and
hie friends persist in proclaiming his absolute faultlessness,
it will be necessary, for the sake of public justioe,to persist
in urging his fault and to repeat the //ensure it his earned.
The proceedings at Southampton are, in the °plaices
of the Times, hardly compatible with Mr. Byre's
position as a public servant under the censure
of the crown, and it contrasts with his conduct that of Sir
0. Darling, who requested to be excused from receiving
emigrandatory addresses, and declined the compensation
offered to him for the loss of his appointment as Governor
of Victoria. The Times is also of opinion that • banquet
was a peculiarly unfortunate form of celebrating Mr. Byre's
conduct, because, whether aeon/lardy or unossesearily,
whether tightly or not, hundreds of misguided people
were hanged, shot, flogged, and imprisoned, hundreds of
houses were burnt down, and these are not things to boast
of, to be recollected with pride or pleasure, to be toasted at
public dinners, and recounted for the satisfaction of ladies.
But if neither the object nor the manner of this demon-
stration was fortunate, the Times cannot say more for the
speeches with which it was illustrated. With regard to
the Bev. Mr. Kingsley, who exhorts us to take Mr. Byre
and his conduct upon trust, as " he expected every man to
take himself upon trust," the Times ventures to warn him
that he will find it dangerous to presume upon such perfect
confidence in his intellectual pursuits, and to remind him
that his enthusiasm for Mr. Byre should be founded, not
upon trait, but upon proof. If these are the strongest
arguments which can be urged in Mr. Byre's behalf, the
lees his friends say the better.
If, observes the Daily New, the eleven hundred persons
who were slain or tortured in Jamaica under the authority
of Mr. Eyre had suffered only • righteous and necessary
retribution, yet the discharge of an office so terrible se
that which devolved on Governor Byre is not • theme for
compliment and congratulation. A right feeling man
would shrink from being feted in connexion with acts of
death and devastation. Governor Eyre has not taken this
view of the decencies of his position. Censured, after
solemn inquiry, by the department to which he owed
responsibility, dismissed from office, condemned unani-
mously, though indirectly, by the House of Commons, he
has sought consolation at the hands of the lion.hunters of
Southampton, who offer their undiscriminating hero-wor-
ship to almost every notoriety who sets foot in their port.
The presence at the banquet of • military and a naval
peer serves to confirm the suspicion which recent events
have suggested, that among the admirable qualities for
in the two services, • sensitive regard for sivil justice
has not • conspicuous place. The Daily News can only
express its satisfaction that Lord Hardwicke and
Lord Cardigan see in England to welcome Mr.
Eyre, and were not in Jamaica to help him.
In classic times • banquet of the rich and noble was never
complete without its literary parasite ; and this, the Daily
News grieves to say, was the part assumed by Professor
Kingsley at Southampton. The speech of the Cambridge
professor illustrates at once a double evil—the growing
subserviency of • considerable portion of the literary class ;
and the tendency, which is one of the recognised draw-
backs to the nmny advantages of • state church, to make
clergymen the political flatterers of the governing classes,
instead of guardians of the weak and suffering. As to Mr.
Eyre himself, he is the least offensive of his own apolo-
gists, though his self-vindication, too, is but an indirect
and unconscious confession of wrong.
In the opinion of the Star the banquet to Mr. Eyre at
Southampton is perhaps the most shameful fact in our
modern history. But if the friends of Mr. Eyre can boast
that he was received with open arms by peers, by clergy
of the Established Church, and—save the mark !—by
ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs in honour of the
public officer who permitted women to be flogged with
wire cats, and under whose administration womeo, some
of them about to become mothers, were hung
as rebels—the opponents of Mr. Eyre and his bar-
barities may well be satisfied that the English people
hare shown their abhorrence of cruelty, and their
determination to uphold the safeguards of law.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley calls the conduct of Mr. Eyre
pluck, and wants to make Mr. Eyre a peer. He exhausts
the vocabulary to express his admiration of the ruler who
could smite • smiling province with desolation and death.
It cannot be doubted, says the Post, that the welcome
and sympathy which Mr. Byre has received at South-
ampton express the sentiments of • numerous and influ-
ential portion of his countrymen. Mr. Byre has
many personal friends ; he is also energetically supported
on public grounds by men who are qualified to form an
opinion on his conduct in an emergency, and who can ap-
preciate the spirit by which he was actuated. Add to this
that the ex-Governor of Jamaica has been mercilessly
calumniated, that fanatical invective and coarse vitupera-
tion have been vindictively employed to traduce his cha-
racter, that be has been described as cruel and cowardly,
and that he is now threatened with an indictment for
murder, and it must be admitted that those who enter-
tained him on Tuesday evening exercised remarkable and
commendable forbearance. At the same time it may be
• matter of regret that such • demonstration was in •
manner forced upon them by the conduct of the Jamaica
committee.

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Prince Arthur, attended by jier Elphinstone, left
yesterday afternoon, and returned to Greenwich-park.
The Honourable Lady Biddolph bad the honour of
dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yosterdey:

WINDSOR CASTLE, Ana= 2S.

Her liajesty, with Prisons Leal" Primrose Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, left Osborne this afternoon at &quarter
past 3 o'clock, and arrived at Windsor Castle at a quarter
before 7.
In attendance were Lady Churchill, the Hon. Meads
Stopteed, llsier-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, hiajor-
General F. H. Beyinour,_Lieutenant-Ccdosel Du Pita, Ifr.

Bahl, Mr. Legg. and the Minter of the Household.
Princess Victoria and Prinoess Elisabeth of Here, at.
tended by Ledy Caroline Barrington, arrived at the Castle
at half-past 2 o'clock from Osborne.
Lord Begot and the Hon. Mortimer Saariße Wert are
the Lard and Groom in Waiting.

A deputation, consisting of *NAM Gap, lfaxteed, and
Ambrose (repreeentiag the Batterees.parit Sunday Band),
Mr. Burney (representing the Steamboats Company),
Means. Bushell and Wynn (repreeenting societies et
working men in the neighbenrheal of Hyde-park), Yr. J.
Baxter Langley (chairman), Mr. Davies (treasurer), Cap
win Waassume, Mr. Miamian, Mr. Preece, and Mr. R.
Morrell, hon. secretary (of the National Sunday Longue),
had as interview with Lord Jan Mammas, at the OMee
of her Majesty's Works, &a., yesterday.

ENTRY OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT INTO
DUBLIN.-(THIS DAY.)

(BY inicrala Tzumura.)

DUBLLIi, TRIIIIIIDAT MORNING.

The Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by the Mar-
chioness of Aberoorn and family, made his public entry
into Dublin to-day. The streets along the reek of the
mammies' were greatly crowded. The reception was most
respectful, bat there was no entinuessui on the part of the
people.

ARRIVAL OF TIM QIIKIN AT WlRDSOR.—Yes-
terday afternoon, her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and
Prince Leopold, attended by Major-General Sir T. N.
Biddulph, Lady Churchill, Major-General Seymour,
Colonel Du Platt, Ito., left Osborne after luncheon el
route for Windsor Castle, which they reached at 7 o'clock.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein will arrive iu England is
• few days from their wedding tour: A great part of the

time has been passed in Switserland.
The Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth, children
of the Prince and Primes' Louis of Heese•Darnistadt, ace
about to return hose. It will be remembered that they
were conveyed to Eugland when the Prussians were
advancing on the right bank of the Rhine.
The Marquis of Abercorn, the lord-lieutenant of
Ireland, left Chesterfield House yesterday morning for
Holyhead, accompanied by Lord George Hamilton and the
Ladies Hamilton. On their way the marchioness with
Viscount Hamilton, M.P., and Lord Claud Handlton,
who have been staying with the Earl and Countess of
Lichfield, at Shugborough Park, Staffordshire, were to join
them, and would continue the journey to Holyhead. Rear-
Admiral Sallie Hamilton WAS of the party, the pliant
admiral holding the post of comptroller of the vice.regal
household. _ _

The Archbishop of York has left town for
Bishopthorpe, near York.
The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has arrived at
Dupplin Castle, near Perth, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Kinnoull, from Grimston Park, the mat of
Lord and Lady Londesboroush, near Tadeaster.
_ .

The Martinis and Marchioness of Bristol and
Ladies Hervey have left their residence in St. James's-
square for Scotland.
The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailesbury has
as rived at Grimston Park, on a visit to Lord and Lady
Londesborough.
The Earl and Countess of Derby are expected to
leave town to•slay for Knowsley, near Prescott.
The Earl and Countess of Westmorland have

joined the party visiting Lord and Lady Londesborough at
Griinstan Park, near Tadeaatar, for the ram meeting at
York.

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The Earl and Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe have
arrived at Bowhills, Selkirk, N. 8., on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Dalkeith, from the Earl and Counter of
Lichfield's seat in Staffordshire.
The Earl of Craven has been attacked with parr
lysis ►t Scarborough, where his lordship wee staying. It is
almost needless to say that his serious illness has occa-
sioned much alarm to the members of his family, most of
whom h►ve assembled ►round him in consequence of his
illness.

The Countess (Dowager) of Mount-Edge-limbo
and Lady Ernestine Edgcumbe have arrived at the
Countess (Dowager) Brownlow's residence, Belton Lodge,

Torquay.
Lady Egerton of Tatton and the Hon. Min
Egerton are announced among the fashionable arrivals at
Torquay. . .

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Baron Ludovic de Potesta has arrived at Cataldi's
Hotel, Dover-etreet, from Belgium.

Sir Henry Ingilby and friends had good sport on
his moors kat week. His party, consisting of four inns,
killed in four days 268 brace of palm
We have to announce the death, after a very
abort illness, of Selina, widow of the late Sir Robert Fits•
Wygram, Bark. The deceased lady, who war in her 76th
year, was a daughter of the late Sir John Hayes, Bart.