The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-12 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. G. W. GORDON.

This morning was published, for the information
of parliement,theriorrespondesee in relation to the removal
of the hue G. W. Gordon from the magiArary la Jamaica

•nd the

connected with the Monet Bey

lock-up case.
In July, 1862. Governor Eyre transmitted a variety
of papers to the Duke of Newcastle describing the
result of a session held in St. Thomu-in-thsEast for the
purpose of inquiring into certain charges preferred by
Gordon !against the rector and the parochial authorities.
Mr. Eyre trusted his grace would approve of the removal
of Mr. Gordon, whom he anuses of having been guilty of
wilful and deliberate misrepresentation, from the oommir
aka of the pesos. Among the papers thus sent is a letter
from Mr. Gordon to the Duke, setting forth in stroog terms
the state of the Monet Bay lock-up, and the absence from
the pariah of any alehouse or hospital. A fortnight later
Mr. Ey re wrote along despatch to the Duke giving a narrative
of the inquiry. In August Mr. Eyre told the Doke he be-
lieved Mr. Gordon to be " a most mischievous perm, and
one likely to do a great deal of harm amoept uneducated
sod excitable prams, such as are the lower clauses of this
country." Other letters were addressed by Mr. Gordon to
the Colonial Minister, and were forwardsdby Mr. Eyre with
momenta Mr. Eyre states in one dispatch
that the press of the agony, all the newspapen
being under the editorship or control of coloured
parsons, bad supported Mr. Gordon. He also says that the
improprieties shown to have exited at Mersin Bay lock-up
wen certainly of the most disgusting kind, and that there
was great neglect of duty or. the part of the magistracy
generally, and of the churchwardens in particular.
In September, 1862, the Dace of Newoestle tells Mr.
Eyre he is unable to censor in the views which he has
taken of the proceediop of the justices, and that he can-
not repri the recapitulation contained in his despatch "as
an accurate and complete statement of the facts disclosed
in the evidence." His grace points out mierepreeentediene
of Mr. Gordes's statements by Mr. Eyre, and ea7l
that the look-up-house bed sever been visited by any
of the justices till it was visited by Mr. Gordon, and that
there could be no doubt that the pees and disgraceful abuses
charged by Mr. Gordon against the lock-up house did exist
in it up to the time it was visited by him. The Dube
observes that the magistrates bad refused to hear eleven
out ci fourteen witnesses te.dersd by Mr. Gordon, and
that he wee ci opinion "that Mr. Gordon rendered a
substantial public service, though a tardy or, io
representing to you the abuses which he detected,
and that the justices took a discreditable course in over-
looking the facts which were proved before them, and
/apprising the evidence by which he was prepared to prove
more." Mr. Gordon's charge against the rector. however,
was a wilful and unpardonable representation ; road whilst
his true acknowledges the service rendered by
him, he says this misrepresentation has tendered his re-
moval from the commissios of the peace a just and neon.
ssry consequence. His grace thinks, however, that the men
whose ace was described by Mr. Gordon met with no
abundant measure of charity and humanity, either from the
relator, the churchwarden, the doctor, the gaoler, or Mr.
Gordon himself. His grace cautions Mr. Eyre &piste,
rejecting Mr. Gordon's complaints as unworthy of attention.
" The repeerenations of a parson who has made false end un-
founded imputations me to be regarded se doubt with dis-
trust, when resting only epos his personal credit, but when a
serious amount of abase is proved to have existed, and
evidence has been eapprsesed, the information obtained
from such a pitmen may be useful as indicating the direc-
tion in which Inquiry should be made."
Ia October, 1882, Mr. Eyre replies to the Duke,
"Although disapproving of Mr. Gordon's conduct in
some particulars, I did not nedervalue the disclosures
brought to light by his agesey, but at owe urged upon the
juatiose throughout the island the duty and necessity of
forgo/ally visiting all places of conflaemest within their
districts." He pee on to my that it is very difficult to
obtah compeisst sod trustworthy persona either for the
public departments or for the magistracy. In the mom
month his grace tells Mr. Eyre be presumes that he
has communicated to Mr. Gordon so mush of the foregoing
despatch as relates to his conduct ; but on Jan. 9,1863, be
hes to repeat this request—the iaformation having bees
conveyed to Gordon in a very brief note—and writs, to
Mr. Eyre, " I think that Mr. Gordon is entitled to be
made acquainted with the precise grounds on which I pro.
coded is sanotioniog his climbed from the magistracy,
sad with this view I have to instruct you to furnish him
with a copy of my despatch of the sth of September."
The Governor meets with another rebuke from the late
WPM Nininerrelative to a documentwhich Mr. Eyrelsed
met describing the character of a meeting held is the perish
of St. Thomas-in-the-Eon. What this account actually
contained we are unable to say, as a line of asterisks ti
given at ter the words " I have now the honour to forward
a report furnished to me confidentially ;" bat the nature of
the statemeets may be gathered from the following de-
test& written in reply in the following month by the
Doke of Newcastle. His grace says, "I have remind
your despateh, No. 84, of the 23rd ultimo, covering a report
on the public meeting held on the 27th August, in the
parish of Bt. Thanes-in-the-East. The ineloeure NOW=
a series of rejections upon the private characters of the
persons who attended the meeting in favour of Mr. Gordon,
into the truth or error of which I have no disposition to
inquire ; and I take this opportunity of observing to you
that I feel we you will find it most conducive to the
public intend* you have at heart to occupy yourself rather
with the Judson of sots sad prooeedinp with which you
Dave to deal than with the private characters of the per
nos who may assail or defend them."