The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-29 00:00:00

TEE JAMAICA COMMITTEE AND THE

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

The following correspondence has taken place
between Mmars. Awn and Rowse and the Attorney-
General :

8, Bedford row, July 10.

Sir,—We are instructed by Mr. John Stuart Mill, ALP.,
and Mr. Peter Alfred Taylor, ALP., on behalf of the
Jamaica Committee, to submit to you the accompanying
statement of illegal acts committed by Mr. Edward John
Eyre, as Governor of Jamaica, subsequently to the riot
which took place at Morant Bay, in that island, in Octo-
ber, 1865. The allegations contained in that statement
are all made on the authority either of official correspon-
dence, printed by the direction of her Majesty or of Par-
liament, or of the evidence taken by the Jamaica Royal
Commission in 1865. and we have added references show-
ing the evidence upon which each allegation is founded.
We are advisod that the acts complained of form a series
of miademmeours, and that the appropriate mode of sub-
mitting them to an English court of justice would be by a
criminal information Sled by the Attorney-General in the
Court of Queen's Bench, under the provisions of the Act
42 Oeo. 111., c. 85, and we are therefore instructed, in
forwarling this list to you, to ask whether, in your opi-
nion, it does not rresent a case calling for the action of
the public officer to whom is entrusted the high function
et interfering in fitting cases of this nature for the vindi.
cation of law and justice. You are probably aware that
our clients have already made more than one attempt to
obtain the judgment of a court upon one of the series of
illegal acts now submitted to your consideration--those,
namely, connected with the execution of Mr. G. W. Gor-
I don. Our clients take the liberty of submitting to you
that the want of success which has attended the step.
they have hitherto adopted forms a strong additional rea-
son for the institution (of proceedings by the Attorney-
General, in order to prevent an absolute failure of justice.
We venture to send you with this a copy of the charge of
the Lord Chief Justice, in t,e case of " The Queen r.
Nelson and Brand," as being the latest and most complete
authority upon the law involved in these proceedings.—
We are, sir, yours obediently, SHAIS and ROSCOE.
To Sir John Rolt, Q.C., M.P., her Majesty's
Attorney-General.
[Here follows an enclosure, consisting of seventeen ar-
ticles, for which, on account of its length, we are unable
to And room.]

l.incoln'i•inn, July 13.

Gentlemen,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 10th inst. and accompanying papers, which I
return. The cane of Governor Eyre has already received
icy careful consideration, and I have not thought it right
to Me a criminal information in the Court of Queen's
Bench against him. I have now perused the statement
forwarded by you, entitled " List of Illegal Acts, Ice.," and
do not find anything that induces me to alter the conclu-
sion at which I had previously arrived. With the charge
of the Lord Chief Justice to the jury in the case of " The
Queen r. Nelson," also forwarded by you, I was of course
previously familiar.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, JOHN BOLT.
Messrs. Shun and Roscoe.

Tux Horse or COMMONS.—The number of new
members returned to the House of Commons since the dis.
solution of July, 1565, has been fifty-one. The list is made
up as follows;—Lord J. Hay, Ripon ; Mr. J. Candlish,
Sunderland • Mr. R. Arkwright, Leominster; the Hon. G.
Denman, Tiverton ; Mr. M. Wyvill, Richmond ; Mr. H.
A. Herbert, Kerry; Mr. H. Whitmore, Bridgnorth (who
obtained his seat on petition); Sir E. Leohniere, Tewkes-
bury; Mr. N. Eckeraley, Wigan • Mr. J. Goldsmid, Hopi-
ton; Mr. J. E. Gorst, Cambridge ; Mr. C. Capper, Sand-
wich; Sir J. Hay. Stamford ; the Hon. E. W. Luce les,
Northallerton ; Mr. R. Eykn and Mr. C. Edwards, Wind-
sor ; Mr. B. Osborne and Lord Amberley, Nottingham ;
Mr. D. Fordyce, Aberdeenshire ; Lord Eliot end Mr. M.
Chambers Devonport ; Mr. T. B. Hildyard, South Not-
tinghamshire ; Kr. R. B. Brett, Ifelston (who obtained his
seat on petition); Mr. J. A. Smith, Hertfordshire ; Mr. R.
Nicholson, Peterstleld ; the Hon. J. Henniker-Major,
East Suffolk ; Mr. F. 8. Corranoe, East Suffolk ; Mr. P.
Vanderbyl, Bridgewater ; Viscount Barrington, Eye;
Captain D. Pennant, Carnervonshire ; Mr. Howell Gwyn,
Breoon ; Captain White, Tipperary • Mr. Jervoise Smith,
Falmouth ; Mr. Garth, Guildford ; Mr. J. Bowen, Pem-
brokeshire ; Mr. Lanyon, Belted ; Mr. de la Peer, Water-
ford ; Mr. Kavanagh, Wellovd ; Mr. Vance, Armagh ; Sir
J. B. Kerslake, Andover ; Mr. E. K. Kerslake, Colches-
ter ; Mr. S. G. Stopford, North Northamptonshire ; Mr.
Chatterton, University of Dublin ; Mr. S. Barry, Cork
County ; the Hon. 0. Buncombe, North Riding of York-
shire ; Mr. G. Morris, Galway borough ; Mr. Labouchere,
Middlesex • Lord Ronald Leveson-Gower, Sutherland-
shire ; Mt. H. Edward', Weymouth ; Mr. Jackson,
Coventry ; and Mr. Dixon, Birmingham. The changes
enumerated have slightly increased the strength of the
liberal party.

THE YELvEaron CAAR--A petition is to be pre-
sented to the House of Lords from Mrs. Yelverton to-
night, es to the validity of the tribunal before which her
appeal has been heard. It appears that the law lords
sitting on the first day of the appeal were the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Westbury, and' Lord
Colonsay, and that after the first day Lord Westbury
retired. Mn. Yelverton alleges that Lord Colonsay, one
of the remaining three lords, gave judgment against her in
the Scotch courts, and she submits to their lordships that
Lord Colonsay, whose judgment was appealed from,
should not have sat in judgment upon his own decision,
and that the Supreme Court for the purpose of bearing the
appeal consisted of but two members, and was not there-
fore the Supreme Court of Justice properly constituted
acoording to the requirements and practice of parliament.

RETIREMENT OF THE HON. G. C. NORTON newt
rns BENCH.—In consequence of its being intimated at the
Lambeth police-court on Saturday that the Hon. G. C.
Norton, for upwards of thirty-seven yearn a magistrate,
would sit for the last time upon the bench, there was •
very large attendance, 'orchid* legal and parochial per-
sons, police, officers of the court, ho., who wished to bid
him • farewell on his retirement. In replying to en ad-
dress on behalf of the legal profession by Mr. Wontner,
sen., Mr. Norton said he felt quite overwhelmed at the
kindly feeling shown towards him. He then alluded to
his first appointment in Aprii, 1831, to Lambeth-street,
Wbiteohapel, and from thence in 1844 be came to this
court, where be bad ever since remained, and concluded by
expressing his deep thanks for the manner in which he had
been addressed. Mr. Ralph Augusto@ Benson, of the
Oxford circuit, will be the successor of the Hon. G. C.
Norton, umagistrate of the Lambeth Police-court. Mr.
Benson formerly contested Beading in the conservative
interest.

Raerrra or • Monnzaza.—We learn from the
Oicerrer that the case of James Scott, who was sentenced
to death at the last Warwick anises for the wilful murder
of Mr. John Pryse, of Birmingham, and in whose behalf •
memorial bad been prepared in Birmingham, praying fur •
commutation of the capital sentence, has been under the
consideration of Mr. G. Hardy. the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, and Baron Pigott, who tried the
ease, having recommended the prisoner to favourable con-
sideration, the Secrete of State has felt warranted in
recommending her Majesty to commute the capital sen-
tence. A special messenger was accordingly despatched
on Saturday to the prison at Warwick with a respite
for staying the prisoner's execution, which was to take
place this morning.

NEWPORT MARKET REFUGE AND INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL —The third annual report of this charity contains
one very interesting feature, namely, the establishment of
an industrial school for destitute London boys. Upwards
of 40 boy., either orphans, or the children of vicious or
destitute parents have been received into this school since
its opening in February last, and are clothed, boarded,
lodged, educated, and instructed in tafloring, shoemaking,
and instruwental music. There is, moreover, accommoda-
tion for 20 more boys if sufficient funds we re forthcoming.
One of the earliest promoters of the school, who has suc-
ceeded in raising 600 f., offers, in addition, 100 guineas,
provided nine similar sums are raised by the end of this
year. This offer has been responded to by Mrs. Gladstone,
W. Jones Loyd, Esq., the Rev. E. Douglas Tinling, and
J. A. Shaw Stewart, Esq., but does not appear altogether
to have met with the amount of oneness it deserves. The
school is in the immediate vicinity of Pall.roall,andalreadv
does much, and is likely to do more, to clear the streets of
those wretched little objects which almost every night
meet the eye in that neighbourhood—miserable squalid
children, apparently but half alive, crouched under the
porticoes of the clubs or shivering on door-steps. The
school, which is at the end of Gerard-street, Soho, will
well repay a visit. The cost of supporting the school and
the refuge is estimated by the committee at viooe., but
last year the refuge was open from the Ist of January to
the Ist of June, and again from the let of October to the
31st of December, and during that period 16,275 nights'
lodgings were given, 40.748 rations booed, and 11,520 re-
lieved from the soup kitchen, which has proved • useful
adjunct to the refuge. During the past year, too, 300
persons have eceived permanent benefit through the
agency of the charity. A. large outlay has, however, been
Incurred this year in purchasing and fitting up the school
premises, which requires to be met.
[Advertisement.}—HOLLOWAY'S Orrrararrr AND
Pn.t.s.—The family medicine chest that is furnished with these
powerful remedies needs nothing more. Indigestion, general
debility, liver complaint, eruptions, sores, wounds, ulcers, tu-
mours, Ac , are %fallibly cured by their use. They purify the
blood, and give tone and vigour to the whole system. This ohst-
went, when well rubbed into the parts ad eaten the 1160.1
just as salt enters meat, and if the pills are taken as an amiliary
the cure is speedy, thorough, and permanent. Mete medics.
ments are composed of rare Whams, wtthoot the admltture of
a grain of mercury, or any Injurious sstatanee. They are pan-
Early mild and gentle In their action, and ae We le they are
efficacious.