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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.

IT will be generally conceded that the discus-
sion of Tuesday evening has placed the question of
Governor EYRE'S responsibility upon new ground.
From the publication of the Report of the Jamaica
Commissioners, and Mr. CARDWELL'S despatch

thereupon; until now, Mr. Eva has been com-
monly supposed to lie under the mild and hesi-
tating censure of the Colonial Office ; his removal
from office took place without any expression of
unfavourable opinion by his superiors ; it was
merely a necessary preliminary to an inquiry which
had become inevitable ; and when the time came
for deciding whether he should be reinstated he
was superseded with many apologies. Still, there
was a prevalent notion that in some way he lay
under the displeasure of the Government. What-

ever foundation there may once have been for this
belief, it must now be abandoned. If there is any
censure of Mr. EYRE, however faint and indirect,
in Mr. CARDWELL'S despatch, that censure
must, after Mr. AnnzatEY's speech, be con-

sidered as recalled and annulled. Mr. EYRE
is vindicated and praised by the representative of

the Colonial Office ;n the House of Commons. It

is now plain that if the present Ministers had
been in power last year, Governor EYRE, instead
of being displaced, would have been upheld. The
chivalry which justifies a fallen Governor who has
authorised atrocities exceeding anything ever laid
to the charge of HAYNAII and MOUBAVIEFF, would

not have disowned the same officer while he held
the Quaisx's commission. Mr. Eras may now
return as soon as he likes, and fairly expect

the next desirable poet which it may be
in the power of the Colonial Office to beew.

No one who has watched the course of the Qualm's

present advisers will be in the least surprised at the

position they have taken up with reference to this
Jamaica business. The first words which Lord

DERBY spoke in Parliament at the beginning
of the session were to complain of the ir-

justice which the late Government had done
to Mr. Etas. If that functionary had been as
zealous to uphold law and order as he a itually
was to subvert both, Lord DERBY could not have
shown more concern for him. It is in the same
spirit of sympathy with arbitrary power that Mr.
EYReB conduct is now defended. Of all his acts
in Jamaica that which has caused moat indigna-
tion in this country was the taking the life of Mr.

GORDON. Mr. Erse was at variance with the
House of Assembly, public sentiment in the
island was very strong against him, and meshares
were in progress to move the Home Government
for his recall. The outbreak took place, and with-
out any evidence to connect Mr. GORDON with it,
Governor EYRE seized his most constant and most
powerful parliamentary opponent, took personal
charge of him, and never left him until he had
handed him over to the Provost-Marshal at the
foot of the gallows, with the certainty that he i
would never be troubled with him again. This is
the conduct which Ministers defend, and which,
therefore, we may suppose they would feel
themselves at liberty to imitate under
similar circumstances. The public, which has had
placed before it all that the enemies of Mr. GORDON
can allege against him, and mere than they ven-
tured to submit to the Royal Commissioners for
examination, has already formed its opinion of the

pretences on which Mr. GORDON was condem
and executed ; that condemnation, however, and that
execution are seized upon by the present Under-
Secretary for Colonial Affairs as a fit subject
for eulogy. He holds that they were " substan-
" tially just ;" and we know not what more he
could have said in their praise. For a month after
the rebellion was, by his own account, completely
suppressed, he prolonged the official anarchy
which is styled martial law, and during that period
the island was delivered up to the unlimited in-
dulgence of vindictive passion. Under his own eye
hundreds of men and women were " hanged like
" fun by court-martial," to use the expression of
Colonel ELRINGTON, after the necessity of keeping
up martial law had confessedly passed away. Our
new Ministers say that by this very keeping up of
martial law Governor Eras has made his lawless-
ness safe, and oven legal. As often as we com-
plain of it they petulantly rebuke us for forget-
ting that martial law covers every irregularity, and
that a Governor has only to proclaim the suspen-
sion of the laws in order to be completely above
them. It would not matter if these propositions
were not seriously maintained by men who have
the power, and who are only too ready to exercise
it, of calling out the troops against the peaceful
multitudes of our great cities—by men who only
last week celebrated their accession to office by
exhibiting the household troops arrayed against
the people in the Park, standing at the
" Prepare to load." For the vindication
of outraged right, and for the protection of our
fellow-countrymen, it has now become necessary that
the claim of Ministers to govern on Warsaw
principles should be brought to the test of the law
of the land. 'Ceti. now we have doubted the
-propriety of the course which the Jamaica Com-
mittee announced its intention to pursue, but after
the Manifestoes of Mr. Disarms and Mr. An-