The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-16 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. EIRE.

Mr. J. S. Mill, chairman of the Jamaica com-
mittee, has received from Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., the
following letter :

7, Grosvenor-crescent, April 20.

•
Dear Mr. Mill,—l see by the newspapers that the
Jamaica committee have applied for a summons against
Mr. Eyre upon a charge of his having committed misde-
meanour in his capacity as governor of Jamaica, under
the act of 11th and 12th William 111., cap. 12, to the effect
that if any governor should be guilty of oppressing any of
his Majesty's subject, in the plantations, he might be
indicted and punished in England ; and also under the
42nd George 111., cap. 83, and 11th and 12th Vic.,
c. 42. Now, when the Jamaica committee decided
to proscenia Mr. Eyre on a charge of murder
I withdrew from it partly on the ground that I
did not consider that Mr. Eyre's acts, however outrageous,
amounted to murder ; and, sexondly, because I thought it
would tend to reinstate Mr. Ere in public *pinion, and
have in every way a disastrous effect, if am unsuccessful
attempt were made to bring him to trial on such a charge.
I Neither of those objections apply to the course now taken
by the committee, and though I deeply regret that such a
long time should have elapsed before this step is taken,
yet I am decidedly of opinion that Mr. Eyre ought not to
I escape due punishment for the awful cruelties that were
I committed with his express sanction in Jamaica. I trust,
therefore, that the committee will permit me to co-operate
with them in their present attempt, and as it will no
doubt involve a large expenditure, I shall be happy to
subscribe 3001. towards it.—l am, dear Mr. Mill, yours
very truly, CHARLES BUXTON.
J. 8. Mill, Esq., M.P.

The petition in favour of women's suffrage,
which has just been presented to the house, received
21,757 signatures. At the head of the list stood Mrs.
Somerville and Miss Florence Nightingale. The other
names ifteladed those of Lord and Lady Amberley, Pro-
fessor Bain, Sir R. Anstrnther, Bart., M.P., the Rev. S.
Bache, Sir John Bowring, Madame Bodiohon, Miss Frances
Power Cobb.. Miss Courtauld, the Archdeacon of Co-
ventry, Dr. Farr, Mr. and Mn,s Grote, Mr. Commissioner
Hill, William and Mary Howitt, Professor Huxley, the
Rev. Charles Kingsley, the Hon. Auberon Herbert, Mimi
Martineau, Professor Leslie, the Hon. Mrs. Thomas
Liddell, Professor Masson, Mr. John Morley, Professor
Newman, Professor Nichol', Mr. J. T. Palgrave, Mrs.
Paultoa, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Professor Robertson, Lord
Hominy, Mr. Sheen, ko.
Tat RIiCALL OF THZ ANZILICAN MINISTER.—
BUCKINGHAM PALACI, MAT 13.—This day had audience of
her Majesty, Charles Francis Adorns, Esq., envoy extraor-
' dinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States
of America, to deliver his letter of recall ; to which audi-
ence he was introduced by the Right Hon. Lord Staple',
her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Forei
Affairs, and conducted by General the Hon. Sir Edward
Cost, C.H., bar Majesty's master of the ceremonies.—
Garotte.

WallinAu., MAY 13. The Queen has been
pleased to pretest ON Reverend William Skinner to the
shank .t the aailed wishes Of Terland and liiist:
ills Ilieweakel et 1111 r O'Neil, end °aunty -
deem. void try the line Reverend Jamie Wm.
1 —Gazette.

OUR CONTIMPOIL
(THIN DAY.)

Without wishing to be Inds, thr_. Times ventures
to say that there is a monosyllable, made classic by its use
his writings would
In the " Vicar of Wakefield," • huh is forced on its
memory by the assertion that the absentee of a royal resi.
dente is the reason wl y the Queen I as not waited Ireland.
If Ireland poisassod a Walter fico'l,
provide a royal residence in Ireland wits out the necessity
of • parliamentary vote.—ln another le the 7,
rt
refers to the scene of confusion in the Iloese of Commons
towards the clew of the sitting on Thursday nig'it, and to
the purely obstructive and dilatory motions which
raised—The fresh proceedings of the Jamaica committee
against Kr. Eyre are regarded by our contemporary a,
injudicious. The new prosecution cannot hope to oft•-.1 any useful purpose, and its probable failure will ;.it
gretted, except by the relentless knot of Patti,. is Wh
have devised it.
Serjeant Armstrong's notice of a vote of want or , nn.
fidence, simply expresses, the /may it,,
and tactics of an individual, however accurate it, t, .n and has been brought forward in defiance of the ..r.
meats of the liberal party. The conduct up to th;,
pursued by the opposition, of facilitating the tr ~
of necessary business, and promoting an toady
the new constituencies, ought, the Daily :1",
to be persisted in.— Th.. Daily Nee, dise4B, s le, • •
other topics M. Thier's speech, and the epi...ode s„„1,
Colonel S. Knox is the centre.
The Pout says that the liberal party will not ,
by Serjeant Armstrong's motion, and our cur.t.:, •,,..,
doubts whether such a piece of nonsense will
sufficient vitality to enaile the supporters of •
to get up the cry of " faction," which they w,i.;
too glad to raise upon such cheap term. a, tl.:. t
wind-bag oilers to them.

The /',..st also refers to the case of I:..rret'.
says, has been under the consideration of the L i
Justice during the last week. The great :0 •
acumen of that learned judge will doubt!. se •
through this most perplexing labyriuth of e •
evidence.

As far as the Star knaws, Serjeant - . •
is the expression of opinion of an hider.
and nothing more. In the debate last night r. n, !
Bouverie relative to the registrations, the
on the port of the ailininistration to secure
like an autumn s-ssion as can be got.
According to the Si !adard :icrjeAnt !
denly become from a parliamentary ob-cm.ty
of fleeting, but general, curiosity ; but our u.l .•y
does not recognise in his notice the voice of '
the opposition. In a party point of view nut it• z I rite-
could be desired than that he should be st.: ; • it. !
liberals as a party.

THE WEEKLY PRESs.

The Saturday net•ica. remarks that the So ••,
sory Bill adds nothing to Mr. Gladstone's resolutioa. l•
is a strong measure, but it is not stronger than the ri
lions warranted. Its very use and purpose is to be so lAr
a strong measure that it will give Ireland an nuclei:liar..
pledge that we mean, if possible, to do her justice. With
respect to the Boundary Bill, the So,,rd,ry
that the government have behaved with perfect fairnvss
to the House of Commons and the country, in referrib;
the measure to a select committee, and it advises the ...lc
tnittee to yield readily to the wishes of petitioner* oh.,
think that they properly belong to a different cm.ati
tummy; to look favourably on petitioners who urge.!
profuse additions will make a constituency unmatiago.O.',..
and to show the greatest hesitation in gratifying
wishes of petitioners who only desire to escape tho
den of local taxation. Speculating upon the politics of ti..
future, our contemporary ciys that, if anything is cer
it is that Ireland will not bo governed by mild,
men, who cannot make up their minds what to do v
Ireland and its church.

In referring the Boundary Bill to a select comwiti-.
the Examiner think. that parliament has done th, ti
simple and sensible thing suggested to meet the
ties involved in the question. What the select COMlllitt..
will do when they meet, what sort of evidence they
receive. and how long they will take to deliberate.
questions which it were useleu to dwell upon b
It may not be difficult to bud two upright and
tent men on either aide, to serve in this court of po:a•
tical appeal. But somebody must be chairman ; an!
there are no cross benches in our Representative As, ri
he must be sought from amongst either the friend+ ~r rni
foes of the Administration. Is there any man of 11,. 5.
cient mark in the house, who, as the pi esidect of h •-h
tribunal, will command equally the confidence o'
aides? If so, the Examiner hopes to see him named.
The Spectator, In an article upon Lord Broughat... ,;i.r.
some account of a novel, written by him, called A: •it
Lunel," in which he gave an estimate of laiaasv:f.
estimate which shows bow strong), he prided
the ruggedness of his character and rho
pleasant abruptness of his manners. Loral tree_la
had lost the use of his memory some race
before his death, and in the last few weeks of his liiv his
mind was awake only for a few seconds at a tape. An
old acquaintance of the Spectator who called upon him
about a month since was informed by his phyafrian that
one minute was the longest conversation he could be
allowed to sustain.

MR. GLADSTONE'S IRISH CHURCH iiII.
The following is the bill of Mr. G1a.1,t...
"prevent, for a I. 'ted time, new appontm, uts m th.•
church of Ireland, and to restrain, for the WM'
certain respects, the proceedings of the Ecae.,,st...l
Commisaionen for Ireland :"

"Whereas her Majesty has been graciously pie 1 t,)
signify that she has placed at the disposal of poise, at
for the purposes of legislation during the present st...s„u
her interest in the temporalities of the weird ardi•
bishoprics, bishoprics, and other ecclesiastical diguiti.,
and benefices in Ireland, and in the custody thereof
" And whereas it is expedient to prevent the criciti,,c •
new personal interests in Ireland in the established ch-ch
in Ireland through the exercise of any public patron.,,;..
and to restrain in certain respects the powers of the
siastieal Commissioners for Ireland :
" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lor•li
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present pal
liament assembled, and by the authority of the same. ray
follows :
1. In case of the vacancy of any archbishopric
or bishopric, or of any ecclesiastical dignity a
benefice in Ireland in the gift of her Majesty.
or to which any archbishop, bishop, or other
ecclesiastical corporation as such, or any trustee
or trustees acting in a public capacity, are or shail
be entitled to present or appoint, it shall not be lawful to
appoint any person to succeed to such archbiJihofinc.
bishopric, dignity, or benefice, and upon the happening of
such vacancy, the management and receipt of the rents
and profits, all the lands, tithes, and other entoluu.eute Ap-
pertaining to such archbishopric, bishopric, dignity, or
benefice, shall be transferred to and vested in the Ecelesi•
astical Commissioners for Ireland, subject to all charges
legally affecting the same, and the ;aid comini.,ioners
shall have power to grant renewals and do all other acts
which may be necessary for the due and proper MIIIVse•
ment thereof, and shall cause the same and the proceeds
thereof to be kept distinct from all other funds, to be JD.
posed of in such manner as parliament shall direct
'2. In CYO of the vacancy of any archbishopric of
bishopric, the person designated by the 31st section of the
3rd and 4th William the Fourth, chapter 37, to execute
the powers of the said act during such vacancy. steal
be the guardian of the spiritualities off such archlushopp,
or bishopric and in case of the vacancy of any bentnce
with cure of souls, all the powers and authorities granted
by the 116th section of the said act for supplying the
spiritual wants of suspended benefices shall apply •11`1
be exercised in respect of such vacant benches by
the same persons and in the same manner as therein
• directed, provided that in regulating the salary of the
officiating minister regard shall be had to the nature sod
extent of the duties to be discharged.
" 3. It shall not be lawful for the Ecclesiastical Coointik
goners for Ireland to make any new grant for the building,
rebuilding, or enlarging of any church or chapel, or for the
building of any glebe house, or the augmentation of sill
benefice, or the maintenance of any minister, or the Po'
chase of any house, land, or tithe rentcharge.
"4. Every person who shall be appointed to all 10.
offloe in connection with the established church in Ireland
.
after the passing of this act shall hold the said office sub
jeot to the pleasure of parliament.
" 5. This act shall matinee in force until the firstsdayo Awed, one thousand eight huudered and sixty-cin.

Missions TO G=AMIN.—Yesterday afternoon the
twelfth annual meeting of the members end Maids?!
this association took pleas at Willis's Rooms, St. James s
Admiral Sir John Hay, Bert, in the ewe. There
vas • small attendance, the majority of those Pre°Bl2
being ladies. The field of these simeions lies smog so
smilers of the mamma/Ile marine, those of the reril °*ll'
si4flni fishermen end wslisrmen wand our cast'

SECOND EDITION.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

THE STORMING OF MAGDALA.

OPPOSITION OF THE ABYSSI-

NIANS.

DEATH OF THEODORE.

(mum% sxrame.)

BRITISH CAMP, NEAR MAGDALA, APRIL 14.

It was reported yesterday morning that The-
odorus had escaped from Magdala, and that
the chiefs of his army wished to surrender.
Preparations were immediately made to oc-
cupy the mountain. It was then found
Theodorus had returned and gone into the amba,
expressing his determination to hold it to the last.
Al: the Europeans except M. Bardel, who had
been too ill to move, were now in our
possession. The Abyssinian troops on Islan-
gie were disarmed as quickly as possible,
and in the afternoon, after some shelling,
the amba of Magdala was stormed by the 2nd
Brigade, the 33rd leading and forming the storming
party with sappers. The entrance was difficult,
and opposition bravely offered by a few at the
first gate, which was closed and blocked behind by
stones. An entrance on one side was effected,
and :it a quarter-pail 4 the colours of the
33rd were flying in Magdala. King Theodorus
was found lying dead about ILO yards inside the
secwid gate. Several chiefs of note, including
l'rime Minister Ras Engedda, were killed at
th, iirst gate. Our loss, only five wounded.
'they uterything has been brought to a itiwt
yr' fvoly successful issue. The army of the King
d in the open ticld on the 10th. All the ,-.11,r-
-!,,,,n•leased and safe in our camp during the !lth
, I 2tli, and Magdala stormed and captured on the
1:1!, . ,•Aing in the death of the King. In two
: • !i,•,• days we hope to be on the way back to the
• Awn the expedition will have been brought
• . • ••coisful conclusion in one season.

t tt, r, ,late.l April 11. giving details of the operations
to the release of the captives, has miscal tied.]

THE RELEASE OF THE AM'S-
stNIAN CAPTIVES.

('AMP DIAGD&LA, APRIL 12.

L ;am, Dr. Blanc, Lieutenant Prideaux,
.• Mr. Kcrans, Mr. Stern, Mr. and
• • •,C: and child, Mr. Flad, and four
. • lielellloll Came into camp last evening
• 1.% the King. 'rho four latter with Mr..
r, to Mit;(l4la this morning for the
~1 the captives, including Mrs. Flad and
n, with the other families, and brought
tli.• v.".••h t'•• Bur .peans into the British camp
A t hey are safe, with the sole
ex•ept...n .uf 11:1, 1,-1. wkn was too ill to come
•h, a ,h,

(REUTI TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA

‘IENNA, MAT 15, EVENING..

c .11,mit tee upon the Budget authorised the
t r .4" F.nances tt -1:13- to increase the float-
-1,1 ind Fons of florins, this amount to
1, ..! 1 by Cie end of December, 184;9, out
I, • r. ccnur of the whole empire, and especi-
Cie produce of the sale of the state

HUNGARY.
PRSTR, MAT 15, EVENING.
Emperor left yesterday, but is expected
b., •lure on the 23rd instant.

Hungarian regiments out of Hungary have
to return to their native country,
1". n•place the German regiments at present

•• return to Austria,

t.. int,rrow's sitting of the Lower House the
ir,plin and Fiume Railway Bill will be
Ir f• rward for a third reading.
ail Turr is expected here shortly.

F. CIIARGE OF HIGH TREASON AGAINST
HANOVER LANS.
BERLIN, MAI. 17.
• of the twenty-two Hanoverian against
it, it whom the charge of high treason is Pend.
was heard yesterday. The examination of
indicted for having enlisted in the Hano-
I A:4 ion was terminated. The examination
parties who enlisted recruits will be taken
It is expected that the case will continue
.1 era( days.

!.,

THE WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA.
BOMBARDMENT OF HUMAITA.
TWO STEAMERS SUNK.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aran. 24.
Two Paraguayan steamers have been sunk by
the Brazilians. A heavy bombardment of Humaita
is going on, and the assault will shortly follow.
It is reported that the British war steamer Linnet
was tired upon and damaged while passing Hu-
maita.

The deputy Senor Joan Silveira deSonza has been
ippointed Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senor Pe-
•-ira de Andrade has been naminated Secretary of
i. !tation at London, the Chevalier de Albugnerque
beibon, and Senor Mill e Aldine at Washington.
"ei:or Soubragy has been charged with the
to,,iton of arranging the Pernambuco and San
Railways question.
trrazinto (1 Sarmiento) ticket has been
linen°. Ayres for the presidency of the
..,,e Confederation.
payments will be resumed at Montevideo

`•`"• ,!!.:A LAND AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

(Via Panama.)

•• Lkaia, with advices from Sydney to the let

t I• 1 New Zealand to the Bth idem , and 50
.$ 4... a, arrived at Panama on the 4th instant
.'••• early). The mails are due by the Itt.yal
‘1 • te.,..11 Company's steamer Douro, expected to
Plymouth on the 98th inst.