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if he shall think fit, until the matter can be more

fully inquired into and determined by him after
advice with the council ; and such alien or other
person, not being natural born subjects, shall not-
withstanding remain in such custody, or any other
custody to which he may be transferred, until the
determination thereon shall be made known, unless
in the meantime the Governor shall order the release
of such alien or other person, not being natural
born subjects, either with or without security. Pro-
vided always that the clerk of the council or other
proper officer shall, in the last mentioned case, cause
to be delivered to such alien or other persons, not
being natural born subjects, either a copy or a
general summary of the matters alleged against
him, and shall state to him the reasonable time
to be allowed to prepare his defence ; and it shall
be lawful for him to summon and examine upon
oath witnesses before the Governor and Council,
and to be heard before them in support of the ex-
cuse or reason by him alleged.
Fourth. When any inquiry proceeds before the
Governor in Council he shall be empowered to
administer oaths, to commit for contempt, and to
adopt any necessary form of process, and also to re-
quire the assistance of any officer of the Supreme
Court ; and the Governor may, either remit the in-
quiry to the Supreme Court or require the assistance
and association of the Chief Justice thereof. Pro-
vided always that in any case •
in which power is
given by this act to commit any alien or other per-
son, not being a natural born subject, to gaol with-
out bail or mainprize, it shall and may belawful for
the Chief Justice, if upon application he shall see
sufficient cause to admit such alien or other person,
not being natural born subjects, to bail, on giving
security for his appearance to answer the matters
alleged against him.
Fifth. The writ of arrest for any indebted person
shall prevent the enforcement of this act.
6. When any alien or other person, not being
natural born subjects, who shall have been com-
mitted under this act to remain until he shall be
taken in charge for the purpose of being taken out of
the colony shall not be sent out of the colony within
three calendar months after such commitment, it
shall in any case be lawful for the Chief Justice, or
for any two of the Judges of the Supreme Court, or
for any two justices of the peace of the colony, upon
application made to him or them by or on behalf of
the persons so committed, and upon proof that rea-
sonable notice of the intention
ls been given to the
Governor or the Attorney-General, according to
his or their discretion to order the persons eo com-
mitted to be continued in or discharged out of cus-
toij. Provided always that nothing in this act
contained shall in any way affect any foreign Minis-
ter or Consul duly authorised and acknowledged.
7. None of the powers or authorities given in the
first section shall be exercised or put in force after
the expiry of one year from the coming into
opera-
tion of this act. Provided nevertheless, that if any
person who shall have been deported, or shall have
deported himself under the provisions of this act,
shall at any time hereafter be found in this colony,
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and
shall on conviction thereof be liable to be kept in
penal servitude for any period not exceeding seven
years.

8. All costs and expenses attending the execution

of this act shall be defrayed in the usual manner out
of any unappropriated revenue of the colony.
9. If any such alien or any other person, not
being natural born subjects (of the Queen of this
island), shall be unable to deport himself, or if the
Governor in Privy Council may deem such depor-
tation inconvenient, it shall be lawful for the Go-
vernor in Privy Council to order any such alien or
such other person, not being a natural born sub-
ject, in any one of the gaols of this island for such
period of time as the Governor in Privy Council
may deem necessary for the public safety.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Privy
Council, upon such information on oath of any
householder, and on the certificate of any magistrate
as the Governor in Privy Council may deem suffi-
cient, to order any alien or any other person whom-
soever informed against, and certified upon satisfac-
tory evidence to be conspiring against the good
order and peace of the colony, to be taken under
warrant, and kept and detained in safe custody in
any one of the gaols in this island for such period of
time as the Governor in Privy Council may deem
necessary for the public safety.

On Saturday last a deputation from the Com-
mittee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery So-
ciety waited upon the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, to
present a memorial on the subject of the outbreak
in Jamaica. The Right Hon. Earl Russell had ap-
pointed to receive the deputation at three o'clock,
jointly with Mr. Cardwell, at his lordship's official
residence, in Downing-street, but was prevented
from doing so in consequence of continued indispo-
sition. The deputation, which was a very numerous
one, included delegates from the following places :

—Bristol, 7 ; Brighton, 8 ; Gloucester, 1; Brad-
ford, 2; Cirencester, 1; Reading, 2 ; Sunderland,
10 ; Birmingham, 7 ; Liverpool, 1; Manchester 1;
Canterbury, 4 ; Worcester, 1; Woburn, 1; Ox-
ford, 4 ; Southampton, 3 ; Kendal, 3 ; Southwicke,
1; Rochester, 3 ; Glasgow, 1; Warrington, 1;
Lewes, 1; Hertford, 2 ; Gravesend, 2 ; Chelms-
ford, 1; Croydon, 5 ; Ipswich, 2 ; Chatham, 2 ;
Woodford, 1; Nottingham, 1 ; Stroud, 1.
The following Members of Parliament were pre-
sent :—Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P. ; Sir Thomas
F. Buxton, Bart., M.P., 'Lynn ; G. Carr Glynn,
Esq., M.P., Kendal ; Thomas Hughes, Esq., M.P.,
Lambeth ; Peter A. Taylor, Esq., M.P., Leicester;
Samuel Gurney, Esq., M.P., Penryn ; Charles
Gilpin, Esq., M.P., Northampton ; Colonel Sykes.
M.P., Aberdeen; T. W. M. Torrens, Esq., M.P.,
Finsbury ; James White, Esq., M.P., Brighton.

The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society were represented by Messrs. Joseph
Cooper, Thomas Binns, Josiah Forster, G. W.
Alexander, W. S. Lean, William Allen, Edmund
Sturge, Robert Alsop, Charles Wise, A. W. Ben-
nett, Henry Sterry, and Frederick Wheeler.
Upwards of 250 gentlemen in all attended.
Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart., A.1.P.; Mr. Chamberlahl
Scott (City of London) ; and Dr. Tomkins, at-
tended as representatives of the Freedmen's Aid
Society, the provincial branches of which also
sent delegates.
The deputation having been introduced by Mr.
Samuel Morley, M.P.,
Mr. CHAMEROVZOW, secretary of the society,
read the memorial, which, after quoting the resolu-
tion of the meeting by which the deputation was
appointed, went on to state that the committee had
been very painfully impressed with the narrative of
the " alleged insurrection as set forth in the de-
spatch of Lieut.-Governor Eyre." The several re-
ported incidents of the insurrection were then set
forth and commented on, and other facts and cir-
cumstances asserted to prove the desirability of
which the committee felt convinced that, "in the
interests of justice, humanity, law, and public order,
there should be a full, searching, and a thoroughly
impartial inquiry into all the circumstances con-
nected with these deplorable events. The commit-
tee are further of opinion that, in addition to the
immediate steps which may be taken in this direc-
tion by her Majesty's Government, a Parliamentary
investigation, embracing an inquiry into the opera-
tion of the existing laws, and the administration of
the government of Jamaica, is necessary to meet all
the requirements of the case."
The Rev. W. ARTHUR delivered a long and elo-
quent address, and concluded by expressing a hope
that the Government would be prepared to do
' prompt justice in this matter. (llear, hear.)

Mr. Alderman MANTON, of Birmingham, re-
marked that public opinion in that large town was
very much excited. He asked whether Mr. Card-
well would feel himself at liberty to say what the
Government had done, and especially whether the
Flogging Bill passed by the Legislature of Jamaica
last session had received the sanction of the Crown.
Mr. T. HUGHES, M.P., said he was not present
that day as one of the committee who had drawn
up the memorial, but as one representing a great
constituency close by, in which so far as he had
I been able to ascertain there was but one opinion
on this subject. (Hear.) He was present as an
Englishman, jealous of the honour of England—
(cheers)—and he did not come supposing it would
be necessary for them to press upon any English
Government, much less upon a Government com-
posed as the present Government was, the neces-
sity of a strict, rigid, and impartial inquiry into
what had happened in Jamaica; but he did feel it
was their duty to urge upon the right hon. gentle-
man, in order that the inquiry might be a fair one,
that Lieut.-Governor Eyre should—temporarily, at
least—while the inquiry was going on, be brought
over to this country. (Cheers.) He hoped the
Government would not allow the Indemnity Act to
beome operative.
Sir T. F. BUXTON said he had attended that day
as president of the Freedmen's Aid Society of Lon-
don, to express their general sympathy with the
address that had been read ; and he desired to
tender his own adhesion to the opinion pronounced
by Mr. Hughes in favour of the recall of Governor
Eyre—(cheers)—as a step no less required in the
interest of those who had lately suffered so grie-
viously than in his own. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. TORRENS, M.P., believed he expressed the
sentiment of every man present when he said in
perfect good faith that they were not there that
day to urge the Government to precipitate action,
or to incur the charge that had been brought against
them, of asking the Government to condemn a man
unheard. (Hear, hear.) Their prayer to the Go-
vernment was to hear that man where he could
alone be fully and fairly heard, within the realm of
England. What they at present bad to deal
with was their own honour as a people. (Hear,
hear.) That honour had been slighted, and their
conscience as a nation had been stung as it
never had been before. So long as the gripe

of triumphant repression was upon the throat of the
colony they would never hear the truth. He joined
in the request that Governor Eyre should be recalled,
so that he might have an opportunity of clearing
himself and them from the terrible and unprece-
dented stigma which had been cast upon their cha-
racters as Englishmen by the painful occurrences
that had taken place in Jamaica. (Hear, hear.)
His trial to be a fair one must take place in this
country.

, desired also' to express
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR, M.P.
his opinion that the honour of England and the se-
curity of the Government required the instant recall
of Governor Eyre, and every one responsibly con-
nected with the late events in the island of Jamaica.
(Hear, hear.)
The Rev. DAVID THOMAS, as chairman of the
Congregational Union of England and Wales, de-
sired to say that no words of his could adequately
express the anxious and intense feeling of the con-
gregational churches of England and Wales on this
subject, and the attitude of expectancy with which
they were looking forward to the action of the Go-
vernment at the present time.
Mr. CARDWELL said he was exceedingly sorry
that indisposition had prevented Earl Russell from
being present to receive the deputation. If he could
have been present he would have told them as he
(Mr. Cardwell) now told them, that no words could
expresstatioofnas
the pain and anxiety which the consideration
of this subject had given to him and to every mem-
ber his Government. The request of the depu-
that the Government should take " im-
mediate steps for an impartial and a searching in-
quiry into the deplorable events which have occa-
sioned them." (Hear, hear.) Her Majesty's Go.-