The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY•

OSBORNE, Sunday.
The christening of the infant prince, the son and
heir of his Serene Highness the Prince and her
Grand Ducal Highness the Princess of Leiningen,
took place at Osborne yesterday, which was the an-
niversary of her Majesty's marriage, in the pre-
sence of the Queen, their Royal Highnesses
Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice,
and Prince Leopold, the Prince and Princess
Alberta of Leiningen, Princess Hohenlohe, and
Prince and Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES IN THE
HUNTING FlELD.—Yesterday morning their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
Major Teesdale and the lady in waiting, drove to the Pad-
dington Station of the Great Western Railway, en route for
Theme, on the Wycombe branch of the line, in order to
enjoy a day's fox hunting. Their royal highnesses were at-
tired in hunting costume. The prince and princess left
Paddington fn a saloon carriage, attached to a special train
at 9.30 a.m., Mr. A. Higgins having charge of the train,
which proceeded by way of Slough. Theme was reached
about 11 o'clock. Their royal highnesses, after enjoying
some first-rate sport, returned from Thame Station at
4.55 p.m.

The Marchioness of Queensberry has left Ed-
wards's Royal Cambridge Hotel, George-street, Hanover-
square, for Southsea.

The Earl of Glasgow has left the St. George's
Hotel, Albemarle-street.

The Countess of Malmesbury is expected shortly
to arrive in Stratford-place, from Heron Court, near Christ-
church, Hants, for the season.

Viscount Jul has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, for Hawkestone, near Shrewsbury.
Viscount Bangor has left Claridge's Hotel for
Monkstown, Ireland.

Lord Lymington has arrived at Cataldi's Hotel,
Dover-street, from Devonshire.

Lord Macdonald has left the Alexandra Hotel
for Eton.

Addresses to Governor Eyre.

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Addresses of thanks to Governor Eyre continue
to pour in from all the principal inhabitants of every
district in the island of Jamaica, and afford a very
unanswerable proof of the disposition which pre-
vails to support him against the determined hostility
of a small section of the English public. The
magistrates, clergy, and other leading residents of
Clarendon recently presented an address of this
description, in which they state that they are
" deeply impressed with a sense of the immensity
of the obligation " under which they are to the
Governor for the "promptitude, energy, and un-
tiring exertion " with which he suppressed st the
late wicked and unprovoked rebellion," thereby
" suppressing in the bud a most diabolical conspiracy
to murder all the white and coloured inhabitants of
the colony." They tender their thanks to Mr. Eyre
especially :
"At a period like the present, when, in return for the
heavy responsibilities assumed and the self-denying exer-
tions and personal discomforts undergone by your excel-
lency, a strong opposition has been got up in the mother
country against your excellency, composed of a portion of
the press, and certain parties, in which those very acts that
have been the means, divinely blessed, of restoring our
country to a state of order and tranquillity, have been
most maliciously inveighed against. Most sincerely do we
sympathise with your excellency in regard to all the
anxiety, discomforts, and additional trouble which this un-
happy rebellion has caused your exellency, and also in re-
spect to the accusations brought against your excellency in
England, and against which we desire now to enter our
solemn protest, as being unfounded, untruthful, and un-
just, and as being highly calculated to incite to fresh acts
of rebellion the disaffected subjects of the island."
In reply, the Governor thanked the gentlemen
who presented the address for the sympathy they
had expressed with him.
" Under the trying circumstances in which I have latell,
been placed, by the occurrence of a most atrociouwiebin
lion in the eastern provinces of the island, and also for
your generous protest against the unjust and calumnious
aspersioßs-oast-upon me by a section of the English public,
who, without a correct knowledge of the actual facts, have
not hesitated to adopt any wild and absurd or unfounded
statements which have been circulated either from their
wantonness or for mischievous intentions. I rejoice that
the opportunity will soon occur of the British public being
disabused of these exaggerations or untruths, and I feel
sure that the generous manner in which you have come
forward to denounce them will contribute largely to bring
about this result, and to satisfy the English people that the
measures taken by the local government to put down rebel=
lion, and as far as practicable insure protection to life and
property, were only such as the safety of the colony impe-
ratively required."
An address of considerable significance, as coming
from such a quarter, has been presented to Mr.
Eyre by a number of dissenting ministers, some Of
whom have been upwards of 20 years in the island,
engaged in their meritorious efforts to spread a prac-
tical knowledge of Christianity throughout the
island. Among these gentlemen is the general
superintendent of the Wesleyan missions, two Bap-
tist ministers, a Presbyterian minister, a minister
belonging to the Church of Scotland, another to the
London Missionary Society, &c. In the course of
their address they made the following remarkable
observations :

"Sufficiently removed from the more immediate scene
of action to be able with some degree of calmness to judge
of its real nature, whilst sufficiently near to feel the
emergency of the case, we cannot but express our most
solemn conviction that to your excellency's prompt,
energetic, and decisive measures we owe it that the scenes
of Morant Bay were not enacted throughout the island. ,
Unbiassed by political feelings, and with no party to serve,
we feel ourselves the more free to express our conviction,
from the evidences of our own observations, as well as
froffnhe official and other sources of information open to
us, that a spirit of insubordination to law has long existed
among a large portion of the population of this island, and
that lately the teachings of ignorant and wicked men have
served to fan the flame into sedition. Under such circum-
stances we would record our firm conviction that the most
energetic and stringent, and even severe measures which
the constitution placed within your Excellency's power
wore necessary for the protection and safety of her Majesty's
peaceful and law-abiding subjects in the colony ; and We
would gratefully recognise the hand of Providence in plac-
ing at the head of affairs one who so vigorously and effec-
tively determined to do his duty to the utmost in that time
of imminent peril. Without expressing any opinion on
isolated acts, and regretting the great loss of life that has
occurred, involving we fear, to some extent, the innocent
with the guilty, we would nevertheless cordially express
our conviction that the general policy pursued by your ex-
cellency was absolutely necessary to meet the exigencies
of the case, and was dictated simply by a sense of duty,
and of the responsibility which rested on you at a period of
such alarm and extreme danger. At the same time We
would also express our regret at the unqualified censure
pronounced by a large portion of the British press, arguing
at a distance from our island and manifesting deplorable
ignorance of its population and condition ; and whilst we
would sympathise with your excellency as to the unfair
criticism of your acts, and the improper imputation of mo-
tives, we cannot refrain from also recording our feeling
that the sentiments so expressed in England are already

producing a most mischievous influence on our population,
and are likely, when fully circulated, to go far, not only to

reproduce the scenes of massacre which we all so much de-
plore, but also to paralyse the efforts of those in authority."
Mr. Eyre, in reply, said :
" Accept my heartfelt gratitude for the sympathy you
extend to me under the difficult and trying circumstances
in which I have been placed, and for the valuable testi-
mony you bear to the necessity for the most prompt and
decisive measures being taken to put down a rebellion,
which having in three days and a half extended from

Morant Bay forty miles in-one direction and twenty in
another, required but a few days longer to overrun a groat
portion of the colony, spreading destruction and desolation
in its course. In crushing out so formidable an outbreak
it bacame my painful duty to exercise a severity which,
whilst justly punishing the guilty, might terrify the sedi-
tious and evil disposed of other districts, and restrain them
from making any similar attempts ; and if in the steps
taken to effect this object some isolated acts of wrong or
injustice have occurred I can only say they were unknown
toome and could not be controlled by the Executive; and I
trust, too, they will be found to be only such as are inse-
parable from a state of warfare and the existence of martial
law—both great evils in themselves - but forced upon the
Government by a peril which, if not promptly arrested,
would have endangered the entire colony. I can only
assure you, gentlemen, that I have been actuated by the
single desire to do my duty to my Queen and the peoPle
of this island, and amidst all the misrepresentations and
censures which have so unsparingly and unjustly been
heaped upon me by those who being at a distance from the
danger could neither realise its magnitude nor the small-
ness of the means available to meet it, I have the innatea
satisfaction of feeling that I did that duty faithfully,
the proud conviction that in doing it I averted fro m
Jamaica a general and sanguinary war."