The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-12 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

The Jamaica Commission has adjourned sine die,
and it was anticipated that one other sitting would
close the proceedings.
Mr. Gurney and Mr. Maule are expected to leave
by next mail. Mr. Gorrie, one of the counsel of the
Jamaica committee, has returned by the Atrato.
Mr. Eyre has appeared a second time before the
Commission, and put in a large number of docu-
ments in justification of his policy.
An agrarian dispute had occurred at Hartlands,
in the vicinity of Spanish Town. The negroes had
refused to permit a surveyor to survey their lands,
which form the subject of a law suit. The Gover-
nor sent for troops from Kingston, but the difficulty
was amicably arranged.
Two negroes, who had been found guilty of the
murders of Mr. Hire, at. Amity Hall, and Mr. Wal-
ton, at Morant Bay, during the disturbances, were
hanged at Kingston on the 22d March.
Provost-Marshal Ramsay, who was arrested on a
charge of murder, and dismissed by the magistrates,
was re-arrested at the instance of the Attorney-
General and held to bail in the sum of £5OO to
answer the charge.
On March 19 a fire broke out at Port-au-Prince
which, in two days, consumed a great part of the
town, including many of the Government buildings
and the chief commercial quarter. The loss is
immense. Hundreds of families are forced to bivouac
on the square in front of the palace, their houses
having been destroyed. The Bien Public of the
23d of March appears on a half sheet, as its
presses and part of the establishment had beenburnt
—BOO houses were destroyed, from the sea side up
to the Champ de Mars.

The transactions of the market have continued
quiet and unexcited during the past fortnight, and
beyond what is stated in the review there is nothing
demanding special remark as regards imported
articles. 'There has been a decline in coffee in
consequence of the unfavourable report from
America. From the western parishes of the island
large crops of sugar are expected by the planters,
the canes looking healthy and prosperous. Pimento
still remains very scarce, while the crop of corn con-
tinues abundant. Rum 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. ; proof, 18
in bond. Sugar—Ordinary, 14s. to 15s. ; medium,
17s. ; fair, 19s. to 20s. per 100 lb. Exchanges on
London—Colonial Bank purchasing at pa? for 90
days, prem. for 60 days, 1 prem. for 30 days ;
selling rates at 2 prem. for 90 days, 2i prem. for 60
days, 3 prem. for 30 days.

Public Op'nion in Germany.

The Committee of Thirty-six at Frankfort have
had a meeting, in which the publication of the fol-
lowing declaration was decided on :
" 1. There appears menacingly before Germany
the danger of a civil war, the interference of
foreigners, and the ruin of liberty and public pro-
sperity.
" 2. The manner, contrary to law, in which the
two great German Powers dispose of the Duchies,
freed from Danish domination, as the booty of war,
the open plans of violent annexation formed by the
Prussian Government, the feebleness of the majority
of the other German Governments, and a Federal
Constitution which completely excludes the German ,
people from the direction of its destinies, are bring-
ing on Germany troubles and catastrophes.
" 3. Let an energetic protestation, condemning
decidedly all civil war in Germany, be the reply to
these enterprises which disturb the peace. Already,
in some Prussian towns, and others, voices are loudly
raised against the dangers of a fatal Cabinet policy.
But if the German people does not wish to assume
the complicity in national misfortune, it must show
in all places so clearly and so vigorously its opinion
and its wishes, that those who counsel the Crowns,
and who wear them, may have no chance of mis-
understanding.
"4. A complete transformation of the German
Constitution is necessary if we wish to avert for the
future the miseries and the dangers of the present
Constitution. But every Government, which not
respecting the rights of its own country, may pre-
sent projects of Federal reform, with the intention,
perhaps, of acquiring allies in a civil war, would
lack, for want of the confidence of its own and the
German people, the necessary guarantees for the
success of the great work of national union."
The New Gazette of Frankfort learns that this
declaration was only adopted after an animated
discussion, especially on Article 2. A certain num-
ber of members wished that in blaming Austria
they should throw the great blame of the pre-
sent dangers on the ambition of the Prussian Go-
vernment. But others observed that they would
thus offend the public sentiment in Prussia. In
consequence, Article 2 was only carried by a ma-
jority, while the others were unanimously adopted.