The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

The T.4'3 re Defence and Aid Fund.

A meeting of -the committee of the above fund
was held at No. 9, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, on 31
October—Col. Henry de Bathe in the chair. The
hon. secretary read the following letter from Sir It.
Murchison, Bart. :
" Ed "Wood, Bagshot, Oct. 2, 1866.

" Sir, —ln apologising for not being able to attend the
committee of the Eyre Fund to-morrow, I inclose a cheque
for my subscription. I rejoice to find that we are going on
so well, and I trust that the fund will be so increased that
we may be able to hand over to my'distinguished friend,
the ex-Governor, a testimonial worthy of the man who
saved a great British colony.—Your obedient servant,
" RODERICK MURCHISON."

" Resolved that the Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot be requested to accept the position of President
and that Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart., and Thomas Car-
lyle, Esq., be asked to act as vice-presidents."
Mr. CARLYLE said it would afford him very great
pleasure to comply with the request of the commit-

Mr. 11. HUrIE (the hon. secretary) then proceeded
to explain the steps that had been taken to promote
the objects of the fund since last meeting. lle said
that he in the first instance addressedaletter to most
of the provincial papers in the threekingdoms, asking
for their support in the formation of sub-committees;
that this appeal had had considerable effect, sub-
committees were either formed or about to be orga-
nised, at the following places :—Liverpool, Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Southampton, Aber-
deen, Bath, Hastings, Leeds, Bradford, Dublin, Isle
of Wight, Chichester, Plymouth, and Cambridge,
and that in the course of the next month he hoped
to be able to name fifty other towns. He had also
written to the commanding officer of every regi-
ment and depot battalion in the service, and to
the captains of every one of her Majesty's
ships in commission. .He proposed, if the com-
mittee saw no objection, to appeal to every indivi-
dual member of the Civil Service in India, and to for-
ward a pamphlet to them. The Working Men's
Conservative Association at Bradford had forwarded
to him (Nir. Hume) an address to be presented to
Mr. Eyre at the proper time, and the Working Men's
Conservative Association at Leeds proposed follow-
ing their example. Other working men's associa-
tions were being appealed to, so that the feeling of
the public at large might be arrived at. With re-
ference to an application to the Bishop of Jamaica
to join the committee, made since the last meeting,
a reply had been received, from which the following
was an extract :

" Personally I have an earnest sympathy with Mr. Ey ro
I warmly admire his character and history, as far as they
are known to me ; and I firmly believe that the speedy sup-
pression of the murderous insurrections in Jamaica is at-
tributable, under God's providence, to the promptitude,
courage, and judgment with which he acted under circum-
stances of peculiar difficulty and danger. From all that I
have heard of Mr. Eyre's career, I believe that his humanity
and kindness of heart, his love of justice and mercy, and
his eminently Christian principles, qualified him in a very
high degree for the discharge of his arduous and painful
duties at a most critical period of the history of the colony
whose government he had to administer.,