The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-09 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

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respect to the unhappy transactions
that had taken place in Jamaica. (Hear, hear.) He thought
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the various matters had been most unfairly dealt with, and
that the conduct of various officers had been discussed,
prejudged, and condemned by men who had not the means
at their command or any evidence in their posses-
sion which could enable them to come to a
correct judgment. No gentleman had been more vio-
lent in his denunciation of the officers in Jamaica than the
hon. member for Birmingham (Mr. Bright). In a speech
lately delivered at Rochdale he characterized the whole of
the trials that had taken place in Jamaica as a mass of
irregularities—that Gordon had been murdered, and that
those guilty of the crime should be placed at the bar as
criminals, to take their trials for their crimes. The most
unjustifiable language had been used, and he could scarcely
trust himself while he made reference to the matter.
Murder was a foul crime, but so also was a foul
accusation, and he could not sufficiently express
the feelings he had experienced in hearing such accusations
as those that had been brought against Governor Eyre,
Governor Eyre wati a gentleman known by repute to many

members of that house as an able and valuable public ser
want, and if he had one quality over another for which he
was remarkable, it was the humanity, kindness, and
good feeling with which he had treated the native races in
Jamaica. He did not think it either fair or honourable
that such a man as Governor Eyre was to be branded with
the crime of murder without the slightest proof. (Hear.) He
thought it was but right that Governor Eyre should know
that there were parties in the British House of Commons
desirous of doing him justice, and that they did not sym-
pathise in the harsh conclusions which had been passed
upon his conduct. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. baronet,
having touched upon some other topics mentioned in the
Queen's Speech, resumed his seat amidst considerable
cheering.

Mr. BRIGHT rose to complain of the censure cast upon
him by the right hon. baronet opposite, as it had
been his fate to labour under that censure on many occa
sions. He did not prejudge Governor Eyre, he took his
own words, and he felt there was not a judge on the Eng-
lish bench who would not say that Mr. Gordon had
been murdered. (Hear, hear.) He thought tho Go-
vernment had been right in appointing the commission,
not that it had been done too soon, but that it had been
delayed too long. He was content to leave the matter in
the hands of the commissioners, feeling certain that jus-
tice would be done. In all the speeches that he had made
there was none upon this lamentable subject, to which
he still held, and to his last hour ho would adhere,
to those he had uttered on the subject of Jamaica. He had
nothing to retract, and if the same horrible atrocities were
to be perpetrated again to-morrow, he would, if God gave
him the power, denounce them with more burning indig-
nation, if he had the power, as he considered such acts to
be afoul blot on the conduct of English Governors.
[LEFT SITTING.]