The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

Mr. Eyre at Southampton.

The following address is now obtaining signatures
in Southampton :—" To his Excellency Edward
John Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica,—We, the
undersigned, mayor, magistrates, clergy, aldermen,
councillors, merchants, and other inhabitants of the
town and neighbourhood of Southampton, desire
most heartily to welcome you to your native land,
and warmly to express the deep sympathy we enter-
tain towards you after the severe and trying circum-
stances by which you have been so lona surrounded.
We, in common with a large portion 5f your fellow-
countrymen, are impressed with the conviction that
by your firmness and determination, joined by that
prompt action which alone makes a man in autho-
rity equal to the occasion, you saved an important
British colony, protected the lives and property of
the loyal colonists, and saved Jamaica from an
ordeal the memory of which no time would have
effaced. We cannot but regret that, dependent as
you were for the execution of the intricate and deli-
cate duties devolving upon so many parties, on
whom you were compelled to rely, some circum-
stances occurred that all men must deplore, but the
sudden and horrible commencement of the outbreak
proved too exciting for men of lesser judgment and
experience than yourself, and excesses were, no
doubt, committed that have been brought to bear
unfavourably upon you ; but no one competent to
judge believes that you were actuated by other than
the most honourable and praiseworthy intentions,
by a devoted loyalty to your Sovereign and coun-
try, as well as a fixed determination to preserve
Jamaica from the horrors of a second Saint Domingo
We have an unabated confidence in your integrity,
your honour, and your public spirit ; we feel that
you have been sacrificed to circumstances, as many
a great man has been before ; but your fellow-
countrymen appreciate you—sympathise with you
—and will in every part of England honour you,
not only in your retirement, but look anxiously for
your return to a position of public usefulness for
which you are, in so many respects, pre-eminently
fitted. We rejoice to be the first to welcome you,
with this testimony of public opinion, to offer a
respectful and warm-hearted welcome to Mrs. Eyre
and to your children, expressing an anxious and
earnest hope that, once more in England with your
family and your friends, you may speedily be
restored to the blessing of health, and be cheered
by the assurance of the respect, the attachment,
and the confidence of all classes of your fellow-
countrymen,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A DRUNKEN PitisosEß.—William Parry, a shop chandler,
was charged before Alderman Stone with being drunk and
disorderly.

Policeman Page, 611, said he was on duty this morning
at Cheapside, and about 3 o'clock he saw prisoner coming
along the street and striking the shutters with a stick.-
He requested him to go home quietly, upon which the pri-
soner desired him to go to -, and struck him with the
stick on the back. Finding that he could not induce him
to go away quietly, ho took him into custody, but he had
been bailed out.

The prisoner, when called upon for his statement, ut-
tered some incoherent words, and evidently showed that
he was still under the influence of drink, upon which the
magistrate ordered him to be removed. Later in the day
ho was again placed at the bar at his own request, being
desirous that it should be settled, but it was evident that
the effect of his potations still remained.
In reply to the magistrate, as to whether he knew what
he was charged with, he gazed vacantly round the court,
and then with a theatrical gesture and bow lo the magis-
trate, said ho believed it was with being drunk. Ho was
sentenced to pay a fine of 10s., or to be imprisoned seven
days, and after fumbling in his waistcoat pocket ho was
again removed, and in his descent from the bar to the cells
went in a head foremost direction, much to the amusement
of those who wore in court.

LOOKING FOR A DOG.—Honry Stillwell, a youth about
15, was charged with being on the premises, No. 1, Bury-
court, St. Mary-axe, for an unlawful purpose.
Adolphus Burden, the proprietor of the promises in ques-
tion, said that yesterday afternoon, between 4 and 5
o'clock, he was at tea, and heard something in the kitchen,
which induced him to go down stairs. At first he could
see no person, but ho found the prisoner in the yard at
the rear. There was another boy outside evedently wait-
ing for him, but when he made his appearance, holding
the prisoner, he ran off. The prisoner said ho was merely
looking after a brown dog.
Policeman, 889, said that the prisoner made a similar
statement to him, and gave an address at 6, Kent-street,
Southwark, but on inquiry he was not known there or in
the neighbourhood.
The prisoner said he was a hawker, and entered into a
rambling statement as to having missed the dog round a
corner, and believing the premises to be empty, he entered
them with a view of looking after him.
The magistrate, considering it a rather suspicious case,
remanded the prisoner until Tuesday next, in order that
inquiries might be made respecting him.