The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

Colonel LIMEY DE BATHE seconded the proposition.

Mr. Rusxxx said that it was as difficult to account for
the violence of the attack upon Mr. Eyre, as for the nar-
rowness of temper which had given it special direction. He
had joined the committee, as he doubted not every member
composing that committee had joined it, in the simple de-
sire of obtaining justice, not for black mon only, nor for
white, but for men of every race and colour. He detested
all cruelty, and all injustice by whomsoever inflicted, or
suffered ; he would sternly reprobate the crimes which
dragged a black family from their home, to dig your fields;
and more sternly the crime which turned a white family
out of their home, that you might drive by a shorter road
over their hearth. But, whatever might be the motive or
the temper of the accusations brought against Mr. Eyre, the
ground of them was, under any circumstances, untenable.
His accusers were under the radical mistake of confusing
the office of a governor with that of a judge. The duty of
a judge was only to declare and enforce law. That of a go-
vernor is to do what law cannot do, and to deal with such
immediate events, and necessities arising out of them, as
may be beyond the scope of existing law. Now, so far as
the so-called "Governor" Eyre was not a governor, nor
intended to be ono, by those who so styled him, but only
an administrator of British law in Jamaica, he (Mr. Rus -
kin) was not there either to defend or accuse him. None
but those who knew all his acts, and their consistency or
inconsistency with written statute, had any right to do so.
To the arbiter of law in a criminal court it is no matter
what insurrection is imminent in the street outside, or what
will be the probable consequences of the criminal's acquit-
tal or condemnation. He must calmly acquit or condemn
according to law. But it was to bo held in mind that if
Mr. Eyre, though called a governor, was in reality only a.
law officer, there was at the time of the impending out-
break no governor of Jamaica. And Mr. Eyre, being called
oue, had clearly no alternative butto take upon himself the
responsibility of the higher office, and as au English gentle-
man should do, as indeed ho did, at his own peril, that
which needed to be done. The first thing needed to be done
in a crisis of imminent rebellion was to seize the ringleaders
of it, and bring thorn, if time and circumstances admit, to
legal trial ; but if the enemy to be dealt with is likely to
mistake legal delay for infirmity of purpose or hand, all
forms of law were by that fact effete and inapplicable ; and
they were so in all cases as soon as the questiOn became
definitely ono of time, asd of instant danger. It was alleged
(Mr. Ruskin supposed) by Mr. Mill, and the party he led,
that to hang a man on suspicion amounted to murder. If
that were so, ho presumed that to shoot a man on suspicion
would be no less murder. Now, in the course of the past
year a drunken workman staggered, late at night, inside
the garden gate of a gentleman living at Peckham. The
gentleman looked out of his window, saw the drunken man
in his garden, and then and there, on suspicion, shot him
dead. The jury did not even bring him in guilty of man-
slaughter. That being the present state of the home law re-
specting human life, Mr. Mill's beautifully logical position
might be expressed in these terms:—" For the protection of
your own person, and a few feet of your own property, it is
lawful for you to take life, on so much suspicion as may
arise from a shadow cast on the wrong side of your wall.
But for the safety, not of your own poor person, but of
16,000 men, women, and children, confiding in your pro-
tection and entrusted to it ; and for the guardianship, not
of your own stairs and plate chest, but of a provision in-
volving in its safety that of all English possessions in the
West Indies—for these minor ends, it is not lawful for you
to take a single life on suspicion, though the suspicion rest,
not on a shadow on the wall, but on the experience of the
character and conduct of the accused during many previous
years." That was Mr. Mill's position, which ho wouldcon-
tentedly leave him to develops. For the question now to
be brought home to the English people was, not whethe
Mr. Eyre had erred in this act or the other, nor whether
the circumstances required less than he did, or more. They
might just as well bring any general who had won a deci-
sive battle to trial, because it was alleged that he had lost
five or six mon in unnecessarily occupying a dangerous po-
sition, or had shot a peasant by mistake for a spy. The
question put at issue by the adverse prosecution was in
fact this, and nothing else than this, whether Mr. Eyre,
under circumstances of instant public danger, did, or did
not, do to the best of his power and ability, what he be-
lieved to be his duty ? To this question, fairly put, he (Mr.
Ruskin) doubted not that the hearts of all true and brave
Englishmen would make but one answer, namely, that
Mr. Eyre did his duty to the uttermost, with no by-fears
or base motives ; and that ho was rewarded by being en-
abled to save the State entrusted to him. How otherwise
rewarded, it would be for England now to determine.
Had he, after all efforts bravely made, failed of his pur-
pose—had he lost Jamaica, instead of saving it—if then,
after unquelled insurrection, there had been question
of government at all, he might justly and advisedly
have been superseded ; but not oven then brought to
trial on such grounds. But as the matter stands, the
official removal of him from his place was an act of na
tional imbecility, which bad not hitherto its parallel in
history. It was the act—as this threat of prosecution
was the cry—of a nation blinded by its avarice to all
true valour and virtue, and haunted, therefore, by phan-
toms of both ; it was the suicidal act of a people which,
for the sake of filling its pockets, would pour mortal venom
into all its air and all its streams; would shorten the lives
of its labourers by 30 years a life, that it might get its noo-
dle-packets 2d. each cheaper ; would communicate its
liberty to foreign nations by forcing them to buy poison at
the cannon's month, and prove its chivalry to them by
shrinking in panic from the side of people being slaughtered,
though a people who had given them their daughter for
their future queen ; and then would howl in the frantic
collapse of their decayed consciences, that they might be
permitted righteously to reward with ruin the man who
had dared to strike down one seditious leader and rescue
the lives of a population: Whether this cry, and the feel-
ing which it represented, were indeed the voice and the
thought of the English people it was now to be asked.
That was the simple duty for which they were that day
met together. He believed it was not the voice of the whole
English people, and that there was another opinion of
theirs yet to be taken on the matter. But if not, and this
proved to be indeed the English mind, the condemnation
or acquittal of Mr. Eyro were matters of very small mo-
ment, for the time would then assuredly have come for the
bringing of the English people themselves to a trial, in
which judgment would not require to be petidtionhead:iolrd. a
Mr. H. HUME (the honorary secretary)
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had then to serve to make up Mier` four years'
administration of a Government of the first class,
required to entitle him to claim a first class pen-
sion. 3. Mr. Eyre's dismissal in July, 1866, debarred him
from completing the year he had then to serve to make up
the 18 years' service as a colonial governor, required to en-
title him to claim the full amount of pension grantable. 4.
The result of the suspension and removal from office com-
bined was consequently to place Mr. Eyre's claim in the
second instead of the first class, and to entitle him to only
two-thirds instead of to the full pension grantable. In other
words, Mr. Eyre's claim became reduced to one for a pen-
sion of £5OO, instead of for a pension of £l,OOO which he
would have been entitled had he administered the govern-
ment of Jamaica for about another year. 5. Mr. Eyre's
dismissal from his government, if regarded as a proof
that he did not execute the duties of his office satisfac-
torily, would enable the Secretary of State, if he
thought fit, to declare that Mr. Eyre had forfeited all
claim to any pension whatever. 6. Mr. Eyre, being only
just 51 years of age, could not, under the Act of Parlia-
ment, receive any pension whatever for the next nine
years, even supposing the Secretary of State not to declare
his claim to be forfeited ; and at the end of that time, if he
lived he would be entitled only to £5OO a year, instead of
to £l,OOO, in consequence of abrupt removal from office
before the completion of his termoof service as governor
of Jamaica, and when ho still required to serve another
year to make up the 18 years' administration of govern-
ment, specified as the condition of a full pension beink
granted.
In .plain language, Mr. Eyre's dismissal has
brought him the forfeiture of all pension. .Nine years
hence, if he be alive, the then Secretary of State may, if
he think proper to reverse the judgment now passed, grant
him £5OO per annum. He (Mr. Hume) felt sure that those
facts only required to ba thoroughly known throughout
the coma try to cause still greater sympathy to bo evinced
for Mr. Eyre, With the view of assisting the head com-
mittee in London, and thoroug 7-,s-
of the educated portion of Engli.hmari, he boggru _he.,
fore to propose that sub-committees bo formed at every
important town in the three kingdoms.
Mr. W. B. WATSOI; thought it a very desirable move-
ment, and had no doubt that it would bo responded to
everywhere. He had no conception that Mr. Eyre had
been treated so severely.
The Hon. ROWLAND WINN said that he was not in the
habit of joining committees of any kind, more especially
public ones; but he most strongly agreed with the words
of Mr. Carlyle, that "it was a solemn public duty on the
part of every citizen who believed that Governor Eyre
had quelled the insurrection in Jamaica and saved that
island to come forward and boldly proclaim such to be his
opinion." He for one did believe that through the energy
and determination of Mr. Eyre the island was saved. The
royal commissioners had themselves expressed this opi-
nion. And how had Mr. Eyre been received by his coun-
try ? Why, with execrations of the most infamous kind.
His own opinion was, that Mr. Eyre ought himself to take
the matter up, and prosecute, not the scribblers who as-
sailed him, but the Jamaica Committee itself. He was not
a lawyer, but he believed if any body of men had ever laid
themselves open to a charge of conspiracy, to say nothing
of libel, the members of that committee had.

A voto of thanks to the chairman concluded tho busi-
ness of the meeting.

The Recovery of Last Year's Cabe.

'This year's expedition of the Great Eastern
with the Atlantic Cable will dispel many delusions.
Most men, indeed the vast majority, had no faith
whatever in the success of the undertaking. This
was no loose and ill-formed opinion of the igno-
rant, but joined in by the electricians, as well as by
those who knew nothing of electricity, by sailors
who knew the surface of the Atlantic and what pay-
ing out a Cable meant, and by savans who pro-
fessed to know the bottom of the Atlantic. If the
possibility of laying a perfect Cable from Ireland to
Newfoundland was doubted, the possibility of re-
covering a lost one was still more doubted. The
cable of last year parted in the very deepest part of
the deep Atlantic. It was in the act of recovering
the wire to a point where a flaw had been paid out
that the accident happened, anti the line broke.
Not only was there a flaw actually existing which
destroyed the cable as a means of communication,
when it parted, but it was shown to be a most dif-
ficult operation, and one unsuccessfully attempted,
to recover that line up to the point of the flaw.
In all our imaginations the bed of the Atlantic is
associated with rough rocks and tangled weed heav-
ing to the swell of the ocean. The mind pictured
the thia line lying among great boulders, twisted in
the folds of gigantic sea-growth, and uneasily rest-
ing on shell-covered rocks. Instead of this, at the
greatest depth where the cable was grappled, it lay
along a bed of softest sand, so fine that a micro-
scope only can show that it is composed of the
minutest shells, of an organisation so delicate that
they cannot exist in the slightest motion. The bed,
therefore, is of the purest and most beautiful mate-
rial, in a stillness which, on land, the mind can
scarcely conceive. We call imagine nothing more
perfect than this for a cable to rest on, and it is
clear that danger to the cable is not in the great
depths, but in the shallows, as it nears the
coasts, and comes into what sailors call
"soundings." No difficulty was experienced
in grappling the cable. The ships knew accurately
where it lay, and caught it where they proposed.
The danger was in raising it, and this arose solely
from the swell on the surface. A vessel heaving up
and down on the long waves of the ever-restless
Atlantic jerked suddenly as she rose the tightened
line, raising the delicate wire with all the condensed
weight above of thousands of yards of the ocean.
After many failures the Great Eastern got the line
on board last Sunday morning, and Mr. MAY saw
the light on the mirror at Valentia suddenly change
from the gibberish which the ocean bed had been so
long speaking into coherent language. Immediately
the splice was effected it was shown the cable had
improved, and we have now the positive knowledge
that the cool and uniform temperature of great
ocean depths improves the " conductibility" and
" insulation" of the wire. The cable of 1865, owing
to this cause, speaks even better than the more per-
fect cable of 1866, and the latter has greatly im-
proved in speaking qualities since it has been laid.
These facts are full of hope. They show, first, that
there is no difficulty to well-applied science in lay-
ing a cable across the Atlantic. Second, that the
cable lasts and improves when placed under the
ocean. Third, that electricians can state positively
where a fault or stoppage exists. Fourth, that the
cable can at that spot be raised and repaired. Under
these circumstances no future difficulty can arise in
multiplying our telegraphic communication with
America, and continuing it uninterruptedly under
any known circumstances. There are scientific and
philanthropic men who would furnish the means
to effect so great a good even were there no hope of
a return. But the Atlantic Telegraph promises
to be:one of the most paying concerns ever launched.
It is said that the one line already working is earn-
ing nearly a million a-year. With two lines down,
with an improved system of signalling, even if the
tariff be greatly lowered, the returns will be
something prodigious. Such communication has a
tendency to grow. Like a railway, it fosters and
creates its traffic. The important business opera-
tions between,America and Europe will be a
means
rival
of communication which would give to a
trans-
acted through the cable, and merchants
cannot
afford to be behind each other in emeoyin „0.
of the fastest
establishment so important
lead-
ing firm in China einl)l°Yed „ongkong, mainly
steamers between Calcut.ta.and
a.n:(:ivi.lanntagc. A
gam an over all competitors
news. On nearing
twofor theor fitcilirveaentadgaeysof
Hongkong these steamers. i
remained
concealed in an
inlet of the coast, while t house traded on the
earlier
intelligence. If then it would be worth the while
of one establishment to pay a large sum annually
for a little earlier news, it would be surely worth
the expenditure'of a few thousands to the great firms
conducting their operations in America and in
Europe. The line now between London and New
York is infinitely speedier, more reliable, and more
secure than that between London and Calcutta;
and it will eventually be proved that our best track
for a telegraph communication is across an ocean.
If in the ocean's depths the line be subjected inju-
riously to the action of salt water, there are at least
no .superstitious and mischievous savages, no de-
structive whirlwinds to level the poles, and no curious
elephant to test their strength, or insidious white

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ant to eat out their heartA- - he line,
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civilisation to eivilisation;- --el the e ea
out
at one end as it went in at the pother; an ad-
vantage which would be highly appreciated by an
Indian merchant, who receives back from his de-
spairing Madras correspondent the abortion of his
own message, which tells his agent in Hindostan to
carry out some preposterous order, or informs him
of some astounding and almost unintelligible freak
of commerce at home. The Atlantic Telegraph
expedition bas been successful beyond the most
sanguine hopes—we will not say of its projectors,
but of the public. Among the innumerable triumphs
of modern science it stands foremost, and in these
days when the intellect .of man has been almost
given up to the invention of machines of destruction,
it is peculiarly gratifying to find so mighty a stride
made by Science in the paths of Peace.—Anglo.
American Times.

Death of Lord Northbrook°.

To say that Lord Northbrooke has passed away
will give but small information to the majority of
readers. Few among us would recognize the famous
Lord Chancellor, Sir Francis Bacon, under the
highest of his titles—Viscount St. Albau's—and
very few, indeed, will recognize in Lord Northbrooke
the well-known Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir
Francis Baring. He died at Stratton on the even-
ing of Thursday last. He was 70 years of age ;
his health had for some time been failing, and he
was seized with apoplexy on Wednesday morning.
His usual medical attendant from Winchester and
Dr. Quain, from London, were called to his aid, but
their efforts to relieve him were unavailing. He never
recovered consciousness, and lingered in life only SiX
and thirty hours.

Lord Northbrooke was one of those men who are
less interesting in themselves than as members of a
great family. When we come to sum up the events
of his public life, we find that, though he filled im-
portant offices in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and as First Lord of the Admiralty, his
ltsatesinan is net very high.
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a family of singular ability, -with whose fortunes the
English people, the nation of shopkeepers, could feel
no ordinary sympathy, especially as those fortunes
have but recently been made. Mr. Francis Baring,
the immediate founder of this distinguished family,
was but the grandfather of Lord Northbrooke, and
was born in the year 1740. People take less interest
in acknowledged success than in the merit which
before their eyes fights upwards to success. There
are ducal houses of old renown which are less known
to the people of England, and less regarded by them,
than the great house of Baring, Brothers, in the.city
of London. They belong to the race of merchant
princes in whom our people take an especial delight.
Sir Francis Baring carried with him into Parliament
and into office the prestige of this family. If it is a
great thing in our modes of Government to be born
a Howard, a Gower, a Grey, a Russell, or a
Grosvenor, it is also a glory to inherit the name
of Baring. Lord Northbrooke, however, had
something more than his name to recommend him ;
he was an able and accomplished man. Born in
1796; he won his Double First at Oxford in 1817.
His name is to be added to that remarkable list of
statesmen who belong to Christ Church, and who
have taken the highest honours of the University.
Sir Francis Baring, however, cannot be said to
have fulfilled the expectations which his Academi-
cal career and the practical ability displayed by his
family had led the public to entertain. ' After filling
various subordinate offices in the Governments of
Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne, he was appointed
to succeed Mr. Spring Rice in 1839 as Chancellor
of the Exchequer. The Whigs had failed in finance,
and were distracted for a revenue. Was there a
magician among them who could charm a surplus
out of the wealth of the nation ? Sydney Smith had
his heart's content at last, for if Spring Rice did not
actually enter into holy orders, at least he left the
management of the Treasury. If financial genius
was to be found anywhere on earth, surely, thought
the Whigs, it was to be found in the head of a
Baring. Lord Melbourne offered the Chancellorship
of the Exchequer to Sir Francis Baring, as at alater
period Lord Derby, led by similar considerations, is
understood to have offered the same post to his bro-
ther Mr. Thomas Baring. Sir Francis, however, did
nothing to retrieve the reputation of the Whigs as
financiers, and fell before the attack of Sir R. Peel.
The Whigs had done the country good service, and
they might have remained in office if they could only
have paid their way. It was for their bad finance
that they were turned out at last, and Sir Francis
Baring, as the Minister then responsible for the na-
tional balance-sheet, bas to bear the chief burden of
the blame which in thisrespectattaches to the Whigs.
It must be remembered, however, that Sir Francis
Baring's fault was not that he had blundered in
finance, but that he was not able to remodel a rot-
ten system which he bad received from his predeces-
sors. A complete change was necessary, and the
Whig financiers had neither the wit to devise nor
the strength to carry the necessary measures of re-
form. It needed the genius of Peel to see how a
cure was to be wrought, and the rough energy of a
change of Government to enforce it.
Sir Francis Baring has since then held high office
—he was First Lord of the Admiralty for three
years in Lord John Russell's Administration ; but
here again he had to take the management of
what may be compared to the Augean stable. Ad-
miralty management is bad enough now. What
was it in 1849 ? Sir Francis Baring was not
the Hercules to clean out the stable, and there is
not much to be said for even the best administrator
—such a man as Sir James Graham, for example,—
who could tolerate the confusion, corruption, and
waste of those days. On the whole, therefore, it
may be said that Lord Northbrooke's career in ad-
ministration was unfortunate. And if this judgment
seems to be too severe we must in mitigation of it
bear in mind that he undertook the administration of
the most difficult of all offices to manage, which, in-
deed, demanded for their successful management
more than ability—something of genius. Our con-
demnation of Lord Northbroke, therefore, amounts
to no more than saying that he was not a genius. He
worked well and honestly in acknowledged grooves ;
bnt he had not the power to strike out a new path.
If he was defeated in his attempt to administer the
great offices which he successively undertook, he
was not disgraced. He never failed to command the
respect of his opponents; while the Whigs always
had confidence in him, and finally rewarded him for
his support with a peerage.,
e is succeeded in his
honours by his son, Mr. ho mas George Baring, who
is well known to the publicin various important
posts which he has held at the Home-office at the
War-office, at the India-o ce, and at the Admiralty.

Charles,
At New York, subscription lists have been opened
to Bermuda. Thence to the Azores, and
$10,000,000.
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te stockperso ins
at the Company's offices in Broad-street, to form a
new ocean cable, to be wholly American. Th
route proposed is from New York via Cape
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