The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

BILLINGSGATE.

Soles, is to 4s Od per pair ; cod, 3s Od to 128 ; brill, 2s 6d
to lOs Od; turbot, 5s Od. to 21s each ; whitings, 3s to 12s ;
haddocks, Gs to 188 per dozen ; herrings, —s to —s per
120; native oysters, 808 to 110 s; other sorts, 30s to 106
per bushel.

NEWPORT.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3B 4d to 4s 6d Mutton ... 3s 6d to 5s 2d
I
Veal 4s Od to 5s 2d Pork

WHITECHAPEL.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Mutton ... 3s 6d to 5s 4d
Veal 4s Od to 5s 4d Pork

The J,

LitteP.

The Jamaica Committee have issued the fol-
lowing address to their friends throughout the
country _ _ _

65, Fleet-street, London, October, 1866.
Sir,—For the reasons set forth in the accompany-
ing " Statement"—to which particular attention is
requested—the Jamaica Committee resolved to
undertake the duty which the Government had de-
clined, of submitting to judicial investigation the
conduct of Governor Eyre and his subordinates in
putting to death Mr. Gordon and other British
subjects for treason, sedition, and other alleged
offences without a lawful trial.

The subscriptions and guarantees already received
have justified the committee in taking the first
steps ; and they hope, by the time the Courts re-
sume their sittings, to be in possession of the
opinion of eminent counsel as to the form of in-
dictment and method of procedure.
The process, owing to the distance of Jamaica
and other circumstances, will be very expensive ;
and it is evident that the committee will have to
encounter a powerful resistance, backed by all the
resources of wealth. They deem it necessary, there-
fore, to appeal to the public to raise the fund to
£lO,OOO. Your personal aid is earnestly requested,
both in the form of subscription or guarantee, and
in that of endeavouring to secure the co-operation
of your friends.
In making this appeal, the committee desire once
more to state that their sole object is to vindicate
• the law.

That the law has not yet been vindicated, that
the principles of public liberty and justice impugned
by the acts of Governor Eyre and his subordi-
nates have not yet been effectively asserted, that
no adequate security had been obtained against
a repetition of such acts by men in power for the
future, the Southampton banquet, the sentiments
expressed at that banquet, the doctrines propounded
by the chairman and other members of the Eyre
Defence and Aid Committee, and the bearing of
Mr. Eyre himself, are sufficient proofs. The conduct
of the ex-Governor, so far from being repented of
or repudiated, is held up as a model for imitation ;
and the committee submit that, as the matter at
present stands, the public cannot feel assured that
British subjects, who may have given offence to a
party in power, will not again be put to death
without lawful trial ; or that those who have been
concerned in such proceedings will not again be ap-
plauded, caressed, and marked out for future re-
ward and honour by peers, members of Parliament,
chaplains of her Majesty, magistrates, and other
persons in high station.
The only adequate, as well as the only constitu-
tional safeguard, is the decision of a court of justice,
which, as the Committee submit, those supporters
-of the ex-Governor who believe that Mr. Gordon,
Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Lawrence came lawfully and
fairly to their ends, ought to be the last to decline.
The Committee also desire once more, in reply to
persistent misrepresentation, to repeat that the acts
for which they are about to prosecute were not done
in the suppression of the so-called rebellion. Mr.
Gordon, Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Lawrence all suf-
fered after the period at which, as Mr. Eyre him-
self expressly stated, the insurrection had been com-
pletely crushed. They suffered, there is reason to
suspect, for offence given to the party in power,
quiteindependently of the disturbances, with which
no one of the three was proved to have been con-
nected in any way whatever.
While the interests of public liberty form the most
obvious ground for an official protest against the
lawless violence of persons in authority, it must not
be forgotten that justice is also due to the memory
and to the families of those who have been put to a
felon's death, and buried as felons beneath the gal-
lows, for crimes of which there is reason to believe
they were not lawfully or justly convicted.
The committee commend to your support an
undertaking which they believe to be essential to
the interests of public liberty and justice. They
have come forward as private individuals to put the
law in motion only on the positive and almost con-
tumacious reftisal of the Government to do its duty,
by inquiring into the cases in which, there was
reason to believe, the lives of subjects of Her Ma-
jesty had been illegally taken. But having come
forward, they will not fail the public if the public
will not fail them.
John Stuart Mill, M.P., Chairman ; P. A. Taylor,
M.P., Treasurer ; F. W. Chesson, Hon. Secretary ;
Thos. Baines, M.P., John Bright, M.P., Joseph
Cowan, M.P., J. E. Cairnes, Henry Fawcett, M.P.,
Thomas Hughes, M.P., Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., J.
M. Ludlow, Duncan M'Laren, M.P., S. Morley,
F. W. Newman, R. N. Phillips, M.P., T. B. Potter
M.P., Humphrey Sandwith, C. 8., Goldwin Smith,
Herbert Spencer, and James White, M.P.
P.S.—Subscriptions should be forwarded to the
Treasurer, Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., Aubrey House,
Notting-hill ;or to Mr. F. W. Chesson, the lion.
Secretary, 65, Fleet-street, London.