The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

On the day after his arrival Sir Henry Storks was
waited on by Mr. Eyre, by the Commander of the
Forces, Major-General O'Connor, C. 8., and the
heads' of departments ; and every facility being
offered by Mr. Eyre, his Excellency was sworn in
yesterday. The ceremony took place in Spanish
Town, at the King's House, the official residence of
the Governor, and was made as impressive as such a
ceremony could be. The members of the Privy
Council met at 1 o'clock. A guard of honour, sup-
plied by the Ist West India Regiment and the
Volunteers lined the approaches to the Audience-
hall, and through the avenue thus formed his Ex-
cellency and Mr. Eyre passed together, followed by
Major-General O'Connor, the heads of departments,
and the Privy Council, to a room leading from the
Audience-hall. There the Commission was read
and acknowledged, after which the procession re-
turned into the hall, where the public were admitted,
the Clerk of the Council again read the Commis-
sion, and the oaths were administered to Sir Henry
Storks by the Chief Justice of Jamaica, Sir Bryan
Edwards. The usual salute was then fired by the
Volunteer Artillery in the square, and some amuse-
ment was afforded by the fact that, the guns being
planted too close to the house, nearly all the win-
dows were broken. A few spectators, among whom
were some black and coloured people, witnessed the
ceremony in the Audience-hall, and appeared to
take interest in the inauguration of the new
Governor.

Sir 11. Storks has taken up his residence at the
King's House. Mr. Eyre has been staying for some
time in the hills at Flamstead, about 13 miles
from Kingston. I regret to say his Excellency
looks ill and haggard ; he is suffering greatly in
health from his long residence in a tropical climate,
and probably still more from the cares and anxieties
of the last four months. I believe it had been his
wish, when order was completely restored through-
out the island, to be rslieved from his duties here
and to enjoy some rest at home. This was, of
course, before he knew of the strong feel-
ing excited in England, and the steps taken by
her Majesty's Government ; but he will now, of
course, remain here during the inquiry. One source
of permanent anxiety both to the present and the
late Governor is removed. The last packet will have
taken to England the news that the Jamaica Legis-
lature has committed political suicide, and has
thrown upon the Ministry and Parliament at home
the responsibility of declaring what shall be the
future government of the colony. On this point,
again, you do not hear a dissentient voice. By the
jobbery of some of its members, and the perversity
and bitterness of others, the House of Assembly
had made itself an unmitigated nuisance to every
man of education and position in Jamaica. No one
says a good word for it ; there was no confidence in
its measures, or in the prosperity of the island, so
long as it existed to wrangle through the session,
and bar the road against sound and comprehensive
legislation. Among its members were some able
and public-spirited men, but they could rarely hold
their own against the office-seekers and the unscru-
pulous partisans to whom public spirit was a thing
unknown. Much stronger language than any I care
to repeat is used without reserve by men of position
here, when speaking of this body, and all agree that
it never passed an act so beneficial to the colony as
that by which it accomplished self-destruction. "If
that be the only result, the victims of the Morant
Bay outbreak will not have perished in vain." Such
expressions are common here, but great things are
also hoped from the labours of the Royaleommis-
sion, and the attention which the affairs of the
island are now attracting in England. An impartial
inquiry into the state of the colony and the relations
of the different races here seeing to be looked to con-
fidently by all, the whitepeople believing that their
motives and acts will be thereby appreciated and
freed from suspicion at home, and blacks that their
just grievances will be reine.lied. This is one of
most hopeful symptoms that one can trace, and
amid so much that is gloomy and that suggests
decay in things material as well in things political,
it is agreeable to note any hopeful symptom.
Meanwhile the course which will be taken in Eng-
land with regard to the future Constitution of the
island is awaited with some anxiety. The Imperial
Government may propose to Parliament, as Lord
Melbourne proposed upon the dead-lock in 1839, a
suspension of the Jamaica Constitution for a term
of years, during which the affairs of the island may