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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1866.

possible to enslave." It is this which is the great
security of Mr. CLAY'S Franchise Bill, and which
;should commend it to public support.

it adds greatly to the vexatious nature of the
affa it of the Jamaica inquiry that so much time is
con sumed in preparation, and the distance from the
colony has allowed so much misrepresentation to
be :made with impunity that the opponents of Mr.
EYRE'S policy have had it pretty much their own
way hitherto. It must be evident, however, to all
who take an impartial view of the matter, that a
strict consistency has marked Mr. EYRE'S course
from the outset of this affair, and in all his reports
to the Home Government, as well as his replies to
the addresses of the colonists, we rind a clear-
ness of expression, a calmness of judgment,
and a perfect self-command, which prove in-
dubitably that nothing could be more exaggerated
than the remarks made about his vehemence and
violence. No man could possibly have been placed
in a more painful position in an official point of
view, or one of a more irritating nature than the
deposed Governor of Jamaica, and yet his most un-
scrupulous adversary cannot point to any verified
account which shows impatience or an unbecoming
manner. In the letter addressed by him to Mr.
CARDWELL on the occasion of the command being
handed over to Sir HENRY STORKS, which has ap-
peared in the third series of Jamaica Papers, he con-
trives to give expression to his intentions in language
that is alike forcible and moderate. In such
a trying emergency, how many men would have
displayed indignation and excitement, certainly ex-
cusable, and no doubt justifiable under the circum-
stances, but at the same time not consistent with
the dignity and decorum of official life, or suitable
to the requirements of one in an important and re-
sponsible position. In the letter referred to we
find all that can be desired, and far more than
might have been expected. He expresses his belief
that the result of the inquiry will be to
show that the extreme measures resorted to
were rendered necessary by the circumstances of
the case ; and this opinion, as we know, is
shared by the inhabitants of the colony, and
it is amply testified by the numerous addresses
that have been sent to the Governor. Mr. EYRE
states that he will transfer to Sir HENRY STORKS
all the documents relative to the rebellion which
were being prepared in answer to Mr. CARDWELL'S
'despatches ; and he declares that he will willingly
afford him any assistance or information which can
render his task more easy.

No one can fail to appreciate the earnestness with
which Mr. ETRE requests Mr. CARDWELL to convey
to her MAJESTY his humble assurance that, "in the
discharge of the onerous and responsible duties
which have devolved upon me, I have ever been
actuated by the single desire to do my duty faith-
fully to my Sovereign, to uphold the honour of the
Crown, and to insure as far as practicable the
safety and welfare of the colony and people in-
trusted to my care." It must be borne in mind that
this is not a mere form of words made use
of at the close of a career, or on the occasion of
retiring from duties for private reasons, but it
is the acknowledgment on the part of a public
servant of as deliberate an affront as could possibly
be put upon a man of honour and spirit. As Mr.
EYRE himself expresses it, he is " giving up to an-
other a government which he has had the honour of
administering for four years under circumstances of
great difficulty and trial." A man who had acted in any
one particular as Mr. BRIGIIT and his friends declare
Mr. EYRE to have done in the course of this affair
of the Jamaica insurrection could no more have
written this letter than he could have comported
himself with calmness upon the arrival of his suc-
cessor. Those who feel that they have acted for the
best, and are sustained by the conviction that
their deeds will bear inspection and scrutiny, are
not dependent upon the favours of fortune, and do
not need lucky chances to give them confidence or
impart strength to their proceedings. Nothing
has given the lie more completely to the
scandalous reports which have been circulated con-
cerning Mr. ETRE than his own words; and we defy
any of the faction to show that there are signs of
either heat or haste on the one hand, or of hesita-
tion and uneasiness on the other. On the contrary,
there are abundant proofs that he was the right
man in the right plade, and that had the magnates
of anti-slavery societies and the virtuosi of Exeter
Hall been content to forego their scrupulous inter-
ference, no doubt we should have heard that Mr.
EYRE was an excellent Governor, and had proved
himself an efficient servant of the Crown in a most
trying emergency.

The extreme haste with which the Government
have acted is well shown by the confusion that has
arisen in many cases. Some of the most conclusive
proofs that were furnished of GORDON'S guilt at his
trial were to have been forwarded to the Colonial-
office, at the request of Mr. CARDWELL, but mean-
while Sir 11. STORKS arrived, and everything was
handed over to him. In fact, everything that men
in high places could do to prejudge and prejudice
the cause of one who served them faithfully
has been done by our Government, and for
this dereliction of their duty we trust that
they will be called to account by Parliament
and the country, whatever be the result of the
Jamaica Inquiry. They have used the power en-
trusted
to them by their countrymen for the pur-
poses of promoting the ends of a faction, and in so
doing certainly have appeared to go against their
own preconceived notions. We have no doubt that
if Mr. CARDWELL had been left alone he would
have conducted this affair with discretion, and
afforded satisfaction to all concerned in the colony
and at home, with the exception of prejudiced par-
tisans and extreme opinionists.

It certainly seems extraordinary that people sit-
ting here at home, with very meagre information
as to the full particulars, should take upon
themselves to declare that there was no proof
of a deep-rooted rebellion, and that it was not jus-
tifiable to keep martial law in existence for so long
a period. If it were not on so grave a subject, it
would be ludicrous to witness such assumption and
ignorance. Mr. EYRE'S remarks to Mr. CARDWELL
respecting the demands on his time sufficiently indi-
cate the state of things in the island at the time of
the outbreak and subsequently to it. " For the
last ten weeks," he says, " I have had an over-
whelming pressure of work, arising from the rebel-
lion, and from the arrangements having to be made
for the safety and tranquillity of the island ; there
has scarcely been a clay, Sundays even not excepted,
that I have not laboured from ten to sixteen hours,
and often had been called up in the middle of the
night to do so also." We have been told that re-
volutions are not made with rose-water, but the
members of the faction would have had us believe
that they can be stopped by tame measures and
mild remonstrances. Facts are stubborn things,
however, and they speak out with a force and a
meaning that cannot be contradicted in all the
testimonies we receive from Jamaica. It was no
fancied outbreak that disturbed the minds of the
colonists, and it was no needless vigour that was
employed to subdue it. It is, indeed, hard that a
man's merits should tell against him. had not
Mr. EYRE, by his
boldness ancl decision, put a stop

to the machinations of th' mg-roes, the most ranting
speaker at Exeter-hall, and the most noisy dema-
gogue on a platform at a meeting, could not have
doubted the reality of the conspiracy.

LA TEST INTEL LIGENCF.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 20 (Evening).
To-clay in the Chamber of Deputies, Senor
Molina announced, in the name of the Press, that
he intended to address a question to the Govern-
ment with a view to the improvement of the position
of journalism in Spain.

On the demand of the Government, Senor Molina
postponed his motion.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB: 21.
The Emperor Napoleon has addressed the follow-
ing letter to the Minister of the Interior :--

" I have paid a visit to the Jardin du Luxem-
bourg, and am convinced that there would be every
advantage in leaving the western portion of that
useful promenade untouched. I request you,
therefore, to have the first plans altered accord-
ingly."

M. Boitelle, Prefect of Police, has been appointed

Senator.

BOURSE, Feb. 20, Two o'clock.—The market
exhibits the same indifference as yesterday. Quo-
tations also show little variation. Threes, for the
Account have declined Tic.—to 69f. sc. Italian
Fives have advanced sc.—to 60f. 95c; Credit Mo-
bilier Shares have advanced if. 25c.—to 672 f. 50c;
with these exceptions all Stocks and Shares are
quoted without change. English Consols are tele-
graphed with a rise of if. Three o'clock.—The
market has closed on the following quotations

4i per Cents 9B 95
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 69 15
Do. end month €9 12
Credit Mobilier 677 50
Do. end month
Bank Shares — 3690
Credit Foncier 1325
Italian Loan GO 90
Do. end month 6l 05
RAIL'

Roman
Ottoman Fives 3B 75
Mexican Loan 47 50
Do. Bonds 305
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 41
Home Debt —
Deferred

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and blediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Acut.

- - 870
- 1116 25
883 75
- - 556 25

Romaa

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The Overland Mail has arrived, bringing the fol-
lowing dates :•--Calcutta, Jan. 23d ; Bombay, Jan.
28th.

Telegraphic news received in London on Monday
has anticipated the principal items of intelligence
brought by this mail. The subjoined details con-
cerning the reported probability that the treaty of
peace concluded with the Bhooteas may prove abor-
tive, are extracted from the Times of India, of
January 28th :

It is very certain that the guns have not yet been
returned, although previous reports stated that they
had already been received at Dewangiri. The Goo-
roo Lama, who has returned from an unsuccessful
mission to Toungsoo Penlow, states that that chief-
tain positively refuses to give up the guns or to have
anything more to do with the British. Toungsoo is
said to be taking active measures to strengthen his
position against our forces, and against the Bhooteas,
should they attempt to force him to comply with
the terms of the treaty. A number of strong
stockades have been built by him along the road
to Toungsoo, and some 3,000 men posted in such
positions as to offer effectual resistance should an
advance upon his capital be attempted by the Bri-
tish. Not a few of the native prisoners have been
returned, and more are daily expected. Though
they give heartrending accounts of the sufferings
and cruelties to which they have been subjected
they look none the worse, but are healthy and well
conditioned. Our regiments on the frontier are,
unfortunately, not in a very cheering state. Ma-
laria is very prevalent, and scarcely a day passes
without some deaths occurring among them. The
commissariat seems partly to have broken down,
chiefly from the mortality among the mules and tat-
toes comprising the train. This does not of course
in any way improve the condition Of the army.
Seeing that matters are in this state, it seems more
probable that Bhootan will be evacuated by our
troops sooner or later than that a cantonment
should be formed at Dewangiri, or a force pushed
on into the interior, to impress the barbarians with
a sense of our superiority.
On the 23d of January the Governor of Bom-
bay received the following despatches relating to
the threatening disturbances on the north-western
frontiers from Colonel Breecher, Punjaub frontier,
who reports :
Force has broken up. The Brigadier General
has left for Peshawur. We have destroyed the
three offending villages of the Upper Loudkhar
Valley. The head men are all in confinement.
They came in before the troops marched for Mur-
dan. The Khans of the three independent villages
of Pullee, Sharkhana, and Khormundy, beyond the
Frontier, in the Burrh of Swat, have come in and
apologised, and returned the money taken from our
subjects.' The Mullick, our subject who was im-
prisoned, having been released, not a shot has been
fired. Not a man of Swat or Bonair appeared or
took part. The Akhoond of Swat refused to aid
the Independent Khans.

OBITUARY.—Capt. Edmund King, Sind Horse ;
Edward K. Lidderdale, Esq., Bombay Civil Service;
Ensign Karnel, 7th Fusiliers; Lieut. G. I. Alleyne,
13th Native Infantry ; Dr. Halleur, late Professor
in the Presidency College, Calcutta ; Dr. Adair,
Medical Superintendent Indo-European Telegraph
Establishments.

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, February 17,
the births registered in London and twelve other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,459 ;
the deaths registered, 3,301. The annual rate of
mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 1,069 boys and 1,024
girls, in all 2,093 children, were registered in the
week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years,
1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase
of population, was 2,132.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,365. It was the seventh week in the year;
and the average number of deaths for that week is,
with correction for increase of population, 1,467.
The true number was 100 deaths less than that ob-
tained by calculation.

Typhus was fatal in 65 cases, whooping-cough in
56, scarlatina in 36, measles in 30, small-pox in 25,
diarrhoea, in 24. Six children died of whooping-
cough in the Hackney-road sub-district, 4 in that
of Peckham. Bronchitis and pneumonia continue
on the decline ; there were 131 deaths in the week
from the former, and 59 from the latter. To
phthisis 170 deaths were referred.
On the 7th inst., at 2, Pembroke-street, Islington,
the wife of a cabman, aged 28 years, died of " cholera
morbus after eating fish."—lnquest. .
On the 11th inst., at 31, Broad-street, Golden-
square, a milkwoman, aged about 60 years, died of
" exhaustion from extreme cold, and want of suffi-
cient food ; found insensible, and died in a few
minutes."

The following three deaths by carriage accidents
in the streets were registered in the week :—A car-
man, aged 50 years, run over by a cart; died on the
7th February in University College Hospital. The
wife of a courier, aged 76 years, run over in the
Euston-road ; died on the 3d February. A cabman,
aged 66 years, fell from a cab ; died on the Bth
February in the Royal Free Hospital.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 23 per
1,000 in London, 23 iu Edinburgh, and 29 in
lin ; 27 in Bristol, 32 in Birmingham, 44 in Liver-
pool, 34 in Manchester, 31 in Salford, 31 in Shef-
field, 38 in Leeds, 26 in Hull, 31 in Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, and 30 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was
44 per 1,000 during the week ending the 10th inst.,
when the temperature was 1.0 deg. Fahrenheit
lower than in the same week in London, where the
rate was 22 per 1,000.

Fever continues very fatal in Leeds and Salford.
In the latter borough the insufficiency of accommo-
diation for receiving into the union workhouse all
the fever patients requiring admittance has drawn
the attention of the guardians of the poor and other
local officers to the excessive prevalence of this dis-
ease. 'The return for last week from Liverpool shows
408 deaths, an increase of 61 upon those returned
in the previous week ; they include 42 from typhus,
17 from whooping-cough, 14 from scarlatina, and
25 inquest cases.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.342 in.
The barometric pressure fell to 28.48 in. on Sunday,
and rose to 29.85 in. on Saturday. The mean tem-
perature of the air in the week was 38.9 deg., which
is 0.6 deg. above the average of the same week in 50
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The ther-
mometer fell below the freezing point of water on
three nights, and on two other nights was below 34
deg. 'The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was 4.3 deg. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, complete
saturation being represented by 100, which point
was almost attained on Friday. The wind blew
generally from the south-west and north-west.
There was rain to the amount of 1.79 in., nearly all
of which fell on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.

SECESSION OF A CLERGYMAN.—The Ipswich Ex-
press of yesterday states that the Rev. P. Gordon, of
Oxford University, vicar of Assington, near Sudbury, has
intimated to his parishioners his intention of resigning his
living, with a view to join the communion of the church
of Rome. It is a family living, worth about £5OO a year.
CUTTING DOWN TREES FOR PIKE-lIANDLES.—RO-
eentIy Some young ash trees were cut down in a
plantation belonging to a man named Kilbrido, at Cappagh-
white, in which village, as stated in our last, some freshly
manufactured pikeheads had been discovered. A notice was
posted in the plantation to the effect that if the owner
would not mention anything about the matter, ho would
ere long bo rewarded by the perpetrators of this outrage,
who, there is every reason to believe, are connected in some
way with the Fenian conspiracy.—Clonntel Chronicle.

AN EXTINCT GIGANTIC NEW ZEALAND BIRD.—
The fossil remains of a gigantic bird, estimated to have
stood 25 foot high, have been discovered in some beds of
limestone at Nelson, in New Zealand. The remains con-
sist of a head minus the lower jaw, the dimensions of
which aro 3 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 10 inches ; the orbit of
the eye measured 4-1- inches by 2L- inches ; also a body
minus the neck ; the thorax is highly developed but rather
flat, the tail long, and body bulky ; the wings, which are
well defined, are large and close to the body, and are sepa-
rated by a saddle or cradle very graceful in form ; the fea-
thers covering the body are 910 large size 4114 lying close.
—Austr«lian, roper.

Tort
kw) Imifat

HER, MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Tuesday
Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High'
nesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove
out yesterday in a carriage and four.
-The Duchess of Roxburghe was in attendance.
Count Gleichen visited her Majesty.
The Rev. W. L. Ongow, chaplain and naval in-
structor of her Majesty's ship Racoon, arrived A
Osborne, and had the honour of dining with her
Majesty and the royal family.

-

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince of Wrales went to the llouse of Lords
yesterday afternoon.

In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales,
attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and Mayor
Teesdale, dined with his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge at Gloucester House.

-
Cour t Arrangements.
We have authority to state that the Queen will
hold during the ensuing season, at Buckingham
Palace, five Courts for the reception and presents-
tion of a certain number of ladies and gentlemel•
In order to avoid fatigue to her Majesty, the num'
ber of ladies and gentlemen attending each Court
will be limited to 250.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales Will
also, on behalf of her Majesty, hold two Drawing
Rooms at St. James's Palace, to receive those vh°
cannot be included at her Majesty's Courts under
the above regulations.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will also
hold levees at St. James's Palace on her Majesty's
behalf.

A notification will appear in the Gazette of the
date of the several Courts in question, and of the
regulations to be observed at them.

Death of Viscount Clifden.

Yesterday morning, shortly after four o'clock,
Viscount Clifden expired atDover House, Whitehall.
The late Right Hon. Henry Agar-Ellis, Viscount
and Baron Clifden, of Gowran, county Kilkenny, in,
the peerage of Ireland ; Baron Mendip, county of
Somerset, and Baron Dover, of Dover, county of Kent/
in Great Britain, was the eldest son of the HO'
George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, by Lady Geer-
giana Howard, daughter of the sixth Earl of Car-
lisle. His father was a man' of great Pre-
mise, and by his premature death in July, 1833, it
was considered by his political and literary friends
that the country had sustained a great loss.
Viscount Clifden was for some years a minor, and
on reaching his majority, like many other noblemen,
devoted his energies and fortune to the turf. The
late Lord Clifden for a time had one of the largest
and most successful ands belonging to any member
in the Jockey Club, and his success for a while was
very great, but the " glorious uncertainties" of the
Turf are like those of war—not to be commanded.
He achieved the double victory of the Derby and St.
Leger with Surplice, in 1848, and, as it was den°.
minated at the time, " broke the charm" by winning
those two events. Other successes, owing to his
large stud, inevitably fell to his share. He won the
Stewards' Cup at Goodwood, the Ascot Stakes ill
1850, the Liverpool Cup in 1851, and the Gre3",
Northamptonshire Stakes in 1852—the latter race
with Poodle, carrying the extraordinary feather
weight of 4st 51').
Lord Clifden expended a princely sum in support-
ing his racing stable. A large accumulated fortune,
vanished in a few years in consequence of his Zeal
for the Turf. On his marriage, in 1861, Viscount
Clifden, instead of continuing his lavish expend.':
ture on his stud, broke up his racing establishment
and devoted himself to home pursuits.

The late Henry Agar-Ellis, thus prematurely de-
ceased, was born 25th February, 1825, and marrio
23d September, 1861, Miss Eliza H. F. Seymour,
eldest daughter of Mr. and Lady Augusta Seymour'
by whom he has a twin daughter surviving, and ti
son, the heir apparent to the family honours, born
7th September, 1863.

Shortly after the birth of his son and heir uninis'
takable symptoms of weakness of constitution maul"
fested themselves. His illness at first excited the
alarm of his friends, and it was soon pronounced b 9
his medical attendants that softening of the boil'
had set in. Latterly his disease became a COn;
firmed malady. On Monday morning a slight
change was apparent, and at eight o'clock in the
evening his lordship underwent a crisis which ended
in his death at the hour above mentioned.