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JAMAICA.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening.
The West India and Pacific Steamship Company's
steamer European arrived here this evening.
On the 11th January an extraordinary session of
the Assembly was opened at Spanish Town, and
the following speech was delivered by Sir Henry
Storks :

,‘ I have requested your attendance here to-day
in an extraordinary session, aud, I am afraid, at
some inconvenience to yourselves, for the purpose
of submitting to you a bill to provide certain
statutory powers which will enable Royal Com-
missions to compel the attendance of witnesses,
and to examine them on oath under a Royal
Commission about to be issued by her Majesty the
Queen, for an inquiry into the origin, nature, and
circumstances of the late disturbances in this island,
and with respect to measures adopted for the sup-
pression of the same. The bill was placed before
you without delay, and I confidently trust in your
wisdom and prudence to give the Royal Commis-
sioners such powers as will facilitate the inquiry
ordered by her Majesty."

In reply to this speech, the following address was
returned by the Assembly :

6, We thank your Excellency for your speech at the
opening of the present session. It is our anxious
desire that the most searching inquiry should be in-
stituted into the origin, nature, and circumstances
of the late disturbance in this island, and with re-
spect to the measures adopted for the suppression of
the same, and it is satisfactory to us to find that her
Majesty has selected so able an administrator as
your Excellency to preside over the Commission
appointed for that purpose. We shall be prepared
to aid your Excellency in the carrying out of the
object contemplated, and to that end will give the
Commission such statutory powers as appear neces-
sary to facilitate and render efficient this important
inquiry."

Ultimately the following bill was introduced by
Mr. Westmoreland, a member of the Government,
and, after considerable opposition, it passed the
seeond reading, and was committed :

" Whereas, the origin, nature, and circumstances
of the late disturbances in this island, and the mea-
sures adopted for the suppression of the same, are
about to be investigated by a Royal Commission for
that purpose ; and whereas, for the effectual prose-
cution of such inquiry, it is expedient that her
Majesty's Commissioner or Commissioners of such
inquiry should examine witnesses upon oath, and
enforce the attendance of necessary witnesses ; be
it, and it hereby is enacted by the Governor, Legis-
lative Council, and Assembly of Jamaica,
" 1. That every commissioner appointed by her
Majesty for the purpose aforesaid shall have power
to summon and to enforce the attendance of any
witnesses whom he may deem necessary for such
inquiry, and to examine him, upon oath, before
such commissioner or board of commissioners as her
Majesty to that end may appoint or direct.
"2. That any witness knowingly or wilfully giving
false evidence, upon bath, on such inquiry, shall be
deemed for all purposes to be guilty of wilful and
corrupt perjury, and be liable to the penalties
thereof.

" 3. That no privilege or exemption from giving
evidence on the ground of official confidence shall
preclude or prevent Her Majesty's Commission, or
Board of Commissioners, from insisting on exacting
the evidence of any witness.
" 4. That it shall be lawful for her Majesty's
Commission or Board of Commissioners to direct
payment to any witness of his reasonable travelling
and other expenses from the island treasury, unless
the same shall have been provided for out of the
Treasury of the United Kingdom."
The House was to meet again on the 18th, when
another deb Ate wotgcl prolAbly ex* 011 the Banae

subject ; but there was little doubt of the passing
of the measure.

Governor Eyre had retired to his country house
at Hamstead, and there awaited the Commission.
The prisoners from Morant Bay and Port Antonio,
for trial before the legal Commission, were being
brought up when the European left, with the wit-
nesses against them.

The members of the Commission were expected
to arrive about the 20th of January.
In anticipation of further disturbances, the police
in all the recently-disturbed districts have been re-
inforced.

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, Feb. 9.
We have got a new Fenian trial in Dublin, but it
is to be hoped not the beginning of a new series.
There was a court-martial held yesterday at the
Royal Barracks, to try a gunner, John Flood, " for
conduct to the prejudice of good order and military
discipline," in leaving at liilsea, on the 13th Sept.,
1865, written a letter to the Irish People.
The following is a copy of this letter, which was
certainly well calculated to encourage the delusion
of the conspirators connected with that journal :
Hilsea Barracks, near Portsmouth, Sept. 15, 1865.
Sir,—l beg to request you will send me by return of
post your valuable paper called the Irish People, as there is
great talk of that noble society called the Fenian Brother..
hood. I can assure you that every Irishman in the British
army is watching with eager attention the movements of
that fine society. I got one from home some time since,
and I can assure you that there was dozens coming to me
for the lond of it, whom I told that I had it. I have to In-
form you that the Channel Fleet left here foi Ireland to
watch them, and to blockade the ports ; the people of the
country trates that society with redicule ; I have read this
week in the paper about too of them comming from the
county Clare into Limerick, and of their marching through
the streets ; we hope that when the day comes they will do
wat's their intention, and we also hope the wont act as the
did at the battle of the Boyne. The people of the Emerald
Isle lost a good chance when the Crimean war was raging.
That was the time for her sons to have another Clontarf.
Will you be so kind as to let me know whether you will
send me your valuable paper weekly, monthly, or quar-
terly, and the price of it, as I should be most happy for to
have it. Sir, I have not much to say to you this time,
but I remain yours truly, watching that happy day,
ONE OP THE IRISH BRIGADE.

Direct to Gunner John Flood, G Battery, 9 Brigade,
Royal Artillery, Hilsea Barracks, Ilampstea,d, England.
The expressions in this letter, the prosecutor said,
proved the writer to be unfaithful to his oath and a
traitor to the Queen. He quoted an article which
appeared in the Irish People on the 2d of January,
1864, very similar to the letter sent by the prisoner,
and containing these words :
During the early stages of the Crimean war the country
was stripped of troops; but an unprepared people could do
nothing. The opportunity came in vain. . . . But the
opportunity comes and goes, leaving the unprepared Irish
people just as it found them. When the crisis was over
people began to wake up, and find that they had let a first-
rate chance slip through their fingers.

At the conclusion of the statement Acting-In-
spector Hughes was examined as to the seizure of
the Irish People and the letters found in the office,
including the one signed by the prisoner, which he
identified.

Capt. 'l'. E. Byrne, R.A., proved that the letter
was in the handwriting of the prisoner. It bore the
post-mark " Hilsea Barracks."

Pearce Nagle was examined to prove the existence
of the Fenian conspiracy.

The witnesses were cross-examined by the pri-
soner's counsel, and by the prisoner himself. The
prosecutor read a number of extracts from articles
published in the Irish People, after which the Court
adjourned to this morning.
Thomas Barry, the person arrested at the Fenian
ammunition factory in Great Britain-street, was
brought up before the magistrate at the Capel-street
Police-office yesterday. The prisoner is apparently
about 36 years of age, and there was a kind of dar-
ing and desperate coolness in his manner that was
most striking. His clothes, which were originally
black, bore the marks of having been exposed to
hard usage in a forge, and his hair and beard, of a
semi-red, were tangled around his head and face. The
several officers of the police having detailed in evi-
dence the particulars of the seizure which have
already appeared, Mr. Leon indentified the prisoner
as one of two men who took the premises at the
rear of the house on the 3d of January, at a rent of
ss. per week. One of th• men said that he wanted
the lower part of the stable for a brass-smith's
forge, and Barry said that he wanted the loft as a
cabinetmaker's workshop. The presiding magi-
strate decided on remanding the prisoner for
further examination.

Dublin detectives are on watch at the Bray Rail-
way station to prevent the importation of arms into
the county of Wicklow, which is not proclaimed.
It is reported that a body of armed men on
Wednesday night fired shots through the drawing-
room windows of Mrs. Caulfield, of Pallaskenry,
widow of the late General Caulfield. No person
was injured. The cause assigned for the outrage
is that Mrs. Caulfield had caused notice of eject-
ment to be served on a tenant.

A man named Goulding was accidentally killed
on Wednesday night on tie Waterford and Lime-
rick Railway, the head being completely severed
from the body by an outgoing train.
The Fitzgerald will case, which has already occu-
pied 14 days, still proceeds. Yesterday Mr. Brew-
ster, Q.C., finished his speech, after which the fol-
lowing witnesses were examined to prove the inca-
pacity of the late baronet :—General Sir Francis
Macnamara, Captain Augustus Butler, Dr. C.
Fleming, who attended the testator professionally ;
Mr. R. W. Studdert, who had been made a trustee
of the deed without his knowledge or consent, and
Dr. P. Cullen, a practising physician at Ennis, who
hadvisited the deceased at his residence in the coun-
try. The witnesses deposed to a great change in Sir
Edward's habits about ten years ago. From being
very neat in his person and dress, he became slovenly
and unclean, while his conversation and behaviour
rendered him unfit for respectable society. He was
generally intoxicated in the forenoon. He was also
afflicted with kleptommlia, taking home from the
club envelopes, a snuff-box, or anything that came
handy to him. On one occasion Dr. Cullenan
missed his spectacles at the Ennis Club-house, and
suspecting Sir Edward, followed him to a grocer's,
where he found them on his nose.

Friday Evening.
To-day the police discovered another extensive
manufactory of ammunition in a small house in
South Earl-street. All the materials for making
Minie rifle cartridges were present in abundance ;
conical bullet moulds, powder measures, small tun-
dishes, shapes, and paper cut in the requisite pat-
tern. In two boxes the officers found no less than
1,260 cartridges, the greater number of which were
fully prrpared for Minie rifles. The police have
ascertained that over £6OO a week has been paid to
persons working in those ammunition factories in
this city ; four have been discovered, but it is be-
lieved there are many more, and that vast quantities
of ammunition have been distributed through the
city and country generally. A man named Hayden
was arrested on the premises. He was brought up
to-day before Mr. M'Dermot at the Head-office and
remanded. John Carey, an alleged Fenian Centre
from Mallow, county of Cork, was also brought
before the same magistrate, and remanded. A per-
son, thought to be Stephens, disguised as a beggar,
has been arrested and imprisoned at Thurles, pend-
ing inquiries as to his identity.
The trial of Gunner John Flood was continued
to-day, and has been adjourned till Monday next.
Colour-Sergeant Lynch was then put on his trial
for mutinous and insubordinate conduct. The pri-
soner pleaded " Not Guilty."
The Earl of Clonmel died on Wednesday at
Bishop's Court, county of Kildare, in the 50th year
of his age. His son, Lord Earlsfort, succeeds to
the title and estates.

GREAT STORM AT Bo ULOGNE.—lntelligence from
Boulogne states that terrible weather has been experienced
there for the last few days. On Monday morning, at a
quarter to two, a thunderstorm suddenly burst over the
town with great violence. Several cottages atPontßriques
and La Capelle were struck by the electric fluid and some
live stock killed. In one instance the inmates were actu-
ally hurled from their beds, but escaped wonderfully. On
Wednesday night the wind blew a perfect hurricane from
the S.W. to S.E. A schooner, the Tamar, laden with stone
from Pl 3 mouth, is a total wreck at that fatal spot of the
coast, Wimereux, where the St. George was lost, and as in
h""" all LaAde Perished. Wry eamltits Are expected.

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HER MAJESTY•

OSBORNE, Friday.

Her Majesty drove out yesterday morning, ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses Princess
Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and
in the afternoon with her Royal Highness Princess
Louise.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tees-
dale, hunted with his harriers near Langley yes-
terday.

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive
attended by the Countess of Macclesfield.

Their Royal Highnesses went to the Lyceum
Theatre in the evening.

The Late Gale.

DEAL, Thursday Night.
During a heavy gale from the westward yester"
day morning, and a tremendous sea, the ship 1011
Crown of Liverpool, bound from Shanghai for
London with a cargo of tea, went ashore on the
outer edge of the Goodwin Sands, about two miles
south of the beacon. She fired signal guns of dis'
tress, but they were not heard front the shore, and
the weather being very thick the ship was not seen
for some time, As soon as the distressed vessel WO
observed the Walmer Lifeboat of the National Life-
boat Institution went off to her, but getting to lee-
ward she had to work to windward against a heavy
sea, and did not reach the vessel until one o'clock
p.m. Meanwhile the North Deal lifeboat, the Van
Rook, which also belongs to the National Lifeboat
Institution, had put out, and had arrived alongside
the ship, which was then in charge of a Deal lugger.
Soon after three steam tugs arrived, and fortunately
by the joint help thus afforded the ship was got off
the sand when the next tide rose, and was towed
into Margate Roads, with the loss of two anchors
and chains, which were left in the sands. The two
lifeboats then returned to the shore. Both boats are
reported to have behaved admirably in the broken
water on the Goodwin, although they shipped some
very heavy seas.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT, N. 8., Feb. 7.
Mr. S. Cavan reports that the brigantine Isabella,
of Waterford, went ashore on the Melton Sands, on
the river Dee, a few days since, and was in a position,
of great danger. She beat heavily, and made a great
deal of water. Immediately the news reached Kirk-
cudbright, the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In'
stitution was promptly launched, and after a hard
pull of two hours reached the vessel, which by thi"
time was about half a mile from the westward shore
of the river, which is a bold rocky coast, and upon
which she must have inevitably have gone to pieces
had her remaining anchor dragged. The crew would
have left the vessel long before the arrival of the
lifeboat in their own boat, but they durst not at'
tempt it, the Fea being so heavy. Fortunately the
vessel ultimately floated, and by the assistance of
the lifeboat crew was taken to a place of safety.

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