The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Carlyle, who is not chairman of the
Eyre Defence Committee, but merely a member of
it (the chairman not being yet selected, and the com-
mittee being only in course of formation), has re-
-ceived, and is daily in the habit of receiving, from
entire strangers, a quantity of letters, newspaper
excerpts, &c., on the subject of " The Eyre Defence
Fund," not one of which can he afford to read,
much less to answer. In consequence he has per-
mitted me to publish the following—his prompt and
emphatic answer to myself on my first applying to
him to join the committee—as his one answer to all
such volunteer correspondence from without.—l am,
sir, yours, &C.,

HAMILTON HUME, Hon. Sec.

Ripple Court, Ringwould, Dover,
23d August, 1866.
Sir,—The clamour raised against Governor Eyre appears
to mo to be disgraceful to the good sense of England ; and
if it rested on any depth of conviction, and were not rather
(as I always flatter myself it is) a thing of rumour and
hearsay, of repetition and reverberation, mostly from the
teeth outward, I should consider it of evil omen to the
country, and to its highest interests in these times. For my
own share, all the light that has yet reached one on Mr.
Eyre and his history in the world goes steadily to establish
the conclusion that he is a just, humane, and valiant man,
faithful to his trusts everywhere, and with no ordinary
faculty of executing them ; that his late services in Jamaica,
were of great, perhaps of incalculable, value, as certainly
they were of perilous and appalling difficulty—something
like the case of " Fire," suddenly reported, "iu the ship's
powder-room' in mid ocean, where the moments mean the
ages, and life and death hang on your use or misuse of the
moments; and, in short; that panalty and clamour are not
the thing this governor merits from any of us, but honour and
thanks, and wise imitation (I will farther say), should
similar emergencies rise, on the great scale or on the
small, in whatever we are governing !
The English nation never loved anarchy ; nor was wont
to spend its sympathy on miserable, mad sedition; espe-
cially of this inhuman and half-brutish typo ; but always
loved order, and the prompt suppression of seditions ; and
reserved its tears fir something worthier than promoters
of such delirious and fatal enterprises who had got their
wages for their sad industry. Has the English nation
changed, then, altogether ? I flatter myself it has not, not
yet quite ; but only that certain loose superficial portions
of it have become a great deal louder, and not any wiser
than they formerly used to be.

At any rate, though much averse at any time, and at
this time in particular, to figure on committees, or run into
public noises without call, I do at once, and feel that as a
British citizen I should, and must make you welcome to
my name for your committee, and to whatever good it can
do you. With the hope only that many other British men
of far more significance in such•a matter, will at once or
gradually do the like ; and that, in fine, by wise effort and
persistence, a blind and disgraceful act of public injustice
may be prevented ; and an egregious folly as well—rot to
say, for none can say or compute, what a vital detriment
throughout the British empire, in such an example set to all
the colonies and governors the British empire has
Farther service, I fear, I am not in a state to promise ;
but the wholo weight of my conviction and good wishes is
with you ; and if other service possible to me do present
itself, I shall not want for willingness in case of need. En-
closed is my mita of contribution to your fund.—l have
the honour to be, yours truly, T. CAIZLI
To Hamilton Hume, Esq., Hon. Sec. " Eyre

Defence Fund."

FATAL ACCIDENT.—ShortIy after 12 o'clock to-
day considerable sensation was caused by a report that a
serious accident had occurred to some workmen employed
at a house in Ivy-bridge-court, which is situated at the
rear of the International Journal and Foreign Paper Office.
76, Strand. Upon inquiry, however, it appeared that there'
was only one sufferer, a brick-layer, named John Crispin,
who was employed at the top of the house in, the court,
and missing his footing was precipitated to the ground, a
distance of about 70 feet. Assistance was immediately
procured, but before ho reached Charing-cross Hospital
life was extinct. The unfortunate man has left a wife and
family.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sunday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday morning.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, rode
to Abergeldic.

In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princess
Louise, went out driving.
The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, as the 'Minister
in attendance OR her Majesty, arrived at the Castle
yesterday, and also Dr. Caird.

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined With the
Queen last night.
The Hon. Mrs. Hardinge had the honour of
dining with the Queen and royal family.
Monday.
The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian,
Princess Louise, and the Duke of Edinburgh, and
attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
were present at Divine service at the parish church
of Crathie yesterday morning.
Dr. Caird, chaplin to her Majesty, officiated.
Mr. Walpole and Dr. Caird had the honour of
dining with the Queen and royal family.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Colonel Home
Purves, left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, yesterday morning'
for Londesborough Lodge, Scarborough, for a few weeks.
His Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale has
returned to his residence at Twickenham, from Switzer
land.

The marriage of his Highness Prince Edward de
Ligne to Augusta Theodosia Mary, daughter of Sir David
T. Cunynghame, Bart., of Milncraig, in the county of
Ayr, and Cosham House, Hants, took place on the 11th
instant, at Warwick-street Chapel. Archbishop Manning
officiated.