The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

Mr. BUXTON asked the Secretary of State for the
Colonies whether he had reason to believe that the alleged
official report of Mr. Gordon's trial which has been pub-
lished in England may be received as an authentic copy of
the proceedings ?

Mr. CA4tDWELL said the authentic copy had been
cent by Mr. Eyre to Major-Gen. Storks, and no copy of it
had been received at the Colonial-office, therefore he could
not say whether the copy referred to was correct or not.
Mr. BRIGHT asked if the despatches received at the
War Department and Admiralty relating to Jamaica could
be laid before Parliament.

Mr. CARDWELL said he was not, connected with those
departments, and he thought the hon. member had better
give notice in the ordinary way.
PROVISION FOR PRINCESS HELENA AND

PRINCE ALFRED.
The house having resolved itself into a committee, the
consideration of her Majesty's Message to the house was
taken into consideration.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
bringing forward this matter, said he should follow the
course that had been adopted in the ccze of the Princess
Alice. The Princess Helena, when the most weighty
of all trials fell upon her Majesty, was her eldest
unmarried daughter, and in the great grief that her
Majesty was plunged the princess became a light, a
stay, and a solace to her illustrious mother. The
princess Helena was on the point of marriage, and
he proposed that as the Princess Alice received an an-.
nuity of £6,000 a year, and a dowry of £30,000, the same
sum should be placed at the disposal of her Majesty for
Princess Helena—the annuity to be settled on her royal
highness for life, and to commence from the day of hor
marriage. With respect to Prince Alfred they had no
such precedent, and they had therefore to consider the
establishment he ought to keep up on his coming of age.
He therefore proposed that a sum of £15,000 a year
be paid out of the consolidated fund in order that
her Majesty might grant an annuity of that amount
to His Royal Highness for life, and be settled
in such a manner as her Majesty thought proper
--the annuity to date from his coming of age. The prince
came of age last year, so the date of the commencement of
the annuity was past ; but in the event of any contin-
gency arising from the marriage of his royal highness,
Parliament would be called upon to reconsider the motion
when determ:ning the amount of jointure. -
Mr. DODSON having put the first resolution relative
to the dowry of Princess Helena,

Mr. DISRAELI rose to express the pleasure he was
sure would prevail while the provision for her royal high-
ness was being agreed to.
The resolution was agreed to unanimously.
The resolution with respect to the annuity to Prince
Alfred was next put.

Mr. BOUVERIE said that as his royal highness was
heir presumptive to the sovereignty of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, he thought the annuity ought to be so settled as to
render it impossible that any invidious question should
over arise, supposing his royal highness was called to that
sovereignty.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had
remarked that the annuity would be settled as her Ma-
jesty thought proper. That was, he felt assured, the pro-
per basis for the annuity.

The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried
unanimously.