The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-19 00:00:00

THIRD READINGS.

The following bills were road a third time and passed
—Clare College, Cambridge (Blythe's Benefaction),
Southern Railway, Taylor's Estate, and Troyte's Estate.
THE OUTBREAK IN JAMAICA..
Mr. MILL asked the Government whether they were
in a position to, answer the questions he had placed on the
paper with respect to the late proceedings in Jamaica ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he
must trouble the hon. gentleman to read his questions at
full length.
Mr. MILL then proceeded to road the questions as they
appeared on the paper. The first of the 10 queries em-
bodied in the question was whether any steps had been
taken or would be taken to bring to trial Lieut. Adcock
for unlawfully putting to death two men named Mitchell
and Hill without trial. The question was then repeated
as to Captain Hole, Lieutenant Oxley, Ensign Cullen,
Dr. Morris, Stipendiary Magistrate Fyfe ; Attorney-
General Hislop ; Lieutenant Brand Captain Lake,
Captain Field, General O'Connor, Colonel Nelson, Bri-
gadier-General, in Jamaica, and the string of
inquiries closed by asking whether any legal proceedings
had been or would be ordered to be taken against Mr.
Edward John Eyre, lately Governor of Jamaica, for com-
plicity in all or any of the above acts, and particularly for
the illegal trial and execution of Mr. George William Gor-
don ; and, if not, whether her Majesty's Government
were advised that these acts were not offences under the
criminal law ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the
nine or ten questions run into one exceeded the bounds
usually acted upon at the present time. He could not but
.think that it was proper that the hon. member should have
ascertained that the whole of the proceedings were un-
lawful before he assumed that they were so. Ac-
cording to his (the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer's) idea it was a matter of opinion ; however,
with respect to the question he tad to say that
the late Government had exercised a wise and sound dis-
cretion in appointing the commission to inquire into the
unhappy proceedings in Jamaica, and acting on the report
of the Commissioners they had thought it right to dismiss
the Governor. The Admiralty and the Horse Guards had
also been consulted with respect to ulterior proceedings ;
the former had replied that they saw no ground for any
fresh action ; and with respect to the Horse Guards,
they had not yet sent in their answer, and in this state of
things the hon. member was pressing for an answer. The
late Government had fully considered and acted in the
matter, and under the present circumstances he had no
further information to give the hon. member.
STEEL RIFLE BARRELS.
Mr. SAUNDERSON asked the Secretary of State for
War whether the attention of her Majesty's Government
had been directed to the question of substituting cast steel
barrels, bored in the solid, for the iron barrels employed
in the manufacture of the Enfield rifle ?
Mr. WALPOLE, on behalf of his gallant friend the
Secretary of War, said their attention had been directed
to the matter—that experiments were going on which
might possibly lead to the use of steel in place of iron in
the construction of rifle barrels.