The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATUIIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1866.

TIIE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET
(Entrance 160, Piccadilly).
Set Dinners ns usual. The carte varied, choice, and mode-
rate. Turtle, thick and clear, always ready.
The Billiard Booms now conducted by J. Roberts, the
champion.
.'uppers until One a.m.
Elegant Saloon Dinin2* R. ems for Ladles.

T E .0 X F D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Ball Company (Limited.
EXTRA NOVELTIES. Operatic Selections performed
by Misses Russell, Barry,!Fitzilenry; Messrs. A. St. A lbyn,
litt,h, Bury, Dalton, and Tivoli, with full band and chorus,
conducted by Mr. F. JoNGUMANS.
Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the moat talented Foreiun and Enuiish artistes, in-
cluding Mr. HARRY SIDNEY and Mr. J. W. ADAMS.
Messrs. Duriah and Davies in their Nigger ecceatricit'e',
C. &c. All Excursionists to London should pay a visit to
this establishment. .

Admission—Area, tld.; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Open every evening at S.
Engagement of ihe talented JULIETTH and JULIA
DELEIIERRE, Violinists to all the Northern Courts, aged
respectively nine and thirteen years. Mdlle. Juliette will
also perform a Fantasi on her extraordinary instrument
called the Xilophone; composed of Bois et Faille. They will
appear Every Evening at Nine o'clock.

/V$T EST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.
Under New Management.
Proprietors—Messrs. Sweasey and Holland.
Two of the Grandest Selections ever performed, ROB ROY
and MACBETH, every evening, by 50 vocalists and a superb
band of 30 performers, conducted by P. Conti.
Alt UWE LLOYD'S new sbngs aye nightly received with
deaf, fling rounds of applause —JOLLY N ASII, the mirthful
—WEST, the Great Stump Orator—and EMMA WEST,
Serio-Comic and Burlesque Actress—LYDlA HOWARD, the
Smallest Actress in the World, only 25 inches high and two
and a half years of age—JAMES HE VIKINGS, the renowned
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*** Siveasey and Holland's S I'AR MINSTRELS, sixteen
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SPECIAL N OTICE. —ln consequence of the length of the en-
tertainments, doors will open at 7, commence at halt-past.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
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These elegant and popular Rooms. having been entirelyre-
decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luot Cunn. Manager,
M. GRENET.

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
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Portrait Models of the most distinguished Men of the Day
are likewise to be seen.

Admittance, le. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, 6d.

Open from 11 am. till 10 p.m.

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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
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WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
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H OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.--CON-
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WM. WILLI A.MS, Secretary.
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HOMELESS BOYS OF LOND ON. —The
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One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
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prize to theMerthyr glee party,who ►d already carried off
three of the prizes for choral competitibn. A vote of thanks
to the Mayor for presiding, and the sin ging of the national
song and chorus, "Ilea wlacl fy nhadaa," brought the Eis-
teddfod to a close.

OaThursday the principal feature o£ the concert was a
short cantata, written expressly for this Eisteddfod, by
Mr. John Owen, of Chester (Owain Alan). The title
is " Gwalia's Holiday," and the subject is the assembly of
the Welsh at their national festival, and praise of the
institution. Beginning with a brief overture, founded upon
two favourite airs, a spirited bass solo follows. " llark ! to
the hirlas horn." This horn is associated with a Cambrian
hero, °wain Cyfeiliog, and is celebrated by Mrs. Hemans
in some martial stanzas. The call is responded to by the
people in a stirring chorus, " To-day we come," at the
close of which the previous bass air is finely introduced in
unison. A metrical paraphrase of the proclamation with
which the Eisteddfod opens forms the subject of a sonor-
ous bass solo, "In the face of day ;" and in the same mea-
sure, the chorus succeeds,"Around it crowd dear memories,'
with a capital musical setting, and a descriptive accom-
paniment to the words, " The waves and storms shall cease
to roar." A graceful treble song, " Our fatherland," to one
part of which is a flute obligate, leads to a solo and chorus,
which concludes with a pleasant reminiscence of the first
air in the cantata. A quartet for alto, tenor, and two
bassos, challenges a reply to the question, " Shall free-
men's voices be not free ?" " Captain Morgan's march" is
ingeniously used as the subject for a choral apostrophe
" Ye hundred harps ;" the cantata closes with a chorus,
" Peal, peal our thanks, in which the composer reveals
his study of Handel, and that he has imbibed the great
master's spirit, without being fettered so as to become
imitative. The cantata reflects infinite credit upon Mr.
Owen, who, desiring to present an acceptable work to his
countrymen, has succeeded in producing a cantata notable
alike for its pleasing melodies and its skilful, effective, and
not too difficult harmonies. We should add that the Eng-
lish and Welsh words aro by Mr. Ceiriog Hughes ; and
that the cantata is published by Messrs. H. Hughes and
Son, of Wrexham, in a style worthy of a London house.
The second part of last Thursday's concert was a miscel-
laneous selection.
Zhe Eyre Defence and Aid Fund.

A meeting of the committee of the above fund was held
at No. 9, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, on the sth inst., Mr.
Thomas Carlyle in the chair.
Mr. THOMAS CARLYLE said that the object of the present
meeting was to ascertain what had , been done during the
past week in strengthening their numbers. He was glad
to find that no less than 25 new names had been added. It
was satisfactory also to know that subscriptions were flow-
ing in from all quarters. Mr. Carlyle concluded by propos-
ing that the list of subscribers to the fund up to date should
be announced in the daily papers, and that the public
should be invited to continue their contributions.

Colonel HENRY DE BATHE seconded the proposition.
_ _ _

Mr. Rusxrx said that it was as difficult to account for
the violence of the attack upon Mr. Eyre, as for the nar-
rowness of temper which had given it special direction. He
had joined the committee, as he doubted not every member
composing that committee bad joined it, in the simple de-
sire of obtaining justice, not for black men only, nor for
white, but for men of every race and colour. He detested
all cruelty, and all injustice by whomsoever inflicted, or
suffered; he would sternly reprobate the crimes which
dragged a black family from their home, to dig your fields;
and more sternly the crime which turned a white family
out of their home, that you might drive by a shorter road
over their hearth. But, whatever might be the motive or
the temper of the accusations brought against Mr. Eyre, the
ground of them was, under any circumstances, untenable.
His accusers were under the radical mistake of confusing
the office of a governor with that of a judge. The duty of
a judge was only to declare and enforce law. That of a go-
vernor is to do what law cannot do, and to deal with such
immediate events, and necessities arising out of them, as
may be beyond the scope of existing law. Now, so far as
the so-called "Governor" Pyre was not a governor, nor
intended to be one, by those who so styled him, but only
an administrator of British law in Jamaica, he (Mr. Rus
kin) was not there either to defend or accuse him. None
but those who knew all his acts, and their consistency or
inconsistency with written statute, had any right to do so.
To the arbiter of law in a criminal court it is no matter
what insurrection is imminent in the street outside, or what
will be the probable consequences of the criminal's acquit-
tal or condemnation. He must calmly acquit or condemn
according to law. But it was to be held in mind that if
Mr. Eyre, though called a governor, was in reality only a
law officer, there was at the time of the impending out-
break no governor of Jamaica. And Mr. Eyre, being called
one, had clearly no alternative but to take upon himself the
responsibility of the higher office, and as an English gentle-
man should do, as indeed he did, at his own peril, that
which needed to be done. The first thing needed to be done
in a crisis of imminent rebellion waste seize the ringleaders
of it, and bring thorn, if time and circumstances admit, to
legal trial ; but if the enemy to be dealt with is likely to
mistake legal delay for infirmity of purpose or hand, all
forms of law were by that fact effete and inapplicable ; and
they were so in all cases as soon as the question became
definitely one of time, and of instant danger. It was alleged
(Mr. Ruskin supposed) by Mr. Mill, and the party he led,
that to hang a man on suspicion amounted to murder. If
that were so, he presumed that to shoot a man on suspicion
would be no less murder. Now, in the course of the past
year a drunken workman staggered, late at night, inside
the garden gate of a gentleman living at Peckham. The
gentleman looked out of his window, saw the drunken man
in his garden, and then and there, on suspicion, shot him
dead. The jury did not even bring him in guilty of man-
slaughter. That being the present state of the home law re-
specting human life, Mr. Mill's beautifully logical position
might be expressed in these terms :—" For the protection of
your own person, and a few feet of your own property, it is
lawful for you to take life, on so much suspicion as may
arise from a shadow cast on the wrong side of your wall.
But for the safety, not of your own poor person, but of
16,000 men, women, and children, confiding in your pro-
tection and entrusted to it ; and for the guardianship, not
of your own stairs and plate chest, but of a provision in-
volving in its safety that of all English possessions in the
West Indies—for these minor ends, it is not lawful for you
to take a siuglelife on suspicion, though the suspicion rest,
not on a shadow on the wall, but on the experience of the
character and conduct of the accused during many previous
years." That was Mr. Mill's position, which he would con-
tentedly leave him to develope. For the question now to
be brought home to the English people was, not whethe
Mr. Eyre had erred in this act or the other, nor whether
the circumstances required less than he did, or more. They
might just as well bring any general who had won a deci-
sive battle to trial, because it was alleged that he had lost
five or six men in unnecessarilyoccupying a dangerous po-
sition, or had shot a peasant by mistake for a spy. The
question put at issue by the adverse prosecution was in
fact this, and nothing else than this, whether Mr. Eyre,
under circumstances of instant public danger, did, or did
not, do to the best of his power and ability, what he be-
lieved to be his duty ? To this question, fairly put, he (Alr.
Ruskin) doubted not that the hearts of all true and brave
Englishmen would make but one answer, namely, that
Mr. Eyre did his duty to the uttermost, with no by-fears
or base motives ; and that he was rewarded by being en-
abled to save the State entrusted to him. How otherwise
rewarded, it would be for England now to determine.
Had he, after all. efforts bravely made, failed of his pur-
pose—had he lost Jamaica, instead of saving it—if then,
after unquelled insurrection, there had been question
of government at all, he might justly and advisedly
have been superseded; but not even then brought to
trial on such grounds. But as the matter stands, the
official removal of him from his place was an act of na
tional imbecility, which had not hitherto its parallel in
history. It was
.the act—as this threat of prosecution
was the cry—of a nation blinded by its avarice to all
true valour and virtue, and haunted, therefore, by phan-
toms of both ; it was the suicidal act of a people which,
for the sake of filling its pockets, would pour mortal venom
into all its air and all its streams; would shorten the lives
of its labourers by 30 years a life, that it might get its nee-
dle-packets 2d. each cheaper ; would communicate its
liberty to foreign nations by forcing them to buy poison at
the cannon's mouth, and prove its chivalry to them by
shrinkingin panic from the side of people being slaughtered,
though a people who had given them their daughter for
their future queen ; and then would howl in the frantic
collapse of their decayed consciences, that they might be
permitted righteously to reward with ruin the man who
bad dared to strike down ono seditious leader and rescue
the lives of a population. Whether this cry, and the feel-
ing which it represented, were indeed the voice and the
thought of the English people it was now to be asked.
That was the simple, duty for which they were that day
met together. Ho believed it was not the voice of the whole
English people, and that there was another opinion of
theirs yet to be taken on the matter. But if not, and this
proved to be indeed the English mind, tho condemnation
or acquittal of Mr. Eyre were matters of very small mo-
ment, for the timo would then assuredly have come for the
bringing of the English people themselves to a trial, in
which judgment would not require to be petitioned for.
Mr. H. HUME (the honorary secretary) said he had a
proposition to bring before the committee, which he trusted
would
present. meet with t h
Before the all
those
he had a few facts to state relative to Mr. Eyro's position
at these:-1. Mr.
Eyro's removal from the Government
i of J
the present moment. The facts were
approvalmakin g o
thef
proposition, the
however,
and
facto, a removal from the public service, and m
h Jamaica w
fore now entirely disconnected from it. 2. Mr. Eyas
suspension from office in January, 1866, debarred him
ae is there-
fore e-
de
from completing the two and a half month g he

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had then to servo to make up the four years'
administration of a Government of the first class,
required to entitle him to claim a first class pen-
sion. 3. Mr. Eyre's dismissal in July, 1866, debarred him
from completing the year he had then to serve to make up
the 18 years' service as a calonial governor, required to en-
' title him to claim the full amount of pension grantable. 4.
The result of the suspension and removal from office com-
bined was consequently to place Mr. Eyre's claim in the
second instead of the first class, and to entitle him to only
two-thirds instead of to the full pension grantable. In other
words, Mr. Eyre's claim became reduced to one for a pen-
sion of £5OO, instead of for a pension of .£l,OOO which he
would have been entitled had he administered the govern-
ment of Jamaica for about another year. 5. Mr. Eyre's
dismissal from his government, if regarded as a proof
that he did not execute the duties of his office satisfac-
torily, would- enable the Secretary of State, if ho
thought fit, to declare that Mr. Eyre had forfeited all
claim to any pension whatever. 6. Mr. Eyre, being only
just 51 years of age, could not, under the Act of Parlia-
ment, receive any pension whatever for the next nine
years, even supposing the Secretary of State not to declare
his claim to bo forfeited ; and at the end of that time, if he
lived he would be entitled only to £5OO a year, instead of
to £l,OOO, in consequence of abrupt removal from office
before the completion of his term of service as governor
of Jam ai ca, and when hey stillrs adreluniirsetdrattoiosner:fe another
year to make up the 18 ea
govern-
ment, specified as the condition of a full pension being
granted. In plain language, Mr. Eyre's dismissal has
brought him the forfeiture of all pension. Nine years
hence, if he be alive, the then Secretary of State may, if
he think proper to reverse the judgment now passed, grant
him £5OO per annum. He (Mr. liurne) felt sure that these
facts only required to ba thoroughly known throughout
the coun try to cause still greater sympathy to be evinced
for Mr. Eyre, With the view of assisting the head com-
mittee in London, and thoroughly to canvass the opinions
of the educated portion of Englishmen, he begged there-
fore to propose that sub-committees be formed at every
important town in the three kingdoms.
Mr. W. 13. WATSON thought it a very desirable move-
ment, ark_ . no doubt that it, would -be responded to
everywhere. 1 o had no conception that Mr. Eyre had
been treated so severely.
The Hon. ROWLAND WINN said that he was not in tho
habit of joining committees of any kind, more especially
public ones ; but he most strongly agreed with the words
of Mr. Carlyle, that "it was a solemn public duty on the
part of every citizen who believed that Governor Eyro
had quelled the insurrection in Jamaica and saved that
island to come forward and boldly proclaim such to be his
opinion." He for one did believe that through the energy
and determination of Mr. Eyre the island was saved. The
royal commissioners had themselves expressed this cpi-
nion. And how had Mr. Eyre been received by his coun-
try ? Why, with execrations of the most infamous kind.
His own opinion was, that Mr. Eyre ought himself to take
the matter up, and prosecute, not the scribblers who as-
sailed him, but the Jamaica Committee itself. He was not
a lawyer, but he believed if any body of men had ever laid
themselves open to a charge of conspiracy, to say nothing
of libel, the members of that committee had.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the busi-
ness of the meeting.