The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

REMARKS.

(he atmospherical pressure is uniformly high : it has increased
more than four-tenths of an inch in co .land, but has fallen slightly
at Yarmouth and Cape Gris Nez. Temperature in the British Isles
has fallen—chiefly in cur north-east coast. At Scarborugh the de-
crease amounts to 16 deg. Fresh winds from the northwards have
prevailed since yesterday, and are now general in these islands, except
in the extreme north of Scotland, where the wind is still light. The
weather is cloudy at English and Irish stations, but in the north the
sky is clear. Some rain has fallen at the north-eastern stations.

There is still very little news from the Peninsula, and
what there is does not tend to clear up the past or in any
way forecast the future. We a-e informed that the
Spanish Government, as well as the French Minister,
objected to the Duke of Montpensier being permitted to
reside in Portugal. The Lisbon Government has, how-
ever, disregarded these objections, and accorded the
permission. The motive for this almost dangerous act of
boldness is difficult to discover, except on the supposi' ion that
a revolution in Spain is desired by the Portuguese Ministry.
From Seville we bear that all the civil authorities of the
town have been dismissed. It is added that the post•ofiice
employes refused to open the letters addressed to the Duke
and Duchess of Montpensier; but this statement hardly
explains the dismissal of " all " the civil authorities.
Admiral Nunez, commander of the Spanish fleet in the
Pacific, has expressed his desire to return to Spain. •

If the spread of intelligence in Russia be measured by
the number of books issued at St. Petersburg and Moscow,
it must be without parallel. An enormous quantity of
literature is published, scarcely any work reaching less
than three editions, and many fifteen. The sale of a book,
therefore, ranges from 30,000 to 350,000 copi, s. Unfor-
tunately, the quality of this literature is not altogether
reassuring. The trade is chiefly in the two capitals, and
is carried on by booksellers, says the IVoraia Vraimaya,
who are too greedy speculators to care about the good or
evil tendency of the volumes they put into circulation.
(Russia does not appear to be by any means alone in this
respect.) It is suggested that a society of publishers and
literary men should be formed, with the object of regulat-
ing the publication of books destined for the lower classes.

The executive of the Jamaica Committee—Mr. Stuart
Mill, M.P., Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., and Mr. Chesson,
the secretary—have published an address to the subscribers
A the fund for prosecuting Mr. Eyre, recapitulating the
action taken and the results obtained. They state that
the efforts of the committee have been well repaid, for a
great amount of sound public opinion has been called
forth. Mr. Eyre is stated to be in error when be speaks
of himself as having been twice acquitted : "As there
has been no trial, there can have been no acquittal ;
and in that respect the question remains exactly
where it was before these proceedings were commenced."
In answer to the charge of persecution, so far as it is
founded on the protraction of the proceedings, the execu-
tive committee repeat that for this protraction they are
not responsible. Had Mr. Eyre been advised to meet
justice like his subordinates, his case would have been
brought to as prompt a hearing as those of General
Nelson and Lieutenant Brand. On the whole, the docu-
ment is drawn up in no narrow or partisan spirit, and
altogether it gives a fair risuma of the events arising
out of the melancholy proceedings enacted in Jamaica
during the rebellion, and of the efforts since mad 4 to have
hie questio4 decided on its legal bearings.