The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

DECEMBER.

St. Albans

MARKETS.—(This Day.)

MARK-LANE.

The weather continues fine, and with it the wheat crops
progress s teadily towards yielding an early and abundant
harvest. T hough this favourable result is being readily die-
counted throughout the trade, not only in the provinces,
but also in the principal foreign markets, prices are
depressed. It is remarked, however, that wheat is already
10s to 15s below its highest point, and to this extent the
advantages of a good crop have already been anticipated,
and whilst with the continuation of fine weather the de-
pression may yet extend, there may be at any moment
a smart reaction, should an unfavourable change take place
in the atmosphere at so critical a period as the present.
At Mark-laue this morning the a.tendance was small,
and the disinclination to purchase undiminished, whilst
holders were generally disposed to realise where pos-
sible.

English wheat was in slow sale and irregular in price,
buyers having the advantage.
Foreign wheat hung on hand and offers rather under,
but rates were not refused.

Flour very dull of sale, and drooping in value.
Barley, beans, and peas quiet.
Oats steady.

TALLOW.
The market is fl :Lt at 43s 3d spot, 43s 3d June, and 43s
9d last months.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, June 3.—Sales probably 10,000 bales.
Market very firm.

LuNDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING,

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JUNE 2.
2d Dragoon Guards—Edmund Valiance to be Assistant-
S urgeon.
3d Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Richard rim to be' Cap-
tain ; Cornet J. P. E. Jervoise to be Lieutenant.
sth Lancers—Cornet II B. Williamson, to be Cornet.
13th Hussars —Lieutenant Joseph Clay to be Captain ;
Cornet Arthur Pole to be Lieutenant; John Spilling to
be Cornet.

Royal Artillery—Captain William Gray to be Lieutenant-
Colonel ; Second Captain George R. Mandorson to be
Captain; Lieutenant Alfred Chilton to be Second Cap-
tain ; Second Captain David M'Farlan to be Adjutant ;
Surgeon James Kellie, M.D., to be Surgeon-Major;
Assistant-Surgeon John R ss Murray, M.D., to be
Assistant-Surgeon; Michael Cogan to be Assistant-
S urgeon.
R,)yal Engineers—Lieutenant John Ourvven Pottingor has
been permitted to resign the temporary commission he
holds.

ad Foot—Major Charles Sutherland Dowson, from half-
pay, late 7th Foot, to be Major.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur M'Gillicuddy Denny to be
Captain without purchase ; Ensign Malcolm Duncan to
be Lieutenant without purchase.
28th Foot —Lieut. Francis Edward Webb to be Captain ;
Ensign George Conner to be Lieutenant; Fred. Mogg,

Gent.; to b 3 Ensign.
29th Foot—Wm. Grey to bo Ensign.
41st Foot —Captain Arthur Wavell to bo Major; Lieut. J.
Westby to be Captain; Ensign Henry Eliot James to be
Lieutenant ; Wm. Newall to be Ensign.
51st Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Wynne, to be Adjutant.'
52d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Bailie to be Captain ; En-
sign Thomas D. Butler to be Lieutenant ; the Hon. R.
Verney to be Ensign.
55th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon George Hare to be

Assistant- Surgeon.
76th Foot—Major Christopher Rowland Richardson to be

Major. _
85th Foot - Major Edward Smyth Mercer to be Major.
94th Foot—Major Lord John Henry Taylor to be

Captain. -
98th Foot—Captain George Henry Bridges to be Captain.
100th Foot-11. Morgan, Esq., late Paymaster, 43d Foot,
to be Paymaster.
103 d Foot—Captain George Benjamin Wolseley, from the
98th loot, to be Captain.
107th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon William D. Wilson,
M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Montagu B. W. Taylor to be
Lieutenant.
Medical Department—Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Chester,
from the Royal Artillery, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon,
vice Michael Cogan, appointed to the Royal Artillery;
Assistant-Surgeon Espine Ward, from 55th Foot, to be
Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice George Hare, appointed to
55th Foot.

Royal Military College—Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan
Alexander Cameron, K.C.8., Colonel, 42d Foot, to be
Governor, vice General Sir G. A. Wetherell, 0.0.8.,
deceased; Captain and Brevet-Major Alfred Stowell
Jones, 13th Foot, to be Adjutant of the Staff College,
vice Captain E. M. Jones, 20th Foot, appointed a Pro-
fessor.

BREVET.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Watson, retired full pay,
Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, to have the honorary rank of
Colonel.
Paymaster and Honorary Captain William Legh
Royal Military College, to have the honorary rank of
Major.
The undermentioned Officers having completed the
qualifying Service with the rank of Lieutenanti-Colonels
to be Colonels under the Royal Warrant of 3d February,
1866:—Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. D. Hill, Royal (late
Madras) Engineers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Mao_
kenzie Moffatt, Royal Canian Rifle Regiment.
ADMIRALad TY, MAY 30.

Royal IlarineLight Infautiy— Lieutenant Henry M.
Ray to be Second Claptain at the Portsmouth Division, vie Speer, cashiered.

ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY. ---110
&rl of Shrewsbury has since Friday last been in a very
critical condition, and at one period his life was despaired
of. Yesterday accounts received were more favourable,
and hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery. He is
staying with the Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, at
Newbattle Abbey, near Dalkeith. Viscount Ingestre,
M.P., in consequence of his father's illness, has joined the
family there.

The coarse of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight is about 1101 per cent, At this rate there
is soarcely any profit On the iMportatiog 91 gold from tbe
t eSa.

-
gput,T.T Or VIE PUBLIC JIMZITALB,

The Time" expresses the opinion that if this' country had I
been ruled by a strong Government, capable of defending
its own measures, there can be no doubt that the recom-
mendations of the Boundary Commission would have been
sustained and definitively adopted by Parliament. But
a Ministry living in continual fear for its existence, one
day suppliant to, another day defiant of, the House of
Commons, but always ready to avoid a conflict by sacri-
ficing anything to which it is not fully committed, has
re,quiesced in the temporary setting aside of the com-
missioners' report. They were hard pressed by the Oppo-
sition, their Scotch Reform Bill was not out of dang.er,
the temper of the House' of Commons was disagreeable,
the threats of the independent Liberals were many and
deep, and no expedient for making the session smooth and
abort was more obvious than to postpone the consideration
of these changes in the boundaries of boroughs. If the
commissioners' report had been discussed and voted upon,
there would have been debates by the night and divisions
withen.% number; and in some of these the Government
won't.: hi. ye been sure to receive ugly treatment. Hence an
easy asset` was given to the device of a select committee,
and when the committee was appointed it must have known
by a. natural instinct what was expected of it. It was to
sit de d:.; in cZiela. It was to report at the earliest pos-
sible time ; it was to agree to something which should
calm all tiuiputes, and allow the Boundary Bill to become
law before the end of a very short session. U.nder these
conditions what -was to be expected? The committee knew
well that it; was impossible to inquire thoroughly within
the space of a few days into matters which had employed
their predecessors all the autumn, and they also knew that
if they agreed with the more important of the former
rec ommendations the battle would be fought over again in
the House of Commons, and their own labours would be
looked upon as fruitless. They were appointed less to review
;critically the limits of English constituencies than to pro.
cure for the Government and the [louse a quiet session.
They knew that the only way to conciliate was to assist
legislation on the subject, and to get riii of controversy,
at least for the present. This work being easy, they have
done it with a speed which is somewhat startling to the
nniniiiated. Thirty-three boroughs were submitted to
thPrn, come of these being the largest and most important
in England. Yet all was over in eleven days. On Tuesday,
the'l9th of May, the committee sat for the first time ; on
Friday, the 20th, they agreed to their report. The result
is, that in the cases of fifteen boroughs the recommends,-

tions of the commissioners are set aside, and it is declared
unadvisable to make any alteration in the existing
boundaries.

The Post thinks the grand jury in the case of Mr% Eyre
acted as every rational being thought they would act.
Our contemporary hopes that the self-constituted prose-
cutors, and, we may add, persecutors, of this gentleman,
if not satisfied with the result of their proseeclings, will at
least permit him now to rest in peace. Never, perhaps, were
criminal proceedings more causelessly instituted ; never,
most assuredly, were there any which have been more
universally condemned. The difficulties which beset the

path of a man who, like Mr. Eyre, is called upon to adopt
extraordinary measures for the suppressitin of disturbances

and the preservation of the peace, were well illustrated by
Mr. Justice Blackburn, in referring to the prosecution of
the mayor of Bristol for not having acted sufficiently
energetically in endeavouring to suppress the famous riots
which took place in that town sorde,five -and-thirty years ago.
If a man neglects the duty imposed on him of doing
everything necessary to preserve the peace, be becomes
criminally responsible for such neglect just as much as if
he exceeds his duty and acts oppressively. The difficulty
is to strike the happy mean, and in the presence of this
obvious difficulty the practical question for decision
becomes whether a man placed in so.embarrassing a it Bi-
tion acts with ordinary firmness, or with good faith. MX,
Justice Blackburn admitted that it was impos-
sible to draw the line where criminal responsibility
began, and said that the question of criminality

in each particular case necessarily rested with a jury. If
Mr. Eyre had acted with less firmness the massacre of St.
Domingo might have been repeated, and if the governor
had escaped from the colony he would most assuredly haw.
been put upon his trial in this country for neglect of hie
duty. No one, we believe, ever deserved better of his
country than Mr. Eyre ; none have ever met with worse
treatment. Dismissed from office by the Home Gover-
ment and forced into retirement, he, has been made the
object of unrelenting persecution by men Whiase conduct is
condemned by the entire mass of their fellow-country.
men. Let us hope in the name of humanity that t',
unfortunate gentleman will now be left in peace.

The Daily News deplores to some extent the result of
the prosecution, but refrains from impugning the conduct
of the jury. After recapitulating the more prominent
facts in connection with the Jamaica Committee, it gives
credence to the general idea that the case has ended as fa:
as that committee is concerned. It is difficult to say what
useful purpose can be answered by persisting in prosecu-
tions which, are not likely to have any practical issue.
The committee have scattered the seeds of a sound public
sentiment—seeds which, though they may AVM now to
have fallen on barren ground, are sure to germi-
nate and to bring forth fruit. They have kept
the public mind active and the public conscience
awake. The disposition to favour arbitrary doc-
trines and violent practices of which Mr. Carlyle's
writings are in a small degree the cause, and in a
great degree the effect ; and. the stimulus given to the
latent antipathies of race by the association of negro
emancipation in the United States with Northern triumph
and Southern defeat, have created feelings among
certain classes of Englishmen which have insured Mr.
Eyre impunity and even admiration. These things
exhibit, however, only a passing mood of mind in
the English nation, or in certain busy portions of
it. The brutality of the new faith is an all but
inevitable reaction from a humanitarianism which
occasionally threatened to become maudlin, and its
despotic theories are a protest against doctrines of liberty
which now and then seemed to skirt the verge of anarchy.
Against the Latter Day frenzy, in its attempt to pass
from literature into action, the Jamaica Committee has
made a protest which, though it may not have told on Sir
Baldwin Leighton or the grand jury at Westminster, will
prove in the end to have been effectual.

The Telegraph criticises the charge of Mr. Justice
Blackburn, and complains that there is as yet no final,
clear,. or authoritative declaration of the powers vested in
colonial governors, or of the rights and liberties possessed
by colonial subjects. If Mr. Eyre be a man who nobly
saved a colong, he—dismissed without pension, harassed
and worried at law—is the worst-used man in Eng-
land. On the other hand, if Gordon and others
were murdered, if panic drove the Jamaica autho-
rities into cruelty and wrong, the injuries have
not as yet been redressed : nobody has been adequately
punished ; and we only learn from a distinguished judge
that " somebody has blundered." This is a bad ending
to a very painful story. It may be attended with most
mischievous results. We may by our want of decision
terrify weak governors into dangerous inaction in some
future colonial crisis, and we may encourage other
governors and subordinates like Ramsay to be brut4
without fear of the consequences.
. The Star indignantly declares that the charge of Mx.
Justice Blackburn was in the teeth of 1:)at delivered by
the Chief Justice. But as to the law given, there is the
splendid address of Sir Alexander Cockburn to answer it,
Mr. Justice Blackburn, however, did wrong (our contem-
porary thinks) in designating Mr. Gordon as a " peseent
firebrand." But in that history will reverse his lordship's
judgment.

• The Herald speaks very warmly of the' conduct of the
prosecution in the case of the Attorney General v. Edmunds,
just derided by Vice-Chancellor Gifford. It would be im-
possible for a private gentleman to act as the Crown has
thus acted towards its servant. When a gentleman dis-
misses his bailiff, or a merchant his confidential clerk,
every one likes to see the parties shake hands and settle
amicably all outstanding matters. At such times it is felt
to be but right that the employer should treat the em-
ployed with perfect fairness, and even with some little
liberality ; nor is there anything more fatal to the reputa-
tion of the former than that he should rake up all manner
of stale disputes, question long-settled balances, and for
the first tune in his life impugn the footing on which
their mutual dealings have all along been conducted.
It has been said that corporations and departments are
impervious to such considerations ; that they have neither
bodies to be kicked nor souls to be saved, and that there-
fore they will, without scruple, commit offences on which
no private person could venture for fear of suffering social
ostracism. In some such theory we must find the solution
of the course taken with respect to Mr. Edmunds. For two
cr three year's he has laboured under a weight of obloquy
and reproach almost overwhelming. lie has been accused
Of unfaithfulness to his trust and of misapplication of trust
funds. He has been dismissed with disgrace from an office
to which he was appointed by one Whig Chancellor and
in which he was succeeded by the seri of another. He has
I.ecn eppressed wiJi Chancery proceedings, and threatened
With a criminal prosecution ; has been put at his club, and
',lilted at as if he were the' most prominent sinner of the
day. And yet, when the case against him is brought to
the test, in a moral sense, it breaks down entirely. Every
charge fails, every accusation rsc
is disproved. The honour of
the object of so much calumny
vindicated, and though technicallytdelared to be effectually
tche decision is adverse,
twice the judge who pronounces it _c.xpresses his deep
regret that the words of an Act of Parliament compel him
toLdo violence to what are evidently his feelings and his
convictions.

The Sfandard sneers at the announcement of a new
Cougres3 to Le held at Berne for the promotion of Inter-
national Peace. It recalls the scenes of last year, and
r.slc3 whether we are going to have a repitition at Berne
of the row wl iell took place at Geneva. Last year the
G:.ll,L,ve3e had poitively to torn the " delegates " (as they
thenKielvei,) out of their city. Geneva has put ul
• from rdl the political, literary, and religious
3in 11:urope. But our friends and the Interim-
.act! League were too martial for anything ' • and
ngiy bst September they were finally drummed out

v;sit

Pc

t);vii they had well-nigh turned iiito a bedlam.
Will Berne be able to be more tolerant ? These workers
of the telegraphic wires, as unfit as they are few, are
,ady a little knot of exiles from the " France, Germany,
ltwaia, and Italy" of which they %peak, with whose
ostracism from home we could sympathise if it were not in
Most cases deserved 'and in a great many self-imposed.
'They have peace on their lips, but war to the knife in
their hearts. Wherever they go they recklessly abuse the
hospitality extended to them, and would be. only too
delighted if they could to-morrow involve the Swiss Con-
federation in war with France for the mere chance of some•
thing turning up in the . course of A European conga,•
gram, - • -

(1~ I.i