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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1868.

An interesting affair took place yesterday, when
Mr. EYRE received an address from a body of in-
fluential gentlemen having property in the West
Indian Islands, or connected with the commerce of
that part. This address was drawn up in 1866,
but Mr. EYRE declined at that time to receive it,
because the prosecutions against him were not con-
cluded. Two hundred and forty gentlemen signed
this address, and it is significant that they all held
property and were interested in the West Indian
colonies. In presenting the address the Chairman
said that the late Chief Justice of Jamaica would
have been present to preside on the occasion. This
undertaking had been entered on in consequence of
the desire felt to present Mr. EYRE with some
memorial of the views of those interested in the
island, and who were firmly persuaded of the
eminent services rendered by that gentleman. Dur-
ing the proceedings that had taken place " every step
that vanity,malignity, embittered bydisappointment,
could prompt, had been taken, but had all failed
most fortunately." The terms of the address set
forth the earnest desire which pervaded the minds
of the undersigned planters to convey to his Excel-
lency their sense of the sincere sympathy under the
" heavy trials " to which he had been exposed in
consequence of the deplorable rebellion in Jamaica.
Taking into account the several circumstances con-
nected with the affair, it is said that no doubt can
be entertained that the real meaning of the rebel-
lion was to exterminate the white male residents,
and that the crisis was extremely perilous not only
for Jamaica, but also for all other islands. It is
furthermore added, in the most impressive manner,
that had Mr. EYRE not displayed the decision and
firmness which he did he would have been un-
worthy of confidence, and would have manifestly
failed to appreciate the exigencies of his position.
This feeling is increased by the recollection
that only a short time previously to the
outbreak at Morant's Bay there had been disaffec-
tion displayed in other parts of the dependency
placed under his care, and also that there was but
a small force to give aid in a" war of races." The
subscribers conclude this address by the emphatic
declaration that they cannot for one moment doubt
that a "long reign of anarchy awl suffering has
been averted by the measures so wisely adopted,
and that the thanks of all well-disposed subjects of
the British Crown are due to Mr. EYRE for the pre-
servation not only of one, but of so many of its
valuable, possessions which would certainly have
been placed in jeopardy by a successful insurrection
in Jamaica."

Mr. EYRE was warmly cheered upon appearing
to answer the assembly, and his reply was charac-
teristic of himself and admirably adapted to the occa-
sion. An impediment existed when first the kind
words of those who presented the address were made
known which has now happily been removed, and
certain persons thought fit to institute " criminal
proceedings" against him on acecount of the trans-
actions which took place in Jamaica. Mr. EYRE
has throughout acted in the most upright and
straightforward manner, and it is worth while to
dwell upon the explanation which be here gives of
his proceedings since he came to England. He
made his address publicly known from the first, and
thus afforded an opportunity to those who desired
to take proceedings against him of fulfilling their
intentions. Mr. EYRE frt. ely admits that some who
have questioned his conduct have done so from pure
and public motives, but lie cannot abstain from ex-
presiing the fear that others have assailed him in a
different spirit, and hence every endeavour
has been made to prejudice the public mind ; and
an advantage has been taken which " political in-
fluence, legal ingenuity, an unlimited command of
money, and an unscrupulous and systematic misre-
preseetation ever leildente lite could bring about or
fiuzgept." rerLaps otitis could IiSTO been sore

ei Tee tit ie than the simple statement which Mr. Eyre
m, tdo of the persecutions to which he had been ex-
pos sci AGM his arrival in England, and, indeed, even
befc to that period. Before he left Jamaica a Royal
Cor imission made a minute and searching investi-
gat' ion in the colony ; after that an effort was made
to ' Impeach him in Parliament. He was prosecuted
in the provinces, he was twice prosecuted in the
meiwop olis, before different criminal courts. After
haviimg been unceasingly "harassed and maligned"
for m ore than two years and a half the deci-
sio,nsl of two different judgments, and a grand
jury of his fellow-countrymen having thrice over
deela red the accusations false, he is relieved from
the. (obligation of declining to receive a public de-
motstration of sympathy and approval. After
thanking in the most cordial manner those who
presented the address, Mr. EYRE remarked, with
great truth, that it was the more to be prized on
account of its emanating from those who, from
their personal knowledge, were the most fitted to
appreciate the difficulties in which he had been
placed, and the necessity which existed " for the
most prompt and decisive action to avert from a
British colony the frightful scenes which were once
enacted in the closely adjoining island of St. Do-
mingo." In conclusion, Mr. EYRE observed that
those " isolated individuals who were disappointed"
at the complete failure which had attended their
prosecutions, and had therefore been actively em-
ployed in attempting to mislead and prejudice the
public mind, only showed by such rancour how
bitter was the nature of their feelings. " I can
well leave such persons to their own unenviable
reflections, and to the just appreciation of a British
public," emphatically remarks Mr. EYRE, and that
is the best thing that can be done under the circum-
stances. It would require the effrontery of the
Jamaica Committee to say that the address just
presented to Mr. EYRE is not a significant one, and
does not represent the opinions of those who are
well qualified to judge of the question. Without
exaggeration, it may be said of them that they " speak
that they do know," and give their judgment on a
subject in the details of which they are well versed
and fully competent to decide. We have only to
point to the subscription list of the EYRE Defence
Fund to show the wide-spread popularity of the
ex-Governor of Jamaica ; and now this address
from the West Indian planters comes most appro-
priately after the stormy scenes in which Mr. EYRE
has been moving. We cannot expect unanimity of
opinion on the subject of the Jamaica outbreak,
because too much prejudice prevails on the affair ;
but it is most satisfactory to know that the cruel
and bitter persecution to which Mr. EYRE has been
exposed has utterly failed, and that he is at least
free from the machinations of the malignant, and
we feel well assured that the opinion of the
general public will ratify all that has been said and
done in his favour. A more unfair thing has never
taken place'than this prosecution, as it is so osten-
tatiously called, against a man who has done his
best to serve his country, bnt the devices of faction
are endless, and when a perverse spirit sets to work
who shall say when or how it can end ?

Although so much has been said about National
Education, this session will not leave any fruits
behind it. We have already seen the Government
measure withdrawn by the Duke of MARLBOROUGH,
and now Mr. BRUCE has no choice under the existing
state of things but to abandon his scheme of ele-
mentary education. It was felt, however, on the
motion that the order of the day be discharged,
that the question was only postponed, and
that next year the whole subject must
be opened up once more. Indeed, it is con
fessed that national education will be one of the
most prominent and pressing of the topics with
which the Reformed Parliament will be called upon
to deal. Whether the nom nnno+;+tioneinct will
prove so very earnest and energetic in the cause of
education as some persons believe may perhaps be
matter of doubt ; but, whatever their feelings on
the subject, another session can hardly be allowed
to pass over without some great and united effort
being made to stem the tide of ignorance. It is
not a matter which can afford to wait for leisurely
consideration. While M.P.'s are arguing, and dis-
puting, and weighing difficulties, the untaught
children in city court and rural village are growing
up to be men and women, and the mischief wrought
by idleness and ignorance is steadily on the in-
crease. There had been a good many disputes
respecting the actual condition of our juvenile
population, with respect to their attendance
at school, and last evening, when the subject came
up in the House of Commons, statistics and expla-
nations, statements and counter-statements, were
bandied about with readiness and dexterity. But,
after all, none of these figures can give us the exact
truth. There are so many collateral circumstances
influencing the education of a child, there is so
much difference in the home training as well as in
the regularity of attendance in different children,
that all we can do by the most careful examination
of these rates per cent. and columns of figures is to
arrive at a very general and indefinite notion.
No one doubts, however, that there is a vast mass
of juvenile ignorance to be dealt with in the coun-
try, and we may safely accept it as even greater
than the statistics represent, because the mere fact
of a child of from four or five being at a large school
for two or three years among a hundred others
affords little or no guarantee that ten years later
he will be able to boast much of an education.
The employment of children is a serious obstacle
in the way of all systematic legislation in this re-
spect.
The compulsory education which some per-
sons recommend would in many instances put vir-
tually a heavy tax upon a poor man with a large
family. As Mr. HUBBARD observed last night, we
cannot go to an English labourer with ten children
and say, " Your eldest boy shall go to school and
you shall pay 2d. a week for his instruction."
The man might reply—" My boy drives the farmer's
team and gets 2s. a week, which pays my rent, and
I can't send him to school." It would be quite
impossible to carry out a system of compul-
sory education without such a degree of
espionage and harassing the workman's
family as would be absolutely intolerable. At
the same time, it is undoubtedly a great hard-
ship that children should be compelled to remain
in ignorance because their work is useful. It is
hard enough on boys and girls to be called upon so
soon to take their share of the burden, and if in
addition to the early labour they are to lose all
chance of mental cultivation the grievance
is increased tenfold. The children themselves
are of course indifferent to their loss, but
that is no reason why their interests should not bc
cared for. In manufacturing towns, where the popu-
lation is dense, and where there is confesseily a
vast amount of ignorance, there is work to be had
in the factories for young and old. At a very early
age children are able to obtain profitable employ-
ment, and even when the parents are in re-
ceipt of good wages themselves the tempta-
tion is too strong for them. We must
remember that the friends of education in places
like Manchester and Birmingham have much to
contend against, since they have not only to call
upon the parents to :.lake au effort to pay for their
children's schooling, or to submits to some incon-

-e nienc e for the sake of it, but to undergo a positive

loss. In the same way the large employers
of labour, if they encourage education among the
young, have to pay men's or women's wages to sup-
ply the place of boys and girls sent to school, instead
of being brought to the factory. how to get over
this impediment in the way of elementary national
education is the great problem in dealing with a
large proportion of our working classes. In the
rural districts the denands of agricultural labour
fill the place 'of the factory, and again the
schoolmaster finds the employer of chil-
dren's labour a dangerous rival. It is, there-
fore, very necessary that we should con-
sider whether something cannot be done to recon-
cile the liberty of the subject with the educational
requirements of the child, and the suggestion which
Mr. HUBBARD threw out is worth attention. "If
the employment of a boy under a certain age by
the farmer," said the hon. gentleman, " could be
made contingent on his education he should
be very glad." if this principle could be
extended to all large employers of child-
ren, the difficulties in our way in dealing with
poor or indifferent parents would be greatly re-
duced. If it were not permitted that boys or girls
under ten or twelve should be employed either by
farmers or by manufacturers unless they could read
and :write parents would make an effort to get
them taught. Elementary education, instead of
being a drawback to their earning money,
would then be an assistance, and the
schooling now openly despised or disliked
would be easily sought after. We can never hope
or expect to force children to remain at school for
the nine years allowed in the Prussian code ; but a
great deal is done if we once secure them elemen-
tary education. There is not much fear that
a boy who once knows how to read
tolerably well will forget how to do so ;
but there is great fear that if he does not learn how
to read before he is twelve he will never learn it at
all. At all events if we insist upon his receiving
the rudiments of knowledge, we have opened the
way for him to proceed in if he chooses himself,
but so long as we keep him back from these, we
do not even allow him the opportunity of
judging for himself, because no uneducated
person can appreciate the advantages of education.
We agree with Mr. illuanAnD that we do not want
in our Educational Department a spirit of ill-judged
economy, but we want something better even than
grants—a hearty and liberal sympathy for those
who are labouring in the cause of education, and an
endeavour to foster rather than to discourage every
effort which is conscientiously directed to the one
great end—the diffusion of useful knowledge among
the masses.

LATEST INTELL MENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.
BUCHAREST, JUNE 24, Evening.

Prince Napoleon was received upon the Rou-
manian frontier by M. Galesco, the President of
the Council of Ministers. At Giurgevo His im-
perial Highness was welcomed by M. Millinet, the
French Consul-General.

Upon reaching Bucharest, the illustrious visitor
was received at the entrance to the city by Prince
Charles, accompanied by the Ministers and the
members of the municipality. After passing under
a triumphal arch, and through gaily decorated
streets, the Prince alighted at the ilagues hotel.
The city will be illuminated this evening. A
fete will be given to-morrow at Prince Charles's
residence at Contrarini in honour of the illustrious
guest.

AtroTRIA.
VIENNA, June 24 (Evening).

The New Free Press states that an agreement
has been arrived at between the Finance Minister
and the " Credit Austalt" for taking up 25 million
florins of the floating debt, at the rate of rather
less than 6 per cent.

SERVIA.

BELLGRADE, June 14, Evening.

The elections to the Skuptschina are •now fin-
ished. They are in favour of Prince Milan's acces-
sion to the throne.

BOURSE, June 2.4—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent.
End of month... ItAllan Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 72i Mexican Loan ... 22 50
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 308 75 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1532 Home Debt —
End of month... Deferred WPM
Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean .......... 940
Southern.....
Western
Eastern • • 550
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 5O

RAILWAYS.

In its number of the 18th the Temps copied from
a provincial journal, the Phare de la Loire, a letter
bearing the signature of a person named Lavallee,
setting forth that on the occasion of the procession
of Corpus Christi at Mans he had been maltreated
by the Commissary of Police and the gendarmery
for not uncovering when the Sacrament was borne
along, he being a Protestant. He did his best, he
said, to get out of the line of the cortege, and had
just succeeded in doing so when a gendarme in-
sisted on his uncovering; but he persisted in keep-
ing his hat on, and got away. M. Lavallee
further said that divers irritating acts of the same
kind had occurred on that occasion, and that the
Protestant clergyman of the town had been
"menaced and insulted by the agents of the
Sacristy." He therefore called upon the authori-
ties, administrative and judicial, to put a, stop to
such abuses. He adds :—"lt is well it should be
known whether it is lawful that a procession
should be allowed to take possession of the
public streets, interrupt the circulation, prevent
travellers from reaching the railroad in proper
time, and force people to uncover before cere-
monies which their conscience cannot admit." A
communique, addressed to the Temps of this day,
states that the whole affair is a pure invention ;
that the Protestant clergyman of Mans has de-
clared that he never was spoken to on the subject,
and never was insulted by any one ; on the con-
trary, he testifies to the excellent relations subsist-
ing between him and the authorities ; that the
letter published by the Phare, and reproduced by
the Temps, is not only erroneous as to the details it
gives, but is absolutely apocryphal. Of the 46,000
inhabitants of Mans there arc but 193 who are
Protestants, and not one of them is named Lavallee.
The Siecle published another letter signed " Lam-
bert," described as the Protestant clergyman of
Mansle (Charente), giving an account of exactly
similar occurrences said to have happened in that
town at the procession of Corpus Christi. This
letter has not as yet been disavowed.
From the Ist of January, 1869, the use of the
metrical and decimal systems in commercial trans-
actions will be obligatory throughout Spain.
The estate known as Chateau-Laffitte, so widely
celebrated for its claret, was put up to auction in
Paris on Saturday. The upset price was
4,100,000 f. (£180,000), but as there was no bidding
the rile Was postponed.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1868.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WgDNESDAT, June 24

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

The Emperor came to Paris to-day from Fontainebleau,
held a Council of Ministers at the Tuileries, and set out
this afternoon for the camp at Chalons. It is believed
that he will go toPlombibres about July 12 or 15, and re-
main there a month ; and that he will be at Chalons on
August 15, his fete day. Some persons will, I suppose,
attach importance to the fact that the Emperor prefers to
celebrate this festival in the midst of his army instead of
in his capital.
To-day the statue of General Hoche (whom your readers
will remember as the invader of Ireland) was uncovered at
Versailles. Hoche was, as you know, a Republican, and
on that account to-day's celebration has been viewed with
little favour by the powers that be. For instance, it was
intended to have had a banquet and a representation at the
Versailles theatre of Ponsard's "Lion Amoureux," but both
have been forbidden i the first for some reason that I do not
know ; the second, I presume, because of the liberal senti-
ments put into the mouth of Hoche. This incident chews
what little faith the Imperial Government has in its own
stability. The Imperialists are especially nervous just
now, in consequence of the urgent representaticns of the
Prefects, who are for hurrying on the elections, because, as
they say, they cannot tell what will happen when the
" pestilential" journals, which are springing into existence
on all hands, have infected the people.
Another incident has just happened, which by no means
gives satisfaction in high quarters. The Princess Sophie
of Bavaria—(so the papers say, but I suspect they mean the
Princess Charlotte), sister of the Empress of Austria, and
the Ex-Queen of Naples—has been betrothed this week to
the Duc d'Alencon, second son of the Due de Nemours,
second son of Louis Philippe. The Duc de Nemours
is related to your Royal Family, having married
the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. On the pre-
mature death of his brOther, the Due d'Orl6ans,
the Due de Nemours became a person of importance, and
it was at one time intended to make him Regent in the
event of his father dying'before his nephew came of age.
In the revolution of February 1848 the Duke commanded
the troops in the Place du Carrousel, and accompanied
his sister-in-law, the Duchess of Orl6ans, to the Chamber
of Deputies when she went to appeal in behalf of her young
son. He then joined his relatives at Claremont, in Eng-
land. He has four children, and his two sons, the Comte
d'Eu and the Due d'Alencon, are 26 and 24 years old respec-
tively. The Princess Charlotte is 21. It is, no doubt,
somewhat mortifying that just at this moment,
when the Emperor is doing his utmost to establish an
alliance between himself and Austria and South Germany,
the. sister-in-law of the Kaiser and near relative of the
King of the chief South German state should be making
a matrimonial alliance with the old Royal Family of
France. This match, together with those which have
just taken place at Rome and Madrid, appears as though
the Bourbons were looking up again, and experience has
shewn that just as the Bourbons go up the Bonapartes go
do ,vn.

The Slide to-day has a remarkable article entitled
" Europe and Russia." The writer, M. Vilbort, points
out that the great impediment to the peace of the world
is the Russian Empire. Strictly speaking, Russia is not a
nation, but an amalgam of incoherent men and things
melted and hardened in a mould and cast with the effigy
of the Czar. It is not a people, but a greathuman mass without
personality or conscience, prostrating itself in adoration of
the Czar ; and all those who will not bear the yoke are sent
to Siberia or to the gallows. The writer then goes on to
speak of the ambitious encroachments of Russia towards
the Elbe in Europe, towards the Indus in Asia, and adds :
" One must be blind not to see that a hundred millions of
armed men in possession of the railways which lead
to the heart of Europe, ready to kill and to die for
the Czar, believing that thereby they gain Paradise,
are dangerous to the peace and the liberty and the
civilisation of Europe." Russia now pretends to
advocate the doctrine of nationalities, and is putting itself
at the head of the Pan-Slavist agitation, after having
destroyed the noblest of the Slave nations—Poland. The
Siecle has no belief in the movement, for there are geo-
graphical difficulties, to mention no other. Therefore, it
bids Europe beware of the agitation, which is really only
one of Russia's plots against the peace and the freedom of
the continent.

About a month ago the Temps told its subscribers that
it was bound to raise its price in order to keep the paper
in existence, all the capital having been swallowed up.
The Temps now announces that its subscribers have
willingly assented to the alteration, and that the journal
is established on a firm foundation.
The latest of Baron Hausmann's demolitions is the
Hotel Laffitte, at one of the corners of the street of that
name. This fine house was built in 1772 by the Comte de
Laborde, farmer-general and banker of the Emperor of
Austria. Fifty years laer it was bought by the banker
Laffitte, and he made it a rendezvous of the Opposition,
and it was in this house that the Liberals met during the
" three days" of July 1830, in order to decide upon their
plans. Laffitte suffered pecuniary losses, and was obliged
to sell 1,;. 1,.+01 but so great was the estimation in which
he was held that the public bought the house and presented
it to him. There he died in 1844. A tablet in the wall
has the following inscription in letters of goll : " A
Jacques Laffitte, Souscription Nationale." Close by this
house was formerly a terrace running the length of the Rue
Lafayette : hero the father of Napoleon 111. lived, and
here, according to one account, Napoleon 111. himself
was born. The property passed into the hands of the
famous Fouch6 ; it was subsequently sold to one of the
Rothschilds for £14,000.
M. Arles Dufour, the celebrated silk manufacturer, has got
into a fierce dispute with the clergy. He was mainly instru-
mental in founding a popular library at Oullins, and it is
this institution which has been the cause of the present
disturbance. Fifteen of the inhabitants took exception to
seven books in the library, on the ground that they had
been placed in the Roman Index, and with the assistance
of the Minister of the Interior they got the objectionable
works removed. Thereupon M. Dufour declared that he
could not consent to this, and that if his resistance led to
the closing of the library, he should open one in his own
house for the public use, and include in it all such works
as he approved, exelulling all those which " serve the
congregations to pervert the moral, intellectual, and
political sense of the people. Those the Government
might deliver without interference." The matter is not
vet settled.