The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, FRIDAY EVEN ]\ G, MAY 15, 1868.

with regard to their affairs, the rolling stock and
permanent way were in the best possible order, and
the iine was. well manage:l and worked by Mr.
Eborall and other officers of the company. He
therefore did not want to part with anything for
the union of the other companies. He believed the
Chatham Company were bound to pay £3,000 a
year to one official for seven years,• which, together
with commissions, amounted to £7,000 or £B,OOO a
year, and that this company were to contribute a
portion of that extravagant sum.
Mr. MournEr regretted there should be any fur-
ther postponement with regard to the bill, as the
object of it had been already fully considered. He
thought the " Uaited Southern Railway" would be
a better name for the united company.

Mr. RAwsoN approved the cl tuses of the bill, and
he had no doubt that the united working would be
beneficial to all coucern2d, but he would decidedly
object to any adverse revision oUthe tolls. No other
company was in so favourable a position os to finan-
cial matters, and he thought that the value of the
pro, erty must increase. _ .

he CHAU:MAN, iu reply to questions, stated that
with a view to pievent accidents it not intended

that the South-Western train:: should run over the
Charing-cross line. The station at Waterloo would
cost £7,t►oJ, and would be paid for in two years out
of revenue. It could be built in two mouths. The
company had a valuable estate independent of traffic
that would eventually add per cent. to the divi-
dend. The arches in Cannon-street had recently
been let on long leases for £B,OOO a year. They
would adopt Mr. Wrigley's plan of keeping capital
and revenue under separate management. The
joint undertaking would be saddled with £3,000 a
year till 1874, in respect of the Chatham engage-
ment alluded to by Mr. Smith. It was intended to
stipulate that Mr. Eborall's agreement should be ex-
tended from 1871 to 1874.

It was then agreed that the meeting should ad-
journ to the 28th inst.

011 the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by
Mr. MELLOn, " a bill for the abandonment of the
railways authorised by the South-Eastern and Lou-
don, Chatham, and Dover (London, LeweS, and
13..ighton) Railway Act, 18G6," was unanimously
approved, and the proceedings terminated.

SHARE LIST.

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2 1-15

THE PROSECUTION OF EX-gOVERNOR

EY RE.

BOW-STREET.-THIS DAY.

This morning Mr. Eyre appeared before Mr.
Vaughan to answer a summons which had been
taken out against him for issuing an illegal and
oppressive proclamation.
There was also a second summons charging him
with having unlawfully caused the arrest, imprison-
ment, and flogging of divers persons who resided
within the island of Jamaica, under and by virtue
of a certain illegal proclamation of martial law
which had been heretofore issued by him.

Sir J. C.)Hier sail he might rec tll to the bench
the eireamstanee3 of the pr.:s,.;nt case. Sir Thomas
Henry w,13, ill the first i:13G.1110,e, app lief to, bat hq
declinel to grant a stuntn.)ns for the charge of
murder, being of opinion that 113 hal 110 juriilic-

tion, but since that application had been
made to the Court of Q Bench, and the
present proccelings were the result. The
capital charge which, in the first instance, was
!nide against Mr. Eyrkl it was not now proposed
to pros:, although-it was finite open to h ore pre-
f.:m.l the is lictm:int against the defend tut in
another Court. The object of the profsecation now
was to prosecute Mr. Eyre for a mis !etueanour, and
that offence was cimmitte 1, it was coatended,
in the issuing of a certain proclamation,
placing the island -wader martial law, without
sufficient authority, which amounte 1, is f to a
declaration of war against the inhabitants of
Jamaica, both black:and white, and which was in

itself an indictable offence. No fact, therefore,
arose, and under such circumstances the question
before the Court became one entirely of
law. Sir J. Collier proceeded to quote
certain Acts of Parliament to show the
power Colonial Governors possessed under
peculiar circumstances, and he then referre 1 to the
proclamation Governor Eyre issued in the island of
Jamaica on the late outbreak, the action that was
taken after, and he said the great matter he had to
confiue himself to was whether the issuing of such
a proclamation was at that time within the power of
Mr. Eyre. At the trial of Gen. Nelson and Lieut.
Brand at the Old Bailey the Lord Chief-Justice, in an
address to the jury, laid it clearly down that the
Crown could not delegate to a colonial governor
powers which it did not itself possess, and if the au-
deorities he had quoted bore out that, the proceedings
of Mr. Eyre were clearly illegal. But it became his
duty to show that if the power was not given under
the English law, was there any authority for him
to act as he had done under the colonial law ? The
Jamaica statutes, he contended, gave no power to
issue such a proclamation, and the next question
that presented itself was, did the Governor
issue such a proclamation corruptly, but he did not
consider it at all fair to impute such a motive.
lie did not deny that the use of violence necessary
for the suppression of the outbreak was justified
without reference to law. A man whose life was
in danger was justified, if in self-defence he
killed his assailant. It would be ridiculous to
say that he ought to bring an action or pre-
fer a criminal charge, because he might
not live to do so, bat if he survived an l bound his
enemy he had no right to kill him, bat he mast
give him up to the oridinary tribunals. The learned
gentleman then proceeded to strengthen his case,
by citing a number of authorities, and referred
at some length to the late Jamaica prosecution.
Passing by that he next came to a
knowledge England that o
very theho y
law,
supposed and it was held in
to know the
law ; therefore colonial governors were the last per-
sons who ought to say they did not, so he should
not dwell upon that, because it would be
ef law;
idle to say that the proclamation was
issued on imperfect knowledge. The pro clamation
declaring martial law remained in force thirty days,
and, without making Mr. Eyre criminally liable fur
all the acts committed during that time, he
thought various other matters were concerned,
which clearly rendered Mr. Eyre liable. Tne
precise act which he charged against Mr.
Eyre was the arrest and imprisonment of Mr.
Sidney L tvine, who, Mr. Eyre himself hal stated,
had never resided within the district subject
to martial law ; and Dr.
Bruce was anoth sr
person arres'efi, who, the late Governor also
admitted, lived out of the district, an,l
these two acts, he contended, were clearly illegal,
and rendered Mr. Eyre amenable to the law for doing
that which W,13 clearly in direct opposition to it.
Mr. Phillips was another person apprehended out-
side the jurisdiction of martial-law, and as
the two former
gentlemen were not pre
sent, but the
the attention of the bench to his case more par-
ticularly. He was suspected
was, he should call
suspected of being an associate
of J. W. Gordon, and accordingly captured, but
after he had been detained in custody for some
time he was taken to Morant Bay, flogged by a
marine, and then discharged without any charge
ever having been brought £here were
other persons arrested, but he did not propose to
go into the facts of the case, but he should call Mr.
Phillips before the Bench,
against him,
Bench, who would state, in pre-
cise terms, the indignities he had been compelled to
suffer. Ile adopted the present course in order that
the depositions might be returned to the Court of
Queen's Bench, that the opinion of the Judges
might be taken on a matter which was of so muc h
importance to Mr.
Eyre and the various other
persons.
Mr. Dunning,
the short-hand writer, was then
called to prove his notes of evidence of Governor
Eyre taken before the Commission in 1865.
The evidence was then read at length from the
Blue-book.

Me case was still procooding.)

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.'—This Day.

(By TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, May 14--Rinaldo,
Irons auilla ; Sivery from Calcutta.
Li iod Arrived,ill a y
Irons AlPa Bay; Result, from St. Kitt's; James 11 Wave,
. Bay-
ley, from Missolongbi.
14.—Colon, steamer,
May 15.--Donga,li
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Pakstal, May 14.—Azoff, brig, from Oporto for London.
Anchored, May 14.—Giuseppe Antonio, bark, from t m
north for the west. for Vigo.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

xustralts and New Zostand, Tim 23.
Ditto, via Marseilles .......... 16

Ditto, via Panama ..............
...........
,lay_
22
tirael, Buenos .Ayres, and Monte Video .....June 4
Ditto, by lerenOn packet tii Ly 2:
Oape Verde, by Brazil paeaet
Jape of Good Elope. A.soenelon. and it. tiaena....Junl 12.
hinpai,tfe. vnainagn, and
n:l:10g ap Southampton—May 23.
Ditto.
li.
faikland Islands ...•••' June 4.
.ilbraitar, via Southampton .......... May 16.
India,via Southampton
Ditto, via Handl es
Malta, rlgypt, ...... •• •• •• %tay 16.
Ditto, Marseilles May —.
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope. and Natal, via

Southampton ..... : ............... ,
.......
...

to Oporto ...
ewfouDitto DIU), alardeiu" 's May ' 8
ndla Ld ...... ••• •• • ..... • • May 21
eortugal ....................
c.tto to Lisbon ....
United dtatea , t !wads, California, &a.,
DDlittto. by prl la ship
by British

16
packet .............. • ................ M ty
Ditto, by L hued states packet
Ditto ditto Nov York:
ll,tto ditto Noir York)

Ditto ditt, (Etaltiature)
Ditto, by Canadian pleket ..... 22.
Wet Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff.: Mi.y 21
Wert Indies and Pa.Mie ,except Alexia° ant

mae)
Cub .t aud ti ode() ........... .............. 2).

kistia_nas, via New •••••• • • Nhor
Bermuda, via Halifax .......

coT TON.
LIVERPOOL,
May l.s.—Sales probably 15,000 bales. Mar-
ket upward teudeucy.
. _ _

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF TOBACCO.—An extensive
seizure of adulterated tobacco was made on Friday, by tho
revenue authorities, at the establishment of Mess's. O'Far-
rell, soap boilers and tobacco
.manufacturers, 36, Thomas-
street, Dublin. Tho quantity seized exceeds five tons. On
Friday evening 3 tons 8 cwt. of case loaf were removed,
and on Saturday 27 cwt. and 281 rolls were taken by the
officers. The property was removed to the Custom-house
storm—Put& Zzpreo.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

RITUALIS If.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, at the request of the
Bishop of London, postponed his question as to the report
of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the ques-
tion of ritualism until to-morrow evening.