The Sun. — 1866-10-06 (London, England)

RODERICK MURCHISON."  " Resolved that the Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot be requested to accept the position of President and that Sir Roderick Murchison, Bart., and Thomas Carlyle, Esq., be asked to act as vice-presidents." Mr. CARLYLE said it would afford him very great pleasure to comply with the request of the committee.  Mr. 11. llrneE (the hon. secretary) then proceeded to explain the steps that had been taken to promote the objects of the fund since last meeting. He said' that he in the first instance addressedaletter to most of the provincial papers in the threekingdoms, asking for their support in the formation of sub-committees; that this appeal had had considerable effect, subcommittees were either formed or about to be organised, at the following places :—Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cheltenham, Southampton, Aberdeen, Bath, Hastings, Leeds, Bradford, Dublin, Isle of Wight, Chichester, Plythouth, and Cambridge, and that in the course of the next month he hoped to be able to name fifty other towns. Ile had also written to the commanding officer of every regiment and depot battalion in the service, and to the captains of every one of her Majesty's ships in commission. Ho proposed, if the committee saw no objection, to appeal to every individual member of the Civil Service in India, and to forward a pamphlet to them. The Working Men's Conservative Association at Bradford had forwarded to him (Mr. Hume) an address to be presented to Mr. Eyre at the proper time, and the Working Men's Conservative Association at Leeds proposed following their example. Other working men's associations were being appealed to, so that the feeling of the public at large might be arrived at. With reference to an application to the Bishop of Jamaica to join the committee, made since the last meeting, a reply had been received, from which the following was an extract :  " Personally I have an earnest sympathy with Mr. Ey re I warmly admire his character and history, as far as they are known to me ; and I firmly believe that the speedy suppression of the murderous insurrections in Jamaica is attributable, under God's providence, to the promptitude, courage, and judgment with which he acted under circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger. From all that I have heard of Mr. Eyro's career, I believe that his humanity and kindness of heart, his love of justice and mercy, and his eminently Christian principles, qualified him in a very high degree for the discharge of his arduous and painful duties at a most critical period of the history of the colony whose government he had to administer.  " I am fully sensible of the honour conferred on me by your request, and while I trust that no exigence for the further defence of Mr. Eyre's conduct will arise to render any application of the fund raised by the committee necessary to that particular purpose, I shall rejoice to find that some compensation shall have boon provided by the successful exertions of the committee for the loss unhappily entailed on Mr. Eyre by his disconnexion from the public service, in which he had been so long and so honourably employed."  Lord Allan Churchill, Dr. Grey (of the British ➢luseum), Professor Tyndall, and the Hon. Francis Lawley added their names to the committee. Mr. RUSKIN proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman.  Colonel BROWNLOW KNox, M.P., seconded the proposition.