The Sun. — 1866-04-12 (London, England)

JAMAICA.  The Jamaica Commission has adjourned sine die, and it was anticipated that one other sitting would close the proceedings. Mr. Gurney and Mr. Maule are expected to leave by next mail. Mr. Gorrie, one of the counsel of the Jamaica committee, has returned by the Atrato.  Mr. Eyre has appeared a second time before the Commission, and put in a large number of documents in justification of his policy. An agrarian dispute had occurred at Hartlands, in the vicinity of Spanish Town. The negroes had refused to permit a surveyor to survey their lands, which form the subject of a law suit. The Governor sent for troops from Kingston, but the difficulty was amicably arranged. Two negroes, who had been found guilty of the murders of Mr. Hire, at Amity Hall, and Mr. Walton, at Morant Bay, during the disturbances, were hanged at Kingston on the 22d March. Provost-Marshal Ramsay, who was arrested on a charge of murder, and dismissed'y the magistrates, was re-arrested at the instance of the AttorneyGeneral and held to bail in the sum of £5OO to answer the charge. On March 19 a fire broke out at Port-au-Prince which, in two days, consumed a great part of the town, including many of the Government buildings and the chief commercial quarter. The loss is immense. Hundreds of families are forced to bivouac on the square in front of the palace, their houses having been destroyed. The Bien Public of the 23d of March appears on a half sheet, as its presses and part of the establishment had beenburnt —BOO houses were destroyed, from the sea side up to the Champ de Mars. The transactions of the market have continued quiet and unexcited during the past fortnight, and beyond what is stated in the review there is nothing demanding special remark as regards imported articles. There has been a decline in coffee in consequence of the unfavourable report from America. From the western parishes of the island large crops of sugar are expected by the planters, the canes looking healthy and prosperous. Pimento still remains very scarce, while the crop of corn continues abundant. Rum 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. ; proof, 18 in bond. Sugar—Ordinary, 14s. to 15s. ; medium, 17s. ; fair, 19s. to 20s. per 1001 b. Exchanges on London—Colonial Bank purchasing at pal for 90 days, prem. for 60 days, 1 prem. for 30 days ; selling rates at 2 prem. for 90 days, 2:3- prem. for 60 days, 3 prem. for 30 days.  Public Op nion in Germany.  The Committee of Thirty-six at Frankfort have had a meeting, in which the publication of the following declaration was decided on : " 1. There appears menacingly before Germany the danger of a civil war, the interference of foreigners, and the ruin of liberty and public prosperity. "2. The manner, contrary to law, in which the two great German Powers dispose of the Duchies, freed from Danish domination, as the booty of war, the open plans of violent annexation formed by the Prussian Government, the feebleness of the majority of the other German Governments, and a Federal Constitution which completely excludes the German people from the direction of its destinies, are bringing on Germany troubles and catastrophes. " 3. Let an energetic protestation, condemning decidedly all civil war in Germany, be the reply to these enterprises winch disturb the peace. Already, in some Prussian towns, and others, voices are loudly raised against the dangers of a fatal Cabinet policy. But if the German people does not wish to assume the complicity in national misfortune, it must show in all places so clearly and so vigorously its opinion and its wish 6, that those who counsel the Crowns, I and who wear them, may have no chance of misunderstanding. " 4. A complete transformation of the German Constitution is necessary if we wish to avert for the future the miseries and the dangers of the present Constitution. But every Government, which not respecting the rights of its own country, may present projects of Federal reform, with the intention, perhaps, of acquiring allies in a civil war, would lack, for want of the confidence of its own and the German people, the necessary guarantees for the success of the great work of national union." The New Gazette- of Frankfort learns that this declaration was only adopted after an animated discussion, especially on Article 2. A certain number of members wished that in blaming Austria they should throw the great blame of the present dangers on the ambition of the Prussian Government. But others observed that they would thus offend the public sentiment in Prussia. In consequence, Article 2 was only carried by a majority, while the others were unanimously adopted.