Mr. Hamilton Hume, — Governor Eyre's Mr. Hamilton Hume,—is much
elated at having got hold of that Con- -federate Captain Edenborough who gave evidence two years ago that the late Mr. G. W. Gordon, of Janiaica, had -wished to buy from him secretly an armed sloop in the month of June, 1865,—four months before the disturbance,— and had, in case he could not buy the sloop, wished the arms to be landed at the mouth of Black River in Jamaica. 'Captain Edenborough seems really to have had this interview, but the evidence has little bearing on the Jamaica disturbances. Cap- tain Edenborough admits that both interviews took place in the presence of a Hayden, whom Mr. Gordon stated:to be a Hayden General, and that he himself, at the time, referred the ;request solely to the Hayden disturbances, though he thought it .odd that arms for Hayti should be landed first in Jamaica, and has since come over to the belief that Mr. Gordon was preparing insurrection. The deposition is precisely the same as that given to Mr. Cardwell. If Mr. Gordon really spoke of a " West Indian 'Republic," he certainly was not hatching treason in Jamaica, or he would not have been so frank. This deposition would not have weighed a feather in any fair court of justice, in the face of the evidence which induced the Commissioners to believe that Mr. Gordon had not been concerned in the matter at all. And, any 'how, it could never have even tended to justify the condemna- tion and execution of Mr. Gordon, for the very excellent reason that the court-martial never heard of this occurrence.
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