6 JUNE 1868, Page 2

Mr. Eyre published on Thursday a letter showing by extracts

from a despatch of Sir J. P. Grant,—an excellent authority,— that disaffection had really been widespread in januiica at the time of the outbreak, and that there were undoubted evidences of some organization of a conspiracy to revolt. This amply justifies, of course, Mr. Eyre's prompt severity in the beginning. Nor have we, at least since the final development of the evidence, ever objected to that promptitude-and severity which, as he justly says, probably saved the colony. What he ought to have been tried for was continuing a reign of terror for nearly a month after he had put down all resistance.