Mr. Charles Buxton has been compelled by the silly obstinacy
-of the Eyre Committee to publish a brief defence of himself, which he sent to certain constituents who had expressed them- -selves offended by his conduct in regard to the Jamaica Committee, and had declared their intention of not voting for him in East -Surrey in consequence. The subscribers to the Eyre Committee therefore charged him with circulating private libels against Mr. Eyre without giving the opportunity for an answer. Mr. Buxton was thus compelled to pledge himself to publish the document as soon as the election was over, and he has done so. He has confined himself to the facts resting on official authority, the references for which have been verified by three barristers, -one of whom had disapproved his course,--aud they certify that the official documents "fully sustain the statements to which they are appended." The statement is limited to the bare facts of the terrorism which took place on and after the 20th of October,—nine days from the first outbreak,—and after Mr. Eyre had rejected deliberately the help of Spanish men-of-war, on the ground that "long before their arrival we had got under the rebel- lion." The public is not more sick of the subject than Mr. Buxton, who sent his last subscription to the Jamaica Committee, when the charge of murder was withdrawn, only under the strictest sense of duty and at the -greatest risk to his seat. The friends of Mr. Eyre have acted with their wonted folly in compelling the publica- tion of this really judicial and very damaging document.
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