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THE CONTINENT. In the sitting of the Cor...
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The Latib Assassination at Portsmouth.— ...
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THE CAGLIARI CASE. (7b the Editor of the...
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TURKEY AND CHINA. (To the Editor of thv ...
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346 T S E Lea It E Is. [Flo. 420^, April...
346 T S E LEA IT E IS . [ flo . 420 ^ , April 10 , 18 §&
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Leader Office , Saturday , April IOth . Mb . Hoi . toakb has published atranslation of the Letter to the Parliament and the Press , by Felix Pyat , Besson , and A * Talandier , with an admirable and pungent preface from his own pen . We quote the concluding lines : — " It is ^ not my wish to be prosecnted ; It is my wish
that tbe Government may reconsider the course they have commenced , and come to the conclusion that it is not wise to seek to suppress the publications they have indicted . This country is too free already for such a step to do aught but frustrate its own object ! If they do not come to this conclusion , a campaign of suoh prosecutions will , as surely as in former days , compel its adoption * In any case I think it right publicly to declare my willingness to place myself on what I consider to . be the « ide of public duty . "
A Strange Story From Sumatea. A Singular...
A STRANGE STORY FROM SUMATEA . A singular story is told in a letter from the Hagne of the 5 th ult ., published in the Nord , of Brussels . We here read : — "The Dutch war steamer Merapi has made a fresh expedition against some English filibusters , who had at first established themselves at Siak , in the island of Sumatra . They were afterwards driven out , but on the departure of the troops sent against them they established themselves in the island of Bankalis , where they fortified the village of Clapa Pati , hoisted the English flag , and levied contributions on the native fishermen , for the support of their Malay and Chinese soldiers . The Merapi was . again sent to the place ; , having on board the resident governor of Riourd and a Dutch commissioner , and arrived there on the 18 th of December . " Negotiations ensued , but finally the Dutch troops landed , and found that . the English had evacuated the place . The story requires further elucidation .
The Continent. In The Sitting Of The Cor...
THE CONTINENT . In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif on ThuTsdaj-, the budget of 1855 being definitively made up , was brought forward for confirmation , and the House , pursuant to its custom , was about to vote it , as a matter of course , -when M . Emile Ollivier rose , and in a short but telling speech , demonstrated that the surplus of 394 millions for 1855 was obtained by a transparent juggle , and that in reality there was a deficit of 64 millions . The trick was achieved by putting down the ordinary expenses of the Minister at War tinder the head of extraordinary expenses , and in this way a large part of the ordinary budget was covered by loans , which were represented as being wanted only for extraordinary expenses . A great many deputies said privately that M . Ollivier was quite- right ; but , on a division , he was supported only by the three deputies who , with himself , constitute the small opposition team—M . Darimon , member for Paris , Dr . Henon , of Lyons , and M . Cure , of Bordeaux . —Daily Neios ( this day ) .
The Spanish Government proposes to reply categorically to the interpellation relative to the alleged dynastic fusion ; it will declare that it is resolved to repudiate any combination contrary to the rights of Queen Isabella II . The Queen of Holland and her son , the Prince Alexander ( aged six years ) , are expected at the Tuileries on May 7 . After a short stay in the Pavilion Marsnn , they will go to Fontainebleau . The Countess de Montijo , mother of the Empress , arrived in Paris on Wednesday , and alighted at the Hotel d'Albe , in the Champa Elyse ' es . A Madrid letter says that she left very suddenly , and countermanded a ball at her house , for which cards wore out . Orsini's children loft Paria on Thursday morning for London .
M . Havin , the editor of the Sidch , in said to have had tftt interview with tho Emperor , who freely discusHcd the limits of freedom of public comment which he would tolerate .
The Latib Assassination At Portsmouth.— ...
The Latib Assassination at Portsmouth . — Edwin Hart , tho brother of Daniel Hnrt , or Howard , recently shot dead at Portsmouth , at hia own door , haa been arrested under suspicion of being concerned in the act . The CiinvAUKR Nkukomm , at ono time well known in England as a musical composer , has just died at Paris , aged eighty . Ho wns a moinbor of tho Legion
ofHonourvand-aeveral-Iearned'aooietlea . ' ¦ —— " - " < - < Tjriai . of Lam . — -Tho trial of Giovanni Lani , for the murder of He'lojso Thaubin , tho foreign courtesan , in Arundel-court , Haymarkot , oommoncfld at tho Control Criminal Court before Mr . Justice Crompton on Thursday , and was concluded yesterday . On tho second clay , Mr . Atkinson , for tho defence , pointod out somo diacropanciea in the evidence , and urged that the cane hnd not been fully made out , or that , at tho worst , it could not bo- moro than manslaughter . The jury , however , found tho prisoner Guilty of murder , and tho jurtgo passed Bcntonc © of death . Ho observed that ho wna a
Bernard ' s guilt ; but he mentioned that four Judges-of her Majesty ' s superior courts will- be present at the trial , and that , if necessary , either before or after sentence , those Judges will have the power of taking the opinion of all the fifteen Judges on any doubtful question of law which may arise . The Grand Jury having returned a true bill , the trial will take place on Monday ; and Lord Campbell hoped the press would- not discuss the questions at issue during the investigation .
The Indian Relief Fund . —The colony of Victoria has made , through the Legislative Assembly , the noble donation of 25 , 0001 . to the Indian Relief Fund . The Loss of the Avai—A telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , reporting that , when the Candia passed Ce 3 'lon , nearly the whole of the specie and mails had beeu recovered from the wreck of the Ava . Snow-storm . —There has been a very heavy snow storm in the north , between Manchester and Sheffield . The railway lines have been temporarily blocked up , and the drifts are some feet deep . So heavy a fall of snow so late iti the season is almost unparalleled .
minor , hoping thus to esoape the extreme penalty ; but he was told that this fact availed-him nothing . Trial of Bernard . — The special commission for trying . Bernard on the charge of beiug . accessory to the murders committed in Paris on the 14 th of January , was opened yesterday by Lord Campbell , who explained the bearings of the law , and went over the faots of the case- He seemed slightly to indicate an opinion on his own part that there is sufficient-primd facie evidence of
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The Cagliari Case. (7b The Editor Of The...
THE CAGLIARI CASE . ( 7 b the Editor of the Leader . ) Sir , —It would no doubt be altogether unreasonable to expect that the law advisers of the Crown should be possessed of any very large or precise amount of geographical knowledge , or that in any question of international law sucli a , mere schoolboy matter as the geography of the case should be considered at all . Still , in the case of a suspected wilful fire , a robbery , or murder , it is common enough to have maps , plans , and models of the premises and grounds ; but they are only to aidthe jury in consideiing the facts . The lnvv advisers of the Crown must be held to be above such vulgar helps . They
have to do with tlie law alone , and the less lucid and the more full of slippery suggestions their opinions are , the more learned and diplomatic they are considered . In international matters the very perfection of an opinion on the part of the advisers of the Crown is that it shall be learned , lengthy , involved enough to bewilder the public , and both-sided enough to give any violator of international right an opportunity of driving a coach nnd ai : c through it , mid escaping unpunished from even the most deliberately intended national insult . The case of the Cagliari from the first—the right or wrong of the imprisonment of the engineers , Watt and Parkwas a question of fact requiring no refinement
of argument , nnd having no nice points 01 international law mixed up with it . Tho whole question that needed settlement from first to lust , has been , > vhere was the Cugliari when she was captured ? If on the high seas , her seizure was a flagrant violation of the law of nations , to be answered for to Sardinia , so fur as that particular steamer was concerned , and to the whole maritimo world as a robbery upim tlio high sons . If the vessel wore not—and it is now admitted she was not—in tho Neapolitan waters , then tho enpturo nud detention of Watt and Park was as complete a violation of National Law , as thorough an insult to England , as if those men had been carried oil' from a workshop on our own shores . Surely tlio tlrat business of tlio law advisers
of tho Crown , before they turned to their hooks at all , was to have asked whery was the Cagliari captured ; upon that point n direct answer should have been required at once . . Doubtless tliero would have been—a Iran ?! antr ~ shttffl iif ^ TnjqTiiT ^ cTit 'ioTipaiKl oven lying on tho part of King Donibn , but , spite of all evasion and circumlocution , it would have been possible to have got the point settled— an Enj / lish whip of war in tho Bay , an examination , fuco to face , of Watt and Park \ v ith tho captor of the vessel , would Imvo sottlod tho matter in half an hour—tliero was no need two Englishmen should bo left for nine months to tho tender mercies of a Neapolitan prison , to got at tho einglo point—where tfrts tho Gaglinrt oapturod ? If to havo Bettlod that matter-of-fact from tho
beginning wa ^ notr Wie provine e of the law adviap ^ the Crowrn , then by ail means- let there'forthwith appointed a geographical adviser , a member «* nT Cabinet if need-be , who shall snve Eh glishmen fW , ™ yard * of legal- Opinion , and from the dunceon * « f crowned ruffians , who may dare , presuming on tLv own littleness , to lay hands on Englishmen . Sfonhowever , there is an end of doubt . We know m Gapliari was not taken in the Neapolitan waters We lenow tliat the ingenious-suggestion set un ft , our late- Attorney-General , by way of excusa fb King Bomba—thaf the engineers surrendered tlien ^ selves—had no foundation . We know that these two Englishmen were subject to grievous insults arrd hardshipsin prison .
We know that the King and his advisers knew throughout that the ship had been seized -wrongfully and that these two Englishmen were imprisoned wrongfully . No doubt the lingering over legal opinions , the evasive answers in Parliament the polite attempts of diplomacy in the matter were chuckled over in the Neapolitan palace . Had not King Bomba two Englishmen in his dungeons ?—did not the whole world know it ?—and were they not left in his power , and the one point which must have set them free at once—that the Cagliari was seized in the open sea and not in the Neapolitan waters—overlooked ?
Now , however , it is to be hoped there may be n » more sham in the matter—no setting up the pretence that perhaps King Bomba and his precious public prosecutor were ignorant of the fact of whieH the officer ' s report must at once have informed threra —that the Cagliari was taken on the high seas ' . Tlie question now ia how to' & tsal -with this petty tyrantthis king of every cruelty and of every vice . Neither the existing ministry nor any other will venture ttt counsel mild terms . We have to stand by Sardinia in her demands as to the vessel , and for our own
countrymen we have to demand complete redress . Let us hear nothing cf mere compensation ; the question is not how much the men might have 1 earned had they been at liberty during the nine months lingered out in the Neapolitan dungeon ^ nor is it one of a price to be paid for anxiety , and suffering , and shattered health . ' It is a question 0 * a lesson to this king—a lesson for the world to take note of—a proclamation , in substantial shape , that Englishmen , wherever they may set foot , be they rich or poor , prince or peasant , travellers for pleasure , or the engineers and stokers of steamboats , shall be treated with respect , even by such crowned marvels of mightiness . as this Bomba , the meanest , most cowardlyand cruel of existing monarchs .
, Fortunately Bomba is not rich , nnd he is fond 01 money . Let him be compelled to pay one hundred ' thousand pounds for his luxury of having seized and imprisoned the two Englishmen . Let him be compelled to make the payment within ten days , I hat ? done , Englishmen would pass more easily everywhere abroad , and King Bomba would think twice before lie ventured either to obstruct or lay hands
on one again . . Nor is this all . As tlioso two Englishmen have been shut up in a Neapolitan prison , and the course of justice iu tho dominions of Kirg Bomba is S ( x slow , and as possibly other Eng lishmen may come to be shut up , it would not be amiss to force upon King Bomba a fitting measure of prison reform , aw to see it carried out in full . His Miijosty ot Isapes has been allowed too long to ' outrage humanity tm impunity } nnd no teacher will ever so tliorou , nyr tame and cure him as the big guns ot an * : »> ' * " ' man-of-war levelled at his palace . Hu wm I ^ then , apologize then , reform then—never else . Yours , A ITaTEU OF iNHOMiNCE , WIIHTHEH IN Till ! Mill ) OR ON A I WtONl "
Turkey And China. (To The Editor Of Thv ...
TURKEY AND CHINA . ( To the Editor of thv Lemkr . ) Sin , —I do not object to tho cliamwt osprcflMd Jy Lord Elgin at the horrible cruellies whic , ho Chinese arc known to perpetrate upon the crinum »» con lined in their prisons . . > i It is , however , only just that your renders should bo informed Unit in such atrocious conduct 11111 not excel , if they even equal , our nllies the . ¦ [« Kvory ono who has been in Turkey knows tun » prisons in that country resemble a certain 1 upon earth . , , , ... minus - * TTorrwiTiivTim ^ res T ^ of money and twenty thousand invalua blew litrn « .. , lr , fi , n , linir Turkcv : nnd I cannot , tliiu' » ' 0
admit that " tho cruelties practised by t , ^ « lvo us moro Tight to Interfere . ' w th tl 1 it »¦¦ than with tho odious acts of tlio ' 1 url « . "' ' J tho cruelties are utill moro Infamous , bomuwo «» majority of ciisos they nroprnotiaod on tlio i . n j , . merely on account of their religion . Xu w »" religions moot with extreme toleration . I nm , Sir , your obedient s ^ yant , ^^
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Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10041858/page/10/
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