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    The Jersey Republicans. Tan Exiles Remai...

    more . Setting aside the violation of right , the violence f ^' e & epubft ? , is » right ^ ifc * fatu ^^^ s 4 flevita * 4 e ;; !^^» giriigw t ] be rest ? iv A ^ w ^ ji fr . 4 ^ . a & ^ a /*? t-S ^ to . ?^^ o ^ er . OTnanj ^ . tQ ; e ^ Ue 3 anotfcer-liple in r 3 W ^ fljig , J Onfer te *> % «* $ ¦ >» l ^ - ' ?^ W *' ?* .. oii | Tth ! e . ^ j ^ ct . ypU T'i sifjr ^ i-Ji pe friBa ^^ rse . ' prescribed Frenchmen ,,, ; to JftS * EpglU & i Wyr ^ iiaent ^^ -liIon ^ jieur , Bonaparte , your ^ Wwecful and cordial ally * ' na 3 no other legal existence j ^^ t ^ rrP ^^ g ^ ^ Hb ^ he cri ? ne of high treason . M . . ' ^ i $ B $$ & P ° P & $ & $ ¦ fow * yp ^ lC ^ li ? 3 ' ; b . een ! liable to a l-writ Vox arreati , ssigued ; , Hardpuin * President o £ the

    ^ jg ^^ ur ^ oj ^ u ^ ice j , Delapalme , Pataj ^ e , Bloreau ( of jj & e Seine )^ , Cau 5 hy ,. Judges . ; and countersignedi ^ Ke' jj ^ pi ^ l ^ rtK ^ rSttt ^^^ afC * -- ?{•• . Bonaparte , took the oath a $ a functionary , to , the Republic , and -perjured / bimself . , M , Bonaparte swore , fidelity to the Clonstitut ^ tipn , / and destroyed the Constitution . M- Bonaparte , ^ ed 6 po ' ai ^ ty rof ; all the laws , has violated all the laws . . ' . TML Bonaparte imprisoned the inviolable representatives ' « jF the people , anjd drove away the judges . M . Bonaparte , in order to . escape the writ of arrest issued by the High Coprtj has done , what the malefactor does , that he may . escape from the . geoiiarmes : he has committed , murder . , if . Bonaparte has used sabres and grapeshot , and he has re ^ terminated $ ,. bje > . hasjymassacredby day ,. shot , ^> y night . ZMg " -Jft 9 ^ fi ? Sr * £ 'JS $ U «! $ WPw < -. AttJ ^ n ^^ ' iP ^ ^ fojChj ^ let ,. ^ gmtty of haying attempted to ; serve the judicial writ of M . bribed the

    -a ^ reat . JJonaparte soldiers , bribed the . iune ^ pnaries , hjibed ; the magistrates . M . Bonaparte . ' fljtple the property of Louis Philippe , to whom he , was Indebted for , his ' ^ me . . . . M , ; Bonaparte , has , sequestrated , ' ,. pillaged , ^ confiscated ,,. terrorized consciences , ruined families . C M . Bonaparte has proscribed , banished , driven joui , . expelledy transported to Africa , traasported to ' Cayenne , sent forth to exile , forty thousand citizens , amongst whom are the signers of this declaration . High treason , false oath , perjury , subornation of officials , sequestration of the citizens , spoliation , robbery , murder —these are crime 3 provided against , by every code of every nation , punished in England on the scaffold , " punished in France , where the Republic abolished the penalty of death , with the bagnio- The Court of Assizes is Raiting for M . Bonaparte . From this moment history " says to him—Accused , rise . The French , people , has for its executioner , and the English Government for its ally , Imperial crime . .

    . " That is what we say . That . is what we said yesterday , and the English press in . a body said so with us ; this . is . what . we shall say to-morrow , and a unanimous posterity wiU say so with us . This is what we shall ^ ilivaya , say , we who have but one soul—the truth , and . hut one word—justice . ' . ' " And now . banish us ! u «« Jersey , October 17 , X 855 . ( Signed ) , . « ' Victor Hugo , J . Cahaigne , Fulbert Martin ( advocate ) , Colonel Sandor Teleki , E . Beauvais , Bonnet-J Duverdier , Kesler , Arsene Hayes , Albert Barbieux ., jptoumilhap ( advocate ) , A ,- C . Wlesener ( retired Austrian officer ) , Gornet ( senior ) , Charles Hugo , J . B- Amiel ( of the Ariege ) , Francois Victor Hugo , F . TafeYy , TMophile Gu ^ rin , Francois Zychon , B . Colin , Edooard Collet , Koziell , V . Vincent , A . Piasecki , Giuseppe Rancan , Lefebvre , Barbier ( physician ) , H . Preveraud , condemned . to death on the 2 nd December ( Allies ) . "

    , Colonel Pianoiam , one of the exiles , has written to . the . London papers to defend himself and hia coljeagues * and to denounce the injustice with which he ftUeges they have been treated . He asserts that no disrespect was intended to the Queen , the offensive ^ expressions having a different meaning in , Freud i to that which they have been made to bear in English , ¦ and the . purport of the document being misrepresented by garbled extracts , the true character of which has been destroyed by isolating them from the context . A more grave accusation , however , in con * tained in the charges . brought against the Jersey people and , the authorities of the island , who . if we

    can depend on the assertions of Colonel Pianciani , have behaved with unwarrantable violence . These chargqa are to the effect that JLynch-law was openly advised at . the meeting . at St . Heller's ; that the destruction of the colonel ' s house was only prevented by the presence of the police , granted on the application of M . Pianciant ; that an attack was made on the printing-office of / JHomme , but successfully restated , though several military officers incited the mob to . destroy the pxeasaa and the building ; and that the authorities made no effort to prevent tho publication ofiincondiary placards . M . Piancianisaya the most murderous propositions were put forth , nod gives the following , " with proper caution" tr-. " A butcher , it is asserted , offered a vessel to transport in person tho beasts to France , to conduct us all there , ¦ ' , ; : i — :. ; ' * Arrest ! . —In virtue of Art . 68 of tho Constitution , the High Court of Jtfatico declares Louis Napoleon Bohatoarte charged with the crime of high tro ' aaoii ; convokes tni National JTiiiry ' to procood without delay to Judgment ; arid , inVesta Councillor Roriouard with tho functions of '¦ Public Mihiiaior ^ t the High Court . —Done « t Paris , tho jBnd 6 f Doceralbor , 1851 . Slgnod ¦{ Hardouln , prdst-^ Sife" toetapalnHe / ' Ptttaine' / Moreau < of tt ' a Sethb )/ Caubhy , judges .

    with anje ^ emplartof ^ the- V *¦ ¦&& ^ hest ,, of « m * . t ; -v . ' - ¦!• ¦ > -. ) j - * . ' - ;•>¦•'•¦ ' •' . ¦ ¦ •¦"• ¦ " ¦ - ¦ , ¦ *¦ - ¦ ' ¦' ¦ " " ¦ . , V A _ n > agistrate , it-is said * proposed' to . embark naon a Binkingship , to make usiall-rrnwn , iponien , and children — -sink to , t he bottom of the bay ,, i ~ . -j ¦ : ; - ; ¦ V . The . officers threatened to destroy the printing , machine , rand ; burn twaorrthree houses : this last proposal . wasi one of . t * ie less wild ones . " -i > Colonel Bianciani says thai ^ - on receiving ^ the Governor ' s commands ; to ^ quit the island , he replied , " I thank th & Governor for his courtesy" ( in allowing a convenient time for departure ) , " and please to assure him I willriot afiuse it ^ but will leave Jersey by the next steamboat . " He adds : —

    " The same evening , a deputation , consisting of magistrates , lawyers ! merchants , and others , announced as the real Jerseymenycariie to my house , expressingto me , and to' all th <> se who like' me -were astonished , their regret of the abuse of anthority , as they called it ; of the Governor . ' '¦ They advised us to appeal to the justice : of the eountty , and 'assured us of the sympathy of all the wise and enlightened <> f the inhabitants .. We were also informed by others that certain parish authorities were ready to protect us against violence . " We thanked them most heartily , these brave citizens , noble hearts , -and real Englishmen ^ but declined to ; act as advised . We—the eternal disturbers , as they please to call us—we preferred to submit to- a second exile and its consequences , rather than to > provoke , we Tvill not say war , but the least conflict between the authorities ; and it 13 thus the Republicans repay the hospitality ^ even then -when its duties aTe forgottea towards them .

    ( t Oar conduct Was appreciated ; they had ceased to crowd' after us on Tuesday evening , but began to turn against the Governor . A protestation was issued against our expulsion , covered , ' as it is asserted , by numerous signatures . Light appeared at Jersey . The same effect , we hope , will be produced in England by the faithful recital of the above event . "

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    PUBLIC MEETINGS . MR . DRtTMMOND " IN" ADMrBABLE FOOLING . " Mb . Henry Drttmbiond , M . P ., exhibited some of his singular mental antics at the annual dinner of the Chertsey Agricultural Association ; on which occasion he was the Chairman . In proposing the health of Prince Albert and the Royal Family , he observed , alluding to the recent articles in the Times on the contemplated marriage of the Princess Royal , that a most unwarrantable interference had been committed , and proceeded to ask" What would they say if , -when any young person made love to the daughter of a farmer , some impertinent and meddling neighbour chose to turn round and tell them that it would be an improper marriage ? Would they not say , ' Hold your tongue ; mind your own affairs ; it is no business of yours ; ' and would not all their neighbours join with them in . expressing their opinion that it was an impudent interference ? The privacy of the royal family ought to be equally respected ; and were they , because Mr . Walter , Mr . Delane , and Mr . Dasent chose , in the exercise of their judgment , to consider that the proposed marriage of the Prince 9 s Royal was not a proper one , to say that it ought not to take place ? He considered that it -was a most abominable interference on their part with the affairs Of private life , and such an interference as they would not suffer for a moment'in their own families . "

    Mr . Drummond afterwards proceeded to vindicate Lord Raglan and General Simpson from the " calumnies" which he said had been heaped on them , and to dispute the right of civilians to express any opinion on the actions of military men . " What , ho asked them , would they think of half a dozen general officers sitting down to decide how the Attorney General and Sir Frederick Thesiger , the great lawyers in London , should conduct a Chancery suit ? Would they not say , ' How can they know anything about it' / ' Well , then , by the same reasoning , how could civilians know anything about the conduct of military matters ? AH he could say was , that if the people of this copnjtry wished their soldiers to fight their battles abroad , the people must fight their battles hero , and not suffer such calumnies to bo spread abroad without giving them the flattest contradiction . " The Chairman , however , claimed for himself a right to be critical on law matters . He said : —

    " He had been labouring ever since he got into Parliament to got a registry of titles to land throughout the kingdom , and he assured them the opposition he met with was not from tho landowners themselves , but from the lawyers , including old chancellors , half-dead chancellors , and live chancellors . " People not connected with agriculture , moreover , might instruct those who are . u The vory laat time ho had tho pleasure of seoing thorn in that " room , ho rbmoinltorod a shoemaker or a tailor bringing forward'a practical illustration of a most enormous' produce having boon raided from a single seed . Ho mentioned this to show hovy much might bo dond by Miptirior teulttyatlon . ' * 'Oii tlidt'Occasion , a gontlomnn at the ' other ehtf of the * room aaltt it ' w » 8 all'vefy wbllfor gentlemen farmers to como and humbug tho practical

    farmers in fchatiiway . It was aaid ; ithat . seemg : was believing ^ vbutlhid gentleman « aw and did not helipve . " : i :. The Bame meetmg « w 4 s addressed % y . Mr . -IL oe ^ e King , . M . 'P . ; who made « 6 me sensible Observations on 1 ihe necessity for doing away' with those laws which prevent t . he flow-of fertilising-capital td the Boil ; and those technical difficulties which interfere with -the transfer of land : frona a willing seller to a willing purchaser . He observed : ^ - - ; ¦ . ¦ " From the statistics to which he was able to refer , he found that no fewer than 15 , 000 , 0 . 00 acres of land in Great Britain and Ireland ^ , which at present were not cultivated at all , were capable of improvement and cultivation—viz ., in England , 4 , 000 , 000 '; in Scotland , a country overburdened by the application of the principle of Strict entail , 6 , 000 , 000 ; and in Ireland no less than 51000 , OGO- "

    Tf XE EARL OF HARROWBY ON THE WAR . , The Earl of Harrowby ( a member of the Government ) ,, in addressing the company at the annual dinner of the { EJandon and Marston Agricultural Association , made the following remarks on the management of the war :-r" When , it was proposed to him , in the early part of the . year , to join her Majesty ' s Government , it was at the moment when the country was suffering under great disappointment and discouragement from a . feeling that great sacrifices had been made . with a , very , inadequate result , and at the time when the country was suffering under a sense that she had sent forth some of her best blood to defend a righteous cause , and that proper

    precautions had not been taken that those who were thus willing to shed their blood were cared for in the manner they ought to be . How far that feeling was justified by facts , the present was not the opportunity for considering ; but this he might say , that it was quite a natural feeling , and one in which he with many others participated . There was , however , much to be saidand he felt so at the time—in behalf of those who had all at once to extemporise a great war with means and appliances totally inadequate to so great an undertaking . They had heard much lately about putting the right man in the right place , and it was important that this should be done ; but it was what no one was able

    to do at once , either in tune of peace or war . . . . When the country was labouring under great disappointment and discouragement , as he had said , he himself joined in the feeling that all had not been done under the circumstances . Whether his more intimate acquaintance with such matters modified that feeling was another question ; but since then he had been better able to judge of such matters by being brought more into contact with the machinery . At the same time , he felt no sound objection to his laying aside his own private feelings and lending what humble assistance might be in his power to carry on this just , necessary , and righteous war . "

    Aaincultobal Statistics.—Mr. C W. Packe,...

    AaincuLTOBAL Statistics . —Mr . C W . Packe , M . P ., made a speech at the annual dinner of the Loughborough Agricultural Association , in which he denounced the recent declaration of a committee of the House of Lords that it would be advisable to collect returns of the agricultural produce of this country . Such an investigation Mr . Packc held would bo vexatious and inquisitorial ; and lie said that some preliminary experiments had been attended with very ill-success , owing to the indisposition of fanners to g ive the required information . The consumer , admitted Mr . Packe , would be benefited ; " but , as regards the producer , with prices as they are at present , could he do better , or as well ? Then , why meddle with him now , and injure his concerns ? " This line of argument was received with mingled laughter and cheers . —A totally different view was taken by Mr .

    Chandos Wren Hoskyns , who , at a meeting of tho Leominster Agricultural Association , spoke at some length on tho want of some accurate statistics as to the agricultural produce of this country . He expressed his firm conviction that we might in times past have avoided some of the most trying circumstances that press on the farmer if wo had had the means of judging before the time of harvest what would be tho probable rule of prices during the sale of the produce of that particular harvest . Mr . Hoskyns observed that wo are in a state of almost barbarian ignoranco as regards the amount of product ) grown in this country , and asked— " How can wo tell how much will bo required to be imported from abroad , or whether it will be advantageous to tho farmer to sell or to hold , unless wo have some measure of tho acreage grown , before the harvest comes to bo sent into the country ?"

    Mr . Ewaut , M . P ., has been addressing his constituents at Dumfries on tho subject of tho -war and of other political matters . Thongh a member of tho Ponco Sooicty , lie declared himself an onorgotic advocate of the prosecution of hostilities ; and he spoko in favour of Army Reform and Administrative Reform . Lord Gateway on " thk Coalition . "—In proposing the toast of " Tho Army and Navy , " at tho dinner of tho flivpportOTfl of tho Worksop Labourers' Friend Soeioty , on Tuesday , " Lord Galway made some allusion to this tftlked-6 f conlition . Ho remarked : — " Tho euggestod oonlitlon was that of Lord John Russell , Mr-Urigh ' t , Mn G-lAd 6 tdrie , ' and Mr . Iiiarnbli . Now , ho should bo very sorry if Lord John Russell had entered

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/4/