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Leader Office , Saturday , April I Oth . Me . Hojlyoake has published a translation of the Letter- to tfe Parliament and the JPress , by F ^ lix Pyat , Besson , and A . Talandier , -with an admirable and pungent preface from hi 3 oirn pen . We quote the concluding lines : — " It is not my wish to be prosecuted . It is my wish that the 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 such 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 side of public doty . "
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A STRANGE STORY FROM SUMATRA . A singular story is told in a letter from the Hague of the 5 th nit ., 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 nag , 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 . English . had evacuated . the place . The story requires further elucidation .
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THE CONTINENT . ' In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif on Thursday , 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 Oil ivier 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 6-1 millions . The trick was achieved by putting down the ordinal expenses of the Minister at War under 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 . llenon , of Lyons , and M . Cure , of Bordeaux . — Daily News ( 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 Marsan , they will go to Fontaineblenu . The Countess do Montyo , mother of the Empress , arrived in Paris on Wednesday , and alighted ut the Hotel d'Albe , in the Champs Elysees . A Madrid letter Bays that sbe left very suddenly , and countermanded a ball at her house , for which cards were out . Orsini ' s children left Paris ou Thursday morning for London . M . Havin , the editor of the StUcIe , is snid to have had an interview with the Emperor , who freely discussed , the limits of freedom of public comment which he would tolerate .
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Tuts Latis Assassination at Portsmouth . — Edwin Hart , the brother of Daniel Hart , or Howard , recently uhot dead at Portsmouth , nt his own door , baa been arrested under suspicion of being concerned In the act . Tirja CirEVAMim Nkukomm , nt one time well Imown in England as a musical composer , has just dlod nt Paris , aged eighty . Ho was n member of the Legion of Honour and several learned societies . ¦""'^ TKi lBToxriaKNi ^ murder of Hdloiso Thaubin , the foreign courtoHon , In Arundcl-oourt , Haymarkot , commenced at tbo Oontral Criminal Court before Mr . Justice Groinpton on Thursday , and vraa concluded yesterday . On tlio second day , Mr . Atkinson , for the defence , pointed out nomo tliscropanoics in the evidence , and urged that the caso' had not been folly made out , or that , at the worst , it could not be more than manslaughter . The Jury , however , found the prisoner Guilty of murder , and tbo juclgo passed . Bootonco of death . Ho observed that ho wus a
minor , hoping thus to escape the extreme penalty ; but he was told that this fact availed him nothing . Trial or Bernard . — The special commission for trying Bernard on the charge of being 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 facts of the case . He seemed slightly to indicate an opinion on his own part that there is- sufficient primA facie , evidence of Bernard ' s guilt ; bnt 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 presa would not discuss the questions at issue during the investigation . The Indian Reljef Fund . —The colony of "Victoria has made , through the Legislative Assembly , the noble donation of 25 , 000 / . to the Indian Relief Fund . The Loss of the Ava . —A telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , reporting that , when the Candia passed Ceylon , nearly the whole of the specie and mails had been recovered from the wreck of the Ava . Snow-storm . —There has been a very heavy snowstorm 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 in the season is almost unparalleled .
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N TIUS DErAHTMEST . A 3 ALL OPINIONS . HOWEVER EXTREME , ARE ALLOWED AS BXl » ltBSSIO 2 J , THE EDITOR NEGliSSARlLV HOLDS HIMSELF KKSPONS 1 BLK FOlt NOSE . J
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THE CAGLIARI CASE . ( To 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 such a mere schoolboy matter as the geography o f 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 arc only to aid the jury in considering the facts . The law advisers of the Crown must be held to be above such vulgar helps . They have to do with tlio 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 and six through it , and escaping unpunished from even the most deliberately intended national insult . Thecnso of the Qaglinri from the first—the right or wrong of the imprisonment of the engineers , Watt nnd Parkwas a question of fact requiring no refinement of argument , and having no nice points of intcrnational lavdnixed up with it . The whole question that needed settlement from first to last , has been , whoro was the Cugliari when sho was captured ? If on the high seas , her seizure was a flagrant violation of the law of nations , to bo answered for to Sardinia , so far as that particular steamer was concerned , ' and to the whole maritime world as a robbery upon the high sens . If tho vessel were not—and it is now admitted she was not—in tho Neapolitan waters , then tho capture and detention of Watt and Park was as complete a violation of National L-a \ v , as thorough an insult to England , as it' those men had been carried oil" from a workshop on our own shores . Surely tho llrst business of tho law advisers of the Crown , before thoy turned to their books ) at all , was to have asked whoro was tho Cajdinri ruptured ; upon that point a direct answer should have been required at once . JJuubtlens there would have been abundant shuffling , equivocation , and even ly 1 njpTfn ~ tlte - T ) HT ( r ot w'Kiii { r- *' . Iionrtan 7- 'biit 7--8 pitO" - < jl ^ all uviibion and circumlocution , it would have been possible to have got tho point settled —un English ship of war in tlio Bay , an examination , l ' noo <<> faco , of Watt and Park with tho captor of tho vessel , would have settled tho matter in half an hour—thoro was no need two Englishmen hhould bo left for nine months to tlio tender inorolen of u Neapolitan prison , to get rvt tlio single point—whoro was tho Cagllarl captured ? If to have settled that mattcr-of-fuot from the
beginning was not the province of tlie law adviser , 7 r the Crown , then by all means let there forthwith u appointed a geographical adviser , a member of th Cabinet if need be , who shall save Englishmeu frnm yards of legal opinion , and from the duneeons Z crowned ruffians , who may dare , presuming on their own littleness , to lay hands on Englishmen Now however , there is an end of doubt . We know th Cagliari was not taken in the Neapolitan waters . We know that the ingenious suggestion set up hv our late Attorney-General , by way of e xcuse for King Bomba—that the engineers surrendered them selves—had no foundation . We know that these two Englishmen were subject to grievous insults and hardships in 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 tlie polite attempts of diplomacy in the matter were chuckled over in the Neapolitan psilace . 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 tree at once—that tlie Caglmri was seized in the open sea and not in the Neapolitan waters—overlooked ? Now , however , it is to be hoped there may be no more sham in the matter—no seitinj * up the pretence that perhaps King Bomba and his precious public prosecutor Mere ignorant of the fact of which the officer ' s report must at once have informed them —that the Cuyliari was taken on the high seas . The question now is how to deal with this petty tyrantthis king of every cruelly and of every vice . Neither the existing ministry nor any other will venture to 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 of nure compensation ; the question is not how much tiie men might have earned had they been at liberty during the nine months lingered out in the Neapolitan dungeons , nor is it one of u price to bo paid for anxiety , and suffering , and shattered health . It is a question of a . lesson to this king— : i lesson for the world to take note of—a proclamation , in substantial shape , that Englishmen , wherever they may set foot , be thoy 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 Hosnba , the meanest , most cowardly , and cruel of existing mouarc-hs . Fortunately lioinba is not rich , and he is fond of money . Let him he compelled to pay one hundred thousand pounds Cor his luxury of having seized ana imprisoned the two Knjjli .-hnicn . Lei him be compelled to make the payment within ten days . Unit done , Englishmen would pass more easily everywhere abroad , and King Bomba would think twice before ho ventured either to obstruct or l .-iy hands on one again . Nor is this all . As those two Englishmen have been shut up in a Neapolitan prison , and the course of justice in the- dominions of Kii'f , ' Bouilm is so slow , and as possibly other Englishmen may come to be shut up , it would not he aniiru to tore : upon King liombaa fitting measure of prison reiorm , aiiu to . sec it c . irrk-d out in full . His Majesty o '> M' | » lms been allowed too long to oulrnyc humiuniy wi ' impunity ; and no teacher will ever so thoroiijjmy tame and euro him as the hi « nuns ot an M'l !"' man-of-war levelled at his palace . He win W then , apologize then , reform then -never else . Yours , A I / atkk < m- I . nsoi . knck , vriiKTiiuit in tub Mui > on on a lunosb .
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TURKEY AND CHINA . ( 7 'o th < : Kilitor of ( In- / . emit r . ) Sib , —I do .. ot object to the di » usl o ^ ' ^' JJ Lord Kltfln nl the horrible cruellies « h . ch g Chinese arc known to perpetrate upon ine uum couliued in their prisoim . Klioiilil It is , however , only just Hint your ivu . lo . ^ ou j be informed that in huoIi atrocious eomli u n u not excel , if they ev . n i-qiiul , our nlhcs ^ , Every one who has been in Turkey ki . o «» tli « prisons in that country resemble it cciuii" I upon earth . . , ... ; iiioiis Now wo him- lately ojcpi-n . K-1 one hi . n < hv < l ¦>> "'^ <^ l ^^ lHM ^^ y ~ al ^ iUuv ^ ni ^ UllUAmU . ^ JJ ^ .,. ' , L ^ y , tM ^ V , ! : ^! : ^ ,, |^ , ) r ^> , ~ llvu . < in defending Tu . l ^ y ; ami TcWl , Ik j iiilmlt thai tlio cruellies pnicd- ^ l > y llv ; , „„ ¦ „ , „ W lv « us iiioru'iiK liL lo inu-rlere u th 11 ' than will . i lliu odious acts of ilui I urU * . , ' tin . cruullli'H are still moro inlnn . ouH , Iiukun- "' , „„„ inajoriiy of oar oh they nre pracl ikwiI oi » Hie i . i ^ merely on account of their ivll K l . » ii . J » < - '""" reliuions meet with extreme toleration . I . mi , Sir , your ubediout ^^^^ Kn .
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There is no learned man but will confess ne hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it be profitable for him to read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hisadversary to write ? — Milton
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346 ^___^_ THE Ii E AD E R . [ No . 420 , Aprii , iq , 185 r
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Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2238/page/10/
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