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• • ' • 254 THE PRESS, MARCH 13, 1858. TO CORRESPONDENTS. n inrere P oeih aßl ivnt,e Ma rch 1 1, a.m. o ba un that some of prep r se : meo il sd:dnao g inu n buat b r t 3 utdu r 7t: t • t sequence of this transaction was very distressing, and Whatever is intended for insertion muetbe authenticated by the the men were no doubt morally innocent. It was, name and address of the writer, not necessarily for public*. nevertheless, necessary to establish that innocence. tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. We cannot undertake to return communioatlons of which we do No neglect could be charged against the late Go- not avail ourselves. i r r e , a aa dy gi li vT a ve a Advertisements sent horn the country most be accompanied by a vernment on their marmot, every attention bein g Ch alons y ou Paris will a journals. f faal remittance or a reference fur payment in town. paid to the circumstance, and the advice of the law g officers of the Crown repeatedly sought on the affair. The question was not one of policy, but of law ; and I t) T. g as England had acknowledged the independe n ce of Republican party had organised a r i s i ng on an Naples, there was nothing in the power of any extensive scale throughout the country, and that at a Minister beyond watching the progress of the legal given signal the Republic was to have been pro. proceedings in Naples, and securing a prompt, fair, claimed. It appears that the Chalons cons • mistook the signal, and were before the time, an d pir e, ator: and just trial to the unfortunate detenus. This he LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1858. declared the Government had carefully done. In the -- interest of the prisoners themselves, not less than thus prevented other places from following their POSTSCRIPT. from wider considerations, the action of the English example. The Government has for some time past Administration should be regulated by principles of been in possession of all the ramifications of this vast international law, and conducted with a tone of p lot; • the names of the leaders were known, their The Calcutta Mails had not reached Suez on the judicious moderation. Bth inst. Mr. HEADLAM argued that as the Cagliari was password, &0., and hence the cause for the late not captured in Neapolitan waters her seizure was arrests. The number of persons arrested was, as I Inselligence from New York to the 20th ult. illegal. staeed in my last, greatly exaggerated by public arrived at Liverpool yesterday afternoon. Mr. ROEBUCK insisted that, irrespective of the legal writers. It is now officially announced that it did not The Senate had rejected the Army Bill. question, the English Ministry were bound to have exceed 300 for the whole of France. Those arrested The New Orleans Delta of the 20th asserts that insisted upon an immediate and open trial for their belonged principally to that formidable secret society the south has already opened the African slave unfortunate subjects, instead of allowing them to known as the " Marianne." In the houses of several trade, and that a regular depot has been established languish through months of cruel imprisonment. of the arrested were found arms, ammunition, p ro - on Pearl River, in Mississippi, where cargoes have Mr. HORSHAN adverted to the despatch of Count clamations, &c. Last Friday night we had an alerts been received, the negroes sold, and put to work. Cavour, in which the illegality of the capture of the in Paris, but such was the vigilance of the police, that The Delta says the vessels engaged in the trade Cagliari was urged, and called upon the Ministers to very few persons were aware that anything serious had generally use the French flag. enforce a similar view on the Neapolitan Adwinistra- occurred. It was the knowledge of the secret doings -- tion. He asked also for the production of all the of the conspirators which caused the Government to The Brothers Hall bankruptcy case came before papers connected with the affair. propose that" Law of Public Surety " which has bests Mr. Commissioner Fane for judgment yesterday. Mr. GLADSTONE remarked that the house were dis- so unjustly criticised in England. Many persons will His Honour emphatically denounced the mat- cussing an important question upon imperfect infer. probably argue from the Chalons and Paris affairs practices of the bankrupts, refused the certificate mation. It was, he submitted, of the utmost con- that France is undermined, that the Emperor is sleep. altogether, and said he could hold out no prospect sequence that Parliament should at once be placed ing on a 'volcano, and that a revolution may hourly of its being granted until the bankrupts had suffered in full possession of the facts. be expected. Believe me, that those who take such at least " two years' imprisonment. Mr. Commis- Lord PALMERSTON,OG behalf of the late Govern- a view of the present state of France are greatly sinner Fane also suggested that the assignees ment, consented to the production of all the corre- deceived. It cannot be denied that la Rouges have should take legal advice as to whether the case did spondenoe relating to the case. been actively at work lately, that certain refuges not come within the criminal law. Mr. Lawrence, After a few words from Mr. M. MILNES, committees are doing all they can to bring about a for the assignees, said the suggestion " should be Mr. S. FITZGERALD described the official reserve revolution, Got in France only, but in the whole of adoFted." which oustomatily regulated the publication of diplo- Europe. However, it is a fact that the members of matic papers. The fact that the Cagliari was cap- this turbulent and sanguinary party are now coo- LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. tured out of Neapolitan waters gave no title, accord- siderably less in numbers than in 1850. And ing to the opinion of most experienced authorities, of this be assured, that the Government is armed at for the British Government to demand a release of all points; supperted by a large military fort*, and, HOUSE OF COMMONS. the two prisoners except after due process of law. what is of more importance and of greater strength The house reassembled after the brief adjourn- Lord J. RUSSELL saw no valid reason for withhold- —public opinion. lam sure lam not exaggerating meat consequent upon the change of Administration. ing all sufficient information from the house. when I say that nine-tenths of the population of The members of Government took the oaths and Mr. RIDLEY having spoken a few words, France are opposed to the Red Republicans, and that their seats on re-election. Mr. B. °mass reverted to the question of at least seven-tenths of the people are in favour of On the motion of Sir W. JOLLIFFE a new writ was Ministerial explanations, complaining that the Go- t h e E mperor , an d wou ld d e f en d hi m an d hi s dy nas ty ordered for the city of Durham, in the room of Mr. vernment had intimated their intention of asking in the event Lot the breaking out of any serious J. R. Mowbray, who had accepted the office of for votes of money without having laid any pro- troubles. Judge Advocate-General. gramme of their future measures before the house. The fears lately entertained of the possibility of COUNT WALEWSKFS DESPATCH. He called on Mr. Disraeli to fix a day for this ex- a serious misunderstanding between England and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and position, expressing a purpose, if this request was France is feet fading away. The people of France said :—lt is due to the house that I should take the not complied with, to raise the question of confidence have great confidence in Lord Derby, and feel certain earliest opportunity of communicating that within by some definite motion. that, whilst maintaining the honour of England, he the last hour her Majesty's Government hare re- BARRACK ACCOMMODATI )N. will consolidate the friendship between the two ceived a despatch from the French Ambassador in Mr. LEWIN referred to the report lately presented countries. What I here state you may rely on, answer to a despatch which had been addressed to on the sanitary state of the army, alluding espe- notwithstanding that I shall probably be contra- the French Government by her Majesty's &ere- cially to the disgraceful insufficiency of barrack ea- dieted by the Palmerston Paris organ and the tary of State, and I have great pleasure in informing commodation. Radical correspondents. I heard last night a very the house that those painful misconceptions which, General PEEL stated that the subject had received old French diplomatist make the following sensible unhappily, for a time existed between the Govern. careful consideration, and the Government were pre- remark :—" With Lord Palmerston, the English and ments of the two countries have entirely termi- pared to ask for such additional votes as might be French alliance might have been preserved; with noted—(loud cheers)•—in a spirit friendly and required to carry out the recommendations of the Lord Derby it is secured." honourable, and in a manner which, I believe, will commissioners who had drawn up that report. The appeal of Orsini and his confederates to the be as satisfactory to the feelings as I am sure it will NAVY ESTIMATES. Court of Cessation comes on to-day. I will send you be conducive to the interest and happiness of' both The house went into Committee of Supply. a second letter, with, if I have time, full particulars. countries. The moment that we have received her After a few words from Mr. W. WILLIAMS and Sir Prince Jerome has quite recovered from his late Majesty's permission it will be my duty to lay the W. CODRINOTON, indisposition. correspondence that has taken place on this subject Sir J. PAKINGTON then moved a series of votes on Thursday evening. on the table of the house. (Cheers.) account for the service of the navy, and which, he The Court of Cessation has rejected the appeal of PUBLIC BUSINESS. observed, were calculated et four months' supply, as Orsini, Rudio, and Pierri. Gomez did not appeal. Mr. Domain! then proceeded to state the course founded on the estimates previously prepared by the M. Promirenr-General Dupin in his speech made which the Government intended to pursue with re- late Administration, use of the following observation. He said :—" This gard tc the public business of the country. At this ARMY ESTIMATES. execrable attempt was calmly premeditated, and moment various measures, routine in ch arac t er , b u t General PEEL afterwards brought forward the prepared its means of execution at our very doors — of urgent necessity, required to be passed. Votes of votes of supply for the army service, upon each of but with security in a foreign country." M. Dupin supply, both for the current and ensuing year, must which a aunt was granted on account. further observed, with reference to Orsini's letter to be sanctioned, and the Mutiny Acts renewed. There INDIA LOAN BILL. was barely time to accomplish the se objects before On the motion for resuming consideration of this the Emperor :—" That such latitude was given to the defence, that permission was granted to read a letter the Easter recess and close of the financial year. He bill, which had no connexion with tl.e offence with which claimed, therefore, the assistance of the house, and The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER urged the the prisoners were charged." the forbearance of members who had notices on the house to pass the measure through the pending It is not yet known when the execution will take paper, to give precedence to the public business, and stage with no unnecessary delay The bill was one place, but in all probability it will be on Saturday. allow the Government to carry bills and o bt a i n of extreme urgency. The East India Company was A report is now circulating, but I cannot trace it supply votes on account, as merely matters of form, in great need of supplies of money, and heavy to any good source, that the Emperor is disposed to all discussion on the several estimates being post- engagements have been entered into which funds save Rudio from the scaffold. poned. were immediately required to meet. Letter from Chalons state that all the respectable Mr. Rice( challenged the heads of various depart. Mr. CARDWELL consented to withdraw his oppos sition to the bill. inhabitants of that city had drawn u ments to explain the policy on which the new protestin . g in most energetic terms against Pa Ministers designed to carry on their Administration. The motion was then ageeed to, and the bill orderedth ose miserable men who had attempted to Mr. P. O'BRIEN enfersed this appeal, t) id for a third reading on Monday next. the city with the cry of the "Republic." All the THE " CAGLIARI." GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. afactorieS workmen belonging to the numerous man n the ad ac dr ts es o s f , Mr. A. W. KINGI.AKE, pursuant to notice, called On the motion for the second reading of the went en masse to sign the protest. attention to the facts that had lately transpired Indian Government Bill, Lord PALMERSTON postponed the further progress A telegraphic despatch from Berne, dated this disturb touching the capture of the Cagliari steamer, and French which, he maintained, furnished grounds for conclud- of the measure until the 22nd of April, by which day re f ug ee s morning, says that a great number of the ing that the seizure of that veseel wee a direct viola- he presumed that the new bill on the subject pro mired by the Government would be ready itir pre. to awa ite The lion of international rights. the odreeesisidioend of at Geneva had reache d counc . Berne, tentation to the house. Government of Berne had given positive instructions Mr. Miasma admitted that the case of the two to the Prated& of the Jure to send 410 r 1 1} Xnjlheh 01 2 $/aseTtl who bad been jinpri4ogod Wm. The house adjeuxeed At twely9 o'clock, ;Awe§ ihtv I.be lakriv al t , be poetry,