The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, FFBRUARY 27,1858.

had a regular csptain, patent of nationality, ship
pera, and was not engaged in any act of piracy. It had
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ailed from Genoa on its passage to Cagliari and Tunis,
Recording to public advertisement. Its voyages took place
at fired periodical days : in point of fact, it was the royal
mid; packet between the Continent and the Isle of Sar-
dinia. The captain was, therefore, en regle, and the cap-
ture of the vessel could not be justified by the universally
admitted principle that subjects pirates to the jurisdiction
of all nations.
The Cagliari was not, as tlte counsel of the Neapolitan
Admiralty seems to argue, an enemy to the State; it be-
longed to a friendly power, by whose flag it was pro-
tected. The fact that forcible possession had been taken of
her by the passengers, and retained for some time, and that
she had then become the instrument of a wrongful woes•
mon, could not create that state of war which does only
exist between two recognised Governments. The mad in-
road of Ponza and Sapri was the act of a handful of con-
spirators engaged in a desperate enterprise, and it would
be an abuse of the legal import of terms to compare and
confound such attempt, of which it is impossible to say
whether the madness or the guilt is greater, with a
helloed state of puolic war. in order to found on it the
remiling right of prize. This would be the first time in
which a hand of conspirators and criminals has been
recognised as invested with the prerogative of a belligerent

power.
The attempt of Ponz'i and Sari was a crime of rebel-
lion aid robliery; it was an ordinary crime, to the trial of
which the rules of the ordinary criminal law ought to be
applied, and in which the principles of public right cannot
be appealed to in the absence of all foundation fur such

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appeal.
So far as we are concerned, moreover, the criminal fact
was at an end. The vessel had no rebels on boarl ; it was
under the command of its lawful captain ; its Hal ional flag
ought to have secured fur it protection, immunities, and
pnvileges of the sea.
Upon these grounds Count Cavour claims the
restoration of the Cagliari and her cargo, and the re-
lease of the prisoners.

Lord John Manners, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Via-
count Newport, the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamil-
ton, Lord Robert Cecil, the Right Hon. Colonel Cecil
Forester, the Right Hon. Mr. Henley, the Right
Hon. Joseph Napier, the Hon. A. Cole, Rear-Admiral
the Hon. Arthur buncombe, Sir William Jolliffe,
Sir E. Bnlwer Lytton, Sir Frederic Thesiger, Q.C.,
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., Rear-Admiral Walcott, Col.
Taylor, Col. North, Col. Boldero, Major Cumming
Bruce, Mr. Whiteside' Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr.
Miles, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Macke, Mr. Malins, Q.C.,
Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Gatborne Hardy, the Hon.
George Waldegrave, the Rev. Henry Drury.
THE REV. GEORGE E. L. COLTON, master of Marl-
borough College, has been appointed to the Bishop•
' ric of Calcutta, vacant by the death of the late Dr.
Wilson. It is, we understand, in contemplation to
constitute a see of Agra.

SIR HENRY DAYINSON, Puisne Judge at Madras,
has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Judicature at Bombay, vice Sir William
Yardley.
THE THREE VACANT GARTERS have been given by
Lotd Palmerston to the Dukes of Wellington and
Norfolk, and to the Earl of flarrowhy. Mr. llayter,
whipper-in of the late Administration, is to he made
a baronet. Mr. Griffiths, the Dish civil engineer, is
also to be made a baronet.

MR. ADAM BITTLESTONE. of the Midland Circuit,
who for sevrral years reported its pr,cceilings, has
been appointed by the late Ministry t 5 the vacant
Indian Judgeship.

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nothing particular about him except that he carried
a bundle. In the course of the day, when dinner-
time came, and Madame Louise did not make her
appearance, the keeper of the house and the lodgers
began to have their suspicions; and about seven
o'clock in the vening they resolved to search the
room, when they were horrified at finding Madame
Louise dead, and quite black in the face front
strangulation; and there were finger-marks on the
throat, and indications of a violent struggle. Medi-
cal aid was immediately procured ; but the docto
Mr. Tothill, of Charles-street, pronounced that the
woman had been dead for some hours. There was
a small quantity of blood on the pillows. On ex:
mining the room, it was discovered that nearly all
the wearing apparel of the dead woman was missing ;
also sotoe pawnbrokers' duplicates and money. The
black velvet cloak the deceased wore when she met
the foreigner was also gone. As the earri►igs were
torn from the ears of the deceased it would seem
that rubbery was the motive ot this barbarous murder.
The deceased was a Frenchwoman, about twenty-
two years of age, and when she came to England,
about six or eight months ago, set up the business
of a laundress in Little Winittnillottreet Being en-

cumbered with two children she could not get a
maintenance by laundry wnik, and then she joined
the numerous herd of foreign prostitutes who intratie
Regero.street and the neighbouring streets. On the
evening when the deceased went liotn3 with the
Foreigrer she is kn ,wn to have worn a watch
and chain, wide!' call nowhere be found. Inspector
Park, of the C division, was eng ,geil throughout
Thursday in the inquiry. The following descriptioa
of the supposed murderer has been sent round to
every police station :—A German, about thirty years
of age, five feet six or seven inches high, speaks
French fluently, and stated that his father was a
captain in the navy. He was dressed in a dark grey
paletot coat, wide sleeves, grey trousers, and strong
Wellington boots.