The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 14.

Mt. JAM/ BADLILI is a umber of the House of
Commons. For some years he was the Manager of
the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank. In that capacity,
as well uin various other,, he was the confidential
partner of his brother, the late member for Sligo,
in the schemes of wholesale swindling whose dis-
covery and discomfiture brought the latter to an
untimely end. Daring the four mouths that fol-
lowed that event public curiosity was kept alive
by the gradual unfolding, before the legal tribunals
in Ireland, of those coils of falsehood and chicane
which had grasped many hundreds of innocent
victims within their unrelenting folds. At a very
early stage of the proceedings to which we allude,
evidence of moral if not of technical complicity in the
grasping frauds of the deceased brother appeared
again t the survivor. Attention was directed by the
daily press, both in England and Ireland, to the duty
of taking the usual precautions against any evasion
of justice on the part of those who might ultimately
be found to have knowingly aided or abetted the
chief proprietor in his gigantic place of robbery.
Time—ample time—it was said ought to be given
for examination of amments and elucidation of
circumstances of all kinds; but in the interim
it was naturally suggested that the ordinary means
should be resorted to of preventing those who were
primarily liable to the suspicion of having been im-
plicated in the conspiracy from quitting the kingdom
until all doubt regarding them should have been re.
moved. It was remembered that in more than one
remarkable cue of recent occurrence, though of far
lees general interest or wide-spread consequence, in-
dividuals whose conduct had prime facie seemed to
be criminal had been compelled to enter into heavy
bail to appear when called on; and nobody,
as far as we recollect, vsntored to raise in
such instances a murmur of objection to the
course so taken. As regards Kr. Jams BADLIIII,
however, the suggestion did net summate from the
public journals only. Tee IlAnza of the Roma
in Ireland, before whom the prottesdiap in question
had been instituted, with the discernment which is
amongst his many high judicial qualities, became
early impressed with a belief that the " honourable
member" for the county of Tipperary would turn
out to have been am guilty as the deceased represen-
tative of the borough of Blip had been and from
the beech he gave such intimations as it was supposed
would have led to the proper steps being Mime.
Week after week, however, was allowed to pea
without anything of the sort being dose. A
particular portion of the yet but half-unravelled
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frauds had been referred to one of the Mutes.
in Chancery for examinatioa, and no nMoient proof
appeared to him to have been adduced to connect Mr.
JAMES SADLEIR criminally with that portion of the
complicated web of spoliation. On appeal to the
MASTER of the ROLLS, early in the mouth of May,
the cue, however, wu re-argued, and the facts, in
the opinion of that learned Judge, warranted a dif-
ferent conclusion. Oa the 3rd of Jane his Honour
signified his intention to pronounce judgment on a
subsequent day, but stated, in terms not to be mis-
taken, that in his conviction no further delay should
be permitted to take place in securing the personal
amenability of the ei•deroat Manager of the Tippe-
rary B irk.

This judicial admonition wee pointedly addressed
to the law advisers of the Crown in Ireland, and
more especially to their bead and chief, the Apron-
NEY.OEXMAL. In that convoy the administration
of justice is co•fided to the cam of that high rune-
Roomy ; audio his character of public prosecutor, he
is held accountable for the vindicstioa of the law
wherever and by whomsoever infringed. He is pro-
vided with a numerous and well-paid staff, consisting
of crown counsel and crown solicitors, beside
many subordinate agents, to observe and note
violations of the law, and he is held mountable
for all failures in public justice that are
traceable to the remissness or melee of the
department over which he presides. Obscure
offenders must indeed frequently elude his observe-
tio• and that of his assistants, bat great criminals ma-
not be supposed to do so. Then is, in feet, no me in
a public prosecutor at all, if they are ;offend to pm
with impunity. If that be permitted, his official
existence is in itself a dangle rather than a
safeguard to Society, which is much mere likely to
defend itself successfully against riotous* and chi-
me when left without the semblance of adminie-
tredve care than when its efforts are encumbered
with unreliable help. Be that as it may, it is unfor-
tunately but too certain that Mr. FITZGEILALD, who
now fills the poet of Irish Attorney-General, remained
imperturbably passive throughout all the successive
eters of the SADLIaII revelation and disclosures
from the 4th March, when they began in the Rolls
Court, to the 20;11 lane, when judgment wen finally
delivered there. Even then the learned gentleman
mild not see that it was his duty to order soy steps
to be taken to secure the person of the chief surviving
delinquent. In the plenitude and profundity of hie
forensic wisdom be formed the °pintos that nothing
could be done, that " the homerable member" had
act perpetrated any punishable Wham, er that, as;
conclusive proof thereof was aotjet thrust wider his
official nose, he was not bound to open his official eyes,
or to use his official band. With all respect, we newt
plainly tell Mr. Prrioxam.ri that this solemn Wain
with the fundamental principle on which the public
administration of justice rests will not do. If no man
is to be held to bail upon suspicion, we had better
save the cost of gaols and mot-houses, for crime
may laugh and go free. And if the very name of
a public prosecutor is not to be tamed into• by-word,
the persona who fill that office most be held respos.
sible for the right use of all the knowledge which they
may reasonably be supposed to have had. To affect
ignorance in the present case would have been idle.
Mr. FtricaniLD avows that through the columns
of the public journals be learned from time to time
how Mr. JAMES SADLIII.OI basking sad other per-
formanose were brought to light ; bet up to the
14th Jane, when a copy of the celebrated letter from
boas SADL/1111 to JAM'S wee placed in his Made—
that letter, in which false metres in the bank books
are unblushingly planned sad proposed--mtkisg
could stir the phlegmatic fasetionary to whom is en-
trusted the vindication of public Jostles in Ireland.
Then—when of Dome it was wholly vein—• endow
eel, we are told, begs* for the first time to be ex-
hibited in the departmet. What was does we know
not, and care not mss► to know. gems feeble
farce was we suppose emoted, bat by whom or whim
it matters little. The member of Parliament, who
could not be inspected until after he was actually
proved to be guilty, had AM; sad the plundered or►

ditom—the insulted public of all classes and degrees
—now ink the moon why so shameful a debut 01
justice hoe been suffered to maul

Into the personal altercation between the Marren
of the Roust and the Arroattn.OursaaL we have
neither space nor inclinatioa to enter here. It is
deeply to be regretted that more temper and dignity
has not been shown by the eminent and upright
Judge; and still more to be deplored that his antago.
suet does not seem to understand the tons aid bearing
which alone befit a man placed in the fable
position in which Mr. FITZGERALD stands. But our
concern is for the present engrossed by the higher
and mightier consideration we have already named.
Government may be sowed that they oaanot afford
to let the affair rest here.

Animus and its satellites seem bent epee goading
the Italians to iesurrootioo. We need not recapitu-
late the mosetrons proceedings in Naples. At Maass
an Austrian tribunal has presumed, in a country
where the Austrian Government has no legal juris-
diction, to sent►nce a native of Piedmont, over whom
it hes no legal jurisdiction, to twenty years' imprison-
ment. At Modena, a native of Tuscany has been
sentenced by a military commission to a year's
imprisonment for answering the patrol too lordly—an
utterly unmerited punishment, by restriefing which
to the half of its term the GP. ND Duxu has made
himself accessory to the insult offered to a neighbour-
ing State. In the Roman territories we do not
indeed hear of each fantastic =OWNS of
power ; but we learn from them that the
incapacity of the Government to repress the brigands
is driving men to refuse the payment of taxes.
There are no longer any Austrian troops in
Tuscany, and some of the Tuscan ministers have
evinced a disposition to coquet with the liberals.
Accordingly we fled the petty Duke of MODENA
countenanced by the Austrian. in offering an insult
to the Tuscan Government, if indeed he has not been
instigated by them. Again, the Government of
Parma hesitates in the career of military oppressioo
which it has pursued under the auspices of Austria
and the Regent speak. of suspending the state of
siege. Thereupon Rumarice intimates to bar t►at he
must, ff for strategical reason.," increase the Austrian
garrison in Puma. Or er the far greater part of the
Italian peninsula, anarchy and despotism riot uncon-
trolled, and Austria is visibly straining her ramose
to perpetuate this reign of terror. The contuma-
cious manner la which the Porn and the King of
Nseixe have received the friendly and courteous re-
monstrances of the English and French Governments
sea only be attributed to underhand promises of
support from Austria. Meanwhile RADETZET is
urging his Government to Worms the Austrian
army in Italy to 120,000 men. He is preparing to
throw military bridges across the Po at several points ;
be has stationed strong bodies of troops along the
course of the Po and the coasts of Romagna; he has
caused the citadel of Piacenza to be demolished, and
three forts to be constructed, and armed, at com-
manding point. in the vicinity of the town.
If there could be any doubt as to the meaning of
all these demonstrations, the language of the parties
would remove it. The Duke of MODENA has pro-
hibited the mention of the raw of Piedmont within
the walls of his palace. The Xing of NAPLES has
made the political trials a means of waning the
Piedmont... Government of encouraging a revolu-
tionary propaganda in Italy. The Court of Rome
clandestinely instigates the sacerdotal agitation in
Piedmont. And the whole Austrian prom, and the
emissaries of Austria throughout Europe, are inde-
fatigably busy in carrying on a war of misrepre-
sentation, lampoons, and vituperation spinet Pied-
most

And what has the Sardinian Government done
to merit all this hostile menace P It has, by jadieiceas
pendatenes in constitutional rale, rendered the great'
ones of its subjects devotedly and enthesiastioally
loyal. It has by the same policy angossoted the
material welfare of its 'objects, while in all the hos-
tile States that material prosperity his been retro.
grading. Austria and its Italian satellites feel them-
selves rebuked by the necessitation jostles of the
Sardinian Government and its happy results. Bat the
Sardinian Government has more than this. It has
called the attention of Europe to the chromic misrule
and anarchy that pervade the greater part of Italy
and it has demonstrated that these evils are engen-
dered and perpetuated by the presence of foreign
armies is the misgoverned States. This dignified
assertion of the independeat nationality at Italy has
gained for the Sardinian Governmeat the confidence
and adhesion of all the practical Italian Liberal..
We do not say that Tuscans, Bioiliaas, and others
are, at this moment, desirous of being incorporated
into the Subalpine Eiogdons. We rather incline to
believe that their risen aspiratioas are after a
federation of Italian States, free from the presence
of tarsi,' armies, under national and liberal govern-
meats, in the councils of which they believe the voice
of Sardinia would have a predominating inflame*. It
is not impossible that the Ferns of events may
iodate thous to alter these view, and to aim at
the establishment of one oonstitntional monarchy
throughout the Peninsula. Bat whether they change
adhere to their present opinions, that is the wo-
oers of the Italians slow. The national party is
Italy demand. and are entitled to, that national lade-
peedenos which was guaranteed to their country by
the European settlements of 1814 and 1816. Sardinia,
the only Italian Government which is free from
foreign fifteen% and whisk participates in the aspi-
rations of the Bain patriots, is their recognised
agent and advocate with the other powers of Europe.
And Sardinia, by its conduct in the great
straggle against Russia, has richly earned the earnest
and cordial support of Franca sod England. It is the
duty of the Preach and English Governments to sup-
port the representations of Sardinia in behalf of
Italian independence and good government; and to
give Austria to understand that they will not tolerate
any armed aggression on Piedmont. A declaration
to this effect by the English Pediment would go far
technic the hostile machinations of Austria sad its
Italian satellites. Bat it may be doubted whether a
joint anis/alias off the pert of the Preach sad Beg.
lids Goveressents to the effect that the mischievous
policy penned by Austria sod its Baas satellites is so
fall of mean to the tranquillity of the Mediterranean
that they feel t►emselves compelled to draw to-
gether powerful naval squadrons at Malta and
Toulon for the protection of their respective eons-
menial navies, will not be found more effectual.
There can be no doubt that the military
demonstrations of Austria aloes the line of the Po
amply warrant sub declarations; as little, that their
unladen would at once bring Austria and the Italian
despots to their senses. Let eare be taken time-
only by Erases and England that they do not
drift late anther war which may be more perilous
than the last.

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side Is ell of OM finds of the Ballet aunty. The Ibt
heeded by Bares Itabeehlid, M.P., with Kit, sad N.
lowed by Mown. Inknen, Boolera, Bslkee Carrie, M.P.,
Isms Trams, W. J. Ball, T. A. lliteheil, Tre-
bel& Patina, &a, for henbane' sum Mr. Hwy
Bohan, M.P., bee yl•ell settee that If his upeddee te
the Corrupt Pricier Pervades AU Y sawestelfal
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