The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-02 00:00:00

MB. SEWARD'S DESPATCH ON MEXICO.
SPEECH BY M. JULES PAYEE ON THE
EXTRADITION TREATY.
(near OM OWN 0011MINPONDINM)

PARIS, THIIIMDAT Emma
Mr. Seward's anxiously expected despatch in
answer to that of M. Dronyn de Lhuys has arrived
in Paris. I have reason to think that the con-
tents will be deemed satisfactory by the French
government. The American Minister of Foreign
Affairs, without in any 'way retracting or modify-
ing any position he has heretofore taken on the
Mexican question, will, I believe, be found to have
disclaimed any intention on the part of the 'United
States to interfere in Mexico after the departure
of the French army, in terms which will be con-
sidered sufficient to warrant the Emperor in carry-
ing out his promise of a speedy evacuatioa. Upon
the whole, therefore, the diplomatic aspect of the
Mexican difficulty may be safely described as pro-
' mixing. I should not, however, be at all surprised
to find later that the prolongation of the French
occupation, on one excuse or another, might lead to
fresh complications.
In the Corps Legislatif yesterday M. Jules Fame
made a splendid speech against the denunciation of
the extradition treaty with England. He showed
with great clearness and felicity that the lament-
able motive at the bottom of the French govern-
ment's act was a desire to propagate in Europe
times tyrannical principles, that absolute power of
the executive, that absence of any guarantee for
individual liberty which unhappily prevailed in
irranos. He would fain have seen Promos borrowing
from England the far more just and civilised
system of referring extradition to the judicial in-
stead of the administrative power. Montesquieu
had said that the standard of public liberty in a
nation might be judged by its penal code,
and, judged by that test, England stood far
higher than France. It was impossible the
government could suppose that England would
ever change its snored laws out of deferentse
to the bad French practice. He adduced, es I did
in this correspondence when the question was first
raised, the case of Muller the railway assmain, as
proving that it was practicable to send somas the
Atlantic sufficient prima facie evidence to satisfy
the marching investigation of American judges.
How much more easy, therefore, would it be for
Fran sto send to England sufficient evidence to
satisfy a committing magistrate, who certainly had
DO wish to keep criminals in the country. The
treaty made in 1843 had never been com-
plained of till 1852, after the coup d'art&
Then the French government sought to make
new penal laws, rendering Frenchmen liable
to be tried in France for offences committed
Aimed. He lauded Lord Brougham and the other
law lords who threw out the too complaisant Ex-
' tradition Bill which Lord Malmeabury had pre-
pared to conciliate the French government. He
denied that the treaty had been inefficacious as
regards France, because there was no instance of
any great criminal, a murderer for instance, having
taken refuge in England. The government alleged,
kerns true, that no single instance of the delivery
eta French criminal had ever occurred, but with
all due respect he believed the govern-
ment was misinformed. His own recollection
during his practice at the bar furnished
him with instances of criminals coming from
England for trial who certainly did not come of
their own free will. In conclusion, he said with an
electric energy which made a great sensation, that
it was shocking to think that this treaty had been
put an end to by the will of a single individual, in
whose hands the 40 millions of Frenchmen were
but impotent dust.
M. Router, in reply, justified as he was officially
bound to do all that the French government had
done in the matter. He went the whole length of
contending that the mere accusation of a French
public prosecutor should be a sufficient war-
rant in all foreign countries for the de-
livery of a Frenchman for trial, without
further proof. He alleged that this system
prevailed in all countries in Europe, England
only excepted. M. Jules Fevre, however, replied
that in Belgium the English system prevails, and
that at all events every nation is entitled in matter
of extradition to abide by its own rules. M.
Ronher alleged, I hope inaccurately, that England
is squeezable in the matter, because she has made
with Sweden just such a treaty of extradition as
France would be satisfied with. This is a subject
to be inquired into. En attendant, the French
Minister of State was convicted by M. Jules
Favre of so many mix-statements, that I doubt
his accuracy in regard to Sweden.
The remainder of the sitting was devoted to the
papal question. M. Garnier Pagbs supported the
opposition amendment ; and M. Cbesnelong, the
deputy for one of the departments of the Pyrenees,
who lately performed an amusing ckaesi eroioi with
the Mayor of Pan, M. Larrabure, spoke in favour
of the temporal power with an unexpected elo-
quence which has caused him to be dubbed the
successor of single-speech Keller.
People are much surprised at the reticence of the
government orators. M. Ronher has hitherto only
opened his mouth on the comparatively uninter-
esting question of extradition. He intends, how-
ever, it is said, to reply at length to M. Thiers
before the end of the debate.

CATTLE PLAGUIRIEITRICTIONS AT LITEETOOI.—Tbs
Liverpool Health Committee yesterday appointed a depu-
tation to proceed to London to have am interview with Earl
Granville and Lord Stanley, respoiting some modifications
in the Cattle Plague Bill, respscsing the disposal of offal.
The medical °Seers of health said that the present restric-
tion, would caws much trouble sod iujurj to the public
health, for by the sew law no off.l could be removed oat
of the town without • msria istel warrant, while the
health committee had always required he removal before 8
ia tite worming—as hoar far too met to Swam the regal-

me permits.
TEN EMIGRATION 11.011LIVIMPOOL.--Tbe govern-
ment emigration officials at Liverpool yeateeday completed
their usual monthly returns of the exodus from the port of
Liverpool. In the moon of the last month there salted
from Liverpool, wider the set, the following nips :—To
the United States, 21 ships. with 4,595 steerage sad 268
cabin onreogars, of whom 1,386 were English, 139 inetthi
1,407 Irish, and 1,463 foreigners ; New South Wales, on
ship, with 358 oteeroge and three cabin parsengers, of
whom 66 were Eaglisb, 23 Snitch, and 269 foe en ; t
pa e
Qeseaslaad there was only ship, with 453 steorton
sewn, of whom 366 were Digit* 18 Seat* and
129 foreigners to Victoria than were three ships,
with 709 snerant and 62 robin panospose.
1 whom 308 were English, 22 Scotch, 380 Irish, sad 19
OPINING 07 TER EITZNINON Liu OP TEN LON- foreigners ; inking a total of 26 shir, 6,115 ge sad
DON, CHATRAN, AND Dom RAlLWAT.—Yesterily morn- 319 anis possongsra, Of monis oda* net We
arte en
lag the newt'-fa
y, double lin., formic; the estensioe of there wore 12 te the United Steen with 667 twolnlictil
the above railway, was opened fee publie Inas. be
lin Victoria. 1 Alp. 25 portages* ; Booth Americo, S shin, 47
extends from Loughborough-road to the Elephant aid renegers ; Bast Indies. Ddies. 1 thiO "6 6 ; West
Castle statioa. The line was tested cm Wednesday by the ladies, 2 ships and 4 pasengers ; Hoeg a lisZip end 8
govormaset odionle. Ens of the esesinsy 'a heaviest passengers ; Orin, 1 ship mid 14 penmen* ; 21 ship
enpase ware used, aad the deflerodon sung by the ire- and 886 pernsapers ; used total, 7.102 nessagent ; which
ange weight was ao slight that the neetaway martilloste for when oanpired with the previous Nan* whoa then
spina& the line w•s at one given. The r Math sailed 4,989 plumose's, shows as inners of 2..121
was ermaimacred. so I was eenthmed throng t diy. Poseanifer&

The Florence Nazione thus refers to the return of
Marsini for Marina :
Jamb llassini hail Deem sleeted at Mugu ; persons
will not be venting, perhaps, to slabs this fact u
victory, or to deplore it se • serious defeat. As for
ourselves, eves without taking into amount the exceptional
elienselessee that have aniompaeied the suffrage of the
Ileedasee, we do not is truth know why or wherefore tee
Left should boast of such • mom, orthe right look upon it
as • perilous event. Let no add also that had we fought in
the ranks of Qs liberal incites append to us, we should
never have accorded so mach importance to Um election of
Mauini, and se far as we are coseersed, our readers will
remember that seer sinetlB6l,we haverepostaily urged not
only the propriety but the utility of pardoning the too cele-
brated conspirater. And we limed thus becalm we were
penoaded that his num, hie authority, and even hie
prestige, bad no far had their day is Italy that there was
no fear ,he would by returniag influence the feel-
ings or the mind of the nation. Had our ad-
rift prevailed, the election of Muriel would not
now have even that metallic, as en eel Of opposition
and of apparent hostility to the pement regime, that some
people iii endeavour to attribute to an exaggerated
manner. We must remember, too, the fruitless efforts at
Geese and Naples with this obis* and if, after theft
efforts, 446 votes are obtain& In •sapresse attempt, we see
nothing is that to suite mask wooden
The ?fusions thiaks that the only practical result
et" MassinPs rotors for Messina will be a fresh
manifestation from him hostile to the existing form
of government in Italy, and perhaps a stormy scene
in the Chamber when an attempt is made to confirm
his election.

THIS GUARDIANS OF THZ STRAND UNION
AND VIZIR KOK POOL

A number of the sick inmates of the Strand Union
Workhouse, after having been robbed of their
medical comforts and necessaries for years, ass now
in grave danger of being killed off foe want of com-
mon nursing sod attendance. The ward tionteining
them is filled with acute cases. Consumption in its
most aggravated form, disorders which render the
sufferers helpless as infants, and completely de-
pendent upon others for moving out of, or even in
bed—the aggravated weakness and debility from
which there is no recovery—are all represented in
this room. A fortnight ago on the medical officer
of the Strand Union paying his usual morning visit,
he was startled by one of the emaciated creatures he
had come to see soddenly esclaiming—"There's
land-piracy going on here, sir, and I can't stand it
any longer." Pressed for an explanation; the
speaker °barged the pauper yardman, who had had
sole care of the room for years? with habitually de-
frauding all present of the stimulants ordered by
the doctor, cud of drinking them himself. Beer,
port wine, brandy, and gin, were constantly pre-
scribed in the hope of temporarily prolonging
rapidly waning lives, and the man armed with
supreme power over their administration had
exercised that power in a fashion worthy of a
Cornish wrecker, or of the wretches who haunt a
battle field to murder its wounded and pilfer its
dead.
An inquiry was instituted by the workhouse
master next day, at which the allegations were
proved, and after which the unworthy warisman
was removed. Then came a difficulty. There was
no other pauper inmate sufficiently able-bodied to
be entrusted with the care of people so helplessly
ill as to require lifting and help. After due con-
sideration it was determined to apply to the guar-
, diens, representing the cruel privations the sur-
viving sink had undeegone,the certainty that the num-
be: of them had bees terribly thinned through the
untrustworthiness of a pauper servant, the impossi-
bility of finding another Linnets, physically capable
of undertaking the duty, and finally, to Mk the
board to hire a qualified nurse. This application
was peremptorily refueed. One of the guardians
met the difficulty of finding an able-bodied inmate
by insisting that a poor broken-down potmen, who
had come into the house that day, because of his
being too weak and infirm to earn his livelihood,
was exactly suited to discharge the functions of
nurse. This ex-potman, who trembles from
sheer debility whenever he is spoken to,
and whose whole system is shattered from
ill-health, was appointed to, and now fills
the position of responsible sick nurse • and
wardsman to people who, unless assisted, are unable
to perform the commonest acts of necessity with
decency. The results may be imagined, but not
written, and in refusing proper nursing to those
entrusted to their tender mercies, the Strand
guardians are just as much guilty of cruelty as if
they withheld food, or applied the branding iron or
the thu nth-screw. If the ex- potman is drunken as well
as physically incompetent, the paupers will die front
exhaustion as well as neglect ; but if be be the
most virtuous and self-denying of his kind, his in-
capsoity renders his presence a torture to those he
cannot possibly assist.
The medical officer of the workhouse is fully oog-
pliant of the shameful state in which his patients
are left, but is powerless with the guardians, and
has bees compelled to avail himself of the
of one of the inmates of the ward, in au advanced
state of consumption, that, when well enough, be
will act as assistant to the potman-nurse. it is in
this way the Strand union saves the sum a quali-
fied attendant would cost it in annual wage ; while
its sick poor are made to tend each other, or rather
to languish on in helpless unalleviated misery until
mercifully relieved by death.