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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH IS.

THE freaks of Fame on proverbially capricious.
Here is Mr. Honor, for instance : but yesterday a
name--and not an intrinsically noble one—he is to-
day a notoriety. Swept up to the surface by a sud-
den whirl of accident, he floats for the time on what
Mr. CARLYLE is pleased to term "the immeasurable

" froth torrents of human speech." HODGE is talked
of in clubs and discussed at dinner tables. He is
the subject of newspaper paragraphs and Parlia-
mentary motions ; of Ministerial despatches, and of
something like national solicitude. Who is Hone,
and what has he done, is just now a natural topic of
human curiosity. It is a question easier to ask than '
answer. For some time HODGE and his alleged of-
fence appeared alike my thic. The name was quite com-
patible with a telegraphic blunder, or the ingenuityof
a foreign police agent, hazarding, on imperfect
data, the conjectural patronymic of • Bri-
tish citizen. The charge of complicity with
the crime of the Rue Lepelletier might mean
anything or nothing, and would probably prove a
mere base coinage in the prolific mint of suspicion.
Further inquiry has made some points clear, but others
are, we regret to state, still left in obscurity. The net
total of all our present knowledge may probably be
thus summed up. HODGE is a real name. Its bearer
is a young English gentleman of weak wit, in-
different health, and advanced opinions. A pul-
monary complaint rendered it desirable, in the
opinion of his medical advisers, that he should spend
the winter in the south, and Mr. HODGE accordingly
set out for Nice, having taken the wise precaution of
tilling his pocket-book with letters of recommendation

from the More violent of the refugees in London to
certain ultra-democrats on the Continent, and of keep-
ing a journal, in which he had been careful to jot
down some most uncomplimentary observations on the
character and policy of our " august ally." This really
exhausts, if it does not exceed, all that is positively
known about the revolutionary invalid. What fol-
lows is more obscure. Horace was arrested at
Genoa on suspicion of being in some way or other
concerned with the attempt of the 14th of January.
At whose instigation, and upon what evidence, this
arrest was made, is one of the points of the case on
which further and more precise information is emi-
nently desirable, and must be promptly demanded.
A correspondent (whose communication under the
signature cf " A Subalpine " appeared in the Daily
Nests on Monday last) affirms positively, as •
matter within his oertain knowledge, that " the
" arrest of Mr. HODGE took place in consequence of
" information supplied to the Sardinian autho-
"cities, not by the French, but by the
" English Government," and moreover, " that
" the late Ministers of Great Britain, both directly
" and indirectly, through the diplomatic agents
" of both countries, advised Count Cavous and his
" colleagues to deliver op Mr. Horace to the French
" authorities." The correspondent, we have reason
to know, has scam to the best sources of informa-
tion, and we have never yet found ourselves misled
by relying on any positive statement that he has
made. Notwithstanding this, however—notwith-
standing also the too great probability lent to the
statement by the known and proved baseness of
Lord CLARE DO N's recent compliances, we
shall still hesitate to believe, except upon
evidence the most authoritative, that any
English Minister has dared to stoop to such
a depth of maven humiliation as this. The matter
must be thoroughly sifted, the archives of the
Foreign-office must again be searched, the subterfuge
of private notes and secret correspondence must not
be permitted to interpose its convenient screen.
Aye or nay, we must have an answer to the question,
whether any British Minister has indeed been
recreant enough to counsel the surrender of any
British subject by a friendly State to a foreign
power, on such mere suspicions of complicity as alone
exist in the case of Mr. HOIXA.

Leaving this question to be dealt with by Parlia-
ment as it deserves, we pass once more from the
region of doulAs to certainties. The following facts
complete the narrative of the Home care, and
having been stated bye British Minister in his place
in Parliament, may be relied on as correct. What-
ever may have been the suggestions of Lord
CLARENDON, Count CAVOUR did not comply
with the demand made upon him by
Francs for the unconditional surrender of Mr.
HODGE. By the terms of the extradition treaty
between Prance and Sardinia, before the surrender
of a foreign resident can be insisted on, application
must first be made to the Government of which he is
the subject. This application was made in respect
of Mr. HODGE by the Sardinian Government to the
English Government, after her Msitsry's present
Ministers had como into office. They at once took the
proper course. They sent to Sardinia for copies of all
the papers that had been seized on Mr. Honor, and
which were the foundation of the demand. The re-
quest was immediately complied with. Her MAJErrt's
Ministers examined the papers, and being of opinion
that they would " not warrant the committal of Mr.
" Home by a magistrate in England," declined
to accede to the demand. The loud cheers