The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDA EVENING, 'MARCH 19, 185&

patting down with a high hang; the resistance and
the resentment which his ovra sots hays provoked—
then we draw back—then we feel that he is demand-
ing a sacrifice which not even the loyalty of his
alliance and the value of his friendship can entitle
him to ask, for it is a sacrifice which, without
affording one iota of additional protection to himself,
would be a fatal surrender of our internal freedom,
and a base betrayal of our national honour.

Our answer to each a.demand is this: We believe
that oar law, as it exists, is sufficient for all reasonable
FurPcsol d voressirer and punishment. If you ask
for a law d espionage, • :iw of " usspects," a law
of " exPeetants," a 1M de &testi Public, yea ask
what the genius of oar institutions makes it impels-
sibie to grant. If you merely require a law that
is adequate to punish proved participation as a con-
spirator ar an accessary in each crimes is that of the
14th Jamary, we believe that we have each a law.
If not, en due proof of the law's insaMciency,
we us sandy to amend it where it is shown to be
defective. But we cannot, and we will not, introduce
• law drat, under the chimerical and idle pretext of
preventing conspiracies among those whom yoarown
aim have turned into eonspirators, will violate the
whole spirit of our free institutions. We yield to
were in the value we set on the maintenance of the
French alliance, but we cannot, and we will not, in
order to preserve it, tarn England into France—
exchange free laws for despotic laws. In the
very words of M. DE LA Gortaiontearr--" We
t' will give to the alliance, the greatness and
t' benefits of which we admit, all the guarantees
" necessary for the dignity and interest of the
t. two peoples;"—but we will not give more—and it
would be giving more, if we were to change not
only the letter but the spirit of our laws, in order to
supply the deficiencies of the French police, or to
guard the French Emezacoa from the machinations
of men whose crimes we did nothing to incite, and
for the consequences of whose deeds we ought not,
therefore, to be made responsible.

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS FOR AD-
MISSIONS TO THE ROYAL MILITARY
ACADEMY, WOOLWICH.

We ere requested to state that, in consequence of

representations which have been made to time Secre-
tary of State for War of the serious disappointment
that must result to several gentlemen now preparing
for admission into the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich, by competitive examinations, if, as has
been previously announced, there are to be no more
direct admissions by such examinations, Major-
General Peel, with the concurrence of his royal
' highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, has
decided on holding two more competitive examina-
tions for the Royal Military Academy, to be open to
gentlemen between the ages of 17 and 20; namely,
one in July next, another probably in January
following. These examinations will be the last, in
order to allow of the amalgamation of the Royal
Military College and Royal Military Academy be-
fore the year 1860.

Consequently, after January, 1869, gentlemen de-
sirous of obtaining oommissiotui in the Royal Artil-
lery or Royal Engineers will have to pass through
the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, to which
they will be admissible at the age of 16.
A prospectus of the next examination will be
issued boreaftsr.

ICXYRaititi FROM l'Ajtit 4.

SWITZERLAND.

BURNS, Xipci! 11

A number of French refugees Z;c7 arrival here
from Geneva, and have been placed at the disposal
of the Federal Conseil. The government of Berne
has Ora categorical instructions to the authorities
of the Jura to send French refugees immediately
into the interior.