The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-23 00:00:00

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LONDON. aeruaDAr, MARCH 23.

Ili ()ogre= the truth is coming out. Last night
the House of Commons got to know how Sir
RI. NASD MAVNS became pommeled of the stolen
" K.,VICTS note." "ft was brought to him by a
" policeman." We guessed as much. A zealous
and active officer, we'll warrant ; not one of your
dun•eyed, laggard crew, who must have their precise
comminute and minute instructions, but amen who
und..rstands what is wanted, one who not only does
the dirty work, but so does it that his superiors
may state " in the most distinct and explicit man-
" ner," m Sir (hoses Lewis stated last night on
behalf of Sir It. Yarm that they "never cm-
" ployed any palletise= or any other person to
" obtain inforatation,"sed so forth. Sir It. MAYS*
unhesitatingly adopted the clandestine doings of
his underling. The clandestine act, we say ; for
although Sir Gr.tiaue Lewis took pains last
night to show that sines Mr. D•v WAX acting
openly and in good faith in printing these notes,
there could he nothing suspicious in the possession
of one of the notes by a stranger to his establish
meat, it would be easy for the Home Seca--
?ARV to convince himself that a very different
opinion is entertained by the proprietors of print- 1
ing establishments. There is nothing illegal in
the printing of the E.iiiiber!ih lieriew or Punch;
but • policeman who happened to have in his poe-
session • copy of those periodicals before they i
were issued by the publishers would do wisely to
keep the fact to himself. It is needless to say that
whatever interest the policeman took in the note ;
arose entirely from his supposition that it was a
paper that might be impeached. This little inci-
dent shows us under what conditions we Engliah-
men live and pursue our callings. It is popularly
supposed that the peculiar advantagesof a paternal
government are incompatible with our glorious
ficipptitution, and that the low of delicate Aiwa•
tions like these is the inevitable price we pay for
freedom. This is now seen to be a vulgar error.
We have seen the policeman, having returned
from going to and fro in the City, and from walk-
ing up and down in it, present himself before i
his master. The latter knew no more what the I
prize was than the policeman, but he took it to
Sir 0. Lewis, who from this period forward must
be considered answerable for all that was done re-
specting the notes. The Howe Secaarssi states
that, as soon as ho read the translation, it became
evident to him that " the paper related to a pre-
" paration of notes to be issued by a government
" to be established in place of the existing Go-
" vernment of Hungary." This was undoubtedly
their character ; Sir G. Lewis saw it at a glance,
and it is inconceivable how one of our Conservative
contemporaries, and even others that have not the
excuse of mental obtuseness, could have adopted
the absurd representation of the Austrian Mobile-
s/der, and pretended that they were prepared as •
means of exciting revolution in Hungary. Until
the moment when the flag of an independent and
natioual government waves in Hungary, sur-
rounded by the armed children of the soil,
these notes are merely so much waste
paper. No promise, no assumption appearing
on their face, can give them any value or import-
ance until that event occurs. A dozen lines to
the population of Hungary, such as M. KOSSUTH
might write, and our newspapers print any
day without the leave either of Sir R. MATHS or
Sir Groans Lewis, would have • thousand-fold
more effect than the multiplication of these notes.
The opinion of the ATTOILNzv-GwireAL, quoted
by the Hoes Seearrsav, that all subjects of
the realm are bound to abstain from any inter-
ference tending to excite the subjects of another
country against their lawful authority, has no
application in this case. We do not stop to ask
where in Hungary lawful authority is to be found,
but simply observe that these notes cannot be used
to stir up • single village in that country. Sir
Geosoe Lawns argues that because the subscrip-
tion of money for the purpose of aiding a people
in revolt is illegal, the making of these notes must
be. But everybody must see that there would he
all the difference between collecting English move-
Tejon, which have • value of their own, and speak
all languages, to make • Hungarian revolution,
and preparing paper notes, to which nothing but
the rumens of a revolution could give the least
value.

Having satisfied himself of the nature of the
nous, Sir 13. I.zwis thought it his duty to take
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown on the
enhjecit. With what object f Did the Lions SE-
CIISTAILT or the Government ever seriously coo-
template the prosecution of Mews. Dar T The
tion is preposterous. The law officers did not
affirm the legality of the proceedings of Messrs.
Dee, bat they did not recommend the Govern-
ment to take any active steps in the way of indict-
ment or otherwise. Whatever their opinion
might have been, the Ministry was po-
litically precluded from any such prosecution,
and the opinion obtained was only useful as a
cover for that more secret assistance which it was
thought safe to render to the Austrian Govern-
ment. Ministers, it appears, " felt bound to fur-
" nish the Austrian Ambassador with the evidence"
be wanted for the contemplated proceedings in
Chancery ; &nil so Mir G. Lewis tells us that be
" gave his distinct authority" for handing it over
to the Austrian lEuileasy.