The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

THE EXTRADITION cAse.

The following interesting letter apiwarm iu the

inaease of such vast importance in ita consequences as
that el the fugitive slave Anderson, I trust you will allow
an to occupy a small portion of your columns in order to
point out to your readers the circumstances under which
the British *Misters ratified by act of parliament the
treaty under which the sarreader of Andersou was
chimed. Cie the second reading of the bill in the House
ef COllllllOllll as the 11th 14 August, 1141, Sir Frederick
Pollack the Ationsey-General of the day, explained the
objects of the bill. He was followed by the late Lord
Illethulay, who, in the course of his speech, made the
following remarks. He mid:
Take the came of a slave who had committed murder in
his own defence. Suppose a man scourged him, pursued
him. The slave had surely the right to resist, and, in his
defence, to kill his asmilant. By thellaw of England that
would be justifiable homicide. By the law of Georgia it
would be murder," dc.
The Attorney-General said—
" That in all the came put by the right hon. gentleman
no doubt could arise. The bill extuessly said the fugitives
must be tried by the laws of the country where they were
found."

Mr. Macaulay salted
" Wbether be wag to understand, then, that an action
not criminal in a free maim, would be held not to be criminal
in a •i►re e• . . .

The nev.General said -
" He was of opinion that an Cashsh uu,auta.ae .001
sot be at liberty to enter into the que.tion as to whether
tb fugitive brought before him was a slave or nut. He
mild oily enter into such questions of common law
(which, of comae. meets English law), as ought guise out
et the ease • and if the accused person was not shown to
lea minium:l, ou estrolition could take place."
Viscount Pahnerston- •

" Did not gum far as sortie of his friends as to the effects
of this bill, and the explanation of the hon. and Warped
gentleman had gone far to remove the apprehensions which
he might have entertained. He understood that is no owe
where a .lave was charged with the offence of murder or
robbery would any English magistrate be justified in deli-
veries him up for trial, unless the offence he was charged
with was one which was looked upon as murder or robbery
by the law et yanland ; and he apprehended that any act
that a slave might commit in resisting the coercion of his
master could nut amount to murder, and would not justify
• magistrate in giving up the fugitive."
The Attorney-General said nothing to qualify hie pre-
vious explanations, nor did any other member of the go-
vernment dissent. (In the contrary the mount Load
Derby, then (if I mistake not) colonidsecretary, used thew
words : _ _

" No fugitive could, under the treaty, be surrendered as
a murderer unless his offence were such as our laws would
qualify with this epithet."
Inaba no comment upon the above extracts from Zeno rd,
35d Series, voL dui., p. 565-579, beyood calling attention
to the fact that the worts of the treaty, jot:lodine its ro-
sin, to the effect that the evidence cd "criminality" must
be endow of that which would constitute an offence in the
where the fugitive is "found," are expressly, sod
rseited in the English act which thus passed its
ascend wading ; and that the Canadian act is a mere sub-
stitute ter the English act ou carried through the House of
Comitteen
I lave the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Temple, Jana II Gamut DINMAN.

INTIIIISATIONAL ISXMIIIMON or 1562, —lt is
stated es sallaseity that if as International Exhibition, of
Works of Art asd Industry keel sot ban announced to take
place in Landes is 142, it was the intention of the Emperor
of the French that oDe should be held is Paris, but th►t now
the French will sire way to the British exhibition.

FIMEION-OPTICIS, JAM. 14. —The QIIVell has been
pleaaeti to approve of Dee Juan Fair as Vice-Coalarl is
Loudon foe the Argentine Republic. —Gazette.

REPRESENTATIiiN or LEICIESTER.—A notice ap-
neas. in yesterday's Lumina llaztite that the Speaker of
the House of Commode will liege Lie warrant for the elec-
tion of a member to serve in parliament, in the room of the
late Dr. Noble, at the end of fourteen nape.

WENTNINSTER. PALACE Hare.—This eatenaivo
dreams is now completed, and will be opened to the pub-
he by the aid of the mount. It lie a fine building, occupy-
ing an catenates frontage is Victoria-street, and overlook-
ing the Houses of Pediment rod Westminster Abbey.
It is six stogies high. The porch or entrance consist' of an
Mundy sculptured design and the gramil entrance has an
imposing over it to the roof laminating in a sky-light. The
pares are lighted by side windows. The public coffee-
rosin la 90 feet long by 30 wide, the richly ornamented
bring supported by seagliola columns. Next to it is
the sem, 70 feet long, with numerous reception
ream, a liksvy coffee-mini, and smoking rooms.
The ether Marisa comprise sitting-rearms rod suites of
aputasesta, and now 120 bedroom, and baths. The ex-
tent el the stroctore may la inferred from the fact that
than a e 700 rooms in all, 140 of there being occupied by
the hadia Council. The cocking department, which already
upplies the 111116 House, is on a scale commuusurate with
the ether departmental, and the general tariff is similar to '
those of the Great Western and Easter' Hotels. The hotel
it is expected will be a great accommodation to persons
visiting London dunng the parliamentary maim. Owing
to the greet height of the building' and the consequent
tedium aeccrit that would have to bemade to get upstairs,
sa Ingsaious contrivance in the shape of a hydraulic lift has
bora &Biased, by means of which, seated on is so& with
their hemp, visitors may ascend and demand from or to
any of the six stories at placate:.
CAEDINAL WISEMAN AND THE Pure—The Kate r.
dee lterine, after stating that Mr. Pope Ramsay, IL P.,hea
arrived is Rome as the hearer of papers enaysy a pledge
on Nos part of the Roman catholic' of the United Kingdom
to pay a yearly tribute of one million Roman dollars to
the Pops, proceeds to say that Cardinal Wiseinan, on
the other band. has written as epistle to the Holy
Father, expressiug his grief that in spite of the most
loam* efforts to exact contributions, he ha met with eery
imperfect success. "The cardinal states that he bog received
everywhere plentiful asurances of rendinees to con-
tribute towards the support of the 1, Ir., spiritual
dignity, but strong expressions of indisposition to
expend money upon armaments for the political enthral-
ment of his subjects. .t conecientirms sense of duty bog
accordingly impelled Cardinal Wiseman to represent to
his Holiness that the catholics in this kingdom cannot
be brought to support the Pope in Ills struggle for temporal
power in the manner that might have hem, hoped ; that the
majority have been unfortiusatele infected with the petu-
Ipolitical notions current ia this country, aod that he
Rod. himself bound respectfully to tender to his Holiness
the melancholy advice that his intyrests, in the and coadi•
flu of it o. t. icould b.. best comel*cd i,y caning to an use
sla•st:.giLtig with Victor