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rnitted ? They have said in 1855 what Sir Charles
Wood, the Duke of Newcastle, and Sir James
Graham said in 1851, when they were Cabinet
Ministers.
The protest signed by the Jersey political exiles
is mainly an historical resume of the events of the
revolution effected at Paris by the coup d'etat of
the 2d of December, 1851. The phraseology em-
ployed to describe these events is not over-courtly,
but neither was thelanguage of the Ministers
and journalists we have named. The Ministers and
journalists have ceased to speak of these events,
because they believe that France has acquiesced in
the Government founded on the coup d'etat—and
because they think that as the general merits of
the reign of Augustus compensated in a great man-
ner for the questionable means by which he at-
tained to power, the reign of Napoleon 111. may
compensate for what is indefensible in the coup
d'etat. The Jersey political exiles continue to hold
the same language as they have ever held, because
they do not believe that France has acquiesced in
the Goverament of the coup d'etat, and because
they do not hope that the benefits conferred on
their country by that Government will compensate
for the vices of its original title. Of these two dis-
sentient -views, which is characterised by most of
sagacity and practical prudence we are not now
called upon to decide. Enough that a man may
entertain and express either of them without im-
putation to his moral rectitude. If the press is
free in this country, such difference of opinion is a
legitimate subject of discussion. To punish men
for maintaining either the one or the other side of
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t of the liberty of

the p-ress.
We shall be told that the discussion was carried
on by the Jersey political exiles in language of un-
necessary violence. Are we to take exceptions at
strong language on the part of men who have been
driven from their homes and hearths by an act
which even those who make the strength of their
language matter for an accusation against them do
not and cannot defend ? " But if they are allowed
to speak in this manner of the chief alliance, that
alliance may be placed in peril." Was not the same
person chief magistrate of France, and was not
England in amity with France, when the Ministers
Sir Charles Wood, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir J.
Graham, and the London journalists spoke of him
in pretty nearly the same terms as the exiles do
now ? Had the President of the Republic com-
plained to our Government in 1851 of the manner
in which he was spoken of by Ministers on the
hustings and journalists in their columns the an-
swer
would have been :—" The Constitution of
England does not allow us to deal with men for any
latitude of speech in political assemblies or in print,
except by due process of law. If you feel aggrieved
the law courts are open to you, as they were in
1782 to the Queen of France, and in 1803 to your
uncle, the First Consul." And if there had been
one spark of English generosity and courage in
the breasts of our Ministers the same answer would
have been made to him now.

There are good grounds for believing that the
French Government has demanded the expulsion
of the Jersey exiles from our Ministers, and that,
instead of answering as they ought to have done,
they have complied with the demand as far as they
could. In a letter from Vienna, published in the
Cologne Gazette, and reproduced in our impression
of this day, it is stated that the Austrian Govern-
ment has made application to the Cabinet of St.
James's for the expulsion of political exiles, and
that the French Government has instructed its am-
bassador here to support the application. And the
Moniteur of yesterday contains a letter from Jer-
sey, dated the 26th inst., in which it is stated that
the exiles have received warning to quit the island.
These two documents leave little room for doubt as
to the parties at whose instigation Ministers have
violated the practice of the English Constitution.
To have complied with such a request from Napo-
leon lll.—who has had practical experience of the
protection our laws extend to political exiles—
would have been bad enough, but to comply with
such a request from Austria implies a degree of
meanness that we dare not trust ourselves to desig-
nate by the epithets which force themselves upon
us. Lord Palmerston and his colleagues affected
to deprecate the obsequiousness shown to Austria
byLord John Russell at the Conferences of Vienna;
the obsequiousness they have themselves now
shown to that equivocal power is infinitely more
disgraceful. The honour of England has been laid
prostrate at the feet of continental despotism by
the Palmerston Ministry.
This Jersey affair is not the first step of our Go-
vernment in its descent from the proud position
maintained by English Governments in 1782 and
1803—epochs at which public opinion was far less
enlightened than now on the subject of the political
rights and immunities of citizens and foreign so-
journers amongst us. In 1553 the Messrs. Hale
and Son were summoned to Bow-street to answer
a charge of having in their possession a quantity of
gunpowder greater than was allowed by law.
Strenuous efforts were made to prove that a con-
nexion existed between the accused and M. Kos-
suth. When this was found to be impossible, the
proceedings were allowed to drop—the prosecution
was terminated by a compromise. No doubt was
entertained at the time that the main object of
these proceedings was to obtain an excuse for gra-
tifying the Austrian Government, by expelling M.
Kossuth from this country. In 1853 the Govern-
ment of the day had not mustered courage to depart
from the precedent established by the ultra-Tory
Lord Hawkesbury half' a century before. But when
men once venture upon a deviation from the path
of rectitude and legality, however slight, their sub-
sequent downward career is rapid. Two short
years have sufficed to embolden Ministers to their
present avowal of disregard for the hereditary
liberties of England.
In the letter from Jersey which we publish to-day
it is stated that M. Victor Hugo will remain at
Guernsey until Lord Palmerston presents a more
stringent Alien Bill to Parliament. We feel confident
that if M. Victor Hugo remains at Guernsey till
such an event takes place, his residence there will
be a lengthened one. Fallen though Lord Pal-
merston is, he will have too much prudence to risk
the damaging debates to which the introduction
of such a measure would give rise. Neither he
nor his imperial masters will court the renewed
publicity that would be given to the transactions
of 1851 by the discussion of the House of Com-
mons. And yet we do not wonder that an exile
smarting under an act of injustice, seeing that our
first protest against the lawless proceedings at Jer-
sey has not been supported by any of the Liberal
organs in the daily press of the metropolis, and
that not a whisper against the outrage has been
breathed (luring the 'Parliamentary canvass now in
progress in the borough of Southwark, should look
forward to such a suicidal move on the part of our
Premier as probable. The future historian of the
nineteenth century will point to the Jersey out-
rages, and to the apathy with which they seem
likely to be endured by the English public, as the
darkest blot on the Liberals of this age.

The following is the letter referred to above :

Lo coup-d'4tat Bonapartiste triomphe 4 Jersey, mal-
- les 4loquentes et nobles protestations du Daily
News. A la suite de la d6claration par laquella lee
proecrits de Jersey rappelaient it I'Angleterre les crimes
de Louis Bonaparte, M. Victor Hugo, ses fils, et lee
trente autres signataires ont recu du Gouverneur de
Jersey l'invitation de quitter I'ile d'ici au 2 Novembre.
L'intention de M. Victor Hugo est de s'arr6ter 3 Guar-
nosey en attendant que Alien Bill soit presente au
Parlement par le Ministbre Palmerston.
Vendredi soir.

Sir,—The free English press, last week, almost unani-
mously blamed the conduct of the anthorities. of Jersey.
A more serious fact has just occurred : Victor Hugo
and thirty other refugees have been expelled from Jersey
—l'ile Normande—by the same arbitrary process.
And, thin time, no false pretence—no forced interpre-
tation. Any one who glances over the protest because
of.which our friends are expelled from Jersey will see at
once that there is no other motive for such violent urn
ceedings than a legitimate sentence passed upon Louis
Bonaparte.
We leave it to public opinion in the country to decide
whether it be worthy of the dignity of the
English people
to buy the alliance with the violation of le
the rights
hospitality, and to suffer that exiles should be summarily
ejected from a land of law and liberty for holding to-day
I mNoaspto Napoleon the
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towardswas very same language that
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ago.--I am, &e., ""gland about three years
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STNOULAR COLLISION.—On Tuesday an accident oc-
curred on the line of railway between Renfrew and Pais-
ley, which, though only attended with fatal consequences
to horse flesh, placed the lives of many human beings in
imminent danger. This railway has only a Biagio line of
rails, and is worked by horse power. On the evening in
question, a carriage conveying a number of workmen
homeward towards Paisley, was met by another carriage
with the passengers for Renfrew Wharf (upon the same
line, of course) when the collision between the two
brutes, which were both very valuable animals, h wass oo
spot.
tremendous that they were instantly killed on
All the passengers were shaken, and many
se-
verely contused, but so far as we learn... none
Were dangerously hurt.—akagota Berala of the
eemp .
of them

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Naval and Miff

iThe steam corvette Ariel, 9, Commander John P. Lticei;
I which arrived at Plymouth en Monday from the White
Sea, left Deal on the 10th May, entered the 'White Sea
on the sth June, arrived at Cross Island on the 6th, and
in company with the French and English squadrons
proclaimed Archangel in a state of blockade on the Btb„
On the 28th Sept., when returning, all the ships were
at Cross Island, and proceeded therefrom to the Ukansdi
Isles, at the entrance of the White Sea. Here they lay
d tiring very heavy storms of snow, accompanied by severe
cold, the thermometer falling to 22, being 10 degrees
below freezing point. Both squadrons left on the 9th
inst. The Ariel anchored off Lowestoft on the 20th, and
in the Downs on the 22d ; she left on the 24th, was off
Portsmouth in the heavy gale of Thursday, anchored
there on Saturday night, sailed on Sunday morning, and
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Monday. The Ariel has
been industriously occupied all the summer in conveying
mails and going up the various creeks and harbours of
the White Sea, visiting Vardohuus, Vadhoost, the river
Dwina, the Gulf and River Mezen, the Bay of
Vesuta, the village of Lianitsi, Kouzev, Solvetskoi
Kandalak, Kerret, Yaadahoost, the Gulf of Onega,
and every other available place from Cape Can.
dinose, on the east, to Cape Sweetnose, on the
west. Between the 29th of June and the 2d of
July her boats went up the Mezen River, and destroyed
vessels amounting to about 300 tons. On the 11th of
July she proceeded to the Gulf of Onega to relieve the
Phcenix, which was anchored close to the monastery.
Here a small boat was sent with a flag of truce to pur-
chase provisions at the village of Lianitsi. The Russian
soldiers requested her to approach, and then fired into
her. For this treacherous conduct a few shots and
rockets were fired at the village. On the 14th she an-
chored at the island of Kio, where there is a monastery
and small custom-house. The inhabitants of this island
are not numerous, but it is important as a depot for tim-
ber brought down the river. On shore there were eight
immense stores, full of cut planks, stacked ready for
shipment, and worth 8,0001. or 10,0001. ; and, afloat,
there were seven schooners, from 90 to 100 tons each,
employed in the trade. All were left untouched, accord-
ing to orders from the English and French Government_

(especTilific.i-SeVeral empty colliers bad to beb;llastecitoi
get back to England. On the 18th of July the Ariel an-
chored close to the village of Kandalak, which was spared
by Capt. Ommanney last season in consequence of the
civility of the inhabitants. The Ariel sent two boats to get
provisions, but they were fired at. Some shot and shell
were returned, and three armed boats, under command
of Lieut. A. N. Wright, seconded by Lieut. Kerby,
sent in. They, however, took the ground, and 3 sea-
men being wounded, were sent back to the ship. The
sailors then landed and fired the place, taking soma
plunder, among which were several military account-
books, showing that great punctuality is observed in
this department, notwithstanding Kandalak is so remote.
Owing to some oversight at home, although the White
Sea squadron did not leave until the 10th of May, it
was discovered on the 25th of July, only 46 days after,
that the ships were not supplied with bread sufficient to
last the season, and the men were ler a time put on two-
thirds allowance.

Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Simoom, Capt. Sali-
van, having repaired the defect in her after hot well, left
Spithead yesterday afternoon for Balaklava, with the
Ist Light Infani;ry Regiment of the British German
Legion. A rathi?,r romantic circumstance has attended
the departure of these troops. O❑ Monday night one►
of the privates was discovered to be a woman, and a
very fine, handsor ae, young woman, too, French, th,e
wife of a soldier o f the regiment, who is a Swiss. This
gallant wife reg ilarly enlisted, and passed muster,, it
would appear, afterwards. On the discovery of her
sex the fact was ;reported to the Colonel, who ordered
her to he larded, but she begged so hard, and her appeal
was so heartily r,nd generally supported by the corn-
rales of her hush and, that she has been allowed to ac-
company him in Ilex capacity as a soldier, pro tern., as
she expressed her determination to fight and die in
the same service as her husband. The enthusiasm
of the regiment is universal at this unlooked-for epi-
sode in the outset; of their martial career. So pleased
were a cumber of ♦isitors to the ship, officers and men,
with her spirit and p repossessing appearance, that a sub-
scription was speedily raised of upwards of 201. for her.
She shoulders her n fie and has performed her military
evolutions admirably
Her Majesty's 8) Sip Sanspareil, 71, Captain W. J.
Williams, arrived a t Spithead yesterday morning from
the Mediterranean, and was ordered to hold herself in
readiness for sea.

The Orinoco ste am-transport, Captain Wilson, left
Portsmouth yestere ay for the Crimea with the troops
enumerated yesterday.
The transports M :try Ann, sailing vessel, and the Lion,
paddle-wheel steam .er, have sailed from Greenhithe with
military stores rect :lived at Deptford for the Crimea,.
The Earl of C: trdigan inspected the 7th Dragoon
Guards at Piershil .1 on Thursday, and reviewed them on
Portobello Sands on Friday morning. The regiment
presented a most soldier-like appearance. The noble and
gallant earl next proceeded to York.
Within the lat ce few days 90 bakers have been sent
from London to tscutari, Sebastopol, tie., to make bread
for the British :forces in the East, so that onr bravo
troops are 1ike..15 to be well furnished with excellent
bread (luring tho approaching winter.

The following- appointments, made at the Admiralty
yesterday, appea red in our late edition last night :
LIEUTENANT.
F. S. Tremleti; to the Royal William.
MASTERS.
John A. Bull to the Arachne.
Philip Going to the Childers.

MATE.
C. E. K. Brett to the Hawke.

Se,ISTANT-PAni ASTER.
Edward J. Co ok e to the Illustrious.

THE HYTB: h SCHOOL OF IZUSKETBY.

Tho follow;aag instructions in reference to this
important m ilitary establishment have just been
issued from -the Horse Guards :
"Horse Guards, Oct. 26, 1855.
"Sir,—Additional candidates being required for the
corps of permanent instructors of musketry now in the
course of ,:rgiinisation under the regulations issued from
this depar tmont on the 13th of August last, I have re-
ceived the commands of Field-Maretial Viscount Har-
dinge aga in to call upon you to furnish the names of any
men bete owing to the regiment under your command
who may. be eligible and willing to be transferred to the
corps in question.
" Ca, ididates for this employment aro not to exceed
five ye: era' service. They must be men of active habits,
intellii;ent, perfectly capable of receiving and imparting
instru diet], and must be medically certified fit for active
servi..,e. They must be able to write accurately from
dict:Atioc, understand the use of forms and returns, &c.,
and have a competent knowledge of the first four rules
of arithmetic, and of vulgar and decimal fractions.
They will be sent to Hythe for the purpose of under-
going the regular course of instruction in the theory
and practice of musketry : and when reported duly qua-
lified, they will be discharged, and reattested for general
service—their previous regimental service, however,
being allowed to reckon towards pension. Married
men will not be admitted as candidates, and all applica-
tions from those who may be approved for and postedto the corps for permission to marry, must be forwarded
and recommended for the approval of the Con! der
in-Chief by the commanding officer of theregiment
a re
garrison to which they may be attached, with
persona
whomport as
to the character and respectability of thema or
the instructors may propose to marry.
" A very large proportion of the
officers hitherto sent to Hythe, forturaea e s
of it,
Viscountninn.comm?sioned
training for this corps,
duties having been found unfit for the i
of the candidates with the
confer as to the qualifications
of musketry of the •
y rep-
ther officer within reach,
Hardinge recommends that commanding officers should
garrison,
or
through mrf.egautlaorrlygaappointed inistthruacntyorn
the course at Hythe, be-
forewho may have gone
.sendi nvigitlailnwb te.hreletslbipsaetcaotrfii
pvcoeall.nyndt2ei candidates.
Sergeants tfilersos.
dt -.0 ass instructors
and privates second-class instructors.
land 1.8.10 d. per
d corporals an
an" Sergean
t'e their respective ranks, c, &c. ; awl
be posted
cploosttheidn
gnat,
clothing,
and
different be arl mede nts or
tdTearhys7 Their
epTcaoiyredyi
ow.gi
'sure of the Commander-in-Chief.
Second-classth ey
Stationswillabt tliihnasebltiltep•rueltcecoteaors will be entitled to promotion,
according to their conduct and qualifications, to the rank
of first-class instructors ; and these, in their turn, will
be
ment at eligible for the superior advantages attending employ-
the head-quarter establishment at Hythe.
" You will cause this letter to be read to the regiment
under your command at three successive parades ; you
will not fail to explain to the men the advantages which
will attend employment in this corps of instructors, and
you will then transmit to this depattosent a return of
the candidates, holding them in readiness to proceed to
Hythe on the receipt of a route from the Quartermaster-
General.—l hare the honour, &c.,
(Signed) "V. WZTHBRALL, A. G."

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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARSET.
Under the Management of Mr. Bnok.stone.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed THE anodes HE END
. Cha-
rszteers by Messrs. Rogers, Chippendale, and Ho; Cushman,snd Miss Swanborough.

Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE.
To conclude with FISEI OUT OF WATER.

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ROYAL PRINCESS'S TELEATEE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CifAnita KW.
THIS EVENING
W.,11 be presented JUDGE NOT BY APPEARANCES.
After which, KING 'HENRY VIII. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C.
Kean Cardinal Wolsey, C. C. Kean.
To conclude with A. GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,

♦yfll be performed RORY O'NfORE. Characters by Messrs. Had-
y. Bedford. Selby, Parselle, J. Eland, Garden, &C. ; 3111,;es
Mary Keeley, Kate Kelly, Wyndham, &c.
Followed by BETSY BAKER.
To conclude with OPEN SESAME.

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