The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-22 00:00:00

THE JERSEY _HUBBUB,

The Guernsey Star, of the 19th inst., thus comments
on the conduct of the Jersey authorities in expelling the
two or three socialists who have libelled the Emperor of
the French and the Queen of England. In speaking of
these individuals leaving Jersey quietly and taking
refuge in Guernsey, it says :
" Here is certainly a serio-comic termination of an
affair which at fir-t seemed likely to assume the dignity
of an historical event. We scarcely know which most
to admire, the easy style in which the Jersey authorities
condemn and execute, in disregard of the customary
preliminaries of accusation and trial, or the amiable
placidity with which men who call themselves the friends
of liberty, par eccellenee, submit to an arbitrary and ille-
gal act.
"If the conduct of aliens residing in her Majesty's
dominions is such as to disturb the public peace, or to
endanger relations with foreign powers; and if this con-
duct cannot be suppressod by the ordinary course of law,
exceptional measures must naturally be resorted to ; but
such measures must be adopted either under legislative
sanction or on the responsibility of the highest ministers
of the Crown. If the expulsion of dangerous foreigners
is deemed expedient, it must be effected by the exercise
of the Imperial power, and not be left to the passion and
indiscretion of subordinates. And, moreever, if such
expulsion be resorted to it must be effectual. It must
entirely remove the offenders from the Queen's domi-
nions, and not merely send them from one part to ano-
ther, as has been done by the authorities of Jersey. The
course adopted in this matter by the authorities of Jersey
is, in fact, irreconcileable alike with legality and common
sense, and it is fortunate that the persons on whom they
exercised their power in so summary a manner have had
the extreme good nature to submit without testing the
validity of the sentence."

The following has been issued :
DECLARATION OF THE EXILES REMAINING

IN JERSEY.

"Three proscribed individuals—Ribeyrolles, the in-
trepid and eloquent writer ; Pianciani, the generous re-
presentative of the Roman people • Thomas, the coura-
geous prisoner of Mount St. Michael—have just been
expelled from Jersey.
" The aet is serious. What is there on the surface ?
The English Government. What is there at the bottom ?
The French police. The band of FouchtS can put on the
glove of Castlereagh. This proves it.
"The coup d'etat has just made an entrance into Eng-
land's liberties ; England has reached this point—to
proscribe the proscribed. One step more and England
will be an appendage to the French empire, and Jersey
will be a canton of the arrondissement (district) of Cou-
tances.
"At this moment our friends have left; the expulsion
is consummated.
"The future will qualify the fact ; we confine our-
selves to stating it. We record it—nothing more. Set-
ting aside the violation of right, the violence to which
our persons are subjected makes us smile.
" The French revolution is a permanent thing—the
French republic is a right—the future is inevitable ;
what signifies the rest ? And what is, after all, this ex-
pulsion Another ornament to exile ; another hole in
the flag.
" Only let there be no doubt on the subject.
"This is what we say, we proscribed Frenchmen, to
you, English government :
" Monsieur Bonaparte, your ' powerful and cordial
ally,' has no other legal existence but this—charged with
the crime of high treason.
"M. Bonaparte, for the last four years, has been
liable to a writ of arrest. Signed : Hardouin, President
of the High Court of Justice ; Delapalme, Pataille,
Moreau (of the Seine), Cauchy, judges. And counter-
signed : Renouard, Procureur General.
" M. Bonaparte took the oath as a functionary to the
Republic, and perjured himself.
" M. Bonaparte swore fidelity to the Constitution,
and destroyed the Constitution.
"M. Bonaparte, the depository of all the laws, has
violated all the-laws.
"M. Bonaparte imprisoned the inviolable representa-
tives of the people, drove away the judges.
" M. Bonaparte, in order to escape the writ of arrest
issued by the High Court, has done what the malefactor
does ; that he may escape from the gendarmes, he has
committed murder.
"M. Bonaparte has used sabres and grapeshot, and
he has exterminated ; he has massacred by day, shot by
night.
"M. Bonaparte guillotined Cuisinier, Cirasse, Char-
let, guilty of having attempted to serve the judicial writ
of arrest.
"M. Bonaparte bribed the soldiers, bribed the func-
tionaries, bribed the magistrates.
"M. Bonaparte stole the property of Louis Philippe,
to whom he was indebted for his life.
"M. Bonaparte has sequestrated, pillaged, confiscated,
terrorised consciences, ruined families.
" M. Bonaparte has proscribed, banished, driven out,
expelled, transported to Africa, transported to Cayenne,
sent forth to exile forty thousand citizens, amongst
whom are the signers of this declaration.
" High treason, false oath, perjury, subornation of
officials, sequestration of the citizens, spoliation, rob-
bery, murder—these are crimes provided against by
every code of every nation, punished in England on the
scaffold, punished in France, where the republic abo-
lished the penalty of death, with the bagnio. The Court
of Assizes its waiting for M. Bonaparte.
" From this moment history says to him—Accused,

rise.
" The French people has for its executioner, and the
English government for its ally, imperial crime.
" That is what we say.
"That is what we said yesterday, and the English
press in a body said so with us ; this what we shall say
to-morrow, and a unanimous posterity will say se with

us.
"This is what we shall always say—we who have but
one soul, the truth ; and but one word, justice.

"And now banish ug.

"Jersey, Oct. 17, 1855.
"Victor Hugo, J. Cahaigne, Fulbert Martin (advo-
cate), Colonel Sandor Teleki, E. Beauvais, Bonnet-
Duverdier, Kesler, Arsene Hayes, Albert Barbieux,
Roummilhac (advocate), A. C. Wiesener (retired Aus-
trian officer), Gornet (senior), Charles Hugo, J. B.
Amiel (of the Aribge), Francois Victor Hugo, F.
Tat6ry, Theophile Gu6rin, Francois Zychon, B. Colin,
Edouard Collet, Koziell, V. Vincent, A. Piaseoki, Giu-
seppe Rancan, Lefebvre, Barbier (physician), H. Peeve-
rand, condemned to death on the 2d Dec. (Allier)."

PROPOSED SUBMARINE TUNNEL BE-
TWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

BOULOGNE-SITR-MER, Oct. 20.—For several weeks past
some able hydrographers and engineers have been em-
ployed in surveying the coasts in the neighbourhood of
Boulogne and Calais on the French side and of Dover
and the South Foreland on the English side of the Chan-
nel, and in taking soundings, with a view of reporting as
to the feasibility and advantage of forming a communi-
cation between the two countries by means of a subma-
rine tunnel and railway.
bL L. Favre (Niort, department of Deux-Sevres), the
distinguished French engineer, has this day published
the details of his extraordinary project, which we here
translate :
" Our project consists in a tunnel of about 30 kilo-
metres in length, formed under the sea, and offering as
much security as a railway under the open sky.
ig 1. The tunnel will be pierced in a manner so that
the bed of the earth whieh will divide it from the sea
will never less than 25 metres, even at the greatest
depth of the stria its.
"2. The tunnel N ill be lined with a double arch, the
;
first to be of granite an:l of impermeable cement, the
second of thin iron plate, p; arced in different places in
order to discover immediately 1.:;.1e least filtration.

- - -
" WELLS OF THE Ttili..7EL
" We now come to the consideration
of an important
es
question in connection with our project. 12,; difficulties
which appear insurmountable in a work of this ts..indcon-
sist not only in the extent of the tunnel, in the ten;flus-
ness of the operations—wbicb, however, can be uncle,-
taken at both ends at the same time—but also in the
clearance of the debris, which would seemingly have
to be carried to the opening at either side.
"In order to surmount these obstacles, we have esta-
blished in our project wells' constructed at different
parts of the channel, which will divide the subterranean
works into sections of tunnels of less than a myriametre
in length. These maritime wells will facilitate the for-
mation of the tunnel at many different places at once.
The works, therefore, can be carried on at the same time
in the gallery at the coast of France, in the gallery at
the coast of England, and in the galleries of the wells.'
Besides, they will afford the means of casting the encum-
bering earth into the sea, and of forming little islands
aroun these wells.
"It is to-day demonstrated that the sea has no per-
ceptible action upon the massive rocks, covered with
huge blocks, underneath the sea at low tide. Above this
point will be built up a construction to form powerful
blocks, capable of resisting the force of the waves. It
is then possible to construct these wells, which are, we
can confidently say, a new idea in connection with our
project—an idea, however which will secure the easy
realisation of the tunnel. With these wells we can give
to the works that celerity with which it is so desirable
to carry them on ; we can also ventilate the tunnel, and
create islets along the course. With the aid of system it
would only take 5 years to complete this tunnel.
"As to the cost of construction, I will now give what
I consider a minute calculation : Francs.
30 kilometres of tunnel under the sea
4 kilometres of tunnel under the shore 8,000,000
5 maritime wells 5,000,000
4 kilometres of trenches , ... 2,000,000
2 stations .......................................... ,000,000
Extraordinary and unforeseen expenses ...... 23,000,000

100,000,000

"ESTIMATE OF THE PRODUCE.

" We calculate today that about 200,000 passengers
travel backwards and forwards by the ships that traffic
between the coasts of England and France. We believe
we are within the mark when we say that this number,
when the tunnel was completed, would not only be
doubled, but would be augmented in a much more con-
siderable proportion. We have an example in the rail-
ways, which surpassed the anticipations of all when the
lines were in full working order.
"The quantity of pit coal consumed in France an•
nually is about 80,000,000 of metrical quintals. Of this
quantity, according to the last statement of importa-
tions, England furnishes 8,000,000; Belgium, 25,000,000 ;
Rhenish Prussia, 5,000,000. The amount of thl cost of
transport alone ought to be 20,000,000 francs.
" Now, we may reasonably hope that our railway
could count upon more than 10,000,000 quintals. The
facilities which our mode of transport by the tunnel
would offer would, no doubt, enable the English coal to

replace, in the north of France, the Belgian and Ger-
man coal. We may then estimate the quantity of coal
conveyed from England at 20,000,000 quintals.
"Now the transport of 10,000,000 alone of quintals
of coal would give a return of about 10,000,000 francs.
The number of ships which annually enter the harbours
of Calais, Boulogne, and Dunkirk exceed 3,000, and
their tonnage 400,000 tons. We are thus able to make
a somewhat correct calculation of the extent of the com-
merce carried on in this way.