The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-17 00:00:00

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How far the laws of national hospits, /
extend to political refugees is a vexed question- iii ,'
Europe. The continental monarchies for tlibanosii E
part deem their interests identical, and a man who •
has offended against one of them is an outlaw under
the ban of all. England has adopted another - -
course. She permits men of all ranks and creeds
to seek an asylum on her shores. The monarch
and the conspirator, the fallen Royalist and the
fallen Republican, are received without question,
and, though condemned to obscurity or poverty,
are free and in safety. But Englishmen cannot be
forgetful of the plain laws of morality. The limit
beyond which one of the family of nations cannot
permit the refugee to pass is easily fixed by a little
reflection. It is inconsistent with our international
duties to allow any action against a foreign Go-
vernment which we should not allow against our
own. The country will not sanction the repression
of plain or even violent speaking, because that is
permitted to every class in reference to the acts of
our own rulers ; but all that English law proclaims
seditious or treasonable if directed against the
Queen's authority ought to be equally reprobated
and punished when it has in view the overthrow
of Governments with which the nation is at peace
or in alliance.
A document has been lately circulated, signed" The Committee of the Revolutionary Society.—.
Felix Pyat, Rouge°, Jourdain." These three per-
sons are, we believe, located on British soil. Their
production is entitled " A Letter to the Queen of
England," and is of considerable length. The Em-
peror Napoleon, with a magnanimity which does
him all; credit, so far from wishing that this letter
should )3e suppressed, has even intimated a desire
that it should obtain the widest circulation possible.
If it served any purpose to lay before the world
the vilest, most insolent, and flagitious document
that has ever met our notice, it might be
published in these columns. But our readers will
sufficiently judge of its character without wading
through its blasphemies, its obscenities, and its
instigations to murder. It is in parts so wild and
unintelligible that it is charitable to think that
exile and sufferings have turned the-writer's brain.
It has, however, been not the less accepted by the
French refugees in this country as the exposition
of their sentiments. It was read publicly and with
applause at a meeting in London on the 22c1 of
September, the anniversary of the proclamation of
the first French Republic. German and Polish
refugee§ were present, together with two English
Republicans, " Citizens Nash and William Jones."
A report of the proceedings appeared in the news-
paper l'ilemine, published in Jersey by the refugees.
After it was read at the meeting a Frenchman,
Citizen Tatarilier, Made his comments. He paid
a tribute to the memory of the Jacobins of 1793,
and divided the duties of the patriot into three
heads—conspiracy, study of means, and riropa-
ganda. " Such attempts," he observed, "as those
of Pianori and of the Angers insurgents are only
justified in the eyes of the world by success. Let
us hoped that the justification is at hand." Bap-
tising their children in the name of the only true
trinity4-liberty, equality, fraternity—they were
to educate them in the cause. It will be seen
that rebellion and assassination are not the dreams
of a sipgle individual. The " Letter to the
Queen pf England" is actually addressed to the
Queen in terms of insolent familiarity. No feel-
ing of decency or of respect for the usages of the
country which has sheltered them restrains for a
moment the ruffianly rhapsodist. " Why have
you gone to see the parvenu tyrant, you honest
woman, as much as a Queen can be it ?" The Em-
peror is blasphemously described "as the word of
treachery made flesh." An immediate rising is pre-
dicted. " The lightning of Pianori has preceded the
thunder of the people." The Queen is told of her
folly in making friends with this Corsican Emperor.
whose purple is of French blood, by whom France
is no more represented than Prometheus by his
vulture. She thinks of the master of to-day with-
out thinking of to-morrow; but his infallible fate
is nigh. Ho will be punished. How will he end ?
He may say that the worst is to ride away in a
carriage, like Charles X., or in a cab, like Louis
Philippe. " But there is a third manner, Madam,
—in a van, like Louis XVI. in an executioner's
cart, to be executed by Donange, the hangman of
Montfaucon." We have quote. enough. A miser-
able clique of political gossips—the old women of
"good society"—have seen in the remarks we re-
cently felt it our duty to publish on the Prussian
alliance the seeds of treason ; but our contempt for
these slauderers of our honest endeavours in our
country's cause will not deter us from unmasking
and branding real treason, wherever we meet it,
with all the energy of our soul. Were the public
aware that there are men who speak and write like
this on English soil ? Did they know that at
meetings held in the heart of this city assassination
and rebellion could he preached with impunity?
Is the nation which permits these things free from
blame ? It may be urged that both speakers and
audience arc so disreputable and powerless that
there is nothing to he feared ; but a Pianori or a
Barthelemy is not powerless. The hand of any
ruffian who has been roused to madness by these
harangues may change the destinies of Europe.
The security with which the democratic leaders can
publish these sentiments gives to the French peo-
ple, who never thoroughly appreciate our institu-
tions, a false idea of their power, and tends to the
disturbance of the public mind. The impression is
that, in spite of an alliance and common enter-
prises, the British people secretly favours those who
would sgain plunge Europe in blood. It is the
duty of the Government to take some heed of such
proceedings as those we have described, and, if
these men be found incorrigible, to extend no longer
to them the hospitality they have profaned.
It has been seen what little respect the demo-
crats have for the feelings of this country. They
live in freedom, pursue any private calling they
choose, indulge their political animosities, even
publish a newspaper to represent their views. Yet
from sneers and invective against England they
can never abstain. In the late production they,
not content with impertinently addressing the So-
vereign of the country, openly gloat over its ex-
pected humiliation. We shall be Decemberised if
ever Napoleon has the time. But the most striking
feature of their minds is their fiendish malevolence.
Forgetful that they are refugees, and that at one
time England was almost threatened with a coali-
tion for protecting them, they expatiate on what
they will do when power is again their own.
" Louis Napoleon," says the letter, "is not a
man ' • he shall be executed even to his memory ;
oven his remains and those of his relations shall
not pollute the soil ; they shall be driven out, the
living and the dead ; it shall be a casus belli for
any nation to give them shelter." All this may be
declared insanity, but it is an insanity which ought
to be checked, and which would be checked by a
hint that expulsion from England would follow
any repetition of its display. Calls to assassina-
tion cannot be overlooked, from whatever quarterhts
they may come. Let no scruples about the rights
of asylum, no tenderness to these writers, because
they are needy and in exile, prevent then _ nation
from taking due care that the autherity.e
ed_trune.
life of a ruler so necessary to Europe as to. \-r-4
peror Napoleon shall not be endangered-
We have not ventured to give any adequate re-
presentation* te which the Queen of
of the style .
England is addressed. It is enoughes
beyond
snady
eventh a
what those most t
the brutal audacity of these men go
acquainted with them would con-
been necessary in these
remarks to bring name of the Sovereign into con-
ceive. We regret that it
has
nection with suchtlruffiansname:
Ibut her Majesty and the
nation may
well be satis re that even these coarse
and venomous
natures can find no ill with which
to charge the Queen of EnLl Lnd.
Her only crime
is that she
is the ally of the man they hate ; that
she has received and returned his visit. They do
not conceal that for this they desire for royalty in
England a fate little less disastrous than that which
they predict in France. "Madam," says the
Democratic Committee, " let the Revolution be
your Cicerone in Paris. It can point out a spot
instructive to sovereigns." We have said enough
of the revolutionists for the general reader; but to
Lord Palmerston and the Home Secretary we re-
commend the careful perusal of their latest produc-
tion. We believe that the Premier once threat-
ened these incendiaries with something like de-
portation. Let Citizen Pyat and his friends bo
warned, or they may soon have to plot for their
democratic and social republic on some distant and
more congenial soil.

INCENDIARY FIRE NEAR BARNSLEY.-At a little before
one o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the
stackyard at the New-lodge Farm, at New Laithes,
about two miles from Barnsley, on ie Wakefield road.
On an alarm l:eing given by an engineman at work at an
adjoining colliery a considerable number of persons has-
tened to the spot, but the fire had got too strong a hold
to be subdued, and their efforts were only available in
saving the surrounding property. Six wheat stacks and
a barn full of wheat were all in flames together, and the
c,inflagration could be seen from a great distance. About
1,0001. worth of wheat was destroyed, Only half of which
is covered by insurance. The fire is believed to be the
work of an incendiary. It was not finally extinguished
until Monday evening.

NyEARLY
CLOSING MOVEMENT.—A. public meeting for
the furtherance of this movement was held in the Town
Hall, at Croydon, on Monday evening, when resolutions
condemnatory of the late hour system, and in favour of
an earlier suspension of business' were unanimously
passed. The chair was occupied by Captain Tate, and
Mr. Lilwall, the honorary secretary of the parent so.
ciety, attended hi h deputation.