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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1852.

As the electioneering struggles draw towards their
conclusion the excitement becomes manifestlyincreased.
In Ireland there have been latterly, indeed, more fre-
quent collisions between the mob and the constabu-
lary than has been usual even in that land of popular
turmoil and political agite'ien. At several of the
county hustings in England, moreover, the fury of
the rival supporters of the opposing candidates has
come from hubbub to blows, es was manifest yester-
day on the occasion of the nominations at
Hertfordshire. The reason of this must be
tolerably apparent. Every one—whether Liberal or
Derbyite—recognises the importance of the few
remaining seats, to swell the ranks either of the
Government or of the Opposition. It is perceived that
within the next few days much may be accomplished
to strengthen or weaken the position of our administra-
tors. Upon the result of next week's polling is de-
pendayi in fact, in a very great measure, the actual
existence of the present Ministry. Therefore the
energies of all parties alike are revived to contest
the places still open to the different candidates for
admission to the Legislature. It is to this end that
:e observe supporters of the Cabinet thrust forward
upon the notice of
Middlesex,
constituencies like the
constituency of
Opposite side, su ort and,
upon the
brought forward Pasp en of the Opposition
ance of the electors of such reputedasPirantsto the accept-
stitetencies as the constituency of North
Tory con-
shire North EveryWarwick-
reasonable device is resorted to in this
way in order to possible,turn,if
Free-traders
the still. rem . .
opportunities to the advantage of the aming
or of the Protectionists. That efforts of this earnest
just,
description should be made
real solicitude
cause for satisfaction. It evinces now, cannot but be
a a
upon all sides very preferable indeed
to
e h
displayed in regard to the creation
sometimes culpably
ni
of s new Parliament. Had the enthusiasm which is
thus being manifested at the eleventh hour
by the Liberal possessors of the franchise
been somewhat earlier in its manifestation,
we 8h0,.#1 not have had to regret the loss
of so many seats of importance.
We should
have been spared, for example, the chagrin caused by
the rejection of 'Mr. Car.nwenr. and of Mr. EwART
by the men of Liverpool.
i e should have seen Mr.
V
Raynorms still empowered to enter the House of
Commons as the elect of Dublin. We should have
witnesßed the second triumph of Colonel Thompson
at the Radical borough of Bradford. We should
have been sttvel from trio disappointment consequent
upon the selection of two ultr3-Derbyltes by the elec-
tors respectively of Warwick, of Cambridge, and of
B,achester. It is unfortunately idle now to comment
upon losses which, like these, are only glaringly
irre-
parable. But a salutary warning may at least
be drawn at this moment from
their remembrance.
The sere recollection of the evil consequences of the
overconfidence unhappily felt in the foregoing and
other-instances by the Liberals of the
United sing-
etsz,
must, we believe, act as an hieea tive to a greater j

degree of activity on the part of their compatriots in
the different contests still remaining to be decided.
In Middlesex, for example, not an opportunity
should be lost to forward the interests of the two
distinguished Liberals who are the candidates for
its representation. If anything had been re-
quired to remind the electors of Middlesex
of the duty devolving upon them at this
moment and in this regard, that reminder would be
discoverable in the circumstance of such a man as
the Marquis of BLANDFORD being hurried at the last
hour, as it were, upon their notice by the advocates
of the Derby Government. Happily, however, for
Lord ROBERT Gaosvezwa and his gallant colleague
Mr. Ranpu BERNAL OSBORNE, there existed no
necessity whatever for any incentive to activity on
the part of their numerous constituents. Their ser-
vices are too well known and too generally appre-
ciated to need any inforcement upon the knowledge
of the men of Middlesex. The only effect, there-
fore, of the appearance of Lord BLANDFORD upon
the hustings to-morrow will be the revival of the
ardour long dormant in the county in consequence
of the indolence of the Tory electors of Middlesex.
It was rather bitterly remarked yesterday by Mr.
BERNAL OSBORNE that, supposing the men of the
metropolitan county were seriously looking about
them for a new representative, they would surely be
prepared to select any one rather than the scion of a house
which had cost the country—for Blenheim 250,0001.,
for the great Duke of MARLBOROUGH 500,0001.,
and for his Grace's descendants no less than
tilil enormous aggregate of 12,000,000/. Thereupon
the gallant canthaste tersely and facetiously added,in
reference to the electors, —lee them bring in some
man with a cleaner bill of health, and a better title to
represent a Liberal constituency." Upon the same
subject, namely, upon the question of sani-
tary reform it was observed yesterday from
the hustings at Hertford by Si P.
—.l' EDWARD BULWER
LITTON, that there were evidences of the apathy in
this matter of our legislators generally in every
alley of the metropolis, where you might count the
number of squalid human beings passing away by the
side of filthy pools and noxious sewers. In this par-
ticular, as in many others, the culpability of the
late Government must be allowed to be very enor-
mous, and if any authentic token could be adduced

that their successors are prepared to act differently in
regard to sanitary improvements, it would be almost
sufficient—such is our appreciation of its importance !
—to induce even the most Radical electors to look
with some degree of complacency upon the continued
existence of the DENBY Government. There was
much agreeable pleasantry in the speech addressed
yesterday to the men of Hertfordshire by Sir
BULWER LYTTON, whose support of the Go-
vernment resolved itself into a humorous on-
slaught upon the past Administration. : The
Whig Cabinet he spoke of as having received a stroke
of paralysis in 1851, and died of exhaustion in 1852 !
He described it as a Government as much resembling
an oligarchy as any that had ever ruled
the destinies of Great Britain. "It was a
Government," he said, " of a couple of families, with
one or two illustrious exceptions," insomuch that
wherever you looked," continued Sir EDWARD,
" you saw a RUSSELL, or a connexion of a RUSSELL
and a GREY, so that the last Government put one in
mind of the Chinese map of the world, which was a
large circle• in the middle of a square, leaving out
four little corners, which they consider the regions
of perpetual darkness and sin, and they consider the
circle the Celestial Empire, the miserable remnant
of mankind beyond being banished to those four
little corners.—(Cheers and laughter.) Just so,
the last Government, described as a Liberal Ad-
ministration, was the great circle where all the
good things were concentrated." Should the lion.
Baronet be elected by the men of Hertfordshire, his
return among the number of the Derbyitea would
be as important an accession to the Government as
the recent return of another illustrious man of lettere,
Mr. MACAULAY, by the constituents of Edinburgh,
constitutes a noble accession to the ranks of the
Liberal Opposition. ,

We cannot conceive why any civilized nation
should fling the mantle of its protection over ordinary
criminals—murderers or robbers, forgers or swind-
lers; those who have compromised themselves by acts
of violence or fraud cannot be very desirable additions
to the population of any country, however thinly in
habited, or anxious to encourage immigration. Of
course we do not include persons charged with poli-
tical offences, or acts not opposed to natural law, and
only rendered punishable by special local enact-
ments. Such persons may be cordially and
kindly received, notwithstanding that they may
oe fugitives from other lands, and that
large rewards have been offered for their apprehension.
Their very misfortunes, the sufferings they had pre-
viously endured, would constitute the strongest claim
to shelter and hospitality. But, with these exceptions,
all persons against
whom a prima facie case, or
reasonable presumption of guilt could be established.
should be promptly surrendered to the officers of the
nation from which they had absconded. The re-
pression of crime is a matter of general concern, in
which all constituted authorities . are equally
interested, and no efforts should be spared
to- attain that great desideratum. Now
it is well known that the certainty of even a light
punishment is far
more efficacious than the proba-
bility of the most severe, so long as there is a chance
of impunity. Men have been known to make every
arrangement for
flight even before committing an
offence then contemplated, believing that they would
be perfectly safe the
moment they arrived in another
country. The knowledge that they would be closely
pursued, and that every assistance would be afforded
by the authorities of the country, would do more
to stop the more serious offences than any other
regulation that could be framed, and a mutual
surrender
of criminals, due care being taken to pre-
vent the abuse of the principle by its application to
political fugitives, should be made one of the funda-
mental laws of nations, to which every Government
should be obliged to conform.
a
A Case has just been tried in America which has
attracted great attention among the Irish residents of
New ed
to be York, and in which a construction was at-
tempted Put on the Extradition Treaty which,
if suffered to
Prevail, would render it practically
of no effect,
but which was overruled by the
judicious decision
to whom it of the learned Commissioners
was referred. A man named
requisition of the British
THOMAS KAINE had *
withonsul at New York,
been arrested on the
charged with an assaultintent to commit
murder—a capital felony even under
mi-
tigated penal code. The prisonenram_coolly and de-
our present
liberately walked up to a person
provocation
and twenty-
atia:eere, while
ploughing his land, and without
whatsoever fired at him, lodging a bullet
seven grains of shot in his side. The injured man
was fortunately enabled to effect his escape, bat he
was pursued by KAM a considerable distance, his
intentionsesoptin. i manifestly of the most sanguinary
ri Information was given, and a warrant
granted on the very
day of the outrage by a magis-
trate of the county in which it had
been committed.
This warrant was immediately entrusted for execu-
tion to a constable who was well acquainted with the
person of the offender, and who was present during
the statement on oath of the transaction by the
'founded man. KAINE, however, evaded pursuit in
who caused
Ireland, and ultimatelymade his way across the
Atlantic,
whither
Two objections were
nuer he was followed by the constable,
his apprehens;on as above stated.
' prisoner's counsel,
established, and, secondl
first, that y official character of
the person signingthe warrant the
.chiefl relied upon by the
warrant was not sufficiently
meal evidence of the
y, that there was no evidence
that the warrant
magistrate were required
would
~,a
If strictly tech • produced was the original warrant.
'the •
completely defeat the clause
in
yoit
.f
presumption, under both the American
-S-nec-ree:
.ti 'alill'ild:lt:lctife"Eoffllnge,l,ish law, is that ever
has been rightlyy arnppoanietet:g. iaa ita
f 'would be absurd to suppose that the Under)
1
t Lary for Ireland would sanction the application on a
. warrant signed by a person who was not brn
t and duly in
the commission of the peace.— PeTrhl3re
other objection was
equally futile, and both
were moat properly and justly overruled by Mr.
BRIGHAM. There has, however, been
his decision, and it is said that an appeal from
]Luien's advocate has
fixe el cut a writ a iaieas corms in order to

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