The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-23 00:00:00

THE LEE SW OOD CANNEL and GAS COAL i wig and gown who could make the demand, at the
COMPANY (Limited). I bottom of the sea, and till we are better advised, we
Inc;3rporated under the Joint-stock Companies Acts, 1856-
1 57, whereby the Liability of the Shareholders is hold to the belief we entertained at first, that even
Limited to the amount of their respective Shares.
the cleverly overpowered sixteen will be ashamed
Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 50,000 Shares of £2 each.
Deposit ss. per share on Application, and 15s. on Allotment. to ask of their country to get back the ship, which
No further Call to be made until after a Dividend of 10
per cent. has been paid to the Shareholders. they allowed the three to take.
DIRECTORS. What is the law of the case, it is not for us to
F. S. Bolton, Esq., Broad-street Metal Works, Birming-
ham, and Cheadle, Staffordshire. decide. Impartial and honourable advisers of the
It. J. Clarke, Esq., 4, Brabant-court, Philpot-lane, Direo-
tor of the County Gas Company. Crown will do that. We do not deny that the
0. Letteom Elliot, Esq., 7, Hyde Park Gate South. recapture was an illegal act—but in the same sense
J. Goldingham, Esq., Cross Deep Hall, Twickenham.
George Haworth, Esq., Fluckerabrook, Chester. as the act of a man seized by a policeman, who
John Jerdein. Esq. (Messrs. Lee and Jerdein, Coal Ex-
change, and 9, Lancaster-place). should succeed in binding the policeman, and escap-
F. J. Stevens, Esq., Darlington Works, Southwark-bridge-
ing from him. The policeman and his prisoner are
road.
M. Brown I'Vesthead, Esq. (Messrs. Weathead and Co.), fairly pitted against each other. The prisoner ought,
Manchester, no doabt, to be willing to put himself on his trial
—so a man ought to surrender to a warrant issued
against him. But we never heard that it was held
to be a punishable offence, if the captured man took
leg bail, and if the other deferred his appearance
before the authorities, till his case was called on
for trial. Of course, all the time subsequent to the
seizure or issue of the warrant, if recognised ,he would
be taken. As we understood it, the Emily St. Pierre
is in this very condition. If the Americans found
her at sea and captured her a second time, we fear
the Queen of ENGLAND could not be advised to in-
terfere for her restoration. To us, though of course
we may bo in error, the legal right of the Ameri-
cans to demand her of our Government seems quite
another question. Lord STOWELL has definitively
laid down the duty of the captured crew to go
quietly with the ship, before the prize court of the
Neutral Power, and rely on the honour of the Prize
Court. But if the crew should happen to think, it
may be unitotly, that American prize courts are not
to be trusted by "tie Druaners," wnom Americans
lose few opportunities of defying, and deem them-
selves saftest in their own custody, we do not re-
member that by anything he has said, their Go-
vernment is to be answerable for it. We shall soon,

AUDITORS.

W. Barton Ford, Esq. (Messrs. Clark, Ford, and Co„ ac-
countants, 7, Nicholas-lane).
W. J. Vian, Esq. (Railway Passengers Assurance Com-
pany), 64, Cornhill.
BANKERS.—London and County Bank, Lombard-street.

SOLICITORS.
Meg/11w. R. and S. Muliens, 7, Poultry.
Messrs. Tyndall and Johnson, Birmingham.
BROKERS.
Messrs. St. Alphonse and Halls, 75, Old Broad-street.
W. J. Scott, Esq., Waterloo-street, Birmingham.
SECRETARY, pro tem.—John Collett, Esq.
Temporary Offices.-7, Nicholas-lane, Lombard -street,E.C.

however, know.
Meantime if the Americans are legally justified
in asking reparation for a prize crew of 16 being
overpowered by a fragmentary crew of three—an-
other case has turned up, which a contemporary
fairly enough terms a " Roland for an Oliver."
We have yet, indeed, but an ex parte statement;
still it is the statement of truth-loving Englishmen,
not of Yankees. The details are, moreover, so
clearly and minutely given that there seems no
reasonable fear that anything important can be
alleged to justify the seizure. It seems to be every
way as bad as that of the Trent, with the single
exception, that the vessel in question, the Bermuda,
was not a mail steamer. She might have run the
blockade on former voyages, but that had nothing
to do with the present one. Each voyage must
answer for itself, and its hazards and liabilities ter-
minates with its termination. The vessel had on
board, it is true, some contraband of war, that is,
what would have been so, had her destination been
to a port blockaded by the power by whose ships
she was seized. But it was conclusively established
in the case of the Kent that a "hostile destination"
was essential to the very existence of contraband.
If the ship were sailing from a neutral port to a
neutral port, it was unanswerably proved that she
might be full of warlike equipments, or even of sol-
diers, but, the neutrality of the ports of departure,
and of destination, would be conclusive against the
contraband character of the cargo or passengers.
Now, according to all the evidence we yet have, the
Bermuda was undeniably sailing first to St.
George's, Bermudas, and thence to Nassau, New
Providence, in the Bahamas, or to some other Wes
India port.

Now, doubtless, the Americans think they have
good reason to suspect the Bermuda—doubtless
also, Nassau is inconveniently near to the Coast of
Florida, as a market place for rifled cannon and
ammunition ; but both put together du uut alter the
fact that the Bermuda left, a British port, sailed to
another British port, and that while sailing to a third,
being really or almost in British waters, steering
certainly by British landmarks, she was captured
by an American cruiser—of course with the usual
circumstances of Yankee rudeness—such as firing
a shell through her rigging. The courteous infor-
mation was added that the British port was in
truth blockaded by American cruisers, who searched
all merchant vessels, and who were ordered to seize
the Bermuda, and about twenty ships, whose names
were given them, wherever they might find them,
and sailing under whatever flag ! A handsome re-
turn this, certainly, for our allowing Lancashire to
be half starved, and respecting the cotton block-
ade, when we had it so completely in our power to
help ourselves.

The delicate position in which the Government
of Italy still feels itself to be, in the presence of
Europe, has been significantly indicated of late by
one or two very curious and even at the first blush,
as one may say, almost incomprehensible proceed-
ings. An incident that has just occurred in the
extreme North, and another, and a very different
incident, that has just occurred (almost simultane-
ously) in the extreme South, have—each in turn—
served to demonstrate the fact, that the policy still
being carried out at Turin is a policy at least as
prudent as ostensibly it is simply audacious !
"Easy does it," might, in literal truth, be taken
as the motto to be inscribed upon the national
tricolor, upon the standard of the Re G alantuomo
—"Mustaccino " as the Neapolitans have recently
called him in one of their whimsical terms of endear-
ment. Or, if the favourite language of heraldry
must needs be clung to here again—the Italians

might proclaim, in the tongue of their Roman
ancestors, the pace at which they are advancing in
the road to independence (borrowing the familiar
phrase from the escutcheon of the PLUNKETTS) by
adopting as their device Festina dente! Instance—
that almost bewildering circumstance which has
just startled some of VICTOR EMMANUEL'S lieges al
31,....5ia0w-z'o 0 t•cs te Vll3ll. lA/ Li..
capital of the South : the ineffectual attempt to gel
up there and then •
a demonstration in favour of
GARIBALDI ! Instance, again—that more impor-
tant seizure of 650 " patriots" at Milan, Brescia,
and Bergamo, because of their presumed complicity
with a conspiracy understood to be just afoot for
the raising cf the Tyrolese in insurrection against
the Austrian Government. Ammunition and arms
have been seized, as well as the Italian volunteers
bearing them. And with the arms and the ammu-
nition—thousands:of the red shirts far-famed all over
Christendom as the GARIBALDI jackets. Looking
superficially there, to the right and to the left, it
would almost seem as though the Hero of Italy
werehe is the
under
main-stay, atab
oo from the Government of which
as well as being comparably the
first and the greatest of all her Soldiers. Bat—
looking, upon "second thoughts," a little below
the surface—is it not obvious, at a glance, that
RA TA ZZ I'S Ministry is wise in its genera-
tion ? " All in good time," is its homely
g Wait—no hurry—no unnecessary
precipitation : that, for the time being, is its plain
and manly dictum. And so—in this frank and re-
sote the superfluous ovation of a
Great
Naples,shes
it seizes as rash and lu sNpairmite— at it hushes
hot-
headed, as precipitate and thoroughly indiscreet en.
thusiasts, the volunteers found ready with their arms,

and their red jackets, and their ammunition, "ready,
aye ready," at Milan, at Brescia/ and at Bergamo.