The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1862.

criminals. A fellow stretches an unoffend-
ing passenger half dead on the pavement, and must
not be flogged for fear it should brutalize him.
But it is because he is a brute already that he did

it. However, I will say no more. All my friends I
assure me that it is in vain, as the public mind is
not prepared for corporal punishment. I would
merely hope each successive outrage will be consi-
dered part of the preparation." Rather a circumlo-
cutory way of putting it, that is, doubtless ; but the
reasoning is perfectly transparent throughout. It is
the last that is suggested by E., who must certainly
be cousin german, we take it, to our gossipping
friend, Mr. ROUNDABOUT.

A swinging good application of the thong
to the convicted Garotters is what the writer,
following out Mr. ADDERLEY'S suggestion,
would here advocate. And it certainly must
appear to any dispassionate observer to be the
most appropriate remedy that could well have been
thought of. " Short, sharp, and immediate "—it
assuredly is : and, what is more, it is to the last de-
gree ignominious. It is a punishment, of course, as
applied to adults, brutal in the extreme in itself.
But, for that very reason, it is precisely the
punishment required. For it is applicable
especially to brutal cr'minals. And beyond
all doubt, among the most brutalised of
that class, the Garotter stands forth conspicuous.
Its efficacy as a punishment in extreme cases we have,
ere this, had proved before the whole nation in a
very signal manner : and that within the recollec-
tion and actual knowledge of the present genera-
tion. E. alludes to this in the foregoing extract
from his argument in favour of Whipping as a
penalty for Garotters but alludes to it again
through a succession of words the most round-
about and circumlocutory. The crime he speaks
of with such "'bated breath"—as though OXFORD
and BEAN and the rest of them were so many
mythical villains—being of course in plain English
none the less heinous than the attempted assassi-
nation of the Sovereign. Since whipping was ap-
plied to these execrable miscreants, the assailants
of our beloved and revered Monarch, that high
crime, that high treason, has never once again,
thank Heaven, been heard of. Let the same
effective application of the lash to Garotters put
an end now, in its turn, to the atrocity of Garott-ng.

Mr, Punch has warned the King of PRUSSIA by
the two respectable examples of young King
BOMBA and the older King OTHO. He may now
warn the Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI by the example
of the Commendatore RATTAZZI. There is as much
instruction for the cunning, trimming Minister in
the fall of the Italian premier, as for an obstinate
old trampler on constitutions in the case of the two
ex-Kings. RATTAZZI took office against a real
majority, having supplanted the manly and patriotic
RICASOLI partly by a palace intrigue, of which, for
the KING'S sake, the less said the better. Happily
no English schemer for power could hope to step
to office by pleasing unworthy " Sultanas "
who have the ear of Royalty ; no Englishman
would wish to do it. But almost in the very face of
Europe, with a kind of ostentation of the thing,
RATAIZZI entered on office through the agency also
of the Emperor of the FRENCH. It was much too
open an affair to be called an intrigue, and it was
this which has made the object of dislike generally,
in this country and amongst all the Liberal party
in Europe, as well as with the thoroughgoing and
more ardent Italian party. He was borne with
however, because the idea was that his Majesty of
France would yield to the supple RATTAZZI what
he would not to the noble and high-minded RAT-
TA ZZI. He has met his deserts. He sold himself
to the EMPEROR for office, and the EMPEROR has
treated him as his football. He has humiliated
Italy, and got nothing for it but being glad to
resign, to escape a condemnation by a fearful
majority.
Let the Hon. BENJ. DISRAELI take warning here.
He has made an attempt not very dissimilar to
BATTAZZI'S_ Blind to the instinctive feelings of
Englishmen, as RATTAZZI may have been to the
extent of his countrymen's antagonism to the policy
of the EMPEROR, Mr. DISRAELI coupled with his
last bid for office the sustentation of the temporal
power of the POPE, and belief in the EMPEROR'S
freedom from ambition. He would have sold the
foreign policy of England for office. Happily for
us the Porz and the EMPEROR together, and all
their Hyde Park lambs to boot, cannot bid Lords
PALMERSTON and RUSSELL walk out and
Mr. DISRAELI and Lord DERBY walk in.
The party of the Palace courtiers never thought
for a moment of aid from that quarter, the
country would not hear of a papal, imperial, and
anti-Italian policy ; and the great admirer of the
petty sovereigns of Italy, the POPE included, and of
an EMPEROR, whose deeds have frightened our Go-
vernment into taxation of SEVENTY MILLIONS per
annum for our safety, this admirer of all that dis-
gusts, troubles, and taxes England finds himself
only further off the great prize which he covets.
From the meeting of Parliament it became ob-
vious that the French trimmer had no chance. The
whole country had come to laugh at or to hate
him. His cleverness no one doubted, but he had
been too clever. His speech in defence was clever,
but much of it was evidently not credited.
He could not eradicate the conviction that he
had attempted to use and cajole the Italian party.
Let him make what representations he might, he
could not efface the impression that he had endea-
voured to take and keep office, after the DISRAELI
fashion—that of coquetting with parties most
naturally opposed to him. As all felt themselves
cheated iu the end—as the whole of Italy felt
itself disgraced by the order to shoot GARIBALDI,
he could not hope that any party would now rally
to his support. He goes out in company with his
little knot of ministers, ministerialists,and courtiers,
and goes unregretted.
The new administration is not yet formed, but
the KING'S sending first for the Marquis of
TORREARSA, and on his declining to undertake the
formation of a Cabinet, to the Marquis of 'VILLA-
MARINA, looks like a wish to conciliate the South.
Both are men of high standing, and even aristocra-
tic Europe will not be able to censure the KING'S
selection. It is thought that there must be an early
election, and that, if there is, RATTAZZI, or some of
his colleagues, will hope to gain some support. One
thing we trust may be regarded as- certain—if
RICASOLI, not being personally
.acceptable to the
KING, because too honest to be acceptable to the
ladies of the Palace, cannot return, that the coun-
try will have a ministry which will put the EM-
PEROR of the FRENCH in the wrong—which will
proclaim to the world that Italy yields to force, and
to force only, at Rome.

While we all are frightened, and frightening each
other, here, with tales of garotting, and are half
afraid to walk out after dark, we may yet con-
gratulate ourselves that the agents of the law are
not our assailants. We complain, indeed, that we
can see nothing of the police when we want them
but even that is hardly so bad as to be seized by a
policeman when you do not want him, and to be
locked up in a filthy common cell for more than a
month, no one knowing where you are. Perhaps,
L aim, all of us would be rather eo dealt with our-

selves, than that our young wife or daughter should
be placed in such a predicament, being waited on

all the time by males only.
In Washington and New York, however, the
police seem to think such treatment of innocent
young females to be among their duties. Our readers
will find in another column a case of American
police atrocity which distances by far all that
makes us afraid of London streets. Mrs. BRINS-

MADE, a young married woman of twenty, came
from New Orleans, with a perfectly regular pass
from General BUTLER, in order to spend the winter
with her uncles at Washington and Troy. After
being in Washington four days she was arrested,
and confined closely for four days. She was then
forwarded to New York, and confined closely at a
common police station. Through a cabman her
friends heard of her, and made application to see
her and to know the cause of her arrest.
They were rudely refused, and even threatened
with being locked up themselves. An application
was then made to the Deputy-Marshal, but the re-
ply was that she could be seen only by permission
of Mr. KENNEDY, the head of the police, the brute
who had locked her up. This fellow told the appli-
cant that " she was a giddy foolish secesh woman,
who had been singing secesh songs"--;and this
was the whole of the charge this official could bring
against her. He added that it was better for her
to go home to her father, that she should sail in a
day or two ; but that they should not see her.
Supposing the case hopeless, her friends left her
to be sent home as KENNEDY had said. Thirty-
five days afterwards one of her friends was sur-
prised by a letter, informing her that she was
still a prisoner, waited on by men, in the cell of the
police station ! Application was then made to the
Provost Marshal ; and, briefly, the result of his in-
quiry was that KENNEDY was a liar. He had
affirmed that he made the arrest by the order of
Colonel BAKER, Provost Marshal of Washington.
Colonel BAKER, when applied to, knew nothing of
the matter ! All had been done by KENNEDY and
his men. Can we really wonder at the turn the
elections have taken ? A few such cases as these are
enough to make the North feel that Mr. STANTON,
and perhaps the PRESIDENT, needed an effectual
rebuke. If they could not only order the
arrest of suspected persons, but place the power
of making them in the hands of such
brutal, ignorant savages as KENNEDY, the whole
community must feel that in the person of some re-
lative or member of the family it was unsafe. A
spy, a singer of "secession songs," were the only
charges made against this girl, scarcely out of her
'teens; and there was not a shadow of proof-of the
former charge, while, had she been a spy, she would
not have laid herself open to the latter, harmless as
it was. The stupid police officer had actually not
the sense to perceive that the charges were incom-
patible, and that a spy would not have betrayed
herself by disloyal songs. We fear the adminis-
trator richly deserved the rebuke it has received by
Democratic victories.

The subscription in Paris for Rosalie Boise, the
victim of preventative and secret imprisonment, is going on
successfully. People of all parties join in it, and nearly
3,000 f. have up to the present been received. M. Mires,
who was himself acquitted after an imprisonment of more
than 15 months, part of it secret, has put down his name for
200 f.

The last accounts from the French army in
Mexico are stated (officially) to be somewhat less unfa-
vourable. This probably relates to the health of the troops
and the supplies ; for it is admitted that the roads are all
but impracticable, since the two columns of the army—one
of 8,000 men, under General Berthier, and the other of
10,000, under the immediate orders of General Forey—in
their march towards Puebla, could only get over 10
leagues in 10 days. . .

At a meeting of the shareholders of the British
Guarantee Association, yesterday afternoon, the agreement
to transfer the business of the association to the European
Assurance Society was unanimously confirmed,

The uneasiness created among the holders of Pe-
ruvian scrip by the announcement thi, t the £900,000 already
sent to Lima had been transferred by Messrs. Gibbs to the
Mint, at the orders of General Castilla, has been mitigated
by an explanation that this transfer was made in consequence
of Messrs. Gibbs declining to inour the continued responsi-
bility of holding such an amount in their possession, and
that it was distinctly received as a deposit for safe custody.
At the date of the departure of the steamer the new Peru-
vian Cabinet had not been completed, and this circumstance
explains the non-receipt of any Government communica-
tions in reference to the loan.

THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—NEW YORK, NOY.
18.—The schooner Hermosa, of Nassau, was captured,
October 30, 15 miles to the eastward of the Sabine River.
The schooner Frier was captured, October 28, and the
schooner Francis, October 23, by the United States' gunboat
Sagamore. The schooner Dart was captured on the Gth, off
Sabine Pass. The schooner Adventurer was captured off
the coast of Texas by the "United States' ship Kensington.
The prize schooner Water Witch, of Kingston, Jamaica, ar-
rived at this port from Aranzas Pass, Texas, where she was
captured in attempting to run the blockade, August To.
The United States' steamship Dacotah arrived here yester-
day from a cruise in search of the Confederate steamer
Alabama. She has been cruising between Long Island and
Cape Hatteras, in the track of the treasure ships. The
prize schooner Louisa, and 115 bales of cotton, were sold at
Boston for 65,000 doll. The Emma, with 121 bales of
cotton on board, bound for Jamaica, was captured off Vel-

asco, Texas.
EGGS IMPORTED.—In the ten months ended the
31st October there were 192,700,800 eggs imported, against
175,5E7,800 at the same period last year.
ALE AND BEER EXPORTED.—It appears that in
the ten months ended the 31st October the declared value
of ale and beer exported was £1,209,494.
THE VALUE OF STEAM ENGINES EXPORTED.—It
seems that there is a great increase in the exportation of
steam-engines. In the ten months ended the 10th October
the value was £1,288,054, whilst last year it was X 1,042,893.
FOREIGN WATCHES AND CLOC,ICS.—In the ten
months ended October there were 165,906 clocks and
125,763 watches imported into this country,

EARL RUSSELL AND THE BELLIGERENT RIGHT
QUESTION.—At the meeting of the council of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the following letter,
which had been received by the secretary in reference to the
above subject, was read :—,6 Sir,—l am directed by Earl
Russell to reply to your letters of the 6th inst. respecting
the destruction by the Confederate steamer Alabama, of
British property embarked in American vessels, or burned
by that steamer. Earl Russell desires me to state to you
that British property on board a vessel belonging to one of
the belligerents must be subject to all the risks and contin-
gencies of war, so far as the capture of the vessel is con-
cerned. The owners of any British property not contra-
band of war on board a Federal vessel captured and de-
stroyed by aConfederate vessel of war may claim in a Con-
federate prize court compensation for the destruction of
such property."
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON,BRIGHTON,
AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—The inquest on the body of
Richard Simmons, who was killed by the collision that
took place on Thursday night last at Tinsley-green, about
two miles from Holley station, was held yesterday at the
King's Head Inn, Horley, before Mr. W. Carter. The jury
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Edward
Reay," the driver of the goods train, who was at once com-
mitted for trial at the next Surrey assizes, but the coroner
admitted him to bail in £lOO, with two sureties of £5O each.
BOAT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF THREE LIVES.—
Three men have been drowned under melancholy circum-
stances at Blyth. With two other pilots they had loft the
harbour in pursuit of their vocation on Friday evening, and
meeting with the Sancho, a vessel on the eve of coming into
the port, but which was nevertheless sailing at a rapid rats,
they at once put themselves in a position to render the ne-
cessary service. In the process, however, the boat, by com-
ing in contact with the quarter of the ship, was unhappily
upset, with the whole of the crew. By the efforts of the
men on board the Sancho two of the poor fellows were
rescued, but the remaining three, whom no help could
reach, perished in the waves. Up to Sunday only one of
the missing bodies had been recovered.

SAVB Us FROM OUR FRIENDS.—A ridiculous
story, apropos of garotters, is now being told in London. A
very timid man, resident in the suburbs, always carries a
loaded stick, and is constantly on the look-out. The other
night, as ho was walking home, near his house a man pushed
against him. The timid gentleman, with great presence of
mind, immedtately struck him a severe blow with the loaded
stick, and the man ran off, leaving his hat behind him. The
timid man, greatly elated, picked up the hat, and read on
the lining the name of one of his intimate friends. Dread-
fully shocked, he at once hastened to his friend's house to
explain matters. He was receive' at the door by his friend's
wife, who, in a voice inarticulate with sobs, said, " Oh, I'm
Lso glad to see you I Poor Edward I—in bed upstairs I—
c,eyered with NMl—hos boo igottixl

LATE S 11 NE WS.

PARIS, DEC, 2.

The Imperial Court of Douai has confirmed the
sentence of one month's imprisonment and a fine
passed upon M. Mires by the Court of First In-