The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-10 00:00:00

ME EMPEROR NAPOLBON AND
FRANCIS 11.

The Emperor Napoleon has, we understand,
lately addressed communications to the ex• King of
Naples, pointing out to him the expediency of his
withdrawing from Gaeta, and advising him to take
that course. If Francis 11. refuses to follow this
advice, it is of course obvious that the Emperor
will be liberated from his promise to keep open S
retreat for the King, and that the French fleet will
quit the waters of Gaeta and leave the fortress to
the attack of Admiral de Persano.

The Emperor, there is every reason to believe,
was impelled to his original act by motives of pure
humanity. The King of Naples had been driven to
the last extremity. He appealed, personally, in sup-
liant terms to the Emperor to assure his retreat, and
to protect his family. At that moment it appeared
as if Gaeta, which held only a fugitive King, his
mother, wife, and children, and a disorganised gar-
rison, was about to be surrounded and bombarded.
It was, on the one hand, painful to see a Royal
House, to which every State in Europe had but yes-
terday accredited Ministers, hiding themselves from
shells, and in hourly danger of their lives ; on the
other hand, a surrender would have created new and
awkward difficulties for the Sardinians, who would
have been immensely embarrassed by their prisoner.
Seeing this, the Emperor, under the impression, too,
which then universally prevailed, that the King
would fly again, as he had fled before, held the door
open for him by sea. The King of Naples and his
advisers have, however, chosen to turn this chari-
table action to their 'political advantage ; and the
Emperor, therefore,• now withdraws from them $
limited protection which was beginning to threaten
very dangerous consequences.

THE CAMBRIDGE SPIIYRING HOUSE CASES

We (Cambridge Independent) have been favoured
by the plaintiffs' attorneys with a copy of the excep-
tions to the ruling of the Lord Chief Justice ill
these cases, as handed in by Mr. Edwin James, on
Monday morning, which we subjoin. The plain-
tiffs are to be at liberty to raise these points, if it
should become necessary, either by motion before
the full Court of Common Pleas, with liberty to
appeal therefrom to the Court of Exchequer Chain'
ber, or by bill of exceptions. This will, however,
depend on the course taken by the defendant; efl
if no proceedings are taken by him the verdict of
the jury will remain undisturbed. Grounds Of
bill of exceptions :
1. That the proper construction of the words in the
charter of Elisabeth, ".4ersonas de main stespeetae," is that
the parties must be suspected on reasonable ground of soul°
crime known to the law of England, or some definite inten-
tion to do evil, ,
2. That the charter as pleaded affords no defence in point Of
law to this action.
3. That the commitment to prison without a warrant ill
writing was illegal.
4. That the hearing and examination by the Vice'
Chancellor under the provisions of the charter must be is
accordance with the common law of England, viz.:—That
witnesses in support of the charge should have been ems'
mined on oath, in the presence of the accused, and that the
defendant had no power to examine the plaintiff, being the
party charged, in the manner in which she was examined'
5. That the defendant had no right at law to commit to
the prison described as the Spinning House, but only to
some prison known as some common gaol.
6. That the Vice-Chancellor must be satisfied before he
commits to prison by evidence taken by him, in the sel
manner as any ordinary justice of the peace, on a charge of
crime within his jurisdiction.
7. That there was no evidence for the jury in support of
either of the pleas.
8. That if there was evidence of any written warrant at
the time of the commitment, that warrant ought to have,
been produced, or its non-production accounted for, and
that no verbal evidence of the cause and reason for the
commitment was admissible.
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A YORKSIIIREMAN'S NOTION OF " STRIKEs."---A
hardhanded Yorkshireman recently met an old comrade i°
London, when the question w as put to him, " What do you
think of strikes, Jack?" " I'll tell you, Tom, what
think : they are
plagueY bad things for masters, but tell
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times worse for the men." "Then how is it that they e
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often happen ?" " Why in nine cases out of ten they
would happen but for ' The Cuckoos,' those travelling'
about-talking chaps, who are too idle to build their 001
nests, and go about spoiling the nests of other folks. A
little common sense, and good temper, between master°
and men, such as the carpet-weavers have' so wisely shovil;
would in my humble opinion, prevcat strikes altogether'
nrktium,