The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

THE .RCAD CHILD MURDEV.

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It was stated in The Sun of yesterday that the
inquiry now being prosecuted into this murder by-
Mr. Slack, solicitor, of Bath, is likely to &else,
abortive, in consequence of Mr. Kent, acting under
the advice of his counsel and solicitor, declining to.
submit himself and the members of his family for
examination. Mr. Kent, we learn, wrote on the.
4th inst. to Mr. Waddington, Under-Secretary for
the Home Department, requesting an interview
for the purpose of urging a public inquiry. ,Mr.
Waddington, in a brief note, daclined. a
_personal
interview with Mr. Kent, but suggested that any
request should be submitted in writing. To that
communication Mr. Kent has forwarded the sub-
joined reply : .

' " Road, Sept. 7.

" Sir,—ln reply to your latter of the sth inst., I have to
regret that you could not see it right to afford me an inter-
view, in reference to the murder of my child, as I was most
anxious personally to assure you of my earnest desire that
every facility should be afforded for a public and searching
examination of myself and my whole household.
"I regret also to observe by the reports in the press that
the Home Secretary sees a difficulty in the way of granting
a special commission for the purpose of such .examination.
It is suggested that the usud indemnity grtcnted to wit-
nesses giving evidence under a commission would prove an
insuperable objection. I beg therefore to say that, so far as
I myself and all over whom I have any control are con-
cerned, we would not only not claim, but repudiate any
and I trust that after this inti-
mationsuch indemnity, if by so doing we could facilitate, the grant-
ing ofa
Sere George Lewis Lmeivsslisonw'ill reconsider his determination.
say"
tlhfahtelshshouailidld to
time be prepared to submit myself
'and my household to a voluntary examination by the Chair-
man satitliansyeeadiffieuldifficulty
in
man of our Quarter Sessions, or any other official whom Sir
G. Lewis might nominate.
"I would only add that I have received a request from
Mr. Slaek, a solicitor of Bath, to attend with my wife and
family for separate examination at his private office, and he
asserts that he has the sanction of the Home-office for
doing *O. _IAA sure you see that in declining to com-
ply with this request I am in no way acting in opposition
to the assurances I have given you.—l am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, " S. S. KENT."

"H. Waddington, Esq."
No answer had been received to this communica-
tion up to yesterday. The following is a copy of
the letter addressed by Mr. Dunn, Mr. Kent's soli-
citor, to Mr. Slack, in reference to the attendance
of Mr. Kent and his family at the offices of Mr.
Slack for examination :

" Frome, Sept. 6.

"Dear Sir,—" I am in receipt of your letter written this
day, and am extremely concerned to find that it affords me
no satisfactory answer to the inquiry it was my.. duty to
make of you—namely, on whose behalf, and with what ob-
ject, you are instructed in this matter.

"The single object which you say you have—namely, to
assist the authorities in the discovery of the truth, Mr.
Kent and myself have always been most desirous to co-ope-
rate in attaining ; but until we know definitely who are the
authorities to whom you refer, we are without the means of
judging whether the unusual proceedings you are taking
are calculated or not to promote the ends of justice.
"As you speak of acting under instructions which have
the sanction of the ?Tome Secretary, I may inform you that
Mr. Kent received this morning a communication from Mr.
Waddington relative to a proposed public inquiry, in which
no mention whatever is made of your being employed by
the Government, nor any request that Mr. Kent should
put himself in communication with you for the purpose of
private examination by you, or for any other purpose re-
lating to the matter.

"For aught we know you may be acting under the in-
structions of the detective officer whose former proceedings
in this case have been condemned by the almost unanimous
voice of the country.
" I have only to add that, while Mr. Kent is still most
willing (as he has repeatedly declared himself to be), to
submit himself, his wife, and every member of his house-
hold to examination, on oath or otherwise, by any magis-
trate of the county, or other competent official whom the
Government may appoint, I have advised bim (acting my-
self on the recommendation of counsel), that the examina-
tion which you propose to make in your private office, with-
out stating by whom or on whose behalf you are instructed,
would, so far from furthering the ends of justice, be calcu-
latfd to impede them. I cannot therefore accede to the re-
quest contained in your letter of the sth inst., that Mr.
Kent and other members of his family should attend at
your office to be examined by am, dear Sirs, yours

truly, "WILLIAM DUNN.
"Messrs. Slack and Simmons, solicitors, Bath."

PIEDJIONTESE MINISTRY AND

GARIBALDI.

We translate from the Espero of Turin the fol-
lowing remarks :
We do not intend here making a defence of the
Ministry by declaring what we believe it has been
enabled to do, with a due regard to its own position,
towards the successful issue of Garibaldi's enter-
prise. We have so little knowledge of Cabinet
secrets to attempt the task, and too much know-
ledge of a good citizen's duties to turn:to an impro-
per use whatever may have been revealed to us by
special opportunities. Time and the press will
hereafter make known those facts, which must re-
main a mystery for the present.
But with respect to the course which the Govern-
ment has to pursue with regard to the Neapolitan
continental territory, silence or ambiguity on our
part would be out of season. The territory is the
seat of a kingdom in which the monarchial princi-
ple has deeper and healthier roots than in any
other Italian province with the exception of Pied-
mont, and where the tottering dynasty still leans
for support on an army almost wholly consisting
of Italians perfectly organised and disciplined, and
mindful of its long military history. It is a king-
dom which also possesses a large navy, kept up in
an efficient state—the chief navy of Italy. Now,
it is desirable to turn ouch elements to good account
for the national advantage, and to take proper
measures for saving from destruction and dissolu-
tion not only civil order and the administrationrm a
y,
Naples, hut also the militia and regular
avoiding any sanguinary collision or,
tauntions, pro -
overthrow of the administrative
iast(i)ther violent
Nided it be possible to succeed by 7- sudden.
itte Italy, and that
measures. Garibaldi under-
dtthat of Victor tooS
ki
nic
iie
s itis
enterprise beyondin order donu
he employed her name and
the Italians, to summon
Emma-
nuel as rallying cries for btotuhna
epen ence, what
intervene to prevent harmony
obstacle can between
l Governmentof T •
um ? What
them to achieve their complete ind d
him and the national Government
without. delay. the guardianship of the
course should be pursued by the latter, if not that of
Kingdom, in the name Neapolitan
assuminggan
and of Victor Emmanuel, if by adopting such a
course all further effusion of Italian blood can be
be avoied ? Have they not a common object and
tsiasmoenelyndthine
enemies of Italy who can endeavour,
but in vain, to persuade
of Garibaldi is d • that the ostracism
anybody.. .
desired ; it is only her real enemies
who would prefer seeing Naples won by conquest
over the slaughtered heaps of their brethren; for it
must always be remembered that every drop of
blood shed in this war, especially in Naples, is,
with a few exceptions, Italian blood, of which we
must always be chary, and which is more now than
ever to be spared, for the day of the final war
against the foreigner. Rome and Venice will call
us one day to account for the battalions that we
should have known how to preserve intact at
Naples.
We are convinced that General Garibaldi will in
every undertaking of his consider a paramount ob-
jcct to husband, as far as possible, the lives of
Italians, thus preserving for the nation and doubling
the amount of those military forces which have been
provided for him and increased, not less by the
prestige of his own glory, not less by his own loyalty,
valour, moral influence, than by the prestige and
influence of the flag of Italy and Victor Emma-
nuel. Neither Garibaldi nor the Italians in gene-
ral can deceive themselves aboutthis. A combination
of circumstances and moral causes have con-
ducted Italy to the present crisis of her atateirnst
from Garibaldi's landing down to the ledpi:es to
moment. Behind those 1,200 men whom heeeieven
Sicily with him there were the wishhestoi
together
millions of Italians, only recently brougd
their gold.
under one sceptre, and ready to
expend there there
and their blood for their common:entiy, turnedre
was an army of 100,000 men,r; hich, although
from the fields of Lombardy, and
spectator of the
constrained to remain a p.asso,f the
Peninsula, re-
battles fought in the sole'r to guard the Mincio
mained yet behind in r repetition of their
reovent a
and the Po, and tosfrian
military as in 1821, so
passage by the .4
volunteers and their chiefs might
that the heroic
against no other enemies than the
have to contend ithe Bourbon. The fallof
unsteady troops
t Naples, the
„i a confusion of its
despotic syste
ugnance of the
counsels, the rep fleet and of the
offer any serious
land forces toOpposition, were
by
• ned not only the fame which
occasioned preceded the
warrior
• of destiny, but by
, h conviction that the
Italian idea was behind nim, no longer uncertain
and hazardous, but already embodied in the union
of six national provinces, which had previously,
been divided from one another, in the national
monarchy of Victor Emmanuel.