The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-21 00:00:00

MURDER IN LEATHER-LANE.

Yesterday, Cornelius Cronin, aged 18, a sturdy-built
fellow, described on the charge-sheet as a labourer, re-
siding at 13, James-street, St. Pancras, was placed et
the bar of the Clerkenwel Police-court, before Mr.
Tvrwhitt, charged with unla,wlully assaulting and killing
Thomas • Harold, at Laystall-street, St. Andrew's, by
striking him with his fist ; and Humphrey Shea, aged
18, labourer, residing at Lucy's-buildings, St—A.ndrews,
was charged with being concerned with the othi r
pri-
soner in causing I. and also with
aisauhing James-Gains.
James Gains, a labourer, residing at 31, Lucy 'a build-
ings, said—Last night, about 8 'o'clock, the deceaged
and myself were walking down Laysta 1-street. We
were quite sober. I bad a crab in my hand, and some
one made a grab at it. The prisoner Cronin and some
other men came up to me, and Cronin caught bold of
me, threw me down tad kicked me on the ph >older.
When I got, up the deceased was lying on the
ground dead, and some of the bystanders told me
Cronin had struck him, knocked him down and killed
hitr.
Thomas Jessop, a greengrcc r, residing at 13, Li'-
stall-street, said—Last night I was sitting at my tea
when I heard a noise, and went ou-, to see the row.
When'l got to the door I saw the deceased whirl round
as if fsom a blow, strike his head against the wall, and
fall heavily to the grand. A boy who resides in the
same house as Myself said that the prisoner Shea struck
the deceased on the head twice.
Mr. Lister asked for a remand until after the comp-
per's inquest, which be expected would be held that
afternoon. Other witnesses would then be produce&
Mr. Tyrwhitt then remanded the pr;sonert until Wed.
nesday next, but sdaid AS the ca,e against Shea was not
so s rong as against the other prisoner, he would accept
substantial bail far his appearance on' that day.
Both prisoners were then removed to. the cells.

FIRE ON BOARD THE AuSTRALIAN
CLIPPER RED. JACKET,

• LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Red Jacket, Captain W. H. O'Halloran, arrived
at this port on Wednesday night from Melbourne, after
having made a rapid passage of 67 days from that port,
reports that three days ago a fire was discovered on board
a`liongst the wool and rags, which formed a part of her
cargo.- The portion seen on fire was at once thrown
overboard and all considered safe, hut the smell of fire
au.ed serious apprehensiOns during the remainder of
the passage. The gold brought by the Red Jacket has
been sent ashore, and today the underwriters' surveyors
tna•ie an ex ►urination of the vessel, and report no smell
of fire, but recommend that the cargo be immediately
discharged, which operation is now being proceeded
with in 'the river.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—An unfortunate and shocking
accident took place yesterday morning on the London
and South Western Railway, between the Witol's(lon
and Clapham stations, by which one of the guards,
named Baker, lost his life. The nefortuna+e man must
have been either riding outside his break van or attempt-
ing to pass over the roofs of some of the carriages,
which led to his untimely end, for when the train
iesched the Wimbledon station the deceased was noticed
to be in -hilt proper_ place and in excellent spirits, but
when the train was stopped at the Clapham station it
became apparent that something bad occurred, as the
cap of the poor fellow was found on hie break, but the
deceased could not be seen. A porter was at once de-
spatched down the line, and near the last-named station
the body of the deceased was discovered lying at the
side of the metals, with his head almost severed from his
body, and life, of course being quite extinct. o.le of
the regulations of the company is that a man passing
over the roofs of the carriages whilst the train is in
motion is liable to be fined or dismissed, and it is quite
clear that the unfortunate man must have been so doirg,
or, owing to the high state of the wind, his cap might.
have blown off, and in his attempt to secure it he fell off
the break, and the train passed over his head, killing
instantaneotply. The poor fellow has left a widow a- d
three children to mourn their loss.
COURT 'OF COMMON COUNCIL.—At a court of Com-
mon Council held yesterday at Guildhall, the Lord
Mayor presiciig, Mr. C. Reed, who had a motion on
the paper for presenting the freedom of the City, accom
periled by swords of the value of 100 guineas each, to
Sir James Outran and Sir Colin Campbell, offered to
postpone his motion, if Mr. Fry, the chairman of the
Special Revenue Committee, would give him a assur
ance that the 7th clause of his report, abou n t to
.be
brought up, would not have the effect of preventing the
court from entertaining such motions for the future. Mr.
Fry said he could not give such assurance.
se
moved,
motion
was, however, postponed. Mr. J.
rMatthew
and,Bencough seconded, a motion f rescillowinoding g
7501 the re-
rder a
olution of the court suspending
per annum for payment of expensesits oof the summer excur-
Anamendinent favour,if the resolution was carried.
gr. Matthews moved that the annual allowances to the
Lord Mayor and to the cowl, t e ; for their expenses be
r. duced oneebale in the case of the Lord
in Ma
heyor from
and after the Bth Nov. next, and One. t case of
the committees from and after the Bth Dec. next. Mr.
Connell moved as an amendment, that the question of
the allowances be postponed for three months, in order
tbat the ignorance which existed upon the But jest might
be removed by the report of the Special Revenue Corn
nittee, appointed to make the necessaty inveetigaion.
The amendment was carried by a considerable majority
lir. John, the chairman of the Corporation Inquiry Corn-
,uittee, brought up an inquiry relative to the tondo,
o,rporation Bill in Parliament, with a petition to- he
h tune against the confiscatory clauses of the bill, i nd
eenerally against the measure as altered and framed i 3)
it .e select committee of the house. The report was not
read, but it was ordered to be printed.

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A remark, not likiWtiek ,e ....itit ',e, ' ~:s:s • - tir' . ' tit
a highly-pltioaW.-sonage ,`""ei: :•4,;.
.7.-•;4,-, -:-. :,,f_'.e‘ . str
fut.:is:an:were :on .their 7t.ript `0414-441- 4 ',.;;4? ' uses
thing akin to freedom-has ,l'e t. ~Astr.-.7(2::• ..- .'` ' .f.,9-
six hundred years worn:nqt,_ OKI Toacd
ordeal, and few,- we presume. ' ! , '2l'i" • ''' ' I" "wl"
etittition in Queen, Lordicatia a'.. niii .. ns 7.`, urn now
i as it was at the beginning "of-get I 7 Jit ;War. But ire-
may certainly ask in retUrn, tytti.bitilit to think of
; despotic institutiens„-i That ttai ' a. fah'ifieir trial in la
conntry at .a few miles' distance 1-o . iiiiir shores. few will
! doubt: 'Wow theywill come out of the'trial is more thi4,
any man can tell. The Empire is iFrance was a yearort*O
since at the apogee *of earthly greatness. Its Chief bad
successively conclude& a .''great War,- he was tht
elected- Sovee eign ct a 'powerfUl and imartial` peoPle,
and he was in alliance with and'. respected' •by the'
only great and at the same time free, community in
Europe: - Now we find him, though with an army
pmreorpea.rantuionaueroinites,(,tryhannavear
,ari,oesilnidi, i
ytwtithconiithese
cenuodiisnegtoof
electoral contests the zettoteetq.uattera .of the Empire
tv`itti men :ire a feW months ga'w a obleuree, n.t.p who
would hive remainol so ,itiii"6-mos :. ;'
tyranny of the Iniperialigere,,; 2---"
oni itlneltf:.7`. 1 ‘IY
and
Legislatir by the department of the tly,,.
.X., Migeon:haa jest been elected as. )p';- nhy, .to: the Corps
Illitlt.offTijs-
gentleman was a short time since prose,ente.
'been liberated
id wearieg a decoration to which he bad no title. Heewnaces
convicted and imprisoned, and had not long
when he.offered himself 0 candidate tn. the constitu y
which has just elected him. We havotO, desire to repro-csent M. Migeon as a man of etnitanea or •alioatriot he
appears to b 3 a person .of the,ordinary stansioLexcept in
being endowed with the courage to stand up a,,ainst a
governmedt(which has injured him and to beard the whole
tribe of office-bearers, from the Minister of the' Interior
-tQ the rustic mayors of Alsace. 're Ili
,groat surprise
'and ibiligriation 'of the, GoThrninent; IV-Neon announced
his intention to stand .a tecoa,t ' for the depart-
ment,- a',ter having resigned hie ,seat-as IA consequence of
his couviction. The proclarnatinti which was published can
this occasion is certainly .the most Imprudent piece of
.Wiitiog that we have seen even miler the Empire. bk.
Paul ()dent, Prefect of.
the limit Rhin, breaks forth into
.. .
something like inVecitivea against the Opnaition candi-
date, audadjureathe,electors by everything they value to
vote-for a man who is more in faVour of the Empire. "In
' what tank," says the Prefect of 'the obnoxibus candidata*
~" can.he seek his agents and supporters? His supporter*
-warn-en hostile to the Empire., his agents can neither poa-
. sessess sour confidence nor yonr esteem. . . Not being
' able to place myself in communication with each of you, I
have assembled,-your-mayors
,in thls,.principal town of the
canton, together with your municipal councillors, your
natural representativet, „wile' will communicate to you' the
i leas of...the Govenitneut
comprehended that there remained but one can-
ela':e for men of good faith, devoted to the Government.
This is M. Emile Keller Haas. Every other candidate is
a candidate of opposition, 'to Whom all those who are
hostile to the Government have already rallied." Thia.is
the-style which the Prefect of 'the' Haut Itlain, a personage
equal in dignity stud far superior in power to the Lord-
Lieutenant of an English county, has thought fit to use in
matter which enlists the efforts of Government.
Yet, in spite of all, M. Migeon is elected, and the Impe-
rid partisans cannot conceal their disappointment. The
newspapers are not allowed to diacuss the subject; even
the Moniteur passes it over in silence. It is evident that
the Government hasa rceeived a blow ; and yet the
a ranger, particular;y the Eneishtnen, can hardly ccin-
cave how the decision of a set of Franco-German
peasantry can injure the solidity of stick a fabtio
at the Imperial system. . Surely, the Corps Legis-
litif se a deliberative body, au I a body to deliberate
must tolerate differances of opinion. We in this
country should imagine that the Corps Legislatif would
c)ntain an Opposition as a matter of course, and think it
the most regular proceeding in the world that the Pleat
Rhin and some twenty other departments should return
members pledged to oppose the Ministry installed in Paris.
A. few years ago this would also have been the case in
France. Louis Philippe's Chamber, though elected- by
small section of the community, was sufficiently liberal in
this respect. M. Guizot had a majority of 49 or 59, just
as an English Minister might have, and no one thought
the worse of the monarchy if At, Thieis or M. o.lillon
Bat rot received an accession of strength by a chance elec-
-tion. But "now everything has changed. The Emperor
reigns and governs too.
sThe Ministry not only must
cotutnaud the majority of the elected -Chainlier, bill it
must interfere in every election.' It may be wounded
not only in Paris, but in the remotest district of Brit-
tany' or the Pyrenees. Under the old system it was merely
supposed that the majority of Frenchmen acquiesced in
the institutions of -the-country, and the eccentricities
of a single electoral body were little thought of. But
now the theory is that every Frenchman is enthusiastic
for:the:. Empire. No opposition, no lukea arnauess; no
hesitation evep, can be allowed. He that is not ,with
Gimeral'Espinasse is against the Emperor. Every candi-
date must either bo ready to vote blindly everything pro-
posed by Government, to utter . cries of loyalty to the-Im-
perial family and cries of indignation against any 'indepen-
dent member, to be, in short, art Imperialist of ;he purest
water, or we must: expect all that Ministers, Prefects,
Mayors, Bishops and Colonels, priests and regimental
officers, can do against him. The policy answers to a
contain extent. Few have courage to face the tremen-
dous organization of Government and incur an ill-will
which may strike at any time, now, or a year hence,
or ten years hence if the' system lasts, and which,
when it does strike, may bo expected to deliver a
deadly blow. Fortune, • fame, position in society, the
intercourse of Mends, even liberty and country them-
selves, may be forfeited by a rash act of opposition.
and'those who know the French character, its weakness
of individuality and its want of motel courage, will hardly
be surprised that so few. have dared to come forward in
legal and constitutional opposition to a system which so
many detest and inveigh against in private.
Yet the magnitude of any check makes up for this in-
frequency of -tine ocevrrtrice. ' 'TS government is seldom
opposed, and still more Seldom z., aten. it commands the
suffrages of nineteen-twentieths of the Legislative body,
and all debate and dividing is a farce. But still this very
supremacy makes any mishap of grave import. The go-
vernment is so powerful that people expect it to be omni-
potent. It controls so minty elections that an adverse issue
leads men to believe that the recalcitrant electors must be
both disaffected and violent. It breaks down by its own
weight ; 'its prestige is ruined by the completeness of the
antholite, which, it would arrogate to itself. While a
free government loses little, and Sometimes even
. gains in character by an adverse election, -we find the
most elaborate despotism of the present day trembling at
any allusion to a provincial conteit in which an individual
unknown to the world has beaten an antagonist equally
obscure. It would. seem, itilbed, that there is no mean
possible between liberty and autocratic rule. The latter
cannot permit even the forms of free election and discus.
sion to remain without great danger to itself.
As long as every lined is tied and every voice hushed,
Napoli pn 111., General Eepinasseoind M. de Moray may
, carry out the new system of Imperial ,Frauce. But they
'cannot do it by halves. As it stands it is too much, or
not enough. They will either have to modify it in
the. reuse of liberty or to &lent Stratford's motto,
" Thorm4o2! Political suffrage is too dangerous is power
to be treated-as a sham. People will now and then use
it in earnest. Their rulers wish it to be considered a
toy, the .ocension of - a loyal. meeting every few
years, at Whicl the Prefect should receive the minor digni-
taries, and they,in turnoshotild shed a reflection of tree
Imperiateffulgence,on the honest farmers and vine-growers
it their comratines. Bet the Frenchman is an:Unaccou!it-

able being at all times, and in political matters his in-
stincts are seldom to be di`vinid: qt is quite possible that
a mania should break out for the return of Opposition
candidates, and the Government be seriously embarrassed
by a simple freak of popurar opiiaion.- The only check to
such diSplays of independence is either to make th 3 elec-
toral system a reality or to abolish election altogether, and
we may expect that any prevalent desire for the reform of
the Legislative Rudy will be followed by some such step.
Unless despotism, indeed, prohibit all-action of thepeople,
this wiil, on its own part, however fettered, gradually un-
dermine the foundations on which the edifice of despotic
power hi based.
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TIIEIRISHPAR Y and the APPROACIII NG
DI VISIO N.

(Front the Dublin Freeman's ,Tournal.)
The Daily News, Sun, StEtKlChronkle; and all the organs
of the Eeglish Liberals and Radicals, except the personal
organs of the late Ministers, are energetic in their denunciation
of the Canning preclamation a clear indication of the real
state of public opinion in En Oand —and we learn from the
correspondent of the Cork Examiner, who 'disguises himself
under the initials " J. F. that at least, fourteen of the
Irish Liberal members have already agreed to vote in the same
body with Might and Roebuck, and Gladstone and Gibson.
We will thus have the great bulk of,the intellectual Librrais of
England—the men who support the ballot, extension of suf-
tage, Parliamentary reform, Church reform, antL,religions
considerable section of the Irish member, who
sustain the same principles, voting with Ministsrs against the
confiscation of the lands Of Onde ; while the Liberal o;posi-
tion, headed by Lords John Russell and Palmerston, will vote
in a body for the most audacious acts of plunder and spolia-
tion erer attempted by any EUropean Power in, our day. As
Christians and as freemen we are bound by every sense of
duty to defeat the policy which would confl-cate all. tt is pro-
perty of a kingdom by one despotic proclamation. But,
apart from the principle involved, we are all interested per-
sonally in:not permitting the Liberal party to become irre-
trievably committed t a policy which every ,;count that has
reached from India represents as certain to result iu a fierce
renewal of the war iu every district-the exi osure of our
army to a succession of campaigns, in which all the chances of
weather, and climate, and diseit.ss, will be against them—the
and childlessness to many
enwo
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pwpay
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principleswli l e countrye tLoi
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party ought to have protected the repres mtatives of p-tpular
einiftdornagtog
These rival
leaders have but just made up their priVate quer-
cßounssstei
ltluaenn;
Lordes fr-e
it
quar-
rels, and the first fruit of their. reconciliation is the open
abanilonmant of those sacred principles of justice and mercy
which were wont in better days to constitute*the watchword
of the Liberal party, and the marshalling of men, ,once the
champions of freedom, under the black flag of " confiscation.

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