The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-23 00:00:00

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nee has not ro .re'dfl.l,:joienriLtiighn, et the neet t . ini .
aseassinete the Emperor of tie. F ' Trio BIA
strength ; and—what is inore-.woer h°atvlehenrociclurui:il ''.l.''-
give ie:.e 3. ri ~ e.
he ex? erininition -of every foreigner..Wlo lean—net .:."-
his family, his cen-
a good account othimself,
aexiiins, his occupation, his " antecedents," and the
objects of his residence among us. Now, vie,ara
ready to match our indignation against that of any
honest and reasonable man. We are Englishmen.
That is enough, and ought to be enough. An
Englishmen hate assassination. The Irish took to
it as a remedy for their wrongs, and incurred the
total loss of our sympathy, insomuch that we all
quietly permitted their wrongs t ) be aggravated
a hundredfold, and let them fight their own
battles, and be beaten, as they we. e. Excepting,
possibly-, in the case of some distracted wotnan
avenging some hideous outrage, we have no
p ttience with the crime. We give the assaiiis
no law, except, if he can, to prove that he is not an
aseissin. But wli en;this is the nati ial and universal
feeling emetic, us there is no occasion for everybody
to storm and fret and " tear the passion to rags.
alifit.were something new to be angry at the wan
who s..abs another in the bark, or flings a bomb•
shell among an innocent multitude. In our posi-
tion, too, there is a strong practical limit to ex- •
cesses'of the most virtuous indignation. We have
to estimate what can be done and what cannot be
done. It may be very well for gentlenien'engeged..m ~-t
in some quiet trade in this metropolis, or enjoying ee leee
the amusements of the neighbouring capital, to
propose a general hunt of politicafconspiratera.
r, ,
They have no occasion to c insider the form which -
such to crusade would probably take, the maguitud%
of the enterprise, the persons who would be in-
volved in it, the extent to which laws and constitu:
tions !would have to be modified for it, and the
chances of success. It has probably not even- oe-
curry to; ..-- due,.--:- a refpg,qt, or to,,lay down
ti
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the I ibi 'Within wfirch a foreign resident way cOn-.
cert tr easures a,ainsr the dynasty or consti,ution
of his ;c inn, ry, much less on what evidence we may
assim-40 ... rcfug,e oL: abusing the rights of hospi- '
tat i ty.l No doubt, there are in this country persons ..
who a a t 'king saps, to the best of their power add. '
op;-or unities, against all the existing Goveinments
rt fEI pe—at 1 ,:ist, ag. inst t I )ose of Russia, Austria,
Fran. e, Spain, the Two Sicilies, aid the Papal
States, In the case of France we have three sets of
plotters, all of teem ready for w ,r—that is bloed-
sh il--ito compa s their stove.-al ends. What would
Mr. Whi• e an.i Mr. New on Si:ot. have us do with
the •e 1 coesp r :toes, most of tiara very h Armless
een b.: sett? Would the-y have u-i apprehend or warn
.iff of shores every known Carlist, or Orle snit4t,
or Re Republican ? No doubt, every time two of a
fe..
pariy !meet together they read letters from their
oeininim friends in France, exchange encourage-
ments i and pledges, and foster the illusion that
one dtiy they will see their respective chiefs enter
the Tuileries over the bodies of their foes. We
are aateare that, as a general rule, we must leave
These koople alone, and that they may be safely left
alone., We abstain, therefore, from expressions
whichiwould commit us beyond our judgment and
.our polwers. Of course, Messrs. White and New-
ton S4ott need feel no such restriction. They have
only to make a speech and sit down.
The question may be put to a practical test in the
case of the conspirators before us. Two Italians
resident Birmingham, refugees from their country ;
one, if not both, having taken a public part against
Austria, incurred her wrath, and escaped out of
one o her strongest prisons. This is not only
know , but paraded. M. Orsini gives lectures
pubic y against the Austrian and French occupa-
i
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tion o Italy. They are both in frequent and un-
reser
1 communication with their countrymen
holdit the same opinions, and every now and then
M. 0 sini is absent for a time. They are kinoWn
to be •cientifically acquainted with the art of de-
struct on, and to bo in frequent communication
with ho manufacturers of deadly engines and
explo ive materials. Well ; are we to lay hold on
these men, evidently bent as they are on the
destrUction of somebody or others Why, a large
class or men, including many of known benevolence, •
think of nothing else but the means of destruction.
While some are devising implements to break up
and pfilverize the surface of mother earth, others
are thinking how to tear, how to rend, to scarify,
to shatter the bodies of their species ; and they
deem it humanity to do so. But what were we to
do with these men—with M. Orsini, in particular 1
So long as he was in England, giving lectures and
conversing with men who hold assassins in ab-
horrence, he seemed out of harm's way. It will
'lentil be said that we ought to have laid hold of
him abed given him up to Austria, or to France,
with Whom, by the by, we have not even an Extra-
dition, Treaty at this moment. If anybody. was
resposible for M. Orsini, it was France herself.
She protessss to have a system of personal sur-
veillance ; we do not. It was her concern that
this actual revolutionist and possible regilide
should not enter her soil ; vnd she possesses a
most , complicated machinery which pretends to
guard her frontier from such-invasion. How, theta,
aid M. Orsini get into France I' lie merely goe ito
a French Vice-Consul at Birmingham, gets a pass-
port, goes to Paris, resides there some weeks, all
the time known to be an Italian, a revolutionist—
the notorious Orsini. Then he has daily meetings
with other men of his sort. In that city the whole
gang—under the very eyes and nose of a police
which boasts to be the most seanhiug, and certainly
is the most unscrupulous in the world—make pre-
parations not so much for a murder as for a field
day, which accordingly comes off at the hour ap-
pointed, with as large a return of killed and
wounded, horse and foot, as has figured at the
conclusion of some important pitched battles. We
do not wonder that when the Prefect of Police went
into the Emperor's box, and with officious particu-
larity detailed the discoveries, the captures, the
weapons, the slaughter, and all the rest of it, the
Emperor, after listening long, motionless and si-
lent, replied, " Very well, M. Prefect, you have
proved very satisfactorily what I knew before,—
that the French police is the very worst in all Eu-
rope."
The Press, too, with all due deference to Mr.
White, is bound to be consistent in the doctrine it
may propound as to hospitality and its abuses.
When the son of the Due de Berry was in this me-
tropolis, holding a species of Court, receiving hom-
age, and distributing expectations, we did" not ask
for his expulsion. We thought it enough to point
out the farcical nature of the exhibition. Some
time before this metropolis was honoured with the
presence of another refugee, who had actually in-
vaded the French territory with bloodshed, and
who had been allowed to seek the shelter of our
shores. Here he never abated one iota of his
pretensions, but both in conversation and in writing
proved his qualifications for the :government
of France. From these shores he conducted a
second armed expedition to France, which ac-
cidentally failed ; and on his escaping from a
French prison he returned to his old asylum,
collected his friends, recruited his means, and,
biding his time, entered a third time the country
of which he is now the absolute Sovereign. We
never demanded his expulsion. Though conspi-
cuous in the society of this metropolis, and sur-
rounded by a resolute band of friends, including
officers
noafndthoeutl,mtopaervioalw A, he
then%
iwoasnt,paenrd-
ni manybeit at eedooteffiotinued source of weakness to the reigning
Sovereign, with whom we professed a "cordial" un-
derstanding. No one now repents of the hospitality
thus afforded, nor of the use made of
n f
iotfo reckoning.reitoer.
England does not pretend to take note
oI
rn dkeep,
cwoeunstcaorfc ehleyr holdsoie
uorunr se
ie.sl.v e s answerable
She keeps
She asks none whence they come. She does not re-
coons - their quarrels. She expects not even thanks.
Neither do they thank her. 1\ o refugee holds him-
self under ally bond of
of
bantdteernquesa4l
the fleeting
laws,
. N gratitude to our open realm
a few, Ind- ed regard with i
and unsubstantial
tialcharacter
"f Our sY"IVIIhY. They forget that an asylum is all
tint we can give them. If they attempt moie,
they do it at their own risk. It is clear from past
examples that they may use our hospitality, or
abuse it, as the case may be. for their own ends ;
bet they must ob,erve our laws, by not preparing
armed expeditions; and respect our feelings, by
!,,it Pitting assassinaii U.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.—On the
ccca•ion of the auspicious event of the marriage of the
Princess Royal, and in honour of her Majesty the Queen,
w Lo specially patronises this institution, the committee
have resolved to give a holiday to the children (1,000 in
number), attending their model schools, Borough-road,
who will alss be entertained with a magic lantern and
disk, lying views.

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