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

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It appears to be the opinion of litti ,iii- "+.A Ai
City of Lohden, and of Mr. Newtin,
dent at Parise that the Press Y.'has not elaitecte_ `i'''';- ''
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proper amount of indignation at the att&nptliii
assassinate the Emperor ofthe French. The British
ton has not roared loud enough, or of the requisite :e
strength; and--what is more—we have not urged
tide extertnination of every foreigner who cannot
give a good account of himself, his familAehis con-
nexions, his-occupation, his "antecedents,"and the
objects of his residence among us. Now, we are
ready to match our indignation against that of. any:
bonest and reasonable man. We are Englialaneee
That is enough, and ought to be enough. An
Englishmen hate assassination. The Irish took to t,
it as a remedy fur their wrongs, and incurred.ahei lo
total loss of our sympathy, insomuch that we, all Lr.,,
quietly permitted their wrongs 0 be aggravatedoe el
a hundredfold; and let them fight their own; !ten.
battles, and be beaten, as they we: e.. Excepting, . .
possibly, in the case of some districted worn= ~._,,
avenging some hideous outrage, we have no
patience with the crime. We give the assasin
no law, except, if he can, to prove that he is not an
assassin. But whenthis is the nati all and universal
feeling among U 3 there is no occasion for everybody
to storm and fret and " tear the passion to rags
it-lif it were something new to be angry at the man
who sabs another in the back, 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 vittuous indignation. We have
to estimate what can be done and what cannot be
done. It tray be very well for gentlemen engaged
iu some quiet trade in this metropolis, or enjoying
the amusements of the neighbouring capital, to
propose as general hunt of political conspirators.
They liavelno occasion to consider the form which
such a cru4ade would probably take, the magnitude
of the enterprise, the persons who would be in-
volved in A, the extent to which laws and constitu-
tions would have to be 'modified for it, and. the
chances of success. It has probably not evett,oc-
currLd to Them to define a refugee, or to lay down
the limits within which a foreign resident may con-
cert measures against the dynasty or constitution
of his country, much less on what evidence we may
assume a refugee to be abusing the rights of hospi-
tality. No doubt, there are in this country persons
who ara t.king, steps, tothra best of their power and
opportunities, against all the existing Governments
( fEttrope-p-at least, against those of Russia, Austria,
France, Spain, the Two Sicilies, and the Papal
States. It) the case of France we have three sets of
plotters, alt of them ready for war—that is blood-
shed—to compws their several ends. What would
Mr. White and Mr. Newton Scott have us do with
these consp:rators, most of them very harnile-s
gentlemen ? Would they have us apprehend or warn
cif' out shores every. known Carlist, or Orleenist,
or Red Republican ? No doubt, every time two of a
party meet together they read letters from their
common friends in France, exchange encourage-
ments anti pledges, and foster the illusion that
one day.tliey will see their respective chiefs enter
the Tuileiies over the bodies of their foes. We
are aware; that, as a general rule, we must leave
these people alone, and that they may be safely left
alone. \\) abstain, therefore, from expressions
whit's would commit us beyond our judgment and
our power's. Of course, Messrs. White and. New-
ton Scott 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
cas 3of thd conspirators before us. Two Italians
reside at Birmingham, refugees from their country ;
one, if not both, having taken a public part against
Austria, ihicurred her wrath, and escaped oot of
one of he strongest prisons. This is not only
known, but paraded. M. Orsini gives lectures
publicly against the Austrian and French occupa-
tion of ItAly. They are both in frequent and un-
reservol pommunication with their countrymen
bolding thn same opinions, and every now and then
M. 0:slut! is absent for a time. They are known
to be ,cietitifically acquainted with the art of de.
structiou, ' and to bo in frequent communication
with tha manufacturers of deadly eng'nes and-
explosive atirials. Well ; ire we to lay hold on
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these me , evidently bent as they are on the
destructio of somebody or other ? Why, a large
class of men, including many of known benevolence,
think of n6thing else but the means of destruction.
While smite are devising implements to break up
and pulver ze 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 htimanity 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
cowersing with men who hold assassins in ab-
horrence, he seemed out of harm's way. It will
hardly be said that we ought to have laid hold of
him and 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
1 responsible'for M. Orsini, it was France Whet
She professes to have a system of personal sur-
veillance ; we do not. It was her concern that
this actual revolutionist and po-sible regicide
should not enter her soil ; end she possesses a
most complicated machinery which pretends to
guard her f, ontier from such invasion. How, thou,
c'id M. Orsini get into France ? He merely goes to
a French ,Vice-Consul at Birmingham, gets a pass-
port, goeS to Paris, resides there some weeks, all
the time known to 3e au 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 searching, and certainly
is the most unscrupulous in the world—make pre-
paration& 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 impo I tent pitched battles. We
do uotwonder 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
Einperor, after listening long, motionless and si-
lent, replied, " Very well, 4. Prefect, you have
,roved very set'sfacterily what I knew belt): e,
hat the French police is the very worst iu all Eu-

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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 abuser.
When the eon of the Due do 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 bloodshei, 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 be returned to his old asylum,
collected his friends, recruited his means, and,
biding his time, entered a third time the country
of which ho is now the abioluto Sovereign. We
never demanded his expulsion. Though cons; 4-
cuons in the society of this metropolis, and sur-
rounded by a resolute band of friends, including
many officers of the Imperial Army, he was per-
mitted to go in and out, to avow his pretensions, and
be a continued 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 it. Indeed,
we scarcely hold ourselves answerable for either.
England does not pretend to take note or keep
count of her sojourners. She keeps no reckoning.
She asks none whence they come. She does not re-
cognise their quarrels. She expects not even thanks.
Neither do they thank her. No refugee holds him-
self under any bond of gratitude to our open realm
and equal laws. Not a few, indeed, regard with
bitterness the fleeting and unsubstantial character
of our sympath They forget that an asylum is all
that we can give them. If they attempt more,
they do it at their own risk. It is clear froni past
examples that they may use our hospitality, or
abuse it, as the case may be, fur their own ends
but they must observe our laws, by not preparing
armed expeditions ; and respect our feelings, bj•
not plotting assassination.

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