The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

THE ARNE

The Committee of the Hon. Council of India will
assemble at the East India House to-day for the
purpose of taking up the required amount of ton-
nage for the conveyance of 440 men and the usual
number of officers to Calcutta, 173 men-to Bombay,
127 men to Kurrachee, and 83 men to Ma-
dras. The vessels taken up are to be ready to
embark the reinforcements at Gravesend between
the 7th and 11th of December.

In the obituary of The Sun of Tuesday last was
recorded the death of Lieut.-Colonel John Lewes
Philipps, commanding her Majesty's 89th Regi-
ment at Deesa, Bombay Presidency. Lieutenant-
Colonel Philipps entered the service as ensign in
the 32d Regt., under Colonel (afterwards Briga-
dier) Markham, in July, 1842 ; became lieutenant in
December, 1845, and soon after exchanged into the
89th Regiment, in which corps he became captain
in March, 1849. He served with his regiment in
the Crimea, for which he received the medal and
clasps ; on his return he held the appointment of
Instructor of Musketry at Limerick until he ob-
tained his majority in September, 1856. In Nov.,
1857, he rejoined his regiment, just arrived at
Bombay from the Cape, and succeeded to the lieu-
tenant-colonelcy in May last. His health, un-
happily, succumbing to the fatal influence of the
late intensely hot season, Colonel Philipps was
ordered to England as the only chance of saving his
life, but his vigorous frame was too much exhausted
to bear the journey down the country, and he ex-
pired at sea the day after embarking at Cambay, on
the way to Bombay, October .12, aged 36 years.
The second battalion of the 15tCFoot, consisting
of Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Wingfield, Captains F. E.
Lock, W. H. Eliot, J. W. 5. Moffatt, H. Mackenzie,
R. Clancy, C. Crawley, and R. T. P. Cuthbert ;
Lieutenants H. P. S. Orde, jF. R. Fishbourne, W.
C. Colquhoun, W. A. Gibson, W. S. Jemmett, and
C. E. Layard ; Ensigns F. H. Garnett, J. J. F.
Grant, J. J. Grier, A. A. Fuller, and W.L. Martin,
Paymaster R. S. Rouse, Adjutant J. Macdonald
(Lieutenant), Quartermaster A. It. Mitchell, Sur-
geon Foaker, and Assistant-Surgeon Chalk, 32
sergeants, 20 drummers, 488. rank and file, 48
soldiers' wives, and 52 children, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon, and embarked forth-
with on board her Majesty's steam troopship
Urgent, Commander M‘Donald, for Malta, leaving
about 150 at Aldershott, to go out when tonnage
shall be provided for them. The wives, children,
and servants of Captain Eliot, Paymaster Rouse,
Surgeon Foaher, Adjutant Macdonald, Quarter-
master Mitchell, and Bandmaster Allen also
accompanied their husbands in the ship. The
troops were all comfortably embarked and berthed
under the superintendence of Lieutenant-Co-
lonel Conolly, Assistant Quartermaster-General of
the South-West District.. The ship will drop out
to Spithead this morning, and leave either to-day
or to-morrow early for Malta.
The Northern Whig, of Belfast, mentions the
death of Lieut. James E. Perrin, sth Fusileers,
which occurred on the 11 th ult. at Lucknow, the
fina 1 resting-place also of his kinsman, the late
gallant Major Perrin, of the 90th Regiment 'of
Light Infantry, son of the venerable and respected
Judge Perrin. He was eldest son of the Rev. Mirk
Perrin, rector of Athenry, county Galway, and
nephew of Judge Perrin. The deceased was for-
merly a student in the Belfast Queen's College,
where he distinguished himself as well for his un-
remitting attention to his studies as for his abilities,
which obtained for him the respect and esteem.of
the heads and professors of the college. Subse-
quently he was gazetted to an en.signcy in the
88th, or Connaught Rangers, with the depot of
which he did duty: in this garrison for a short time
prior to his joining the service companies of that
corps, going with them to India at the commence-
ment of the mutiny in the Bengal Presidency, and
passing unscathed through the dangerous cam-
paigning of our forces at Lucknow, &c., during
the hottest part of the war. Only last month he
was promoted to a lieutenancy in the sth Fusileers.

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(Pom the Times.)
,The sentence on M. de Montalembert will as-
tonikh the English public.; it will . more than sur-
prise—it will excite the deepest and strongest feel-
ing. We will venture to say that those feelings
will: penetrate every class in this country. It is
quite true that we have nothing whatever to do
with the internal affairs of France: Her adminis-
tration of justice is her own concern entirely. We
do nciti Meddle, and eve do -not- profess, to meddle,
with it. More • than this.; we do not want to
ex-
tract'out of 'any home act of the French Govern-
ment, whateVer it may be, a single hostile refle'etion
to our international relations.. We knew how to
draw the distinction between France as a civil
Power and France as a foreign Power; between the
French ktevernment and the French, alliance.
the Empe_ror,,behaves well to us, that is.zll we have
to do with him., But we have a right to feel where
We have no right to meddle. 'This is just 'one of
those-events whiCh excite made, Ai it
Were, for the purpose ; no act in a play - could -be
More suitable ; the most skilful dramatist could not
have hit on an act to excite deeper disgust in Eng-
lishmen--one:-more thoroughly opposed to every
notion we in ,this' country have of justice, equity,
and fair play. ,
Thisis, as we pave' said before', a struggle for
liberty—that is, to say, a struggle for action. The.
question is, who shall have and enjoy the treasury
of rrelich crap. Shall 'the :Emperor 1 ave it all
to himself, or are' AC Montalemliertaia the-
,classes which represents-,to he admitted; to
-share of it P The'world has now advadced a suffi-
ciently long way in its career' to give room for a
review of the mode in which the activities of the
human race have grown; developed, and. attained
Shape and maturity. There are histories of law,
histories of painting, 'histories of -sculpture, his-
tories of medicine, histories of geography and astro-
nomy,-histories, in short, of every department
of art. and physical science ; there arc general
histories of literature, of philosophy; there might
also be what we might call a history of " action."
It 'might be shown how rude and simple the early
idea of action in the huinan race was confined to
migrations, marauding,'hunting beasts, and fight-
ing each other. That was the coarse and rude
external form in which the sacred soul of action
dwelt in those primitive times ; that was the
sheepskin coat which action wore, or rather the
Nemrean lion's hide, the shaggy wolfskin, the
boar's bristles, in which it went about. ' We ad-
vance a little onward, and we find " action" in
something:like a civil and a legal' shape, sitting: in
the chair of justice, and-hearing cause; at the gate.
Then there is. federal action, when different States
unite together, and different State interests bring
out the combining and scheming poivers of the
rising human politician ; there is the action of
conquest, when one State or potentate brings
many under his rule, and works them into a sys-
tem of- administration. -We advance a little fur-
ther, and. Ive have " action" in the shape ,of the
Legislative Assembly, the Greek Council, the
Roman Senate, the Saxon Wittenagemet ; human
thought and speech -begin to come-out now that
they have a regular open field to work in. We
take another step, and we see action diffused' in a
certain way over the whole nation by means of the
great principle of representation. This is A great
advance ; and, finally, we have gradually and
slowly developed a regular field of. Parliamentary
" action,"—that magnificent open arena where the
whole political thought of the nation comes into
formal play, and where all the opinions and par-
ties of a nation marshal themselves in order, try
each other's strength, attack and expose each other
manfully, study the best offence and defence, and
bring out their brains, passions, knowledge, tact,
skill, experience, rhetoric, and anything they have,
in the sight of the whole nation, looking on, sym-
pathising, and applauding. This is the. latest, the
most mature, and most highly developed form of
action, the very last discovery, the present climax
and crowning point of its growth ; this is the
science of action—that which has perfected it,
expanded it, systematised it, brought everybody
into a share of it, and intensified instead of
weakened it by the numbet of its partakers,—
brought it out of holes and corners into the bright-
ness of the open _ day, introduced it to the world,
and given it rules, shape—system, and finish. This
is " action," if you please—something deserving the
name. A nation that has tasted action of this kind
does not easily lose the recollection of it.
This is what M. de Montalembert says, then, and
for saying this he is thrown into prison for six
mouths. France has not had, it is true, the same
:full and free Parliamentary system of "action"
that we in this country have had ; but it has had
a Parliamentary system, it kas had representation,
it has had the free expression of opinion in the
Chambers and in the press, it has enjoyed liberty,
it has enjoyed action. All this is now taken from
it A despotic Government now tells the educated,
thinking classes, of France—" Do not think of act-
ing; I will act for you." But that is just what
they do not want. They clutch eagerly, passion-
ately, desperately at the golden prize of " action,"
which you withhold from them ; that is a greater
treasure to them than any treasure in the universe
—better than any Hesperian fruit that was ever
guarded by the eyes of dragons—better than all
lotus-eating, than soft dreams and gilded couches,
banquets and music, fashion, retinue, state, pomp.
or office. Give them but access to that prize, and
they will thank you, and run the gauntlet of any
guarding lions, dragons, or griffins ; but they can-
not thank you for depriving, or, as you call it, re-
lieving, them of it. They see no reason why a whole
nation should be paralysed in order to make a mor-
bid focus of activity for one central brain. They
protest against a monopoly of action, and against a
deprivation and corruption of it by that very
monopoly. They want to see political action
brightened and ennobled by participation, by the
open arena, by coming out into the world and into
the light of day, instead of being shut up in dark
corners and damp, noisome cells, confined to
heads round a table and to dark-lantern conclaves.

They do not want to see political action in the
shape of a subterranean conspiracy, but of an honest
open-air representative legislation of some,kind or
other and freedom of speech. Nor are, they at all
exacting in the form which their demands would
assume ; something much less than our own very
free system would probably satisfy that educated
class which is represented by M. de Montalembert.
It is difficult, of course, to calculate what the
effect of this sentence on M. de Montalembert will
be, but we know what effect it will not have. It

will not have the effect of suppressing the passion
for liberty of which he has been the brilliant
mouthpiece. It is simply impossible that a nation
which, like France, has enjoyed for a considerable
period something like constitutional liberty, free-
dom of thought and speech, can forget it. Her
educated class have been brought up with certain
tastes and cravinss of political nature satisfied, and
they cannot possibly submit resignedly to the de-
privation of all that has satisfied them. So long as
they have minds they cannot bear the total sup-
pression of them ; the irritation is too great for
human nature. They must and will speak out ; if
they are slaves, they must have the satisfaction of
saying that they are so. They simply cannot exist
with every faculty suppressed and their mouths
shut up. This monstrous violation of human nature
cries aloud; they know and feel that it does, and
that gives them, and will give them, the determina-

tion fo express themselves: You may fine them or
imprison them, or deport them to Cayenne, but they
are men, they are men who have had an education
in liberty, and their self-respect is too strong for
acquiescence in simple bondage. They will defy
you simply because you cannot really and in fact
punish them. Their present condition is the Very
worst punishment they can have ; you can haraly
add to it. You have put M. de Montalembret in
gaol ;• but all France is a gaol to him; he ent,ers his
cell with a light heart, with unbent will, ',vith re-

newed courage, fortified by the sympathy of every
free man in Europe ; he laughs at yor., he con-
temns you, he pities you ; he knows tiro. such an
act as this is and must be a curse to the perpe-
trator—that it must bring its own'reail,ation, and
that a deep one ; he knows that liberty among
those who have the intelligence and education for
it is an ordinance of Providence, awl must sooner
or

,r later triumph over the feeble will ,cif man.

(Fro»: the Daily Newi.);
To whom do we owe the discovery f hat a dwarf
mounted on the shoulders of a giant sees further
than men of ordinary stature P Self-evi?..ent as it
appears, this remarkable truism is destined, like
many other commonplaces, to look iu ieofnmonly
like a paradox when it is embodied iii the form of
an illustration, and transferred from Ict to meta-
phor, At all events the present Ern peror of the
French sees no further than his " un 31e did, upon
whose shoulders he has mounted to the giddy
height of absolute power. The fi' trst Napoleon,
from the height of his genius and his :glory, looked
into the future of France and of thl; world; and

when on the ruins of the Revolution .he had built
up a military 'despotism, he imaginel that the su-
premacy of force-was, justified on earth. ItThyas
easy for the conqueror of Austerlitz to proscribe a
few discontented Ideologues, and to silence the lin-
rulYE tongues of a knot of thinkers-and and Writers
whom he stiginatised.with imperial brevity as les
Avoats4 -But for all the genius-an d all the glory,
of the modern Cwsar, the /cloo/poies lived to see'
the imposing fabric Of irresponsible power vanish
in the blaze .of its victories and the smoke of its de-
leati. Is the third quarter of .the present century.
to *pitiless the revival or the 'renewal of the great
histbrie lesson of the first P Time will shovi ; .but
if the Benapartes, like the Bourbons, have learned
as little as -they have forgotten, we. may fold our
arms, and calMly and confidently await the inevit.
able end.
The prosecution of M. do Moutalembert has con-
- vinced the world that nothing resembles ancient
history so much as modern history,Und that-the
ImPerialism of to•dakis;i2ilitatis-vitetandis, a stiffi'
I;..avleczboe:tai alfflreicatiattihoenre
ciently.faithful caricature of the Imperialism of
nurbperinseon
1,800 years age._ Me shall- not insult M. de Mont-
lt
e f the proceedings in the.- Sixth Chamber of Cor-
bfcas
rt
inhere there is_neithar A jury nor publicity. ' The
th aet
itnh the rce.osuu_
ustrious defendant:was-represent d is true,' by
e rue,
ale unsullied character - and
.brilliant eloquence of
f'. Berryer; but character .and eloquence are of-
nees in the sightof a T ffi
ribunal whose office it is to
i Perionify justice_ in the abstract, and to a miste dni. • '
r
iquity4a the,coneyetii..lt4s. difficalt4ofrivetheEng-,.
tish public a correct notion oftEe sort of ,justice '-
which hassentenced-a inalt like IW' de Mentalem-
bert to sirtionths'imprisannieneandfailo of three
thousand francs. If our readers . can imagine any-
thing so fabulously alisiird as .an indictniefit for
treason and sedition tried in one of the'meiropolitan
police-courts by a batch of hungry criminal lawyers
instructed by, the I:tome-office, and dependent on
the Government of the day for' the increase of a
salary which a respectable turnkey would-deniniii,-
nate a pittance,,cind for; the chance of promotion to
h some . superior post which no county. court judge
would deign to accept=if they tan imagine a court
With no reporters, no jury,-. and a public admitted
by official tickets—perhaps they will .begin to form
some faint conception of the solemn tribunal befOre
which a French statesman. and acadeniician was
arraigned the .day. before yesterday. The defence,
we are assured, was dignified and simple ; as tem-
perate in substance as it was splendid in form.
No angry. paisions were enlisted in the cause, no
vindictive Invocation of the sacred names of Liberty
and Justice broke the triumphantly calm exposition
of the law, and the demonstration of the impossi-
bility of torturing the incriminated' passages into
treasonable texts. We are happy to be able to
compliment the tribunal on the judicial gravity of
their demeanour, and the equanimity and patience
with which they listened to the magnificent plead-
ings of MM. Berryer and Dufaure. But it would
be going too far to suppose that either their hearts
or their understandings were reached by the fervid
appeals of the one orator or tike irrefragable logic
of the other. The ceremony of retiring for an
hour to . eonaider the verdict was but a graceful
concession to appearances, not a sacrifice on the
altar of conscience, or a confession of premature
remorse.

Reviewing once more the articles of the indict-
ment, we are irresistibly reminded of a story current
in Paris a month or two after the coup d'etat. A
couple of Parisians were sauntering along the
Boulevard des Italiens, one of whom was conver-
sing with the other in a very rapid and emphatic
manner, accompanied with frequent gesticulations.
They were talking of a mutual acquaintance, and in
the heat of the dialogue the following words escaped
the lips of one of the speakers, " But I tell you he
is a scoundrel !" He had no sooner uttered these
words (so ranwthe tale), than he found the grasp
of a sergeant de ville on his shoulder. " Messieurs
said the officer of justice, " you are talking of the
Chief of the State ; I arrest you ;" and two innocent
men were incontinently walked off to prison, and
for aught we know may at this moment be expiat-
ing their unguarded language at Cayenne. It is
only on such a principle of interpretation as this
that any possible explanation of the indictment of
the article in the Correspondant can be admitted.
Unless the eulogy of England and of English insti-
tutions be an unpardwiable offenpf,..to imrPr;^l
ally—a supposition which provoked the indignant
apostrophes of the Procureur Imperial—it is evi-
dent that the advisers and adherents of the Em-
peror have felt themselves identified with the " ser-

v- ilitv and corruption" which M. de Montalembert,
in the name of human dignity and freedom, brands
with ineffaceable contempt.
The immediate results of the verdict delivered by
the Tribunal of Correctional Police are the suppres-
sion of the Correspondant, the imprisonment of the
publisher for a month, with a fine of a thousand
francs, and the imprisonment of M. de Montalem-
bert for six months, with a fine of three thousand
• francs. There is a right of appeal to the Imperial
Court, but M. de Montalembert will hardly deem
it worth his while to appeal to a higher jurisdiction
in such a case. Will it believed that the sentence
makes M. de Montalembert amenable to the law of
July 27, 1849—a law passed to protect that Repub-
lican Constitution which the man of the Coup d'Etat
destroyed ; a law by which the present Emperer
was impeached by the High Court of Justice, and
according to which he is not so much an Emperor
as an outlaw ? By this law M. de Montalembert's
personal liberty is henceforth at the absolute dis-
posal of the, police, without even the mockery of a
trial. It is not, indeed, to be conceived that any Mini-
ster of the Empire would, except in the madness of
passion or the fury of panic, venture to deal with such
ae adversary as Montalembert as if he were some
obscure and friendless republican ; but the fact that
such a man is actually brought within the operation
of a law of public safety is a sufficient sign of the
enervation and exhaustion of public spirit in France.
What a spectacle for Europe was presented in
that miserable police court ! On the one side, the

obscure agents a arbitrary power, the dependent
judges' and the official accusers : on the other, un-
sullied honour, incomparable intellect, stainless
name, and immortal principles. History will not
fail to remark that the foremost men in France,
whose feet are never found in the antechambers of
the Tuileries, and whose names are among the un-
invited to the festivities of Compiegne, surrounded
the defendant in the Palais de Justice, and protested
by their presence in the police court, as they pro-
test continually by their absence from the Tuileries.
It were idle to speak of the penalty which M. de
Montalembert has incurred as in itself lenient and
trifling. It is no trifle to a sick and suffering man
to be snatched from the bosom of his family, and
from the comfort and privacy of his home, and to
be lodged for six months in a State prison ; but M.
de Montalembert will derive strength and consola-
tion from the thought that he is no vulgar martyr,
and that the cause for which he suffers is one for
which good men have been glad to die. He knows
that his libera contumacia a magnitudine anima
ducts, non a superbia, is sanctioned and applauded
-by all but a few brainless sycophants of success and
a few heartless demagogues, and that no man not
debased in soul would not prefer a prison under the
Empire to a share in its honours and rewards.

When Theramenes was sentenced to death by the
Thirty Tyrants, he is said to have drunk of the
poison eagerly, as a grateful beverage—ut sitiens
abbibisset. Linder modern despotisms parched lips
must drink a draught more bitter than the cup of
ancient prison ; the draught, we mean, of national
insensibility ; but even this is sweetened with the
sense of duty, and the certainty of vindication.

It is expected that before long a mail steam
packet communication will be established between the
Island of Bourbon and the Mauritius, which will connect
the French island with Australia, India, China, and Eng-
land. Bourbon is only 122 miles from Mauritius.
FEARFUL DEATH AT NOTTINGHAM. A most
fearful accident occurred yesterdaymorning at the Midland
Company's warehouse. It appears that a man named John
Dyeon was engaged. crushing oats. At about 9 o'clock, in
consequence of a noise being heard, some Of the men in the
company's service went into the room, and a most fearful
sight presented itself. The body of the unfortunate man
was literally torn limb from limb. Ills skull was fearfully
fractured, and the larger portion of the bones were scattered
about, the brains were lying on the floor, the left leg was
torn from the body, the right leg being crushed; his ribs
lying about the place in shreds. It is supposed that he was
putting the shafting band round the drum, and that his
clothes became caught by the machinery, his head being
forced to the ceiling, and his body whirled round by the
wheel. Mr. Taylor, surgeon, was immediately called, ir,.,
and the remains 'were picked up. An inquest was held in
the afternoon, and. a verdict of accidental death returned.
Ile was a married man, and ha's left a large family.
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Last night; at a large public meeting of electors
and neneleetors of Finsbury, held at Middleton -
hall, Mr. Cox, one of the members for the borough,
took occasion to give what he called "an account
of his stewardship." The meeting, at which he
acted as chairman, was convened for a declaration
of,..aS the requisition stated, "the fundamental prin-
cipleS which otight to be embodied in-the forthcom-
ing- moasine to amend the representation of the
people in Parliament." Messrs. Swan and Gil-
christ' attended .as a. _reputation from the .Political
Reform League to explain the principles and ob-
jects of that association. On the motion of a, Mr.
Bontems a rOiolution - was unanimdlYSlV: passed
affirming the proposition that experience_ of . every . --
succeeding session . of Parliament since 1,8:32 had
preyed the necessity for further reforms in the don-
stitution .of the IlouSe -of Common's, and that the
meeting perceived with satisfaction a- growing de-
termination not to allow the ensuing. 'session to • -
pass Witliont 'the introduction of a measure for that
,purpose. Another was subsequently carried, at •
the ilistanee Of-Dr. Perfitt, that it was desirable so • .
to frame the next Reform Bill that it might be .. '•
considered a full and permanent settlement .of the :
representation, and that this could be effected by
registered manhoodss;ffrage, a more equal distil-
bution of members according to population, the -
ballot, and-the repeal of the Septennial Act; • -
. Mr. Cox, a little before 10 o'clock, stood forward . ; --
to address the meeting, and in doing so was greeted
'with cheers. He said that was the first opportunity •
he had had of addressing any considerable number
of his constituents since they elected him as one of
their representatives, and he was desirous of avail-
ing himself of it to make a few observations in. re- ,
ference to his conduct in that capacity. He would: I ,
say!, first of all, that he did.not agree . with a./3rei..-..!,._
Violas speaker that Parliaments should be shortened
to one year, V and he would tell them why.. During '
.the whole of the first session in which he sat hi
Paiiliament he .considered himself a nicre schoolboy
-learning his lessoni._ for. it--,was utterly iMpossible
for 4.. man to make himself heard or respected ,
.hi he House of Commons, until. he had first • .:
ma e himself master of all its forms, ruleS, and
ii
regulations. But he-Might say that during that.
.first session little combinations took place—men
fonnd their - places--- and a small party, of. L....
which he was - one, was gradually got- together V
.belbw the gangway on the Liberal side of the
Hobe, and agreed to do a Certain number Of acts .1:
in the then ensuing session. In the course of his
first. session he contented himself with beiug an
attentive listener to the proceedings of the House
When they met last session, which was* not a very.
eventful one, it was clear that a considerable acces-
sion of strength had been brought to the little
nucleus of Liberals which had formed on one side -
of the House -below the gangway. In fact, they
were forming themselves into a Radical party; and
there was such an evident disposition on the part
of every Mettiber of it to disagree with Lord Pal- -
merston, that at length they came to the conclusion
that although the noble lord said he was a Liberal,
he was, in fact, a Tory in disguise. (A laugh.) It
created no surprise in the House of Commons when
Lord Palmerston found himself in a minority. •
Long before the introduction, of the Conspiracy Bill
an appointment was made by him of a Lord Privy
Seal on which his Government must have fallen to
the ground if it had not before gone to the wall.
'He (Mr. Cox) was one who voted against the in-
troduction of the Conspiracy Bill more on 'account
of the inherent defects of the measure itself than
upon any clap-trap argument that the noble lord
had brought it in at the dictation of the Emperor
of ,the French. He thought there were plenty of
felonies in this country made such by Act of. Par-
liament without creating new ones. (Cheers.) He
could assure the meeting, however, that it was no
small matter to go into the lobby, as he did, with
ninety-nine members voting, as it was said, in
favour of-Conspiracy, and to be sneered at; as. they
were afterwards, as conspirators. But these '
ninety-nine members were bold enough to do it, - _
and what looked like a miserable minority at first
was afterwards converted into a majority, and.
Lord Palmerston's Government fell in conse-
quence. Since that a Conservative Government
had come into power; and they, the Radical
party, were now in the habit of saying that
they had now got what they never had before,
a Radical Government. (A laugh.) It was not for
him to defend the'political morality of the Govern-
ment. He contended that the people of this
country cared very little for either Whig or Tory,
and that what they wanted was good measures
tending to the benefit of 'the whole community.
(Cheers.) The Radical party had endekvotired all - V
along to give. Lord Derby's Government , fair play, v. ;
to which he contended was entitled; and the v '
Radical party had
_gained something by so doing, ,
tor tney -had got rid of the property qualification of
members and of the question of the admission of _
Jews to Parliament. And now they were going V
to give the people a Reform Bill. He confessed
he was not is the secrets of any party. He was a
member of the Parliamentary Iteform Committee,
but yet he assured the meeting he did not know
what their policy waist to be; that, for theyresent,
had been confided to care of Mr. John Bright ;
but his (Mr. Cox's) conviction was that it was'` the
pressure from without," and that alone, which ,
would in the end car a proper Reform Bill.
(Cheers.) He had hear it was the intention of
the Conservative Government to bid very largely
for popular applause, and that they meant to give
a greater amount of reform than could ever be ex-
pected from the Whigs. If that were,so, they, the
Radical party, would take such a measure of reform V
quite as willingly from the hands of Lord Derby as '
from those of Lord John Russell. He (Mr. Cox)
did not go to Cherbourg. (Cheers, and a laugh.)
He thought it was as well left alone; but, as he
had been conning over the estimates during the
session, and perceived that very large sums of
money had been voted from time to time for the
construction of certain English fortifications, he
took the per contra side and went to Alderney* (a. .
laugh), which was destined to be the British Cher-
bourg.
He went there simply as an individual, not
as a member of Parliament; and he went over the
fortifications with a most intelligent Guernsey '
man—as the Guernsey people generally were—
who made use of this remarkable expression :.
—" When Alderney is finished—and it won't. -
be long—John Bull will be like a tenior, dog- ;7_
watching a rat at a hole, and as soon as the . rat
comes out that terrier will kill him." (Cheers and
a laugh.) It had been considered that the Radical . '
members of Parliament, in delegating to Mr. John
Bright the duty of drawing.up a new Reform Bill,
had become members of the peace-at-any-price
party. He thought he could for the party—he
knew he could do so for himself—give that statement
a most positive contradiction. Highly as he re-
spected Mr. .Bright, and much as he admired his
talents and ability, he would never be the man to
hold the doctrine of peace at any .price. (Cheers.)
Upon the question ofcforeign politics he had very
little to say. His opinions on that subject lay in a
nutshell. He contended we had enough to do to
keep our own and to attend to our own affairs, and
that the less we interfered with foreign nations the
better. (Cheers.) What we had to do was to hold
our own—and hold it we would—(cheers)—and he
would never be the man to receive an insult from
any foreign country, without, as an Englishman,
standing up and denouncing it. (Cheers.) Nothing
could be more fearful than war ; but there was one
thing worse than war, and that was a dishonour-
able peace ; and if this nation was to maintain its
supremacy it would never be by adopting the prin-
ciples oft e peace party, but -bye. pacific and care-
ful attention to the wants of' our people at home,
and of those resident iloeuero. He believed large andeimigeodrtathnte
colonial possessions. (Cheers.)
time was coming when we should have but two
political parties, the people on the one side and the
aristocracy on the other, and that we should get rid
entirely of that political bat, the Whig, who-when
in power was always a Tory, and when out of
power pretended to be a Liberal. (Hear.) With
the growing intelligence of the
.community that
state of things, could no longer exist—and they
(his 'constituents) might rely upon it that he should
always be found in his place, if blessed with health
and strength, advocating the principles, on which
he asked for their votes; and When they found him
incapable or unwilling to carry . out those great
principles he would, if 'they wished it, render into
their hands the trust they so generously•confided
to him. (Cheers.)
In reply to a enestion put by a working man ill
the body of the meeting,
Mr. Cox said he was in favour of the principle
of registered manhood suffrage.
A GrINTLEMAN on the platform remarked that
one thing was certain, that if ever manhood suf
fratse became the law of the land Mr. Cox, ener-
getiq e and ~ plucky " though
constituency
again .be able to canvass a world
I 1 so ner
enor-
mous as that of Finsbury would be.
iastu'e
Mr. Cox said he would try hard. (A laugh.)
On the motion of Mr. Elt, seconded by Mr. Gil-
christ (one of the deputation from the Political Re-
form League), a vote of entire confidence in Mr.
Cox as one of their representatives was carried
with acclamation.

At a previous part of the evening the meeting
was addressed by, among others, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr.
Healy, and a working man named Binyon, and it
was brought to rather a ludicrous close by a tall
woman jumping up upon a seat in the body of the
hall and delivering a brief political harangue, but
in so violent a tone and accompanied with such
wild gesticulation, that the purport of it was lost.

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where otherwise they would never have been
heard of. .

name of Forbes), that he was 48 years of age, an
ex-peer of France, and a member of the French
Academy, and that he was born in Paris. (It, ha,
been stated in some reeenl biographies that he
born in London.) He answered all the questions
put to him with the greatest frankness and the most
perfect sang froid, never for a moment shrinking
from the responsibility of anything he had said in
his article, and never failing to detect the import
of any insidious suggestion made by the Pre-
sident. He admitted that he admired the present
political institutions of England, and regretted that
France had lost them; but he denied that he had
" attacked" French institutions, in any sense for-
bidden by the law. He admitted that when he
spoke of his joy at a temporary escape in England
from "pestiferous miasma and corrupt atmosphere,"
he alluded to miasma and atmosphere in France
but he totally denied that he meant to say that he
and his friends alone were honest men, and that the
eight millions of Frenchmen who had voted for the
Emperor were cowards. When asked whether he
should not think it an insult to say to anyone in a
drawing-room that "their ideas of happiness and
honour were very different," he said, " Yes, if I said so
to a person's face ; but when I say so of a class of per-
sons whom I do not expressly designate, I do not
transcend the limits which have always been per-
mitted." He denied that the fair construction of his
expression about a "government of an ante-chamber"
applied to the Emperor. He had denounced in a
general way flatterers and sycophants, of whom
there were as many now as there had been in all
time. He had particularly denounced those
flatterers who had been the obsequious followers of
every dynasty. With regard to his having said
that the press was, " gagged," that was a mere
statement of an undeniable fact. Not only were
there legal warnings, but it was notorious that only
within the last two days the journals of Paris had
received an order, altogether extra-legal, command-
ing them to abstain from commenting on certain
I subjects.

tion.

the law of 1819, made for a charter so granted by
king by right of birth. conld he applicable to the
ono tit ut monarcll v of the Roi des Francais,
end accordingly Lon.i,.Pliiiippe's Govcninicnt passed.
a new law to a similar effect. Again, in 1848,
when we had a single sovereign assembly, a law
was passed for the protection of that constitution ;
and when, in 1849, the form of government was
again changed, though not in any such
radical manner as it was subsequently in
1852, another law was passed to meet the
circumstance. If the present Government
had neglected to renew that law it was
their own fault ; but that was no reason why
they should dispense with all law, and, acting upn
purely arbitrary principles, condemn a man merely
because he was obnoxious. He concluded by a
brilliant and impassioned peroration, which I will
not attempt to quote from.
When M. Berryer sat down, loud, numerous, and
simultaneous cries of " Bravo" burst forth from the
lower end of the court. The President ordered the
police to turn out any one who had joined in the
manifestations if they could find him, and threat-
ened to clear the court if the outrage should be
repeated. M. Villemain, the perpetual Secretary
of the Academy, approached M. Berryer, and
squeezing his hand said, " You were never in your
life finer, either at the bar or in the tribune,"
At this stage the court rose for half an hour.
An arrangement was made that the Procureur
Imperial should reply to M. Berryer, and that M.
Dufaure would then say a few words for M.
Douniol, and reply upon the whole case.
The Procureur Imperial's reply, which did not
last more than a quarter of an hour, was even less
effective than his opening speech. He scarcely
touched the specific charges of the prosecution or
powerful answer that had been made to them.
He reiterated his assertion that French institutions
were better than English ones, and that it was
anti-French to say the contrary. He taunted M.
de Montalembert with having formerly voted for
shutting up the Paris clubs, and asked whether
his admiration for England led him to approve of
English political meetings—institutions to which
the English people were more attached than any
other. He cited, as instances of the immense dan-
ger of such meetings, some of the rhodomontade
which "discussion forum" men sometimes indulge
in, and which in England excites no attention
whatever. He fastened upon an expression of M.
de Montalembert, cautioning England against over-
confidence in her own strength, and advising her
to keep up a naval and military force proportioned
to the large forces of despotism, and founded upon
it the absurd charge that M. de Montalembert
wished to see a war, and would take part with
England against his own country.
M. Dufaure, after a few words of excuse for M.
Douniol (a mere working tradesman, who was
lately a compositor), on the ground of his good cha-
'meter and actual ignorance of the article for which
he was responsible, severely reproved the Procureur
Imperial for the levity and incompleteness of his
speeches for the prosecution. •He (M. Dufaure)
could find nothing in them seriously deserving of •
an answer. The Procureur Imperial seemed to
think that reading here and there a passage from
the article in a most cursory way was a sufficient
formality tojustify a condemnation, without pointtlog
out, as he was bound to do, the particular passages
which fell within the scope of the laws referred to
in them. If the Procureur had read the article
carefully he would have seen that the leading
dea of it was to defend the religious policy
of the Correspondent against that of the Uni-
vers and the legitimist journals, who decried
the English alliance and extolled the cut-throats of
Cawnpore and Lucknow. M. de Montalembert had
replied to four furious articles of the Univers
which had appeared but a short time be-
fore the number of the Correspondant' now in
question. He denounced the ultramontane and.
retrograde policy of the Univers with burning''`
indignation, and said that the Correspondant de-
fended national religion such as it had been un-
derstood by all the noblest and best men in France
for ages against journals who gloried in the mas-
sacre of St. Bartholomew, and justified the revoca-
tion of the Edict of Nantes. As an instance of the
little thought which the Procureur Imperial had
bestowed upon the case, he said that the charge of
M. de Montalembert having alinded to the Empe-
ror when he talked of a " government of an ante-
chamber," refuted itself. If there was a man whose
habits were self-reliant and solitary, it was the
Emperor. That he might say of him, without being
waning in proper respect. The Emperor was wont
to decide most important questions without taking
much counsel, and often quite against the opinions
of those nearest to him. His former Ministers
(turning towards M. Odillon Barrot) can tell us
little about this. (A laugh.) M. Dufaure reca-
pitulated and, reinforced with crushing logic the
arguments of M. Berryer, showing that the law
of 1849 could not be applicable to the present
imperial constitution. It would be a strange
thing; he, said, if M. Montalembert were to
be condemned for having lamented the ./
loss of liberty, .of the press, liberty of the tri-
bane; Sirc., under a law passed for the express
purpose of protecting those very institutions from
attacks. He referred with humour to the caprici-
ous nature of universal suffrage, which in the course
of a very few years had sanctioned a republic with
a sovereign chamber, a republic with a chamber and
a president for four years with concurrent powers,
a modified republic with a president for ten years,
and finally the present empire. If to regret some
of the results of universal suffrage was to be con-
strued as an attack upon its principles, there were
few men in France who had not attacked it within
a very short time. He read a passage from Mon-
tesquieu narrating that, when receiving the hospi-
tality of a foreign country, he felt a peculiar interest
in and regard for the people and institutions of that
country. M. de Montalembert had been actuated.
by the same sentiment when in England. As to the
expression which had been much objected to, that
France was in leading-strings (tutelle), the same
thing had been said with regret over and over again
by many eminent men. On this subject M. Dufaure
read a passage from a speech lately pronounced by
Prince Napoleon at Limoges, in which speaking in
favour of decentralisation, he used that very word.
tutelle, and regretted that there was so much of it
in
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word in further
inth observedeartielec ontrathryat
tothtehree
Emperor's policy as regards England. His re-
gret that there was not a greater approach
to similarity in the institutions of the two
countries only showed that he wished to see the
alliance established on a lasting basis. So far
from his being anti-French, he showed his love for
his country, and paid a compliment to his country-
men, when he expressed his belief that France wag
worthy to enjoy light, liberty, and freedom.
At six o'clock the judges retired to deliberate,
and at seven returned into court and delivered the
following judgment :
The Court sentences the Count de Montalembert
to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 f.
Dounfol to one month's imprisonment and a fine
of I,ooof.
Orders both defendants jointly and severally to
pay the said fines.
Acquits them of the other heads of the aCellSa'

Condemns them jointly and severallg in the
costs of the trial.
And fixes the duration of imprisonment iA
default of payment at one year.

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two classes, announce the completion of the line to Can' 1
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between Faversham and Canterbury will most likely be
opened next autumn. The section between Canterbury and I
Dover is to be finished within two years. The establish- i
meat of a new continental line will then have been effected
.at an outlay not exceeding £2,000,000, and Canterbury,
Ramsgate, Margate, Sandwich, and Deal will have been
brought about 20 miles nearer London. Between London anei
Dover the saving will be about 11 miles. A branch from the
East Kent line, to be completed in 12 months, will at the same
time shorten the distance to Whitstable and Herne Bay by
30 miles, and an inexpensive line of 10 miles from Herne
Bay to Margate, to be obtained next session, will effect a
like reduction in the route to the latter place.
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