The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-09 00:00:00

THE LAWS OF EXTRADITION:

The select committee appointed to inquire into the state
of our treaty relations with foreign Governments regard-
ing extradition, with a view to the adoption of a more
permanent and uniform policy on the subject, have agreed
to the following report, which has just been issued :
" That it is desirable that greater facilities should he
given than now exist for making arrangements with
foreign States for the surrender to them of persons
accused of the commission of crimes in the territory of such
States respectively, and who have escaped to this country;
and for the surrender by them to the Government of the
United Kingdom of persons accused of crimes who have
escaped to their territories from this country. That the
list of crimes which should form the subject of extradition
between this country and foreign countries requires to be
carefully considered, but might, with advantage to the
public interests, be made more comprehensive than the
list of crimes enumerated in the only three treaties of
extradition now in force between the United Kingdom and
other countries, namely, France, the United States, and
Denmark. That a general Act of Parliament should
be passed, enabling her Majesty, by Order in Council,
to declare that persons accused upon proper and duly
authenticated prinid facie evidence of the commission of
any of the:crimes to be enumerated in such Act, should be
surrendered to any foreign Government within whose
jurisdiction such crime is alleged to have been committed,
and with which arrangements have been made for the
extradition of persons accused of crimes : provided that the
evidence should, with the exceptions mentioned in 5 and
6 Vict. cap.- Tl, s. 2, and 29 and 30 Vict. cap. 121,,be
such as would justify the committal of the offender •for
trial if the crime had been committed in England. That
every arrangement should be required by the Act of Par-
liament to be terminable by either party, at any time,
after the expiration of a moderate period of notice. That it
shall be required by the Act of Parliament that every such
arrangement should expressly except from the liability
to extradition such persons as are accused of crimes which
are deemed, by the party to the arrangement of whom the
surrender is demanded, to be of a political character; pro-
vided that any person accused of a crime which is deemed,
by the party to the arrangement of whom the surrender is
demanded, to constitute assassination, or an attempt to
assassinate, shall not be included in this exception. That
copies of every such arrangement, and of the Order in
Council which embodies it, shall be laid before either
House of Parliament within six weeks of the issue of such
order if Parliament be then sitting, or, if it be not then
sitting, then within six weeks of the next meeting of Parlia-
ment. That every such arrangement should contain an
express stipulation, that no person surrendered shall be
put on his trial, or detained within the State to which ho
is surrendered, for any crime committed previous to
his surrender, other than that on account of which he
has been surrendered, without having been previously
restored, or having had an opportunity of returning
to the territory of the State making the surrender.
That it be one condition of such arrangements on the part
of the United Kingdom, with respect to any prisoner who
shall be ordered by competent authority to be surrendered
to any foreign Government, that he be remanded to safe
custody for a limited period, say fifteen days, before final
surrender, and he be informed, by the authority making
such order and remand, that it is competent for him to
apply, in the meantime, for a writ of habeas corpus.
That upon the hearing of the case, on habeas
corpus, it shall be open to the accused to ques-
tion the bona
.fides of the demand for his extradition, upon
the ground that his surrender has, in fact, been sought for
political reasons. That all legal proceedings necessary for
the surrender of an offender by the United Kingdom, on
account of a crime committed in a foreign country, should
originate in an application before the principal metro-
politan police-court. That the Act 29 and 30 Vict., c. 121,
which expires this year, making certain provisions with
respect to the admission of judicial or official documents,
or copies thereof, in evidence against a person accused of
crimes, in accordance with the extradition treaties now in
force, should be further temporarily continued.

POLITICAL HARMONY. The sittings of the
National Convention opened, not with prayers, but with
musical performances. For instance, in the 21/onitcur for
the year three it is recorded that at the sitting of the 9th
of Thermidor the National Institute of Music executed
the hymn to Hunrmity, awl then the chant of the 9th
of Thermidor, followed by a dithyrambic hymn cf
Robespierre's Conspiracy. Girard called for the
Marseillaise ; after which and the Invocation to Harmony
Tallien mounted the tribune to give an account of the
Quiberon Expedition. Our new rejormed Parliament will
perhaps take the hint ; making Yankee Doodle precede an
American debate ; Off She Goes, a discussion on rifled
cannon ; Flow on thou Shining River, introduce the
budget.—All the Year Round.
THE SUNDAY LIQUOR BlLL.—Labour and Unity,
a monthly journal devoted to the interests of working
men's societies, believes that, next to the Irish Church,
the Sunday Liquor Bill claims the greatest attention of
the working classes at the next and following elections.
" One thing " (says our contemporary) " is quite certain :
we can never be a wise or an improving people unless we
first become a sober people ; and every man who is a well-
wisher to his country and his fellow man should give the
most strenuous opposition to everything which promotes
drunkenness or drinking habits in any degree whatever;
and in supporting the men who would go into Parliament
with the wish and intention to circumscribe this monstrous
evil, the first death-blow will be given to one of the
greatest curses which ever did or ever can befall the whole
human race."
SIMPLE METHOD OF TARING HONEY.—Lift up
the box with a screw-driver or chisel, sufficient to draw a
wire through to cut any comb that may be attached to the
crown board of the stock. Then lift the honey-box away,
and place it on a flat board, without troubling about
driving the bees out. Carry it away to a cool shed or
room. Darken this place slightly, and half an hour after
taking the box place it near a window, or similar outlet,
and tilt up that side of the box which is near the outlet
with a piece of wood the thickness of a black-lead pencil.
The bees will rush out, and make direct for the hive. In
the course of half an hour turn the box up, and remove
what few bees remain, by whisking them out with a
feather. You are, of course, award that honey should
always be taken in bright weather, and At mid-day.---
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