The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-30

political reverses We admit the justice of the dis
tnctioD but there is no power in this country, ex-
cent q jury which we can trust TO draw II, and no
legislation which should seek to set up such power
would be entertained by Parliament for moment.
1t only remains, then, that we should review our
criminal law and see If its penalties are adequate
to the offence. This, notwithstanding the camor
which has been raised the subject, appears to US
O inst and reasonable demand, and one to which we
shall do wisely to lose no time in cceding. we DO
not say this because the demand is made by power
full sovereign, faithful ally during SIX years OF
war and peace, but because it is o duty which we
owe to that community of nations in which we hold
place to the general interests OF society, ana TO
the welfare and progress OF the human race. Nor
do we conceal from ourselves that when we have done
all that is in our power shall have effected very
little towards protecting the lives OF Napoleon
III, his consort and his child If his own
stern laws his ubiquitous ponce, the power OF
domicary visitation, of search, and of arrest can
rot defend him, it is not likely that such mode
rate increase in the degree of punishment as the
midness of our legislation will permit should afford
any very efficient protection. The men we have to
deal with are not easily terrified. Soured by exile,
privation and suffering, they laugh at dangers at
which many champion OF better cause would
trmble. Perpetually dealing with the most DANCE
Ious chemical agents, which grain more less, or
a degree more less of the thermometer, may
quicken to explosion; carrying about with them
in portable shape, the lives Of hundred men;
employing these tremendous machines with
the same risk to themselves as their victims;
and certain il they escape destruction by
their own hand to perish by the axe or the
halter-how can such men as these be deferred by
the difference between Imprisonment with or without
bard labor penal servituGe or transportation, from
their criminal enterprises? II is SAID that he who
is desperate of his own life may command the life of
another" and such men Orsini possess in an emf
nent degree this first condition Of success in their
dreadful profession.
Still our inability to do more does not exone-
rate US from the duty Of doing all we can to
shield the life of o neighboring sovereign, or
OF the meanest of his subjects, from an execrable
crime. 1t would indeed be melancholy spectacle
it, from the rage of faction, The avidity for
place and power, or the desire of low and
teetng popularity, deliberate examination OF our
law sought for in terms SO moderate and on grounds
so reasonable, should be refused. We are strong
enough to be able to do right in the face of the wOrd
but wrong sits heavy on the arm of the strongest
champion and CLUES to the scabbard the sword that
he would draw in her behalf. quarrel on such
grounds would be both dangerous and ignominious.
1t would unite against us the sympathies and per-
haps the arms of all civilized Europe, and almost
justify all that has every been said OF the insullr
narrowness of our views and the callous sehshness
Of our policy.
The Insurrectiona,y Movement In France.
[pAris (bafch 100 Correspondence Of London Times
The paragraph in the Monitur of yesterday de-
scribing the revolt of about forty men at Chalons-
surSaone who surprised the military post to the cry
OF "Virs la Repubhque,' has puzzled people good
deal. Chaons is not so far from Paris that hand
full of men could hope to persuade an entire popu-
lation that the government was Overthrown and the
republic restored throughout France. And then the
officers, IL appears, first (he Moniteur says) TO
the house Of the sub project to know if the news
was true, and, when they found it was not forced
their passage, sword in hand to the barracks There
various conjectures on this subject, exaggerated
doubt, and contradictory. One il, that the affair
was more serious than is represented aud that the
resistance was greater Another account Is, that
the echdutouree was only an attempt TO rescue
some persons who had been arrested under the new
Dan .av int of hs.1n lknU
OF. Nothing is more likely than that the freuds of
the arrested raised ciamOr, an that those who are
ready to profit by every opportunity increased the
disturbance,
Marshal Castellane had arrived at Chalons; he
quilted Lyons, where he commands, the momen. the
news reached him.
The Pairie Publishes further particulars. It says-
Under cover OF the darkness Of the night aud a
heavy fall OF the insurgents, preceded by some
persons Of inohensive appearance, approached a
guardhouse occupied by "a few infantry soldiers in
the Rue de Beaune. The greater number Of the in.
surgeDts remained at distance, and a few stole
upon the sentinel aud dsarmed him, while some
covered his mouth to pre- ent him giving an alarm.
They then rushed into the guardhouse, where the
soldiers were sleeping. The assailants took posses
sion Of some OF the muskets but the sergeant OF the
guard 1rew his sword and attacked them. They
then fed towards the bridge, where they were met
by u detachment Of infantry, and the greater num-
Der Of the revolutionary party were arrested.
lPArs INA Oh % Corresponds nee Of L,noon asrsd.1
II was only on Monday that intelligence of the
above affair began to ooze out. IL APP Jears that
bard Of about forty men appeared. all of a sudden,
before small guafdhouse on the left bank OF the
Saone. Before the soldiers knew what they were
ABOUT they found their arms pnioned and their
6relooks and bayonets taken from them.
Having locked up their prisoners in the
In Rspubique," Chaionnaise aur ar-nes,"
" The republic has been proclaimed in Paris" nc,
walhed 10 the railway station, with the intention OF
preventing the arrival OF troops and OF usDg the te
Il tt.Asr
they had made however in their exultition at their
easy victory the soldiers, defeated tner plins
and their arrival at the station they found the sta
tion master and respectable number OF clerks por-
ters, and platelayers ready TO receive them. They
then ran OF to take possession Of the bridges by
which access is gained from the main quarter of the
town where all this was going on to the barracks,
which are ut the other eide OF the river Their shouts
meanwhile bad reused most OF the inhabitants aud
the officers OF the garrison. most OF whom live In
the lodgings Instead OF rushing of to the bar
racks IL IN asserted that they knocked up the
project and asked him If it was true that thu repgb
lie had been proclaimed. The functionary replied,
sensbly enough. that 1t was not, but that IN any
il their duty 10 be with their men, and that
they should turn out the gar; IN repreS the riot
ing; and arriving at the bridge they found IL in
possession of the insurgents. Some psrleying en-
sued, which leading t. result, the officers drew
their swords and charged across the bridge, which
they cleared IN safety, and immediately made their
way the barracks. All tn. troops In garrison
ready TO march within n quarter Of an hour. The
rioters dispersed without blow being struck,
and fifteen Of them taken into custody. The even
ing papers contain further details respecting the
movement The public generally do not attach
much importance TO il. II is not, however, with.
ont certain significance, as shouting that the
tranquility ,chich Franee enjoys IS more apparent
1ion real
M.skess
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