New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-01-06

| tuhnces On The pan OF hnssia ana rance.
Let me remark, passort, that the treaty Of
Vienna the only ack now ged code of international
| law in Europe forms one OF the most monstrous
fotion,s iuris pEbie ever heard Of in the aunas o
mar kind What il the first article Of that treaty
The eternal exclusion Of the Bonaparte family from
the French throne: Yet there sits Louis Napoleon,
the founder Of the second empire, acknow edged
and frsternized with, and caoled ard bowed
TO by all the crowned heads of Europe.
Another article runs 10 the effect that
Belgium 10 forever granted TO Holland;
while, ON the other hand for eighteen years past,
the separation of Belgium from Holland is not only
a fat aecomyh. but legal fact. Then the treaty
Of Vienna prescribes that Crac0w, Incorporated
with Austria since 1916 shall forever remain an
independent republic: and last not least, that Po-
land, merged BY Nicholas into the Russian Empire,
shall be en- Independent constitutional kingdom,
linked with Russia by the personal bond Of the Ro-
maBof dynasty only. Thus leaf after leaf has been
torn out of this holy book of the European jus pub.
lea and It is only appealed to whea it suits the
interests Of one party and the weakness Of the
other.
The Derby Cabinet was evidently watering,
whether 10 pocket the unmerited praises Of one
part of the press, or meet the unmerited SANDERS
Of the other Yet, after eight days yacillation, it
decided on the latter step, declared by public
advertisement that il had no hand in the puoica-
an investigation was actually going on as to the
performer Of the criminal trick. Finally, Mr..
William Hudson Guernsey was traced out as the
guilty man, tried before the Central Criminal Court
and convicted Of having purloned the dispatches.
The Derby Cabinet, consequently, comes out VIC
torious 10 the contests and hee the political inter
est of the trial ends. Still in consequence of this
lawsuit, the attention of the world has been again
directed to the relations between Great Britain and
the Ionian Islands. That the plan of Sir John
Young was no private CROCHET, is cOnclusively
proved BY the following extract from public add
dress of his predecessor, Sir Henry Ward, to the
Ionian Assembly, on tine 18th OF April ESQ:
1T il lot for die to speak in the name o. the Brit
Eh crown If that distant future which tue address
shadows forth, when ire scattered IN. mbcTs OF the
Greek race may be Ieunit.d in ole mighty empire
with The consent Of the Edrop-an powers. Bat
Rave officially in expressing my osn opinion Inc
spoke in the pane of the British crown that If su n
On ~ cut be eitan the scope 81 human contingencies
the Sovereign ard the Parliament OF England would
b. equally wiling to ste the Ionians Resume their place
tmbers Of the power IL At would then take iIs
place in the policy Of the world.
Meanwhile, the pbilanthropic feelings Of Great
Britain for t9e islands gave themselves vent in the
truly Austrian Zero :ity with which Sir Henry Ward
crushed the then rebellion in the islands. Out of
population Of 300, 100 souls, = 600 were punished
by hanging, seOurgng, imprisonment and exile;
women and children being whipped until blood
flowed. In order not to be suspected OF eXsggera-
ton, will quote British paper, The Morning
Chronicle Of April %, $50:
I've shudder at the awful measure of rstribution
which il fliced by the Court Martals, under the
dir ction of TIE Lord High Commissioner. Death,
transportation and corpora! punisbments were award
ed 10 the wIetched or minsls in some cases rnheW
tr,0l in another by the rapid process Of marital lac.
OF capital executions there were Il, AID OF other
puJ isbnents a large number"
Rut then the Rriti shers hOast OF having blessed
tie !, mans with free Constitution and developed
their material resources 10 pitch forming bright
contrast with the wretched economical state OF
Greece proper. Now, as to the Constitution, Lord
Grey, ut the moment when he was given to cODsti-
tuition InOngering for the whole Colonial Empire Of
Great Britain, could with good grace pass over
the Ionian Islands; but he only gave them back what
England for long years had fraudulently wrested
from them.
BY treaty drawn up by Count Capo d1stria,
and signed with Russia at Paris IN 1-l5, the pro-
lection of the Ionian Islands made over to
Great Britain, on the express condition OF her
abiding BY the Russian Constitution granted to
them in 1903. The frs! British Lord High Com
missioner. Sir Thomas Maitland, abrogated that
Constitution and replaced it by one investing him
with absolute power. In 1889, the Chevaller
Mustoxidis an .onan, states in his PRO Memorial
printed by the House of Commons, june - lo4O:
"Ihe lo1ians DO not enjoy the privilege which the
communities OF Greece used to possess even in the
deys Of TuIki.h tyranny, that OF eectog their own
magistrates atd aging their own AFFAIR." bat are
under officers impo-ed upon them by The police The
slo ut latitude which had been allowed N tue mu-
n,lpal bodies OF each Island Of administering their
owl revenues Las been s1atched from them, and IN
order { rel der them more dependent, these reve-
uues have been thrown ntO the pnblc exc0equer.
As to the development OF the material resources,
il will suffice to say that England, Freetride En-
gland is not ashamed to poster the lohlans WITH
export duties, barbarOus expedient which seemed
rei.gated TO the financial code of Turkey. Cur
rants, for instance, the staple product OF the
islands, are charged with an export duty OF ~ per
cent 1.-THE intervening seas" says an Ionan,
(which form, as it were, the highway of the
"slands, are stopped, after the method OF turn
"piks gste at each hsrbor, by transit duties,
"which tax the commodities of every name and
"description interchdnged bet~esn island and
",slard." Nor il this ALL During the first TWEEN
ty.three years of Brti.h administration, the taxa
tlon was increased threcfold and the expenditure
fyefuld. Some reduction took place atterw ard
but then in $50 there was deficiency equal TO
one half Of what previously the total TAXATION
as is shown BY the following table,
Annual Ts1s.ion- Exp@noit1rs-
sl5...............'...'..."AeS 800
1917 ............ ........''' IsisS ,oestif.oo
Fus; year Of the British Protectorate.
Thus, export duties on their own produce, transit
duties between the different islands. increase OF
taxation aud waste Of expenditure are the econom'
cal blessings conferred on the Ionlans by Jonn
Bull According to his oracle IN Printing House
Square, he grasps after colonies only In order 10
educate them IN the principles of public liberty;
h,, -, ma .dbar. tn tscts the Iouian Islands like