New-York tribune., 1867-10-10

taken at Geneva the latest and his friends say much
the best ever taken. The head Is without the cap
almost always worn The other is Florence pict ure,
with cap and shawl. Both have the autograph oil
Garbaldi. and on the back of one is an inscription,
also i'll Gaibaldi's hand. shall commit one more
To Wendell Phillips,
Liberatore dcgli schiav nen
Prisione D'Alessandria
- SettcmbeT 1861.
The letters which should reach you by this post
from Alessandra and Florence. may or may not get
through. AT any rate, You will like to PRINT these
personal details the slight incidents OF an hour !"
be memorable forever in Italian history. News tins
morning is that Garibad has been sent TO CapreIa.
to he kept there under guard lest he complete the
work of liberation of which he is the architect Inc
man who sends him is the man to whom he gave"
kingdom.
The Fcnian excitement continues, or rather Is con
tnued and kept alive by the cooperative industry OF
! the police and the reporters. Neither Kelley nor
| Deasv the rescued leaders has been rearrested IL
| is necessary. however, that q certain degree oI
energy should be exhibited and me poife nav &
! seized great number of persons who nave the lhis
fortune to be Tlshmcn. There does not appear 10 po
any evidence against the majority OF those Ieln 3I-
rested, but that is perhaps mimportant III VIII ne
easy TO release them when the furry is over. and
meantime will they not get fourteen ounces oi hcai
per diemg Probably they will get rather more me
fourteen ounces are the ration OF the prisons III
| Ireland. =,
Manchester has the ar of garrison town. don't
| know how many troops are under arms; Du' 'ho
papers say the military force is imposing" ana no
less person than MaOr-Gon. Sir John CaroSch IS III
command of it has the prisoners in his custody
seems TO be- in fact the head-conStaDe O Manchester
for the time. \ score of men, who are descliDcu aS
implicated in the recent Fenian outrage, were
brought up Thursday Tor preliminary
examination before. the maelStlatG1S, on 'no sn
! charge of numbering Sergeant brett AZ
| escort of horse and foot took care that none 3i
them missed the way, while the courthouse HSGll
was surrounded with dense body OF soldiers; me
| court room was packed with armed police, and the
magistrates took thought fr their personal safety by
inviting haf-adOzen officers OF the troops 10 Sl be-
/ VtItaf
were not deemed sufficient and the accused were
brought into court handcutled IN complies Inc dii-
ferent counsel and solicitors protested III Vain MI
Ernest Jones, barTster OF considerable slahuihg'
justly denounced the manaclng OF the prisoners rs
| an indguity to the bench. .
Mr. Fowler the presiding magistrate, said he
should not interfere with the police ARRANGEMENTS.
| At Il later period the Application was renewed Ml'
Jones calling the attention OF the bench to me ilCt
! that the prisoners tortured by tcltor@ NmCh
were too small for them. Mr.. Fowler Thought the
handouts might be changed If too small but he per
sisted in his refusal TO allow them TO be taken oii'
declaring that he did not think II would bc prl-
dent" / suppose we must take this courageous
magistrate nj his word. and admit that hc was AFRAID
10 hermit the accused to have their hands free.
Whether he afraid of the Fenians or of the po-
lice seems TO be uncertain. Mr. Ernest Jones dld
not hesitate To affirm the latt !, throwing up MS
brief and notifying Mr.. Fowler that as member OF
the English bar he declined 10 st IN court where
the police override the magistrates. Perhaps ne
could not have done hi, clients bctcrscNlcc than \
thus emphasizing his opinion that tins tribunal was
an impartial bearing.
In truth the administration Of criminal law IN En-
gland cannot stand the test of inquiry winch II must
soon undeTgo-whch in isolated eases II Is now I'M
dergOing. The criminal code is not one which the
most strict administration could make conform 10
Justice In practice fear the construction OF the
bench the exercise of what called judicial diScrc
tOn, only multiplies the of the code itself.
WHAT were the Fenian trials IN lreandl Now that
the panic Is over. who apologies for the fe-
rocty of the judges and law officers IL may
he said Ireland is an exception 10 all rules, but the
proceedings this week in Manchester arc another out
break of the savage spirit displayed IN the lrsh
Assizes. 1t was the same last year IN London. ON
more trivial occasion. The Hyde Park rioters, who
were brought up before Mr.. Knox at Mari
borough-st found the head and heart OF the
police magistrate harder than the truncheon of
the police officer. Whoever was accused by
policeman convicted. and 10 testimony for the
defense, Mr.. Knox would scarcely listen. prisoner
proved that he had share IN the riot; that he Was
caught III the crowd and could not get away that
he was attacked and beaten by the police wholly
without pIOyOCatlOn You had no business 10 be
there SAID the magistrate; "yOu were AT any rate
ObStTucting the police IN the discharge of
their duty And the victim went TO jail. Two
classes of Oilfenses singled ont for Sc
yerty-Oilenses against the police, and oiicnseS
against property. Augusta Mitchell was lately
sentenced 10y Mr. Justice Payne AT Clerkenwell to
eight months Imprisonment with hard labor. She
had taken little silver change, which she thought
she had ught t.. belonging 10 man VINO kepJ neg
as his mistress, W.-u wanted to yet rid OF her. ana
found "a cOnveuicu JulIce ln Mr.. Payne. ii her
paramour had half urered her. he would have got
OFF with fine or fortnights imprisonment. Such
gross inconsistencies are the relies OF the bloody sys
TEN which owes its aInchOTatiOn to ROmilly and
Macintosh, but which needs st1ll another komllly
10 bring II into harmony with the mlldcr temper OF
this generation. But another ROmlllY could do
nothing TIL tins furious panic about the FemanS sui"
sides. a man ~ the wrong 1lcs readily lHtO "a pas
sion and Englishmen cannot hear the name of Ire
land mentioned without feeling that she has had
centuries of proyOcation for the violence she at
tcmpts OF course they get angry.
On Monday the WOTkingmen's Lcague gave ban
quet at the crystal Palace IN cGlebTaon ol the pass
of the Reform bill. There has been quarrel be-
tween this and the Reform League, the latter claim
ing that the festival should be under its own man
agement the former replying that they were IN st IN
the field, and that nobody had monopoly of reform.
The wOTlingmcn proposed as compromise that Mr..
Beaes should take the chair at the dinner. This
was declined, and. believe there are TO be IN conse
quence, two banquets. Ar. BealeS and his
followers will not help eat the dinner
of Mr.. Potter and his wOrkingmen Ii is still ques
tlon who will Mr.. Gladstone declined very ciyilly
Earl Russell rather guiy MI. Bright IS hoped for;
but it may be doubted whether Mr.. Bright will care
to leave his salmOn-shng III Scotland 10 assist M
bad dinner in Sydenham palace under doubtful
auspices If the workingmen wanted political celeb
rites to give 6cdt to their rejOicngs the time was
badly chosen Everybody is away from London
why come back 10 a dinner, which to public man rs
simply bore IT, on the other hand. the working
content to express III their own way and for
themselves the conviction that the Reform triumph
Is their triumph, they may do IL very handsomely ana
effectively without assistance from the statesmen
whom they invited.
As for the quarrel between the two leagues that is
a bit of jealousy which will die out. Mr.. Bcalcs will
organize his banquet and may enticc into his net
some of the large fish who have broken through Mr.
POtter's slender mcshcs. When both dinners have
been eaten and digested the latter is not quick pro-
cess when yOn dine at the heayily-spead tables Of
the paace) the two RefOmeTs may shake hands and
90 to work again. The task of TedistrbutiOn-What
would be called in America Tedistrictlng-thc de-
mand for the ballot for education, for Irish REFORM
for many urgently y-nceded reforms beside are scarce
~ less important than what has been accomplished
IL is poor time for the hunbeSt agents of the
democratic movement in England to be wrangllng
about dinners. They cannot have monopoly OF