New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-14
BRITISH AND AMERICAN Law.

British Justice acts with startling rapldlty
when it is once set IN motion. After trial OF
barely three DAYS the chief assassin OF Phoenix
PARK has been convicted and sentenced to
death. This was the miscreant who on that
tragic evening in May IA year ago abashed even
his companions in crime by his swagger and
indifference as he wiped in the grass the muir
derous knife red with the mingled blood OF
Cavendish and a Burke. Accused ny MS own
accomplices, he has been condemned WITHOUT
hesitation by one of those Irish juries which
before his dastardly crime was planned anu eh-
ecuted lacked both the courage and the con-
science requisite for Furnishing eyil-doers' Inc
responsibility for the cOwardly murder OF the
two Secretaries was shared by the entire group
of as,asslns of whom Brady was the central hg-
ure. II is disheartenlng TO reflect that the ne
cessites of the prosecution have enaoied 20
many of them to turn States evidence. Inc
most despicable of the informers, James carey
has already blurted ont the fact that he mas
been promised pardon. Such leniency as TINS
seems almost incredible, after the conspi-ators
scramble 70 betray one another and to make,
each for himself, the best bargain he could with
the authorities. 1t will be a shocking miscar-
escares Brady's doom, but is suffered to 90
wholly unpublished. The subsequent proceed
inrs will be watched in England with a nervous
dread lest through prolonged dalliance with the
informers the Crown officials have contrlyed 10
protect those who least deserveGtprotection'
The evidence given at tie trials, so far as the
telepraphic summary has revealed, has not
served to inplcate any lnshman now known TO
he in America. Mr.. Porter in opening the case
far tbc Crown referred, il is true, 10 Sheridan
share in the crime IL undertaking to provide
arms when there should be n call for them.
This seems. however. to have been only gen
eraIization based upon james Carey's previous
disclosure, and to have been unsupported by
any new evidence. An informcr7 statement
hearing so remotely upon the actual crime
would be a slender warrant for demanding
Sherdan's extraditicn under the present treaty.
The evidence against lyman, who seems to nave
been identified as the mysterious Number
One" is more direct. lie would he so good
subject for extraditon practice that he has
nrobably had the forethouglt to select safer
refuge than the United States.
Americans are more deeply concerned WITH
the examination Of the dynamite conspirators
in London than in the trials OF the Dublin AS
sassins. The prosecution has opened the pro-
ccedinrs with the declaration that conspiracy
for the destruction of public property in Lon
don was formed in the United States, and that
agents were sent out and supplied with money
for the accomplishment of dIabolical purposes.
The agents can DO tried and punished under the
English statutes without regard TO their nativity
or citizenship. But are their principals IN The
United States, if such there he, to he left at
liberty TO resume their nefarlOus potting-to
send out additional agents, TO supply them with
American gold and letters Of credit, and to
prosecute dynamite campaign IN England
If their identity can be established ana their
comnlicity proved, arc not the United States
authorities under obligation to prosecute and
punish the principals, who have hired the agents
and sent them to England for criminal pur-
poses
This is not a IN after to be lightly considered.
DR.. Wuolsey, speaking of the rights of political
refugees, says: "They may not, consistently
with the obligations of friendship between
States, be allowed to plot against the person
of the sovereign, or against the institutions OF
their native country. Such acts arc crimes, for
the punishment Of which the laws OF the land
ought to provide, but do not require that the
accused be reTanded for trial to his native
country" Those words were written before
dynamite was invented. They have even
prayer Significance now. Dynamite cOnspiTa-
cies formed in America against property and
life in ENGLAND are crimes, for the punishment
of which the laws Of the land ought to provide