The Sun. — 1858-04-21 (London, England)

BERNARD.—In the House of Commons to-mor row evening, Mr. Sergeant Kinglake will ask the Secretary for the Home Department, " whether the late prosecution of the Queen v. Simon Bernard, charging him as an accessory before the fact, and also as a principal to the murder of Nicholas Battle, was instituted in pursuance of advice given by the law of of the crown, to the effect that, assuming the alleged facts to be true, the offence charged was punishatid .learasoa,fs, wl b: under the existing law of the realer ; ther the Secretary for the Home pepaarntment Will lay any opinion which may have been given by the law officers of the crown relative to the said charge, on the table of ter k 911144  CORRESPONDENCE RbSPECTINGt PASS• PORT s. - - •  Yesterday was issa:d x return to the House of Lords of cor.re- pondence re, pec.izig pass.r.oits. These cewmulacatiens include leiteis to and trout English C easul- at cereal, French ports and the Earl of Clarendili—let.ers which h..ve p .ssed i etween Earl Cowley and Count Walewaki, and Earl Cowley and the Foreign-office. On the 9th ol March, the Earl of Matmesbury takes up the correspondence. Among the documents is the following extract from a lotter by Earl Cowley to the Earl of Malmeabury, dated March 29 ;-" I have Count Walewski's assurance that if it were practicable for the French authorities at the ports or on the frontier to distinguish her Majesty's subjects from foreign refugees, and if it were possble to establish au exemption in their favour, her Majesty's subjects might come and go from France without passports or questions of any kind. The return to a stricter system of passports (for there is nothing new in the present regulations) has been rendered necessary in consequence of the facilities which a too great laxity had given to evil-disposed persons to penetrate into France ; but the Imperial Government know well that they have nothing to apprehend from the British people, who, however freely they may express their opinions in their own country, are not in the habit of exciting or participating in troubles abroad. Her Majesty's subjects, therefore, will ever be welcome guests in the Imperial dominions, and every facility capable of being generalised without endangering the principle of exclusion to which I have adverted above, will be with pleasure accorded to them. " I annex a list of the places where French consular visas may be obtained :—Consuls-General : Gaillard de Ferry, London ; Fleury, Liverpool ; Count de Marieouit, Newcastle ; Bruant, Edinburgh ; Maubussin, Glasgow : De Burgraff, Dublin. Agent Vice-Consuls : Zanole, Newhaven and  Brighton ; De Itabaudy, Cardiff; Lepage de Longchamps, Swanea ; Laurent, Jersey ; Loyeux, Guernsey." There is also the following letter, interesting to the owners of yachts :  " CJunt Walewski to Earl Cowley. "Paris, April 8, 1858.  "M. to Comte—Your excellency did me the honour to write to me on the 2d inst., to inquire of me whether the productiox of an Admiralty warrant and a certificate of one of the English yacht clubs continues to be suffi:ient to permit owners of yachts, friends accompanying them, and the crews of their vessels, to land in a port of the empire. "The Emperot's Government has not thought it possible, M. le Comte, to establish this except.on to the general regulations which now apply, as regards passports, to every person presenting himself on the maritime frontiers of the empire. Owners of yacht= as well as their travelliqg companions, must, therefore, provide themselves with regular titres de voyage for occasions on which they might have to land iu France ; but as regards the men composing the crew, awr inscription on the ship's books is sufficient, as is the ewe for crews of merchantmen.—Accept, (tc.  (Signed)  "A. IVALEwsKr."