The Press. — 1856-01-12 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  NEXT AFTERWARDS.  A SECOND edition of Mr. Cobden's pamphlet being at press, the future Foreign Secretary has taken the opportunity to append a few more last, or rather " next," words. We have been favored with an early proof of his poatcriptum  " When Europe has been pacified upon this patent principle of allowing every Power quietly to obtain everything for which it may ask with a sword in its hand, I intend to vacate the Foreign-office; where, in fact, there will be little to do except to endorse the rescripts and requisitions which may arrive from St. Petersburg, Vienna, Washington, or other capitals. My eminent talents must, however, not be hid under the bushel of privacy, and I will consent. therefore, to accept the seals of the Home Department. In this post I shall improve the opportunity of securing peace and order at hove upon the same system and with the same success as I have already attained abroad. "1. I shall begin by dismissing the causes of crime and dis; turbance entirely from my attention, accepting, at the same time, the objects and antecedents of the pre-existing Government. "2. I shall then seek above all things to withdraw every blue policeman from Rag-fair, Houndsditch, Jacob's Island, Clare-market, the National Hall in John-street, the Reform Club, and all other centres of turbulence or treason ; and either concentrate the force around Whitehall, or else abolish it altogether. At present the Bobbies may be brought away without further loss or discredit ; it may not always be so. "3. Negotiations will be opened with the general community of burglars, footpads, pickpockets, and fences, throughout the country, with the view of concluding a treaty upon terms of amicable reciprocity. Why should we seek to do one another the greatest possible harm ? Why should we mutually force each other to maintain cumbrous and exhaustive armaments—expending our incomes, or even incurring a load of debts, for the purchase of bludgeons, pistols, and gunpowder? And why, finally, should the innocent and tax-paying citizens, when they happen to be robbed, be also murdered or maimed? 1 trust to put these questions in their true light before all parties, and to obtain their common consent to a treaty which, not, to incur the charge of vagueness, I would denominate one of unarmed neutrality.' " 4. I shall propose, accordingly, that all the chevaliers of the dark lanthern and black doll, should promise to fulfil their missions with the utmost gentleness and civility, never using or, except in cases of absolute necessity, showing any deadly weapons. On our side we undertake that no emissaries from the Home-office shall disturb them in the exercise of their avocations.  " Finally, I would not risk the knuckles of a single Peeler, or spend a shilling of the county-rate for the chance of a ' barren triumph' in arresting and convicting a felon who, after conviction, must only become an additional source of embarrassment and expense. Foregoing any such Quixotic mission,' I would pursue a policy more consistent with the interest of the people—honest or otherwise—whose welfare I was charged to promote. I, also, would not seek to hind any of the parties to the treaty by parchment promises' for its observance ; since even if they could write (which is doubtful) their pledges would not be worth the ink with which they were written. The stability of the compact must, ►l• -,refore, rest solely and securely on the mutuality of interests—and tne country may be assured of its pertnanenee, at all events, so long as the administration of the Home Department remains in the hands of " Jan. 11, 1856."  " R. C:'  38  THE INDEX AND TITLEPAtiE  TO THE THIED VOLUME OF " THE PRESS " are published as s Supplement (gratis) with This Da3's Number.  TO