The Sun. — 1858-05-25 (London, England)

ROEBUCK. But let Lord DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI understand it too. They took office to govern by a minority ; this implied concession and compromise. As statesmen they must succeed by compromise. With whom, then, should they make the compromise, but with the party—the independent Liberals—which have warded off the attacks of faction, and so kept them in ()Sze Y If Lord DERBY be wise, he will certainly deal fairly with the party which has frustrated even the grand Sunday conspiracy at Cambridge House.  We shall now see how conspirators and assassins fare in France. We know what becomes of them if they conspire against an Emperor, but we have yet to learn whether the law is strong enough to catch and punish them if they conspire against and assassinate a private individual. We have had such impudent denunciations of England as a den of assassins, from the pens of French colonels, bragging on the safe side of the Channel, that we shall look with some interest for the views of these same colonels on assassination of civilians by French military men. The cowardly murder of M. PEN; for murder it was, in purpose, whether the victim recover or not, has indeed stirred all Paris deeply ;—that might be expected. Whatever the faults of the Parisians, they aro not a cowardly, not a mean-spirited race .; and a conspiracy of forty men, calling themselves soldiers, and officers too, to kill a man of the pen for the legitimate use of his own weapon, must rouse the indignation and detestation of a body of citiz3ll3 who prize honour above almost everything. But it is the colonels, not the citizens to whom our eyes are turned ; what will they demand for the assassin HIENNE ? What will they demand for the forty—who, like a band of very ancient conspirators—had determined not to eat or drink till they had killed PENE? If French Colonels can suffer such a wretch, and such wretches to remain in their ranks, then, of course, they must consent to be ranked with Austrian bullies, aad to share the contempt with which all Europe regards the brutal cowards who stab ciriflans in the streets of Italian cities. •  M. WALEWSKI, too, and „td. PERSIGNY, what do these gentlemen think of the business ? ORSINI and his•colleagues were courage itself compared with these forty savages. (maim, too, had at least a noble object ; whatever his error in regard to the means, his end and aim were the liberation of his fatherland from the yoke of foreign despots. ORSINI would have shed the blood of one of the military oppressors of Italy ; M. HIENNE demanded blood as the punishment of a _squib ! and, because M. PENE was not killed by his first antagonist, and after ho had apologised as a gentleman, and his challenger had accepted his hand, the bloodthirsty conspirator stabbed him in the most vital parts, either twice, or once completely through his body ! We hope to hear in some form what the Courts who wanted us to alter our Conspiracy Laws will say to this conspiracy. The facts are notorious, and notoriety is one of the grounds on which they demanded proceedings against reffig,ees. The deed is, between man and man, more worthy of the guillotine for the chief offender, and the galleys for all the rest, than were the deeds of ORSINI, PIERRI, RUDIO, and Gomm BERNARD and ALLSOP, if the charges against them were true, were less guilty than these officers, because their object, however chimerical, had nothing in it of private and selfish revenge. Let the Counts, then, look to it ; either the French laws are competent to punish a most atrocious crime, or they are not. If they are, then let the punishment be inflicted on these Pretorian murderers ; if they are not, then will all the States to whom WALEWSKI went quaking and begging for new laws against refugee conspirators expect that WALEWSKI will get new laws made for assassins and conspirators at home.  If Louis NAPOLEON dares not punish in a case so utterly indefensible as that of M. HIENNE, it will proclaim his position, in some respects, more damagingly that that of M.