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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 154, 25 February 1874, Page 3

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(PKOM Otrs ArCKXAKD COERBSPOJnOBST). . Saturday Afternoon, FtTßuo indignation hero has been terdbly aroused by the mtelligenoo of Sullivan's pardon. houl deed*, says Shakespeare, “will rise, though all the earth overwhelm* them, for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak with most miraculous organs.” The knowledge that • fru’ tb ? tttro . ololl9 murderer, whose name is W T ltte£ V n blood m conoectiou wish the Vv ost Coast murder*, when

_ XKT LOOSE r°m the Mikado into Auckland created a profound sensation, and caused a thrill of horror.

OPINION OF maiSEXF. An Auckland paper says that—“ Sullivan eoumder* himself a hero, and one would suppose bun to be such, judging from the anxiety of persons hanging about the Police Court anxious to catch a glimpse of his features. Ha tells long yarn* of early colonial days and murder* with a gusto that astonishes and paralyse* the feelings of those who have not been aseuatomed to that sort of Ufa. Ho evidently has a living catalogue of all the more notable criminals of the colonies at his tongue’s end, and speaks of Burgess in terms of highest praise. Burgess, ha avows, was a man, one'of tho finest bushrangers that ever graced t»m West Coast, Ho thought no more of murdering balf-a-doxon men than he thought of eating his dinner j ho was a glorious fellow that Burgess !

PRACTICAL CHRIST!ANITr. Horn® people say that the report to the effect that bulb van has boon sent back to Dunedin is only a bund, and that tbo Government intention o. shipping him to some foreign port will be earned out as soon as public excitement ha* subsided. A correspondent to the Auckland 6/ar suggested that Sullivan's presence in town, oliored a line opportunity for the exercise of practical Christianity, and that some minister should take the ex-convict by the hand. The editor of the Btor very properly suggested hi* being taken by the neck. A warder accompanied him to Auckland. At first ho declined to leave here, and a sum of money had to be placed at bis disposal in ’JFrisoo besides his passage.

THB CAPTAIN OP MB MIKADO. The refusal of a passage to San Ifranoisco was aouotieee brought about by the passengers ohjwotcng to sail in the Mukado in auoh objectionable company. The captain, therefor®, turned him off tbo ship.

A PREDICAMENT. As I undevstsuci fcho matter, both Sullivan and the Government will find themselves in a predicament. The former, with a free pardon in his pocsot, but no money } and an unenviable notoriety as a criminal and a villain of tbo deepest dye j the Government for having granted a free pardon to a man they can have no excuse for arresting again, and hence a most objectionable accession to the population will be at largo until some other way of disposing of him be conserved. If he had gained his liberty in any place but Auckland, I question if it would have been good for bis health to remain long at liberty. Tbo crimes with which he was identified were of such a nature that hi* turning informer, instead of disposing people to leniency towards him, but increased their execration and abhorrence.

THE ACCSXAHJ> PJBBSB. Ifc is rather in©-nsistent of tho Auckland press to give vent to their indignation now, only because Sullivan baa Ossen liberated in their midst. They should have entered a protest against such a step, and then possibly something might have been done to prevent the scandal which will now attach to the colony for the attempt to deport such a person to a foreign territory. The United States have criminals enough of their own without affording shelter to those of a most undesirable class from Now Zealand ; and the San Francisco authorities will, for tho future, be disposed to view with suspicion the passengers introduced to that city by the new mail line. ACVJCB TO StriXIVAN, The means of escape to America being now closed to Sullivan (for the present), he bad better, U be values a whole skin, return his pardon to the Governor, and take back his own precious carcase to the safe keeping of Governor Caldwell. Far» thermore, there is a clause of the Merchant Shipping Act which gives full power to put a passenger on shore if the passengers object to sailing with him ; and it is clear that, from the state of Auckland feeling, it does not seem as if Sullivan’s stay here will be mad© pleasant for him.

ANY"WHERE, ANVWHBIIE, OUT OF THE WORT©,* * The Southern Cross says rather wildly, “ Send him to some of the South Sea Islands.’* I have no objection to this course, and if, say a quarter were to be sent to each of the most cannibal islands, 1 imagine that they would not object. There is one difficulty : that, as Sullivan is now a free man, ho might object to being divided among “ some of the Islands and I think any one of them might fairly object to take him an a whole, as the United States Consul did.

. SHAME trpour THEM, xba deportation of our criminals to a foreign but friendly share in bo remarkable and eo much at variance with English practice or precedent that, in the before-mentioned instance it has excited rather astonishment than indignation. Englishmen pride themselves on fair play, but that rule has been shamefully departed from when the Government of a 3Jiife.-h colony liberate a prisoner from th.ur condemned cells—one convicted for life—and actually afford him the facilities, and even means of reaching a foreign State with which wo are on the most friendly relations.