MISS PANKHURST.
The position of the British Government in regard to Miss Pankhurst, says the Christchurch Press, recalls the famous Orsini case of the 'fifties. Orsini and a number of other people plotted to assassinate Napoleon 111. of France, and the bombs they threw killed or wounded a number of persons. The bombs bad been manufactured in Birmingham, and the wfeofa
plot ooncocted in Bagland. La France reseutmaut) against England for har- j bouring thu would-be assassins reach-; od «a high a pitch that officers clamoured lor tnur. The English law was undoubtedly lax. There was no poww to expel an? person from the country, and Qat&QkaGj to murder was a misdemoanoar, not a felony. But France spoilt k»r ease by orer-emphasis. The French Government address xl the British Foreign Office in a hectoring tone, wid tha trench Ambassador ii) Loadoa oommitted the blazing indiscretion of critlomng the. English law oa Vho point. Ajord .Palmerston, strangory meek for once, took all this "lying dowa," and introduced a Bill to amend tha law to meet tha case of such Crimea as Orsini's.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 May 1913, Page 4
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181MISS PANKHURST. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 May 1913, Page 4
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