There is reason to hope that one of the Phamix
Park mur- derers—a man of the name of Westgate, who- escaped from Swansea on board a vessel bound to one of the Spanish-Ameri- can Republics—has confessed his crime, and given himself up to justice at Puerto Cabello, whence be has been sent on to Caracas, where it is hoped that the Venezuelan Government will make no difficulty about giving him up to England. Sir William Harcourt commented on Thursday night with just severity on the mischief done to the cause of justice by the restless activity of caterers for newspapers, who betray at once clues by which it might otherwise lie possible for the police to get hold of great crimi- nals. The same mischievous activity is displayed just now by poli- ticians in relation to the war in Egypt. The constant stream of information conveyed by telegrams of all that is going on in the English camp must be highly appreciated by Arabi, who gets from it his most trustworthy news. Again, all discipline will be at an end, if every severe repression of the English soldier's appetite for loot is to be commented on and deplored in the Correspondents' letters. The abolition of flogging in the Army will be a grave evil, if the looting tendencies of some of our soldiers cannot be promptly and sharply put down.
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