Pitcairns Island. — In publishing the following extract of a letter from Captain Worth, of her Majesty's ship Calypso, at Pitcairns Island, we need scarcely remind

lawful resistance of the people to the rebellion of the King* The King was the traitor and .was punished accordingly. The law of this country defined his authority and duties as clearly as it did those of his subjects. He «et to work establishing a system beside affd ■above the laws. .If be was brought to no re gular tribunal, if his punishment was devised with secrecy and effected by force, that was because the nature of the case allowed no other method of proceeding, nor "had the con stitution supposed the case of an enemy in the person of the King. But no historical pre cedents can avail to prove that rebellion is not a crime. If it is guiltless, then what is to hinder men from continual rebellion, and why are we not to live iv a perpetual struggle for , change and scramble for power ? Why not j make a hell upon earth in the sacred name of liberty ? The law under which we live is our judge in these matters. There is no appeal from it. They who violate it do so at their peril. The only merit of rebellion is that it is a personal risk, and nothing can be so mean jand ridiculous as to wish to risk the country and secure ones-self. On whom properly fall the risks of a rebellion ? The rebel or the loyal man ? We may have a certain respect for the man who, from a strong sense of op pression, comes forward to resist the law with a halter round his neck. That halter goes ■some way to consecrate his cause. We can not find this redeeming circumstance in the Irish rebellion. For a variety of reasons it was felt by all, by none more than the leaders themselves, that their own necks were insured, and that if the worst should come to the worst, Government would be merciful to those whom it would no longer fear. The prospect of a mitigated and very mild punishment has grown into such a certainty in the course of the trials, as to impart a'mock heroic air to the speeches of the prisoners be fore sentence. 