With all these precautions, State secrets are '.occasionally revealed. The most conspicuous I betray »1 of trait dining recent years in lilugland tbs the publication of the Auglo-Itaiiu Mem '.orandum by an cvoßing journnl in London on ■ tie eye of tho Congress of Berlin. This important diplomatic secret was brought ;to lightthrougb the ugencyof a copyist who was Employed in the room where the document was |on (i!o. Having obtained access to it, he made ;a cepy of it, and subsequently allowed an ever.- ji»j! Bompapor, tho "Globe,"to publish ut trans cript of it. Ho was prosecuted on a ebarise of Wealing the dooumeet, but tlißchareo wbs not Justsifccd, at thero iras no evidence of actual theft of the mauuuscript, Hecithcr committed tho substance of the agreement to memory, or m?de hurried notrs of tho contents upon bis cuffs or on paper. There was no statute at tho time by which this act of treachery could be punished,

■ The exposure caused great annoyance both in England and Russia, because it placed theso two jioweiß in the unenviable position of agree ing in advance upun the proviaions and limita liuub of a European treaty which all the Groat Powers weto to unction at thuConsress ia Ber lin. Tha copyist could not he indicted under luc taw, but repetitions of hia uffenco could he prevented by a revision of the statutes, This Ttiis done without due delay, It is now a pennl offeuco of any branch of the British public service to reveal an official secret. Anyone convicted of a betrayal»[ trust in mak ing private use of secret information in the Fertign, War, or Admiralty offices is liable to imprisonment at hard labour (or five or ten years. Sinco tho statute was pissed there has been at least one prosecution in England for breach oi confidence iu the betrayal of a naval engineering design.
