The New York Herald Newspaper, June 15, 1848, Page 2

I ratictemanmmtinnin som oy cue treachery of @ tf war ou! > em a8 «. & people; and maastire, the responstbillty will be upon the beads of those who have devised and insti- gated this horrible massacre of the innocent people of | That thoy would gi a city. The creatures king's cabinet of Austria now make up the England first stirs up a revolution in | impartixlly, I TEI Ee Ae one ~ be abio to imy thetr hands on their hearts and say, that they had givon an honest verdict between the crown on the one hand and the prisoner on the other verdict ne had no doubt, wud that they would decide as honest mon, tairly and © was assured. He would, thon, leave Napios, and all Italy—writes to Austria that reform is | the issue in Choir hands, necessary, and that any interference on the part of | Austria lo arrest it, England will not regard with in- difference ; and then when the fire hag extended to England elf, in six revolution, are massacred for i sho prepares the mi moaths after prepariag the sacte—-tho people nsisting upon the reforms which the king had conceded, and which England had offteially pronounce: “patehes of Lord Palmerston ! for such acrime. Th Freneh revolution in d necessary through the d History has no parailel are the bloody scones of tho result of fanaticism—of excited passions und warm biood—it was a contest among themselves for life and | royal name of tho imperial crown of the United King- liberty—to overthrow despotic power, and to root out | dom,” or b But this scene the seods of it from the in Naples is enacted in and unoffending people—as a matté of State policy. Yes, a revolution is firstinstigated in Naples, as it has | not, comprehend, been recently attempted in M for which the ambassador has been ordered out of the | body po towards a foreigu adrid, by England, (and ); but these scenes were the | Witnesses were called, who proved Mr. Mitchel’s proprietorship of the United Inshman, and his speoch at the dinger at Limerick. Tho publications were ro- | evived by (ho court and entered as read. | Mr. Hows commenced bis address by eulogizing | his client as “@p honest man, sincerely attached to | the principles he avows ;’' ho next commented on the exclusion of Roman Catholics from the jury panel; ard then in a yory labored manner professed his own | Uiter inability to understand either of the two charges | Against the prisoner. What was meant by intending to | deprive or depose the Queen * from the style, honor, or | advancing or intending to levy war against | her Majesty, her heirs or successors, living in any part | of the United Kingdom, by force or constraint, to com- | | pel her to change her measures or councils,” he could . He admitted that very strong | | expressions had been used by his client, and he wanted | to try this case of felony between the Crown and the | country) and then, because the condition of Europe | accused, which he could not do without entering into | has been changed, a massacre is got up and executed, without disguist the hand that moved it. Upon the present state of the information from Italy, | believe this is the precise state of the facts. [n my former let- ters I have referred frequently and with approbation to the course England was and 61 try, toensure protection to writing these eulogiums merston, | little thought people for a slaughter, executed under the sup minister. ning the reforms in placing herself betw Can these things be so? pursuing in Italy in creating | ¢ place in that coun- | Austria and Italy, | and when I was nd and Lord Pal- that they were preparing the to be likewise prepared and ervisiou of their admiral and Official documents the lat upon E establish the fact of instigating the revolution, and present information leaves no reason to doubt that the massacre was the work of her hand. There is danger of a Queen Donna Maria has sent her jo revolution in Portugal. The welry out of the country, and has detained the English ship Trafalgar for her security, ‘Chere Spain, but the present siderable firmnoss in the present exigency of affairs — | was the right of an enslaved country, and the law of isa good deal of agitation in government has shown con- The two young ladies at the head of Spanish and Por- tuguese State affairs, are involved in an ocean of trou- ble. Panis, W La: OBSERVER. fay 30, 1848—4 o'clock, P. M. test News. The Assembly are now still discussing the rules regu- lating their intercourse of, the executive commission. culty will arise from. it, not much probability of tive; and there cannot be a collision, as the executive | acknowledge the right of the Assembly to revoke their | peal for year: | thongh they believed rep: powers. with, and defining the powers I think no serious diff- as I now infer that there is the resignation of the execu- The effect of the epeech of Ledru Rollin, was ex- oiting—that of Marie more quieting and conciliatory. The particular question now under consideration, # where shall the power the National Assembly, be lodged for the protection of and the right to call out the guards and troops of the line for their security? 1 think to-day is much oulmer than yesterday, and that | the most diflenit questions have been decided. Tho | Assembly adjourned last evening under great ex- | citement, and as they meet enly at the hour of one, the disposition of to-day is yet but partially manifest- ed. There is much less manifestation among the workmen to-day, than yesterday—yet there is a great deal; and I think we sh all sve a good deal of excite- ment for the next week or two; during which time the elections will take plac e, and Caussidiere and Emile Thomas will be two of the candidates—yet there will be no civil war, in my looks like it. opinion, [see nothing that There is no vastly less manifestation of excitement in Paris, than in many of our large cities about the time of elections; but excitement here means « very different thing from excitement with us— our’s escapes in steam: French excitement. —there is more danger of o The women held @ large meeting yesterday, to mani- fest their adhesion to vorce. the law giving facility to di- The women in France wear the breeches, pret- ty generally, snd do agreat deal of the work, in-door and out; and a good many want to get rid of support- ing their husbands. Several of the English ladies are in the same condition; having some funds, they want- ed a Count, a Prince. or something else of this kind, and so they married Frenchmen, who wanted these funds f-r themselves and friend: thies existing betweem the English and French, one well imagine how glad bot! specially ifthe funds have been used | e of divorce. up. Tine commission of th fort. have reported the basis of the action of th sious of the constitution of Germany, which do not | isions of the constitution which | accord with the pro With: the antipa- parties would be for a | tional Assembly of Frank- following proposition, as the at body—“That all the provi- that Assembly may adopt, shall be changed and put in harmony with those of the constitution of the Assem- bly! tion. Coupled with this What an assumption of power—I do not say irregular or unauthorised power—for that is the ques- t power. the Assembly m Ds another—that their constitution needs no ratification but that it goes into fu ull operation by the act of the Assembly itself. Thirty-seven German States then. are wa: not only for a new con to learn what hereafter are to be the modifications in | find a verdict of acquittal. | m their own constitutions, to make It remains to be seen if the convention adopt the con- | clusions of their committee, port, which I think, goe That the Assembly has the sole right to frame a con- | fe chonld ution; 2d. Th tates shall only constitution of Ge Assembly can be di acts of the Assembly the stim ng upon the National Assembly at Franktort, | tunate Irishman for agitating the question. | lead, as Lord Althorp had said, to separ the history of Ireland. In tho first place, then, Ireland | was an enslaved country. The people did not make their own laws, and @ people so circumstanced were in @ state of slavery. Mr. Baron Lernoy said the course taken by the | learned couusel was objectionable. | Mr. Houwes wouid be the last man to press any thing | improper, but it was impossible for him to do justice to | his client without doing justice to Ireland also, [There was here a burst of cheers, and the court ordered the Sheriff to take any person so offending into custody. ] The learned counsel said the course he had taken was quite necessary for the defence. His client might be guilty of felony, but he said it broadly and boldly, that England was the cause of the offence of which he was accused, Having (very much in the style of a confe- derate orator) enlarged on the wrongs inflicted by En- gland on Ireland, and on “ the glorious volunteers of 1782,” (apparently forgetful that Mr. Mitchel had called them humbugs.) the learned gentleman proceeded to say, that no man upon slender grounds should endes- vor to subvert the established order of things, but it | Providence approved the right, to arm and right iteelf. What man there would live—- | Baron Lerroyv—Mr. Holmes, we cannot listen to this, You teach those doctrines to the people. for the pablication of which the prisoner stands at the bar.— We cannot suffer the case of the prisoner to be put to the jury founded on the subject of repeal of the Union by force of arms. Mr. Houmes proceeded to say that it was the conduct of England, her weakness, or her guilt, or both, that had brought the country into the unfortunate state in which it then was. and the English Ministers were the guilty persons, not Mr Mitchel. Those Ministers had suffered Mr. O'Connell to agitate the question of re- thoy permitted the struggle to go on. would end in separati 1 and prosecuted an unfor- Ho (alr. Holmes) would say, and every man must agree with | hira, that the very government that had instituted | this prosecution had been themselves the greatest cause of bringing this country into the wretched | state in which it is. His client might be statutably guilty, but he believed they were morally guilty. The jearned gentlemen next alluded tothe revent special commissions, at which, as he said, death had followed | the footsteps of the Attorney General. He described assassination as the crime, not of free nations, only of the untutored savage, or the brutalized slave; he Gid not deny that the assassin ought to suffer for his crime, but dees, deep, deep was the guilt of Eng- land in ‘its unprovoked invasion and unjust do- minion in Ireland. At the close of seven centu- ries of wasting wars—wasting laws and still more wasting policy—it was found necessary to main- tain that dominion in Ireland by special com- missions, state prosecutions, and military force—by the gibbet, by the goal, and by the sword. The Lord- Lieutenant might be the best of the good, the wisest of the wise, the bravest of the brave; but he could not long maintain a connexion between Great Britain and | Ireland, under a common crown, by the gibbet, by the gaol, and by the sword—the laws of eternal justice | forbid it. How was that connexion to be maintained ? By justice—hy giving to Ireland her rights—her rights | and now they turned rou: but her her own Parliament, truly representing the interests | ofthe people. Let them give to freland her own Par- Nament—not the Parliament of *82—that was a meteor light which flashed across the land—it was a deceptive | vapour, which quickly vanished. Ireland wants a fixed star, bright aad resplendent—the cordial in- fluence and reflecting radiance of which may be seen and felt in the glorious union of liberty, happiness, and peace; but it was urged that if they did that, it would ion. and that separate indepeudent | Ireland would be erected into Stute England! What right had ——. what right had | any country, to build and peril its greatness upon the slavery, degradation, and wretchedness of anitker ? Let them strip the case of the disguise with which am- bition and crime, and the love of power had invested | it, and what the sophistry of conquerors, and prince and courtiers and lawyers, had cast around it—what, then, was it? A strong man, because he is strong insults his brother man, because brother “man is | weak; the slave struggles to be free, and the enslaver kills him because he struggles. That was British co: quest and dominion in Ireland—that was Britieh leg! lation in Ireland. He called upon the jury,in con- | clusion, as they valued their oaths, and as they valued | justice and public good. manly bearing and personal stitution—a federal head—but them conform to it There is a minority re- «still further, It appears, 1st, constitutions and laws of the \d, That the members of the d from taking a pa by the Assemb, one can now see the gravity of the subjects treated by this Assembly: and whe n there is taken into considera- tion the present constitution of the German States, the sitting of the Diet at Frankfort, and the powers claimed by it—the Assembly just called together by the King of Prussia at Berlin—t ie gi aod an imp ely second he condition of Posen. Poland vity of these propositions gives ortance to the acts of this As- to that of France. OBSERVER HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM IRELAND. Trial of John Mitchel for Sedition, DUBLIN At the sitting of the court on Th the 25th ult Court the judg oes, on the } postpone the trial. but that ¥ upon Sir Coleman O'Lo being unfair and pari of jus client issue to the challenge. foreman of the Grand J validity of a# consumed in Ultimately the to be fairly made up. and prisoner, and the follo try the charge Robert Morris, W field. Allwood Clarke, R Bridgeford, and John € The ind soner ple ina firm The court then ac previous to which the Hotel, in charge of they held no communie: Tr On Friday, May 26th commenced in earnest being # considerable prisoner was placed att accommodated with a » hands warmly with other geutlemen, Dari yeceded, according to previous ase of Mr. Mitchel all law John Whitty H. Nelson, F nt was then YMMISSION ay morning. presiding in the Commission rangement el art of the prisoner, moved to < not aeseded to, where- n objected to the px made up. to the detri ficers of the Crown j nd court appointed the ury and the person next to him the olyection. A great d arguments of counsel oa both sessors pronounced the panel prejudice of the foreman; W. Fletcher, Rambon, W. Mans- Oakley, E. Rothwell, Thomas ollier. h, and the pri- voice—Not guilty rned at ten minutes to five. ary were conducted to Tommy's al bailiffs, who were to sve that ation with any one TE TRIAL, at ten o'clock, when the trial the court was crowded, there | number of ladies present. The he bar at ten o'clock, and was at during his trial. He shook ir. T, F. Meagher, and several a portion of the Attorney Genorai’s address, he sat rea The names of the jury ng & newspaper. having been called over er.on th menced previously formed offence with which M one which, until a very recent period, if commit England, would have been t ul by entfoatin nions axry GeNenatrose to state the case against part of the Crown The learned by stating the nature of the al- the jury to diseard all fle pointed out that the r Mitchel stood charged. was din ason erate Rect the former state of the law on the subject, and to those rs, proceedings of the confe ite alt » rebel re the incitement Irishman andel prisoner since the pass ingwhich he government. visional governtant w lin, would it be for the josty, the Queen of the things would be utterly hat wa iject war against her to compel he n of repen eration, he laid before the jury lion by Mr. Mitchel in the United which had been put forth by the ug of the new act. Having read copious extracts from the prisoner's speech at Lime: vke of a straggle. and of ap the learned gentleman asked if a pro- onal ¢ founded, and sitting ab. purpose of protecting her Min United Kingdo These twe inconsistent with each other If orce, which accord with the | After referring to | honor, and as they loved the country oftheir birth, to | | Mr. Henn replied on the part of the Crown. } Mr. Justice Moone. in addressing the jury. said they | had been properly told by Mr. Holmes that this was @ | case of deep importance; it was deeply important that | not be found guilty, ifinuoceut; but if he had violated the law, the peace of the country was | volved in his conviction. documents rested exclusively with the jury. The law | and cast upon them the duty of putting’ construction | upon them, according to the best of their sense and | judgment.’ The counsel for the prisoner had borne | testimony to the honesty of the prisoner. He did not | find fault with him for having done so; but the honesty of the prisoner had nothing to do with the violation of | the law. His Lordship. referring to the act under | which the prisoner was indicted. said that it was a valid binding statute, and the single question for their consideration would, consequently. be,—had the pri- | souer violated that act? To decide that there were | ; two questions for consideration :—Ist. Did the | prisoner publish the documents referred to? 2dly. | What was the meaning of those publications? Upon the first question there could be littie doubt, as it was proved.and not denied, that the prisoner was the author and publisher of the articles in questio and with regard to the latter, it was altogether for th | consideration to say what was the true meaning and import of the words they contained? His Lordship having read and commented upon the articles charged as felonious, in conclusion told the jury that if convie- | tion was not brought home to their minds that the prisoner was actuated by the intentions imputed to | him, they were bound to acquit him—whilst if they were convinced that the allegations of the indictment had been sustained, it was equally their duty togive » verdict according to their solema oath. he jury retired at half-past 5 o'clock They re- turned at half-past seven with a verdict of guilty * The announcement of tho verdict,” says the United Irishman, “ created an extraordinary sensation in the ourt —a feeling of indignation avd horror seemed to have possessed the people. Theonly person unmoved during this fearfal moment was the prisoner. filled the eyes of all present. ‘The sobs of the la were painfully distinet; while not a shadow passed across the calm, stern, noble features of the ‘felon.’ | When the verdict was heard, many gentlemen, some | | of them members of the bar, rushed forward to shake | bands with him whom they saw, perhaps, for the last | time. Lefroy called them to order, and expressed his astonishment at their having forgotton themselves 80 far, Heartless administer ot demon law |” | ‘THE SENTENCE. | The court was crowded long before 11 o'clock, on | Saturday, the 27th ult., the hour to which it was ad- | | journed: A number of Mr Mitchel’s friends and ad- irers were early in attendance, and took up their places in the vicinity of the bar. On Mr. Holmes, the counsel for Mr. Mitehel, entering the court, he was received with loud cheering and other demonstrations ot applause, in which the members of the bar and a | great part of the auditory joined The Attorney-General, Mr, Baldwin, Q.C., Mr. Smy- | ly, and Mr, Perrin, were present on the part of the | crown Mr. Holmes, Sir Colman O*Loghlon. Mr. John | O'Hagan, and Mr, J. E. Pigot, wero in court as coun- sel for Mr. Mitchel. | At five minutes past eleven, the judges, Baron Le- froy and Justice Moore took their seats on the | bench. | When the prisoner was put forward. he was shaken warmly by the hand by his friends who were about the bar t Couman O'Loontex, then addressing the court | said :—If your Lordships have no objection, we would wish to have the verdict of the jury read by the clerk of the eruwn Cenk or THE Crowx—Tho verdict is “ guilty.” Sir Couman O'Locuiexs—What is the issue paper? Read the issuo paper Stself. The Clerk of the Crown then read the issue. It stated that the jury were to try whether John Mitch- cl was gailty or not guilty of the charge on which he was put forward, and thai the verdict retarned was guilty, | leisure and opportu laad, up ton lal by nature, ‘ight: t—I ing to |} 2 asin Comeciadt ial ea tn) ae a compassings and intentions which are stated Youthought fit to publish it, to take away from it all apology of limited he construction of the | > re aa stances you do You have been found guilty on the indictment chargi: imagining and intending to deprive the style, title, honor, and royal name of crowa of the United Kidgdom; and nado Whonrayits tears . + = + * m, fie ‘a 4 4 ¢ Po : Mind oval bec-the soutence of the court te, at. sou ‘THE DEPARTURE OF THE PRIGONER IN IRONS FOR be transported beyond the seas for the term of fourteen SPIKE ISL.AND~SCENES, We. you with feloniously composing, Quoen of the the imperial | with having given publicity to that Intention by publishing certain writings in @ public newspaper, published | by you, and called the United are = other also found of the counts guilty felonious on whieh you You have been intent and pv compelling ber by for ure: tents and purposes were manifested In put forward in your own n: hese are the charges for which you were trial, and for which you have been found evidence was furnished by yourself in coming out of your own hands—d tions, issued at Intervals nd constraint t about, and to reflect upon what might hi quence of your acts, ‘The case meaning ead interpretation of The meaning and intention these was nished by yourself, and came from yours:lf, just The meaning ‘and as the publications themselves intent was collected from the language lications themselves, not confined to be collected from the asto leave no doubt upon the words iu yourself as to the meaning and inteut of the: cations. bh is assigned in ce, therefore, thus furnishe: by yourself, the jury have found you g that yerdiet, therefore. however you ma or think you Mr. Mires jury to the jury. Baron Lernoy—I understood that you had stated, in arrest of judgment, that you had been by a packed jury Mr. Mitreur.—I did. Banon R upon that; but I owe it to the the evidence furnished thus b had the slight regard to the could, by possibility, come toa d What ground of doubt was even sng to the effect of the publication by y spect to the interpre lications? As I observed, not even yoi counsel was able to suggest a doubt or a ferent from what is imputed to them. N If, ath hy ent suggest any apelogy which could be attended to in a court of justice, but an apolozy amounti that you bad a right te the law. with the verdict establishing your guilt of the offence stated upon the face of this «ndictment, ¢ cannot fairly q) and now. what is t the offence of which you havo been foun not the greatest offe sovereign or tow found guilty of was high treason. felony; and | cannot but hope that, notwithstanding the deliberate perseverance in the course which unhap- pily you havo been pursuing, that you may yourself one day or other be struck with the awful consequen- ces, the awful results to which that course must of ne- | cossity have led, if it had not been checked in its pro- gross, Surely, a provisional government howling mob ture of this crime, look at the circumstanc with it, I will not go into stances, but look at the circumstances brought before the court, and to which wi shut our eyes, connocted with this offence. inated in'a speech. We be made for a specch delivered under and though the time and place were badly upon an occasion whcro excitement would chief, perhaps, than upon a more sober oce. even rested upon th: aud great apology. But, after time for deliberation, , there might be gro you thought fit to publish that s; and objectionable matter, so charge in the indictment. put itinto a condition calculated to give i through every coruer of the land, to diffuse the poison through every excited mind in the wh The law makes, even upon the matter of agreat distinction between words spok lished. You published deliberately the upon which so much has been lately sa quite unnecessary for me to recall oF re ‘And suppose it did, who was to blame for that? | Jectionable passages it contains, to sustain both the But upon comparing the one count and the other. two publicatioas—the first of the 6th of secvnd of the 13th—this observation ari: whatever possible mitig: been effectually withdrawn by you and with in the second, was ut an_interval of another we: n to greatest perversion of interpretat is—and we Cpon the second the char, pressed by yourself—of an intention to overthrow th monarch, Y y.and establish inct what was, , you have you were indicted. ‘Tt ich perhaps might have b doubt, if the case had rested on that alone circumstance of mitigation, or at least a that publication. You have iu it disclaimed ofa war of plunder, aud assassination: an¢ er which would have vif you had left it to make use ¢ what appears in the second the man who disclaimed a war in its place a perhaps. v: ! advanta B iy. * There is now growl a wealth of grain, and ts, and ¢ enough to § nin life and comf tants of the island another year, not until every grain of it in every Stage, from the tying of the she ing of the ship ; and the eifor act of self preservation w prostrate British dominion and lan how is it possible that that ee without, of necessity, leadi taking away and withh the property justly be! it feom them by force and arm, Thus it is, then, that stage to another to have advanced and deliberate, and determined op; ¥, in language more and more more misehievously —at least such is y to hurt ry t hy; upon the Court, to admeasure, { t ture of th i] o se passages and the by which we are bound to 1 to discharge the solemn du the public, and the peace and w Nor has th been in the course of this tri any explanation, any interpre publications, or any w bearing the inte and I obser a the charge of my rd of which I concur—in about to make on the Ii hit may b ore. than it aggray 2 va the line of defence that was taken, in or irrelevancy, and with a view that the ¢ appear to acquiesce in that line of defene our duty not to put a stop to it, but to | a view probating and checking it, ag fence which, in our judgment the priviloge given to a prisoner for his which, as it was too plainly as it was injurious to the prisoner. offered—no meaning ascribed to tl no effort made to show that ycu ¥ offence imputed to you by the of defence was take which pressly stated that you in’ that you were yet jul though we did not interrupt that line o desired to— Mr. Houmes My Lords, with the ¢ what I said was, that, though he might be guilty, he was no ropeat that opinion now out the court, Baron Lerroy—I would be very gind am mistaken altogether i remarks, and [ should be extremely glid correction, I shall say no inore upon t adverted to A the © which appeared Lo tts v Hjectionadie m: which the prixoner has been found guilty ir, Honmes—I am answerable for th a line of a of the provisional government. to tracts from the prisoner mere of the North of Ire Irishman of the Oth an plainost ntives to establishment of a rep tract from an article Mr. Mitchel denied assuming the character of a hero. | and added that he ha s except by fighting The At ation conc ury whey aing placed upon that panel the traverser—that th should be sot aside, W & political participation then alone it was that lege of wettin upon suifigien be impartial } informa Instructions given were man, and that man only is did duty, Mr Keny he Att and no more himself to the jury: but he knew the partially, and tuat the: any pre-conceived op’ countrymen that the nment would understa: The instructions crown were, that no matter what the rel ajuror. If He next read ex- 6 letters to “the Protestant Far- land.” published in the United nd 13th of May, conveying the armed insurrection, and the ublic. He also read & short ox. in reply to the Times, in which only endeavored to persuade never gain their liber. nd that the only argument 4, would be the points of € eral the referred to the the striking Catholics from enon the part of the om of a man if he coincided tn polities with at man, and that man only yhen © person was euspected of in the principles of the necused the crown ex d its privi any person were found tion to be 89 disposed as not t d. to set aside that performance of thix What he was instructed to do. orney-General thon addrerved would act im- 7, roe row from their minds Baron Lernoy then looked over the indictment, and id—We have called on this case first thix morning order to give time, if there should be, either on the part of the prisoner or of the Crown, any application to made to the Court relating to it. It is therefore that we have had the case called on first, and we shall now | proceed to dispose of the case The Clerk of the Crown then asked Mr. Mitchel if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him Mr. Mircnet—I have to say that I have been found guilty by a packed jury—by a jury of a partizan sheriff —by a jury not empanelied even according to the law at England. I have been found guilty by a packed jury obtained by a juggle, a jury not empanelled by # shoriff. but by a jugal The Hian Saenirr of the Court Mr. Mircnru—This is the reason I object to sen- tence being pasted on m -That imputation upon the conduct ust pronounce to be most unwarrant- sble and unfunded. | state this, not on my own opinion alone, bat®on the opinion of two indifferent | gentiemen on their oaths, who were chosen and ap inted to examine into the matter. and who have de clared that the panel was an impartial panel. fairly ob- | tained and formed. On their oaths they have found it to be eo, ‘Therefore, the sheriff, far from being sul My Lord, claim the protection | | «ure of the offence, an act of Parliament, (Loud applause ) Baron Lernoy—-Are ther prevent this interruption ? Hin Susnire—l have given distinct police to remove any persons interrapt ceedings from the court, and —— Baron Lernoy—But tifey should mak them, that they m'ght be committed to prison Ame poso of ing to levy war against the Quoen. for th and councils: aud that those f in the same ne f time which gave you full ty to consider wh turned w successive publications, so counsel who defended you y other iuterpretation of their If justified in calling it the verdict of a packed jury, and thus imputing perjury to twelve of your countrymen. deliberate and wilfal perjury— ‘0, my Lord, I did not impute per- rxoy—I shall make no farther observation jury to state that, upon nand meaning of these pub- tis ucar akin to the greatest | offence which any subject eun be guilty o 8 untry. By the law o , the difence you 2 At the preaent mo- mont, both in England and Ireland, it is a treasonable surely, a practical enforcement of your arguments; enforced by a hundred thousand pike: must have been attended with most desolating ruin t your country. Well, then, independently of the na- iy extraneous circum. groat allowance might ion might arise from the ten- or of the first, or from any thing occurring on it, has The second publication, whic leaves it utterly impossible for the greatest stretch of ingonnity or the at one and th t you appear from o: neasured, mors T do notexpress myself | hich is now cast f them, as the g ed, 1 make them not to aggravate, d the case t was not warranted by n, was a in my opinion, morally guilty: 1 (Subdued applause throngh- my views of tho drift of the possible supposition that we sat here and acy any policemen in court to ‘There | have been | found guilty | intend. | purpose of | 0 che te th-'| publications apape put om | guilty publications | rate publica- hat you we he the conre- | on the | publications, clearly fur- of the pub- one, but to iterpreted ~y publi- the ind uilty. With y be advi found guilty no juror, who | ad taken, | conclusion. | ur own able meaning dif- not even to to thi, Well, the: on yourself nature of d guilty? If f towords his ug- taken from a es connected which were e could not It orig- excitement, osen, do more mis- on. If it allowance d with these . You it cireulation ole country, high treason. en and pub- first article, id, that it is erate the ob- M nd the —That done awa. protic on ie ould no have been a apology for the intention | dit was a di of is fonght for uf to the load- 9 that y the use of and your feelings, ion to the na ich it I ha of th per’ oxpecially de- ations | a ng up some learned Lr a the observa- no of defence in he my duty to fore ting ler to mark i ourt m. nD e. We fe aterpose with line of d defence, and injudictous f defence: atest respect, tatutubly to find that I to adopt the at point. | urt from the oxod in 7 little short tor as that for at under the orders to the ing. the pro- prisoners of Twish taod that we | my part also. Judges, b; rashed over tables into the Court? are the places for soldiers, the first instance. you have added to that, an additional contemp years. (Great sensation.) The attorney general demanded that judgment against the prisoner should be entered on each count in the indictment, as was the rule in Baron Lernov—The Attorney-Gen upon us to have judgment entered the indictment, I order the Clerk of 80. was allowed to di 0. He said England. eral having callod on each count in the Crown to do _ Mr, Mrremet, having expressed a wish to addross the ¢ law has now done its part, and the Queen of England, her Crown and Government in Ireland are now secure, pursuant to act of Parliament. | have done Three months ago I promised Lord Cla- rendon and his government in this country, that I would provoke him into his courts of of this kind are called, and that I publicly aad notorious! convict me, or else that justice, as places would force him to pack a jury against me to would rat, @ free man out of this court, and provoke him to a contest in another field. My Lord, i kney be with me, and it is with me, 1 was setting my life on that cast; but l kaew that in either event the letory should Neither the jury, nor tho judges, nor any other man in this court, to imagine that it is a criminal who stands in umes ‘is dock. (Murmurs of applause, whichthe police endeavored to repress.) Ireland I have shown what the law I have shown that her Majesty’s Government is made of in sustains itself in Ireland by packed juries, by partizan perjured sheriffa.’? Baron Lerxor— you arraign the juro1 e court cannot sit here to hear of the country, the sheriffs of the country, the administration of justice, the tenure by which the crown of England holds this country.— We cannot sit here and suffer you because the trial is over. Every thin, y previous to the judgment, the court was ready to hear, and did hear, We cannot suffer you bar to repeat, I must say, very nearly o repetition of ou have been sentenced. not say any thing more of the the offence for which Mr. Mircaet—I wil kin ut I say this — hear; but I trust you will keep yourae mits which your own judgment must Mr, Mitcuei—I_ hav to proceed 1g you had to sa; tostandat that Baron Leraov—Any thing you wish to say, we will lf within the li- suggest to you. acted all through this busi- ness from the Jirst, under a strong sense of duty. I do hot regret any thing I have done, aud {bel the course whi e that ich I have opened is only commenced.— ‘The Roman who saw his hand bftrning to ashes before the tyrant, promised that three hundred should follow out his enterprise, three, ay for hundreds. Can I not promise (looking at his friends, who surrounded the dock) for one, for two, for ‘A loud shout of exultation here rung through the Baron Lerroy ordered the officer court, accempanied by immense cheering, clapping of hands, and great manifestations ot excitement. to remove Mr. Mitchel, and then retired from the sourt. Tha prison- cr's friends and members of the counsel in tl « benches to shake hands with cene which ensued is described as the most extraordinary ever scen, even in an Irish ‘The police fond it impossible to restrain the At length the prisoner was con- the prisoner. court. persons in the court, veyed through the underground passa, Newgate, and the court began to res appearance, ‘ir robes, ge to the cell in ume its ordinary Baron Lernoy at length returned to Court, and business was about to be proceeded with, when Mr. Jonn Rea, of Belfast, complained that, by tho orders of the high sheriff, he (Mr. Rea), althoug! terial witness for Mr, Mitchel in the chi array, was kept out of Court on Thursday. & ma- lenge to the Ba: on Lernoy—We have had no complaint from Mr. Mitchel of the absence of a material witness. Mr. Rea—But, my Lord, has the sheriff a right to keep professional men out, and allow millitary mon The parade ground and the barracks The Hich Suerirr said he had been informed by the police t tain admit cate with him, Mr. Rea endeavored, in a turbulent get admittance into Court, and threatened to use p! sical force, in order to ob sheriff) had furnished Mr. Mitchel’ et ed ittance, He (the friends with tick- in order that they might be enabled to c@mmuni- Baron Leroy (addressing Mr. Rea]—The Court de- Mr. Rea—I shall do so, sires, if you have any complaint to make against the sheriif, you will embody it in an affidavit. COMMITTAL OF MESSRS, DOHENY AND T. F. MEAGHER FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. Mr. Michael Doheny was here placed at the bar, charged by Inspector Guy with disturbing the peace of the Court, by shouting in a most disorderly manner. Mr. Donexy—I admit that I clapped my hands, bi Ideny having shouted. In the ful every word uttered by Mr. Mitchel in ut wt sense, | adopt that dock. Baron Lerrov—You are pertinaciously persisting in contempt of Court. Mr. Douesy—I don't mean to say one word that could be construed into contempt of court. Banox Leraor—But you are acting in @ way to in- leniently, suppos! crease she contempt of which you have been gullty in You admit that you committed » contempt of court, with which the court was disposed ing that the expression of feeling came from you involuntarily. But now, sir, and seem disposed to commit Mr. Douexy—I did not moan to say one word in con- temptof court; sentiments were uttered in which I coincided, and [ expressed my appr and on no account whatever will bation. ‘After consulting for a few moments Judge, ‘obation of them, retract that appro- with his brother Baron Lerroy said:—Oh! I was not aware you were a member expected an what might be expected from a pe the bar, from whom, therefore, might be ob-ervance of decorum much beyond son not of the ‘posi- tion and rank you hold, Under the cireum nees now detailed to the court, we are of opinion that you should be committed. Mr, Donexy—I am counsel for some young men who are charged with the offence of drilling. Shall I have an opportunity of defending them ? M. Justice Moonr—Certainly you ted to do so. Mr. Barpwry, Q. shall be pormit- , intimated that it was not the intention of the crown to proceed with the prosecu- (ion for drilling, &e., im the case of the Queen v. Eng- lish and others. Mr. Dowewy then applied that his ¢ permitted to stand out on their own the next commission. lients recogt As the crown counsel did not object, the applieation was granted. Mr. 'T. F. Meagher was then brought up in custody of Inspector Little, who, on being sworn, expressing applause by stamping his his hands. charged him with feet and clapping Baron Lernoy—You have heard what the policeman has sworn; have you any observation Mr. M what you have been charged with ? Mr. Mreacuer—I do, my Lord. I Mr. Meaaner—None, my Lord. to make ? ite replied that he had nothing to say. | Baron Lernoy—Do you mean to say that you confess ron Lerroy—Have you any apology ? Judge Moone—Perhaps this was done in the exeite- meut of the moment, and you will reconsider the mat- ter in the course of the day Baron Lernoy—We will receive an: the sitting of the court Another gentleman, who had given feoling: in the court, was also brought up in eustod; y apology during expression to hi but was discharged on stating that be had acted under the excitement of the moment. Andrew English, one of the traversers in the drilling case before mentioned, was also charged with turbulent condue howe but merely to obtain admission into he expected his case would be called in the passage leading to the court. He stated, that he did not wish to create any disorder, the court, where on. The Judgos, therofore ordered him to be discharged. L 2 pt standing at the tab! wai police had time for a little calm reflection. Mr. J. P. Dittos observed that Mr. nov said, with respect to Mr. Doheny, who le in the custody of the that the court would not commit him until he Doheny was in a state of excitement; but that he had not intended to be guilty of any contempt of court, Baron Lerxoy—But when there has been contempt, aud when the gentleman perreveres, and sets up a de- fence of his conduct, the court would be wanting in its duty if it did not vindicate its authority, and would not deserve to sit here. M offe ‘ir. Di.tox—It was not Mr. Doheny’s intention to any disrespect to the court ; bit he was under the impression that what was required of him would involve a retractation of the expression of his sympathy for Mr. Michel. Baron Lerroy—Not at all. We don’t want to in- torfere with any gentleman to prevent him to indulge his feeling—that is all a matter of taste; but if the gentleman says he acted under excitement, and did not intend any contempt towards the court— Mr. Donery—I did not moan any court. I did not mean any contemp' giving expression to my feeling; but disrespect to the t to the court in whatever punish- inent is attached to the expression of my sympathy for Mr. Mitehel, and for entertaining tho opinion I I repeat, howovor, that I uttered, [ cannot retract it. avo did not'moan any contempt towards the court. Baron Lerroy—Then, under those circumstances, and as you were under excitement charges you, Mr. Doheny was thon ret at liberty Mr. Meacien (who was also in it, the court dis- the hands of the police in court) then came forward, and said that he, too, was under the impression that the expression of his feeling and « Mitchel was required of him. He anything ; but ta withdrawal of ympathy for Mr. could not retract ¢ would say that he did not mean any disrespect #r contempt towards the court. Baron Lernoy—The court does not mean to inter- fere with, or prevent the expression of feeling or sym- pathy. have with the preservation of order court, Ifyou say you were under ex not moan any contempt to the court. to deal harshly with you. Mr. Mracuen—I rope the contem, guilty of any, which nothing more, We have nothing to do with that; but we and decorum in citement, but did , We haye no wish pt, itl have been did not intend, but I can say Baron Lernoy—Well, the court discharges you. you (addressing the prisoner) to unders have, with the utmost anxiéty, and with toa decision upon the measure of puni it would be our duty to impove. postpon of sentence upon you until this mornin with the utmost ‘deliberation, examine: with an anxiety to duly discharge the duty whi de—the duty which we owe the prisoner owe on all of not meting out punishment beyond t uniehment will be wnishmont. whieh is that the degree of out the object of al infliction of the penalty upon the pors bat the prevention. of erime—thet that should earry with it a seourity to the possible, that one who has off-nded #0 that so deliberate a violator of the law mitted to continue his eourse of eondu turbance of its peace and proxp sider all this—to look at the magn and to look also et the consid t ject to the imputation cast upon him, has done his —“~, & the ease, John Mitchel, | cannot at the out- jut ¢; not the first case brow! ve obliged us to carry ont the penalt the duty wo owe to Un hall not he per- ily. We had to eon- s view to come yment whieh 1 the passing ¢. We have, MR. 1OLMES DEFIES THE ATTORNI EY GENERA! wes here rose to address the Court. when the utmost silence was observed He raid My Lords, ! think I had a perfect right to use the language I did A the matter, h we © sust mea. public ch asto-carry snot the mere on convicted, | pun wt, to the dis | t under the act, our duty might it awards to ay y,, a8 an advocate. I adopt to- nion. I I with now to state that what I nid yor lay as m: here avow all Ihave said; and own opl- perhaps under this lto act of Parlinmont, her Majesty's Attorney Gey noral. if T have violated the law, may think it his duty to proceed against me in that way But If 1 have vio- id. T Iated the lawin anything | a ros must, with great tto the Court, assert that | hada perfect right toray what Tatnted ) and I now say. Ya dltherntion, that the sentiments expressed with respect to En and and her treatment of this country, are my oral: mente, and | here avow them openly. The Attorney Gencral {a present—I retract nothing—there are my JL judged sentiments—these are my opinions. as to relative position of England and have. ae you aeem to insinuat is those cplnioas, I now deliberately Ireland, and if 1 the law by stat so again, Let | re-echoed from one end of the isle to the other, and The Weekly Freeman,s Journal saya:—* Precisely as the prison clock struck four, the convict-van drew up at the front entrance to Newgate, and was immediate- ly surrounded by two squadrons’ of dragoons, under the command of Colonel Maunsell and Colonel Gor- don. ina few minutes an offteial, bearing the warrant for Mr. Mitchel’s remo entered the prison,and de- livered the same to the High Sheriff. The mounted police end dragoons, with drawn sabi formed four deep round the van. The doorway having been open- ed, Inspeotor Selwood gave the word at the prison gate —'All is ready.’ One of the turnkeys then came forth with a bundle of clothes, which were understood to be the convict dress, and threw it into the van. Preeisely at eight minutes past four the gates were opened, and Mr. Mitchel came forth with » firm step, and unnerved demeanor. He wore a brown frock coat, light waistcoat and dark trousers, and had « light leather cap upon his head, the hair appearing to be closely cut. His hand and right leg were heavily manacled, and fastened to each other by a ponderous iron chain, He cast one quiet dignified glance about, and recognising friend, who called out ‘ Mitchel.’ bowed to him. He was then assisted into the van, ‘ac- companied by four or five inspectors of police. The door was immediately banged to, and the cortegé galloped forward at a double quick trot up Bolton street, and thence tothe North-wall, where the Sheer- ness war steamer was lying in readiness, Having been ‘on board, the steamer set sail for Spike Island, m whence the martyred Mitchel will bo conveyed to Norfolk Island, as the penalty for loving his country.” Mr. W.H. Mitchel, brother of the prisoner, has dressed a letter to tho Freeman, in which he sta that having obtained an order to see his bypther in Newgate after sentence was passed upon him, he applied for admittance, but was informed he could not see him that day, and told to call the following morn- ing. ‘Fhe government have seized on the printing mate- rials of the United Ivishman. ‘The judges, ow leaving the court, were preceded In a carriage by the high sheriff and an advanced guard of police. The carriage in which their lordships rode was surrounded by a troop of lancers, with an officer at each of the windows. A considerable number of people were attracted to the spot, but with the exception of some groaning, as the carriages passed through Sack- ville street and at Carlisle bridge, there was no indica- tion of feeling. ‘The city continued in a state of great excitement during the evening. The police force mustered in large numbers, About seven o’clock divisions marched from the different station houses, and took up their po- sition in the precincts of Newgate. Mary street, the police were attacked with stones. One officer was cut under the eye, another on the for head, and two others had their hats broken. After this the police were ordered into rank and charged the streets several times. Several persons in these charges were slightly bruised. This was the only casualty du- ring the night. and at twelve o'clock the streets were perfectly tranquil. There wero upwards of fifty con- stabulary and metropolitan police stationed inside Newgate, with a proportionate amount of arms and am- munition. The couneil of the Irish confederation met at D'Olier street immediately after the verdict was announced, and the several clubs in connection wih that body, held meetings during the evening, which were attended by the leading members of the confederates. A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on Saturday, says,—“ This mornin’, at an early hour, Mrs, Mitchel and children,aceompanied by a few friends, roceeded from her residence. at Ontario Terrace, 3 Newgate, to in‘ erchange farewell with her convicted husband previous to his final ¢eparture from his native land. A few only were prerent, We are told that the scene was harrowing to the last degree. The professed Republican preserved a stern composure for sometime, until, subdued by the presence of his wife and artless children, he bent into derness, and the shock was the greater because of his reluctance to yield. A subscription has been already set on foot for the wife and children of Mr. John Mitchel. ‘The lady is & niece of Sir William Verner, M. P. for the county of ‘Armagh, and was married at the early ago of fifteen ears. Although still youthful she isthe mother of four children, the eldest of whom is nine years old. Among the contributors to the subscription are Mr. O'Gorman, fen., for £50; Mr, T. Meagher, £50; Mr. ‘W. O'Hara, £50; Mr. C.'G. Duff, £25. Up to Satur- day night the sum collected amounted to nearly £400. THE TIME. [From the United Irishman, May 27.] | These are solemn days. We are walking the brink of an abyss; fathomless yawns the chasm before us; if our hearts sink, if a nerve trembles, we fall and perish; if, on the contrary, our souls be brave and our steps ra- id. we will come forth from the danger, triumphant. 'n these days, cowardice is folly, and courage is wisdom. ‘The man who shrinks from his post, and pins himself to his lady's apron string, must mect the dog’s death which he deserves: but wherever a dauntless heart be beating, be sure God’s good angels are watching there. For two brave men who fall on a battle field, fifty cow- ards areslain. Valor is a very Ajax-shield, and he who een, abold spirit has o never failing talisman.— hat is the grandest biography that man can aspire to? He lived a brave man’s life. What is the sublimest epitaph which can grace his tomb? He died a brave man’s death. The cow: breathes his last on a bed of down, with low whispering voices in his ear; the pa- triot falls across a barricade, and is dragged through mud and street-filth—but the memory ot the one dies with his body, while the other, in entering a tomb, as- cends a throne, and rules us from his sepulchre. The time. Itiea steel-toned era. ‘Not the ‘age for silvery tones and measured sentences. Not the age for rhetoric skill and tricks of fancy. The strong thing is now the only true thing. The Time. It is a gloriousage. Old Earth sways to and fro, rocked hither and thither by the storm-breath of democracy. That great Lazarus—the people—has come forth from its tomb. The sleeping warriors are awakened, The clash of their swords isthe death- knell of tyranny. And when all the nations are ad- vancing ina “rhythmical march.’ shall we not keep the ka 3 Dress up your ranks, fall in, and follow. The Time. It is no poetic, rainbow-hued, golden age, No gentle, sweet-voiced sovereign rules the world. Ouronly king isthe sword. At the fiash of the patriot’s steel the torch of freedom can alone be lit. ‘This is not the time for beggars’ petitions. No more prayers; mo more whining; no more dying in the ditch-side; no more patient and persevering cannibal. ism: no more soup-kitchen paternity; no more of the rim farce, in which two millions of men, with rod Gicoa in thém, and something resembling « soul, by the grace of the devil and the advice of their pastors, bid farewell to the sun, and committed suicide; no mere of that gentle “law” which, like death, levels all distinc- tions, and places a high-souled patriot in the same filtby cell with a common burglar anda swindling Jew; no more of the licensed scoundrelism of pompous ma- istrates—which the other day consigned one of our st friends to a felon’s prison, for walking through the streets eof Dublin with his friends; no more of that accursed mockery, enlled “government,”? which has trampled {nto sterility every good seed of truth, and honor, and courage, which the just God had planted in this land, and left it without fruit and verdure. A away, with all this “specious fry of fraud’’—with Eng- lish rule and English robbery. Down to their native hell with aristocractic plunderers and viceregal green- croppers. Their hour is come. With the keen steel which will redden in the blood of the first foreign butcher, we will write Finis in the book of British crime, and trace the title page of Ireland's new his- tory. "Tho people of this Jand have been dreaming an unces dream, The nightmare vanishes at last, and the blood- stream circulates in the country once more. They can stir their arms and use thoir strength again. A voice was heard, crying in this wilderness, and it has aroused thein to sense and volition. A glorious fidt luz was the clouds rolled off from our horizon, and the blue sky looked forth on us, and blessed us, A revelation caine unto the people, and they felt that they had only to say, “we shall do such a thing,” and it was done— they felt, nt last, the everlasting truth flashing in on thelr benighted souls, that a people's will, and Omni- potence,—as far as regards carth—are synoninous. Let them come forth, then, in the sun-light, and take the rights which have been withheld from them so long—yes ! take them, for they have only to stretch forth their hands, and they will soon grasp the treasure which they desire. Paris willed that it should bo free, and Louis Philippe packed up his thing, put his um- brella under his arm, and, renewing his youth—eagle like—went forth a-travolling. Sicily wilied that the Union act—which sucked out its life-blood—should be repealed, and the first sword which glistened in the patriot’s hand, cut the parchment link that bound it to @ foreign country—Milan—but why multiply in- stances? [sit not plain as that God ‘hveth, that we have but to ask and we shall receive, if we ask in the commanding tones of freemen, not in the whining ac- centof slaves? Come forward, then, ye suffering poor, and proye to youn oppremors that you are mon, and not dogs, From the fields whero you toilin the heat of summer and the frost of winter, coaxing out of the heart of carth those hidden riches which minister to your tyrants’ luxury—from the filthy lanes where you cowor in rags, and wet, and misery, hiding your shame from the of your fellow-men, and gnawing (you hayo dane !) through the flesh of your own childran, to fan the flickering flame of life within you—from the under ground cellars, whore some of you, endowed, mayhap, with high aspirations and sunny genius. grovel, worm- like. in cold and nastiness, cursing the rule which bas crushed you down to dust, and extinguished the hea- venly light within you—from the haunts of crime, where, with breaking hearte, you sell the bea y which was intended to adorn the homes of virtue, that the Hunger flend which is proyingon your ¢n- trails may be satisfied—come forth, come forth, yo joor, You woar the garh of humanity; you have the Appearance of men. Lot the garh havo somothing within it—lot the appearance clothe a reality. You were mado to God's like Promiers and aristo- crats may deny it, but the Man-God who died for you hay said so, Blood circulates In your veins, too, You have rignts to demand, and wrongs to avenge. You have as riche fluid within your hearts as the tyrants who tramp on you. You arelike them, i physical for- mation. If they prick you, do yau not bleed? If thoy poison you, do you nat die? You are stronger than they gre, ‘They are few and you are many. Up, then, grapple with them, and try w fall or two. It 1 only when you have your hands round theiv waists that you can truly estimate their ¢trongth or weakness. The French National Amemnty Weronrsnay, May 31, 18/8. IMPEACHMENT OF LOUIS BLANC, The chair was taken, at 1 o'clock, by M. Sewann, one of the Vice Presidents, The chamber continues to be most strongly guarded, tronps of the line being posted in large numbers at all the entrances in the aident’s garden, and in the courts, The order of the day was the interpellations demand- ed on the late events xt Naples. Xavier Duanigu entered at great length into a nar. rative of th nta in but without bring! forward any nowTret, fie demanded in particular whe t of the Admiral Baudin on the encipocmmanvenrennyynomnn Litt easrencti sts tictsnn taint loner ihatoasosit The Hon. Minister here went briefly through the cir- gumstances, as already narrated by the publie journ: Admiral Baudin, he suid, had at once sent in energetic note. declaring that if the French sul Naples were uot properly and fully protected, he im self should be prepared to act for their defence. Some French subjects who had been arrested were then sot at liberty, and a fitting indemnity, which was demand- ed for whatever injury had been done to either their persons or property, was at once aecorded. The French subjects had been received on board the French vessels if perfect satety. ‘he Hon. Minister paid a high com- pliment to M. Levraud, the French agent at Naples, and to Admiral Baudin, for their firm and decided con- duct during the outbreak in question. They had shown that the republic would not permit any of its subjects to be injured or insulted in any respect. (Hear, hear ) The Admiral would continue to see that nothing should take place at Naples, in any way to the injury of French subjects, or to the detriment of the dignity due ry to the republic. | It was evident that every thing that was roquited had been done by the agents of the go- Yernment, which was all that ‘the National Assembly could demand. The Honorable Minister concluded by declaring that a telegraphic despatch had been des- patched to Admiral Baudin to watch carefully over the observance of the amnesty agreed to between the royal troops and those of Messina. Also, looking at the gra- vity of the events which were passing at Naples, the French government had immediately despatched there 4 special agent to represent tho republic. ‘he Assembly deeming these explanations satisfao- tory, pasted to the order of the d ‘he Presipent—I have @ most cation to make to the Assembly, members to observe the strictest silence. (Movement of attention.) I have to present to you a formal demand from the law officers of the republic for authorization to proceed against one of the members of this high As- sembly—M. Louis Blane—for high crimos and misde- meanors. (Great agitation and then the deepestsilenc ‘This application is signed by M. Portalls, Procureur- General at the Court of Appeal at Paris, and by M. Lau- drin, Procureur-General at the Court of Premiere In- stance of the Seine. and bears date ‘ Palais de Justice, May 31,1848." It declares that from the facts which have come to light from the testimony of various wit- nesses, and from the declaration of M Louis Blane himself when examined in that capacity, it would ap- pear that he took an active part in the tavasion of the Assembly, on May 15, by the erowd. By his own avow- al, he spoke twice to the people, once’ from a window outside, when with Barbes and Albert, and again in the Salle des Pas Perdus. In particular he made use of these words. “I congratulate you on having to-day established your right of petition; now it can nevor be taken from you.” Without his proceeding further, the requisitory of the law officers says, there was strong presumption that M. Louis Blanc had voluntary taken part in the invasion and oppression of the National Assembly, which constituted the crime of attentat pro- vided for In art. 87 of the penalcode. | In consequence. as it was to be presumed that M. Louis Blanc had joined in the attempt to overthrow the government, ‘the law officers of the republic had to demand from the Assembly to have the said Louis Blanc placed at their disposal to be proceeded against as might be seen fit. [Great agitation that lasted some time.] M. Pascat observed that, though it could not be doubted that M. Louis Blanc had spoken to the crowd in the Salle des Pas Perdus, it was with the permission of the President that he did #0, and the words which he uttered were those of conciliation [hear, hear) ; that fact he (the member speaking) could attest, as he heard tho President give the authorization. A Memaea—Let M. Louis Blano speak. ‘The Paxstpent—If M. Louis Blanc wishes to speak, he can do #0 at once. M. Lovis Brac signified that he should do so after- wards. AMsmnen proposed that the Assembly should not vote at once, but submit the matter to a committee ortant communi- must call on the [no, no}. M. Lovis Buanc ascended the tribuno in great agita- tion, and declared that he stood there, not asa person accused, but as @ representative of the . He asked, was it likely that he who had helped to found the republic would join in an attempt inst it? Ho had, ull his lifetime, been engaged in proclaiming the sovereignty of the people, and yet he was now accused of violating it by countenancing the invasion of the Assembly which represented that people. Whoever accused him of such conduct, lied idihis tecth (ilen a menti) (hear, agitation}. It was true that a grave in- vasion of the sanctity of that Assembly had taken place, and for that citizens were now lingering ina dungeon—men who had devoted their efforts s0 pow- erfully to the establishment of the republic. But that did not prove thet he was concerned in the scenes of violence that had marked that dreadful scene. He had been much calumniated during the last fortnight, had been the victim of the most injurious imputations, and he rejoiced that this opportunity was afforded him of declaring the truth. No. He had not gneouraged the people to invade the Assembly. No; he had not joined in the attempt to oppress his colleagues. Yes; ho had endeavored to persuade the infuriated crowd to leave the hall of sitting. (This was pronounced with energy, the honorable mem- ber stamping and striking the tribune. He resisted the calls of the people, and went up to the President to ob- tain permission from him to speak. It was only after that permission that he had spoken. The honorable member concluded by declaring that to suppose that he was guilty of what was alleged against him would be to rely ap that he had acted there in contradiction to @ had always aimed at during his whole life, (Great agitation followed this address.) ‘A Menuen considered it to be his duty to state that having been next M. Louis Blanc on the day in ques- tion. he heard him for half an hour resist every attempt on the part of the crowd to make him leave lace, and that it waa only after being so pressed that he st ae went up and spoke to the President. (Agi- tation M. Anaco could assert that the President had said to M. Louis Blanc, when the latter came to ask him if he should speak to the people—* As President, I cannot authorize such a step; but asa private individual. I have to declare that it isthe duty of every citizen to remove that crowd if he can.”? M. Bucnez, the President —These were the very words Lused. [Still greater agitation.) A Memnen declared that he heard M. Louis Blanc, on the 15th of May, say to two persons who asked him te address the crowd, “ What canI say to madmen like ene 77° A Meaven commenced—On the day alluded ¢9, when the riot was at the highest, when half the seats had been abandoned by the members. [Tremendous uproar, cries of “ No, no!) We were all in our places!" « No one stirred !""] AxoTuE® Memnen—I must protest, in the strong- est manner against the imputation just thrown on this Assembly. We all remained in a dignified impassibility, when in the greatest danger. [Tremendous applause | M. Creaievx thought thatit was not in such agita- tion as now filled every breast, thata decision on tho graveaffair could be come to. It must be borne in mind, that the person against whom the demand was made, had been a member of the provisional govera. ment, In consequence, he was of opinion that the. Assembly ought to withdraw to its bureaux, and shere appoint a committae to take the matter into considera- tion. [Henr, hear. ‘The Assembly being consulted, it decided that the members should at once withdraw, and appoint a com- mittee, composed of eighteen persons, one in each to send in and report to the Chamber on the requisitory of the law officers of the republic, and state whether there wasgood reason to grant the authorization de- manded, Just as they were leaving their seats, A Mennen asked to have the requisitory read ova ain. This was done, and when tho President had con- eluded, M Lovts Buaxc ran up the tribuno, and declared that when he spoke just before, he had’ not heard the document read. He could now declare that he was ex- ceedingly astonished, that it had not been added in it, that he had stated that he spoke on the formal per: mission of the President. also to affirm that he had never spoken the words attributed to him. (Dreadful uproar. “ Youdid! you did! many hoard you} On M. Louis Blanc’s descending from the tri- bune, a crowd of members closed round him in the Greatest agitation, apostrophising him in # violent manner. To escape them he ran up tho steps leading to the back seats on the left. It was some time before the noise and agitation ceased. When it had subsided, M. Louts Braxc again ran upinto the tribune. and declared that he had addressed the crowd hypotho- tically, saying. that “if they wished to have the right of petition consecrated, they must withdraw, and’ so respect their own sovereignty.” (Cries of “ No! no!'? great agitation.) At lust the members withdrew to their bureaux, agreeing to resume the publio sitting at five. It was then four o'clock, Ladtes’ Fashions for Junc. (From the London and Paris Ladies’ Magazine of Fashion:) Materials of slight texture arg now much in demand. Moursclines de soio of every color, baregés. palmy- new matorial partaking of the poil do re, with jaconets and organdysin Persian pat- ns; silk dropses of fancy stripes of the palest colors made with three flounces on biasis; the upper one rounded off, rises gradually. diminising to tho waist, and is continued on tho corsage, forming double re- Vers. | For demi-tojlotte, the form of the coreage vari wut le; thay are generally open. with revers or chile, the slvevo moderately wide, particularly at the bottom, dzooping on the arm, or admitting the under sleeve of clear muslin; the skirts with very deep flounces, It ia only when required for carriage wear or dejeunors that the dreasos aro ornamented by coquilles, ruches, &e ; if ribbon, all axe made of a length to give freedom to tho foot; bareg) drostes are ornamented with deep biaw Hounces, edged with small gimp, or tneks of graduatod sig to the waist. Rodingotes are still made a ln Puri. tatne, ornamented by gimp trimmings; dresses of thin materials have the corsages made full; many redingotes are mado with corsages 9 My Dubarry. The bon- nets of this season are of a moderate size, demlevasce, close at the ears, with round crowns; very pretty ones are made of paille de riz, with the capote crown of taf- fotaa ghac y fetas, #0 deli pink, white, or blue, engireling the edge bavyolet; it also forms trimmings on the crown, . The ribbons used this season are very rich; pretty opon straws are with bonds of taifetas or gauze, and straw alternately, lined with taffotas glacé and neeud, with large pink torwat the sido Many of the eapotes of tulle bouillonne, or rich blond, are simply trimmed with ribbon, and merely ornamented inside by bunohes ¢ lowers; somotinios a lace lappet forms tha Capotes of oraps, ganze, or linon are, with yoilotter of the same, pink, blue, or white, confined by a wreath of ribbon coques. _ The mantelets and perdossus are mado of taffetas glacé of every color, of gured tulle, trim- med with lace or frills of the anme, pinked or embroi dered; they aro also made of embroidered muslin; black Ince shawls, both single and double, continue tn fa- shion; and many mantelets are made matching the dress, For European Commercial and Finanevial Af: Sairs, see Fourth Page.