The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-25 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS. TIR/18DAT EVZIMIO.

The Appel des Treke came on for bearing to-day
before the Court of Correctional Appeals. It will
be remembered that on the 6th of August last MM.
Gamier Pages and Carnot (deputies for Paris)
MM. Drdo, Floquet, Harold, Clamergan, Ferry,
Baylor, Corbon, Jozon, Hirisson, Melshenn, and
Bory, all the thirteen being members of the elec-
toral committees formed on the occasion of the
elections for the Corps Legislatif, were
convicted by the Sixth Chamber of Correctional
Police of having constituted au illegal association,
and were fined 500 fr. each. On that occasion the
counsel for the defence expressed astonishment that
many of themselves had not been included in the
indictment, since MM. Berryer, Arago, Marie, and
Fevre all admitted having done the very same
sort of acts as were imputed to the traverses. The
great feature of to-day's proceedings, as will pre-
sently be seen, was that—not, indeed, the four
advocates above named—but several personages of
note made a formal application to be put upon their
trial together with the thirteen accused.
It cannot be said at present that the appeal excites
any great interest in the public mind. The suffi-
cient reason for the apathy is that the first sentence
was little more than nominal, and that in political
cases there is very little chance of • decision being
reversed.

The court, admission to which could only be ob-
tained by tickets, was of course as full as it could
conveniently be, the numerous friends of the tra-
versers and of the eminent counsel engaged being
naturally anxious to obtain places.
The public minister's chair was occupied by
Procurear-General Mamas, who comes fresh from
a visit to Compiegne, and may fairly be supposed to
have received the Emperor's personal instructions
as to the line he is to take. Let no one, forgetting
the great gulf between the English and French
constitutions, be shocked at the idea of the personal
interference of the sovereign in a state trial.
Does not the Constitutionnel of this very day
contain a paragraph which must necessarily have
been authorised by the Emperor himself, stating
that his Majesty is displeased with the Duke de
Persiguy for having, without consulting him,
expressed in a letter to IL de Girardin a desire to
see an alteration in the laws which regulate the
press

The counsel for the defence are the same as in
the court below, namely, MM. Berryer, Mario,
Jules Fevre, Dufaure, Hilbert, Deamarest, B.
Arago, Grimy, M Picard, H. Didier, and &nerd.
The proceedings commenced, as the custom is in
appeals, by the reading, by one of the judges, of an
extremely long-winded report on the affair. It was
2 o'clock when this reading was concluded.
M. Senard (the eminent advocate, who was at
one time President of the Legislative Assembly)
then made a motion on the part of himself and of
MM. Cremieux, Entine Pelletan, Tenaille, Saligny,
Deroisin, Lenoel, Conlon, Fumouns, Lionville, and
Andrd Rousselle praying that they might be put
upon their trial with the thirteen traverses. This
curious application to be prosecuted was worded in
the form of what—in the technical language of
French procedure—are called " conclusions," the
text of which were as follows :
C considering that is principle no man can be affected by a
declaration of eulpebthty, nor even b► an aectiation, with-
out baying been first heard, or at least summooed to be
I heard, upon the feete imputed to him :

That this fundamental rule of criminal law has bees don
tinetly violated in regard to the requisitionists by the judg-
ment of the sixth chamber of the tribunal of the Seise,
dated August 5, in which without their having been so
much as interrogated, they are made to figure se principals
or accomplices in the tniedenmanour of an illegal society
imputed to thirteen persons against whom coodemnations
have been pronounced :
Considering that in the matter of an illegal society no
condemnation ain take place without its being established
with all legal formalities that certain persons described by
name have usembled together to the number of upwards
of twenty to form the society and perpetrate the minds-'
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That it was in order to satisfy this legal condition that
the tribunal added several names, among which are those
of the requisitionists, to the names of the thirteen persons
whose oondemnation was called for; but these names were
added without any previma " instruction " and without
any of the requisitionists being called upon to give their
explanations :
Considering that it is unimportant that the names of the
requisitionists are mentioned in the grounds of the judg-
ment :

That when a collective misdemeanour oily consisting in
the assembling together of a certain number of persons is in
question, it is evident that nobody can be reckoned as
forming part of this somber bat persons guilty of the mis-
demeanour on identical grounds :
That although some only are visited with a realty, all
those whose names are mentioned in the judgment are com-
prised in a common declaration of guilt :
Considering that this declaration ought, so far is regards
the requisitionists, to he quashed by the court, as basin
been been made against law :
Considering that it is doubtless open to the traverser@ to
'neat, in the interest of their defence, upon the illegality
of a conerat, without which the misdemeanour imputed to
them cannot exist, sad the quashing of which must ipso
facto put an end to the prosecution against them :
But that citizens whose names have been thus arbitrarily
taken by the tribunal, in order to make up • au/Borer
number to justify the prosecution, have also the inter-
testable right to present themselves before the sup—irior
jurisdiction to protest formally against the qualificatios
with which they are illegally branded by the court below of
members of an illegal society, and to require that their
names shall he struck out of • seaters bred ups an W-
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struction to which they were so parties :
Considering, so far as concerns M. Ear% that the nee of
hie name is all the more strange that he was cited and •
male pr•urqui entered es to him, and he was neither sum.
mooed nor heard afterwards :

On these panda, and on others to be hereafter allepd.
May it plow the court,

To receive MM. Bernard, lea, as alrenliAnta.
And to decree that, they having 'either been cdted nor
heard, the declaration of culpability pronounced wind
them may be quashed, and their names struck out et the
judgment.

M. Senard wasspeaking in support of the above
conclusions down to a late hour.

The trial will not be over for was days.

IMMENSE YIELD OF POTATOEIL—Our farmers are
ge•tioi ISCeetOla ps.stoes We fell. &see see as
the Mt, of h 01) per acre, sad se rotten as.. M all,
and single potatoes smallpox lased weighing 2elbs. and
Bach • crop has sot bees boons for thirty years The rift
will not be over 13e. per bead. —Lebow* (N.H.) Prot
Prue.