The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

DM.481710U8 1111PWItECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE.

Within the last two sr three days no fewer than
eight Quebec homeward baud timber ship. have been posted
st Lloyd's es kering bon lest during the late heavy gales ht
the Atlantic. Te weather Is described to bare Leen terrine,
sad the CiTCUOUGllloBllcoseested with potentl of the wrecks
were of the most berme* astute. The following le s 'het
of the losses

fisahipPeerless, Wier hodea, with souse patronage, on
board, Tema on a portage kw girt*, to England, when 566
was dionallad in a forefel gale off Ceps North, sod street as
Filet Ishuid. The mewls, was washed overboard and
drowned, and three of the maws perished la an attempt to
reach the Acre. After some difficulty the peasenages sad
remalnder of the konils, with the captain sad allow% were
landed. The ship and ergo were valued at boleros 12,0001.
sod 14,0001. She was a very fine vessel, sad this was her
Bret voyage.
The Alp Barbara, booed to Lomita from Quebec, timber
Wen, when off the Bask. of Newfouedlaad, oa the 25th
all., ameguaborei the gale, and eventually beam* water.
lewd. The 'spate sad crew, with the exceptioa et the
steroid, who was swept overboard and drowned, remained
en the week elx dam exposed to the mated stiffseiage,
whom they we taw off, as the Illat, by the twig Mary
mom

--the Made, of asseimm, front Quartos to !Under-
bid, • sesesesles st beery gales. The ship
sad stirsed,
_spiry a leak, and the essetaat
elettine of the crew dad is checking the water. It
MOW do eshis door, sad providone, and froth water, ea-
Ideal Ile WI a liwtsiglet. About Boos oa thll Ifith alt., es
Ire*" ire Mir kr, the master's wife Was tokle SO UM
lrtriend lb ;stew were preps/Op to Mow, wham
p he err to starboard, sod west doors
sa bar lardelde. The captain's wife got rintioiled
ow:ei l• dm sad was drowned. The whole dtbe mew wore
rebel sad
soreso perished. The ship gelds( relieved
din Ink, and hew topmasts sad yards, righted
bertelf. lim decks than beim to book up, sad the °Weis
sad survives* of the maw, who were dingle( to the week,
suffered amok teem treat of food sod water, sad the Molest
rolling sad plunging of the ship. The body of the co n •
wife was mill is the *Wag, bat maid not be . On
the fallowiss dap' the rosier ship lasso 8011, Caplets
I Johneea.iftes Leal" are la view, and bore down to the
wree, sad nessed rase sir wers oa deck. The name of
them who milted were Ma Cheese, notelet's wife, Henry
Mie.histeetab, George Imelda, George Ben=
Ossegallishalk sserss, all of Saar; art
Soft
Caretyr Melia% Ceptais Power, Ur (Were
Is kr arra. itill is with the gals os the Me. mid
as shift Irk. The beery wearer wrier( isr
sod the rear wars cat away to seiretibe ship.
Tim , kept faarentse, sad the Mil et the ship
set Prevldestislly the ship Oswaird, ler Beetaa,
bad observed the wreck, sad took Was sep-
tets aid Ids gam 14 Is an.
rim ptgepssereer Wag from Quakes lia Areares.
hecassowedse CS the 19th Oot. from the leray7=
resod Weseabs Its gals. sad captiesil. Tb saw
thersiess es ite efigis la which star trey etereited if
km is saletiag tai -rant errs prissier, bore they
wee iiiii *IL
Ills dip Raskin, Ospids Wiser*, leaded with Warr,
bard to lawies flash a a• toPe, and the 1,-. Wilkinson,
Delehlwes, also beat Qr bee dor I ebbe J, bream
darts( the gshis, end were ao....maird by the
seem

die Moo la the Liked° are reported to the book.

all that the journal' are allowed to publish. The
justification of these rules in the view of the French
government is that a report of a trial for a political
libel propagates the libel a thousandfold and creates
scandal, and that the restricted audience permitted
to witness the proceedings is still numerous enough
to prevent all the abuses of justice rendered " in •
corner." It is needless to say that we Engliah
think these reasons insufficient; but I readily admit
that the French government, which, of course, acts
upon them, is entitled to some credit for the relative
fairness with which the patronage of giving tickets
of admission was exercised to-day. The mere fact
of my having been present shows that none of those
severe measures were adopted, which might easily
have been taken had it been intended, in defiance of
all decency, to compose the audience exclusively of
people ready to applaud an unjust judgment Ten
tickets were presented to M. de Montalembert him-
self ; and, although he would naturally have been
glad to have had more to distribute among his
numerous relatives and friend., and kis colleagues of
the Academy, the number, considering the limited
arena of the court, was certainly not illiberal. A
very fair sprinkling of the junior bar, somewhere
about twenty, chosen by lot, obtained places, and
there were among the auditory many people well
known not to be admirers of the present dynasty.
The truth is, that the despotism, the harshness, and
the duplicity of French political institutions are as
yet tempered by old traditions, and a lingering de-
sire to reconcile the preservation of MN of the
forms of liberty with a denial of the substance.

At five minuies before 12, Count de Montalembert
entered the court, accompanied by the Duke de
Broglie and M. Odillon Barrot. He took his seat in
the front row of the bar, between his counsel, M.
Berryer, and M. Debars, counsel for M. Donniol,
the 'front of the Correspondant. M. Doaniol sat
on the bench immediately behind them. At this
moment every seat in court was occupied, and the
slight strip of space railed off at the end, which by a
pleasant fiction is suppoeed to belong to the public,
waacrowded to excess by well-dressed people standing.
I believe some four or five people, who had waited at
the doors from 8 o'clock in the morniog, did obtain
admission without tickets to this small epee*, just
by way of tribute to the principle that the court
was open. At 12 precisely the judges took their
seats. There were four of them, and not three only,
as I was led to expect yesterday. Their names are
M. Berthelin, the president= MM. Laievaax and
Benoit, judges of the Tribunal of the First
Instance; and M. Glandes, a supernumerary or
apprentice judge (jug. ruPPZia"e). On the
bench there was a large array of judges, of differ-
ent courts, and among them M. Benoist Chsmfy,
the president of the Tribunal of the First Instance.
&Tea or eight members of the corps chspionsatiqus
sat on privileged seats under the bench. The diesp-I
poistment among the many grand.. dooms of the
Famboarg Bt. Oermain who had asked for tickets
met have been immense. There were very few
ladles in court. I observed the Comptes' of Monts-
lembert, with one of her daughters and a Mend, and
Madame Arthur Berryer. There were not more
than four or five other ladies in court. Two priests
wore present, but the two bishops who, according to

of the article i the Co;respondaaf, -on which his
itldrotkUlit was FOunded, relied tepecrally upOU the
general spirit of the writing considered as • whole.
He amused M. de Montalembert of having praised
England for the express purpose of disparaging
France by contrast. Englishmen, he said, had their
good qualities and their faults, but one merit they
bad incontestably—they always spoke well of their
country. No Englishman would have been capable
of drawing any such oontrast to the disparagement
of his own country uM. de Montalembert had done.
He indulged in a few commonplaces about parlia-
mentary government having broken down in Franoe,
the immense popularity of the Emperor, and the
necessity of a strong government. England, he said,
amid support liberty, because her dynasty was
founded nearly two hundred years ago, whereas that
of France was only sixty years old. No young dy-
nasty had ever been eo liberal, so moderate, en indul-
gent, as that of Napoleon 111. He cited laws of Wil-
liam 111. against the press, which he said remained
in force in England till 1771, and which were more
severe than any now in Franco. The manifest ul-
timatum from this part of his argument was that
France must wait 160 years or more before she
would be fit for free institutions. France, although
not parliamentary, had representative institution&
which constituted • free government. He concluded
by apostrophising M. de Montalembert as a man
having lost the feelings of a Frenchman, and said,
repeating the expression three times, " You have
laid France prostrate at the feet of England ; you
have struck France in the hos ; yes, stria* her in
the face—unworthily struck her in the face."
M. Bsrryer, on rising, said that no one could have
so well answered the charge made against M. de
Montalembert as M. de Montalembert himself; but
that he had promised not to Kink, and to confide
his defence to his oonnsel, because they were per
susded that the law was altogether on their side•
He described the prosecution as "unjust, unfounded,
ill-advised, and, he was going to say—rash." He
desired to aooept the proposition of the Procuring
Imperial, that M. de Montalembert's article must be

judged of as a whole, and not from miserable details,
I and the strained interpretation of here and there a
strong expression dropped from the pen of a viva-
cious writer. lhe spirit of the article was not an
attack upon anything French, but a genuine admira-
tion of English free institutions, produced by hear-
ing a splendid debate in the English parliament on
one of the grandest questions wbiah ever occupied a
deliberative assembly. He here pronounced a most
eloquent enlogium on the conduct of the Eng-
lish parliament and nation on the manioc of Lord
Elleuborongh's resignation on account of his answer
to Lord Canning'. despatch, and said that if. de
Montalembert, whoat twenty-one had made a brilliant
defence of himself in the Chamber of Peers for having
founded a free stool with Abbe Lacordaire—M. de
Montalembert, whose whole life had been passed in
parliamentary straggles for religion and liberty, as
he understood them, must naturally look back with
regret to institutions which France had but very re-
cently lost. Oa M. Berryer saying that to affirm
that France did not now possess liberty wu not an
attest upon the government, but merely the asser-
tion of a notorious and undeniable fact, he was
ia-
terrnptad by

The President, who said : Idaitre Bomar, the
defenee is free, as you have seen ; but you are DOW
going too far, you are reputing at the be: the very

afitaos with which M. de

charged t and that canuct be permitted."
M. &wryer, wit► a gesture of eloquent astonish-
' most, amstaued--" Must I then throw up my brief?
Have I loot my reason and conscience ? Do I under-
stand what the court means ? Can it be that
a counsel is to be construed as attacking the govern-
ment because he will not say that black is white?

An arrangement was made that the Proonreur
Imperial should reply to M. Berryer, and that M.
Dufaure would then say a few words for M. Douniol,
and reply upon the whole cue.
The Procuretir Imperial's reply, which did not last
more than a quarter of an hour, was even less effec-
tive than his opening speech. He scarcely touched
the specific charges of the prosecution or the power-
ful answer that had been made to them. He
reiterated his assertion that French institutions
were better than English ones, and that it was anti-
French to say the contrary. He taunted M. de
Montelambert with having formerly voted for
shutting up the Paris clubs, and asked whether
his admiration for England led him to approve of
English political meetings—institutions to which
the English people were more attached than
any other. He cited, as instances of the immense
danger of such meetings, some of the rhodomontads
which " discussion foram" men sometimes indulge
in, and which in England excites no attention what-
ever. He fastened upon an expression of M. de
Montalembert, cautioning England against over-oon-
fidence in her own strength, and advising her to keep
up a naval and military force proportioned to the large
forces of despotism, and founded upon it the absurd
charge that M. da Montalembert wished to see a war,
and would take part with England against his own
country.

M. Dufaure, after a few words of excuse for M.
Douniol (a mere working tradesman, who was lately
a compositor), on the ground of his good character
and actual ignorance of the article for which
he was responsible, severely reproved the
Precursor Imperial for the levity and in-
maple/mess of hie speeches for the pram-
cation. He (M. Datum) eoald find asthlog ts
them seriously deserving of an answer. The Pre-
cursor Imperial seemed to think that reading here
and there a passage front the article in a most our-
sory way was a aufiloient formality to plat* a eon
demnation, without pointing out, as he was bound le
do, the particular passages which fell within the
scope of the laws referred to in them. If the Preem
reur had read the article carefully he world have
seen that the leading idea of it was to defend the
religious policy of the Correspendasse against that of
the Univers and the legitimist journals, who decried
the English alli►nce and extolled the out-threats of
Cavrnpore and Laolmow. M. de Montelembert had
replied to four furious articles of the Univers which
had appeared but a abort time before the number of
the Correspondent now in question. He denounced
the ultramoutane and retrograde policy of the Uni-
vers with burning indignatiou, and laid that the
Cbrrespondant defended rational religion mach as it
had been understood by all the noblest and best men
in France for ages against journals who gloried in the
tuseseare of St. Bartholomew, and justified the re-
vocation of the Edict of Nantes. M an instance of
the little thought which the Procureur Imperial had
bestowed upon the sees, he said that the charge of
M. de Montalembert having alluded to the Emperor
when he talked of a " geverament of an ante-
chamber," related itself. If ever there was a man
whose habits were self-reliant and solitary, it was
the Emperor. That he might may of him. without
being wanting in proper respect. The Banpurer was
wont to decide mod important quotients without
taking much counsel, and often quite against the opi-
nions of those nearest to him. His former =WAIN;
(turning towards M. Gillian Barret) OM tell us a lit-
tle about this. (A laugh.) M. Hartwig recapitulated
and reinforced with crashing logic the arguments of
M. Berryer, showing that the law of 1849 could
not be applicable to the present imperial conetitn-

Acquits them of the other heeds of the 'Locust:lcm.
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And duo the dnration of imprieonment in default of per
malt at one year.
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