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LONDON, PItIDAT, NOV.. 26.

To whom do we owe the &seamy that • dwarf
mounted on the shcalders of a giant secs farther
than men of ordinary stature? Belt-evident as It
appears, this remarkable truism is destined, like
nasty other consinmplaces, to look uncommonly Ince
a paradox when it is embodied in the form of an
Mistretta°, and transferred from fact to metaphor.
At all events the present Emperor of the FILEN=
sees no further than his uncle did, upon whose
shoulders he has moutcd to the giddy height
of absolute power. The first Narotzott,
from the height of his genius and his glory, looked
into the futsre of France and of the world; and
when on the rains of the Revolution he had bunt
up • =gluey derpotisas, he imagined that the
espessmasy of here was justified en earth. It wee
sway for the conqueror of Austerlitz to proscribe a
few dimwit/sated "Idieiseues," and to silence the
unruly Waves of a knot of thinkers and writes
whom he stigmatised with imperial brevity as he
Aromas. But for all the genial and all the glary
of the modern Lana, the ideologises lived to us
the imposing fabric of irreeponaible power vanish is
the blase of its victories and the smoke of its defeats.
Is the third quarter of the present century to wit-
ness the revival or the reversal of the great historic
lesson of the first? Time will show; but if the
BON.LF %ETES, like the POURBONS, have learned GI
little as they hare forgotten, we may fold oar arms,
cad calmly and confidently await the inevitable sod.
The prosecution of M. DE MONTALEMBEIT has
convinced the world that nothing resembles ancient
history so much as modern history and that
the Imperialism of to-day is, mutate motoodie,
a sufficiently faithful caricature of the Imperialism of
eighteen hundred years ago. We shall not insult
M. DE ii3l4T %LEK BEET by the affectation of eurpries
at the result of the proceedings in the Sixth Cham-
ber of Correctional Polies. Trial there can be nose
in a mart where there is neither a jury nor publicity.
The illustrious defendant was represented, it is tree,
by the unsullied character and brilliant eloquence of
11.1. BEARTEE ; but character and eloquence are
offences in the eight of a Tribunal whose office it is to
personify justice in the abstract, and to administer
iniquity in the concrete. It is difficult to give the Eog-
liah public a correct notion of the sort of " justice"
which has sentenced ft man like M. DE MONTALEY-
DIRT to six months' imprisonment and a fine of three
thousand tiara& If our readers can imagine anything
so fabulously absurd as an indictment for treason and
sedition tried in one of the Metropolitan Police
Courts by a batch of hungry criminal lawyers in-
structed by the Home-office, and dependent on the
Government of the day for the increase of a salary
which a respectable turnkey would denominate a pit-
Lance, and for the chance of promotion to some superior
post which no County Court judge woald deign to
ecoept—if they can imagine • court with no reporters,
•o
jury, and a public admitted by official tickets—
perhaps they will begin to form some faint concep-
tion of the solemn tribunal before which a French
statesman and academician was arraigned the day
before yesterday. The defence, we are unwed, was
dignified and simple ; as temperate in substance as it
was epleudid in form. No angry passions were enlisted
in the cause, no vindictive invocation of the sacred
names of Liberty and Justice broke the triumphantly
calm exposition of the law, and the demonstration of
the impossibility of torturing the incriminated pas-
ages into treasonable texts. We are happy to be
able to compliment the tribunal on the judicial gra-
vity of their demeanour, and the equanimity and
patience with which they listened to the magnificent
pleading. of MM. BERRY FR and Dur Aves. Bat
it would be going too far to suppose that either
their hearts or their understandings were reached
by the fervid appeals of the one orator or the irre-
fragsble logic of the other. The ceremony of re
tiring her an hour to consider the verdict was bat a
graceful tionoession to appearances, not a sacrifice on
the altar of conscience, or a con/essiou of lemmatises
remorse.

Reviewing once more the articles of the indict-
ment, we are irresistibly reminded of a story current
in Paris a month or two after the coup creirit. A
osaple of Parisians were saantering along the Boule-
vard des Italiens, use of whom was conversing
with the other in a very rapid and emphatic+
manner, accompanied with frequent gesticvlating.
They were talking of a mutual acquaintance, and in
the heat of the dialogue the following words escaped
the lips of one of the speakers, " But I tell you he
" is a somadral ! " If. had no sooner uttered these
words (so rem the tale), than he found the grasp of
a serpent de rale on his shoulder. "MerrelassAr
said the dim of justice, "you are talking of the
"Chief of the State; I anent you;" and two
inisoenat men were isseatinestly walked off to
;Mose, and he aught we know may at tkb
.meet be expiating their unguarded langxage
at (byelaw It is only on such • priasiple4 later- I
metaties se this that any possible explanation of
isdistment of the article in the Corrasposilant malls
admitted. Unless the eulogy at Weed end of
English institutions be an unperdesable Ahem be ear
Imperial ally—a 'apposition which prombed tke
digeent apostrophes of the Paocraguit Ittrotaw,—
it el widest that the advisers and adhermsts of the
ituraaret have felt thensoelves identified with the
" eerei ity and corruptioa" which M. DE MONTA.Lall-
gin, Is the same of human dignity and freedom,
brands with ineffaceable contempt.
The immediate results of the verdict delivered by
the Trib•sal of Correctional Police are the sappres-

sloe of the Corrfspondant, the imprisonment of the
publisher for a month, with a Bee at a thousand
francs, and the

DIRT for mix

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makes M. DE

of July 27,1849—a law passed to prottct that Repub-
Mesa Constitution which the man of the Croup d'Etia
destroyed; a law by which the present EMPREOR
was impeached by the High Court of Justice, and
according to which he is not so much an Emperet
as an outlaw t By this law M. DE MOBTALILIABIMeII

I personal liberty is henceforth at the absolute disposal
of the police, without even the mockery of a trial.
It is not indeed to be conceived that any Minister of
the Empire would, except in the madness of passion
At the fury of panic, venture to deal with such an
adversary u MONTALEMBERT IPA if he were eons
obscure and friendless republican; but the fact that
each a man is actually brought within the operation
of a Law of Public Safety is • sufficient sign of
the enervation and exhaustion of public spirit in
France.

What • epectule for Europe wu presented in
that miserable polios court On the one side, the
obscure agents of arbitrary power, the dependent
judges, and the official accusers : on the other, Wl-
maid honour, iaotireperable intellect, stainless
mime, and immortal principles. History will not
to remark that the foremost men in Fran
whale feet are Dever found in the anteoluunbers e(
the Tuileries, and whose names are among the sm.
invited to the festivities of Compiigne, Befriended
the defendant in the Palais de lotion, end
protested by their presence in the police
court, as they protest continually by their
absenckfroot the Tuileries. It were idle to speak
of the penalty which M. Da Mourstaitstuf hem
incurred as in keel/ lenient and trifling. It is no
trifle to a sick and suffering man to be sna'ehed from
the bosom of his family, and from the comfort and
privacy .f his home, and to be lodged for six months
in a State prison; but M. DE MONTALEMBIRT will
derive strength and consolation from the thought
not YL e• vulgar martyr, and that the cause for
**hi he NAM is one far which good men have
hese sled Ire die. He knows that hie lifiera emu-
musk • asapisinediee salmi clacta, wow a re-
periill, Is sanctioned and applauded by all bat
a Sew brainless sycophants of success and a few
heartless demagogue, and that no man not debased
lanai would not prefer • prison under the Empire
to a share in its honours and rewards. Whin
TRUAIWIIII was sentenced to death by the Thirty
Tyrants, he is said to have drank off the poison
11.111117. as a gratsial beverage—et .flews abibisairt.
Thais inedern despotisms parched lips must drink a
dna& pore bitter than the cup of ancient poison ;
the deemed, we mean, of national insensibility; but
even this is sweetened with the semis of duty, and
the certainty of vindication.

Witxtsis Lemon Ouven has been sentesced to
treaty year petal gamier* a punishment not
mem this sideplate ter tits eternity of his offence.
It is iropemibb to emesive any species of crime
spinet property more dastardly and deliberate in
its 'mention, more deplorable in its results. No eir-
' oemstance of scoundrelien was wanting in this COM
—the most deeply calculated deception, the vilest and
most flagrant broach of trust. This crime, which ad-
sated of no defence, is incapable of any extenuation.
The villain sacked the whole fortnoe of a poor girl,
whose friends were foolish enough to let her entrust
it Is him for investment; and he plundered, to the
fall extent of his power, Lis uldcst and moat in-
timate friend, who had ben so far deceived as to
give him the imams of dealing with a portion of his
property. It is quite fit that in such cases as these
the penal law should be rigorously put in force; it
is precisely in the class of society to which this man
Marta belonged that the deterrent effect of a severe
punishment is the greatest, and it lithe plain duty of
the administrators of the law not to shrink from avail-
ing themselves of all its terrors, with a view of dis-
couraging crimes whose perpetration evinces so pre-
bend a depth of selfish baseness in the offender,
and inflicts eo vast and enduring an amount
of social misery on the sufferer. The pro-
'Mame. which this notorious case has obtained
will not be unattended with benefit to the coin-
amity, if it only teach the lesson of extreme cau-
tion in dealing with men whose position supplies
them with such fatal facilities of fraud. As there is
no class of men possessing greater means of fraud
than those who transact business for others in stock
and shares, so is there none in whose employment
the public should be more circumspect. If people
will give their confidence to those who have not the
highest professional guarantees of trustworthiness,
they have themselves principally to thank for the
loss and ruin that but too frequently ensue.

COUNTI7 BANKER" CLIAJUNG HOB
At a meeting of country bankers held at the
Guildhall Coffee-house on Friday last, the following
gentlemen were present, vis. :—The Hon. A. Leslie
Melville, in the chair; MINIM Oliver Heywood, of
Manchester I Bdward Gssiwoe, M.P., of Warwick ;
W. &dwell, of Ipswialt ; David Yawy, of Hunting-
don ; W. C. Tanga, of Gloucester; 8. 8. Lloyd, of
Birmingham ; J. H. Barber, of Sheffield ; T. T.
Paget, of Leicester; T. Brightwen, of Yarmouth ;
J. C. Green, of West Bromwich ; Theodore Harris,
of Leighton Baszerd t T. It. Cobb, of Banbury;
Henry Seminseifield, of Wiwi& ; James Hart Take,
of Ritchie • T. H. Thorn, et Leamington ; Alfred
Gillett, of Banbury ; and William Gillett, of Ban-
bury (boo. see.).
of the sub-committee appointed on the
29th of September last having been read, it was
resolved:

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the imprisonment of U. DE MOrriasx.
menthe, with a fins et**, thOessail The biro:less Allicnoir sied w
Te is a right of appeal to the Imperial lirdaii else' Me fo flutters,
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