The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-22 00:00:00

TITLE 111.-UPON OUTRAGES ANA OFFENCES.

Every outrage against good morals, against the person
of the King, to be punished by an imprisonment of from
six months to five years. Against members of the Royal
Family, against the Chambers, or one of them, or against
the persons of Sovereigns, or the Chiefs of Foreign Go-
vernments, to be punished by various terms of imprison-
ment, from six months to three yea's, and fines of from 50
to 1,000 francs.
Every attempt to personify upon the stage any living
individual, whether he be named or hinted at in such a
manner that every one may know the of iginal, will be
considered a crime, and punishable by imprisonment of
the director of the theatre, and the authors of the piece,
of from one month to two years, and a fine of from 500 to
5,000 francs.
Personifying any deceased individual, whether by men-
tionining his name, or designating him so that every one
may know who is meant, when twenty-five years have
not elapsed from the time of his death, is also considered
an offence, unless with the formal consent, in writing, of
the Minister of the Interior, and the nearest relations of
the person to be represented on the stage.
This offence will be punished by imprisonment of from
fifteen days to a year, and a fine of from 300 to 3,000
francs.

The penal proceeding will preclude any action for
defamation.

TITLE 111.

Merely prescribes the mode of proceeding against the
managers for the fines given by preceding titles. The
following is important :
" An author shall not be responsible, and cannot be
prosecuted except at the place where his piece has been
represented for the first time. In every other place the
responsibility shall fall upon the managers of the theatres."

SOMERS ET.—Ort Wednesday Mr. THOMA
PERaArr, of Middlezoy, near Bridgewater, forwarded
subscriptions, nearly 20/., from a few friends of Radical
Reform in that neighbourhood, to the independent electors
of Preston, Lancashire, towards defraying the unneces-
sary expences they have been put to, in returning lirsrar
IIuNT, Esq. their representative in Parliament.—Ports-
mouth .Tournal.

There is to be an anti-union parish meeting
at Grangegorman (a village about a mile distant) this day.
Mr. O'CoNN.ELL and several other gentlemen have gone
there. The city is as tranquil to-day as if Ireland were
totally free from agitation. I have always found that peace
and spei•ch-making existed together. There are many who
think that this tranquillity is most dangerous—it may
prove so ; but it is still in the power of the Government
to save the country from anarchy by the speedy adoption
of measures of amelioration. Rely on it that none others
will be effectual. Isolated and local outrage will increase
in proportion to the diminution of the constitutional hopes
of redress.

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