The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Tne Reforme says—" On Saturday all the pri-
soners detained at St. Pelagic, who are to be
tried by the High Court, [received at six o'clock
the order to be ready to leave in half an hour.
They were placed in cellular vehicles, like foNats,
without having been able to take any of the measures
necessary under such circumstances. On arriving
at the Conciergerie, each of them was placed
in a cell of the narrowest dimensions, and, what is
difficult to be conceived, they have up to this day
been refused, in spite of their demands, a table and
I chair. Thus, then, there are six men who are
threatened with one of the severest condemnations,
out who cannot even take a note to prepare their
defence. The six prisoners are citizens Napoleon
Lebon, A. Baune, Paya, Fraboulet. Dufelix, and
Lemaitre."

M. Proudhon has addressed the following letter,
from the Conciergerie, to the editor of the Temps :
" Sir,—"You have guessed rightly. The letter which
you have given in your number from the Progres de
r Aube was not written by me. I neither wrote to the
Congress of Peace Dor its Hon. President. I do not,
thank God, believe in the niaiseries of the Abbe de
Saint Pierre; and if I believe that war must be one day
abolished between men, I expect that result from
causes more profound than the mystical toleration of
which MM. Deguerry and Coquerel gave euch an
.difying example, and from free trade supported by
Cobden. Universal peace is like universal riches ;
it • will exist when there will be neither op-
pressed nor erploites, but that is what the Pope, and
his beloved sons the Kings have taken good care to
prevent. The Congress of Peace, in my opinion, is
ally the commencement of a doctrinaire and jesuitical
noly alliance against the invasion of democratic and
aocialist ideas, a piece of Malthusian juggling. On this
account you may be certain, sir, that I reserve it some-
thing else than compliments. Salutation and Fraternity."
We read in the Constitutionnel

" The cholera which has now been raging in Paris for
nearly six months, has not diminished during the last
fortnight, but without, as some persons believe, ac-
quiring any fresh intensity. The daily number of
deaths in the hospttals continue to be about 20,
and in private practice about the same or rather
more. 10,195 deaths in private practice, and 8,406
in the hospitals, form the total of 18,611, which
was stated on the 31st ult.; that is to say, the mortality
from cholera since its first appearance exceeds by about
200 that of 1832; it is true that the population of Paris
in the seventeen years has increased about 300,000;
io that the proportion furnished by the first invasion
has not been reached by the second; but even this
similarity in the mortality of the two periods, the
time which has expired since its appearance, and the
Approach of a new season, may lead to the hope that
the scourge will be soon removed. Vienna, Berlin, and
London, are at the present time suffering more than
e'aris; at Berlin, the deaths are more than 40 a day,
eith a population three times less than ours; in
London, the daily average is 200. The disease is also
'aging in Lombardy; at Brescia, the deaths from the
.oth to the 18th ult. were 182. The statistics of the
_holera, made up in different countries, and in several
if our departments, show that the mortality in certain
small localities, where attention of all kind is often
Nanting, is more considerable than in large towns. One
'tact stated by M. Contour,, in an interesting work on_ the
cholera in Russia, replies to those sceptics, who accuse
the faculty of complete want of power to arrest the
tisease. Among the numerous and various religious
sects which exist in Russia, there are seine who impose
it as a duty on their followers to refuse all assistance or
,he use of any remedies ; among these fatalists the
lisease therefore, makes great ravages ; almost all cases
prove fatal, whilst at Moscow, the mortality in the hos-
intals had varied trout sixty-two to thirty-six per cent."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
itrANSIOA-HOUSE.

Isidore Yurbiowsky, a G-errivan Jew, was brought
before the Lord Mayor for final examination, upon
the charge of having attempted to violate a little girl
who worked for him for miserable pay.
Mr. Brown, a surgeon, deposed that the attempt
had been made, hut had not been successful.
the officer who apprehended the prisoner,
said, the prisoner confessed that he had made the at-
tempt, and that the confession had been made in
English, although he pretended at the first examina-
tion not to he able to speak a word of the language.
The LORD MAYOR asked the child what pay she
received from the prisoner? to which she replied, that
all she got tor her week's labour was three-halfpence,
and that her mother had determined not to let her
work for him any more. _ _

The LORD MAYOR--I commit the prisoner for
trial.

Mr. Goodman (the chief clerk) said, there was a
casus OntiSSUS in the Act which prevented, in a case
of misdemeanour, the expenses of the prosecution
from being paid, and the parents of the child, who
was under twelve years of age, were very poor in-
deed, and could not afford to pay anything whatever.
The LORD MAyou said, it would be monstrous to
allow a case of such a nature to fall to the ground
from a defect in an Act of Parliament when the pa-
rents were too poor to prosecute. When female
children, to eke out the scanty income of their indi-
gent parents, were driven to go out to work, they
were placed in the power of their employers, and the
law was bound to throw its protection around
them. He should direct the City Solicitor to pro-
secute,

The child's father begged to say a word. The
parents of the prisoner were, he believed, in a state
of great poverty, and the prisoner was the only sup-
port of them and some brothers and sisters. They
had implored him to ask for his Lordship's merciful
consideration.
The 14( M

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11(2 JORD .ATOR sau le could not attend to any
such suggestion. He placed the case in the hands
of the City Solicitor to prosecute. Cummitttd
for trial.