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when the cross-examination would have set his evidence
at naught, by demonstrating his personal hostility
to (then) Captain DOUGLAS. Again, we would
point out to general scrutiny that a passage from
Simmonds on Courts-martial was not allowed to be
read in argument (see page 45), although that
passage must have very materially affected the verdict
of the court, seeing that it is there declared by that
distinguished military jurisconsult (page 97, 3d Edit.)
that " Although an officer accused cannot refuse to
obey an order directing him to appear before a court
of inquiry, charged to inquire intu his conduct, yet
ha may object to take any part in the proceedings,
and has a right to decline answering any questions, or
making any statement, which may, in his opinion, be
prejudicial to him in the course of any ulterior in-
quiry into the affair." A sentence strikingly appli-
cable to the case of Mr. DOUGLAS, and one which
corroborates, very remarkably, the opinion expressed
upon his proceedings anterior to the trial by an emi
nent authority, to the effect that the extreme of his
culpability was merely a blunder as to rights and
duties, without any intentional dishonour. Among
other observations which our previous remarks upon
this singular court-martial have elicited, in a letter
addressed to ourselves by "An Old Officer "
(and published in a previous impression of
The Sun), it is protested that the ficding
of the court is positively and grossly illegal. "The
fin ding," says our Correspondent, "islcashiered, whereas
it should have been dismissed the service. To be
cashiered is a much more severe sentence than to be
dismissed the service, and, by the Articles of War,
Captain DOUGLAS could only have been cashiered had
he been found guilty of 'scandalous and infamous
conduct, unbecoming the conduct of an officer and a
gentleman.' He was not even charged with scan-
dalous and infamous conduct." Notwithstanding all
these monstrous and visible abnegations of the coae of
justice, notwithstanding a defence which, in its way,
was a masterpiece of logical candour and forensic
ingenuity, being conducted throughout by the astute
intellect of Mr. WARREN, a defence which justifies
his endeavour to emulate in law his celebrity in lite-
rature—notwithstanding ail these efforts in his favour,
the accused Las been pronounced Guilty, bas been
uishonoured in name, and has been peremptorily and
ignominiously cashiered. To this case, to this trial,
to this verdict, I,s e here publicly demand the attention
of Sir DAVID DUNDAS.

* " Proceedings of a General Court-Martial, held at
Guernsey, on Captain George Douglis, 16th Regiment."
Bvo. pp. 80. Blackwood, London, 1849.

utiE FREiv, CH REPUBLIC

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The Constitutionnel publishes the following par-
ticulars relating to the State prisoners in the Con •
ciergerie
" The preliminary examinations relative to the events
of 13th June are being carried on with the greatest acti-
vity. The examining magistrates are regularly installed
at the Conciergerie, where they display the greatest
zeal and diligence in the accomplishment of their task,
and with all the rapidity which is consistent with the
interest of justice and of humanity.
" It is impossible to judge beforehand of the definitive
results to which the examination may lead; but it ap-
pears probable that the prisoners will be placed in two
distinct categories: one to be sent before the High Na-
tional Court of Justice, and the other before the courts-
mariiai. The first category will comprise the leaders
of the insurrection; the representatives who shall be
discovered as having given the signal for civil war—in a
word, the individuals who played the leading parts in
the affair of the 13th June; and the other category will
be those who may be found guilty of having committed
insurrectionary acts. Versailles is spoken of as the
place where the High Court of Justice will hold its sit-
tings. The proximity of that town, the rapidity of
communication, the imposing assemblage of military
force, are the reasons which have doubtless determined
the choice of Versailles for this purpose.
" The number of persons in confiument for the insur-
rectionary movement of June still amounts to more than
200, although many have been set at liberty during the
last two or three days. It is to be presumed that the
above number will be increased by further arrests, which
may result from future examinations. All the prisoners,
without distinction, are at present confined in the Con-
ciergerie, that part of the prison which surrounds the
court appropriated to the female prisoners being allotted
to them. The representatives who are there confined
have been placed a la pistole. In consequence of the
number of prisoners, it has been found necessary to
place two in the same cell. Several of them have ob-
tained permission to take their meals together. Other
political offenders, unconnected with the affair of Juste,
are also confined in the Conciergerie, M. Yroudixon
amongst the number.
" Almost all the prisoners pass the day in the large
open space devoted for their exercise, but it has been
remarked am: they hold very little conversation toge-
ther; indeed, that a great degree of coolness appears to
exist amongst them. The majority of them employ their
time either in reading, writing, or smoking. Several
among them still wear their uniform as belonging to die
artillery of the National Guard, and very few blouses'
are to be met amongst them.
" M. Guinard has, for the last two days, been placed
in close confinement (au secret). The others are allowed
to have frequent communication with their families. One
of them, who is at the head of a commercial house, has
been twice allowed to leave the prison under escort, to
affix his signature and give orders."
The Illoniteur publishes official returns from the
Commissioners of Customs, showing the amount of
merchandise imported and exported during the first
five months of 1847, 48, and 49, and the amount of
duty paid on them. It appears from those returns
that the Custom duties received during the first five
months of the present year, exceed by 17,260,096 f.
the amount received during the corresponding period
of the year 1848, and are less by 5,255,194 f. than the
amount received during the first five months of the
year 14)47.
Rumours of the secession of MM. DUFAURE and
DE TOCQUEYILLE from the Ministry were again rife
yesterday, and it was said that M. TRIERS had at
length determined to undertake the responsibilies of
office. We believe there is some credit to be attached
to these rumours. MM. DUFAURE -and DE TOCQUE..
VILLE have still some character remaining, but their
chances of preserving it diminish every hour that
they consent to remain the impotent members of a DE
FALLOUX Ministry. The proper leader of such a
Ministry is the unprincipled author of the infamous
laws of September.
Two regiments have been sent to the frontiers of
Baden to prevent the Republicans of Baden from seek-
ing refuge in France in case of their defeat by the
Imperialists. The servants of Russia ars not slack in
obeying the behests of their protector. The mot of
M. ESTANCELIN is becoming a fact.
Orders have been given for the release of CARRERA
and AMETTLER from Fort Lamalgue. They intend,
it is said, residing for the future in England.
Letters from Nismes state that the telegraph sta-
tion at Villeneuve, on the line from Nismes to Paris,
had been burnt on the night of the 15th by incendi-
aries. Until it be repaired no dispatches can reach
Nismes either from Paris or Lyons.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 7IA —Duteh Rhenish, 44—Northern
of France, 10I—Paris :and Rouen, 21%—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 03—Sambre and Meuse, N.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.

The discussions on the tariff in the Chamber of
Deputies had not been brought to a close.
General ZABALA was to leave Madrid on the fol-
lowing day for Barcelona to take the command of
the second expedition to Italy.
Messrs. O'SHEA and Co. and M. WEISWEILLER
have undertaken to remit the amount necessary for
the payment of the dividend on the Foreign Three
per Cents., on the security of the quicksilver in the
bands of the Government.

MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 16.—Our funds are rather
feeble to-day, with a slight decline, Three per Cents.
being quoted at 25t, and Fives at 10 for Account.
Exchange on London, 50 60 money.

G E It Al A N Y
AND
THE NORTHERN STATES.

W URTEMBG
The Wurtemburg Ministry caused the following
notice to be issued on the 17th :
" The Ministry,
which l
undertakes to put the const*
tution of the empire in force as far as it is possible for
any singlo state in Germany.i
to do so, and which had
already declared that it would nno manner recognise the
resolutions adopcd yesterday by the National Assembly
touching the organization of the pationaldefences, hereby
forbids the Wurtemburg authorities to render obedience
to the resolutions of the Assembly.
(Signed)

" ROEMER.
ROSER.
DUVERNAY.
SC HMIDLIN.
IZ UPPLIN.

"Stuttgardt, June 17, 1849." ZOPPELT."
On the 18th, in the Chamber of Deputies, the
Minister ROEMER, announced to the Chamber that
he had addressed a note to the President of the
German National Assembly, M. LOGWE DE KALPE,
that the Government of IVurtemburg could not
tolerate ary longer the presence of the National
Assembly at Stuttgardt, nor recognise the acts of the
Provisional Regency, and requested that they would
take their departure immediately. This the Regency
refused to do, and it now became a question whether 1