The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24

slake such an appeal, conscious that an honourable col- I ante at his door; but he did not take his 'departure,
league sat beside me whose valued friendship I must as expected."
have for ever forfeited? But, above all and beyond all,
and too monstrous for belief, would I have dared to
utter that falsehood in the very presence of the Judge to
whom, but the day before, I had confided the reality ?
There, upon the bench above me, sat that time-honoured
man—that upright magistrate, pure as his ermine, nu,
rowly satcLinp; ' every word I said. Had I dared to
make an appeal so horrible and so impious—had I dared
so to outrage his nature and my own conscience, he
would have stsrted from his seat and withered me with
a glance. No, Warren, I never made such an appeal;
it is a malignant untruth, and sure I am, had the person
who coined it but known what had previously occurred,
he never would have uttered from his lib,l mint so very
clumsy and self-proclaiming a counterfeit."
The vindication, we repeat, is conclusively trium-
phant. To impute the smallest particular of blame to
Mr. PHILLIPS henceforth in reference to his conduct
on the trial of Couavoisiass, would be as idle and
preposterous as to reiterate those absurd and frivolous
charges .ivhich were levelled at Mr. Sergeant
W/LKINS upon the occasion of his admirable defence
of the wretched miscreant MANNING. In both cases
we cannot but think that the aspersions cast against
these distinguished pleaders has originated from a
misapprehension of the enormous responsibilities
devolving upon counsel. Such at least is the most
charitable conclusion to be drawn in regard to
persons whom we would prefer to regard as foolish
assailants rather than as intentional and ingenious
calumniators.

[LIE FRENCH REPUBLIC,

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
In the Assembly on Thursday M. BAROCHE pre-
sided instead of M. DurtN, and M. ANTONT
THOURET placed in his hands a resolution of censure
on M. Durnt, for the illegal, unfair, and partial
manner in which he had acted on the previous day, in
permitting M. SEGUE D'AUGUESSEIU to insult the
Republic without calling him to order, and
in calling to order thirty Members at once
who protested against the insults of M. SEGUE,
The proposition was received by M. BAROCHE.
who immediately moved the order of the day, put
the question without suffering any discussion, and
decided that the order of the day was carried by an
immense majority. M. DuriN, however, will not be
suffered to escape by this paltry manoeuvre. A
protest has been signed by upwards of 120 represen-
tatives against the proceedings of 111. DuriN ; and the
Seid of Louis PHILIPPE will not be permitted without
interruption to pursue his designs for the betrayal of
the Republic, and for opening the road to power to
the colleagues of the TESTES, the CUBIERES, and the
PRASLINS.

The Democratie Pacifique was seized yesterday.
The Constitutionnel contradicts the report of the
intended recal of the Governor-General of Algeria.
The Committee of inquiry into the state of the
navy met for the first time on Thursday, and sat for
five hours.

The PRESIDENT of the Republic visited the Theatre
Historique on Thursday evening. On his appearing
in his box he was received with enthusiastic cheers.
It is his intention to visit all the theatres of Paris
during the course of the winter.

Galignani's Jlessen'er of Thursday contains the
following useful information on the subject of the
postage between France and England :
..

" As some misapprehension exists respecting the rates
of postage on letters between France and England, we
think it right to lay before our readers the following
statement, which the Yost-office authorities have favoured
us with :—The reduced rate of 80c. for a letter weighing
7 grammes, and so on in proportion, has reference to
those letters only the postage of which is paid in France,
whether on dispatch or delivery, while those paid in
England remain chargeable with the same rate of post-
age to which they have hitherto been subject in that
country, namely, tenpence for a letter weighing under a
quarter of an ounce (7i grammes). Letters may also
be prepaid in France by means of postage stan3ps, to the
amount of 80c., if the weight do not exceed 7f grammes;
but if a letter be posted in England bearing eight penny
stamps only, it is considered unpaid, and the stamps are
lost, which also occurs in the case of letters from Eng-
land to which ten penny stamps have been affixed. We
think it also well to mention that letters to foreign parts
prepaid by means of postage stamps may be posted in
all the letter boxes throughout Paris, and also that
letters so prepaid are received at the General Post-office,
Rue J. J. Rousseau, until a quarter past five, whereas
unpaid letters, and those the postage of which is paid in
money, continue to be received, as formerly, only until
five o'clock."

The Threo per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Friday at 57f.; the Five per Cents. at 89f. 90c. ; Rouen
Railroad Shares, 527 f. 50c.; Havre, 233 f. 75c. ; Great
Northern, 445 f. ; Avignon, 2201. ; Vierzon, 300 f.;
Balse, 1021. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 3981. 75c.; Paris and
Strasburgh, 3571. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 2801.

BUSH kSS 00NE IN FOREIGN RAILWAI AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 23.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 22.—The strike among the weavers
at Ghent still continues, but they are beginning to
come round and make proposals for an accommodation.
The manufacturers, on the other hand, hold out, and
persist in not making any concessions, being con-
vinced that the question involves the very existence
of the cotton manufacture. In one of the mills some
of the people have resumed work, but they were
obliged to have a body of police to protect them in
going in and coming out. It is impossible that this
state of things can continue beyond another week, for
the workmen are quite at a stand-still; all their re-
sources are exhausted, and the people refuse to give
them credit.

East Indian, 3776—Namur and Liege, 6 Northern of
France, 2% die. - Orleans and Bordeaux, 2YB—Paris and
Strasbourg, 61A—Ruuen and llavre, 9%.

SPAIN.

The Spanish Government has declared Mahon a
free port for bonding goods. It is declared to be a
general port of the first class of all kinds, and the
custom-house station authorised by the new tariff to
admit the introduction into Spain of English cottons
and other foreign goods.

G E R AI A N Y

AND

THE NORTHERN STATES.

AUSTRIA.

The EMPEROR left Vienna for Prague on the
evening of the 18th. The Ministers SCHWARZEN•
BERG and BACH accompanied him.
The Archduke FERDINAND has gone to Frohsdorff
to visit the Duc DE BORDEAUX and the Bourbons.