The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-05 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

tor for benefits which he conferred upon you! Marshals,
Dukes, Barons, who made you what you are ? You pill
say, your exploits, your services ! Be it so ; but it is to
the magnificence of the empire, and to its liberality alone,.
that you owe, nearly all of you, the right of sitting in this
assembly.—{Great agitation.) Gentlemen, you have to
pronounce on a question which is purely political ; you arc
not judges, you are politicians. You will then send the
cccused again into exile; exile" is the position which the
law has created for him. Let the law he executed, and
his exile recommence. Any other condemnation would
be immoral in presence of the obligations which are im-
posed upon you, and, above all, with the reminiscences of
your own lives.
The speech of M. Berryer appeared to have produced a
profound impression upon the Peers.
General Montholon now rose, and read from a paper,
which he held in his hand ; but the agitation among the
Peers was so great that they did not hear him.
General Montholon then delivered over to M. de Ia
Chauvin.6?, the assistant registrar, a copy of the speech he
had delivered, and which was read as follows :
Messieurs les Pairs—Being at London on family
affairs, I saw Prince Napoleon. He spoke to me of his
hopes of being able, by 'means of a national congress, to
restore Franc, to the concord which she had owed to the
genius of his uncle. While I listened to him, I found my-
sel fin the presence of a living recollection of the medita-
tions of St. Helena. The Prince did not make me the
confident of his plans for his enterprise at Boulogne ; it
was not until I was in the packet that his confidence was
entire. Gentlemen, I received at St. Helena the last sigh
of the Emperor. This is enough for me to say. That
hich I have done, many of you, I take delight in belicv-
irg wcu'd have done, had you been in my place."
M. Berryer—The defence of General Montholon will
be confined to these few words : could he desert, on the
shore of France, the nephew of the man whose eyes be
closed at Saint Helena? Now comes the question. Is it
true, is it possible, that the General was ignorant of the
intentions of the Prince ? General Montholon affirms it ;
the Prince declared the same thing the moment after he
was arrested. In the absence of all proof to the contrary
you are bound to believe them. I now deposit in the
hands of the President letters written from London to
Paris, several months before the attempt, in which nothing
is mentioned but the project of going into Belgium.
The President announced that the Advocate who aas
to be heard after M. Berryer desired that he might have
time till the next day ; and he therefore wished to know
whether the advocate of Mesonan was ready ?
M. Berryer replied, that the advocate for the prisoners
wished to confer with M. F. Barrot, who was absent, on
the general system of the defence.
The President—Well, then, the sitting is adjourned till
to-morrow.
The Assembly separated at half-past four, in a state of
great agitation.
M. Barillon pleaded in defence of Lombard, Con
ncau, Persigny, and Bouffet-Montauban. He com-
menced by complaining that it had been endeavoured
to turn the attempt at Boulogne into ridicule, while he
considered it as worthy of being called honourable.
The President interrupted the Advocate, and in-
sisted that the term honourable could never be applied
to such an affair.

M. Barillon replied, that every affair in which a
Frenchman was engaged, however adventurous it
might be, was honourable, because there was honour
in courage. He then combated the charges against
his clients, founding his defence of them on their igno-
rance of the Prince's intentions uatil they arrived on
the coast of France, when their honour would not al-
low them to refuse to aid the projects of the Prince.
M. Nogent Saint-Laurent spoke with much force in
defence of Colonel Laborde.
M. Favre, in pleading for Lieutenant Aladenize, com-
menced by acknowledging that he found the task he had
undertaken painful and difficult. His client, being an
officer in the army, had, he said, given his sword to
support the Prince in an appeal to the people, and
thereby had subjected himself to an impeachment of
treason—a most horrible accusation for one who had
already shed his blood for his country, whose life had
hitherto been without spot, pure and irreproachable, and
he might almost say glorious. Aladenize, the Learned
Counsel urged, had been drawn on by the powerful, the
irresistible fascination of politics. "He is only enter-
ing into life," continued M. Favre, " and yet would
willingly embrace a glorious death ; but to meet it
covered with ignominy filled him with horror. Seek,
then, for some circumstance which excuses or extenu-
ates his fault ; weigh all the facts ; view the whole of
the prior life of this young man, and then, Gentlemen.
I am confident you cannot condemn him to death."
The Court adjourned at six till the next day.

EVEN/NG EDl`fiON.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER-FRIDAY EVENING.

rip dull a week of speculation on racing affairs asthe
ore now rapidly passing over, has not often been expe-
rienced. Yesterday we did not hear half-a-dozen engage.
merits made ; 10 to 1 was offered for the Cesarewitch
wakes, to be ran for at the next isLmmarket meeting.
was apparently accepted to a little money on Calypso, and
two points more on Barnacles. The southern quotations
on this crash event place the Ruler and Calypso so pro-
minently,• that, at noon, 7 to 1 was accepted en the colt,
a,;(1 a point more was the top offer against the filly, Seven
would have 13:2en given against the fi2ld. (now reduced to
33) " barring one," viz. the Ruler. We heard nothin
more done, indeed the numerical strength of the room not
reaching half-&-dczen, may account for the dearth of

busineis.
Ti a Mostyn Stakes were simply named, few seemed dis-
posed to lay against Sir R. Baliteley's colt, upon the sup-
palition that the field will be a seedy and a small one ; 4
to I may be considered the outside price v. Springheel'd
Jack, offers to take 50 to 20 Lord Derby defeats him.
Not a ward was said about Scott's stable, nor was there
one shot fired on the Epsom events ; offer to take the last
Newmarket price on Morning Star to a hundred, 23 to I
was bid.