The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

COURT OF ASSIZES AT PARIS.

The Court of As-size sat in the Case of C'holet and the
others, till three in the morning: The defence offered
by M. •Latruffe, in favour of Choler, has -been success-
ful. He is acquitted, as well as Carrier, Manochet, and Au-
tour. Henault has been declared by the Jury guilty of theft,
in consequence of alleging a false-order of the Police, but with-
out violence. Boisgontbier has been declared guilty of theft,
with violence. The circumstances of complicity and others
having taken away the punishment of perpetual labour, the
Court has condemned Henault .and Boisgonthier each to live
years' hard labour.
The Journal of Marseilles, of the fith October, has the fol-
lowing account:—An abominable crime yesterday threw our
City and two families into affliction. A young man, 24 years
of age, named Alexis Tardieu, has assassinated his paternal
uncle, Mr. T. Tardieu, of Rochon, a very rich and respectable
merchant. Yesterday, about two in the afternoon, M. Charles
-Tardieu, brother of the deceased, met his. nephew at the end
of Rue Breteuil. He invited hint to the counting-house of the
unhappy victim. Alexis refused, and fled. ChaileS running
after hini, fell in the Rue Silvabelle. Alexis then returned to
him, and stabbed him in front with a knife so violently that:
the blade broke. He went home, and having armed himself
with a dinner knife, went to his unclOs counting-house, and
stabbed him in the breast. The unfertunate man instantly fell
down dead. Al. Rouchon, brother-in-law of M. Tardieu, ap--
preached him and received two stabs in the abdomen. The
assassin fled, leaving hiS hat and umbrella, and went home,.
where-he was arrested. The interrogatory, his introduction to
the corpse, and his questions full of incoherence, chewed that
he was tnsane. The wounds of Rochon have been painful,
but this morning he is out of danger. 'That of M. Charles Tar-
dieu is slight.

TRIBUNAL OP THE CORRECTIONAL POLICE.
This Tribunal was occupied today in the prosecution direct_
ed by the Public Minister against. Mr.. Cannois, tm engraver,
residing in Rue des Fossis St. Germain PAuxeirois,•No. lti,
for having struck a head of 31, Lafayette,
The article was a brass medal. M. Cannois identified it, but
,said that it was only a model, and not a medal; a medal
thould be in bronze, or in copper; brass was only used to try
the effect. .

M. I, NESIDENT: But when a medal is once made in
brass, cannot it be tra,sposed to the bronze ?
.111. Cannois No, Sir, 'we cannot strike medals like coins.
M. de Puymaurin, mho is the director or this, ref Use- to strike
the one in question ; 1 th n took a model of ,the coin, which I
have sent to America.

M. PEcounT, the Ring's Advocate, sued for the penalty of
1000 francs, which is inflicted on the striking such medals by
the Act of Government, confirmed by the Royal (Jrdonnance of
the 22d July 1816.
The affair was put off a week, to hear the Counsel of M. Can.
nois.

The same Tribunal has been occupied in the affair a Sieur
Saban, accused of an outrage on the, public morals, in a work,
en titled " Le Cr/re-Cap/Mine."
The King's Advocate said that this work was full of obscene
prints, and that the author, not content with describing disgust-
ing seenes, endeavoured to justify the most opprobrious prin-
ciples. He then -read some pass:wet' and sued for four
months imprisonment and a tine of 200 francs against Sicur
Raban.

There was a prosecution of the same nature against the same
author, for a work entitled "Ls Cousin Afaihicii." Messrs.
Tillard, the printer, and Sanoon and Uuillet,booksellers, were
accused of pruning and publitthing the same work. The King's
Advocate maintained that it was an outrage on religious -and
public morals.—M. Chauvin, jun., Advocate, defended M.
Rabat), and said that his client had confined himself to the de-
scribing society, feud► as it .wasould that such works. were not
calculated to do any ham.
The Tribunal put off their judgment for a week.

TRIAL FOR LIBEL IN FRANCE.
M. Leleux, the Editor of the iZcho do Nnrd, has been tried
'before the tribunal of Correctional Police at Lille, for having,
'lst, attacked the royal dignity, the succcession. to the throne,
and the rights the King derived from his birth. 2d, For out-
, rage-done to the public morals and to religion, exciting hatred
and contemptagainst several persons. These accusations result
according to the public prosecutor, from the insertion of an ar-
ticle relative to the tragedy of M'erop and an extract of the
Specimen Munaeliolvice of the Ban n de.M. Lauf( defended
himself with great skill. He began by saying that he appeared
there under great disadvantages, it being the fourth time, yet
he came before his judges with confidence, because he relied on
.their impartiality. That lam now before you is not my fault,
for I have strictly performed my duty, but it is our vague law and
the susceptibility of the public prosecutor, whose zeal might be a
matter of reproach, if its sources were not in a sentiment. which
we ought to respect. Mr. Leleux then traced the history of the
late Ministerial proceedings,' from the time of the army enter-
ing Spain till after the accession of Charles X., , concluding by
observing the present unpopularity. of the M inisters, and point.
ing out the at to them of having it rict Im 'like in to
bring forward as a piwf before-the ensuing Meeting of the
Chambers, that libels existed, and the late law for the appoint;
mutt of the Censorship was necessary. One -article for which I
was prosecuted appeared in my Jenrtial on August WI, and for
this I am accused of attacking the royal dignity and the order
of succession, and the rights the King derives from his birth.
And what is this article I printed in the Journal of which I am
•the•res.ponsible Editor ? an article on the Theatre. - I said that
the audience had applauded two lines, and .1 stated the reasons
why they bad. These 'versos were—
" Le premier qui fut Roi fut-un soldat hereux,
Qui serf bin son pays n'a pits besoln d'aieux."
'This verse contains two truths which cannot be disputed.
For the frankness with which I accounted for the applause be-
stowed on this verse lam now tried. I said, " Why are these
verses, which only express a trite truth and a philosophical con-
clusion, applauded. Because, in spite of the justice and ac-
curacy of both; there are is number of ill directed minds who
desire to establish contrary doctrines. The applause of the.,
people, therefore, are to sanction the author, and an energetic
protest ;against those Who entertain different sentiments."--
The second article for which he was tried, M. Leleux said,
was only a translation' of a German work, laughing at• the
Monks, and which had
.been composed by the orders of
Joseph Moreover, he had taken it from the Atercure
du Dis«Nenuieme Sleek, in which it has been published at
Pala without exciting any hostility. The l!rocureur du
Rol, in commenting on M. Leleux's defence,- admitted that
he acted according to the orders of his superiors. 11. I.e-
loux was acquitted. The trial took place on October 9.
Coaltitutiorinel.)