The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

The Madrid Journals of the Bth inst. hay

been received. That day being observed as a
religious festival, the House was closed. The
Madrid Gazette publishes the text of the
Decree fir the dissolution of the Royal Guard,
‘vhich we omit, as the substance of it appear.
ed. in The Sun of yesterday. Spain is tranquil,
except in the matter of jobbers, which the Go-
vernment will soon suppress.
The Auysburyh Gazette-of the 11th has Trieste letters
of the 4th, announcing- the receipt in that port of
advices from Athens up to the 27th of November.
On the 25th a general meeting of the shareholders of
the National Bank took place under the d'residency
of the Ministers of King Otho, and in the presence
of the Bishop of Attica and of the holy Synod. M. Pe-
trales, the Minister, addressed the Assembly, pointing
out the advantages which would accrue for the pros •
perity of Greece owing to the c;tablishment of this bank.
A provisional Board of Directors was then named, and
business was to commence on January 13, 1842, before
which period the shares were to be paid up.
Two transactions took place on the 7th in the Three
per Cent. at 221 for cash, and 231 at 60 days. The
operations in the Five per Cents., 21 in number,
amounted to 17,290,000 reals, and were done for cash at
344 and at 34#g at GO days.

The disgraceffilly, or rather infamously con-
ducted trial of QUENISSET and his accomplices,
is beginning to excite considerable interest
in Paris. This arises, according to the re-
ports in the Paris Journals of Wedne:,•-
diy, from a disgraceful incident that took

cc in the Chamber of Peers on the pre-
ceding day. The evidence for the prosecution
had been over fur some days; several tnembers of
the bar had been heard in defence of one or
other of the accused. M. CREMIEUX, the cele
brated Jewish advocate, was addressing the Court
in defence of the prisoner DUFAUR, when the
Procureur-General HERBERT rose and said that
he had more evidence to bring forward which he
had kept back for this stage of the trial. At thia
unprecedented proceeding the French Jeffries
PASQUIER chuckled with delight, and at once al-
lowed the evidence to be broUght ibrward. No-
thing could exceed the astonishment and indigna-
tion of the Counsel for the accused. They saw at a
glance that the Court was determined to find tin
prisoners guilty.. The Correspondent of the
Poet, who has attended carefidly to the trial,
and particularly to the case of DU.POTY, Editor
of the Journal du Peuple, against whom the
Court is labouring- to establish a charge of con-
structive- treason, thus refers to the scandalous
proceedings of that tribunal :
The fate of Dupoty is a most important affair. As for
Quenisset and the ruffians associated with hint in the at-
tempted assassination of the Royal Princes, they sink into
perfect insignificance, compared with the decision of the
Peers as to the editor of the Journal du Peuple. The ques-
tion of his guilt or innocence is not discussed, for it is pre-
tended that the conviction of a member of the revolu-
tionary press has become • one of imperative necessity.
The Procureur-General will to-day or to-morrow, in
his suiaming up, consecrate all his energies to • en-
sure a verdict against I)apoty, and my belief is that
he will be found guilty of the conspiracy to over-
turn the Government. Count Mole has already de-
clared fop his conviction, and the immediate partisans
of the King have been most active in their exertions
to convince the Peers of the absolute urgency of find-
ing Dupoty guilty. M. Barthe, ex-Minister of Jus-
tice, has. been particularly active. • Some Peer said to
"'the, " now can you urge this affair so strenuously
—you who were implicated in -so many conspiracies,
and it is known that the minutes -of a proclamation
in the affair of General Berton, in your own
handwriting, are in existence ?" Barthe replied
with great sang poid,
" The more fools were the
Bourbons to have left my head on my shoulders, but we,
at all events, will not make these mistakes." The we of
course applies to the existing dynasty. In short the mo-
ment so long expected has arrived, and the war between
the press and existing Government will become one of
life and death to one or the other. This is the-ruling
idea of the King, and he is supported powerfully by the
Peers. Royer Collard predicted that the Upper Chamb(r,
at the time when the September laws were under dis-
cussion, would become the Cour Prevotale, and it is. but