The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

without being depressed or exasperated by events ; it
will remain within the law, but will oppose it. The -sa-
cred interests which are entrusted to its guardianship do
not permit it to give way.
(From the Siecle, Odilon Barrot.)
. The Siecle devotes nearly its first page to a review of
the proceedings which led to the condemnation of M.
Dupoty, and refutes the doctrine upon which the judg-
ment is founded. In conclusion, the Siecle says :—" The
universal stupefaction caused by the judgment proves
that the public are fully aware of the tendency which
so dreadful a principle as that which has just been laid
doWn might have in a time of reaction. May the wis-
dom of the country prevent the calamities towards which
a despairing Ministry is driving us."
(From the Temps.)
" Whatever may have been the convictions of the
Court of Peers with regard to M. Dupoty, they appear
to have been influenced, by motives respecting which it
is a duty for us to explain ourselves. The press, like the
public, must be impressed by a condemnation of this
kind, but in our opinion it has no cause for uneasiness.
It has never yielded to intimidation—the ordonnances
of July did not stifle its voice. It will make no menace,
but it will be terrified by none."
(From the National, Republican.) •
Although the public were prepared by vague rumours
for the condemnation of M. Dupoty,' we may say, with-
out exaggeration, that it has produced an universal
impression of astonishment and stupor. Even the
partisans of the Government do not disguise the • alarm
and grief which they feel at this sentence. Since 1830
no event has excited such general emotion, and we
may add, that if there be alarm, it is less strong
amongst the enemies of the Government than amongst
its friends. The law cOmmands us to respect
the judgment of the Court of Peers, and we will not
violate the law. The sanctuary of the conscience exists
for everybody ; if that of the Judges be tranquil, we will
not attempt to instil remorse. But there is something
above the acts of human justice and the conscience of
individuals, viz., the universal feeling, and truth com-
pels us to say that this has been painfully, cruelly
shocked. As for ourselves, we reserve for a more calm
moment the reflections created by this judgment. Our
readers must permit us to distrust ourselves, and to con-
trol for a day the emotions by which we are agitated.
The event which has given rise to them is one of great
portent. The entire Press feels this, and so will France.
(From the Commerce, Bonapartist.)
The Commerce examines the charges against M. Du-
poty, and the arguments by which they were supported
before the Court of Peers, and adds :

"If such theories are to prevail there will be no more
liberty for the Press than such as may please a Ministry
to allow. The Press has now the most dangerous
menace held out against it that has been used for a long
time. It remains to be seen whether the country and
the Chamber of Deputies really desire the liberty of dii-
cussion, consecrated by the Charter, and upon which was
founded the dynasty of July."

(Froni the Journal des Debats, Court organ, .of
Saturday.)
It appears to us that the Journals, whose language,
however, is very moderate and proper, have taken an
erroneous view of the tendency of this judgment as re
gards the Press. We have perused and re-perused it
several times, and if we comprehend it rightly, the Court
has decided two things-Ist, that, by the article publish-
ed in the number of the 12th of September, the chief
editor of the Journal du Peuple was guilty of exciting to
a determined act, viz., the conspiracy of the Society of
Traveilleurs Egalitaires; 2dly, that independently
even of the excitement by means of the Journal,
which excitement of itself constitutes complicity, accor-
ding to the terms of the law, it results from the trial that
M. Dupoty knew it. On these two points has the Court
decided correctly? Has there been sufficient prOof offered
of direct complicity between the society in question and
the chief editor of the Journal du Peuple ? This is not
what we have to inquire into. We were not judges be-
fore the sentence, and we will not be judges after it. The
essential point in the interest of the Press is, that M.
Dupoty has not been condemned for moral complicity re-
sulting from the spirit of the journal which he published.
No, the Court of Peers has not committed this abuse of
power, and the text of its judgment shows that it has
not. Two questions were put to it, as they might have
been to a jury—one as to complicity by excitement
to a determined act ; the other as to direct com-
plicity, and it has replied to these two 'ques-
tions affirmatively. To think and say that the -Cham-
ber of Peers had made a mistake in seeing excite-
ment where there was none, and in taking mere pre-
sumptions ofn complicity,intelligent
t e
ilsevtahteedriaghttriboufnaalll
the world.
as
.However pro
may be, it is permitted to differ from it in opinion as to
its judgment. In all human judgments error is possible. ,
of s
i
But whatever may be the opinion as to the sentence of
the Court of Peers, people must not reason upon what
it does not contain. The press, in our opinion, has taken
alarm without cause. There is no such thing as moral
complicity. A man can only be the accomplice of a de-
termined act, whether he has taken a direct part in the
offence, or excited others to commit it. This is the law,
and it is what the Court of Peers intended to apply.
We will only add one word—we know well in what times
we live, and how terrible are the changes of fortune.
This is a reason for everybody to be just and moderate,
even if the love of moderation and justice be not in the
heart. If, therefore, we thought that the sentence of
the Court of Peers menaced the liberty of the press,
and suspended a new code over the heads of public
writers, viz., an undefinable crime that of moral com-
plicity with every attentat or conspiracy which may
arise, we should, even for our own interest, be the first
to protest against this judgment of the Court of Peers.
(From the Royalist Quotidienne.)
The senterce of the Court of Peers has created an
intense sensation in all Paris. The men who call for a
terrible and formidable repression must now see how the
public feeling replies to such a call. Let them remove
from the atmosphere of flattery by which power is sur-
rounded, and they will see what remains there are of ,
liberty and equity in men's minds. They have no parti-
cular opinion to consult in order to enlighten themselves,
for in this affair there is but one opinion. Everybody
asks what M. Guizot pretends to make of France with
his system of implacable sectarianism and puritannical
oppression. The Ministers are engaged in a course which
leads to ruin ; they cannot stop without perishing,
and they must perish if they go on; This is the
double fatality of all false regimes. • They all resort to
force in the hope of salvation ; force becomes violence,
and violence3becomes frenzy, then there remain only
coups de hasard, or, as they are called, coups d'etat, the
last expedient of regimes,
which are condemned to death.
(From the Royalist Gazette de France.)
Two important events have occurred ; the condemna-
tion of M. Dupoty and the meeting.of all the conductors
of the independent press. Behold what the Ministry of
intimidation has produced ; every step that it takes tends
to the union of all elevated minds and generous hearts.
Differences of opinion are effaced by the efforts which
are made to promote them ; and a great party-is forming,
which is founded upon the principles Of liberty, the
rights of all, and the interests which stand in need of
the guarantees of legal order. This time there is no
question of armed protest or violence of any kind. Thanks
to heaven 1 the press no longer seeks to excite passions
for the purpose of protecting itself. It seeks the means
ofpreservation and safety in the union of all Frenchmen,
and the amelioration of our institutions. M, Guizot,
when he admitted his system of internal war, in order
to prevent foreign war, doubtlessly hoped that violence
would reply to violence. The reply to facts which
menace the press is given on the evidence of wisdom and
of that union which constitute force. The Journals
show an excellent spirit in forgetting more and more the
differences of opinion which have so long divided them,
and in demanding freedom of discussion for all.- 'Free-;
dom of discussion and Parliamentary and electoral re-
form will suffice for the salvation of France, and• the sal-
vation of France will henceforward be the sole object of
the independent press.
(From the Ministerial Univers.)
The charter, in constituting the high and sovereign
political jurisdiction of the Court of Peers, intended to
maintain the principle of equality in the eye of the
,law,
with impunity for no man, The Court of 'PeerS then
has as great a right to condemn a journalist to five
years' imprisonment as to condemn three persons of the
working class to death. What are the pretensions of the
self-styled independent press ? It contests the right of
the Court of Peers to judge M. Dupoty. Why should
there be this privilege of impunity in favour of a single
man ? From the moment when the charter created a
political tribunal every body, without exception,- fell
within its jurisdiction.

(From the Ministerial Globe.)
The Globe has a very long article in defence of the
judgment ; but it is in a very different spirit from that
of the Debuts. The article commences by stating that
the " virtuous and patriotic press " has commented on
the sentence with a moderation which has a near re-
semblance to fear, and then proceeds to remark on the
necessity of applying justice with a firm hand. The
Globe, replyinc, to the arguments of the Opposition
press, against the decision of the Court of Peers as being
contrary to law, says ;—" Let us despise all this so.
phistry. Let us prevent Crime, and we shall not to have
to cry out against justice. What effect • has the •most
terrible judgment upon the mind of a man who is re-
solved not to commit the act, which has been so punished?
Nothing. Honest men, therefore, have no interest in
exclaiming aginst the severity of the laws. There is
great mummery in pretending that the sentence of the
Court of Peers menaces the liberty of the press, Its
abuses, indeed, may be menaced, and we see no harm in
that, but its liberties are not in danger,"

Sons 110% IP;r ens:
lISTRESS
V AT STocicroßT..--At a public
meeting held at Stockport on Wednesday last to relieve
the distress, the Rev. Mr. Waddington handed to the
Chairman 5001„ which he had received from the Menu-
.'istiliVias rsshoal.ll ainl7. SCOT;
Lecturers' Committee, London. The Mayor commenced
the subscription with 501. James Heald, Esq., gave 50/,
and the Miss Healds, 50/. Thomas Walinesley, Esq.,
Coppock, Esq., town-clerk, 50/.-; Messrs. Carringtans,
Pres-
cott; i;
re,
ce
cpQhr a, s
rol! Howard,James
hat manufacturers, 501.; Robert Gee, Rsq„ 501; 'Jona-
than Robinson, Esq., 50/.; Joseph Maialand, Esq., 251.;
Rev. Edward liawell, 251; James Leech, Esq., 25/.;
Messrs, Kidds,_ 25/-i E. D. Devenport, Esq., of Capes-
thorn, 101; Mr. C. Poppleton, 10/.; and the Rev. Mr.
Thornton, 3/. A Central Committee was appointed, con-
sisting of about fifty gentlemen, of whom tamut twenty
were clergymen and pinisteM
Dp4T4i op MONEY MOSES.—This notorious
fence, who, it will be recollected, was concerned in the
gold dust robbery, and was sentenced to transportation,
died at Hobart Town in the month of June last, His
family mourned according to the most approved form of
the jevvi§h religion, His wife and two daughters were
in the colony at the time of " Money's" arrival. He was
placed on the public works, and became a turnkey. his
death is attributed to a white swelling on his knee, which
rendered amputation necessary, under which he sunk.