The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-29 00:00:00

FRIP4Y

THE FREP,i_CII REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
A grave incident has occurred in the proceedings
of the affair of the plot of Lyons. Soon after the
meeting of the Court, on Tuesday, the President
announced that the counsel for the prisoners had
written to him to state that they withdrew from the
defence. He then read the following letter :
" Monsieur to Pid iident,—After having calmly re-
flected on what has passed during the last twenty days
in and out of court in the affair of the plot of Lyons, and
convinced that the dignity and liberty of defence do not
exist, the undersigned declare, with the unanimous as-
sent of their 'clients, that they withdraw. Accept,
Monsieur le President, the homage of our distinguished
consideration.

(Signed) " Mouillaud, A. Audemart, Jules Cazot,
Emile 011ivier, Bancel, Combier, Willautne, Ch.
Bessat, Eugene Jousseume, Prosper Villemain,
Louis Boulot, Kauffmann, L. Bouloumiers, A.
Madier de Montjau, senior, Boysset, AmCsa Bruys,
Michel (de Bourges)."
The President then said—

" I have reason to be astonished that the counsel for
the defence, who have so frequently recognised the good
feeling and constant attention of the Court in this trial,
and also in the interrogatories of the accused, its marked
deference for the detente—l have reason, I say, to be as•
tonished that, after the meet flattering eulogiuma addres-
sed to the President even up to the sitting of yesterday,
when one of the counsel said, ' We do not cease to praise
the good feeling with which the President has directed
this trial, and the paternal goodness that he has always
manifested for the accused, and we reckon upon a new
proof of this feeling in hoping that he will consent to
hear the evidence of H. Ci oinieux'—the Court is pro-
foundly surprised that after these words so frequently
and so solemnly pronounced in this place, the counsel
should declare that they retire. France will judge them.
As a deft -nee must be organized, we adjourn the sitting
till to morrow. It is n cessary for us to have an under-
standing on this point with the Batonnier of the advo-
cates. The accused will refuse or accept their new
counsel ; in naming them I shall conform to the law; as
for me, I am resolved to fulfil my mission to the end,
and all the members of the Court are inspired with the
same feelings."

The President then announced that the sitting was
adjourned to the following day at half-past eleven,
au asked the prisoners if they had any observation
to make. No answer was returned. The President
then, addressing the reporters of the public press,
said :

" I hope, gentlemen, that you will remember my ex-
pressions correctly. I consider it important that France
should know what has been our conduct, and what the
cooduct of the counsel for' the defence. She will condemn
advocites who abandon the accused, whom up to the
present moment they had advised. lam anxious that all
this should be precisely reported in the organs of the
public press."
The court then rose.

In consequence of the receipt of a telegraphic dis-
patch from Paris, M. LARGET, the steward of M. CUE..
MIEUX, was arrested at Lyons, on Monday.
We find the following in the Constitutionnel :
" The general subject of conversation last evening in
political circles was the news received from Lyons.
Private letters from that city say that the discussion
among the counsel on the question as to whether the
defence should be abandoned or not was very ani-
mated. M. Cremieux, who was admitted to take part
in it, produced, it is said, a kind of mandate of which
he was the bearer, and which influenced the decision
come to. There was also a talk of a telegraphic dis-
patch which had been received, according to which
one alone of the prisoners had accepted the counsel
allotted him by the Court. M. GENT is said to have
been the first who refused. After that declaration,
the public prosecutor continued his requisitory. It is
added that the most perfect tranquillity continues to
prevail at Lyons."
M. LAMARTINE has declar(d against the candi-
deeship of the Prince DE JoINYILLE.
The Moniteur publishes a decree convoking the
electoral colleges of the departments of Finist4re and
nirbihan to meet on the 21st of September, to elect
representatives in place of Admiral ROMAIN-DES.•
POSSES, resigned, and M. MONNIER, deceased.
The case of M. LEMULLIEE, representative of the
people, against M. FORCADE, editor of the Messager
de l' Assemblie, and M. VERMAITEE, editor of the
Corsair', has been decided in favour of the defendant.
M. LIMULLIER is ordered to pay the whole of the
costs.

M. BAROCHE has returned from London, and re-
sumed his functions as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
A serious decline in the price of Government Stock
took plsce at the 13,urse, for which no reasonable cause
was at;signed. The Five per Cents., which opened
at 94f. 80c. fell to 94f. 30c., and closed at 94f. 45c.,
for the end of the month; the Three per Cents.
closed at 56f. 35c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 887 f. 50c.;
Havre, 232 f. 50e.; Great Northern, 458 f. 75e.; Avig-
..or, 203 f 75c.; Vierzon, 428 f. 750.; Basle, 150 f.; Bor.
deans, .390 f.; Paris and Sirasburg, 357 f. 50c.; Tours
and Nantes, 268 f. 75c. ; Amiens to Boulogne,
267 f. ak.
Bt.iSIESS frNE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Thu
_ LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Auo. 28.

Boulogne and Amiens, NlA—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17 Dutch Rhenish, 2% —East Indim, 18 "4,
Northern of France, 1-Oh—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4%--
Rouen and Havre, 9—Sambre and Meuse, 3—Tours and
Nan e,,61/2.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 231 have arrived.

The Popular announces that the electoral colleges
of Ca. Way Ili and Alcala de Henares, have both elected
candidates of the Ministerial party, in the persons of
Senors BORDIA and Goicoavorta. Letters from
Girona of the
i 15th state that the revolutionary
system
noutbreak. is,
effect.
party of France s actively at work, trying to excite
new seditious in Catalonia. The retorm of the
Custom-house s
ye
ui d
correspondentst ,
toe to
t e
e have
prevent
b e
itT
precautions hisa
h rieT hsea
taken the
thfoer thenecessary
these plans from having
say there are more than 10,000 men at Barcelona,
completely organised by the democratic societies, and
that the latter are carrying on an active correspon-
dence with 211 the revolutionary committees of
Europe, while the Carlists are watching for the op-
portunity of profiting by the faults of the revolu-
tionists, and rAising their own standard again.
MADRID BoLsA? Auo. 23.—The following are the
prices of stocks :•—Three per Cents., 36i to it ; Five
per Cents., with current Coupons, 171; Coupons, 8}
to t ; Passive Debt, 6 746 to Exchange on Lon-
don, 61.