The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-17 00:00:00

TRIAL OF A FRENCH BISHOP.

The unusual spectacle of a bishop tried for libel
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and descendants of M. Rousseau, who was Bishop
of Orleans under the First Empire.
The bishop came into court attended by his two
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vicars-general. The usual questions as to where
and when he was born, &c., were put to him, and
these preliminaries having been disposed of,
M. Senard rose and opened the case for the Siecle
in a speech which lasted four hours, and the dull-
ness of which was overpowering. After reminding
the Court that the 'Siecle was a Liberal pacer, that
it numbered among its founders M. Odillon Barrot,
and after reading long extracts from articles pub-
lished several years ago by the Sleele, in which thin
right rev. defendant was eulogised for resisting the
illiberal ultramontanism of M. Veuillot, he came at
last to the libel complained of. The bishop had
taken a prominent part in the discussion to which
the celebrated pamphlet, Le Pape et lea Congres, had
given rise, and in the course of that controversy
had written a lotter to the C'onstitutionnel, in which,
while paying the editor of that paper, M. Grand-
guillot, the compliment of stating that ho was a
man of honour, he left it to be inferred that the
editors of the Siecle were not. Upon this M. Senard
rang the changes, as barristers will do, and at length
sat down, evidently much fatigued, but not so much
as his hearers.

M. Berryer then rose and commenced the bishop's
defence. He said this action should never have
been brought. It was a mere case ease of to quoque.
In controversies where both parties get much
excited, personalities were sometimes used, and
in this case the bishop had only retaliated upon
the editors of the Siecle. These thin-skinned gen-
tlemen evidently laboured under the delusion that
while they were free to insult their opponents, dis-
tort their language, misrepresent their views, they
were themselves unassailable. What had the Steels
done ? Why, they had applied to the right rev.
prelate the nickname of Basile, the creeping, slimy
creature which Beaumarchise had created, and
which was synonymous in France of a canting
hypocrite. Really these gentlemen forget that those
who lived in glass houses should not throw stones.
For his part, he could not understand journalists
bringing such an action. What was the use of
wielding a pen if they could not use it in self-de-
fence .? The fact was, that such an action was cha-
racteristic of the times they lived in. Liberty of
speech and the freedom of the press had passed
away. But yet he shou'd have hardly expected
to find " Liberal" journalists so far forgetting that
it had existed as to bring an action to protect
themselves against being roughly handled in argu-
ment.
M. Berryer then wound up a splendid peroratiee.
in favour of liberty, which called down a burst of
applause,

his gave rise to a little scene.
The President—The Court has heard your speech
with patience, M. Berryer. I beg you will not tax
it too far, and hope the audience won't forget their
self-respect.
M. lierryer (with a look of great astonishment)
—I am at a loss to understand the Court. I am
utterly unconscious of having used one word, of
having in the slightest degree given occsuion to the
Court to exercise a degree of patience greater than
that which every advocate has a right to claim at
its hands.

The President—l allude to what you said about
liberty. You seemed to think that liberty did not
exist at present ; whereas no Government has ever
been so much in favour of liberty as the present
Government.

Here there was laughter, and the court ad-
journed.

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contains a minute of Lord Canning, the
Governor-General
of of
night
of India, in continuation of that published ingth
full
the 7th of October last, in which he expresso. his
minute commences
ap-
preciation of the services of civil officers and others during
tho mutiny and rebellion in India. The_
d except within
of Ou et
by supplying some ornissions in that of July
Oude, and states that in every part
the civil officers of the
last, respecting
the walls of the Lucknow Residency, the
i difficulties. The
con-
csalment and flight under the mostt
then submitted whom the
Government were killed at their posvy_tiogr escaped by
names of several officers
deservingaree
of the notice of the Go-
Governor-Genoral thinks
tive
is then given of the events
Go-
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in the province
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after g
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