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London, England, 1858-06-22 00:00:00

BREVET.

3lth Foot, to be Major in the
AtCma3p..tain John Palmer,
Brevet-Major John Palmer, olth Foot, to be Lieut.-
Colonel in the army.
The following officcr3 having completei three years' ac-
tual service in the Rank of Lieutenant-Colonels, to be tiro-
mot,d to be Colonels iu the Army, under the Royal War-
rant of the 6th October. 1;,5.1.
Licutenaut.Colonel U.,her Williamson. 27th Foot,
Lieutenant-Culuncl John Ramsay Stuart, C. 8., 2; st
Foot.

- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert J. Stratton, C. 8., 77th Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Lowry Cole, 0.13., 17th Foot.
Lieutenant-Cul. Robert Newport Tinley, Cape Mounted
Riflemen.

Brovet-Major G. Petit, retired full-pay, Royal Malta
Fencible Regal:Lout, to be Lieutenant• Colonel in the Army,
rank being honorary only.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANT.

7th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Richard
Cope, Gent , to ba Lieutenant.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Williams, umbralla mluufacturer, Ludgate-hill,
City, to Bur:renal. July 2, at half-rait twelve, and August
6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edward Low, licensed victualler, Fleet•street, City,
July 8 and August 5, at half-past one, .at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Solomon Cress, general factor, Westßromwich, Stafford-
shire, July 3 and 23, at the Birmingham District Gault.
Fr,derick Henry Parker and John Balsdon. wine and
spirit merchants, BriE.tol, July 6, and August 9, at eleven,
at the Bristol District Court.
Thomas Beet and William Jonathan Beet, much,allta

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Nisi Frills, at Westminster, before Lord
CampbEll and a Special Jury).
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS -THE LIBEL ON THE

EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.
The long•anticipated trials of the libels on the Emperor
of the French took place this morning in the Court of
Qaeen's Bench. There was scarcely any interest evinced
in the proceedings.

The first case taken was that of the
QUEEN V. TRUELOVE.
After the jury had been sworn,

The Attorney-General said he rejoiced to have to an-
nounce to them that they would not be called upon
to lay the indictment. The prosecution was instituted by
the late Government, and proceeded with by the present
Government, in consequence of the publication of certain
pamphlets containing passages intended, as it was
thought, to convey to evil-minded men the crime of assasi•
nation and murder. He felt it his duty to submit this
case to a jury of Englishmen to endeavour to prove that
the law of England, which they sat there to assist in ad-
ministering, and to the the people of England, of whom
you form a part, would never tolerate or endure the
dissemination cf doctrines which ought to be rejected
and denounced with disapprobation and digust by every
patriot in every country, and by every honest man
throughout the world, and to endeavour to prove that
the Sovereign cf France, the faithful ally of England,
was as well entitle 1 to the protection of cur laws as any
English gerOlsman or any prince ; but I learn
with great satisfaction horn my learned friend Mr. James
that his client, wham there is no reason to doubt
was a respectable tradesman, and the father of a large
family, was ready to deny, in unqualified terms, and
without reserve, that ho ever intended or desired,
directly or indirectly, to countenance or encourage the
oriole cf as,assination or murder, and that he was ready
to explain his regret that any such misconception should
have arisen upon any publication which he bas been a i
party to Vie sale. Such a course, he considered, did
honour end credit to the d. fondant asap Eoglisbman, and
he (the Attorney-General) accepted the assurance, which
he hal no d..e.ibt would be freely and frankly given en
behalf of the defendant, that the publication cf these
libels had wared, and would not be renewed. Under
these c'rcurnstauces he had no objection to the jury re-
turning a verdict of not guilty.

Mr. James said he had not the least hesitation in
stating that ho had advised his client to disarow on
his part, and indeed it would have been the defence
hal the case proceeded, that there was any intention on
tiie part either c f the writer of the pamphlet entitled
Tyrannicitle—ls it Justifiable 7" or of the publisher
to incite to the commission of assassination or murder.
So far as the defenlarit was concerned, he, as the pcb-
Esher, telieve I it to have been a dissertation on the
abstract question, and he never in any Ray sanctioned
cr intendtd to do so, the commission of asiaseina'ien or
murder. With reference to the other part of the case,
relative to the further non-publication and sale of the
work, it was right to state that when he (Mr. James)
and his learned friend, who were retained for the de
fence, were consulted on the case, Mr. Truelove
was afraid that ho would be surrendering some
of the first and mo.t valued privib-ges of the
freedom of the press if, believing as be did,
that the pamphlet was a mere dissertation or treatise
on the abstract question, he entered into any engage-
ment not to publish any inure cf them. He (Mr. James)
took the responsibility of representing to Mr. Truelove
that these pamphlets were probably liable to mieconcep-
tier:, and their being published at a time when there was
an irritation between two great nations, which every
right-minded person must wish to see firmly and ever-
lastingly allied together in bonds of amity and good fel-
lowship, imprudent ; and that by abstaining from sellirg
them or punishing them he would not be But rendering
any of the privileges of the freedom if the press. Mr.
Truelove acted upon that representation, and had ever
since refrained, and would refrain, from publishing er
selling a single copy. He hoped that would be eatisfec-
tory to all parties.

Lord Catnpb:ll said it was satisfactory to find that the
jury would be called upon to give a verdict in this
case of not guilty. There could be no doubt that the
publication in question was a libel, and had it been pro-
ceeded with, it would have been his duty to have in-
f aired them, if the facts were proved, that a publication
having a tendency to incite to the commission of assas-
eiration or murder was a libel, and that►aending it forth
to the world was a libel also in point of law, when be
had no doubt they would have discharged their du'y by
find rig the defendant guilty. It would be a re-
proach to the laws of this country, and of every civilised
ccountry in the world, if the laws permitted a publica-
tion of this kind to be published with impunity.
The liberty of the press required no such license,
and it was only brought into disrepute by the
publication of such works, le had no doubt the de-
faidaat had acted with the utmost propriety, and he
must say the learned counsel who represented the defen-
dant bad so acted in his address to jury, in entering
into
,an engagement that this publication should no
longer be sold in any part of the United Kingdom.
He gave no opinion on the publication other than to say,
that it ,nsts a publication that ought no longer to be cir-
culated in England.
A verdict of not guilty was accordingly taken.
TIIE QUSEM T. STANISLALIS SCHORZEWSKI.

Another jury having been impannered,
The Attorney-General said this watts's° a prosecution
instituted by her Majesty's Government against
the defendant for libels on the Emperor of the ,
French. It was unnecessary for him to repeat what
he had stated in the other case, as prob tbly they were at
that time in court ; but it was enough for him to say,
especially as the defendant was a foreigner residing in
this country under the protection of our laws, that these
laws, whilst they permitted unrestrained freedom of
opinion in the country in reference to public men and
measures, would not permit, and he trusted never would
permit, sanction, or tolerate the publication of anything
countenancing assassination or murder. He understood
the defendant, who bad placed himself wisely and
honourably in the hands of his counsel, Mr. James, was
ready, as in the last case, to pledge himself before a Bri•
tish jury, and in the face of the British people, that he
had no object or intention in the publication of the letter
complained of to incite any one to the commission of any
crime ; that be regretted the paper, to the publication of
which he became a party, should have borne the con
struction that bad subjected him to that prosecution ;
and that be agreed, as in the last case, to stop its pub•
lioation altogether, anti, in consequence he (the learned
Attorney-General) under the circumstances, also con-
sented to a verdict of not guilty in the case.
Mr. James, on the part of the defendant, paid the
libels complained of were published in a letter addressed
to Parliament and the Pre..s, by Felix Pyat, Beacon, and
A. Talandier, well-known exiles in this ccuntry. It was
originally published in French, but afterwards translated
into English, and on the part of the defendant, he (Yr,
Jame,) made the same arrangement as in the last case.
In publidting the pamphlet in question, the defendant
had no intention to incite to:assassination or murder, and
actin,/ under the advice of his counsel, he was ready to
adopt the suggestion, and undertake that no more copies
of the letter sheuld be published or sold by him.
Lord Campbell said the learned counsel for the de
feodant bad given hide very sound and discreet advice,
; and defendant had acted very wisely in acceding to the
propose
I that was made to kio' ; but as he was n fo•
reigner, lie (Len] Cemphel,) would only add, what he
had before observed, that it was the glory of this country
to afford an wy. lam to proscribed and peniecuted indivi-
duals for political sffericee from all parts of the globe, but
those who found au asylum here must bear in mind
that whilst they enjoyed the protection of the laws of
Englar:d they were bound to obey them, and whatever
was a crime in any of ber Majesty's sul:jects was a crime
fur which they were liable, if committed by them whilst
they were residing in the United Kin ;don. lle hoped
it would he borne in mind that foreigners could not con-
spire in this country with impunity against the law.
of foreign princes in friendly alliance with this csuctiy.
A verdict of not gully was also teken is this CAS',
and the proce...dings termilaVtd.