The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-11 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—ahis Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
THS ROYAL BRITISH BANK.
To-day was appointed for an audit meeting, but the
proceedings werti pro forma, as no proofs are taken at
audit meetings. It has already been stated that the
additional dividend, under the baul:ruptcy, will be 20.
in the pound, and officially declared oil the 19th inst.
Some disputed c!aims, however, stand over for consider-
ation, and may probably be brought forward again, but
will not affect the proposed dividend. A further divi•
dend of 3s. in the Fund will be paid shortly by the
official manager, and there is every prospect of the total
amounting to at least 16s. in the pound.

IN RE COLEMAN—A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Mr. Buchanan applied in the case of this bankrupt,
whose certificabs was refused a few days since, but with
limited protection, to give him an opportunity to appeal
for copies of the examination.

His Honour said he did not think he had the power to
allow them. They were proceedings in the court, and
were always forthcoming when required for judgment
purposes.
Mr. Buchanan said that was so, and the point on
which ho rested his application was, that these proceed-
ings were introduce,: into the brief as against the bank•
rupt, who ought to have the privilege of having copies
of the documents intended to be brought against him,
for the bankrupt could net be supposLd to recollect all
that he had said or all that they had said.
His Honour said the examinations had been taken in
public court.

Buohanan—Nevertheless, your Honour, no on•
ought to be called upon to charge his memory with 411
that had transpired.

His Honour said the solicitor for the assignees would,
of course, have all the documents laid before the Lords
Justices.

Mr. Buchanan—That is the principle on which I
venture to contend, your honour, that the bankrupt
ought to have copies, for not only has he to contend with
the counsel's brief, but with the private records of the
Court.
His Honour—Not private records.
Mr. Buchanan—Your Honours remarks almost
it, and if my client cannot have his application granted,
he will be in a very unenviable position.
His Honour said he could nut make the order.
The application was, therefore, dismissed.

LIBELS AGAINST THE EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH-THE ".DRAPEAU" NEWSPAPER.

BRUSSELS, Manch 9.
Yesterday morning took place the trial of M. Louie
Labarre, the writer of the libellous and inflammatory
articles in the Drapeau, Brussels paper, in relation to
the atrocious attempt on the 14th January on the life of
the Emperor of the French.
In reply the President (M. le Conseiller Bosquet), the
accused admitted himself to be the author of the article
complained of—that he was a literary man, aged 46
years—that he was born at Duiant, and was residing at
the Ecaueines d'Engbien—that there were 5,000 copies
of the journal of the 17th, in which the article appeared,
published.
M. Heyndrick, the Avecat-General, then stated the
case to the jury. He described the nature of the article
which had reference to the late murderous attack in the
Rue Lepelletier, in which 156 persons were wounded
and eight persons kl.lod. In consequence of that affair!
France was plunged into a state of consternation, and
the other States were greatly exasperated, for it was
useless to eisgoise the fact that the life of the Emperor
sought to be destroyed was the safeguard of peace and
public order in Europe. Whilst the country was con-
vulsed with horror and indignation, there appeared in
the Drapeau journal, of the 17th, an article containing
the mos,,offensive epithets against the Emperor, and, with
most revolting wickedness, offering an apology for his
political assassination. Louis Labarre the defendant, was
a Socialist-Democrat of the warmest character. To judge
him from his works, he appears to have for his object
the destruction of our institutions and the overthrow of
social order. From 1846 he had devoted himself to this
labour of disorganisation. On the 29th of August, 1848,
he assisted in the establishment of the Nation journal,
for the avowed object of making it the organ of the
European revolutionists. In 1854, this paper changed
its title to the National, Labarre continuing the chief
editor. On the 22d of February, 1856, the journal re-
sorted to its original title, the Nation, and it was about
this time there appeared iu that same paper an infa-
mous article against the Duchess of Brabant, for which
Derirec Brisnoie, the then printer-editor (imprimeur-di•
tear) was condemned. In consequence of that condem-
nation the journal ceased to appear from the month of
August, 1856, but the Socialist-Democratic, party, to
which Labarre belonged, did not remain long without
an organ. In the month of December, 1856, the Drapeau
was established by the defendant, its chief editor and
proprietor. That journal not only repudiated the form
of the Belgian Government, but warrtd against the
sacred right of property, which it called a monopoly, a
spoliation, and a robbery. It denounced the right of
eucceseion, which it compared to the original sin, and
which, accordieg to the Catholic doctrine, had been the
cause of all our evils. Whilst continually attacking the
Emperor of the French, it sought to justify Mazzini and
and his proceeding,. It professed to be the organ of
that individual, and offered to receive subscriptions for
the purohase of arms for the revolutionists. The defen-
dant belongs to that school whits adepts the theory of
the dagger, and justifies political assassination as &means
for effecting their object. The Nation, of which the
defendant was the principal editor, published, on the
11th March, 1856, a letter to the " Marianne," in which
it used this language, " that they should break their
last arm on the head of the last king." It then professed
to be the organ of the revolutionary commune which had
its seat in London, and which had recently published a
manifesto, preaching openly the assassination of every
Sovereign in Europe. lie reverted to the conquest of
the United Provinces by the allied armies of France
and England—a conquest which, according to Henault,
the chronicler, was to be especially attributed to the
infamous insults of the gazetteers of the country. He
then quoted several passages from articles in theDrapeau,
in which the Einperor of the French was accused of
murder and robbery, and which proclaimed his assassi-
nation as a supreme necessity for France, and concluded
by an appeal to the jury to assist him in putting down
such atrocious doctrines.
M. Ladrie, avocet, in a speech characterised by much
energy and eloquence, defended the accused. He denied
that Labarre had over done or written anything that
was offensive to the principles of universal morality,
which.the law of"the 20th Dec., 1862, under which this
prosecution was instituted, was intended to provide
against.
M. Labarre, on being asked whether he had anything
to say, endeavoured to jusify his conduct. He observed
—" in this epoch of political transformation the writer
has to fulfil a mission as great and as solemn as that of
the public Minister. If the Minister think it his duty
to defend foreign Governments, we feel ourselves bound
to defend the national cause. If he set himself up as
the organ of the law, we have to defend our liberty.
We have seen both governments and laws pass away,
but liberty remains, because it is universe! justice. Upon
that bench have eat other Belgian writers which the
Goverhrneut, anterior to 1830, had prosecuted, and
amongst which at the former epoch bad been denounced
as revolutionists, are men whom the Belgian magistracy
of to•day is proud of seeing
amongst, their ranks. I have
been once before acquit!ed by a Brabant jury of a sitni-
far charge as the present. 1 hope this day to be again
acquitted by that tribunal. If, however, in consequence
of a vague apprehension of the law I shoal be con-
deemed, I shad leave this court with as high a head
as the putlic Minister, who will have gained over me an
oratorical triumph at the sacrifice of Belgian liberty, but
to the profit of foreii n despot ieni.”
The jury having withdrawn, returned into court after
au absence of about a quarter of an hour, pronouncing
unanimously a verdict of guilty.
Labarre was Viol sentenced to 15 months' imprison-
ment, and a fine of 1,200 francs.
The Court was cccupied to-day with the trdialedofit theJoea
il
Francois Nicolas Coulir., tailor, aged 41, an
toe Proletaire newspaper, for an article similar tol
one which apps ared in the .Drapea formed
the and which orra:a
the subject of the last prosecution.
After a lenetheeed iiivestigatiou, and an able Mewl°
made by M. Jottrand, pare, CJulin was con • ,ou
'rafleno, to
18 months' imprisonment, and to a fine of
10
with costs.
Toe ordinary circulation of this journal was abdaily, but the number containing the criminal ar
1 I in
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question amounted to 1,000.

The Earl of Eglinton will leave London by exPres°
train this morning for Holyhead, en routo to Dublin, to
enter on bia duties as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.