The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-08 00:00:00

COURT OF CASSATION.

The speech delivered yesterday by M. Dupin, on open•
inT, the Court of Caseation, disappointed the expectations
of our speculators, who had hoped that he would seize
that opportunity of disclosing the line of policy he would
adopt were he placed at the head of the French Cabinet.
M. Dupin circumscribed himself within the limits of his
judiciary attributes, and animadverted, but in an indirect
manner, upon the prosecutions directed against the press,
and against the measure of the state of siege laid on the
crpitat, after the events of June last. In alluding to the
first topic, be expressed a desire that the prosecutions of
that nature should he instituted with discernment, and
kept within proper limits; fur in an accusation lightly
formed and badly supported, he maintained that the Govern-
ment gained much less by what was said in its interest
than it lost by the tone of confidence assumed by its op-
ponents when the victory remained with the accused. M.
Dupin insisted on the necessity of leaving the mo-t con-
plete freedom to the advocates of the accused parties.
" The defence may be refuted," said he, " if susceptible of
refutittion, but it should never be impeded nor inter-
rupted ; since it must be m ide evident to all that society,
in prosecuting an individual, does not use its might to
overwhelm him, but merely to pro,ect itself." M. Dupin
then indulged in a tirade against political offenders, whom
he deemed not less odious than ordinary criminals, and
passed an unequivocal condemnation on the revolters of
the month of June. He afterwards reminded the Judges
of the line of conduct they should follow, in order to at-
tain the ends of justice; and after drawing a parallel be-
tween civil and military courage, and deprecating the si-
tuation of public men, who were ever exposed to the vi-
tuperations of envy and egotism, and whose conduct was
always ascribed to a sordid feeling of Personal interest,
and never to a generous motive, he thus alluded to the
memorable decision the Court of Caseation on the 30th
of June last In a despotic Sta-e," said M. Dupio,
" criminal justice is a deadly weapon in the hands of the
Minister : it strikes at its will, and blindfolded, the vic-
t mes which it selects. In a free State like ours the
Juilges know nought but the Constitution of the country;
their irremovability secures their independence, and that
independence is the safeguard of society. Being
placed at the summit of the judicial order, you are, Gen-
tlemen, the first guardians of the rights of exery citizen.
You take ewe that the law shall be impartially
administered to all, without exception of persons and opi•
nuns—without considering what noold be agree .ble to
power, but merely what your duty requires. Hiving
always before your eyes the great principl- of the division
of powers (a principle which is one of the foundat.ons of
liberty) yov will not allow the justiciary authority to en-
croach upon the domain of the Administration, nor pre-
sume to judge tie acts of Government. Invested with
the supreme power in the judiciary hierarchy, sovereign
arbitrators in deciding on the question of competency, you
are the preservers of the sacred order of jorisdictions ; it
behoves you to vrevent any one being taken away from
his natural Judges, and not to leave it in the power of any
one to say, over the tomb of an accused, who might be
supposed to have been justly condemned, " Yuu are mis-
taken, he was sentenced by Commissions.' "
The last sentence of M. I:lupin's speech was received
with loud applause by the crowded audience that had met
on that occasion in the hall of the Court.

STOCK-EXCHANGE, OCT* 6.—Our Funds!, which ex-
perienced yesterday a considerable fall in consequence of
the notification in the Moniteur of the King of Holland's
decision not to accede to the propositions of the Conference,
opened to day, the Tdrte per Cents. at 671. oc., and the Five
per Cents. at 95f. 70c., and affairs assumed but a dull ap-
pearance in consequence of various reports, among which
were—that a number of French troops were on their
march to enter Belgium—the determination of France to
persist in warlike operations, and a change in the present
French Ministry.

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The " sensation" produced in Paris, according to the
Court Journal, must be very faint, fur we have heard
nothing of it here !
FRENCH FUNDS..-PARIS, Nov. 5.-Five per Cents., 96f. 96f
goc. 3oc. 20c. 15c. 10c. 96f. 961. sc. 96f. 10c.-Four per Cents., 80f.
25c.-Three per Cents., 67f. 53c. 60c. 63c. 70c. 60c. 33e. 45c. 40c.
45c. 67f 40c. 50c.-Bank Actions, I,6tisE-Rente de Naples, 811.
25c. 81f.-Roman Five per Cents., St 1; 8A 807.-.ltente d'Es-
pagne, 14 1314 % % 4.-Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents.,
293 i % 30 2974.-Royal Spanish Loan, 79.-Rente Perpetuelle
d'Espagne, 57% 57 56% 57 56S 57 56%.-Haytian Loan, 2,10 f.
-Exchange on London, one month, money, 25f. 80c. ; three
months, money, 25f. 65c.- Cour: Authentique.

FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. 6.-Five per Cents, 96f. 70c. 60c.
65c. 60c. 65c. 55c. 60c. 65e. 8 c.-Four and a Half per Cents., 89f.
25c.-Four per Cents., 80f.-Three per Cents., 67f. sc. 67f. 66f.
95c. 67f. 67f. sc. 10c. 25c. 15c. 20c.-Bank Actions, 1,660 f. 1,655 f.
Rente de Naples, slf. 80f. 90c. 70c. SOc. 75c. 83c. slc.-Rente de
I'Etat Romain,Bo3/.-Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 123/ %
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cent., 29% a 4 %.-Royal Spanish
Loan, 78%.-Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 563/,
% %.-Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f.
75c • money, 25c. 75c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 65e. ; money,
25f. 60c.-Cours Authentique.

The Rev. Sydney Smith has addressed the
following letter to a contemporary :
" Sir,—A paragraph has appeared in several of the
London newspapers, which I shall be obliged to you to al
low me to contradict through the medium of your paper.
". In this paragraph it is stated that the Lord Chancellor
and Mr. Sydney Smith are occupied in drawing up a
Bill for a Reform of the Church.
" I have not seen the Lord Chancellor for two minutes
for the last twelvemonth, nor ever communicated with
him on the subject in the course of my life.
" I am occupied with no plan of Reform, nor do I
know any one who is so. I dare say there trill be such a
Retortn, and I think there ought to be, but I 'nave nothing
at all to do with it. If it be effected by the present Ad-
ministration, it will probably be done as men of sense
and statesmen go about such great objects; if it fats into
the bands of madmen and revolutionists, it wilt be a scene
of robbery, villainy, and plunder.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" SYDNEY SMITH.
" Cotnbefforny, Taunton, Nov. 4."

At Glanduff, on Monday morning, the weather
being fine, Mr. STEVELLY'S labourers commenced to dig
out his potatoes, but in an instant a simultaneous mass of
people, amounting to no less than 600 persons, collected,
and preceded by rustic minstrels, ente.red upoll the ground
at half-pa-t nine, and cleared out every potatoe in it by
twelve. The work wai done with a cheerfulness exceed-
ing r
foanythingni we have ever witnessed. The diggers
separated
th a reluctance that more service could not be
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PORTUGAL.

EXTRACT OF A CIRCULAR DESPATCH SENT BY
ORDER OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE DUKE
OF BRAGANZA TO HIS DIPLOMATIC AGENTS