The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Court of Appeal confirmed on Saturday the
decision of the Court of Correctional Police, which
decided itself competent to try the editors of the
Aloniteur du Soir, Siecle, :National, Gazette de France,
Courrier Francais, Evenc4nent, and Peuple, for hay-
ing omitted the signatures of the writers to political
articles.

The munlci6al election in the Saone et Loire
have been in favour of the party of order. In the
commune cf Couches, out of 21 candidates 14 are
Conservatives ; in that of Charolles, the whole of the
Conservatives were tiected by a majority of 250 out
of 440.

Th steam-corvette Coligriy, 300-horse power, was
launched on the sth inst. at Rochfort, after having
been blessed by the clergy of the town.

The Court Of Assize condemned M. Voille de St.
Phillibert, editor of the Mode, to three months' im-
prisonment and 2,000 f. fine for publishing an article
insulting to the President of the Republic, and ac-
quitted Besselievre, its author.
The Commissary of Police attached to the Na-
tional Assembly has Lad his pay and allowances
suspended by order of the Prefect of Police, for
making erroneous reports of imaginary plots to as-
sassinate General Changarnier and the President of
the Aisembly ; for alarming the public without
having tt.ken due precautions to ascertain the cor-
rectness of the reports of his agents ; and far neglect
of duty and disobedience of orders in having made
Sao communications of such to his superior, the Pre-
fect of Police.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

IN FRANCE.
The Moniteur publishes a report on the administra-
tion of civil and commercial Justice in France, in
1848, addressed by the Minister of Justice to the
resident of the Tit public. The perusal of that docu-
iiient,' shows that the events which occurred during
that year produced an air lost general stagnation of
affairs, and consequently z 1 considerable diminution in
the number of ciri! suits. Thus the Court of Cassa-
tion, to which 887 appeals were addressed in 1847,
had only to decide on 552 in 1848 ; and the affairs
submitted to the courts of appeal diminished
from 11,002 to 8,178. l'he applications to the
courts for separation a mensa et thoro likewise
decreased from 1,168 to 939. 884 were made
by wives, and 55 by hushanda. 16 marriages bad
lasted less than one year ; 192,:fr0m one year to five ;
210, from 5 to 10; 291, ft om 10 to 20 ; 128, from 20
to 30 ; 44, from 30 to 40; 5, from 40 to 50 ; and one
upwards of 50 years ; tlie duration of 52 remained
unknown. 518 had produced children ; 318 had been
sterile ; no informtion was obtained respecting the
othep 103. 875 of those applications were grounded
on ill. treatment, 44 on adultery committed by the
wife, 41 by the husband. The Curt admitted 655 and

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rejected 97. In the other cases either a reconcilia-
tion took place between the parties or the suit was
abandonned. The commercial suits, instead of di-
minishing, in 1848, like the civil suits, increased
from 239,687, their number in 1847, to 256,953.
There were, besides, 10,395 lying over since 1847,
or in all 267,348. Of these 67,263 were terminated
after hearing the parties ; 141,216 by judgments by
default, 4,351 by arbitration, and 45,229 were either
compromised or withdrawn. 258,059 affairs were thus
adjusted, and 9,289 only remained to be examined at
the close of the year. The number of commercial
associations formed in 1848 did not exceed 1,497 ;
in 1847 it had been 2,599 ; and, in 1846, 2,724. The
failures in 1848 amounted to 3,541, or 1,221 less than
in 1847. The 2,847 justices of peace decided 545,088
cases out of the 554,679 brought before them ; and the
public notaries, 9,781 in number, drew up 2,777,358
acts, or 805,639 less than in 1847.