The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night :—]

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
Moniteur du Soir, Slick, National, Gazette de France,
Courrier Francais, Evenement, and Peuple, for hav-
ing omitted the signatures of the writers to political
articles.
The municipll election in the Saone et Loire
have been in favour of the party of order. In the
commune of Couches, out of 21 candidates 14 are
Conservatives ; in that of Charolles, the whole of the
Conservatives were elected by a majority of 250 out
of 440.

The steam-corvette Coligny, 300-horse power, was
lauached 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 M. Besselievre, its author.

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
President of the Republic. The perusal of that docu-
ment shows that the events which occurred during
that year produced an almost general stagnation of
affairs, and consequently a considerable diminution in
the number of civil suits. Thus the Court of Cessa-
tion, to which 887 appeals were addressed in 1847,
had only to decide on 582 in 1848 ; and the affairs
submitted to the courts of appeal diminished
from 11,002 to 8,178. The applications to the
courts for separation a menses et thoro likewise
decreased from 1,168 to 939. 884 were made
by wives, and 55 by husbands. 16 marriages had
lasted less than one year; 192, from one vear to five ;
210, from 5 to 10 ; 291, from 10 to 20 ; 128, from 20
to 30 ; 44, from 30 to 40 ; 5, from 40 to 50 ; and one
upwards of 50 years ; the duration of 52 remained
unknown. 518 had produced children ; 318 had been
sterile ; no information was obtained respecting the
other 103. 875 of those applications were grounded
on ill-treatment, 44 on adultery committed by the
wife, 41 by the husband. The Court admitted 655 and
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.