The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER PRESS OF FRANCE,

In this present year, 1844, when the several parties
in the Chambers have their various echoes in the
journals of the country, and when the principal func-
tion of the press is to diffuse the ideas which are dis-
cussed there, we shall be able to give the best general
impression of the different portions of the periodical
press, by classifying the parties of which they are re-
spectively the organs. Whatever may be the sub-
divisions of parties in the Chamber of Deputies, one
broad line passes through it and divides the whole
house into two sections. On one side are the dynasticsi
or those who support the Orleans family : on the other
those who are hostile to that family and who fovour
the Due de Bordeaux or a republic. The dynasties,
who occupy the centre droll and the centre gauche,
are subdivided into doctrinaires, juste milieu, tiers
part, and rninisteriel: of these the section most de-
voted to the preservation of the royal anthority, calls
its members Conservateurs. The principal organs of '
the Conservative patty are Le Journal des Debats, La
Presse, Le Moniteur Parisiert, Le Messager des Chan-
bres, La Revue des Deux Mondes, Le Globe, La
Revue de Paris. This party also has the direction of
Le Moniteur, the only jonrnal which gives a complete
and regular report of the Parliamentary debates.
The centre gauche, conductrd in an irresponsible
manner by M. Thiers has its representatives in Le
Courier Francais, Le Constitutionnel and La Patric
The tiers parti—a moveable body, now voting with
the centre droll, now with the centre gauche at the
bidding of M. Dufaure, is alternately blamed and
praised by the journals representing those various
shades of opinion. La gauche, directed by M. Odillon
Barrot, has its official interpreter in L• Sie,cle, of which
the principal editor is another deputy, M. Chambolle.
L' extreme gauche, or g aucheradicale, is sustained by Le
Nationel, La Refome, La Revue Independante.The views
of these three papers are very decided and uncompro-
mising, and they exercise at least as much influence upon
their friends in the Chamber, as the latter upon them.
La droite legitimiste, the different portions of which
differ very materially in some respects, notwithstand-
ing their agreement in the general principle from
which they derive their name, is represented in the
press by La Quotidienrze, La Gazette de France, La
France, L'Echo Francais and La Mode. Each party
thus retains several counsel on its aide, who plead its
cause before the bar of the public—a judge who some
sometimes, indeed, appears to no amidst the most
impassioned speeches, but who, at others, takes per-
haps only too lively an interest in the pleadings, and
sums up and passes sentence with somewhat more of
heat and esnpressemcnt than becomes the gravity of
the judicial character. Of course these counsel are
none of them paid : nothing could be more offensive
than such a supposition. They are none of them
pail: but some are feed—(subventione is the proper
term as applied to a journal)—and this subvention, as
far as the Ministerial journals are concerned, is
avowed in secret according to circumstances.—Foreige
and Colonial Quarterly Review.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

The morning was-principally occupied in disposing. of
cases of petty larceny, which wore of the most unin-
teresting character.
nonzas Robinson, a sailor, aged 17, was indicted for
having, on the 30th of October, attempted to steal from
the cabin of the schooner Mary Ann, lying in the River,
a watch and chain, the property of William Gordon
Brown, a Custom-house officer, who was asleep there.
The offence was clearly proved.
The RECORDER said there could be no reason to doubt
that the prisoner was there for the purpose of com-
mitting the felony. He was: a stranger on board the
vessel, and had boarded in the middle of the night. He
had no account to give why he was there, excepting that
he wanted a night's lodging.
The jury found him Guilty, and
The RECORDER, after informing him that the offence
was punishable with fifteen years' transportation, and if
transported at all, the least term was ten years; but there
was a power of mitigation, and in consideration of the
prisoner's youth, the sentence was, that he be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for one year.
Isaac Iligg s, aged 28, a paper-stainer, was charged
with having assaulted Robert Collins, a City policeman,
in St. Paul's Churchyard on the night of the 21st of
October.

Mr. WlLains appeared for the defence, and said that
by his advice the prisoner threw himself on the mercy
of the Court.

The RECOADEA said that it might be as well to hear
the evidence.

The policeman having been heard,
The RECORDER, in addressing the jury, said that this
assault could scarcely be of that character contemplated
by the statute, as of "intent to do some grevious bo-
dily harm ;" but it was left to their discretion to say
whether the assault was such, or whether it was an un-
premeditated blow, induced by some premature exertion
of power on the part of the constable.
The jury found him guilty of a common assault, and
he was, after a severe admonition from the Bench, sent
to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard la-
bour for six calendar months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday George Carter and Joseph Edwards,
two well-known characters, were charged with
breaking into the shop of Mr. Plowman, shoemaker,
9, Agar-street, Strand, on Saturday night, and steal-
ing therefrom boots, shoes, wearing apparel, and other
articles, valued at about 101.
Police-constables-1? 62 and 119 were on duty in the
Strand, in private clothes, when they observed the
prisoners in Northumberland-street, trying several of
the doors in a suspicious manner; witnesses kept a
strict watch on their movements, and followed them
into Agar-street, where, having concealed themselves
in the cab-stand, they saw them enter the prosecutor's
shop by means of a skeleton key, and shortly after-
wards come out again with a bag containing the
stolen 'property. The prisoners were then appre-
hended, and, on being searched at the station-house,
were found to have in their possession twenty-five
skeleton keys, and others adapted for drawers, cup-
boards, &c., with a quantity of lucifer matches. A
large number of pawnbrokers' duplicates was also
taken from them.

The prosecutor, who had locked up his premises
and gone to a neighbouring coffee-house to take
supper, identified the stolen goods, and stated that,
although his own family were not at home, there
were lodgers in the upper part of the house at the
time.

*est, of the F division, said that both the pritmers
were known to the police, and one of them had been
convicted of felony at the Old Bailey.
The prisoners, who offered no defence, were com-
mitted fur trial by Mr. HALL, the presiding magis-
trate.