Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-27
NATIONAL. INTELLIGENCER.
FROM OUR EUROPEAN CoRRESP oNDENT.
RANDOM NOTES.
PARIS, AUGUST 20, ls45.

RANDOM NOTES.
You have been informed of the extensive strik,
of the iourneymen carpenters Of the capital, whose
example was followed in some of the chief proyin
cial cities, and by some other trades. Our Tribu
nal of Correctional Police was occupied several
days last week with the trial of nineteen of the
leaders selected for prosecution. Interests and
feelings had been SO widely affected that the whole
interior and precincts of the Court were crowded.
BERRYER, the Legitimist orator, and indisputably
the most eloquent declaimer in France, besides be-
ing the most ingenious advocate, was employed Tor
several of the accused. The testimony, pro and
con, forms curious and authentic exposition OF
the great divisions and subdivisions of the working
classes their lodges, distinguishing clubs and titles,
and their peculiar modes of existence. More than
a hundred thousand able-bodied men, generally OF
great natural intelligence regularly distributed into
brotherhoods capable of combining within short
period, and holding constant communication with
similar associations in all the large towns of the in
terror and the coast; accustomed to deal with poll
tics specuativey and practically, and daily address
ed by Radical journals, constitute formidable
power, requiring incessant vigilance and prompt
energy on the side of the municipal police and
Royal Government. The five thousand carpenters
committed no direct violence, and they took legal
grounds with the aid of eminent lawyers but they
were found on the trial, TO have violated the laws
by concert TO abandon work simultaneously, by in
timdation to force reluctant journeymen, and by a
coalition to compel employers To raise wagee
Such an assemblage in the Court as that on the
Goth instant Of wives, daughters, and other rea-
tives and of the fellow-strikers, intensely earnest
10 hear the sentence of the Tribunal, was highly
interesting spectacle The judgment occupies more
than a broad column of the Journal des Debats OF
the 9th Ii pronounced the full acquittal of six
of the prisoners and ordered their discharge; de-
clared the rest guilty in different degrees and sen
fenced one to Imprisonment for three years, one
for two years, four for four months, and the rest
for three months: condemning all the convicted
parties, jointly and severally, to pay the whole
costs of the prosecution" The sentence is vehe-
mently reproached with excessive severity by the
National and the Legitimist oracles. 1t is more
rigid than il would have been if the press had abb
stained, during the trial, from admonshing, lectur-
ing, and menacing the judges. The main allega
ton, the score of hardship, is, that the employ
combined to cOunterva the strike, and practised
intimidation between themselves, and yet escape
altogether. The National warns the country In
regard to the impression which the operatives must
receive from such sentences of unequal and unfair
treatment, and of the want Of other means of self
protection than brute force. BERRYER welded
most skilfuiy and cogently every topic which
could in any degree serve to prevent the application
of the laws to beget mpunity or enity on equita-
BILE considerations and to contrast the present with
the old monarchy and regime, advantageously
for the later-an object which he never forgels in
the Courts or the Chamber of Deputies. His
speech has been issued by the Legitimists in pam
phlet of sixteen pages, price one sous. 1t is a
characteristic, able, double-edged production-ex-
alting popular rights and emblazoning popular
griefs in the same breath with those of the elder
branch OF the Bourbons. He dwelt on the anhqui-
y of the corporations of the trades, coeval with the
monarchy, and on the favor and consequence con-
ceded to them by the long line of legitimate kings
ne compared their present poston-partcularly be-
tore the Tribunals-with the security and luxury
of the employers, OF the Jobbers and gamblers on
the exchange, of the coalition of bankers who mo-
nopolize the railroad contracts. In reply to the At
torney General who had remarked that the neat dress
of the prisoners did confirm their tales of Distress
he exclaimed, g You them, indeed, in the very
best suits they could possibly procure to stand de-
Gently before the Bench, but you have not visited
their dwellings, you have not seen have, their
domestic restitution, their miserable and scany
fare, their halfclad and half-fed families" His
comparisons between the spendors of the rich, the
comforts of the bourgeoisie, the privileges or i'm
munities of the coalitions of stockholders and
of specializing capitalists, and his amplifcation Of
the sacredness and utility of common and equal
rights Of speech and action, were so happily intro
duced and wrought that the whole audience respond
ed, and the general final effect, as that of ora
tory, could scarcely be exceeded. The following
conclusion Of the pamphlet is not exaggeration
Scarcely had the lustrious orator uttered his last
sentence than thunder of plaudits burst out on
every side. The throng of workmen present,
the young BAR the witnesses, the prisoners, clap
ped their hands impenousy cries of admiration
arose from all quarters. The Court saw it to be
in vain to attempt to suppress these honorable and
deserved manifestations. For some time every
one remained visibly under the impression of this
brilliant and energetic pleading"
The Prince of SALERMo, father-in-law of Louis
Philippes third son, now enjoying the hospitali-
ty of the Royal Chateau d'Eu. Two lions an
nounced for Paris an ambassador from the Empe-
ror of Morocco and less parsonage than IBRAHIf
PAsHA, son and heir Of MEHEMET ALI. The Egyp-
tan Prince will visit France for his health his
eldest son, having proved too unruly for the Egyp
uan Institution in this capital is about TO be sent
nome The interesting reports Of the Duke of Mont
Penslers tour in Egypt are continued in the Jour
MAJ des Debms. His solourn at Cairo and an ex-
petition to Suez and the conveyances and route,
are well described. He investigated specially with
ue and OF engineers, the question Of the great canal
ana came 10 the conclusion that it is practicable,
provided that several Of the European Powers Join
IN the attempt
Our Journals discuss earnestly the recent Russian
uKase retallaory the late French increase Of du-
nes on iorelgn tallow and oleaginous seeds, by
which American interests were almost equally al.
fected. The ukase augments by so per cent the
duties on imports from non-farored ontions. and
establishes. in like nannar .,a...a 49, r u .