New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-04
The Carpenters Of Paris.
Correspondence of the National In'eIiigencer.

Correspondence Of the National Inteliigencer
PARIS. August % ls45
You have been informed Of the extensive strike
of the journeymen carpenters OF the capital. whose
example was followed In some OF the chief provln-
cia cities, ana by some other trades Our Trbu.
nal OF correctional Police was occupied several
DAYS last week with the trial OF nineteen OF the
leaders selected for prosecution. Interests and feel
ings had been So widely affected that the whole
interior and precincts OF the Court were crowded.
BERRYER the Legiiimist orator, and indlsputabiy
the most eloquent decaimer IA France besides be
ing the most ingenious advocate was employed for
several of the accused. The testimony. pro and
con- forms n curious and authentic exposition OF
the great divisions and subdivisions OF the working
classes their lodges distinguishing clubs and titles
and their peculiar modes CT existence. More than
a hundred thousand ablebOdicd 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 III
terror and the coast accustomed 10 deal with poll
tics specuaiivey 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. the trial. to have violated the laws
by concert to abandon work simultaneously, by in
coalition to compel employers TO raise wages
Such an asscmbage in the Court as that on the 26th
instant of wives, daughters and other relatives, and
Of the iellowsfrikers intensely earnest TO hear the
sentence of the Tribunal, was highly interesting
spectacle. The judgment occupies more than
broad column OF the journal des Debats OF the 2Ith
II provinces the
full acauitia Of six OF the prisoners and ordered their
discharge declared the rest guilty in different degrees,
and sentenced to imprisonmentor three years one
for two years four for four months and the rest Tor
three months condemning all the convicted parties,
Jointly and seyerslly to pay the whole costs OF the
prosecution
The sentence is vehemently reproached with ex-
cessive severity by the National and the Legtlnst
oracles Ii is more rigid than it would have been
if the press had abstaned. during the trial. from
admonishing, lecturing, and menacing the judges.
The main allegation, on the OF hardship, Is,
that the employers combined TO countervail the
strike and practised intimidation between them.
selves, aud yet escape altogether The National
warns the country in regard TO the impression
which the operatives must receive from such sen
fences of unequal and unfair treatment, and OF the
want of other of selfprotection, than brHte
force. BERRYER welded most skully and cOgently
every topic which could IN any degree serve 10 pre-
vent the application Of the laws; 10 beget immunity
or lenty on equitable considerations and to con
trast the present with the old monarchy and regime
advantageously for the latter-an object which he
never forgets in the Courts or the Chamber OF Depu-
ties His speech has been issued by the Legiti-
msts in pamphlet of sixteeR pages, price one
sons 1t ia characteristic able, double edged pro
duction-exalting popular rights and emblazoning
popular griefs in the same breath with those of the
elder branch Of tse Bourbons. He dwelt on the
antiquity of the corporations of the trades cOeval
with the monarch, and on the favor and conse-
quence conceded 20 them by the long line OF legti
mate kings; he compared their present position
particularly before the Tribunas-with the security
and luxury OF the employers. of the jobbers and
gamblers the exchange, OF the coalition OF bank
ers who monopolize the Railroad contracts. In re
ply to the Attorney General, who had remarked
that the neat dress of the prisoners did not confirm
their tales of distress he exclaimed,
You them indeed in the very best suits they could
possibly procure stand dccenty before the Bench but
you have rot visited their dwellings you have not
AZ have their domestic desiituton their miserable and
scanty fare their halfclad and haffed iamies"
His comparisons between the spendors of the
rich the comforts Of the bOHroeOislc the privileges
or immunities of the coalitions of stock obbers and
of Specializing capitalists, and his application OF
the sacredness and utility of common and equal
rights of speech and action. happily intro
duced and wroueM that the whole audience re
spondcd and the general final effect as that Of ora
tory could scarcely be exceeded. he following
conclusion of the pamphlet is not exaggeration;
Scarcely had the ilusirious 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 capped their hands inn
petuousy cries of admiration from all quarters
The Court il to be in yain"o attempt to suppress
these honorable and deserved manifestations For some
time every one remained yisby under the impression
of this brilliant and energetic pleading