The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-03
FOREIGN.


being well disposed towards the constituted authorities
they are, at the same tme fearful of offering the least
sistance TO the law. ei5 Is stl f1lh q ne d
The accounts from the provinces present the aspect OF
unusual peacetulness. The army is concentrating a
LIMERICK whether Lord Hardinge proceeded on Saturday
man named Walsh, tailor, has been arrested nj
ripperary, on whom letters from Doheny and others
were found -r fo sssarsI4 aLf hfI
The trial of Mr. Martin, OF the Felon, commenced on
Monday. s e-f e.f
On Tuesday the court was occupied in proof of publica
non and the reading OF the indictment until nearly
o'clock when the case Tor the Crown closed Mr.. Butt
addressed the jury for the prisoner and the Solicitor
General on behalf OF the Crown followed when the court
adjourned t.,s ,j' t,l,..a,,, ,yln - sssae- \
On Wednesday morning the Solicitor General resumed
and concluded his address The Lord Chief Justice in
charging the jury explained the law of treason as pre-
vously existed. and as altered by the act
which received the royal in April last By the
new statute ordained be felony '.for any person
whatsoever after the passing of the act within any part
OF the United kingdom, to compass, imagine, intend
10 depOse The sovereign 10 levy against her and
proof of such nents, was necessary that the party
charged should have expressed his intentions by writings
or open and advised speaking. In the which was
then under consideration the prisoner was indicted for
having intended TO depose the sovereign and to levy war
against her and asserted by the Crown that these
intentions were further evincel by publications in the
prietor publisher, and printer His ordshp explained
at great length the articles relied on by the Crown and
asked the jury to form an opinion on them;
The foreman asked whether the Crown had right to
refuse stamps to such paper as the Irish Felon.a
The Chief Baron said he was not the Crown had
any such right, or had ever attempted to exercise it,
The Jury then retired. f.tI la r6i1 t-t
AT half past the jury returned to their box when
the foreman handed down the issue paper to the clerk of
the Crown, who thereupon sad How say you. gentle
men, John Martin guilty guilty of the charge laid
against aim in the Indictment" Guilty. II -
The foreman SAID the jury wished to recommend the
prisoner to mercy in consequence OF the letter upon which
they iii him guilty having been written in prison. and
under circumstances OF excitement
Mr.. c. q. Duffy was then placed at the bar, and claim
ed permission to plead not guilty. qss
The Attorney General objected, and applied for post
ponement of the trial till the next commission on the
ground that letter in Mr. Duys handwriting had been
found in possession Of Mr.. Smith OBren, duplicating him
iDay in the crime Of high treason and that it might be
necessary to indct him for that crime s Na
Mr. Butt and Sir C. OLoghlen contended that the prs-
oner was entitled to have his plea recorded
The court gave final decision though inclined to give
the Crown the privilege required, adounng the argument
I'LL Thursday morning. ne
The committee on labor has terminated the discussion
on the proposition of M Woowski relative to the EN-
ployment of and children in the factories Chill
ren not to be admitted work before the age of ten
years; whileup to thirteen they not to work more
than six hours day, and GO school the rest of
the day From thirteen to eighteen years. the period for
working is 10 be twelve hours day most, and the
same for women, no matter what their age may be- The
charge of seeing the law carried out to be confined
the inspectors of mines and OF the Points Chaussees
Each year report is to make known the result OF the
working of the law srl 1et PA t'h 4s}as
y of Macon. in which he says that he hopes soon
ask OF them as his only ambition "ttle of that retire
ment which constitutes the agreeable epose OF the mind
and heart" a ~ if2fTF go ~ s.- ito
The number of wounded insurgents still remaining in
the Paris hospitals amounts to 6,465
The French government is adopting measures OF pre-
caution against the invasion of the cholera 1t has
ordered for publication all the information forwarded by
the physicians sent ST. Peersbugh study tine maIad
and the most eicacous means of preventing curing
1t appears that the military commissions established in
Paris for the trial OF the insurgents Of June have already
decided nearly 1900 cases. OF these $50 have been
ordered to be tried by superior TOO have
been sentenced TO transportation, and 1900 have been
discharged by order OF General Bertrand The return of
these into society, after their late association with
thousands of convct-insurgents, occasoned, we are
told, unpleasant forebodngs in Paris.
From the London Times Aug. 18th End edition
EXPRESS FROM PARIs-We have received the Paris
papers OF yesterday and letters from correspondent
from which we make the following extracts:
"l conveyed . 70 you this morris statement Of the
owned and allied 10y his but this allegation
must be mere antcipa ion Of that which follow mis-
is somewhat officially known WIRE NOT ordered Or
contemplated by Marshal nade,zky They have, conse-
uisn hn.e and vii therefore have provoked the DIS
pleasure OF d.t2ky, whose policy (and whose ins,ruc-
tons possby)ponts rather to Cancellation than
Everything see and Learn tends to encourage the be
lief that Austria Is desrons OF getting out of the Italian
question well and early possible Without
ing that she looks with jealousy upoI ceran movement.
OF Russia and means 10 oppose farther advances OF thai
power, may that such the object ascribed generally
here 70 The comparatively moderate limits within which
Rakelzy has confined himself. know, farther (and this
goes far to convince that the Anstrlans will be found
more reasonable in their expectations and than
might have been pectrd that the conciliaoy DISPOSE
ton OF Gen. Cavugnac and of M Bastide, pcctv"y,
have mace favorable impre the Austrian
government net little ned, possibly by the fine
army under Gen Oudno which ready pass the from
tiers and fly to the aid of lialy"
Uv Italy.
On the 9Th. Charles Albert captulated on conditions
that Milan should not be injured; that the return Of
the Sandman army should be divided into two days
march; and that the whole of the Austrian prisoners
should be liberated The people of the city soon be-
acquainted with this result and the excitement then
amounted to desperation. Groups few through all the
streets exclaming 'We sold," "We betrayed I.
the drums of the national guard beat to arms and men
willing TO do mischief, but not knowing where to begin
The Kings cqupage was destroyed and the mob before
the Motel where he was staying, shouted Long live the
Pedmontese army, but death to the traitor Charles AL
BERT The whole army, however, deiled out OF the city
IN the evening" Some shots fired al the kiny and
his suite as they were getting without the walls This
says the correspondent of morning paper, us sad de-
must be confessed that ne conduct OF Charles Albert
has been so extraordinary in compromising the cy' ans
then abandoning it, that am not surprised az ing lrrta-
ton OF The people having exceeded all legal oounds Tie
has issued Vgevano, proclamation to the people o.
LOmbardy in which he shows That the want OF ammun
still saws Be firm; the of Italian independence
not yet lost"
On the 7th instant IN The morning, the Austrian civil
authorities took possession of Milan. 1t being the Sab
oath day. nearly all the shops closed, and many
the inhabitants either absent at this of the