Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-13

struggling about Europe Count Leon Is one Of the moss
aunenuo' lie possesses documentary evidence of til,
most satisfactory character the honor for him
The Count attempted in lS48 TO come forward as po;
cal character ne attended the clubs was candidate
Tor the Assembly his cousins who were less irregular
IN their origin, or whose Irreguarity any rate
covered by marriage and who therefore only
to him in luck looked the Count whose eia cipa
imperfect SIDE with evil eye and his political
aspirations unfortunate also. He succeeded how
ever by dnt of his magical name in being elected Colonel
Of the National Guard of St. Denis Paris We had
lost sight Of him entirely for several years. when 10 he
is just now appearing again upon the stage hand
bill advertisement is at this moment circulating freely in
Paris 1t is the personal signature of the Couk
" Count Lsoniin flaming characters, and invokes the
public attention, in pompous phrase establishment
which be has just for the manufacture and sale Of
what, think you? Ink Count Leon the acknowledged
of Napoleon the Great advertes and begs liberal
share Of public patronage for the sale of ink which
declares to be Of superior quality sud which he offers
sale upon the following First quality franc per
quart; second quality so confines per quart.
The Court Of Cessation has just rendered its decision
upon the appeal taken before by of the defendants
in the famous case to which have had frequent occasion
to aude in my letters for the last three four months
that of the correspondents is called The Courts be-
low have ruled, you will remember in spirit of weak
and culpabe compasance towards the powers that be-
that the project in the departments and the chief Of the
police in Paris had the power to open private letters
the post Office in order pursue the thread of crime
obtain evidence for the State to be used the trial Of
the accused The Court Of Cessation is the high Of
appeal 1t has reversed to extent the decision be-
low and established the law in much liberal sense
The decision now is in effect that though the code of
criminal instruction may, under certain circumstances
permit private correspondence be opened the right
opening private letters in the post Office belongs only to
the examining magistrate and to the project of police
in Paris the projects in the departments And fur
Their considering that the Imperial Court Of Paris obtain
ed the evidence upon which the defendants were convict
ed from private letters opened not by the examining
magistrate but by the project of police the judgment OF
that Court is reversed and nued and the accused
for trial before another tribunal to be hereafter desg
mated.
This decision though it falls short Of what would be
expected from bench OF English or American Judges
der similar circumstances places the question of the
crecy Of letters conaded the post Office upon much
tolerable footing than that in which it left by
the below The decision has not yet been pub
shed at length in any of the papers The Court has not
FASTENED to make it public, from spirit of Difference,
doubtless, to the Government, which is of but i'll
satisfied with this let arbitrary power interposed by the
fors proof that the French magsracy not yet abd
Gated its dignity and ndependence-perhaps should
have said has not yet lost the of what is due its
dignity and independence This sense will survive
time after the Judiciary shall have ceased afford any
effective guaranty against the despotic exercise Of
hory by the chief Of the State and it may be expected
yet show itself by occasional timdy pronounced de-
cisions of the character of that which reporting
But this rresolute and incomplete assertion of right
against power this halfcrouchng, halfdaring interpos
ton of the of law for the protection Of the subject
argues badly for the future of France will 60 further
and say that it precludes the hope for many and many
long year to come, of seeing this country in the
enjoyment Of civil and political liberty 1t mid
subservient compaisant judiciary like this of France,
that beneath whose protecting gs built up the firm
and glorious fabric of British liberty and which, the pre-
cous edifce completed, is still found in England and the
United States watching stern solemn and incor
ruptible at its base.