New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-03
FRANCE.
Things Talked Of NJ Paris.
Of The n. Y. Tribune.

recurrence that Affair and the repetition Oh some vi
s Dcidents warranted By the value OF ITS hls0ryas
an index and illustration Of many things In the present
condition of FrsDce. One Sunday morning last Feb
rusry some thirty forty persons we're seized by 20
Eeemen, who marched them OIL unbreakasted 10 prison.
Their anartnents were raRcacked their private papers
of ali sorts examined In search OF proofs 10 sustain
charges based Information given by spies or gathered
from letters seized at the pOstOice. Alter an mpcs
eminent In some cases Of dys only, in others OF weeks
fbe prepsratOrg examining magistrate was forced to
send back nearly all the to their families -Four or
Eve we're detained in prison, liberated on bail to
await trial before the Court OF Correction Meantime
government Journals indUlgcd with mpunity IN all sorts
az aIsee of these men4thcy without sense Of
shane or honor profession caluDnlators miserable
hsckscrbbyers traders in SANDER unworthy the name OF
writer's; the public told in fine that these men,
enemies of their country to De tried for e0HsPUdy
sPaiHd the State, andfor pT0pagdttHg tese neosi ana
everything was said TO persuade the public OF their quit
No newspaper dared in 10 undertake the defense
of these men Last eek the trial Although
il was not held exactly with closed doors the difficulty
Of obtaining access to the Court room was extreme.
was not trial by jury it is forbidden TO publish re-
port Of II. The Judgement OF the tribunal alone 10
printed 1t Is a document worth taking note Of
In the first place II is 70 be remarked that the ac'
cused we're not tried the grave charges OF conspiracy
and of pyepagCtiHg ese Hecs Evidence on those points
WAS 30 laInentaby deficient that they renqushed
in advance. The proofs which the other charges
we're made had for the most part been collected from
letters written to by the accused and delivered up by
the Post Office requstOn of the Project OF Police
The defense maintened that this kind OF evidence was
inadmissble In the argument on that point
the Court decided l. That although the laws, and espe-
eiay article lS7 Of the penal code forbid Government
agents 60 suppress open letters committed 20 TIE
Postaaice their provisions do not apply TO the Project
of Police 2 Tbe the law does not limit the means he
Is 90 employ in fulfilling his Office of seeking out offences
obtaining evidence and delivering offenders 60 the trbu
mails That the right of search for the benefit OF judi
cia investigation is cO0secrated by statute ana common
MI. Il. 81 in
ton was few up the trace Of an oiense and that It
has resulted in useful and important combinations; that,
in fine the authors Of said letters are arragncd Tor trial
8 That moreover (sRrdJ0HdammeH II IL not the bust
cess of the Court to look into the origin OF documents
submitted to its judgments that has merely to satisfy
itselfof their Authenticity and sincerity and that IN fact
the letters in question not denied by their authors
On these grounds the Court declares that they are adj
mttod in eyidense.
As YOU would suppose, no one dares publicly TO
ment on this decision in unayOrabe The loose
but comprehensive provisions of the inquitious Law on
The press could easily be made to reach any original
criticism Almost the only likeness OF free speaking N
which French journalist dare indulge, is likeness
by ausion framed In quotation marks. Sometimes the
resemblance is effective would be the reality. HH
art lies mainly in the appropriation 1.-THE written history
of the pest present The industrious research aud
ingenuity wthwheh he exercises this art and the extent
20 which he carries it, astonishing. Old dead by
goaes come back like ghosts and grnnng COLLINS break
inc the eombre silence Of despotiSm with their stern
warnings and denuneiatOns, with their mockery and
satin 80 yesterday on occasion of the judicial decision
given above Carrots circular TO the Project IN May,
1915 Ii quoted in one Of the newspapersthe old Min
ister of Ire old Napoleon against the of the
new lie says 4" | am informed that the secresy OF
correspondence hse been violated by agents of the Ad
miRstration Such proceedings service 10 but
n calumny on hisMaiesty the Emperor Since 1889 the
laws have declared the secresy of letters nyiOabe
Prosecute with all the rgor OF the laws the inacton of
one Of the most Sacred rights OF men," DC. &c Ever
the law ON the press cannot reach this quotation. al
though the transcraer of II would be liable trial. fac
and Imprisonment wenehe TO mail letter containing its
sentiments.
After the decision on che evidence comes the Judgment
of the Court the eences of the accused And what
do YOU suppose those offences arei Doubtless some
thing serious IN fact must lie at the bottom of all these
suspicious these imprsOnmenS, this sezing, aud caves
dropping aud breaking open Of letters and locks this
alarm o the Savior of france and this indignant rheso-
Tic of the editorial corps Well three of the accused,
one of whom ia Rene, Duke of ROygo Of the Ia
nous Savary, proved, in 1852 aud especially to-
ward the end of the month Of September to have com
mitted publicly an offence toward the President OF the
Republic BY designating him aloud az the Cafe TOrOni
the appellaion of BaSiRgas" BadiRgHet is not COM
plimentary tile it is true although IL is that the
refined public here fond Of applying TO their master
the Emperor do net ind tie word in the dictionaries
The results of pathological excursion that Just made
down 70 the ConciertsroOn, are not altogether salts
factory Judging from several specimens whom Pere
Francois in his loose generic way of talk calls BGdia
rHt conclude that the vitupeTaye value OF the appel
lation might be represented in English by Fog."
"Sman Potatoes" or Mean Chap" Now. fancy to
Yourself the Savior Of France President OF the French
Repubhc by seven millions Of votes breeding over this
oaense committed in September 1852 and al last be-
come Emperor of the French by the grace OF Gsd the
viii of the nation eight million Of and historic
ffes unable 20 bear il longer and bursting out % the
Minister Of Police with a complaint, such Tommy
might prefer his sehoolmasm against Billy, that the
Duke de ROyigO had been and gone asd called him
names Another of the charges against Royig0 that
of having made faces at the Emperor. at least mutt
lated his visnOmy several yeraHe pieces and ex
posed il 20 ridicule. Happily this accusation was not
established BY evidence The only other proven charges
are the introducing into France Of foreign Newspapers
xhose entrance is prohibited and the having in posses
SION warl;ke arms 70 wit in case, two swords
and in tho other, two swords and three cartOaches
These were arms which RoyO and another wore AZ the
time they were members Of the National Guard This
trial ia altogether the NEST ptifu business that Govern
fasat has been engaged n The punishment Of the per
sons gsr Of the offences is made up OF lines and I'M
prisonments varying in amount and length OF term from
one thousand francs and year to one hundred francs
francs and enc month The imprisonment and other
inures they have suffered are not counted They are
also condemned 70 pay the expenses of their trial al
thoneh the consequence Of most OF the labor Of that
trial Was 10 prove them innocent OF most Of the charges
where here's truth trust, where innocence
Stops apjer vile expression, and vice iOr&si.
--Ths laws ie9rrap % their that make thenA
serSr hi sor instruroerfI Of souss new tvrsnay
That every dag darts up
The 6nal outcome of this affair Of the Correspond.
nss as II has latterly been named, ia miserable dis