The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-15

citizens who, o,courageous and disiuterested remais
ed htthfnl to their con victIons We're one Of thos'
wn always frequent palaces, whore there are an
te-chsmbers, should again and those men there
fhe scourgs Of every govsrumsnt, an eternal stig.
ma for their country. Here there was some tens
dency 70 applause among the audience, which waa
Win dimculty checked2 NJ. Berger concluded %
follows: You hold this country too cheap You
admit yourselves, that IL is chsngeful and ineon-
stant: What guarantee, therefore, have you that
viii not one day revert TO those Institutions
which 1t has loved, and uuder which IL has lived
LOT haii century. All our strength Is greatly
e4naeesed oy our protracted struggles, BY our
painful trials by the bitterness Of our dssppoint-
ments No matter. when the country wants ms,
IL VIII ever md rs at our posts. We will devote
ourselves to 1t wits the ardor, the same per.
gone days-and the last cry of our expiring voice
snail be Liberty and Francsi-(Loud applause,
which the Court did not attempt to cheeky
M. Duiaure then stood up on behalf of his cli-
ent, .ne director OF the Correspondent Nothing
could we'll be more different in character from
the magnificent defamation of NJ. Eerryer than
tue speech OF M. Dufaure. 1t was not blaze of
eioquence which ovsrpowered the understandings
OF tne hearers, but 1t was force of reason which
convinced them. The most impassioued bursts of
n. Berger were like charges Of cavalry; the sus-
tanned logic of NJ. Dufaure was like the steady
acton OF infantry, moving with unbroken front
and uninterrupted progress.
HIS speech, which was admitted to be q master.
piece OF forensic reasoning, was concluded at
O'Clock. At quarter-past the Judges retired
TO deliberate. They remained in deliberaton one
nour and hge minutes, and at 90 Minutes past
tne PRESIDENT, having previously ordered in four
sergens dc vile, to prevent any sign OF approba-
tion or the contrary, and to take into instant
custody any one offending in tha. way, read the
Judgment of the Court. 1t is as follows:
condemns the Count de Montalembert to six
months imprisonment and fine of 3 OO0f; Dou.
Mol to one months imprisonment and fine of
i,ooot; declares that they will be held jointly iia
pie Tor tne said lines; acquits them on the remain
der of the accusation; condemns them Jointly to
pay the COSTS and fixes at IL months the period of
imprisonment for debt in default
The proceedings were announced to be at an
end; the judges and Procureur Quilted the court,
and the audience separated. A group was in the
street, curious to see M. de MontalembeIs who
returned home on foot, and the numerous police
retired. There were several ladies among the
audience, who remained in court the whole of the
day, without leaving 1t for a moment
ine London Times comments strongly on the
frlai, and in its latest article says
Inc proceedings on the trial cf Montaembert
VIII go abroad throrghoutthe world like the ne VS.
OF some SAD symptom Of a distant epidemic To-
day they occupy the public mind of England: thew
VIII rass from to the free States Of the Contiu.
ent; they will be read far and wide through the
cities of the Atiantic they will be repeated among
the populations Of the Southern Ocean: but wher.
ever they pass they will produce prevailing senti
ment OF deep commiseration. Il is not Montalsm
bert, bat France, that will be pitied. Every one
viii ask himself, "What can be the condition of a
country where such things can be, and where no
one cries aioudt" 1t is if we saw rat gaawiup
human form which did not start. 1t may be trance.
1t may be death, but it is not active vitality Per.
haps 1t is the silence and inaction of affect terror
but there is scarcely instance Of great nature
so silently prostrate