New-York tribune., 1870-04-14
CLOSING SCENES OF THE TRIAL OF PRINCE
PIERRE BONAPARTE.
fFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

TorRs. March 27-Well! the great farce of the
trial of Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte is over
and tomorrow we all going home to hear what
Paris has to say about the verdict Not that 1t VIII
have much to say, in print for, as You know, there
is very severe law in France against discussion by
the press of judgments that have been rendered by
the courts of law You may remember that NJ. Pros
per Merim6e, after the condemnation of Libri, hav
ing reviewed the judgment of the court very Sc
verelv in the Rerue aes Deur MOndes, was fined for
the ofense and sentenced to fifteen days ilnpTlson-
nent 1t is well for the Government at this moment
that there is such law, for it would not be pleas
ant thing to hear the frank expression OF puDhc
ornion Oh the proceedings of the last week here at
Tours Suffice it, that those proceedings have added
fresh disgrace to the Empire; they have put in
q plainer and more odious light the want
Of Justice in France; they have brought
ont into clearer view the servilty OF the people
in the face of power. For all that, the week has
been TO me a most interesting, and even exciting,
time and my mind has been kept in such state OF
tension and my body TOO for that matter that, now
it is all over am afraid even Paris Will seem Hat
and improbable after Tours You must fancy your
corresnondent and his chum, the spirited and untr-
ing AGENT of the Associated Press neither of Us hav-
ING tickets that gave us anything than the right
of entrance to the Hall, getting ourselves walked up
every day at land o'clock in the morning Is early,
at Tours, and cold and nobody stirring outside but
thestreet-sweepeTs and the mlk-wonen-the mix
women queer old creatures in wooden-shoes ana
abort pettcoats with thick coaks, the hoods drawn
over their heads, carrying, in one hand, brightly
nolished tin-pail with milk, and in the other,
smaller pail with cream than comfortably dressing
by cosy wood fires and hurryng OIL TO the Hoei ue
rIInyers wel-named for all the universe was there
and beginning our day with laying siege 10 the re-
luctant walters TO wheedle breakfast out OF then
breakfast at that hour of o'clock being iish only
| "a BE caught with silver hook. AS tlink loid
! Won in my last the dGeaner, the real breakfast
| which is usually at II o'clock, or IL or !, but
never later than this last hour being regulated by
the hour Of dinner, moderate people dihihg III u anu
syeIls at stbe deuner at Tours for the journalists
and others who had to be at the Court was placed at
tbe unbeard-of hour of 0! This breakfast neither
nor was ever able to be present at, but the table
was filed by the Journalists who, having red tickets
-ours were white--were not obliged to go to the
p,as fiji II o'clock, their seats being fixed For US,
,ben the earlier we could get our breakfast the bet
ter, and we fought for it, every morning ~ D.
thinking ourselves lucky if halfpast eight found us
tIrouch with our coffee and bread and butter Then,
putting handful Of prunes into one pocket ana a
manchet of bread into the other we were OH 10 'ahc
our place in the qaeue that formed along thc siuo-
walk think told you all about our struggle 70
get H. a struggle repeated every day but to-day,
when we availed ourselves Of the kind assistance oi
a brother journalist from England, and went III al
our ease There was one advantage in not having
fixed seats, thrown every day with fresh
set of neiQhbOrs aud thus cOntIyed to hear variety
of opinions expressed. One day IL raihed, allo
rained hard; the weather, during ths
whole week. v@ most pncomiortabIe. pa'