New-York tribune., 1870-04-14

lore me- ana, soon, tnere were Two or tnree nloreC
at my back. After we had stood for two hours in
the pouring rain there along a very important
parsonage in chapeauhat and feather, with plenty
of silver lace on his coat, and, bowling very politely
tells us we may all go home, for the hail is filled
Indeed after the first day, the judges and advocates
with all the notables of Tours learned the secret OF
a certain little back-dOor by which, while we were
waiting patiently in the street, they smuggled In
their wives and daughters and quietly took posses
sion of all the best places! Never, however, had they
played us such wholesale trick as this and for a
moment believed that all was lost. But / knew
that it would never do to give it up so, and leaving
my place in the ranks precptately, / threw myself
before the policemen and soldiers and in the most
pathetic French could muster plead my cause, with
my umbrella over my head, and waving my ticket in
my hand. was not easy to getn but eloquence you
know, has certain power, and in few minutes the
iron gate opened and low, friendly voice said,
Come imp As bounded up the steps, the Justly
indignant wet, and dripping crowd cried out, "Un-
| just Unjust Favors Favorsp But flew on and
| gained the hall.
That day, the only seat could find was on the
steps of the Judges platform, leaning my back
against the box that held the advocates of the Prince
1t was hard and uncomfortable, but good place to
hear and see Directly behind me- as say, were old
NJ. Leroux and young NJ. Demange the advocates of
the prisoner and all the time NJ. Laurier was speak
| ing / had the pleasure of hearing NJ. Leroux
fidgetting and grumbing, while every and then
the voice of the prisoner an indescrbable voice. the
| muffed snarl of hyena, would come within an inch
of my head, aud give me vivid sense of what it
must have been, to have been in Victor Noirs place
and heard that princely greeting as with his hand
on his pistol in his breeches pocket he roared out,
"Do you belong to that carrion crewi' "Etes rous
soldares dc charognes ID ~ 1t would be curious to
put together all that the different journalists, French
and English have written in their newspapers about
this dreadful voice. Loathly as it was, it was
the perfect expression of the mans character it
is written in the digraceful ife-history that has
lately been unrolled before us, and he
showed himself day by day, in his
furious sallies of temper in the open Court 1t
curious too how the Judge, who, from the first,
showed himself disposed to treat the Prince with
more than courtesy, with more than fairness, with
Difference with consideration, with fatherly
benevolencc, never allowed himself to be drawn
tom that course of treatment by any violence the
prisoner might show, except on the one occasion
when that violence becoming outrageous had
brought the disastrous scene in the Court that
led to Fonvielles Imprisonment. Then, indeed, the
Judge did administer sharp reproof to the prisoner
and even to his advocate who tried to defend him,
but this was the only occasion in the seven days
sitting that the Judge did his duty. When the
Prince bounded from his seat and roared over my
head to Laurier "You lie!' Vous dres plent," the
Judge said not one word, though probably such
thing was never heard of before as q prisoner adj
dressing such an insult to an advocate in open Court
At first these angry saes of the Prince excited the
greatest astonishment in the audience and in the
matter of course that lie should jump up
ont of his seat ON every occasion when
anything was said that he did not like,
whether by the witnesses or by the advocates
Those who were best disposed to INN were ophgeu
to admit as the most moderate estimate of his char
acter that he must be inpatient OF contradlc-
ton. wanting i'll respect for Others and habituated
TO giving his bad temper full swing. Those who
were not affected in forming judgment of him by
respect for lis supposed rank, set him down as fe
rocious wild beast, unfit to live In any CIVIL
lied community. During the last three days OF MS
trial as il he had had some intimation that things
were not to turn out iii for him, he was more sy-
ishly dressed than at first having blue coat with
brass buttons and gloves about whose color the
iou mails have been disputng, some insisting that
they were eggyOl yellow and others that they were
the tint of fresh May butter However this import
ant point NAV be decided, tits certain that he had
every dav fresh pair. and that his well-shaped,
rather small hand very neatly cased III them.
For the rest can believe il true that the man was
weoong when Young Tor his iea,"Les ead are unan s
as a person Of high intelligence high morals. Inc
shape of his head would forbid that 1t ls SO nat
thai believe you could set out small cold supper
on the top of it.
As for his advocates, think-and many beside me
think So too-that he was very unfortunate IN mem.
| NJ LeToux is an old man-at least judge so by ms
grizzly head and his false teeth-and ne had an tne
fretful impatience of old man without the dignity
| that sometimes comes with age. His speech 1or me
accused was three hours long, ana was ulVeisany
| condemned as rdlddrOit-perhaps the worst thing
| Frenchman can say of speech Tor the deieIse;
| NJ Leroux has fumbng way with him. lie had
before bn an immense PIE OF doeueS ~ a% no
for he read bady-fattling along without cieafness
of erunciation making mistakes, correcting hnseil,
| humming and having, getting red III thc 1iSe, anu h
| every now and then having to be assisted by lhe
prisoner who had sense enough to see That NJ LerouX
was doing him 10 good. Take an instance or TWO :
Once he said, 1T is for you to decide wnethfT tno
jurg Is not cupable" Then there buzz all over
the ROOM suppressed titterng, and the Judge looks
mn and saws "Whether the accused is culpable, You
| meanfD Then again he broke out with, And VIVA.
The Prince who saw that his advocate had forgotten
aud was trying to remember what victor NOR dla
say at that particular point, leaned forward ana
in voice loud enough for the gallery 10 10
The letter, will you!p ('Lisez done, la ktfre)
Leroux, in mist thinking that the Prince
was giving bin direction began f1mbl,ng distract.
edy among his papers for the letter! And 1t was some
minutes before he could be made to under ,ahd tat
his client was jogging his memory ana not gNine ing
much for the audience who made no pretense Of
| listening but whispered, conghed moved restessly
! about and had to I've called to order by incessant
Shoes from the huissiers. For at least one OF MS
three hours NJ LerOux was busted IN trying TO show
| that there was no foundation whatever Tor the
stories told about Pierre Bonapaies early life and
that he was innocent oI all wrong III the anais
of Canino Corfu, Zaacha, the Corps leglslatil ana
Brussels But he had better left all TINS lnsaid. 70
evidence will ever refute those stories, and the truth