The Sun. — 1858-03-11 (London, England)

BRUSSELS, MARCH 9. Yesterday morning took place the trial of M. Louis i Labarre, the writer of the libellous and nfisearnatory articles in the Drapeau, Brussels paper, in relation to the atrocious attempt on the 14th January on the life of the Emperor of the French. In reply the President (M. le Conseiller Bosqnet), the accused admitted himself to be the author of the article complained of—that he was a literary man, aged 46 years—that he was born at Duiant, and was residing at the Ecaus,ines d'Enghien—that there were 5,000 copies of the journal of the 17th, in which the article appeared, published. M. Heyndrick, the Avccat-General, then stated the case to the jury. He described the nature of the article which had reference to the late murderous attack in the Rue Lepelletier, in which 156 persons were wounded and eight persons killed. In consequence of that affair, France was plunged into a state of consternation, and the other States were greatly exasp3rated, for it was useless to tisgnise the fact that the life of the Emperor sought to be destroyed was the safegue‘vilmotfr3pmse and public ordjg inWination, there appeared in the Drapeau journal, of the 17th, an article containing the rnostoffensive epithets against the Emperor, and, with most revolting wickedness, offering an apology for his political assassination. Louis Labarre the defendant, wag a Socialist-Democrat of the warmest character. To judge him from his works, he appears to have for his object the destruction of our institutions and the overthrow of social order. From 1846 he bad devoted himself to this labour of di4organiaation. On the 29th of August, 1848, he assisted in the establishment of the Nation journal, for the avowed object of snaking it the organ of the European revolutionists. In 1854, this paper changed its title to the National, Labarre continuing the chief editor. On the 22d of Ferituary, 1856, the journal resorted to its original title, the Nation, and it was about this time there appeared in that same paper as infamous article against the Duchess of Brabant, for which beririS Brisinie, the then printer-editor (imprimeur-edifew.) was condemned. In consequence of that condemnation the journal ceased to appear from the month of August, 1856, but the Socialist-Democratic party, to which Labarre belonged, did not remain long without an organ. In the Month of December, 1856, the Drapeau was established by the defendant, its chief editor and proprietor. That journal nut only repudiated the form of the Belgian Government, but warred against the sacred right of property, which it called a monopoly, a spoliation, and a robbery. It denounced the righi, of succession, which it compared to the original sin, and which, according to the Catholic doctrine, had been the cause of all our evils. Whilst continually attacking the Emperor of the French, it sought to justify Mazzini and and his proceedings. It professed to be the organ of that individual, and offered to receive subscriptions for the purchase of arms for the revolutionists, The defendant belongs to that school whicj adepts the theory of the dagger, and justifies political assassination as a means for effecting their object. The Nation, of which the defendant was the principal editor, published, on the 11th March, 1856, a letter to the " Marianne," in which it used this language, " that they should break their last arm on the head of the last king." It then professed to be•the organ of the revolutionary eononune which had its seat in London, and which had recently published a manifesto, preaching openly the assassination of every Sovereign in Europe. He Eeverted to the conquest of the United Provinces • by the allied armies of France and England—a conquest which, according to Henault, the chronicler, was to be especially attributed to the infamous insults of the gazetteers of the country. He then quoted several passages from articles in theDiapeau, in which the Emperor of the French was accused of murder and robbery, and which proclaimed his assassination as a supreme necessity for France, and concluded by an appeal to the jury to assist him in putting down such atrocious doctrines. M. Ladrie, avocet, in a speech characterised by much energy and eloquence, defended the accused. He denied that Labarre had ever done or written anything that was offensive to the" principles of universal morality, which the law of the 20th Dec., 185 i, under which this prosecution was instituted, was intended to provide against.