The Sun. — 1849-11-17 (London, England)

REPUBLIC.  ''he have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The High Court of Versailles pronounced judg ment on Thursday par contumace against the accused of the 13th June who have not surrendered. The. whole of them, Jardigon, Buverdier, Cmur de Roy, Thore, Jules Lechevallier, Ch. Delecluze, Ribeyrol!es, Servient, Gongeon, Morel, Madier de Montjau jE une, Tessier•Dumothay, Ledru Rollin, Victor Considei'ant, Boichot, Rattier, Beyer, Pflieger, Avril, Martin Bernard, Kcenig, Rongcot Menaud, Lan aulphe, Hofer, Kopp, Anstett, Rolland, Cantagrel, Heitzmann, Jannot, Felix Pyat, Kersausie, Etienne Arrago, and Perrier, have been sentenced to transportation for life. _ _ _  M...PROUDHON has roused the ire of his brother Socialists by the publication in the Voix du Potpie of the following observations on the conviction of the accused of the 13th June by the jury of the High Court of Versailles : ,  " We do not hesitate to say, although the declaration may excite much hatred against us, tats it was owing to the un-heard• of an guilty determination of the counsel. A' hen it was necessary to justify the good faith of the prisoners, to show that the constitution had been violated ny the m"jority and by the Government; when the question was consequently to lay down and defend the .appeal to the people, the right of pacific and legal neanitestetion, the only point that was in question, the counsel preferred to raise the argument, doubtful in its kind, and in all cases perfectly useless, of the right of insurrection. When Republican dignity commanded that the charge should be deprived at any price of its last pretext, the, counsel considered that it was better for the defence co withdraw before a decision, which only imposed limits to their chattering, than to expose themselves to a condemnation doubtless possible, but which. after • the solemnity of the dtreureion, would have le come for every one unjust in its groundet/tele—unjust in all end everywhere. Now, thanks to the Montagsard (Tun:A.llin, tt.o high jurymen may acv, while they rub their hands, Thank Heaven, we 2-. ave not condemned innocent men ! Thu conspiracy lietreyed itself by the mouth of the counsel employed for the defence ; the insurrection was plainly laid down beton! es— Htibuimus confitentes eos.' Contrary to what ought to have taken place, the prisoners have been sacri ileed to their counsel, absolutely as a patient dies to save the reputation of his physician. We certainly do not !swan to give our approbation to the sentence which has just been delivered by the High Court, any more than the policy which has been followed by the Government or more than a year ; but it must be confessed that on this emission 'the Revolution has been betrayed by its own partizans. After having committc d suicide politically in the public street, the Mountain has now done it morally before the High Court. What, in fact, is this premeditated retreat of the counsel charged with the defence but 3 judicial 13th of June? What could be the objects of these strange tactics? Let them utter as much as they lilts the high-sounding phrases of liberty of defence, right of counsel, dignity of the robe, tyranny of the court, the solidarite of the defence, con reueity of system, discipline of opinions—all that, in our eyes, is only a vain disguise, under which is concealed, in the place of a true love for the Republic, the most absurd of all despotisms—that of party spirit. God forbid that we should, by the severity of our remarks, aggravate the grief of the condemned, any more than the remorse of the counsel; but we cannot prevent ourselves from sayinz that, in the present case, both prisoners and counsel have failed in their duty. Why did not Guinard, Forestier, Pilhes, Langlos, all, in fact, whom we have heard from the commencement of the trial protest as to the pacific character of the manifestation, rise after the decree delivered against the conclusions of the counsel, and declare to the Court that, as their intention had never been any other than a pacific manifestation, they could not conceive the utility of pleading in their defence the right of insurrection?" It is said to be the intention of the P ItESIDENT to extend the amnesty on the 10th December to all political persons convicted of offences, including those excluded from the recently published amnesty, the convicted of Bourges and of Versailles, and the exiles of England, Belgium, and Switzerland. PARIS BOURSE, FRIDAY, Nov. 16.  The market closed as follows:—Threes, 56f. 95c.; Fires, 89f. 80c.; Rouen, 5271. 50c.; Havre, 235 f.; Great Northern, 437 f. 50c.; Avignon, 221 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 300 f.; Bale, 1031. 75c.; Bordeaux, 4001.; Paris and Strasburgh, 350. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 2801.  BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 16.  Boulogne and Amiens, 53/4 —Namur and Liege, 53/4 Orleans and Bordeaux, 2'34—Sambre and Meuse,