The State Trials in Paris are proceedirg slowly, and to
the Government very unsatisfactorily. In consequence of the refrac- tory conduct of the prisoners, MARTIN, the Attorney-General, proposed that all who refused to behave quietly and decorously should be tried in their absence. The Peers deliberated on this proposal; which caused no slight sensation in Paris, as the last person who had been so tried was the celebrated DANTON; and the papers were filled with extracts from the History of the Revo- lution by THIERS, full of eloquent denunciations of the iniquity of proceeding against even such a wretch as DANTON in his absence. Many of the Peers, including Count MOLE, and PASQUIER, the Pre sident, refused to concur in the Attorney-General's proposal; but it was finally agreed, that the act of accusation, or indictment, should be read in the presence of those only who refrained from intcr • rupting the proceedings by clamour. Accordingly, on Saturday, all the prisoners were removed, after a scuffle between one of them and an officer of the National Guard. Subsequently, twenty-nine of the more peaceable were brought again into qestrt.. One of these, howe‘er, LAGRANGE, attacked the Court with vehemence ; and it was not until he was dragged ettt that one word of the indictment could be heard. This document consists of 519 pages ; the reading of which would occupy several days, and had not concluded when the last accounts were despatched. In the mean time, out of the twenty-eight prison ets who sub • uaitted to hear the indictment read, twenty-three hav6vehemently protested against the illegality of the whole proceedings. The chosen defenders of the accused, to the number of nieety-one, comprising in their body several banisters of rerutation andAvit. e. • members of the Chamber of Deputies, have had frequent meet- ings; and in the last number of the Tribune, published on Mon- day, they inserted a spirited protest against the tyrannical refusal of the Court of Peers to allow them to plead the cause of the ac- cused. The Duke DE MONTEBELLO has brought this subject before the Chamber of Peers; and proposes to strminoo the edam of the Tribune, and the ninety-one signers of the protest, to the bar of the Chamber to answer for their conduct. But on the day after the protest was published, the Tribune ceased to appear, being utterly borne down by fines and the expenses of prosecutions; and the editor is already in prison, along with two of his prede- cessors in the same office. The Peers had come to no decision on the motion of the Duke DE MONTEBELLO on Wednesday. Forty-three Peers have retired from the Court in disgust, in addition to eighty-eight who bad previously reibsed to take any part in the proceedings. About five hundred of the Tenth Leg ion of the National Guards have protested against being employed in guarding the Luxembourg during the continuance of the "mon- ster process." Paris is represented as being generally quiet. A letter by 0. P. Q. (which we regret that we cannot find room for in our present number) contains an absolute demon- stration of the utter illegality of this new Court. If the Charter is any thing better than waste paper, the infringement of the law and constitution of France, as sworn to by Louis PHILIP, is monstrous. The King may have a hundred thousand soldiers in Paris, and twice as many in the provinces, and he may be able with this vast force to repress the spirit which must rebel against his tyranny ; but the time cannot be far distant when his iniquitous Government shall be overthrown. These are not the days when the rights of men and every principle of justice and humanity can be violated without a penalty being exacted for the crime.
Attempts have been made at Lyons to intimidate the witnesses summoned to give evidence for the prosecution. Part of the Mayor's house was blown down by the explosion of a species of hand- grenade.
