NEWS OF THE WEEK.
• THE trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte for killing Victor Noir has ended in a verdict of acquittal. The jury, thirty-six in number, were equally divided, and of course the doubt thus created is interpreted in the prisoner's favour. The Court seemed amazed at the verdict, and on the civil complaint, which is decided by the judges without the intervention of a jury, gave the father of the deceased 25,000f. damages, and condemned the Prince id costs. Immediately after his liberation he was, it is said, ordered by the Emperor, who under the new Senatus-Consultum retains his " absolute power" over the Bonaparte family, to quit France, and according to a rather doubtful statement has departed for America. The verdict has given great dissatisfaction in Paris, but no movement has occurred. We have attempted to explain the verdict elsewhere, but may state here that we ascribe it to three causes,—the loathing of the departmental magnates who formed the jury for Republican journalists ; the disgust created by the violence of the witnesses for the prosecution ; and the spread of the brutal idea that a blow justifies any amount of retaliation.
