The Court of Cassation has done its duty, and the
siege of Paris is raised. - The appeal on which the decision was come to was that of GEOFFROY the artist. It was heard on Friday. The delibera- tions, agreeably to form, were conducted privately; and they eon- tinned for two hours and a halt At half-past five the Judges re- turned into court, and delivered their judgment,—to the effect that GEOFFROY not being a military man, was not subject to trial by a military court, nor with military forms, and therefore they sus- tained the appeal. The court and the neighbourhood was imme- diately . rent with shouts of "Vise la Cour de Cassation !" Air ordinance Was inserted in the Moniteur of the following day, declaring; the state of siege at an end ; and CHATEAUBRIAND, HYDE DE NEUVILLE, and the Duke DE FITZJAMES, were set at liberty. This important decision rescues the people of Paris from that obloquy to which their submission was likely to subject them, by exhibiting it in the light of submission to the laws, and a confidence in their protection, rather than to the outragers of law and justice. The names of the honest judges who pronounced it- are— M. Bastard de l'Etang, President; Gilbert de Voisin, Reporter ; Brik.e, Deputy, Meyronet de St. Mare, Riyes Avoine de Chantereine, Chit- head de la Ifigandie, Chopin d'Arnouyille, Rocher, and Isambert, Councillors or Judges.
A foolish and base attempt has been made to diminish the honour of the decision, by representing it as agreed to by a ham majority. The fact appears to be, that only three voted against it ; and it is understood, that M. MERILHou, the only member of the Court who was absent, would also have voted for it. M.
DUPIN pleaded indisposition as an excuse for not appearing on behalf. of the Ministers. The cause of the appellant was pleaded, as had been arranged, by ODILLON BARROT. At their sittings of Saturday, the Court sustained the other • appeals Of COLOMBAT, HASSENFRATZ, TIELLEMANS, and DE- LOFFRE.
• No day has yet been fixed for the assembling of the Chambers. The 20th of July was first mentioned; then the 1st of August, Ministers must, of course, take the benefit of an indemnity act, if they can get it. The Cabinet arrangements are still but begin- ning tO begin. One of the Parisian journals has given an account of an interview between LOUIS PHILIP and M. DUPIN, in which the King is represented. as 'turning the Deputy out of the pre-. seneecharriber with his own royal hands. The story was differently reported by other journals: but there seems no doubt that a serious misunderstanding did take place, on the subject of the Ministry or some other, between the Citizen King and his citizen subject. DUPIN has left the capital, though it is said for a few days only. It was understood that he was to be Premier; but, at present, the rumour is that SOULT will take the Presidency of the Council • to himself. We shall see what a " pig-headed dragoon" can do for our neighbours: if he be as useful to them (indirectly) as -ours has been to us, the French will have small occasion to regret their Monarch's -choice.
. The commerce of France is said to be on the increase. At Havre, business is transacting unexampled in extent and import- ance. The crops are everywhere most ample in promise, and all things look bright. In La Vendee, the insurrection is over. It is purposed to celebrate the anniversary of the Three Days with extraordinary splendour. On the first day of the three, sixteen girls, daughters of the heroes of 1830, are to be married, and to each Government gives a dower of 2,000 francs ; on the second day, there are to be jousts on the river, distributions of provisions, theatres gratis, and illuminations; and on the third, there is to be a review of the National Guards,—all very grand, as the children's books say; The day for LEOPOLD'S nuptials is not definitively fixed; but te. M. Tai PIER and another eminent lawyer are busy with the settle- ments.
The Loan was concluded on Wednesday ; it is for 7,000,000- francs, at 5 per cent. interest.
