The trial of ALIBEAU, before the French Court of Peers,
com- menced on the 8th and terminated on the 9th instant. It caused little interest in Paris. There was no crowd in or about the Court; and bad not the Prefect of Police, GISQUET, foolishly pro- libited the publication in the newspapers of ALIBEAVIS violent and assassin-like speech in his own defence, there would not have been the least excitement on the occasion. The prohibition was 'withdrawn a few hours after it had been announced to the evening newspapers; but the Carlist journals alone thought fit to give the speech entire. It was a wild rhapsody against the treachery and tyranny of Louis PHILIP, mixed up with a vain and egotistical eulogy of himself and his motives, and a vehement repudiation of the reports derogatory to his personal honour and the respectabi- lity of his family. His counsel took the same course ; admitting that his client's life was forfeited, but anxious to defend his " ho- MOUr."
ALIBEAU was beheaded, on a scaffold erected in the Place St. Jacques, on Monday morning. He arrived at two minutes before eve, and by four minutes past five he was guillotined. He was perfectly calm and.collected. All he said to the soldiery, of whom there were several thousands, and to the few other persons about the scaffold at that early hour, was, " A dieu mes braves I," The only regret he expressed, from the hour of his arrest to his last minute of life, was that he had failed to kill the King. It is plain that the punishment of ALIBEAU will not deter others from imitating his example. There is nothing disgusting in his last scene; and a good deal in the pomp of his trial, and the brief celebrity he acquired, to stimulate enthusiasts of the same class to similar attempts.
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