A considerable portion of the French journals is filled with
de- tails of the trial of twenty-five persons, who are charged with having conspired . to revolutionize the Government at the last July celebration of the Three Days. The conspirators are all men of little note; except M. RASPAIL, who has distinguished himself as a chemist. The prosecution appears to have been got up in a slovenly and even indecent manner : the witnesses are generally Police spies, whose evidence has been discredited on former trials; and unfair garbled selections have been made from the papers of the accused. The trial is conducted in a manner which seems strange indeed to Englishmen. The prisoners indulge themselves in attacking and ridiculing the President of the Court; who has no power to repress the indecency, but bandieosoliuse,with them like a counsellor at the Old Bailey Sessiene ilettel741 ex- pectation
is that all the prisoners will be qtsittostin consequence of the wretched 'character of the wit }viii--speak against
-Own. The Government of Louis PHILIP will gain no credit by tkis proceeding, whatever may be its result.
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