The French Chamber of Deputies passed the bill proposed by
Ministers relative to the Court of Assize, by 212 to 72. In the discussion on this bill, PERSIL, the Chancellor, plainly declared that Ministers would not respect the Charter if the " necessities of the country " required them to " go out of it."
The new law affecting the press has been laid before the Cham- ber by M. SAUZET, the Chairman of the Committee appointed to prepare the bill. It has received modifications which aggravate the injustice and severity of its provisions beyond what even Peosis deemed necessary. It increases the sum to be deposited by newspapers as a security for the payment of fines and legal costs, from 20001. to 80001.; and this provision will probably extinguish many journals, and lead to the multiplication of in- fernal machines.
M. RASPAIL, editor of the Reformateur, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for using warm language to the Judges, who ordered his release from confinement on the absurd charge of being an accomplice of Ftescot. Of this grand assassin, by the way, scarcely any mention is now made in the Paris journals.
The Ministerial newspapers are very angry, and it is said their patrons are much annoy ed, at the continued strictures of the English press on the infamous measures of the Government. It is seen that in this country all are of one opinion as to their im- policy and tyranny, while most would deem the over hr v of Louis Poi ste's throne and the punishment of his reflood,: Mi- nisters a righteous retribution.
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