The wrath of the Orleans family has lighted with much
un- becoming severity upon a Parisian publication. In an article, headed, eCouronnement de Joas, dedie au Due &Orleans," the Mode bad com- mended the lithography of a picture representing the scene of Racine's tragedy, wherein the youthful Juas is exhibited on his throne, and Athalie is expelled from the temple. The Legitimist print had expa. listed on the merits of the painting, as well as the remorse and miseries which must follow usurpations such as those of Athalie and Gloater. These remarks having been construed into an outrage on Louis Philip, an attack upon the rights which he pretends to derive from the unanimous wishes of the French nation, and an adhesion to another form of government than that founded by the Charter, the responsible editor of tt.e Mode was, on Wednesday, sentenced at the Paris Assizes to a fine of fifteen thousand francs, and an imprison- ment of one year. Surety that throne cannot be firmly established the possessor of which avenges with so much jealousy nod rigour an allusion to the ways by which he reached it. This is the first applica- tion to the press of the severe laws which were so seasonably enacted after the perpetration of Fieschi's crime.—Morning Post.
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