The intelligence of interest from France is confined to one
occur- Tellee—the acquittal of ARMAND CARREL, the independent and talented editor of the National; who was tried on Saturday, before the Court of Assizes, on the charge of making a direct attack on the King, in his remarks on the Royal speech delivered at the opening of the Chambers. M. CARREL'S defence rested on the ground that the personal and active part taken by the King in the administration of Government, exempted newspapers from the ob- servance of the law which ordains that the Royal acts, not opposed to the Constitution, shall be free from censure. An old Bourbon enactment was brought forward against him by the Crown law- yers; but the Jury acquitted the defendant, amidst the deafening cheers of the auditory. M. CARREL spoke for himself; and his address is universally admired for its boldness and eloquence. He read an article written in the National, by TRIERS, its former edi- tor, entitled "The King reigns, but must not govern." The Jury, it seems, approved of this maxim: and undoubtedly, if a Monarch
becomes his own Minister, he ought to be Ministerially respon- sible for his acts. The result of this trial may serve as a warning to Louis PHILIP. It is one indication among several, that the tide which has been running so strong lately in favour of arbitrary measures, is at length on the turn.
GUIZOT has given much offence by the appointment of M. vs Rossi, a Genevese Doctrinaire, patronized by the party in France whom he adulates, to the Professorship of Constitutional Law in the University of Paris. By the favour of the same Minister, M. DE Rgssi had previously been made Professor of Roman Law; and at the death of the celebrated SAY, Professor of Political Economy. Are there no Frenchmen, it is asked, capable of filling these offices, that the Minister of Public Instruction thus pro- motes a young foreigner to them ? His conduct in this matter has considerably augmented the weight of unpopularity which now lies heavy on M. GUIZOT. The Carlist loan for five millions sterling is again brought for- ward, under the auspices of a M. HABER, said to be connected with a respectable house at Carlsrhue. Of course, no subscrip- tions to it have been made, though it is said that the King of Holland means to head a list with his own name for some millions of francs. The project is scouted at the Bourse.
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