FRANCE.

Colonist, Issue 60, 18 May 1858, Page 3

FRANCE.

• ■■■■ The 25th of February is definitely fixed for the trial of Orsini, Pierri, Rudio, and Gomez, on tlief charge of attempting to murder/the emperor. Orsini and Pierri have written to M. Jules^Favre to say that they have chosen him for their counsel. Forty witnesses have been subpoened. , r ~.'-.. . . Numerous addresses frqm thre regiments jof the army Have been published, promising the eniperor that in case of the calantity of his death they will be faithful tp his dynasty...., The addresses of all the regiments that have hitherto taken part in this demonstration are in sabstance identical. But many of them contain allusions to England: which have here caused the .^highest > displeasure. Thus, in the address of the sth Landers w,e find this sentence :— ■

" " The army is afflicted" that powerful frierids, whose 1 * brave armies so Jately combated by our sidej cover .-.with their protection, under the name of hospitality, conspirators and assassins who exceed those who have gone before them in all that is odious." ■ ;■ - - ,

The officer in command of-tlie 82nd regiment of the line thus speaks in tike name of li&reginient:— .-.■.'. *• r

"Those wild beasts' who at, periodical epochs quit a foreign soil to inundate the streets of your capital with blood, inspire us • with no other feeling than that of disgust; and if your majesty wants soldiers to get at these;,, men, even in the recesses of their" den, we humbly beseech you to choose the 82nd reghnent as, ofiie advanced guard of that army.";. ■

General Bazaine, of the 19th'military division, thus improves; upon M. de Morny's insolent menace to England :— ..■.'■■'

"This odious arsd cowardly attempt has filled our hearts with indignation and rage -against those who, by giving an to these sanguinary anarchists, have lkade th'eniselvds their accomplices." ' : ■- T:- of the Guard who were on duty H{it the Tuileries on the evening of the 14th Jan. are made to say, that they were the first. to fly to their.arms v and Jhat they "almost regret" that they did not have occasion to use them in order to prove their devotion to his mojestyi The address, signed by M. Hardy, colonel df the' 59th regirtieot of the line, contains.this passage.:— . ■.

; "But in out ; manly hearts.indignation against the perverse succeeding to our gratitude to God moves us -to demand an account from the land df impunity where are the haunts of the monsters who are sheltered under its laws. ; Give us' the order, sire,.knd ;we'sbajll pursue them even to the places of their s'cetnity." .' The Penal Bill has' been amended in com-: mittee, and, in its modified' form, it was pre-i serited to the Legislative Bddy on the 13th of February. One of _the most important- alterations relates to the manufacture )of " murderous machines", and "fulminating? gunpowder.", The penalty for him who manufactures, or for him who causes to lie manufactured without being ; legally is the same—namely; from - six months' lo five years'- imprisonment and from 50 francs to 3000 francs fiiie.-■•?