FRANCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 609, 8 September 1858, Page 4

FRANCE.

The Tribunal of Correction Police on the 6th June, tried 14 men, one in flight by default, for having formed a secret political society for the assassination of the Emperor and the overthrow of the Government. It was proved and not denied by some of the accused that the society existed, and that its intention was to make an attempt to kill the Emperor, and create insurrection, in the early part of March; also that it was in communication with refugees in London, and received a delegate from them, and that it was likewise in communication with the conspiracy at Chalons-sur-Saone. It was further proved that the conspirators met in wine shops in the Eve dv Petit. Carreau, the Eve de Charenton, and the Boulevard Contrescarpe, and in the gardens of the Palais Royal and .Luxembourg. Lastly, it was shown that some of the men had attempted to make fulminating powder, and had been appointed chiefs of particular districts in Paris to take part in the projected insurrection. One of the prisoners admitted that he had discussed with some of his fellowconspirators the best plan of killing the Emperor, and that they had come to the conclusion that it would be to stop his Majesty's carnage when out driving, and then to attack him. The tribunal condemned three of the men, named Moulin, Aubrey, and Liasse, to eighteen months' imprisonment, and the first named to sOOfr. fine, and the two last to 300fr. each; one named Champin to fifteen months' imprisonment, and 200fr. fine; another, Bournichon, to thirteen months', and 200fr. fine; another, Marly, to sis months', and lOOfr, fine; three others to three months' each, one to two months', and another to one month. All eleven were besides condemned to five years' interdiction of. civil rights. The other three prisoners were acquitted. Moulin is a commercial clerk. All the others are workmen.