Little progress has been made in the trial of the
French state prisoners since our last week's publication. The Court of Peers on Tuesday, in a secret sitting, resolved, by a majority of 82 to 78, not to try the accused in their absence ; but the prisoners protest against the whole proceedings, and declare that they will not re- turn to the Court, or remain there, unless compelled at the point of the bayonet.
It is said that Marshal GERARD, who is on bad terms with the King, threatens to publish an account of some negotiations in re- gard to the amnesty, which will be very inconvenient to the Minis- ters at the present time. Marshal SOULT is also carrying on a fretful correspondence in The Mord:ens., with Count MONTALIVET, Intendant of the Civil List, as to the purchase by Louis PHILIP of three of his pictures. The Ceunt says that the whole affair was an arrangement by the hag, who did not want the pictures, to oblige the Marshal; that BM.? himself selected such pictures as he chose to send to the wileries in exchange for his half million of francs ; and that leOtha PRIMP is reedy to caneel the bargain. SOULT is very angry, and has agreed to take back his pictures and refund the money.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has reported in favour of allowing the Peers to prosecute M. DE PUYRAVEAU, who refused all answer or explanation to the questions put to him as to his signing the letter in the Tribune, counselling the state pri- soners to persevere in their refractory conduct. The other Deputy implicated in the charge, M. DE CORMENIN, has disavowed his signature, and will escape prosecution. The Chamber was to con- sider the report of their Committee yesterday.
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