Staunton Spectator, And General Advertiser

Mr. Bryant editor of the N. York Evening Post in his last letter from Paris, thus speaks of political liberty in France:

"At present there is very little political liberty in France, except the liberty of suffrage. The police can seize the printed sheets of any journal containing expressions which the government happen to dislike, and prevent its circulation. The law punishes with severe penalties the vague offence of printing and publishing any thing which is calculated to bring hatred and contempt on the Government and therefore a trial by jury is allowed in such cases; all that the jury has to do is to say whether the obnoxious article was published or not; the judges, who are the creatures of the government, decide whether the law is violated or not. There is no chance, therefore, of escape, when the Government has marked out its victim. People are arrested and detained by order of the Government and there is no process like that of our habeas corpus to deliver them, if confined on a frivolous or insufficient pretext. There is no liberty of assembling to express public opinions on political questions, in addresses and resolutions, or we should have seen the entire people moving on the Roman question. In short, here is a Government, with popular forms, conducted in the worst spirit of oligarchy, and allowing ample scope for the exercise of the most capricious tyranny."