The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

Crime in France.

The Court of Assizes of the Maine-et-Loire last week
tried a female servant, named Cordon, on a charge of
having poisoned her master, a farmer named Durand, re-
siding at Juigne-sur-Loire. It appeared that the prisoner,
who was 25 years in Durand's service, had acquired a great
ascendancy over him, especially after he became infirm
through old age, and in May, 1863, she induced him to
make a will leaving her the whole of his property, amount•
ing to about 5,000 fr. She effected this tho more easily
that the old man had only distant relatives whom he seldom
saw. Oa the 13th July last Durand died, after a very
short illness, during which he complained that his food
often tasted 'of phosphorus. The authorities having
been informed of that fact, a post-mortem exam;na-
tion was ordered, and a considerable quantity of phos-
phorus was found in the body of the deceased. It was also
ascertained that a pig belonging to Durand had died from
the same poison two days previously. Suspicion immediately
fell on the prisoner, who was the only person having an
interest in Durand's death, and L was soonascoefrptahionsepdhtohraict
she had purchased at different times two pots
paste of a chemist in a neighbouring town, stating that it
was for a farmer named Vanuier, who wanted it to kill rats.
The ratter, however. denied that he had ever given her:any
such commission. It appears that the contents of the first
pot were given to the pig to test the efficacy of the poison,
and that the prisoner then bought the second, and mixed
the paste with her master's food. The prisoner protested
that she was innocent, and denied that her master had died
from poison, but the jury, deeming the evidence conclusive,
brought in a verdict of guilty, and the Court sentenced her
to hard labour for life.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
£ £
2,547 2.376
162 729
2,118 1,998
3,14 F 8,i23
20,402 18.323
1,896 1,559
346 321'
320 329
251 268
619 519
1,939 1.524
610 415
1,530 1.88.3
2,220 2.091
259 186
3,614 2,911
3,174 3,t,45
11,006 9,357
33,537 30,836
11.907 31 803
2,010 2,414
359 451
9,247 8,174
73,375 68,189
218
1,713 1,547
2,887
1,714 1,899
3,380 125
45,3 2 40,410
180 170
119 147
697 845
119,294 112,188
2,09.: 2,134
30,134 27.463
21,917 23,286
8,458 7 190
2,725 1,500
18,563 16.842
1,665 1,397
1,576 1.261
2,169 1,538
44,5•86 45.;85
4,451 4.308
1,651 1.434
2,996 2,479

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211
Caledonian 252 VA}
Cambrian
Cockermouth & Workington Bl 8/
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage q 64
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651 53/
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 54
Furness, &c 5O 15',1
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. li.'astern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
tit. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7ll 711
qt.Southn...lz Westn.(lrind.) 3731 329
Great Western 10561 10561
Hull and Hornsea l3
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 1064 861
Inverness & Perth Junction 119} --
frith North-Western 145 145
Kent Coast - 27 10
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 325}
Limerick and Ennis... 244 244
Limerick and. Foynes 261 261
• Llanelly 46.1 464
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 5
London* South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611 2504
London, Chatham, & Dover 724 72}
Do. Metropolitan Extension 113 10/
Han.,Sheilleld, & Lincolnsh
Ranch. S.Jun.&pltrincham 9} 94
Haryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N. -Western) 641 610
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irlnd 262 2591
itonkland 7ll 714
llonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 1095
North London 9 9
North Staffordshire 254 252
Oswestry and Newton 5O 50
Rhymney l9l 191
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138
Somerset and Dorset (36 394
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306
Taff Vale 57 67
Ulster lO5l 1051
Vale of Clwyd . 10 10
Vale of Neath 431 36
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
Waterford and Limerick 77, 77
West Cornwall 271 271
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 7
Whitehaven Junction l3 13
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 823
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction.... 241 241
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l 161}
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1061
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France . . 1135 1302 67033 59,312
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada • lO9O 1090 18,639 16,541
Great Central of Belgium 18) 5,7:3
Great Indian Peninsula 5;3 633 i 9,139 11,211
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,612 1.519
Great Southern of tndia
Great Western of Canada 345 3,5 10,034 8,667
Madras 417 547 6,767 b. 160
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 490 16,303 18,296
Northern of Canada— ...
Northern of France.. .....
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 17t3 135,-06 129,911
Paris and Orleans 1614 1494 64,444 10,956
Pernambuco 774 77 688 6 .5
Royal Danish B9 69
Scinde.
South Austrian
Southern of France 770 680 31,538 30,263
Victorian 196 196 9,191 7,801
Welland ..... 25 25 655 333
West 'ganders 75 75 1,550 1,3:6
W. and N.W. of France . 960 813 16,549 49,372

26,125 23,586
67,404 59,514
3,428 3,.27
10,372 7,485

033 935
7,148 6,383
7,f35 6,810

969 449
4.528 4,155
29,397 29,380
5,738 5,717
2,461 2.260
284 271
3,i21 3.532

43.1 425
1,53 I.( 96

832 818
4,836 4.693

6,6 594
1,05 d 81t
1,000 843

34,167 30,145
:117

417 261
2,593 2,109
1,838 1,518
4,34 3,031

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, August 22—Ellen and Alert, from Guernsey—
Ann Law, from Archangel—Lord Clarendon, from Mar-
seilles—Strathspey, from Riga; Edward Thornhill, from
Invercargill—Spanish war vessel Marquis de la Victoria,
steamer, from Cadiz.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Anchored—Jane Anne, from Colombo—Peacock, of Wey-
mouth, from the west—both for London—Emily, from the
west, for the north.

Passed—Mauro Oenoorano, brig, from Bahia, for Lon-
don—Rose, for Sydney—.Stratha Florida, for Calcutta—
Baca Mizenbro, for Montevideo—Augusta Aurora, far Rio
Janeit D —all from London.