The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

BRISTOL-THURSDAY.

A limited attendance at our ruaraet to-day, end wheat
rather adv minced in price. Barley scarce, at former rates.
Beans and peas intimated sale.

EDINBURGH GRAIN—MARcs 30.

To. day there was a fair supply of wheat, which met a
slow sale at rather under last week's prices. Barley met
a ready sale at Is advance on former raves. Beans a ready
sale, and about is more money. Oats-sold heavily.
Wheat on the top is 6d up average is Id down.
Barley on the top 3s Od up average is 4d up.
Oats on the top Os 6d d0wn...... average Os 9d down.
Beans on the top 3s 9d up. ...average 3s 9d up.
Ave' age Prices.
Wheat.. 37s 2d Oats.
I
Barley 33s Od Beans 32s 9(1

Total Supply and Sales.
Wheat ..1015 qrs Sold 623 qrs
8ar1ey........ 853 qrs Sold 751 qrs
Oats
Beans l7B qrs Sold 204 qrs

Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 39s Od ; extras, 37s Od ;
superfine, 35s Od ; fine, 33s Od.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILa DUE.

xustralia and Mauritius, via ':ionthampton . .April 18.
via .i.laraeilles
irazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. April 6.
Jape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. April --.
ti.illa, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.April,3
via Marseilles April 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. April 3.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 3
via Marseilles April 3
India (Bombay), via Southampton April 12
via Marseilles April 5.
Portugal.... April 5.
,Latta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 3
via Marseilles April 5.
Sewfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... April 7.

. .
.by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. April —.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo . April 10.
Bahamas, via New York April 7.
Nlexico ..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 April 13
California. and British Columbia..

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MURDER IN FItANCE.—The Court of Assizes of
the D ux-Sevres has just tried a farm-labourer
named Gabilly, aged 36, on a charge of having murdered
his sister at Chapelle•St.-Laurent on the 10th Dec. last. It
appeared from the evidence that the prisoner:was in the
service of a widow Niort, who in December last engaged his
sister to come and keep house for her while she went to a
fair at Bessure. The prisoner had always been remarkable
for his violent temper, and became furious on the least con-
trariety. On the morning of the crime, in a fir of passion
he took a gun and shot several hens because they came into
the kitchen, and threatened to shoot the neighbours who
reproached him with his folly, but they at last got posses-
sion of the gun and took it away with them. Later in the
day, when preparing to shave himself, he told his sister to
go and borrow a ig.un for him; she left the house to do so,
but as she did not walk fast enough tor him. he ran after and
cut her across the neck with his razor, inflicting a wound
of which she died a few minutes afterwards. On hearing
the woman's screams the neighbours ran to her assistance,
and at last mastered him, but not before he had wounded
one of them severely. He was committed for trial, and the
doctors who were called in to examine him as to his sanity,
declared that he was not insane, but had acted under the
influence of passion. The prisoner himself stoutly denied
hat he was mad, and stated that when he struck his sister
he was so enraged that he forgot he had a razor in his hand,
and was very sorry for what he aad done. His answers to
the President's questions were perfectly rational. The
counsel for the defence pleaded insanity, but the prisoner
refused to take advantage of the plea. The jury acquitted
the prisoner on the charge of wiltul murder, but found him
guilty of inflicting a wound which had caused death, and
allowed him the benefit of extenuating circumstances. The
Court condemned him to two years' imprisonment.
A fire occurred at Eiboetif two mornings back
on the premises of M. Arnoux, a cloth manufac.
toter. The dames were first observed in the drying
rooms in the upper part of the building. The
firemen came immediately to the spot, and there being
a good supply of water the conflagration was limited to the
place where it commenced, with little injury to the lower
storeys of the building• The damage is estimated at from
20,000 f to 25,000 f. The same part of the establishment was
destroyed by fire in October last, with the same amount of
damage.