The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE.

The Court of Assizes of the Maine-et-Loire last week
tried a man named Maubert, aged 50, charged with having
on the 16th July last, murdered his wife by shooting her
through the body. The prisoner had been for 20 years in
the service of M. Boguais de la Boissiere, at Avrille, and
occupied a lodge at the entrance to the park of La Please,
his master's residence. On the morning of the 16th July
a report of firearms was heard in the lodge, and a few
minutes afterwards the prisoner rushed out calling for
help. M. Boguais and some of his servants hastened to
the spot, and on entering the lodge found the prisoner's
wife sitting on the floor, leaning against a low chair.
Sloe was quite dead, having received a gunshot Wound
near the left breast, but from her 'position she bad evi-
dently been placed where she sat after the shot was fired.
The prisoner pretended that his gun had gone off acciden-
tally when his wife was handing it to hint for the purpose
of shooting a wood pigeon which had just settled in a tree
close by. This explana'don was believed at first, but the
post-mortem examination showed that the gun must have
been fired by a person standing on a considerable higher
level than the woman, as the charge had passed downwards
into the abdomen. The prisoner was accordingly arrested,
and he then gave several other explanations of the pre-
tended accident, none of which accorded with the nature
of the wound. The motive for the crime was easily
found. The prisoner had for years given nearly all his
earnings to a woman with whom he cohabited, and
had even spent on her a sum of money which he
had received for his master. Having been called on to
settle his accounts, ho appears to have shot his wife for the
purpose of obtaining a little property which he would be
entitled to sell after her death. All the circumstances
ch cameseemed to indicate that he had fired at her from the stairs
h
down into the room. In court the prisoner
ff o' erect to show ow exactly how the accident occurred. His gun
was accordingly handed to him, and a gendarme sat down
that in a low chair to represent the murdered woman. This ex-
paesriitmeelne
clearly
lyshowedhowever,
was mthoestguuti nfcaovuoludranbolte,
in
no
beingthe prisoner,
r handedisoner,
to him, have got into the position required inflicting
for the
fatal wound, and the falsehood
of his story became
evident. The jury consequently brought in a ver-
dict of guilty, but allowed the prisoner the benefit of
extenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced him
to hard labour for life.
A horrible parricide has just been committed at Tillers
(Iliarne), on a farmer of that place named Leclapart, by his
son, a young man aged 20. The latter was of a most de-
praved character, and had already undergone a year's im-
prisonment for theft, and eighteen months of the same
punishment for an assault on his father. Two mornings
back the son, after a dispute with his mother, whom he
struck and menaced with a knife, left home to aid his father
in some work in a garden which the latter possessed in
the wood of Itodemat. He returned in the after-
noon, but alone, saying that he had left his
father on the road coming home. He then seated
himself by the fire, and remained for some time silent,
smoking his pipe ; the mother at length, not seeing her hus-
band arrive, became alarmed and set out in search ci him
with some neighbours—in a short time the body was d
covered in the wood, frightfully disfigured. The fury ot
the murderer had been such that the head of the victim was
battered to pieces, and brains and teeth were found at some
yarns' distance from the body. The son, who had also left
the house on the pretence of aiding in the search, disap-
peared, leaving some part of his clothes on the banks of the
Marne, in order to lead to the idea that he had committed
suicide. The police are in search of the murderer, and a
description of him has been circulated.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.-.

Railways.

1863.

1862.

1863. 1862
£ £
2,008 1.946
650 576
1,624 1,977
5,812 5,934
17,640 16,102
186 245
324 332
128 163

Belfast and N. Counties . 136 136
Belfast and County Down .... 49 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Working-ton— 8i 81
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61
Cork and Youghal .... 32r 321
Cornwall s6:t 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 481
Edinburgh and Qlasgow 1691 164
Furness, &C 5O 5 )
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Gt. Northu. Sr Westn. (Irel.) 7ll t6l
`it Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3731 329
Great Western 10561 10321
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 86i
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish .North-Western 145 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4J.2 395/
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes 264 251
Llaneliy 461 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5/ 51
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chat ham, & Dover 7121 724
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend .. 421 421
Man.,Sheilield,& Lincoinsh .. 2391 '2394
blanch. S.J un.& Alt rincham.. 91 91
Ilaryport and Carlisle 2B 28
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141
Midland G tWestn. of Irind 2591 1921
s.lonkland 7ll 714
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 11
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee ..
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dad. 1095 10171
North London 0 9
North Staffordshire 251 252
Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42
Rhymney l9 19
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 62 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1321
Somerset and Dorset 66 391
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306
Tail Vale 57 55
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd ' 10 10
Vale of Neath 321 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
Waterford and Limerick 77 77
West Cornwall 271 271
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 48
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7
Whitehaven Junction l3 12
Whitelia.ven & Furness Jun 35 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdams2
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 26.
Bombay, Baroda, & Len. India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron lid
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastetn Bengal llO
Eastern of France 1167
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 5381
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southeen of India
tireat Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 77i
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian
Southern of France ..... 770
Victorian 196
Welland ........ 25
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France

368 202
1,352 1,087
224 216
1,340 1,431
1,621 1,605
171 126
2,034 1,537
7,382 7,005
2,864 2,780
8,263 8,538
30,707 26,668
33,408 27,964
1,554 1.646
460 343
7,903 8,099
58,963 53,896
1,0_5 829

_ .
872
1,572 1,710
35,080 31.452
1 5 163
54 134

545 506
03,286 86, 77
1,756 1,589
20,056 17.350
15,2:30 17,010
4,379 3 4.,05

"-'b
0 210
1,014 0; 2
10,78 15 205
1,162 1,0.,11
1,387 1,2L6
2,135
41,980 40,164
4,227 4,006
1,573 1,6 r 2
2,335 2,250

11,792
54,587
3,315
8,547
1,053

X9ll
2,099
6,103
4,800

b 97
3,404
19,039
6,698
1,968

145
2,3u2

318
1,256

64.5'
3.897
5O
002
871

10,801
53,254
3,311
7,945.

875
860
2,138
4,743
4,512

342
2,980
17,071
5,002
1,738

1,331

615
4.215

52 1,164 1,055
828 30,0b8 35,500
2, 4 .._7O 2 , 6
1674 2,603 1,369
1614 2,734 2,041
189 5,33 k 4,454
1981 3,461 3,572

59,476 50,973
_ _

1090
493 8,928 5,046
134 3,713 ,b 76
79 612 123
3, 5 13,009 13,916
490 17,229 14,179
99
668 58,8)2 51,0))7
44 ,1,051 881
481
1676 139,392 123,423
1434 70,611 59,397
479
69 1,057 474
68 1,356 ,sbl
1315 48,181 45,634
660 28,780 22,398
151 8,010 8,42
25 50 552
75 9,4 9)3
813 40,935 35,442

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. lOad. per ounce fbr standard gold, it appe.( that gold is
therefore, about
nearly 2-10th per cent. dearer lu London than in Parini.
By advices fromliamburg the price of gold is 1256 Per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per .E 1 sterling
standard gold at the English Mint:price is, out.
3-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 166 to 1661 per cent., and the premium n„
gold is:about 514 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely--
any profit on the importation of gold from the
United
____

ferhamonnt of
States.
, and all the works
THE IRONWORKS OF SOUTH W ALaEIS;ra
in the price of iron lies imparted
Y hundreds of addi-
e advance
Many
the iron and coal
activity to the iron trade of South Wales
of the district are in full employ.
after felt
commencet id al couldhanosper
at i 0
nb be
areemployed
i n
full
la t
8 which are about to
work the scarcity of naen
works, and when the establishment
than at present. Emi-
gration fail to be more severely
continues, and
works it has become quite an every pay -day at the larger
Skilled hands to leave, the ordinary matter for 30 or 40
States. The reports of wthajority of them for the Northern
con-
nexions and friends are .01 wages and the success of con-
fluence the men to the great inducements which in-
rally believed that leave their native country. It is gene-
scarcity of workme the increased demand for iron, the
keep:pri
rites up, ri, and other circumstances will not only
will take place. butthere is every likelihood that another rise
tion. is one articular
.An increase in the suppi) or overproduc-
tion point to be guarded against, or else
prices willceprta Li
0,. are the number of furnaces in blast and out
The
t blast, at the present time, at the South Wales Works :--
Dowlais, in blast 13, out of blast 5; Btlow Vale, 2,
out of
blast 2 ; Victoria, `L, out of blast 2; Sirhowy, 3, out of blast
2; Aberyeehan, 4, out of blast 2; Beaufort, 6, out of blast
1; Varteg, 1 out df blast 1'
Pontypool,• 4 (all) in blast ;
Curnavon, 5, out of blast 2; Golynos, 1, out of blast 3 ;
Cyfarthfa, 11 (all) in blast ; Conterdawe,
1 ; out of blast, 1.
There are also several works at a complete standstill.
The Courtier de Nice states that greet alarm was
caused at Grasse (Vat)
three nights since by the fall of two
old houses near the Place des Aires. One of the houses
was unoccupied, and there were only two persons in the
other, a tailor named Pagnaire, aged 53, and his mother,
aged 90. With great difficulty the man was soon ext '
cated from the ruins, but he was so much injured by ri-
tall from the fourth floor that he died almost immediatelyhis
' afterwards. Had the poor fellow remained in his bed, he
have escaped unhurt, for the part of the flour'd he
which his bed stood did not fall. The woman's on
found during the day, but lite had body was
long been extinct.