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

CRIME IN FRANCE,

The Court of Assizes ot 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.
She was quite dead, having received a gunshot wound
near the left breast, but from her position she had 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 him for the purpose
of shooting a wood pigeon which had just settled in a tree
close by. This explanation was believed at first, but the
post-mortem examination snowed that the gun must have
been fired by a persoa, staneing on a considerable higher
level than the woman, as the charge had passed downwards
into the ab:lomen. 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 fur 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 calied on to
settle his accounts, he appears to have shot his wife for the
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was accordingly handed to him, and a gendarme sat down
in a low chair to represent the murdered woman. This ex-
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as it clearly showed that the gun could not, in being handed
to him, have got into the posit
fatal wound, and the falsehood of his story became
evident. The jury consequently
diet 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 Villers
(Marne), on a farmer of that place named Leielapart, 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 nodemat. He returned in the after-
noon, but alone, saying that he
He had left
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 ot him
with some neighbours—in a short time the body was dis-
covered in the wood, frightfully disfigured. The fury of
the murderer had been such that the head of the victim was
battered to pieces, and brains and teeth were found at some
yams' 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 bad committed
suicide. The police are in search of the murderer, and a
description of him hai been circulated.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

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

Railways.

1863. w 1862. 1863. ^ 1862
X
2,008 1.946
630 576
1,624 1,077
5,812 5,931
17,690 16,102
186 245
324 332
128 163
368 202
1,352 1,087
224 216
1,340 1,431
1,621 1.503
174 126
2,034 1,537
7,382 7.005
2,864 2,780
8,263 8,538
30,707 26,61)8
33,408 27.964
1,534 1.6:;6
460 343
7,903 8,09
58,083 53.896
1,0 5 809
872
1,572 1,710
35,080 31,452
1 5 163
54 134
545 506
03,286 86077
1,753 ' 1,589
20,056 17.30
15,230 17,010
1,379 31.05
tt'o ' 210
1.014 972
16,781 15 203
1,162 1,059
1,387 1,2u6
2,135
41,980 40,184
4,227 4,006
1,573 1,6 2
2,338 2,280

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 40
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211
Caledonian
Coekermouth & Workington B4 84
Cork and Bandon • 20 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 64
Cork and Youghal .... 321 321
Cornwall 561 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 481
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1694
Furness, Sze 5O 5 ,
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
lit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7lt t6l
'4 LSoutlin. & Westu.(lrind.) 3734 329
Great Western 10561 10321
Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 863
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 -
Irish North-Western 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 422
Limerick and Ennis... 241
Limerick and Foynes 261
Llauelly 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l
London & South-Western
Lund. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611
London, Chatham, & Dover 724
Do. Metropolitan Extension 103
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheflield, & Linconish
Manch. S.J un.& A ltrinch inn
II aryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641
Midland Gt. IVestn. of Irind 2591
Nlonkland
Monmoutlish. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee ..
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1095 10771 54,587 53,251
North London 9 9 3,315 3,311
North Stallordshire 254 252 8,547 7.945
Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,053 875
Rliymney l9 19 911 860
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 522,138
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 134} 4,8u0 4.512
Somerset and Dorset 66 394 597 312
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 308 19,039 17,071
Taff Vale 57 55 5,598 2.002
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 321 254 2,302 2,t32
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 318 411
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,256 1,3'11
West Cornwall 271 271 628 615
W.HaYtlepoolllarbr.&Rail 4B 48 3,897 4,215
W'haveu,Cleator,& Egrmnt.
Whitehaven J unction l3 12 002 681
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 871 648
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,164 1,055
Austrian B2B 828 30,088 35,566
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 2,1 270 2.6
Bombay, Baroda, & , en. India 1854 1674 2,105 1,369
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll 1614 2,734 2,041
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 . 189 5,331 4,451
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal - - -
Eastern of France 1167 1081 59,476 50,973
East Indian - -
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 - -
Great Indian Peninsula 5381 495 8,928 5,046
Great Luxembourg 134 134 3,713 3,876
Great Southern uf' India
Great Western of Canada 345 3,5 13,009 13,916
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 490 17,229 14,170
Northern of Canada ... ..... - -
Northern of France 697 618 53,812 51,097
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 4B} 18} - -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 1676 139,392 128,423
Paris and Orleans 1614 1431 70,611 59,397
Pernambuco 771 -- 479 -
Royal Danish 69 69 1,057 474
Sambre and Meuse 6B 6S 1,356 1.681
South Austrian
Gouthern of France . .. 1430 1315 48,181 2425:g961.
..... 770 680 28,/ _
Victorian 126 151 8,010 8. 4:1
Welland ....- 25 25 567 65-
9,4 9/3
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France

145
395}
241
2I
461
1179/

4411
2114

44
2391

6141
1921
711
44