The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

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M.---This :Day,

LIVERPOOL RACES-THIS DAY.,
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SCURRY NURSERY HANDICAP,

Cutaway
Virginia .
Alice Leigh

Eleven ran.
SWEEPSTAKES.

Jenny Wren
Lord Dundreary
Crisis

Four ran.
LATEST BETTING.
LIVEIIPuOL CUP.
sto 2 agst Catch'ern Alive (taken)
7 to 2 agst Golden Pledge (taken)
5 to 1 agst Balhatn (taken)
6to 1 agst Fairwater (taken)
12 to 1 agst somersault (offered)
10 to 1 age. Biithfield (taken)

CRIME IN FRANCE.

A strange drama has just ouurred near Rochelle (Cha-
rente-Inlerieure). A young man named Cossevin, aged 20,
had for the last two years courted a young girl named Julie
Baillon, aged 16, inhabiting the commune of Lager. His
addresses were well received by the girl, who was quite
willing to marry him. Her mother, however, had refused
to consent to their union in consequence of their youth,
Three days back Cossevin called on Mine. Baillon and made
a formal offer of marriage, and was refused. Cossevin then

asked if he might be allowed to visit the daughter, and the
mother appearing to hesitate, he added, " It' in ten minutes

you have not made up your mind, you will see what I will
do l" After a silence of about a quarter of an hour, he rose,
and offering a pistol to the you:ig girl, proposed that they
should take each other's lives. On her refusing, he Pointed
a second pistol at her, but the mother rushed forward and
turned aside his hand at the moment he fired. Ho then
directed the other pistol at the mother, forced her to go on
her knees, and swear to keep secret what had taken

place. The following morning Cossevin waited for the
girl as she was carrying milk to Rochelle, and entered
into conversation with her; but on their arriving at the

edge of a wood, he seized her hands, and then, forcing her
into a ditch, again produced his two pistols, fired one at the
young girl's breast, and with the other attempted to blow
out his own brains. The girl escaped with a slight wound,
but the second ball had lodged in Cossevin's skull, and he
now lies in a desperate state.
The Correction Al Tribunal of St.-Etienne (Loise) has
just been engaged two days in trying nine persons em-
ployed on the St.-Etienne to Roanne railway, charged with
having through their negligence caused the fatal accident
at La Fouillouse, on the 24dt August last, by which four
persons were killed and nine others more or less seriously
injured. 24 witnesses were examined for the prosecution
and 12 for the defence. The defendants pleaded that they
had acted in accordance with the regulations, and had not
been guilty of any neglect. This plea, however, was not
supported by the evidence, for the tribunal declared the
charges proved against them all, and condemned M. St.-
Martin, deputy station master at St.-Etienne, to 15 months'
imprisonment, and I,ooofr. fine; Taillaed, station-master
at Villars, to a year's imprisonment and 500 fr. fine; Bar-
bet, train-conductor, Fevre, engine-driver, and Mitaine,
stoker, each to six months' imprisonment and 500 fr. fine ;
and the four other defendants, all gate-keepers, each to 15
days' imprisonment and 50fr. fine. Nearly all the defend-
ants have lodged appeals against their sentences,
The Journal de l' Yonne states that an attempt at murder
was committed three evenings ago at Fulvy, in that depart-
muit, on the person of M. Bonnetai, On returning home
after dark he found some difficulty in opening the street
door, and had scarcely got inside when he was seized by a
man, who attempted to strangle him, and in the struggle
both of them fell to the ground. During the conflict the
man fired a pistol at 31. Bonnetai, who then loosed his hold,
and his assailant got up and ran away; Fortunately, owing
to the darkness the shot did not take effect, and M. Bonnetai
received no injury. It is supposed that the man had entered
the house with intent to commit a robbery.
A crime which appears to be involved in mystery has just
taken place at Calais. A blacksmith, named Delannoy, who
recently came from Dunkirk, has for the last month kept a
low caf6 in the Rue de la Ales, which was managed by a
woman named Monteville, who lived with him as his mis-
tress, and by whom he has a daughter about seven years of
age. Delannoy, the woman, and the child slept in a room
on the second floor, another room in the same storey having
been occupied for three or four days by a man named
Waron, a Belgian, and an old acquaiutance of Delannoy.
On the day of the crime, Delannoy and Waron came down
about seven In the morning and went out together. A short
time after the child ran down and told a sister of the woman

Monteville, who acted as servant, that she thought her

mother was dead. The sister went up and found her sister
lying lifeless in a pool of blood in the room occupied by

Waron, and a hammer on the ground with which the crime
had been perpetrated. Information was sent to the police
and an investigation entered into, but when the account left
nothing had transpired as to the person by whom the crime
was committed.

The Court of Assizes of the Dromo, sitting at Valence
was last week engaged during two days in trying a farmer

named Gardan, aged 25, charged with having, on the 17th
August last, at Lons-Lestang, murdered his mother, a,
widow, and his two brothers, Jean, aged 27, and F6lia,
aged 17; the prisoner was also charged with setting fire to
their dwelling-house, in order to destroy all traces of his
his crime. It appeared from the indictment that, in April,

1562, the prisoner purchased a house and some land for
6,100 f., at Bellegarde-Foussieux, about two leagues from
his native place, and not having sufficient funds to pay even
the first instalment, sold to Jean all his right to a share in
the family property for 2,0.10 f, but the brother received only
1,100 f., the other 900 f., being left as a security for his
share of a yearly sum to be paid to the mother as long as
she lived. The prisoner soon after wanted his brother to
let him have the 900 f., but meeting with a refusal, ho
raised funds by forging bills in his brother's name, for
above that sum. In the night of the 17th August last,
shortly before these forged bills fell due, the pro.
mises of the widow Gardan were observed to be
on fire, and when the neighbours hastened to the spot, they
found the bodies of the widow and the youngest son lyine;
dead in the kitchen, both having been shot through the
head. The premises were entirely destroyed, and the body
of the eldest son was found among the ruins nearly car-
bonised, but a fracture of the skull showed that he too had
been murdered. Tha prisoner was at once suspected and
arrested. When interrogated, he declared that he had no
doubt that Felix land murdered his mother and brother and
then committed 'suicide. A post mortedl examination of
the mother's body, however, clearly showed that the pri-
soner was the murderer, for the wadding of the charge
which was found in the wound exactly corresponded with
the torn leaf of a song-book in the prisoner's possession,and
two recently discharged pistols were discovered on his pre..
mises. Other evidence was likewise produced which loft no
doubt of his guilt. The jury accordingly brought in a ver-
dict of guilty without extenuating circumetances, and the
Court condemned him to death, at the same time ordering
the execution to take place at Valence.

TVA CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From . the Special Correspondent of the Times,)

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.

The A merican " Fall" is in all its gorgeous
beauty. The weather for the last two or three weeks
has been as near perfection as man may hope to enjoy
it anyw. here out of Eden—neither hot ncr cold, nor
damp, nor cloudy, the very best that could be con-
trived for the furtherance of the arts of peace; the
most faevouxable also that could be desired to help
ore the m arderous work of war. Autumn on this
continent,, however, is a reason as fleeting as it is
lovely. On Saturday last we had heavy, incessant
rain in this city. Sunday was dark and windy, and
Nee folt the wintry chill in our veins. At St. Louis,
eeleeereuri, several degrees to the south of New York,
thy had the other day six inches of snow, with a
shaep frost; the snow, by the latest accounts, lingers
stin on the ground. If present indications mean
anything, we must make up our minds for an early
witting in of winter.
Every one feels that now or never is the time for
the Federal armies to be up and doing. But
Meade's army of the Potomac has just been crippled
by the destruction of the Alexandria and Orange
Railroad, and that of the Cumberland, under Grant,
has come into the hands of a new commander, who,
however quick and far sighted, must yet require a
few days to look about him, to take in the difficulties
of the position into which his forces were thrown
by the blind impetuosity of his predecessor, Rosen-
cranz, and hit upon some plan by which he may ex-
tricate himself. Gen. Meade is not expected to move
forward for a month. Gen. Grant is said to have to
deal with a Confederate force of 80,000 men under
Bragg ; a force so aided by the natural and artificial
strength of the position, that the Feder, have but
little chance of marching against it with success,
and hardly more probability of marching away from
it with safety. General Grant may condense a
host of 150,000 combatants at Chattanooga, but the
battliefield is not favourable for the manoeuvring of
large masses.
Cavalry is no great help in the nar-
row mountain defiles, and artillery little better than
a positive
encumbrance. Bragg, who occupies a
ground of his own choice, a territory known to him
inch by inch, need hardly shrink from a conflict in
'which the odds are no worse than two to one. On
the other hand, although few here doubt that the
object of General Lee in his last movement was
merely to place a month's distance between himself
and Meade, and that aim was signally attained—
although he might now spare a division or two to
strengthen Bragg, still it is well to bear in mind
that the direct communication between Lynchburg
and Chattanooga is through East Tennessee, in
the hands of the Federals under Burnside,
and. that Lee's reinforcements can only reach Bragg
by a roundabout way through the best part of the
territories of North and South Carolina and Georgia,
a distance that can be computed at not less than be-
tween 600 and 700 miles, and along railway lines
which have been so used up, both as to rails and
rolling material, owing to the wear and tear of the
war, that the rate of travelling is nowhere more
than 12 miles an hour. All this leads people here to
suppose that Lee's Efforts will rather be directed to
the demolition of B urneide's army in East Tennessee.
Preponderance of numbers on the part of the
North and advantage of position on the part of the
South may keep the armies on either side in mute
and haetive observation of each other, so that we
may have nothing to note down from week to week
except unimportant cavalry and light infantry skir-
mishes, such as the one reported to have taken place
on Saturday last near Bealeton Station, when the
Southernere, crossing the Rappahannock, drove
back Gregg's cavalry and established themselves on
the let bank of the river. Should nothing decisive
occur either in Virginia or Tennessee during these
four or five weeks before the close of the Indian
summer brings about a suspension of hostilities in
those regions, it is questionable whether the weari-
some operations of the siege of Charleston and the
desultory warfare in the remote South-west will
have power to keep up the warlike enthusiasm of
the North at its present fever heat. It is not any
amount of adversity, not any startling disaster, I
take in, that can ever wear out the endurance of
these s tubborn Yankees; it is the consciousness of
the utter impotence of all their endeavours, as illus-
trated by day after day, year after year, slow, un•
even tf all campaigning. Nine or ten Commanders-
in-Ce'eef have been immolated to their impatience
from INl'Dowell to Resencranz. Broad hints are
thrown out now that the authorities of the War-
(Eel,. or, indeed, the whole Administration at Wash-
ingtui i, should be superseded. An outcry is raised
that the way to Richmond is not through Culpep-
per or Fredericksburg; that a new experiment
should be tried of a landing on the peninsula be-
tween James and York Rivers ; that from Novem-
ber to February the season is most favourable for
military operations on those low grounds, free at
that time from malaria, and often hardened by frost
for the passage of artillery. " The way to Rich-
mond," people say, "lies to-day where it lay two
years and a half ago, when Gen. M'Clellan followed
it up to the gates of the Virginian capital." But
" the only road to Richmond," they add, "lies over
the vanity, the arrogance, and self-satisfaction of
the Washington Administration, which, out of
blind hostility to M'Clellan, will not allow the re-
newal of the experiment in the peninsula."
Ve-Ofeust not see in these bitter remarks any-
tingibut ethe natural outburst of popular impa-
tience. Wete the Government, in obedience to
"e suggestions, to undertake a second compaign
into the Jathe
risk of mes ahclitork River peninsula, and run
that tut. renewingethe calamities which have made
little d43".groundi for ever memorable, I have
pro:1411e: the clamour against their reckless im-
against thei;would be far louder than it now is
the fall ot ivethcraporising helplessness. The fact is,
however gratiillond itself, like that of Charleston,
veuld'uoet
bring the
vanity and vindic-
tiveness,
, and
itring the war materially nearer
its conclusion
hey'
hardly be rash to anti-
cipate that the
spring. of 1864 will leneaaazPaigning season in the
no further advanced
towards te solution ee
-we are at h
this moment. tb~American puzzle than
Little as one may sympathise withis. the stiff-necked
and stubborn North, impossible
it brings into the cause of Union
to deny that
an
amount of
consistency and
unanimity which
very nearly re-
son bles heroism. The real peace
tnen—at- t
ii.o men—are a very small fleck a
any -P, so far as I
he be
am able te count them. Most of t
moorats,
Southerners themselves
, evince
many of the
unconquerable ereatiee tenderness for the pees an
waste. of human life, talk
bete great united ceuntr "r
restoration of t y. Talk
to them of the appalling
staring them in the face,
of national bankruptcy
and their ever recurring argument is, the dissolution
of the Union would be by far the greatest of evil..
twain right round the
" Can you cut a man in e, say.. "Would
waist and expect him to live e
England part with Ireland on any terms? Or would
not Austria stake her existence on the integrity of
her empire by maintaining her hold on Venetia,
or
Russia upon Poland? Not the greatness,
and the prospect of boundless (empire, but the merely,
m
peace and freedom, the security and cornercial
prosperity of the North would be at an end for ever
it it and the South went asunder. The first halving
of the great Republic would lead the way to endless
diviaiores and sub-divisions ; and what is now one
country and one nation would split up into as many
wrangling Powers and rival fractions of people as
no make up the European council of nations."
YOU may well try to reason with them, and tell
them that-_' Such is, indeed, likely to be their des-
tiny ; that States of one hundred, or four hundred
millions of People—such as they expect theirs to
become—are not seemingly in harmony with the
general scheme of this nether world of ours; that
the dream of world-wide dominion, of universal em-
pire, is no new phase in the annals of mankind; '
but that such edifices fall and crumble from the
mere weight of theirbune and extent; that, even if
they ceuld get over their present
difficulty, there
Would
be no lack of future causes of dissension, no
scarcity of new springing from the
very blood of the one they vainly hope new to lay
underground."
They are not to be reasoned with ; they
willfight
their brethren to the bitter end, and" tha blood be
upon their own head and en that of their children's