The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-31 00:00:00

GLEANINGS FROM THE FRENCH

PAPERS OF TUESDAY.

The Abbe Lacroix, late superior of the Ecclesiastical Se-
minary at Rodez, is appointed Bishop of Bayonne, in the
room of M. D'Arbou, resigned.
The garrison of Paris is composed of twelve regiments of
infantry, three of cavalry, four batteries of artillery, and
five companies of veterans, besides the Municipal Guards
and Sapeurs-Pompiers. In the remaining part of the first
military division there are twelve regiments, infantry and
cavalry, and one of artillery.
The Italian Opera will commence on Tuesday, the third
season of October, and terminate as usual at the end of
March. The list of vocalists engaged comprises the leading
names of last season, namely Messrs. Rubini, Lablache,
and Tamburini, and Mesdames Grisi, Albertazzi, and As-
sandri, with the additions of M. Zamboni, a tenor ; M.
Ferlini, and M. Morelli, basses ; and Mesdames Tachinardi
and Persiani. The subscribers of last season are respect-
fully acquainted by the Directors, that those desiring to
retain their boxes or stalls must signify their intention
before the 7th of September, as after that day they will be
disposed of.
The following is the history of the young lioness which
we lately mentioned had been brought by Captain Brun to
Macon :—Some Arabs, having discovered a lioness with
whelps in a chasm of the rocks near Guelma, were resolved
to obtain the young ones, and, for this purpose, lay in wait
for four successive days, till the mother was forced to leave
them in order to seek for food. They secured their prize,
a male and female„ and sold them to a person at Bagia,
who carried them on board a brig in the harbour. On the
following night the bereaved mother was seen on the
strand, roaring for her young, having traced them for up-
Wards of 30 leagues by the scent. She was fired at from
the brig, but escaped unhurt ; and returned for four suc-
cessive nights, till she was shot by some Arabs, who lay in
ambush on the shore, at a moment when she was on the
point of plunging into the sea, with the intention, no doubt,
of attempting to reach the brig. The young lion was
killed by an accident on the passage to France, but the
lioness arrived safely, having become as tame and docile as
a spaniel. She has just been purchased by the proprietors
of the Cirque Olympique, and is being exhibited on the
stage of that theatre in the Champs Elysees. She is suf-
fered to run free about the stables, and has become perfectly
familiar with all the persons belonging to the establishment.
A Jew, named Joseph Abraham, who has attained the
patriarchal age of 102, and his wife Rachel that of 96, ap-
peared on Saturday morning at the Tribunal of Correctional
Police, to obtain an order for a maintenance from their son
Isaac, who possesses sufficient means, but having himself
attained 80 years, has contracted the vice of old age—par.
simony. The Court adjudged him to pay 40 fr. a month
for the support of his parents, and reminded him of the
4:h commandment of the decalogue.
In the month of June last a young woman was passing
through the Rue St. Ge:main l'Auxerrois at the moment
when a man was taking some horses to water. In spite of
her caution in remaining as close to the houses as possible,
one of the horses bit her in the arm, and actually dragged
her with his teeth to a distance of twenty or thirty paces.
The wound healed, but the arm became paralysed. She
therefore prosecuted the man, and the owner of the horse ;
the former has just been sentenced to six days' imprison-
ment and a fine of 16 francs, and the latter to 8,000 francs
damages.
A child having been some time ago run over by a cart,
and having received an injury which rendered necessary
the amputation of one of his legs, an action for damages
wes brought by the father against the driver and his master.
The Court of Assizes, a few days ago, sentenced the car-
man to imprisonment for six days, and to pay a fine of 40f. ;
and at the same time adjudged the owner to pay damages
to the amount of 12,000 f., part of which is to be paid to
the father to cover the expenses occasioned by the acci-
dent, and the rest is to be invested in the funds for the
benefit of the child.

The residence of a widow, aged 64, who keeps a mar-
ket-garden in the Faubourg St. Denis, was forcibly entered
on Saturday night by several ruffians, who, having stabbed
her in many places, and left her for dead, proceeded to rob
the house. She, however, recovered her senses sufficiently
to alarm a neighbour and give an account of the transac-
tion, but remains without hope of recovery.
The day before yesterday, a young man returned to his
lodgings, 61, Rue Neuve les Petits Champs, and found two
robbers busily employed in ransacking his own and his
neighbour's apartments. One of them held. poniard to his
breast, and threatened him with death if he made any alarm.
lie, however, escaped from the villain's grasp, and shouted
for help. Upon this, the second robber presented a pistol
at his bead, and would have shot him, but for the timely
arrival of persons who had heard his cries. The man
with the pistol ran down stairs and escaped ; the other was
secured and conducted to prison. This took place in the
busiest part of the capital, at three in the afternoon.
The wife of a wealthy grocer at Petit Montrouge was,
two days ago, found dead on her bed, having destroyed
herself by suffocation. She had previously dressed her-
self, with the utmost care, in a rich robe of gros de Naples,
a handsome bonnet trimmed with the finest ribands, and
wearing her best silk stockings and shoes. Her suicide is
perfeetly inexplicable, as she wag in society the preceding
evening, and remarked for her extreme cheerfulness and
vivacity.

The week before last the iron-works at Fourchambault,
in the Nievre, became a scene of tumult, from the jealousy
excited by some evil-disposed persons in the minds of the
French workmen against some artisans from England, who
have been employed there from the first establishment of
the forges,
.and to whom the others are Indebted for their
instruction in the various branches of the manufacture.
On Saturday, the 19th, the turbulent party surrounded the
dwellings of the English workmen, and would have com-
mitted some acts of desperate violence but for the inter-
ference of the Deputy Mayor and the Commander of the
National Guards, who had sufficient influence to prevail
upo❑ them to desist ; but the night passed amidst great
disturbances, and a renewal of the attack was threatened
on the following morning. Early on Sunday the Prefect
of the department arrived, with the Procureur du Roi and
other Magistrates, and a detachment of Lancers. Six or
seven of the most violent were arrested, and were put into
conveyances to be sent to Nevers ; when the whole
body of the workmen assembled with a determination to
rescue the captives. The Lancers Were prepared to oppose