The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE.

Tho Court of Assizes of the Seine on Saturday tried a
young man named Begot for a murderous assault on his own
father. It appeared from the indictment that the prisoner,
a man of brutal temper and drunken habits, had formerly
been in business as a carter, but having killed all his horses
by brutal treatment and neglect, he became dependent on
his father and mother, who willingly gave him food and
lodgings, but refused to supply him with money for drink-
ing. He then endeavoured to enforce his demands by
violence, and on the 19th June, having asked
his mother for two francs, which she refuse' to
give him, he was about to strike her, when his
father stepped between them. The brutal fellow immedi-
ately knocked him down by two blows with a heavy stick,
and continued kicking and beating him as he lay on the
ground. The father was so injured that he was obliged to
keep his bed for above twenty days, and a complaint hav-
ing been lodged with the police, the prisoner was arrestedand committed for trial. In court, the father and e
mother were both anxious to withdraw the evidence
they had given before the examining
witnesses
were after the offence, and all the other
but
the
were inclined to follow their examP
!allowance for
magistrate
judges, though willing to make evenrys
d eaf justice thus
parental feeling, would not allow the
prosecutor that
to be defeated. After a hint from thevvraluebill°
-0 d expose the wit-
any attempt to disguise the truth
several
persons gave
nesses to prosecution for Peliuthr)re'ohaege against the pi-
evidence which clearly proved „id guilty and sentenced to
soner, who was accordingly
four years' imprisonment.
ctional Police has just tried a
The Tribunal ofe.d
Arnoult, for having reprinted and
master-painter, rienlo
f the Prefect of the Seine, with cer-
taine to suit his own purposes. The Pre-
distributed an ordei
alterations mad
Lied the proprietors of houses in certain
fect's orders warned
ar
that they must repaint or whitewash the
specified str
within
fronts
The red houses a certain time, as required by
la W,defendant had this document reprinted, with
alterations, extending its application to other streets
besides those mentioned in the original, and sent it to
the proprietors of the additional houses. Ho soon
after addressed his trade card to the same per-
sons, and sent agents to solicit their patronage.
Some of the parties went to the Prefecture to make inquiries
on the subject, and the trick was discovered. The defen-
dant maintained that the papers had not been distributed
by him or by his orders, but the police soon found the
printer who had supplied the cis culars in question, although
his name had been cut oil, and he at once identified the de-
fendant as the person for whom he had executed them.
The Tribunal declared the charge fully proved, and con-
demned Arnoult to 23 days' imprisonment and IoOfr. fine.

DUEL IN 11.,.IILAN.—The Pungolo of Milan states
that a duel took place on the Ist inst. between M.
Filippo Filippi and M. Metchovich, editor of the Circala
Polit7ca, the motive being an article published iu thatjour-
nal insulting M. Filippi. M. Matchovich declared that the
article was not from his pen, but that ho took on himself
the tesponsibility of it, and a hostile meeting was accord-
ingiy arranged. Atter an exchange of shots at 15 paces,
which led to no result, swords were resorted to, when M.
Filippi received a gash in the face extending from the ear
to the nose. M. Matchovich received two slight wounds in
the arm. A reconciliation took place on the ground, the
editor declaring hie regret at the article having appeared,.