The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-04 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND THE ZOLLVEREIN.

BERLIN, March 3.
The Ministerial Nord Deutsche Allgermeine Zeitung
of to-day says :
" The customs negotiations taking place in this
capital between the representatives of Austria and
of the Zollvereba are so far advanced that the agree-
ment of the negotiating parties may be considered
as certain. The chief difficulties
which have latterly
arisen with regard to the tariff concessions to be
made by either side, may therefore be regarded as
in the main removed."

Another semi-official statement reports :—,4 The
negotiations between the Zollverein for the conclu-
sion of a commercial treaty are proceeding very
satisfactory, notwithstanding the obstacles which at
one time threatened to oppose their success. Pre-
cisely in the most delicate point, viz., with regard
to the mutual concessions to be made in the respec-
tive tariffs—the negotiations have now come to a
conclusion, the settlement of the customs cartel,
and of facilities in the frontier traffic alone remain.
It is not thought probable either of these questions
will give rise to much discussion.
It is stated in other quarters that the conclusion
of the negotiations may be looked for about the
middle of the ensuing week.

DENMARK•
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 27.
Debates in the Rigsraad advance very slowly, the
President of the Council and the Finance Minister
both being ill ; the Minister of Marine is also now
indisposed, and the Ministers for the Interior and
for Public Worship are the only members of the
Cabinet visible. Discussion of the bill for extra-
ordinary expenditure and revenue from 1864 to
1868 therefore considerably hangs fire. Discontent
is expressed at the purchase of the iron-clad Den-
mark, completed in Scotland, and questions will be
probably put upon the subject in the house.
A general resume of the present financial position
is shortly to be laid before Parliament. It has
never transpired that the Finance Minister has con-
cluded a loan with Raphael and Sons, of London,
for £728,000, to cover advances made in 1864. The

loan has been taken for the most part at 94k, and
it is hoped will produce altogether £670,000.
A bill has been laid before the Rigsdag for a rail-
way line from Vandrup, the last station of the
Eastern Railroad in Jutland, to Strandby, west of
the Schleswig frontier, and to establish a harbour
at that point. It is intended by this means to form
a new connection with the German Ocean, and open
a line of traffic with the Schleswig Railways.
Strandby is close to the island of Fano, and may
thus become an important commercial station for
Jutland and Fuhnen.' The entire cost of this under-
taking is estimated at 2,350,000 rigsdalers.
Plans are also being prepared for enlarging and
deepening Copenhagen harbour, to render the port
of the capital well fitted to be an extensive place of
anchorage, for which it is at present deficient in the
main requisites.

FRANCE.
MARSEILLES, MARCH 4.

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse passed
Messina yesterday morning, and may be expected
here to-morrow. She brings 108 passengers and
713 packages of merchandise.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes-
terday :—" The barometrical pressure has generally
increased in the west of Europe, and westerly
winds prevail there. The elevation is slightly felt
over Spain and the Mediterranean ; the barometer
has fallen, on the contrary, in the Adriatic and on
the costs of Norway and Portugal. Stormy weather
prevails almost everywhere. A hurricane passed
'over the Adriatic, and was partially felt in the Gulf
of Genoa and on the coasts of Provence. The wind
has shifted to the south, and is not strong at Oporto.
South-west winds on the French coasts are to be
apprehended." In Paris yesterday slight rain again
fell during nearly the whole day. Towards the
evening the wind rose considerably. _ _

The total amount obtained for the coins of the
Pourtales collection is about 18,000 f. The attend-
ance during the three days which the sale lasted was
not by any means great.
The Court of Assizes of thelserehas been engaged
two days in trying a farm labourer named Chenavas,
aged 46, and a woman named Moiroud, aged 36,
charged with having, on 6th Sept. last, murdered
the husband of the latter, a farmer residing at Cha-
tonnay. The male prisoner was also charged with
having murdered his own wife about 18 months
before. It appeared from the evidence that the
deceased Moiroud was a good-natured, easy sort
of man, who had been unsuccessful in business and
still more unfortunate in having a wife who was un-
faithful to him, and had for twelve years been the
scandal of the village, owing to her illicit connection
with the other prisoner, living in a cottage within 100
paces of the farmhouse. On September 7th Moiroud
had disappeared, and rumours soon began to cir-
culate that he had been made away with by his wife
and her paramour. To silence these reports the
female prisoner, on the 13th September, applied to
the police authorities of Chatonnay, requesting
that measures might be taken to discover her
husband, who, as she alleged, had left home on
the 7th, and had -not been seen since. As the
popular suspicions soon after became known
to the authorities, officers were sent to search
her house, and in the ash-hole of the oven
pieces of calcined bones were found, which were
ascertained to be those of a human body. A close
examination of the house having also led to the dis-
covery of numerous traces of blood in the bed-
room, and on the handle of an axe, the widow
Moiroud and Chenavas were arrested. When
interrogated, the female prisoner admitted that
she had killed her husband unintentionally by
throwing a large stone at him after he had
struck her in a quarrel, and that, not knowing
what to do with the body, she had burnt it in the
oven. But as this statement was not credited, she
at last owned that Chenavas had murdered
her husband while asleep by striking him on the
head with an axe, and that they had then burned
the body and buried the calcined bones at a spot
which she indicated, and where they were found.
Chenavas, after long denying the truth of his ac-
complice's confession, at last admitted it. The
police having been informed of the circumstances
attending the death of the male prisoner's wife, had
her body exhumed, and chemical analysis proved
that the viscera contained a quantity of arsenic.
He was therefore committed on both charges, but
he all along denied that he had caused his wife's
death. The jury acquitted Chenavas on the charge
of poisoning his wife, but brought in a verdict
of guilty, with extenuating circumstances, against
both the prisoners on the other accusation, and the
Court accordingly sentenced them to hard labour for
life.

The Mercury of Apt (Vaucluse) mentions that
M. Devoulx, formerly registrar in that town, has

just died, aged 102.
The customs receipts at Havre during February
last amounted to 1,109,106 f., being 585,993 f. less
than in the same month last year. The bounties
paid on exports during the same period were 5,237 f.,
being 110,997 f. less than in February, 1864.
The Siecle says :—" Mine. Hulbutier, wife of a
cutler, living near the Bois de Romainville, was
confined yesterday of her twenty-ninth child.
Eight of these children, four boys and four girls,
are the only ones living."
BOURSE, March 3.—Business is a little more ac-
tive than yesterday, but the market is still weak.
Threes, for the Account, are unvaried, being at
67fr. 85c. Mobilier are now at 891 fr. 25c. In
Railway Shares there is not much doing, but prices
are generaly well maintained. The market closed
as follows :

Italian Loan 65
Do. end month 65 15
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian 9O
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred -
RAILWAYS.