The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE,

A Spaniard, named Rey, was tried on Friday last by the
Court of Assizes of the Gironde on two several charges of
attempting to commit a burglary and of stabbing the police
agent who arrested him. The principal witness against the
prisoner was the agent above mentioned, named Fage, who
deposed that on the night of 12th June last, when passing
along the Cours Napoleon at Bordeaux, he saw five persons
lurking about in a suspicious manner. He consequently ob•
tained the assistance of four sergents de ville, and on return-
ing to the Cours Napoleon they saw the same men, who
separated, and ran off in different directions as they ap-
proached. As the prisoner seemed to have something con-
cealed under his coat, witness followed him, the sergents de
vine remaining some distance behind. On coming up with
prisoner, witness collared him, and at the same moment re-
ceived a severe wound with a poniard in the left arm. A
struggle ensued, during which witness was again wounded,
when the sergeants de ville came up and the prisoner
was secured. On the prisoner's person were found centre
bits and other instruments used by housebreakers, evidently
the same which had been used to break into a jeweller's
shop in the Rue St. James during that night. Several
witnesses deposed to having seen the prisoner and four others
near the shop in question. The jury without hesitation
returned a verdict of guilty on both charges, but allowed
the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and
he was accordingly condemned to hard labour for life.

The Court of Assizes of the Bas-Rhin, sitting
at Strasburg, was occupied two days last week in trying
three young men, Gigax, Ruff, and Wolff, from 20 to 22
years of age, for two murders and a robbery committed at
Benfeld in October last. In the warning of the 31st of
that month, several persons having noticed that the house
of an old unmarried lady, Mile. Reibell, remained closed
later than usual, the authorities were informed of the fact,
and the mayor, accompanied by police officers, forced an
entry. It was evident from the disordered state of the
rooms on the ground floor that the house had been entered
by thieves during the nignt ; and on proceeding to the bed-
chamber, Mlle. Reibell was found lying dead on her bed quite
dressed, and she had evidently been strangled, as a hand-
kerchief was drawn tight round her neck. In an out-
house, her servant-maid, named Wissmar, was also found
strangled. Robbery had undoubtedly been the motive of the
twofold crime, for Mlle. Reibell was known to possess con-
siderable property, and the general belief was that she kept
a good sum of ready money in the house. This proved to
be true, for the officers found 33,000 f. in specie, and it was I
afterwards proved that the murderers had taken about
10,000 f. The police were put upon the track of the mur-
derers by the confession of a prisoner under sentence in
the House of Correction at Schlestadt, who, as soon as be
heard of the crime, informed the gaoler that the prisoner
Gigax, who had recently undergone six monthts:
intended
im-
prisonment, had told him that he (Gigax)
to rob Mlle. Reibell as soon as he obtained his
to the
In consequence of this information orders N
coentl®d
be found,
police of Strasburg to arrest Gigax, if
he
eested the two pri •
and while seeking for him the officers ai,ir_r_farne,
where they
dhadsinliberty.
senors Ruff and Wolff in a house ofs oonl
after their arrest
wore spending money profusely Soon
the murders and
these men confessed they had committed
with Gigax. The latter
robbery at Bernfeld, in conjunction
made no attempt
meanwhile had escaped tofioitont.w_heence he afterwards
returned to France, and was ar tea
to deny his guilt, and detailed all the circumstances of the
and
aatlel r
atlh ei
e vr
dsetnactee.m e nTt sh
ewcear
see
,a b u n
therefore,dan t
crime. This confession fully agreed with those of his
accomplidce%
confirmed
presented no
difficulty for the jury, who at once
brought in a verdict of guilty against all the pri-
soners,
without extenuating circumstances. The Court
accordingly condemned them to death, and ordered their
execution to take place at Benfeld.
The Court of Assizes of the Yonne last week tried a vine-
grower named Vordriat, aged 48, residing at Yillexieuvo-

sur-Yonne, on a charge of having murdered his own son,
Adolphe, a young soldier of the reserve. The i nrisoner, a
man of most forbidding appearance, and an habitual
drunkard, had long been the terrce of his
wife and
family, whom'he cruelly ill-treated, but of late
his son
Adolphe, having returned home from the army ha d done
all he could to protect his mother and sisters .fram his
father's brutality. On the let of November -the
prisoner, in one of his drunken fits, struck his wife
on the shoulder with a chair and broke her collar.- lasme
Adolphe was absent, but when he came home he re mon"
strated with his father, who instantly attacked him With
great fury, but some neighbours interfered and r toted
them. About an hour afterwards, however, his son saW
his father again beating his mother as she lay in be(' and
he went to defend her, when the prisoner seized a sword
which hung against the wall and plunged it into hi s son's
abdomen to the depth of ten inches. The young m an died
a few hours later, and the prisoner was arrested. In his
defence, both before the examining magistrate -and in
court, the prisoner maintained that his son had 'fallen on
the sword during their struggle, but the medical a videnee
proved that the wound could not have been infli eted in
that manner, and this opinion was supported by 0; Le state-
ment of the prisoner's daughters, who were press rit at the
time. After a short deliberation the jury brought in a ver-
dict of guilty, and the Court sentenced the prism% r to hard
labour for life.

COUNTRY MA.RAL2

..... ..

NE WARK.-WEDNESDAY.

_._ .• ______ .. ________ _.
Scarcely so much wheat on offer to-day, and, -with a fair
demand, is per qr advance was made.
White wheat new, 46s to 48s Barley, grinding:.. 27s to 296
Red do. 42s to 47s Oats, old, .. ........26s to 300
Old white 46s to 48s New do 0 .22s to 24s
Red do. 42s to 47s i Beans. 0 .42s to 45s
Barley, malting 34s to 40s i Beans, new...., 00—s to --0

Peas, ....'

44s to 48s.

BOSTON—WEDNESDAY.
Wheat came sparingly to hand to-ctay, and most same
pies were in bad condition. An improvea demand, at ra
they more money.
White wheat 48s to 50s I Barley. a's to 36S
Red 3Bs to cas I Oats.... Ms. to 22
Beans .30s to 35s I Peas ma to 5

HULL—TUESDAY.
At our market to. day there was a good supply of wheat,
which sold at is advance.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. 6os Od to 53s pd
Old red
New white .. „
New red .... ,
Dantzic Konb , '&c. old white 62s Od to 56s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58$ Od to 625 o_l
Baltic and Hamburo,o- red . ._ 49s Od to 518 Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 50s Od to 62s 01
Barley.... English malting 34s Od to 37s 061
Grinding 3ls Od to 338 Od
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 33s Od to 345 Od
Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od
Oats English, new 26s Od to 28si 0
3d
Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2id to -,,,
Friesland and Dutch 0613d to 0313 V
Swedish and Danish
s 0
0s 1 2 a' 0513 d
Beans ....English, old, per qr.
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick
Egyptian .. 34s 6d to 35s
Peas Foreign boilers ... 37s Od t' 38s 6d
Grinding
Tares ....Spring —s Od to --s cci
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing • 4OB Od to 528 o'o'
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 00 to dtoto46s 04
£9 5, 0
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 u
Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5 ,0.,
Bones 6 6 oto 510 v

CORK—TUESDAY.
The following were the quotations this morning
wheat, 168 Od to 24s 63 ; white, 20s Od to 27s 6d, barley, I"
Od to 14s Od ; oats, 78 Od to 14s Od. ; new here, Od ta
Od.

DUBLIN-
A very fair attendance fo:
and barley rather neglected,
alight advance:

—TUESDAY.
r Christmas market. Villeat
!!
but a good trade in oats, a'

s. d. s. d. a. d. od.
. 0
Wheat, white 30 oto 34 0 Beans.. ..... 24 oto 21,
Do., red 27 0t032 0 Bere
Do., new .... —0 to --0 Rapeseed
to -1-6 (g)(2
Barley
Oats
Do., black l4 6to 16 6 Indian corn.. 31 0t036 a

COAL Di
(Prfoea of Coal per Ton a

s. d.
Ball's Primrose l3 3
Carway and Duffryn
Malting 22 0
Do. Anthracite 20 0
Eden Main .....16 9
Byass's Bebside West _

ARBET.
; the olose of the market.
13. d.
Holywell ............ 16 6

Walls End.
Hetton ........ 18
South Hetton . . ....... 18 6
Braddyll'a Hetton ..... 17 °
Baswell lB 6
Gosforth .. 16 u
Cassop
Hartlepool.
South Hartlepool... ...17
altos
Harton
.........1111877 0;
li
16 0
Hedley 16 0
Ridde11.....,
Heugh Hall 17 0
South Kelloe. 17 6

wHartley ....14 6
Ts::field Moor
fanfield Moor Butes 14 0
Davison's West Hart-

ley l4 6
North Felton Gas 11 0
Lambert's West Hart-

ley • 14 6
Cowpen Hartley 14 6
W ylani ..16 6
Bower's West Hartley 15 6
1\ alker Primrose 13 3
Ships at market

127; sold, 107.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
.
Aunralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Dec. 19
via Marseilles ......... Dec. 4.•
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet........ Jan'2.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. 11111' 19,
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton ,
via Marseilles ...Dec'
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Dec. i'.
Dec. .
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton ..Dee' 1,
via Marseilles ....neecc: 26,
D
India (Bombay), via Southampton
De. 20.
via Marseilles
Portuga 1....
'
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec'
-'
via Marseilles pee.
Jan. ‘L.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet... • Dec'-,,
by U.S. packet 1.0.
by Canadian packet nee• io.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. g
Bahamas, via New York • .Dec.
1,;c1.
.. '
Mexico..
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Deo. 'A''
California, and British Columbia..

A Paris letter, in the Salut Public of Lyons, Ser
—" The application of the tax on private carriages give
tonumerous and often curious reclamations. The law et)lm-
into operation on the Ist January, and as the declarations
must be made at the different mairies before that period, the
clerks during the last few days have found their work 0011‘
siderably increased. I ought more properly to say at some
of them, for at that in the Faubourg St. Honore the /Weber,
of carriages declared is more than in all the others put togs
ther. In the arrondissement of the Batignolles, there are
only two persons who have returned carriages liable to the
tax, and Montmartre has only one—the mayor. A elel,f
in the mairie of the Faubourg St. Honore has told ate -
some of the reasons brought forward in order to obtain er
emption. The agents de change demand to be exerePt 11
e.
account of their carriages being necessary to carry on thelt
business. Before and after the Bourse they are oblige elt
they say, to go in ;all haste to their customersito reeelve
orders, and to inform them of the result of their operation&
The notaries endeavour to escape the tax on very grail!!
is
grounds. The purveyors of the court, and their number
great, found their elaim on the fact that they are obliged
e_
go in a carriage to the different Imperial residenc,ss, in or e
that if the weather were bad they should be able to Preece.,
themselves in a becoming manner ; also that there should
erea
be no delay in the execution of the orders. In fact,
seems to be nothing too absurd to be brought forward as a
reason not to pay the duty."

Comofs.
.—AOr h the
ic24Ct h inst.,
MELLER.—On the 20th, inst., at 6, Bloomfield Villa, park'
road, Sloke Newington, Mrs. Samuel Mellor, of a son.
MORRICE.—On the 20th inst., the wife of J. W. Morriee)
Esq., Catthorpe Towers, near Rugby, of a son.
WARNER.—On the 19th inst., at 2, Leinster-terrace, Hyde'
park, Mrs. A. Warner, of a son.
o o roa at
BIRTH
29,
.S ' A n3pthill .square, N.V..,
MARRIAGES.

REES—UTTINGL—On the 20th inst., at St. Clement Danes,
diganshire, to Emma, tonhte.tßhYeaow2U3dndsgeeyi
the Rev. David Morgan Rees, rector of Apenporth, Cyr,st
thedaughter oefr the
ft
third daughter of Co
lon • a
Palliser, R.A.
w.wGziararid:rihTnte:rEptisAqtLt.i,LnitigsiENEß..B:_qt,oo,
Mary,

BLbAoxurinT, s ovice.r--byoshnirteh,e 23DdEinAstT.,HatSS. andybrooke Hall/
80. L). DA'nu,.—On the 22d inst , at Gravesend, Comm
oSir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., age-
gler
Osborne Wm. Dalyell, Inspecting-Commandersf
the Gravesend Coastguard Station youngest son of sir
Wm. Cunningham Dalyell, Bart.,of Binns, aged 28. f
ELNon.—Yesterday morning, after a long and painful
illness, at No. 7, Arbour-street, East, StepneY7 A 2
Catherine Elnor, wile of Mr. George Elnor, age"

years.
HAmoNo.—On the 19th inst, at his residence,
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Admiral of the Fleet Sir
Graham Eden Hamond, Bart. G.C.13 &c., aged S 3.
LorTus.—On the 2d ult M ' b
~ at Murree, Punjau Major HP
the
Loftus, 71st Highland Light Infantry, second son of
Nortol?,
late Lieut.-General William Francis Bentinck Lottuot
of Kilbridge.
PHILLIMORE.—On the 20th inst., at 24, Old Steine, Brigh-
ton, Anna, relict of Wm. R. Phillimore, Esq., of
&ills... Hall, Herts.

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