The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-28 00:00:00

THE AUTHOR OF " ADAM BEDE." The new
periodical, the Watch Tower, will commence with an ori-
ginal tale called " Through the Furnace," said to be by the
author of " Adam Bede."

Mr. WIGAN, who is playing in the provinces, will
appear as Evelyn in Money, and Mr. Oakley in the Jealous
Wife, two roles rather out of his usual line.

M. THEIRS at the Pourtales sale last week gave
£542 for a tankard attributed to the Italian artist Flamingo
—a beautiful ivory sculpture, decorated with a frieze of
nine figures.

MADAME MEYERBEER SND FAMILY have just ar-
rived in Paris to participate in the production of the
Africaine.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AT A PARIS PRINTING-
OFFICE.—The Empress, two days back, visited the
printing establishment of IL Paul Dupont at Clichy,
where women are employed ss compositors. Her Majesty
was accompanied by two of .her Ladies of Honour—Made-
moiselle Bouvet, her reader, and the Marquis de Piennes,
one of her chamberlains. Baron Haussmann had also ar-
rived shortly before to await the Empress. M. Dupont
conducted his visitor and suite first to the women's com-
posing-rooms and the workshops where other women were
employed in folding, stitching, &c. The Empress passed
through the rooms, occasionally approaching the women to
examine their occupation, and addressing them most
kindly. While in the machine-room -her Majesty
was requested by M. Dupont to :take hold of
the lever of a small press, and immediately there
was taken from it an acrostic composed in her
honour, printed in gold letters on satin. The Em-
press also inserted in one of the presses a sheet
of white paper, which issued bearing in vari6gatee colours
the mention of her Majesty's visit, and also accompanied
by a reference to a visit to the printing-office of Robert
Estienne made by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Na-
varre, on the same das of the month of March, in 2566.
Her Majesty afterwards entered the residence of M.
Dupont and his family to repose fyr a short time. A num-
ber of Orpheonists among the workmen, with several of the
women employed, then assembled noislessly in a room ad-
joining, and executed a chorus, at which the Empress ex-
pressed her surprise and' gratification.' After a stay of
nearly two hours her Majesty left, accompanied to the gates
of the establishment by the acclamations of between 400
and 500 of the workpeople. During the eveding the Em-
press sent a sum of 500 f. in aid of the benefit society of the
printing-sffice, which the workmen spontaneously resolved
should form a permament fund, bearing the title of "Don
de l'lmperatrice,"

The Court of Assizes of the Haute-Loire has just
tried a farm labourer named Biscarrat on a charge
of having, on the 12th October last, murdered a man named
Redon, aged 75. On the 13th of October the body of the
unfortunate man was found lying in a wood, about 30
paces from the road leading from Loucheyre to Pinols.
The post mortem examination showed that he had been
murdered by strangulation, and suspicion at once fell on
the prisoner, who was a man of very bad character, and
had often been heard to utter threats against the deceased,
who was his creditor, and had taken proceedings against
him to recover a sum of 30f. The cause was to be tried
at Pinols on the 12th October, and Redon left home alone
early in the morning of the 12th to attend the court,
but was murdered on his way thither. When interro-
gated, the prisoner stoutly denied his guilt, but his pre-
sence near the spot where the crime was committed was
fully established by several witnesses, while others deposed
that when the prisoner attended before the jugs de pais at
Pinols he had several fresh scratches on his face, and had
every appearance of having been engaged in a struggle.
The jury having brought in a verdict of guilty of homicide
without premeditation, and allowed the prisoner the benefit
of extenuating circumstances,• the court condemned him
to 15 years' labour.
FEDERAL DESERTERS.—Mr. Lincoln has pro-
mised a pardon to all deserters who will return to their
duty within sixty days. If they should not they will lose
the rights of citizenship—rights that Mr. Lincoln's Irish
and German subjects have tried very hard to lose. The
measure will not much increase the Federal army, since
most of the deserters are "bounty-jumpers," and who
merely desert at intervals to re-enlist and get another
bounty.—The