The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-20 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet at yesterday's rates. Sales, pro-
bably 5,000 or 6,000 bales.

Crime in France.
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The Court of Assizes of the Gors, last week, tried a girl
named Marie Cassagnabere, only 131 yeitrs of age, on a
charge of having, on the 31st May last, set fire to a barn
belonging to a farmer named Laffargue, residing at Lar-
tigue, in whose service she was at the time. She was also
charged with having attempted, in 1864, to poison a farmer
named Autefuge and one of his labourers. On the 30th
May last, tho prisoner told her master that a woman named
Balas, residing in the neighbourhood, had threatened to set
fire to his premises. The next morning her master's barn
was set on fire, and the prisoner pretended to have seen the
woman Bales running away from it just before the fire
was discovered. Fortunately, the flames were extinguished
before mrch injury was done. An investigation insti-
tuted by the police having proved beyond all doubt that
the woman Balas had not been near the farm, the prisoner
was interrogated, and at last confessed that she herself had
set fire to tho barn and accused the woman Balas of the
crime, in order to be revenged for some insulting expres-
sion the latter had applied to her. During the inquiry, the
police were informed that the prisoner had, in the previous
year, attempted to poison her then master, M. Autefage,
and one of his labourers, by putting in their soup some
phosphorus which she had scraped off lucifer matches, but
neither of them had eaten enough to do them any harm.
The prisoner was accordingly committed to take her
trial on the three charges. The evidence being
conclusive against the prisoner, the jury found her
guilty, but added that she had acted without discern-
ment, and the court accordingly condemned her to be con-
fined in a house of correction till the completion of her 18th

year.
The Court of Assizes of the Somme last week tried a
farm labourer named Bocquet, aged 86, on a charge of hav-
ing, on the 11th June last, murdered a milkmaid named
Lemaire, aged 27, in the service of M. Gaffet, a farmer re-
siding at Demuin. It appeared from the evidence that the
prisoner had been for some time on terms of intimacy with
the woman Lemaire, but a difference having arisent be-
tween them, he went to her while she was milking the
cows on the morning above-mentioned, to ask for some
explanation, • and not receiving a satisfactory answer,
he knocked her down with a hay fork, and kicked her
on the head with his heavy nailed shoes until sho was
dead. As he had been heard on the previous day to utter
threats against the young woman, he was at once suspected
to be her murderer, and was arrested. When interrogated
he confessed his crime in the most cynical manner, and
seemed to glory in what he had dono. The jury having
brought in a verdict of guilty, without extenuating cir-
cuinstances, the court passed sentence of death on the
prisoner.

SCARCITY OF WATER IN LIVERPOOL. The
authorities of Liverpool have issued notices requesting the
consumers of water to be sparing in their use of it. They
say that the supply at the reserToirs is unusually low at
present.