The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

We take the following from La Patrie :—" The
King and Queen of Portugal and the young Prince
Royal are expected at Compiegne on the Bth De-
cember, where they will remain till the 14th. It is
presumed that after their sojourn at Compiegne
their Portuguese Majesties will stay some time at
Paris, where they will inhabit the Pavilion Marsan.
The King, Dom Luiz, and the Queen are accompa-
nied by a suite of 10 persons. , The Portuguese
Minister at Paris, the Viscountess de Paiva, and
the whole of the Legation.will proceed to Compiegne
to receive their Majesties. The Empress has in-
vited to meet them the Prince of Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen and the Princess his wife, who is a
sister of the King Dom Luiz."
A double murder was committed three nights
since at Tour d'Aigles (Vaucluse) on the persons of
a man and his wife named Arniaud, both about 80
years of age. As the aged couple were not seen at
the usual hour the next morning, the neighbours
went to ascertain the cause, and found them both
lying dead in their kitchen, each with a cord drawn
tight round the neck, and the skull fractured by
blows with some blunt instrument. As the house
had evidently been ransacked, robbery must have
been the motive of the crimes, in which more than
one person appears to have been concerned.
M. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Phare de la
Loire, and M. Evariste Mangin, gerant of the
same journal, appeared two days back before the
Correctional Tribunal of Nantes, accused of exciting
to contempt of the Government and of turning the
Catholic religion into derision. The court, declar-
ing the charges proved, condemned the former to
three months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine, and
the latter to one month and 500 f. fine.

At ail industrial exhibition recently hell at Vienne
(Isere), a variety of artificial legs, constructed on
an entirely new principle, were exposed to view.
The jurymen, whose duty it was to decide on the
comparative merits of the instruments, were much
perplexed ; at last they bethought them of assem-
bling half a dozen Crimean and Mexican amputes
and starting them over a half-mile course equipped
with the rival legs. The prize is stated to have been
won by an invalide, both of whose natural legs had
been taken off at the knee, who nevertheless went
over the distance in nine minutes.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The gale wnich was raging on Monday morning
in the Channel has taken an easterly direction, and
this morning is in the Baltic. The barometer has
fallen at St. Petersburg to 744 millimetres, and the
wind there is strong from the On the coasts
of the Channel a gale was blowing with great force
from S.W., notably at Boulogne ; it was likewise
strong at Havre and at Lorient. This new tempest
has its centre in the North-West of Ireland. The
barometer there has fallen to 730 millimetres at
Greencastle. Foul weather is spreading over all
Spain as far as Gibraltar. The sky is overcast and
rainy over Western Europe, from Tarifa to Corunna,
Brest, London, and Skudernoer."—ln Paris yester-
day the weather was an alternation of rain and wind,
S.W., with a temperature exceedingly mild for the
time of year. At three in the afternoon the ther-
mometer marked 12-5 Centigrade (54 1-2 Fahren-
heit). _

An alarming incident occurred two days back on
the Lyons railway, between the Joigny and Laroche
stations, by the flooring of the carriage reserved for
ladies taking fire from sparks from the locomotive.
Fortunately signals made from the window were
observed by the guard, and the train being stopped
the occupants alighted. The guard then invited the
male passengers to assist him in tilting the burning
carriage over the embankment, but a sufficient
number not having offered their aid, he was
forced to attach it to the engine and take it on to
the Laroche station.

A communication from Toulon states that the
steam frigate Panama has received orders to remain
in that port to carry back the Duke de Magenta to
Algeria. It is thought that the marshal's family,
who accompanied him to France, will pass the
winter in Paris.

A fire broke out three nights back at Bagneres-
de-Bigorre, in the Place Lafayette, and two houses,
one belonging to M. Lafforgue and the other to M.
Courtade, were soon enveloped in flames. Dgring
six hours the most energetic efforts were made by
the fire brigade, assisted by the authorities and the
whole population, to isolate the burning mass. The
object was at last attained, but the two buildings