The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 8.
The Moniteur du Soir of this evening says :
" The majority of the Powers to whom the proposal
of the Emperor's Government for the meeting of a
sanitary conference was addressed have given their
assent. Public opinion has understood the oppor-
tuneness of this measure, and the eagerness with
which the idea has been taken up augurs favour-
ably for the result of the studies and deliberations
which will take place at Constantinople."
General Langiewicz arrived two days back in
Paris from Switzerland, and was received at the
railway station by Prince Sapieha and other Polish
refugees. He proceeds to London.
The Superior Council of Commerce, charged with
the inquiry into banking operations, yesterday
heard M. Emile Pereire, member of the Legislative
Body.

The Patrie says :--" Notwithstanding the in-
creased expense of living, the pay of the lower
grades of officers in the French army (as captains,
lieutenants, and sub-lieutenants) still remains the
same as for a long time past. It is said that econo-
mical arrangements are now under consideration for
solving this important question, without adding
materially to the war Budget. The officers will
receive only half of the proposed advance in 1866
and 1867 ; but they will have the whole in the
following year."
A German named Elb Levy, the largest man in
Paris, has just died at the age of 52. At the moment
of his death he weighed 240 kilos. (37 stone 121bs.
English), although he had been previously some-
what reduced by illness. His size was such that he
was able only with difficulty to pass through an
ordinary door, and could he have got into an om-
nibus he would have occupied the room of three
persons. For many years he had been engaged in
Brussels and Paris as correspondent for German
journals, but two years back abandoned that pro-
fession and became a dealer in postage stamps for
collections.

An accident, which might have had disastrous
consequences, occurred two days ago to the Count
d'Aquila. In driving a two-horse carriage along
the Champs-Elysees he perceived that a woman
crossing the road in a hurried manner was in the
most imminent danger of being knocked down by
his horses, and, to avoid that catastrophe, he turned
them aside so suddenly that the carriage wheel came
into collision with the stone edge of one of the par-
terres of the Rond-Point and was overturned.
Fortunately, however, all the damage amounted to
a slight injury to his right leg, and the carriage
being broke.
A young man, aged 27, of good family, named

Danto, was tried yesterday at the Court of Assizes
of the Seine for forging a bill for 27,000 francs
on MM. Langlois freres, general carriers, of Paris.

The draft purported to be drawn by Count
de Castellinard, Consul-General for the kingdom
of Italy at Marseilles, in favour of Danto, and bore
the acceptation of MM. Langlois, but on being pre-
sented to the latter for payment the signatures were
found to be false. Danto, who held a situation in a
railway company, and had previously had relations
with MM. Langlois, on being applied to, acknow-
ledged that in a moment of pecuniary embarrass-
ment he had forged the bill. This was not, how-
ever, the only charge hanging over the prisoner.
He had obtained a sum of 5,120 f. from the Mar-
quis de Soli as an advance on a commercial specu-
lation in which the latter was to have shared the
profits. It appears that MM. Langlois had been
charged by a firm in Italy with the sale of 300,000

railway s z'-- DuuGV Ilitriug Jo/art:loa tint inot,
pretended that he had purchased the property from
those gentlemen, and had sold it at a considerable
increase of price to a M. de Montigny, producing
at the same time a written agreement of sale, on the
faith of which M. de Soli advanced the money.
This document was, however, a forgery, and the
sleepers had never been sold to Danto by MM.
Langlois. The above facts being proved, the pri-
soner was condemned to ten years' imprisonment.
The perpetrator of a murder committed in the
night of the Bth ult. in the Boulevard St. Germain
has just been discovered. The day before yesterday
two police agents, passing through the Place Maubert,
overheard part of an animated conversation between
two young chimney-sweeps, from which it appeared
that one of them knew of a murder that had been
perpetrated, but was afraid to reveal it through
fear of one B-. Upon this, the officers took
them both into custody ; and on examination by
the commissary, the younger confessed that, at the
time of the murder, he was occupying the same bed
with B- in a lodging-house of the Rue du Murier
St. Victor ; that, on the night in question, the other
came in drunk at a late hour with a bloody knife
in his hand, and said that he had just killed a man.
In consequence of this avowal, measures were taken
who was found
plying
eurlyisnegtheethte sorapdeerof na of B_,
rabbit-skins in the
Reu
Reu de la Montagne St. Genevieve. The very
knife with which the deed was done was discovered
in a cellar of the same street.

The Aloniteur publishes an Imperial decree, issued
at the instance of the Minister of Justice, promot-
ing M. Martini, deputy juge-de-paix of the west
canton of Toulon, to the rank of Commander
in the Legion of Honour, as an acknowledg-
ment of his devotedness during the late pre-
valence of cholera in that town. At the first
outbreak of the epidemic, the juge-de-paix of the
west canton and one of his deputies gave in their
resignation, and their duties consequently fell on
M. Martini, who, notwithstanding his 88 years, ful-
filled them with unflagging zeal and assiduity. His
services were required for a considerable time, as the
new juge-de-paix was carried off by the epidemic
soon after he entered on his functions. M. Martini's
long life has been throughout devoted to the service
of his fellow-citizens. His self-devotedness during
the epidemic in 1835 was acknowledged by the
award of a gold medal, and he was successively
Knight and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
The working masons of Paris have just founded
a company of limited liability, with a capital of
100,000 fr., and with the title " Enterprise generale
de travaux de macconnerie et de travaux publics."
The architects and civil engineers of the capital have
already offered important commissions to these labo-
rious workmen, whose experiment, the wish is, to

encourage.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The distribution of the pressures in Europe is the
same as on Monday. The barometer continues high
in the quarters to the north of Europe, and the
winds blow from between N. and E. They are
moderate almost everywhere, but have assumed a
certain force, temporary only, in the Channel. The
sea, calm almost everywhere else, is very high at
Cherbourg, and rough at Havre and on the coasts
of Provence. The sky is generally misty or over-
cast, and rain is falling at Boulogne, Havre, Cher-
bourg, Bayonne, Toulon, and on the coasts of
Scotland and Ireland." In Paris yesterday the
weather was very gloomy all day, and rain fell for
some time in the evening. As early as noon the
lamps were lit in most of the cafes and many of the
large shops and offices. The thermometer at three
in the afternoon marked 7f Centigrade (45 Fahren-
heit). _ _

It appears from the following incident, related
by the Temps, that the medical schools of France
decidedly object to admit females to study medicine.
Some months since, a young lady, named Rengguer,
a native of Algiers, obtained the diploma of bachelor
of letters after passing a brilliant examination.