The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS EVENT.

The Journal de l' Hawnit contains the following
account of a mysterious circumstance at 'Montpelier.
A few days ago, M. Achille Durand, a resident of that
place, received a letter, having at the head of it a
lithographic engraving of a palm-branch and a sword
put crosswise, and on the margin the following words
also in lithography :—" Congre ;a Centrale dtlla Gran
Socista de' Vendicatori del Popolo."—(Central As-
sembly of the Great Society of the Avengers of the
People.) The litter which was in manuscript, informed
M. Durand that the popular societies, finding their
energies relax for want of funds, bad ordered that agents
should be sent to Avignon, Marseilles, Lyons, Nisrecs,
Montpelier, and Toulouse, to cali upon certain
01
indivi-
duals to contribute such sums as should-be
amfixi‘eid
pain of death, and that the sum required
lifer
was caed
Du-
rand was fifty thousand francs, which
day,to a person on the esplanandaoad•,
and his Landkerchief
his having his hat in his left hand, isa
to I‘l. Durand when
upon to pay in bank notes, at twovsol'lcalmockheolinatuhiedfkolalaovvw:ln,gy
in the right, and who I
ht consider himself
if M. Durand should fail
the letter
near him Amen.
Durand took the letter to the Procu-
dead man.
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duerraendd.
to tob
eo boeny
the li
watch. s u m-
The"leotutehrecomic.gluded by saying, that
lookedura upon it as a carnival trick,
exactly as the letter had announced. M.
rmrre
moos,
nirnsgd,
sun
npl,ailsop.ioe,
iiiii‘v ilve
e:ixoal).
d found the man d . Way speet ed,and
iii
then
th • •fi
bpi:a:eve
I „wed by him hear the Amos M. Durand,
ehisdaddressed the man, and asked him it he was aoss he
concealed some arms about his person, in-
-1 intnetig, t
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to andti
ws i
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of
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et 1
\hr.
I, eaonnwl
teapssa,tv:
or,
which ithelessai4tssw
author of of the letter which had been sent ; the man re-
adgide,afterfairlisroecwellivilnirfgoesit:l'leaenst asc,to contributions plied that he was not at liberty to act otherwise than he
which had been fixed at 500,000 francs, to be paid by
the most wea'thy
that of M. Zoe Granier. At this moment the
Mar-
seilles, nnlsmed out
N tounl bea a
iaipolice came up and took the
wan into custody.
He
ll turns
truminnend, dcoannd appearedicctionerof to Alabre.
e
destitute of resources. On searching his trunk, at th°
house where he resided, several political pampbb ts of
a republican character were found, and ti e hacks of
several It tt.2rs addressed to him in the same hand•
wilting as that received by M. Durand, but the letters
themselves had been torn off. Ile persisted in declar-
ing to the police that lie had no oiler object in accost-
ing M. Durand than to solicit charittye.r. for himself,
Durand
or an'i
that he had not sent bins
anylet'
porter, on the prisoner
being broughtwho had left the
into his presence,C
declared that he WAS not the man
de,cription of the person
that and gave FO accurate
that the him the same night.
ierlim Itavani, and has been
He is an Italian, named . o. .
hate been in constant intercourse with Rai-
proved to
mond. lie denied
being concerned in the affair of the
police were able to aa,r.res.t
threatening letter.

At Armley, on Tuesday last, a poor weaver
having occasion to stop his loom for a few minute•, on be-
ginning work again, found some obstruction. On looking
into its came, he discovered it to be a poor mouse, which
had been so pined as to get before his shuttle to lick the
oil, by %hell it was driven into tle warp and strangled to
det tb.—Lceds Times.

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