The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-09 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

A few days ago a slater, named Mary, residing at
Milly (Seine-et-Oise), having scolded his son, a buy of
14, for not going to his work, the lad sent out his sister
to buy some string, quietly sitting down to eat some
dried plums during her absence, and when she had re-
turned went into a garret, the door of which he bolted,
and, knocking a nail into the wall, fixed the string to it,
and round his neck, and hanged himself. The mother,
having been told by her daughter that the boy was in the
garret, called to him, and, receiving no answer, burst
open the door. lie was by this time quite dead.
A Vienna letter says that the reductions in the Aus.
trian army will be carried to such an extent that 30,000
horses will be able to be offered for sale, and the.Gl,vern-
ment has decided that the sum arising from this source
shall be devoted to works of public utility, especially
railroads. The contractors for several lines, it adds, had
been forced to ask assistance from the State, and the Go-
vernment had promised to grant it.
The Marquis de St. Aulaire, Secretary of Legation at
Vienna, has arrived in Paris with dispatches.
Captain Leray, who recently commanded the French
squadron stationed off Tunis, has been promoted to the
rank of Rear-Admiral, a vacancy in the staff having been
occasioned by the removal of Rear-Admiral Martineng,
to the Ist section, or the reserve.

The Gazette de France says—" The residence of the
Duke de Broglie, who returned to Paris a few days
since, is encumbered with visitors from morning till
night. Most of them aro candidates for the Ministry.
The Duke of Orleans visited M. do Broglie, and had
a long conference with him. M. de Broglie has already
paid several visits to the Tuilleries."
M. Martin, a notary, residing at Hornoy, in the
Somme, three days since committed suicide by dis-
charging a musket into his mouth, after having unsuc-
cessfully tried several other modes of self-destruction. He
will only 25 years of age, and, as the state of his affairs
is not yet known, many persons who had placed confi-
dence in him are under great alarm.
The police of liamburgh has discovered a band of
more than 200 thieves, all men, employed in the ware-
houses of merchants dealing in colonial produce. They
have been in the habit of carrying away only snAll por-
tions of goods at a time, and giving them to a man,
formerly a merchant's clerk, who disposed of them. At
the residence of this person immense quantities of thew
goods have been found, with a book, in which are regular
entries to the account of each thief.

A money-changer, named Davanne, of the Passage des
Panoramas, who has been declared a bankrupt, has just
been sentenced by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to
three months' imprisonment. It was proved before the
Tribunal that the personal and household expenses of M.
Davanne were excessive, that his books were badly kept,
and that, at the moment of his failure, they could not
offer any exact account of his situation.
We find the following in the Memorial Bordelais :
" When we announced the failure of the house of A.
Ba!guerie and Co., we were fur from expecting that the
Paris Journals would mention the catastrophe accom-
panied by assertions altogether incorrect, and which, had
they had any local information, they would have avoided.
For example, they have stateti that this house was at the
head of the undertakings of the bridge at Cubzac, and the
Teste Railroad. It is, on the contrary, notorious at
Bordeaux, that the house has never had any connection
with the above-mentioned grand concerns, and never
exercised the least influence over them. We are happy
in informing our colleagues of the capital that the re-
spectable commercial houses wbo here been, and still
are at the head of these two great undertakings, are
now in possession of all the esteem and consideration in
which they have ever been held."
A BRETON WEDDING.—The Quimper Journal gives
a long account of the marriage of the daughter of a
wealthy farmer of Ploare, in that department, named
Penerez. The bride is said to have been dressed in a
robe of scarlet, embroidered with gold and silver, which
cost upwards of 500 f. The bridal party, including
friends and relations, amounting to five hundred, an
proceeded from the farm to the church mounted on horses
decked with ribbons and favours. Numberless oxen,.
' sheep, and calves, were killed for the marriage feast, '
and the consumption of liquor was not less than six bar-
rels of wine, two of brandy, besides a great number qL
casks of cider. The bridal garments of the guests were '
resplendent in colours and texture. The feast eras kept
up for eight successive days, and even then was not
terminated, as, according to ancient custom in Brittany,
the table is constantly replenished with fresh viands until
the last which are put upon it remain untouched.
Letters are published in the Ministerial Evening Jour-
nal from General Bugeaud and General Lamorciere, by
which it appears that on the advance of General Levas•
seer's column from Oran towards Mascara, 26 douars or
villages —viz., 20 of the tribe of the Douairs, and 6 of
the Smelas, came and joined the French, with all their
flocks and herds. By this an accession was made to
the French force of 350 horsemen, well-mounted, and
more than 500 camels. These people possessed and
brought with them 254 tents, 3,000 oxen, and 7,000
sheep. They have all been quartered near Oran, and
are protected by the Freneh troops and the native
allies. Some of tho tribe of the Amian had also come
over. Last year these people had all joined Abdel Kader.
M. Meilheurat has been re-elected a Member of the
Chamber of Deputies for Moulins, by 288 votes out of
517. His opponents, MM. Bureau de Puzy and Durye,
obtained 111 and 109 votes respectively.
Dr. Verity has arrived at his residence in Paris, hav-
ing been in professional attendance- on Lord Granville,
during his journey to Nice.
A cart, containing a quantity of phosphoric matches.
was passing along the Rue des Fosses St. Victor, two
mornings ago, when, on reaching the front of the Gobe-
lins, the friction of the inflammable contents caused
them to ignite; and in a moment the vehicle was enve-
loped in flames. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood
came out with buckets of water, and extinguished the
flames ; but the horse had a narrow escape, for the har-
ness had caught fire before he could be got out of the
shafts. The cart was saved, though greatly damaged,
but not a vestige of the matches was left.
The Courrier de Strasbourg states that Messrs. Hol-
linger and Adolphe, cotton manufacturers, at Ste.- Merie-
aux-Mines, have just been declared bankrupts, and that
M. Adolphe, who was the father of seven children, not
having the courage to bear up against his misfortunes,
blew out his brains on the same dory that the house
stopped payment.
The King of the Netherlands has directed that, in
future, all public acts and writings in the Grand Duchy
of Luxemburg shall be drawn up in the French lan-
guage, except such as have relation to the Germanic
Confederation, and the administration of the fortress of
Luxemburg.
The Commerce says :—M. Thiers and his leading
friends were present on Wednesday at the soiree of the
Duke d'Orleans. We are assured that the best under-'
standing appeared to prevail' between M. Thiers and
Count Mole during the evening.
We find the following in the Gazette of Upper Ger-
many, of the Ist instant : —" Account: have been pub-
lished in some of the Journals respecting the financial
position of the elder branch of the Bourbons -which are
wholly incorrect. The Duke de Bordeaux has no other
revenue than that arising from Chambord. The Duchess
of Bury is in debt. The Duchess d'Angouleme possesses,
independently of what she saved before and after the re-
volution of July by the medium of the Duke de Maces,
a capital of a million and a half of francs in the
Austrian funds, which was sent to Brussels at the period
of the flight of Louis XVI. The property which the
Duke de Blacas has purchased in Austria belongs to
the Duchess d'Angouleme, and if the Duke should die
she would probably end her days in Germany. At the
Imperial Court, where the Duchess d'Angouleme is the
object of the most delicate attentions, she and the
Duchess de Berri have the rank of Archduchesses. It
is said that it was the Duchess- d'Angouleme who, in
1837, prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orleans
with the Austrian Archduchess, now Queen of Naples."
" A short time since," says a letter from Colmar, " an
inhabitant of Orbey, meeting M. Deschamps, the Cure of
that place, told him that he was suffering from the tor-
ments of conscience for the crimes he had committed,
and that, convinced there was no hope of salvation, he
was resolved to throw himself from a bridge near them.
The Cure remonstrated with the man on the sinfulness of
his intention, urging him, at the same time, to rely on
Divine mercy for forgiveness, and, having received an
assurance that he would not persevere in his desist, left.
him. Hardly had he done so, however, when the man
threw himself into the water. The Cure immediately
plunged in, and, after struggling for some time with the
torrent, rescued him from a watery grave."

MADAME DE SEVIGNE.--It is singular, that
of a person so universally talked of and admired as Ma-
dame de Sevigne, so little should be actually known,
and that less should be known in England than any-
where else, though she is nowhere else more admired or
talked of. The reason probably is, that wo have no au-
thentic record of ber life ; though it is one which was
intimately connected with many of the most extraordi-
nary persons, and the most singular state of society and
manners which civilized Europe ever knew. The forth-
coming work, entitled " Madame de Sevigne 'and her
Contemporaries" will doubtless surlily this deficiency,
and excite anew that interest and curiosity which has
over attended the name of this most ekarrning of letter-
writers, When it is recollected that Wdarne de Sevigne
was the intimate associate, during her whole life, of
nearly all the most celebrated persons of the Court of
Louis XIV., we may expect such a fund of anecdote
and entertainment as the annals of scarcely any other
period could supply.
TIIE POSTMASTER.--Bail was accepted for
Mr. Wall last Thursday, and it is understood that bis
trial will be traversed from the next sessions to Glouces-
ter Lent Assize.t. Numerous applications have been made
for the appointment, which is worth from 3001. to 40c1.
a-year, but we have not heard who is most likely to be
the " lucky man," nor do we know, indeed, that the situ-
ation has been declared vacant as yet._. Cheltenham
Journal.