The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

to Paris, by order of justice. A person was at the first
moment sent to him, in all haste, by his family, to pre-
pare him for the announcement of the catastrophe. On
Thursday night, also, his medical attendant and the
eldest daughter of Madame de Praslin left to join him at
Geneva. It is hoped that the presence of his grand-
daughter will soften a blow so frightful, and so difficult
to support at such a great age, and by a father's love.
Madame de Praslin was his only child, and the consola-
tion of his old age. She was the pride of her father, by
the qualities which so eminently distinguished her, and
by the virtues which made her so highly respected in the
highest circles, whilst her charity caused her to be blessed
by the wretched."
The governess who has been arrested is not an
English lady, as has been stated, but is French, and
is granddaughter to the Baron de residing in
the Chaussee d'Antin. Her father and mother are
both dead. Her name is Mdlle. Henrietta de Lucy,
or Luzy, and her age is from 33 to 35. Until the
age of about 20 she studied painting under M. De-
lorme, when finding she did not shine as a painter,
she accepted a situation as governess in an English
or Scotch family, in England, where she resided six
or seven years. She returned in 1842 or 1843, and
was recommended by a lady to the Duchess de
Praslin, and resided in the family, as governess, until
about five or six weeks ago, when she went to live in
the Rue du. Harley. When Mdlle. de Lucy entered
the family there was an Englishwoman, named
Smith, who left shortly after she carne (but she was
not a governess), and this has given rise to the error.
The same correspondent writes :
" The Duchess arrived, about nine in the evening, at
the hotel in the rue du Faubourg St. Flonoi6. About
the same time the Duke went to the rue du Harley with
three of his daughters and a son aged about eight years;
he did not remain very long, but could scarcely have
returned before eleven or twelve o'clock at night.
The Duchess of Praslin was born at Constantinople
while her. father was Ambassador there from the
Court of France. Her mother died of her accouche-
ment, and her remains were conveyed for interment
to Olmeta, in Corsica, the family seat of her husband,
and were probably the late Duchess will be interred.
'At the same time that the body of the mother was
conveyed to Corsica the infant was sent to France in
charge of a nurse. We extract the following from
the Gazette des Tribunaux of Saturday :
" As we have already announced, the water-closets of
the hotel were emptied the night before last, and in the
presence of the Inspector-General, M. Brissot Thivas,
and one of the examining magistrates, the most minute
search was made for the weapon with which the wounds
were inflicted. The search commenced at nine in the
evening, and was continued till the same hour on the
following morning, but without success. While this
fruitless operation was going on, the magistrates pro-
ceeded to a closer examination of the private apartment
of the Duke, and it was thought fit to remove him from
his bedeehamber, where he had been till then kept closely
guarded and watched, to another room on the third floor,
looking into the gardens of the Elpi, Bourbon. Follow-
ing up this search the magistrates at length discovered in
the drawer of a desk in the cabinet adjoining the chamber
the broken hilt of aponiard,l upon which were fresh stains
of blood. It has been impossible to find the blade of this
weapon, which, according to very warrantable presump-
tion, had been used in the perpetration of the crime, but
had broken in the hand of the murderer, and thus ex-
plained the supposed employment of the butt-end of a
pistol, such deep traces of which were found on the per-
son of the Duchess. On being interrogated as to his
being in po-session of this fragment of a weapon of which
he had evidently made use, :he Duke declared that be
could not give any explanation of the circumstance. As
he refused to telt what he had done with the blade, a
search was made in the garden of the Elysie 'Bourbon,
which is divided from the Hotel Sebasttani by a low
wall, and also a narrow street or lane belonging to the
property of the late Countess of Castelltne, but without
an result. Mlle. de Luzy, whose arrest was announced
on Thursday, was aga:n interrogated yesterday, when
she denied hiving hail any intimate relations with the
Dnke de Praslin, and protested with energy her deep at-
tachment to the noble family, who had loaded her with
benefits. She exi.ressed great regret at having been
constrained to quit the hotel, and the young ladies
whose education had been confided to her. and endea-
voured t> explain thereby the terms of a letter addressed
by her to the Duke de Prastin, which had been found
among his papers. Nothing has been changed in the
measures adopted on Thursday. The Duke continues
to be care'ully watched ; but it is thought that the man-
dui Barret for transferring him to the prison of the Lux-
embourg will be signified to him in the course of to-day,
all the necessary arrangements for that purpose having
been made."

The Duke de Praslin was removed from the Hotel
Sebastiani to the prison of the Luxembourg very
early this morning. He was in a private carriage,
accompanied by the Chief of the Police de Surete,
followed by two hackney coaches, in which were the
examining magistrates, commissaries of police, &c.
Ic is stated that the Duke, before his removal, con-
fessed his guilt to a relation of the family. A couteau
de chaste, with which the murder is supposed to have
been committed, and several napkins have been found
in a cesspool.
The Gazette de France publishes the following
further particulars relative to the discovery' of the
knife with which the unfortunate Duchess of Praslin
was murdered :

•• The last act of the judicial investigation in this
affair took place last night. As, notwithstanding all the
searches made, it was impossible to find the weapon with
which the murder was perpetrated, a requisitory, signed
by the Attorney- General, was signified to 11. Richer,
the contracter for cleansing Paris, who sent six carts the
same night to empty the water closets of the Hotel Se-
bastiani, when the weapon was discovered. It is a
couteau de chasse, and is ,aid to belong to the Duke."