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

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t°%AL—, b °Her of justice. A persen was at the first
lodoment sf-ent 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 presenee of his grand-
d.arighter will soften a blow so frightful, and so difficult
4.3 support at such a great age,, and by a father's love.
Madame de Praslin was Isis only child, and the consola-
tion of his old aF4e, She ww. the pride of her father, by
the qualities w)atch so eminently distinguished her, and
by the virtue?, which ma.de her so highly respected in the
highest circl,es, whilst her charity caused her to be blessed
by the wre'whed."
The re;overness who has been arrested is not an
Englis'z lady, as has been stated, but is French, and
is gr`Anddaughter to the Baron de residing in
the Chaussee d'Antin. Her father and mother are
both dead. Her name is Mdlie. Henriette 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 shci did not shine as a painter,
she accepted a situatior4 as governess in an English
or Scotch family, in. England, where she resided six
or seven years. F.kle returned in 1842 or 1843, and
was recommenc'zed by a lady to the Duchess de
Praslin, and ri,,lded in the family, as governess, until
about five or six weeks ago, when she went to live in
the Rue dt-A parlay. When Mdlle. de Lucy entered
the fam' Ay there was an Englishwoman, named
Smith, who left shortly after she came (but she was
not a governess), and this has given rise to the error.
Tt Je same correspondent writes :
" The Duchess arrived, about nine in the evening, at
tb a hotel in the rue du Faubourg St. Honor& About
11.1 e same time the Duke went to the rue du Harley with
three of his daughters and a son aged about eight years;
be 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 fcr interment
to Otmeta, in Corsica, the family seat of her husband,
and were probably the late Duchess will be interred.
At tl se same time that the body of the mother was
cony eyed to Corsica the infant was sent to France in
chat ge of a nurse. We extract the following from
the Gtazette des T'ribunaux of Saturday :
" As we have already announced, the water-closets of
the hctel were emptied the night before last, and in the
prt.tsem;e of the Inspector-General, M. Brissot Thivas,
ar.d 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
folio wing morning, but without success. While this
fruitless operation was going on, the magistrates pro-
ceeded to a closer examination of the private apartment
of t'oe Duke, and it was thought fit to remove him from
his bed-chamber, where 119; had been till then kept closely
gnat tled and watched, to 'another room on the third floor,
look ing into the garden's of the Elysii3 Bourbon. Follow-
ing t tp this search the ?magistrates at length discovered in
the ( !rawer of a desk in the cabinet adjoining the chamber
the t roken hilt of a poniard,t upon which were fresh stains
of bl pod. It has seen impossible to find the blade of this
weep an, which, according to very warrantable presump-
tion, had been used in the perpetration of the crime, but
had l)roken is the hand of the murderer, and thus ex-
plained the supposed employment of the butt-end of a
pistol, svich deep traces of which were found on the per
son of the Duchess. On being interrogated as to his
being it , po-session of this fragment of a weapon of which
he hrsd evidently made use, the Duke declared that he
coult In of give any explanation of the circumstance. As
he r 'fused to tell what ho had done with the blade, a
search was made in the garden of the Elys‘e Bourbon,
which is divided from the Hotel Sebastiani by a low
wail, and also a narrow street or lane belonging to the
prop, Fey of the late Countess of Castellsne, but without
any r esult. Mlle. de Luzy, whose arrest was announced
on T hursday, was again interrogated yesterday, when
she 0 .enied having had any intimate relations with the
Duk( de Praslin, and protested with energy her deep at-
tachr. lent to the noble family, who had loaded her with
benet its. She expressed great regret at having been
coast rained to quit the hotel, and the young ladies
whose education had been confided to her, and endea-
voured' to explain thereby the terms of a letter addressed
by her to the Duke de Praslin, which had been found
among his papers. Nothing has been changed in the
measu res adopted on Thursday. The Duke continues
to be carefully watched ; but it is thought that the man-
dal d irret f.,r transferring him to the prison of the Lux-
embo arg will be signified to him in the course of to-day,
all O. .e necessary arrangements for that purpose having
been made."
T he Duke de Praslin was removed from the Hotel
Seb astiani to the prison of the Luxembourg very
earl y this morning. He was in a private carriage,
acc( Impanied by the Chief of the Police de Surete,
fella awed by two hackney coaches, in which were the
exa fining magistrates, commissaries of police, &c.
It is stated that the Duke, before his removal, con-
fess ed his guilt to a relation of the family. A couteau
de c lutsse, with which the murder is supposed to have
beet z committed, and several napkins have been found
in r t cesspool.
'1 'kte Gazette de France publishes the following
furt her particulars relative to the discovery of the
knit is with which the unfortunate Duchess of Praslin
was t nurdered :
" '1 he last act of the judicial investigation in this
affai r took place last night. As, notwithstanding all the
sear cites made, it was impossible to find the weapon with
ch the murder was perpetrated, a requisitory, signed
by t tie Attorney. General, was signified to M. Richer,
the 'contracter for cleansing Paris, who sent six carts the
Mtn Pe night to empty the water-closets of the Hotel Se-
btu .ti ani, when the weapon was discovered. It is a
cot ti&alg de chasse, and is said to belong to the Duke."

MOTHER MURDER IN PARIS.
The neighbourhood of the Bourse was on Friday
thrown into consternation, a little before two o'clock, by
the intelligence that a murder had just been committed
on t, le clerk of M. Meyer-Spielman, money-changer,
Rue Neuve Vivienne, 26. It appears that the clerk, a
Ger man, aged 18, was sitting behind the iron railing
whir iih is usually found in such shops, when a well-
drea sed man, of about 90, entered, and presented a bill
of e =change. Whilst the young man was unfolding it,
the other stretched forward his hand through the little
ope u.ing in the grating, and seized on a wooden cup,
fiilr si with gold, and a handful of bank notes, with which
he attempted to make off. The clerk, however, who
per ceived the movement, rushed round into the open
pai tof the shop and seized the thief. The latter then,
dra wing out a poniard-knife, stabbed the young man
on th e hand and forehead. The clerk, however, strug-
gleel with him, crying out all the time loudly for help.
The • clerk, however, contrived to force the weapon from
him, and in his turn plunged it into the man's leg, and
cut ti le fingers of his right hand. In the midst of the
strug ale the knife fell, and the thief' stooped down to pick
it up.. The clerk availed himself of the chance, and
opening the door, again shouted for help. A servant
girl g a the same moment entered the shop from the in-
terio. r of the house, and the thief finding himself hard
press ed, made a last effort, and snatching up the knife,
pluni ;ed it twice into the lower part of the abdomen of
the t .nfortunate clerk, who fell to the ground in an ex
rix ,g state. The murderer then darted towards the
o
un 'se, but was overtaken by a commissionaire and M.
Fris.ahmuth, the proprietor of the baker's shop opposite.
On !his person were found another poniard-knife and
se' oral gieces of gold. The police-agent who first came
up recogn.ised him as a thief by profes!ion. The unfor-
tunate 'clerk was taken to hospital of the Hotel
Dieu, on a litter, but expiredon the way. We may be
per 'mated on this occasion to express a hope that the
money-changers will abandon the system of display of
go Id and notes which they make in their windows, and
which has proved so frequently a temptation to robbery,
and more Loan once has led to murder.

il'az MUTILATION NEAR RIEGIATE.—The man
Job n AVCarthy, who was so savagely
the labourer Fisher, is progressing maltreated by
very favourably, in
Guy's Hospital. The cut which he received upon the
arm was so deep that it severed the muscle and tbroke
the bone ; the limb, however, was not cut through, as
has been represented. From further inquiry it seems
that words had arisen between both men and women, in
Chepstow, respecting the quantity of corn each of them
had cut in a given time, the Irishman contending that
he would accomplish a greater breadth of cutting than
the English labourer. This led to some ill-feeling, and
M'Carthy left the house. Fisher at the moment jumped
up and swore that IP i
Carthy should not leave n that
manner, but that he (M'Carthy) should return and sing
a song, or stand a pot of beer. Dl'Carthy would not
do so, and Fisher struck him; blows were exchanged,
and finally M'Carthy was wounded in the arm and cut
upon the head in two or three places, small bits of skin
being picked out of the scalp. Happily none of the
wounds are so dangerous as at first represented; it will
be some time, however, before the poor fellow has suffi-
ciently recovered to be able to leave the hospital to give
evidence.

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DEATH or GENERAL SIR GEORGE CO
cllrie CURl4oc.—kbWurne
announce with regret that General Sir George
died on Wednesday morning, at shanganagh, his res i
deuce, near Bray, in the county of Dublin. The:
esti-
mable and warm-hearted veteran had attained thea
ti
i'anced age of eighty-four. trp to the last year, he
'retained excellent health and spirits.
ALARMING FIRE IN TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD.
This morning, shortly after one o clock, an alarming fire
broke out on the extensive premises in the occupation of
Mr. Walker, organ-builder. No. 26, Francis-street,
Tottenham-court-road, communicating to Mr. R. ipley's,
tailor, and Mr. Bernasione's, modellers, adjoining, and
alsoigniting a number of habitations occupied by poor
peopleinNew Inn-yard, as well as Dunbar's ircn factory.
The Fire Brigade .
of England
aid o
companies
and engines of. the County and West.
with the _mpanies. were quickly on the spot, and
subduing
the faa plentiful supply of water succeeded in
liewsrs. Waikeeamlt' by
three o'clock, but not before
were coraPcetelYa'leY's. and Bernasione's premises
CROWN .E.ETENT A gutted.
The property is insured.
MST A POST-OFFICE KEEPER.
—On Saturday a writG4.
t Burchell,extent wasj
executed before Mr.
Under-Sheriff_sot ascertain what property Ed-
ward Dear, of Red Lion Holborn, was possessed
Znebst, t. The defendant was a
post-office keeper, and
of on the 7th of Auguast
tor to the crown. A sei-
zure had been made for the income
creditors, but no op-
ome tax, and there were
executions at the suit of judgment. Th
a verdict for e property havtihnagt
position was offered to the exlent
been valued at 1601., the jury gape
amount. The amount of the crown debt WAS stated to
be 147/.
The quantity of iron produced by Sweden in 1846
Inns 115,105 tons, of which 110,000 were exported.