The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 19.
M. Raspail was very ill last night, but he is not
lead, as was reported.

During the whole of yesterday perfect tranquil-
lity prevailed everywhere.
According to advices from Marseilles shocks of
An earthquake were felt there yesterday about three
a.m. No damage was done.
BOURSE, Jan. 18.—Three o'clock—The mark ,_t
closed as follows :

ti per Cent.
End of month —
I per Cent
End of month 73 30
Credit Mobilier 207 50
Transatlantic 192 50
Credit Foncier _1752 50
Paris Gas 1650 -
RAUMA

Bank Shares 2890
It&Pan gives 55 05
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 44
Spanish Threes 26 50
Home Debt —
Deferred —
'B, Cash.
970

Orlo: ns

Western
Norlhciu
... ll3O
Strasburg .. 590
)- ' Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 605
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 5151
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman •
49

EXECUTION OF TROPMANN.

(THIS DAY).
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PARIS, Jan. 19.
Tropmann was executed this morning at seven
o'clock precisely.
During the night Tropmann rose to write a
letter to his family. This morning tl.e cries of
the crowd outside the prison announced to him
that the time of his execution had arrived,
and he was warned by the officials that his
last hour had come, whereupon he replied, " I am
ready." Only twice did he exhibit any signs of
weakness—first, when he felt the cold edge of the
scissors used to cut away his hair, and the second
when he saw the guillotine. However he quickly
recovered his firmness, and ascended the steps of
the scaffold alone. From the time of his leaving
the prison he never uttered a word.

The guillotine, a square-shaped scaffold 13 feet
long by about 12 feet 6 inches wide, was supported
on four posts, six feet in height, and reached by a
flight of ten steps. It was railed on all sides with
an open balustrade, and at two-thirds of its length
were fixed two upright parallel posts, surmounted
by a cross-beam, which goes by the name of the
" chapeau." They are 13 feet high, and have a
space of about 15 inches between them. The knife,
which is attached to the chapeau, is composed of a
triangular blade of steel, fixed by means of three
iron pins into a laden haft, called the " mouton,"
which gives it great weight. Between the
posts and the staircase is the " bascule," a narrow
piece of board, which when at rest is vertical, bat
which a mere touch will bring into a horizontal
position. The bascule, furnished with castors,
rolls along a table, and, by a rapid action, bring
the neck of the criminal, who is fastened to it, on
to the lower half circle, so as to secure it there. To
the right of the bascule, and attachei to it by
hinges, is an inclined plane, placed so as to rest
against the side of an enormous wicker-basket,
lined with zinc, and filled with saw-dust. Under-
neath the bascule is a trough of oblong shape, and
in front of the upright posts is an apparatus
which secures the head of the criminal and
prevents it from rolling on to the platform.
The entire machine, together with its various
accessories, was painted a disagreeable deep blood-
red colour. A cord acts upon a lever,
which, bringing the upper portions of the claw
together, compels the lower to separate and set the
knife free. Ihe criminal mounted the scaffold in
front of the vertical end. The executioner pushed
the bascule into the horizontal position, and then
pushed it along the table. The head of the victim
seemed, as it, were, to throw itself into the semi-
circular opening of the lunette, and an assistant
immediately seized hold of the hair, whilst the other
set loose the knife, and decapitation took place.
Ihe rapidity of the action was almost inconceiv-
able, and death, as a matter of course, Wes in-
stantaneous.

The crowd assembled to witness the execution
was immense.

'rho very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Illessis. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be
called " The Royal Irish Distillery."