The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-12 00:00:00

THE PANTIN MURDERS.

It is stated that Troppmann, the man in custody on
suspicion of perpetrating the wholesale massacre at
Pantin, near Paris, has made a full confession. lie
was the butcher of the whole Kinck family. So far
from the father or the son having any share in the
bloody deed, they, too, were murdered by his hand.
Troppmann declares that he first killed Kinck, the
father, and buried the body; that he next lured Kinck's
eldest son to Paris, made him drunk, and killed him; and
that, by means of forged letters, he persuaded Madame
Kinck to come to Pantin with the rest of her family,
murdering them all in the field where their bodies
were found. The murderer is said to have been fond
of his relatives, and to have sent some of the money
he gained by the massacre to his sister as a present.
The hypothesis that Troppmann murdered the entire
family has long been thought the only one that would
meet the circumstances of the case.

FOREIGN NOTES.
TUB INSURRECTION IN' DALMATIA.

News from Ti ieste on the 9th states that the Prince of
Montenegro has addressed a circular note to the foreign
consuls at Ragusa and Scutari, communicating the deci-
sion of the Senate of Montenegro forbidding the people to
take any part in the Dalmatian insurrection. Further in-
telligence of the same date from Cattaro reports that the
prince had ordered three of his subjects to be tried by
court-martial for having joined the insurgents in the at-
tack on Fort Stanjevitch. A Montenegrin has been: acci-
dentally killed by an Austrian spent ball, and the Austrian
commandant has replied to the complaint of the Prince
that in future every effort should be made to respect
Montenegrin territory, expressing at the same time a hope
that the Prince would prevent any violationof the Austrian
territory. We learn from Jara, through Vienna on the 10th
November, that the whole of Zuffa is subdued, and opera-
tions were to be commenced in the district of Crisseh. The
Montenegrin frontier has been guarded since the last
engagement, so that the Montenegrins can partly prevent
the passage of the insurgents.
The North-East Correspondence of two days' earlier date
gives full particulars of the recent Imperial successes. At
Pobori, which was taken by assault and burned, the
insurgents made a desperate resistance, and a great number
of them were captured. Two Servian officers were
found in their ranks. The imperial forces were endeavour-
ing to cut the communications between Montenegro, Dal-
matia, and Albania. A combination with the Montenegrin-
and the Albanian mountaineers is very much feared by the
Austrian; as the twenty leagues of mountain range which
form the frontier of Montenegro offer immense advantages
to the insurgents. The North-East Correspondence remarks
that the Montenegrins have always been anxious to obtain
an outlet to the Adriatic, and that it is very probable they
will profit by the Pansclavist agitation to make a moves
went in that direction. The occupation of the Dal-
matian towns by the insurgents signifies, according
to this journal, the submission of the Italian element ;
while the loss of the mountains indicates the revolt of the
Sclave element, which will always derive support from Her-
zegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. The Sclaves are the
enemies of the Italians of the coast, and it was the Dalma-
tians, the ancient mercenary marines of Venice, who con-
quered Admiral Persano at Lissa. It is therefore an
error to suppose it possible that Garibaldi would put him-
self at the head of the Dalmatian insurrection.