The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-23 00:00:00

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN PARIS.

A dreadful murder and suicide, committed yes-
terday morning in the house No. 40, Rue Bourbon.,
Villenuve, produced an immense sensation in the
whole of the Qm,rtiec S:. Denis. It appears that
about two years ago a woman, aged 38, having
been left a widow with two little girls, formed the
acquaintaece of a widower aged 44, having two
sous. In the curse of time a marriage took place
between the man and woman, but the husband, a
land-measurer by occupation, turned out an idle,
drunken fellow, and the whole onus of keeping the
femily devolved on the woman. The two sons of
the man did not live in the house, being bound out
to trades. DifferenceA soon arose between the
husband and wife, and these qu irrels at last be-
came a suhject of conversation in the neighbour-
hood. Y,sterclay morning, at about half-past
tight, the two little girls, aged ten and eight,
havi,g gone to school, the husband and wife were
loft together in the house. After a while, cries
were beard to proceed from their apartment, and
the wife of the conc'erge hurried up to see what
was the matter. She knocked at the door, and
heard the wife exclaim, " Come in ! come in !"
but the do r was locked, and the husband re-
fumed to open it. The porter's wife then hur-
ried down stairs, and sent at once for the coat-
rni,sary of police. When that functionary arrived,
finding the door still closed, be had it forced open,
and to his horror found the corpse of the woman
lying just inside with the head nearly separated
flom the trunk, and further on, the dead body
of the husband, pierced with five stabs in the
region of the heart. Near his right side 'was a
large kitchen knife, with which he had evidently
committed suicide. It is supposed that the
wretched man, after some dispute with the wife,
drew a raznr suddenly across her throat with such
fe-ce as to kill her instantaneously, and then, after
throwing the razor out of the window, killed him-
self. Just as the commissary of police was ascend-
ding the stairs, a razor st fined wi h blood fell in
the street, near a passer-by. It is, thertfore,
fe: red that the murder and suicide must have taken
place within less than a minute of each other, and
iu the space of time which elapsed from the mo-
ment of the commissary entering the house to that
when the door wrs burst open. This dreadful
event caused crowds to congregate in the neigh-
bourhood during the whole day.

MARKET NEWS.—(Tais Day.)

CORN EXCILINGE.

We hal a very limited quantity of Eng wheat on
offer to-day, coast wise and by land carriage. For most
kinds the demand was steady, and Monday's prices were
well supported.

Over 11,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come in this
week ; nevertheless holders were very flrw, but the tram=
actions were restricted, at previous rates.
We had a very slow inquiry for both barley and malt,
on former terms.
The show of foreign oats was large, yet the oat trade
ruled steady, at full currencies.
Beans, peas, an I flour were in fair request, at Monday's
quotations.

ARRIVALS TIM WEIR.
Wheat. I Barley. I Malt.
950 I 170 2,840

Oats.

Flour.
2.010

English..

Irish

Foreign. I 11,690 I 9,710

25,280 I 40 ski.
brig