The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-25 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONOON, FIiIDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1866

dwellings, how much lasting good might be effected
in a very short space of time. The whole tone of
public feeling would be changed, the prevailing in-

difference roused into interest and energy, and all
classes would gradually reap the benefit of the im-
' proved condition of public health and morals.
Mr. Alderman WATERLOW, who has good right to
speak on the subject, observed yesterday that if any
one wished to see the good that had been done, he
had only to pass from one of our crowded alleys to
Peabody-square, Islington, in which such admirable
accommodation was provided for many hundreds of
the working classes. They had as yet, however,
only begun to spend the money of Mr. PEABODY,
and all the sums to be derived from the rent of the
buildings is to be applied to the extension of the
work. Before the meeting broke up, having resolved
upon the erection of a statue, Mr. FILLINGIIAII, a
carpenter, made a very excellent suggestion, which
was that a penny subscription should be opened, to
which the working classes themselves might con-
tribute. The proceeds to be devoted to the erection
in London of an asylum of the nature of the Sailors'
Homes, in which American workmen would find
shelter while they were out of employment in this
country. We hope this idea will be carried out,
since it cannot fail to gratify Mr. PEABODY, while
doing public good.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR 011 TN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The Moniteur has not any news to-day in refe-
rence to Germany and Italy except the items fur-
nished by the telegraphic despatches, the authenti-
city of which it generally takes care to say it does
not guarantee. It mentions that there was another
Cabinet Council yesterday at the Tuileries, at which
the Empress was present.
Dr. Nelaton, the eminent surgeon, who, it will be
remembered, went to attend upon Garibaldi after
he was wounded at the battle of Aspromonte, has
been appointed surgeon in ordinary to the Emperor.
The assembly of a Congress is not treated as an
accomplished fact. It will meet as soon as the
official answers to the proposal shall have been re-
ceived from Austria, Prussia, and Italy.
The sons of Abd-el haler, Sidi-Mahumedin and
Sidi-Mohammed have arrived in Paris from Damas-
cus. Their object in coming is to study European
manners and customs. They have been very gra-

ciously received by the Emperor, and were at the
ball at the Tuileries on Monday night, an entertain-
ment which appeared to surprise and delight them
very much. These two young men are at present
among the prominent lions of the capital.
There are some striking anomalies in the juris-
prudence of France, some of which, too, are absurd,
unjust, and dangerous. For instance, the man
Aspe, accused with murdering his servant girl
Merie Guillonet at Toulouse, and afterwards cutting
her almost into pieces, has been found guilty, but,
strange to say, the jury have discovered " extenuat-
ing circumstances" in the case, so that this atrocious
criminal will not expiate his crime with his life, but
is sentenced to perpetual hard labour. He can even
appeal against this sentence, so that there may be a
commutation of its severity. The form in which the
jury deliver their verdict is somewhat curious. The
foreman rose amidst solemn silence, and placing his
hand upon his heart said—" On my honour and my
conscience, before God and before man, the decla-
ration of the jury is—Yes—the accused is guilty."
The same reply was then given to other questions
put by the judge, and the foreman of the jury con-
cluded by saying " W find by a majority that
there are extenuating circumstances in favour of the
accused." It will thus be seen that a jury in France
are judges of the law as well as the fact, for their
verdict materially influences the sentence.
When a simple verdict of guilty is given in
cases of murder, the criminal is executed as a
matter of course, unless the Court of Appeal or Cas-
sation should think fit to decide some point in his
favour and save his life. The jury can do so, how-
ever, in their own proper discretion or judgment,
and the judge has no power to overrule the verdict
which saves a murderer's life. It is important to
remark, too, that it is not requisite for the jury to
be unanimous. Aspe's life is safe, because "the
majority" have discovered " extenuating circum-
stances." It is, I think, impossible that an English
jury could form such an opinion from the proved
facts of the case. This was a " murder most foul,
as in the best it is. " Aspe is a vulgar and brutal
villain. lle is married and keeps two wine shops,
one or both the resort of the worst characters. The
murdered woman had charge of one of these shops.
Being in embarrassed circumstances, for, as it ap-
pears, the profits arising from his haunts of vil-
lany were not great, he borrowed money from time
to time from the woman to pay his acceptances,
and when she began to be a little importunate for
the return of a portion of her savings he murders
her, and resorts to various artfulful devices to throw
suspicion upon other persons. Not content with the
murder, he severs the head from the body, throws
it into the canal, cuts the limbs into pieces, and
buries them so effectually that some of the portions
have not yet been discovered. With this woman,
too, the married murderer had lived on terms of
criminal friendship. Such are the acts of Monsieur
Aspe, of Toulouse, and such the circumstances which
the jury of Toulouse are far-seeing enough to con-
sider susceptible of " extenuation." Aspe, on hear-
ing the verdict, we are told, hid his face with his
hands, and, under a deep convulsive movement, his
sobbings redoubled. He then exclaimed, " I am
innocent !" and fell down insensible. The Court
deliberated upon the sentence for a few instants.
The judge, like the jury, seemed to be impressed
with the force of the " extenuating circumstances,"
for he at once consoled the prisoner by telling him
that he was allowed three days to appeal against
even the inconvenience of imprisonment for life.

It appears that six men received serious injuries
at the great fire at Pantin, which I mentioned yes-
terday. The loss is estimated at 800,000 f., but all
the property was insured, so that there will not be
any pecuniary loss to the proprietors.
Among the many valuable demonstrations in
Italy is the composition of a martial hymn by M.
Brofferio, it is said, at the express order of the King.
Tbis hymn is said to be as inspiring and exciting
for the Italians as the " Marseillaise" is to the
French.

A scientific journal says that an engineer of
Paris, M. Lotz, has made such improvements in
locomotive steam-engines as to have the steam un-
der immediate control. Thus omnibuses can be
driven on level roads with perfect ease, and it is
in contemplation to begin the system by organising
a number of them to make the journey along the
boulevards for the Madeleine to the Bastille.
A fearful accident has taken place on the Vin-

cennes Railway. M. Joseph Douet, a merchant
at Varenne-St.-Maur, took his seat at the top of the
carriage from the Paris station. The train had just
reached Trou-a-Sable when M. Douet changed his
place in order to light his cigar. lie did not take
notice that the train was entering the Rcuilly tun-
nel, and his head was dashed against it with such
violence that a portion of the skull was dashed off.
Death was instantaneous.
I did not see anything about Stephens in the last
New York papers received in Paris, but the Sicle
says it has received private letters from North Ame-
rica stating that he arrived in New York on the 10th
inst. The letter adds that Fenianism is in a rapid
state of dissolution in America. O'Mahony and Ro-
bcrts mutually reproach each other with being the
cause of the failure of the Eastport expedition.
The Etorie d'Orient, a French paper, published at
Constantinople, which arrived in Paris to-day,
gives some curious
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hand (so says the account) and with a golden knife,
killed the sheep, which the Prophet has ordered to
be offered as a holocaust to God at a certain period
of the year. Such is' Turkish fanaticism, that a
soldier tranquilly cut his throat on the bridge of
Karakani, crying out suddenly just at the moment
that he did so as a sacrifice to the Padischah.

Cellier, the convict, at the House of Detention at
Rion, who murdered the keeper and a fellow priso-
ner, under the circumstances which I described, has
just been found guilty before the Court of Assize for
the department of Puy de Dome, andwas sentenced
to death. On receiving sentence, he heartily
thanked the President and the jury. When he
returned to the prison lie joyously sang a song
about the guillotine and his fellow-prisoners joined
in the thorn:.

An individual has just died from hydrophobia at
Aubagne, near Marseilles, forty-eight hours after
being bitten by a mad dog. He was taken to the
hospital, but refused to have the wound cauterised.
His wife was also bitten by the dog, but has not
experienced any ill effects from the occurrence, but
a surgeon attended to her wound immediately.
The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected
in Paris early next month, on a visit to the Em-
peror and Empress. The critical state of affairs in
Germany, it is said, will probably detain their Ma-
jesties in Paris for two or three weeks.
There is a sensible rise in the temperature to-day,
but it is still very windy, cloudy, and unusually
dusty. A storm seems im pending.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

THE WAR CRISIS.
TRIESTE, MAY 24 (Evening).

It is reported here that an Italian patrol appeared
to-day on the frontier, on the Caffaro, and took
away the half of the bridge on the Italian side of
that river.

VIENNA, May 25.

The Neue Freie Passe asserts that Austria has
consented to the discussion of the Venetian question
by the Congress on the basis of territorial com-
pensation.

The withdrawal of the prohibition against the
exportation of corn was ordered by the Emperor at
the request of Saxony.

BERLIN, May 25.

In case of war Prussia intends to convoke a
German Parliament to meet in Berlin, and to which
will be admitted all representatives from the dif-
ferent German States who are returned on the
electoral basis of the number of inhabitants.
POTSDAM, May 25.

At the baptism of the infant princess, which took
place yesterday, the royal infant was held during
the ceremony by the King of Prussia and the
Princess Marie of Hohenzollern.

The Prince of Hohenzollern, father of the
Roumanian Hospodar, was not present. his ab-
sence, it was stated, was caused by the fact of his
preparing to take his departure for the Principalities
at the invitation of the Roumanian deputation.
BRUSSELS, May 25.

Prussia has confidentially proposed to Russia a
marriage between the Prince of Hohenzollern and
the Princess Eugenie Maximianovna Romanovska
of Leuchtenberg.
It is doubtful whether Russia will accept the
proposal.

DRESDEN, May 25.

The Saxon Chambers will meet to-morrow, and
will be formally opened by the King in person on
Monday, the 28th inst.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, MAY 23.

Prince Charles of Hohenzollern delivered the
following speech on the occasion of his visit to the
National Assembly :
" Elected to the throne by the free act of the
Roumanian people, I have forsaken my country and
my family. Henceforth lam a Roumanian. My
election by the plebiscite lays upon me important
duties, which I trust I shall fulfil. I bring you a
loyal heart, sincere intentions, a firm determination
to do good, unlimited devotion to my new father-
laud, and an unalterable respect for your laws. I
am resolved to share the good and evil fortune of
Roumania, and wish that between us everything
may be in common. Let us strengthen each other
by union, and endeavour to surmount every diffi.-
culty.

"Providence, which has hitherto protected me,
and has removed all the obstacles in my way, will
not leave its work undone.

" Long live Roumania !"
BUCHAREST, MAY 24 (Evening).
A new Ministry has been formed, composed as
follows :
President of the Council and

Minister of the Interior M. LUSCAR CATARDJI
Foreign Affairs
War JEAN GHIKA.
Finance BRATIANO.
Public Worship ROSETTI.
Justice JEAN CANTACUZENE.
Public Works DEMETRIUS STOURDZA.

CHINA.

SHANGHAI, April 9 (Via Trieste).

Six thousand more Imperial troops, in addition
to 2,000 from Pekin, have been sent from Shanghai
to the province of Shantung to meet the rebels, who
are assembled there in large numbers.

The Government is said to be offering Mandarin
buttons to the rebel chiefs, upon condition that they
swear allegiance.

The ice at Nevahans (?) has broken up, and the
port is now open.
Petty disturbances have occurred there, in con-
sequence of which the English Consul has re-
quested settlers to be constantly armed.
Two thousand boxes of tea have been shipped by
the overland steamer.

The coolies on board the Italian ship Napoleon
Canivers revolted, and fired the vessel ; 620 coolies
were burned.

Advices from Japan announce the arrival of the
left wing of the 9th Regiment.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA•

QUEENSTOWN, May 25.

The Inman Company's steamer Etna, from New
York on the 12th inst., arrived at 9 a.m. to-day.
She brings the mails, $477,731, and £2,000 in
specie, and 219 passengers, 54 of whom she landed,
and proceeded at 9 10 a.m.
Her telegraphic advices have been anticipated.

ARRIVAL OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 25.

The -.N orth AmeriCan Lloyds steamer Mississippi,
from -Sew York on the 10th inst., passed the
Needles at 9 40 a.m. to-day.
Her news has been anticipated.

sensible rebound in the quotations of all the prin-
cipal Securities. The following amounts are posted
up for " discounting" to-day, viz —285,000 f. Three
per Cents. ; 105,000 f. Italian Fives; 300 Mobilier
Shares; 200 Lombards, &c. Threes, for the Accouct
are being dealt in at an advance of 40c., viz., 63f.
75c.. Italian Fives, at first quoted below 39f., and
afterwards reaching 40f., are now doing at 39f. 50c.,
or an improvement of 45c. Credit Mobilier Shares
are 101. better, at 515 f. ; Spanish Mobilier 3f. 75c.,
at 248 f. 75c. ; Credit Fopcier 10f., at I,llof. ;
and Comptoir d'Escompte 10f., at 682 f. 50c. In
the Railway Department, Lyons show an advance
of Bf. 75c., to 895 f. ; Austrian of 5f., to 300 f. ;
and Lombards of 2f. 50c., to 292 f. 59c. Immo-
biliere Shares have improved 6f. 25c., the price
being 376 f. 25c.

Three o'clock. —The market has closed on the
following quotations :

4 per Cents 92 75

Do. end month

3 per Cents.
Do. end month 63 85
Credit Mobilier 515
Da. end month
Credit Foncier —

end month,

Bank Shares..., 3370
Italian Loan 39 80
Do. end month 39 85
Mexican Loan 32
Do. Bonds 233 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred -
rAYS.

1115

For Account.
Orleans 797 50
Northern 1055
Lyons and Mediterranean....

Southern
Western 520
Eastern
Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 292 50
North of Spain ll5
Saragossa 147
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —