The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

commencement of the season, has just cled after a

very short illness.

Your readers will probably re-

collect my account of the sensation she produced

at the ball of the Minister of Marine by her personi-
fication of America in the splendid precession of

the Nations: Another death announced is that of
M. Victor Parizot, aged 50, the well-known com-

voser of various songs and ballads. M. Perizot
was a native of Bordeaux, and his remains will be

interred in that city.

The preparatory evidence respecting Philippe, the
alleged murderer of a lady in the Rae de la Ville
l'Eveque which created so much consternation in
Paris a few months ago, is concluded, and he will

be tried at the Paris Assizes in May. The evidence
in this one case is thought to be sufficient for
Philippe's conviction, but he is supposed to have
been guilty of no less than seventeen murders, some
evidence respecting which was disclosed at the pre-
sent inquiry. He has twice attempted suicide while
in prison. Philippe is described as being of ordi-

nary stature, but of very ferocious aspect, and blood
sometimes issues'from his hollow eyes.

A woman named Jeanne• Marie Farza has been
!ound guilty by the Court of Assize of Tarn-et-

Garonne of the murder of her father-in-law, M.

Martin, an old man of 80. It was proved that she
had imbibed an extraordinary aversion to the de-
ceasjd, the motive for which was not known, and
that on the night of the 20th January last she mur-
dered him in his bed by strangling him with a wire
which she drew so tightly round his throat as to
force blood from his eyes. She attempted to destroy
the wire, and placed a chopper near his bed stained
with blood. She also broke open L..,,drawer to give
the idea that robbery was the object of the murder.
She then went out of the house by a side door, with
the view of sustaining an alibi by her absence, and
on her return herself raised the cry of alarm. The
jury found her guilty " with extenuating circum-
stances," and she was condemned to hard labour for
20 years.

The dissection of the body of a young officer who
died at the military hospital at Tournay has disclosed
a very extraordinary anatomical construction, some
of the vital organs not being in their usual place.
The heart was on the right side, instead of the left,
and the liver, spleen, and other organs also dis-

placed. The deceased bad always been in good
health, and had never spoken of his peculiar con-
formation. Probably he was unaware of it himself.
It had nothing to do with the cause of death, which
was typhus fever. These facts are confirmed by the
statements of several surgeons of the town, whose
attention was called to the phenomena presented at
the dissection.

A letter from Naples states that for a few days
there has been no water in the wells and cisterns of
the city. Geologists attribute the circumstance to
the displacement of matter, thus causing a vacancy,
which scientific men say " Nature abhors," and it is
considered to presage an approaching eruption of
Mount Vesuvius.

M. Legourd has read his drama, the "Deux
Reines," at the Sorbonne, before about 1,500
persons. For more than two years there has been a
veto against its representation at any theatre by the
Censorship,.,and therefore this new mode of obtain-
ing publicity is considered as a very singular circum-
stance, particularly. as it is, said that M. Legoure
intends to give another reading of his drama in the
Rue Scribe, the profits of which are to be devoted
to elementary instruction.

The exhibition of paintings and sculpture
by French artists will take place this
month. It is said that the collection of
historical paintings will be but small, and that
landscapes will form the chief feature. Among the
paintings are '• A Morning View on the Banks of
the Oise," by M. Daubigny ;" ,4 An Evening in the
East," by M. Fromentin ;" ,‘ A Curious Antique
Dance," by M. Corot ;" two landscapes by M.
Busson, two paintings by M. Flahault. M. Bou-

langar has sent a remarkable picture, " Catherine
the First discussing with Mehemet-Baltadji, the
Treaty of the Pruth, 1711. M. Protais, " A
Bivouac of Soldiers, and a Dying Soldier ;" M.
Tabar, " The Battle of Solferino ;" Moreau sends
two pictures—" The Horses of Diomede," and "A
Young Girl finding the head and the lyre of
Orpheus."

Our Easter Sunday in Paris has been favoured
by charming weather, as warm as it is sometimes
iu summer, genial and inspiring. All Paris has
been in the streets or gardens or " out of town."
The Moniteur has a long article upon the forth-
coming Exhibition at Paris. It states that the
universal Exhibition in London in 1851 was eon-
fened chiefly with the view to material progress.
The projected Exhibition of 1867 will be really uni-
versal, because it will not only be attended by the
representatives of all countries, but because its pro-
gramme, without emerging from the domain of
wisdom, will comprise in some sort the universality
of labour and human interests.
M. Delannay, of the Institute, is about to develope
a very interesting scientific discovery. A division
into 24 parts has been made of the time required for
the notation of the earth round its axis, and we have
hitherto obtained the hour which has been considered
unchangeable. But the hour was shorter formerly
than it is now, and it will gradually become shorter
in ages to come. This new scientific law is about
to be fully explained by M. Delannay.
The Sun has copied from the Times an article
about the bad taste and'confusion in the names of
London streets. In Paris there has long been the
same subject of complaint. In some cases about a
dozen streets had the same name, but they are
changing the names in all directions, only the
remedy, until the names shall be better known,
seems worse than the disease. It has been
facetiously said that a man may go out to an even-
ing party, and when he returns he is compelled to
sleep out of doors, as he cannot find his street, the
name having been changed during the interval.
The names of residence undergo the same mutation.
The prison for debtors in the Rue de Clichy is now
called Clichy House.