The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

CORRESPO

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.

There is nothing to-day in the Aloniteua• about
Germany, or, indeed, any political news ; but the
Constitutionnel, quoting from the Gazette de Vienne,
says that the text of the note presented on the part
of Austria, by Count Karolyi to M. de Bismark,
proves distinctly that Austria " repudiates all idea
of an aggressive policy."
A grand dinner has been given by M. Drouyn
de l'Huys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the
Prince Royal of Denmark. About 80 diplomatists
and other persons of distinction were present. The
Prince sat at the right of Madame Drouyn de

l'lluys, and the Minister had at his right the Princess
Augusta Bonaparte and Gabrelli. In spite of the
presence of the Prince, the dinner was not a mere
formal one, but much gaiety and animation pre-
vailed.

On Monday evening, information having been
given to the Commissary of Police, that for several
days a man, 65 years old, who lived in a state of
great misery in the Avenue du Bel Air, St. Maude,
near Paris, had not been seen by his neighbours,
that officer proceeded to the place, and the door was
forced open. On a bed of straw, covered with dirty
rags, lay the body of the old man, who, it appeared,
had died of apoplexy. From inquiries made, it seems
that for years the deceased was by everybody sup-
posed to be in great misery and poverty. He lived
only upon bread and remnants of cheese, and other
refuse. In money o*►ly 2 francs and 8 sous were
found in the room, but, in an old piece of furniture,
wrapped up in rags, were found railway shares and
other genuine securities, representing a capital of
no less than 480,000 f., or more than £19,000. It is
not known whether the wretched miser has left any
relatives. No will has been found, and in the mean-
time seals have been placed upon the property. The
furniture is not worth a pound.
The Abbe Lequette, formerly Vicar-General of
Arras, has been appointed Bishop of Arras, in the
room of M. Parisis, whose death I announced at the
time.

At the Court of Assize for the Department of the
Var, held at Draguignan, a man named Jean
Bousquet was tried for the murder of Jean Hugony.
It was known to the whole town that Hugony was
criminally intimate with the prisoner's wife. The
prisoner had told a witness that he suspected the
fact, and said that if he found it to be true he
would kill Hugony or Hugony should kill him.
On Monday the 23d of October, the pri-
soner intended to go to the fair of Bargenan.
Ilis wife advised him to go the previous evening,
upon the plea that this would give him the oppor-
tunity of seeing one of their children, who was a
servant at a farm on the road. The prisoner was
convinced that his wife gave him this advice only
that she might receive Hugony in his absence,
and he consented to it, but determined to re-
turn home unexpectedly in the course of the even-
ing. The prisoner's suspicions proved to be cor-
rect. On entering the room where he and his wife
usually slept, he found the deceased and his wife in
bed. He seized a pitchfork, and killed the deceased
with it almost instantly. The wife's father, hearing
a noise, rushed into the room, and he and the
woman, with the view to conceal the crime, dragged
the corpse to a distance of 600 yards from the
house, tied a heavy stone to it, and threw it into a
well. On the 28th November, however, the body
floated to the top of the well. Public opinion im-
mediately pointed to the prisoner as the murderer,
and he was arrested. He did not attempt to deny
the crime, and indeed his wife and her father de-
posed to the fact of his being the murderer. The
jury, however, acquitted the prisoner, in spite of his
avowal, a circumstance which may seem strange,
but in France juries often decide against the evi-
dence, and take into their 'own hands both the law
and the facts of the case, according to sympathy or
prejudice.
At the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences
M. Paravey mentioned the discovery of a document
written by Father Amyot, dated 1784, proving that
the connection between electricity and magnetism
was known in France at that period. M. le Verrier
enteredinto some interesting explanations respecting
the basis of the metrical system, in answer to which
the Director of the Conservatory said there had
never been any idea of modifying the actual metre,
but that was no reason why no attempt should be
made to determine very rigorously and strictly what
aliquot part the metre formed of the terrestrial
circumference.
According to the official table, just published,
respecting French commerce with foreign countries,
the operations, which were more considerable in
February than in January, raise the amount for
the two months to more than a milliard. The im-
ports were to the amount of 469,207,000 f. The
exports were 597,060,000 f. Total, 1,066,277,000 f.
Last year, during the same period, the amount was
778,689,000 f., being an increase in the foreign trade
to the amount of 287,588,000 f.
A letter from Florence states that Prince Na-
poleon, instead of going to Naples, has returned to
the former city. His presence there is attributed
to political motives, and nothing can convince the
politicians of Florence to the contrary, even if their
impression be an erroneous one.
According to a document published under the
sanction of the Railway Companies, the daily con-
sumption of coals for the railways of France is to
the extent of three millions of kilogrammes, say six
million of pounds or more. The extent of the lines
in operation is 12,000 kilometres. For the railways
of the whole of Europe the consumption of coals is
15 millions of kilogrammes per day.
The papers announce the death of M. Gustave de
Beaumont, member of the Institute, who when a
deputy took a prominent part in many exciting
political discussions.

EMIGRATION FROM THE IRON AND COAL DIS-
TRICTS.—The mania for emigration has again set
in among the colliers and ironworkers of South Wales,
and the effects of the movement are beginning to be seri-
ously felt, more especially by the colliery proprietors. Those
who are induced by glowing descriptions to leave constant
employment and good wages, and break up their homes, to
seek new spheres for their labour in the States are princi-
pally hardy, industrious men, who from long experience
have become what may bo called skilled colliers. These
aro the men that the district can ill afford to spare, especially
at the present time, when the coal trade is so active, and
their departure in such numbers will not only prove incon-
venient but a positive loss to the employers of labour, in-
asmuch as it will take the hands brought in to supply the
vacancies caused by the exodus a very long period to be-
come proficient in their new avocations. In addition to
the large numbers that have emigrated since the find
weather set in, upwards of 60 families left Aberdare for
New York a few days since, and others are preparing to
follow from different parts of the district. It is a matter
of regret that industrious men should by false representa-
tions and delusive hopes, which have so often been ex-
posed, be induced to leave their native homes to seek em-
ployment in America, where they will have to toil harder
and be less remunerated in proportion to the cost of the
necessaries of life.

THE SCHOOL OF COOKERY, under the able
management of Mrs. Mitchell, 281, Regent-street,
W., has just commenced its fifth spring course. Last
season was most successful, and hundreds of cooks from
the school are now in families of the nobility and gentry
in all parts of town and country. All the newest styles
in fashionable dinners, wedding :breakfasts, ball suppers,
&c., have been well mastered by the pupils, who do every
dish themselves, under the directions of professed men
cooks, and they have been eagerly sought after for good
situations. Mrs. Mitchell wishes every cook to know her
business thoroughly and economically. Dinners are served
daily, so any one can test the productions of the School of
Cookery, and ladies obtain servants of every description
with excellent characters.
ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE.—'IIie Court of Assizes
of the Basses-Alpes has just tried a farmer's sox,
named Mille, aged 18, residing at Vacheres, for attempting
to poison his father and mother because they refused their
consent to his marrying a young woman with whom he
had fallen in love. The evidence clearly proved that the
prisoner had put a quantity of vitriol into their soup
which made them both very ill, and the father, who had
eaten most, was with difficulty saved. The jury having
brought in a verdict of guilty, the prisoner was sentenced
to three years imprisonment, with 100 fr. fine.
PRINTERS' PENSION CORFU ATION.—The anni-
versary dinner of the Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and
Orphan Asylum Corporation, will take place to-morrow
(Friday) evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-
_ street ; the Hon. Arthur Nin32o,i/d, the chair.