The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-17 00:00:00

MURDER AND ARSON.

An account was given a few days ago of a man
having committed murder and arson, in order to
be able to perpetrate a robbery. The new:Tapers
of Albi (Tarn) relate that a similar crime was com-
mitted ten days back in the neighbourhood of that
place.. On the 4,h of this month it appears that a
fire broke out in the mill of Le Cayla, on the road
to Realmont, and that when it was extinguished
the miller's servant, who had been left alone in the
house, was found murdered from blows from a
hatchet, and that about 200 f. had been stolen. Al-
though the gendarmerie immediately commenced a
search after the criminal, they could Lear nothing
of him until Saturday last, when they learned that
a suspicious-looking character had just arrived in
the morning at a roadside public-house at some dis-
tance from Albi, and had at once demanded a bed,
declaring that he was much fatigued. On going to
the house the gendarmerie found that the man, in-
stead of taking the bed which he had asked for, had
left and gone to another public-house. They at once
arrested him, and toned that he was a liberated
convict cf the name of Boussegny, well known in
the neighbourhood for having been tried in 1826 for
murdering his mother and aunt, but acquitted—
and for having, for other crimes, undergone several
years hard labour in the bagne. At first the man pre-
tended that he knew not why he should be arrested,
but he afterwards confessed that he had com-
mitted the murder and robbery. He had, he said,
entered the miller's house on the supposition that
no one was in it • but finding the servant there, he
murdered ber.l He tl-en broke open a drawer and
possessed himself of a sum of about 200 f., ; after-
wards, putting on some of the miller's clothes, he
placed some trusses of straw beneath a quantity of
furniture, set it on fire, and went away. He pro-
ceeded to Toulouse, where he spent his time in
houses of ill-fame, in going to the theatre, and in
other amusements ; and then, when his money was
nearly exhausted, he returned to the neighbour-
hood of the mill, and was arrested. If, he added,
he bad not been captured, he should have given
himself up to justice. He has been lodged in tino
prison at Castres to await his trial.

FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.—LIVT3RPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—
About 4 o'clock this morninr; a fire broke out in the
shop of Mrs. Jones, milliner, (Mester-street, Birkenhead,
and for two hours continue I to rage freely, there being
no water in the main. Af'..er water had been turned on
the exertions of the pa,ce soon quenched the flames,
but not until the entire, place was gutted and a large
portion of the inner wall bad fallen in. Fortunately
there were no lives lost, although at the time of the dis-
covery of the fire, in addition to Mrs. Jones there were
twelve females, ser vp.nts and apprentices, in the house.
These running alcn, a ledge one foot wide overhanging
the streets, were rcecued on reaohing the skylight of an
adjoining house.

FOREIGN EMPCATION OF ENGLISH PRINCES.—Prima
Alfred, who is tez,ill at Geneva, is expected at the begin-
ning of May to arrive at Gotha, where be will reside
for a short time at Schloss R9senau. At the conclusion
of this visit to the territories of which the young
prince will pro bably one dP.y be the reigning monarch, be
will repair to the Univer iity at Bonn, and paps some few
terms there. .For the Prince of Wales there has also
been taken a cc nvenicAt and agreeable dwelling in the
immediate of the University town, where he
will shortly c,,nue to reside, and enjoy the advantages of
the academic, course, without necessarily being mixed up
with the sti idents, as the habits of students at German
universities do not exactly tally with Eriklish notions of
refinement and gentlemanly bearing. The strong feel-
ing we en' ;ertain on this point has, however, almost no
Ay to the students at Bonn, which is the
Christ ourch of Germany ; Prince Albert, the young
Princes of Prussia, and many of our own nobility and
gentry/
have matriculated and studied there,