The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

LIBIBETEi.

The committee met yesterday at the usual hour.
The witness Tredre was brought up in custody and
ex imined. He stated he was a currier by trade, and had
latterly been sleeping in various places. He was appre-
hended yesterday by a policeman. H 3 was employed
during the election at the Surrey Canal Tavern as a
canvasser. There was a committee of 13, and Mr.
Gillan was the chairman. He corroborated the state-
ments of previous witnesses relative to the conversation
for opening more public houses.
In his cross-examination he said that he kept ont of
the way, to ascertain which side would pay him bast—
(laughter)—and not to get up evidence against Mr.
Mr. Rhodes, hop merchant, an elector, and Mr. S.
Cross, also an elector, were examined relative to Mr.
mpell's statement with reference to the application
that was made t r him to get rid of the petition. They
both denied that their conversations with Mr. Roupell
had that objet in view.
Toe remainder of the day was occupied in hearing
evidence of a similer character.

The petitioners having finished their case
Mr. Slade addressed the cotumittee on the part of Mr.
Roupell the sitting meinha:.
Mr. Sergeant 13allantine replied on the whole case,
after which
Tee cirn:nithe carr.uite3, and on the re-admission of
s'rargers they declared Mr. 11,,npell duly elected, and
the petition frvolona a-d

TRAGICAL AFFAIR NEAR PA b'IS.

A tragical affair took place at St. Germain en Laye,
near Paris, a few nights since. A young man named
Decamps, for many years in the service of a gentleman
of the town as valet, is married to a young woman five
years younger than himself, and has two children by
her. She resides with the children in an apartment in
the ltue de Versailles, and her husband was accustomed
to go to see her frequently, though, as her conduct was
rather light, quarrels often took place between them. On
tho evening in question, the man t )ok a gun and went
out to shoot rabbits, but not finding the sport good he de-
termined to visithis wife. On knocking at the doorhe beard
a noise in his wife's room, and after the lapse of a few
minutes she came do xn and let him in. He asked why
she had been so Img in coming, but she gave him some
vague reply. They went up to the room together, and
the man, inst3ad of going to bed as his wife wished him
to 4 3, lighted a lamp, and after a few seconds reflection,
went to a staircase which leads to a granary at the top
of the house. At the top of those stairs he saw, crouch.
ing down, a man whom he recognised as a Swiss named
Duvillard, coachman to a gentleman residing in the
town. Not doubting that this man had been with his
wife, he rushed on him, and drawing a knife from his
pocket, but not opening it, struck him repeatedly with
one end of it. Duvillard defended himself, and pre-
sently the two men, who were struggling with each
other, rolled down the stairs into the bedroom. A ter-
rible fight then took place between them in the
.dark, the lamp having become extinguished, and the in-
jured husband seemed likely to get the worst of it ; but
he suddenly seized an old Spanish sword, given him as
a curiosity by a previous master, which was hanging on
the wall, and with it be assailed his adversary with great
fury. The Swiss defended himself as well as he could,
and smashing the window, shouted out " Help ! mur-
der !" but the other continued to cut at him with the
sword. At length the Swiss fell mortally wounded.
The occupants of the house awakened by the noise of the
fray and the man's cries, arrived, and Decamps at once
opened the dour to them. He pointed to his victim,
who had dragged himself to the landing Owe, and
who was in the agony of death. In a minute or two
the Swiss died, and then Decamps calmly related the
' particulars ; after wh ch he said he would go to the
commissary of police and give himself into custody ; the
neighbours, however, begged him to remain, and they
sent; for the commissary, who soon arrived, accompanied
by some officers and gendarmes, and arrested the man.
[ When the quarrel commenced, the woman slipped from
the house, leaving her two children, one aged seven, the
other four, asleep in a cradle near the bed. The next
morning, the woman presented herself before the com-
missary of police, and after being interrogated was
allowed to return home ; the man has been sent to the
prison at Versailles. The Swiss was 30 years of age,
and leaves a widow, a young woman in service at Paris.