The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-18 00:00:00

MINISTERS' MONEY.

Mr. BOWYER •and the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
stated their readiness to give way to-morrow, to enable
Mr. Fagan to proceed with his bill relative to Mmixtera'
money.
THE LAWN OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.

Mr. G. CLIVE asked the Attorney-General whether
it was the intention of the Government to introduce any
measure to abolish the distinction between different
classes of debts.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he intended
shortly after the W►hitsun holidays, to introduce a bill
for the removal of the prergent anomalies and mis-
chievous state of the law in this respect.

CIVIL SERVICE ESTINUTES.
Mr. WILSON laid on the table of the house the Civil
Estimates, which were ordered to be printed.

MISOELLANEOCrS ESTIMATES.
Mr. WILSON laid the estimates on the table of the
houiP, Which were ordered to be printed.

VICTORIA CROSS.
Major KNOX asked the Under Secretary for War
whether there was any objection to publish a list of the
officers and men whose names had been sent in by their
respective commanding officers to the authorities for the
honour of the Victoria Cross, but who had not been se-
lected for that dihtinenished honour.
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that he thought it was not
desirable to publish such a list. The proportion of names
sent in were very great clinpared with those who could
obtain the honour. It was originally intended only to
publish the list of the successful candidates, and he
thought it was better to adhere to that and not raise far
a second time the question of the most deserving.
DISEASES OF THE ARMY IN TEIE EAST.
Mr. BAXTER asked the Under Secretary for War,
if the report on the pathology of the diseases of the iriov
in the East, by
Dr. Aitken and Dr. Lyons, htcloobetieine
printed • and if he had soy objection to lay it
table of the house.
Sir J. RA.MSDEN said the report, bad been printed,
and that there was Du objection to lay it on the table of
the house.

REVENUE ESTIMATES.
Mr. WILON brought up these e-stirnates, which were
ordered to be laid on the Wile and printed.
THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE.
MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN.
Lord PALMERSTON appeared at the bar of the
house with a mesaavi from her Majesty to the following
effect :—" Her Majesty having agreed to a marri3gt
proposed betweeh her R.;yal Highness the Prince:*
Royal and his Royal tlitforifAz Prince Frederick Witiain
of Prussia, bas thought fit to communicate the talit2t

HORRIBLE MURDER IN FRANCE.

PARIS, Saturday.—The crime of murder is mak-
ing lamentable progress in France, but, strange to
say, the cases are comparatively few in the great
towns. The villages and agricultural districts in
general supply the hideous announcements which
are to be found in every number of the Gazette des
Tribunaux. . The case 1 am about to record will
astonish oven those who still remember the name
of Thurtell and other miscreants of his clasq. M.
Lechaux, a retired builder and a member of the
Municipal Council, 64 years of age, resided with
his son and two daughters in the village of Olivet,
in the Department of the Loiret. The old gentle-
man, who had lost his wife some time since, was
paralytic. A misunderstanding existed between the
father and son relative to the partition of the pro-
perty belonging to the late Madame Lechaux. One
day last week the old man returned home after a
drive in his carriage ; his daughter assisted him
to alight, and at the same moment his son ap-
proached, and, in an angry tone, asked his father
how be dared to dispose of some timber without
his permission. Thence an altercation ensued, when
the son laid hold of his father by the collar, and the
latter raised his cane. The son seized the end of
the cane, and by means of it drew the old man
towards his workshop. There be loosed the cane,
and suddenly seizing a carpenter's axe struck at his
father. The daughter, however, stho clung to her
father, warded off the first blow. The parricide,
who is a man of herculean strength, struck again,
and wounded his father in the shoulder. Not
satisfied with that, he struck a third time, and
with such force that he cut through the face and
severed the carotid artery. Lechaux then fell,
and the daughter, who had used every effort to
prevent the perpetration of the crime, fled, terri-
fied at the ghastly sight, and screaming for assist-
ance- The parricide in the meantime quietly
picked up the murdered man's cane, placed it care-
fully beside the axe, and went upstairs to his room
and locked himself in. There be sat down at his
desk, receipted some accounts, and, to use his own
expression, " set his affairs in order." The officers
of justice having been apprisrd of what had occurred
went to the house, knocked at the door of the par 7
ricide's room, and commanded him to open it in
the name of the law. "Presently," replied he,
"in a few minutes. . . . Have patience ; I
will not destroy myself ; I will not do my family
that honour. I will (Ile on the scaffold." The
officer insisted, and the door was finally opened.
The Imperial attorney, accompanied by an officer
land two Gendarmes, proceeded to interrogate the
parricide, who coolly confesseilhis crime, adding,
"It must have happened sooner or later." Antoine
Lechaux, who is 40 years of age, unmarried, and
possessed of an independent fortune, was committed
to the prison, of Orleaua at 10 o'clock at night, fol
lowed by an immense crowd, who waited severa:
hours to catch a glimpse of the assassin. His trial
will take place at the approaching assizes.

CEMENT FOR AQIIARIA.—In reply to "E. F. T." I
have used red-lead putty for my marine aquarium, and
it remains perfectly water-tight. White-lead putty will
do for a fresh-water tank, but whichever is used, it is de-
sirable to let it harden for a fortnight; and, befnre in-
troducing the water, to cover the inner j dints with a
coating of shell-lac. dissolved in spirits of wine.—Cor-
respondent of the Builder.

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