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TILE SUN, _LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1168.

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CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, December 4.

The grand preparation of troops and police yesterday
had so ridiculous a result that the Government papers are
employed in magnifying the extent of the popular demon-
stration, in order to justify the fears that were
entertained. People here are partly angry at such a
display of force, and partly jocular at the ridiculous
appearance of an armed body of pacificators who greatly
outnumbered the populace. The 3rd December has
received its definition ; it has been termed a " grand
demonstration of serpents de Mille which the populace has
not succeeded in putting down." The precautions of the
authorities were preposterous. The soldiers were each
allotted five days' provisions, the ambulances were orga-
nised, and, besides the troops stationed in Paris, a regiment
of cuirassiers in the neighbourhood was held sabre and bridle
in hand for eleven hours. The people were so irritated at
the affair that an outbreak would have taken place but
for one circumstance. It came on to rain, and that settled
everything.

The Impartial du Laird has opened a subscription to
erect a monument to M. Berrvcr at A ngerville, and the
Gazette du Midi another, to raise one in his honour at
Marseilles.

I gave the other day some details of an extraordinary
poisoning case in Switzerland. A still more incredible
tragedy has for some time past occupied the police of
Marseilles, and little by little the chain of evidence has
been completed, forming the history of an unparalleled
series of crimes. Three women are charged with poisoning
their husbands in order to marry other men with whom
they had formed a criminal attachment, and four other
persons are implicated in the crimes. These are, a dealer
in herbs, &c., who furnished the women with
the poisonF ; a fortune-teller, who acted as medium
between the herb-dealer and his customers; and two other
women, relatives of one of the poisoners. A mason named
Marino was the primary instrument of justice in this case,
This man was the paramour of one of the women, named
Ville, and was himself married to a flower dealer. On the
20th of August last the fortune-teller just mentioned in-
formed one of the neighbouri of Marino that he had a
mistress named Ville ; that this woman had already
poisoned her own husband, and was going to poison
Marino's wife, in order that the two might be married.
The fortune-teller added that a herb-dealer named Joye
had supplied the poison, and that Madame Marino might
learn the truth -Of her story by applying to Joye on
the pretence that she wanted poison to rid herself
of an inconvenient husband. The neighbour transmitted
this extraordinary information to Marino's wife. The Latter
did not go to the herb-dealer's, but she was so troubled by
the story that she repeated it to her husband. His agita-
tion was still greater : he knew nothing of any poisoning,
and had no intention of murdering his wife, but he was
guilty of misconduct with the woman Ville, and he was
aware that her husband had recently died. Much
alarmed by this incident, he resolved to find out the truth,
and at once went to Ville's residence, and taxed her
with poisoning her husband. She denied everything,
but did not succeed in reassuring her paramour,
who continued his researches. He paid a visit to the herb-
dealer, and very skilfully assumed the 'guilt of Madame
Ville, alleging that he knew she had poisoned her husband,
but that was only half of what was required. To enable
them to marry it was necessary that he should get rid of
his wife. Would the herb-dealer furnish him with some
poison? After some parley which followed this startling
interrogation, the herb-dealer confirmed Marino's sus-
picions by offering him a white powder, assuming the
taking off of the unfortunate Ville as a matter of course
throughout the interview. Marino kept up the pretence.
He went to his amante again; told her that Joye,
the herbalist, had informed him of everything, and had
promised to prepare him a white powder. Ville, deceived
by Marino, entered readily into a proposal which pro-
mised to rid her of a rival. She admitted that the fortune.
teller had at first assisted her with drugs procured from the
herbalist ; but that the experienced performer himself
finally stepped in with the white powder and precipitated
the result. She confessed, too, that she entertained the
idea of poisoning Marino's wife, and gave him the cheerful
assurance that if he had refused to marry her after that
removal of obstacles she would have poisoned him as well.
Finally, Marino received two kinds of poison, with direc-
tions for its use, and learned, en passant, that two other
women of Marseilles had sought and found the aid of the
herbalist. The entire budget was then laid before the
police.

Thus were these murders discovered : the manner in
tvhich each of them was committed is a story in itself, but
I have not space to tell it. In the case of Ville the detest-
able operation lasted from the beginning of the year until
the 10th of May, and the husband throughout suffered
horrible tortures. Arsenic and belladonna were alter-
nately administered to him, the symptoms of the two being
so conflicting as to altogether bailie the medical man.
The infamous wife then actually had the audacity
to call in the most competent . physician in
Marseilles —au act of incomparable daring and
finesse, which almost entirely disarmed suspicion.
The husband vomited much, but the ejections were
removed before the doctors came. On one occasion, how-
ever, they managed to obtain a portion of the discharges,
and determined to analyse it, but the apparatus broke
down, and the experiment failed. The woman Ville, was,
however, so much frightened by this escape, that the pro-
cess of killing was suspended for some time,
It was, however, resumed towards the end of
March, when arsenic only was given. The second
murder was comparatively an ordinary affair. A woman
named Salvago was hampered in her career of profligacy
by a lazy and iranken husband, whom she removed by
means of such doses that he died so far back as last
February. The third murder, in which three women are
implicated, affords, perhaps, the strangest story of the
three. The chief murderess is not more than 20 years of
age. She was originally a foundling, and was brought up
by two honest people who bad no children of their own.
She married well, then made the acquaintance of profli-
gate women, and entered into a career of vice, of which
this accusation of murder is the end. Her husband
was poisoned by arsenic in eight days. The
proceedings in this great trial were to commence
yesterday. I need hardly say that the excitement caused
by such a series of crimes is intense throughout the
country. All the judicial papers of France were to be
represented at the hearing of the case, and one reporter
has been sent from Berlin.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

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