The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

Tnni SUN, LONbON, SATURDAY Mi'ENING, DECEMBER 5, IF 68.

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(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 pakly 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 title, which the populace has
not succeeded in putting down." The precautions of the
authorities were preposterous. The soldiers were each
allotted live 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 Loiret has opened a subscription to
erect a monument to M. Berryer at Angerville, and the
Gazette du Midi another, to raise ono 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 bad 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 poisons; 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 neighbours 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
bad 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 Ifisit 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 Vile as a matter of course

throughout the interview. Marino kept up the pretence.
lie 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.