The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

Four prisoners were tried, yesterday, before the
Correctional Police, for having in their possession arms
and gunpowder, and having manufactured the latter
without authority. They were, Ory, a tailor—his mis-
tress, a dressmaker, named Merard—Feret, a wheel-
wright—and Poncelet, a boot-maker, who had been
condemned to banishment, for being concerned in the
affair of the Rue des Prouvaires, and pardoned in 1836,
for the courage he displayed when the prison of St.
Michel was on fire.. A fifth person, named Blancvillain,
was included in the accusation, but he has not been
arrested. When Quinesset's affair was pending,
search had been made at the residence of suspected
persons, and at Poncelet's some cartridges were dis-
covered ; at Feret's, utensils used for manufacturing
gunpowder; at the woman Merard's, some bullets,
a quantity of gunpowder, and some 'pistols ;
and at Ory's, a small quantity of gunpowder, some
balls, and moulds. There were besides, over his chim-
ney, two or three globes, covered over with an inflam-
mable matter, and filled with oil of petroleum. These
machines, of which the effect would be dread-
ful, were stated by the officers of the Crown to
be intended by the prisoner to aid the insurrection.
Ory declared that he had purchased• the arms
and ammunition from a man, named Benoit, who was
in great distress. As to the globes, he declared that
he intended proceeding to America, and selling
them to one of the governments of the New World,
as being likely to be of great service in maritime
combats ; for the globe, containing the oil of petroleum
being bound round with twine and tow, covered with
an inflammable paste, which takes fire by a shock or
by friction, like that employed in chemical matches,
would, when broken, by being thrown immediately,
commence burning, and set fire to a vessel, or any
other object it was discharged against. Feret ac-
knowledged having manufactured the powder, but de-
clared that he sold it to sportsmen, or proprietors of
shooting galleries. The woman Merard said she knew
nothing of the things found at her lodgings—they
had been left there, she said, by Ory ; and Poncelet
pretended that the five cartridges seized at his house
were given him by the porter to fumigate his lodg-
ing. He and the woman were acquitted, whilst
Ory and Feret were each condemned to 18 •months'
imprisonment, 16f. fine, and to pay 3,000 f. to the
Administration of Indirect Contributions, and to re-
main for two years under the surveillance of the po-
lice. Blancvillain was condemned by default to two
years' imprisonment, and I,ooof. fine.
The Duchess of Orleans, says the Alsace, in the
midst of her violent affliction, did not wish to let the poor
of Strasbourg, though deprived of her presence, be also
deprived of the benefits which she had intended for them.
When she heard that the Duke of Nemours was going
to inspect the troops, she charged him to dispense pecu-
niary assistance for her to several charitable and educa-
tional establishments in the town. The Prince requested
the Prefect to transmit to him a list of the benevolent in-
stitutions, in order that the wishes of the Princess might
be complied with? It was remarked that on this occa-
sion, as well as all others which had reference to the
Duchess of Orleans, the Duke of Nemours experienced
a visible emotion, which he did not attempt to conceal.
The Prince, as well as his brothers, bear to their sister-
in-law a fraternal affection, which the frightful blow of
July 13 has only increased.

The Courtier de Lyon states that the ancient con-
test between the allopathic and homoeopathic practice has
sprung up again in that town. "In 1826," says this
journal, " the two parties were also at war, and the
homoeopathists, in order to prove the superiority of their
method, demanded and obtained that a ward in the hos-
pital should be placed under their direction. They made
such rapid work of it, that the administration was in a
few days obliged to withdraw from their care the few
patients that remained. Some days back a person
affected with hydrophobia was brought to the hospital,
and the allopathists, after having administered various
remedies, acknowledged they could do nothing in the
case. The homoeopathists then came forward in triumph
and administered one of their celebrated imponderable
and microscopic globules. The effect was almost instan-
taneous, for the patient—died."
On Saturday last a man and his wife, living in a
cottage in the guarder des Chartreux, near Marseilles,
went out at an early hour in the morning to work, leav-
ing their three children, the oldest of whom was only
four years old, their beds. Some few hours after.

wardvs the dwelling burst into flames. The eldest child
was awakened, and was able to get to the outer door, and
by his cries alarmed the neighbours, who immediately
came, broke open the door, and saved the frightened
child, but found it impossible to enter one step into the
dwelling, which had becomo a mass of fire. When the
poor parents returned home to breakfast, which was in a
few minutes after, they found all their little property de-
stroyed, one of their younger children dead from suffo-
cation, and the other almost entirely consumed by fire.
The calamity was caused by the ignition of a beam
running into the chimney of a fire-place, in which there
had been a fire on the preceding day, and which had
been no doubt smouldering all day, and had burst into
flames on the admission of a current of air.

GAME.—Partridge shooting commences on Thurs-
, day next, the Ist of September. As the fields are well
cleared of corn, and birds are abundant in all directions,
capital sport is anticipated. Grouse and blackcocks are
very plentiful on the hills, and in the best possible con-
dition, but they are so wild and strong on the wing, that
it is with difficulty they can be approazhed ; there is
consequently much work for the sportsman, and small
result. Grouse are selling in this town at from 4s. to ss.
per brace.—Newcastle Journal.
THE QUEEN'S TOUIL—Ifer Majesty, it is said, has
expressed a wish to visit all the sced?s of Sir Walter
.4ott'f; porels,