The Sun. — 1842-03-25 (London, England)

FREDERICK FRANZ. " L. V. LUTZOW." A Government order has also been issued proclaiming a general mourning for the spaces of three months. Another proclamation sets forth that during certain hours, the bells shall be tolled, and that no organs shall be permitted to be played at this period. No ballet-music is to be allowed to be played in any dramatic representation for six weeks, to be dated from the 7th inst.  The Court of Assizes rtheSarthe was occupied, on the 11th, 12th. and 13t4i inst., with the trial of five men, for the robbery and murder of a farmer in easy circumstances, named Gaine, living in the village of La Motte, in the commune of Berus. The man was of a feeble intellect, and easily excited. On the 3d June, he went, as usual, to Alencon to market, and, on his return in the evening, found that a robbery had been effected in his house, by means of. an entry made in the roof. A gun, some books, and clothes, a quantity of thread, and a pocket-book containing notes, had bocci stolen. Every inquiry was instituted to discover the perpetrators, hut to no effect. On September 16, Gaine again went to market and returned in the evening about ten o'clock. He was at that hour seen by several persons just as he went in to bar his door.. In the middle of . the night his neighbours heard loud cries for help, but paid little attention to the circumstances, as he had been frequently known to utter such cries without cause. Some short time after, however, a vivid light was seen to burst from • his windows, and on the house being buraf into, the unhappy owner was found on the bed enveloped in flames, and with evident marks of violence on his person. The flames were put out without much difficulty, and it was then discovered that combustible matterhadbeen heaped round the bed, to procure a more rapid destruction. Several suspicious characters were taken up, and it carne tor light by the voluntary, though unwilling confession of one of them, named Louvard, a liberated convict, that he, and four others, had agreed to rob Gaine, conceiving him to be a richer man than they discovered of terwards he really was. Of these men, two, Drans and. Chanibrier, proposod to murder him, to prevent the robbery being known, to which two others, Gamier and Belland, offered opposition. They entered the house the second time as they had done the first, through the nuf, and Gaine, having struggled violently, they stunned him by striking him On the head, and afterwards rrangled hint. They then escaped, after taking away what money they could find ; but, before doing ,so, set fire to the bed on which they had placed their victim. All this was denied by the other prisoners, but circumstantial evidence clearly proved the case against some of them. Gartner was acquitted; Bellard -and Louvard erc found guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, and sentenced to 20 years hard labour at the hulks; and brans and Chambrier were sentenced to death. As a waggon heavily laden was on Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, coming down the rue ales FossesMensieur-le-Prince, a man attempted to cross from the rue de l'Observance, but slipped and 'dl with his head under the wheel, which crushed him to atoms. The Austrian Lloyd's gives the following statement of the trade carried on hetsreen Austria and the United States during the years 1839 and 1840. In the former year •028 exports from Austria to the- United States amounted to -477.:535 dollars, and the imports from that Wintry to 522,2-15 - dollars. In 1640, the exports amounted to 373,363' dollars, ..aa the imports to 1,766,621 dollars.