The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-03-11 (London, England)

FRENCH TRAGEDY.—The Court of Assize of the Is6re has been engaged in trying a farm labourer named Chenavas, and a woman named Moiroud, charged with having on the Gth September last, murdered the husband of the latter, a farmer residing at Chatonnay. The male prisoner was also charged with having murdered his own wife about 18 months before. It appeared that the deceased Moiroud was a good-natured, easy sort of man, who had been unsuccessful in business, and still more unfortunate in having a wife who was unfaithful to him. On the 7th September, Moiroud had disappeared, and rumours soon began to circulate that he had been made away with by his wife and her paramour. To silence these reports, the female prisoner, on the 13th September, applied to the police authorities of Chatonnay, requesting that measures might be taken to discover her husband, who, as she alleged, had left home on the 7th, and had not peen seen since. As the popular stispicions soon after became known to the authorities, officers were sent to search her house, and in the ash-hole of the oven piecesof calcined bones were found, which were ascertained to be those of a human body. A closeexamination of the house having also led to the discovery of numerous traces of blood in the bedroo re, and on the handle of an axe, Moiroud ats3 Chenavas were arrested. When interrO[ated, the female prisoner admitted that she had killed or husband unintentionally by thr3wing a large stone at im after he had struck her in a quarrel, and that, not nowing what to do with the body, she had burned it in the oven. But as this statement was not credited, she at last owned that Chanavas had murdered her husband while asleep by striking him on the head with an axe, and that they had then burned his body and buried the calDined bones at a spot which she indicat ed, and where they wero found. Chevanas, after long denying the truth of his accomplice's confession, at last admitted it. The police having been informed of the circumstances attending the death of the male prisoner's wife, had her body exhumed, and chemical analysis proved that the triscera contained a quantity of arsenic. Ile was therefore committed on both charges, but he all along denied that he had caused his wife's death. Thedury acquitted Chenavas on the charge of poisoning bin wife, but brought a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances, against both the prisoners on the other accusation, and tue Court accordingly ISuntonved them to hard labour for Ilic—Galignani,  Tt IS said to be the intention of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt to visit England in the course of the ensuing summer.  We understand that the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia (the Cesarewitch) intends to visit London in the summer, and that he will stay her for at least a month. The Emperor of the French has, it is said, sent a copy of his book to M. 'fliers, with this dedication :—" Au plus grand historion des temps modernes, son admirateur."  All the houses which ,thstructed the view of the north and west sides of the cathedral of Cologne have at length been demolished. The effect now produced by this magnificent structure is more striking than ever. An extensive deposit of excellent emery has been dis• covered in Hampden County, Massachusetts. The thick. ness of the deposit varies between three and ten feet, and its length has been ascertained to be more than foux  The triumphal arch mentioned by the Emperor in his speech at the opening of the Legislative session will be erected on the Palace du Trone, and is to be of the same proportions as the Arch-de-Triomphe, at the top of the Champs.Eylsees.  The Prince of Wales has taken up the cause initiated by the Duke of Sutherland, and warned all his tradesmen against giving any per centage, doucour, or commission to any of the royal servants, under penalty of losing his patronage.