The Sun. — 1833-08-21 (London, England)

MURDER IN PARIS.—Two persons, named ROBERT and BASTIEN, were tried for the murder of a lady in Paris, in 1821, by atrangulation, and found guilty. BASTIEN, on being taken back to prison on Thursday night, said, " This is the consequence of not telling all. If I had made a complete revelation I should have been acquitted." On the way from the Court he attempted to kill himself with a chisel, which he had contrived to secrete, and with which he gave himself several wounds on the left breast. This attempt was not discovered till he arrived at the prison, when the turnkey observed some blood upon his hands, and obtained from him an avowal. The instrument was not found upon him, The wounds are slight and will be easily healed. It is expected that BASTIEN will make some impoi tant revelations, impli• caring other persons in the murder, but he persists in maintaining his own innocence. It appears that ROBERT first enticed his mother•-in-law to the house of an acquaintance, and afterwards induced her to go with him to the rue Vaugiraud, under pretence of getting her guarantee in borrowing a sum of money from a third person. He first stunned her with a blow on the face, and then strangled her. Not daring to bury her in the grave he had prepared over night, he put her into an empty water butt in the garden till the following night, when he completed his diabolical task, and burnt all the widow's clothes, throwing her naked into the ground, but imprudently leaving her ring on her finger, which became a principal means of identifying her remains. ROBERT has preserved the same insensibility he displayed throughout the trial : and, on being told that he was at liberty to appeal against the sentence, be said—" Well, then, all is not yet lost !" The two convicts have appealed to the Court of Cassation. On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, the inhabitants of Greenwich and Deptford were thrown into the utmost consternation and alarm by a report that the Greenwich gas house was on fire. In a very short time some thousands of persons assembled, when it was discovered that a steam-vessel belonging to the Sterna Navigation Company, the Waterloo, lying opposite the Gasworks, was on fire. It is impossible to describe the grandeur of the scene, the heavens being illuminated for miles round. At half past ten o'clock the vessel was completely burnt to the water's edge. Various rumours are aloat as to the cause of the accident, but it is not known how the fire originated. The Waterloo was formerly the property of Mr. BROCYLEBANg, of Greenwich, and has lately been sold by him to the above Company for the purpose of towing. _ _  On -Monday morning, about eleven o'clock, while some boys were amusing themselves in the brickfield opposite the cattle market, they found concealed among a quantity of rubbish a bag in which something was securely hid, and which when opened was found to contain the body of an old woman. Such an uncommon circumstance soon collected a great crowd of people, hut the police had the body conveyed to the office, where during the day she was claimed by her relatives, and by them re-interred the same evening in the High Church burying-ground. She was buried last Sunday in the Cal