The Sun. — 1868-12-09 (London, England)

OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)  PARIS, TUESDAY, December 8.  4%. very large concourse, which completely swamped the accommodation of the Lyons Railway Company, assembled at Angerville to pay the last tribute of respect to M. Berryer. 2,500 people left Paris alone, and deputations arrived from all parts of France. MM. Gravy, Thiers, De Noailles, and others were the pall-bearers, and a great number of the notables of France was present. In accordance with the usual custom, a funeral oration was made in the_ village church by the Bishop of Orleans. When the service was over, the body was raised and carried to the cemetery, in which is situated the entrance to the family vault. As the general burialplace is exceedingly confined in space, only a very limited number of those present could hear the final prayers. After those had been brought to a close, the clergy issued from the vault of the Bcrryer family, and the ceremony having then terminated, the public slowly took their departure. The trial of the poisoners of Marsci::es has terminated, as a matter of course, in a conviction. But the guillotine, that obsolete instrument of punishment, is not to be brought into rerpthaion, even in this extreme case. The woman Salvajo, she whose husband was drunken and idle, is supposed to have suffered :;one provncation, and has therefore received sentence of only twenty years' imprisonment. All the other criminals have been condemned to hard labour for life—a terrible doom, sufficient, one would think, to expiate even the crime of these poisoners. But if the French will not have capital punishment, why do they nut formally abolish it? Why should justice be in a measure discredited by-continual resort to the plea of "extenuating circumstances" in order to avoid the necessity of inflicting a sentence of death? The guillotine should be finally transferred to the lumber-room, and the punishment, which is virtually a dead letter, ought to be erased from the statute-book. The one or two cases in which capital punishment has been inflicted in France during the last two or three months are certainly not such as to inspire the French people with any notion of the impressive effect of an execution. One man who was recently executed seemed utterly insensible to the terrors of the fate which awaited him. He refused clerical aid, on the ground that he did not want to be " bothered ;" and he walked to the scaffold smoking his pipe after a hearty breakfast. Another fellow who now awaits the last penalty of the law is a notorious glutton, and the prospect of cutting short his chance of consuming earthly edibles has but increased his appetite for them during the short space that - remains. He is preparing himself for another world by consuming enormous quantities of food, and spending the majority of his time in sleep. Apart from the question whether capital punishment is or is not good, it is decidedly bad in a country where it has ceased to be the recognised sentence for murder. _ _  The Lille magistrates have nobly sustained the credit of the Imperial Government by a sentence which they have just delivered. A young woman was charged with secreting a batch of Lanternes beneath her crinoline. She was found guilty of this enormous offence, and sentenced to—two months' imprisonment and £4 fine. The " Great Unpaid " is nothing to the " Great Subservient and Servile."  The Government still held trophies of the famous victory gained over popular turbulence last Thursday. Seventeen of the wretches then arrested are still in custody.  It had been reported that the Duke of Frias—who married Lady Crampton, née Isabella Balfe—would be sent as Spanish Ambassador to England. The Provisional Government has, however, discovered that the divorce case of the Duchess would be an obstacle to diplomatic business in England. The happy pair will therefore go to St. Petersburg. There is a report current that many of the jewels, &c., disposedof at the sale of the Duchess de Morny's diamonds belonged to Queen Isabella.