The Sun. — 1868-12-05 (London, England)

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)  PARIS, FRIDAY, December 4. The grand preparation of troops and police yesterday had so ridiculous a result that the Government papers are employed in magnifying the extent of the popular demonstration, in order to justify the fears that were entertained. People here are partly angry at such a display of force, and pakly jocular at the ridiculous appearance of an armed body of pacificators who greatly outnumbered the populace. The 3rd December has received its definition ; it has been termed a " grand demonstration of serpents de title, which the populace has not succeeded in putting down." The precautions of the authorities were preposterous. The soldiers were each allotted live days' provisions, the ambulances were organised, and, besides the troops stationed in Paris, a regiment of cuirassiers in the neighbourhood was held sabre and bridle in hand for eleven hours. The people were so irritated at the affair that an outbreak would have taken place but for one circumstance, It came on to rain, and that settled everything.  The Impartial du Loiret has opened a subscription to erect a monument to M. Berryer at Angerville, and the Gazette du Midi another, to raise ono in his honour at Marseilles.  I gave the other day some details of an extraordinary poisoning case in Switzerland. A still more incredible tragedy has for some time past occupied the police of Marseilles, and little by little the chain of evidence has been completed, forming the history of an unparalleled series of crimes. Three women are charged with poisoning their husbands in order to marry other men with whom they bad formed a criminal attachment, and four other persons are implicated in the crimes. These are, a dealer in herbs, &c., who furnished the women with the poisons; a fortune-teller, who acted as medium between the herb-dealer and his customers; and two other women, relatives of one of the poisoners. A mason named Marino was the primary instrument of justice in this case. This man was the paramour of one of the women, named Ville, and was himself married to a flower dealer. On the 20th of August last the fortune-teller just mentioned informed one of the neighbours of Marino that he had a  mistress named. Ville ; that this woman had already poisoned her own husband, and was going to poison Marino's wife, in order that the two might be married. The fortune-teller added that a herb-dealer named Joye bad supplied the poison, and that Madame Marino might learn the truth of her story by applying to Joye on the pretence that she wanted poison to rid herself of an inconvenient husband. The neighbour transmitted this extraordinary information to Marino's wife. The latter did not go to the herb-dealer's, but she was so troubled by the story that she repeated it to her husband. His agitation was still greater : he knew nothing of any poisoning, and had no intention of murdering his wife, but he was guilty of misconduct with the woman Ville, and he was aware that her husband had recently died. Much alarmed by this incident, he resolved to find out the truth, and at once went to Ville's residence, and taxed her with poisoning her husband. She denied everything, but did. not succeed in reassuring her paramour, who continued his researches. He paid a Ifisit to the herbdealer, and very skilfully assumed the 'guilt of Madame Ville, alleging that he knew she had poisoned her husband, but that was only half of what was required. To enable them to marry it was necessary that he should get rid of his wife. Would the herb-dealer furnish him with some poison ? After some parley which followed this startling interrogation, the herb-dealer confirmed Marino's suspicions by offering him a white powder, assuming the taking off of the unfortunate Vile as a matter of course  throughout the interview. Marino kept up the pretence. lie went to his amante again; told her that Joye, the herbalist, had informed him of everything, and had promised to prepare him a white powder. Ville, deceived by Marino, entered readily into a proposal which promised to rid her of a rival. She admitted that the fortune.