The Sun. — 1867-12-16 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENOB FROM PARIS.  (FROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.i  PARTS, Sunday, Dec. 11  - From telegrams received here I am informed that a tearful explosion, attended with loss of life, took place in London on Friday night. The telegram is extremely bald and inaccurate, but the circumstance that all the journals have taken it up. chews that the calamity has created excitement here. The telegram gives notice that the event took place at the "Prison de Elerkenwell," and that Burke has escaped. Lord Clarendon has passed through Paris en 'route for Florence and Rome. During his brief sojourn here, he he was accompanied to the Palace of Saint-Cloud, and introduced by the Marquis de Moustier to the Emperor. In spite of the promises made by the Itioniteur and other official organs, and in spite of the efforts of M. de Moustier himself, the project of the Conference, for the realisation of which the French Government has been labouring with more perseverance than success, has been abandoned.  A common topic of talk here is the strengthening of the garrisons of Gibraltar and Moscow. It is believed that these measures have been taken in view of approaching complications in the East. The fact that Gortschakofr has been superseded by Ignatieff is believed to be a sort of menace to Turkey.  At the close of a conference held at the Imperial Asylum of Vincennes upon the nutritive qualities of the flesh of horses, M. Reboul, director of the establishment, ordered that a plate of this meat should be served to convalescent patients.  A most remarkable and mysterious case of murder is just now the topic of conversation here. A farmer and money-lender of Bourgueil, named Pierre David, disappeared suddenly in June 1863. The body was discovered in a state of decomposition in December 186 G. On examination it was found that death had been produced by strangulation, and also that the body had but lately been removed to the spot in which it was found. On tke 17th of February last Hilaire David, son of the victim, was standing in a wine-shop talking to a man named Bouchet. Suddenly the young man, pointing to Bouchet, exclaimed, " Arrest him ; he has in his possession the names of the murderers of my father !" Bouchet was obse;ved to have a slip of paper in his hand at this moment, but he put it into his mouth and swallowed it before he was placed in custody. Bouchet and Hilaire David were found to have been in close relations respecting the crime since August 1863, and it turned out that the former had agreed to produce the body of the murdered man in consideration of a sum of money. For a further sum of money Bouchet agreed to write down the names of the muiderers, and he had actually written a name or names upon a piece of paper, when he seemed to change his mind, and would not give up the writing. At this moment David, pointing to him, accused him of complicity in the murder. The charge of murder has just been made, and though ii was found to be impossible to bring the charge directly home to Bouchet, enough was made evident to pl (.v.,; that he knew something about the tragedy, and he was sew tenoed to twenty years' hard labour.  Herr von Dreyse, the inventor of the needle-gun, died on the t,th instant at his native place, Sommerda, near Erfurt. He was born in 1787, and in youth he worked in the shop cf his father, who was a locksmith. From 1809 to 1814 he lived in Paris, and was employed by a German officer who had been commissioned by Napoleon I. to invent a breech-loading rifle. On returning to Prussia ho devoted himself to the pursuit of the object which his Paris employer had vainly endeavoured to realise, and the result was that in 1836 he produced the famous needlegun. Herr von Drcyse is also the inventor of the grenade rifle, and of other varieties of firearms. The needle-gun was first placed in the hands of the Prussian infantry iu 3840