The Sun. — 1865-03-28 (London, England)

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AT A PARIS PRINTINGOFFICE.—The Empress, two days back, visited the printing establishment of M. Paul Dupont at Clichy, where women are employed as compositors. Her Majesty was accompanied by two of her Ladies of Honour—Mademoiselle Bouvet, her reader, and the Marquis de Piennes, one of her chamberlains. Baron Haussmann had also arrived shortly before to await the Empress. M. Dupont conducted his visitor and suite first to the women's composing-rooms and the workshops whore other women were employed in folding, stitching, &c. The Empress passed through the rooms, occasionally approaching the women to examine their occupation, and addressing them most kindly. While in the machine-room her Majesty was requested by M. Dupont to :take hold of the lever of a small press, and immediately there was taken from it an acrostic composed in her honour, printed in gold letters on satin. The Empress also inserted in one of the presses a sheet of white paper, which issued bearing in vari6gatee colours the mention of her Majesty's visit, and also accompanied by a reference to a visit to the printing-office of Robert Estionne made by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, on the same das of the month of March, in 2566. Her Majesty afterwards entered the residence of M. Dupont and his family to repose fyr a short time. A number of Orpheonists among the workmen, with several of the women employed, then assembled noislessly in a room adjoining, and executed a chorus, at which the Empress expressed her surprise and gratification. After a stay of nearly two hours her Majesty left, accompanied to the gates of the establishment by the acclamations of between 400 and 500 of the workpeople. During the eveding the Empress sent a sum of 5001. in aid of the benefit society of the printing-sffice, which the workmen spontaneously resolved should form a pormament fund, bearing the title of "Don de l'lmperatrice,"  The Court of Assizes of the Haute-Loire has just tried a farm labourer named Biscarrat on a charge of having, on the 12th October last, murdered a man named Redon, aged 75. On the 13th of October the body of the unfortunate man was found lying in a wood, about 30 paces from the road leading from_ Loucheyre to Pinols. The post mortem examination showed that he had boon murdered by strangulation, and suspicion at once fell on the prisoner, who was a man of very bad character, and had often been heard to utter threats against the deceased, who was his creditor, and had taken proceedings against him to recover a sum of 30f. The cause was to be tried at Pinols on the 12th October, and Redon left home alone early in the morning of the 12th to attend the court, but was murdered on his way thither. When interrogated, the prisoner stoutly denied his guilt, but his presence near the spot where the crime was committed was fully established by several witnesses, while others deposed that when the prisoner attended before the juge de pair at Pinols he had several fresh scratches on his face, and had every appearance of having been engaged in a struggle. The jury having brought in a verdict of guilty of homicide without premeditation, and allowed the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstances, the court condemned him to 15 years' labour.