The Sun. — 1870-03-09 (London, England)

QUESTION FOR DOCTORS OF DIVINITY.—The Queen of the sth of March contains the following query : —" Can any lady recommend any Sunday toys, for very young children—fourteen months old? 1 find the Noah's Ark is not safe, as they break off the limbs from the figures and put them in their mouths." It is, indeed, a little difficult to know what theological toys can lie recommended to persons of such tender years that they. put all they possess into their mouths ; perhaps thirty-n 44 tirgcles of the nature of ninepins p:ght suit  The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends over the text of the acte d' accusation against Prince Pierre Bonaparte for the murder of Victor Noir. The ProcureurGdndral declares that the following facts have been elicited: —On the 10th of January last MM. Yvan Salmon, eomm only called Victor Noir, and Ulric de Fonvielle, editors of the Marscillaise newspaper, proceeded to Auteuil to deliver a challenge to Prince Pierre Bonaparte from M. Paschal Grousset on the occasion of a letter inserted by the prince in the Arenir de.la Corse newspaper on the 30th of December. M. Grousset pretended that he was insulted in that letter though he was not named therein, and required a reparation by means of a duel. He had accompanied his two seconds to Auteuil. On his side, Princo Pierre had on a previous clay, January 8. sent a challenge_ to M. Rochefort, editor of the Marseillaise, on account of an article wherein he was insulted. After recounting the fact of Victor Noir's death, and the conflicting aCC°l'l`tB of the catastrophe given ')3, Prince Pierre and M. Ulrio de Fonvielle, the Procureur says :—" The information has elicited the following particulars. Several persons hase_ noticed on the face of the accused the unequivocal marl. of a blow. Dr. Morel, who saw the Prince at about half-past two, declares that he had a very roil trk on the left cheek, with an appearance 0' swelling and ecchymosis. The same observation was made by Dr. Pinel, and several other witnesso.. Besides, utterances which were noticed as having fallen from M. de Fonvielle tend to shew that NI. Victor Noir really struck the Prince in the face. The Procurer cites several witnesses who reported having heard M. d° Fonvielle say, in describing the scene, that M. Victor Noir had struck the Prince on the face. At the police-station, whither he was taken to make his deposition, M. Fonvielle, in relating the circumstances, said that his friend, " feel; ing himself affronted, advanced, and then, you understand.' —And in saying these words Fonvielle raised his hand as if to strike. On the other hand three persons who saw Victor Noir's death relate that the accused had struck Victor Noir in the face before shooting him. " However that may be," adds the Procureur, " and even were the version of the accused to be accepted, it is nevertheless established that lie wilfully caused the death of Victor Noir; justice cannot admit that a crime is justified by the act of violence which the victim may have allowed himself to be dragged into committing. It is equally certain that the_ accused fired his pistol at M. de Fonvielle. The Prince is therefore accused of committing the crime of voluntary homicide on the person of Yvan Salmon. With this circumstance that that crime was followed by that which is specified hereunder Secondly, of having committed on the same hour, da), and place, on the person of M. Ulric de Fonvielle, an attempt at voluntary homicide, which attempt failed through circumstances independent of the perpetrator's will. Crimes foreseen and punished by Articles 2, 295, and 304 of the Penal Code: Done this 28th February, 1870.—(Signed) The Procureur-G6n6ral,