The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1882-10-21 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE FENAYROII TRIAL. A correspondent, telegraphing from Paris on Sunday night, says:— 'lly anticipation that, merely from compassion for criminals who had run two chances for their heads, the Paris jury in the Fenayrous' case would be more lenient than the Versailles jury is realised. Fenayrou, sentenced to death at Versailles, has obtained extenuating circumstances. His wife, whom the Public Prosecutor branded as the soul of the crime, and against whom he pressed for capital punishment, had extenuating circumstances confirmed, and both are sentenced to penal servitude for life. Lucien Fenayrou, the brother, sentenced at Versailles to five years' imorisonment, is acquitted. The counsel for the efence greatly distinguished themselves. M. Demange, for the principal defendant, insisted that, notwithstanding the prerueditatiou and horrible execution of the murder of the chemist Aubert, his client, a southern man with hot blood, had merely executed that vengeance upon an adulterer for which French jurors are always indulgent. He treated • suggestion as utterly unproved that there was any secret against Fenayrou and his wife in the possession of Aubert which necessitated his removal. The crime was, he admitted, cruel and abominable, but to lose sight of the provocation, and to visit the crime with capital punishment , would be to offer a premium for adultery. H. Deroyer, for the wife, pleaded that she was a mere instrument in the hands of an enraged husband, and joined him from fear lest he should kill herself and her children. H. Danet, for Lucien Fenayrou, said he had a reverential feeling for his brother, which excused his apparent co-operation in a crime wherein he took no active part, and which, for anything that appeared, he might have hoped up to the last lament to prevent. You are aware that by a recent law the judge is precluded from summiug up. The jury only remained in deliberation a few minutes. Lucien Fenayrou before leaving the dock thanked thole for his acquittal. The husband and wife met on the stairs going to their respective cells, and had an opportunity of exchanging a few words. The female prisoner hoped she would be allowed to accompany her husband to New Caledonia. This is possible, though against the ordinary rule, which is that female convicts pass their penal servitude in • central French prison. Lucien Fenayrou, immediately discharged, was affectionately received by his wife, and went home with her in a cab to her father, a hairdresser, and there, besides kissing his children, had quite an 'ovation.' Several comrades in a manufactory where he worked carried him off to dinner at a restaurant, where we are told his health was drunk with enthusiasm."  Orizors Henrre.—Great men often fall into curious habits, which they find it impossible to conquer. Augustus Rare, one of the ripest scholars in the English pulpit, and a refined gentleman, when he had ended a train of hard thinking, would spin around on his heel a few seconds, and than resume work again. Neander, the famonschurch historian, could not lecture to his students unless he had.a goose quill to pun to pieces as he talked, and it was necessary to supply a second aill when the first was completely stripped. William Wilberforce became so absorbed in conversation in evening companies, as wholly to forget himself. He would lift himself from his chair in his earnestness, move forward a little, and gradually approach perilously near to the edge. It was a tradition in fashionable English circles that he had fallen several times to the floor. But in families where he was loved, it was the custom to place one of the older children behind his chair to move it forward as he moved, and guard him against peril. Some who afterward became leaders in English society, retained among the pleasantest memories of their childhood the recolleolion of the services rendered to this brilliant and eloquent converser.  1" Eni