The Sun. — 1852-08-19 (London, England)

FRAN CE.  A military execution took place on Tuesday morning on the Polygon at Vincennes, in presence of detachments from all the regiments of the garrison of Paris and the adjacent forts, amounting to nearly 12,000 men. The crime of the prisoner, a private in the Sappers and Miners, was the murder of his corporal. Precisely at eight o'clock the prisoner arrived at the place of execution in a cellular van, escorted by a body of gendarmes, and accompanied by the almoner of the Military Prison. The vehicle drove up to the centre of the Polygon—an enclosed space on the large plain southeast ;of the Donjon— and the criminal descended, attended by his confessor, and walked with a firm step towards the piquet of twelve men appointed to carry the sentenceinto execution. His condemnation having been read to him, he pressed the crucifix to his lip.", and took leave of his confessor, who immediately retired with the officials in attendance. He then advanced to the front of the piquet, and when at a few paces distant knelt down. A bandage was placed over his eyes, and he himself gave the signal to fire by letting fall a handkerchief. A sharp volley instantly followed, and he fell lifeless. The condemned conducted himself with perfect coolness, betraying neither the least apprehension of death nor unbecoming display of bravado. The morning was gloomy and lowering, in perfect harmony with the melancholy scene, and the grave and serious demeanour of the troops as they marched past the extended body of the criminal showed a perfect sense of the solemn and painful spectacle they had been called upon to witness. Captain Ducrest de Villeneuve, commanding the frigate the Forte, which is at present in the roadstead at Brest, was told three days ago that a sailor, noted for his bad conduct, had refused to obey an order given him by an officer on duty. The captain ordered the man to obey; but, instead of complying, the sailor seized a sword, and by a tremendous blow on the head felled him to the deck. He then struck him several times. He was at length secured. The blow on the head was lessened by the captain having his pocket-handkerchief in his cap, and the blows he received when down were not serious. The crew were with difficulty prevented from doing immediatejustice on the assailant. The captain i 3 the son of the wellknown admiral. A court-martial has since assembled, and condemned the man to death. His name is La Marchadour, and he is only nineteen years of age.  ITALY• The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes a letter from Turin of the 13th, in which it is stated that the Minister T...hzelllarNetAaeTsr ioi Interior, 111. of this i spsEt step resignation of the NATI, is spoken of U. 3 certain. is believed to be this ; that M. P upon the having proposed to bis colleagues to prosecute Count CARDENAS for his attack in the Armonia against.. the Civil Ministerial circular relative to the netitionso fiNliznsters baying Marriage Bill, and thetheCouncil decided the matter in negative, Al. FERNATI had sought an opportunity of resigning. The Countess of SOLMS B 0 NAPARTE has arrived at Genoa, on board the Dante steamer, from Leghorn.  The Official Gazette of Savoy of the 16th states from Florence, that the authorities of that city have caused the hippodrome to be closed on account of a political demonstration made by one of the equestrian performers. It appears that he exhibited the life of NAPOLEON by means of various changes of dress. The taking of the bridge of Arcole excited great enthusiasm among the public ; the 18th Brumaire went off tolerably well ; but at the coronation the people began to hiss, whereupon the performer threw down sceptre and crown, and trampled them under his feet. The police then interfered ; the place was closed for a fortnight, and the performer imprisoned for twentyfour hours, with an express injunction never to perform pantomimes again.