The Sun. — 1829-12-09 (London, England)

EXECUTION AT PARIS.  Victor Alphonse Daumas Dupin, ci-derant officer and paymaster of one of the regiments of the old Imperial Guard, and a Knight of the Legion of Honour, being suspected of the murders of a young man of the name of Prudhomme, and of his still more youthful wife (only I 6 years of age,) at the valley of Montmorency, on the 24th of January last, was pursued by the police, whom he baffled, and effected his escape to Milan, whence he wrote to his sister, announcing that at length he began to breathe—having, while still on French ground, every moment expected to be captured :—" every leaf that fell seemed to him the tread of the officers of justice." This letter destroyed him. It was intercepted, and in consequence, upon the application of the French Minister, Dupin was arrested, and handed over to some French police-officers, by whom he was conveyed a prisoner to Paris. Shortly after his arrival in Paris, he was transferred to Versailles, and brought to trial before the tribunal of that district (the Seine et Oise,) in which the beautiful valley of Montmorency is situated. On his trial he defended himself with great ingenuity. He confessed that ho had gone to the house (a small inn) of the unfortunate Prudhomme with a companion, determined to rob it, and having gone out for a moment, he found that his companion had, in his absence, murdered the newly-married owners of the auberge with an axe ; that he had participated in the plunder, but with reluctance; and that fear of his accomplice (who has not yet been apprehended) had prevented his denouncing him, &c. Notwithstadding this story, Dupin was convicted, and condemned to death; but the report of the proceedings not having been duly signed by an officer of the Court, the judgment was annulled, and Dupin was transmitted for trial to Paris, being in a different district, and was, on the 31st of October, again convicted, and sentenced to death. Ile appealed to the Court of Cassation merely, as he himself declared on Thursday last, in compliance with the entreaties of his afflicted relations. His appeal was rejected on the 24th ult., and Dupin was ordered for execution on Wednesday last. Ileace resulted a circumstance truly French. On Tuesday he recollected that the day fixed for his execution was the 2d of December, the anniversary of the battle of Austerlitz, in which glorious field he had received the Cross of the Legion of Honour for his good conduct in that celebrated conflict. He therefore applied for an extension of his life for 24 hours, not wishing to terminate his miserable ' career on the anniversary of that day on which he had been decorated in the field of honour ! This request was complied with, and early on Thursday he was transferred from the Bicetre to the Conciergerie. At a few minutes after four, the cavalcade entered the Place du Greve, the culprit, as usual, attended by a priest, to whose exhortations, however, he was evidently incapable of attending, being apparently wholly lost to a sense of all surrounding objects. His countenance was pale, even to ghastliness, and though visibly attenuated by long imprisonment, his figure was that of a well-formed man of the middle size. Arrived at the foot of the guillotine, he rose from his seat, and descended the vehicle with a feeble step, but without assistance. A delay of a few seconds took place at the foot of the scaffold, after which lie ascended, and being placed under the fatal axe, he breathed his last within less than two minutes from the time of his arrival at the Place du Greve. The concourse of spectators was immense, of whom females of the lowest order formmajority.--Paris Paper. ed a great and disgusting  W. E. BURNABY, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, one of the City Pleaders, has beets appointed Junior Counsel to the 13rnk of England, in the room of his late colleague, W. BOLLAND, Esq., now one of the Barons of the Exchequer.  An Englishman fond of turbot, on going to a restaurateur's at Paris, asked for tierbot• The garcon answered it was not the custom for gentlemen to take off their boots in that place. It was some time before John Bull was convinced that he had asked fora hoot jack in place of his favourite fish !—Essex Herald.