The Sun. — 1864-04-01 (London, England)

DUE.  xustralia and Mauritius, via ':ionthampton . .April 18. via .i.laraeilles irazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. April 6. Jape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. April --. ti.illa, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.April,3 via Marseilles April 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. April 3. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 3 via Marseilles April 3 India (Bombay), via Southampton April 12 via Marseilles April 5. Portugal.... April 5. ,Latta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 3 via Marseilles April 5. Sewfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... April 7.  . . .by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. April —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffo . April 10. Bahamas, via New York April 7. Nlexico .. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 April 13 California. and British Columbia..  Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to app ty at once and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only save the money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same time secure to themselves the possession of one of the best and most celebrated sewing machines in the wsrld. Every information given on application; or by letter addressed, with a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufortbuildings, Strand, London, W.C., where men* rs are enaolled daily between 10 and 4; Saturdays, JO atm',  MURDER IN FItANCE.—The Court of Assizes of the D ux-Sevres has just tried a farm-labourer named Gabilly, aged 36, on a charge of having murdered his sister at Chapelle•St.-Laurent on the 10th Dec. last. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner:was in the service of a widow Niort, who in December last engaged his sister to come and keep house for her while she went to a fair at Bessure. The prisoner had always been remarkable for his violent temper, and became furious on the least contrariety. On the morning of the crime, in a fir of passion he took a gun and shot several hens because they came into the kitchen, and threatened to shoot the neighbours who reproached him with his folly, but they at last got possession of the gun and took it away with them. Later in the day, when preparing to shave himself, he told his sister to go and borrow a ig.un for him; she left the house to do so, but as she did not walk fast enough tor him. he ran after and cut her across the neck with his razor, inflicting a wound of which she died a few minutes afterwards. On hearing the woman's screams the neighbours ran to her assistance, and at last mastered him, but not before he had wounded one of them severely. He was committed for trial, and the doctors who were called in to examine him as to his sanity, declared that he was not insane, but had acted under the influence of passion. The prisoner himself stoutly denied hat he was mad, and stated that when he struck his sister he was so enraged that he forgot he had a razor in his hand, and was very sorry for what he aad done. His answers to the President's questions were perfectly rational. The counsel for the defence pleaded insanity, but the prisoner refused to take advantage of the plea. The jury acquitted the prisoner on the charge of wiltul murder, but found him guilty of inflicting a wound which had caused death, and allowed him the benefit of extenuating circumstances. The Court condemned him to two years' imprisonment. A fire occurred at Eiboetif two mornings back on the premises of M. Arnoux, a cloth manufac. toter. The dames were first observed in the drying rooms in the upper part of the building. The firemen came immediately to the spot, and there being a good supply of water the conflagration was limited to the place where it commenced, with little injury to the lower storeys of the building• The damage is estimated at from 20,000 f to 25,000 f. The same part of the establishment was destroyed by fire in October last, with the same amount of damage.