The Sun. — 1865-11-23 (London, England)

FRANCE.  We take the following from La Patrie :—" The King and Queen of Portugal and the young Prince Royal are expected at Compiegne on the Bth December, where they will remain till the 14th. It is presumed that after their sojourn at Compiegne their Portuguese Majesties will stay some time at Paris, where they will inhabit the Pavilion Marsan. The King, Dom Luiz, and the Queen are accompanied by a suite of 10 persons. , The Portuguese Minister at Paris, the Viscountess de Paiva, and the whole of the Legation.will proceed to Compiegne to receive their Majesties. The Empress has invited to meet them the Prince of HohenzollernSigmaringen and the Princess his wife, who is a sister of the King Dom Luiz." A double murder was committed three nights since at Tour d'Aigles (Vaucluse) on the persons of a man and his wife named Arniaud, both about 80 years of age. As the aged couple were not seen at the usual hour the next morning, the neighbours went to ascertain the cause, and found them both lying dead in their kitchen, each with a cord drawn tight round the neck, and the skull fractured by blows with some blunt instrument. As the house had evidently been ransacked, robbery must have been the motive of the crimes, in which more than one person appears to have been concerned. M. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Phare de la Loire, and M. Evariste Mangin, gerant of the same journal, appeared two days back before the Correctional Tribunal of Nantes, accused of exciting to contempt of the Government and of turning the Catholic religion into derision. The court, declaring the charges proved, condemned the former to three months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine, and the latter to one month and 500 f. fine.  At ail industrial exhibition recently hell at Vienne (Isere), a variety of artificial legs, constructed on an entirely new principle, were exposed to view. The jurymen, whose duty it was to decide on the comparative merits of the instruments, were much perplexed ; at last they bethought them of assembling half a dozen Crimean and Mexican amputes and starting them over a half-mile course equipped with the rival legs. The prize is stated to have been won by an invalide, both of whose natural legs had been taken off at the knee, who nevertheless went over the distance in nine minutes.  The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : " The gale wnich was raging on Monday morning in the Channel has taken an easterly direction, and this morning is in the Baltic. The barometer has fallen at St. Petersburg to 744 millimetres, and the wind there is strong from the On the coasts of the Channel a gale was blowing with great force from S.W., notably at Boulogne ; it was likewise strong at Havre and at Lorient. This new tempest has its centre in the North-West of Ireland. The barometer there has fallen to 730 millimetres at Greencastle. Foul weather is spreading over all Spain as far as Gibraltar. The sky is overcast and rainy over Western Europe, from Tarifa to Corunna, Brest, London, and Skudernoer."—ln Paris yesterday the weather was an alternation of rain and wind, S.W., with a temperature exceedingly mild for the time of year. At three in the afternoon the thermometer marked 12-5 Centigrade (54 1-2 Fahrenheit). _  An alarming incident occurred two days back on the Lyons railway, between the Joigny and Laroche stations, by the flooring of the carriage reserved for ladies taking fire from sparks from the locomotive. Fortunately signals made from the window were observed by the guard, and the train being stopped the occupants alighted. The guard then invited the male passengers to assist him in tilting the burning carriage over the embankment, but a sufficient number not having offered their aid, he was forced to attach it to the engine and take it on to the Laroche station.  A communication from Toulon states that the steam frigate Panama has received orders to remain in that port to carry back the Duke de Magenta to Algeria. It is thought that the marshal's family, who accompanied him to France, will pass the winter in Paris.  A fire broke out three nights back at Bagneresde-Bigorre, in the Place Lafayette, and two houses, one belonging to M. Lafforgue and the other to M. Courtade, were soon enveloped in flames. Dgring six hours the most energetic efforts were made by the fire brigade, assisted by the authorities and the whole population, to isolate the burning mass. The object was at last attained, but the two buildings