The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-05-19 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PAR/S.—The trial In Paris of a soldier named Chretien, for the murder of a peaceful citizen who was taking his constitutional walk in the garden of the Luxembourg one fine evening in August last, has ended in a verdict of ham ieide pzr imprudence, and a sentence of two years' imprisonment and 600 f. fine. The case called for the medical rather than the judicial opinion of the jury. The soldier had been on the sick list for two days before the commission of the crime, and confined in the hospital, whence he had escaped, and wandered for ti hours about Paris, evidently in a state of high delirium and fever, of which no single feature can be recalled to his mind. He remembers only that he was pursued by a troop of mad dogs seeking to devour him, that he stabbed one o them with his knife, that a short time before a beautiful lady whom he had taken for the Virgin Mary, had appeared to him, and that he had knelt to her, and laid at her feet all the money his pockets c mtained, but beyond this his memory of the events of that day is a complete blank. The circumstance of his having excited himself with brandy cause the apparent severity of the verdict. A doubt remains whether the crime was not committed under its influence. and not wholly under that of madness; and although he has been ever since under medical treatment, no order for his fatnre confinement was made out, the doctor having declared the disease under which he was labouring at the moment of the commissi ,n of the murder might not return if due attention were paid to his health.  Funs IN Tian Eadt.—A French medical journal contains the following extremely marinas account s A 1 cksmith, aged 52, haring been treated at the Hopital Beanjon Dm a dislocation. has been seat to the Asa& de Vincennes for his coioplete recovery. A few days before leaving that establishment, he felt an if • tly had got into his left ear. He took a Incifer match, and tried to get out the intruder with it, but not RlCceecting, and the pain having subsided, he took no more notice of it Three dare Later, being at St. Onem, he experienced a pain in his ear, which prevented him from =leeping, and on the following day he went to Dr. Jar' way's consultation. Here. upon examination, two small larva, like :Mom which are met with in .1,-Aci bodies, wire foond in his ear. The patient complained of were violent pain in that organ, and all along, line, which. beginning from the middle of the forehead, followed the eyebrow' and, croeleng the temple, ended behind the mastoid apophris. He ban cramps and a tingling sensation in the arm, tits of trembling. sickness, &rd. On visiting him in the evening, Dr. Jar j tray poured a few drops of ether into his ear. This caused great pain at first. but soon after it produced consideroble relief, and during the night upwards of WO lore* fell out of the ear on the man's pillow. On the following morning the doctor perceived some large larvat of musca carmaria at the bottom of the meatus anditorius. Dr. Jarjayay got a few out with a proper instrument, then made some injections which brought out fifteen more. and in the evening poured a drop of ether into the ear. wheretty three more were got rid of. On the day after, no more larvic were visible, but the tympanum was discovered to be perforated. The ease was now treated with injections of mallows and emollient poultices, and three days Later the patient left the hospital perfectly recover-ed." ' LTSCH LiFf OF