The Sun. — 1842-02-02 (London, England)

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. A few days ago, a young man of Briey, in the Moselle, was informed that a wolf had made his appearance in the neighbourhood of the village. He immediately loaded his gun with ball, and went in search of the animal. It was towards nightfall, and seeing something move among the bushes in a likely spot for the Ivolt7 he fired. The ball .took effect in the body of his own father, who happened to be at that very spot,- setting a trap for a fox, and his life is said to be in immediate danger. Mme. de Puymontant was, a few days ago, burnt to death at the chateau of her husband, near Cintegabelle, in the Haute Garonne, by her dress having caught fire from her approaching too near the hearth. She was alone when the horrible accident happened, and it was not discovered till she had become a corpse. The Toulouse papers state that all the Spaniards who stopped the Bordeaux mail, a few days since, have been arrested. They prove to be part of the men employed on the works of the canal near the former place. On Friday last, a young woman genteelly dressed applied to the keeper of the Tower of the Cathedral, at Rouen, for permission to go up. Observing that she was much agitated, the man determined to watch her, and twice saved her from effecting an attempt to throw herself over the battlements. He induced her to return into the nave of the Cathedral, where she sunk on her knees in great distress. The keeper sent for a commissary of police, and being interrogated by him and the Procureur du Roi' she confessed that she came from Paris ; that having been promised marriage by a young man to whom she was warmly attached, and learning that he had married another, despair had driven her to a resolution to destroy herself. The kind remonstrances of the Magistrate induced her to make them a solemn promise that she would relinquish her intention.  The Journal Iu Loiret relates that, Serein, the murderer of the two children near Orleans, made, a few hours before his execution, confessions to several persons which put an end to all doubt as to the fate of his vic!-tims. He acknowledged that he was the murderer of his own nice, eight years ago, on the very day on which she received her first communion, and who was found on the following day strangled in a field. He is also said to have admitted that he carried off a little girl from a fauhourg of Orleans some years ago and, after having violated her person, threw her at midnight over the bridge at Orleans into the Loire, His body has been dissected. The hinder portion of the brain said by phrenologists to indicate the animal passions, is said to be unusually large. The Hermime states that the brig Ceres has been sunk, by striking on a rock at St. Nizaire. She was laden with sugar, part of which was saved, but the loss is estimated at 600,000 f. A sailor who was asleep in his cabin was drowned,  Of sixty-nine fires in the,departrnent of the Aisne, lir 1841 (says the Quotidienne)tforty-sevenrare said• to have been the work of incendiaries,, but only seven persons have been brought to trial on a charge of arson, of whom 'six were condemned, and one acquitted. M. Duval, an inhabitant of Gancourt, in the SeineInferieure, a few days ago committed suicide, after having murdered his wife, lie was nearly sixty years of age, enjoyed a fortune sufficient to place him at his ease, was without children, and was believed to live happily with his wife, who was about fifty. His friends are lost in conjecture as to the cause of the catastrophe. The captain of a merchant vessel, recently arrived at Havre from Port au Prince, reports that he fell in with three schooners, believed to be pirates, off St. Domingo, on the 15th ult. They sailed round his ship, and appeared inclined to stop her, but ultimately they made off. The Toulonnais states that, from the Ist of the next month, there will he a mail for Algeria six times per month, viz. the 10th, 20th, and 30th of each month from Toulon, and the sth, 15th, and 25th from Marseilles. There will also be six arrivals monthly, but the days of departure from Algeria are not stated. One, of those perambulating dealers who infest the public places with their stalls, selling trinkets of base metal and false stones, which they pretend are gold and jewels, and on which they put an imitation of the Government stamp, was arrested two days ago kt his lodgings in the Hue Notre Dame de Nazareth, and a considerable quantity of these articles, with the tools and materials for manufacturing them, were seized: A few days ago a porson named Chamblin, who resided at Corbeil, mid who was formerly a sergeant in the 60th regiment of the line, was found murdered in his honae, with a carving knife, which had been used by the murderer, lying by the side of the body. It appears that the neighbours had been disturbed by a noise in the house of Chamblin, at about one o'clock in 'the morning, and from the appearance of the place, a severe struggle had taken place between the murderer and his victim, who was generally supposed to be in possession of a con, siderable surf of money. Suspicion has fallen upon a person Allq had been seen to call on Chamblin, belt who W4S a stranger to the place. The ordinary tranquillity of the Faitbourg St. Germain was disturbed three days ago by a violent conflict between two classes of journeymen carpenters, called Compagnons and Gavots, who, after beginning their quarrel at the Barriere de Mont Parnasse, came to biowa in the Rues de Vaugirard and Notre Dame des Champs. They mustered about 60 combatants, and could not be separated until a party of 20 soldiers and a squadron of Municipal Canards oame and seized the ringleaders and cli the rest. There were many wounded, but all except two were carried off by their ftienda, Yesterday morning, a family at La Villette dismissed their female servant for getting drunk and being insolent ; and, in order that they might be immediately quit