The Sun. — 1866-02-01 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening.  The Moniteur to-day publishes some of the long despatches between France and the United States upon the subject of Mexico, but I do not see in them any important fact which is not already known.  The following is all that the Moniteur contains in regard to Spain. In the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona the insurgents have almost entirely disappeared. There was no longer any doubt in Catalonia that in a few days the country will be entirely tranquil. The Siecle says, in reference to the most recent of these despatches :—" The French Government is actuated by the same sympathies as the Government of the United States. It establishes a distinction between the right of war which it has adopted, and the principle of intervention, for which it professes the same doctrine as the United States. W ithout ambition, without any other thought than that of protecting French interests, France will recall the _expeditionary corps as soon as it can with dignity for herself and safety for the people." The yellowboa, containing the documents in question, coneists of 226 pages. The documents amount to 120. A woman of 32 years, named Jeanne Leveque, has been tried before the Court of Assize, at Nantes, for the murder and mutilation of a male child to which she gave birth. It was proved that she boiled the body in some soap suds, and then cut it into small pieces, thrusting them into a barrel of vinegar. She admitted the fact of having given birth to the child, and, indeed, indicated the spot where the mutilated remains were found. She, however, persisted that the child was dead when born. Various experiments were made with the remains by medical men with the view, if possible, to ascertain whether the child had ever breathed. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but with " extenuating circumstances," and she was sentenced to hard labour for 20 years. I cannot ascertain from the evidence one single extenuating circumstance, but French juries are very clever in discovering them. Perhaps one extenuating circumstance was that the woman endeavoured to preserve at least a portion of the child by putting it into vinegar.  M. L. Reveliene, formerly a deputy for the Loire Inferieure, and one of the editors of the Univers, has just died at Paris in his 91st year.  A young actress, Blanche S , has committed suicide, not exactly for love, but for money, at least that was her explanation, for she left upon the table a piece of paper on which was written, " I poison myself because my lover cannot keep me any longer." She was the mistress of a gentleman who told her the other day that in consequence of reverses he could not afford to give her so much as he had done. Blanche passed Sunday night with her lover, and partdok of supper, as it is stated, with a very good appetite, but in the course of the night he was awoke by her groans, when she soon expired. She had swallowed a large dose of mercury (corrosive sublimate), and died in great agony. While the doctor who was called in was attending to his patient the gentleman inflicted a serious wound upon himself with a knife which was on the supper-table. In addition to the blue and yellow books, two other important documents have been presented to the Chamber of Deputies—the project of law for the supplementary credits of 1866. These documents were—the ordinary budget, 8,531,183 f. ; extraordinary budget, 76,276,005 f. It is stated that the iron-clad frigate the lluescard, built in England for the Peruvian Government, and which recently sailed from Plymouth for Brest, is to be detained in the latter port until the differences between Spain and Peru are settled, of which there now appears to be some prospect. There were some incidents in the career of the late Prefect of Police (Gisquet) which I think will interest your readers. lie was born of poor and  obscure parents at Vezin, in the department of Moselle, in 1792. His father was a Custom-house officer. At the age of sixteen M. Gisquet entered the well-known house of the Brothers Perrier as a clerk, and soon obtained the entire confidence of the head of the firm, M. Cashnir Perrier. Casimir Perrier became a Minister, and was so esteemed in France that his funeral, in 1832, was the most gorgeous and imposing ceremony of modirn times. Gisquet, from a poor banker's clerk, at a salary of £24 a year, became himself an influential banker, and on the 14th October, 1831, was appointed Prefect of Police under Louis Philippe. Ile was then 39. Gisquet's administration of the Police Department was marked by despotism, and the most arbitrary regulations. There were police spies everywhere. Perhaps the system he adopted was so odious in the eyes of the Parisians that his measures had the basis of that unpopularity which ultimately drove Louis Philippe from the Throne. It is only just to say, however, that his agents were very clever in detecting crime. When the great robbery of gold and silver medals and other valuables took place at the Royal Library in 1831 he soon discovered the thieves. The principal one was a man named Fossard, an escaped convict. One of his accomplices was an elegant and fashionable lady, who lived in great style upon the produce of stolen property. A great quantity of the gold and silver medals was melted into ingots and the rest were thrown into the Seine. Under the immediate superintendence of M. Gisquet they were fished up near the Pont de la Tourrelle. They comprised some valuable numismatics, including the seal of Louis XI., the silver shield of Hannibal, and the medals of Antiochus. M. Gisquet took very severe measures against the St. Simonians, and forcibly dispersed a meeting, at which their head, the father Enfanten, presided. The father soon after left France for the East with a large number of followers. M. de Chateaubriand was imprisoned by order of M. Gisquet in consequence of his participation in the well-known affair of the Duchess de Berri. During his administration an impostor who pretended to be a Dauphin of France, was arrested. He called himself Baron de Richemont, but his real name was Louis Hector Hebert. Before the Court of Assize Hebert persisted that he was Louis