The Sun. — 1841-12-09 (London, England)

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.  A few days ago a slater, named Mary, residing at Milli (Seine-Ft-Oise), having scolded his son, a boy of 14, for not going to his work, the lad sent out his sister to buy some string, quietly sitting down to eat some dried plums during her absence, and when she had returned went into a garret, the door of which he bolted, and, knocking a nail into the wall, fixed the string to it, and round his neck, and hanged himself. The mother, having been told by her daughter that the boy was in the garret, called to him, and, receiving no answer, burst open the door. He was by this time quite dead. A Vienna letter says that the reductions in the Austrian army will be carried to such an extent that 30,000 horses will be able to be offered for sale, and the Government has decided that the sum arising from this source shall be devoted to works of public utility, especially railroads. The contractors for several lines, it adds, had been forced to ask assistance from the State, and the Government had promised to grant it. The Marquis de St. Aulaire, Secretary of Legation at Vienna, has arrived in Paris with dispatches. Captain Leray, who recently commanded the French squadron stationed off Tunis, has been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, a vacancy in the staff having been occasioned by the removal of Rear-Admiral Martineng to the Ist section, or the reserve.  The Gazette de France says—" The residence of the Duke de Broglie, who returned to Paris a few days since, is encumbered with visitors from morning till night. Most of them are candidates for the Ministry. The Duke of Orleans visited M. de Broglie, and had a long conference with him. M. de Broglie has already paid several visits to the Tuilleries."  M. Martin, a notary, residing at Hornoy, in the Somme, three days since committed suicide by discharging a musket into his mouth, after having unsuccessfully tried several (Akar modes of self-destruction. He was only 25 years of ag, and, as the state of his affairs is not yet known, many persons who had placed confidence in him are under great alarm. The police of Hamburgh has discovered a band of more than 200 thieves, all men, employed in the warehouses of merchants dealing in colonial produce. They have been in the habit of carrying away only small portions of goods at a time, and giving them to a man, formerly a merchant's clerk, who disposed of them. At the residence of this person immense quantities of these goods have been found, with a book, in which are regular entries to the account of each thief.  A money-changer, named Davanne, of the Passage des Panoramas, who has been declared a bankrupt, has just been sentenced by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to three months' imprisonment. It was proved before the Tribunal that the personal and household expenses of M. Davanne were excessive, that his bopks were badly kept, and that, at the moment of his failure, they could not offer any exact account of his situation. We find the following in the Memorial Bordelais : "When we announced the failure of the house of A. Balguerie and Co., we were far from expecting that the Parts Journals ..would mention the catastrophe accompanied by assertions altogether incorrect, and which, had they had any local information, they would have avoided. For example, they have stated that this house was at the head of the undertakings of the bridge at Cubzac, and the Teste Railroad. It is, on the contrary, notorious at Bordeaux, that the house has never had any connection with the above-mentioned grand concerns, and never exercised the least influence over them. We are happy in informing our colleagues of the capital that the respectable commercial houses wbo have been, and still are at the head of these two great undertakings, are now in possession of all the esteem and consideration in which they have ever been held." A