The Paris journals announce that General Donnadieu was arrested on
Sunday afternoon, in consequence of the rejection of his appeal, and conducted to the prison of Sainte Pelagie, without any previous notice. He is accused of plotting with the Carlists.
A Jew, named Joseph Abraham, who has attained the patriarchal age of one hundred and two, and his wife Rachel that of ninety-six, appeared on Saturday morning at the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to obtain an order for a maintenance from their son Isaac; who rissesses sufficient means, but having himself attained eighty years, has cJntracted the vice of old age—parsimony. The Court adjudged him to pay 40 francs a month for the support of his parents, and reminded him of the fifth commandment.
The wife of a wealthy grocer at Petit Montrottge was, two days ago, found dead on her bed, having destroyed herself by suffocation. She had previously dressed herself with the utmost care, in a rich robe of gros de Naples, a handsome bonnet trimmed with the finest ribands, and wearing her best silk stockings and shoes.
Not long ago, a gang of banditti, composed chiefly of Capuchin monks, was discovered in the kingdom of Naples. Four of them have been arrested near Venafro, and, notwithstanding the reclama. dons of the ecclesiastical authorities, the criminals have been tried by the civil tribunals, and condemned to be shot. The soldiers appear to have shown no repugnance on this occasion in carrying into execution the sentence of the law.
A young Englishman was lately found drowned in a reservoir near a chalet on Mont Tendre, one of the points of the Jura. His knap. sack was laid in the chalet ; and he bad probably gone to the reservoir to draw some water, and had fallen in. His watch, money, papers, and other effects, were sent to the British Ambassador at Berne. It has since been ascertained that his name was Henry Herbert, a medical student of London, aged twenty-five.
During the night of the 21st ultimo, some malefactors carried away a virgin, who for two hundred and twenty years had occupied a niche in the Rue St. Catherine, at Rheims. The statue was consi- dered a remarkably fine piece of sculpture, and no information has yet been obtained as to the authors of the theft, or their motives.
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