The Editors of the Courrier Francais and the Journal du
Commerce have been fined 500 francs each, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment, for having ex- pressed their approbation of the association formed in Brittany to resist the pay- ment of taxes.
In the French papers of Monday, allusion is made to a rumour prevalent at Havre that a revolt had broken out at Guadeloupe; but it is treated as very un- likely to be true. Martinique is stated, on the same authority, to have been visited by a hurricane.
A committee of the Tennessee House of Representatives have, in a report dated the 14th of October, recommended the impeachment of Nathaniel W. Williams, one of the Judges of the Courts of Law and Equity in that State, "for high. crimes and misdemeanours in office."
The New York papers tell of another series of murders perpetrated at Anticosti The place is supposed to be the resort of pirates. A family of the name of Gamache have been their victims on this occasion. The following is the state- mention the subject. " Carnache, who sailed front Quebec in his schooner, about four weeks ago, on his coming in sight of his post at Anticosti, saw a boat going out of it : he went in, secured his vessel, and went up to his house where he met the appalling sight of his wife and children massacred. After a ;hod delay he got his vessel ready, and sailed in chase of the boat he had seen ; but night coming on, and not seeing her next morning, he stood for Gaspe, where he hoped to get assistance and intercept her."
At an Maize Court held at Bourg about a fortnight ago, Josephine Bouvoir, a lady of rank, was found guilty of poisoning her father • and condemned to "be conducted to the place of execution en chemise, with naked feet, and with her head covered with a black veil—to be exposed upon the scaffold whilst an officer shall read the sentence to the people—to have her right hand cut off, and then to be immediately executed."
At the Court of Assize at Paris on the 28th November, three men, named Guerin, Chandelet, and Barden, all of whom had been convicts, and a woman, named Lahouille, who had been thrice convicted, were placed upon their trial for Situ murder of the uncle of Chandelet, named Berger, a rich and penurious man. These wretches obtained admission into Berger's house at night, cut his throat, and after feasting there, decamped with plate and other property. They were discovered and arrested ; upon which, Chandelet first, and afterwards the rest, confessed the crime each endeavouring, however, to shift from himself the odium of striking the fatal crime, In Court they mutually accused and gave each other the lie. The trial was adjourned, there being fifty witnesses. The interest it excites is prodigious : there were fifty ladies in Court.
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