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wards strangled her, and then 

 driving his vehicle toAvards the 

 river, tlux-w the body of his vic- 

 tim in, after after having strip- 

 ped iier of all her jewels and 

 money, of which she had 300 du- 

 cats in gold, besides other money. 

 It appears that there was also a 

 young girl of his acquaintance in 

 tlic carriage, who was an accom- 

 plice, and whom the unfortunate 

 lady had treated wilii great kind- 

 ness, and had promised to take 

 into her service on her arriving 

 at Marseilles. Divine justice has 

 not permitted this horrible crime 

 to remain undiscovei'ed, for, ha- 

 ving perpetrated it, the wretch 

 directed his course to Paris, 

 where he arrived a few days since. 

 On arriving at the metropolis, 

 he drove to the house of a wheel- 

 wright in the rue Montholon, to 

 make some slight repairs to his 

 vehicle, at the same time desiring 

 him to keep two trunks until he 

 called for them, and particularly 

 requested him to send tlie coach 

 home on the following Sunday. 

 The police had obtained informa- 

 tion of this nmrder, and proper 

 measures were taken to secure 

 the villain, who lived in the rue 

 St. Martin, at the Petit St. Martin. 

 Last Sunday, wlien Martin, the 

 wheelwright, went to deliver the 

 carriage, he found a commissary 

 of police there, who informed 

 him of the arrest of Gosselet. On 

 this Martin made a declaiation of 

 the trimks Vvhicli liad been left in 

 his charge. Gosselet, on being 

 taken to the prefectiue of police, 

 cut his throat with a razor : the 

 wound is tiiought mortal. The 

 girl who was in tiie caniage is al- 

 so in the iiands of justice. 



Gottingen. — It is long since we 



have had duels here so frequent 

 and so obstinate as those that have 

 occurred during the last si.x. 

 months : they have cost the lives 

 of four students. This strange 

 abuse has revived with more fury 

 than ever, and there is no doubt 

 that.it originates in political opi- 

 nions. Of the four students who 

 fell in these duels, two natives of 

 Old Russia, that is, of the in- 

 terior of that empire, fought 

 against two Russians of the pro- 

 vinces situate on the Baltic. In 

 general, there is remarked a vio- 

 lent exasperation between the 

 students of those two parts of the 

 empire, but it is not known whe- 

 ther it has arisen here only, or 

 exists also in their native country. 



15. Two new spots appeared 

 on the left side of the disk of the 

 Sun. They were of less magni- 

 tude tlian the preceding, of which 

 no trace remained. On the 16th, 

 aboxit one o'clock, they had reach- 

 ed the centre of the Sun. They 

 are close to each other ; the one 

 to the left, a little lower than the 

 other, which is a little larger, 

 and considerably darker. They 

 are travelling with astonishing 

 rapidity to the right, and will 

 probably soon disappear. No 

 others have yet shown themselves. 



Lately the inhabitants of a 

 commune in the department of 

 the Moselle, in which a violent 

 storm had broken out, having 

 threatened the schoolmaster be- 

 cause he refused to ring the bells, 

 the latter, frightened at the ap- 

 proach of a new storm, thought 

 in order to reconcile himself to 

 the inhabitants, that he must 

 comply with their request ; but 

 he was near paying with his life 

 for his imprudence The stroke 



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