The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Times says in his
letter of yesterday (Tuesday) evening :—" The re-
ports in circulation this afternoon, cr rather repeated
for the third or fourth time, but for the correctness of
which it is impossible to vouch, turn on a reduction
of the army to the amount of 50,000 men, a compro-
mise of the Orleanist confiscation at the instance of
Fould, and the return of that gentleman to office,
and the abolition of the new Ministerial department
of General Police, and a consequent saving. I give
the rumours with all due hesitation as to the truth of
the greater part of them."
The Corps Legislatif met yesterday at two o'clock,
under the presidency of M. Billault. After the adop-
tion of the prods-verbal, the President observed that
the labours of the Assembly would shortly become
extremely important, and invited the Deputies to ab-
stain from demanding leave of absence, in order that
they might always be in number to deliberate. M.
Vernier next laid on the table the report on the Bill
relative to the repression of crimes and offences
committed abroad by Frenchmen. The report was
ordered to be printed and distributed, and the
discussion fixed for Friday. The next order of
the day was the discussion on the project for the
definitive settlement of the accounts of 1848. No
Member having asked to speak on the subject, the
different articles of the Bill were read by the Presi-
dent, and adopted without opposition. The ex-
penditures for that year were definitively fixed at
1,746,660,504 E M. Brohier moved, before the bal-
lot should commence, that the remarkable report of
committee charged with examining those accounts
should be inserted in the iTfoniteur. "It is neces-
sary," he said, " that France should know what re-
volutions and the fallacious promises of revolutionists
east; it will be a useful warning to the country."
The insertion was ordered by the Chamber, and the
Bill was subsequently adopted by 180 to 1. The
President next announced that, on Friday, the As-
sembly would hear the report on the accounts of
1849, and that, previous to the public sitting, it would
have to appoint a special committee to verify the ac-
counts of the Corps Leg islatif. The Chamber then
adjourned at three o'clock.
Letters from Marseilles, dated the day before yes-
terday, state that M. Joachim Murat, son of Prince
Lucien Murat, had arrived at that city on his return
from Florence to Paris. It is added that he is the
bearer of " important" diepatehes for the Govern-
ment. He had a long conference with M. Sylvain
Blot, Inspector-General of the Police Department at
Marseilles.

Letters from the same city announce that the
Louqsor entered that port the day previoug, having
his Highness Said-Pacha, hereditary Prince of
Egypt, on board. The Lougior had not entirely
complete its quarantine. Various causes are assigned
to the visit to France of Saiii-Pacha.

The Firebrand, English steamer of war, also ar-
rived at Marseilles the same day, proceeding from
Port Mahon, and bringing dispatches from Admiral
Dundas, Commander-in-Chief of the English squadron
in the Mediterranean, to the Government. The Fire-
brand will await at Marseilles the arrival of dispatches
from London, which she will take back to Mahon. It
is remarked that this is the second extraordinary
express within ten days which arrived at Marseilles
with dispatches from Admiral Dundas.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police is frequently
called upon to award damages for injuries inflicted
by dogs and other animals, for which the owners are
civilly responsible, but it is rather a novel thing for it
to be called on to do so in the case of a lobster. Such,
however, was the case on Saturday, when a dealer in
shellfish at the fish-market was summoned by a Mme.
GREBUCEIBT' who claimed 30f. damages for the in-
jury caused to her nose by one of the defendant's
lobsters. It appears that the plaintiff, wishing to re-
gale her husband with a tit-bit fur his dinner, went
to the market, and was bargaining for a lobster, which
she took up in her hand, but threw it down again,
saying it was not fresh. The dealer protested
that it was alive, but Mme. GRaBUCRET
asserted the contrary, and that it even
stunk. To satisfy herself that such was the
case, she a second time applied her nose to it, when
the lobster, as if in defence of its owner's veracity,
seiz,d bold of Mme. GREBUCHET'S proboscis with its
claw, and held it fast. She screamed for assistance,
but, instead of immediately giving it, the dealer and
her companions around bunt out into a laugh, and it
was some little time before the nose of the lady could
be released. The fishwoman in her defence main-
tained that she was not to blame, and that the mischief
was solely caused by the imprudence of Mme. GRE-
BUCLIET, in applying her nose so close to the lobster's
claw, when she had been told that it was alive; and
the Tribunal taking the same view of the case, the
complaint was dismissed, and the plaintiff ordered to
pay the costs.