The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

DANGER OF SLEEPING TOO SOUNDLY.—Two passen-
gers for Lille, on affairs of importance, left Paris three
nights back, by the Northern Railway. They happened
to be asleep when the train arrived at Lille, and did not
awake until they reached Calais. They were there obliged
to order an express train for Lille at a cost of 1800 f.
LOLA MONTES A QUEEN.—The very last piece of gossip
from the brilliant but jetty court of the King of Hayti is,
that the Emperor has already sanctioned the sending of
an embassy to Lola Mentes, to solicit her hand for the
Prince Bobo, whom she heretofore rejected. Preparations
are being made on a grand scale, so that Lola will once
more have the chance of playing her favourite part in the
character of queen.
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THE EMPEROR OF Russtia had a narrow escape on
returning home across the Polish frontier. The special '
train conveying the Czar and Prince Frederick Charles of
Prussia sprang off the rails near Czenstochau, in Poland, ,
but fortunately without producing any other misfortune
than damage to one or two baggage waggons. Neither
the Emperor nor the Prince received the slightest injury,
and were enabled to continue their journey so soon as the
machines and carriages could be righted.
THE PERILS OF BALLOONING.—Mr. Green, jun., made
a balloon ascent from Frankfort on the 28th ult. After
rising a considerable height, and remaining some time
over the town, he saw a storm approaching, and resolved
to descend in a field. When the cords which he threw
out reached the earth, a number of peasants seized them
and pulled at them violently. They then seized the hoops
and lower part of the balloon. This rendered it impossi-
ble for Mr. Green to open the valves, and the consequence
was that the balloon burst with a loud explosion. The
peasantry immediately tore the balloon to pieces, and
divided the pieces among themselves. Five of the peasants
were arrested, but Mr. Green demands an indemnity of
7,000 florins (about 17,000 f.)
SINGULAR LAW-SUIT AT PARIS.—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 shell fish, at the fishmarket, was sum-
moned by a Madame Grebuchet, who claimed 30 francs
damages for the injury caused to her nose by one of the
defendant's lobsters. It appears that the plaintiff, wish-
, iThr to regale her husband with a tit-bit for his dinner,
went to the market, and was bargaining for a lobster,
which she took up, but threw it down again, saving it was
not fresh. The dealer protested that it was alive, but
Madame Grebuchet 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, seized hold of
Madame Grebuchet's proboscis with its claw, and held it
fast. She screamed for assistance, but instead of imme-
diately giving it, the dealer and her companions around
burst out into a laugh, and it was some little time before
the nose of the lady could be released. The fishwoman,
in her defence, maintained that she was not to blame, and
that the mischief was solely caused by the imprudence of
Madame Grebuchet, 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.—Galignani's 11,reasswyer.