The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

The reports from the wine-
that the appear

aliwz departments state
ice of the vines is favourable in the south-
from Nantes to Cette. Complaints are
Rhone, from Lyons to Mar-
are diseased.

west of Fran
beard on the banks of the

hat the grape:

It is said that three fourths of the potato crop are
destroyed in Alsace and in French Flanders. The disease
Has attacked the fields in the neighbourhood of Paris, but
as yet the injury is not serion. Within the last few days
it has appeared in the departments of the Marne, the
Cate d'Or, and the Vaucluse. It is spreading in the
Manche, and fields which eight days since had a healthy
appearance are now quite black.

—Some sensation was caused at
_ by the statement that a shoemaker
ie Tahoury had won the grand prize of 100,000
francs in the Lyons lottery. immediately all his friends
end acquaintances, together with many persons whom he
scarcely knew, hastened to congratulate him, and specu-
lations were made as to what he would do with his fortune.
He was earnestly solicited not to leave the town, and was
Sumptuously entertained at the cafe. The day after he
quietly informed his friends that he had not gained the
prize, but had hoaxed them, in order to receive during
twenty•four hours the homage paid to wealth.
A female of fashionable appearance, calling herself
Madame de V—, hired an apartment a short time since
In the ChausseJ d'Antin, and received numerous visits of
females, von

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g girls, and wealthy young foreigners. Some
English and German families having complained to the
police of the goings on of their sons with the women, a
search was made in her house at midnight on Tuesday. A
number of loretits, actresses, women of the circus, and
young girls under age, were found in company with many
young men, almost all of whom were Germans, English,
or Egyptian. The party were engaged in gambling, and
the whole of them were arrested. The young men who had
been demanded by their families were given up to them ;
the others were dismissed with a lecture ; and Madame de

nd her accomplices were Beta

cl to be prosecuted

by the proeureur of the republic

—Galignani

and romantic history is afloat in Paris. An
English baronet, Sir D-, fell in love with a beautiful
Spanish girl who was there with a party of mountebanks.
She rejected all offers but marriage, and he married her.
So much for the first part of the story. A Spanish
grandee, who had left Barcelona in 1831, and was sepa-
rated from his wife and child in consequence of political
affairs, entered the Foreign Legion of France, and served
in Algeria. On returning to France, lie could obtain no
s daughter, but learnt the death of bis wife.
marriage, and, from circumstances,
utiful Juanita his long-lost daughter,
search for her father, who, it
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