The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-23

that Russian Count living in Paris who seems to have
been exempt from the operation Of the order which
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and the police yesterday paid him domciliary visit at
his residence at villa in the Rue Lafonaine, at Aneu
Although the commssary and his agents executed their
duty With due courtesy and forbesrance the Russian
became furious and threatened to kill the first who
should enter his apartments He atepgth secured
and after undergoing examination at the Prefectour
sent TO the prison Mazas.
Sir Hamilton Seymour is in Paris and since the days
q Abael hadr there has not been such another
lion.
At the theatres the great event Of the week has been
the benefit Of Mario Such is the favor enjoyed by this
unriyalied tenor that had the opera house been
twice its present size 1t would not have contained the
applicants for admission. The selection g Bar
bere,' and Mario never In better voice. His Alma
viva exhibited spirit gaiety and enkain which outdid
himself One thing the world is sure Of while Mario re
mains the stage the modern or vocferating school,
in which vulgar strength OF lungs stands in the place OF
art sweetness and dnish all that gives charm TO vocal
music, win find an unconquerable opponent.
Mdle Nan has left the Grand Opera and Is about to
proceed to America. She takes with her brill ant
The case of the poor Giraud now, as have said hap
PLY relieved from his perilouH durance has caused
general opening of purse strings and consi lerabe
daily being forwarded to Lyons for the benefit
of the sappers who courae exered
for his emancipation Such the stencil the dead
BODY which for ten DAYS had lain bes''" =
Of the sappers entering IT, after Grauds exricaton
ien down IN supor, from which he did not for
two hours
SomelIng timihT Occurreu IN 1000, AZ Cnamp Nert
also near Lyons. Workmen occupied In sinking q
well in that commune when they perceived that the
woodwork employed to keep the earth bent beneath
Its weight, and they Immediately ascen led. Dufavel,
however the contractor, determined TO go down and
anime the state OF things, and had scarcely reached
depth Of forty feet before the earth above him fell in
lie carried to the bottom which sixty two feet
from the surface, and his retreat cut off Tho woodwork
falling in, had made sort Of arch, which the soil
rested and in this tomb without air. and without light
he remained for fourteen days. supported by food
which was sent down to him. He was buried in sand
to his thighs and stood part of the woodwork the
maindcr of which, forming precarous arch above him,
seemed likely to fall upon and crush him at any moment
Those who let him down in the basket thought to
cue him by pulling the rope violently through the wood
work; but Dufavel observed that every movement
dsDgered the fall Of the whole He cut the rope,
and to this circumstance owed his ultimate release For
his companions percevng that the rope had been cut
concluded that the contractor must be alive and thus
works to exricate him by corps Of engineers set
on foot For thirty six hours he remained before hole
could be perforated through which food could be sent
him. His only companion and solace n large blue
bottle y who shared his meals, and broke by Its loud
buzng, the melancholy Stiffness Of his prison When,
at last hole large enough to admit light dug, he
suddenly drove back his head because he said he felt
codl This impression, he afterwards declared, was
painful than anything he had previously suffered