LXXVIII. On nous écrit de Janina
LXXVIII. A Correspondent Writes from Janina
Algeria, the Punjab, and Queen Victoria's visit to Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dominate this issue.
- A Moroccan prince, Mohamed-Ben-Serrour, sent by the Emperor of Morocco to King Louis-Philippe, arrived in Marseilles aboard the packet-boat Pharamond from Algiers.
- In the Punjab, the regent Jawahir Singh arranged an ambush of roughly 200 armed men against Gulab Singh; the would-be assassin's ringleader poisoned himself and died, implicating the minister.
- At the Gotha shooting-festival, Queen Victoria, the King and Queen of the Belgians, and a grand-duchess of Russia watched a procession of nearly 2,000 Thuringian peasants parade past the royal tribune for over an hour.
- A Copenhagen blacksmith, hauled from his bed by six soldiers and marched to church to wed a pregnant milliner he had abandoned, cried 'Stop! I consent to pay damages!' at the altar — and ultimately signed a bond for 11,500 francs.
- In Nantes, a six-year-old girl left sleeping near a caged eagle at a travelling fair had her legs savaged by the bird before anyone could hear her cries above the fairground noise.
- Léon Halévy's verse translation of masterpieces by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, La Grèce Tragique, two years in the making, is to be published on 15 September.
- Economist Michel Chevalier reviews two new books on urban water supply, noting that Marseille's Durance canal will deliver 500 million litres a day — dwarfing Rome's supply — while New York's Croton Aqueduct is costing 64 million francs.
- An observer in Sedan mistook Saturn and its rings for a blazing grenade surrounded by seven or eight revolving satellites shining in the south-east sky on the evening of 27 August.