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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 9.

REFORMERS throughout the country have their
eyes turned at present with expectation and interest
towards Manchester. As the day approaches, the de-
sire to learn the tenor of the declarations to be
emitted there at the great meeting of Wednesday
begins to be tinged with impatience. It was at a
public banquet is Manchester, some ten years ago,
that the elements out of which the anti-corn-law
' league was formed, first drew nigh to each other and
began to assume an organic form. Manchester was
the seat of the bold, judicious, energetic council which
animated and :directed that great movement. It is
natural that the general reform interest should
be anxious to learn what course the men of Man-
chester intend to pursue at the present crisis.
There is one topic upon which no one doubts that
their declaration will be pithy and explicit. The
farther reform of the representation is a question
which Manchester has taken up as more especially its
own. To-morrow's meeting will assuredly promul-
gate some stirring appeal in behalf of a re-construc-
tion of the representative branch of the legislature
upon the principles involved in Mr. Hums's motion
of last session. The public will learn from it something
of the efforts making, of the state and prospects of the
agitation for • purified House of Commons, and will
thus be enabled to lend its assistance effectively to
any movement contemplated in the course of the
appronching session.
It is impossible, in agatheting of liberal politicians
who are the leading spirits in all these manufacturing

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY

oommtinities of which Manchester is the centre and
capital, that the cause of free trade should be pored
over in silence. But the festive' of free-traders,
wkich is announced to take place on the 81st, in cele-
bration of the final repeal of the corn-laws, offering an
opportunity for the interchange ,f sentiments on that
subject, full consultation regarding it will probably
be deferred till then.
The topic on which reformers at a distance are
at present most eager to learn the opinions and inten-
tions of Manchester is the financial movement
which has been so ably and successfully
inaugurated in Liverpool. The labours of the
Financial Reform Association have been cha-
racterised by that ability, and still mote, by that
earnest:Ass of purpose which always deserves, and
generally o.:rnmands, sum o. And its appeals hive
armly responded to throughout the nation.
The desire to see such a niovemt nt commenced was
universally diffused, and everywitere individual voices
have been raised to thank and encourage Mr. Roemer-
sow CilLararrosa and r. is colleagues. The old and
tried refor:r era of Westminster are preparing to bring
their forces into :he field to aid them. Elinburgh,
through its Financial Reform Avociation has spoken
out with a decision and promptitude which may have
surprised the few who still cherish the attiquated pre-
judice respecting Scotch excess of caution. And the
meeting held a few days ago in the Wiltshire
Bradford in honour of Mr. ROEBUCK is important,
not merely on account of the characteristic frankness
and decision with which he declared for "repeating
the figures of 1835." Bradford was a flourishing seat
of manufactures long before the system which has
grown to such colossal magnitude in the north of
England began to exist. The manufacturers of North
Wiltshire, imbedded as it were among an agricultural
population, and still retaining some of the impress of
old times, have a character of their own ; and it is gra-
tifying to observe in the enthusiasm with which they re-
ceived Mr. Roentica's declaration a proof of the entire
sympathy between this valuable portion of old English
public opinion and the merchant princes of Liverpool
on the one hind, and the men of " modern Athens" on
the other. At a time when in so many distant and di-
versified provinces the cry for financial reform is
rising and gathering into one combined and imposing
sound, it is natural that men should be eagerly listen-
ing_to hear what part Manchester intends to take.
Not that much or indeed any doubt prevails on this
score. The most prominent Manchester leader has
already announced his views pretty explicitly ; and
from the accordance between his opinions and those
entertained by his liberal fellow-townsmen that has
uniformly been found to exist, his budget has been
received as an exponent of the wishes of MaLchester.
A confident expectation prevails that on Wednesday
next the opinion of that great manufacturing empo-
rium will be unequivocally expressed in favour of re-
turning to the scale of national expenditure ..hich
was found sufficient in 1835.

The adhesion of Manchester will go far to decide
the question. Liverpool and Manchester combined
fairly represent the sentiments of the central districts
of the island ; Westminster and North Wiltshire
those of the south, and Edinburgh those of the north.
The advocates of an effeci ive reduction of national expen-
diture in parliament will be able to speak next session
with the confidence of men who have the nation to back
them. The measure of financial reform which is de-
manded is one which cannot be called impracticable;
for what has been done once can be done again. It is
distinct and plait], leaving no opportunity for the in-
sincere to run with the hare and hold with the
hounds. They must give a simple aye or no to the
question submitted to them. They cannot profess
great zeal for a vagce general principle, and then
hedge off on details. One great secret of the success
of the anti-corn law league was its dogged adherence
to the simple question—corn law, or no corn law ? Had
it entertained the insidious overtures frequently made
to accept of modifications or partial alleviations of the
corn law, its adherents would have been split up into
a thousand petty section', each obstinately insisting
upon the adoption of its own pet plan. But the de-
claratiun, " total, immediate, unconditional repeal,"
was a bond of union, just as " the bill,
the whole bill, and nothing but the bill,"
had ben in the reform agitation. The same advan-
tage will be gained by a resolute, uncompromising
perseverance in the simple call for a return to the
scale of expenditure adopted in 1833. If financial
reformers adhere pertinaciously to this demand unit
it is granted, their insidious opponents will in vain
endeavour to weaken by introducing dissensions and
disunion,' among them.

GEOGRAPHERS record and travellers relate those ,1
strange instances of a rapid river disappearing alto- ,1
gether underground, in order to rise to the surface at
a considerable distance and pursue its in
pearance interrupted course. Hungary offers a
moral similitude to this phenomenon. The great
stream of liberal ideas and religions freedom in
Europe has ever met an insurmountable barrier on
the frontier of Austria, and in traversing
that empire has been obliged to work its way
altogether underground. In Hungary, however, the I
stream completely reappeared with all force:free-
dom, and peculiar characteristics. Representative
government, religious freedom, liberal education, and
a does sympathy with the ideas and the progress of
the west prevailed in Hungary, whilst the monotonous
night of the darkest ages reigned all around it. For
this the Hungarians were indebted to their national
independence, their federal system of administration,
and their free Diets.

We abstain from diving into history, though all
we could find there would enhance our respect for
Hungary aad our admiration of its national spirit.
Suffice it, that all through the revolutionary war the
monarchs of Austria were compelled to respect its in-
dependence, and to summon its I)ic Is, although the
sole votes of those troubloas times were votes of men
and money for the defence of the Austrian empire.
With 1815 ceased all excuses for extraordinary de-
mands of money ; and Prince Merrennicir in conse-
quence, like another STRAFFORD, dispensed with the
Hungarian Diets altogether. Tea years later, in
1825, the affairs of Italy requiring the march of
Austrian armies, funds became requisite and a
Hungarian Diet was then summoned. It behaved
like the parliaments of our CHARLF.SES, insisted on its
liberties and rights, and the Austrian government
was compelled to yield. The Diet of 1825 com-
menced the liberal struggle, not merely against the
Austrians, but against the aristocracy at home. The
Diet of 1832 renewed it, and it was then that LOUIS
KOSSUTH appeared, as the editor of a journal, not
printed, but copied with the pen, in order to escape
the censorship, and circulated by the federal officers of
the comilat to avoid being strangled at the
post-office : he was thing into a dungeon by the order
of METTERNICH. WESSELENHT, a more veteran
patriot, was accused of high treason, a charge which
unsubstantiated or even explained, still procured his
condemnation also to prison, in which he became
blind. But the patriotic struggle continued not the
less in the Diet of 1843, and recommenced as fiercely
as ever in 1847.

Nothing can be more erroneous than to consider the
liberal efforts of the Hungarians as an imitation of
French or German frowardness. The constitutional
straggle at Pesth was in fall beat at the commence-
ment of 1848, long before there was a movement in
any part of Europe. The revolutions of February and
March produced no turbulence at Pesth ;their only e ffect
was to destroy the government at Vienna, and
render the appointment of a Hungarian Palatine and
a Hungarian ministry unavoidable. It wu for the
interest of the Emperor and the House of Austria that
this should have been done.

At a later period the effervescence which prevailed
over Europe, and at several constituent assemblies,
certainly aroused the Hungarian Diet to more liberal
measures. Bat these were always a development of
the Hungarian constitution, rather than animporta-
tion of foreign or ultra-democratic ideas. Reform,
parliamentary and electoral, was voted ; but to what
extent? Every person who possessed eight acres of
•laad (a quarter session) was declared to have a vote.
Wu this too near an approach to univerail suffrage ?
As to the composition of the ministry, Loots
BATRYANI was President of the Council, Prince Re-
nt/MAZY minister of foreign affairs.
What could the Court of Vienna demand more ?
We repeat, that all that was done by the Hungarians
and the Diet at Pesth was in favour of the Em-
peror, his dynasty and his authority ; and that the
true policy of the Emperor would have been to
have kept faith and friendship with the Mange-
' Hans and the Austrian Germans as the truest
support of his throne. The Emperor himself, feeble
is was his intellect, desired to do this. Such was his
impulse and desire. Bat the Archduke Loots, the
Archduke Mainuntx, and the Archduchess BormA,

G. JANUARY 9, 1849.

4il tilting what is called the Camara* thought
wise. The Illyrian', a Croatian party in Hun-
was always one of their instruments, and they
i ow patronised it, and placed Jontacslcs at its head.
Thus was the poor Emperor one moment under the
inflame of the Archduke JOHN or Prince Enna
HAZY, ready to act fairly towards the Hungarians, the
neat laid hold of by the Cement's, supporting
JELLACHICIIi and supplying him with the menus and
authority for civil war. Even at Inuspruck, when he
was quite free from democratic dictation or fear of
the Viennese, he issued a decree against Int...tem;
and assured leHungarian deputation that he was sin-
cere in supporting the Palatine and the Diet. The Hun-
garian deputation had not left the imperial presence five
minutes, when a person put in their hands the Agram
paper, in which a letter from the Emperor to 'ELLA-
mita' was published, encouraging and appointing
him to full power. At the sight of such contradiction
and treachery, of which that poor monarch was
made:the instrument, Prince ESTERHAZY reigned.
Archduke JOHN made a last effort to reconcile the
Emperor and the Hungarians. He roposed an in-
terview between ESTEHRAZT and JELLACHICH, in
which the latter was bidden to state his complaints.
But he had literally none. His aim was civil war, and
the erection of himself into the Palatine's place as
lord of Hungary. He therefore insisted that there
should be no Hungarian ministers, but that the
Viennese ministers should administer the affairs of
Hungary. The proposal was mere insolence and
ignorance. The affairs of Hungary have at all
times been managed independently of any Viennese
minister. They were managed by an Hungarian
chancellor, resident at Vienna; and by the new ar-
rangement the Hungarian Miniaterof Foreign Affairs,
FATERHAZY, was to reside atVienna and be the channel
of

The objection of JELLACUICH was
front ignorance, whilst his denial of the right of
Hungary to have a finance minister, at a time, too,
when the finance minister of Austria was under con-
trol of the Viennese Assembly, was to subject the
fiscal affairs of Hungary to the influence of the
Austrian deputies. The pretensions of JELLAcnicEt
were ludicrously absurd. Prince EsvEnus2v could
but laugh at them. But the Archduke saw front the
interview that the Camarilla was bent upon war.
Unfortunately for his own honour, and his own
fate, Count Lamm, the Austrian Minister of War,
made himself also the tool of the Camarida. He was
false to the Emperor, false to the Austrian Diet, and
false to the IlungariaLs, all of whom he duped,
and lied to conceal the treachery with which
he conveyed stores and money to JELLS-
anaI for the purposes of civil war. Never
was man guilty of more gross treachery than
the minister LATOUR. His assassination was criminal,
and was, moreover, as fatal and prejudicial to the
patty that perpetrated it, as such crimes ever are.
But never did a criminal ascend a scaffold having
more merited his fate than Count LATOUR.

His infamous conduct produced the insurrection
of Vienna, as well as the final rapture between
the Cu. rt and Hungarians, who indeed could not pos-
sibly do other than what they did. They were in their
full right when they offered to the Ban of CROATIA
a rcaistame which the Arch•:uke Paltvine sanctioned.
The unfortunate Count LAMBERT was sent to Pesth
on the supposition that JELLACRICII was victorious,
and that be, LAMBERT, would be useful as a mediator.
But Jeuacatai was beaten, and the presence and
pretensions of LAMBERT utterly illegal and unwar-
ranted, unfortunately provoked a crime of the same
kind as that which stained the liberal cans() at Vienna.

With the exception of this crime, and of the
kindred severity against some Austrian prisoners of
noble birth, whom the cowardice of JELLACHICII aban-
doned to their late, we do nut see what course the
Hungarians or Louts Kossura could have followed,
other than that which they did pursue. Most certainly
their acts and their present resistance are ap-
proved by the greet body of the Ilungarian
nation, with the exception of half-a dozen noble
absentees and employes of the court. Neither
the Archduke Palatine nor the ESTE/111AM
abandoned their cause in disgust. or if they felt dis-
gust, it was decidedly against the conduct of the court.
In the Hungarian ranks at present are to be found
the flower of their noblesse, tne BATIIYANIS, the
KAROLYS, the TELEKIS. It is a national war in
which the Hungarians may be crushed for a time,
but in which, however we fear th• it defeat, we deny
to the victors the power of pe,maneutly subjugating
a foe far superior to Austria in vitality and strength.

Those of our readers who have followed the course
of our article a on Church Reform, will recollect that
on the decease of the late Dr. WELLESLEY, the lector
of the great parish of Bishop Wearmouth, we pro-
posed that the measures to be thereon taken by the
Bishop of DIMAS' should be accepted as a test of
episcopal sincerity and earnestness in the cause
of Church Extension ; and !II it, while: endeavour-
ing by every means in our power to arouse
Dr. MALTBY to the necessities of that case and to
the responsibilities of his own position in relation
thereto, we could not restrain tee expression of a
melancholy foreboding that his lordship would pre-
serve uniformity of episcopal action by doing as little
in the shape of ecclesiastical improvement as its cir-
cumstances would permit.
We anticipated this resalt on the general ground
that there has been " great cry and little wool " on
this question of church extension amongst the bishops ;
and for the personal reasons, that the pecuniary ar-
rangements which Dr. MALTBY made on his transla-
tion from Chichester to Durham, bore evidence of his
individual unfitness to treat properly such a case as
had arisen in the borough of Sunderland—that be had
at lioughten-le-Spring established a bad precedent
for its proper treatment—that his distribution of his
most valuable patronage was either nepotic or political
—and that he had presided over the see of Durham for
a series of years, without any interference to re-
strain that unparalleled ecclesiastical waste by his capi-
tular body and by his clergy, which we have exposed
—a waste, indeed, in which he himself was, and is,
largely and profitably participating.
Unfortunately for the beet interests of the church,
and for the episcopal character of Dr. MALTBY, our
forebodings and anticipations have been realised—
worse than realised—have been exceeded. Fur,
Dr. MALTBY has not only made as bad an arrange-
ment at Bishop Wearmouth as decency would allow ;
but he has accompanied that arrangement by a piece
of very ungracious nepotism elsewhere : as we now
prcceed to show.
The town and borough of Sunderland, containing
64,000 inhabitants, are made up of the rectory of
Bishop Wearmouth, containing 30,000 people : of the
rectory of Sunderland-by-the-Sea, with a population
of 20,000; and, on the other side of the river Wear, of
the parish of Monk Wearmouth, inhabited by 14,000
people. The living of Bishop Wearmouth is of the
value of about 4,0001. a year ; that of Sunderland is
worth 2641. a year : and Monk Wearmouth, 2231.
Thus, from its original endowments, without taking
into seemed the supplemental endowments of some sub-
ordinate chapelries, the church in this borough has a
yearly revenne of 4,4891.—a sum, if properly distri-
buted, adequate to supply efficient spiritual instruc-
tion to all ite inhabitants; and they, without offence
be it added, are much in want of it. The
late incumbent of Sunderland died a few months
ago, and the Bishop of DURHAM'S presentee to that
living on reflection declined the acceptance of a bene-
fice in which the duties are sa arduous and respon-
sible and the means of, and remuneration for, their
proper performance so insufficient. Before, however,
Dr. MALTBY had, on this refusal, made a second choice,
Dr. WELLESLEY, the late rector of Bishop Wear-
mouth, also died. And by the concurrent vacancy
of both the livings, an opportunity was afforded the
bishop of doing what the interests of the church, the
welfare of the town, and common sense dictated, viz.,
the breaking up cf the two livings into a series of
parishes to be equally endowed out of the general
wealth of the church therein : which was thus, fortu-
nately, unshackled by life or vested interests.
To this course the ancient ecclesiastical condition of
what is now the town of Sunderland, as well as its
modern necessities, invited the Bishop of Durham. And
parliament, in the recent cases of Leeds and Winwick,
had given him evidence of its willingness to afford him
the needful legislative means.
For, the separation of the rectory of Sunderland
from the rectory of Bishop Westmeath is only of 139
years' date. Dawn to the year 1718-19 the former
constituted part of the latter parish. But the
growth of the mercantile body within the
locality of what is now the rectory of Sun-
derland, about that time, induced its inhabitants,
then upwards of 6,000 in number, to build a church and
a parsonage for themselves; and with the sanction of
the then bishop (the notorious Lord CREWE, on whose
charities we inserted a letter on Saturday, and in

respect of which we have ourselves not a little
to say) an act of parliament war obtained
making the town and township of Sunderland a dis-
tinct rectory. But whilst the greater part of his
seclesiutioal duties were so withdrawn from the in-
cumbent of Bishop Wearrsouth, no part of the iIIO3Me
of himself or his successors was appropriated to the
new parish; he was left with his 150 acres of glebe,
and with all the tithes which formed, in Saxon time.,
the original endowment of the rectory of Bishop Wear-
mouth.
Sunderland was, indeed, made a rectory
but in name; a stipend of 801. a Tear, to be raised by
rate, and the surplice fees, were all that the statute of
its incorporation provided for its incumbent.

Ask you what lands uar rector tithes? Alas !
But few our asres, and but short our gram
No crops luxuriant VD our burtk rs stand ;
Yor here we pluugh the wean, not the land.

Muth is his duty—small his legal dues.
Though, with more consideration for the sanitary con-
dition of the newly constituted parish, the act directed
the appointment of a sufficiently paid scavenger !
Such is the history of this division • and though
infinitely to the credit of the people of the new parish
in 1718-19, it has proved a source of very great diead-
vantage to their rapidly ipereasing posterity. For,
had there been no such separation, the cure of the
Irectory of Sunderland would now have been part of
the ordinary duties of the incumbent of Bishop Wear-
mouth • and he, with his 4,0001. a year, would
have been most amply furnished with the pEcu-
niary ability to have efficiently served by himself
and his curates every part of hie large
parish. As, however, events have turned out, the
act of 1718-19 has benefited everybody, save those
for whose benefit it was enacted ; it has benefited the
rectors of Bishop Wearmouth, by diminishing their
duties, and by such diminution, augmenting their
net gains; it has benefited the Bishops of Durham
by adding the presen'ation of another living to their
previously long list of patronage ; bat it has deeply,
and from Dr. MALTBY'S recent arrangements it may
be feared, irreparably injured the parish of Sunderland.
Feeling how sadly the intentions of the legislature
in this enactment had been defeated, the Four and
Twenty of Sunderland, in whom the management of
the parochial :dram was vested by the statute, on
Dr. WELLESLEY'S demise, respectfully memorialised
their diocesan to in -ke, out of the superabundant
wealth of Bishop Wearmouth, some better provi-
sion for the church in their parish. The local press
i enforced the necessity of the case. And the Ex-
press urged on Dr. MALTBY a series of arguments
that would have proved irresistible with any man—not
a b?shop.
All in vain: Dr. MALTBY has, in the R'-v. H.
PETERS, found a clergyman rash enough to undertake
the cure of 20,000 souls in Sunderland, with its
miserably inadequate provision of Ng a year ; and
in the Rev. J. P. EDEN he has secured a servant of
God bold enough to accept Bishop Wearmouth, with
the striking contrast of the outrazeously indecent in-
come of 2,0301. a year. With 8001. of the balance of
the revenues of Bishop Wearmouth, Dr. MALTBY has
augmented the stipends of some of its inferior eh .1-
pelries • and the remaining 1,500/. a year he proposes
to fund until he has time enough to think to what
purpose he can apply it—though the rectory of
Sunderland lies under his very nose an ecclesi-
astical Eyesore to his whole diocese, for want of spi-
ritual instruction.

It would indeed almost appear that, in the Rev. J.
P. EDEN, 1)r. MALTBY had especially bred a clergy-
man for the purpose of thus scandalising the
church. For, as we have before stated, this
fortunate gentleman has, within the last five
years, received no fewer than four pieces of pre-
ferment from his bishop; each one, of course, rising
in value on the preceding benefice. First, he had the
curacy of Couudon, worth not stated in the " Clergy
List;" then he was raised to the vicarage of Stockton,
with 247/. a year ; next he was elevated to the living
of St. Andrew's, Bishop Auckland, valued at 6501. a
year ; and thence he has soared to 2,0001. a year in
Bishop Wearmouth. WAIL might Punch discover
the Garden of Eden in the diocese of Durham. And
who, does the reader suppose, has Dr. MALTBY
selected for Mr. EDEN'S successor in the com-
fortable living of Auckland, situate under the
very walls of his episcopal palms ? Some meri-
torious north country veteran ? Some clergyman dis-
tinguished for the assiduous and unobtrusive perform-
ance of his underpaid duties? Some divine known
for the value of his professional works? Nothing of
the sort. The bishop has not even chosen a scholar
" much renowned for Greek." He has, we are
assured, given the living to a nephew of his wife
—to a youth of not many years' ordination, and of no
especial merit.
In these preferments there is, we know, a consist-
ency on Dr. Mauna's part in the abuse of his best
patronage. To Emlescliffe, for instance, worth 1,2001.
a year, with some 700 parishioners, he presented his
own son. To Houghton-le-4613g, with probably
1,8001. a year, he presented a son of his deceased
patron, Earl GREY. To Washington, worth 1,0001.,
he presented in a DENMAN, a son of a political gossip
of his old master, 1)r. PARR; the curacy which the
Hon. and ltev. 1,. W. DENMAN had previously held at
Escombe for • couple of years being worth
only S4l. a year ! In giving Bishop Wear-
mouth, with 2,0001. a year, to Mr. EDEN, he
gratified his friendship f,r Lord BROUGHAM. And
by bringing Mr. GREEN t..) 6501. a year at Auckland,
he increases the comforts of his own domestic circle.
Yet, in the presence of such appointments, there are
people—nay, there are journals, which protest that
the aristocracy derive as little benefit from the
misuse of ecclesiastical patronage as they do from
colonial governments, regimental clothing, and diplo-
matic appointments.
In these preferments there is a superabundance of
care and regard for his kith and kin. for his friends
and for his friends' friends,—for the MALTBYS, the
DENMANS tho GREYS, and the illustrious GREENS,
by the Bishop of DURHAM. But, in the arrange-
ment he has made at Bishop Wearmouth, what
evidence is there of care or regard for the church—of
care or regard for the spiritual wants of the 20,000
inhabitants of the parish of Sunderland—of care or
regard for the cause of parochial extension ? None.
Alas! None.

Looking, then, at these things of present, of daily,
occurrence, are we wrong in coming to the conclusions
that Church Reform at the hands of the bishops is
hopeless—that the imperative necessities of the
country call for immediate and summary legislative
interference—and that the cause of this episcopal indif-
ference is the prelatical corruption which springs from
incomes inconsistently great, from patronage unrea-
-1 sonably wealthy in .indtvidual cases, and from the
assumption of social position offensively aristocratic ?

FRANCE.—SWINDLING IN PARIS.—FONC or five
days ago a Irma e, calling herself the Comteste de Colbert, took
an apartment in a furnished house, Rue do la Madeleine, 35.
She arid that she had arrived from Russia, where her hus-
band was in attendance on his friend the emperor. She had
no luggage, but it would, she said, shortly arrive by the rail-
way. She then hired a carriage, and went to a shop in the
Rua Richelieu, where she made purchases to the amount of
1,500 f. One of shopmen conveyed them to her residence,
and she then, without paying for them, sent him back to
fetch semetbing elms. Having some suspicion, he waited
nets the holm, and presently saw her enter her carriage
with the articles. He followed her, and found that she went
by a roundabout way to the residence of M. Stevens, a dentist,
Rue Neuve du Luxembourg, where she lett her packages
with the domestic. The shepman went up after her, and
told the domestic not to give them up. He win followed
her, and saw her enter several e ops, where she gave orders,
but going in after her, warned the tradesmen not to be
duped. At length he accosted the countess, and insisted on
being paid. She was excessively indignant at his impudence,
and told him that if he would accompany her to her corre-
spondent in the Rue Neuve Vivienne he should receive his
money. The man went, and at the entrance to a haute she
asked him to wait for a moment. Re did ec, and presently
the porter came, and shut the door in his fax. It subse-
quently appeared that the countess had complained to the
porter that she had been insulted and followed by the shop-
man, and she demanded protection. The porter then let her
out by another door, and before the ahopman could expltin
the truth, she had got clear off. The police are looking after
her.